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Tho farmlands of th!" country lira
estimated to bo worth 813,279,252,
G19. A prominent Guatemalan official
unid that though war between Gnnto
niulo ami Mexico might bo dolaycd
for year, it vrai sure to oorae.
Tho IYoriu HoniUl snys it is almost
impossible for tho average American
miutl to comprehend bow CaHiiuir
I'erier, with n Balnry, as Trosidont of
the French Republic, of 8300,000 a
year, could miilto up his mind to ro
ign. According to Iho figures of Chiof
'Engineer Tarsal, of tho Now York
City Rapid Transit Commission, tho
cost of tho proposed eloctria railway
. under Broadway will bo $1)0,000,000,
exclusive of expenses for right of way,
damages to ltiiKlinKn, cto.
Tho proportion to buila a memor
ial bridge across the Totomoo Bivor,
connecting Washington City proper
with the great Arlington estate and
National Cenutery, is again before
Congress. It is hoped by tho Invent
ive Age this motter will bo given tho
serious consideration its importanco
merits, bucn a struoturo is needed,
and that it should be a magnificent
piece of engineering monument to
the genius of the present day goes
without argument.
Tho cigarette youth merits almost
any treatment that will squelch hi.
fatal habit, believe. Tuo Tathflndtr.
The Infest method, that of denying
him admission to the pnblio fchools
unless he gives up smoking has been
employed in a Missouri town. This
sort of ostraoism may bring pretty
effoctivo influenoo to bear through tho
parents. But may it not cause some
tubborn youngsters to go the other
way into deperate paths ?
We have in this country many
churches with very large member
hip, some of them numbering over
2000. But ia Europe the oburohe.
boast of many more members than this)
2000 being as . rule but fair-sized
congregation. There ia one ohuroh tn
St. Tetersburg, Rossis, numbering
nearly six thousand souls. The larg
est membership, perhaps In the world
is that of ohuroh in Eltorfleld. in
Rhenish Prussia, which has over six
thound. The congregation has six
ptstors and two ohurohes, while
'third church is in oourso of erection.
SoTeral members of the famous Krum
tnaoher family of preachers have been
pastors at that churoh.
i
A remarkable trial has just ended at
Bucharest, Hungary. Two boys, one
aix years and the other fourteen, were
charged upon their own eonfession
with attempting to drown child two
years old. Their dofense was that the
long drought had to bo terminated,
and that the orime for whioh they
were on trial was the only successful
method known to accomplish the end.
An explanation of this curious defense
is that ihe children of the villages in
times of great drought are made to
'throw 'the clay figure of ohild into
the water. The boys threw in the
child merely because they had no day
Sgure. The elder was sentenoed to
two years imprisonment and the
younger returned to his mother for
chastisement.
In bis speech in the United States
Senate, at the acceptance of the Web
Bter statue, Senator Morrill, of Ver
mont, spoke of the fashionable garb
worn by "Black Dan" whon he dined
with him in Washington in 1852.
"Air. Webster," said the Senator,
"appeared in his blue coat with gilt
buttons, light buff vest, low shoes and
white silk half-hose, and led the con
versation most happily, whether
grave or gay." This was the custom
of the great American statesman a lit
tle more than forty years ago, a
period wbioh can be recalled by hun
dreds of thousands of our living oiti
zeus. What would be thought of any
man, even a Webster, who should ap
pear thus dren-.ed in our time? Would
he not be an objeot of ridicule? asks
the San Francisco Argonaut. Tho
clothes of the Americau people have
been getting plainer and duller right
straight along for over a hundred
years. Look at the costumes of
Washington, Adams and the other
great men after peaoe had been won
through the Revolution. Look at the
rich and gay dress which was worn by
men who could afford it when our
own immediate sires trod the laud.
Then look at the black and white
dress of fashion in the banquet hall
in this nupioturesque aud blustering
age. It is lovely woman alone who
dares to make a display of colors,
frills, flowers, fringes, spangles,
jewelry and ornaments ut this diuuiul
time.
THE UN3EEN.
When eyes am bright with hopn, tho skies
are blue,
The seas are mothor-o'-poarl, the world Is
fair;
Bunshtno falls sweet ou drops of llnminil
dow,
And fnlrlns dwell iu flower bolls everywhere.
