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FOREST
AN.
The favorite ConrHe of study among
he Yule Btudents this year is tho Con
etil utional history of the United States.
From all over the country comes tu
the San Francisco Examiner "an omi
dour iittimstion tlint tho tramp whe
will liot work shall not eat."
Appendicitis, which has become a
fashionable diaease during the past few
year, has had more victims nt Yale
College this term than in nil tho rent
of the State of Connecticut.
Now t he cry of suffering comes from
India, where, it is reported, 50,000,
000 are on the verge of starvation, not
because there is unusual deficiency of
food, but because excessive taxation
and the monetary uneertniuty have re
duced tho pittance left to tho people
to a lino bordering on pnuperism.
Tho four leading Danville (III.)
newsdealers luivo entered into au
agreement not to sell the dime trash
.f tho "Jessie James" type. Since the
boy murderers, Tato and Stark, de
clared that they owed their ruin to
these novels there has liecn a decided
crusade against their sala in Danville.
Only thirty-five vesnels have been
built at Baltimore during 8i3, while
sixty-one were built there in 1802.
Tho registered tonnage shows an even
greater decline. In 180'J it was 17,277
tons, whilo in 1803 it was but 5580.
"This,". comments the New York Sun,
"in a striking indication of the extent
of the depression in tho shipping in
dustry during tho year."
Thoso who read juvenile literature
of thirty years ago will recall the queer
pseudonym ''A. L. O. E." weich ap
peared on the books of Miss Charlotte
Tucker. A Loudon cable records tho
death of this lady iu India, where she
was engaged in missionary work. She
had the gift in an unusual degree of
interesting young readers, and many
of her stories are so good that, in
tho cstimBtion of the San Francisco
Chronicle, they are worth reprinting
for a new generation.
The healthful ness of Now York is a
reason- for. rejoicing in the midst of
the prevailing gloom, maintains the
Tribune. In spite of the increase of
population, the number of doaths in
1803 waB little greater than in 1892
only forty-ono larger whilo tho num
ber of births increased more than
2000. Tho death rate for lost year
was 23.40 per 1000, against 24.20 iu
the previous year, whilo for the last
ten years tho average has been 24.72
The Board of Health's most recent es
timate of the population of the city is
1,891,306, the estimated increase from
the previous year being nearly 50,
000, so that a year from now the popu
lation will approximate closely to 2,
000, 000.
The Manufacturers' Becordhas pub
Hsbed two pages of letters from
baukers in all part of the South in
regard to the general condition of
businesH, but especially as regards the
fiuaucinl position of Southern farmers.
Without exception these letters say
that tho euforced economy of the last
two years has caused a complete
change in Southern farm methods:
that tho farmers are giving more at
tention to diversified agriculture, and
that they are now well supplied with
corn and provisions, which will pre
vent the heavy drain of former years
to pay for Western food-stuffy. Sum
ming up theso reports the Manufac
turers' Beeord saysr "They show
that tho whole economic policy of
Southern farm interests is undergoing
a change and the credit system is be
ing superceded by a cash basis. The
low price of cotton for tho last few
years forced upon the farmers tho
necessity of raising their own food
stuffs, and added to this was the de
cision of baukers and factors to ad
vance niuflf loss money on cotton than
formerly. Tho result has been a
change that for tho time being, while
passing from the credit with its liberal
buying to a cash system requiring tho
closest economy, there has been less
trade with, fanners, and hence u de
creased volume of general business iu
the South. But this has brought
about a more solid condition of busi
ness iu those dependent upon farm
trade throughout the South than we
have had for many years. Merehuuts
are carrying small Mocks and buying
only as needed ; farmers are paying
off their debts to such an extent that
without exception these letters from
baukers say that the fanners are loss
' in debt than for years. The money
that formerly went North and West for
provisions and grain has been retained
at home, and tho full result is that
this section is probably less iu debt tu
its own hanks and less in debt to the
Noith and West for supplies thau Ju
any year since the war ended,"
In Holland the year 1803 was only
marked by a first trial of an extension
ol the right of suffrage.
