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Oranges are selling cheaper than ap
ples in apple-producing regions.
Fronclimen are alarmed to find that
there is a sharp doeline in tho thrift of
the republic.
Somebody who clnima to know says
that a child tliroo years old is half the
height it will ever be.
Tho revival of intoresTin gold-mift.
ing in California is beginning to at
tract a good deal of attention, notes
the Argonaut.
The total amount spent in foreign
missions last year by the ProBbyter
ians, Congrcgationalists, Methodists,
Baptists and Episcopalians aggregated
13, 5(H). 000.
; 1 t
"As to that European war," exclaim
the St. Lonis Republic, "we don't want
them to fight, but by jingo if thoy do,
we've got the wheat, we'v3 got the
pork and wo need the money too. "
Tho name of llerr Brenian, tho ata
tistioian, is well known in Germany.
His latest discovery is that in three
thousand years thero will be only one
man to every two hundrod and twenty
women.
Oeorgo W. Childs illustrates in hi
career, relates tho New York Indepen
dent, the possibilities lying before
every widc-awako American boy, and
the good which men of wealth may do
with their money.
According to Captain R. D. Bell, o!
Alaska, tho Alaskan Indian will be a
curiosity in ten yoars unless something
ib done to keep bad whisky from him
.and free him from the awful disease
from which ho is a sufferer.
Johns Hopkins is a young univers
ity, but it ie a very lucky one. Gifts
to it pour iu like an unceasing flood.
The latest is the herbarium and botan
ical library of Captain John Donnel
Smith, said to be one of the most valu
able collections of tho kind in the
world and representing tho labor of
twenty years.
The most widely separates! pointa
between which a telegram can be sent
are British Columbia and New Zea
land. Tho telegram would cross North
America, Newfoundland, the Atlantic,
England, Germany, Russia (European
and Asiatic), China, Japan, Java and
Australia. It would make nearly a cir
cuit of the globe, and would traverse
over 20,000 miles iu doing so.
It is not likely, predicts Frank
Leslie's Wockly, that there will be any
further trouble with the Chinese now
in thiscountry on account of the regis
tration law. Tho Chinese Six Com
panies in San Francisco have issued a
notice ordering all their members to,
register under the new law, and this
action will no doubt be largely in
fluenced in determing Chinamen gen
erally to comply with its provisions.
The luntastio and somewhat gro.
tesque humor of the Thirteen Club, of
New York, expended itself recently at
a dinner which was intended to assist
in giving the finishing stroke to the
superstitious notions which still linger
about tho world from the days of out
ancestors. Everything was done by
theclub to challenge, defy and ridicule
the current superstitions. The mem
bers and their friends dined in thir
teens, walked under ladders, spilt salt,
crossed knives, had lamps in plaster
skulls and did many other ourious and
absurd things at which many simple
people still tremble in these days.
One of the most characteristic anec
dotes ever told of England's greatest
man sinoe Pitt is recorded in Mr. Smal
ley's cable letfer to the New York Tri
bune. It brings out Mr. Gladstone's
courage and grit. When his eyes were
examined at Hawardeu not long ago
one was found to be sightless from an
old cataract and tho other seriously
impaired from the formation of a new
cataract. The nerve displayed by this
veteran of eighty-four iu demanding
the removal of the old cataract then
and there, so that he could have on
good eye while tho other was becom
ing useless, was phenomenal. The
surgeon lacked the courage required
for performing the operation, but the
iuoident stands as a luminous illustra
tion of the invincible strength of Mr.
Gladstone's character. It justifiesMr.
Smalley's conclusion that it is not in
the Grand Old Man's nature to accept
defeat, or to flinch from any conflict,
and that he will tight to the end. Ho
is true to his name, which iu tho Low
land Scotch means hawk and stone.
Like a hawk, he has soared with con
stant poise above the low levels of
English polities ; and iu inflexibility
of moral purpose and iu naked majesty
of character he is like the matchless
granite of the Scotch mountain.
