THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH,' SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1890. 19 The Little A STORY FOR THE LITTLE FOLKS. WBTTTEK TOE AS distant from any city, on a wide, brown heath, stood a small loir house. 80 srown with moss that in uassinir one might almost have taken it for a preen hillock, were it not for the little column of blue smoke ascending from the stone chimney. Here lived an old man and his daughter, Erika, entirely alone. There was no dwelling within one mile, and few travel ers ever approached the lonely cottage. In summer the heath was covered with little red heather flowers, but in winter it was a field of snow.'in which stood a few scragcy trees with their icy branches. Under one of these lonely pine trees Erika's mother was buried; and on summer evenings the little girl used to sit by the sray headstone and dream over the stories which her father had told her about great cities with crowds of people and handsome buildings. One spring morning when the heather flowers were all abloom and the bees were buzzing busily through the fragrant air, Erika, looking from the cabin window, saw on a tree near by a large bird different from any she had ever seen before; and when she tried to approach it, the bird flew before her, but just beyond her reach. "How lovely it is," she cried, admiring the brilliant and constantly changing color of the plumage. "I shall catch it to show lather." But the bird would not be caught, al though it kept so near that sometimes its flut tering wings grazed her outstretched hands. The Boat at the Biver. Once in her chase over the heath Erika looked back, and noticed that the little house was lost in the distance, and the hum ming bees seemed to say, "Turn back, turn back." She thought she heard her father call, "Erika, Erika;" but the bird was so near the would surely catch it soon. The midday sun shone fiercely down upon her. burning her hands and face: but so in tent was she upon the bird that she heeded it not, nor thought again of turning back. Late in the afternoon she came to the shore of a broad river, whose clear waters flowed gently along between two green hills. On the bank was a small boat on whose edge the bird flew, where it stood fluttering its wings. Erika stepped into the boat; at once it moved out into the water, and glided down the stream. The bird no longer kept at a distance, but flew on Erika's shoulder, and allowed her to stroke its shining feathers. So absorbed was the little girl with her coveted treasure that she failed to notice that the sun was sinking rapidly behind the hills, and that the little boat was gliding faster and faster down the broad river. But when tie darkness came, and the gay feathers of the bird were no longer visible, Erika became alarmed and cried aloud for help. But no one answered, and only the sounds of the rippling waves was heard. Then she thoucht of her father and the home on the heath. She wept bitterly, till at last worn out by her erief, she fell asleep. "When sheawoke the sun was shinineand the beautiful bird still sat on the edge of the boat.i The little boat had drifted into a large lake, so broad that the opposite sbore looked like a dark line. To this shore the boat steadily approached, and in a few hours it touched the bauk. Erika stepped on the land and found her self on a beautiful island, which seemed to be the home of gav birds, bright flowers and luscious fruits. Not knowing where to go, she followed the bird, which flew before her into a green meadow, and then disappeared among the branches of a tall tree. Erika stood still for a moment, feeling very strange and lonely in this new land, and was about to cry wnen a tall, slender woman, dressed X7ie Beauteous Island. in white, stood before her, and taking her hand, said: "Would you live with' me, dear Erika, in my beautiful home?" "No, no; I must not stay. My father will be very anxious about me. I was very naughtv to run away." "You shall go soon," said the fairy; "but It is far away from here, and first we must rest," She then led her down a long avenue oi ree, at the end of which a grotto was formed by the leafy branches. Here a 'dainty meal was prepared, and as Erika was about to eat the food she seemed to hear lier lather's voice, saying, "Erika, Erika, turn back." But the child was so hungry and the food so tempting that without further thought the ate heartily. From that moment she Wanderer. THE DISPATCH.! lost all remembrance of her former life and now belonged entirely to the fairy, who drew her to her, kissed her tenderly, calling her "Dear child." The fairy then said : "I must now leave you, but I shall return at nightfall. Amuse yourself with the birds and flowers, and do not be afraid, for nothing can harm you." All dav Erika wandered over the lovely island, finding new beauties at every step. She noticed that when the flowers drooped from the bushes they did not reach the ground, but became gay butterflies, and flew away; and the fruit fallinz from the trees were birds before they touched the ground. "When the evening came, and the sun had gone down, every flower and every leaf were hung with tiny lanterns, illumi nating the island and making it almost as bright as dav. The fairy returned, and after hearing Erika's account of the dav she led the little girl to a soft couch which the birds had made of leaves and grass, and sang a low song which soon lulled her to sleep. For many days Erika lived happily in her beautiful home; then the island seemed to lose its charm; everv day was the same; the great trees budded and bloomed; the blossoms fell and became butterflies; the fruit in dropping was changed into birds; the sky was always clear and bine and the fairy went away every morningand returned in the evening. One morning as Erika awoke she thought discontentedly of the long day before her, and now for the first time she wondered why the birds on the island never sang. "Running to the fairy she asked: "Why do the birds never sing?" The fairy laughed. "They will sing," she said, "if you touch them with thiB," handing her a golden wand. Erika ran joyfully into the forest, touch ing every bird she saw and was delighted with their sweet songs, but every day the birds sang the same songs till the little girl knew them by heart, and held her ears to shut out the tiresome sound. One day the fairy said: "Erika, I am afraid you are not happy with me. Perhaps you are lonely. If you will touch the flowers with the wand you will find friends." Erika did so, and was delighted to see a group of maidens about her with whom