m m m B, F. BOHWEIER, VOL. XLV. UTTTTT r TTrrTTTV t ttitt . m . . THEOL&S00. 1 0r the apd ttr away. ir rt Id toe rche ned eardfn wall. bre the sun looked through an Ivy Jereen. ib leaves of lllae were large and gren? Hsre's many a mosque with Its ring of Anil pillared temple and stately town, And thf Holy River goes slowly down. Tilt "D I' "eking Ms saffron bowers. But my heart tiles far to an abbey (tray, ft here the dead sleep sweet and the living; pray. yellow cbsmpak that Buddah loves, tnd lotus shedding her odorous breath, nt the orange evening Is lonely as death, W ith no suna save the croon of the mourn Ine doves; Jo love'v Ireland this hour I know low merrily homeward the mowers go. The da(sld grass with the dew Is pearled, And the cattle stand where the shades are long, Ibe cuckoo's calling his summer song. The aiue'.us rings o'er a hawthorn world; And evrs I knew where the lovellghu be, Are growing m Isiy with thoughts of me. 0, swallow, swal'ow, that land Is far. And a human body's a prisoned thing. But you will flyaxay In the spring, Toour h 'me where riseth, the evening star. The Blackbird's singing In some green brake, Aod my heart Is breaking tor that song's sake, fzcnanfe. VIRTUES REWARD. Two young ladies were seated on the jwrch of the "States" at Saratoga. Kach had tipped her parasol over her nose at just the right angle to cast a becoming shadow and neither wag at all interested in the book she held be fore her. Presently one of them. Miss Benton, closed her book and yawnednot a man was in sight. Then she got up and shook out all the little frills and ribbons on her gown while Miss Mil ler watched her with lazy interest. "1 have been wishing for the last ten minutes," she suiil, when the ribbons were adjusted to her liking, "that there wits some way of preserving our good times. To condeuse and can them, for instance, as we do peaches. Now, this summer has been perfect; but it has gone almost as completely as if it had never been." ' How delightful," she went on dreamily, 'it would be to reproduce it some winter evening, as one does the peaches." 'As far a9 I can make out," said Miss Miller, "you want to eat your cake and keep it, too." 'Come," she added, springing up with sudden energy, as Miss Benton shook her head, "we'll go at once and have ours taken. I'll give you mine and you shall give me yours. . 1 couldn't bear to think, when I part from you to-morrow, that I had left you without the comfort of a tintype." So t)f y sauntered slowly up the street, flopping to look in the 6hop windows, till they came to a kind of tent made of boards and canvas. On the outside of it hung a frame tilled with tintypes of all the people who, during the summer, had sighed to see themselves as others saw them. Miss Miller stopped to inspect these with much interest. "They look like they might be good likenesses," she said, "only the people seem to have been very bad subjects. They are evidently excursionists from the backwoods." When she entered, after an exhaus tive survey of the productions of art outside, she found that Judith had already made arrangements with the young woman in charge to take their pictures. The young woman produced a young man with very thin leg9 and a very large head, which made him strongly resemble a caricature, who In turn produced a camera and seated them in front of It. "Look pleasant," persuasively. "Don't move," threateningly. Then he pulled off a little lid, walked leisurely to the door, ran back suddenly to clap the lid on and say with a flour ish: I "That'll do, ladies; that's all." ' They go up feeling dazed and wait ed till the young man returned from tia next room. He came in on a run, as if he had been a long distance, and presented them with four pieces of tin from which they gazed fixedly back at themselves. Miss Benton looked rather pensive, is if she was still thinking of the un deserved Summer, but Judith was stated with her head on one side and i defiant, devil-may-care expression that, for a tintype, was wonderfully captivating. They expressed themselves as well pleased , each bought oue and walked out leaving the other two on the counter. ' When they reached the hotel Miss Miller wrote on the back of hers "To Katherine Benton, from Judith Miller August, 1888." Miss Benton wrote a similar but reversed inscription on tiers; then they exchanged pictures nd next day parted with many prom ises to visit each other during the Winter. The morniug they left, the tintype man coming into his shop found their pictures on the counter and remarking that they were good specimens went Outside and abstracted two of the ex cursionists from the f rame. The void hus made he filled with Miss Miller Md Mis Benton. Mr. Stephen Howard had been spend ing a month canoeing among the Thon Jnd islands. Business called him to New York, but he had still a 'ew days to spare and he determined to spend them at Saratoga. He wa rather a fine looking speci men of humanity, with a comfortable wcotnc and plenty of brains. Partly Bohemian in his tastes and partly a so Jty man a combination, his ladv Wends declared, which made him ex tamely interesting. The proper thing to do at Saratoga to go before breakfast to the spring Tou consider the lesat disagreeable or he most beneficial and imbibe. If you are a constant patron of this place of many waters you will have Tour favorite spring which you are ""ling to maintain with your life is JPerior