PB' Jsy.w-SBPT"H"if5rWg nniimjT roa thi DurxTcn. j Brer since the death of his mother, Hani tad lived with his father on their little farm, helping to till the ground, carrying the produce to market and making himeU very useful. Marzi was well known and much loved by the country people; for he was kind and generous, and was always ready to lend a helping hand to those in need. One time the father fell very ill, and, after many days of great suffering, he died, leaving his son without a friend in the world. Although Marzi did not expect any great wealth from his father, he was much surprised to receive as his inheritance only a bright new penny. He determined to leave his native village and travel in other lands. So, locking the door of his little home, he put the key in his pocket along with the penny, and set out afoot on his journey. He had gone hut a short distance when he met an old beggar man, who said: "Sir, I am very poor and suffering from hunger. Can you not help me?" Always ready to do an act of kindness, THE TOfHAPPY BOY the boy drew out his penny and gave it to the old man, saying: "If you will have this you are welcome to it. "When the man had taken the money, he said: "For this gilt you shall receive great reward. Tell me what you most wish and it shall be granted to you." Marzi was astonished to hear such words from a beggar, and he answered quickly without thinking: "My good old man, I think I should most like, that whenever I wished I could become a hare, a dove or a fish." "It shall he as you desire," said the old man; and then be vanished Irom sight "When he had been fiom home nearlya year, Marzi csme one day to a large city, in which there was a great noisrand confusion. The men were running through the streets shouting, women were crying and wringing their hands, and even the little children seemed troubled and grieved. When Marzi inquired the cause of all this tumult, he was told that the King of the city was going out to make war against a powerful enemy, and it was feared that he and all the brave men whom he was taking with him would be lost. Marzi asked and obtained permission to go with the soldiers as drummer-boy, and gaily marched away to war. For manv days the battle raged fiercely, and finaliy'tbe King and his loyal men be gan steadily to lose ground. while the enemy continued to gain, and must in time over power them and take them prisoners. When the King had called his men together he said: "In the treasnre room of my palace is a magic ring, given to me by an old magician, and which when placed on my finger renders me invisible. If I had this ring now, I could mingle with the troops of the enemy, learn their plans, and thus save our army. To the one who is willing to go to the palace and will bring me the ring I will command the treasure master to give great reward." The men hesitated to perform this desire of the King, for to return to the city the lines o tbe enemy must be passed through, and no one wished thus to endanger his life. Finally, the drummer boy advanced to the King and said. "Your Majesty, I will in a short time bring your ring to you." 2ow the oromise of the old beggar proved true; for when Marzi wished to be come a hare he was changed at once, and darted away like the wind. When he came to the wide river over which tbe soldiers had been carried in boats he became a fish and swam rapidly to the other side. As soon as he reached the shore he was again changed into a white dove, and flew directly to the palace. There he lighted on the shonlderorthe treasure master, who admit ted the beautiful bird and ted it with crumbs of bread and cake. When Marzi had as sumed his natural form he told tbe treasure master his errand, and received the ring, with these words: "Be carelul and allow no one to take the ring from you, or you may lose your reward." Marzi then changed himself into a dove and said: ""Now treasure master, pluck three feathers rom one of my wings." When he had done so, the dove became a fish and said: "Take eight scales from my back." Tnis being done the fish became a hare and said: "Cat off the tip of my right ear. The treasure master took the scissors and did as the hare commanded. Marzi then toot the ring and was soon on his way back. He crossed tl.e river in safety and was flying tiward the camp when a great wind arose, blowing so violently that the poor dove was obliged to descend and become a hare in order "to continue his journey. But a cowardly snlriipr who had seen the drum mer-boy set out in the lorm of a hare, now watched for his return, and as soon as be spied him leaping through the grass, be sprang upon him, beating him until he thought him dead, and then taking the ring he cirriea it to the King, sayinc: "Hope Jgaio, most noble ruler; for I bring to you tne magic ring." The King was greatly plcasedtnd warmly praised the soldier lor his bravery, and promised double the reward first offered. In a short time the enemy was put to flight, conquered by means of tlie magic ring. Now the King and his men returned to tbe as victors. There were loud rejoicings, city ringing of bells, waving of banners, and sounding of trumpets. In the grand pro cession, which passed through the streets, tbe little drummer-boy was not to be seen; but tbe wicked soldier rode beside the King on a noble white steed, and was proclaimed the deliverer of thearmy. When, however: they reached the palace and the reward was dmanoed of him, the treasure master said: "This is not he to whom I gave the ring." The Kinc was much astonished, and, turning to the soldier, he said: "Did you not return to tbe palace for the ring and -' bring it to me?" The soldier declared that he and no other bid saved the army. But the treasure mus ter said: "Wait until to-morrow, and then if the true deserrer of tbe reward does not sppsar, I shall pay it to this one." The King agreed to this plan, and tbe m ' """ ' " aaMatar !.. soldier, thinking he had killed the hare, was content to wait In the meantime the poor wounded hare lay where he had been struck down, unable to rise, and enduring great pain. Suddenly the old beggar cn appeared and, bending over the suffering