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LOSS.
A mddon frost! we hear Iho gardener say,
At tenderly ho boars the vine away
That yesterday was all the garden's pride;
And other flowers that bloomed the vine be
sido Bland in their glowing bennty all unharmed
As If the lusty life they bore were charmed.
We echo, with rojret for treasures lost,
"A sudden fnmU"
In life's fair gardens there are treasured
vines
Upon whoso tendrils dulicate thoro shines
The light of Clod's dear presonee day by day,
Until wo come, with hearts assured, to say,
Tbeso are the darlings whom we fondly cher
ish There can no harm come nlgh, thoy cannot
perish ;
When presently thero falls some vine acrost,
Death's sudden frost
Abbie F. Judtl, in the Current,
A TRAIN IN THE DESERT.
Years since, I was, as a child, one of a
party that met with gore distress in
northern Mexico. Our train, comprising
twenty-ono souls, was sent over a false
trail into n desert region. The springs
reported as being nlong the way" wero
not: tho few cxinting water holes were
all, save ono, dried up, and when we
camped, nfter traveling four nights and
the cooler part of as many days, it was
whero a brazen sky looked down upon a
parched land that held no sign of animal
habitation, savo one gaunt panther,
which tho men scouting for water found
dead, half a league- from the road. In
all tho desolate plain, stretching miles
away to iron bound mountain ranges on
cither hand, there was no break savo a
few shriveled bushes, and tho windlass
of a well, a few rods from tho roadside
The projector of tho road had assured
our leader of finding here a well of
water, pure and never fuiling. It now
contained perhaps ten fect of water, salt
as tho sea, and impregnated with somo
acrid mineral element. The stock was
now too much exhausted to drag the
heavy wagons further. Every drop of
water was gono from our kegs and can
teens. A hurried council was held, and our
one possible plan cf escape arranged.
My uncle nnd another young man selected
the two least jaded mules, tightened
their bells about them, and, with bullets
in their mouths to chew to stimulate the
salivary glands, they started at night
fall upon the back track, in a desperate
attempt to drive the stock to water, and
bring us relief.
My father, who had some little skill
as an amateur chemist, improvised from
the camp equipage and utensils a still
afterward a second one. Fortunately
we had a pair of camp stoves, nnd by
distilling tho salt water with this im
perfect apparatus, nineteen lives were
preserved. Three men and five women
stood in watches of two at tho still, two
hours at a turn. Tho littlo camp-stoves
were kept red hot, and drop, drop,
drop, tho priceless water fell slowly so
frightfully slowly! into tho cups. Our
rations wero two teaspoonfuls every two
hours.
Of course, cooking was out of the
question, nor could our dry and stiffened
mouths boar even such food as was
availublo from the stores. Tho first day
the attempt was made to prepare colTee
with tho salt water, but the experiment
was not repeated for tho reason that
ono Mrs. R. tho sixth woman of tho
party had persisted in drinking tho
clear, cool-looking water, and she be
came insane almost immediately. IIc.r
seven children, forlorn little creatures
as they were, had all the attention pos
sible, and bore their sufferings with
touching pationce.
I will not dwell on the five days suc
ceeding the departure of tho young
men. To this day even as I write I
fall into a nervous chill at thought of our
extremity. There was the baking sand,
the glaring sky, the triumphant, mock
ing sun; the littlo, lonely camp, with its
added degrees of heat from the glowing
stoves; the feverish faces and tremb
ling forms, stretched about beneath tho
wagons, wherever a spot of shade
blessed the earth. Tho horses, that had
been too far spent to drive back, lay dead
before us, none having strength to drag
them away, and a splendid New
foundland dog moaned out his life in
accompaniment to the insane woman's
yells. .Misery in every moment, ana
agonies of suspense for the fate of
our two "gallant boys. Had they
ridden safely to their succor and
ours, or were they lying, swollen, ghastly,
stark shapes, in some lone defilo of the
mountains we had come through? Then
the fifth day the salt water gave out!
