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Tho Austrian Government ha decided
that American missionaries have no right
to-conduct worship in halls or chapels,
but are strictly limited to "house-worship."
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.A lnte steamer from San Francisco to
' .Lina took out 200 tons of mining ma
fiery and six skilled American miners,
uaid in Mio mineral develonnicntnf thnt
suntry. -
flirty-six million trade dollars in all
were originally coined at the Vnitcd
States Mint. Of these only eight million
li?ro been redeemed. It is thought most
of them have found their way to China
iu the course of trade.
' There were over 5,000,000,000 cigars
manufactured in the Vnitcd States in
1880. In 18S4 there were a little over
3, 000,000,000 made, and in 1880 a liltlo
over 2,000,000,000. It is, therefore,
sale to assume that the use of the weed
is not tin the doorcase.
I The! great Bald win Locomotive Works
" of Philadelphia", report that the business
. pi that establishment was never greater
.than now and that they expect to exceed
the last year's capacity in 187 by 100
locomotives, which will be at tho rate
of fifteen a week. They are employing
2,700 hands,
(- ' ;
, , John F: Smith, a Philadelphia philan
thropist, has presented tho Sanitarium
i ' Association of that city with $3.1,000, nc
' companied by the request that the sum
be devoted to the purchase of a steam
.boat for transporting children to the
r tnt-of-town groves and resorts during
the long, hot summer dnys of coming
s. vears.
'",,,. .
" .-. One of tho latest achievements of sci
, enco, remarks tho Now York Vortil, is
tho measurement of a snail's pace. It
has just been demonstrated that a snail
an go a mile in H days. Science should
now attempt to discover how long it
takes tho average messenger boy to go
the same distance in niarblo-playing
, season.
I King Humbert of Italy is reported to
have said in a recent conversation that
' the best monarchy is the one in which
the king is felt everywhere without be
ing observed. "And the best republic?"
he was asked. "It is that one," was tho
reply, "whore, as in America, the genius
.J f tbe peoplo has so deeply penetrated
every fibre of the social fabric that no
place remains for a king."
i
v The jailer of the Puoblo county jail,
Colorado, permitted one of the prisoners
to play the violin evenings. Tho other
night the scraping began at an early
hour, and has kept up continuously and
vigorously until late, when it ceased. In
the morning tho jailer found that, under
cover of the music, four prisoners had
sawed off a portion of a window casing,
worked a big stono out of placo and
escaped.
, ' i A prominent hotel steward in Chicago
' makes a good income by teaching wealthy
but inexperienced epicures the art of
dining. His methods are very agreeable,
lie dines with his patrons lit fashionable
restaurants, orders and explains various
' dishes, interpreting the French names.
When people wish to give littlo suppers,
'he teaches the servants, talks with the
' t ' housewifo, and even makes excursions
' to tho markets, where ho teaches the
best ways of selecting food.
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T . There are 400 Mormon Bishops in
Utah, 2,42a Priests, 9,047 Teachers, and
0,854 Deacons. Salt Lake City is di
vided iuto wards of eight or nine blocks
each, and a Bishop is put in charge of
each ward. Vndcr him there are two
teachers, whoso business is to learn the
employment aud income of every resident
of tho ward aud report the same to the
Bishop. Then the Bishop collects the
tenth of each man's income and turns it
over to tho church authorities.
The Maun fa -tor r Henri of Haiti
more publisher u compilation of tl.e in
crease in the manufacture of cotton. in
the several States of the South, und the
percentage of profit, which will avcrago
fully 20 per cent, on the co-t. Fully
11,500,000 is-arut to bo expended in
' new mills in that State. In North Caro
lina $:l(S5,00() will be expended iu Cilsc
County, whilo in Georgia half u do.cu
mills are enlarging their capacity. A
like activity prevails in Maryland, Texas
and Tennessee.
The new llritish coin, the double florin
or dollar, is believed to be the beginniug
of tho eud of the old pounds, shillings,
pence and farthings division of British
money. For a long time the present pound
has been regarded as un inconvenient
unit of monetary value aud many schemes
have been proposed to remedy the fault.
The Loudon Chamber of Commerce has
now under consideration a plan making
the four shilling piece the unit of value or
dollar, aud dividing it into cents. By
this plan nearly all the existing coins can
be utilized without creating any confu
sion from having a double standard of
unit value in force. The sovereign would
become live dollars, two shillings a half
dollar, one shilling twenty-five cents,
while the new coins would be ten and
live cents, the new penny two cents and
tbe half penny one cent.
THE FEAST OF THANKS,
Years pass like winds that cease to blow,
Like stars that fell from heaven's domet
By winds of years, by winter snow
Unquenched, still gleam the lights of home.