animal, said: "Hare, arise and hasten to the King, or you will lose your reward. And before Marzi, his wounds being healed, could thsnk his -riend, the old man had vanished. The boy hurried witn an speed to the palace, where he arrived just as the reward was about to he given tothe soldier. Marzi told his story to the King, who said: "If you can prove that you de serve the reward you shall receive it;but if not, the reward shall be given to this man and you shun be hanged on the gallows in the court yard." Marzi then became the dove and told the treasure master to bring the three feathers which be had taken from his wing. When the leathers had been brought, everyone could see that they belonged to the dove. Then the fish appeared and called for the scales, which fitted exactly. But when the tip of the hare's ear was produced, there was no longer any doubt that Marzi had told the truth. The king was very angry with the false soldier, and ordered him to MEETS A BEGGAR. be hanged on the gallows. The soldier was so frightened at the thought of such a death that he fell on his knees and besought mercy from the King. His life was finally granted to him on condition that be wonld at once leave the city, and never be seen there again. To the drummer boy, on account of the wrongs he had suffered, double honors were paid, and the King wished him to remain in his kingdom. But when Marzi had received his reward, he returned to his native village and his old home, where he was welcomed with great joy by the people, who gladly received him among them; and they never tired ol hearing how, by means of bis new penny, he saved thearmy of the King, Paysie. BOSTON AT CARDS. They Propone Iioftly Intellectual Tnrubllnsj at the Game of Scat Boston Courier. The coming game of cards in Boston seems to be the German game scat; which is by no means new, but which tor some unac countable reason seems to be having a re vival, or rather to be in the way of being taken up, especially among the young men. As there is every prospect that dnring the coming winter there will be an increase of the interest, it behooves those who desire to keep up with the times in this particular to devote their leisure this summer to a con sideration of the intricacies of this game. It is called a game, and so is chess; al though either might claim rank with the abstruse science; and almost rival that monster of iniquitous unlearnable involu tions, the Japanese go-bang. The funda mental idea ot the inventors of scat has been to complicate and then again to com plicate, and yet once more to complicate. To begin with, the player is met on the very threshhold by a variable and elnsive creature called a co-efficient, a term so strongly suggestive of Sophomore year and examinations that one should be at once warned to desist. II, however,he has the hard ihood to keen on hefinds "froggies," "solos," "grands," "nelloes," and a dozen other things bristling about him like the points of a chevel-de-frise. He is told to multiply his coefficient by various numbers, and to "bid" lor hands which he does not want, or to receive bids which are not to be paid to him if he accepts them. He is forced to do sums in addition to an extent which reduces his brain to a pulp, while all the time he is expected to imagine that he has five suits ot cards in his hand instead ol four, that all the knaves are always trumps, and that the tens rank next to the aces. A DYHAMO DQTICULTY That Is lo be Remedied na a Result cf Re cent Inveetlcntlona. Recent investigations, made with a view to overcome the difficulties caused by vibra tion and noise from dynamos and engines, have led to giving special stress to an in crease or tbe mass of machinery to be isolated and its carriage by an elastic body, such as rubber, says a writer to the Boston Adver tiser. In accomplishing this, the plan is to dig out a large trench, and at the bottom to place planking surmounted by a covering of sheet-iron, on which are distributed a number of rubber cylinders, constituting it the same time an elastic and electric insula tion. On the top of these cylinders there is placed a second plate of sheet-iron riveted to a tramework, so as to give stiffness to the whole. On this is built a foundation in the usual way, provision being made for the loundation-bolt, and sufficient space being left to suitably admit of periodically clean ing ihe trough of Winy extraneous matter without disturbing the elastic support. Property and Electric Lights. The effect which the electric light has pro duced in the rental of buildings, in the cen tral portions of large cities is somewhat re markable. A great many of the handsomest restaurants in Chicago are now located in basements. Before electric lights were in troduced the basements could not be used for this purpose to any great extent, for tbe simple reason that no matter how many gas jets were used, the rooms were all more or less dingy. They could never be made at tractive, .and consequently it was not found to be a good investment to spend large sums ot money in fitting them up. Within the last year or two, within which rents have enormouslv increased, there seems to have been a general realization of tht fact that by the aid of electric lights these basements could be made in every way suitable loca tions for many kinds or business. A large amount of valuable renting property has thus been brought Into the market which formerly was used for little leas than pur poses ei storage. THE THE HEALING POWER. Lesson in the Miracle Performed by tbe SaYior at Decapolis. THE MENTALLY DEAF AND DUMB Compared With the Sufferer, for Whom ' the Multitude Pleaded. TEE SEAL BEWAED OP THE HELPER rwzrrTxxroBTnx Bisrj.Tcn.1 At Decapolis, on the other side of Jordan, they brought to Christ a deaf and dumb man that he might heal him. Let us read the story over and get what truth and help we can out of it. "They bring unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech and they beseech him to put his hands upon him." What a parable snch a man as this is, of the relation between utterance and knowl edge. The ear is the organ of knowledge, and the lips of speech. Whoever has