A PLEA FOR THE BIRDS. . . . T L ' J Vf ALFIlT.n A.USTIB, mm .:.' heavenward note, , -,lt i- it -vet the dnjr, , , 0L n: white gulU wheel and Bp I isi jL tf'nht blue buy, oi flicker round the rose, 'fi per k.r alight "'"wli'-io tlm woodbine blows, n oat of sight. Mnntli.ir sight I saw, "'diimnve, crimson streak, nl wing, the orlppled olaw, filjriAt nod drooping beak; I l tliln fraroiJ, creature fair, U"W eigur now unoll to deot their hntr, irjlmont tliolr brow. Leu reato of England. O, tender maiden, trustful wlfo, Nurtured In bliss and eie, The selfsame hoaven that lent yau life, Onve life no less to these. And whnn, 'mid wintry frost and rlmo To Yule-log hoartti you ollng, Remember, In the tweet springtime, ', Tbe birds agnin will ling. Thny with tlielr I aye your love will thank, It you will only apnre. And once again to willowy bank Tbo kingfisher repair. O, let the tern complete tho Host . ti tenderness bawnn, ' And oriole plume and" egret crot, Uleam, sacred, In tho lunl New York Independent. LOVE'S STRATAGEM. er.l CT'i 'I ' j tbe old hackneyed story of ."ivnune oreatures. seonre in t mntnnl InVA. ffOintf ,C I in band to fight the ue:fld. "Hthat forth grim, And . thoy had been was nil! As the girl to the embers, tho..-. ts of irc,hS havo been flooded her jd thon her love for the man :as bread ontsido llanied up civ r, B.r,knocl on tho door brought '''''er'tiJ thoughts book with a 1 'ie sordid present. ''tr openod and n tired look ot A cnmein with a deprecating ft.;. j. l,lti.w? tn frnulilfl Ton. mv Ire tc get to-morrow's dinner tsl ' L ,il and nnnld Toil let '"I Utile money?" "Ma strange and apologetio 0 6m n landlady to bor dobtor, Bl:js Mrs. Jones' way. Her iv cut her for many an act of lliindness. ''to sorry, Mrs. Jones," said e "besitatiiigly, for she was not 5 '-4 to poverty and its nocesi 'm my husband is trying even tt some money. The paper for has takeu his drawings, 'i 'will not pay. I wish I had to give you; bat unless be ek his money we shall not VU; i. U IS- i 0 !nca ttarod in surprise. wj no dinner? My poor dear! 1 'ely you weren't going to go ' to' Lord lovo yon, why didn't J me before? Why, there is -cutaiis coming up now. I'm i'p Kill step. Don't tell him I wilho rent, but let it bido let ln- f J ' fisho bustled off. cer heart beating wildly, Ellen uwont to the door and stood nt jfor Iter husband. He came i tho dark, oarpetless stairs, orjbog him sigh and pant as bo pter hopes fell to zero.. With j f her sex she crept baok into frcjt a. my darling, how have you . .the oried, earning to his side lf BtcreU, aud kissing him. iw hot and burning yon arc! ?" she asked, anx- tho oaudle," ho said. flight "J. think I'm going to bo bad, .-, in go to uoa now, if you t" he i if?'' Diouey, George? did tbo Diktvlint. nbn ivnnll oIia jlSee& EriPinS anxiety from an ini-T ". 4 0,(1 mo 10 caU "Sam, y - told mo to call uaays. I said I wanted V. Attll tllrt nlm-lr nlinnrml .nn After the holidays ha, f tpk ,ith ghastly merriment ' w v H btiuuig IIUU him into the half tiny any food to-day, of a8:rrfiieJ Ion bavo ,W1 toe?" o. Jed at her with the smilo ba,ftill on bis faoe and said: lat'want tho monyi ": the ferei published two months jr e owe for rent and for food. ay me? Whnt? After i , !' Why, heaven! wo may 1 Mfore then. I tell yon I 7 uchod food to-day. Curse ivot00 dio awy iQto a husky tyE'ting Uor lips to keep Itc te4V8 suo undressed him, ;euje foroo pushed him into l ft 4 ivi(i)0 op601! the door and ran t to. Mrs. Jones' room. -dear!" the landlady ex ltI 'i'iiD. oatohing sight of tho - yd fy.co sho laid down her 'he ff tUe matter? Tell we "si!'' ra" ,1odcsi nd talking ' ,,'nlly. Do como up?" To )O0i distrea the landlady jtowcr of strength, and she fh reliof as the stood woman '.;u to roonut tho Ions you brokenly. candle, ke Iair. "It is good of Hot fou," she said bro haviujr lit the t Jlvn'nt tho pinohed, wan faoe re lu pillow and put her band '"'tnndonsclous man' nl.nuf n't8 .tsl" she ranttered; "he's t if1 in nud bne starved, I ')o led tho way to the front e Lab down. 'I began; "but it don't neo'd the livo nal Whn 1 whore do you como from. 4- kindly bead-liko oyes 9ad the girl's very soul, 1 fialf-c'.eflantlyi "!' name Is Cheshara tn aud he lives in Oios 4 What then?" felt a sense of exalta jaotuiilly had a lodger f-amongst the highest in t was her voice not one ifvl ?eo tLak you auJ to "J yonder weren't born to lii "S.