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THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proy ' iter.
VOL. XLVI.
MIFFLINTOWIS. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 3. 1892.
NO. 33
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ELIZABETH'S PIE.
T.T JULIA D. TECS.
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I'll iiw'ki- ia- a pie.
Go K at ! t'ft me fresh pie dough,
Ana iio nt pay t" it iii.
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lie sure to bave it Keilieil,
Aud II"" !!''" " ulu ttoose
Has any t erries laid.
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.elierry pie Is very good,
a ikI m. uuue.to inane.
V..u .ly have to nil me crust
And 1" tli- oveu bake.
-S,i juuiirwill I need to mild,
"lonneheri irs are so sweet.
I lilies
lle'll II
i uli ii i'.ia la-tei my pie.
link it auiie a treat."
THE MOUN.AMS' WEAVING.
It was press night
The machinery seemed to set every
tiniher ot the huge ImilJing vibrating.
lUs mighty inline could be felt as it
inajestnvdly boat out its slow, steady
ruvthiu.
i'ress night always made itself felt in
the literary department. The tbrob-
biug of the machinery downst.iirs by
. ...i i i
6oiue strange, nuuiio auaiogy causeu
the tide of life to throb in answer to
the brain and pens Hew more swiftly
then thau other nights.
The Kditor's rotui was apparently
empty, his chair Btod, as if hurriedly
vacated, before the table with its
rbif'tn1 mass of papers and MSS.
Kverythiug bad been pushed aside,
and on the deek lay two MS3. Their
leives were fluttering in the breeze
that entered by the long window hasti
ly thrown open, in whoso embrasure
tood a tall, dark figure. It was the
Editor.
Usually on press night he was un
approachable. Bat to-night his
thoughts were too deep even for the
busy pen that con Id catch them as they
ebbed and flowed, and transform them
into brill But words that glowed and
burued and fouud their way to the
heart The editor had found his own
hi art.
It may seem a strange thing to say
that the ed tor of a society magazine,
one w ho is used to toy and tritle with
the hejrt and its currents of feeling
could have Mich a possession of his
own. It was true, nevertheless.
An hour ago Austin Sorel would
hive langho 1 at such, a suggestion,
but now, as he stood there watching
the Mars, listening to tUa boundless
tide of humanity eddying past the roar
of the vast, palpitating city and the
pule of the miglity machinery beneath
him he hud awakened to the fact that
he had a heart. That he was not the
machine which he had trained himself
to Bear. Not the brilliant iutellect
nalist alone, the humorist, satirist into
which he hud forced his fine nature,
but that he was still an idealist, still
the poet, in whosa youth's heart all
that was grand and noble, and beauti
ful aud true had stirred the fire until
ali! until.
All hearts in which the tide of life
beats high innat sooner or later pas
through the tiro of disillusionment.
That is inevitable.
Austin Morel, as he stood there look
ing into the durKuess, had grown a
youtliagain. Thedreaui was so complete
that he seemed to be looking on the
transformation without for a moment
realizing that it was npu himself he
gazed, lie saw tha tall, lissome limbs,
the clear-cut, dark face, the eyes glow
ing and gleaming, hope-tilled, as they
1 Riked out on a world such as poets
picture, the dark huir massed above a
broad white brow tossed eagerly, care
lessly backwards.
He was standing, as now, in the em
brasure of a window, bnt how differ
ent! It was a long room in an old
castle, and from its quaint mullioned
wind, w could be descried wide stretch
ing land, and on the terrace nodding
summer roses.
A girl was at his side. A tall, slight
maiden with the dainty grace ot high
birth and the clinging robes sueh ladies
wear. She wai listening to his talk,
approving every now and then. She
was nsed to that glow aud enthusiasm,
those wild dreams in which intellect
ual ambilton ulaved so high a part.
into which sordid craving for wealth
did not enter.
After a short pause she turned away.
On a side table lay a parcel unopened.
It caiifflit her eve.
"Oh. Austin." she said, "here is tbe
eilk for mv ball dress. Shall I show
it to von?"
He steppod towards her and opened
th narcel. With a childish cry of
delight she held up the softly shimmer
ing folds that the sou's rays might
catch them.
"Oh! how lovely, how lovely, she
cried, and then her eyes sparkled with
pleasure.
Austin Sorel's eyes had grown
sombre.
"Grace," he Baid slowly, "are you
enre you can give up nil these things
to be my wife? for a time, dearest,
only for a time, till I win name and
fame. Will the reuunciation be too
great for you?" As he spoke his eye
swept ronnd the gorgeous room and
back to the girl where she stood toying
withtho softly shimmering silk.
"Must I really give up all these
things, Austiu?" she asked. Then with
a pout she glanced lovingly in his face.
"Why won't you take an easy way of
earning money go into business like
Lnele .Ned, then we conlil De nappy
and rich in no time. Why do you
make such a point of being a poet?'
T he words cut his heart like a knife.
Remember, it was the heart of youth,
the tender, fine, highly-teusioned heart
of the poet. He made no answer.
"Ob! you will, like a dear Austin?"
she said. "Uncle Ned will have no
scruples then; he will help you and we
can be married very soon." She
looked again at him. He had grown
pale and the voice in which he spoke
did not seem his own at all. It sounded
far away.
