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B. F. SOHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS.
Editor ud Proprietor.
VOL. XLVII.
MIFFLINTOWJN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1C. 1893.
NO. 35.
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HtV. 1)11 TALHM,
The Urooklyn Divine's
Sinislay Sermon.
Su'.joa "Children's Rights.'
if .".e,, nprnr.l ft,
' ciTnril'tnrj
(;' ouf of thy muulh.'
J : ' :.:; w.is a fro!.oot.r. K'irlv turnec-r-.t
:- ' '. a l!-u where. h outfit to hav
M .-:ir--I s r. in. .nvrW with rough mei
n:i i v.. r-'i t - r-.ini his living ns twr h
cm:! i. In t'.M-.. times it was oonsi.lerod
n-'r f. i -i !!.! ti to out on Independent
!i:i:r..-y .. hi i. m. .Tephtlmh wan a pood
jran a-.-r-lniu' to tho Utfit of his dark an
lKi- f.vijinn l.Tii? nnd predator? lift
h.. ! a-... r--Kl-' ni-l pr-vjitnt. " Th
cr. '. :.'t 'atis.". a nrnVs heart, but
ij. v t r v r lix r.utnr-il te-npernment
Nnii want-1 the Ammonite
i!r,v- '. f t'ie:r i-nimtrr, so thpy gent E
M-.? 11 ' '!'! tha!.. askln him to bw
-' '..r-in-rhiof of ail the forces
It- n v t said. "You drove me out
: v " 1 1 '"1 f'"- me, an l now von
iv tr roi, want mo l.a.-k." but he'did
n -..-:. lie take command of the
nr-v. - n-.--..n-.'-r'!to the Ammonite to
t -!ir ' va-'at- th.i country, and p.-ttinc;
' " '-! "- marshals his troom
I: r ' out to the war Jephthah
tri'..:i v-ry ..!ijm vow that if t'i. Lord
w!l l-.v.' hi:u t'-.e vi-tory thi-n on his return
v, :! -it-i-v-r l'r-t comes out of his iloor
wiv he will otT.-r in s.ieritli.v as a re.ir.it of
f. r.r..-. Tii-l.a'.tl- op-ns. It was no skir
rr on the e.'.-.-s of danger, no unlim-
t-r.i!-..' hatt.Tl.- two mi!.-s awar, but the
fc'iri.ni; "! men on the points of sw-ords and
f-w the L-rnun l could no mope drink
fie 1!.,.. 1 :,n 1 the horse roared to leap over
t!ir of l o lies of the slain. In those
rM ti-ii.-s opp.-sins forces would flffht until
V.v'.r -w.T U were broken, and then eaebone
u ,:r 1 r! r.'ttle his man until thev both full,
t--t to te. Th. '-rip to trrip. death stare to
il.-.ith -:,ir . until the plain was one tumbled
tin.-- .d eorps -s from whioh the last traco of
ir.'in'iood ha 1 been dashed out.
.! l i.thah wins the day. Twelve cities lay
eaptur-d at lu's feet. Sound the victory all
thr ai-h the mountains of Gilead. Let the
tni-rp-t-rs call up the survivors. Hoine
wur 1 to vour wiv. s nnd children. Home
war! with your slitterintc treasures. Home.
war 1 to have the applause of an admiring
Nation, l.uild triumphal arches. Pwinirout
r.nv-s :iil .--v-r Mizpeh. Open nil yonr doors
t r--!v tiie capture 1 treasures. Through
v-ryhail spread the banquet. Tile up the
..a. F::l hii the tankard. The Nation
t- r-l.-emed, the inva ders are routed, and the
'ati.-a:il :.i:or is vindicated.
Il'is'.i It J, i l.thah, tho conqueror ! Jeph
thah. s -a(ed on a franelnc steed, advances
un.id a -.-laimin multitudes, but his eye is
r.ot on the cieited populace, hememberlng
that he had mn lo a solemn vow that, return
inn from victorious battle, whatsoever first
came out of the doorway of his home, that
houM he saeriilco as a burnt offcrinir, he
1ms his anxious look upon the door. I won
der wh;.t spotl.jss lamb, what brace of doves,
wi'.l t " thr. wn upon the fires of the burnt
".i-r:!..-. i horrors ! Taleness of death
hl.i!i ii. s his cheek. Despair ezc his
h. -..rt. lfis ilau.-l.ter, his only child, rushes
.i:t tho iloorway to tiirow hers -if in her
fi:t'i-r's anr.s nnd siiower upon him more
ii--3 than there were wounds on his breast
.r dents on his shield. All the triumphal
;leridor vanishes. Ifoldinir back his child
fr. :u his heavinir breast and pushing the
1" 'Us ba.-k from tho fair brow aud looking
ln'o tii.i eyes of in-xilniruishahle affection.
.th choke 1 utt'-ranee he says "Would
i. ' l I iy stark on the bloody plain. My
l.'i'i.-I.ter, :nv only child, joy of mv home,
life ,,f my life, thou art tho saTinee'!"
'I lie whole matter was explained to her.
This was no whlninir, hollow henrted (rlrl
Into wnose ,-yes tiie father looked. Ail the
elery of sxord nnd shield vanislmd in the
re.-euci; of the valor of that Kill- There
may have been a tremor of tho lip as a rose
leaf trembles Inthe souh of tho south wind,
there may have been the startinif of a tear
like a raindrop shook from tho unther of a
water lily, but with a self sacrifice that man
may not reach and only woman's heart ran
compass she surrenders herself to tire nnd to
death. She cries out in the words of my
text, "My father, if thou hivst opened thy
mouth unto the Lord, do unto rue whatso
ever hath proceeded from thv moutQ."
She bows to the knife, and the blood which
so often at the father voice had rushed to
the crimson cheek smokes in the tires of the
burnt offering. No one can tell us her name.
There is no need that we know her name.
The airlands that Mizpeh twisted for
Jcphthah, the warrior, had cone into the
dust, tiut all aes are twistinj; the jrirl's
chaplet. It is well that her name came not
to us, for no one enn wear it. They mav
take the name of Deborah or Abigail or
Miriam, but no one in all the acres can have
the title of this daughter of sacri.'lee.
Of course this offerin ' was not pleasing to
the Lord :but before you hurl your denuncia
tions at Jephthah's cruelty, remember thnt
in olden times, when vows were made, men
thought they must execute them, perform
them, whether they were wlcke 1 or pood.
There were two wronif things about Jeph
thah's vow. First, he ousrht never to have
made it. Next, havint- made it. it were belter
broken than kept. Hut do not take on pre
tentious airs and say, "I couldnot have done
as Jcphthah di'L" If to-dayyou were stand
ing on the banks of the Gansre and you had
been born In India, you mi?ht have been
throwing your children to the crocodiles. It
is not becauso we are naturally any tetter,
but becnuse we have more pospel llk'ht.