to all the others. Conversa- never flags at Saratoga for this 2n. Each one is fighting for his her favorite. f 11 r 1Ioward, not being a Labitude, flowed the crowd and then strolled "P the stj eet to look about him. due time he came to the board rDdthe frame o tintypes. He "fPPed to look at them and began "wmsic&lly wonderinir if thev anuear- - J mrnonplace in real life as in XM.t picture or wcere iney came xrom, what were their histories, where they had gone to. As his eye travelled slowly down the frame he started to find Katheriue Benton gazing pensively back at him. ' "How in the world," he murmured, addressing the picture, "did you get You and 5"our friend in your stylish attire spoil the monotonous effect produced by your neighbors. I like to see things harmouious and I will rescue you, Miss Benton, from your present conspicuous position." Oncoming out of the shop he met some friends, slipped the tintypes into his pocket and thought no more about them till he was seated in the train the next day. After he had read the morning pa pers, tried to take a nap and been disturbed by a baby, iu the next aeat behind, pounding him on the head, ha dug his hands moodily into his pocket and looked straight before him. Something with a sharp edge cut his finger; then he remembered the tintypes. "IU very good for Katherine," he, reflected. "I'll ask her to let me keep it when I see her. I wonder who the other girl is she's remarkably pretty. The face was full of possibilities and he went on building up a history for It till suddenly aroused from his reverie by an exciting conversation carried on behind him in piercing whispers. The baby had long since disappeared and two ladies had taken its placa. "Good heavens I Betty, where do you suppose he got it. I never laid eyes on the creature before in my life and there he sits gazing at my picture as if we were old friends." At this nothing short of superhu man effort prevented Mr. Howard from turning round. With wonderful self-control he remained quiet and waited for further developments. Betty murmured something sooth ing and then the irate maiden began again : "I wish I could get a good look at him. He looks like a gentleman, doesn't he, Betty? at least his back does. But the idea of a strange man having my picture is simply unbear able. "I should think it would be the fact you minded," Betty mildly suggested, "not the idea. Besides, he need never know it is your picture unless you talk so loud he bears you." "I suppose they imagine I'm deaf." thought Mr. Howard. "Betty, I must get a good look at him. I'll tie on this thick blue veil to walk down the car to get some water." A short pause and then a young lady of medium height and good figure walked sedately past. After she was again seated she delivered her opinion. "He's not exactly good looking, Bet ty, but evidently a gentleman." Both were silent for about ten min utes and then this fair unknown begap again: "This veil is simply suffocating; I must take it off. Betty, I'm going to put these shawls and bags up in the rack they're in the way." "Now," thought Mr. Stephen How ard, "Now's my chance." He stood up at the same instant she did and offered his assistance. She accepted his help without a word and he wm careful to show no signs of recognition. After that she held a long conversa tion with Betty too low for him to catch, but he heard her order the lug gage to be sent to the "Windsor Hotel and he had seen for himself that the tintype in no way did her justice also that the name on her bag was Miller. As soon as Mr. Howard reached hia room he sat down to think out the sit uation. Obviously the thing for him to do was to return the tintype. But how? To be sure, now that he knew her name he could leave it at the hotel for her ; but then he was dis tinctly conscious of a desire to give it to her himself. After a while this desire changed and he felt he would much rather know her and ask her to let him keep it. This he determined to do, and after hard thought sent the following tele gram to Miss Benton, whose journey ing, be discovered while at Saratoga, liad taken her to Newport : To Miss Katherine Benton, Biggs Cottage. Newport Telegraph me Immediately an introduction to your friend Miss Miller. Will write expla nation. Stephen Howard. By nine o'clock he received this an swer: To Mr. Stephen Howard, Union club, New York Miss Miller, allow me to present my friend. Mr. Stephen Howard. Katherixb Benton. Armed with this telegram and tin type he at once started for the Wind sor. The whole affair had been so like an adventure and so out of the common run that he almost dreaded to meet the girl for fear she would spoil all by proving stupid or uninteresting. She came in almost immediately with his card and the telegram in her hand. Of course she had no idea that Mr. Stephen Howard was the man who had possession of her picture, and, as she said afterwards, it seemed as if she stood before him for a week gasping and saying "wclll" In reality it was not five minutes bo fore they were both laughing and ex plaining and interrupting each other to wonder at the strange course of events that had brought them together. "And the telegram." she said, "was such a clever idea. Where did you get it?" "That's a very unkind remark," he replied. "Don't you think I look cap able of originating 'such a clever idea?' Evidently you don't know me. That stroke of genius was evolved