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VOL. XX. NO. 48.
TlONtiSTA, 1A., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1888. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
V
There Is to lio a grand international
exhiliilion nt Berlin in Mny of hunting
t rtipti(!s, of nil sorts of gnmo, Ancient
mid modern arms, and implements used
in hunting.
It will interest our readers to learn
thut there nrc in Iho Sunday-schools of
tho Christian world 1(1,4-17,1.00 scholars,
1,0'i'Mii? teachers, making a grand total
of 1m,4ii", lo7.
The rapidity with which Anglo-Saxon
literature is pouring into Japan is illus
trated hy tho Met that 85,01)0 English
nnd lin.ouo American books were im
ported last year, an increase of nearly 100
per coot.
Inside of two yours the tax valuation
of California has increased at least :i00,
000,000, Population has increased ono
half of a-mi!lion souls. The valuation of
Colorado, an irrigation Stato also, has
increased within two years over $-100,-000,000.
Scientists nert that the newly discov
ered cities of Arizona are tin same as
sought by Cortez nnd tho early Spanish
ndventtirors in their expeditions after
gold. Tho cities nrc seven in number
and show evidences of former civiliza
tion and wealth.
There is a great store of gold as well
as of coal in Corca, but nn entire lack
of proper mechanical devices for mining.
Tho production of gold last year was
' .-, 000,0(10. The main object of the
Corenn Embassy to this government is
understood to bo to interest the citizens
of this country in the development of
Orteati resources.
It is slated that a London firm has
just received an order from the Hussian
Government for a fleet of balloons for
war pin poses. Each balloon is to carry
ft car which will accommodate six men,
nnd will cost, with nppurtenauccg, $2,
500. The balloons nre being made of a
preparation of asbestos, and they will be
- Jk"L'd w'th rarefied air.
W Hhodotfftnd is tho smallest State in
'tho liiion, its extreme length being only
47 miles, a. id its extreme width 40.
Nevertheless it has, according to the
Hate census of lt8.i, just published, no
fewer than 2,31111 manufacturing estab
lishments, with a total capital of nearly
Jii0,000,000, and employing 37,4sl men,
:y,.4 lil women nnd 4,400 children under
liftcen.
llenjnmin Franklin, of tho Second
Minnesota Volunteers, is the only man on
tho government pension rolls who sacri
ficed both hands and feet in tho lute
civil war, nnd as there is no provision of
law applicable to such special cases a bill
bus been presented to Congress increas
ing tho pension he now receives to $150
a month, lie now receives tho pay pro
vided for a soldier or a sailor who has
lost both hands or both feet.
The 1,000-foot tower in connection
with the French exhibition of lfM), nnd
known by the name of tho designer nnd
constiuctor as Litl'el's tower, has now
reached the height of 179 feet. The
four arches of tliu buto are now joined,
nnd the great platform for the rooms
of tho first ttage is about to bo con
.' strutted, so that the work has passed
the most laborious stage. Most of the
construction will now proceed from the
Interior.
L The reports from France are intensely
interesting ns concerns the reclamation
of sand dunes. These sand hills are
found by the sea at high tide and pushed
. inland by tho wost wind over vast areas.
This inland march of the saud became a
cause of terror and there was dread lest
whole departments should become des
serts. Villages were obliterated. A
tract s'x hundred miles wide was left
without a shrub or plant. These dunes
now nre covered with valuable forests
by tho enterprise of French engineers.
"One by one," declares the New York
Graphic, "the idols of our youthful fancy
are being shattered. The George Wash
ington h itchet has been declared a myth ;
the story of William Tell and the apple
is also apocryphal, and now Sir liobert
Ball, the Irish Astronomer ltojej, his
been at the pains to show that Sir John
Moore cotdd not have liecu buried "by
the struggling moonbeam's misty light,"
for he has made careful cumulations and
finds that at the time the funeral took
place the moon must have beeu long be
low tho hori on."
. Thore is no question, according to the
New York 'J'ri'tttn, that tho Imtfulo is
well-nigh extinct on tho plains. There
dfe a few in Yellowstone Park protected
by the Government, but they aro likely
to be killed at any time. In Texas a
herd of about thirty is owned by one
ranchman, several other small bunches
may be found, but the days when they
rumbled at large over the country have
been numljcicd. I nless si. me means of
protecting them is adopted within ten
yean the American IJisou must become
an extinct species. In Central Park,
In'rector ( onklin has severul specimens
of Buffalo, but the cow is grow ing old
and another one lm, no: been secured.
The builalo will not breed in captivity
unlets like other domestic animals it has
abundant room for feeding and exercise.
UNREST.
The farther you jonrncy and wander
From the sweet simple faith of your youth,
The more you peer into tlio yonder
And search for the root of all truth,
No matter what secrets uueover
Their veiled mystic brows In your quest,
Or close on your astrol sight hover,
Still, still shall you walk with unrest,
If you seek for strange things you can find
them,
But the finding shall bring you to grief;
The dead lock the portals behind them,
And he who breaks through is a thief.