The Chicago Times alleges thai trol
ley mortality statistics are filling the
daily space formerly given to cholera
reports.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin
estimates that the total yield of wool
in 1893 was 364,156,6(10 pounds, the
largest American clip ever raised.
Tho impression prevails iu leading
commercial circles in Germany that
tho seven loan years are ended and that
better times are coming with the new
year. "
Onida describes tho nineteenth cen
tury clothing of an Englishman as "tho
most frightful, grotesque and disgrace
ful male costume which the world has
ever seen.
Charity pawn shops, where people
may get mora nearly tho worth of their
goods that thoy are compelled to part
with than now, aro suggested by goino
of tho charitably disposed, states tho
Detroit Free Press.
State Ooologist Smock, of New Jer
sey, who has been on a Business irip
to Holland, aavs ho thinks 300,000
acres of Jersey meadow land can be
reclaimed by adopting the Holland
system of embankments and dikes.
The Cleveland Leader thinks that
the proposod improvement of country
roads, by laying steel railway tracks
to be used bv wacons and electric
cars, will hardly satisfy tho wheelmen,
to whom all the credit for the agita
tion in favor of better roads is due.
The New York Journal avers that
the hard times have had a curious cf
feet in reducing the Bales of condi
meats, sauces and similar table lux
uries. A man who has a family to
provide for would rather buy corned
beef than curry when the money runs
short.
A composite picture of tho Ameri
can of the future would bo worth
going along way to see. According
to Henry Watterson, of the Courier-
Journal, he will be a union of Cava
lier, Puritan, Celt, Teuton, Scandi
navian and other elements too nnmer
oua to mention.
Reports received at the War Depart'
ment of recent small-arms competi
tions among the troops in the Far
West show conclusively, relates tho
Washington Star, that the noble red
man as represented in Uncle Sam's
military service does not compare
very favorably with his palo-face
brother in the matter of sharpshoot
ing. There is a popular idea, gained
from Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales
and even more modern literature
about the "dusky denizens of the for
est," that all warriors are superior
marksmen. Army statistics prove that
this ia a romantio delusion, so far as
the Indian soldier is concerned.
Some time ago Mr. Carnegie, the ex
tensive iron-master, was approached
by the relief committee of Pittsburg
and asked what he was willing to do
for the Buffering unemployed of that
city. Mr. Carnegie repliod that
he would duplicate the sub
scriptions of the whole city. The
committee went to work with a
will to make him give aa much as pos
sible, and had up to a few days since
secured subscriptions amouuting to
$00,795, when by some means Mr.
Carnegie's offer became public. Tho
committee says that the publication
has done an incalculable injury to tho
good work, as tho subscriptions at
once fell off to almost nothing. The
people of the city argue that if tho
millionaire is going to give so large a
sum it ia unnecessary o make an
The "Excelsior," the largest dia
mond in the world, iB now deposited in
one of the safes of the Bank of Eng
land. It was found iu June lust iu tho
mines of Jagersfonteiu, Cape Colony,
by Captain Edward Jorgausou, the in
spector of the mine. In his opinion,
corroborated by that of the director,
Mr. Gilford, tho "Excelsior" is a stone
of tho purest water, and is worth
about $5,000,000. It is fully three
inches in height, and nearly throe
inches iu breadth, weighing 971 carats,
or about seven ounces troy. Thocolor
of the Jagersfonteiu diamond is white,
with a very slight bluish tint ; and its
lustre is matchless. At tho centre is a
very small black spot, which exports
conbider will be easily removed in the
sntting. According to M. X. West,
j the British Government have offered
i half a million pounds sterling for this
' diamond iu the proprietors, Messrs.
I Breituieyer and Beriibeimer, but the
pffur hm been refund.
THE COMING OF NIOHT.
The loitering Day looked backward, smiling,
And slipped out through the west,
Where rosy, misty forms beguiling
Besought her tor tholr guest
"Oh, follow, follow through the west I
Our golden portals wide are swinging
For thee alone, for thoe.
And wistful voices olear are ringing
Across the darkling sea,
In eager welcoming to thee."
Aloft her silver censer holding,
The star-eyed Night drew close,
Her mantle round the hushed earth folding.
More sweetly breathed the rose,
As Night with tender tears drew close.
