LIFE,
I.lfe I a lxok
Of "?ivir, white w. Riven us at birth,
Wherein to writs ths reeor l of our lives
Tlierecnrl st'di.h boyoiel us ttlll survives,
Tlio story of our plltrritnug j on earlli.
Our ev"ry dee.l
r. i'i day wo Ink" thn pnnll nn I Indite
On it ni-w jne our wlilio.", hopes and
fe.ir,
For uoo I or 111. An I so o-i thro' tli ynnrj
Tim record t-row. ot every day nn ! nljlit.
W mny not look
At wlnt w on"o liiv.i li r l ri written, Imt
Thro' mniiory i nor mny ws e'er itw
A dlintlo thing llmt In tlier has Its place,
Till nil is llni'lii'd, and our hook is shut.
O soul, tnkn hoed
lift's hook naught
That
in this
shall o'er
'.IT. ii I ;
H i vi thou n raw shout tlilne every a"t.
That thy I ool.'g lii' iuty may appear Intial,
Nor Hot, imr hlotnlsh mar It to tlio en it
W. II. time, in Chicago Trlhans.
Ail Old Man's Romance
CtfAW. you never
IIOI'll III IOV" .'
said tin) chili1,
gravely.
"No," re-
plied the man ;
ntnl a la i nt
smile crossed
his face n, till'
memory of the
hundred nuil
it i
ik V tV' ' ' ; f a ,MI" luminous
f-'Cr
iiH'ncri'n ni tin-
trv' 7-j. ? lerelit-
lerents dates
I H H ll 1 M
"Oli, lnr yja :j-isi IistoUwu, :..
tinned tin? ch'1'1, earneitiy. "Every
body fslls ia love tn-vcrsl times before
they mari'y, mamma niivu. Mamma
totys that 1 thai! be ia iovo sevtral
tunes before I marry ; Imt that is
nothing at all, aLl theu I shall marry
and settle down. "
"When ilo you intend to marry ?"
paid tlio man, scrutinizing the pretty
chilil more closely. "Wm are scarce
ly ohl enough yet, are you?"
"Oh, yes," she said, eugorly. "One
of tho princesses was married when
tdio wns just sixteen, mamma nays, unci
I am ui nrly MXtecn."
"Iiiih'uil. I'erhups you are cu
ga,eil nlreiiily V"
"Well, tint exactly. You see, ho
wants mu to marry him in two yearn,
Imt wo are not exactly er.pio'0il.
Ma-iima woiihln't hear of it, lieo:u-io
lie hasn't left ocliool yet, uli-l I hnveti t
njt u him siuce; Imt if he n-kn nn
n.L'uin at th enil of two years we bhull
be ctmagcil jnojierly."
"l)o you wunt to marry him eo very
rutirh?"
"-V o." After a moment's thought.
'Not very much. I haven't thought
shout it. It tukes so much time to
"Oil BOO.
Uuo woulil b al)W to
put oue'a hair up regularly if one were
iUKngf.t.1, I should think."
Tho man glancotl at tho tawnv nmno
which nho t.usheil imnntieiitly buck
ever her HhoiihUrs ns hho fpoko. Jt
woul.l bo a pity, he thought, to antici
mte, even by a ilay, thu moment when
those glorious tresses wniilil bo ileliv
ereil over to the ill-treatment uml
celijiso of hairjins.
"if 1 Were en,n.,'e,l to yon," he
mi;!, "I nhoul.1 iihk ymi to keeji your
Luir ilown km U,n uspossililc."
"Then I won't be en-u-e.l to vim,"
Tejilieil tho girl, naively. "15.,-si'les. 1
ilou't even know your mime. 1 lion't
believe thut it is r. ally Urooks of S!n-f-tiel.l
I huvo hpelt rihelllehl with two
l'sjis that right? hcciiiisu I hear.l
null lauy, tlio otio with very vellow
liuir, call you Miniething else. Vhnt
is your real name? You mu.-t write it
Uown hero."