Now, I make very practical use of this
nuestlon when I tell "you that the sacrifice of
Jephthah's daughter was n type of the physi
cal, mental an. I spiritual s.ioriiioj oi w. nju
children in this dav. I here an parents all
unwittingly brin rin to bear upon their chil
dren a class of inlluenecs which will as cer
tainly ruin thorn as knife nn l torch destroyed
Jephthah's daughter. Whilo I speak, the
whole Nation without emotion au l without
Bhame looks upon tho ;tupendous saerillce.
In tho first piaee. I remark that much of
tho system of education in our day is a sys
tem of p.-. 'ri.lco. When children spend six
or 6eve:: i ours a day in school, and then
must spend two or three hours in prepara
tion for s -hool the n-xt day, will you teil mo
how much time they will have for sunshine
and fresh air and tho obtainins of that exu
berance which is necessary for tho duties of
cominc; life?
No one ran feel more thankful than I do
for tho advancement of common school edu
cation. Tho printing of books appropriate
for schools, tno multiplication of philosoph
ical apparatus, the establishment of normal
schools, which providefor ourehlldren teach
ers of larcest caliber, are themes on which
every philanthropist ouirht to bo congratulat
ed. 1'ut this herding of great multitudes of
children in ill ventilated school-rooms and
!oorly equipped halls of instruction is mnk
mr many of tho places' of knowledge in this
country hu?o holocausts.
"Politics in many of the cities cets Into ed
ucational affairs, and while the two political
'.parties are scrabbling for tho honors Jeph
tnnh'sduachter perishes. It is so much so
hat there aro many schools in tho country to
day which are preparing tens of thousands
of invalid men and women for the future, so
that in mauv places by tho tiie time tho
child's oducntion Is finished the child is fln
lahed! In many places, in many cities of tho
country, there are laro appropriations for
everything else nnd cheerful appropriations,
but as soon as the appropriation is to be
made for the educational or moral interest of
the cdty wo are struck throueh with an econ
omy that is well nich the death of us.
Iii connection with this I mention what I
might cail the cramming system of the com
mon schools and many of the academies
children of delicate brain compelled to tasks
that might appall a mature intellect, chil
dren (?oin down to school with a strap of
books half as high as themselves. The fact
1. In some of the cities parentsjJo not allot
their children to rradnate for the slmpli
reason, they sav, "We cannot nft'ord to allo
our children's 'health to be destroyed Ii
order that they may gather the houors of ar
Institution."
Tens of thousands of children educr.toi
Into imbecility, so connected with many sucl
literary establishments there ought to N
asylums for the wrecked. It is push r.nc
crowd and cram and stuff and jam nntil th
child's Intellect Is bewildered, and th
taomgrxis wxockod- and the hwltbls goaft
-hooiswho oni wer SlV' ,T?m ttM
laughter and h7 "helk, fL mPln n,i
health, who are now tural JPE?!!1 T1"
noon pale face l irw J.tl ,n tha ft,r
fore their "me uV ' Hth,nnii"-, M be-
Latin French and German lessons 1 ! All t h.
vivacity of their nature beateTout oi hm
by the heavy beetle of a Greek lexicon i And
you doctor them for this, an? you rive
wmi " H."la m1t" r t "at, and you
will tell you what is th matter with them
they are finishing their eduetionT '
Inmyparishinrhilaielphia a e'dl l waa
80 pushed at school that she was !.roWQ Tmo
fever and In her dylaS d-ir. i:, ad niih?
tion tab e. friwy v'.o l I remomber that
knew'm th"ro w who
knew more tinn all of ns put together Tr
n,8 W.V?f'lat ln horricated
us. hen we stood up for the spUin JclesV
he was almost always the head of the class'
wi .01r3C2r,B.thi9 Uhr' hous. and Z
Ims l.08t W In as a pro Igv!
At 18 years of age he wu an idiot. Ife lived
S5hf hand from 1,19 le". or day from
ttn Idle. Parent3 nd tha temad
'J,0." my 1'ntte'- yonr pride by forcing yonr
tD! k"W more than aQV other ehiU
BMnifVSf ar7,ft.kin' crifleoof tha
SMld if by the additions to its intoll!gene
rnrVtn-S?. " .r,ubtra,tlon fron tts fu
m . -.lJ W1" RO away ,rom 8affn mal
treatment with no exuberance to tight the
battle of life, . 6uah ohildren mn, oil.
very wall wnile you taTteeare of tiiem, but
rhen you are old and dead, alas ! for them
If through the wrong system of education
which you adopted, they h ive no swarthi
ooss or force of character to tako care of
themselves. Ee careful how you make tho
u.iu o umu ucuts or us neart nutter.
I hear a great deal about black men's rights
md Chinamen's rights and Indians' rights
nd women's rights. Would God that some
ody would rise to plead for children's right !
rhe Carthaginians used to sacrifice their
Jhlldren by putting them into thearms of au
idol which thrust forth its hand. The child
WWi put into the arms of the Idol, and no
looner touched the arms than It dropped Into
Ihe tire. But it was the art of the mothers
keep the children smiling and laughing
intil the moment they died. There may be
t fascination and a hilarity about the stvles
f eduentlon of which I am speaking, but it
only laughter at the moment of sacrifice.
Would God there were only one Jephthath'e
laughter.
Again, there are many parents who are
menacing their children with wrong sys-
miua ui uiscipiin. ioo great rigor or too
rreat leniency. There are children in fam
lles who rule the household. They come to
fie authority. The high chair in which tho
nrant sits is the throne, an t the rattle Is the
icepter, and the other childen make up the
larliameut where father and mother have no
rote' Such children come up to be lais
lreants. There is no chance ln this world for a child
hat has nover learned to min i. Such peo
)le become the botheration of the church of
Jod and the pest of the worbL. Children
hat do not learn to obey human authority
ire unwilling to learn to ohey Divine author
ty. Children will not respect parents whose
luthority they do not respect. Who arc those
roung men that swagger through the stre t,
ivith their thumbs in their vest, talkin;
ibout their father as "the old man,"
the governor," "the squire," "tiie
ld chap," or their mother a3 "the
ld woman?" They are those who ln youth,
n childhood, never learned to respect au
ihority. Ell, having heard that his sonn ha 1
lied in their wickedness, fell over backwnrd
ind broke his nock and died. Well ho m'ght.
tVhat is life to a father whose sons are de
Jauched' Tho dust of the valley is pleasaut
lo his taste, and the driving rains that
trip through the roof of the sepulcherure
iweeter than tho wines of Helbon.