Among the living or the dead,
O, hearts we lovo where'er yo bo,
For you tho sacred board is spread,
The feast of Love and Memory I
Clear eyes fulfilled of holier light,
Clear souls at peace past doath's dim banks,
Through all that gloom of utter night,
Come, keep witb us the day of thanks 1
Tho waves of storm-scourged years that roar,
May fleck the golden head with foam;
lly tho old hearths we sit no more;
Yet God bo thanked for love and home I
Though hopes and Joys, like April snow,
May melt, though good or grief befall;
For all man's life, for bliss or woe;
Be thanks said at this festival !
Old homes, old hopes, old friends, old days,
Whei-ofrom full many a season parts
For all, for all, to God be praise,
And moat for love and kindly hearts t
THE WANDERER'S RETURN.
A TnANKSOIVlNO STOItV,
Every ( hristmns, or New Year's, or
Thanksgiving day, Mrs. Forrest placed
a chuir at tho table for their only son and
child, David, who had left his homo fif
teen years before, at the ago of nineteen.
Since he left, no word from him had
reached them. The faithful heart of tho
mother refused to think of the lad
ns dead, and so she laid his plate at his
old place, and by it placed a little bou
quet of his favorito flowers.
"You see, he may come back at any
time, father, and then he'd understand
that we've been thinking of him nil the
time."
The old man shook his head. "Boys
like David don't come back, Sarah.
Vice drove him away, and vice will
probably keen him away. If it's any
gratification for you to keep a placo at
the table for h'm, you know that I don't
object; but I wish you could made up
your mind that he will never come back.
These yearly reminders only bring the
old pain back, and if I couid, I should
like to forget him altogether."
"No, you wouldn't' James. He was
wild and disobedient, and brought
shame and sorrow over this threshold ;
but for all that, he's our only child, mid
I'm sure weean neither of us forget that."
It was just fifteen years since the
young man came home one night in a
beastly state of intoxication. It was not
the first time, but it was the first time
his father had seen him in that condition.
He was a clerk in a dry good store, and
when he came home late at night, his
father supposed he had been detained by
his business, and went contentedly to
bed. The poor wife, who sat up for tho
wayward boy, knew better; but like
many a gentle but unwiso mother, she
concealed her son's vice from his father,
hoping he might reform. Her husband
was a very stern man, and was unsparing
in his denunciations of the special vice
of intemperance. The truth is, she was
actually afraid to tell him.
The night I have spoken of, Mr. For
rest hnd a letter to write, which kept
him in tho sitting room long after bis
usual bedtime. When the slobbering,
idiotic young drunkard reeled into the
room, his father sprung from his chair as
if he had been shot. He looked at his
son, but did not say a word. Then he
sat deliberately dow n in a chair and
watched him, with such a look on his
white, set face that his terrified wife laid
her trembling hand on his arm He shook
it off. In a few moments he turned to
her, and raid, in a hard, merciless
voice ;
"How long has this been going on,
Sarah ("
"Oh, I don't know, James I" she
sobbed. "I've seen him two or three
times under the influence of liquor, but
never so bad as this, James. I didn't tell
you, because he promised to reform. Oh,
don't be too hard on him, lather! Pray,
don't be too hard upon him !"
"Too hard!" hu repeated, looking
with angry disgust at the young man,
who was huddled in a heap in a large
aim chair, trying vainly to sit erect, witb
a silly drunken gi in on his face. "Too
hard! Why, if 1 turned him out of the
house this very night, and disowned him
as my son, I should be doing right ! And
you have kept this from met How could
you, how dare you, oo it, and thus be
come responsible-for this, disgracel 1
might have checked it. Now it's too
latu. Look at that idiotic face; the
stamp of the drunkard who is past recov
ery is upon it. It's too late!"
"Oh, don't, don't, James!" his wife
cried, kneeling beside him. "I did it
for the best. Don't fay it's too late!
He's but little more than a child yet, and
bad company has led him astray."
The drunken boy laughed idiotically.
"U'long callin' me chile, ole oouian!
lies' poker player iu towu! Los' tcu
dollars. Olo ltapp's money though.
Took it out till. Gov'nor looks mad.
Whatermatter?"
"Oh, hush! hush! hush!'1 tho dis
tracted mother said, taking him by the
hand. "Coil e to bed, David! Oh, do
cornel" The drunken boy pushed hci
aside.
"Oov'nor mad !" he muttered. "Won't
be 'suited ! Gimme tatisfactiou of gen
tleman. Ten paces, pistols," and as he
maundered on, his head sank on the
table before him, and he slept heavily.
"Don't try and get him away," .Mr.
Forrest said, sternly. "He shall stay
there all night, and I'll sit up with him.
You heard what he said!" with a bitter
laugh. "Our sou is not only a drunk
ard, but a thief. - Let him stay there; I
want to get accustomed to the disgrace
which has come- upon me, and a night
with that object belore me will help me
to realize it. Do you go to bed. I mutt
take his management out of your weak
hands."