some thing the matter with his hearing is pretty sure to have something the matter with his tongne. The two go together. The deaf have almost of necessity some impediment in their speech. And this is just as true in tellectually as it is physically. We must listen in order to talk. We must learn be fore we can teach. It is only out of disci ples that apostles can be made. First hear eis, then intelligent speakers. There are a great many people who have no need of a physician, and yet speak with a stammer and have an impediment in their speech an intellectual impedimentbe cause they are deaf mentally deaf. They will not hear. In this "age of words," as our generation has recently been called, this parable is worth attending to. Some of the prevalent stammering and mistaken speech about the religion of Christ we may set down to the account of deafness. These speakers have not been listeners. They have not heard Christ. That is what is the matter with them. "WHERE XHX BEJIEDY LIES. The best thing which any man can do whose tongue stammers when it touches the syllables of the Christian creed, is to come where this deaf and dumb man came to Christ. They bring this afflicted man to the Healer, and pray for him who cannot well pray for himself or at any rate does not pray for himself that He may lay His helping hand uoon him. They bring the man and Christ together. What did Christ do? "He took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit and touched his toneue." It is no use talking the English language to a deaf and dumb man, nor even the Syriac language if that is the speech of the country. At least in those days, which were centuries before lip-reading was thought of, there was no use. Ordinary speech would not do with him. Whoever would talk to this deaf man must make signs, That is wnat (Jurist aia. ue put His finger into the deaf man's ears. That was a plain enough sentence. And He touched the stammering tongue with His moistened finger. Nobody could miss know ing what that meant Then they stood "apart from the multitude," the patient and tbe Physician, the two together; the deaf and dnmb man looking at Chiist, and Chrit looking at him. That was the beginning of it. The first essential for this man it he wanted to he cured, was to understand that Christ was looking at that moment straight at him, and at nobody else. His bark was against the whole world, and his face was toward Christ's face; and he said to himself: "Now the Healer is thinking about ree, and is going to help me." And that thought helped him. EfDITIDTTAI. BECOONITION. That is a though; to help anybody. Be ligion, a ter all, consists mainly in standing thus face to face with God, knowing that God beholds and loves not only "us" but "me," and each one for our own self behold ing, serving and loving Uod. When a man begins to say to himself Christ came into this world tor my sake; to set me an ex ample which I "am to follow in my life to day; He lived to redeem me from death and to save me from my sins; He died upon the cross: above there in heaven or. no. here. rather, close by my side He loves and helps me. When a man begins to speak with himself after that fashion, making the great troths personal, and realizing that they are true, for him, and then in his turn cousecrat tinir his life more closely to Him whom he knows as his Savior and his Lord, then that man discovers what Christ's religion is. I take this dumb and deaf man, looking to Christ for help and understanding. That Christ cares ior and loves him. I take him as the type of the beginning ot personal re ligion. "And looking up .to heaven, He sighed." That is tbe next thing we are told. Looting up into that blessed home, where sorrow and crying, and de ect and pain are all banished, and then down upon this grief stained earth; lookine up above where tbe will of God is perfectly understood and per fectly and lovingly done, and then down upon this disobedient earth, peopled with the spiritually deaf and dumb, none of us hearing as we might nor speaking as we might, He sighed IHE 'WOED OF HEALIXO. "And saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, be opened." It is a strange word. Even in the Greek it had to be translated. It be longs to the language in which the people of our Lord's land and day uttered their thoughts a language long passed out of the using of the greater nations of tbe earth. "Ephphatha, that is, be opened." So near we get to that scene of healing in Decapolis that we can hear the very sound of the Mas ter's voice. These were the very syllables He uttered. Alter that the word had such a beauty of sound and such a richness of mean ing that there was no transfering it out of that language into another. Something of Christ's voice, something of the associations of that hour dune to it afterward always. When St. Peter told this story of healing for St. Mark to write it down, he remem bered just how that word sounded. "Eph phatbal" It called back the whole scene. So it stands here even in our English Bible. 'And straightway bis ears were openea. and the string ot his tongue was loosed and be spake plain." And that is all that we are told about him. The veil of silence (alls between him and us. We would like to know more about so many Bible peoplel About Hhe Bethlehem shepherds who heard the angels sing in the Ciiristmas sky, and about the little daughter of Jairns who came back to life again, and about Lazarus. How far was the imagination of Brownine true in that fine "Epistle of Karshish" which he wrote, in wjiich the Arab physi cian interviews that strange inhabitant of Bethany? And that other and even finer poem, ,SA Death in the Desert," about the last hours of St John, how far was that true, we wonder. And this deaf and dumb man, what did hef afterward do with the hearing and the speech which Christ had given him? But that we know not. EFFECT OJT THE PEOPLE. Whatever is told more and that is not much is about the people. Around the patient crowded" the people. Every deed worth doing or word worth saying divides the bystanders at once into classes, accord ing to their appreciation. The day of judgment is all the time