That night the ration was reduced one
half, tho stills being supplied by wring
ing semi-liquid mud in a strainer of
linen. While two ladies were tending
the still, Thompson, the driver of our
family traveling coach, come to them,
and with threats compelled them to give
up to him more than a half pint of dis
tilled water. They complied, to avoid
wakening to collision the two gentlemen
who were to take tho next turn, but one
whole ration was thus sacriliced to ono
person. The ordeal passed.
on tne sixin morning one oi our res
cuers oanie in camp, bowed and stagger
ing under the weight of ft monstrous
Mexican gourd that he had strapped
upon his shoulders, to forestall tho slow
moving ox-carts, laden with water-barrels,
followed farther back. The young
men, spurred by tho thought of loved
ones dying behind them, had pushel tho
stock to their utmost efforts, and had
reached Cieuegas in some eighteen or
twenty hours. Not a moment had beeu
wasted in orgaui.iug the relief party;
and here came rumbling, groauiug, creik
i ii" into camp the great curretas, with
wheels of solid wood, and fastenings of
rawhide thongs, driven by swart team
sters, rough and foroclous of aspect, who
nevertheless wept like children at the
sight of tho wretched, wasted beings
who hailed them with black, swollen
lips und tongues all cracked and bleed
ing. They were but just in
time. Tho insane woman and two of
her children appeared then dying, and
surely could not have lived a half-day
longer. ' AVater was doled out with due
precaution, congratulations and thanks
givings offered; a hasty but sufficient
break fust was cooked, and all prepara
tion made for abandoning tho scene of
so much wretchedness.
Then very nearly camo about a miser
able mishap. Thompson, tho driver be
foro nicntionod a tall, lank fellow
had gotten, by purchase, cajolery, or ap
propriation, a bottle of aguardiente from
ono of tho Mexican drivers, and before
any one knew of it, Thompson was up
roariously, boisterously.abusively drunk.
The occision was one to warrant more
than usual lenience, and much forbear
ance was displayed toward the man.
Finally, however, he came to where tho
women and children sat awaiting the
start, and insolently ordered a lady to
prepare a fresh breakfast for him. My
father camo to us, and tried to lead him
away, wheu Thompson sprang upon him
and hurled him backward to the very
brink of tho salt well, some fifty feet
deep. Thompson wos more than six feet
tall; my father below the average height
of men ; but tho smaller man held his
own, and was even forcing his antagon
ist away from tho well, w hen Thompson
reached to his hip and drew his cocked
revolver. The women screamed, the men
came running but from too far away.
I do not remember thinking tho matter
out; I fancy my legs acted in advance
of my juvenile brain; but it appeared
a moment for decisive action, and I
dashed forward, wrested the pistol from
the drunken grasp, and was back again
with the weauon tucked under the buf-fulo-robo
I sat upon, before the foremost
man reached the struggling pair. I
rode into Cienegas with that pistol be
neath tho cushion of my seat in the
coach; I prcsumo that it was ultimately
returned to Thompson.
That wo'thy was unceremoniously
bundled into one of tho carretas. Prior
to that time Thompson had been tem
perate while in cur employ ; but that one
lapse seemed to break down his self
control. Ho drank hard, and his con
duct became so intolerable that he was
discharged at Uurango. He hting about
the old plateau city for several weeks,
insisting upon re-employment, and being
refused, he vowed, with savage impreca
tions, to wreak his vengeance upon my
father by means of his family. Much as
we shrank from his uncouth roughness,
wo children hud becu much impressed
by the quaint turns of Thompson's
speech, and mtny of his picturesque
idioms aro household words in our ma
turer years.