A SONO OF HER LOVE.
a mm
0 hills, In glory lean
And bath your brows In llRht
O velvet valleys, soft between,
Pream gently to the night (
For she hath said : "I love," and slio
Htth given all that love to me 1
0 birds, with thrilling throats,
Olad let your munle be s
O rivers, where the splendor floats,
Flow singing to the soa !
For she hath said, "I love." and she
Hath made that love a crown for mo !
O world, grown green to greet
The Joy that comes apace i
Tour roses for bar footsteps sweet
Your sunlight for her face !
For she bath said ! "I love," and she
Hath made that love a heaven for me !
-Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
SISTER MARION.
BY CLARENCE BOOK.
lHE lover is nlwnys
I selfish, especially
ii it me a woman.
She wonld kill her
lover with her own
hand rather than
see him happy with
another woman."
The man in tho
corner by tho firo
dictated these
words slowly and carefully ; and the
girl at the table wroto them down.
Then there was a silence and the girl
looked across at the man expcotantly.
"Is it getting dark?" he asked, after
a few minute.
For Lewis Carrington had been blind
for nearly six months. That was why
ha had engaged Marion Norman as his
secretary.
"Yes, 1 can scarcely see," answered
the girl. "Shall I light the lamp?"
"No, I am tired," answered Carring
ton. "Let us stop now and talk."
Marion put together the sheets in
their proper order, tidied up the table,
and camo over to tho lire, by which
she stood, leaning against the mantel
piece and watching her companion.
She was no older than Carrington,
thirty-five or thereabouts; but she
looked older than he did. A woman
who has lived her life out of the sun
shinewhich is love fades early. For
the sunshine is good, even though it
scorch at times.
"Is that true, do yon think?" asked
Carrington, lifting his head.
Marion blushed a little, and then she
remembered that the eyes that met her
own could see nothing.
"Is what true?"
"That sentence about love and sel
fishness. Men know so little of
women,"
Marion Norman sat down in a chair
by the lire and leaned her chin upon
her hand as she watchod Corrington.
"I hardly know," sho replied,
slowly. "I hope not. I think no.
Indeed, I am sure of it."
"How do you know?" asked Car
rington, quickly. "Ah I forgive me.
I should not have asked that."
In their four months' daily com
panionship, begun as a matter of busi
ness, they had grown into the habit of
talking over many things together ; and
Marion looked forward to the ten min
utes or so between tho close of work
and her departure as the pleasantest
time of the day. She turned her eyes
from Carrington's face to the fire.
"Yes, I have had my romance," she
replied. And theu she told him tho
story. It was a poor, feeble little
romance, dead almost before it was
born, ten years ago, when Marion was
a nurse at the Loudon Hospital. Mere
ly a young doctor who was poor, a few
Bowers and a note, which Marion still
kept in her wovkbox, though she did
Dot tell Carrington that. Some girls
wonld soarcely have noticed it at tho
time, and would have forgotten nil
bout it ini a fortnight. But Marion
cherished its memory, for it stood be
tween her and tho certainty that she
bad never found favoi in the eyes of
man.
"You know I lost more than my
sight when my eyes went," said Car
rington, after a pause. "That is why
I am so anxious about tho operation
next week."
Yes?" You mean "
"I was just engaged. And her peo
ple would not let her marry a blind
man. They were quite right weren't
they?"
"And she?"
"She cried and obeyed her people."
"If I had been Bhe " Marion be
gan quickly.
"Well?"
"Nothing,
people."
Only I never had any
. "lou were a nurse once, Miss Nor
man, were you not?" said Carrington
presently,
"Yes. Yet it is still strange to hear
myself called Alias Norman. I
Sister Marion until a year ago. But
my health broke down and I had to
give it up. "
"Would you mind very much going
back to it for a time a week or so?
"Ah ! You would like me to ?"
"I must have a nurse, and I would
rather have some one I know."
His band went out iu the vague way
peculiar to the blind. Manou met it
and held it a moment in her own.
"I will come," she said quietly.
Marion rose to go.
anu wuen wnen it is all over,
you won't require me any more," she
saul witn a laugh that only just es
caped being a sigh.
"Say, rather, when it is all over
shall be able to see you," said Carring
ton. iou rememoer, thougn we
have grown to know one another
well, I have never seen you."