Her dusky sandnls softly gleaming
With wandering threads of gold,
Eroldered by vagrant fireflies, seeming
Doneath each wing to hold
A fair- spinning threads of gold.
With silent footfnll, weaving slowly
A mystic, slumb rous spell,
Bhe came ; and something sweet and holy
The weary earth befell
When woven In the slumb'rous spell.
Celia A. Hayward, in Llppencott,
ON THE MINK.
B FRANCOIS COPPEE.
HEN Lucien de
Hern saw his last
piece of money
rakod in by tho
banker, and got up
, from tho roulette
table where he had
just lost the re'
mainder of his lit
tle fortune which
ho had brought
there for his final
effort, he was
seized with verti
go and narrowly
escaped falling to the floor.
With a weary brain and trembling
legs, he threw himself upon a long
leather safe which surrounded the
gambling table.
For several minutes he looked
vaguely about these private gambling
rooms where he had spoiled the most
beautiful years of hie youth, recog
nized the worn features of tho differ
ent gamblers, cruelly lighted by the
great shaded lamps, heard tho soft
clinking of the gold upon the green
table, felt that he was ruined, lost,
and remembered that he had at home,
iu the drawer of th? commode, a pair of
pistols which had once been the prop
erty of his father, General de Hern,
when he was a captain; then, only,
worn out with fatigue, he fell into a
profound Bleep.
When he awakened, his month dry
and parchod, he ascertained by glanc
ing at the clock that he had scarcely
slept a quarter of an hour, and he felt
.an overwhelming desire to breathe the
fresh, cool, night air. The hands of
the clock pointed to a quarter of an
hour of midnight. As he arose and
stretched himself, he remembered that
it was Christmas eve, and with an
ironical play of tho memory, he saw
himself a little child and putting, be
fore ho went to bed, his shoes in front
of the fireplace.
At this moment, old Drouski, a
pillar of the place, a typical Pole,
wearing a rusty, long coat, trimmed
with braid and large ornaments, ap
proached Lucien and muttered these
words through his gray beard :
"Lend me five francs, sir. It is now
two days Bince I have not left the
club, and during these two days I
have not seen 'seventeen' win. You
may laugh at me, if you wish, but I
will cut off my right hand if soou, at
midnight, this number is not the
one.
Lucien de Hern shrugged his shoul
ders. He had not even enough in his
pockets to give to that beggar, whom
the frequenters of the place called
"lea cents sous du Polonais." He
passed into the anteroom, took his hat
and coat and went down the staircase
with a feverish agility.
Since 4 o'clock, when Lucien went
into the elub, the snow had been fall
ing steadily and the street a narrow
one in the centre of Paris, with high
houses on either Bide was white with
snow. In the calm, black-blue sky
the cold stars scintillated.
The ruined gambler shivered in his
furs and began to walk rapidly, turn
ing over always in hi mind those
hopeless thoughts and dreaming more
than ever of the box of pistols which
awaited him iu the drawer of his com
mode; but after having taken several
steps, ho stopped suddenly before a
heart-rending spectacle.
Upon a stone bench, placed accord
ing to au old custom near the large
door of a private house, a little girl
scarcely six or seven y ear i old, dressed
In a ragged black frock, was sitting iu
the snow. She had fullen asleep there
despite tho cruel cold, in a pitiful at
titude of fatigue and dejection, and
her poor little head and tiny shoulder
had dropped into corner of the wall
and were resting upon the icy stone.
One of the old wooden shoes with
which the child was shod had fallen
from the foot, which was hanging
down, and lay drearily before her.
Mechanically Lucien do Hern put
his hand to his vest pocket, but hu re
membered that a moment before he
did not find even a frauc, aud that he
could not give a fee to the club waiter ;
nevertheless, pushed by an instinctive
sentiment of pity, ho approachod the
little girl, aud he started, perhaps, to
raiso her in his arms aud to give her a
place of shelter for tho night, when he
aw something glisten in tho shoe
which had fallen from her foot.
He bent over it ; it was a tweuty-five-frauo
piece.