she spent many pleasant days. But she soon grew tired of them also; for they always dis appeared in the forest at night, returning every morning, and every day played the same games, une nignt Jinta beard a bird sing a strange new song; then she heard a sweet voice say: "Erika, have yon forgotten your home on the heath? Your mother's grave, and your lonely father who is grieving for you?" .men sue, remembered all; now she fol lowed the beautiful bird, and bad been car ried away in the little boat. Weeping bit terly, she asked: "Who speaks to me; and how can I reach my home again?" "I am only a little fairy," was the reply, "who lives on the heath. But I have seen your father's sorrow, and want him to have his daughter. To-morrow, when the fairy leaves you, step into the boat and a little brown bird will guide you home." The next morning, as soon as the fairy had taken her departure. Erika becran to search for the boat, which she found among the bushes on the shore. But on either side of it stood two great otorks which pecked savagely at her every time she at tempted to touch it. Then the same sweet voice whispered: "Use the wand." At the touch of the wand the the storks fell to the ground and remained motionless. Quickly entering the little boat Erika was soon drift ing out into the wide lake, while the little brown bird flew on before. The little girl gave one last look at the island. There were the beautiful flowers and birds and the troops of maidens coming from the forest. She waved her hand, crying: "Goodby; I am going home." It was almost dark when she reached the familiar heath; but the round full moon arose, showing ber the brown bird flying steadily on. Weary and footsore, Erika at last came to the little cottage. With trembling haste she opened the door, and was received with a cry of joy from her father, who tenderly embraced his daughter. Both shed happy tears over the glad re union, and the little brown bird, flying on Erika's shoulder, sang merrily, seeming to join in the rejoicing over the return of the little wanderer. Paysie. KEPT CODNT OP HIS HOGS. An Old Sinn Who Knew III ore About His Pigs Than About His Children. A friend of ours, traveling in the West. put up with a larmer who had a number of children, and asked: "How many children have you?" "Well," replied the farmer, "there's Mary, and Tom, and Bill, and Elizabeth.and Jane, and Peter, and Jacob, and Priscilla, and Josephine, and Hezekiah ten," he said, numbering them on his fingers. "I have ten." One of his daughters cried out: "Why, father, you forgot the babyj" "so l ma, saia be, "We Have 11." About two hours afterward, the guest, looking out of the window, sawthe hired man driving hogs, and, turning to the farmer, said: "How many hogs have you?" "Eighty-three," was the answer, and he hit it right the first time. EP1TAFH OF A SAMSON. Lines In Memory of a Man Who Exhibited Before Wlllinm III. Newcastle. Eng., Chronicle. In the churchyard of St. Peters, Isle ot Thanet, Kent, the tombstone of a man, famed by land as well as sea, who was drowned in a smuggling transaction, has a memorial quoted in county handbooks and guides. This man was Mr. Eichard Joy. called "The Kentish Samson," who died May 18, 1742, aged 67. In his youth he was in vited to London to exhibit before King William ILL and the court some of his feats of strength. Among his feats were to pull against a drayman's horse, to break a rope capable of suspending 35 hundredweights, and to lift 2,200 pounds. The epitaph is: Herculean Herot famed for strength, At last lies here, his breadth and length. Bee how the mighty man is fallen! To death the strong and weak are all one: Ana the same judgment doth befall Goliath great and David small. Somethlnc Suspicions About II. Bangor Commercial. We never hear that a public singer is to sing a song "by request" that we do not feel that we would like to ask her to prove it, - . Mr Following the Bird Home. MAGIC OF THE MAORI". Unaccountable Power of Wonder workers on If ew Zealanders. MAGICIAKS DECEIVE THEMSELVES. Natives Urged to Unnatural Crimes Their Strange Beliefs. J A "GIRL BEWITCHED .THROUGH A GIFT HVK1TT1CN roa THE DISIUTCH.1 The belief in magic and witchcraft has existed from earliest time. In the Old Testament they appear as being accepted by the people as horrible and detestable reali ties; and when our pious forefathers in Britain and 'America burned or drowned old women for witches they did so not be cause they thought they were impostors, but because they believed them to be actually in league with the devil. At the present day this kind of superstition is probably as prevalent as ever, not only among the ig norant, uneducated people, but among thousands who ought to know hetter. In this city, in New York, in San Francisco, and in every large city in this country the least superstitious in the world, as is sup posed there are scores of "magicians" and "witches" who make a great deal more by pretending to practice supernatural arts than they can possibly make by any honest occupation. It is perfectly useless to argue with the victims ot this delusion. It seems to be rooted in some obscure part of human nature which is altogether beyond the reach of reason. The Asiatic nations universally believe in magic, if not in witchcraft though both are dead against their religious creeds and anyone who should express a doubt as to the power of magic in Tnrkey or Arabia would be looked upon as demented. Even En glishmen who have spent any length of time in those countries come more or less under the influence of credulity, and if questioned about the magic art acknowledge that they think there is "something in it." Lady Hesther Stanhope, the celebrated Oriental traveler, not only became an unhesitating believer in magic, bnt herself practised it with ereat success after taking up her abode in Syria, and was profoundly respected and feared on that account by all the people in her neighborhood. That cynical philosopher and most charming writer, Lawrence Oli phant, seems to have got into very nearly the same state of miiid before he died, only the other day. HOME OF THE SUPEBNATTJBAL. To see magic and witchcraft in full work ing order at the present time, however, it is necessary to go to the islands of the Pacific, especially to those where the inhabitants are civilized and Christianized New Zealand is the moststrikingexampleof this; firstly, because Christianity and civilization have made the greatest strides there, and secondly, because the natives are of the highest order, mentally and physically, of anv peoples recently emerged from bar