"You won't drive him away, James?
You'll-give him a chancer You ui'l give
hiin one opportunity to tiy to reform t
Hon t ,111111 him out into the wicked
world, to be lost, forever!" she pleaded,
with sobs. Her husband did not imme
diately answer her, but at la-t he said:
"I will not drive him away yet. Ho
shall have one chance more a single one.
I'll make him understand that, when l.e
cau understand anything. Now leave
me with him."
Tl "wither crept weepiug to her
bed. '-or partly open be
tween tho rooms, that she might watch '
both husbnnd and son. Mr. r'orrcst sat
rigid and motionless, as if he was carved
in stone, but the boy slept oh heavily.
Towards morning he began to move Un
easily in his seat, t!:;n- raised his head
from the table and straightened himself
tij). The mother, whoso eyes had not
closed through the whole of thnt long
night, could almost see the tenilled ex-,
pression in his eyes when they fell on his
father's grim figure opposite. Ho rose
unsteadily to his feet.
"Stop, sir!" said tho father, walking
to him. "I have a few words to say to
you."
What was said was n too low a voice
for Mrs. Forrest to hear. There were a
few brief questions, nnd when David
answered one of them, he hung his head
like a convicted criminal. Then she
heard her husband's stern voice for a few
minutes longer, and David half stnggercd
to the back door, opened it and passed
out.
Mrs. Forrest did not dare ask her hus
band any questions, but did not feel un
easy w hen 1'avid did not appear at break
fast. She concluded he had gone to the
store, not wishing to meet his father so
soon again. But when dinner-time came,
and he was slill absent, her fears were
awakened, and she noticed her husband
cast uneasy glances towards tho door
wheveritwns opened. She tit "n her
bonnet alter dinner, ana went directly to
the store. Mr. Itapp was standing at the
door,
"Good-evening, Mrs. Forrest I' he
said. "Where on earth is David to
day?" "Isn't ho iu the store?" she asked,
with her heart beating like a sledge
hammer. " Indeed, he isn't. He came in for a
minute early this morning, and handed
me a ten-dollar bill, and mumbled out
something about having forgotten to put
it in the till. I eooldu t make out what
he did sny. Ho looked pale and sick, and
I'm sure ought to have been in bed."
Without a word Mrs. Forrest hurried
home.
" What did you say to him ? " she
cried, passionately, to her husband.
" You've been harsh and cruel to him,
1 know, and now he's gone away, and 1
shall never, never see my boy again I"
"I told him what I said I would," he
answered, coldly. "One more chance I
gave him for amendment. Yes, I told
him ho was a disgrace, a clinging dis
grace, for I didn't believe he would re
form. I gave him some money to replace
what he stole, and that was all. I don't
regret a word I said. Heproach your
own weakness. It isn't just to reproach
me. Since he has chosen to leave us, it
is perhaps the best thing he could do."
But though Mr. Forrest spoke in this
manner, ho spared neither money nor la
bor to gain some tidings of his son. They
traced him to a seaport town, and then
lost all trace as utterly as if the earth had
closed over him. As months and years
rolled by, Mr. Forrest gave up expectation
of ever seeing him again, but tho mother
hoped still. The father grew more silent
and sad. Time as it passed had taught him
that he had erred in the harshness and
bitterness with which he had treated his
son, and he would have liked to retract
some of his words. Misfortunes, too,
had pressed upon him. His crops had
failed three vears in succession, lie had
mortgaged his farm in order that he
might live; and in a few years there was
to be a foreclosure of the mortgage, and
the old place must pass out of his hands.
"It's no upestrivingany longer, Sarah,"
he said, drearily; "1 do not know where
to look for help, we must submit and
leave the old homestead. Father was
born here, as well as myself, and I hoped
to die in the house in which he died.
We'll barely have a roof over us at Myron
Cottage, but at least it will be our own.
We didn't think much of it when your
aunt left it to you, and now it's our last
refuge."
"It will outlast our time, James," she
said, sadly. "There's no one to come
after us, unless David comes homo."
Mr. Forrest shook his head. He had
long ceased to combat what he said was
his wife's monomania about the return of
his son. She always insisted that in the
family devotions he should be prayed for
as still living, and with a cruel pang the
father uttered the name of the boy ho be
lieved dead.
"It will be our last Thanksgiving din
ner on the old place," he said, the day
before Thanksgiving. "A lonely one in
deed. I wonder if iu all the world there
is a couple as lonely aud as desolate as
we are."
She did not speak, but slipped her
hands in his. He pressed it warmly, the
faithful hand which had never wearied
in its tender care of li m, and there the
old couple sat, silent and thoughtful.