The soul with such Ill-gotten plunder,
With its pemature knowledge oppressed.
Shall grojie in unsatisfied wonder
Alway by the shores of unrest.
Though bold hands lift up the thin curtain
That hides tho unkown from our sight;
Though a shadowy faith becomes certain
Of the new life that follows death's night;
Though miracles past comprehending
Shall startle tho he irt in your breast,
Still, still will your thirst bo unending,
And your soul will be sad with unrest.
There are truths too sublime and too holy
To grasp with a mortal mind's touch.
We are happier far to be lowly;
Content means not knowing too much.
Pence dwells not with hearts that are yearn
ing To fathom all labyrinths unguesswd,
And the soul that is bent on vast learning
Shall find with its knowledge unrest
Ella yheeler-Vilcox, in LippincoWe.
CHILD AND CLOWN.
A STOUT EltOM TUB FRENCH.
I,
The child lay on his little white bod
deathly pale, and looked, with eyes
made all the bigger by fever, straight
b-ifore him, steadily, and with the strange
fixedness of tho sick, who already per
ceive what those who are well cannot
tee. The mother, at the foot of the bed,
biting her fingers so as not to cry out,
anxious and tormented with her .-uttering,
watched the piogress of the disease
over the poor, thin face of her little boy,
and tho lather, a fine fellow, though he
was only a workingman, hold back in his
eyes the tears that burned on their lids.
And tho first light of the dawn, clear,
gentle, tho light of a fair morning in
June, came into the narrow bedroom on
the Hue des Abbesses, where lay dying
the little Francois, son of Jacqes Legrand
and of Madelcne i.egrand, his wife.
He was a boy of seven years. A blonde
and rosy little chap, who, not three
weeks before, had been as lively and as
chipper as a sparrow. Hut a fever had
seized him, and they had brought him
homo one evening from school with his
head so heavy and his hands so hot. And
ever since ho had been thore on his bed,
and sometimes in his delirium he would
ay, looking at the nicely polished sheet
that his mother had carefully set in the
corner: "You can throw them away
now little Fraucois's shoes. Little
Francois will not wear them any moro.
Little Francois will not go to school
again never, never."
Then tho father would cry out: "Will
you be quiet?" and the mother would go
and hido her fin e in her pillow, so that
little 1- rnneoia wonlil am tin. t,o
Through tho night that hail just passed
the child had had no delirium, but for
two days he had bothered the doctor by
a strange sort of despondency, which re
sembled a surrender to death as if,
though but seven years old, the sick bey
had always experienced the weariness of
life, lie was tired out, apparently, si
rent, sad, tossing his weak head back
ward nnd forward on tho pillow, un
willing to take anything, having no
longer a smile on his poor, thin lips, nnd
with his haggard eyes searching, seeing
no one knew what, far off, far away.
"There, above us, perhaps," thought
Madeleine, who shivered at the thought.
When they wautod him to take his med
icine, some syrup maybe, or a little beef
tea, he refused everything.
"Do you want anything, Francois?"
"No, I want nothing."
"You must get him out of this," said
the doctor. "This torpor alarms me.
You are his pareuts; you should know
your child. Think of something which
uiny animato this little fellow, bring
back to earth tho mind which is roam
ing among the clouds." And then ho
went away.
"Think of something?" Oh, yes, be
yond a doubt they knew him well, their
Francois, these good people. Thevknew
how much he was niuusotl, tho little fel
low, when on Sunday he would forage in
the hedges, and would c ome back to
Paris on his father's shoulder loaded
with hawthorn. Jacques I.egrand had
bought for Francois all sorts of im
ages, and he put them on the child's bed
Buitade thorn dance before tho wander
lug eyes of the little fellow aud.nll ready
to cry, tried to make him laugh. ".Now,
do you see. 'tis the broken brnlge. Tru-la-la.
And hero is a General. You re
member we saw a General once in the
Hois de Boulogne? If you will take
your medicine 1 will buy a real Gen
eral for you, with a cloth coat and gold
epaulettes. Do you want hiin the Gen
eral? Tell me."
'No," replied the child, in the dry
voice which fever produces.
"Do you want a pistol, some marbles,
a bow and arrows?"
"No," answered the little voice,alinost
cruel in its distinctness.
And to all that they said to him, to
all the jumping jacks, to all the balloons
that they promised him, the little voice
the parents all the while looking at
each other in despair answered : "No!
no! no!"
"But what do you waut, then, my
Francois (" asked the mother. "Come,
now, there inu-t be something that you
would like to have. What is it.' Tell
it to me, your mamma?" And she laid
her check down on the pillow of the
sick boy, and she whispered her request
in his ear, as if it were a secret between
them. Then the child, rising in his bed
and stretching out toward something in
visible an eager hand, replied suddenly,
with a strange accent and! in an earnest
tone, that was nt once supplicating and
imperative:
"1 want Boum-Boum!"
