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. bird rm' flTin "''-nt
4indwhl'rred in my par
verv. very wicked word
H beard r,,u 8?y' niy d,,ar-
ir, told me of snms nnnslity act
Wllcn he had s-en yu do.
id'h"W y.iu Homei lines grieved the hearts
Of parents Rind and true.
iri of h"15, dlmbedlent
Vmt often were at school,
Tno i did nt learn your lesions w
h'or mind your teacher's ruls.
Axf la! th! ltnle bird
He will not silenced be
R'U ft hlpers round In other eirs
Ihe thing he tells to me.
Tuen. litre children, all beware
01 what you and do.
So that th'.s little lurd can't tell
sues dteadful tlilugt of you.
Christian at Worn.
HAL OWEN'S DREAM.
BY TOBE HODGE.
It was the mmee pie that did it. Hal
vas certain abont that. He did not
feel well when he ate the last piece.
The day had been a very jolly one,
and the visit to Ben Morris at his
eonntry heme, a great success. N ow,
Hal was in bed with his head tied up;
the Doctor had been to see him; there
verj a bottle and spoon on the stand
by the bedside, which Hal declared
nude tle half-hours como eTery ten
minutes.
He made a face at them, and then
(but Ma eyes quickly, so that if the
bottle and spoon did make faces back
he wonld not see them.
but what was this he did see? Sure
ly he was awake!
' A frog came painfnlly np the cover
let, trailing his left hind leg and
supporting himself upon a crutch luade
from a forked twig.
Bowing, as well as he could, he said
in a solemn voice: "I have come to
yonr home for some bay rum. Chee-wng-chicketty,
how it hurts! No fun
to stont) brent Done jrive me some
bay mm chee-wug-chicketty ! to bathe
it with.
Hal knew by his speckled vest that
this was the frog he had stoned in the
null -poud. tie pitied him very mnoh.
asked him to take a seat, and started
to get him some bay rum. Just then
he was not a little scared at seeing a
very pretty snake, with yellow Btripes
on iu side, wiggle over the bed as
though its back whs broken.
.-ome of its bright scales were disar
ranged, and an ugly braise showed
plainly under them. It raised its head
with "dilliculty to look at him, with
bright bat pain-dimmed eyes. As it
oouiil not speak withont running out
Its delicate forked tongue, after the
manner of all snakes, it lisped some
what:
"I am the little houth snake that
yon struck to-day with a stick near the
kitchen door. I oame to ask yon to
plenthe lend me a whalebone to platbe
along my back nntil it gets well; a thin
one, plenthe, that will bend eathily
because 1 cannot move without wig
gling, and a stiff one, would be of no
more nthe than a poser.
"I am tborry that yon thought it
right to try to kill me. i re prejudice
mutht persons have against my rathe
us unwarranted. I will admit that a
few of my rathe are very poisonous
When they bite, but they never touch a
mortal nnleth in self-defence. ' The
rattlesnake always gives a warning
when he intends to strike.
"The puff-viper blows londly before
be bites. The coprer-bead keeps
thilent becanth he is blind when most
poisonous, and must not tell of his
whereabouts. All of them will ran if
Ton give them a chanth.
"II you will kindly look, you will
no tit h that I eould not bite if 1 wanted
to my teeth are too small. I have to
wallow mv food alive and whole.
do all of yon people a great deal of
Sood. I have tried very hard to keep
leyard and thellar clear of the roaches
ana insect j whioh you do not like.
"My conthins, the black-snakes,
oaten field-mice and yonng moles,
and thath help the farmer thave his
vegetables and crops. I cannot thee
hy you try to kill nth. Pleathe
think about it."
Bal felt that he wonld give almost
anything if be had not hurt the pretty
thing. Be determined that he wonld
not only get it a limber whalebone, bat
t sort strip of something to bandage u
on with. Here there came such a
twitter from the pillow that he turned
ill bead to see what the noise meant.
There were a score or more of birds.
of various kinds, bobbing politely and
all talking at onoe.
A plucky little English sparrow was
the first to address him. He carried a
Poppy flower in one claw, looped up
for a basket, which was filled with
mall bullets.
"We have gathered up and brought
Ton back the bullets yon fired at us to
day from your toy pistol. We are
very thankful that you did not hit any
of ns; but several of the ladies and
Children of onr families are so badly
frightened that they have had to stay
t home.
"We have come to ask if yon will
not please accept your bullets, and in
the fntnre shoot at. a mark or some
thing that will not be injured if you
kit it
"We were brought to this country to
at up the worms for you, and we teei
certain amnnnt nf nnde in doing our
duty. We cannot do it if we are chased
ay from your homes or onr lives put
danger. e confess that we chatter
good deal, but we are a sociable set,
nd have often heard yoa say that this
a tree country.
Hal felt decided! ashamed of him
elf; and still more so when a beauti
ful falad-bird. rirpfuutrl in bricht yellow.
with black wings, came forward and
infolded a roseleaf in which was a tiny
tg. Her eyes had a very sad look as
si m:
"Will yon not please give me a
"au piece of blue court-plaster t
When you took the eggs out of my
nest to-day to look at them this one
got oracked in some way. The shells
of my egKa are Tery thin. I make them
because I want the little ones that
re inside to have an easy time break
tog ont when they get ready.
"1 think I can fix it with a piee of
conrt-plaster; but allow me ask you,
on behalf of my friends the cripples,
the wrens, the humming birds of the
ooney-Bucklc arbor and all other birds,
to be verv careful when yon handle
their eggs."
rial at once offered to fix the egg
"mst If, and paint is as good as new if
h would wait a minute. He was leav
tog to get his glue-pot and paint-box
hen a piteons "mew"' stopped him.