"I have been afraid for some time,
he said, "that the sacrifice I ask of
yon is too great. I cannot give up my
life's work, business is an impossibility
for me. Can you give up your life here
with your nncle, your jewels, carri
ages, aud fine dresses and be a poor
man's wife, or will you keep them and
nay good-bye to me"?"
"You would not ask me again when
you made the name and fame of which
you speak, if 1 refused yon now?" she
asked in a strange, subdued voice.
"No," he said; "1 would not ask you
then."
"You do not love me," she cried.
But his deep, glowing eyes looked on
her fair face until her grey eyes
drooped beueath their fire. What was
a mere equivocation on her part?
Well did she know his heart was hers.
Tbe silence grew irksome.
"Answer me, Grace," he said gently.
Tne white fingers still toyed with tUe
silk on which the sunlight rippled, the
air head drooped low.
S "I am tit brave enough. Austin."
she faltered. "I have Lean
I, until Uncle Ned took us in. I am
not brave
again."
enough to face that
life
rhen good-bye, Grace, good-bye."
I he words foroed themselves from
his burst.ng heart. He seized her
hands, kissed them passionately, and
in" a moment she heard his footsteps
ringing on the polished floor.
That was years ago. The poet's heart
was tamed. The soul's soaring wings
were dipt, its pinions dragged sadly
on the rough way or life ere the am
bitions lad had been beaten and
moulded into the clever, brilliant
writer who could tarn his pen to what
ever the market demanded. Austin
Sorel. with time's traces on his face,
the light in his eyes quencheJ, and
grey hairs on his brow, was completely
disillusioned. Slowly aud gradually
the world had done its work, but he
could look back to that hour when the
first stroke on the anvil of life had
crushed his heart. That wound had
never been healed. It had slept, and
to-night it had been rudely torn open
to ache again with the old madness and
Eain. He passed in review his life as
e stood there with the bril
light on one side, the aching darkness,
of the dim city on the other, ere he
turned to his work again.
With a steady hand he picked up the
two MSS. that ha i carried his thoughts
to tbe dim years of youth. One came
from a lady who was a leader in so
ciety, poor and trivial, bnt well did
Austin Sorel know it was the kind of
stuff his public demanded. He laid it
aside to be used.
The other he held for a moment in
his hand, half caressingly ere he placed
it among those to bo returned to the
authors with tbe Editor's thanks. It
was a little
story written tenderly.
gracefully, into which had been poured
the world of pathos and of passion they
call a womau's heart. Had Austin
Sorel used the MS., one half of his
readers would have laughed, the other
half wonld bave sneered. Why that
MS. had stirred his heart Sorel did not
know. It was only such as he often
fonnd in the chosen MS1-, that came
from his readers. Not even the hand
writing was familiar.
It was nearly eleven o'clock.
The Editor threw down his pen with
relief. His work was done. Ho sprang
up and threw on a heavy mantle over
his evening dress, and, hastening down
stairs, called a hansom. He was ex
pected in the brilliant scene to which
he was quickly borne along, and though
his lips curled a little scornfully as he
stcpied in among society's pets and
perfumed darlings, though he had a
sonl above trivialities, he was human,
and it pleased him to te flattered as
clever women of tbe world can flatter.
With reproach in her eye9, Lady
Christian Kirke beckoned him to her
tide. As he stood looking down on
her perfect face, answering her ques
tions about the last MS. she had sent,
luring from him compliments he hated
to pay on tbe literary talent that was
hers in a very small degree, Sorel felt
contempt for himself and nis worm
stealing into life.
In the grey dawn he walked home
alone moody, irritated, discontented.
Certain words he bad meant to speak.
words Lady Christian had expected,
had remained unuttered, and his dis
content was tempered by relief. He
know quite well that Lady Christian
was willing to be his wife the wife of
the man whose name was honored for
his intellect, as well as for his unsullied
record in an age when a noble life
raises wonder in the hearts of those
who bave no desire to be higher than
the commonplace. Lady Christian did
not love him; of course not. She
-wonld have laughed at the idea of love
between a man and a woman of the
world. A few days ago he would have
laughed too, but in these last honrs
that had all changed. He parted from
Lady Christian in tbe grey dawn, and
he remained free.
CHAPTER IL
"Rat-tat-tatt Rat-tat-tat!"
Carelessly, indifferently, merrily, the
jaestman went from door to door in the
huge tenement building. Now and
then he uttered a remark as he handed
in a letter; at times he passed the word
of condolence when he beheld a face
disappointed again that was growing
ftaler and thinner every day with hope
ess waiting.
"Rat-a-tat!"
And a parcel was thrown into the
little hall of the house where Grace
Lambert was standing by the sitting
room window. She had pressed her
teeth into her white lips till they all
bnt drew the last drops of pale blood
that ebbed from her wearied heart.
Her fingers were clasped together in
an agony of physical pain that yet was
not felt, because that of the mind was
so much greater.
She opened the door of the sitting
room, and picked up the little paroeL
4la ntturAjl a CrV.
"Is it not the money yet. Miss?"
asked a woman, who thrust a hard face
from the door of a room adjoining.
Grace shook her head. She eould
not speuk.
"Then, Miss, you know the oonse-
qnences.
xou quu nere lo-uiunui
morning. ,., ,
"Oh, Mrs. Davies, my mother! the
blanched lis cried piteously.
"I've said the word, Miss, was tne
stolid reply, "and I'm not one to go
ba-3k on my woro.
She drew in her head as she ended
and closed the door. .