They did not need to speak. Each knew
of what the other wits thinking. The
mother said in her heart, "Dear Lord,
bring our boy back to us." The father
thought, "Lord, help us to bear patiently
tbe afflictions that are bringing our gray
haini with sorrow to the grave.
Thanksgivlug Day daw ned. It was a
dismal day. The rain poured, the wind
blew, the sodden leaves covered the earth,
the w hole landscape was dreary.
"It's pretty dismal, isn't it, mother?"
said the old man. "It's a good thing
we don't expect guests in this storm.
Well, I suppose we ought to be thankful
for a shelter this weather, and food
enough to keep us from starvintr."
"Is that all we have, father?" asked
his patient wife. "We have health and
hope "
"Hope of what?" he asked, smiling
sadly. "I think, my dear, you and I
shook hands with hope long ago and bid
it farewell."
"Hope of a home where all these long
ings and heartac hes will bo over. O,
James, what can keep that frou; us?"
"You are right," he said solemnly,
and I needed the reproof. We will make
this a kind of sacramental day, aud
wrestle with our griefs, as Joseph did
with the angel, until they bless us. Why,
there is a traveler out in all this rain
lie looks as if he didn't know which
way to go."
"Call him in, James," said his wife.
I'm glad the Lord has sent some one tc
eat our Thanksgiving dinner with us."
The traveler obeyed the call of the old
man, and (lathed iuto the yard.
"Stranger, this is a heavy storm; come
in and stop until the rain holds up," Mr.
Forrest called out. "Put up your horse
in the stable there. We have no servants,
atid I can't venture into the rain to help
you."
In a few miuute the traveler stood at
the threshold. A tall, well-built man, j
witli a heavy brown beard and mous
tache which nearly covered his face.
'Cottle in, come in." Mr. Forrest said.
"Why, you Hre nswet Its a rat."
"Onljr my overcoat," he answered, in
a honrsc voice. "With your permission,
I'll stop a minute in the hall and take it
off."
Ho was n long timo getting off his
coat, and w hen he came in Mrs. Forrest
was placing an ample meal on the table.
The stranger walked to the window and
looked out,
l hi i i " Fe"7 1,1l"re ,i ' '
anul . "Ar Ipntr it must hnnn nttriirtivn I
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place in good weather."
"Yes, answered tho old man, with a
sigh, "we are fond of the old house aud
its surroundings."
"Do you live alone here?"
"Al you see," he auswered, shortly,
lie thought the stranger too inquisitive.
"But dinner is ready. Take a seat."
The traveler noticed that at one place
there was a handsome china piste, and iu
a glass near it a bouquet of white chrys
anthemums and red geraniums. Natu
rally supposing it was a seat of honor
appropriated to guests, he moved towards
it. Mrs. Forrest nervously waved him
back. "Not. there, sir!" she cried.
"Please take this scat."
"Excuse, me, madam," as he took tho
indicated place. "I'm afraid you will
be disappointed in the guest vou expect,
the storm is so severe. But no ought to
have tried to come. There should bo no
vacant place nta Thanksgivingdinner.''
' It is always vacant, sir," Mr. Forrest
said. "It is a notion of my wife's to
keep it for our boy, who left us fifteen
ycais ago. You see, she has always kept
his plate on the yearly returns of theso
days, and puts a bouquet of his favorito
flowers near it. It seems to do her
good to think he will come back some
day."
"Ho will come back to it," she said,
quietly. "I've always felt sure that my
boy would sit there face to face with me
some day."
Tho stranger's face worked convul
sively. He suddenly moved toward the
seal, and held out his arms to her. I
"Mother! mother!" he cried, with teats
filling his eyes. "Don't you know me? '
rather, mother, 1 ve come back to vou!'
She fell in his arms with a glad cry.
But the father made one step forward
and fell unconscious on the floor. It
was so unexpected, so almost impossible,
that the shock overcame him. But joy
seldom kills, nnd he was soon restored
to consciousness, and learned with a
feeling of rapture, such as for many years
he had not experienced, that his son hnd
come back a reformed man.
" I did not mean to run awav when I
left the house," David said. "Itwasonly
when paying the money to Mr. Hap) that
I realized the depth of my degradation,
and I felt ns if I could never look either
of you in the face again, I shipped as
a sailor , in a vessel bound to Brazil, ami
when it reached there I left it, and found
work up the country. I did not write,
fori thought you'd rather think of me
as dead. My business prospered, and
then after I had accumulated some prop
erty, I began to long for home, and for
mother and for you. And so I have come
to see if you still care enough for me to
take me back."