Sliu wus enga-eil in selling tickets
for a ratllo ut a country huzinr, an 1
he in.licateil to tho man tli.' hhect of
1'iil'er whereon hli hu.l written the
names of the ticket hoMcrs. The
eeventecnth hhi,m on the list wm in
Bcriho.l with tho wor.ls "jJrooks ol
.Shelllelil." Tho claimant of that
j'NouiIonym took tho pencil which sho
Jiel.l out to him. uu.l sigue I himself
".Stanton llitreourt."
"Anil now you ouyht to tell mc
yoiirnuine," ho saiil.
"-My tiaino is Kohie liOMnliinl Alice
I-iiiio Devine -uuil wo livo in Wey
briilgo. Do you know Weybri l-e ?
It is in the pin t culled America. J imi
laying iu.ro wiih the llarlunils.
you live here?"
"Sn; I am just iiown for tho
f-layiiig with that lady, tho i.no
the v ry yellow hair."
"1 see, I hiij.pose you nr.; in
Jo
day,
wall
love
Villi Her? .Not? Well, I am
W....I.I . . .
glad I
" i'.iiu j mi miii. I iiiuiiix euro
this
for mo while I go a;ur that man?"
Mio Kept on coming an I going the
course ot the afternoon. Jt was evi
dent that sho hud privately c.-.tab-li'ho
1 Stanton Harcourt as u sympa
thetic friend who might ho honored
v ith tho duty of buying tickets lor her
r.ililos, and a safe depot where valua
ble property might bo left with
fcecurity.
Sho talked to him in her queer way
now and then; but sho had a very
keeu eyo to business, and was con
tinually darting oil tow urd so o new
fueo with an appeal for her rullle.
Stanton Jluroourt, moreover, ce
mented this friendship of a day bv
presenting her with u largo pointed
hereon which ho wu "lucky" enough
to w in in uuo of her ruluV.
"I am sorry you don't live at Wey
bridge!" were almost her last words
to him. "Jt would be so ui,.0. lv-r-Laos
you may come there, though?"
Shortly ufter that Stautou JIurcoiirt
went to Norway for about six weeks
and enjoyed all tho pleasures of
roughing it, including horriblo food.
After that he joiuod a yacht uud start
ed urouud the world iu a slow and
luxurious fubhiou. One way sud su-
ffml
other it wan not until three jfnr after
that country bazar that ha fonn.l
himself once more settled himself in
London for the season.
"Who ia thn beauty of theiyear?"
he said to a friend at Lady (ilenly
don's ball." ,' j
"Lady Hose Verrten. fcplrd the
other, "Lord Salterton'a daurhter
presented at tho May Drawing Room."
"Is she here." j
"Yes. I'll potnt her ont lo yon;
introduce you if you like. Do you aee
that tall girl in blue, the one sritli tho
bcsutiful hair passing ua bow?!'
Stuntou Harcourt gazed in the
direction indicated, and onad to
himself that the opinion of aociety
had not erred. Ho aw befor him s
bill, beautiful, fair girl, whovl height
overtopped that of most of the men,
while her figure was so gracefully pro
portioned tlia. it wns ..tnpossible to
demur to an iael of hrr itatur. Her
face was a fair i s a flo.rer, snd tho
heavy coil of hai." suggested tresses
that would clothe her like a mautle
werethov onco unloosed.
"Introduce me." he said ; and so,
in time, Sir Stanton Harcourt was in
troduced to Lady KosoVerden.
She turned a pnir oi the loveliest
blue eyes upon him and injected
him not without curiosity. Then sho
smiled, disclosing two rowa of pearly
white teeth. Stanton Harcotrt con
versed with her for a few moments.
Then sho said, suddenly ;
".So you have forgotten nw alto
gether ! Or is it that I am s much
changed? I should have kuf wn you
anywhere. Don't you rcraemlcr that
banr at Kirtletou three yenrs ago,
and how you tol.l me that your name
was llrooka of Sheffield, and I told
von that I lived at 'Weybndge? I did
. -j . And you gave me s serein."
"I remember now," replied Stauton
ITarconrt iu amazement. "Bit but
I ought to have recognized ;ou, of
covrse; but I am sure I have in ex
cellent reason for not doing so. You
were a pretty child then, but now
you have grown into a--"
"Now, you of all people muit not
flatter. Keiuciuhcr, I regard "on as
an old friend, whom I can trust.