There was a small pier-glass over
the mantlepiece, and Marion was face
to face with her own reflection. She
had ':ivn all her life that she was
plain. But no 7. in the light of a new
hope that had dawned in the past
month, she njipcared plainer and more
commonplace than ever.
"If ho never saw me perhaps "
Tho thought had forced itself more
than once in her mind, but she had
beaten it back and prayed that Lewis
Carrington might seo again.
Marion went her way homo, and
climbed up three flight of stairs to
her room. It looked dark and cold
almost aa cold as the streets outside,
where the sleet was falling. She lit
the gas stove and mado herself a cup
of tea. Then she looked out the
nurse's clothes which she used to wear.
The aprons wanted a stitch hero and
there. This occupied her for some
time. By eight o'clock all was fin
ished. The sleet was still beating
against the window. Even if she had
had anywhere to go she could not have
gone. But it was having nowhere to go
that made her foci so lonoly. There
was nothing to do but sit still and
think. Marion was generally too busy
for this, but to-night she could not
help thinking a little bitterly of the
loveless lifo Bhe lod. And then she fell
to wondering what that other one was
like. Of course she was pretty. There
was a photograph of a girl upon Car
rington's mantlepiece, with "Nora
Thurston" scrawled across the foot.
Doubtless that was she.
"Oh, if I might be just alittle beau
tiful, just for a little while I" she
sighod to herself. Then, reflecting
that tho wish was absurd, she had her
supper a couple of biscuits and a
glass of milk and went to bed.
There are two kinds of women
those who offer sacrifice and those
who demand it. The latter must have
something to lean upon ; the former
must have some one to support, some
body to feed or fondle or convert. It
may be a husband, it may bo a curate
or a cat or a cannibal. Now Marion
Norman was one of those women who
long vaguely for some one for whose
sake they shall have a right to sacri
fice themselves.
A fortnight had passed, and the
operation was over. For some days
Lewis Carrington had lain upon his
sofa in a darkened room with a band
age across his eyes and a terrible dread
at his heart. He was waiting for the
removal of the bandage to know
whether he was to see or be blind for
the rest of his lifo. Marion had been
with him all the time, waiting upon
him and reading to him. She had not
been so happy for years, i or Lewis
Carrington depended entirely upon
her. Every day 'she had ben down
stairs to answer the inquiries of a fair
haired girl. It was the girl whose
photograph stood upon the mantel
piece. Every day she had been able
to tell her that Lewis was going on
well, and thot there was every hope
that he would see as soon as his eyes
were strong enough to bear the light.
The evening before the day on which
the question was to be decidod, Car
rington was restless and nervous.
Marion read aloud to him to keep his
thoughts from the morrow. But she
saw his fingers twitch upon the arm of
his chair, and knew of what ho was
thinking. At 10 o'clock she insisted
on his going to bed. But for more
than an hour Marion, who was listen
ing by his half-open door, heard him
tossing from side to side. She had
decided to give him a soothing
draught when his breathing became
more regular, and at last settled down
into tho rhythmio respiration of the
sleeper. So Marion lay down on the
sofa in the sitting room.
She had been asleep, as it seemed,
but a little while when something
awoke her, and from where she lay
she saw Carrington Btauding in the
doorway between the sitting room and
his bedroom.
"Mr. Carrington! What is tho mat
ter? Can I get auytuiug for
yon?" eho said, starting up in alarm.
He did not reply, but warned slow
ly, without turning his head, straight
across tho room to tho window, over
which a heavy pair of curtains hung.
"Mr. Carrington, sho said again.
But he did not answor. And then
sho understood that he was asleep.
For tho moment, in her half-awak
ened etate, she could not think, of the
right thing to do. Sho "watched him
pull one of the curtaius aside. The
light from a gas lamp iu tne street bo
low fell full upon hiR face. And by
the light sho saw that his hands were
pulling and tugging at something
upon tho back of his head. He was
trying to take off the bandage from his
eyea. In another moment, if he suc
ceeded, the glare of the gas lamp
would meet them and extinguish for
ever the feeble glimmer of eigflt. Her
souses half dazed with fatigue and
sloop, Marion, in that instant of
startled comprehension, saw but one
thing, that Lewis Carrington would
be blind, and being blind
Her heart cave a great leap of exul
tntiou. Motionless she sat, watching
him as ho still fumbled with the nan'
dage.