II.
Bourn-Bourn.
The poor Madeleine threw a frightened
look ut her husband. What did the lit
tle one say? Was it the delirium, the
terrible delirium come back
Bourn Baum!
She did not know what it meant, and
she was frightened at those queer words,
which the child now repeated with the
wilfulness of a sick person, as if, not
having dared until then to formulate his
dream, he would cling to it with an in
vincible obstinacy.
"Yes, lioum-Bourn 1 Boum-Bouml I
want Bourn-Bourn I"
Tho mother had seized in her nervous
ness Jacques's hand, and said in a low
voice, as though she were out of her
wits: "What does that mean, Jacques?
Oh, it is all over with him."
But the father had on his rough face
a smile that was almost happy. And a
bewildered smile also the smile of n
condemned man who detects a possible
chance for liborty. Boum-Boumt He
well remembered tho Faster morning
when he had taken Francois to the cir
cus. He had still in his ears the child's
great burst of joy, his hearty laugh the
laugh of nn amused youugter when
tho clown, the splendid clown, all spot
ted with gold, with a sparkling, many
colored dress, on the back of which was
sot a big brown butterliy. performed his
antics in the ring, played tricks on the
riding master, or held himself motionless
on the ground, his head down and his
feet in the air, or threw up to the chan
delier his soft felt hat and caught it
adroitly on his head, and where the men
formed a pyramid ; nnd at each trick,
like the retrain of a song, lighting up
his big, droll, bright face, the clown ut
tered the same cry, repeated the same
word, accompanied sometimes by a roll
of drums Boum-Boum!
Boum-Bouml and every time that it
came round, Boum-Boum! the whole cir
cus burst nut in bravos, and the little
one laughed his heartiest Boum-Boum!
It was this Boum-Boum, the clown of the
circus, the man who entertained a good
part of tho city, that he wanted to see,
the little Francois, and that ho might
not have and might not see, because he
was there, sick and weak, in his white
bed !
That evening Jacques Legrand brought
to tho child a jointed clown with span
gles sewed on all over, that ho had
bought at a high price, the price, in fact,
of four days' work. But he would have
given twenty, thirty days', a year's labor
to bring back a smile to the pule lips of
the sick boy. The child looked for a
minute at the toy as it shone on the white
bedclothes, then, sadly:
"It is not Boum-Boum! I want to see
Bourn-lioum!"
Ah I if Jacques could have wrapped
him in his quilt, carried h m ott, taken
him to the circus, shown him tho clown
dancing under the lighted chandelier
and said to him: "There is Boum
Boum!'' He did better than that, this good
Jacques. He went to the circus, he
asked for the clown's address, and tim
idly, with limbs weakened by emotion,
he mounted step by step the staircase
that led to the home of the artist at
Montmartre. It was very bold what he
had come to do there, this man Jacques 1
But after all actors are willing to go and
play, to recite monologues in the drawing
rooms of fine people. Perhaps the clown
oh, if he only would! may be willing
to come aud say good morning to Fran
cois. What mattered it how they re
ceived him, Jacques Legrand, at Boum
Boum's home?
It was no longer Boum-Boum ! It was
M. Moraine, who, in the rooms of an
artist, among books, engravings, an
artistic elegance making a choice back
ground to a charming man, who received
Jacques iu his otiice like that of a physi
cian. Jacques stared, did not recognize
the clown, and turned his soft hat over
an I over in his hands. The other waited.
Then the father excused himself. It was
surprising what he had just asked it
could not be done pardon, excuse me
but in fact it related to the little boy.
"A fine little boy, monsieur! and so in
telligent I Always the first in his class,
excepting in arithmetic, which he did
not understand. A dreamer, this little
fellow, do you see? Yes, a dreamer.
And the proof there, the proof " and
Jaques hesitated, stammered, and then
plucked up courage and abruptly said:
"The proof is that he wauts to see you,
that he thinks only of you, and if you
were there before him, like a star that he
would like to have, and if he looked"
aud the father, whose face was wan and
sallow with his great care, stopped, and
great drops of sweat stood on his brow.
Ho did not dare to look at the clown,
who stood there with his eyes fixed on
tho workmau.
And what would Boum-Boum say to
him? Would he send him away, take
him for a fool, put him out of the house?
"You live;" asked Boum-Boum.
"Oh, very near. Hue des Abbesses."
"Very well," said the other. "He
wants to seo Boum-Boum, you say I All
right, he shall see Boum-Boum!"
III.
When the door opened before , the
clown, Jaques I.egrand cried out cheer
ingly to his boy: "Now, Francois, be
sati.-fied, you rogue I See, there is
Boum-Boum !"