arriving, and we are continually being separated, some on the right hand, and others on the left So here, to some, the healing of the deaf and dumb man was simply an astonishing piece of news, which they prooeeded hecceiorth to spread among their neighbors, glad to have something quite new to talk about, not giving it any earnest thought at all, and altogether disregarding Christ's desire that they should keep It to themselves. No doubt He saw that the best thing they could do for their owe profit to montion no other considera tionwas to keep silence and do more think ing than talking. To these people the mir acle appeared only upon its sensational side. And we eaa readily imagine that when PITTSBURG DISPATCH, the next surprising thing happened, and they had another theme for wonderinm gossip, they quite forgot this. Tbe deaf and dumb man and Christ who had healed him went out of their minds together. And so these people upon whom the miracle Beemed to produce the greatest effect were really the most affected by it There were others who were more genuinely touched. We are told ot these that they glorified the Healer. "He hath done all things well, thev said. "He maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak." That is the reward of the helper a part of his reward. BEWABD OT THE HELPER. That is the least part of the reward of the real helper. He values it, indeed, It is precious to him to have the approbation ot those about him, to hear the pleasant words of their appreciative speeeh, to have one and another say "this or that which you did helped me" no man may regard that without gratitude. Everybody prizes such friendly expression, and everybody is up- llr.-J ' j L.l J k It nnf-ht to be. uitou snu ucifJvu ii .i v - With these bystanders amazement passed into admiration. But I called that the least part of the reward of the helper. There were others who gave the helDer his best reward. St Matthew tells us that some who stood there "glorified the God or Israel." That was what Christ wanted. Tbe helper is rewarded when he helps. And he knows that he helps most when he stirs in the hearts of others not the sense of mere passing admiration, not even the feeling of personal affection, but the act of lookine up. past him, to God. To glorify God is the aim of the genuine helper. "Not unto us, but unto Thy name be the praise," is the thought of his heart "And they glorified the God of Israel." Noth ing else in that Decapolis visit gladdened the heart of Christ like that A COMPANY OP TJNBKLIEYEBS. "The God of Israeli" The expression is worth noticing. These people of Decapolis were pagans. Thev had gods, as they thought, of their own. They were away outside the boundaries of the true religion. They were the worst kind of heretics, of un believers, of infidels. Christ stood among a company of infidels that day. And what did he do? In these days of questioning and doubting and denying, when we find ourselves sometimes in unbelieving com pany, we may well study this. What did the Master do? Did He make an elaborate argument with premises major and minor and an ir resistible conclusion, and so convinoe their minds? Did He make a declaration, as irom heaven, ot the truth about God and of the falsehood of their notions about God, and so try the persuasion of authority? Did He ridicule the idols oi uecapoim Did He call down fire from heaven upon this company of idolaters? There are so many things which He might have donel so many things which we, if we had stood in His place, would have been glad to dol What did He? He preached no sermon. He said no word at all about religion. He simply helped those people in their need, and did it so simply, so kindly, and so wonderfully that they loved Him on the spot And love and faith go together. You cannot separate tbem. So they believed in Him, and be lieving in Him they believed in the religion which he stood for. That was how those people of Decapolis found the light THE MEANS, ADOPTED. No sermon could have effected that They would have turned away, as the people of Athens did after the preaching of St Paul, saying, -'We will hear thee again of this matter," and that would have been the end of it But the deed of love and helpfulness won their hearts. "And they glorified the God of Israel.' Here is the conquest toward which the energies and prayers of the best souls in the world to-day can boast to bring the un believing into the knowledge of Christ as Christ brought these heathen of Decapolis. How shall we do it? In the old days men tried the sword; against false thinking set the inquisitor and the rack and the stake; tried violence, and that failed and will always fail. In these days the victory of truth over untruth is sometimes attempted by means of dis putation, by logic, by battles oj words. There may be somehelp in that for some people, but not much help for many. The onlv invincible weapon is the one by which Christ conqnered on the field of Decapolis the sword of love. It is only by Christian kindliness, and help'ulness and love that Christian truth can ever be com mended to tbe minds of men. We must begin by doing all the good we can. The troth will follow after. He who helps, preaches the soundest doctrine and will win the most converts. The best argument for the Christian creed is the Christian character. The doctrine is commended by the deed. Geobob Hodges. WOEET KSJi DISAPPOINTMENT. Why John C Fremont Did Mot litre n Fall Contary, Hew York Telegram. John C. Fremont who has just died at the age oi 76, could have lived to become a cen tenarian had not his constitution broken down by worry and disappointment He bad just received a pension from the gov ernment a few weeks before his death, which changed his lite from poverty to compe tence, but it came too late to be of any use to himself. Fremont was the hereof a past generation. Old men can remember the whirlwind of enthusia-m with which hisname was greeted throughout the country in 1856. He was not elected to the Presidency, but he re ceived a larger, number of votes than Buchanan, as Tilden received more thun Hayes in 1876 and as Cleveland received more than Hairison in 1888. Fremont