I know a man whom I seem to
seo always in a two-fold character. He
is handsome, of raro social gifts, com
posed, accomplished, debonair, ver
satile; a dawdler on silken cushions,
tho idol of women, and given to pos
ing lazily ns a squire of dames. I
happen to have trodden, at a later day,
tho ground of his lawless youth, and I
can but smilo at thought of tho con
sternation among tho fair if they kuew
tho record of his life as I know it.
Watching his languid repose in correct
parlor precincts, or sardonically contem
plating the eagerness of his reception in
a gay party of dancers, I picture him in
my fancy as tho hero of a certain mad
rido out of San Antonio do Roxar, be
fore a crowd who clamored for his life;
I seem to see him in tho street of a Iron
tier town, facing a score of men, with
three corpses, lifeless through his hand,
lying at his fect; I remember what his
whilom comrade told me of this man's
coolness and desperate courage, as he
knelt all one loug summer day, loading
and firing across his brother's body
one ot tho littlo group besieged by In
dians on the Staked Plains. Hut I keep
his counsel. Even tho urgoucy of two
women his mother aud she who owns
his allegiance has wroung from mo no
account of his life in hinds unquiet. For
a while his eyes gleamed strong distrust
of my discretion, but at last my reticence
won his confidence and faith. Wo were
driving ono day across the wide, bare
plulns in ouo of our southern countries,
when, in answer to some satirical pre
diction of spiusterhood iu penance for
mv whims, 1 said :
'Pray, don't say that; you 'discn
courago' me."
A shadow drifted across his face; his
voice was several tones lower when ho
said :
Do you mind tolling mo where you
fouud that word. You uso it often, but
I never hcur.d it from another person savo
one."
"Nor I. And I assure you I use it in
bravado largely, for with every uttcr
of the word I feci the shadow of a dark
cloud of fear that has hung over me for
years."
lie turned to look at me.
"You afraid! Of what? You handle
mice, and dead snakes, and a gun ns
readily as I do. What else, thou, does
a woman fouri"
"No, but indeed I meant it. I am
miserably abjectly afraid of one man "
And then I told lum, briefly ana sketch
ily, of our adventure at the salt well,
aud my subsequent, ever prcscut terror
of the muu Thompson. When I had
finished, he looked absently at tho dis
taut mountains, with a strained look in
his blue eyes, aud his face, for all tho
heat, was pallid.
"Do you remember your driver's given
name?"
"I thiuk yes, Al.
'Tall, you say 'slabsided,' with a
rreaso down the point of his nose. Any
peculiarity of gaii?"
"He leaned upon his left foot; and lie
had a fashion of hitching up his trousers,
suilo'ise."
-'I hope nover to recall that scene, i
words," said the man at my side; "but
you nro a loyal woman, and I would do
much to dispel that haunting fear. I
know what horror it must be to one like
you. Well, you need fear no harm in
future from Al Thompson; he is dead."
"Dead! I can hardly believe it. Did
you seo him die?"
"I saw him die. Do you remember
that I passed through Los Angeles in '74
tho time I called you out of school to
go to tho races with me? Well, I had
just brought a big bunch of cattle up
from Texas, and Al Thompson was ono
of my herders. Ho was ugly, naturally,
and, as you know, drink warmed up the
murderous instinct. Several of tho boys
had told mo Thompson had struck them
to put mo out of tho way and run off
the herd; but they were all good men.
Twice on the trip a stray bullet had sung
past my ears. Still, I had no proof. We
camped threo miles out of Seven Hi vers.
Thompson went into the town. He got
druuk enough to want blood. I was sit
ting in front of the tent when he rode up
and began shooting. He got in three
shots from his revolver before I could
get my hands free from a whip-lash 1 was
braiding. Then I caught up my Win
chester, and fired with my left hand,
just as his fourth shot knocked off my
hat. He would have killed me if he had
been less drunk, for he was tho best shot
I ever saw, and not forty feet away. My
bullet struck him here." lie threw back
his splendid head, and touched one fin
ger to his own white throat. "We
buried him there, under the mcsquites.