Whon eyes are dim with tonrs, tho skies nr
gray,
Tho boos aro foaming floods, tho world In
oold;
Sud mists creep down and shadow all tho
way,
And ovory face wo moot seems strangely old.
But when tho eyes aro closed to outward
sights
In Sloop's dear dreamland, glories moot thoir
gaze;
V.Bions of hopo-llllod nouns and love-fllled
nights,
Of light ayo radiant, made, of rninbow rays.
Thou, whn they look within, tho realms of
thought
Lie all outspread what has Wn, what shall
bo;
Mountain and plain Into right foous brought,
"Tho Unseen," say you? Nay! what we bout
see'
Tho Inward sight Is true, and cloar aud
strong;
Ago dims It not; no blindness comes with
tears:
For timo is short, eternity is long.
And souls are made for aeons, not for years.
Chambers's Journal.
AN OLD DICTIONARY.
ET HELEN POUHBST GRAVES.
ES, I know," laid
Aunt Nabby, in a
voice about as cheer
ful as the croak of a
consumptive raven.
"Tho family is all
broke up, and every
thing is scattered,
And the furniture
was Bold at auction,
Such a thing never
would have
at home!"
happened if I d been
"I dare say not," said Mr. Well
wood, tapping the feathery tip of his
cigar against the Japanese ash-reoeiver.
and thinking secretly what a fortunate
tniug it was for the amicable settle
ment of the Wellwood estate that Aunt
Nabby "Abigail Maria" her name
was written in the family record had
not been at homo.
For she was a yertiable thorn in the
aide of her relations this querulous,
ill-tempered, domineering old lady,
' "Not that I oare for the old chairs.
and tables, and bed-quilts," went on
Aunt Nabby, knitting energetically
away at the silk mitten whioh never
seemed to grow any larger. "Samuel's
wife was a dreadful poor bousekeoper,
ana lumgg was most used up, any
how. But there's one thing I'm de
termined to have!"
"What is that?" said Mr. Wellwood.
more in compliment to Aunt Nabbv's
sudden stop than put of any active
curiosity on tne enbjeot.
; . "The old dictionary," said Aunt
Nabby.
'What! that old thing?" said Mr.
Wellwood.
"Why, it's the edition of 1810. and
all battered to pieces one oover gone,
ana nan tne loaves out!
"No matter." said Aunt Nabbv.
rescuing her ball of silk from the paws
oi me irreverent kitten : "1 want it
And I mean to have it. And I want
you to help me get bold ot it, Mat-
tnew.
"I don't think it will be possible
for yon to find it," said Mr. WeJlgood,
thoughtfully.
"But I will find it!" said Aunt Nab
by. "I must find it."
"Why?" point-blank demanded Mr.
Wellwood.
"Because," answered Aunt Nabby,
"I want it for a family relio. I hain't
got nothing to remind me of Samuel's
who. Ana mat a wnat 1 ve come on
East for to get hold of the old dic
tionary. I'm goin' out to Felt's Point
to-morrow to see Squire Sadler he
was the lawyer that settled the estate,
what there was of it to settle and
he'll maybe know what became of the
old dictionary."
"I don't regard that as especially
likely," said Mr. Wellwood. "How
should he know?"
"There ain't no tellin' what's likely
and what ain't," said Aunt Nabby,
resolutely.
And here the subject was allowed to
drop. But when Aunt Nabby had
gone up stairs to bed, with a pitoh
plaster in one hand, for her back, and
a tumbler of boiliug hot water in tho
other for her digestion, and a box of
nervine pills iu one pocket, and a
bottle of corn curerin the other, Mrs.
Wellwood a shrewd, sallow-complex-ioned
little woman, who had all thiB
time been darning quietly away at a
basket of stockings in the corner
looked up at her husband with quick,
intelligent eyes.
"Matthew," said she, "what does
this mean?"
"1 think," said Mr. Wellwood,
"that Aunt Nabby has some sort of
method in her madness this time.
And it is not for any mere sentimental
association that she wants to get hold
of the old dictionary."
"I remember it well," said Mrs.
Wellwood, thoughtfully. "A queer
old book, with the edges bulging out,
tho title-pago gone, half the cover
torn oft, and a round blank ring on
the other half, where littlo Tolly once
set down a tic-out of hot salvo. Do
you suppose, Matthew "
"Aunt Nabby knew your Aunt
Walkor, Samuel's wife, as she always
culls hor--botter thau any one elBe,"
interrupted Mrs. Wellwood. "She
was an ecobutrio old soul. We were
all surpriHod, if you recollect, at there
being uo money saved up, noue de
posited auywUore, Depend Upou it,
if there was any money to savo "
"It was in that old dictionary!
pried Mrs. Wellwood, dropping; her
darning needle. "Aud Auut Nabby
Knows it.