Grace entered the room sne nau jus
left, and crossing to the hearth knelt
down by the dim fire and turned ine
little packet wearily in ner tremimug
fingers. ,
"Yes, there It was the wrapper ad
dressed in her own handwriting. There
was no need to open that parcel; it
only meant added anguish to read tha
few words it would contain, type-written
probably, "With the .Editors
thanks."
How disappointing it is! Oh I young
enthusiast, whose pleasure it is, whose
recreation to put your own thoughts
on paper and to dally with the idea of
seeing yourself in print;how vexatious,
ftilar who wonld fain add to a meagre
pittance. Oh! the anguish of it, the
heartbreak, when everything else in
the world has failed you, as everything
had failed Graoe Lambert, and you
have tried to com Dreau irom your
heart's blood, you have written your
heart's beats on those white sheets and
they come back to yoa "with the
Editor's thanks." Grace sat for a time
with her head on her hands. A langu
broke the stillness a
'""You've got it back?" a voico asked.
"Yes; oh! yes."
"I told you so. I knew it Who
would read your trash, let alone pay
Oh! mother, mother, don't be hard
an ma." tirao cried, aa aha ins. to bar
Sff irtSiiE! not oneot tbemwon,u
could. M "Yes," was the reply; "every
thing but the right thing. If you had
ueen a sentimental lool you wonld
have done less, nerhaos. bnt tha nna
thing yoa might have done wonld have
aved us all this. If you had
married one of tha rich men who
would have taken you from your Uncle
Ned'a house five years ago we wonld
never have had to sink back into pov
erty, when he took it into his head to
make a fool of himself and marry a
child."
Oh! mother," she cried, "we did
not sink into poverty while I had my
voice; we were comfortable enough as
long as I could make a living by sing
ing. And if we eould only hang on a
little my voice may come back.'
lour voice may oome back! Say
as well your thin face may round ont
and lose its lines, the threads of grey
may leave your hair while you starve
and weep from morning to night, and
the sick woman turned her face wearily
to tbe wall. "Well, since you have
fonnd that you are not a literary gen
ius, what do you mean to do next!" she
queried after a panse.
Graoe was standing with her hands
idly clasped before her.
"Do?" she cried. "I don't know, I
don't know.' Then suddenly she
burst forth:
"I have done all I ean; everything
but beg, and all is of no avail. I shall
take my little story, it is not so very
bid 1 could always tell a little story;
why can't I write one? and I will go
to every editor iu London and tell him
my tale. Sarely some one will pity
met If that fails, I must tell tbe pub
lie that you and I are starving, and beg
for their mercy. 1 shall insert a para-
fraph in the Timet, as others have
one before me, and I may find help
as others, too, have done. I shall say,
'Grace Lambert and her mother are
starving, will no one help her?' "
Mrs. Lambert's sole reply was a
mocking laugh, to whioh her daughter
made no answer; but pntting on her
out-door garments she left the rooav
Mad resolution! Poor Graoe, en
feebled by illness and want, had not
trudged to many of the offioes where
she thouffht there was a chance of sell
ing her story, when she realized how
utterly unfeasible her scheme was.
She tarned wearily to seek her home,
and with her heart and mind absorbed
In thought and pain did not realize
that she took a wrong turning in the
maze of streets.
She found herself tired and weary
on the Thames Embankment just as the
moon was beginning to rise slowly,
and to shed its soft raysover the breast
of tbe quiet waters.
She threw herself on a seat and
watched the rippling moonbeams
dancing and shimmering on the river,
making a pathway of molten silver to
peace, she thought, with a stifled cry
of anguish. Soon the temptation grew
too strong for her, as it has done for so
many before her the temptation to
seek peace for evermore and, turning
. . . , i
ner neaa away, sne ouneu ner inco ou
the back of the form on which she was
sitting.
Her past life passed swiftly in review
before ner from the day on which she
parted with Austin Sorel, through sun
ny days of what seemed happiness to
her yonng mind, to days when suitors
sought her hand, and she realized that
she nad no heart to give with it. She
seemed to hear her uncle's and ber
mother's threats and reproaches, the
angry words that yet eould not move
her now that she had realized what it
meant to love one man and become the
wedded wife of another. Clearly tnere
rose ud the day on which her uncle
had announced his intention of marry
ing again, and her mother and she had
fouud themselves without a home. She
felt again the enthusiasm with which
she had prepared her only gift, her
beautiful voice, to be the means of
winning a living for ber mother and
herself. She felt once more her sue-ces-es-her
triumphs; smiled even a little
bitterly as there arose up before Ler
some of the men she might have mar
ried as she had beheld them again,
seated at concerts where she was sing
ing, with women by their sides who
bad not hesitated to Uke the place they
bad offered the position of wife with
no question of love, and who were con
tent to adorn their mansions and wear
their costly jewels. She did not regret.
She never had regretted. She never
would. Not even as she sat there with
all the misery of failure and hope
lessness filling her heart, despair
gnawing at Its chorda. Her voice had
failed her, and probably she would
never recover it, and did not know
where to tnrn for help. Her uncle
bad refused to do anything for her.
What could he do? He had sent her
a cheqne for 10, but he could do no
more. He was a rich man certainly,
bnt he was in business, and having a
young wife hoped to bave a family.
So she sat half dreaming, ait bnt
dazed, leaning her tired head n tbe
form, watchini? the rippling waters.