"The lover is always selfish, espo
cially if it be a woman."
The words broke in a flash across
her mind the last sentenco sho had
taken down from Carrington's lips.
In an instant she was by his side,
wido awake, every nerve tingling with
shame.
"Come come with me," she whis-
pered iu his ear, laying her hand upon
his arm and gently drawing him away
from the window.
With a sigh he turned, and suffered
himself to be lod back to his room
For a minute or two Marion watched
him as ho settled again into a pence
ful Bleep. Then she bent down aud
hastily touched his forehead with her
lips, and returned to her sofa. But
not to sleep. She was crying, lirtt be
cause she was wicked enough to be
tempted, and then because she was not
wicked enough to yield to tcmpta
tiou.
The next morniug Lewis Carring
ton, knowing nothing of his narrow
escape during the night, was waiting
for his eyes to be uncovered. The doc
tor had just arrived when tho servant
opened the door and whispered some
thing to Marion. Without sayingany
thing Marion loft the room and ran
down stairs. Nora Thurston was
there.
"Come up," said Marion. "You
are just in time. I think he can see
yon."
They went np the stairs together.
"Go in there, dear quietly. One
moment." Marion took the girl's face
between her hands and kissed her.
"Oh, is my hat straight? Do I look
all right? I want to look nice if he
does seo me."
"Yea, yes. Be quick."
Marion Btood by the door listening.
There was silence for some moments.
Then she heard the doctor's voice.
"Well?"
"Nora ah I it is good to see yon !"
A few moments afterward the doc
tor came into the sitting room.
"What, nurse 1 Broken down, eh?"
For Marion was lying upon the sofa,
her face hidden in the cushions.
"Oh, I am glad I lam glad!" she
sobbed. "Oh, God, make me glad!"
Pall Mall Budget.
Pacing ol the Sombrero.
"Nobody wears big sombreros nowa
days but tho cowboys on the ranches
out West, the Indians and the 'tender
feet' who have smoked cigarettes and
read yellow-tinged literature in the
East and go West with highly inflamed
imaginations only to come back with
cartloads of experience, " remarked big,
genial George Storer at the Lindoll.
And Mr. Storer knows a thing or two
about hats, for he has been a travel
ing salesman in that line for years.
"Ten and fifteen yoars ago nearly
three-fourths of tho male population
in the West and Southwest wore what
are popularly termed 'cowboy hats.'
But civilization, you know, affects the
style of a hat as well as the culture of
the brain beneath it. The Indian chief
that used to pride himself on his head
gear of eagle feathers, having rubbed
up against civilization, now wants to
wear the same hat he sees the pale
faces wear around him the cowboy
hat. The countrymen down in Texas
have pushed ahead of the cowboy and
and Indian a notch or two, and have
thrown their old slonch aside for styles
nearer the modern taste. At one time
there was an immense trade in som
breroB in Texas, and I placed large
wholesale orders there, bnt civilization
is having its effect, and now this class
of trade practically amounts to noth
ing down there. Yes, the old slouch
hat of the West, mado famous in the
stories of Bret Harte and Mark Twain,
will eventually pass away along with
the rip-roaring and six-shooter style
of Western life." St. Louis Repub
lic Food vs. Medicine.
People often wonder why it is that
physicians so universally prescribe
cod liver oil nowadays instead of medi
cines. The reason is easily explained.
Of late years the medical profession
has depended less upon powerful drugs
and medicines and more upon nourish
ment to effect cures, the result being
that where they formerly took cases
in their own hands, physicians now
are content to assist nature in her
work of overcoming the ills of life in
her own way.
The modern school of physicians has
found that ced liver oil is one of the
most nutritious of foods, and will do
more to give a natural strength and
tone to the body than almost any
other known nourishment. It is in
itself a fat, but it contains substances
that make it a peculiarity rich fut. It
not only insures a proper nourish
ment of the body, but it supplies tho
waste of disease or chronic ailments,
and thus serves a double purpose.