Mr. Wellwood nodded his head, and
smoked harder than evor as he stared
into the lire, as if seeking from th
red embers couuboI and advice.
"Whore is that dictionary," said
no.
"Goodness only knows!" despair
ingly sighed Mrs. Wellwood.
"Try and think I" eagerly urged
ner Husband.
"Perhaps Mrs. Grubb would know,
said Mrs. Wellwood. ".Sho packed
all the things that were left, aud
looked nu the house."
"Write to her," said Mr. Wellwood
eagerly. "Oh, no that would only
tie uselessly nrousing suspicion 1 U
there yourself. Sarah. Ask her t
corao hero and make a visit."
"What! Mrs. Grubb i"
"Yes, Mrs. Grubb."
"But, Matthew, nho is such a dread
fill old bore !" pleaded Mrs. Well
wood.
"Never mind that," said Wellwood
impatiently, Hinging his cigar stump
into tho rod-hot coals. "Only think
or tuo fortune that may possibly re'
ward our efforts I Sarah, we must get
uoiu oi tnat dictionary.
So Airs. Wellwood went to Mrs,
George Grubb, aud courteously in
uitod that lady to make her a visit,
Mrs. Grubb accepted promptly,
She had always wanted to visit the
city, and here at last Whs a golden op
portuuity. She brought her little
nephew and her two tall girls with
ner.
"I know yon didn't specially invite
em, Sarah Anu, Bftid she, "but th
dears will so enjoy tho museums and
the park and the Brooklyn Bridge,
and all that sort of thing; and they
won t be no more trouble tnau three
kittens. There never were such good
oniiuren I
The three youug Grubbs were some
thing worse than a pestilence. Mrs.
Urubb was nearly as bad. And, at
the end of a week, Mrs. Wellwood felt
herself fully qualified to enter a luna
tio asylum.
But on the last day, whilo George
waa smearing himself with bread and
butter and honey in the kitchen, and
the two Misses Grubb were pounding
desperately away on tne piano, in imi
tatlon of the hand-organ man outside,
Mrs. Wellwood ventured to put the
fateful question whioh had so long
trembiea on ner lips.
"The old ditchnery!" said Mrs.
Grubb, who was not over particular
regarding her pronunciation. "La,
roe I What would any one want o
that old trash ?"
"Well, nothing much." hesitated
Mrs. Wellwood. "But Mr. Wellwood
ia rather a bibliopole "
"A which?" said Mrs. Grubb,
witn one nana back of her ear.
"A oolleotor of old books." ex
plained her hostess.
"Humph I" said Mrs. Grubb,
soratching her head with a knitting-
needle, "it 1 was going to have
books at all, I d far aud away rather
have new ones."
"Tastes differ," said Mrs. Well
wood, with a pang, as one of the piano
chords snapped resoundingly and
Master George's voice was heard be
low in load alteroation with the cook.
"But where a the old dictionary?"
"Lesbia Field has got it," said Mrs.
Grubb. "Mrs. Walker's gTandnieoe
don't you know? Leopold Field's
girl, bne it factory haud, up to Poke
Hollow a dreadful likely girl? Soon
to be married to Zeke Hamersley."
Are you sure oi it? " said Mrs.
Wellwood.
"About a widdin'? Oh, yes ! Zeke's
folks, they set a deal of store by
ijesoia.
"No, no," interrupted Mrs. Well
wood "about the dictionary."
"Sartin sure," said Mrs. Grubb. "I
see Lesbia pick it off the floor herself,
when I was a-paoktn' the woolen
blankets that Mrs. Seeder bought at
auotion. Says she, 'I am t goin to
hev the ditchnery that Auut Hanner
thought suoh a deal of sold for old
paper,' says she. 'Til keep it myself.
jus' to put me in mind of Aunt Han
ner and Uncle Samuel. And she
wrapped it in a bit of old calioo I
remember the very palm-leaf pattern
on it and took it away, under her
arm. What is it, Georgie, darling?