A charitable person a woman, no
doubt had passed that way, had seen
on that Christmas eve that shoes that
had fallen in front of the sleeping
child, and recalling the touching
legend, tdje had curwlully placed there
IK
great gift, bo that the little aban
doned child could bolieve yet in Santa
Clans, and should retain, in spito of
her nnhappiness and misery, aomo
confidence and some hope in the good
ness of Providence.
Twenty-five francs! There was in
it several days' rest and wealth for the
beggar, andLucien was upon the point
of awakening her to tell her of it,
when he heard near his ear, like an
hallucination, a voice the voice of
the Pole with his thick and drawing
accent that murmured low these
words :
"It is now two days that I have not
left the club, and during theso two
days I have not seen 'seventeen' win.
I will cut off my right hand if soon, at
midnight, this number lB.nottheone.
Then this young man, twonty-three
years old, who was descended from a
race of honorable people, wno core a
superb -military name, was possessed
with a mad. hysterical, monstrous de
sire ; with one look he assured himself
that he was really alone in that deserted
street, and bending his knee and push
ing his hand tremblingly into the
fallen shoe, he stole the twenty-five-
frano piece
Then, running with all his strength,
he returned to the gambling house,
climbed the staircases with a few
i:.i ..,i.,i .tti. io A. ha
uuin, pn,. "1'"" .
reached it just as the clock was etrik-
tlm o-rfin cloth
.Ug T.V,.. ( - -rw O
the gold piece and cried :
( IT ... 1. it. 11 ..., t, I ' "
Number seventeen was tho winning
numbor.
With a turn of the hand Lucien
place his double funds on "red."
Bed was the winning color.
He tried all of his money again on
the same color.
Bod came the Becond time.
He doubled his preceding stakes
twice, three times, always with the
same luck. He had before him now
a cup of gold and banknotes, and he
scattered them over the table Iranti
cally.
All the combinations brought him
success. It was a chance never heard
of before. Something supernatural,
One would have said that the little
ivory ball jumping into the pigeon
holes of the roulette table was fasci
nated and magnetized by the gambler
and obeyed him. He had recovered
in a score of plays the few miserable
notes of a thousand francs, his last re
source, which he had lost at t he begin
ning of the evening.
At present covering with several
hundred francs at a time, and served
always by his fantastio luck, he was in
a fair way to regain all, aud more than
his family fortune which he had inso
few years squandered.
In his haste and desire to play he
had not taken off his overcoat ; already
he had filled the great pockets with
rolls of notes and gold pieces ; and not
knowing wnere to neap np ma gains
ha Tliiiiof Tionnr anil rrn I ii int.il T.hA
nnilroia rf hid inulllll nAOf hiB VAttt. ATI 1 1
trousers pockets, his cigar case, his
uanaKercmei, every piaoe xu uM
uAwcrA na a .Ajicntan a Anil ha VIHVAr1 I
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always, ana ne gainoa aiwayp, nae
he gained always, like a
madmau, like a drunken man I and he
threw his handfula of gold upon the
table at hazard, with a gesture of cer
tainty and disdain I
Only there was something bnrning
iu his breast like a red-hot iron, and
he thought constantly of the little beg
gar from whom he had stolen.
She is still in the same place ! She
must be there I Immediately, yes,
when the clock strikes one, I swear to
myself that I will get away from this
place. I will take her, asleep, in my
arms. I will take her home with me ;
she shall sleep in my bod to-night ; I
will bring her up aud I will settle a
large amount on her ; I will love her
as my daughter, and I will take care
of her always, always!
But the clock struck one, and a quar
ter past and half past, and a quarter to
two, and Lucien was still seated at that
infernal table.
At laBt, ono minute before two, the
head of the house got up abrubtly and
said in a loud voices: "The bank is
broken, gentlemen ; enough for to
day." With one bound Lucien was on his
feet aud, pushing aside recklessly the
curious who surrounded and regarded
him with an envious admiration, he
went out ouicklv. rushing down the
stairs and running to tho stone benou
there. From a distance, by the light
of a eras jet. he could see the little
girl.
"Thank Godl" he cried, "she is still
there."
He approached her, and seized her
tiny hand.