It was a Thanksgiving supper they
had that night, for the interrupted din
ner -had been entirely forgotten. Do
you think that three happier people could
have been found in the world on that
Thanksgsving Day? Touth't Companion,
Ax intimate friend of Miss Sara
Jewett, the favorite New York actress,
whose unfortunate condition ia causing
some comment in the newspapers, ia
authority for the following statement
regarding her case: "Some seven
years ago Miss Jewett went to England
in the summer on a professional en
gagement which greatly overtaxed her
energies. She was emffering from in
somnia and nervous exhaustion, and
consulted an English physician. He
prescribed for her a sleeping potion,
which was composed of orange flower
water and chloral. There was the be
ginning of Sara Jewett's ill-health and
ill-fortune; and until medical science
ia io far advanced that physicians are
too intelligent and too moral to pre
scribe tbe most appalling and deadly
of dangerous drugs until we aee that
day, let na hold in charity the mistake
of a young, inexperienced woman, am
bitious in her art, and who gained such,
awift relief from following the advice
of a physician eminent and honored in
his profession. There lies the blame
the crime, for it can be called nothing
else that baa ended in such over
whelming disaster for an artist whose
future outlook waa among the fairest
on the stage. Misa Jewett oomes of a
refined family; her sooial sphere ia of
the highest ; she waa an especial favor
ite and almost a protege of the poet
Longfellow; ahe has beauty, exquisite
culture and refinement, grace, and a
winning aweetness that gives to her
presence a never-failing charm. This
insidious habit, first aoquired by the
professional counsel of an eminent
medical praotitioner, fastened itself
deeper and deeper upon her till 'he
sad aud inevitable result ia reached."
Frank llrBNB, a farmer in the Lanrel
Hill Mountains, three miles from Da
kersville, Somerset County, Pennsyl
vania, made a queer capture recently.
The ening was very cool, and as twi
light came on there flew into his attle
a pair of carrier pigeons benumbed
with cold and bewildered in the -darkness.
Each bird Lad a blue silk rib
bon around its neck and under the left
wing an ivory tablet bearing the in
acription: "Miss Hose Lovejoy, Caron
dolet, Mo., Sept. 2, 1HKT." Under the
right wings were two letters, one ad
dressed to Miss Janet Wheeler, Wa
aepi, Mich., and the other to -eorgs
Sarpell, Valparaiso, Indiana. Several
quills in their wings were also marked
with letters and numbers.
SIAM AND THE SIAMESE.
STRANOB CUSTOMS IN THH LAND
OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT,
Six Miles of Float ln Shop V6
aliip of tho White Elephant A
Time of Feast I off.
The popnlatioa of Siatn is estimated at
10,000,0011, and of Bangkok at 1,0110,000,
of whom well on to 200,000 are Chinese,
HO, 000 Burmese, and ns many Arabs aud
mm
Indians. To avoid the invasions of
cholera the people have built on the river,
. . 1 1 . . ...
securing belter cleanliness and ventila
tion. i inly the upper classes are allowed
to build on the banks. At niuht the
river is hung with thousands of covered
lights and lanterns of all shapes, sizes
and colors. A double row of houcs on
rafts, of bamboo, extends for miles on
both sides of the river, so that the
Menam isself forms the main avenue,
over six miles long, of the floating shops,
the great bazaar of the river. Every day,
at sunrise, the shaven priests of Buddha,
20,oi)ii in number, visit every house along
the river, as the Little Sifters of tin
Poor do tho merchants of our cities, and
gather in tho alms which are freely
olfcred. The boats of this floating popu
lation, ns great as that of Cincinnati and
Indianapolis combined, are of two kinds
a Venetian gondola style for common
use, and a square house and merchandUo
boat with windows at the sides, and
also a basket-covered boat, long and
round, like the tent-top of a South Caro
lina wagon. The Menam is the Nile of
the country. Down it come tho great
timber rafts of piue; it leads up to the
home of the white elephant.
Siam is about a thousand miles long
and 400 miles wide, formerly the middle
fortion of the Indo-Chinese peninsula,
t is hilly, except the central rich plains
of the Mcniim. This river, 000 miles
long, floods in August, changing the
vast valley into an immense sea. The
towns are built universally on boats, and
at the flood in June, July, and August,
these look like the i-lands in an immense
sea. Boats, steamers, and native craft
fily from ouc town to another on the
ower valley without injury to the great
rice fields starting to grow beneath them.
The river is called in the royal archives
"Chow Phya," lioyal Highness, and by
the people simply "Menam," which
means, simply, river or mother of waters,
just as South American people call tho
Amazon Amazonas, which also means
river. The river is so bold and power
ful it takes the natives over three months
to pole up to Chongmie, 500 miles to the
north, while the voyage down is made in
three weeks.
The mean temperature of Bangkok is
82 degrees, with a mean range of about
HI degrees. Few clothes are needed:
rice is the main food, with tropunl
i fruits, and so a great population is easily
supported. The hot and wet season be
gins in May; th- dry season in July.
I The weather in the dry season is like
I that of the present summer here. In the
tho wet season it is impossible to keep
which mainly for this reason has been
abandoned.