The hired girl won't give you no more
honey? Never mind I Wrs. Well
wood'll givii you some damson pre
serves, I know."
As soon as Mrs. Grubb departed a
period of time which Mrs. Wellwood
began to four would never arrive she
paoked a little traveling satchel to go
to "Toke Hollow" aud see Lesbia
Field, a relation with whom she had
hitherto very little acquaintance.
ijesbia was at home a bloouuna
lass, with oheeks as piuk as ruses, and
sparkling black eyes and she wus
evidently much puzzled to aooount
for this unexpected notioe on the
part of her city relation.
But Mrs. Wellwood, while making
herself as agreeable as possible, kept
her eyes vigilantly on the alert, aud
was rewarded at lust.
For there, on the top shelf of a lit
tle, glass-frontud oorueroupboard.
was the old dictionary itself, bulging
loaves, missing oover, aud all.
"Oh, that darling oldreho of antiq
ty I" cried she, nervously feeling
of the twenty-dollar bill in her pocket
with which Mr. Wellwood had in
trusted her the last thing. "Auut
HhuuuIi'b dictionary! Oh, Lesbia, I
must have tuut !"
"Well, isn't it fnnnv?" said Lesbia.
laughing over the chicken she was
stuiling with bread-sauoe for dinner ;
for pretty J esbia was cook, ohumber
maid, waitres and nil in that parti
cular ebtubliuhment. "I had a letter
from Auut Nabby Wellwood. yester
day, about that dictionary. She
wuuts it. She's coming to-day to see
about it."
"But promise it to me," said Mrs.
Wellwood, coaxingly. "Dear Cousin
Lesbia, Mr. Wellwood is so anxious to
obtain it for his collection of antique
publications."
"Oh, it isn't old enough to bo of
value as antique!" said Lesbia, who
whs "honest onontjh."
"But he has set his heart on it,"
pursued Mrs. Wellwood, growing
more earnest, as she heard the rattle
of wheels in tho distance, and beheld
through the tioy-panod window a
dopot wagon, bringing to the scono
no other than Aunt Nobby herself.
"Do let ma have it, Lesbia 1"
Aud she placed the twenty-dollar
bill, coaxiugly, in Lcsbiu's hand.
"But I f li all bo cheating you," said
Lesbin, looking at the bill in amoze
raeut. "Do let mo see Aunt Nabby
abont it first !"
"No, no !" said Mrs. Wellwood, as
Auut Nabby's voice was heard with
out, in high disputation with the
driver ns to whether a coin she had
given him in payment was genuine or
not. "Give it to me now ! Aud here
is my sealskin cape ; you wore just ad
miring it. I'll make you a present of
it. Lesbia a wedding gift, dear."
"You are very kind," said Lesbia,
with a radiant face. "And if you
really care Jor the dictionary "
And so it came to pass that tho dic
tionary was safe iu Mrs. Mutthew
Well wood's possession, when Aunt
Nabby bustled in, full of the iniqui
ties of drivers, the inconvenience of
traveling, aud the threatening twiuges
of her annual rheumatism.
"What!" she cried, ns , her eye
caught sight of the fat volume in her
niece's lap, "you've got the diction
ary, after all I But of course you'll
let mo have it, Sarah Ann?"
"Certainly I shall not 1" said Mrs.
Wellwood, exultantly. "Mr. Well
wood has sot his heart on possessing
it."
"And I've just sold it to her," add
ed Lenbi'a, ns she assisted Auut Nabby
to untie her bonnet strings.
The old lady heaved a deep sigh.
"Wal, it don't matter so muoh,"
said she. "The maiu thing was to
rind the dictionary. And if you'll just
let me copy out the recipe for mak
ing waffles, Sarah Ann, tbat's pinned
on the page W- first of the W's, you'll
see it'll be jest as good as if I had it
myself."
"The rooipe for waffles I" cried Mrs.
Wellwood. "Was that all you wanted
of it?"
"That was all," said Aunt Nabby,
hriekly. "Samuel's wife, she was a
dreadful good hand at waffles, and she
never would give nobody the recipe.
But I knew where she kept it, and I
was always tryin' to get ot it. And if
you'll just let me copy it out "
Mrs. Wellwood crew pale. The
coiling of the little, old-fashioned room
seemed to swim around her.
Was this the end of the dictionary
mystery? Had she entertained the
Grubb family for ten mortal days,
had her piano broken, her china
craoked, her nerves shattered for this?