prob ably saved California to the Union, and his name wi.l not be forgottenl A New Paint OH. An important discovery is reported from California in the shape of a new paint oil, which is itated.to be superior to linseed oil and also to be much cheaper. It has the further advantage that on surfaces which are exposed to tbe weather it makes the paint wear more than twice as long as lin seed oil. It is also claimed that "neither the heat and dryness of summer, nor the cold and wet of winter, will cause the paint to scale off or 'chalk.' It preserves its elasticity and gloss better and longer than linseed oil and never blisters in the sun." The oleice used in the manufacture of this new paint oil is extracted from fish oils. MY LiDDEE, 170. rwBrnsx tor the dispatch. Was It up. or down our boat shot out? You who are oarsmen maybe know; There seemed no need that I should heed Aught save to watch my laddie row. Tne floating tresses ot the trees Bent low to kiss the river's edge; A pipe of bird, whose nest was stirred, Hose sleepily from uut the sedge. The swift turns of the curving course! The tranquil nook where lilies dent. A tinman flute, now sharp, now hoarse, As low beneath the bank we crept. The wee lips of the tiller ropes Dripped silver In that magic air; Tbe river's edge, like giant hedge. Grew dense with shadows black and bare. A sadden flash of gloaming lamps. Where sweet shrill laughter pierced the night; A glint and clow on us below, Then stillness and tbe rare moonlight. A tawny head in crimson cap. Eyes, honest eye, most darkly bine; Bare arras of snow, that come and go Athwart a statue's pallid hue. O Moon! what strange dementia breeds? What stirs this quiet pulse of minet What vision sweet and incomplete Illumes tbe world with light divine? No answerl But tbe moon shines on. Smiling, mayhap, with gentle glee. Why should I wish with her to kiss Borne day the statue will arouse! Tbe marble arms with warmth will glowt Then In his boat another'U float And she will watch my laddie row. "And why," you ask, -"to other loves Do I resign my gondolier?" Because (an, mel the cruelty!) I am bis maiden aunt, my dear. ZcoraBiwxrt Whetter SUNDAY. AUGUST .10, THE COUNTRY CLUB. A Social Luxury Thai is Expensive, But Always Beneficial. SOME LEADING ORGANIZATIONS. Ladies as Expert as Their Brothers in Cross Country Hiding. BASE EEHKEL8 AND FANOI STABLES rwxxTTxir job Tin dispatch. "God made the country and mau made the town." At least that was the opinion oi a wise man not so many hundred years ago. If he was living right now and saw the country made over to suit the taste of city folks, it is just possible he might re vise his estimate of landscape gardening. For the country as it comes from nature's hand is a mighty different thing to the country of seats and clubs and other appur tenances of millionaires and millionairesses. It augurs well for the future physique of thisEepublio that the folk in it who, by good hap, have leisure spend so much of it in cultivating tbe manners and muscles of English country gentlemen. Gentlewomen too. The "other sex oi man," to -quote Miss Baker, takes quite as kindly to country life with modern improvements as does the bearded one. Indeed it is quite as important a part of it, for the country club in its best estate is no mere selfish agglomeration of bachelors misanthropes, who go to grass and its delight free of social and feminine trammels, but an organization of persons reasonably well bred, more than remarkably well-to-do, whose object is sometimes sport with inci dental society oftener society with inci dental sport Tuxedo is the full-blown ex ample thereof so full blown indeed that it needs no lurther exploitation. Nearly every considerable city is circled with them. Boston knows them almost as well as she does beans. Philadelphia rates member ship therein pretty well along with grand fathers. Chicago was mighty proudof hers until she took them all within the city lim its, and turned tbem into Browning societies. SOSIE OP THE NOTED CLTJB3. In New York terms, to be a country clubfeeis to write yourself socially Brahmin, of Brahmin's. Notwithstanding the caste is not a narrow one, there are clubs galore. Within a radius ol 60 miles from the City Hall, are the Eockaway and the Meadow Brook, up on Long Island; the Richmond County, whose local habitation is Mr. Erastus "Wiman's principality of Staten Island; the Essex County habitat, the Oranges of Jersey; the Far and Near, up at Irvington; the Duchess Conntv, the Queens County and the Westchester. A little further away come the Genesee Valley and Buffalo County clubs. Boston has the Myopia, sportively so named for her spectacular population and the Brookline. Philadelphia weirs by the Badnor.of which that good sportsman, A. J. Cassatt, is president, and the Bose Tree, with Biddies and Wilmers a plenty. Out in Pennsylvania the Lima is but one of many. Baltimore has the Elk ridge and tbe Maryland. At Washington the Dunbane hounds have set music in the air all winter and even gone over the Po tomac to teach Virginia rough-riders to hunt the fox in style. For almost all of them are hunt-clubs have hounds an M. F. H. huntsmen whinners in and other truly British appendages. The members talk of good going, finding, killing, drawing covert, drawing blank, chuks faults, being in at the death, and so on quite as though born in Leicester in Melton-Mowbrey. There 'is some hunting in the spring. Fall though is the real season. The dogs, whether hounds or beagles, are imported or bred Irom such stock. Hunters for the most part come from Kentucky or Virginia, and if not thorough bred show a good deal ol blood. Fox-hunting, though, is by no means the only diver sion. WESTCHESTER IS HEW. Bowling, cricket, tennis, polo.divide hon ors with it more than fairly. Some clubs the Westchester, ior instance have no hounds as yet, though doubtless a p.irk will soon be added to its other attractions. It has something over 400 members and one of the finest polo gronndiin the country. The clubhouse is a stone's throw from Pel ham B.y, so is accessible by yacht as well as by carriage. The grounds are not fin ished yet Many new