I om glad to ease your mind. T. 11.
Addis, in the Argonnut.
Makin; Pretzels.
The ordinary reader undoubtedly
knows something in a general way about
the baker's art, but iu a cosmopolitan
city there are about as many varieties of
the staff of life as there are nationalities.
The pretzel is peculiar to the German
table, and perhaps tho process of prepar
ing it is less familiar in this country than
that of any other article of food. Flour,
yeast, water, and a great deal of salt aro
tho sole ingredients of which the dough
out of which the pretzel is evolved is
composed. It is tough and heavy, and
after having been well kneaded is placed
iu great heaps on a long table in front of
the workmen. They grab it up by hand
fuls, roll it out in long, thin strips, and
then curl and tie it up into the' queer
shapes in which it makes its appearance
iu beer saloons and cheap lunch counters.
A journeyman baker is expected to make
one pretzel every two seconds. After it
has assumed its definite form it is laid
upon a wooden rack in the middle of the
room. Rack after rack is thus tilled, and
they are piled one above another. Each
one contains 100 pretzels. A thousand
are generally prepared for the oven be
fore the baking begins. The ovens are
of enormous size. Tho prctxels are
baked very thoroughly, and are regarded
as especially wholesomo lor this reason.
Then comes the most singular part of
tho process. Hacks, charged with pret
zels, are dipped in a weak solution of
lye, the effect of which is to give to their
surface a bright and glos9y appearance.
After being thickly sprinkled with salt
they are ready for sale. Those that are
intended for shipment, or to be kept for
some time, undergo an additional pro
cess. They are placed in a steam box,
and remain there for two or three hours.
This sort of cure makes theni proof
against mold or souring for months.
One of the greatest peculiarities of pret
zels is their salty taste, and they conduce
to the greater consumption of beer. But
so much salt is used simply for the pur
pose of preventing thein from becoming
stale. They aro a favorito part of the
rations of the Prussian army. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Chamber or Bad Humor.
Krodhagara is an odd-locking word.
It is Hindoo, and has a meaniug of par
ticular interest to young people, who in
India often hear it.
In America, when a child is so very
cross that he cannot get over his bad hu
mor without help, his mother says to
him, "Go into the corner, my dear, until
you are iu a hotter temper." Sometimes
she goes so far as to send him into the
closet, or up into the garret. We have
heard that in old times tho cellar and
the barn were occasionally designated as
the place of exile. Hut in old times par
ents were a littlo too severe. We should
not object to tho barn; but the cellar,
where tho potatoes and the coal aro kerj,
and where rats too frequently scamper
and gnaw, is not calculated to restore
any child to good humor.
In the land ol the Hindoos, who are a
very amiable and gentle people, there Is
in many houses a room called tho Krod
hagara, or the Chamber of Had Humor,
which serves the purpose of the corner
just referred to.
"You had better go into the Krod
hagara, my child," observes the Hindoo
mother, w hen little Toru is disturbed in
miud, "and there remain until you feel
as a blessed Hindoo child ought to feel."
This apartment serves a still more im
portant use in the familv. It sometimes
happens to those far-olf heathen lauds,
strange as it may seem to us in a land
where every one is always amiable and
good-tempered, that the mother herself
is not in the best humor; sometimes tho
father is positively cross; sometimes a
mother-in-law is less amiable than usual,
and occasionally a grandparent does not
enjoy tho festivo morn when tho gruel is
lumpy.
Iu such cases the afflicted person goes,
of his own accord, iuto the Krodhagaia,
and stays thero until ho feels himself iu
benign accord with all mankind, aud in
particularly good humor with his own
lamily. i outt'a I 'out anion.
The modern beverage iu cheap taverns
iu Normandy is cider that tastes like
vinegar and water, aud it is sold at two
cents a quart.
CYCLONES ANDT0RNAD0ES.