Had she paid twenty dollars, a seal
skin cape and her traveling expenses
to Poke Hollow all for a recipe for
waffles?
The buzz of conversation went on
all the same, and Mrs. Wellwood re
covered at ber leisure. She returned
to New York that afternoon, carrying
tne old dictionary, although Lesbia
endeavored to induce her to remain.
by the promise of waffles for tea, made
after Aunt Hannah s famous recipe.
And when Mr. Wellwood disoovered
that there were no thousand-dollar
bonds, nor hundred-dollar bank-notes
hidden in the dictionary nothing
but denuitions, ink-blots, and one or
two cooking-recipes pinned to the
pages, he indulged in execration more
deep than loud.
"It s all that meddling old cat's
fault! said he, referring, doubtless,
to Aunt Nabby. "And I'll nevorhave
her in the house again !"
And he never did. But all that
didn't restore th) twenty-dollar bill
and the sealskin cap. Aud innocent
Lesbia was the only one who reaped
benefit from th ) transaction. Satur
day Night.
The Rat's Sest Exploded.
Rats are the cause of a great deal
of annoyauce to those who live in tho
mountains, and inauy stories could be
told of their deviltry. The latest
comes to us by letter from Red Lodge.
John Andrews, of Dilworth, accom
panied by a oowboy, ou their way to
the mines of the Clark's Forks,
topped at a c.tbin owned aud former
ly used by Shelby Eli Dillard, tne
journalistic miner. In the fireplace
was a mountain rat s nest. Fire was
applied to this, aud in a moment a
territio explosion took place. Both
men were knoked down, and wheu as
sistance came soou after from a man
following them they were nuable to
move, burgioul and medical assistance
wus immediately procured, and it is
believed that both will reoover. It
seems that the rats had procured from
some source or other a number of ex
plosive caps, suoh as are used by min
ers, aud deposited them iu the nest as
they are wont to do with everything
bright. Buzeman (Montuua) Chron
icle. Sufficient Trout.
Rolioff, a) Russian man of letters.
had been implioated in the conspiracy
t 183 and sentenoed to be bunged.
He was launched from the fatal ladder.
when the rope broke and he was
thrown to the ground, severely
bruised, but conscious. He picked
iiuself up and said, quietly, "They
cau do ncthing in Russia, not even
twine a cord properly." It was ous
tomary in Russia to pardon the oou-
emned after a similar fiaaoo, but ou
llelift's words being reported to the
lute Czur Nioholas and his pleasure
emanded, herejoined, "Trove to him
that he is wrong." Aud they did.--Detrot
Free Trea
SCIENTIFIC ASH INDUSTRIAL.
Storm warnings wore first given
early in the last century.
A Washington doctor is now adver
tising to cure failing memories.
It is said thnt men working in
livery stables are exempt from cholera.
Aroraatio trees aud shrubs of many
Varieties are said to destroy malaria.
Sulphur baths for horses are being
arranged at a cost of 810,000 in
Baden, Austria.
It is estimated that tho atmosphere
of Mars is one quarter as extensive as
that of the earth.
A scientist has calculated that a
single pair of rabbits, if all tho young
were kept alive, would in fonr years
multiply into 1,274,840 rabbits.
A man in Bremen has inveutod n
kind of "oil bomb" for calming tho
waves, which can be fired a s'.iort
distance. There are small holes iu
them, allowing tho oil to run nut iu
about an hour.
The earth's attraction of gravity
is stronger in oceanic islauds than in
the interior of continents, a result, it
is supposed, of the great cooling of
the crust under the seas, tha average
density being thus made greater than
on land, notwithstanding the light
ness of the water.
A Connecticut physician who has
examined 4000 pairs of eyes reports
that sixty-five per cent, of them re
quired glasses. That, however, is
more a matter of opiniou than of
science. Thousands of young people
are now wearing glasses who might
have done better without them.
Compressed air is used iu Taris for
all purposes, from running clocks to
operating dynamos for electric lights.
The central station furnishes air at a
pressure of seventy-five pounds to the
square inch. It is sent around the
oity nnder the streets iu pipes, and is
sold to customers by meter, just as
gas is.
Some time ago the city of Law
renoe, Mass., discovered that its death
rate from typhoid fever was higher
than that of any other town iu New
England. After an investigation of
the cause the water supply of tho
place was filtered through saud, and
the mortality from the disease has
fallen from forty-three to eight in six
months.