There must be harmony between tho
'other's government and the mother's gov
ernment. The father will be tempted to too
rreat vigor. The mother will bo tempted to
;oo grout leniency. Her tenderness will
vercome her. Her voice is n little softer ;
ler hand seems better fit to pull out a thorn
ind soothe a pang. Children wanting any
thing from the mother cry for It. They hope
0 dissolve her will with tears. But the mot i
r must not interfere, must not coax off,
nust not bg for tiie child when the
iour comes for the assertion of parental
mpremacy and the subju ; ition of a
shild's temprr. There comes in the history
f every child an hour when it Is tested
whether the parents shall rule or tho child
ihall rule. That is the crucial hour. If the
mild triumphs In that hour, then ho will
tome day make you crouch. It is a horrible
icenn. I have witnessed It a mother come
:o old age, shivering with terror in the pres
ence of a son who cursed her gray hairs and
nocked her wrinkled face and begrudged her
me cruat she munched with her toothless
ruins 1
IToir nharper thin a prpent'i tooth It U
To have . thankled chli Jt
Eut, on the other hand, too groat rigor
Dust be avoided. It is a sad tiling when do
nestle government becomes coid military
lespottstn. Trappers on the prairie fight Hr.
S'ith fire, but you cannot successfully tight
,-our child's bad temper with your own had
:emper. We must not be too minute in our
jispection. We cannot expect our children
:o bo perfect. We must not see everything.
Hince we have two or throe faults of ourown,
we ought not to he too rough when we dis
over that our children have as many. If
irnditlon lie true, when wo were children wo
were not all little Samuels, and our parents
were not fearful lest they could not raise us
Oecnuse of our premature goodness.
Yon cannot scold or pound your children
into nobility of character. Tho bloom of a
-hlld's heart can never be seen under a cold
drizzle. Above all, avoid fretting and
scolding In the household. Better than 10
years of fretting at your children is one
good, round, old fashioned application of
he slipper ' That minister of the Gosnel o!
whom we read in the newspapers that he
whipped his child to death bewiuse be would
not say his prayers will never come to oan
ontzation. Tho arithmetics cannot cal
culate how many thousaads of children
l.ave been ruined forever either through too
great rigor or too great leniency. The heav
ens and the earth are filled with the groan of
the sacrificed. In this Important matter seek
divine direction, O father, O mother. Some
one asked the mother of Lord Chief Justice
Mansfield If she was not prou 1 to have three
such eminent sons and all of them so good.
"No," she said, "It is nothing to be proud of,
but something for which to be very grateful.'
Again, there ore many who are sacrificing
their children to s spirit of worldliness.
Some one asked a mother whose children
had turned out very well what was the secret
by which she prepared them for usefulness
and for the Christian life, and she it 1 :
"This was the secret. When in the mornmg
1 washed my chlhlren, I prayed that they
might be washed ln the fountain of a
Saviour s mercy. nraipuii
ments, I prnyed thnt they might be arrayed
In the robe of a Saviour's righteousness.
When I gave them food, I prayed that
they might be fed with manna from heaven.
When I started them on the road to school, I
prayed that their path might be as the shin
ing light, brighter and brighter to the per;
feet day. When I put them to sleep, I prayed
that they might be enfolded in the Saviour s
arm " "Oh." yon r. "that was very oM
fashioned." It was quite old fashioned. But
do vou suppose that a child under such
nurture as that ever turned out bad?
In our dny most boys start out with no
Idea higher than the all encompassing dol
lar Thev start In an age which boasts it can
scratch the Lord's Prayer on a 10 cent piece,
and tho Ten Commandments on a 10 cent
niece. Children are taught to rwlucemonUs
and rolision, time and eternity, to vulgar
fractions. It seems to be their chief attain
ment that 10 cents make adime.and 10 dimes
make a dollar. How to get money is only
equaled by the other art. how to keep it.
Tell me, ye who know, what ehanee . there i is
for thosSwho start out in life with such
perverted sentiments? The money market
Founds again and again with the downfall
- . t- Tf t a Hmn of blood on
awiUL irUKW"7
TSSeboand, and ten, of thou
sands of the daughters of America are sacri
ficed to wordiineas. They are. taught to be in
svmpathy with all ths artlfleUUitiea of society.
iri . " m?,uiv1 toto all the hollownes. of
what Js called fashionable life. They are
,2"Te that htetor7 u dr. but that
60-oent stories of adventurous love are dell
ciona. With capacity that might have rivaled
aFlorenoe Mghtlngalo ln heavenly minis
tries, or made tha father's house glad with
nual nnd sisterly demeanor, their life is a
waste their boauty a curse, their eternity
demolition.
? he siege of Charleston, during the
civil War, a lieutenant of the army stood on
the floor beside the daughter of the ex-Governor
of the State of South Carolina. They
were taking the vows of marriage. A bomb
shell struck the roof, dropped into the group
and nine were wounded and slain : among
the wounded to death, the bride. While the
bridegroom knelt on the carpet trying to
stanch the wounds the bride demanded that
the ceremony be completed, that she
might take the vows before her de
parture, and when the minister said, "Wilt
thon be faithful unto deth?" with har dying
lips she said, "I will," and ln two hours she
bad departed. That was tho accidental
slaughter and the saorifice of the body, but
at thousands of marriage altars there are
daughters slain for time and slain for etern
ity. It Is not a marriage ; It Is a massacre.
Affianced to some one who is only waiting
until his father dies so he can get the prop
erty. Then a little while they swing around
In the circles, brilliant circles. Then the
property Is gone, and having no power to
earn a livelihood the twain sink Into some
corner of society the husband an idler and
s sot, the wife a drudge, a slave and a sacri
fice. Ah, spare your denunciations from
Jephthah's head and expend them all on
this wholesale modern martyrdom
I lift up my voice to-day against the sacri
fice of children. I look out of my window on
Sabbath and I see a group of children un
washed, uncombed. un-Chrlstlanized. Who
sares for thorn? Who prays for them? Who
utters to them one kind word?
When the city missionary passing along
the park ln New York saw a ragged hid and
tiearl him swearing, he said to him . "My
ion. etoo swearing I Vou ought to ito to the
aouse or tioa to-oay. Ton ougnt to be good.
!fou ought to be a Christian." The lad looked
Ji his faoe and said, "Ah, it Is easy for you
N) talk, well clothed as you are and well fed,
5ut we chaps hain't got no ohance 1" Who
Jits thorn to the altar for baptism? Who
jxs forth to snatch them up from crime
md death and woe? Who to-dny will go
forth and bring them Into schools aud
shurches? No. Heap them up, great piles
f rags and wretchedness ami filth. 1'ut
indernenth them the fires of sacrifice, stir
ip the blaze, put on more fagots, and while
we sit ln the churches with folded arms and
ndifferent crime and disease and death will
;o on with the agonizing saerillce.