"Oh. how oold she is. Foor little
thinu I"
He took her iu his arms, and raised
her to carry her. The head of tho
child fell back without awakening
her.
"How one sleeps at her age !"
He pressed her against his breast to
warm her; and, seized wit U a vague
inquietude, he tried, iu order to draw
her from this heavy bleep, to kiss her
on the eyelids, oti ono does to awaken
gently a loved one.
Ami then he perceived with liorror
that the eyelids of the child were half
open, uhl that the eyeballs were
glassy, set and sightless.
His bruin whirled with a horrible
suspicion ; he put his mouth closo to
that of the little girl; not a brent h
came from it.
During the time Lucien had gained
a fortune with the money stolen from
the little beggar, the poor child with
out a home had died, died from expos
ure to the cold.
Feeling in his throat a horrible
choking sensation, Lucien tried to cry
out, aud in the effort that ho made he
woke up from this nightmare and
found himself ou tho club-room sofa,
where he had fallen asleep a little bo
fore midnight, and where the waiter
of the gambling room, m going out
about 5 o'clock, had left him Bleep
ing, out of pity for the ruined man.
A misty December sunrise lighted
up the window panes.
Jjucicn went out, pawned his wat.cn,
took a bath, breakfasted, and went to
a recruiting officer, where he signed a
voluntary engagement in the First
African Infantry.
To-day Lucien de Hern is a lieuten
ant, he has only hiB pay' to live on,
but he gets out of it very well, being
a steady officer and never touching a
card : it wonld seem also that ho finds
it possible to Bave something out of it,
for the other day, at Algiers, ono of
his comrades walking a little behind
in a hilly street of the Kaspa, saw nun
give something to a little sleeping
Spanish girl in a doorway, and he had
tho indiscreet curiosity to see what
Lucien had given to the child.
Tho inquisitive one was mnoh Bur-
prised at the generosity of the poor
lieutenant.
Lucien de Hern had put in tho hand
of this indigent child a twenty-five-
frano piece. Translated for Boston
Transcript.
His Hair Turned White.
Andrew Lindsey, who has lived near
Pease Bottom, Montana, for many
years, was strolling tnrougn ine
TT i.l ,,f J
sombrero, and had a estern flavor
to his speech. Said he: I want to
tell yon a yarn about how a man's hair
was turned gray in one whack. It
was just after the Custer massacre that
an old fellow named Pease we called
him Major Pease, because I believe he
had been in tho great and only Civil
War well, he pressed forward several
miles beyond the hog-back where the
famous fight took placo, and built a
stockade at what came to be called,
after him, Peae Bottom. He and his
men were carrying on a very thriving
trade with the redskins, but at that
time this business had to be conducted
with creat caution, because the
savages were ugly and scalp hungry
Two miles from tho stockade was i
high point, from which a survey of the
country could be had for miles in all
directions. A lookout was kept here
for Indians, and suspicious circum
stances or warlike demonstrations
were at once reported to headquarters,
One afternoon in the summer a man
named Paul McCormick and his
partner, . named Edwards, were sent
out to the observatory. They were
riding along at a gallop through the
tall grass, and were approaching the
mouth of a little eoulie. Edwards
wasn't a tenderfoot, but he was a new
comer in that region. As they
careered along, McCormick said
"Edwards, what would you do if the
Indians should bounce out of that
ooulie?" "Well, I'd either fight or
run." These words hadn't fallen from
his lips before bane ! went a rifle and
war-whoops rent the air. Poor Ed
.dB dr d from hi horse, and
I - -w. . .
I . .
, there knew what was np,
and the pursuers were picked oft as
...
they came within range ol tne lead,
Tq - te8 were onened Bnd McCormick
rushed in. His hair was white, and
has continued so. The body of Ed
wards was found lying in the bloody
and disordered grass, and the scalp
was missinsr. it was uuriea on ina
spot, and the legend of Edwards'i
Coul ie is one of the beit known in the
far West. The folks at the Btookado
put up a rude headboard, but this has
long ago gone to decay,
A Mining Opportunity Missed.