Don't you remember how I -rusted
you with my things at thobazmr? I
got such a scolding at tho cud f tho
day for it. They said I was too for
ward. Did you think me to) for
ward V"
'Tin! only thing that I cann-t nn
der.it 'ind." replied Stanton Haicourt,
evading this somewhat dclicatl sub
ject, "is tiliotit your name. Y)U told
mo, if I renn-mber right, tint you
wero Miss r.osio Di vine. Was that a
joke, like nir stupid olio of Mrooks
of Sheliield?"'
"lii pa hud not Hiicceedod to tie title
then," replied the beauty. "Ii fact
we wero very far away lrom it and
very poor; but, as 1 dnrcBiij you
know, our cousin and his two soisand
grandson were all drowned toother,
i.inr i!niis ..when- JI A.
lowu m h M.i btorm i f tho north
coast of Ir nnd my father was
tho next LeiYi.'W-oughLiituother. Tho
title is one v thosu v.rv old onen
title is one v those v
w hich go to w.M. u as v
You know wht meat,
took the iiimi-i"- trdei,
voll as men.
Then we
tho old Sul-
tertoii name, f;, , ; Hs inr own."
"I see ; Sand Shorlaul clipped tho
niuueaii l told mo niuely that you
were L:i ly K.iso Ver lei."
At th it momuut a iall, hnndsomo
young man came up Hid claimed Lady
llo.se tor the next daico. He was u
very good looking mm, thought Stan
ton Harcourt, mid seimed to know it.
Mis big black inoustiche was curled
till the ends pointe' lto hi-i enr. ; the
expression f his really line eyes
seemed to s:iy : ".S.'o how irresistible
1 am, and worship it tho shrine."
Involuntarily Stanton Harcourt
turned toward Lnc'y lioso to see how
she was elVected b- the arriv.il of the
new comer, and whether sho would
obey tho mandate of his orbs.
"Who is that young man?" he unid
to Lady (ileniyn Ion, "who is dancing
with Laly H.iso Verdon?"
"Oh! that's Count Karl Chirafoti
Charat'uu, the son of the prince, you
know. He's nttmlicd to the Austrian
Kmlms.sy, and J also think he'a at
tached m Kosie Verdon. What a beau
tiful girl sho is ! 1 shouldn't be tur
pi ised if there wero un engagement in
that family soon."
This suggestion undo Stanton Har
court feel that ho almost disliked
Count Karl.
"I tiling it is a great mistake for
I'uglish girls to marry foreigners," he
u:d. "Don'i you?" "
"Well. I don't know." r..nlin.l T.a.lw
lili nlviidon, whose tirt husband had
been lar from hii angel. ".Some Eug-In-hmen
aro just us bad as auy for
eigner, and some foreigners aro just
in nice us any lhiglishui.in. JJesides,
this man comes of a very old family
and will bo enormously rich. And
Lord Sultcrtoti is by no meaus a mill
ionaire. Tho estates are not large;
tho widows got most of tho real per
Foualty ami ho has two joiuture to
I'ay." (
It was then that Stanton Harcourt
for tho tlrt time iu his life thauked
1'rovideuce that ho wus wealthy. :
"I am tweutv-tivo ytars older toan
her," ho owned to himself, "flut,
after all, what does that matter if the
loves me?"
At the end of a month he came to
the conclusion thut she did love hun.
Certainiy she had cuuouruged hitu to
think so. She had introduced him. to
her parents, and asked him to cull.
Ho had arranged vurious parties 1 to
tho thoutre, to dine at lUuclagh, to
Sundown and to tho opera, to all of
which bIio and her mother hod gra
ciously consented to come.
It was alio trtio that at the meet of
tho l-'our-in-IIand Club Lady Hose
had appeared on the box seat of Count
Karl's couch. Imt then Stanton U
couut contrasted her manner t "-d
him with her behavior tows ne
Couut. With him tho was al at
her ease, always brimming over witb
liveliness and good spirits. With the
Count, however, she was often tongue
tied and dull, seemingly nnable to
carry on much conversation, and
ready to turn to auy one who ad
dressed her.