There were the six kittens that Ben
Morris and he had had so much fun
with.
"It is only me, Mister Hal, onlv me
jnd Mia and Miaou (phit! pint! Tom,
J01'' pnll my tail; I'm going to speak
M you in a minute) and my brothers, "
td the meek little pussy.
lia, Miaou and mo like to play.
Th
ery much, bat we are not quite hard
enough yet to squeeze, and we do not
like to be dropped over th Um.kt.rc
we have four feet to light on, and that
makes it hart as just twice as muoh as
it would you, who have only two.
"Our good mother picks us up by
the back of the neck to carry as about,
but then she understands it. and you
do not. You ohoked me to-day until
my throat is quite sore (phit I Tom)
and Tom's is too.
"And please, sir, our tails were
neither made for handles nor corks for
bottles. I am sure of that, .lust what
they were made for I do not know
neither does mamma. Tom says 'play
things.' I know they are very much
in the way and a heap of bother. I
often forget mine, and leave it under a
rocker, where it gets tramped on.
"Won't you please handle us care
fully until we get our teeth, and our
claws are grown. Then we can take
care of ourselves me and Mia and
Miaou."
The kitten had made such a long
speech that quite a company had asv
sembled on the coverlet, all having
some favor to ask of HaL There were
several hundred hornets carrying their
torn nest to be repaired, and trying to
keep in a good humor, here, a oolony
of "bumble-bees" bringing their empty
honey-cells and helpless grubs to show
him, and asking for mercy in the
future.
There was a cow with a plaintain leal
over its s woolen eye, where it had been
struck by a stone. A rooster asked
that his long tall-feathers be returned
to him, because he could not balance
himself on the fence or on his roost
without them.
A flock of ducks begged that he
would never again chase them on dry
ianu, as me stuDDies nurt their webbed
feet, and not throw sticks at them in
the water, for they had four eyelids
apieoe to manage, aud it tired them
very muoh to dive so often.
Trusty, a noble, dignified-looking
shepherd dog, walked np the bed and
st down on top of the boy. He looked
very much ollouded and hurt. ".Hal, ,
said he, "I like fun as well as you do,
but I object to being taken advantage
of when I am blindfolded. I will sit
here, right where I am, nntil yoa
promise me that yoa will never again
tie a coffee-pot to my tail, with a pack
of fire crackers in it even if it is on
the Fourth of July."
Trusty's weight was so great that
Hal cried oat with pain. The ory
wakened him. He looked wildly about
him for ths strange orowd that had
been with him but an instant before.
It was nowhere to be seen. There
stood the bottle and spoon, and the
clock told that another half -hour was
up.
Hal thought deeply for a little while,
then said pleasantly to his mother, who
entered the room:
'Please give me my medicine. I
fuess the mince pie served me right,
t is abont the only thing I did not
hurt to-day, and it hurt me. I will
write to lien Morris just as soon as
get well, and tell him what I have
promisee the birds and things."
SOME WONDERFUL THINGS.
"Martin," said a wise grammar
school boy to his little brother of six,
"come here and tell me what yoa have
inside of you."
"Nothing." said Martin.
"Yes, you have. Listen. You've got
a whole telegraph stowed away in your
body, with wires running down to your
very toes and out to Your finger-tips."
"I haven't," said Mar;in, looking at
his feet and hands.
"You have, though, and that isn't
all. There's a big force pomp in the
middle of yon, pumping, pumping
seventy times a minute all day long,
line the great engine I Bhowod you the
other day at the locomotive works."
"There is no such thing"
"But there is, though, and besides
all these things, a tree is growing In
you with over two hnndred branches,
tied together with ever so many bands
and tough strings."
"That isn't so at all," persisted the
little boy, about ready to ory. "I can
feel myself all over, and there's no tree,
or engine or anything else, except flesb
and blood."
"Oh! that isn't flesh and blood; that's
most of it water. This Is what yoa are
made of a few gallons of water a little
lime, phosphate, aalt, and some other
things thrown in," said his brother.
Tears stood in Martin's eyes, but the
grammar-school boy went on: "And
the worst of it is, that there's ever so
many billion little worms and things
working in yoa all the time. . They are
called but where i Martin?"
The poor little fellow had ran away.
When his brother found him, he was
kneeling with his head in his mother's
lap, and crying.
"1 was only teaming him, mother,
and kind of getting up my lesson about
the body that we're to have this after
noon. I didn't think it would worry
him so:
The big boy kissed his mother and
ran away to school, w ile the little fel
low had a talk with mamma about the
wonderful things iuside of him.
Thb beginning; ot all wisdom is to
know one's sin.
Kr.tA wall & honse that is prosperous
roor, on.1 vnn will find virtllfl
uiuvug win, J . i
prevails among its women. Sophaclea.
Do not allow your dangnter to oe
fanvl,f lottor. hv a man. thouch he be
a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assist. The
saints are in heaven. Bisnop tstgoort.
Only so far as a man is happily mar
:a himcAlf ia htt fit for married
11DU fcv -
life, and family life generally. Jov-
ali' , i
Chbistianttt is the companion ot
i :i . -11 im AnnAila f Via nrftdla of
il L)t?t IT 1U AA " vvu.w.w
its Infancy and the divine source of iu
claims.
rrn Vi,!. ia trnrui tn ha dor a o an
1 nai w -u
not be done too soon, and if it is neg
lected to be done eariy it wm -qnently
happen that it will not be done
at alL
COURAGE,
Though the day be darfc and dreary.