Tha moonbeams came down from the
heavens, and one by one they caressed
hr hair, her hands, her white face till
thev made her loot young and lovely
again. They made a rippling pathway
of molten silver from her to the dark
river. Did they in their infinite pity
want to render death easy and tempt
ing for her? They danced over her
faded blue irrev sown till they made it
shimmer like the finest silk with the
cloveless hand clasping the little, white
packet lying on its sheeny folds like
dead marble.
Then they danced across tha com
monplace street till they made a silver
pathway to her before the eyes of a
man who was walking along swiftly.
He raised his head as they danced and
shimmered before him, and he followed
their weaving with his sad eyes.
He stood stilL They danced and
wove like wi 11 -o'-the-wisps till Austin
Sorel wonder d if he were-a-dreaming
when he beheld the girl he loved
wearing the blue shimmering ball
gown, for whose sake she had oast his
heirt asidet
Do such things happen in these
common-place fln-de-iertle days? Did
the moonbeams know as they danoed
and wove that thev were weaving a
pathway of molten silver from one trne
heart to another, forging Love's tiny
ohain of shining gold that when it onoe
springs to life from one heart to
another may never be broken? Austin
Sorel crossed and stood by ner side.
He assured himself that it was indeed
Grace Lambert, his Grace, but she
wore no ballgown of shimmering silk.
There was no youth-light in the face
she raised at the sound of his voice, the
touch of bis hand; but there was the
love-light deep and strong and glowing
in tiie despairing eyes that flashed in
answer to his words of love.
"And that was your little story,
Grace?" he asked when he had drawn
from her her piteous tale, and the rea
son for her sacrifice.
"."tea," the said; '-bat the editor are
He laughed as he took the little 1
parcel, and the hand that held it, luto
nis own.
I am one of the most heartless of
the crew, dear one," he said, "for
these dismal words you have not even
looked at were dictated by me." and
he opened the paoket and showed her
the words she so dreaded "With the
Kditor's th inks."
ohe could langh now, and she did
with her head resting on the broad
Bhonlder that henceforth was to shield
her from all trial and sorrow. He took
the little hand and pressed it to bis
lipa-
The moonbeams went off on their
ay rejoicing ever the dreary oity,
seeking for other work to do.
Thev langhed and rippled,
and
foi
danoed, and never even waited
"the Editor's thanks."
PERSONAL APPEAR 1NCE.
There is probably no subject in the
world which excites more interest in
the human mind than personal appear
ance. Whether we are conscious of it
or not, it is the centre of the greater
portion of our daily thoughts. Look,
for instance, at some of the other
themes on wrich thought dwells Am
bition, Anticipation, Anxiety, Charity,
or Sympathy. The space of time oc
cupied bv any of these in twenty-four
hours cannot equal that which we
spend on our toilet, dress, and com
portment combined. They claim oar
attention at the earliest hoar of the
moruing; folio us instinctively
tin o igh every action of the day; are
pr sjnt at onr meetings of social inter
course; haunt our pleasure?, not nnfre
quently mar them; and are probably
in some degiee the last shadows which
veil ns from the land of dreams. Con
sidering that it is very important that
onr minds should not be burdened
with wnat is unworthy, it would be
well for us to assure onrselves that the
effect this produces is not intended to
he prejudicial. At first glance a per
son may disclaim the imputation, and
say: "Indeed, I think very little of my
personal appearance;" or, "I have no
looks to boast of, so it's little time 1
spend on them." To each of whom we
wonld reply: "My friend, you think
more of your personal appearance than
you are aware of; and you spend more
time on yonr looks beoanse they are not
good.'"
People who depreciate or pretend to
be wholly indifferent to their looks,
either sot a lie, or else fail to recognize
the main structure on which the human
mind is built What, in fact, are looks
for? If faces were like blades of grass
or leaves of trees, where wonld be our
identity? Where would be onr pas
sions? Where wonld be our motives? Tbe
whole world would becomea gigantic
piece of machinery, worked by the
mind of man, without aim without vi
tality, without result. It is the human
form divine which gives lifeblood to
onr passage through this world. Em
ulation, self-respect, improvement,
and admiration, are all qualities which
spring from the consciousness that
outward appearance is, and was in
tended to be, a matter of first impor
tance. It is as much a law of nature as
self-preservation. No matter bow
handsome or how ugly a man may be
and there is no distinction between
man and woman here let him go arm
in arm with a friend towards the mir
ror. Whose image does he first glance
at? Not the friend's, you may be i
sure. Observe a lady walking along
the street. How many times will she
I glance at her own reflection in the shop
windows.' As often as she gets the
chance. The sight never loses its nov
elty. That question, 'What am 1
looking like? never loses its fascina
tion. Let her go into a room fnll of
mirrors. She will look iuto one on the
right; then immediately tnrn and re
peat the process on the left. She is
quite right. The two sides are entirely
different. Again, let ber see a friend
appear in a new dress or fashion.
bat is the brst thought that occurs
to her? "Now I wonder bow that
wonld suit me?" She immediately
tarns over in her mind how and when
the idea is tob carried ont, while the
friend is all the while flattering her
self she is an object of admiration.
Let no man or woman condemn
themselves for this weakness. It is
common to all alike. Neither let them
undervalue good looks, nor despair of
improving bad ones. The gift of
beauty is often allied with a fascina
nation of manner which plain faies
may sigh for in vain. If it could be
bought for money, what price would
Vie paid for that peculiar glance or
smile whioh is imprinted for all time!