In former years thero were two ob
jections to cod liver oil. Theso were
its vile tasto and its tax upon the
stomach. Many preferred being ill
to taking such a nauseating dose, while
others could not retain the oil after
taking it. It remained for the chemist
to render the oil palataldo and make
it in an easy form for the stouiaon by
converting it into an emulsion, thus
accomplishing by mechanical process
what had been left for tho system to
do. New York Telegram.
Here's Richness For You.
It is no exaggeration to any that
there is practically insight in Colorado
81,000,000,000 of low-grade oro. It
may cost 8500,000,000 or 8900,000,
000 to take it all out, but it will fur
nish employment to hundreds of thou
sands and make business enough to
give Donver 600,000 people. Cripple
Greek alono cannot have loss than
8100,000,000 in its hills, already par
tially opened. Tho great tunnel from
Idaho Springs nnder the mountains to
beneath Central will take out several
hundred millions from old And known
veins. A dozen similar tunnels will
bo built in other localities. Many
thousands of gold seams have been
opened at periods and under condi
tions that ollerod no profit. Most of
them will now pay. Colorado's gold
belt extends from Boulder, Manhattan,
in Larimer County, aud Halm's Peak,
with a broad sweep southwest, to tho
corner of the State. It is the largest
aud richest gold field in the world.
We doubtless have more gold than
silver. New York Dispatch.
Are We Losing Our Memories
"I think that men must lie getting
moro forgetful than they used to be,"
(aid a proiuiucnt doctor recently, ''and
my principal reason for thinking so is
the fact that there arc so many more
notebooks used thou formerly. Why,
it used to be very ruro to see a note
book, while now every other man you
meet is pulling out a notebook aud
jotting down some fact than he wishes
Vo remember." Philadelphia Call.
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL,
A splendid series of photographs of
Brooks's comet has boon obtained
In the space of one minute the poly.
piiB can change its form a hundrod
times.
Danish lighthouses aro supplied
with oil to pump on the waves during
a storm.
Dr. Hermann Zeiglcr, the Gorman
scientist, says a forecast of the weather
moy be determined by photographs of
the sun's disk.
Peas and beans cooked in hard water
containing lime or gypsum will not
boil tender, becauso these substances
harden vegetable cascine.
Scotch manufacturers of carbon di
sulphide supply mostof the French de
mand for this article, which is exten
sively used in the destruction of phyl
loxera on grape vines.
The Capitol of Hartford, Conn., is
of marble. Local engineers claim
that it expands an inch to each 100
feot, being three inches longer in
summer than in winter.
In the tanning industry electricity
is beginning to play an important
part. The largest tannery in Switzer
land will soon bo reconstructed and
enlarged for tho purpose of adopting
the process of electric tanning.
The anablob, a fish that inhabits the
rivers of Guinna and Surinam, has
two pupils in each eye, an upper and
a lower one. When the fish is swim
ming it keeps this upper optic, whioh
protrudes above the head, out of the
water.
The green ants of Australia make
nests by bending leaves together and
uniting them with a kind of natural
glue. Cook saw hundreds at a time on
one leaf drawing it to the ground,
while an equal number waited to re
ceive, hold and fasten it.
Earthenware sleepers, the invention
of Matsui Tokutsro, a Japanese, were
recently experimented on at Shimba
shi Station, Japan. Fairly good re
sults were obtained. It is claimed that
the increased cost of earthenware
sleepers is amply compensated by their
freodom from decay.
Dentists are great users of costly
metal. Beside gold for stopping, two
sevenths of the world's consumption
of platinum is employed by them in
making the wires by which the artifi
cial teeth are firmly fastened to a
plate. It is the only metal possesing
the required properties.
In the Institute of Experimental Pa
thology in Vienna Professors Haster
lik and Stockmayer, four students and
others, swallowed a quantity of comma
bacilli. They suffered no bad effects
beyond headache and nauRca. Pro
fessor Strieker therefore draws the
conclusion that tho comma bacilli will
not cause cholera in the case of strong,
healthy subjects.