-h 'a Jtow, Whiteohapel. Wh oH At t o ingl 16 4 to 1' eU net? are you here, thon?" I Joiios, don't speak un 1 fr I'm miserable enough I husband and I mot at a fund I don't quito know pifld, but we met severul ft. Then it was all my od him that I loved him, ! ar my father's consent she and sho my husband is ill! are nearly starving, to our marriage. He wouldn't hear of it, and bo " The voico suddenly broko into a deep sob. "And so you ran away. Well, now, put on your hat and things, and ask your father for help." "And do you think I'd go back and ask for help? Nevorl" "For yoursolf, no," said tho land lady; "but for him, if yon love biin, yes. -Come, don't hesitate; go and put your pride behind you. It's for him to be hard, not you. Go! I'll seo to this poor, half-starved chop. Go, and bring back a doctor and help with you." With extraordinary energy bIio helped the still undeoided wife into her jacket, and almost hustled her downstairs. "Seo your father if you have to stay till to-morrow, and trust mo to nurse your basbaud. Law, I'vo had ono of my own, and so I know." Tho de ceased Jones' very existence was some what apocryphal, and in spite of her distress Ellen Carstuirs was Buiiling as the front door slauimod behind her. At length, worn ont with fatigue, she stood in front of her old home. Tho constable looked intently at her as sho passed and wondered whether he ought to mcvo her on or not. Thon, with a flush of shame, knooked at tho servants' door felt nervously at her heavy veil. "Can I Bee Mrs. Edwards?" asked timidly, of a servant. "She's bnsy now. Whnt name shall I say?" was the question, and liko a flash the ' baby name her old nurso had given her came to her momory. "Say Mre.- 'Toddles' wants to see her." The servant grinned broadly and loft her standing at the door for what seemed a long, long time. "You're to oorao up to tho house keeper's room plcaso, mum." The words recalled her to herself, for she was leaning tired out against tho wall, and she ntumbled blindly through the servants' quarters. "My honey! My bonnie bairn!" cried tho housekeeper, as she took the exhausted woman into her arms. "Why haven't you beon here, before? How is it with you?" Pitifully she noticed tho faded jacket and the haggard faco cf her young mistress. "Ou, nurse, And, nurse, we aud " But Mrs. Edwards had gono, and, with shaking hands, was trying to hurry on the preparation of somo food. "And rov father, nurto do you think he'll forgive me?" "He's very bitter against you both mainly because you haven't written to him or asked him to take you baok again, ne is out to dinner to-night, but is oomiug home at 11 o'clock." Aud it was now barely 9, and hor husband was lying ueodiug the food so bountifully spread ou the tray beside hor. To divert her attention Mrs, Ed wards said: "Come and look at your old room, my dear you'll find nothing moved, for. each was your father's wish. Come, now, dry your eyes, and hope for the best." Aud so Elleii Carstairs walked once more in her father's house and contrasted its luxury and wealth with her own shabby garret. "Nurse, whore's my statuo gone?" she suddenly asked, pointing to an empty pedestal at the head of the main staircase. It had boon a whim of Lord dies ham's to have his daughter's form soulptured by a groat artist, and, clad in flowing Greoiau robes, with a lamp in its hand, tho statue had boeu universally admired for its beauty aud its graoejof outline. "ITcs," roplied the woman. "It was taken down when you went away. Such a pity, too, I thought, for I hoped it would have softened him after a awhile." But tho girl was not listening. She was thiuking of a during scheme by whiolt to play for her Husband and herself. "Nurse,' where are thoso clothes I wore for that statue? They were in my wardrobe." Mrs. Edwards turned suddenly round. "You don't mean to say " she bsgau. "Yes, I do mean to dress up as (he statue, aud trust to God for the rest. Quick! let mo havo the clothes aud keep the servants away when my father ooines baok." Trembling with their eagerness the two women hurried upstairs and en tered the bedroom. Ellen's eyes tilled with tears as she noticed her belong ings just as she had left them. lu a few minutes she stood looking like a vision from another world, so unearthly was the etl'uct of hor pallor. Then, as the hour drew near for Lord Cheshaiu's return she moved quickly down the stairs and stood on the mar ble pedestal, imitating in every way, 'save for tho lamp, the