Fierce the storm and rough the way t
Tho' thy feet be worn and weary,
Ana my neari o" iuun. b-j
Thouuh the flowers, pale and dying
Fall beneath the tempest's might.
And the wild clouds, madly flying.
Veil the sky and shroud the llnt:
Faint not thoush rude winds assail ya,
iLh nnt in the blinding rain;
Truth and courage still avail y.
For the sun will shine again.
Hone In this dark world of oun
... ....... II. ill.
ine huni inn niin' - i
Intlne to the budding flowers,
,ike an ancel on our way.
i' the storms of douot awaiting,
- . . i i . , 1 Iu Ami bar.
Pol
I
inn inr Clonus m ki - -V
i-cp life's ky. Its brightness Telling,
.Ike the rain, with blludlng tears;
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till.
ill. Ill llrtrKi. minify. . ' j'
. - . ,1 . ,ii Hi anil nftln ?
1.UVC 51111 umni'in will" f ,
Faith shall point thee to to-morrow.
THE OONSTITUTION-THE UNION AND
iWlYES OF UTAH'S SAINTS
(Wemen Wie Are Leadiag Spirits in tin
Moraan Church.
slaiy of them Are Barasat and Intelligent
Workers la th Salt Lake Hive "Aaat
Ziaa," Bsaa t ths Oeneral Orgaalsatiaa
of feller aaeiattei-Slmlaa Taylor.
The ladles of whom sketches are giv-
In this article are the leading wo
men of the Mormon church in Utah
to-day and in many Instances have
been leading spirits for years. It has
been often said that the Mormon
ehurch depends on proselyte from
foreign countries to sustain its strength
ret as a fact every one of the leading
women mentioned herein are native
porn Americans. Another character
istic of these women, which seems in
Itrange contradiction -to their lives
id reitgion. Is that they are all strong
advocates of women's luff rage and of
the rights of women in all phases of
life. Temperance also Is a favorite
lenet of their work, and among them
works of charity and benevolence are
the rule, although such works seldom
If ever extend beyond the members of
their own seoL Their religion is to
them first of all. and the system by
whioh its progress and spread Is at
tempted would do credit to any oreed.
From veritable Infancy to actual old
tge the laws and beliefs of the church
are constantly spread before their
faces and heid forth In the hourly hap
penage 6f their daily life. Were it
not for the circumstances that sur
round the life of a Mormon woman It
would be difficult to believe that she
was different from her christian sister.
Mrs. Zlua V. Young was born at
flTaterdown, Jefferson county, N. Y.,
Jan. SI, 1821. She was one of the
wives of the late Brigham Young, and
has always been prominent as a work
sr in the benevolent institution of
Ctab, and Is now at the head of the
general organization of the relief so
cieties of the church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, which is the formal
title ot the Mormon church. This
organization embraces the whole ter
ritory and is next to the churoh in In
fluence and authority. Throughout
Utah Mrs. Young is known as "Aunt
Zina." Her maiden name was Hunt
ington and her brother Domlnlck B.
Huntington was one of the most famous
L'te Indian interpreters in the Rocky
mountain regions.
Mrs, Young U one of the most amia
ble and monierly of women, with
Strong devoted ness to the principles of
ber religion, and essentially a leader.
In ths counoils of the church and the
relief society, of which she Is presi
dent, Mrs. Young Is noted for her
fluency of speech and the Impressive
earnestness with whioh Bhe addresses
an audience.
Helen Mur Whitney is one of the
ItrOngest characters of the Mormon
chdroh now alive. She is the eldest
laughter of the late President Heber
U. Kimball and his first wife Vilate.
Her husband was Horace K. Whitney,
on of one of the most famous and
able bishops of the Mormon church.
Mrs. Whitney, although well over 60
fears of age, is one of the most effect-
ive
writers ana speatcers in Utah
Her oldest son, Orson F. Whitney, ia
a Vilnlinn In Cult T fair ntttr onif imflaM. '
. " . tf
srea one oi me nnesi speaicers in mo
ohurch and a poet of no mean ability.
As one of a prominent family in the
shuroh Mrs. Whitney has no little in
fluence in Mormon circles. Her actions
and speeches denote strong intellect
ual powers and a desire to extend to
the utmost limit the principles of
which she is an able exemplar and
advocate. To her the church la the
jrreat aim and its extension her ambi
tion. Ira. Sarah M. Kimball is one of the
itrongest worann suffragists in the
Mormon church. Although over 63
?ears of age, she still directs the
affairs of the oldest relief society in
Utah, and so business-like and thor- (
oueh has been her management
that
the society owns its own buildings and
so. a nine f'"k---j ,
Her late husband. Hiram Kimball, was
ne of the foremost business men in
3ult Lake City, and her son is now a
uember of one of the largest banking
bouses there. As a woman s rights
advocate Mrs. Kimball has gained no
tittle reputation. Her belief is very
near the conclusion that man is the
inferior animal and woman his su
perior. Possessed of an intelligent ed
ucation and a bright mind Mrs. Kim
Ball wields not a little influence. She
is one of the chief assistants of Mrs.
You nf In church chartable work and
luccessful in all her organizations
through the executive ability which
the possesses in a marked degree. In
?p;to of the amount of society work
;h.it Mrs. Kimball does, few women
ire better known among the poorer
people and none give more freely to
aid distress.