from my inner consciousness. I wanted to know you. Something had to be done al once, for you might leave town at any moment. I rose to the emergency and telegraped." Before he left he found that she ex pected to be in town a week. She and her aunt (presumably "Betty") were waiting for some friends with whom they were going to White Sulphur. That her home was in Washington, and it waa not till he reached his room that ho remembered he had not return- ed the tintype. He sat up till late mat nigm wnunB to Miss Benton. Dear Rattier ini I am flrmlv convinced you should have been a soldier. You possess the very quality to make you shine in the profession of inns-prompt obedience. I can never sufficiently thaak tou for the THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND JJiun, UUJIAIAUUUINIY. TKNNA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1891. I way you answered my telegram ana Tfully pkicvuk uk rutin ii must nave cost you) toot to have first wired : "Why do yon want ! to know Miss Miller F WTien did you hear ui nerr- ana a Dost of other questions. You see virtue la always rewarded in thi end, so I am writing at the verv moment and In the middle of the night to gratify your curiosity. ' The day after you left Saratoga I arrived, and while strolling about came face to face with your ladyship In a tlntvpe. You were hung out with a frame full ofj other unfortunates as specimens of the higH class of work done within the establishment Having an Idea that you would not be altogether pleased with your position if yon) knew of It, I rescued you and also one wh seemed to be a kindred spirit. On the train, next day, while razing la rapt admiration at yourself and K. 8., 1 became suddenly aware from certain Indigo iiaiit sounds behind me that no lesss a person, than the original kindred spirit had the next aeat back. I at once taw In this remarkable coin, cldence the finger of fate. The linger most emphatically pointed towards au intro duction. By careful attention to what was said be-' alnd me I found that her name was Miller and her destination the Windsor. As soon as I arrived I sent you that re markable telegram, and there, my dear Katherine, you have the whole story up tot date. No t The childlike simplicity of my nature will allow me to conceal nothing. I have Just spent two hours with bar and 1 find her, as the novels say, "all my fondest fancy painted," or in plain English, an extremely pretty and attractive girl. Farewell. Now that I have given you enough material to build up a wonderful romance I will leave you to Its construction. Only don't blame me If it never comet true. Blame your kindred spirit. Yours truly, Stephbn Howskd. The next afternoon he took her out driving and he never remembered en joying a drive so much. He told her the names of the people they passed and what they were noted fof. Mostly men who were so rich they were ob liged to stay in town all summer to look after their money. He noticed that nearly all of them looked admiringly at the girl beside him and it pleased him he felt as if her beauty, in some way, reflected great credit on himself. He made some excuse to see her every night and often in the daytime. The few New Yorkers she knew were out of town, so he had her all to him self. Alas, that good times should end so quickly? Oue night when he called he found his week of bliss was out. Aunt Betty informed him their friends had arrived and they were to start for the "White" in the morning. She hoped they would have the pleasure of seeing him in Washington next win ter, which hope her niece demurely echoed. Next day Mr. Howard found the city exceedingly hot and stupid. He left undone that which he ought to have done and spent the morning at the club trying to extract amuse ment from the other loungers. About seven o'clock a brilliant idea occurred to him "By Jove!" he exclaimed, "I've for gotten to give her that tintype." Two days after her arrival at the "White" Miss Miller was standing on the hotel piazza, when she saw Stephen Howard, her embodied thought as it happened, slowly sauntering towards her with the air of having been there all summer. She fully erpected him to say "Why, when did you come?" just as first ar rivals always do to later ones. Ha only shook hands, however, and said, 'good morning," as if his being there was the most natural thing in the world and required no explanation. "Do you spend all your time plan ning surprises of various kinds for your friends," she asked, "or am I specially favored?" "Now this isa very pretty compliment delicately conveyed," he auswercd, with a laugh. "I assureyou, Miss Mil ler I appreciate it. It's not every day I get told my presence is a special fa vor." "I don't think I meant to convey any such impression. Would you like me to show you some of the beauties of the place," now that you are here?" If you mean the beauties of nature the inanimate nothing I should like better." Nevertheless by the time they had reached the extreme end of the lawn they sat down by mutual consent under one of the trees. "It is pretty here," she remarked. "It seems a pity to go any further." A long silence followed, broken only by the sounds from the hotel, softened by the distance to a murmur. "Miss Miller" he began abruptly, "I came down here to bring you back your tintype." She looked at him in smiling aston ishment. "That was very kind of yon ; but couldn't you have mailed it? I