disgraced statue. The house was quite still, and tho loud, sonorous ticking of the great hall olook was the only Bound that could be heard. Thon thore was a noise as of wheels, and the ball rang. A flunkey, mag iiiQceut in plush aud silk, flung open tho door, aud tho master of the house came in. He walked to tho library, and as he crossgd the hall, from sheer force of habit, ha loolred no lh atnirurav. "Heavensl" he mattered, frowning, "who has dared to put that statu back?" Tho light was shining brilliantly on the motionless flgnre as he stared up at it with a flood of varying emotion! surging across his brain. As he gazed to his amazement tenn began to trickle down the cheeks ol the statue. Then he understood, and slowly and half-unwillingly he walked np tho stairs. Still no movement of the flgnre nu til he came quite olose and hold out hia arms. She cropt into their oncir cling embrade and clung to him hi though fearful to once more lose him. Tbe Rubicon was parsed, and no word of forgiveness or reprosoh evet passed his hps; only he felt a great thankfulness for her return. "And where is he?" he whispered, still holding her tight. "Starving and ill, futher. Qnickl Come to him ere ho dies!" she panted, looking np at him with her mother'! eyes. "Come downstairs, Helen, child. We will go to him at onco." Together they walkod down the stain and he struck a gong. The footman who came stared in affright at the girl in her long draperies. "Telephone to the stable to send up my carriage at once do you hear, at once!" The man vanished. "Where to, sir?" naked tho footman, when the father and daughter were in the carriage. "Redman's Row, Whiteohapel, High street," said Lord Cheahum. "You could, lyive kuocked mo down with a blooming feather," said tho man to the coachman, as thny drove away. Tho thundering knock at the door of No. 27 brought Mrs. Jones troinb ling to the door. In silent ecstasy she saw, as she afterward deolared, "a real livo lord, bluo ribbon and all," walk up her bare staircase, while Mrs. Carstairs ran on ahead as though all her fatigue had gone. Lord Chesliam said nothing as ho saw the tiuy rooms, but his hawklike vision was strangoly blurred for a moment. "I've given him some hot soup, mum," nhoezed Mrs. Jouos, "and he's qnito sonoiblo now." And so he was; for thoy found Car stairs weak, it is truo, but in his right mind. "Wrap him up in the blankets," the old man said, and I'll send up John to carry him down." "But, father " she began. "Don't talk to me, Ellen. I'm going to taLe him home eh, Carstairs?" When tho invalid was safely en sconced in tho carriage with his wife, Lord Cheshnm spoke a few words to Mrs. Jones. "I'm a man of few words, madame," ho began, "but I wish to tell you thut I am your dobtor for your kindness to my ' daughter. Your future will be my oharge, and to the end of my life I shall thank you for your considera tion to a couple of " "Mere children, my lord," said Mrs. Jones. "Quite so. Good night." Aud he held out his hand. One wonders which of the four was most happy on that eventful night. Tbo lodgers of Redman's row thought that Mrs. Jones was; but whoknowt? Answers. I.eailhig a HI I nil Hat. "One day not lonor asro." eaid n brick manufacturer, "one of my work men saw three rats carrying a long straw across the brickyard. It seethed sucu an unusual sort of proceeding that ho stopped his work to watoh them. Two of the rats held the straw at opposite ends, while tho third sup ported the centro. They wore mak ing straight for tho river which flowed by one side of the yard. When they arrivod at the bank thov laid down the straw and took a long drink. inen they proceeded to take up the straw again in the same manner as be fore, and returned by the same way they had come. "This so interested the workman that he determined to watoh if they wonld oome again. And sure enough, at about the same time tho next day they appeared, carrying the straw ex actly as before. Having providod himself with a gun, he shot all threo, to see if possibly he might thereby solve the mystery. He discovered that the rat in tbo centre was blind. and therefore couuluded that this was the animals' kind method of leading their nmicted comrade to the water to drink." Philadelphia Inquirer. Legend of Leoe-Maklng. A very interesting story is told of the origin of the famous guipure laoe in the Home Needlework Magazine. It is that of a sailor lad from the In dian