"The Count bores her," thought
Rtsntou Harcourt. "He is all very
well ss s dancing partner, but his
eternal brag and sentiment are get
ting wearisome to her."
tie waited his opportnity: and ho
had to wait some time, for it wns tho
most di.Ticult thing in the world to so
cure a quiet tcto-a-tete with her. Sho
was in much request, having so many
friends, and living in a perpetual
whirl of gayety. Hesides, people had ah
solutely no sense of discernment.
Often and often, when he thought tho
right moment had como at lst, some
loud voiced boy broko in on the quiet
corner and dragged her away or dis
tracted her attention.
At Inst, in despair, ho wrote to her
for a private interview, ns he had a
matter of tho utmost importance to
reveal to her. To this letter sho sent
no answer, but, meeting him in tho
evening at a jinrty, told him, with a
smile, that tho whole thing was Very
improper, but if ho would call on the
Friday at 4 o'clock well, she could
not promise, but it was possible.
He walked home in a state of such
ecstuey that ho was almost oblivions
of his surroundings. Tho resnlt was
that at the corner of Hertford street
he was knocked down by a furious
hansom, stunned, and so severely in
jured that no was taken up for dead.
Ho was not dead, however, though
ho hovered for a long time between
life and death. His constitution tri
umphed at last, and he began to get
well. His first thought when his
mind recovered its equilibrium was
that ho must make haste iu order to
make up tho lost time.
As ho became convalescent, friends
were allowed to (eo him. He inquired
eagerly after the Saltertous.
"Oh, they are in Scotlaud. You see,
since Lady loose's wedding "
'Lady ltoso's wedding, almost
screamed Stanton Harcourt. "Which
Lady Hose do you mean?"
"Why, tho daughter, of course
tho beauty. She married that Aus
trian fellow, Count Our ChirafoU
Charafau. Of course, you've been
ill so long, poor chap! Don't you re
member a tall, dark iiiuu with a mus
tache, who was always very much iu
nttondiwo?"
Stanton Harcoitrt'a brain ssemo l to
reel as if again under tho indueuco of
delirium. Hose married to th f Aus
trian! Why, she loved him! And if
she loved him, why had she married
another?
"A capital match, of course," con
tinued the unconscious friend. "And
entre nous, I am told that it is a very
good thing for Lord Salterton, who
might have had some difficulty iu
Ueetrng bis creditors if his son-in-
law hnd not proved obliging."
Iu a Hash Stanton If ireourt saw it
all his adored was a victim, a pale
sacrifice on the altar of tilial infection.
While ho was lying helpless and sense
less', unable to spenk an 1 declare his
love, tho pressure of tho inevitable
had come upon Lord Salterton, and
tho heartless father had commanded
his daughter to save her family nt the
price of herself. No doubt ho ha I
urged that tho limn she loved was at
tho point of death, would nover rise
from his couch again. In the mean
time, here was this Austrian, rich,
generous, devotedly attached t ) ..or.
Why shouldn't she save her lath-r's
honor and provide for herself! She
could not wear the willow forever for
a man to whom she was not even en
gaged. Stanton Harcourt nearly fretted
himself into a fever at the thought,
and so great was his meutal anguish
at the picture which he conjured up
that it seriously delayed his recovery.
It wus a year before Stunt ou Har
court met the Countess Chirafoti
C'harafau, and he was spell-bound at
tho sight of her. Sho was then nt tho
height of her loveliness, and her
charms were enhanced by the mag
nificent tiara of diamonds .which
crowned her hnir. Sue showed no
traud of sorrow and, true to the law
which forbids a woman to show her
feelings, she received him with .noao
but the most ordinary emotion,
Stanton Harcourt, on the other
baud, was pale and haggard troni tho
o'Vects of his illness and excitement.
When tho Couutoss expresse 1 her sor
row for his neci. lent he almost broko
down. It seemed to him thut ho must
throw himself at her feet or die. i'or
tuuately he resistud this impulse, and
limited himself to in piii ing when he
could call. Then his hour would have
cunie. Ho would not reproach net.