am sorry you thought it necessary to take so much throuble." Miss Miller, like the rest of her sex, was more or less a hypocrite. He had laid the picture on the grass before him and she held out her hand for it. He took no notice of the action. "I wonder if yon would give it to me," he said, "if I asked you for it? But I'm afraid the picture wouldn't satisfy me now that I have known the original. I would like the picture aa a surety of the reality. Do you think, Miss Miller, there is any chance of my longings ever being gratified? May I keep the picture?" They were in full sight from the hotel, so from all appearances they might have been discussing the weather. But that night Katherine Benton at Newport received another startling telegram. It read aa follows : Congratulate me. Lucky fellow. Have won original of tintype. S. Howard. "Disgusting 1" exclaimed Miss Ben ton as she tossed it from her. "He ac tually counted the words." The Freneh manufacture a paper linen so cleverly that it is almost Impos sible without examination to detect the difference between It and damask; and even to the touch the articles made of papier llnge are very much like linen, and are used for many purposes to which ltnen is applicable. Petroleum wells have been discovered among the coal beds of Alabama. A machine for making shoe strings out of paper is a recent Philadelphia (Penn.) invention. A Cincinnati (Ohio) child has been reclaimed from idiocy by the operation of craniotomy. Chicago Is about to add to its attrac tions a steel chimney, 250 feet high. A locomotive is running on the Chi cago and Alton road which consumes its own smoke. SIAM AND THE SIAMESE. Siam is a kingdom about which b good deal has been written, but of which very little is Generally known. Up to a comparatively recent period it waa chiefly associated in the minds of mott Englishmen with the famous Siamese twins. It was not nntill 1857 that, after several failures, a treaty of friendship and rommeroe waa negotiat ed between England and Siain. In the following year a transient interest in Siam waa aroused in the British public by the arrival of ambassadors from Bangkok, and their reception by the Queen, to whom they brought magnifi cent presents. Since then, the de velopment of commercial relations be tween this country, especially between British India and. Siam has been con siderable, and political complications, to be adverted to further on, have created a Siamese Question The area of Siam proper is more than twioe that of the United Kingdom, and the native population ia not much above six mil lions. In large sections of it the chief tropical products flourish, valuable timber abounds; and the only partly developed mineral wealth of the coun try is immense. Iu one respect the Siamese have been fortunate. The Sovereigns have often been far super ior in energy and enlightenment to most Asiatic potentates. The late King of Siam and his successor have done what they could to introduce the forms of Western civilization. Bang kok, the capital, has the electric light, tramcars, and Government offices of European architecture, and the pres ent King has also shown himself a re former of abuses, especially of the worrt of Siamese social evils, the uni versality of serfdom and the preva lence of slavery. Further and much needed reforms are expected from him, but even were the political and fiscal administration of the kingdom very much better than it in, the Siamese, a light-heartod nation of Buddhists, fond of amusement, and accustomed to fre quent holidays, are little fitted to de velop the great resources of their coun try. Its internal trade is chiefly in the bauds of Chinamen, who, with the Malays, add some millions more to the estimated population already stated. Railways are being constructed, and Europeans have been encouraged by the polioy of Siamese royalty to settle at Bangkok, and to develop the ex ternal trade of Siam. THI SIAMESE QtTEEX. Political complications, we said, have created a Siamese question Its origin and development call for some explana tion. Siam, it will be seen by a glance at the map, occmpies the largest part of the Indo-Chinese peninsula, and has on the West British Burma as it was before the annexation of Upper Burma. While Upper Burma remained under its old native rulers the whole breadth of Siam lay between the British Burma of that period and the French posses sions, for such they really are, in An nam. Collisions between the English and French in the Indo-Chinese peain snla were, therefore, very unliklv. But the annexation of Upper ' Burma has brought the Eastern frontier of onr Hnrmese territory considerably nearer the Western frontier of the French possession, which has procured for M. Jules Ferry the epithet, meant to be opprobrious, of "Le Tonquin ois," and which nsed to he known in England chielly as producing a bean runeb prized by a certain olass of snnff tnkers. Between these two frontiers, French and English, lie districts in which is a nnmerons mixed population of Burmese, Chinese, and Malays, a British Protectorate over whom is recognized by the Kirg of Siam, but whose future is not yet fixed. Further north are the British Shan States, an annexe as it were of the new British province of Upper Burma. Now through the territories just mentioned runs southward, and then through the whole depth of the peninsula, the Hi ver Mekong. Eastward of the Mekong Valley, and