"Speaking of gold excitements,"
said George W. Beal in the presence
of a little social gathering in West
Park street a few evenings since, "re
minds me of a chance I once had to
purchase a plaoer elaimin Confederate
gulch. The men wo owned the bar
offered it to me for $400 cash and were
anxious to sell at that figure, but 1
hesitated. Finally I told them I would
have an expert examine and test the
ground and if it was what they repre
sented it to be I would purchase it.
This was satisfactory, and my expert
made the test and reported unfavor
ably upon it. That settled the deal,
and 1 went ou my way in search of
other fields. About two months later
I returned to Confederate gulch and
found a Bix-mule toam and a wagon
behind it containing two tons of gold
taken from a portion of the bar those
men wanted to sell me for $100. The
team was ready to Blurt for Fort Ben
ton with tho gold aud was surrounded
by thirty armed men, who were to
guard the metal on the way. After I
refused to purchase the ground the
men concluded to work it themselves,
and from a space of 100 feet square
had taken the two tons of gold. I
have not seen the 'expert' since then."
Butte Miner.
The Arab at II nine,
Dr. J. P. Peters was the manager of
the expedition sent out by the I'ni
versity of 1'uuuHylvauia iu 18SS to ex
plore the ruins of Babylon. "During
the two years 1 was there," said he, "1
lived with many of the wild tribes
u round the umrxhes of Arabihtuu. The
conditions in which I found them were
most deplorable. They were a most
depraved race, robbing, cheat iug, lying
and fighting being tho daily outline
of their existence. The priueipal diet
of these people is hnlf-cooked barley
bread, aud with a large percentage of
the tribes this forms the sole diet.
When I offered twelve cents a day for
diggers and guards I had hull the
population applying to mo for work,
aud was forced to reduce the day's
wages to ten cents. When one of theso
men has a headache bis friends bum
him with red-hot irons, aud many
times 1 have seen wounds carefully
filled with iron rut. Their govern
uwnt, or rather luck of government, is
a practical exhibition of anarchy,"
A WONDERFUL TIMEPiuCE.
MARVELS OV THE CLOCK
IN
BTRA83BURO CATHEDRAL.
Wound lrp to Ilun From 1H40 Tntll
0909 Crowds laily Walt Its
Noonday Hour.
FOR the third time tho n.nnie
ipalitvof Strassburg decided,
in 1S30, that a new estro-
: 1 1 . .1. .1 1 1 l. ..1
in the framework of the old one. A
Strassburg watchmaker named Schwil-
gue was entrusted with the nndertak-
mcr. and within four years he finished
tho unique mechanism which Btands
to-day tho wonder and amusement of
natives and visitors. Not only does
this clock keep the time from day to
day, but it runs from year to year
without tho intervention of any clock-
maker. Besides this, its face con
tains a disk indicating all the variable
holidays of the year, Easter, and so
on. It regulates itself in the leap
years. It gives tho phases of the
moon, the eclipses, tho equinoxes, and
the revolutions of all the planets of
the solar system. The fineness of the
structure can be understood when it
is -known that of tho seven golden
balls, of different ize, representing
the planets, tho nearest to the sun,
Mercury, takes eighty-oight days to
make tho circuit of its orbit, while
Saturn only can complete its course in
1717 days, or nearly three years, says
the Philadelphia Telegraph.
The entire mechanism, its maker
calculated, would run until the year
9999, if the brass and other metal of
which it is built do not wear out in the
meantime. This wonderful contriv
ance is unfortunately in a dark place,
where those who constantly wish to
view it well aro scarcely able to do so.
Its Bite ie a wing, which can bo en
tered through the Cathedral proper or
a portal, which directly leads thither
from outdoors. The time of greatest
interest iB at noon each day, though
there are little performances at every
quarter hour. At noon is the time
the cock crows, and that is what every
one wants to hear. The interest never
Beems to wane. For an hour before 12
o'clock, day after day, a crowd goth
ers in this corner, waiting for tho ex
hibition. This early arrival is partly
in order to get a good place, aud part
ly because the clock keeps solar time,
which now is a half hour behind ordi
nary St rassburg time. Here are tour
ists, soldiers, nuns, bridal couples,
peasant women with baskets, boys
with bundles, who have run in from
the street to get another look at the
thine. Now, it is only a half hour
until tho performance ; will the room
hold any more?