Sho must have sud'. red enough with
out that. But there should bo UO
louger any aeurets between them.
L.iter in tho eviitiiug he heard the
Countess' voico and his owu uamo.
"1'oor Sir Stanton," she was sty
mg. "I was quite shocked to see him.
Of course, I have ulwavs known that
ho was old enough to be my father,
or older. He was quite old when I
was a child, liut now his illness has
Bged him so terribly that I hardly
kuew him, and his beard is quite
white."
Sir Stanton Haroourl did not go to
see the Countess ou the day nuuied.
On the contrary, he weut to the sea
side to brace up his streugth and re
cover from his crushiuj disillusion.,
tnout. Loudon World.
Female Cats Are lilomles.
An authority ou cuU says that yel
low hairs, no odds how few iu num
ber, always indicate that the wearer
is a female. He further udds; N
male cat was ever kuowu to have the
slightest tint of yellow. Chioago
lleruld.
ATLANTA'S FAIR.
Did COTTON STATES' AND IN
TEKNATIONAL EXPOSITION.
Wilt lie Held In lH95-Natlonnt Gov
ernment to Make an Interesting
Display-Plans of the Main
Ilulldlngs.
I J HE preat Fair of 1893 will be
I the Cotton States' and Inter
JL national Exposition, to bo
( held in Atlanta, Gs., next
September. Its success on an elabor
ate scale is assured by the fact that
Congress appropriated S200,O()0 for
tho removal of tho immenso fJovern
ment Building from tho World's Fair
grounds in Chicago to the grounds of
the Cotton States' Exposition in At
lanta, thus giving tho exposition a
Governmental indorsemcnt,which will
prove of great volue. In addition to
this the business men of Atlanta have
subscribed 8200,000, tho city of At
lanta gives $7",0()0, and tho State of
Georgia is expected to oppropriato
8100,000.
TheCotton States' and International
Exposition will exceed in scopo sev
eral times over tho Cotton Exjiosition
of 1381. Atlanta 1ms grown steadily
and is abler both iu experience aud iu
wealth to handle such an enterprise,
and hns gone at it with an energy that
nukes success certain.
There will bo six principal build
ings. Five of those wero designed by
Bradford L. Gilbert, of New York,
and oue by Walter T. Downing, of
Atlanta. They will bo erected ou tho
Piedmont Exposition grounds, of
which Mr. Gilbert says:
"I do not hesitate to say that I con
sider the possibilities of development
for exposition purposes beyond thoso
of any other exposition grounds which
I hnvo seen. It is tended to retain,
so farms possible, tho natural contour
of tho ground, and that is wise, for I
am suro they can bo made very beau
tiful. When the buildings are erected
and tho decorations of tho grounds
are developed Atlanta will have one
of tho most attractive exposition
grounds that this country has ever
teen."
The Administration Building, de
signed by Mr. Downing, will bo one
of the striking features ol architec
ture iu the grounds. It carries tho
idea of the Southern homes of ante
bellum days in the immense pillars ut
its front aud is iutcuscly Southern
throughout. The central portion is
of double-story height, but it is de
signed to be a great central hall for
iisensnunrt gallery if tho Hoard bo
desires. At either side are tho rooms
for the ofllcers and for the press.
Tho lending idea throughout tho
other buildings is Romanesque. They
are designed with an idea of stability
and simplicity of construction. Take
the Machinery Building, foi Instance;
This is in its interior construction a
simple cube so designed as to give a
great deal of space insido and with its
exterior finish having a touch of tho
HenaisMiucc. On each end, nt the
sides nn I in tho center there are largo
por.icoes with immenso jiillars, which
will give to tho entire buildings state
ly elVect. It will bo sixty-live feet
high. The Manufactures Building
curries out the same Romanesque idea,
imt is considerably moro elaborate.