barism. For two generations the Maoris have been in close contact with an educated and religious people, to whom they have assimilated themselves in a wonderful degree. Yet neither Christianity nor civilization has had the slightest effect on their belief in magic and witchcralt. The most advanced among them, indeed, are the most subject to that weird influence. The magicians themselves are often men of high rank and excellent intelligence, who undoubtedly believe themselves to be the medium of supernatural powers. Those of them who live in towns and mingle with Europeans dissemble their belief; but they believe all the same; while in the native settlements they do not disgnise their belief at all, but thousands of them often assem ble at the summons of a "prophet" to wit ness a "miracle," or come long distances, of tbeirown accord, to consult the oracle. I know one of these magicians well. His name is Te White, and ha lives at a lovelv spot on the west coast of the North Island, called Parihaka, which is as well known throughout New Zealand as Delphi was throughout Greece, and for the same reason. It is, in the Maoris' belief, the abiding place of the most powerful and most awful oracle on earth. Te White's mana or pres tige nas somewnat declined of late years, in consequence of the government having twice sent him to prison as an accessory to crimes which were committed solely in obedience to bis oracular utterances; bnt he still exercises far more influence than any other human being over the mind and the actions of the Maori people. A DINNER WITH MAGICIANS. I have studied Te White closely, and have found him an insoluble psychological problem. I am convinced that he is a per fectly sincere man, and a saner man, as to the ordinary affairs of li "e, I never met. He is a dignified and impressive looking man of about 50, with a benignant and most intelli gent countenance. His manners are exceed ingly courteous and gentle, with much of that well bred repose and self-possession which distinguishes nature's nobility among all peoples. His conversation, though sparing, is always worth hearing, in dicating a mind of much power and penetra tion, and a just and generous disposition. I had the pleasure of dining with Te White on the first occasion when he ever sat down to table with Enropeans. He was accom panied with Tobu, his chief disciple, or "un derstudy, as they say in America, who is also credited with a large share of supernat ural power, though only as Te White's fa miliar. The rest of the company were Europeans and included two young English ladies, the nrst tnat tne Maori rniets had ever seen. It was a most pleasant party, the prophets never committing a single faux pas, but shaping their behavior by an intuitive good sense and good taste and a marvelously quick imitation of the other guests. They ate and drank heartily, but not in excess, and joined freely in the conversation, especially applying themselves to enter taining the ladies, for whom they expressed an unbounded but respectful admiration. There were two or three very clever men at the table, but Te White and Tohu were quite able to hold their own with them in discussion. They also displayed a remark able sense of humor and a very happy faculty of repartee. A PEBFECT LUNATIC ON MAGIC. Yet, at that very moment, these men were prisoners, the Government having been compelled to arrest them and remove them from Parihaka on account of the terror and ruin they were causing throughout the neighboring settlements by their oracular utterances and the frenzy of their devotees. One of the guests who sat at table with ns was a magistrate in whose lawful custody tbey were, an official of the greatest ability and one of the best Polynesian linguists living. He assured me that Te White was a man of high mental capacity and thor oughly conscientious and trnthful; but that, on the subject of his supernatural attributes, he was neither more nor less than a mad man. If the Maori magicians are madmen however, there Is a great deal of method in their madness. The highest of them, such as Te White, though they hold themselves sedulously aloof from Europeans, are inti mately acquainted both with the Scriptures and the laws. Their oracles are most ingen iously cast in a scriptural mold, and still more ingeniously supported by scriptural argument, the result being that they have an overwhelming effect over the natives who have been educated bvthe missionaries. They are, moreover, so worded as to consti tute a powerful political influence, antago nistic to the government and to the welfare of the European community, without ac tually contravening any statute. The colon ial parliament has been obliged again and again to pass special and very questionable laws in order to circumvent these cunning casuists, whose rhapsodies, aided by their Inexplicable magnetic power over their dis ciples, actually superseded all constitution al authority. Not a few educated Euro peans, occupying a high position in the col- ony, were completely carried away by Te White and committed almost as great ex travagances under his influence as the most besotted of his own people. TTENTKILOQUISM TJ8EFUL TO THEM. The inferior sort of Maori magicians un doubtedly employ ventriloquism very large ly to perform their necromancy. They pre tend to conjure up the dead in a dark room, that is to say, a whare, or house, filled with agitated, agonized relatives of the deceased, and lit only by the flicker of a small wood fire in the center; and as soon as they have worked the assemblage up to the rignt pitch of excitement and credulity, they imitate the well-known voice of the dead with won derful accuracy and make it sound as if it were passing through the wall or coming up from the depths of the earth, or dying away through the roof into the sky. They are also believed to practice mesmerism and even to possess some secrets of hypnotism, animal magnetism or some such agencies, which are totally unknown to European science. The strangest power of all, however, which these ghostly deceivers claim, or rather which they are credited with by others, is that of bewitching or bedeviling anybody against whom they have a grudge, without touching or seeing their victim. It is enough if they merely send any article, an ornament, a pipe, a scarf, a letter, or even a message, and it .is accepted by the person to whom it is sent. That person, not knowing that he is bewitched, becomes low spirited, loses his appetite, feels a pricking in his blood and a trembling in his joints, grows weaker daily both In body and mind, and ends by