THEIR O RIGHT, CHARACTERISTICS
AUD METHODS OF DESTRUCTION.
ttimagrs none In a Single Year A
Few Hule for the Preservation
of Hainan I.lfo.
Science says that a cyclone is a rotatory
storm of extended circuit; that it is born
on the ocean and moves landward; that
it occurs once or twice a week during
the spring and summer, and that it is
frequently of so mild a character as to be
hardly worth chronicling. A tornado,
on the contrary, says science, is a furious
tempest which moves rapidly along n
limited circuit, often passes out to sea
before its strength is gone, and is usually
accompanied by hail, rain nnd thunder
storms. The tornado generally moves
from the southwest to the northeast. Its
cloud is funnel-shaped and revolves
about a central vertical axis in a direc
tion contrary to that of the hands of a
watch. It occurs almost .always between
3 and 4 p. m. It most frequently occurs
between April 1 nnd September 1, June
and July being its favorito months.
There are instances, however, on record
it which it occurred during every month
of tho year. It gives due warning of its
approach by making the atmosphere
sultry and oppressive, and when it has
sufficiently sickened unhappy mortals in
this way it appears in the southwest and
northeast in the form of fantastically
shaped clouds of varied hue. These
clouds suddenly dash together, and then
tho tempest begins. Roaring like ten
thousand bulls of Rashan the destroyer
whirls along, sweeping down everything
in its path.
Few people have any conception of the
amount of damage done by tornadoes.
Take the year 1884 alone. In that year
there were 88 storms in Georgia, 22 in
South Carolina, 18 in Alabama, 12 in
North Carolina, 12 in Kansas, 10 in Wis
consin, 8 in Dakota, 7 in Kentucky, 7 in
Mississippi, 7 in Texas, 5 in New York,
4 in Indiana, 3 in Ohio, 3 in Missouri, 3
in Minnesota, 2 in Pennsylvania, 2 in
Arkansas, 2 in Colorado, 2 in Nebraska,
3 in Tennessee, 1 in Illinois, 1 in tho
Indian Territory and 1 in Louisiana.
During the month of February alone
there were 45 storms. Of tho entire
number during the year 88 took a north
easterly direction. In Oil instances the
tornado cloud was shaped like a funnel,
in four like an inverted cone, 2 like an
hour glass, in 2 like a balloon, . a trun
cated cone and an acorn.
The first great storm was on February
19. It killed about 800 peoplo, wounded
ibout 2,500 and destroyed property
ralued at $ 1,000,000. Over 10,000 build
ings were wrecked and many head of
cattle killed. On March 11a storm killed
5 people, wounded 50, destroyed a quan
tity of farm stock and wrecked prop
erty valued at $350,000. On March 25 a
storm killed 77 persons, wounded 293
and wrecked property valued at $950,
000. On April 1 a storm killed 52 per
sons, wounded 277, and wrecked prop
erty valued at $780,000. On April 14 a
storm killed 47 persons, wounded 3UG,
and wrecked property valued at $850,
000. On April 27 a storm killed 18 per
sons, wounded 115. and wrecked prop
erty valued at $575,000. On May 21a
storm killed 8 persons, wounded 55,
and wrecked property valued at $180.
000. On July 4 a storm killed 9 per
sons, wounded 20, and wrecked prop
erty valued at $550,000. It occurred in
various States, between 5 and 0 i m. On
July 5 a storm killed 11 persons,
wounded 55 and wrecked property valued
at $450,000. On September 9 a storm
killed 10 persons', wounded 75, and
wrecked property valued at $1,000,000.
Three hundred houses were destroyed by
it. On September 28 a storm killed 3 per
sons, wounded 40 and wrecked property
valued at $200,000. Among its victims
were 70 horses. Several other storms
occurred during the year, and though of
lesser importance than the one men
tioned, proved sufficiently destructive to
live stock and various other kinds of
property. On September 23, for ex
ample, a storm in Clarendon county,
S, C., wounded several persons, killed a
cow, a horse, and three mules, and
wrecked four dwellings, a gin house,
several other dwellings, and machinery
valued at $1,000.