During the early French Revolution at
Bourges there was a company of boys who
asod to train every day as young soldiers,
ind they carried a flag, and they had on tha
lag this Inscription : "Tremble, tyrants,
rrernble! We are growing up." Mightily
luggestive! This generation is passing off,
ml a mightier geueratlon is coming on.
Will they be the foes of tyranny, the foes of
tin, una the foes of death, or will they be tha
(o.otGol? They are coming up !
I congratulate all parents who are doing
thoir best to keep their children away
from the altar of sacrklc. Your prayers
ire elng to be answered. Your ohil
Iren may wander away from God, but
:hey will eome back again. A voice comes
Iroin the throne to-day encouraging
rou, "I will be a God to thee, and to
;hy seed after thee." And though when
rou lay your head in death there may be
tome wanderer of the family far away from
Sod, and you uiay be 20 years in heaven bo-
shall come to his heart, he
ha kingdom "id be
fore the throne of aod you will rejoice that
pou ware faithful. Come at last, although
o long postponed his Coming. Come at
lust !
I congratulate all those who are tolling for
Ihe outcast and wandering. Your work will
loon be over, but the influence you are setting
n motion will never stop. Long after you
Save been garnered for tne skies your pray
srs, your teachings and your Chrlstain Influ
ence will go on and help to people heaven
with bright Inhabitants.
Which would you rather soe which scene
would you rather mingle in in the lost great
lay being able to say, "I added bouse to
aouse and land to land and manufactory to
manufactory ; I owned half the city what--Ivor
my eyes saw I had, whatever I wanted
t got," or on that day to have Christ look
fou full ln the face and say, "I was hungry,
ind ye fed Me ; I was naked, and ye clothed
He ; I was sick and in prison, and ye visited
He ; lnasaiu"h as ye ui.l it to the least of ily
r:thren, ye did it to Jle?"
Ttc Hermit of the Bowery.
Fonr or five years ago the people of
S'ew York talked for a day about the
ttory of Hermit Coe ol tho Bowery and
then forgot it. A dozn years before
Leonard Coe, that being the name ha
was known by, had taken up his resi
dence in a Bowery lodging house. Ed
tfeemed very poor, but paid his rent
promptly, and spent a few cents each
lay for food. lie was morose and
taciturn, could seldom be drawn into
conversation, and rarely left his room.
When he did he always carried with
him a browu paper package. Finally
ho fell sick and was taken to a hospital.
When told that he could not recover,
ho sent for John Haller, a former fel
low lodger, anil informed him that his
real name was Baer, and that he had
datives living in Lancaster, Fenn. Ho
also made a will, naming Haller as his
executor, and intrusted to his keeping
the brown paper package he had so
long guarded with jealous care. Tha
dny following his death Haller opened
the package and found to his astonish
ment thnt it contained over $24,000 in
greenbacks. An examination of tho
hermit's papers showed that he was a
graduate of Yale College and had stud
ied both law and medicine. Later ho
had engaged in tho publishing busi
ness with his brother, but had in time
retired with a competence, and had
finally drifted to New York. There,
for some unknown reason, he had sunk
his identity under the name of Coo
and adopted the squalid life of a her
mit of the Blums New York li'
oorder.
The total number of colored troops
In the United States army during the
Civil "War was 186,017.
FOOD iok Tiioccnr.
He who forseea never act?.
The youth of tl.e soul is everlasting
A verse may find him whom a sermon
n:en.
A fool and a fast horse are soon
pai ted.
One Ban by day, by night ten thou
sand shine.
Talk little and well and you will Le
taken for somebody.
It is but a base, ignoble mind tha.
mounts no higher than a biid can soar
The less a man thinks or knows
about his virtues the better we like
Li in
They who provide much wealth for
their children, but neglect to improve
them In virtu re, do like those who feed
their horses high, but never train them
to character and success.
A word or a nod from the gocd lis
more weight than the eloquent speeches
of other'.
Napoleon had been the first man "of
the world if his ends had been purely
public
These two things, contradictory as
they may seem, must go together
manly independence and manly Inde
pendence, manly reliance and manly
self-reliance.
f.Tl 1AT AND T.PPVTOE.
All day long they come and go
Jtttypat and Tippy toe;
if.
footprints up and down the hall,
Playthings scattered on the floor.
Finsermarks along the wall.
Tell-tale streaks upon the door
Cy these presents you shall knof
Pittypatand Tippytoe.
How they riot at their play I
And, a dozen times a day,
ln they troop, demanding bread
Only buttered bread will do.
And that butter must be spread
Inches thick with su;ar, tool
Tfever yet have I ftaif : "Not
Pittypat and Tippytoe."
Sometimes there are griefs to soothe
hometimes ruffled brows to smooth
For I much regret to say
Tippytoe and Plttypat
Bomteime interrupt their play
With an Internecine fp.it;
Fie! oh, fie I to quarrel so,
Pittypatand Tippytoe 1
Ob, the thousand worrying things
Every day recurrent brings!
iland to scrub and hair to brush,
Search for plaything! gone amhrv
Many a murmuring to hush.
Many m little bump to kiss!
T.ife'a indeed a fleeting ihow,
l'ittypat and Tippytoe I
And, when day is at an end.
There are little duds to men !;
Little frocks are strangely torn.
Little shoes great holes reveal.
Little hose but one day worn.
Kudely yawn at toe or h i !
Who but you could w suca woe,
Pittypatand Tippytoe!
But when coaies this thought to me;
"Some there are tht childlcsa be '
Stealing to their tittle beds.
With a love I cannot sp;sfr.
Tenderly I stroke their bead.
Fondly kisseach velvet cheek.
Ooi help those who do not know
A Pittypat or Tippytoe!
On tha floor, along the hall,
l'.uJeiy traced upon ths wal',
Tb,-rd ard proofs in every kiud
Of the havoc they have wrought.
And upon my heart you'd find
Just such trademarks, if you sought.
Oh, how glad I am 'tis so,
Pittypat and Tippytoe!
Eugene Field, in Chieajo Kew
A GIRL'S WAY.
.1 HELEN FOIIUKST CRAVES.
? .WON'T!" dc-
ft -1 l T..t.- Iff!!!-
VI i-ioicii jjiuiLj .uue.
'S-rnl T'yy Martha, hush 1"
Si-:-':;"'A'f teoroted lira.
Mills, hold ing up a
?Jfp yellow forefinger
u-iA.Kt.zr oi cuium-'. '-a
&figJ.$&Si that the way to
PV'tV aieak to
mothcrS'' Remember the fifth
your
cotn-
luandoient, llartha!"