In tho Agriculture Building the same
idea is carried out iu n sort of pyra
midal shape, and so, too, iu tho Elec
tricity Ibiilding. Tho "latter has tow
ers nod arches, which can bo brill
iantly illuminated, and, located as it
will Le ut the foot of a lake, a great
light can be secured. The towers ut
the corners of the Manufactures Build
ing are very lurgc, nud can be used
for restaurant purposes, or anythiug
of tho sort. The broad outside corri
dor on tho second story of this build
ing ciin also bo used to magnificent
odvantiige for restaurant purposes.
The dimensions of tho buildings aro
given as follows :
The Manufactures Building is 370
by iilO, is GO feet high, with a
tower reaching 100 foet from tho
ground, and will bo tho largest build
ing ou tho grouuds, second only, of
course, to tho great Government
Building.
Tho Mauchiucry Building is 100 by
COO, and iH C.j feet high.
The Agriculture Building is 300 by
130, is 00 feet high aud hus a 100-foot
tower.
Tho Minerals and Forestry is 80 by
320; the t-levatiou is 35 feet, tho
central octagonal towel is o feet.
The Electricity Building is 5)1 by
250, GO feet high with a 100-foot
tower.
The Administration Building has a
central hall .10 by 100, nnd two Hide
wiugs, 50 by 100. It has uu elevation
of GO feet.
The Government Building is to bo
ou a high hi!l above tho building of
tho Driving Club. Beyond it and above
tho famous cottou patch of Piedmont
Exposition days is tho site of tho
main building, a beautiful hill, where
it will have one of tho most jironiinout
sites on the grounds. The Agricultural
Building, which from its architectural
structure is designed to bo kept per
manent, with the idea of making it un
auditorium, is to be located on the
hill south of tho main entrauce to tho
grouuds. Tho Electricity Building is
to be near the Pieduiout Exposition
maiu buildiug, nt the foot of a lake,
and at the head of tho lake is to bo the
Machinery Building. The Minerals
and Forestry are to bo along tho lake
between the Machinery Buildiug ami
tho Electricity Building. - Tho Ad
ministration Building is to bo between
tho Government Building uud the
Manufactures Building, and will
occupy ouo of tho most attractive
points ou thu grouuds.
In the construction of these various
buildings the architects have, of course,
taken into consideration the elevation
of tie site on which each building is
to rst, and it is the aim, of course, to
mak each building stand out for it
self. These six buildings will be sup
plemented later i ky a Woman's Build
ing, an amusement pavilion, and, per
haps, by s number of Ststo' buildings.
Now that the Atlanta Exposition hss
secured sn appropriation of 8200,000
from the United States, arplicntions
for ipacn are coming in rapidly from
foreign couutries. The exposition is
alretdy assuming sn international as
pect, and is sure to attract thousands
of people from alt over the United
Staffs and Europe.
0e of the interesting features of
the exposition will be an exhibit by
the colored people. It will bo tho first
of it kind which has ever been made,
nud ;t wilt bo an education to tho out
side world in showing what the colored
people of the South have accomplished
right at their homes since they wero
gives their freedom. It will bo very
attra'tivo, not only to tho colored peo
ple themselves but to the pooplo of
the entire couutry, and it is doubtful
if any other one feature will bring ss
many people to sco the exposition ss
does :his colored exhibit.
Atlanta, the city of the exposition
of 18l5, is s very pretty plaeo of 90,
000 population. Tho houses are now,
and ire like those of s progressive
Northern or Western city rather than
like those of an old Southern town.
Tho streets are bustling and active.
The adjacent country is hilly. The
city ii 1080 feet above sea level, rest
ing at s point where the topography
changes from the mountainous regions
of the Bine Ridge to the rolling and
finally level pino lands of Southern
Goorfia. Tho sir is fresh and brac
ing, coming, ss it does, in stiff breezes
from the nearby mountains, and, in
fact, the place is so like s Northern
city in the style of its streets snd
housts, its climate and its activity,
that pooplo from Massachusetts feel
ss mich st homo hero ss docs the man
who comes from Savauuah or New
Orleans.
Every foot of ground around the
city is of historic interest, snd sit iu
all there is not s Southern city that
could be more attractive to a visitor
from other sections of tho country.-
New York Advertiser.
Slaughter ot Tree.