The beadles, like the street-car con
ductors, are sure there is plenty of
room "up front." or rather, in this
case, behind. Thoy wave the wands
of their majesty, and back tho peoplo
surge. Still more aro comiug. The
natives, who never seem to tire of tho
sight, aud who know better about the
variance in the times, are now drop
ping in mothers with babies, business
men from around the corner, and
everybody else. There is not space to
sneeze. Now there are only live nun
utes until the rooster crows. Maybo
he will not crow to-day. Everybody
s looking at the clock. Don't wink.
Now comes the fateful minute. In
the very centre of the big monument
to the clockmaker's ingenuity is a
gallery. Here stands Father Time,
representing Death. He has about
hiin, on a revolving plane, four figures
Childhood, a boy ; Youth, a young
hunter; Manhood, a fully-armed
knight ; Old Age, a gray-haired man,
clothed in the skin of a beast. Child
hood had struck tho first quarter-honr,
Youth the second, Manhood the third
aud Old Ago the other hours of tho
day; but now at noon it is Death's
own chance. The four figures come
oiit in view before him, while, with a
grim hammer of bone, he sounds with
twelve strokes the death of another
slay.
A little figure down near the face of
tho clock now haH his turn, and, with
a little shako reverses bis hour glass.
Above all this is another gallery. It
begins to squeak. The machinery is
iu motion. In the middle is a figure
of Christ, aud around llim are to pass
tho twelve Apostles. Out they come,
one bv one. Each stops au instant
before the Saviour, turns his face,
bows, and receives the blessing from
His outstretched hand. But the
rooster; where ia he? There he still
is, high up on a pedestal, besides a
stained-glass window. Now he clucks.
Now his old metal-plated throat swells.
Ho flaps his wnifs and crows. An
other minute. Again ho flaps his
wings aud crows. Aud a third time.
Was there ever such a rooster as this?
It is all over. The bi-H.lb s drive the
people out, shut up tin) e:ithi'dral, and
go to dinner.
The t inn' of grt'ati'sl interest comes
but once a year, in the night from De
cember 31 to New Year's May. Then
au immense crowd always assembles to
watch tile revolutions of the machinery
aa it regulates itself ready for the la
bors of the coming year.
Twentieth Century Aif l iciillinc.
The belief ia gaiuiir ground that
the model farm ot the future will be
an electric one. The necessary current
can be had by utilising the xtusted
forces of nature the waterfalls being
sutlicient in many places, while l it
iithers windmills can be used iu con
nection with storage batteries, in
ventors ure undoubtedly capable of
adapting electric machines to every
kind of farm work. With well-made
roads, electrically-lighted houses, and
a well-planned equipment of electric
machinery - including, possibly, elec
tric carta aud carriucK -the lot of tho
tiller of t lit; soil wi'l be greatly iui
proved. Trenton (N. J.) American.
WHERE MY HONEY U.'.VUVS.
Roft the Southern moon Is shining i
Sly tlio star of evening peeps
Through tho honeysuckles, twining
'Itonndthe window where she sleeps .
Where my honey, true-love sleeps.
Bwcotly now the wind is blowing ;
'Mong the leaves the dewdrop gleams.
While thosoont of roses Rmwinn
Fills the sweetness of her dreams.
An' her face with love-light beams
Now, my mocking-bird, sing true,
Tho' the old owl hoots "To whoV"
An' the ring-dove says "Not you !"
So the mock-bird's softly trilling.
From his trembling hoart and moutU,
That sweet song my heart is flllinp.
For my honey, way down Soutf
Down the winding river, drilling
I am coming, love, to you :
ThrouRh tho trees the moonlight's smtng,
'Cross my dugout, gum canoe
Coming, honny-love, to you.
In the deop, dark woods a-hidlnif.
Pipes the pining whip-poor-will
All the other hirds a-ehldlnif,
With his plaintive "Still, be still !
Like my heart, old whip-poor-will.
-Will L. Vissoher, in Chicago Figan
IIL'MOR OF THE DAY.
Stands to reasnn Tho debater.-
Philadelphia Becord.