Tho Russian naval authorities have
not been slow to take advantage of
the lessons taught by the sinking of
Her Majesty's steamer Victoria. An
exact model of the sunken vessel is,
it is said, being constructed in Cron
Btsdt, and this, together with tho in
formation available as to the causes of
the accident, will serve as an object
lesson to Russian naval architects as
well as what shall be avoided in de
signing new vessels.
Rabbits lor the .Market.
It is not generally known that ft
rabbit ranch exists near this city on
what promises to be quite an extensive
scale. J. B. Baumgartner and Mat
thias Foerg are the owners of tho
ranch, and already have a barn forty
feet long and divided up into stalls,
all of which are now ocenpried by
bunny and his numerous progeny.
The rabbits are tho lop-eared va
riety, a breed exceding scarce and held
at fancy prices in the United States.
Mr. Baumgartner imported two pairs
from Switzerland a year and a half
ago, paying 8J0O for them. He now
has over sixty rabbits from those two
pairs.
The rabbits breed seven times a year
and have from eignt to ten to a litter.
When full grown they weigh from
fourteen to eighteen pounds. They
are most delicious eating, their flesh
being considered superior to chicken.
As they command from fifteen to
twenty cents per pound, rabbit farm
ing is much more profitable than
chickeu raising.
Like ordiuary rabbits they are prac
tically omniverous. They aro beau
tiful animals, with their long, silky
hair aud fluffy fur. Unlike other rab
bits, they do not burrow except at
breeding time, and are exceedingly
tame by nature and easily kept, Bauiu
garten A" Foerg suy that they have
only mado a fair beginning in tho
business and are already plauuing to
eulargo their building aud ranch.
South Bend (Ind.) Journal.
Saw a Meteor In Mid Ocean.
On tho Geriuan-Americuu Company's
steamship Standard about C a. in.
January '!, in latitude 3!, longitude
Ol). 2, Seoond Officer Paradies saw a
meteor. Ho suys it fell from tlio
Zonith a ball of blue light, descending
slowly to south-southwest, where it
rhauged to fiery red. Junt before
reaching tho horizon Mr. Paradies
snys tho inetcur seemed to explore in
to thous.-.uds of Hoiutillatiug pieces,
illuminating tho sea and the ship as
bright as day. Washington Star.
The Wealth of Culm.
Cuba is a rich country. On this
islaud there are sugnr aud to
bacco plantations and fruit and vege
table fiirius, tho total value of which is
S.'125,ll(IO,OiK). Cuba's yearly exports
amount to S'.Ml, 000,01)0, while the im
ports aro only t:l,750,0OO. Of tho
latter lf, Wo", 000 is from this coun
try. Nearly 50, Ooo, 000 goes annually
to the suppoi't of Spain, Detroit
Free Press. . -
STATION HOUSE LODGERS.
WHERE NEW YORK'S HOMELESS
ARMY SLEEP.
Scenes at Midnight In aPollce Station
Going to the "Island" Until
Mild Weather Comes.
OUT of the black shadow of the
alley, liko a great bat's wing,
came the head of the line of
men across Oak street to the
basement gate of the station-house.
The doorman now developed as much
activity as the German had shown. He
flew at the first man in the line, and
catching his shoulders, flung him ten
feet away along the pavement.
"Git out of here," said he; "a-a-a-b,
give me no talk. I know yer. You
was here last night. Git, now, or I'll
give yer my foot. And you too ; git,
now, and "don't let me see yer any
more."
As his eye rested on each familiar
face he leaped at the owner of it and
gave him a knock or a twist that sent
him spinning out of the line like a top.
"Them's old soaks, that's been here
before," said he in explanation, "and
we don't take 'em if they're regulars.
There's not room enough for them that
deserves a lodging."
I suppose those poor devils were the
most to be pitied of all the men I saw
that day. What under heaven they
were to do if the station-house Bpurned
them was indeed a question. But thoy
were spun out of sight and out of mind.