It ia estimated that 8,000,000 seres
ot forest land aro cleared every year,
atd that in the ten years previous to
1$7G 12,000,000 acres were burned
over simply to clear tho land. Ten
yturs ago it was estimated that t'.io
timber of Now York was disipjicaring
nt the rate of 150,000 acres s year.
Since then laws havo been passed which
hnvo restrained to porno extent tho
woodman's ax, but it is still wielded
far too freely, says tho Boston Trau
script.
The forests are tho natural friends
snd protectors of the earth sud of
5...n. Tltej Ji.ot pnljjuinister ia the
Ksthotio part of man's nature by Vuin
ulating and feeding his sense ot beau
ty, but they also have practical uses
sud values which may not bo safely
ignorod. Soma of the direst calami
ties that havo befallen the countries of
the Old World may be tmcol to the
destruction of forests, and many dis
eases that have 8wejt away great mul
titudes of human beings, and that
wero accounted "ditino visitations,"
may doubtless be traced to tho same
came.
The warning given this country by
George P. Marsh many years ago, in
his work cutitled ".Man and Nature,"
and by others who have given car fill
Btudy to this subject, has not been
wholly iu vaiu. A reactionary move
ment hai already begun, nnd its good
results are visiblo iu many quarters.
Perhaps it is not too much to hope
that our friends and protectors, the
trees of the forest, which have for us
so many precious uses keeping full
the streams aud rivers, lessening tho
heat of summer and the cold of winter,
guarding tho fields against ruiuous
floods aud freshets, offering a shelter
and a pleasure ground to tho well snd
a perfect sanitarium to tho Mick will
be preserved from further ruthless de
struction for tho joy aud blessing of
this snd future generations.
Ituhliel ol Iter Horns.
One thing which has changed tho
appearance of the country greatly in
the duiryiug regiou is the practice,
now very prevalent, of "dehorning"
cattle. The farmers of northern New
England seem to have made tho sud
den discovery that horns on cows
wero s gigautio mistake of the Crea
tor, to bo remedied ralically sud at
onco. They say that tho cows, il
homed, hook each other dreadfully
when thoy nro wutering, and rattle
their horns together iu the stanchions,
and otherwise misconduct themselves,
So they get a " dehoruing machine,"
and fasten tho poor cow's nock in it,
and with oue twoop deprive her of
her chief ornaments aud her uatural
protection, aud leave her a wretched,
shorn creature, thut no urtist would
tniuk of painting. The loss of her
horns seems to turn the cow into a
kind of a sheepish and furtive being;
she has not the confident aud self-satisfied
air that usually marks her kind.
One bus no idea of the difference
which horns make iu tho expression of
cuttle until he sees a herd of these de
horned aud deformed animals. Bos
ton Transcript.
A Poet's .Memorial Mub,
The English roso and the Florentine
lily will each huve s place ou thu
memorial slab thut is to cover tho
grave of Robert Browning iu West
minster Abbey. The blab, which is
nearly completed, is very simple iu
decoration uud beurs as inscription
only the nume and date, but the stone
upon which these ure carved is of
orieutal porphyry (sot in a frame of
Sienna marble. The work has been
done in Yeuice. Chicago Herald,
WORDS OP WISDOJT.
(Strength comes with exercise,'
Intolerance is never argument.'
Keep your troubles to yourself.
Don't keep good news to yourself,
A pleased man is easily convinced.
Victory is often s question of hold,
ing on.
Morality never looks well on dresi
parade.
Genius snd originality are blood
rotations.
A waitinggame is one which two can
seldom play.
Every reform that comes snJ
1 stayi
begins in the heart.
"Follow your leader" is s dangerous
game even for boys.
Rome parents need an introduction
to their own children.
Some men never win because they
never expect to win.
There is liablo to be much base
alloy in coined words.
Most folks get savago when they
mean only to be severe.
When all men know little, how can
any ouo man know it all?
How little anything costs that is to
be paid for in tho future.
He that smiles and says nothing
often slanders and lies most.
The man who is always thinking ot
evil things will most likely bo s suflerer
from his thoughts.