between it and frenoh An nam, is a rune of mountains which have been hitherto re garded as the western limit of the French possessions. But the French, it appears, have revived an antiquated and obsolete claim set up by the old Kingdom of Cambodia (to which their possessions in the Indo-Chinese penin sula once belonged). They are aaid to be rapidly advancing westward to wards the Shan States in the north and the British protected districts in the south, so as to bring their new frontier within dangerous proximity to ours, with the further disadvantage of in creasing our difficulties in the way of delimitation. The immediate object of the French is to make the Mekong their boundary on the west instead of themountain range which formerly separated them from that river and its valley. They are surveying the terri tory between the Mekong and Annam, and contemplate starting steamers on it. New the Mekong, after entering Siam proper, makes further sonth a detour to the east, and in the rough triangle thus formed by it, with the mountain range on its east, lies the distinctly Siamese province, Juang Prnbang. Thus, if the Frenoh estab lish themselves on the Mekong, they not only become dangerous neighbors of the Empress of India, but they seize a province undoubtedly Siam 'a. It is impossible to say where the work of annexing Siamese territory thus begun will end, if a check is not promptly and decisively given to it, and this, with the danger of a French approach to the Burmese and other adjacent territories of the Empress of Jndia, constitutes the new and important Siamese question. A BOTAL HAIK-CTTTTNO IS SI AIT. Siamese children have their hair cut only onoe, and this important cere mony takes place at the age of four teen. Up to that time youths of both sexes have their bends closely shaven with the exception of a small topknot, the cutting of which indicates that the child has attained his majority, and is no longer in tatu pupillari. The tonsure of the Crown Prinoe of Siam took place on the 22nd of January of this year, and the event was cele brated with a degree of splendor and eclat hitherto unequalled in the his tory of the country. Siam, from its warm and sunny climate, and the char acter of its people, is particularly well adapted for pageant and pantomimio displays. The Siamese are passionate ly fond of sparkling jewelery, bril liant colors, and panoramio proces sions, and throw themselves into the work of organizing these demonstra tions ith a zeal and earnestness which Elodding Europeans reserve for dull nsiness alone. An ever-changing variety of procession and triumphal marohes waa keel np for seven days, and when to these were added the glamour of purely Oriental surround ings, picturesque brilliancy of colored temples, fretted and golden ninarets. and, above all, an unparalleled diet lav Af dazzling diamonds, jewelery, tsJ embroidery, it was excusable if tbe on THE ENFORCEMENT looker really began to woncer if the whole scene was not merely a fantasy of the vecrVed brain. On each of these days the king and his son appeared in costly State robes, and from a highly -adorned pagoda witnessed fantastic danoea, and the in terminable processions whioh defiled past. On the morning of the fourth day the top-knot of the Crown Prinee was out oft by the King personally in one of the Palace buddings, in the presence of the hihtest nobility and officials. Immediately after the cere mony the Prince was carried in a gilt palanquin, supported by nobility, to a representation of Mount Mem the mythical abode of the Ood Siva whioh had been erected in the courtyard. At the base of this hill he was copious ly bathed by the King and Princes with sacred water, and afterwards con veyed to the top, on whioh was built an elegant and richly gilt pagoda. Here the young Prince was invested with a crown and sword by hia royal father, in presence of the only two nobles who were privileged to be present, and some religions performances were gone through, the exact nature of whioh is kept secret. The ceremony was con cluded by the Crown Prinoe being car ried iu state thrice round the base of th hill. 'I he close of the week was further celebrated by a grand ball given by the King's "younger brother, Prinoe Ong Noi, to the European community, which the King and Crown Prinoe at tended in person the three Ministers in residence here those of Great Britain, Germany, and the United States also had the unique privilege of participating along with the Siamese nobility in the rite of anointing the Crown Prince THE WEATHER AND THE MONTHS. This is what the old folks thought If January be warm or windy, March and May will bo cold. A warm day on the first of the year was always thought unlucky. Says a sixteenth-century poet of the North Country: If January kalends te summerly kj. 111. be winterly weather to the kalends o' May. A wet February was regarded ks the precursor of a fine Summer, and it was the custom in some of the old oonntry churches to "pray for rain" about the feast of St. Valentine. One old coup let runs: All the uioutas In the year Curae a lair Februeer. and there was a saying in the Vale of White Horse, in Berksihire:-"When gnats dance in February, the farmer becomes poor." There is an old proverb still current among the farmers in the Staffordshire moorlauds: A wet March makes a sad harvest. According to a tradition familiar throughout provincial England the weather