Well, I can't help it!" sputtcd
Hatty. We are cramped and cornered
sad hsrdworked enough already, aren't
we, without taking boarders for conven
tion weekt And it is bad enough to
hr pieced carpet and monded cur
tains and be oken-edged crockery without
other people finding it out. No, I
won't I
"Martha, hush!" reiterated Mra.Mills.
We don't get a chance to earn money
every day. Four gentlemen, at three
dollars a week apiece, makes twelve
dollars. And twelve dollars is twelve
dollars. It's just as I tell jou, Martha.
You most give up yonr room "
"liy room isn't fit for a squirrel to
s'cp in."
"And go to Aunt Betsy Billiogses to
sleep while Mr. Belforils here."
Matty tossed a pretty head, all a-glit-ter
with short-cut auburn curls.
"I won't 1" she repeated. "I won't!
I won t!"
I expect," composedly went on Mrs.
Mills, "they'll be hero to-morrow morn
ing. Doctor Pounce and Mr. Losellc
will hsvo the parlor, Mr. Cushing will
occupy the big bedroom and Mr. Bel
ford will have your room. They'll
probably arrive before breakfast. I
want you to catch half a dozen broilers
tnd shut 'em up in the three cornered
coop, so they'll be handy to kill first
thing in the morning. I'll mix up some
biscuit, and there's tho blackberry jam.
I'm told the city folks like jam with
their breakfast."
"But, mother," cried Matty, "there's
Jim! We're expecting Jim every day
and what's is poor Jim to do?"
"Jim can make out 'most any way,"
(aid Mra. Mills, indifferently.
"My only brother 1" pleaded Matty.
"Aod the only son you've got I And
he's been out West a year !"
"I'll risk Jim," observed Mrs. Stills.
"P'r'aps ho won't come. And if he
does, he'll manage somehow. I don't
feel as if I'd oujhter lose this chance of
making a little money."
"Mother"
Now, Maitha, you hush, an do
jest's I tell you. My mind's mado up,
an' I don't calculate to change it!"
Matty Mills aent down to a certain
.'nvorite nook of hers behind the barn,
a-he re the little brook gurgled away un
der U e branches of a superb old butler
nut tree, and indulged herself in a hear
ty cry.
"As if," she sobbeJ, "it wasn't bad
enough to be poor, without exposing our
poverty to all the old ministers Id the
country I I wish thero wasn't any con
vention I I wish it mot some we where
else I I wish I had succeeded in getting
Orsythorn School to teach I I wish
mother hadn't put all her money in the
Grazier's Bank the week before it
broke! I wish I was a man like Jim,
and could go out to seek my fortune,
instead of staying at home and econo
mizing coppers and washing dishes and
puttiug patches on old garments I One
thing I'm determined on I won't go
near the house all the time those board
ers are there. If mother will take 'em,
she must wait co 'em herself. And
neither will I consent to use a cent of
the wretched money they pay. And as
for eoing to sleep at Aunt Betsy's,
simply won't!"
When the moon rose, orange-gold and
glittering through the branches of the
outternut tree, Matty was still sitting
there, her elbws resting on her knees,
aud two bright tears on her cheeks.
Poor girl! She fancied herself the
most miserable being in the world.
"Mr. Bel.'ord, eh I" Mrs. Mills bad
come to the door in n bewildered way.
"Proud to make your acquaintance, sir,
I'm sure: but I didn't noways look for
you before to-morrow morning. Rid
over a-horseback, did you I Oh, no, I
tint so Inconvenienca tniJJlotit
least I I'll get i .u a biie o' tupp?r
dreckly, if you'll just lead your hone
down to the barn at the foot of the lane.
We don't keep no boy, but you'll fiud
hay .and oats handy. Martha! Martha!
Where is the child! I do b'lieve she's
gone to Aunt Betsy Billingses a're.vly.
Just like Martha. She never was no
calculator i"
Matty Mills, however, was not so far
distant as her perturbed mother imag
ined. She had slipped in at the back doot
of the barn, patted the red co .v who
stood ruminating in her stall, made her
self a cosy little nest in the fragrant hay
up stair?, aud, lighting tho old lantern,
eat down to read.
Suddenly there camc'a hesitating foot
step on the threshold outside.
The douC ?9ened. Matty started from
her book. She leaued over tus big
bea n. all fringed with hay, which mi lo
the partition of her impromptu divan.
"Who' there?" she called. "Jim
ioh, Jim ! Don't be frightened, it's me
.Matty. I'm hiding from mother. We've
'Imd a difference of opinion. M tlieri)H
t iken four horrid, slupi I minister to
jboard for a week it's s. si kind of
(convention, Jim and Oa, dj wait a
jminute!"
She swung herself lightly over the
beam and alighted, like a fluttering,
briht-crestud bird, on the floor of t.ie
barn.
"Oh, Jim, if you only kne.v "
"I beg your pardon," spoke a quiet,
composed voice, in the deep, well -modulated
tones that bespeak much prActic,
"but I think there must be eo.no mis
take. Mrs. Mills sent me here to put u;
my horse. I'm afraid I am our of the
'four horrid ministers.' But I assure
Ju "
Matty caught up the barn lantern ana
held it on a level with his face.
"Why," she exclitmeJ, "it's Mr.
Beresrordl"
"That is my name. And you are
Matty Mills," said a stranger, a suiden
lirht of recognition illuminated his face.
'But, if it is an allowable question
ho on earth came you here I"
"In the most natural way in thr
world. I live here. And jou!"
"I am here to attend the convention."
"Mr. Beresford!"
"Miss Matty!"
"Are you a minister?"
"I hive that honor. Miss Mitty."
"It cu't bu possible!"
"Why shouldn't it ba possible? Al
though you, perh:i), were not a.vare of
it, I was a theological student whet I
met you in Massachusetts. Yes, Miss
Matty," with a mischievous nod of the
bead, "it's an incontrovertible facr. I
am oue of the four horrid ministers."
Matty lowered her lantern.
'May I ask your cirand at the barn?'
slid she, in an altered voice. "Though
per'.ieps my mother sent yo l to find
me?"
"Xo. She told mo to conic hero to
put up my hoise; ho is waiting cut
side." "Oh, pror fellow, ho must bo verj
tired 1" said Matty, hurriedly, hauling
tho lantern on u hook. 'Otea the big
door. Lead him into one of the empty
stalU. Xot tint side, ltassie is fiere
the cow and tho isu't used to horse.'-
With quick, deft bands, the girl thtJ
down an armful of hay into the maug-r
and showed Mr. Beresford where to hud
the painted pail wherewith to bring
water from the well, and then leaving
the lantern as a guide, she vanished.
Mr. Beresford smiled quietly as he
made his horse comfortable, and then re
turned to the house, where Mrs. Mills
had prepared an appetizing repast. But
when he went to bed at ten o'clock there
was no sign of Matty's return.