Tornadoes are said to be the result of
a struggle between the prevailing winds
in tho basin of the Mississippi. Theso
winds aro from tho northwest in winter
and from the southwest in summer.
"Well, when these two opposing forces
meet each other during the transition
periods of spring and autumn they
naturally fight for supremacy. The re
sult is that the north wind has to knuckle
under. Now, having the warm earth
below it and tho 6till warmer south wind
above it, it feels its own temperature
increasing und tries hard to get out of
its prison. Rut it cannot escape, beiug
pressed onward by its own volume, and
then its agony begins. Meanwhile it
has chilled the atmosphere above and
forces it to give out torrents of rain,
which is frequently converted into heavy
hailstones before it reaches the earth.
owiDg to the rapid evaporation as it
passes through the cold north wind un
derneath. Finally, tho north wind
bursts upward through the warm south
wind with a whirling and progressive
motion, and, finding no more impedi
ment in its path, rushes swiftly on its
mad career.
A gentleman who has traveled much
in tho West and South and seen what
damage a tornado can do, thinks that
munylives might be saved by tho ob
servance of a few wise precautions.
"Lieutenant Fiuley, of tho signal service
corps," he said, "has spent years in
studving this mbjecr, and has turned
the knowledge which he has acquired to
good account. In 179 ho undertook to
visit the track of every tornado reported
10 the signal department at Washington,
and it was in that way the official inves
tigation began. From that year to tho
present Lieutenant Fiuley has given the
beet part of his time to the study of tor
nadoes, and has embodied his experi
ence iu valuable reports. He has a corps
of men nil over the country ready to re
port whenever a tornado appears in their
vicinity, and it is by comparing their
statements with those of the officials of
the signal service offices that he succeeds
in acquiring a pretty exact knowledge
of the characteristics of the various tor
nadoes that visit this country every year.
"Now, there is no doubt but that
much of the damage caused by tornadoes
could be very easily avoided. The loss
of human life would not be nearly so
great as it is if people omly kept their
eyes open and did not get flurried
at the approach of a storm. For
example, suppose you saw a tor
nado cloud coming toward you, would
you attempt to cross its path? I think
not. Yet more than one person has been
killed iu this way. Yet there is ono
golden rule which everyone should re
member. It i3 this never move to tho
southeast, nor northeast or cast, and al
ways 'make tracks' before the tornado
cloud is close on your heels. If you
happen to be in a house and can't get
out of it in time, go down to your cellar
and place yourself against the west wnll.
Whatever you do, don't choose a north
easterly position. The tornado moves in
that direction, and you can easily imag
ine how unpleasant it would be for you
to be directly in its path.
"In regard to buildings, I do not see
how they can be protected against such
storms. Make them as solid and as firm
as you please, still a lusty tornado will
scatter them like chaff. Lieutenant
Finley's advice in this respect is, 'Don't
spend much money on buildings and
don't fail to insure them.'
"One word more. Thero is no reason
why every family in a district exposed
to tornadoes should not havo a subter
ranean chamber to which it could retreat
in time of danger. A 'dugout,' as it is
called, can be constructed with little
trouble, and may be tho means of saving
many lives. Reing completely under
ground it can defy tho power of tho tor
nado. It is, moreover, in many re
spects preferable to a cellar, as tho lat
ter is liable to be filled with the debris
of the falling house." Keio York Her
ald. Carious Incidents in New York Life.
Street-begging flourishes, notwith
standing frequent arrests. A fellow
whose legs bend backward from tho
knees has been making this peculiarity
highly profitable, having won the sym-
Eathy of benevolent ladies in the street
y his way of walking. He came from
Cincinnati last spring.and recently wrote
his wife a letter urging her to come to
this city, adding, "I am doing splen
didly." These facts camo out on his
arrest, and he is now serving out a term
at Rlackwell's island.