going off to some lonely place to die. How this is done nobody has ever been able to explain, and it is only natural for the natives to believe that it is magic. NOT SUBTLE POISONERS. Some scientific authorities have declared that it is the effect of a subtle poison con veyed in the article that is sent; jnst as the poisoners of the Middle Ages used to de stroy their victims by a present of a pair of gloves, or even a finger-ring, and just as the Czar of Russia was suspected to have been poisoned only a few weeks ago by the German uniform he wore during his visit to Berlin. But this theory will not bear examination. In the first place, there is no evidence to show that the Maoris have ever been acquainted with poisons. Then, the articles which apparently cause death to the doomed recipient are carried without harm by'a messenger, dften a woman or c child, and are handled or worn by numbers of other people who suffer no injury. Finally, tbis description of witchcraft is just as effective when only a message is sent, or when the victim is beguiled into touching some particular object or going to some par ticular spot which has been tapu'd for that purpose, as it is when a material substance is conveyed to him from the magician. Of course, there is some natural explana tion of it and probably a very simple one; but nobody outside of the ranks of the ma gicians knows what it is, and probably the magicians themselves are not familiar with each other's methods. They never mention the subject under any circumstances, but lead a solitary and ascetic life, and many of them absolutely disclaim any magical power at all and even affect to throw discredit on the whole thing, when questioned by Euro peans. A MAGICIAN STONED TO DEATH. Quite recently a young woman of rank on the east coast,where the wealthiest and most civilized Maoris live, having incurred the enmity of a family one of whose members was a noted magician, received a trifling gift from him, under the belief that it came from a relative of her own. She became ponri, that is despondent or brooding, which is alwavs the first symptom of being be witched, and after going through the regu lar course, died in agony in about three weeks. He father and brothers Went to the lonely hut where the magician lived and stoned bim to death in his sleep. They gave themselves up, pleaded guilty on their trial, and were sentenced to be hanged. But pub lic opinion, both among Enropeans' and Maoris, was so strongly in their favor that the Governor remitted the sentence. The highest authorities on the Maoris and their traditions say that the secrets of their made arts have been handed down in par ticular famiIies,for at least 900 years, the Tecbrds of the priestly caste, who are identi cal with the magicianst having been proved to exist for that period. There is good reason to believe that Maori magic and witchcraft came with the Maoris by a suc cession of migrations from Asia, and are an actual survival of the arts of the Chaldean and Egyptian sorcerers. There is practi cally no difference at all between witchcraft as it exists in New Zealand to-day and witchcraft as it existed in Judea 2,000 years ago, according to the graphic descriptions in the Gospel narrative. Edwabd Wakefield. A GEEAT EAlIiROAD TUNNEL. One of tbe Biggest Enslneerlng Projects of the Century. New York Times. 1 Six hundred men are now digging the railroad tunnel under tbe St Clair river, at Port Huron, at the rate of 15 feet each day. This means that before the year is out one of the most important pieces of civil en gineering in the country will be completed. More than 1,200 feet of the tunnel proper is now ready for trains on the Michigan side and 900 on the Canadian. The remaining 4,000 feet will be finished at a wonderfully rapid rate, considering the nature of the work, if no accident intervenes. It has taken six months to do the work thus far, but workmen are now more accustomed to' the task and can work with greater facility iu iue use oi me machinery, so mat tbe en gineers in charge place the completion of the work not later than the end of the year. The tunnel itself is over 6,000 feet long. The approaches are equally long, so that the entire length will be more than two miles. Of this distance, "2,310 feet are under the river, 2,390 feet on the Michigan land side, and 2,100 on the Canadian. The grade is 1 foot in every GO.eieept under the river bottom where it is substantially level. It is an iron cylinder tunnel theouly one of the kind in the countrv. There is neither brick nor stone used in its constrnction. Neither are there any stays or supports simply a mam moth iron tube built in sections under, ground. 'It is designed for a single track. Electric lights make it as light as day, air engines keep the atmosphere as healthv in side as above, and steam pipes hold the'tem perature at the proper point It is as dry as a street in summer, and the disagreeable features common to subaqueous work are en tirely absent Work is pushed from both ends. LOOKING FOE A SIGHT JOB. An Applicant for n Custom House Position Greatly Surprised. New York Star. ' Past Commander James S. Fraser, of the Grand Army of the Republic, of this State, told some frienJs the other night a story about a man he sent down to the Custom House to get a job as night watchman. Col lector Erhardt sent the man to the Civil Service Board to be examined. The man was quite intelligent, and answered all the questions put to him until he was asked what the distance was between the earth and the sun. He hesitated for a long time, and finally acknowledged that he did not know. "You don't know!" asked the commis sioner severely. "Misfer." said the applicant. "I didn't think I'd have to answer a question like that I'm looking for a night job." Boston Culture. Mrs. South Church, of Boston: "Did any one call, James?" James (a recent acquisition, but deter mined to emulate culture): "Yes, madam, Mrs. Fairchild and the Misses Fairchil dren." How Successful Slen Are Born. An able correspondent, in noting the suc cessful career of a venerable man who has just died in Maine, makes the startling statement that he "was born without a dol lar in his pocket," SUNDAY THOUGHTS -ON- MORALSZMANNERS BY A CLERGYMAN. IWBITTXIT FOB THE DISPATCH.! In a recent admirable publication, Cardi nal Gibbons, of Baltimore, suggests a. scheme of inter-denominational co-operation as against the common foes of Christi anity. The idea is valuable and practi cable. "When the bad combine," said Edmund Burke, "the good must organize." The truth is that the most diverse of the Christian