Down in the brightly lighted basement
of the station-house the German and
the doorman lined np the men in a
crescent -shaped file with many a curt
order to "turn your face this way;
let's see your face, man." The manner
of the policeman was rough, his tones
were sharp ; bnt it was only a manner
and a tone. The New York policeman
is a professional man. His business is
adopted for life, and familiarity with
the conditions in which he moves ren
ders him decidedly businesslike. As
for the men, those who were jerked out
of the line like calves in a cattle-yard,
simply hung their heads and shuffled
away like calves. Those who were ad
mitted to the station-house and or
dered about moved dully and mechan
ically, as if they were rather helpless
than stupid, and had made up their
minds to pay that price for a lodging
without complaint or resentment.
They were new to such a place. They
were not tramps or professional lodgers.
Seven ia ten were such men as one is
used to seeing about tho wharves, or
carrying dinner pails homeward in the
uptown streets at supper t me. They
were unskilled laborers, with here and
there a man not so easy to place a
countryman, perhaps, or a man from
a distant city. They Btood with their
heads up and their eyes moving, to
take in everything around them. The
Gorman patrolman began at the head
of the line and asked for recruits for
the workhouse a new departure in
lodging-room practice.
"Do you want to go 'way ?" he asked
of each. "Do you want to go 'way?
Do you want to go 'way ?"
How these unfortunates understood
him I don't know, for I had to have
his meaning explained. The fact was
that the Department of Charities and
Correction has determined in order to
relieve the distress and pressure for
lodging room, to send to the work
house on Blackwell'a Island all New
Yorkers of several years' residence who
have no homes aud are willing to leave
town for the winter. The strangers
are to be sent back to the places they
hail from.
"Do you want to go 'way?".
"No, sir."
"Do you want to go 'way?"
"I don't mind." It was a longshore
man who spoke.
"No, sir;" "No, sir;" "No, sir,"
said others in monotonous succession.
Then a second man, who might have
long been a truck-driver, said he,
"didn't care." And a third one, a
young fellow, answered, "Yes, if you
please." There were boys iu the line
at least two lads of seventeen or
eighteen years badly off, but yet bet
ter placed than if they had ten cents
with which to get into tho average
lodging house, where thieves aro made
as if they were factories for turning
discouragement aud poverty into crime.
"What do you want to go to the
Island for?" I asked the man who had
been a longshoreman.
"Well, sir, what else can I do?" he
replied. "I have no work and no
money and no home. I buried my
wife five years ago, and I have no
children. I've been hero twenty-five
years, and I understand 1 can be took
care of for the winter till times is
better. "
Some one slipped some silver in his
hand for tobacco on tho Island.
Harper's Weekly.
The Stamp Collecting Fiend.
"I know a stamp collecting fiend,"
said Earl Becker, "who never tires of
disputing the correctness of the oft
repeated statement that used stamps
have no value, and thot tho million
stamp charity story is a myth. He
carries around with him a writteu offer
of $100 for 1,000,000 stamps and shows
it with great glee. Any man who
wants to get rich should avoid filling
an order of this kind, if ho gets one,
becauso to collect 1,000,000 stamps it
is ueceesary to secure more than 800
a day for ten years, without even rest
ing on Sunday. To get this number
daily would take at leaxt half a man's
time, unless he happened to have ac-ct-M
to the waste banket of a large
linn, aud for his reward he would get
just 810 a year, waiting, however, ten
years for pay day. Under theno cir
cumstances it seems pretty safe to offer
8100 for 1,000,001) stamps, for no one
acquainted with principles of arithme
tic would be very likely to seriously
consider the proposit'ou. St, Loui
Ulobe-Democrat-
THE HUM MING TOP.
The top It hummrth a swiwt, swoot song
To my dpnr little boy nt play
Merrily slngoth all day long, j
As it splnneth and splnneth away.
And my dear little boy
He Innghxth with joy
When he h Buret h the tuneful tone
Of that busy thing
That loveth to sing
The song that is all his own. "
Hold fast the string and wind It tight,
That the song be loud and clear ;
Now hurl the top with all your might
Upon the banquette here j
And straight from the string
The joyous thing
Boundnth and splnneth along ;
And it whirrs and it chirrs
And It birrs and It purrs
Ever Its pretty song.