To make s well-rounded citizen tho
moral sensibilities must bo oue with
the mental faculties.
The best stimulant toward right
political action is s healthy interest
iu what is to be done.
A man who is always boasting what
he has done is not si ways the boldest
in the hour of danger.
It is not always tho damago of sn
injury that is galling, but the spirit
iu which it is prompted. '
Don't try to add to tho mystery of
sn unknown subject something of s
dcoper mystery, s more uuknowu.
The Only Fivc-Masteil Schooner.
Tho schooner Governor Ames, the
largest fore-and-after in the world and
the only livo-mastcd schooner, arrived
iu Providence tho other day with 225
tons of coal. Sho has recently been
engaged iu carrying lumber from the
racilio ports to Australia. Sho is 2iij
feet long overall, 232 feet long on her
keel, fifty feet beam, twenty-one feet
deep, uud her tounsge register is
1708.77. Sic can carry 3000 tons of
coal on a draft of twenty foet. She
has aceutcrlioard of the best quality
of whito oak thirty-three feet Ion?,
fifteen feet deep, and niue inches thick,
and uino hatchways, each twenty-four
feet cross decks and eight feet fore
aud aft. Her outside plauking, t,;u
heaviest ever put on s schooner, is
inches' thick, sud at the gunwale se jn
inches. The live lower masts are cal led
foremast, mainmast, mizzeumast, jig
gcrinast, and spaukermust, and are
each 115 feet in length, tho topmasts
being eneh lil'ty-six feet long. The
jibboom is soveuiy-nve feet long, and
tho bchooner spreads 7000 feet of cuu
vas. She has two nnchors weighing
G500 pounds each, w ith eighty futhouu
2-ineh chain, besides a steam anchor
ot 1350 pounds and a kedge of lOUi)
pounds. The sails nro hoisted with a
donkey engine of thirty horse-powi-r,
and sho has a largo steam capstan nu l
a No. 11 windlass, tho largest made.
It cost $75,000 to build the Governor
Ames. Her muster, Captain Cornelian
A. Davis, of Somerset, Mass., is one
of five brothers, all of whom are or
have beeu sea captaius, as was their
father before them. Detroit I'm
Press.
A Young I'iliuinal's LmjdoyiiiPiit.
"The youngest criminal I ever heard
of being sentenced to hard labor ia
State's prison," said G. D. Morrison,
of Mobile, at the Lucie. lo last night,
"was a little colored lad I saw, wbj
was arrested for stealing a horse. J lo
was not large enough to mount the
auim-il, and was caught in tho act ot
leading it oway by the halter, foi
which lie was sentenced to twenty
years' imprisonment. The warden ol
tho penitentiary wus at first puz.luJ
to know what to do with so small s
c-onvict, but finally invented a task
that reflects credit upon his ingenuity.
He placed two bricks at each end (
tho prison yurd. nnd giving tho litt'o
rascal two more', ordered him to currjf
them to one of the piles, lay tlu-m
down, pick up the otlur two, which in
turn were to be carried to the further
cud, exchanged ugain, and so ou, bai'k
and forth all day loug, always carry
iug two bricks. He was warned that
he would be punished if he fuilcd tu
pile thu bricks neatly or broke any of
them. He was kept at this tusk until
BiilHeiently growu to engage iu mamul
labor, uud the constant abrasion ol
picking up sud laying dowu wore ont
six sets ot bricks before he was placed
at other labor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Electrified by Water,
From niauy observations and ex
periments M. Ph. Leuard rinds "that
drops of water falling upon water or
wet bodies geueruto electricity, the
wator becoming electrified positively,
sn I the gas escupiug negatively tlec
trilled from tho force of the full, and
light impurities iu the water dimiui.-u
the effect considerably. The esseutml
conditions of electrification ure the
concussions among tho drops of them
selves sud agsinst the wet rock, ne
effect be iug due to the water's full
through thu air and its dispersion lJ
it. A jet of water fulling from un in
sulated tank to sn insulated pail elec
trified the latter positively, while tin
negative electrification of the sur
rounding sir grew to several liundr
tolts." Chicago Herald.
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