at the beginning and at the end of March is always transposed. Hence the old saying, "If Maroh comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb." Very lucky, according to the old farmers, was a cold April. In Worces tershire, about Pershore and Evesham, they say prophetically, if not poetic ally: A cold April The barn will fill. A warm May is considered bad for health. Hence the old savinir in Bed- ( fordbhire: A hot May makes a tat churchyard. That the w ather in May is treacher ous a bright sun and a cold wind often bearing each other company is well known, and that old physician waa sagacious whoj used to say to his patients: Till May be out Chanae not a elout. Rain in June is deemed fortunate. In Shropshire, there is a well known saying: A good leak In June J Bets ali In tune. July is chiefly noted for the old tra dition about St Swithin's Day. St. Rwithln's Day. it tbon dost ram, For forty days It will emain : St. Swithin's Dav. if thou be fair. For forty days, 'twill rain nae malr. In the South part of Leicestershire, there's a saying that when it rains on St S within s day, it is the Saint christ ening the apples. The shepherds around Banbury say that when in August the wind has been south two or three days, and it suddenly grows hot, and you sea clouds arise "with great white tops like towers," there will be thunder and rain very soon. In September, the Scotch folk attach great importance to the weather on Holy Roodday. An old rbyme says: It dry be the buck's horn On Holyrotd morn 'TIs worth a klst of gold But It wet it be seen Ere Holyrood e'en Bad harvest is foretold. On the 80th October is St. Luke's Day, and often brings a short spell of warm weather which is known as "St Luke's little Summer." Ice and cold in November, are said to ensure warm weather about Christ mas, "if," says a Yorkshire proverb, "the ice bear a man before Christmas, it will not bear a mouse after," and the Buckinghamshire folk have a saying that there will be a flood at Christmas "if there is ice in November that will bear a duck." Thunder in December, is a sign of fine weather after. At Ooleahill, in Warwickshire, the farmers nse to say Christmas thunder Rich man's food and poor man's hunger. This means that fine weather at Christ mas is not to be desired, either on ac count of health or husbandry. So they say at Bewdley A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard which saying, however, is, like most other weather lore, not borne out by the returns of the Registrar-General, which if less poetical and romantic are much more reliable, and much more suited to the soberminded folk of this practioal nineteenth century. Frederick W. Seward, son of the late William H. Seward, has finished the biography of his father. He has been engaged upon the work a long time. The most prominent of the surviving Union generals are Schofield, Buell, Rosecrans, Butler, Pope, Banks, Howard and Slooum. Geobos F. Root, who wrote "The Battle Cry of Freedom.'' "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp," and "The Vacant Chair." is living at an advanced age in Chicago. Falling of the hair ia ths result of in action of the glands or roots of the hair, or a morbid state ol the scalp, which uay be eared by Hall's Hair Be-newct. OF THE IJVWS. A Victim of Coulidenre. A I stood otie delicious Spring day on the step of the Court House at Furgo, Dakota, now North Dakota, a homely and hay-seedy young man hip hailed up the walk, and, pausing Vu front of me, said : " Say, mister, I hev $"0." " Yes," I replied, curtly, and hardly naif in a tone of query. " An' I want tor know how to spen' it. 1 ain't no diinkin,' ner gaiubiiu ner immoral critter, any way." " Better seek out some of the poor people in the back alleys over yonder," 1 sneered. " Plenty of places in which to put an over-plus of money. They cau spend your $50 for you a sight better than yon can." " Er hull $50?" " Yes, er hull $30.' " But er hev ter mosey to home on er part uv it." " Ah?" " Yaas. Think I'd er better give all er it erway?" " No ; not under the circumstances." " Man said ter me this mo'hin' that if I'd give 'im $100, 'eed fine me er persition at $200 er week, sellin' books. Think I oughter take er position?" " Hardly." 'Nother man wanted me ter take er ticket in er lot'ry. Sure thing, $500 Cor $5 ; but I wanted advice." "I think you needed it badly." "Couldn't you put me onter a job?" "No." He pulled out a roll of $5 bills and Sou n ted them carefully. "Never wus iu er city afore," he remarked. "Doan know how to spen' this. How'd you spen' it?" "In various ways. You might get a good suit of clothes, visit the theatre nd " "Visit the thc-aye-tur? Thct's whut ur preacher says is the doorway uv '.he devil. No, sir-r-rl Clothes? I !iev clothes, haven't I? I'm not cer tain. Would you er advise me to hev more?" "Yes." "Well, I'll see two or three others, m' ef they say clothes, clothes It is." "As I was passing the Police Court next morning a voice called: "Mister 1" I went in. Standing and waiting a trial was my hero. His clothes were torn, bloody and muddy. He had a alack eye and a gory gash on his left :heek, while three of his front teeth were missing. "Mister," he whimpered, I hain't fot er cent. Can't you pull me though? Man advised me to go with him and I went. Got in er room, an' he kicked, an' gouged, an downed me, an' took 11 er my money." "Served you right," I replied, and itepping