seas, who, returning to his home in Veuioe, brought to his betrothed, a worker in needlepoint, a bunoh of the dulioate, pretty ooraliue, telling her it was lace that tho mermaids made in tho ooral caverns under the waters of tho Indian seas. "Pretty as it is," snid the needleworker, "I will make somethiug with my needle far prettier. My bridal voil shall he of the mer maid's laoo." The sailor lad sailed away and was gone for months. Day by day the young girl worked with her needle, forming white knots and liny stars and unking them all by delicate "brides" until an exquisite long soarf of guipure was produced, so marvel ously beautiful that when she wore it as her bridal veil all Venice went wild with admiration, and many noble ladies, princesses and queens became the patrons of the youug laoeworker. Dig Bait Hntinent. Charley Suhulor had the finest dis play of minnows the other day that has been seen in St. Louis for years. His reservoirs ooutained about 18,000. Most of those beautiful chubs were just tho right size for big bass bait. The oool weather makes it au easy matter to keep the minnows alive. It is no easy task to get together 75,000 to 100,000 minnows a week, which Schuler requires to supply the anglers. He manages to get them, however. It requires several men and wagons to haul the ofcubs when they are caught. . Some of the minnows come in by train irom remote points, hat Mr. Sohuler gets nearly all his supply from ponds ho stooked a year and a half ago, He says that minnows grow j very lust, ana multiply at a most as tonishing rate. He put 10,000 in on poi'd a year last spring, and has taken a million out since. St. Louis Globe DamnnroL MW YORK FASHIONS, U Designs For Costumes That Have Be come Popular in the Metropolis. 1 I New Yobk Citt (Special). On the street it is now possible to take stock of the now ooats. and a great many full-box shapes with Raglan shoulders THE NEW RAGLAN. cortaiuly are worn. Of course they should be the exclusive proporty of the youthful and Blender, for ample proportions find no strength or refuge in their straight trying lines. Every thing except a dress coat, that fairly lays itself out in its gorgeous revers, buttons well up onto the chest, with a fly front, too, and there, only a few inches below the chin, opens back with modestly small silk-faced lapels. Again, everything except a dress coat, tho eccentricities and preroga tives of which will be dwelt upon later, has pockets, plenty of them, and for true service designed. A Raglan pocket, for instance, when it is nobly planned, has a right-hand slip in its skirts that opens into a capacious silk lined pocket, aud then there is, on the velvet descends in front to the waist, while black velvet bows continue the effect on the front of the skirt. Manv Kinds of Itlbbons. There was never a greator variety in ribbons, and greater numbers of them than ever before are made to draw up with a thread at one edge into ruffles. There are many varieties of narrow ribbons for dress trimmings, and among these, Persian designs and colors predominate. The wider Persian ribbons and silks are twisted around the crowns of light gray felt outing bats. llangi Are llecoinlng Popular. Bangs are slowly but surely super seding the pompadour. The most novol feature of the coiffure is the pouch at tho back. It is often so ex aggerated that it hangs over tbe col lar. The scold looks are caught up the middle of the pouch with a dainty bit of a gold lace piu and a luxurious head of hair is affected by padding the pouch with a wide pompadour roll. Novelties For the Winter Spkoti. Some of the novelties aud special ties which have beeu prepared for the winter season include daiutly jeweled chatelaines in gun-metal and gold, and these are obtainable, moreover, at a third or lens of the price oue is begniled into paying for them at shops on the other side, on the score that they are not to be had elsewhere. Ureal Suit Caae For the Hoy. Tha small boy now has- a dress suit rase just like his father's, only smaller, in which he puts his Liliputian vests, his small bosom shirts, his glove?, and the various adjuncts of a gentle man, all like his papa's except in size. now Skirt Are Mnile. Skirts are still made to touch in tho frcnt and aides, with quite a dip in tho back, but have plaits at the waist line, rather than the perfectly plain effect. None of the new gowns cro gathered at the back. Two I'retty ICHecH. A pretty