And into the child's face there came a
happy light. He raised himself in his
mother's arms and turned his head
toward the two men, looked for a mo
ment to see who was this gentleman in
the frock coat at his father' side, the
gentleman whoso good, jolly face was
then smiling on him, aud whom he did
not know; aud when they said to him:
"That is lioum-lioum !" he fell back
slowly, sadly, with his head turned to
the pillow aud lay there with his eyes
fixed, li is big blue eyes that saw beyond
the walls of the littlti bedroom and that
looked for, that were always looking for
Boum-Boum's spangles and butterfly as
a lover pursues his dreams.
"No," replied the child, with a voice
no longer dry, but distressed; "no
that is not B-mm-Boum !'
The clown, standing near the little
bed, bent a profound gu.e on the face of
the sick little man, a grave look, but of
an infinite sweetness. Ho shook h s
head, looked at the anxious father and
broken down mother and said, smiling:
"lie is right; it is not Boum-Boum!"
and he went out.
"I shall not see; I shall never sec him
again, Boum-Boum !" now repeated the
child, who-e voice 6eeiued to be already
whispering to the angels. "Perhaps
Bourn Bourn is over there yonder, where
little Francois will soon go!"
And suddenly he had not been gone
half au hour the door was rudely
opened aud in his black aud spang ej
suit, w ith a yellow topknot on his head,
a golden butterliy on his breast aud
another on bis bftck, big mouth opened
into an expansive grin, his good face all
chalked, Boum-Boum, the real Boum
Boum, the Boum-Boum of the e.rcus,
the Boum-Boum of the litt'e Frnncois,
Bourn. lioum himself appeared. And on
his little white bed, with a lively exul
tation in his eyes, Inughing, crying,
happy, saved, the child clapped his lit
tle thin hands, shouted bravo! and cried
with all tho joyfulness of n seven-year-old,
bursting oiit suddenly like a lighted
rocket: " BoUin-lloum ! 'Tis he, 'tis he
this time. This is Bourn-Jiou n, sure I
Hurrah for Boum-Boum! Good morn
ing, Boum-Boum !"
IV.
When the doctor came that day ho
found, seated ut the bedside of the little
Francois, a wliite-faced clown who kept
the little fellow laughing all tho lime
and who said to tho sick boy, stirring a
lump of sugar in the bottom of a cup of
medicine:
" You know if you do not drink it,
little Francois, that Boum-Boum will
not come to see you again."
"And tho child drank it,'
"Isn't it nice?"
"Very nice, thank you, Boum-Boum."
"Doctor," said the clown to the physi
cian, "do not be jealous. It seems tome,
however, that my antics do him as much
good as your prescription."
The father and mother wept, but this
time it was because of their happiness.
And every day until little Francois was
able to leave his bod a carriage stopped
before the workman's home on the Hue
des Abbesses, and thore stepped from it
a mnu wrapped in a heavy overcoat with
the cape turned up, and beneath, dressed
for the circus and with jolly, chalked
face.
"What do I owe you, sir," said Jacques
Legrand to the clown at tho end of his
visits, when the boy went out for the
first time; "because in fact, you see, I
owe you something."
The clown ottered to the parents h's
two big hands, the hands of a sweet and
amiable Herculsi. "A good shake of
your hands," he said. Then kissing both
of the child's cheeks, which had recov
ered some of their rosiness, he added,
laughing: "The permission to print on
my visiting cards: 'Boum-Boum, acro
batic doctor, Physician in Ordinary to
the Little Francois. " lhston Triiiwrijit.
The Old Healer's Art.
"Our trade is a very simple one," said
the proprietor of a gold-beating establish
ment to a New York Worl, reporter.
"We take a piece of gold bullion, about
two ounces and a half in weight, which
we call one beating, nnd melt it in one
of those little sand crucibles in thut fur
nace. When liquid we enst it into an
ingot, which we roll out into a ribbon
about one inch wide and five hundred
long; we cut this into S00 squares and
place each square between two leaves of
this book, which we cull a kutch. The
leaves of the book are uut paper, but are
made from a strong animal tissue taken
from the interior of a bullock. The book
is fastened together securely, and is
beaten with the hammers until each
square is about four times as large as it
was at first. The leaves nre then cut in
fours and similurly nrranged in a second
book called a shodder. The third time
we call the book a finishing mold. Thev
are then trimmed by the girls in the cut
ting department and arranged in the tis
sue paper books with whi; ti dentists love
to harrow up nervous women and little
children.
"We use the hammer for five minutes
and then rest for five. This prevents the
b ioksand the metal from heating, which
would injure its quality. In beating the
kutch we use an eighteen-pound ham
mer; on the shodder a nine-pounder,
while an eight-pounder does duty on tho
final mold.
"It takes a man at least two years to
learn to be a good gold-beater. Somo
men can never lcaru. Their hand refuses
to so strike the book a9 not to make
irregularities in the gold. Womeu sel
dom learn. There are 01) gold-beaters
in New York and not one is a woman;
but, on the other hand, women monopo
lize the gold cutting. There aro BOO in
thft branch of our trade and not ono is a
man."
A Texas Enoch Arden.