Coffee has been found by a Gorman
investigator to possess marked
germicidal properties. Tnre coffee
of the ordinary strength in which it is
utilized as a beverage killed cholera
baoilli in three hours and typhus
bacilli in twenty-four hours. The
anti-baoterial substances seem to bo
developed in the coffee bean by the
roasting process.
It ia to the manner in which dif
ferent colors are absorbed or rollected
by a body that its oolor is due. If
white light falls upon a red rose bush,
the red alone is reflected from the
flower, the other colors being ab
sorbed. The green leaves, on tho
other hand, absorb the rod entirely,
and reflect nearly all the green light.
A rose in green light or a leaf in red
light would appear absolutely blaok,
for in each case the light which tho
object can reflect is absent.
The Balr Book.
It ia said a new feminine fad in the
West is that of keeping whut is culled
a "hair book." This interesting ar
tiole is supposed to contain a lock of
hair of eaob football player who bus
in any degree become famous on tho
gridiron field. The firBt young lady
who is known to have commenced
such a collection is Miss Hellene Will
is, of .California. Some time ago Al
bert Hall, captain of the football team
of Butler University, received a letter
from Miss Willis, asking for a lock of
bair from each of the members of his
team, to be accompanied by their
autographs, and explaining the uuus
ual request by stating that she has a
large acrapbook, in which are placed
the looks of hair and autographs of
the most prominent players of tho
Tjast season. This fad is ilutiiruriius.
Luxurious as the hair of the football
player ia, he must in time become
bald if he is very popular aud all tho
ladios of his aoquaiutunoo nndertuko
to scrapbook his head. New Orleans
Picayune.
Heavy-tirade Locomotives,
Two big locomotives have been
turned out of the Suheneotady Loco
motive Works, in fact, tho largest aud
heaviest ever built at the shops.
These engines are for the Central Tu
rn Do Railroad, aud are to bo r.sed in
heavy mountain work. They have
four pairs of drivers aud two pairs of
truok-wheels. One of these eugiues
weighs 173,000 pounds The tender
weighs, when loaded, 03,800 pouuds,
and carries 1000 gallons of water and
twelve tons of coal. The boiler is
seventy-two iuohes in diameter and
contains over 300 lluos. Its size cau
be imagined from the fact that a six
foot man can stand upright inside ot
it. The cylinders are 22x28, and all
other dimensions are iu proportion.
Albany (N. Y.) Journal.
A Remarkable Mouth.
February, 180tt, is referred to by
astronomers as "the mouth without u
full moon." Juuuury aud Murch ol
that year had each two full moous,
bile the intermodiute mouth did not
have oue. Says a writer iu an astrono
mical journal, referring to this fact :
Do you realize whut a rare thing in
nature it was? It has not happened
before since the beginning of the
Christian era, or probably siuoo the
creation of the world? It will not
occur again, aooonliug to the compu
tations of the astronomer royal of
England, for how long doyouthiuk?
Not until after 2.500,001) years fioiu
1866 J" Atlanta Constitution.
TUE "SWEATING SYSTEM."
MANUFACTURING READT-HADS
CLOTHING IN TENEMENTS.
The Garments Worn by the Majority
of Americans Made I'nder Condi
tions Revolting to Humanity.
THE "sweating system" is prac
tically the process by which
ready-mado clothing is manu
factured in tenement houses.
The materials are out and "bunched'
for each garment by the manufacturer
They are then distributed in large lots
to special jobbers, known as "con
tractors," each a specialist iu his line
ror example, one muxes coats, an
other cloaks, another pmitnloouF.
whilo some make special grades or
sizep. With this distribution tho
wholesaler washes his hands of tho
business, his ignorance of how and
where his goods aro actually made ur
being as ideal as lutentionnl.
Not far from one-half of tho goods
thus distributed are made up iu the
contractors' factories. As to tho other
half, tbe contractor sublets the work
to a "sweater," whose shop is gener
ally one of the two larger rooms of a
tenement flat, accommodating from
six to fifteen or twenty "sweating
employes men, women and children
In the other large room of the fiat are
his living, sleeping and cooking ar
rangemcnts, overflowing into tho
workroom. Employes whom he boar, Is,
who eat at their work and who sleep
on tho goods, frequently complete tho
intimate connection of home and shop,
One fourth of onr ready-made and
somewhat Tjf our custom-made cloth
ing are thus put together.