This is one kind of beauty with which
no nna in born and to whi fi nn-v nna mav
attain, but the means of acquiring it is to take the boy across his knee and uso
a secret which each mnst find ont for 1 a "ro'.er" on htm with much vigor.
himself. It is exceedingly rare and . Philadelphia Call.
exceedingly beautiful. At lesst once A pupil, of Washington University,
in onr lives we may remember to have St. Louis, only 17 years of age, who
seen such a face, generally that of an , had been punished by his teacher, chai
old man with many lines in it. It ar- j leng d tho latter to fight a duel. The
rests the heart as well as the eye. It professor simply told the other boys and
makes ns yearn for something yet un
known, that serenity of countenance
whioh is the index of a saintly soul.
Stealthy.
An Eastern traveler who has had
many and varied encounters with
wild animals in the heart of Africa,
and has walked through many jungles,
says that he concurs In the opinion
commonly held by tbe natives of the
countries he has visited, that the
leopard Is more dangerous than either
the lion or the tiger. Its noiselessi
approach may be imajincd, he says, '
from an incident which occurred to
him in Abyssinia.
T wna watching a nnol hv mivin.l
iirhf in a H.inn honri of th Rivor
Royal during the dry season. Hours
rinoKerl but. nnthintr larupr th.in sin
nntelnne anneared. I
We were sitting beneath a
large
tree, completely denuded of leaves,
and the moon was shining brightly,
throwing Into sharp outline every
bough. Suddenly my wife pulled my
sleeves, and directed my attention to
a large animal crouched upon the
branches exactly above us.
I might have taken a splendid shot,
outI at first imagined it to be a dog
faced baboon that had been asleep in
the tree. I stood erect to obtain a
clearer view, and at once the creature
Sprang to the ground within a few
feet of us, and bounded into tne jun
fie.
It was a leopard, which had proha-
My reached the tree by means of
some neighboring branches, and so
noiselessly that we had not discovered
Its presence. The animal had evi-
.i-.ti a ... zW.orn.inoH
UCUblJ TlftftUC U, CkUU " 0 - w..
, to reconnolter our position.
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
MANNER OF CONDUCTING
EX
AM I NATIONS.
l"h. One Common Praotlea of Holding
Written Kxaiutuatlon. la All tha Grmdas
Monthly I IMuppMriif frana City
VohoaU Educational Notaa.
Kaamlnatlon.
Dr. E. E. White says: 'The onoe com
mon praotloe ot holding written exami
' natons in all the grades, monthly, la
' dtssppeailng from the schools in our
cities, also the praotloe of holding
stated uniform examinations for the
several grades, or even for the grammar
grades, is disappearing likewise from
the larger cities.
It was but a few years ago that tha
very general praotloe was to have
monthly written examinations In all the
bran oh es. The Interval between these
written examinations has gradually in
creased, till in most schools they are
held but two or three times a year In
some sohools not at all, and now, as ws
observe in the quotation above, the
tendency is to abandon the written, but
as a basis for promotion. Whither are
we drifting? If written examinations aa
a test for promotion are not a necessity.
why are formal oral tests? Why not
abandon litem aitogetnerr wny not, in
fact, abandon all tests except the
teaoher's Judgment, and not permit
that even to aot as an impass
able barrier to a child's advance
ment? If the teachers of our sohools
possessed the qualifications the Blate
ought to demand, would not the sohools
be productive of as much good if classes
were advanoed en masse, save those
who might be willing to repeat the
term's work on the advice of a teaoher,
as by arbitrarily requiring all to reach ft
doubtedly many pupils would elect to
advance against the teaoher's judgment.
and tboreby suffer injury, but would
this In the aggregate be greator than
the Injustice which results from the
present very unsatisfactory method?
Whatever may be our answers to the
queries here suggested, the fact never
theless remains that we are tending to
this solution of the great question. Ho
i long as the average teacher is so indif
ferently qualified, so long as she is per
mitted to hold over her pupils that ped
agogical (?) lash, "danger of not pass
ing, so long as she is permitted to hide
her own negligence and incompetency
behind a lot of figures that mean noth
ing, so long will education oontlnue to
look for some relief from the present
"unsatisfactory system." Ex.
Gaog-raphy.
The following hints on teaching
s''
ogrsphy may be euggeHed to many
twrtler!i. . ,, f11 f tlw,
txt-book
Assign the lesson by topics, never by
pages.
Knrourage pupils to ask questions and
furnish examples within their own ex
perience of the subject under considera
tion. Let each pupil give In his own lan
guage ai tne information no
CTorh!"b!.ot;...: v. .K -
pu.ls tell what has been brought out
during the lesson.
! Emphasize all new facts and connect
them with the subject of the lesson.
Insist that etch pupil keep a note
book. Talk as little during a lesson as possi
ble; let the subject be unfolded and de
veloped by the pupils.
Have plenty of reforenoe books, use
them freely, and encourage your pupils
to consult them.
Hold this always before your mind
you are to teach your pupils to study a
tr-ountry in the light of its advantages as
an abode for man.
Begin every lesson with a review of
the preceding lesson. Frequently have
''Ills review a written exercise. Ex.
Tba Actual Coat.