Will ever my dear little boy grow old,
As some have grown before?
Will ever his heart feel faint and cold,
When he heareth the songs ot yore I
Will ever this toy
Of my dear little boy,
When the years have worn away,
8lng sad and low
' Of the long ago, -As
it singeth to me to-day?
Eugene Field, In Chicago Record.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Sisters of Charity Faith and Hope.'
Puck.
Political platforms are commonly
built of deal. Puck.
A low voice is an excellent thing in
woman also a low hat.
A coat of mail The letter-carrier's
livery. Philadelphia Record.
A forced laugh should never be con
founded with a "strain of mirth."
When money talks, even the purist
does not Btop to criticise its grammar.
Puck.
When a good idea strikes a musician
it is only proper that ho should make
a note of it. Buffolo Courier.
He "I think Miss Fairleigh is a
dream of beauty." She (spitefully)
"Dreams go by contraries." Prck.
The huntsman who brings home the
antlers proves that he has been able to
get a head of the game. Elmira Ga
zette. Dinks "Was Smith's purpose of
whipping the editor carried out?"
Dauka- "To; but Smith was." Buf
falo Courier.
Clairo "How extremely simple that
gown was Miss De Vere wore at the
ball." Marie "Yes; almost idiotic"
Detroit Free Tress.
"Serves mo right," said the drnm.
"I thought I could keep tight and
never fool it and here I am boaten at
my own game." Truth.
It isn't always the stenographer that
takes down the Congressman's speech.
It is sometimes the orator on the other
side. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Hicks "What is that horrible
stench; gas escaping?" Mrs. Hicks
"No-o-o;cook was out shopping for
perfumery again to-day. Puck.
There is one thing queer nbout stairways,
And not in the lerat Mt new ;
A man will llml a croaking step
When he comes home alter two.
Chicago luter-Oeean.
"Harduppy tells mo ho never de
stroys a receipted bill." "No; he's
more likely to have them framed and
hung up in his parlor as curiosities."
Tit Bits.
Uncle George "I trust, Henry that
yon are out of debt?" Henry "No,
I haven't got quite so far jis that ; bnt
I am out of everything else." Bostoi
Transcript.
"Mrs. Grit has a constitution like
iron." "What makes you think so?"
"Her husband has been troubled with
dyspepsia for cightoeu years." New
York Press,
The editor who is always foeling the
pulse of the people is not really inter
ested in their heart-beats. It is his
own circulation that he is looking
after. Lifo.
"I wish," said a railway passenger
m a bunch of comics were dropped in
to his lap by the train boy, "that these
peoplo would quit poking fun at mo."
Washington Star.
"Maudy, did you read that notice
on the counter, 'Your choice for fifteen
cents?' " Maudy "Land sakes! yes;
but it looks like an awful price to ask
for them clerks." Chicago Inter
Ocean. Visitor "Tommy, I wish to ask you
a few questions in grammar." Tommy
"Yes, sir." "If 1 give you the sen
tence, The pupil loves his teacher,'
what is that?" "Surcasm." Texas
Sif tings.
Yubslcy "You say you wouldn't
marry any but a womanly woman, but
what is your idea of a womanly
woman?" Mudge "One who would
think I wastho smartest man on earth."
Indianapolis Journal.
A lady asked an astronomer if the
luooti was inhabited. "Madam," he
replied, "1 know of one moon iu
which thero is always a muu and a wo
man." "Which is that?" "The honey
moon. " Journal Amusuut.
Doctor "I left directions that theso
powders should bo taken before each
meal and only two are gone." Wife
"1 know ; but you see cook is taking a
vacation, and we ouly have one meal a
day." Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Friend -"Are you happy?" Spirit
(through medium) "lVrfectly so."
"Can you statu what ha pleased you
most since you left us'" "The epi
taph on my tombstone. It both uunues
aud delights ine." Tolas Siftiuge.
Glibby "A man can never make
anything out of politics unless he's a
hog." Gal)ly "1 don't kuow. I've
been iu politics a good ileal. " tilibby
"Aud never made auything? Oh,
well, there are always exception, you
know."--Bobtou Transcript.