over to the desk I told the Police Judge all about the prisoner. He was discharged aud I loaned him mough to hie off home. II ambling an Aatocrat. The autocrat of the seaside resort is not the man with his millions, but the hotel cook. The clerk in the office nay imagine that he owns most of the iarth and the head waiter may feel that he has a warranty deed of the re mainder, but when you come ru,'ht iown to facts the boss of the kitchen is the boss of the ranch. He is the un seen power behind the throne to which Jl bow. At our hotel the soup had invariably been seasoned so high with cayenne pepper that not one out of ten could could taste it. The same was true of the devilled clams. One day I made i kick and in five minutes I had half a. dozen guests with me. We inter viewed the landlord and his reply was : "I have nothing to say about it. You must go to the chief cook." We sought an interview with that magnate. He was a colored man with the dignity of a Roman Senator. We made our complaint and he re plied: "I season dat soup an' deni clams to tuit my taste." "But it doesn't suit ours." "Can't help dat, sah." "We want less "Can't help dat "Do you refuse to make a change?" "I certainly do, sah. I 'lows no ody to tell me what to do." We returned to the veranda and went into convention. Every minute added to our numerical strength, and in a quarter of an hour we numbered forty men. Then it was unanimously Resolved. That If the cook refuses to use 'ess pepper we seek some other hotel. Delegates were appointed to wait on che landlord, and he replied : "Gentlemen, I am sorry, but I dare not interfere. Forty rooms were vacated, forty trunks packed, and then mine host wil led. He called in the cook, and though that individual attempted to stand on his dignity he had to wilt. By this time the excitement was intense, and had the forty gone they would have been followed by a hundred more. "Less pepper" was the watchword all over the house, and it meant a great deal to that landlord. We kicked, we aw, we conquered, and the next soup and clams exactly suited the popular taste. The cook is still the unseen power behind the throne, but he has skipped a cog and no one is afraid of him any longer. Detroit Free Press. Made Him Downhearted. "It always sort o' makes me feci sad and downhearted to read about the prodigal son in the Bible," said Farmer Silkens to his male offspring who was home on his Summer vacation. "Y"-a-a-s?" "Yaws," echoed the old man as his lips curled contemptuously, "he came back honorable and flat-footed, -I've done wrong an' I waut another chance.' " "Y-a-a-s?" "Yaws; he didn't come back to tho farm pizenin the very butterflies with the smoke from his sigereets au' say : 'Pops, ole boy, I'm dead broke; xmldn't you let me have a twenty to keep up my end with the fels at the ;lub 7 Not much he didn't. And the old man heaved a sigh and went out to feed the hogs. Merchant Traveler. Theodore Roosevelt wear a flannel shirt in Washington. His colleagues on the Civil-Service Commission have refused to follow liis example in this matter. Tuere is nothing whfch man so much hates as to be told the truth about himself. 80KB PAPEB. S0VEITIES. CHINtSE csa A Soto the many curiosities made from single piece of paper. I have seen boats, tea -cups, fish, frogs, and een a kettle in which yon could boil water. The greatest curiosity in my collection, however, ia. a paper Junk " made by a friend of mine out of a square piece of paper. It has sails, two seats, and a hold, and for the benefit of those who would like to " try a hand" at making one, I will endeavour to give a description of this simple yet inge nious toy. Take a square piece of paper (not too Ihlok. but of medium quality) and fold it in bail at the opposite angles, then unfold it A tod fold it again at the other opposite anf lea, aroduawig the creases as shown ia a. - Now take each corner and fold it in to ths aentre. at where the ereases cross, producing Bg. a. Ken turn the corners from the eentre back to the edge (fig. c) ; now take any two corners on the same side of the square (corners marked 1, 1) and fold at 8, a, so that the point 1, 1 ah all be directly in a line with the points S, 8 ; repeat this on the oppo site side, thes. unfold and repeat oa the two tomalniBf tides, leaving it in the form (old a nrm 3ALj 8 a on tbe dotted lines In o back towards the eentre of the figure, and pull tbe corners 1, t outwards, and fold the underneath part 9, towards the centre 3, producing ng. a ( repeal 7 an the other side and it will give you r, and by doubling this backwards you will have two boats, aide by tide, t By puffing the flap on th inside of each boat outwards (fig. o), and folding across the dotted Lines in fig. in the order of th numerals, you will hav a puree ; extend this by pushing ths centre piece downwards and vou will have a box (). Horn depress the aides, e , and turn th tower earners, a a, a, to the centre . at th oack or underneath, and you will have picture (fig. I); (old backwards across the C c A "O " ' 1 lotted line and you will hav t, and by pulling th ends a gently outwards you ill produce fig. a, or a Chinese Junk." Now raise the upper part of th deck, c C, snd you will have sails for your boat (l). A small piece of gravel placed in tne eentre ill do for ballast, and you will find that ths will sail moderately well in a light brseie. This may look difficult at first, but stick to