Priacinda L. KunJ.aU i list
-' 'Hilt. K W.T-
i tma u. livsnvr. a i.l
In 12I&
She was ems ml the wives at th. .i,
Hebor C. Kimball, who was Erlgbanj
Young's first counselor. "Aunt Pris
cinda." as she ia called by men, woman
and children in Salt La Urn Citv. &u
though nearly 80 years of a;a, is one
of
wo most enmusiastlo suDDortera
ana aanerents or the church. She Is
the mother of Bishop Kimball of Rich
county, Utah. A woman of much ex
perience and extreme phylanthrophy,
Mrs. Kimball Is one of tho most popu
lar women In the church which she
supports so enthusiastically.
Elmlna S. Toylor, a wire of Bishop
H. Taylor, Is the president of the
young ladles mutual Improvement soci
ety of the Mormon church. This as
sociation la composed of the younger
women of the churoh, and Is intended
as a means of education and improve
ment to go hand In hand with the
tenets of the church, so that no matter
what the line of pleasure and study
pursued ths young women cannot lose
sight ot the cardinal requlrments of
their religion or be tempted to stray
therefrom. Mrs. Taylor Is a little
over 60 years of age and a native ot
the state of New York. In the church
he is recognized as a leader aud a
woman of extraordinary ability as a
speaker and teacher. Her husband,
though a bishop, is one of the foremost
business men in Salt Lake City.
Elizabeth Howard, a native of Ire
land, is one of the few foreign -born
Mormon women who ocoupy pasltions
of any prominence. She is chief sec
retary ot all the relief organizations
of the Mormon church an able speak
er and most energetic Worker. Her
husband, William Howard, Is a wealthy
mnn,a fact whioh enables Mrs. Howard
to gratify her generous impulses to an
sxtent greater than is possible to many
of her sister members of the church.
She Is the mother of a large family of
children and noted for her cheerful
ness and geniality. She is a prime
mover In all entertainments and meth
ods of enjoyment, and is in conse
quence a great favorite among ths
young people of the church.
Emetine B. Wells, a wife of Gen.
Daniel H. Wells, ia the very able editor
of the Woman's Exponent, a paper
published in Salt Lake City and de
voted to the interests of women. Mrs.
Wells was born i-i Massachusetts ot
good old Puritan stock and is a little
over 60 years of age. In matters relating-
to woman's suffrage Mrs. Wells
is neted, having several times attended
the suffragists convention held iu
Washington, D. C., going to the capi
tal as a delegate from the women's
assoolatton of Utah. There are few
women in the country who can write
more trenchantly or speak more effect
ually than Mrs. Wells. She has quite
a large family of daughters who prom
ise to carry on the suffragist doc
trines ot their mother. Mrs. Wells'
itrong position on the woman's rights
luestioa and the fact that she is an
sditor makes her position in Utah ono
of the great prominence aud influence.
Mrs. Mary E. Freeze is a wife of
Ji.mes P. Freeze, and president of the
young ladies' mutual improvement
association in Salt Lake county, these
associations being divided into territo
rial, county and municipal divisions.
Mrs. Freeze la an able and intelligent
speaker and a strong advocate to her
religious faith. As she confines her
work very closely to the associations
of which she is president she is not as
pr0mlnent in the affairs
. . i
of the terrl-
tory as oiners.
Mrs- Louie Felt, wife of Josiah H.
Felt, is a native of Connecticut a little
over 40 years Of age and president ot
what is called the Primary associa
tions of the church, an organization
having for its object the moral and re
ligious training of the little ohlldren,
who from Infancy are bred in
the doctrines and beliefs of the Mor
mon churoh. Mrs. Felt is a noted
temperance advocate and exceedingly
popular among the little ones she
teaobes.
Dr. Romania R. Pratt is a graduate
of an eastern medical college, a full
fledged physician and surgeon and a
firm believer In the doctrines and pre
cepts of the Mormon church. She is
a woman of rcarked ability and intelli
gence. As physician in charge of the
Deseret hospital and a noted woman
I suffragist, she has an extensive prac
tice ana occupies a prominent position
in Salt Lake City.
Mrs. Zina Young Williams Is a
daughter of the late Brigham Young,
and widow of the late Thomas Will
lams, famous as the treasurer of the
"Zion's co-operative mercantile insti
tution." Mrs. Williams was born in
Utah and is a woman of great nutural
ability, having visited Washington, D.
C, several times in the interest of
her people and her very intelligent
presentation of the Mormon cause
and her own amiablo character made
many friends for her in the east. Asa
daughter of Brigham Young she has
bean quite prominent id all matters
pertaining to the church and the edu
cational organizations of the Morman
religion.
Ausrusta Joyce Crocheron is one ot
the most gifted writers both of poetry
and ge can be founa am0ng ths
Mormon people, one la a native oi
Ne-r Egiani aBd wnen a child she,
witn nep famiiy, made the voyage
from New York to San Francisco, go-
,n? around Cape Horn in the ship
Brooklyn, jhe Joyce family formed
n of tne Mormon company gathered
. - New itates by Sam
Brannan, then the famous Mormon
elder, who afterward left the church
and became a financial king in San
Francisco for a while, but died a few
days ago in poverty. The Mormons
published the first paper issued on the
Pacific coast called the "Yerb.-a Buena
Star," of which Brannan was editor in
1316. Mrs. Crocheron wrote an a'
count of her voyage around the born,
which is considered a very fine piece
of literary work. She has also pub
lished a volume of her poems, which
are chiefly based upon her faith and
belief in jfee Mormon religion-
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THE ENFORCEMENT
tmily Hill WnodrrTSnsee emigrated
from New England to Utah when sha
was 18 years of age, accompanied by
her elder sister. They had become
eonverted to the mormon faith when
a their New Enp-J-and horn M
(Veodmansee is a rare combination of
Itie poetio and practical, being at once
a clever poet and good business
woman. She is said to be better
posted on real estate matters and the
values of land than most of the man in
Salt Lake City, although now 55 years
of age. She has seven children and is
a happy and devoted mother, as well
as on of the most brilliant lights of
'he Mormon church.