sects are alike in more points than they are unlike in. Their agreements are more numerous than their disagreements. They have vast and vital common interests. It has been a favorite device of the devil to keep them quarreling among themselves and with each other saints engaged in sinners' work. Is it not full time for Christians to recognize this deviltry and stop doing Satan's chorea? But this suggestion of denominational co operation has within it other possibilities than the combining against infidelity. Why not utilize it in Christian work. If, for in stance, the whole religious interest of this city should be directed intelligently and continuously against intemperance, or licen tiousness, or gambling, or profanity, or lying, would not these gross vices soon be reduced to the minimum? It mav be said that the Christian sentiment is now a unit against such evils. True; it is in a general way. But suppose every church in town should let it be known tbat it was in league with every other church to ban and blast intemperance, licentiousness, gambling, pro fanity, lying tbat there was a common un derstanding to hunt down and extirpate these sins that no quarter was to be shown them whenever, wherever they should ap pear: would not such an active aggressive campaign stir the community and frighten tne aevur So in other directions. If the churches would unite to investigate and relieve our local poverty, to visit systematically and comfort the sorrowful, to understand and better the bad couditions of the multitude; if they would make a business of it; is it not certain that crime would diminish, that life would be safer and happier, that prop erty would appreciate, and that this com munity would be a model one? There is relig ious force enough here to revolutionize this city if it were properly adapted. Why not collect and.conceutr.ite these scattered ele ments of power and adjust them to the pull ing down of the strongholds of Satan? "Divide tbe thnnder into single notes," says Schiller, "and it becomes a lullaby for children; but pour it forth in one quick peal and the royal sound shall shake the heavens." Time Rectifies the Wrongs. Cotemporary judgment is not infallible. Take art. The famous canvas on which Millet has apotheosized prayer, "The Angelus," as so little appreciated during the artist's life that it sold for a song, while most of his works did not sell at all. Millet's life was a tragedy of poverty. But within-a year 'The Angelus" fetched $110,000 at a public salel Take literature. In England, Milton sold "The Paradise Lost" for 5. In Ger many, 'Buerger was dispraised by Schiller, who lauded Matthissen to the skies. To day Matthissen is forgotten and Buerger is a classic. Goethe considered the dramas of Kleist to be trash. Poor Kleist, on the edge of starvation, committed suicide. Now his dramas are the most popular ot all. Religious biography is a martyrology. Men and women "ot whom the world was not worthy" lived and died for others with out recognition often had their mortal exit hastened by rack or stake. After ages have redressed the balance. Tbey stand to-day crowned and sceptered "the dead but seep. terea sovereigns wno sua rule our spirits from their urns." They who labor for the "all hail" of the present may fail. They who labor for God .and the betterment of man's estate will suc ceed; if not now, then by and by. Coming time will reverse any mistaken judgment of present time. "Learn to labor and to wait" Fashlonable Circles Criticised. Canon Liddon, whom the Chicago Ad vance calls the foremost preacher in En gland, is not lacking in one of the qualifica tions of a good puipiteer Christian courage. TTfl rlncpri the war nt Rfc. Pnnl'c ClathnAr't - - --.- .- ---..- w.ubu.u. . 3 "X" LT"faJ "'J?" dation of the marriage relation. Listen: What do we see everv year as the Lon- don season draws near, but a bevy of moth' ers, like generals, set out on a campaign, prepared to undergo any amount of fatigue, if only they can marry their daughters not necessarily to high-m'inded, virtuous men, but in any case to a fortune! What do we see but a group of young men, thinking, after perhaps a career of dissipation, that the time has come for settling down respect ably in life, and looking, each one of them, not for a girl who has graces and character to make her hnsband and children happy, but for some lady who has a sufficient dowry to enable him to keep up a large establish ment!" Does not this criticism apply to fashiona ble circles here as well as there? Marriage for a fortune what wonder that it should end in a divorce court? Wine nnd Gowns. We learn from Washington that the wine question and the decollete gown question are again at the fore in the Capital. The prog ress of judicious temperance there is marked. Social leaders and prominent poli ticians now discountenance tbe punch bowl and the decanter. The dons and donnas even venture to hold receptions without keeping up the spirits of their guests by pouring spirits down their throats. North and South, East and West are here in accord. What an old poet calls "liquid damnation" seems to have gone out of fashion may it stay out! At party after party, at dinner alter dinner, you shall find nothing stronger than lemon ade, or apollinaris, or claret Fire water is considered "bad lorm." We may hope, too, that the day is not far distant wben, by a strange perversion of language, full dress will not mean halt un dress. By a proper adjustment of her gown a woman might easily make it longer at the top and shorter at the bottom. A lady's feet are far more attractive than her shoulders unless she hails from Chicago. Why cover those and uncover these ? Better relegate nudity to statuary. It Looks Like Revision. Out of the 47 Presbyteries which are re corded as having already voted on the question of revising the Westminster Con fession of Faith, 12 representing 499 min isters and 80,347 communicants, favor letting the standards remain as they are. nnd 35, representing 1,241 ministers and 175,889 communicants, demand revision. Since this record was made up other and important Presbyteries have acted, among the rest, those of New York and Phila delphia. But the proportion is not altered. ItIc,okslike revision. Dr. Parker's Messages. The Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker is nothing if not origiual. At his last Christmas service, held in the London City Temple, he sent out various messages of peace, and good will to the high mightinesses of the British realm; among the rest, to Gladstone, say ing : "Your character is greater even than your genius!" to Balfour: "The good Lord have mercy on you I" and to "sturdy auld Scotia :" "Do not tremble so much for the ark of the Lord I" A Womanly WenRaess. Little Emily forgot to pray for her aunt when she went to bed the other night When reminded of it, she said: "I can do it now. but shall I put a P. S. before it?" The lore of women for a postscript is natural. Eve was a kind of postscript to Adam. Ever since women have put tbe most important things in a P. S. Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The new "Letters of Lord Chesterfield," just published in England, are of interest for the light they throw on manners and morals when Swift was a Dean and Pope drove the quill and Bolingbroke sauntered between Westminster and Pall Mall. It must be confessed that those were not nice days, and that the wits and courtiers and Deans were a sorry set With the manners or gentlemen they had the morals of tbe pot house. Iu speaking of Chesterfield's "Let ters to His Son," gruff Dr. Johnson says: "Take out the immorality, and the balance should be put into the hands of every gen tleman." But if the immorality were taken out, how much would be left? And, after all, do manners sans morals make a gentle man? When politeness (so called) to women was apparently at its neignt, tney were probably never so much despised. For example, Chesterfield, writing to his god son, says: "In company every woman is every man's superior, and must be ad dressed with flattery which you need not be afraid of making too strong. It is not mean on your part, nor pernicious to them; for it can never give them a greater opinion of their beauty or sense than they had before." -inis cynicism, as James i"ayn remarKs, would nowadays be considered little short ot brutal; but it is interesting as illustrating the real opinion of "men of gallantry." It is not tbe man who takes off his hat quick est to a lady who necessarily respects her tbe most. What then, are manners of no importance? Not so. But manners should be the ex pression of feeling the outward exhibition of inward gentility. Then courtly manners would be admirable. Bnt who wants to have his carriage a chronic lie? Of what value is a veneering of polish when it only covers a ruffian? Claude Duval, the highwayman, had the carriage of Chesterfield himself; and this made the rascal all the more dan gerous. The little fellow who took pins for the subject of his first composition, said: "Pins have done a great deal of good by folks not swallerin' 'em." We might say the same thing of Lord Chesterfield's man ners, if with them we must take his char acter. Cheapness of Unman Flesh. According to Miss Frances E. Willard there are women in Chicago who make 12 shirts for 75 cents and furnish their own thread; women who "finish off" a costly cloak for 4 cents, children wno wore vz hours a day lor $1 per week. Does not such a state of things throw light on the temptation of great cities? Alas, that human flesh should be so cheap and bread so dearl . Uenrlne Ames Speak. A skeptic told one of our city parsons the other day that he didn't believe the Bible acconnt of Balaam's ass speaking. "Don't you?" replied the parson, "why, that's a common occurrence! I have heard 'em speak!" Gems From Different Authors. All Christians must work. What would happen in a battle if only the officers fought? -K IT. JtoberUon. Do you know what the moon did when the dog barked at it? Kept shining right on. Moody. Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age tbat it is the childhood of immortality. Pindar. Sin is to be overcome not so much by main taining opposition to it as by cultivating oppo site principles. Fuller. The elect are whosoever will, and the non- elect are whosoever won't Beecher. None know what It is to live till tbey redeem life from monotony by sacrifice. FPeneJ ell Phil lips. Ait Injury Is sooner pardoned tban an insult Lord Chesterfield. DontQ is the ereat thing. .For If, resolutely, people do what is right in time they come to like doing It Buskin. The apostles never wasted a moment on a gospel of patchwork. Their two-fold text was: Turn to the Lord, wblch means repentance, and cleave unto the Lord, which means a life ot faith and holiness. Theo. L. Cuyler. PK0LIFIC OF GKEATNESS. Men and Women of Renown Who Cams From Western New York. St. Louis Qlobe-Democrst.2 Western New York, within a distance of 70 miles on the New York Central Railroad say the counties from Auburn to Roches- aUjr ujc vuuuiica n ter-ta. been fruitful iu fads, greatness and crazes. Within that territory originated three great delusions. First in order of time was Aunt Jemima, a Quakeress prophetess, who essayed walking on the waters of Canandaigua Lake. At her first attempt she inquired if all present had faith in her powers. Negative voices being 'heard, she refused to proceed, postponing the matter to a future date. When she again essayed the attemptall present ayerred their faith, when she said tbat if they had faith there was no reason for her attempting the feat The next in order of delusions was Joseph Smith, who dug up the Book of Mormon, near Palmyra, and also discovered the mys terious crystal "thummin" which enabled him to decipher the strange characters in scribed upon the plates of brass. Then fol lowed the Fox sisters with their Rochester knockings the beginning of spirit rappings; and last, Mrs. Bloomer with her dress re form. Of greatness in that region was Louis Philippe, afterward King of France, who built and occupied a residence at Canandai gua: and two Presidents, Martin Van Buren J nnrl HI 1 1 1 Q t TiSllnmPA I.tm wn li.L l...l nuu ....i. .l...u.v..., n uw ncio uutu UVfU in that district; and greatest of them all therein grew to early manhood and devel oped into the greatness of statesmanship, the lawyer and politician who invented, fa defense of the negro who killed the Van Ness family, the theory of "moral insanity" a theory that has since saved many a murderer from the gallows and the pro moter of the "irrepressible conflict," Will iam H. Seward. MAKING C0COANOT BUTTEK. A Novel bnt Important Industry Carried on In Germany. Calcutta Dispatch to the London Times. Within the last few months a new trade has arisen in India and has attained extra ordinary dimensions. About two years ago a German chemist, Dr. Schlunk, discovered that excellent butter conld be made from cocoanutmilk. It is, according to a Bom bay newspaper, pleasant to taste and smell, of a clear, whitish color, singularly free from acids, easily digestible, and an incom parably healthier and better article of diet than the cheap poor butters and