Miss Dows at one time attended the
capture and reception iu Bangkok of a
white elephant. Her people, beiug de
vout Buddhists, believe iu metempsy
chosis. The soul of each successive
Boodha in its zoological migrations
occupies in turn the forms of white
animals of a certain class particularly
albinos aud also the constantly whito
animals, as the swan, the stork, the
white sparrow, the dove, the monkey
nnd the elephant, all peculiar to Siam.
Iu all the obscurity of their priests about
tho subject one thing is agreed on that
the forms of these uoble and pure ani
mals are reserved for the souls of the
good and great, who find in them re
demption from the baser animal life.
All white animals arc held in reverence,
especially 'the white elephant, which is
believed to henniniiitcd with the spirit of
some king or hero. The while elephant
averts calamity and brings peace and
prosperity. Salmon or flesh-color is as
near ns thce nlliinos get to white, but
still they are white enough to have
caused wars for their possession between
Siam and Burmah. Tbenational standard
is a white elephant on a deep crimson
ground.
Discovered in the Shan country, or in
Northern Siam, the King is apprised of
the fact; the slave who fiuds theclephant
is made free and rich; theclephant is de
coyed by a female from the jungle, led
into a bamboo stoi kade, caught by ropes
about his legs, and soon subdued. 'I he
march to the royal stable begins, and ten
or twelve miles a day are traveled, which
is the average elephant speed. Ho it
brought to the Mi iiam, fed with sweet
meats, put under a royal pavilion, loaded
with golden chains, aud enters Bangkok
in triumph. It is a time for feasting
ami a week of holidays. Jndianaii'lii
Journal.
Benefits of the Moon.
The moon ministers to human wauts
in several ways that are not so apparent
as its light-giving function, although some
of them are much more important. It is
by observing the position of the moon
with reference to tile fixed stars that the
navigator determines his longitude. I pun
the revolution of the moon about the
earth is based u convenient division of
time the month intermediate between
that furnished by the earth's daily rola
tion nnd its revolution through its orbit.
Doubtful points in ancient chronology
have been frequently settled by means of
eclipses of the moon, the dates of w hich
could be a curately determined. The
intervention of the moon in eclipsing tho
sun gave astronomers the opportunities
for obtaining their lirst knowledge iu re
gard to the solar envelope. But the
largest elici ts on human w elfare are pro
duced by the niouii through tho agency
of the tides. Tw.ce a day the decom
posing organic mutter brought down to
the sea-shore by rivers, or deposited
along the water's edge by human agency,
is swept away by tho tidal-wave iu its
course around the globe. This Sanitary
service which the moon performs is of
inconceivable value, lii inany harbors
large nhips and heavily-loaded rafts and
barges are moved from the entrance to
their wharves, miles above, by that slow
but powerful tug, the flood-tide. An
amount of work is thus done which, if
it had to be provided bv artificial means,
would cost for such a port' as-Loinh.ii
thousands, perhaps million-, of pounds
earlv. t !"" .-. .Vw.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Adulterated Floor.
Adulteration of flour by means of po
tato flour may be detected by means of
acids. I'n'ifc a spoonful aud pour upon
it n little nitric arid) if the flour be of
wheat, It will be changed to an orange
yellow; if wholly of potato flour, the
color would not be" altered, but tho flour
formed iuto a tenacious jelly; if, there
fore, the flour be adulterated with potato
flour, it will not be difficult to decide.
Again, take a spoonful of the flour and
pour upon it a littlo muriatic acid; if
the flour be of pure wheat it will be
changed to a deep violet color; but if
potato flour be mixed in it, it will then
have an odor like that of rushes. Srien
tijic Ameriaan.
Roc I pen.
Cottage Pcddino. Onecupful sugar,
two eggs, two cupfuls cream, one pint
flour, one and one-half teaspoon tub
baking powder. Beat the eggs and
sugar together; add cream, flour, with
the powder sifted in, and pinch of salt,
mix into smooth batter as for cup cake:
put into long, narrow or oval buttered
mold, bake in hot oven over thirty
minutes.
GiN-riKR Pousd Cakk. Six cups o(
flour, two cups each of butter, brown
sugar and molasses, eight eggs, two
tablespoonfuls each of cinnamon, gingei
and soda and two nutmegs; dissolve the
soda in a cup of sour milk. Lino the
pans with greased paper and put a brown
paper over the top to prevent the crust
forming too quickly. One-half of this
recipe can be used with good results
Sj'ICED OR PlCKI.GD Al'I'I.ES. To Bix
pounds of tho peeled and cored apples,
take four pounds sugar, one quart of
good cider-vinegar and a tablcspoonful
each of ground cloves and cinnamon tied
loosely inja bag aud steeped in the vine
gar a little whilo in advance. Make a
syrup of the sugar, vinegar and spices,
cook in it the apples until they are soft,
but not broken at all, then dip them out
into bottles, cover closely nnd keep them
hot while tho syrup boils down quite
rich; then fill up the bottles with the
syrup and seal. Many use moie vinegar
than here suggested, but it makes a more
acid preparation than this recipe, nnd
might hence be chosen in preference by
lovers of sour fruits.