houses are going up for the members, tor much the larger half of them are resident A few owners live there the year round. The clubhouse itself is long, low and rambling, built of brick and stone and wonderfully picturesque in its green setting. It has handsome parlors, a big dining room, library, billiard rooms, in fact everything you may look for at a well appointed clubhouse. Besides there are suites of rooms lor non-resident members. Albeit there are no hounds, the stable is a mighty important feature. It stands at the edge of the polo ground, is long and low and gray, and altogether a mighty comfortable place for the small steeds, as well as lor horses of ordinary size and extraordinary merit For there are riders of renown on the club's roster men and women a plenty whe know and love a good horse and are willing to pay rouudly ior him. A typical hunt club is the Meadow Brook. It is the oldest of them all. In 1877 a lot of hard-riding rich men brought over a pack of barriers and established tbem in kennels near Hempstead, L. 1. The late William B. Travers was its first President and A, Belmont Pnrdy, master of hounds. There were 40 members in all, who soon got them selves a clubhonse and club colors, and the reputation of being excellent good fellows. The pack was ten couple of fairish hounds and the drag was laid oyer lines ot light lenoes. THE MEADOW BBOOK TOiDAY. Things are different nowadays. Colonel William Jay, who holds the seat left vacant by the death of Mr.Travers, may reasonably be proud or his sporting palatinate. Its lo cation is singularly fortunate, within an hour of New Xork Ulty, yet wno ana ioyeiy enough to aronse all the hall-savage hunt ing instinct It is an ideal country to ride over, when not too wet By consequence everybody does ride.cot merely in the hunt, but at all times and for all reasons. The members spend tbe autumn and make merry with dinners and dances, lawn meets, hunt breakfasts, and so on, with an occasional ball at the clubhouse by way of variety. It is a double wooden building, quaintly picturesque. There is an archway betwixt the two halves, under which carriages drive to deposit euests. Inside there are the usual apartments and a big ballroom, used also for hunt dinners and as a place to tell or hear something new. The pack has grown to 20 couple, all bred from imported stock. The present master of hounds, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., is one of the most ardent sportsmen in tbe club possibly in the United States. That is saying a good deal, siuce the club includes such notable person ages as Theodore and Elliot Boosevelt, the Bntherfords, Woodbury Kane, F. B. Apple ton, James Gordon Bennett, the Huvemey ers, Pierre Lor i Hard, Jr., Boyal Phelps Carroll, Oliver Belmont, Stanley Mortimer, Edwin D. Morgan, tbe Potters, A. Belmont, Bobert W. Stuart. William B. Travers, James M. Waterbury, George Work, Cen ter Hitchcock Eagerton and Dudley Win throp, P. F. Collier and plenty more. Good iellows all and several excellently mounted and riding without flinching or craning at tbe slifJest fence or wall. The stable, is of course, filled with the choicest horseflesh. OTHEB LEADING CLUBS. The Queens County Hunt is an association of gentlefolk who follow the private pack of Mr. Frank Gray Griswold. The Bichmond County, upon Staten Island, is a new elub that has as yet not got to the hunting stage. Tbe Bockaway Hunt, which divides honors with the Meadow Brook, has somewhat the same habitat tbe plains of Long Island. It is especially fortunate la Its M. F. H., Bene La Montague, Esq. He ii ably 1890. seconded by Foxhall Keene confessedly the prince oi cross-country riders. Nearly always there is a 'good field from which the ladies, God bless 'em, are never conspicuous bv absence. Miss Metcalf, Miss Emmett, Miss Keene and plenty more, sit as firm, ride as straight as the best and are rarely absent from the covert-side and often in ac the death. , . , While the Pelham County Club's harries were in commission they had even more feminine followers. Mesdames Potter, Bull, Harriman, Iselin, Miss Carey, Miss Cooley are habitues, and keep abreast of husbands and lovers and brothers no matter what the pace. In point of pieturessjueness the Essex County Hunting Club is behind none. It has some great names in its his tory. No less a person than General George B. McCIellan was once Its President The clubhouse is a thing of accretions an odd, rambling, roomy affair that has grown around an old stone farmhouse. The pack is but ten couples strong a small allowance of dogs to near 200 members. As not a quar ter ol tbem hunt, though the disproportion is more apparent than real. Most of the members are resident. Henry W. Page is President; John A. Stewart, Jr., Master of Hounds. Great things are promised in the near future, new horses, hounds, kennels, and so on. Besides there are a toboggan slide, tennis and polo grounds, as well as a crack, nolo team under Captain Powers Farr. CHASE THE BEAD FOX. Happiest ot huntsmen are they who follow the Genessee Valley hounds. They ride over a good grass country after the real foxes. That is after October. Up to that time the drag prevails. Wadsworth's Homo Farm is headquarters for it, a Wadsworth master of hounds and the leading spirit of the hunt Among those who ride in it are Messrs. Howland. Carey.Potter.Martindale, Buckly, Watson, Colt, Drayton and Miss Fitzhugh. Boston's crack hunt club, the Myopia, is nearly equal with the Meadow Brook. Master ot Fox Hounds Seabury has both drag-beagles and fox hounds who can upon occasion rout out a real ox. Wennam Swamn knows well the soft pad of their feet Vineyard Hill echoes their music on a soit autumn morning. The cream of Boston blood goes streaming alter them Appleton, Abbott, Dodge, Merrill, Peabody, Shaw, Sargeant, Agassiz, Wright are but typical names. What need to be more specific? The Country Club is but the outward and visible sign of the growth among us of that love for iree, fresh air and healthful pas times that is so hopeful a feature of our national life. They are costly luxuries to be sure, but bring large dividends of strength and wholesome pleasure. May they grow and increase until the morbid mind is banished, the weakling taught that it is his duty to be strong. Though as yet there is somewhat of crudeness in their methods, o affectation of English ways and aping of English speech, they cannot help but influence social life for good. Our great exemplar Washington took the trouble to set down in his diary that he "went a hunt ing with Jackey Curtis and catched a fox." It is unlikely that any lollower of the drags will ever have Washington's opportunity any more than his ability but lor what fate does bring he will be all tbe better pre pared i: he has the eye and hand and bal ance of the trained cross-country rider. , M. O. W. THET WEAB BIO HATS. Costumes of a Peculiar People of the Indo Chinese Peninsula. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 3 In Annam, an empire occupying the east ern portion of the Indo-Chinese peninsula, with a population of 15,000,000, men and women wear their hair in the same way and dress almost alike. Like the man the woman wears a turban, a long tunic, wide, loose tmusers and a bright sath, the ends falling below the knees. The physiognomy is almost the same, as the men are beardless and have their hair done up like the women. The only clew to distinguish them is the ear-rings and finger-rings, worn by women only. The ear-rings are like double sblrt studs, and among' the lower orders are of colored glass. The wives and daughters of Mandarins alone are allowed -to wear gold jewelry. The rings are of spiral wire, fit ting tight and standing out to some height Some women of the upper class wear also necklsces of strings of gold or silver beads. The hat of the women is monumental. It is like a large barrel cover, three-quarters of a yard in diameter. Six or seven silk cords as thick as a quill are fastened on each side, and when worn fall down below tbe waist Where the ends are fastened to the hat on each side is a huge black or brown silk tassel. Some of these bats are artistically made of carefully selected palm leaves and lined with neatly plaited flae leaves.. These are expensive, especially when thev have chiseled silver clasps at the tassels. Many women fasten a little round mirror in the hat before which they arrange their turban when they go to town. The hat is the article most prized by the stylish ladies, and often costs 510 or $15. a rossnizED fabtibait. Uncle Tobe'a Opinion of the Australian Bal loting System. rwBITTEjr FOE TIIE SISFATCII.1 "De whole worl' is gittin' strangled to def wid new things," remarked Uncle Tobe Armstrong, with a look of unspeakable dis gust "Now, jes look at dat Australian bill. Why, dey tell me dat when dat bill git to to be a law a man's'vote won't be wuf 10 cents. De folks is already cramped to w trid low nrices. an' ef a vote ain't to be L wuf mo an a ashcake wnt is we comin' to? Jes answer me dat JJavs oe pint is arter. Ef a man's got 'nough sense to vote he got 'nough sense to know what dat same vote is wuf. No use tryln" to structuy ms nigger in politics; I bin dar befo'." J. A. Macoit. Banqueting' la Cbnrcb. Cooking and banqueting in the ehuroh would have been accounted sacrilege by our Puritanio forefathers, says the Bev. John L. Scudder in a sermon printed in the Cfcrtsftan Union, yet to-day no one thinks of building a church without a commodious kitchen and facilities for feed ing the faithful by the hundred. We are. the creatures of habit in all these things. What one generation condemns as un ecclesiasticatl the next'one zealously adopts, and utilizes to the glory of God. Tbe Manly Girl. t warrnar roa Tax pisfatch. i I truly love a manly boy OI beings he's the pearL But this doth Irk and much annoyj That horrid manly girl. An Annam Woman and Her Mat. FOOD FOR THE SICE. Ellice Serena's Tempting Dishes for Persons in Ill-Health. TRICKS HDESES SHOULD OOW. Gruels, Teas and Jellies That Are Appetizing and Digestible. DAIHTIE5 FOB EEBELLI0U8 STOMACHS i wiuri'sj roa tbi sisfxtcx.1 The sick, like the poor, we have always with us, and if we had no other reminder of onrduty to the ailing, the common in stincts of our humanity indicate that it is not selfish in us to be unmindful.of these even if they are not of our own household. Some suggestions for the preparation of food which may be used in the sick-room, is therefore important It is no easy matter to feed tbe sick, as those who have bad any experience may know. In some Instances it is with great difficulty that the patient is induced to take food at all; in other in stances, the sick person may wish for food which is forbidden. It is thus apparent that the nurse is called upon to exercise pe culiar traits. She must be gentle, forbear ing, fertile in resources and persuadinjr. Sometimes a choice bit of food being offered the sick person his appetite is encouraged by the surprise, whereas if the patient were consulted beforehand bis appetite as gone beiore the food is ready. Tbe quality of the food to be used should be of the very best At no other time is this consideration of more importance. Food should not be allowed to stand in, the sick room, either waiting to be served or after it has been partly served. All remains oi it should be removed when not wanted. No dish or glass should be used a second time withont having been cleansed of all vestiges of its former contents. A first consideration in serving the sick is thorough neatness. It matters little of what quality the napery or ware may be, but it does matter much that they should be without spot or blemish. It is scarcely necessary to add that the sani tary condition of the room, the appearance of the nurse, and the manner of serving have much to do with tempting the appetite of the sick one. There should be everything in the appearance of the surroundings to in duce, and nothing to repulse him. The pernicious habit of tasting, in the presence of the patient, food intended for his use, should be avoided. .If any article of food is prescribed by the doctor to be used either hot or cold, it should be so of fered. The temperature of the food may be of much importance, and the doctor, of course, in this matter is tbe best judge. It should