oleomar garines of European markets. The Manufacture is carried on in Germany, where one firm turns out from 3,000 to 4,000 kilogrammes daily. The cocoanuts required are imported from India, chiefly Bombay, in large and increasing numbers, and the trade seems likely to attain still greater import ance. A 8UM1) PHILOSOPHY. The Rule of Life of a Man with a Remark nble History. Lewlstown Journal. William H. Wiles, of Gardiner, Me., is a man who has bad a varied experience. He has narrowly escaped death from the sting of bees, has had terrific encounters with serpents iu the Southern canebrakes, and passed through other perils, and, though now 74 years old, has aspirations for more adventures and says he would like to go on an exploring expedition. He says he feels young yet, and why shouldn't be, when he has a grandmother living? She is in En gland and he gives her age as 115 years. His philosophy of life he gives in these words: 'When you're alive be alive, and when jou're dead: lie there." THE FIRESIDE SPHINX A Collection of .Enipiatical Ms for Home CracMns. Address communications for this department IOE.E. CHADBOtnur. Lewiston, Maine. 914 WHAT NELLIE'S VALENTINE SAID. 915 CTJBIOTJS COOKEBT. Back, back to the days of our youth How fleet recollection can fly, When we never once donbted tbe truth Of the birds tbat wero baked in tbe pie. And listened in awe as we beard Of the songsters beginning to sing. And the other queer things that occurred On presenting the pie to tbe King. Now, If any young readers snonld wish To cook such a pie for themselves, I have here the recipe for the dish Which I eot as a gift from the elves; Take a bird which in two you divide A.nd now you've the stuffing to dress And what do you think goes insider 'Tis a hnndred to one if yon guess. W. Wilson. 916 ANAGHAJI. Ah, signature of pardl Only a scrap of paper. Treasured for many a year; Only the lines of a pencil, Traced by a hand that was dear. Only a little memento. Reminding me e'er of my friend; Yet near to my heart will I keep it Till memory and reason shall end. PiLOniM. 917 DIAMOND. L A letter. 2. A portion of pemnulan. 3. Excavations in tbe earth from which minerals are taken. 4. A machine for catching tres passers. 5. Furnished with slender turrets. 6. Poetic lines of a certain length. 7. Sordid. 8. (Her.) In a leaplnc position. 9. Active In a high degree. 10. Arid. 11. A letter. Belisa. 918 A STTJDT. Come, artist here before our view, A study waits us now: Please set yonr palette boards anew. As I Instruct you how: Four par tsZae while, of yellow one. One part of orange, too, Two parts light red, two parts grass green. And also one of blue. To whlcn we'll add of black one part Mix well, and when applied 'Twill make a noble work of art Renowned and famed world-wide. B. 919 TEANSPOSITION. A raised floor in a dlniag-halL Or seat with back walnscoated tall. Is one. What I have two will quite explain Its meaning; make it clear and plain. So none Will other three need to unfold The answer. So, as all is told, I'm done. Bitteh Sweet. 920 ABBBEVTATED RHYMES. Insert tbe rhymes In tbe following iingle, tbe abbreviations in each case being similar to the common abbreviations of well known words. The rhyme In the last line Is not indicated, bnt will readily suggest itself, when the first and second rhymes have been guessed. There once lived a man on as to. Shore As ever was known. And as ha. Bore As ever had sr. Was this carinas Mr. Monteomerr Lr. But the place where he lived was not F . J. H. Fezandds. 921 ENIGMA. From gilded dome to trampled earth I hold my mystic sway; I sit beside tbe glowing hearth, I mold tbe potter's clay. With colors bright I'm oft arrayed. In ancient armor clank; Bv me the wheels ot time are stayed, In heraldry I rank. I'm wood, and ivory, iron and straw. And used by snreeons old: In beggar's hut, and high eclat. Where pillows e'eam with gold. So if you search, by night or day, Fercbance I may be found; But lest yon miss me by the way, I'm oval, sqnare, and round. B. 922 NUMERICAL. For your improvement I will show That is, for your complete, you know How smaller words from large may grow. Yon may 4, 9, 1L 2 And this, you see, is quite a clew Tbe sense, if you so wish to do. Take, for example. 6. 7, 8, Which a pet animal will state. Or an old game at ball relate, 8, 5, 1 fast each separate link. You'll 6. 10, 3. 11. 1 think, Tbe sense of whole, quick as a wink. Bitter Sweet. ANSWERS. 908 L Current 2. Curtail. 3. Cursive. 4. Curfew. 807 Otter, dotterel. By inserting "otter" Into "dell" we have 'd-otter-el!l);" tbe piece of cloth was an "ell." the piece of deer a "d." 90S Morse, bonse, piper, bat, cog, bolt, vat, carrot, load, ten, rebu(s), Dee, Zion. 909 Cruse, ruse. use. 910 Maggie, magpie. 911- S isw tr dHsv jssffCMsssV sSffNhSs flsssssssssW """TTT"- an - ,ar IrflPSfSr I m - wSMttSntoi'Ssw I" J 41 ; JQb IMMMJttfiy 'iflSl lli W9mF at,!8 A T U R N A L I A S N 912 No, evil Night, I with gin live on. 913 Dade, ado. rlo. O. Rheumatism, BEING due to the presence of uric acid in the blood, is most effectually cured by the use of Ayer's Sarsapa rilla. Be sure you get Ayer's and no other, and take it till the poisonous acid is thoroughly expelled from the system. We challenge attention to this testimony: j "About two years ago, after suffering for nearly two years from rheumatic gout, being able to walk only with great discomfort, and having tried various remedies, including mineral waters, without relief, I saw by an advertise ment in a Chicago paper that a man had been relieved of tbis distressing com plaint, after long suffering, by taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla. I then decided to make a trial of this medicine, and took it regularly for eight months, and am pleased to. state that it has effected a complete cure. I have since had no re turn of the disease.' Mrs. K. Irving Dodge, 110 West 125th st., New York. "One year ago lvas taken ill with inflammatory rheumatism, being con fined to my house six months. I came out of the sickness very much debili tated, with no appetite, and my system disordered in every my. I commenced using Ayer's Sarsaparilla and began to improve at once, gaining in strength and soon recovering my usual health. I cannot say too much in praise of this well-known medicine." Mrs. L. A. Stark, Nashua, N. H. Ayer's Sarsaparilla, PBXPABEB BT Or. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Trice tl; ix bottles, 5. Worth i a bottle. tire. SAT D A T E 8 D A T U R A S BATURNIAN ATURNAL-IA TERNATELY SAILERS SAILS NAY AN OLD OSTEICH'S COUNSEL. A Bit oraiedlcal Advice Not Quite of the 17sn.nl Order. San Francisco Examiner.! A young ostrich came to its mother-) groaning with pain and with its wing? tightly crossed upon its stomach. "What have you been eating !" the mother asked with solicitude. "Nothing but a keg of nails," was ths re plv. 'What!" exclaimed the mother; "a whola keg of nails, at your age ! Wbv, you will kill yourself that way. Go quickly, my child, and swallow a hammer. A PeSFXCT" A ourelv VepetahlA Compound that expels Sail bad humors from th S system. Removes blotch es and pimples, and makes pure, rich blood, 3 anuicAL. DOCTOR WHITTIER 814 PENN AVESDE. PJTT.BCRG. PA. As old residents know and back files of Pitts burg papers prove, is the oldest established! and most prominent physician in the city, de voting special attention to all chronic diseases. smpree?sponnsN0 FEE U N TILCU RED MLDfil lOand mental diseases, physical Ln V UUO decay, nervous debility. lack of, energy, ambition and hope. Impaired memory, disordered sight self distrnst. bashfulness, dizziness, sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, iro poverished blood, failing powers, organic weak ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption, un fitting tbe person for business society and mar rlage, permanently safely and privately cured. BLOOD AND SKINSfej'yS-St blotches, falling hair, bones, pains, glandular swellings, ulcerations of tongue, mouth, throat, ulcers, old sores, are cared for lite, and blood poitons thoroughly eradicated from the system, 1 1 R I M A R V kidney and bladder deranged Unllinn I ments, weak back, gravel, catarrhal discharges, inflammation and other painfnl symptoms receive searching treatment, prompt relief and real cures. Dr. whittier's lifelong, extensive experience insures scientific and reliable treatment on common-sense principles. Consultation free. Patients at a distance an carefully treated as If here. Office hours 9 A. M. to 8 P. M. Snnday, 10 A. M. to 1 P. M. only. DR. WH1TTIEK, 8li Per.n avenue. PJttsbnrg, Pa. jaS-12-DSUwk 1 UMk r&z.i How Lost! How Regained, kmow thyself; scxxsrcrjE os xjXXtxbi A Scientific and Standard Popular Medical Treatise on the Errors of Youth, Premature Decline.Nervoua ana rnyaicai jjeointy, impurities oi Ue Blood, Resulting from Folly, Vice, Ignorance, Ex cesses or Overtaxation, Enervating and unfit ting the victim for Work, Business, the Mar riage or Social Relations. Avoid unskillful pretenders. Possess thhl S-eat work. It contains 300 pages, royal Sto. eautlfnl binding, embossed, full gilt. Price, only 31 by mail, postpaid, concealed in plain wrapper. Illustrative Prospectus Free, If yoa apply now. The distinguished autbnr. Wm. tf, Parker. SI. D., received the GOLD AND JEW ELED MEDAL from the National Medical As soeiation. for this PRIZE ESSAY on NERVOUS and PHYSICAL DEBILITY. Dr. Parker and a, corps of Assistant Physicians may be con sulted, confidentially, by mail or In person, as the office of THE PEABODY MEDICAL IN. STITUTE, No. 4 Bulfinch St., Boston. Mais., to whom alt orders for hooks or letters for adnca. should be directed as above. aul8-7-Tarsnwlc DR. E. C. WEST'S Nerve and Brain Treatment Specific for hysteria, dizziness, fits, neuralgia wakefnlness. mental depression, softening oi tbe brain, resulting in insanity and leadiug tor misery, decay and deatb, premature old age, barrenness, loss of power in either sex, in Yolun tary losses, and spermatorrhoea caused by over exertion of the brain, self-abuse or over-indulgence. Each box contains one month's treat ment. $1 a box, or six for Jo, sent by mail pre paid. With each order for six boxes, will send purchaser suarantee to refund money If tbe treatment fails to cure. G uarantees issued and genuine sold only by EMIL G. STUCKY, DRUGGIST, Ko. 1701 Penn ave., cor. Seventeenth street. tto. 2401 Penn ave., cor. Twenty-fourth street AJJD Cor. Wylle ave. and Fnlton street. fe4-TTSSu PITTSBURG. PA. NeyerKnown to Fail. Tarrant's Extract of Cnbebs and Copaiba, the) best remedy for all dis- e.i?es oi tne urinary or gans. Its portable form, freedom from taste and speedy action (frequently curing In three or fonr days and always in less time tban anv other pre paration), make "Tar rant's Extract" the most desirable remedy ever manufactured. All Genu ine has red strip across face of label, with sig nature of Tarrant & Co., New York, upon lb Price, SL Sold by all druggists. ocl9-o2-sn GRAY'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE CURES NERVOUS DEBILITY, LOST VIGOR. LOSS OF MEMORY. JTull particulars In pjmphtel tent free. The srenulue Uray's fcpeclllc sold by dru-jciju only la yellow wrapper. Frlce, II per package, orslx for Si, or by malt on recelot or nrlce. bv address- Dft THE GRAY MEDICINE CO, Buffalo, X. If Sold In .Pittsburg- by 8. S. HULL AMU. corner Bmlthflehl and Liberty it. ipli-oi Manhood RESTORED. Rxxxst razz. A. rtctba ot youthful imprudence, caoslnjr Premature Peca' ecay. errous Debility, Lost ji&nnooa. xa c&Tmg u dT. Jlm disooTered a rimnle meanfl of nelf-cnre. whlcll he will send (sealed) FREE to Ma fellow-jraffrcrs. Address, J. H. REEVES, P.O. Box 90, Ne v York City. ocl9-53-TTSsa NERVES! Strong-, bnve. successful men and women win half their Itfa battles on their nerre. Nexvs BRANS core Nervous Debility, jncoui AcpiCMian niai otK,aicrpicssocss, lOSS OI ADpe Ncttous Diseases. Ji per box, pos'paid. Pamphlet sent nyiiena, itamcucss, ircmoiinc, naa ureams ana ail free. Address Nerre Bean Co., Buffalo, N. Y. At Joseph Fleming & Son's, 4 Market St., and all leading; druggists. TO WEAK MEM Suffering from tna effects ot youthful errors, early decay, wasting weakness, lost manhood, etc, I will send a valuable treatise (sealed) containing toll t particulars for borne cure. FREE of charge. A splendid medical work: should be read by every xnan who Is nervons and debilitated. Address, Prof. F. C. FOWLER, Moo da Cona uulo-sJ-ssuw. HARE'S REMEDY For men! Checks the wont cases In thres -i days, and cures in live days. Price tl 0Q, at ' J. FLE1UNU-S DRUGSTORE, ja5-29-rrssu 412 Market street. ipTc'a Oottoax 3ROOt COMPOUND imposed of Cotton Boot. Tanrv and Pennyroyal a recent discovery bv an 'old phvsldau. Is suecessfullu ute.A monwiitf-Safe. Effectual. Prlca SL bv man- sealed. Ladles, ask yonr druggist for Cook's Cotton Boot Compound and take no substitute. or Inclose 2 stamps for sealed particulars. Ad dress POND MM' COMPANY. No. 3 Fliner Block, 131 Woodward ave, Detroit. Jlicb. " JT3old InPlttsburft Pa, lvjneph Fleut ' tog Hon, Diamond and Market st. se-SJ fce,aasBi,,8ar' ' isearu- Amt,vnw mmtdmMmm Y3tjtMMB JmJ m BrSi
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