Black Bean Soup. This popular
soup is made in various ways. The fid
lowing is very good, and requires less
work than some others : Take one pound
round beef, near the shank, half a pound
salt pork, and one quart of black beans.
Chop the beef aud pork, and boil them
with tbe beans. When partly done, add
a grated carrot and an onion. Boil
several hours, or until the beans are
ready to fall to pieces; then strain
through a soup sieve; return to the ket
tle, nud odd salt and pepper to taste, a
couple hard-boiled eggs in slices, with a
little sliced lemon; or, omitting these,
use "Force Miat JialH" iu their place.
For making theso last, chop cold beef,
veal or lamb, very fine; add sufficient
flcur to make it stick together in balls
about the size of a walnut. Boll these
in beaten egg, then in cracker dust, and
fry until brown. Add the balls to the
soup just before it is served upon the
table.
Household Hints.
Cover jellies with sugar when set
away.
Do not make jelly in damp or cloudy
weather.
Never put away a jar of fruit partly
filled, as it will be almost sure to spoil.
Canned tomatoes should bo kept where
it is dark and dry. Light injures them.
Dried 'wormwood aud tansy sprinkled
about where black ants congregate will
clear out the pests.
In canning tomatoes those fresh from
the vines are better than those picked
nnd ripened in the sun.
Save the strength of tho housewife
and servants by having all kitchen uten
sils as light in weight as possible.
A new and palatable way to cook egg
plant is to cut it in dice, boil tender in
salted water, and serve in white sauce on
toast.
Whole cloves are now used to extermi
nate the merciless and industrious moth.
It is said they aro more effectual as a de
stroying agent than either tobacco, cam
phor, or cedar shavings.
The $10,001) Prize for Jute.
It is well known thator some years
past, a prize of 10,ouo has been offered
to inventors for the first tcu bales of jute
giown nnd prepared for market in the
t'nited States, at a cost which will ad
mit of successful competit ion with that
from India. The principal and appar
ently insurmountable obstacle which
contronts all cllnrls in this direction is
tlie luck of a machine which w ill prepare
the jute tiber fur use at a cost low enough
to offset the veiy cheap band labor of
India. In the jute plant the tiber lies
between the pith aud the bark. It is
nei .'s.-ary. therefore, to remove the latter
and separate the jute from the pith, it
being also essential that this be done
w ithout in jury to the tiber, which is onu
of the most delicate known. But as the
natives of India do this work for seven
to ten cents a day, a substitute machine
would not only have to overcome this
matter of cheapness, but would have to
perform the task in as perfect a manner
as is now done by Indian lingers, hs well
as equal in other stages to the work of
preparation required before the liber is
reai I v to enter the factory. Huston
luiliet.
A Universal Sign.
In cveiy country we have visited one
trlenil familiar in our own country has
followed ns. the sign of "Post no bills."
In Knghind we found it "Slick no bills;"
in France it was "Defense d'aliiciere;"
in Italy, "K prohit.t 1' cllisione," and ill
fo-iniain, "Auklcbcn verboden." In
Italy and in France the sign is very com
mon, but iu I -1 in ii ii y it is not so, from
uli rh 1 conclude that the Italiaus and
r reneli are better advertise than the
lici mans and they hate to see a dead
nail goto wa-ste. Suratmjliin,
Look Ahead.
When eold winds blow
Ami wh look tor snow.
And thf nights uiv loin and murky,
, The i ii-t us ehif r,
I or the mason's near
For crambei rv ui.-e and tai kev.
tioxttm Courier.
SILENCB.
"I know what Silence means f
It is to live alone from day to day,
To listen for a long-loved voice alway;
To yenrn and yearn and be unsatisfied,
Because there is no loved one by my side
This Is what Silence means.
To feel soft shadow kisses on my face;
To miss a lonz-desired, dear-loved embrace;
To strain the hearing for a single word;
To learn the aupuish of hope long deferred -This
is what Silence is.
I might have muslo every day in the year:
Might hear young voices rising sweet awl
clear,
Flinging soft laughter on the summer air:
Hut sineo the voice beloved would not 1
there
I know what Silence means.
IV.
To sit In crowds and of them make no part :
To feel tho sick pain gnawing at my heart :
To have no hopes, no wishes, no desires
Light up the embers of long dead fires
This is what Silence is.
To hear my echoing corriiloi's repeat
The ghostly patter of dead children's feet:
To feel them close to me (so dear, so fairD,
And stretching yearning arms, clasp i
empty air
This is what Silence is!