be a matter of conscience that all cooking utensils used for the sick should he of the best material and absolutely clean. Here are some recipes for the sick room: BICE JELLY. Wash through several waters a half cupful of rice and soak for two hoars In tepid water. Add three pints of cold water and cook the rice till the water is rednced to two pints. Strain, season with a little salt and sweeten to taste. This is excellent for children with bowel trouble. BICE CBEAJI. Mix together one-half cupful of rice flour and some cold milk. Have in a double boiler one pint or rich milt, slowly boiling. Stir In the mixture, sweeten to taste, flavor and add a pinch ot salt. Stir constantly until done. Turn into a dish and cover with a meringue made of the wblte of one egg and pulverized susar beaten to a stiff froth. Set In a cool oven nntil the meringne Is sat Can be eaten cold with cream, or warm with tart jelly. BICS MILK. Prepare rice in the usual way. and wben It becomes soft and the water Is boiled away, add new milk, sweeten with white sugar and grate over it a little nutmeg. By use of the steimer, the rice may be bolted entirely In milk, which improves It very much. For the Invalid this simple disn is delicious EICK OKHEL. Moisten one tablespoonf nl of rice flour with cold water, and stir into It one cupfal of boillne water, or equal parts ot boiling milk and Season with salt or add suzar and a little grated nutmeg with a pinch of salt CAT7DLT-. To one pint of rice gruel boiling hot add the beaten yolk of one egg gradually, one table spoonful of sngar, one tablespoonful of cold water, a wine glass of wine and a little grated nutmeg. BOILED BICE. Boll a half cupfnl of rice after washing It In a quart of boiling' water. When gnlte tender drain In a sieve. Place on bnttered toast and cover with the juice of roast beef or mutton. ABBOW BOOT. Dissolve four teaspoonfuls of arrow root In a cupful of cold water. Add by degrees to a pint of boiling milk. Boil five minutes, sweeten to tate. add little wine or essence. SABLBT QBUEB. To one quart of cold water, add a half tea cupf ul of well washed barley. Let slowly simmer for three hours. Strain, sweeten to taste and flavor with nut meg. WTSE WllZT. Put in a porcelain pan a pint of new milk. When it bolls add a wine glass of sherry. When It bolls again remove to the back part of the stove. .,... Separate the whey from the curd when It forms and sweeten. BESrSTXAK TEA. Select a piece of good beefsteak, remove the fat and broil for three minutes over a hot fire. Lay In a deep disb.season with salt and cover with a cupful of boiling water. Cut into small pieces while In the water. Cover closely and place on the stove, where it will keep quite hot without cooking. BEET JUICE AND WUfZ. Warm over the fire, on a gridiron, a tender loin beefsteak. Cut into pieces and press out the julcawlth a lemon squeezer into a wineglass ot good For a very weak patient give one tesspoonful at a time. BEET TEA, Free from fat one ponnd'of lean beef, chop fine, cover with cold water and let stand lor one hour. Put Into a clean fruit jar, withont water, clover closeW and set In a pot of cold water. Let boil slowly for several hours. Beason with salt. IHDIAN XXAX. OBTTXX. To one quart of boiling water add one-half cup of Indian meal and one teaspooaful of flour mixed to a paste with cold water. Let simmer slowly for an hour In a doable boiler. Season with salt, or sweeten to taste. BAELET WATEB. To two tablcspoonfuls of pearled barley, washed In cold water, add six blocks of sugar, the juice of one lemon, and two quarts of boil ins water. Let stand for six or eight hours In a cool place, and then strain. CBICKE2T TEA. Remove, the fat and skin from a young chicken, cut in small pieces, cover with cold water a little salt added and boll SO minutes. Strain, and when cold remove the fat, should there be any. VOTTOX BBOTJX. Cover two or three pounds of the neck of motion with cold water and boil unceasingly for six or eight hours. Strain, put on ice, and the next day or when quite cool, remove the fat. To a cupful of boiling water add two table spoonfuls of the stock or jelly and season to taste. CHEAM TOAST. Toast evenly to a light brown a slice or two of stale bread, which is sweet and light. Hemove the crust, butter slightly, place in a baking dish and cover eeneroualy with boiling nillK sauea w iw uu owu piece oi outter added. Cover closely, bake ten minutes and serve in tbe baking dish. ZJUS WATEB. Take a piece ot unslaked! lime about as large as a walnut Cover it "1th two quarts ot boning water and mix until slacked. When clear put In a bottle. This is f requtntly given with milk to correct acidity ot the stomach- JE1AT WATER. Futatablespoonfalofurtjellyln a glass ef cold water and mix thoroughly, This Is a refreshing drink for fever patients. APPLE WATEB. Take twe large apples, tart and of rich flavor. . Sake la t aeferate art tni tea 19 Place the apples In a pitcher and thorosghl mah them. Cover with a pint or more of boiling water, set aside for 30 minutes and then strain. Sweeten to taste, add agrating of nutmeg ana serve when quite cold. T0A3T WATEB. Toast very evenly a slice or two of stale bread, break Into small pieces and coyer wita boiling water. Let stand 15 mlnntes, strain and serve cold. Bice water, barley water and oatmeal water, with sugar and lemon juice added td taste, sbonld be frequently used daring the warm weather for children. These beverages are much better than poor milk and Impure water. DKIED 7L0CR. Tie In a muslin bag one cuprul of flour. Flange into a pot of boiling water and cook for eight or ten hoars. Replenish tbe pot wben necessary with hoi water. Remove the cloth wben done, and set the ball of flour in the sun or in a cool oven to dry. Orate in boiling milk until thick. This is especially good for children with weak bowels. ELLICE aSKEIA. a aiEUICAi- DOCTOR WHITTIER 814 PEN.1 AVENUE, PITTSBUKC. PA. As old residents know and back flies of Pitts, burg papers prove, is the oldest established and most prominent physician in the city, de voting special attention to all chronic diseases. 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