The Impression seems to prevail that
our schools cost vastly more than for
merly. In a few Instances this may be
true, but as a rule It Is not. The sum
total has gone up, but the cost per pupil
has not. In one town in New England
In wh ch several new things had been
Introduced the cry was raised that the
committee was getting extravagant.
Tho figurrs were produced and it was
found that In the last thirteen years the
figures had been per pupil, average at
tendance: $16.9, 416.W, $15.44, $lfi.7l),
JIT.tiS, $1H.31. $18.20, $17.85, $18.70,
$17.44, $15.97, $16.00, $16.01. This is a
fample of what would be found, we sus
pect, in other towns. Ex.
IVanta to right.
Thi Rt. Louis school teacher should
accept the challenge of his pupil to mor
tal combat and should name rattans or
pa Idles at a distance of twelve Inchos.
Kansas City Star.
A prjFiii of a St Louis university,
oulte a bov. In fact, has challenged his
tu or to riant a duel. The tutor OUffht
irt'uiuii ma biibii as a juio. ah to bwv
to say that tho would-be duelist will be
made to feel the force of their ridicule.
- Philadelphia liecord.
Ktlucatinnal IntaUlgence.
Tub enrollment of students at the
University of Wisconsin for the present
. year reachos 1,(02.
AUOU9TANA COLLEGE AND SEWINABT
aa received from Mr. August Jarnberg,
of Chicago, 111., a girt of $11,500.
Bkveral. girl students at Cornell are
l diking the course in agriculture. One
Cornell girl is studying veterinary sur-
corv.
The new Chicago University will have
gymnasium costing $200,000. with A.
Stagg. the well-known athlete, as
phief instructor.
TflS senior class at the riatteville
Komial
School number 13, at White
water i, at Oshkosh 1. at River Falls 4,
U Milwaukee 30.
The long-pending election of the
Girls' High School, San Francisco, re
Lilted in the election of Principal Ellsha
Biooks of the Cogswell Institute.
Ixdiaka loses another educator in the
person of l'rot. Dronson, of DaPauw,
a-ho loaves tho chair ot English there
to accept a like position in Brown lui-
"erslty,
a l -lx. (11,1. T"r S : a.
roung lady is taking a course In elec-
Iricai engineering. She is a sophomore
uiJ has made an excellent record In her
itudlea.
Mas. Wabbew 5nrooB, of New
Fork, who gave $300,000 to endow the
Sophie Newoomb College, at New Or-
- leans, has made
an additional endow-
nent of $44,000.
It has been voted by the trustees of
the Ohio State University to cut off the
Jrst year of the preparatory course after
" year 1892-93; and the faculty has
'"T
"aming year
the abolition of the re-
soon thereafter as
practicable
PICK OUT THE CHOICg CUTS.
a Vtlavrara Showing; Wher, tha
Beat
yim or Heef Ara Fonnd.
This diagram of the different
parts of an ox, when drawn and
- I ns turn wVilnh ...,)
,, , -' . I
is aid fan innrnAriAnrnil vnnnrr rtnncAa I
j keeper, may help pthers, although, '
ror inai niaixer, tne new ion ino
une says, house-mtsstresses of many .
rears1 standing rarely know from
FICK OUT TBS CHOICn.
what part of the animal the varioas
cuts come, or understand why there
are different qualities of the meat,
or why certain portions are Juicy
and palatable and others dry and
stringy and more or less undesirable!
for roasts, although they make ex- j
cellent and nutritious dishes if prop J
erly treated. 1
ranoii Huutan.
In Signor Gessl'a "Seven Tears In
the Soudan" the author describes
"the brothers Duma," two hunters j
"renowned from Kaka to the Vie-1
.el i Vuri-i " Thoff KftM in fh
hblt of k"Untne, bufl0' I
noceros and tne leopara witu no
more emotion than a European
would experience in shooting rabbits. I
They were often sent for from dis
tant parts to kill some lion which wag
doing great mischief. Of their ele-phant-huuttng
the author says:
la all the villages the brothers
found an enthusiastic welcome, the
people knowing that wherever they
were meat was never wanting. Both
men were strong-limbed and of iin
uimrnon agility.
When an elephant rushed upon
them they calmly awaited him, and
at the right moment leaped to one
side. The elephant, not being aula
to stop, turned toward one of the
two brothers and the other plunged a
lance Into his side. The animal
. then Quitted the first man and fell
I upon the one who had wounded him,
and at that Instant the other cut the
tendons of the hind legs, bringing
the elephant to the ground.
One day, however, one of the
brothers was near falling a victim to
his boldness. He attacked an ele
I pliant alone In the usual way, but
stumbled and fell. He rose director,
but the c,ephant had already seized ,
'him in his trunk, and hurled him to'
a distance of fifteen feet. Fortu
nately he fell in the middle of a thick
bush, and escaped with some scratches
and bruises.
His friends laughed at the accV
dent, and the next day he said: "I
would rather eat my wife seven times
than not take my revenge."
He set out again, refusing the
company of his brother. Late in the
evening he returned, and called the
village together. "Come," he said,
"help me bring in the tusks, and take
as much meat for yourselves as you
like."
All the population followed him,
He had lulled nine huge elephants.
Notions About Sloop.
The natives of the Philippine Isl
ands, according to Mr. Foreman,
have many peculiar notions and prac
tices. They are indolent in the ex
treme In which respect they can
hardly be called peculiar and never
tire of sitting still and gazing at
nothing in particular. One of the
rudest acts, In their eyes, is to step
over a person asleep on the floor.