The people engagod are those whoso
families aro most prolific, whofe sense
of cleanliness is least developed, who
comprehend no distinction between
living and work rooms, whose prom
iseB aro dirty to the point of filth, and
who are found iu the most densely
populated portions of the oity.
But this is not the worst. Single
lumiues, inhabiting one or raoro
rooms, generally having a. family as
subtenants, or a number of lodgers or
boarders, subcontract work from the
tenement "sweaters." Thus by tene
ment "home-workers" are made an
other one-fourth of our ready-made
clothing and a much larger proportion
of our children's clothing. The homes
of these home-workers include many
of the most wretched in which human
beings exist among ns. The condi
tions of squalor and filth are frequent
ly such as to make even inspection
impossible, except by one hardened to
tne work, while tne quarters in which
this work is centered are those into
whioh tend the most helpless of our
population.
As to wages in this "tenement
homo-work," there is nothing which
can properly bo so called. The work
is secured by underbidding of tone
ment eweat shops, and is generally
piece-work, one process ot which may
be attended to by the head of the
family, and the rest by its other mem
bers aooording to their capacity,
Those engaged are so generally com
pelled to accept rather than to choose
their work that it is taken without
reference to the possibility of gaining
a livelihood therefrom, the miserable
workers earning what they can, beg
ging to supplement it, and dying or
being supported as paupers when they
fail.
A large proportion nearly, if not
quite, one-half of all the clothing
worn by the majority of our people is
thus made under conditions revolting
to humanity and decency, and such as
to endanger the health of the wearer.
It is in children's clothes that tho
worst features most thoroughly
characterize the manufacture. But
the same conditions so far apply to all
grades of clothing that not auy cau be
considered as exempt. Tho use of
ready-made goods has become so uni
versal that no community, and almost
no family, is free from danger.
Better laws, and more ellicient and
tactful admiuiiitrutiou of law, can do
much ; organization of those em
ployed can do more, the slow better
ment of oouditions as tho mass of
foreign immigration is better digested
by our population will do most of all.
But for many years to come, iu our
great eeubourd cities especially New
York the "sweating system" will re
main a reproach to humanity, a breeding-nest
of disease, uuleis oue of two
remedies shall be appliod.
The Federal Government can throt
tle tbe evil by absolutely prohibiting
inter-State commerce iu articles of
clothiug manufactured uuder other
conditions thau such as may be ap
proved by law. Or the wholesale
clothiers iu each of our cities can
stamp out the evil promptly, if they
reully oare to do so. Tho first alter
native is repuguuut to our theory of
nou-interfereuce by the Federal Gov
ernment; the second is thus far op
posed by the general policy of the
manufacturers themselves. Harper's
Weekly.
(Jreat Meal ot the Conlederacy.
The Great Seal of the Confederacy
is now iu the State House at Colum
bia, S. C. It is made of polished
bronze, aud is about three inches iu
diameter. Ou oue side of it is uu
equestriau tttutue of Wunhiugtou, uud
on the other the inscription, "Ooufed
cratu States of America, 22d February,
lHlii. Deo Yimlireee." It uh made
iu EugUud, uud reached Richmond
only a few days before tho evacuatiou.
Iu the general coiifusiou that followed
it was overlooked, and aftcwurd fell
into the hands of William Earle, of
Washington, D. C, by w hom it wus
presented to the State abovu men
tioned iu 1SHN. New York Dispatch.
Tho ayo-uyo of .Muiiuuscar is re
markable chietly lor its eye-, which
are larger, ii. proportion to its mzc,
thun thosu of uuy other creature.
BAIN AND SHINE.
Can't have sunxhln" at! the time
(bit to eomo a rain:
The dry land - it gits thirsty.
An' the mountain nn' the plain,
They ery out fer a drop to drink,
An' nil the wiltin' (lowrs
Is glad to seo the rain fall free.
An' freshen with the showers.
Can't liavn sunshine all the time:
Olad fer raiu to fall:
Fills tho wells nn' make the dolls'
Look fresh an' spnrkliif all.
The raindrop makes tin' roses grow,
An' if the rivers rise.
They water all the hind, an' gi
Jest singiu' 'neutli tho s'iiosf
Can't have sunshine all the timer
I llko a rainy day;
Fer that's the time fer readiu' bookj
Or makin' fiddles play.