Mrs. Mills herself hurried over to Aunt
Betsy's house in the morning.
Where's Martha?" said she. "I want
her."
"Marthj?" echoed Aunt Betsy, put
ting one hand behiud her ear after the
fashion of deaf people. "What about
Marthj? She ain't been here."
'Then where is she?" cried Mrs. Mills.
"ilow shoul l I know?" counter-questioned
Aunt Betsy, Irritably.
"She was always as full of kinks as a
clothesline on a wet day!" sighed .Mrs.
Mills. "I guess I'll jest have to do the
best I cart without her. She was dread
ful opposed to my board in' the four rev
erends; but I g' leiS my will's as strong as
hcr'n. I'll get along somehow, and
Martha shan't have a cent of the money I
earn no, not a cent! But ain't it funny,
Betsy? Mr. Beresford tells me by the
fvay, bis name's Beresford, not Belfjrd,
as I s'posed it was that he used to visit
up to MansQeld, where Martha taught
one term a spell ago."
"I want to know?" said Aunt Betsy.
'Ho seen her dowa to the barn last
night," added Mrs. Mills. "She showed
him where to put up his horse, an' that
was the last of her. 1 wish I knew where
she was I"
The convention had been in session
several days, when", during Mr. Beres
ford's sermon in the crowded village
church, his eyes fell on Matty Mills's facu,
half hidden in the ihadow of one of the
quaint wooden pillars.
He paused a moment in mid -sentence;
then he collected himself, and went on
ai brilliantly as ever.
But when he had finished, he did cot
stay to hear the Reverend Raymond Cush
ing's "remarks," which came next, but
slipped out into the fresh air and star
light. So that when unconscious Matty
emorged, like a slim shadow, be quietly
put out his hand and stopped her. She
started violently.
"Stop a minute," said he. "Why are
you crying?."
"I I didn't want to cry!" said she,
sobbing and defiant. -'But you made
me you preached that sermon right at
me I"
'I wasn't thinking of you, Miss
Matty," said he, quietly, "until my eye
fell on your face. All the same, if the
cap fits you, by all means put U on."
'I won't be so willful lor the future,"
murmured Matty. "I'll give up my own
way. I'll come back this very night and
help mother in her own fashion. After
all she is older than I am, and wiser."
She spoke partly as if she were think
ing aloud, as she added:
"I had meant to go up north again
and teach, but it mother wants me to
stay here---"
And nobody but Mattie herself and
possibly Mr. Beresford, in a lesser degree
knew what it cost the girl to relinquish
her ambitious dreams and take up the
humble, homely burden of every -day life
again. But she did it bravely.
"Martha ain't the same gal she was,"
complacently spoke Mrs. Mills. "I al
ways .knowed if I talked to herrlong
btgpgVI'tailld'pako her bear resoa
And o'.d Doctor Pounce 1.0 gave her n lot
o' real good advice convention week."
In the gray, soft days of November,
Mr. Beresford came back to fulfill a
promise he hod mado to preach once
more for the village pastor.
lie walked across tho meadows to the
Mills cottage to shake hands with his
hostess of the preceding summer.
"Well, I declare?" said Mrs. Mills, in
dustriously polishing her spectacle
glosses with the corner of her checkered
apron. "I'm proper glad to see you,
Mr. 'JeresfordI I'm orful sorry Martht
ain't to home! I do hope you're well
My son James, he's here with his wife.
Tucy'vo concluded to settle East and
live in thjs house with me, so I shan't
need Martha anyway, and she'll hev hct
heart's desire of going back to Massa
chusetts to teach. Sho goes to Mans
field next week."
"No, she doesn't" said Mr. Beresford,
smiling. "She will remain hero until
she is married on Christmas Day 1"
"What!" ejaculated Mrs. Mills. "I
g'.ieis you've hoard some of the neigh
b.irs' gossip. Alonzo Whitcomb did wk
her to marry him, but she refused."
"Nevertheless, she is going to be mar
ried. To me, Mrs. Mills. I met her ai
I came across the fields from the parson
a'jc, and we settled tho matter."
15 but," stammarcd Mrs. Mills,
".Martha always vowed and declare! sho
never would be a minister's wife?"
Mr. Beresfori smi'cd his rare, sweet
sm le.
I think," said ho, "that she has
changed her ruiud." Saturday Night
Life-Saving Soap.
A cake of soup is said to have saved
the lives of five men and a boy off th(
coast of New Guinea. The story, as told
in tho smoking room of a steamer going
to Br'.s'ia.ie by an old man, the owner oi
several t es-cls engaged in pearl fishing,
is reported in Mr. Xisbett's "Colonia
Tramp."
"It all happened in a moment," said
the old hiati. ' Tie ship struck the ice!
and went down like a thunderbolt, and
we hud only time to jump overboard anc
swim ashore.
"Wj were at the mouth of Cloudj
Bay, v. iiic'i meant slow roasting alive ai
soon a; the natives got a peek at us. W
were wet, hungry and miserable, wit!
nothing to stay the pangs of hunger.
"As daylight dawned I saw a casi
h'.owly drifting ushore. In a moment wi
were wading nnd swimming to securi
the treasure. We had it on shore iu n
time, aud prying it open with ou
fingers fcuad it filled with soap. Wi
bemoaned our hard luck in etnphatii
Ian u.ige.
" 'Close around the case, boyr, they'rt
cominv;!' I shouted, 03 I saw fifty mop
heade 1 stvages, armed with spears, bowi
and i.rrows, rushing toward us. Ai
fifteen yards distauco. they paused, and
their chief cajie out to talk with us. 1
graobed up an armful of the soap tubleb
aud advauccd to meet him. His eye.'
lighted as he saw the amber-like cake:
on which the sun was shining. Novel,
ties, when they take, mean success.
Going straight up to the man-eater I
crTcicd him a cake. lie took it, sinel
it :i i 1 ta-itei it. Evidently ho did no
li'.tj its taste, for he scowled at me. B;
14113 I shjweJ him how to use it. Tin
I'apmi'i Is fond of washing himself, anc
my pantomime took his fancy. Seeing 1
stream of fresh water I led the chief to it
J K.rst washing my own hands I gave him
the tablet. Ho did as I had done anc
was delightod.
"Then for the next ten minutes then
was scrubbing among these copper skins.
Their weapons were thrown down anc
they lathered one another and then threw
water over their bodies.
"Wo were saved, and made on th.
spot medicine men of the tribe. Th
pictorial advertisement of the soa;
makers were used to decorate tho ido
house. Two weeks afterward we wc
rescued by an English wur sluop."
Salaries of Navy Surgcous.