Aboutseven years ago in Lamar county
David Pierce hud occasion to go to the
southern part of the State, and, bidding
his family, which consisted of his wife
and daughter, an affectionate adieu, he
took his departure. Tho weeks length
ened into months, nnd finally a year had
gone by without any tidings from Pierce,
until ono day a little over five yea s ago
word whs received from a friend of tho
family that Pave had died somewhere
iu the lower part of the State. ,
Mrs. Pierce mourned the death of her
husband, but after a year she was per
suaded to abandon her widow's weeds
aud wed another. The man she married
was worthy, and happiness reigned in
the family until the other day, when
the man mourned ns dead appeared. On
being informed of his wile s marriage
Pier, e first became blindly enraged and
threatened vengeance, but tin illy calmed
down and called on his wife. t-h"e fainted
nt the Bight of him, but finally rallied
and listened to explanations. " Pierce,
on going South, suddenly became in
sane and was placed in the lunatic asy
lum in Austin.
The frieud that seut the word to Mrs.
Pierce thought he was doing a humane
act, nnd that she would rather know he
wus deud than to think him in-ane.
After having beeu cured of his malady
Pierce returned home with the result as
Stated. Finding his wife married to
another man, with two or three small
children aud, realizing tho unhappine-s
he would cttii-e if he remained nnd
claimed his wife, he .ilently and tear
fully turned his back on all timt was dear
to him and bid a last farewell to his
home. l iiiwo 'J ini'ti.
A Hail road Juggernaut.
A yard employe informs the Hurris
burg (I'eiui.) (.'nil that car No. 1 ; 1 : of
the Green Line is "the evil one's wagon
on eight ill-fated wheels." To his own
knowledge that cur lias kilied sixteen or
eighteen people who were braking upon
it, aud has maimed hi. If a do.eu mure.
He affirms there is a streak of bad luck
connected w ith that car, and no one who
knows anything about it will go near it.
He would rather take his chances on the
cow-catcher of uu eugiue all night than
stay by the brakes of No. l:!i. It has
got a bad name, aud railroaders h ive, to
some extent, become buperstitiot s on
account of it.
HOI SKH0LD M ATTERS.
About Wash-Clot hn and Towels.
Something good has been gathered
from Uiml Jloutekreping on the simple
subject of wash cloths. Juinata Staf
ford gives some appropriate hints
that are worthy thn attention of house
keepers. I have had an experience
very similar to hers, rtnd so I commend
her advice cordially: "Wash cloths nro
Indicative of refinement. They mean
the using of the right thing for the right
purpese, and that is certainly indicative
of education and culture. It is easy to
thoroughly wash nnd thoroughly r'in?o
with a wash-cloth, and the towel can
then be used with some degree of com
fort and agrecableness. It is surprising
how many nice homes, well furnished
and nicely nppointcd in most
other ways, do not have a supply
of wash-cloths. So true is this, that I
never go away to visit for ono day or
week, or month, without several wash
cloths in my satchel or trunk; and, as I
said to a friend a few days ago: '1 visit
real nice people, too.' There is nn idea
prevalent that any sort of a rag will do
for a wash-cloth an old stocking-leg, a
salt bag, a piece of gauze underwear, nn
old napkin or piece of towel. These are
better than nothing, and indicate a
reaching toward nicety. But you will
find thnt the people who use these sorts
of things are very apt to take pains to
provide proper dish-cloths and towels.
It is strange to mo that this is true.
There should be a generous supply of
wash-cloths, as there should be of towels.
Quite as many, I think, of one as of
the other are used in my own home, each
week, and quite as much stress is laid
upon the proper use nnd care of one as
of the other. 'Lots' of wash-cloths is
tho rule.
"Now, as to the kind: I find that
those that can be bought nil ready in
the large dry goods stores, are not only
too thick and rather large, but aie quite
expensive. Much the best way is to
buy white or unhleached Turkish towel
ing, of a quality that costs fifty or sixty
cents a yard, and cut each yard into
three lengthwise strips, nnd each strip
into four pieces. This will give you
from a yard of toweling, one dozen
wash-cloths a quarter of u yard square.
Tuese can be neatly bound with white
silesia cut bias, but "thi3 mode of finish
ing does not compare for prettiuess or
agrecableness with 'buttonholing' them
nil round with red working cotton. Get
a coarse cotton and put the stitches
nbout one-half dozen to the inch. This
is very good fancy work for an evening,
or is nice for the little girls to do. A
A very important word to say is about
boys and wah cloths. Get them to
gether. It will amply repay you.
Teach boys to use them thoroughly,
rinso and hang them up properly, and
you have mnde quite a stride in
your refinement teachings. It is a
'home-y' thing to do, and will
carry with it more than appears
upon the surface. A final word aoout
the washing of wash-cloths. Havcall that
have been used, put into tho wash each
week. Let them be boiled as the towels
arc; but do not have them ironed. If
they are carefully smoothed and folded
they are better than if ironed. .My word
for it, when you come to put tho neat
littlo pile away into your linen drawer
you will consciously give it a glance of
pride nnd a pat of satisfaction that will
indicate culture."