HUMOROUS
Briggs Wonder what possessed bin.
lo jump into the river?
Braggs There was a woman at tl
bottom of it, I believe. Terro Hauto
Express.
He Why should you be so angry at
me for stealing just one little kiss?
She Any self - respecting woman
would be angry with a man who kis.ed
her just once. Dramatic Critic.
A ton of limburger cheese was re
cently shipped west from the factcry
at l'atneda Four Corners. Yet manu
facturers complain that th:y are not
making a scent. Stafford Herald.
Mr. Waldo (of Boston) Will yon
have some of the cheese, Miss Breezy ?
Miss Breezy (a guest from Chicago)
Oh. thanks awfully, Mr. Waldo, I
believe you may pass me a small hunk.
Epoch.
People who say policemen are never
an hand when a fight is - troincr on
slander the force. There was a prize
fight once and policemen seemed to
manage the show. New Orleans
Picayune.
Doctor "Ah, yes ; I see you have
lung trouble."
Patient (hopeless consumptive)
"Excuse me, doctor, but it strikes me
that it's no lung trouble." Kearney
Enterprise.
One merit of Wagner. 'IIow die.
you like the agner operas, Clara?
"I enjoyed them immensely. The per
son back of you who always hums an
opera gets left when it comes to Wag
ner." Chicago Herald.
Fame may be ornamental, but it
isn't much use to the man who has to
hustle seventeen hours out of the
twentj'-four for his daily bread, with
pie never any nearer than the horrizon.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
A good thing can be carried too fat.
A Boston man who had been told that
he was about to die asked the doctor
for his bill, saying that he did not wish
to depart from his life-long rule, "Pay
as you go."' Home Sentinel.
In tho Black Maria: Tags "Wot
makes you sit up so kinder stiff an' un
sociable?" Rags, loftily "Why, I
ain't no common bloke, I ain't. Mr.
Yangoulderbilt had me arrested for
beggin'I" Munsey's Weekly.
A broad hint : Landlord to depart
ing guest "I trust I may rely upou
your recommending my establish
ment?" Guest "1 don't happen to
have at this moment a mortal enemy
in the world! Humoristiche Bloot
ter. "Love is blind." Nonsense! Just
pay a little attention to some other
woman, and the woman who loves you
will sec it even if the transaction oc
cus ten miles away, with half a hun
dred brick walls intervening. Boston
Transcript.
"Thinketh no Evil." A lady is be
ing examined in the police court.
Magistrate "Well, madam, one thing
at least seems to be certain; your hus
band beat you." Witness (apologetic
ally) "Yes, your honor; but then he
always was such an energetic man."
Judge.
She Could Not Accept. Goslin
"Miss Weehawken will you honor me
with your company to the opera on
Thursday?" Miss Weehawken "I'm
sorry, but a lot of my friends are to
five me a surprise party that nljht, and
m expected to stay at home. "Mun
sey's Weekly.
St. Peter i What is your claim foi
recognition and admittance?
Newly Arrived Spirit In life I was
never guilty of confessing to any an
noyance from a woman's high bonnet
in a theatre.
St. Peter -Angelic man ! Here Is a
check for a front seat. Pittsburg Bul
letin. Society: Little Chick "What d
you let that ugly little thing come un
der your wing for?" Old hen (who
has inadvertently hatched a duck's
egg)-1 "I can't help it, my dear.
We've got to put up with the creature
because she belongs to our set, you
know." New York Weekly.
Miss Pretty (in tears and deep dis
tress) Oh, mammal I went to
the trunk-room and what do
you think 1 fo fo found?
Mrs. Pretty I'm sure I don't know,
dear. Surely the moths haven't been
at your new seal sacque?
Miss Pretty No, not so ba ba
bad as that but a moth was shut up
with my ba bathing suit, and he ate
it all up. Life.
Dancing Master (condescendingly)
I presume, Mr. Oldboy, you never
learne l to dance?
Mr. Oldboy I was once much given
to the habit, but have gotton over it of
late years.
"I dare say you know little about
our modern dance?" -
'For a number cf years I was thor
oughly familiar with an intricate dance
that you couldn't teach, professor."
(Excitedly) "Name it, sir I"
"The St. Vitus." Chicago Tribune.
Druggist James, I wish yoa
would be particularly careful about
your prescriptions this week."
Jmes -'-Yes, sir; I'm always aa
careful as possible, sir."
Druggist "Be especially particular
not to ue arsenic by mistake when
you are putting np quinine pills."
James "I trust that ray regard for
human life would prevent me making
sum a stupid blunder.
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Druggist "That s all very well, as I
r as it goes, but I see by this morn-!
far
ing's paper that arsenic is way up and
w don't want to waste any.Amer- I
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OF THE LAWS.
BACK-DOOR BEFUiCTIOXa.