An assistant surgesa iu the Caitel
Slates Navy relieves as annual salary of
$101)1) oa leave or waiting orders; 1403
on shore duty and $1700 at sea. After
sorvin ilvi years these amounts are in
creased to 1200, $1G )0 and 1900 re
spectively. When at sja he is allowed
in addition one ration at thirty cent? a
day. After attaining the rank of passed
assistant surgeon, tho yearly pav is in
creased to 1500, S1SU0 and 2000, ac
cording to the duty performed during
the first live years in that rank, after
which he receives . 1700, J000 and
2100. The next higher grade is sur
geon with a salary ranging from a mini
mum of 2800 at sea to 1200 after
twenty yoars' service, tho letter sum in
uch instances being paid no matter
where assigned. After passing to the
rank of medical director, medical inspec
tor, or fleet surgeon, be is assured a sal
ary of 1100 at sea, on shore, on leave,
or waiting orders until tha time arrives
for his retirement at the age of sixty
two, unless this occurs because of acci
dent or other cause prior to attaining
that u;;c. When placed on the retired
list the rate of p .y subsequently drawn
is seventy-fivo per cent, of the total sal
ary held by the medical man at the timf
ol his retirement. Detroit Free Press.
Slaving by Machinery.
Shaving a man in twenty-five seconds
is a feat deserving of tho highest praise
and retard by all such as value their
time. The feat has been rendered easy!
of performance by the construction of a
shaving machine of wood, reported to,
have been male by one Mclchior Farkas,'
s convict in the penitentiary of the "city;
of Siogcdin, in Hungary. Farkas was
put to labor in the cabinet-making shop
of the prison, and, taking to bis work
with a will, he soon displayed great in-i
ventive ingenuity. With his machine he
is mid to have shaved all the inmates of
the prison, nearly one hundred and fifty1
in number, within less than an hour's
time. The report fails to state, how-i
ever, to what extent the shaving by
machinery did or did not succeed in
giving comfort to the sufferer in the
chair. Chicago Herald.
Remarkable Sale of Old Silver.
One ol the most remarkable sales o.
old silver ever held was at Edinburgh
lately. It included pieces belonging to
the late Earl of Dunmore, and the ser
vice of St. Martin's Abbey in Pertshire,
Several pieces were bought 00 com-t
mission from xsew lork. Tne nigh est
price ever obtained for old silver, $80
an ounce, was given for an early Italian
double-handle cup and cover, $420 be.
J rig the' price. The highest price tre,
ofoto bad been $50 n ounce r
OLLO.MARGARINE POPULAR.
Twenty-four Thousand Tons Annually Ure4
by the People of This Country.
Hidden away in a dark and coh
webby corner beneath the roof of thi
Treasury at Washington Is a room,
filled with a mysterious assemblagf
of queer looking apparatus which hat,
the aspect of an alchemist's labor
atory. Yet the work done there bai i
to do not with gold or a vital j
elixir, but with the analysis of fooij,
and drink. It Is the chemical dl
Tislon of the internal revenue bureau,!
and one of the matters it has in I
cbarg 3 la the detection of fraud iq
the sale of oleomargarine for butter.
The Kansas City Journal expressci
surprise on learning that the con
sumption of oleomargarie in thit
country has doubled in the last flv
years. The people of the Cnited
States eat 4,000.000 pounds of iteverj
month, or 24,000 tons annually.
Kcarly all of it it Is put up by tht
great meat packers of Chicago, Cin
cinnati, New York, Providence, and
Kansas City. The manufacture of it
is lawful, but it Is not permitted tc
masquerade as butter in the market.
Suspected samples are pounced upon
by revenue agents and submitted U
!hemical testa.
Three-fourths of tho hotels ana
nearly all of the restaurants and
boarding-houses in tho United States
use oleomargarine. For their pur
poses this artificial product is excel
lently adapted. Whereas buttei
quickly spoils, oleomargarine always
looka nice and remains fresh indefi
nitely. Some of It which has teen
kept at the Treasury for three years
is as good as ever to-day. It Is bet
ter in flavor than any except first
rate butter. People who buy rancid
butter for cooking would do much
better to purchase oleomargarine.
The best of tho latter Is not cheap,
costing as much as 25 cents a pound,
thus approaching ordinary grades ot
butter in price. The peculiar flavor
of butter is due to the presence of
45 per cent of fatty acid. These
acids aro volatile and rapidly decom
pose, hence the rapidity with which
the substance spoils. Oleomargarine
contans very little of such destructU
blc material . It Is made from beet
fat, which is removed from the ani
mal ln tho process of slaughtering,
washed and placed in a cold water
bath. Next the fat is cut into small
pieces bv machine and cooked until
the liquid portion lias separated from
the tissues. The liquid fat Is settled
until perfectly clear. Then it la
pressed to extract the stearlne, leav
ing a pure "oleo oil," wnich, churned
together with milk and butter, be
comes oleomargarine. The fat being
almost tasteless, butter is put in to
give the requisite flavor, the best
oleomargarine having 20 per cent o
the llnest butter.
Leaning Towers,
"ine Spanish city of Saragossa nail
until recently a leaning tower, knowD
as the Torre Nueva or new tower
a sufficiently appropriate title In 1004,
when it was eiected, but scarcely ap
plicable after the lapse of nearly four
hundred years It was 230 feet high
and 42 feet wide at the base, dimin
ishing to 30 feet at tho ton. The
walls of the lower portion were origi
nally 12 feet thick, but when the set
tling of the south side of tower,
which had been long in progress, had
thrown it dangerously out of the per
pendicular, the wall on that side was
strengthened to 13 feet in thickness
This was done some thirty years ago,
but tho remedy proved Ineffectual, and
at length the apparent peril became
so great that the tearing down of the
venerable structure was ordered, and
the work of demolition was lately
bcirun. Tho more celebrated Lean
ing Tower of Pisa is less lofty, being
ISO feet high, but its inclination Is
over thirteen feet. Its proper name
is the Campanile of tho Cathedral,
and its age 700 years, or nearly double
that of its rival at Saragossa. More
over, though It leans so much as to
severely try the nerves of tourists
who look down from the lower verge
of its summit, It stands solidly on its
base, and has done so for many cent
uriesso long, In fact, that it cannot
now be determined whether its lean
ing is accidental, or whether its
builders intentionally constructed it
ln that position, perpetrating a huge
architectural joke for the entertain
ment of posterity.
Why Wolves Have Become Scarce.
