A PLEA FOR THE BIRDS.
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' 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.
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