Mayjie HacAdam
HUMOR OF THE PAY.
Lawyers fire well dressed because they
have more suits to try than other men.
Waterloo Omrrrer
Edith "You ought to read this book
of Howells's, ma. It's so real. " I nevei
saw anything like it." Life.
You enn't always judge by appearance.
The man who wears a diamond pin mny
be really wealthy. Lowell Citizen.
If the receiver is as bad as tho thief.
1 what's the use of having one appointed
' for our busted bank? Vnnnroille Hreeie.
j Women are said to give buck talk, but
' do not men do tho same thing when the
I criticise the modern bustle? Bonton
j Courier.
I The merchant who doesn't believe in
an "ad" is likely to know a good deal
nbout subtraction from his bank ac
count Washington Criti-.
"I may be small, but I'm a rouscr,'1
said the hotel bell-boy, as he went the
rounds awakening patrons who had left
orders to be called early.
"Bright things fell from Bessie's lips,"
in Mrs. Holmes's last novel, probably
means that llcssie dropped the gold fill
ing out of hcrteetu. llaliway Advocate.
Tho man in a balloon, bizarre,
Away from friends and hearth
Surrounded by raritieil air.
Is the man who wantw the earth.
'VVie Colonel.
The latest novelty in gentlemen's wear
is a small thermometer for a breastpin.
When a man gets left he can thus easily
tell whether it is a cold day. Burlington
Free Pre.
There was onee a fair maid of South Vernon;
Who'd a hat with a big bunch of fern on;
The crown stood up straight,
Two pounds was its weight,
With a brim that an engine could turn on .
-Harper a tiazar.
The :
s AgrfcuVlirnl Bureau of the VA
I Government liS ""- -
fit ill on I
eat tho English sparrow AJLL?i wel1 "d
r it i.. i. !' .u ... 'rs'X pounds.
ii ui a, uui it is uui iiiuugui overy for
rows will ever fill the place in thtfv.
of epicures now occupied by that deli
cious dish quail on trust. Titl-Bitt.
Once the Major Didn't Match.
"Major Bluffkin, the matcher," his
friends call him, snys the New Y'ork Sun,
and he iB almost as much devoted to the
delights of matching coins as was the
late John T. Haymoud. He stood at the
bar, having floated in to get a cocktail
and change a bill. He got a silver dol
lar in the change, and it was yet in his
hand, when a voice lit his elbow, in the
usual terms, solicitated: "A little help,
please, General." The barkeeper was
about to run tho tramp out, when the
Major said: "Hold on; I will give him
a chance." He spun the dollar on the
bar, and slapped, his band down over it.
"Heads, 1 win ; tails it goes to you,"
said he, benignantly to the tramp.
The latter's interest scarcely exceeded
that shown by the Major and the bar
tender as the hand was raised aud the
spread eagle that is opposite the head on
these pieces was disclosed. As the coin
dropped into the extended fist of the
In. ky tramp, the Major was astounded at
the proposition: "I'll go youagatu; this
dollar agin another one.'' And now it is
of record that tho M.ajor has actually re
fused an invitation to match coins. But
the trump still clutched the dollar when
he found himself, a moment later, on tho
sidewalk.
Some Notable Trees.
A plum tree in the garden of Thomas
O'Connor, of llollidiiyabuig, l'enn., that '
bore an abundant crop this season was
recently again in full bloom.
John Captiru, of Oroville, Cal , took
from a white ox-heart cherry tree this '
season '.',800 pounds of fruit. The tree
is sixty feet high, six feet iu circumfer
ence, and cighiccu years old.
In the heart of an oak that A. S. Mc
Kcn.ie, of Norris ( ity, 111., was splitting
into rails recently, was found a dirk
hunting knife, with a long, sleuder
blade aud neatly engraved handle. It
was in a good stale of preservation.
An ingenious plan to save a dying pear
tree was adopted in the garden of L. M.
Chase, of Boston. The mice had girdled
the tree so that it seemed liound to die.
Mr. Chase planted four small trees around
it and close to it, cutoff the tops, pointed
the ends, and making incisions in the
bark of the pear, bent tho small trees and
grafted them to the dying truuk. They -
all lived, and that tree draws its nour
ishment from the small oues. This sea
son a bushel of haudsoino pears were
tuken from it. Xeie yarl.Hmi.
A Singular Woman.
tShfi dnett not lxast, make no display,
Hut modestly fli tills her citation,
Though fsho wan oU jtx-t, )4xplti bAy,
IH wou.Ut and : aduiirntiou.
As .vhoo, mi-stf, ii i hi dm iir, or wife
So every oia do -tarts that a met her
She uever addfd in hr lite
A pmtM'i ipl when she wrote ft letter.
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