it, and follow th instructions closely, and you cannot fail to set it right at last 'If at fir.. don't succeed, try, by, try Editor and Proprtetop. NO. .15. KEWS IN BRIEF. One of the commercial uovel'les of the Maine cou.it is a tloutiuj jewelry store. A man breathes about twenty times in a minute or twelve hundred times au hour. The wool production of Ohio this year will aiaouut to 20,000.000 pounds. The British War Oulc has given 30 000 worn-out helmets to the Salvation Army. The Simplou tunnel will need eight years and a half to bore, aud will cost $12,000,000. The area of Boston is set down by ihe s irveting department as including 23 707 acres. It Is estimated that the British mines will be exhausted !u less than 600 to 800 years. Tbe flogs of Mercer county, Penn sylvania, killed $3000 worth of sheep last year. British Iron and steel exports to America, Argentine and Europe show a serions falling off. Machlnerv Hall, at the World's Fair will be 1400 feet loug, and the sec ond building in tize on the grounds. The largest brick kiln ever lighted in Maine was one of 800,000 bricks fired at Fairfield a few days ago. Portugal has reduced tbe import duty ou wheat. That nation hopes to avoid an advance In the price of bread. Ex-Senator Tabor has sold the Foornian Mine, at Caribou, Col., to Leonard Oow of Scotland for $050, 000. Chicago's post oilice Is credited with doing more registered letter busi ness than any other post office In th Union. A document envelope that works like a telescope, adjusting itself to our paper or fifty, is a recent invention. 'Fortis" is a new explosive invent ed at Liege, France, said to be mere powerful than anything known up ttr date. An automatic machine which forms, fills and weighs packages and then seals them la used In many large establish ments. The progress of cotton cultivation in this country has advanced fromdoO, 000 bales in 1S30 to over 11,000,000 bales In 18y0. Fort Worth, Texas, has tbe artesian well that flows 804,000 gallons of pure water daily, tbe largest in the world. Within fifty miles of the coast of Japan a depth of more than Ave and one-quarter miles was reached without striking bottom. Frederick B. Didler, or Baltimore, has a modest olatin of $4,000,000 against tbe Chilian government for munitions of war furnished. The 124 miles between Newcastle, England, aud Edinburgh, which is done without a stop Is at present the longest run in Urnat Britain. The excessive amount of vibration caused by the propellers of some of the high-speed cruis is causes old sailors to become homesick. In the city of St. Petersburg, Rus sia, it begins to freeze at tbe end of Oc- tolier, and a general thaw rarely taker place before the beginning ot April. India ra'ses one bu-hel of wheat per head of her population, the United States over seven bushels lr head, and South Australia nlueteen bushels. By order of the German Emperor no more children In the empire will be bap'lzed with names that perpetu ate tbe memory of socialists or anar chists. -The population of New South Wales, Australia, according to the census re turns is, 1,134,000, exclusivaof Chinese, being an increase of 382,000 since 1881. Three steamers from Syria and Egypt recently unloaded at Marseilles, France, 400,000 ezgf, 107 casks of yolks of eggs, and 72o baskets of fresh toma toes. The export trade lu the Bahama Islands amounts to about f 2,000,000 an nua ;ly. Of the increase In this trade last year the United States gained 80 per cent. Tbe Island of Martinique, which was recently devastated by a cyclone, is the most beautiful island in the West Indies. It was there that the Empress Josephine was born. Patagonia is the most recent addi tion to the list of froren meat exporting countries. The country is said to be well adapted to the breeding of the hardier descriptions of English uiuttou sheep. Fifty-four families all tenants and employes of the owner live on a 50JO acre firm in Knox county. Ind.. aud a rPlHrge scbooluouse Is provided to meet tbe wants of their olive branches. Norway is bt coming observed as a country for sportsmen. Ot.e rich En gli hman has leased a tract almost as great as Yorkshire, which includes al moit every sort of shooting that the country affords. Electrical illumination has made astonl-hlng strides in I-ondon. There are now as many as 32o.OOO lamps in use, and the capital invested In the var ious plants amounts to $15,000,000. The cens'ts mpn found in the Unit ed States 14 a"0,750 bow. 2 2i.o32 mules, 16,019,591 cows,3ii,r75,041 oxen and cattle.,43,431,130 sheep and 50,C2 j.. 10C swine. The United States has been invited by Russia to send a representative to a conference to discuss the establishment of an international bureau for tbe ex change of intelligence about mercantile faduies. Good faith is tbe richest exchequer of Governments, for, the more It is drawn upon, the firmer it is, and Its re sources increase with itj payments. No man can become rich by never giving away anything. There are millions of taskmasters who never cracked a whip. If some of as would look up more we would see more sunshine. Sin is only limited by ability. A flea would kill an elephant If it rould. When everything el seems to be giving away, try standing on a promise. Wrong livlrjg Is caused by wrong thinking. The things which cause us the most trouble never happen. Bethlehem, Penn.r has the bilftt
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