effeot in braid is shown in its application on a blue cloth tailor made suit. The tuuio ap pears in this rHINCES!8 D11E88. COSTUME OF SILK. SCARF DltATEKIES. same side, a breast pocket. A ticket packet is its descriptive title given by the tailor men, and if this coat s used for traveliug the virtues of that upper pocket can be tested and appreciated. Three of tbe Beaton's Triumphs. On many models laoe motives are mingled and form part of the appliqned garniture. The arrangemeut requires taste, but when properly treated the effect is absolutely charming. To look its best tho shade ohosen for this style of trimming must not correspond ex actly with that of tho dress, but iu preference be a shade or two lighter when the lace which acoompanies it is white, aud darker in the case of black laoe being ohosen. One of the most striking costumes of the season is shown in the large engraving. It is a piece-dyed robe with soarf draperies of fancy material, and is from the Dry Goods Economist. The costume on the left of the large engraving repre sents a tailor-made princess robe of Dresden-blue satin de laine, trimmed with a scroll design in steel beads. A similar adornment eouoeals the back seam on the skirt and corsage. The central figure shows a rich silk visiting dress of "roseau" green, with side panels of handsome cream-oolored renaissance lace, framed on either side by three folds of dark green velvet. The bodice, which bulges slightly in front, but without fullness, has bretelles and epaulettes of the same lace, whioh terminate at the shoulder seam. Cuff's of the samo at the wrists. Small embroidered cambric collar with long "Regate" cravat of roseau-green silk. Ulaok Velvet Much Uie.l. Black velvet is seen iu some form on nearly all light gowns. Bauds across the front, iu many cases, ap pear to fasten the skirt. Others, again, have a wido black velvet baud from the centre of a high stock, seoured in front by a buckle. The favorite way, however, is to thread white laoe with narrow velvet and use the laoe as trimming. Entire gowns are made of this velvet, threaded with insertion, sewed deftly together. A beautiful toilet of eoru guipure has two small capes covering the shoulders, the oue over the other. Theee and the staudiug oollar, also of guipure, are threaded with very nar row black velvet. A torsode of black instanoe, which is taken from he New York Sun, over a very ph.in overskirt and trimmed with blaos braid in con ventional designs. The coat is one ot the shortest, aud short even as re gards the elongated front, which can be called long ouly because the back is bo far from that. The way in which tho braid is applied seems more in keepiug with the idea of the tailor-made gown than does the wandering floral pattern that is often used. Mink fur lines the high collar, and mink plays an important part on the bat, where it forms the crown. The charms of black and white are to be seen iu au extremely plain but very fetching gowu. The skirt of black oloth is unrelieved with the ex ception of a row of white stitching. The dainty little bolero is bordered by a row of the white stitching, too, aud is fastened with buttons of blaok and white. On the revers aud collar another note is brought to bear, for they are faced not with white, but with a delioate corn-colored material. The toque brings the black, the white and the yellow into combination by using black and white plaid with a .narrow line of the yellow running through BLACK CLOTH TA1LOH I ULUB CLOTH MADE. y j GOWN. the whole. Yellovr is a wonderfully Deoomiug color to most persons, whereas pure white belongs to the tew. TEMPLE OF TEPOXTECO.' Bnlne Inilleate Thai It W the Work ol Civilised Man. The Temple of Tepoxteoo, in "Mex ico, is built upon a cliff which is sheer mass of rock more than two thousand feet in height. Between this cliff and the extraordinary ring of cliffs above it there is a couloir, oi chimney, of loose fragments of rook, tip whioh the visitor must climb, no matter whether he ascends from Tepoxtlan or desoenda from San Jnanioo, village above the oiroular cliffs. He is aided by a ladder at the worst part, but he must transfer hint self from the topmost rung to a basal tie mass three feet to the left of the ladder, with tho prospeot of rolling down two hundred feet if he slips and the probability of pitching down the gorge or Tepoxtlan headforemost, about eighteen hundred feet. Holes for the hands and