Another scheme, and one far more
adroit, has recently come to notice. A
lady applied at the surrogate's office for
a legacy which had been left her. Tho
clerk denied any knowledge concerning
tho matter, and then learned that a
stranger had called on the applicant and
notified her that a legacy awaited her.
For this good news sho paid him two
dollars, which he asked as a compensa
tion for his time, and thus she learned
too late that she had merely been a vic
tim to a new method of swindling. Alas!
what crooked ways these contidenco men
have, and always getting up something
new!
One of the strangest features in recent
criminal procedure was tho indictment
of Edward Congdon, a youth of four
teen, for larceny in having stolen sta
tionery of the value of one cent. This
seems petty business, nnd unworthy a
court of justice. It is the first time, in
deed, so small a sum was ever men
tioned in a criminal charge. Tho ex
planation, however, is found in the fuct
that this indictment was the only way of
stopping an ingenious fraud. The young
culprit had been employed as a messen
ger boy by the telegraph company, but
hud been discharged. He then stole a
number of blank envelopes, which he
used to minufacture fictitious messages.
These ho delivered and collected tho
fee. His method was to learn by the
papers the arrival of any man of note,
to whoso hotel he would immediately
convey a message. The fraud was very
ingenious, and yet H was soon detected;
and now we have the cent indictment
for larceny. "Hermit," in Troy Timet.
Handkerchiefs.
A handkerchief was the squaro of fino
lineu formerly employed by women to
cover tho head, but more recently used
iu the hand, and not as a covering only.
Tho term handkerchief is not met with
earlier than iu the tifteeuth century,
when in the "Wardrobe Accounts of
Edward IV." we find "V dozen hand
couverchieffes" aro named as having been
made by one Alice bhupster, to whom n
paymeut had beeu maUj. Modern hand
kerchiefs aro to be had of different di
mentions, those for women being smaller
than those for men. They are produced
iu silk, both Chinese and Indian, as well
as in English; of cambric, cottou and
muslin; some desigued for the pocket
and others for the neck.
Some, of the Indian silk ones are in
self colors, others have patterns upon
them and are necessarily of two colors.
These are known us bandana handker
chiefs. Cambric, muslin, cotton and
gingham handkerchiefs are to be had
with hemstitch or ribbon borders, ami
some are more or leis embroidered; oth
ers have black or colored borders in va
rious deiigus.
Rules of colored cottou handkerchiefs
are maufactured in this country in
Oriental colors and designs, so prepared
to suit tho native taste for the Iuaian ex
port trade. Trimmings of hu e applied
to handkerchiefs first came Into fashion
iu the reigu of (ucen Eliuhctb. Dor
cas Maijasiae.
I NTIIE FIRELIGHT.
The fire upon the hearth is low,
And there is stillness everywhere;
Like troubled spirits, here and there
The firelight shadows fluttering go.
And as the shadows round me creep,
A childish treble breaks the gloom,
And softly from a further room
Comes: "Now I lay me me down to sleep."
And, somehow, with that little prayer
And that sweet treble In my ears,
My thoughts go back to distant years
And lingors with a dear one there;
And as I hear the child's amen,
My mother's faith comes back to to me:
Crouched at her side I seem to be,
Aud mother holds my hands again.
Oh, for an hour in that dear place
Oh, for the peace of that dear time,
Oh, for that childish trust sublime,
Oh, for a glimpse ot mother's faoe!
Yet, as the shadows round me creep,
I do not seem to be alone
Sweet magic of that treble tone
And ''Now I lay me down to sleep."
Eugene Field.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A coat of paint has no buttons on it.
Carl Pretzel.
A telephone office should be located
In a "noller" square. Botton Bulletin.
The cup that doesn't cheer or inebri
ate, but sometimes rouses suspiclan the
hic-cup.