Sleeping is, with them, a very sol
emn matter. They are strongly
averse to waking anyone, the idea
being that during sleep the soul is
absent from the body, and may not
have time to return If slumber is
suddenly broken.
If you call upon a native and ar
told, "He Is asleep," you may as well
depart.
To get a servant to rouse you, yon
must give him the strictest of orders.
Then at the time appointed he will
stand by your side and call, "Senorl
senor!" repeatedly, each time more
loudly than before, until you are
half-awake; then he will return to
the low note, aud again raise his
voice gradually till you are fully con
scious. -n
Giving AU Honor to HU Wife.
The German Emperor loses no op
portunity of winning favor with the
ladles with his gallant speeches.
One of the prettiest of these courtier-
like utterances was delivered in an
swering a toast to his wife in tho
J province where she was born: "The
j bond that unites me to this province
. and chains me to her in a manner
different from all the others of my
I empire is the jewel that sparkles
at my side, her Majesty the Empress.
Sprung from this soil, the type of the
I various virtues of a German princess,
it is to her I owe it if I am able to
I meet the severe labors of my office
with a happy spirit and make head
against them."
No Lawyer Wanted.
A short time ago an old negro wik
ap before the Judge, charged with
some trivial offense.
, "Haven't you a lawyer, old man?"
Inquired the Judge,
"No, nah."
"Can't you get one?
1
No, sab,"
"Don't jou want me to appoint one
to defend you?"
"No, sah; I Jes tho't I'd leab de
;
man (Ga.) Free Press.
Prices VI ere t'p.
An old restaurant bill, printed in
Richmond in January, 1864, gives the
following war-time prices in Confed
erate money: Soup, SI. 50; chicken,
13.60; roast beef, S3; ham and eggs,
13: raw oysters, 12; coffee, 12; tread
and butter, $1.50; a bottle of cham
pagne, $50; a drink of rye whisky,
12; a bottle of ale, $12; and a cigar, $2.
Jay Gould aays that at one time n
bad only a dime In all the world.
'
Baarah to aa Id.al
Carruthers How does it happen
.hat you and Miss Pruyn are out?
Waile-Well, I told her that I bad
lon tx-cn seeking my ideal woman
and bud found her at last"
Carruthers Didn't that please ber.
Waite I don't know. She said
she had been just as long looking for
her ideal man, but hadn't found him
Vet. New York Herald.
Ilelal Mora Attractlya.
"And do you love dolly as much as
iver?"
"Not quite, auntie; we've got a
real meat baby at home now!".
Judge.
The t'lnbreUa Thief.
Pt Peter I don't see anything
against you on the books; did you ever
Heal anything?
Applicant Only an umbrella or
two.
St Peter Oh, well, let that go;
our umbrella book won't be posted up I
tA .1 . . r. . ....... I l. t-oora '
iu uatc toi a luujiic oft wiuuu jw
yet. New York Herald.
It Would Fetch Him.
Tourist (in Kentucky) That gen
tleman sitting over there is the most
taciturn person I ever encountered.
Though 1 nave tried almost every
.imaginable subject of conversation. I
am utterly unable to draw him out."
Landlord That's CoL Gore; try a
corkscrew, suh.
RmpoMl ble.
Mrs. Speckles (Inspecting her nega
tive) The sun Is no flatterer, Mr.
Plavtc; it refuses absolutely to over
J piayte True, madam;
but you
( could hardly expect it to repudiate its
own handiwork." New York Herald.
Order to Vacate.
Mrs. nicks I think you had better
buy a new pair of trousers.
Hicks These I have on are pretty
jfond yet.
Mrs. Hicks Yes, I know; but
there is hardly a whole stitch left of
Dick's. New York Herald.
Supplying the Itoticiency.
"Somebody sick at your house?"
"Oh, no."
"I see you've got a pretty big pur
.hase of drugs aud sticking plaster?"
"Yes; my four boys forgot to buy
iny of these things when they loaded
up with fireworks."
No Souls Sold.
Ilistorlcus We don't read stories
nowadays about men selling their
uls to the devil.
Cynicus No. The devil knows
that he can get more souls than he
wants for nothing nowadays.
1 It Suitable
Mrs. Tntling I'm going
to make
,ue a bath rol.
Mrs. Dimling Are you?
"Yes, 1 have bought the loveliest
piece of watered silk for the purpose.
Detroit"
An Equal Division oT Labor.
-Truth.
CorrectluR on Orator.
"Now, by St Paul," quoted the
orator, "the work goes bravely on."
"I beg your pardon," interrupted
he politician, "but don't you mean
'Minneapolis?'" AVashington Star.
Like Modern Travelers.
Teacher What do vou suppose was
the first thing that Columbus did on
reaching America?
Hobby He gave a reporter his im
orcssions of the country.
Not Much of a Jump.
This Is the biggest jump on record
a Providence man has just u taped
the State."
"Oh, pshaw! that's only Rhode Is
land! Now, if It had been Texas "
Light on a Dark Subject,
Table Do you like to have thai
young Billington call to see Miss
Cooington?
Lamp No. I am always put out
when he's here.
As Ton Look at It.
Hustler To think that a man
spends one-third of his life in bed!
Slowboy Humph! It's the other
two-thirds that trouble me.
Esteixv "Which wonld yon rather
marry for love or money?"