feet were out long ogo. The ascent np the gorge of Tepox tlan is toilsome to the last degree. Though it is narrow, yet it would have beeu feasible to have made a winding trail like the one in the Yosemite whioh leads to Eagle Cliff. But this was not done. On the con trary, the asoent was made as difficult as possible by makinga rnde etairway of massos of rook from two to throe feet in height, so that climbing the canyada of Tepoxtlan is as bad as get ting to the top of the pyramid of Cheops. The Temple is building of two terraces, npon the model of the so called pyramid of Cholula, whioh has four terraces, and of the Tower of Babel, which has eight. There was an inolosnre with on arohed or vaulted roof, supported by four pillars built up of masonry, which was covered With this stnoco. so that from below to Tepoxtlan it is exceedingly con r.niouous. Upon the second terrace are the re mains of the four pillars that sup ported the roof and the three walls of the temple. These are intact up to the spring of tho vaulting. If thoro had been auy openings for the pur. pose -of giving light there would have been traces of thorn; but thore is none, from whioh we must draw the con clusion that lamps were used during the ceremonies. Had torches been employed, the walls would havo been blaokenod. The Temple was nil the darker because it was subdivided into two by breast-high walls that joined the third and fourth pillars to tho sido walls of the structure. All along these walls there was a broad seat ubout twenty inches high, and the front of thiB was covered with sculp tured slabs nearly square. These have been stolen and rude imitations have been substituted. WORDS OF WISDOM, It will always do to chance for the better. Thompon. They fuat know no evil will suspect noDe. Bon Jonsou. Influence is the exhalation of charac ter. W. M. Taylor. A grateful dog is better than an un grateful man. Suadi. No one will maintain that it is bet tor to do injustice than to bear it. Irresolution frames a thousand hor rors, embodying each. J. Martyn. A mau of integrity will never listen to any plea ajjainst conscience Home. When a mau dies, for years tho light heJeavcs behind him lies ou the paths of men. Longfellow. A man oanuot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-oducated family. THomas Scott. Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whoto and the purse full. C. Simmons. No man ever did a designod injury to another bnt.at the same time he did a greater to himself. Home. Inquisitive peoplo are the funnels of conversation ; thoy do not take iu anything f rt jeir own uso, but morel to pass it to another. Steele. Silver Lylusj Loose. . A baggage truck stood on the union depot platform yesterday on which lay, in oareloss fashion, eleven chunks of what looked like pig lead. They were shaped, for want ot a more fami liar object, a good deal liko epougo cakes, six inohes high and perhaps teu inches by seven across the top. The bottom was , of slightly less area, i Stamped on one end of one ot them was "1089 oz." The rest wore of about similar weight. All bore the imprint of "909 fine." The pigs wero silver from tbe Argentine smelter, and worth ou the market $750 apiece. Tho truok's seemingly deserted aud care l'.ss load was worth $7486 .GO. It is in this shape silver is shipped. There was little danger of auy oue running 'II with them, their weight was so great. Kansas City Times. RV Btrnuce KDsols of Colli. Cases have been recorded of similar changes iu man to those whioh ani mals inhabiting Arotio regions undor go. Thus Captain Markhara, in his account of a voyage to the Polar re gions, says: "It is a curious fact con nected with those who were for a loug time abseut from their ships that the hair on their faces was bleached quito white. The loss of color was gradual, and, though noticed, was never alluded to, each one iniagiuing that his ojiu pauion's hair was turning gray from the effctta of the hardships and anx iety. "It was only after their retnrn to the ship that those possessing beards and mustaches discovered tho change in their own hair. The color gradu ally returned, and iu about thu sa.ue time that it had faded to whito." How the King Means. The King of Spain is guarded dur ing his nightly slumbers by a picked body of men, who, according to an old custom, must bo natives of tho town of Espiuosa and have served with honor ju the army. They lock tho palace gates with