Subterranean Planters designate cre
mation as a burning shame. Merchant
Traveltr. Some peoplo aro willing to be good if
they are well paid for it. Others are
good for nothing. Han Francisco Ex
aminer. A petrified mule has been found in
Pennsylvania. This surprises us. We
had no idea a mule could keep its hoofs
still long enough for that. Graphic.
Tho Concord Monitor has an article on
"The Pear Blight." Tho C. M. is be
hind time. The pair blight dates back
to the fall of man. BMon Transcript.
The king of the Sandwich islands is
said to be inordinately fond of mince
pies. What can you expect of a man
whose ancestors were brought up on mis
sionary! Traveler1 Guide.
A swarm of bees invaded a Maryland
church on a recent Sunday, and the pas
tor had to admit, with tears in his eyes,
no congregation was ever so moved by
his very best sermon. Boston 'Transcript.
Wheu a woman goes horseback riding
she wears a silk plug hat. Sho does that
so the horse will believe she's a man and
won't become frightened at her. She
couldn't fool a Kentucky mule that way.
Kentucky Mate Journal.
"Why is an apple pie," said Fogg,
eyeing the remarkably fiat specimen be
fore him, "like a spring?" Nobody ven
tured an answer, and Fogg was forced
to break the painful silence by explain
ing that it could not rise above its sauce.
Boston Transcript.
"I was never exactly buried alive,"
said an old clerk, recounting his experi
ence, "but I once worked a week in a
store that did not advertise. When I
came out my head was almost as white
as you now seo it. Solitary confinement
did it." Boston Beacon.
A CHURCH BELLE.
She wears a sweet smile
As she glides up the aisle
With tho grace of a rythmical sonnet;
And oh! she looks onto
In her nobby new suit
And that dear little duck of a bonnet
New York Journa'.
A writer in the Seientijus American
says a cyclone can bo diverted from its
course by exploding a keg of gunpowder
under it. This solves tho problem neatly.
Of course when a'man is blown into
pieces by a powder explosion he has
nothiDg to fear from a cyclouo. A'eu
York Graphic.
THE DISCONSOLATE MERCHANT.
A merchant alone iu desolate store
Bang "Willow, tit-willow, tit-willow!"
I said to him, "Why are you pacing the
floor,
Singing 'Willow, tit-willow, tit-willow'!"
"Alas!" ho roplied as ho smothered his cries,
"1 thought it was nonsense to advertise,
And now I've no custom at till but the Hies.
Oh, willow, tit-willow, tit-willow!"
Sew York World.
Victims of Morphine.
Winding up a sketch of New York
opium "joints," Rlakely Hall says: The
morphine habit is said to bo growing
even more rapidly than the opium habit.
I traveled from New York to Pittsburg
once with a man met him casually in
the sleeper who took a morphine syr
inge out of his pocket, jammed it ii.to
his leg, through his trousers, and treated
himself to a hyperdermic injection of
morphine two or threo times a day. He
said ho was troubled with rheumatism,
and he thought that was the easiest way
to stop it. lie was a solemn sort of a
wreck, und it was impossible to get him
to believe that bis condition was not due
to rheumatism, aud not morphine. The
druggists who are responsible for so
many good aud bad things h ive lately
taken to selling what are culled "silver"
pills iu New York, which aro very pecu
liar with victims of the morphine habit.
The pills aro very small and are com
pounded of morphine und quinine. They
are much better than cocktails or opium
for bracing up a more or less weakened
system, and they ure particularly popu
lar with women, who take them slyly
and secretly. About tho latest thing ol
all, however, is the abuse of that admi
rable slayer of pain, cocaine. It is now
discovered, I am told by physicians, that
cocaine may be takeu instead of liquor,
and that it has the effect of curing all
desire for alcohol. This woul I hv u
good thing if it were not universally cuti
t:edcd that the cocaiim habit is eveu
worse than tho time honored plan oJ
patronizing tho bar.