A word may well be added about the
towels. Have an abundant supply of
them, nnd let them be pretty. . I sug
gest this, not for visitors nloue, but for
every membf r of the family. The little
folks will find the every morning toilet
far less of a task if tho toilet accessories
be bright and cheerful. Clean wash
cloths, with never au ancient odor about
them, in good order, aud not ragged and
forlorn looking, n variety of nice towels
with pretty borders, one or two respect
able looking cakes of soap that have a
refreshing fragrance, blushes well made
and kept in good order, and everything
else to match, should be provided for
every member of the family. Xew York
Observer.
Itecipee.
Stewed Potatoks. Cut in small
pieces enough cold boiled potatoes to fill
a vegetable dish, put them in one pint
of milk, half a cup of butter, salt aud
pepper to taste; thicken with one tea
spoonful of flour; stew five minutes and
serve.
Cold Watf.u Pie. A good substitute
for custard pie when milk is scarce. Two
table-poonluls of Hour, level, two table
spoonfuls of sugar, heaped, one egg, a
lump of butter the size of a hickory nut,
nutmeg to taste, and a good half-pint of
water. This makes one pic.
Lima Ukavs. The German way of
cooking Lima beans is recommended.
Open a small can of the beans and rinse
them in fresh cold water. Fry au onion
in a tublcspoonful of drippings, add a
gill of beef gravy, a tablespoonful of
vinegar and a cake of sugar; salt and
pepper; now add the beans and warm
them in the gravy; dredge in a little
brown flour, aud wheu the sail, o thickens
slightly serve. Dry beans soaked till
tender, then boiled and served with
Cream thickened with floured butter, is
a uico and aUo au inexpensive dish.
Hakku Kuihit. Skin, singe, und
wash two young rabbits. Boil and mash
four guod-sied potatoes; add to tln in a
lurgo tabh spoonful of butter, a teapoon
l'ul of suit and a teuspoonful of ouiou
juice; beat until light. Fill the rabbit
with this, sew up, und trus the leet
cluse to the stomach. Place a slice of
bacon over each; dust with pepper; add
a half teaspoouful of salt and u gill of
water to the pan. Bake in u quick oven
ono hour, basting every teu minutes.
GarnL-h with fried parsley, and serve
with currnut jelly tauce.
Tai-iooa Cukam. .-oak three table
spoonfuls of flake tapioca for twelve
hours. Boil one quart of new milk,
sweeten to taste; add the tapioci and
the yolks of three eggs well I eaten:
flavor wi ll a teaspoonful of Miuilla or
lemon; when cool, whip the whites of
the eggs to a stiff froth und beat them
through the mixtures. over the top
with whipped cream and serve. ( ream
can tie easily whipped with u Dover egg
beater. Put half a pint iu a small, deep
bowl an I In at it; stir it dou u oiueur
twice and lu-at aguiu ; then lake ott the
froth lis it rises and arrange it on the
dish. It cuu be sweetened and HaVoicd
or not, us desired, butore being beateu.
It adds very much to the appeal mice of
BLACK-ROBED JUSTICES.
THE MAKE-tJI OS" THE HIGHEST
TKIBUNAL IN THE LAND.
No Place for Flowera of Rhetoric or
Passionate Eloquence That Might
Sway Juries.
The room of tho Supreme Court may
easily be overlooked by the tourist who
tarries iu Washington but a day, although
it is within the walls of the Capitol.
The stranger passing from the tumult of
the House to tha careless ease and quiet
of the Senate, through the central corri
dor of the building, will encounter a
guard sitting by a plain and unobtrusive
door in the north end of the old freestone
structure to which the great marble
wings were added. Around ibis door
there is no waiting crowd of politicians
or sight-seers. Through it comes no
sound of debate or applause. Those who
enter will not be impressed by the elo
quence of the lawyer who is addressing
the black-robed Justices sitting in
a row before him. This is no
place for tho flowers of rhetoric or the
passionate nppeals by which juries are
swayed. Plain nnd concise statements
of fact, With brief references to the laws
and the precedents, arc all that the jus
tices require, nnd rarely docs a lawyer's
voice rise above a subdued conversa
tional tone. There nre few seats for
spectators, but the number is sufficient.
The proceedings nro not interesting to
those who have no business to transact
with the court, and strangers who look
in soon go out in search of more attract
ive scenes. Still upon the thoughtful
visitor tho simple gravity of this great
court makes au enduring impession.
The room is the old Senate Chamber,
which resounded with the eloquence of
Webster and Clay when the Capitol hud
not not attained its present magnificent
proportions. In those days the members
of the House of Hepre-entativcs sat in
the larger room at the other cud of the
original building, which is now the Hall
of tstatues. The old Senate Chember is
in the form of a semicircle. The jus
tices come iu at noon from their robing
apartment, nnd their seats are in a line
ou a raised platform behind a long desk,
and just in front of the row of variega
ted marble columns which support a
small and unused gallery. In the Cen
tral chair sits the t hief-Justice. By the
small desk nt the end of the platform
may be found the marshal nnd the
clerk, whose ollices are on the other side
of the corridor.