The characteristic of our time is that
we have no time. Fliegendo Blaettcr.
Long hair on a man covers a multi
tude of crank notions. New Orleans
Picayune.
It seems that the good points ol
somo people have all been broken off.
Galveston News.
It is curious how quiet people can
bo about a thing without the least ef
fort. Indianapolis News.
"Yon say he is a bad egg. How did
yon find it out?" "He showed it the
moment he was broke." New York
Press.
Stranger "How long have peoplo
been sett ling hero ?" Collector ' They
haven't commenced yet." Atlonta
Constitution.
Not only can a woman laugh 'in her
sleeve but bo cau her whole family, aud
there's room for the neighbors. To
peka Journal.
The nearest thing to a vacuum is a
letter written merely for the purpose
of keoping np a correspondence. Mil
waukee Journal.
Miss Yalo "Do you ever play foot
ball, Mr. Eanswi." Mr. Kansas.
"No ; but I now and then dally with a
cyclone. " Hallo.
Gudders "Why don't yon act always
as your conscience tells you you
should?" Cynicns "I make euougb
enemies as it is." Chicago Becord.
"What an ethereal, exquisite crea
ture Misa Sinilax is, isn't she? Just
look at the dainty pose of that left
arm!" "Humph I That ain't pose;
it's vaccination." Chicago Becord.
Brown "How long have you known
that man you lent a dollar to this
morning?" Jones "I never knew
him long. He's been short ever since
I first met him." Detroit Free Tress.
"Is the man Grace is going to marry
rich?" Jennie "lam sure he must
be from the way ho acts." "Gives her
expensive presents, eh?" "No; hor
ribly stingy." Chicago Inter-Ocean.
"I'm even with Blimmiug at hist,"
said the society reporter. "How?"
"You know how jealous his wife is?
Well, I have alluded to him as a 'great
favorite among theladios.' "Indiana
polis Journal.
First Passenger "I wonder why
we are making such a long stop it this
station?" Second Passenger (u trav-
r eler of experience) "I presume it ia
because no ono is trying to eaten lue
train." Tit-Bits.
Chollie "Don't yon think it would
be a noble thing for you to do with
your wealth to establish a home for
the feeble-minded?" MIhb Box "Oh,
Mr. Sappe, this is so sudden I" In
dianapolis Journal.
"What did you get, popper?" asked
the little fish, as ho saw his parent
make a dart at a nieo fat worm.
"Hooks," answered the parent. And
then he soared to the world above.
Indianapolis .Journal.
Jackson "1 believe I have at last
discovered a cure for the ills which
Btlliet our municipal politics. "
MeCommick--'"! was unaware that you
were anxious to be a political healer."
Baymoud'B Monthly.
Elephant "Yes; I'd liketu keep up
with the times, but 1 can't afford it.
It would bankrupt me to have to buy
even a spring overcoat." Giraffe
But tluuk what it would cost ine to
wear standing collais." Chicago
Tribune.
Customer "Among the other items
on this bill you've got Tour an. I a
half hours' work.' ion worked just
exactly four hours by the clock,
pci hanger -"Yes, sir; but it toe
hall au hour to make out the bi!
Chicago 1 libu lie.
"There l'ocs .lude Sohkcni,"
I'a-
lue
id
Tdeamiei'iiu; Mike. "Vn old acquaint
ance of yours, 1 s'iosc," rejoined Plod
ding lVtc, sarcastically. "Oh, we're
pis! on speakiu' terms. I know him
well cuoii-h to say 'not guilty' t 'nu
oueet iu a w hile. " -Wuslnugt il Slar.
".lust my luck !" exclaimed Sowerby,
as he encountered au advertisement
headed "All diseases healed free."
"Look at that forau offer 1 And hero
am I without so much as a single soli
tary disease about me! Did any mail
ever hae such luck?" Bofton Tl.ni
bcript. Dusty Khodcs - "1 had a private box
at a food exhibit this afternoon. " Fitz
William "Mow di I you come to get
it?" Dusty Khodcs "I was looking
in a restuui am window to see a lnu
make hi al c.ikcb and a policeman
stepped up and gave it to JUC." Ksltf
Field t WubhlUjjtU.