My landlady's kitchen has a western
window, screened outside by a th e ,
green grape vine, and flanked wit um
by an ancient lonnge, whose deficien
cies in the way of upholstery are
cloaked by an ample gray shawl, not
more impervious to the prying eye
than are the mantles of charity com
monly prevalent. This corner, where
one can drop ornmbs unobserved behind
the barricade of a book or portfolio, is
my favorite post of observation on
those cool and almost frosty afternoons
which visit onr mountain altitude even
in midsummer. The small tide of
events runs on undisturbed by my
presence; my landlady placidly floors
her rolling-pin and bestows on me an
occasional seed-oake; Tim, the chore
boy, combs his blonde locks and naive
ly ogles his image in the little cracked
glass, and even the eat onrls herself np
for her usual nap on the fuzsy cushion
that supports my elbow.
A kitchen, I find, is an admirable
place for the minor meditations of life
a place where Pegasus is stabled, and
groomed, and made to feel his legs in
stead of his wings, and philosophy con
sents to rest for an hour in the agree
able limitations of time and space.
Some kitchens, to be sure have a
ooarsely material look, expressive of
the lower realities of life, and few can
hope to acqnire the mellowing grace ot
a half oentury of affectionate occu
pancy. Doubtless these walls, with
their time-stained woodwork, have
looked down on much of the humbler
by-play that marks the lot of our com
mon humanity' there have been rude
dances and ruder games,lighted by tal
low dips and lanterns, where the scrap
ing of the fiddle was drowned by loud
bursts of laughter echoed back from
the beams overhead; Dick and Dolly
have courted and kissed and quarreled
over tho popping of corn and tying of
greens; the wedding foaf and the funer
eral baked meats have come forth from
the mruth of that capacious oven, and
now those silent, scalding tears have
been sheJ that betray the breast they
cannot relieve. All that is swept away;
those labors, the merry-making, the
loves, hates, griefs, and the very actors
themselves are burned up and forgot
ten like so mnoh fuel; new characters
appear on the scene, and still the pa
tient churning and scouring, the laugh
ter and the weeping, go on.
And this leads me to reflect on the
variety of troubles whioh life, that de
tests monotony, presents to us. There
are many troubles bnsinees troubles;
those affections of the pocket book
whioh make all others seem baseless
and visionary; or, if the screw is re
lated a little in that quarter, there are
troubles of the heart that scare away
sleep; or the pangs of disappointed
ambition; or ill heatlh, whioh creates a
yellow fog about us; or finally there is
the brood of imaginary troublea.which
must have filled by far the greater pnrt
of Pandora's box, those luxurious
griefs which are the special prerogative
of all who are otherwise unprovided
for, since no one is too rich or too for
tunate to be the sorry possessor of an
imaginary trouble. In short it would
seem that the human spirit demands
this condiment with its diet, and one
suspects that Mr. Bellamy's national
banquet wonld prove somewhat taste
less without the ingredient.
The kitchen is apt to play a large par.
in onr recollections of childhood; its
npper shelves and inaccessible closets
Were regions of the most delightful
mystery, and the genius loot, Maggie
or Bridget, was a reigning deity whose
moods were studied with all the pene
tration of an infant, acolyte. In pro
pitious seasons we were sometimes
admitted to constrnot a menagerie from
a remnant of dongh, or study the syn
thesis of blackberry tarts; but Woe to
us it we ventured to lift up onr heads
when the domestio Olympus was in
volved in a storm. Perhaps we turn
most fondly to grandmother's kitchen,
where we romped unreproved during
vacations and holidays where grand
mother herself was mistress of cere
monies, the dear old lady, with her
round, fluted cap, her pleasant ruddy
Cheeked face like a puckered apple, her
one lame foot and conveniently dim
eyesight ah, when shall we see such
1 hanxsgi vings again ! How we stooped
at the corners of the huge old flre-plaoe
to catoh a glimpse of the sky through
its soot-begrimed galleries, or sat
around the hearth to roast apples and
quinoes while the snow sifted in
through the crack of the door! Then
you remember the famous household
reoeipt-book with its cumbrous head
lines and elaborate flourishes, whose
faded manuscript leaves (it they are
still in existence) might make the
month of a gourmand water tor apple
butter and pnmpkin-bread) A cook
book, in those days of intellectual twi
light, was no series of scientific formu
las, but humored the foibles ot femin
ine nature as it existed in hoop-skirts
and paper-soled shoes. "A handful"
and "a pinoh" were not contraband
terms; and those discursive "Directions
for Making Elder Flower Wine by the
Hon. Mrs. Samuel Pettigrew," or
"Aunt Betsy Totten's Family Recipe
for Hartford Election Cake 100 years
old" seemed to breathe a spirit of leis
urely elegance unknown to the pots and
pans of to-day.
Although it is chiefly in modern
New England that we find the favorite
type of girl, who makes jam and scrubs
the floor in the forenoon, and in the
afternoon reads Mill and plays Beeth
oven's sonatas, yet how often the lives
of illustrious women afford us delight
ful back-door glimpses! Who has not
Saused over the picture of Emily
ronte, that fiercest' daughter of the
Yorkshire moor, kneading her bread in
Haworth parsonage, with her German
lesson book propped before her ;or of that
supper prepared by Rachael for Alfred
De Slusset, In the brightest flush of her
genius and fame, when sha came in
"looking beautiful," with "a foulard
handkerchief tied under her chin," and
regaled him with soup and a saucepan
of spinach? Doubtless George Sand,
in the old pastoral days in Berry,
when ahe exoelled in making of "In
confiture" and the girl Marian Evans
in her father's dairy, wore an apron
and mob-cap times ont of mind. Poetry
itself has not disdained gastronomies;
and assuredly in the pages of novels
and romances the culinary art is by no
means despised, and many a heroine
has captured the reader's heart from the
homely vantage-ground of the kitchen
Reflections like those, whioh lead
one far afield, are apt to be interrupted
by preparations for sapper, and my
moralizing oomea to m end.