muoh ceremony at mid night, and unlock them nt 7 o'clooK in the mornini;, During the whole of the night they keep vigilant watch iu and about the royal residence. A Census of Insuvts. An insect census has jutt been taken by a scientific Englishman ou purely Hcieutilio linos, with a view ta duterniiue as far as it is possible which insects are a boon aud a bless ing to uiaukiud aud which aro tho ro-verse. It is time for our people to ak lip and insist that Congress shall do) something effective to stop the adult eration of food aud medicines. The only thing, however, that Congress! can do is to control the interstate commerce in adulterated article and regulate their sale iu the District ol Columbia and the Territories. That we have not hitherto found it practi cable to pass a national puro food lw to this limited extent seems scandalon siuco we are behind every other civil ized nation on earth. But we must understand the meaning of the term "adulteration." No oue contemplate prohibiting the substitution ot au ar tificial for a natural article. No on will be prevented from pnttiug chio eory in the place of coffee, or from making animal fats look and test like butter. Manufactured honey may be just as healthy and palatable as the product of the bcea. What i intended is to prevent the swindling connected with such practices. Onr trade morals are fearfully defective, and it is the function of Congress to do all it can to improve them. Hence the' object of the law should be to mnke the manufacturers by trne label tell the truth about the content of their packages and bottles. The public should know what it is buying. There need be no fear that it will buy pnud for sugar or clay for flour; The young map who would succeed in life must hnvo great confidence in his own ability to achieve, success, This is a foundation stone, and with out it his building will either never go up, or will topple. The men who have achieved results in life have been men who believed in themselves; men of large hope and of optimistio views. Despair never yet won a vic tory. Confidence mtiat always pre cede action. A young man can never accomplish anything iu tbe world till ho is thoroughly convinced that ha oau. Pessimists have never done any thing except to put stumbling-blocks in others' way. It is the cheerful, hopeful man, tbe man who believes that the world is growing brighter and better, that is of value to the world, not the man who fears failure, talks failure, thinks his work will be a failure. The very attitude or hab itual condition of one's mind has a great deal to do with his succrs". A stream cannot rise higher than ita fountain, and to achieve great success a mau must continually dwell in the atmosphere of high ideals. He nniRt think upward, work upward, or he can never reach a high goal. The cooking school was formerly standing joke because it was a sort of "society" affair, merely a diversioa of fashionable young ladies who thought it great fun to play at cook ing, just as children enjoy making mud pies. But now we have cooking taught in a practical aud scieutifiu way. Whether a womau be the daughter or wife of a poor man or the child of fortune, whether she live in a cottage or a palace it is a great ad vantage to her and to those about her for hir to know how to cook. Much of the misery of life aud, we have no doubt, a considerable proportion of crime is attributable to bad cooking. It involves a waste of food and an in fliction of discomfort, even of an happiness and ill health upon many a victim, i lie cooks of a nation iu the final account will probably be found to play a larger part iu shaping: its destiny than either its statesmen. its soldiers, its philosophers, its poets or its historians. Therefore let us have good oooks. MARKETS. rALTIMODB. OBSIM KTH. I'LOtin Piilto. ll.traL Hliih Grnde Extra WHEAT No. 2 lied COltN No. -i While Oats Southern X Peuu... KYE No. !i HAY Choice Timothy., flood to Prime frTltAW Itvein car Ids.. Wheat lllocks 6 00 Ont Blocks 8 00 CANNKD noon TOMATOES Bind. No. 1 No. J rHAS Standards.... Seconds COllN Dry Tuck.... ilolst.... Ti 41 as (Vi 13 60 IS 01 10 CITY RTEF.IIS. City fti.v . t l"'i I'OTATOrS AND TflTABI.m. POTATOES Biirbanks. ONIONS raoviaioN hoo ntonccTs-shiH. Clear llhsl.liw Hums Meo I'oik. per liar l.Altl) CrinlH Ui'st relluud BUlTF.lt Flue Crmy. I'ucler Finn Creamery Holla XDTTKS. 40 ? 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