The confirmation of Justice Lamar
filled the vacuuey caused by the death of
Justice Woods, and nil the chairs are
now occupied. Chief Justico Wuite,
who has Bcrved thirteen years, has passed
the ago of threescore and ten, but his
vigor of body aud mind indicates that
years of work lie before him. In the
first twelve years of the court's history
there were four Chief Justices, nnd in
the following eighty-seven years there
have been four. During the long term,
that of Chief Justice Marshall, the court
became firmly established in authority
and rank. To his mcmorablo decisions
and powerful influence both the court
and the nation are deeply indebted.
Chief Justice Taney presided over the
court for twenty-eight years; tho term of
Chief Justico Chase was comparatively
short. The court of to-day is a remarkable
group of men. It is noticeable for the
rare physical vigor of several of its mem
bers. In their early years their minds
were not developed nt the expense of
their bodies, but hard and healthy work
for both musclo and brain e pupped
them grandly for the tasks that they were
to do. Justice Miller, the author of no
table decisions upon Constitutional ques
tions, passed his boyhood on a farm. He
was thirty years old when he began the
study of law. At that time he was a
doctor in country practice. Although he
had been practising law but thirteen
or fourteen years when appointed
to the Supreme Court, lie had
already become a leading lawyer of
tho Wost. Justico Field, whose age is
that of Justice Miller, seventy-one years,
shares with him tho distinction ol hav
ing been appointed by President Lin
coln. This eminent member of n famous
family is old only in yeuis. His active
life while shaping the judicial system of
California, iu a disorderly state of
society, preserved his vigor. The oldest
of tho nine is Justice Bradley, who was
born in 181:. Justice Harlan is in the
prime of life, at the ngo of fifty-four,
and is a grand specimen of manhood.
Justice Matthews is sixty-three. The
giant of the bench is Justice Horace
Gray, who was called to this court from
the ollice of Chief-Justice of the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts, over which he
had presided for eight years, after hav
ing served in it for nine years us an
associate. Justice Gray is fifty nine
years old, and with Justice Blutchford
was nppointcd by President Arthur.
He furnishes iu himself the amplest
proof thut the learned professions do not
of nece-sity make puny and uiling men.
Justice lila'chford will be sixty-eight iu
March. Hecame to this court, with the
experience acquired by Ion ; service lis a
Compiler of law reports, and as u judge
of the district and circuit courts.
Justice l.uinar is sixty-two years old,
and he was admitted to the bur iu 1M1T.
Jirjir'i We l;.
A Music-Box Made Him 111.
A prominent uptown doctor lias been
rcpeiU-d ly noticed of late iu utteudam e
ou the O'-cupunt of a fashionable flat
house. The latter is u inilli inaire who
retired from bu-inc-s some time ago.
The patie.it complained of a peculiar
roaring in his ears every niuruicg and
eveiung, w'lich wus atteudc I now and
then with a stiungo clicking noise. The
quinine lie had beeu taking wil imme
diately reduced in quantity, but the
buzzing and clicking in his curs contin
ued, until it was discoveied that the
t naiit of the ll.it below had ju-t bought
a if Mill liius'h bo, which played twent
four tunes nnd ran for au lmur. The
tunes i ouldn't l e heard through the su k
man's II or, but tin- hum of the power
ful springs and the clii k of the y linders
as the tune was changed hud si-ued him
into a big d-a. tor's bid. A''"- Ymi
Uo,H.
New f. midland has taken to agi iculture.
It produced hi-t year buy and potatoes to
the value of .'Ssoml, and butter to the
value nf :.iO,ooO. The fishing industry is
veiy pie urious, aid the le oittoagri
culture seems to be the only hope for the
colour.
BONNIE ROSABEL.
When drowsy dews begins to poop i'
Amid the swaying boughs,
Before the stars have gone to sleep
She comes to milk the cows,
Her rosy twinkling fingers sweep
In curves of rhythmic grace,
And as she milks the bubbles leap
To see her pretty face
Hey lads I. Ho lada,
Let the chorus swell,
And pipe with m
A merry glee
For bonnie Rosabel.
Her breath is like the breeze that plays
Amid the fragrant thorn;
Her voice outsweets the rill that strays
Through April woods at morn,
Alas! for him who stops to gaze
Upon her locks a-twined;
His guileloss feet shall go their ways
And leave his heart behind.
Hey lads I Ho lads,
Rhymes can never tell
The winsome grace
Thut lights the face
Of bonnie Rosabel.
Horn Journal.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
The right bower Home.
The best corn remover The crow.
A. still hunt A search for moonshiners.
A poet sings: "Two chords I struck,"
when he ought to have sung, "Two cords
I sawed."