To home, or toth" groeery store,
I'm happy when it rains;
Fer they nee.l it nn th" in Miiitains,
An' it's weleomo on th i plains!
Atlanta Constitution
HUMOR OK THE DAY.
not and heavy A cannon ball.
Boston Courier.
Sooner or later pride is sure to Btep
on dynamite. Rum's Horn.
The mistakes of the past nre tho
signboards of the future. Tuck.
"Our engagement is quite n secret,
you know." "So everybody tells mo."
Tall Mall Budget.
Content is the feeling wo experienco
the first week after our salary has
been increased. Tuck.
Nobody can help noticing tho short
coming) of tho man who is always bo
hind time. Dallas News.
Japan has found iu China what
might be termed a hasty pudding.
New York Mail and Express.
My friend's conceit usually consists
in his inability to recognize the high
er order of intelligence. Tuck.
Misfortuue seldom gathers friends;
and when it does they all stand around
and say, "I told you sol" Tuck.
Do not keep a good movement on
hand when it should be put on foot
without delay. Galveston News.
Would you keep a woman's lovo
Vhn you earn it,
Bore's a way I'll tell you of
Don't return it!
Judge.
Scientists beliove it impossible for
a man to have a double. If this is so
how can a man be beside himself?
Life.
A girl is a good deal like a problem
in mathematics You don't always un
derstand her wheu von get her.
Puok.
He who wrote, "All tho world loves a lover,"
Fulled to note an exception sad;
'Tis that the lovor is but seldom lovod
liy his dear loved one's dad.
Buffalo Courier.
New Boarder "What's the row up
stairs?" Landlady "It's the profes
sor of hypnotism trying to get his
wife's permission to go out this even
ing." Tit-Bits.
A barber is the easiest person in tho
world at meetiug people. Go into his
shop almost auy time aud you will
find him scraping an acquaintance.
Rookland (.Me.) Tribune.
Benevolent Old Man "Here's a
quarter. So you were seut to Yule
when quite young?" Ragson Tatters
"Did I say clat? I meant jail; I
can't pronounce do 'j' " Philadel
phia Record.
Old Mr. Goodfello "Littlo boy,
can yon tell me tho way to the ferry?"
Gomin "Yassir; jus' follow tho
street along where you boar the team
sters usin' the wust langwidge."
Harper's Bazar.
There were 190 lynohings in this
country last year, but they didn't get
around to tbe man who beats time to
the musio by tapping on the rouuds
of your chair with his foot. Rook
land (Me.) Tribuue.
First Footballer "Did Halfback
go around aud wallop that editor who
wrote 1 about 'The Brutality of Foot
ball?'" Seooud Footbullor "No."
"Why not?" "Hulfbaok is in the
hospital." Good News.
Bobby "Our dog's name is Cioero,
but siuoe my brother has been to col
lege he calls it Kiekero." Johuny
"1 s pose that s the way they pro-
uounoe it at college. They ro all
crazy on football." Good News.
"Yes, young ladies," said the pro
fessor, "Tallus Athene, the Grecian
goddess of wisdom, wus unmarried."
And from that day tho goose won
dered why those girls wouldu t study.
It was a bad break. New York Re
corder.
A German scientist says that 3000
years hence there will be one mau to
every 220 women. This is a loss
gloomy outlook thun if there were to
be 220 women after every man a
condition that alieady exists at the
summer resorts. Norristown Herald.
As the train drew up at a couutry
station on the Southeastern Railway
a pleasant-looking gentleman stepped
out on tha platform an 1 inhaling the
lresU air, enthusiastically obsorved to
the guard: "Isn't this invigorat
ing?" "No, sir; it's 'Cutorhum," re
plied the guard. Wonder.
Aged Tortoises.
Tortoises live to a eroat aco. In the
library at Lambeth l'uluoe there is the
shell of one of these animals which
w as brought to thut palace iu the year
ooo uy Arcunisiiop ijaud, and lived
ill the year 1753 wheu it wus killed
by the cold Wtother, a laborer iu the
garden having dug it up from its win
tor retreat uud neglected to repiuoe
it. Auother was placed iu the Bishop
of London's gardeu atFulham iu 1&1S.
This died a natural death iu 1754. Tho
ages of the tortoises wheu first placed
iu these gardens wero not known.
New York Ob&ervvr.