Whijj we go ont of tass world we
may pass into new scenes, and a new
state oi uie auu action, just s uaiursu-
j- M we ea.me into the present
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oMhV free choioe of 'good
d tU w, mad, tZ
life.
MAKING THE SSTES FOR THE
NEW COINS.
Softly it was whispered around Wall
street last week that Uncle Sam had an
agent down in the jewelry district, in
Maiden lane, buying diamonds,
He was Mr. H. W. Meigs, one of the
ssistants of Director of the Mint
Leech, and although his purchases
were neither numerous nor costly the
precious stones ns Dought will be used
in making millions of money.
For the past six months, says the
Xew York Herald, the Director of the
Mint has been engaged in selecting
designs for the new issue of dimes,
quarters and fifty cent pieces author
ized by the last Congress. These
designs have now received final approv-
al, and this week the diamond points
pnrcnasea in sew lorn will be at work
making the dies for the new coins.
These designs are entirely different
irom any ot those that nave appeared
on the coins of the United States, and
have been selected from over three
hnndred drawings and photographs
which were submitted to the depart
ment. They consist of a female head
on the obverse of the com and a sym
bolic device on the reverse, as at pres
ent, but the position and details of the
cameos are essentially different from
any yet issued ;
In making the dies for the new coins
the government has adopted an entirely
new process, and the aid of a machine
will be called on to execute work that
would be impossible for the most ex
pert die sinker to accomplish.
In making the first models of the
design the artist takes a quantity of
white wax and mixes it with a propor
tion of resinous gum. To this mass is
added Vermillion enongh to give it a
brilliant red color, and then the mix
ture is kneaded under warm water
until it is perfectly homogeneous.
When this bright red wax is ready for
use the artist sketches the ground
work of his design on a large pieoe of
slate and proceeds to make a cameo
many times the site of the die he in
tends to produce. With skilful fingers
he moulds the wax until it approxi
mates the contemplated design, and
then he brings a number of little
boxwood gravers into play. With
these he brings his wax model up to
a high state of finish, but even then he
is not satisfied, and to complete the
work no tool is delioate enough.
The gravers are thrown aside, and
with the nails of his thumb and littje
finger of the right hand, whioh are
allowed to grow very long, and are
fiared to the desired shape with a razor
ike knife, the work ia completed.
With those two nails the hair of the
female head is finished up, the expres
sion of the eyes is corrected and the
fine line work of the design on the re
verse side of the coin is made.
The artists who do this work are as
careful of their hands as a piano virtu
oso. They never dream of Carrying
anything as heavy as an umbrella for
f-ar that its weight would injure the
delicate sense of touch necessary for the
use of the thumb and little finger rjails.
- After this design is completed it is
taken to the eln trotyping room, where
it is given a hard copper surface. After"
this process it is ready for the mechani
cal engraver. The machine in Use was
dt signed particularly for the govern
ment and is an amplification of the pan
tograph, used on plane surfaces by
artists and draughtsmen for rednoing
or enlarging drawings. The ordinary
pantograph will only work oh a flat
surface, but that used to make the dies
for coins is so graduated that it also
has a counter balanoe horizontal
motion.
The diamond takes the place of the
drawing point, and the gem set in a
delicate spindle, is revolved many
thousand times a minute by an electric
motor. When the machine is adjusted
for work the tracing point is placed on
the electrotyped model and the dia
mond point on a pieoe of soft steel of
the finest quality. The operator
guides the traoing point into every de
pression of the model and the diamond
cuts away the steel and makes a
reduoed copy in miniature many times
smaller than, the first cast. The pro
cess is almost the same aa the redac
tion of a rough drawing by photo
graphy. All the defects of the origin
al are imperceptible in the die, and
the model, which was as perfect as art
could make it, is reduoed by a machine,
almost as perfect aa the camera lens, to
a copy which, excepting nnder the
most powerful microscope, is absolute
ly faultless. The reduction is from
four to six diameters, the model for a
dime being about six inches across its
axis, and those of the other coins in
proportion.
After the die is finished it is tem-
fiered as hard as possible. Of course
t is a cameo or raised figure like the
model, and the coin stamping die mnst
be an intaglio or depressed figure.
To accomplish this the out die is placed
in a hvdranlic press with a pieoe of
soft steel as a blank. Thousands of
tons of pressure are applied " and
the soft metal is forced into every
depressing and traoing of tbe oameo.
When this is accomplished the die,
after being hardened, is ready for the
coin press, and the silver blanks are
given the offioial stamp of the govern
ment, whioh raises their face value
about twenty per cent, at the rate of a
hundred a minute.
The treatment of the silver nsed by
the Mint is also peonliar. The author
ities do not trust to the assay of the
bullion as it comes from tbe smelting
furnaces of the mines, but has all the
precious metal thrown into nitric acid
and dissolved. Tbe produot looks
like plaster of Paris and is perfectly
pure. This is again melted in black
lead orncibles and the metal, after ten
per cent of copper is added to it, is
cast into brioks. These bricks are
shaved into thin strips, which are
rolled to the required thickness for the
ooin.
The strips are then punched to the
required size and go to the machine
which raises the "milL" This "mill"
is not the corrugated edge of tbe
coin, as is popularly supposed,
but the flat raised band of metal
around the edge of the coin whioh
protects the design from wear. The
corrugations are put on by the dies
whioh complete the coin and are tech
nically known as the "knerl."