Says a recent writer: Notwith
standing the fact that ever since the
settlement of America the wolf has
been pursued with guns, traps, and
poison, It Is certain that no blow was
ever dealt this race so severe a the
extinction of the buffalo. Their
natural prey gone, the wolves turned
their attention to the herds of the
stockmen, and for years now their
depredations have resulted in very
serious losses to raisers of horses and
cattle on the northern plains. They
do not attack the herds when tlicy
are alarmed and closely bunched to
gether, but prowl about their out
skirts, trying to cut off the young
Stock, which they can easily pull
dowa
Sometimes a small band of woives
clll round-up a little bunch of cattle,'
wnicn stand in a close circla, their
heads outward, prepared for the at-,
tack. After circling about them for'
a short time, two or three of the'
wolves will dash at the bunch, aud if
they can scatter the animals it Is the
work of an Instant only to pull down
a yearling steer with no greater ap
parent effort than a setter dog would
use in killing a cat.
Stopping Vessels.
An Invention designed to facilitatt
tne immediate stopping of vessels mov
ing Id dangerous waters, or In danger
of colliding with another vessel, has
been patented by a Peruvian. A
vertically sliding frame on a post at
tne bow of the vessel hiM on its sides
pivoted wlogs adapted to expand
transversely to offer resistance to tho
forward motion of the vessel in the
water when the frame is in its lower
Most position.
The conucil of hygiene in Paris, it
t said, is about to take steps to sop
press the nse of old magazines and
newspapers for . wrapping np food.
fha Anntrian rove rn ment baa nrohiblt-
ed the nse of such papers and aleo of
COlOreu puptB labium hauiicd iu
tended to be eatn.
HEWS IN BE1EP,
JTswfoundlanJ, like Ireland, nas
no snakes.
Florida will protect alligators from
Bxtiuction by law.
There Is no sc.oh thing at the right
use of a wronr tiling.
Foreich tourists spend about $!00.
003,000 a year iu Italy,
It la a scientific fact that Chinamen
are iomarkably long lived.
The oldest exIstlDg bank is the Car
eelona Bank founded In 1401.
The death rate from apoplexy I
hlahest at Turin. Italy C10 in 10.OU0.
More suicides take place on Tues
3ay and Thursday tban on ether week
lays.
Nelson says that for every death
luring the year two persons are con
itactly sick.
There Is a new rose, an exquisite
blendlcg of pink and wnite, called
Cupi.t.
Cathedral dining room chairs are
the kind that compel one to sit up
itraignt.
A Farmer In Estelle, Kv.t owns
i young chicken which has four lees
ind live wings.
Sunstroke is more common in the
cities of America than iu those of Eu
rops and Asia.
Each clay some ten thousand strang
rs'emer .London, which is infest d b?
120.COO paupers.
The white of an egg. quickly swal
lowed by a choking person, often gives
Immediate relief.
There are more deaths annually
from hydrophobia In Sweden than lo
iny other country.
A heliotrope hedge 200 feet long
Is to be seen on the pre mlses of a Ven
tura Cal. florist.
During the Franco German war
ihe Germans lost 2G3 men from small
pox the French 23,417.
A recent invention Is a triple pec
which rules the three lir.es f a cash
eclumm at one stroke.
It Is said that the "thirteen" super
stition extenc's away back to the time
of King Arthur, 51G A. J).
A Tottstown (Penn.) farmer keeps a
larne numder of snakes on his place foi
the purpose of killing rats.
The German Emperor recently is
sued an order against officers of hi;
army using single eyeglasses.
Many of the mediaeval churchct
were originally constructed t j serve a!so,
when occasion required, as foi tresses.
It is now proposed to make thi
tio ley do the wotk that mules havt
been accustomed to do for canal bout.
Thirteen-year-old Mrs. Henry ol
Headquarters, Ky., has piesented liei
?eventeen-year-old husband with trip
le 8.
John Kaufman, a middle-aged
Amisli preacher, residing near Elkhart,
Ohio, preaches while asleep or iu a
trance.
The English Importers of Austra
lian frozen meat advise that the at.i l.'.I
lieat should be allowed te escape I efor
they begin to be frozen.
Greek paintings were executad in
llstemper with glue, milk or white of
eggs and on wood, clay, plaster, stone,
parchment and canvas.
It is said that dew will not form
on some colors. While a yeliowboard
will be covered with dew, a red or a
black one beside it will be perfectlj
tlry.
The kudzu vine is probably the
most rapid growing plant in the world.
It be'otgs to the bean family, and wii:
easily grow sixty feet tall in tbret
months.
A new glass forthermometeri is un
affected by a heat of 1000 def r s, th
ordinary glass being unreliable above
o0uegio?s on account of it tendency
to soften.
Lyonet, who spent his whole life In
watching a single species of caterpillar,
discovered in It 4000 eyes. The com
mon fly has 8000 eyes, and certain but
terflies 5,000.
Edison is working on a magnetic
ore separator. The only obstake in tiie
way of its success at present Is the
necess'ty of crushing the ore to a very
powder before the seiarating process.
The smokes of Paris have been
mapped by M. Foubert, The princi
pal factory chimneys have been set
down, with circles of various sizes and
tints to represent the emission of smoke
from each.
A strail cannon, which was cap
tured by Andrew Jackson at New Or
leans iu 112, was presented to tht
Johnstcwn, Pa., Grand Army post
Memonal day.
Thlreen tco-operatlve quarries, es
tablished In .New England by reason
of the granite cutters' strike last year,
are sai l to have tame I out ?110,0))
worth of work in about Ave mouths.
The moisture In the climate or Eng
land nffcCts everything 89 greatly that
the very rocks crow softened and with
ordinary penknives 1 eople can rut
their initials in all the old bri-Jges and
churches.
"The Girl 1 Irt Behind Nfe" has
be?n played and sui.g in KnglanJ
since 1700. Its original name was
"Urlfibton Camp." it is an Irish air
but who composed either tiie words of
music is now unknown.
The largest gold nugg. t evir found
in Colorado weighed thirteen p minis;
the largest in the UniUtd Stales
weighed 151 pounds; largest in tin:
world, 223 iounds and four ounces.
An engaged couple of IJlueflt-U. W
Va., recently ran a foot race. T.e wo
man wod, and then iefused to marry
her lover, on the ground tliat thi did
not wish to wed n Inferior.
"Right at the foot of a great ghicit-i
in New Zealand there is a tr .pica
growth of plant life arid a hot spring,
with water IssulDg forth at a t--inpen.-ture
of over one hundred degree?.
A chimney piece carved from wood
over six thousand years eld, has re
cently been erected in a house in I..I
inburg. The wood, an oak tree, was
found in a sand pit thirteen feet below
the surface. It was in a lino stato of
preservation, doe to the sand, and was
easily workable.
A suit in the English Chancery
Court begun 152 years ago was con
cluded the other day. 1 ho govei u
ment duties and legal lees eoverc.l
nearly the entire sum fought for.
'I tiope I give you satisfaction '
as the pistol said to the wuuu.i.l
duelist
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