Belt. "Both."
The measles bacillus has been dis
;overed at last, and It Is said to be an
xldity even In the bacilli line. He
averages one two-thousandth of an inch
n length, and is studded all over with
Itll spikelels, which stand ont as
thickly upon his boly as do the hairs
a caterpillar.
NEWS IS BillEir.
I Gypsies originally came from It
dia. j The first paper mill In the United
I Btates was erected at Norwich, Conn.,
in 1705.
In the dreary deserts of Arabia the
' rosemary and lavender flourish to p r-
fee lion.
A colony of bees attacked a borseln
Leslie, Ga., and so severely stung him
that he died.
Plans for additional hotels of the
"menstet'' kind have juat teen publish
ed in London:
The deepest mine in the woild is
the rock salt mine near Berlin, which
4175 feet deep.
The oldest building In tbe world it
the Tower of Louden. It antedates
'Jsiar's conquests.
Tbe ancients believed Delphi to be
situated in the exact center of the land
surface of the world.
Squire Beasley, of Aberdeen, Ky..
has performed tbe marriage ceremony
for over 14,000 people.
A human body when cremated
leaves a residuum of about e ghc ounc-
Two thousand children under two
years of age die yearly in Paris from
ubeiculosia.
Holland Is considering the drainage
of the Zuyder Zee, a sheet of water cot
vicg 73J square miles.
There are seldom more than C000
stara visible In the heavens to the eye,
from any point of observation.
That the hnman race will some day
lack noses and the sense ot smell,
Is a
frequent scientific deduction.
For fifteen minutes fish ralneJ on
the farms nni th of Janesvllle, Wis.,
recently. The whale country was full
of them.
An English mathematician esti
mates the limit of ideas entertained by
any mind during a lifetime is 3,655,
770,000. A man in California recently killed
a rattle snake measuring seventeen
and three-quarter inches in circumfer
ence. One of the keepers In the Philadel
phia "Zoo" says that an elephant will
tremble with tear at the sight of ft
mouse.
A lobster that weighed nineteen
and a half pounds was recently caught
by fishermen In St Andrews Bay, ov
'.he Maine coast.
There Is a red kangaroo in the Lon
don Zoological Gardens. Its color Is
caused by a seeretion from tbe t-kin.
I It is said that the only person In
the United Mates eut:tled to De called
"Honorable" is the Lieutenant-Governor
of Massachusetts.
A fine was imposed lately upon ft
cruel Englishwoman who bad permit
ted her two dogs to draw her baby
carriage on tbe public highway.
The first book printed in the Eng.
Ush language was a "History of Troy,"
which apieared in the latter part of tbe
year 1474.
Forty-four families in a town In
Kansas have all tlie'r food prepared by
a co-operative cooking club, which has
been in existence two years.
The largest telephone switchboard
u the world is that in the exchange at
Berlin, Germany, where 7000 wires are
connected with the main office.
At the present rate of Increase in
the American production of tin plate
t he United States will produce 100,000,
000 pounds during the coming year.
During the reign of nenry VIIL
jf England 71,4' 0 persons were execut
ed. The like has never been known in
the history of the world before or
since.
Since its settlement Nova Scotia
has more than once changed proprie
tors, and was not confirmed to Eng
land till the peace of Utrecht in
1713.
In a cave in the Pantheon, at Rome,.
Italy, tbe guide, by striking the flaps
of his coat, makes a noise equal to
that produced by a twelve pound can
non. Hoard's Dairyman says that a Can
adian cheese factory has an order for a
cheese to weigh 14,000 pounds. It is to
be exhibited at Chicago next year. It
will require 225,000 pounds of milk.
One of the largest camella trees in
Europe is now in full bloom near Dres
den, Germany. It was foen ",om
Japan 150 years ago, is fifty feet high,
and has an aunual average of 40,000
blossom.
Selectman S. Byron Brownson, ol
Anson ia, Conn., has two remarkable
eggs. One measures seven inches
around the longest way, and tbe other
one and tbiee-quarter Inches. Both, it
is claimed, were laid by the same hen
on the same day.
That nothing is more easily for
gotten than an umbrella or cane, is
proved by a recent sale of unclaimed
property by a railroad company. The lot
comprised nearly 2000 umbrellas, more
than 1000 sticks and 300 parasols.
It is observed that in antique
staioes t:e second toe is longer than the
Drs or great toe, but men of the pre
sent time the reverse is the case.
A stone cornice-cutter, capable of
turning out sixteen feet of well finished
cornice or moulding in twenty minutes,
has been made in Rome. The general
features of the machine are very similar
to those of the metal planing ma
chine. Frofesfor Short, of Cleveland, Ohio,
has perfected a system ot electric pro
pulsion for the tlevated railroads of
New York Ci y. which he says will
affcrd 20,000 horse power and over
come a I obstacles. The plan la under
consideration.
The largest business in America,
handled by a woman is the Money
Order Department of tbe Pittsburg
Post-office. Mary Steele has it in
charge.
There are 1900 Red Cross Sisters in
Russia, and there are besides these a
considerable number in reserve, so that
in case of war there wonld be plenty of
nurses available for active work.
Ninety of those on the force are Sisters
of Charity.
The workmen employed on the ex
cavations, at Sparta, Greece, by Dr.
Waldstein, of the American Archaeo
logical School, have discovered tne
circular building at that place men
ttonedby Epimenidee, '
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