A winding stare Watching your best
girl as you hold her skein of floss. De
troit Free 7V(S.
Always approach a buzz snw with, your
toes pointing in the opposite direction.
Uurlingtun Free l'rem.
The volcano appears to be nothing but
an instance of "absurd exaggeration of
the priuciple of the pimple.
A young lady has named one of her
admirers Hoosac Tunnel because he is
such an everlasting bore. Yarren (O.)
Mirror.
The fact is observed by the Boston
lleridd that wo nre importing potatoes
from Scotland as well as Murphvs from
the Old Sod.
An Fnglish art journal has offered a
prize to any ono who will discover the
cause of baldness. We know, but we
darscu't tell. Jiurlinyton Free Prets.
Tramp (to a woman at tho door)
"Will you please gimmo a bite, ma'm?"
Woman (closing the door) "No; git
out! I'm no dog." Druke's Mmjtiiine.
Father "What do you think of a boy
that throws a banana skin on the side
walk?" Son "I don't know. Whut do
you think of a banana skiu that throws
a man ou the sidewalk?"' Life.
A lazy fellow who was idling away his
time wus asued by a minister where he
expected to go when he died. "I shall
not go," was the reply; "I expect to
bo carried." Iiinghtinton Lender.
There is a tramp butcher back of the
Y'ards. Whenever he gets a job of kill
ing sheep he takes the liver and lights
out, and sometimes he succ eeds in taking
the skin ott, too. Ocotlnll'i Sun.
"I tell you, those leap year dances are
a fine thing. My wife took me and paid
all the expenses herself." "Where did
your wife get the money?" "Oh, I let
her have it." WhitetiJe (III.) Herald.
Ruskinsays: "Man should resemble a
river." We do not know what he
means, but suppose the reason is that in
order to amount to much iu society he
should own a couple of banks. Loitell
CVi.en.
Tobacco stems are now being used in
making paper; on tho principle, wejiui
nose, that turn aoout is fair play, uu til
straw and old rugs having been utilized
long ago iu the manufacture of cigar
ettes. Tid-lliU.
A Polo named Hentzlestezskl recently
settled a few miles from Biughamton.
From the jagged appearance of his name
we should take him to be a section of a
barbed-wire fence rather than a pole.
A'orristutcn Herald.
Now the gay unmarried farmer In the even
ing Hikes his charmer,
Mary Junu or Hal or Dinah, for some pleas
ant moonlight drives,
And lie tolls t tint yearning story, always new
tiioagli ulwiivs hoary.
And before the spring Is over she'll have
joined the ranks of wives.
Xeliraaka tita't Journal.
Stranger in Detroit (a hundred years
hence) "Why do all the people stand
with uncovered heads wheu that little
man passes?" Detroiter "Haveu't you
heard of h'un? He's tho great society
leader. lie beloags to one of tho old
families." Stranger "Old families?"
Detroiter "Yes, sireo. His great grand
father was tho first Captain of tho De
troit nine. Life.
JS'o, sir, I will have you to know.
We will have no vast union ileno,
'Twill ne'er be our undeserved lot
To hai-Oor a union (ieot;
I euro not how loudly you say so
We're wanting no union iluyK,
We're ns lur as weare from Aleppo
From tlie ghost of a union deppo,
And 1 trut you don't think Unit 'twill be so
For we'll have no grand union lee)o.
From sueh f-ireigu concoction we've eumnci-
Iiution,
lava un unparalleled union station.
Hutf'ato Courier.
Discoveries ut Pompeii.
Excavations ut Pompeii have yielded
abundance recently. Surgical instru
ment (mostly of bronze) have been found,
which appear to have beeu kept iu a
wooden box; also a small puir of apoth
ecary's srides and a set of weights, equiv
alent to II, 1 ;.o, t! I, ai.'J and ;i3.H
grammes respectively. Amoug various
domestic uteu ils maybe mentioned as
noteworthy, a beautiful stewpan of
brone, the si'ver iuluy of which repre
sents a head iu raised work, and u brouze
lump, still containing tho wick; finally,
various glass vessels, terra cot fa, gold
rings and ear pendants. Amond the finds
of coin arc a sc-lcrce of cspasiau with
Fortuiitt on the reverse and the inscrip
tion: "Fortune reduei," and a depcu
diuiu of .Nero wi'.h the temple of Janus
und the insniptiou: "Pace per ubiq.
purtu Junuiu clusit." CVo s'iUji at Work.
Toned How ii.
Ves. mighty sinui t he used to bu,
A inuu ol woinlei'lul ueuineii;
A tongue Hie -l t ''spleut hud h.',
A luwzy maimer, trunk ami lije- -
lies Kl'eatlV changi-il, as you euil Set!,
I i"l all tils Villi, lost uli Ultlbllloll.
Wi st brought linn to ilus ad cemiillouf
lies niumrd to n biuiny woman.
Boston Cotritr,
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