The pieces are then softened by
being heated and come from the ovens
looking like so many white poker
chips. A bath in a "dipping" solution
and a shaking up with sawdust in a re
volving cylinder restores their polish
and then they are ready for the official
stamp of Uncle Sam.
The new coins for which the dies
will be made this week will probably
be jingling in the pockets of New
Yorkers in less than two months, and
if they are favorably received Director
Leech will begin on the designs for tbe
new silver dollar. He is confident of
one thing, and that is that the work
will be ao perfect that it will be im
possible to counterfeit i
Editor and Proprietor.
NEWS" IN SrIef.
Canada has 3675 giant trees left.
Shoe buckles are made of ox horns.
The watches In use number 156,
97J.873. A pound of phosphorus heads 1
000.0 JO matches.
A St. Paul (Minn.) company keeps
chimneys clean.
At Vancouver, British Columbia,
seal skins sell for J ).
Every seventh man in England la
Londoner.
There are twice as many large
game animals In Maine now as there
were teu years ago.
Damascus is to be lighted by elec
tricity, while Smyrna Is to have an elec
tric railway.
There are no known owners for
78,000 acres of land in St Clair county,
Ala.
The Minnesota supreme court has
decided that contracts for grain futures
are not valid.
Dainty Invalid sets are provided wit h
china trays, decorated with flowers or
baby faces.
A mischievous Camden (N. J.) boy
is in jail for painting whiskers on the
figure of an angel on a gravestone.
It took ICS newspaper columns ot
noupariel type to contain the last list of
delinquent taxpayers of Denver, Col.
The gauge of tbe Roman chariots
2000 years ago was four feet eight and a
half inches same as a standard railroad
gauge of to-day.
The temnlo of ITom-mrtm.ii at T
kegaml, begun in 1282 and finished In
i.tvi, is oue or tne most ramous relig
ious structures la Japan.
Several hundred eagles swooped
down on Bjelgord, Rumia, and de
voured ten horses, several sheep, and a
vast number of smaller animals.
The father of one of the
largest tirnnerr.v lmhlara In Tnmln
is burled In a glass cane on top ot
one of the finest buildings in the
city.
A cat in Texas has developed snob
aa affection for a dog that she is learn
ing to bark so that the can converse
with him with greater freedom.
A woman In Hancock County,
Matne, who was afraid .to drive ber
horse across a railroad track, was bit
terly disappointed Id attempting to go
around It.
Damp weather In a town In Kansas
caused a package of 5CHJ0 postage stamps
to be glued together in a solid block,
making it necessary to return them ail
to Washington.
The screw in the fourth jewel wheel
of a watch is so small that a lady's
thimble would hold 1,( 00,000 of them.
A city In India which was taken by
General God dart in 1780, was found to
contain 40,000 Inhabitants and as many
monkeys.
A cabbage stalk on which fourteen
heads of cabbage are growing Is exhibit
ed lntheofike of a New Bedford (Mass.)
newspaper.
There are spiders no b'gger than
grain of sand, which spin a thread so floe
that It takes 4000 of them to equal la
magnitude a single bair.
There are two bearing apple trees
in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, that
were planted in 1792. One of them is
ten feet In circumference.
A Texas Judge has decided that It
is no crime for an official to embezzle
bonds or coupons, that only gold and sil
ver coin or legal tender can be embez
zled. Caterpillars from ten to twelve
inches long are faid to be not un
common in Australia, while species
which vary In leogth from six to
eight Inches are stated to be numer
ous. In India, so it is told, the com
mon custom Is for the barber to go
to the homes of bis customers. He
starts out early In the morning, and,
should be find a customer In bed,
be shaves him without arouaing
him.
Dr. Clement; who was treating a
horse at Betzer, Hinsdale County,
Penn., supposed to be in bad shape,
discovered a tooth growing out of tbe
animal's ear. The strange ivory was
jerked out and tbe suffering animal
promptly recovered.
There are said to be about four
hundred gypsies In the Northern States.
The men are nearly till tinkers and pro
fess to make a living mending pots and
kettles, but fortune-telling by the wo
men Is the great source of the family
revenue.
Thft new cnrnnoiinil f an.vhAAlnl
engine built for the Mexican Central
Railroad by a Rhode Island coBoeru,
were luunu too large to pass tlie Katou
tunnel of the Santa Fe road and tbey
had tO lie Shorn tf ' Avcrw nrniiuiflnir
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part. Even then they just managed t j
pass inrotign.
One of the largest species of puffball
mushroom was found growing on m
recent n'ght in Carl Cartellinn'a garden
on High street, Newport, Mass.
It measured twenty-eight Inches
around and twenty-four inches high,
and weighed three pounds and thlrteeu
ounces.
Lepers in India were treated with
shock i n g 1 n h u man 1 ty be f ore Ch r 1st Lan 1 ly
entered that country Many of them
were burled alive. The English rulers
have put a stop to this custom, and for
fourteen years there has been a special
Christian mission to the 135,000 lepers
in India.
There are said to be sixteen species
of American trees the wood of which,
when well seasoned, win sink into water.
The heavieet of these Is black iron wood.
hich Is thirty per cent, heavier than
water. A species of oak grows in Tex
as and New Mexico which, when green,
ill sink almost as quickly as iron.
One of the new professors at tbe Kan
sas University astonished his claas re
cently by the following question:
"Who dragged whom about the walls
of what, when, where, why and nodal
what circumstances?"
It is said to le a whole day's task
for two men to fell a mahogany tree
On account of tbe spurs which project
from the base of the trunk, a scaffold
has to be erected and the tree cut off
above the spurs, leaving thus a stump
of the very best wood from ten to fifteen
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