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FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1889.
V T S. BELLE LAMPKIN lias been elected
j • il clerk of the Washington Territory
t . ututional Convention at Olympia.
.. r -n.verstitioa 'bat a peculiar un
'itc • c i aracter attaches to Friday is as
1 •he hills, and preva led to a greater
, to < .\tent even among quite intelli
yc • .pie on both sides of the ocean.
I - country for many years it was the
a'n-ist universal day for the execution
of' r lercrs, and from this circumstance
t i eel .ed the unenviable soubriquet of
:man's day." Of late years, says
v uange, however, the Governors of
v • States have purposely nvoiiie i se
i in 4 Friday for the operations of the
{. alio s, and this, together with the per
sistent derision of the superstition by the
newspapers, has done much to overthrow
the popular prejudice against the day.
The experience of the present year, how
ever, which has been exceptionally pro
lific of catastrophies and sensational
crimes, will probably have a tendency to
revive the waniug superstition against
Friday as a day of ill omen. The year
came in and will go out on Friday, and,
although containing but the usual fifty
two weeks, it embraces fifty-three Fri
days. Both the longest and the shortest
days of the year fall on Friday, and of the
twelvemonths four havetuch five Fri
days. Then the awful catastrophe at
this city occurred on Friday, while many
other disasters of less appalling magni
tude also happened on that 'day. O!
course all these seemingly significant cir
cumstances are merely chance eoinel
dences, but they will naturally have an
impressive effect upon the minds of peo
ple of superstitious tendencies.
THE TKL'K AM) FALSE.
A famous preacher remarks that man!',
ness means perfect manhood, us woman
liness implies perfect wotnanhord, and
nothing can be truer. Manliness is the
character of a man as he ought to be, as
he was meant to be. It expresses the
qualities which go to make a perfect man
—truth, courage, conscience, freedom,
energy, self-possession, self-control. But
it does not include gentleness, tenderness,
compassion, modesty. A man is not less
manly, but more so, because lie is gentle
In fact, our word '•gentleman" shows tha
a typical man must also be a gentle man.
True manliness is humane. It savs,
" We who are strong ought to bear the
infirmities of the weak." Its work is to
protect those who cannot defend them
selves ; to stand between the tyrant and
the slave ; the oppressor and his victim.
It is identical in all times with the spirit
of chivalry which led the good knights to
wander in searcli of robbers and giants
and evil kings and lords, who oppressed
the poor, and robbed helpless women and
ehildren of their rights.
1 here are no tyrant barons now, but the
spirit of tyranny and cruelty is still to be
found. The good knight to-day is he who
provides help for the blind, the deaf, aud
dumb, the insane, who defends animals
from being cruelly treated, rescues little
children from bad usage, and seeks to
give working men aud women their rights.
He protects all these sufferers from false
manliness, which is brutal and tyrannical
to the weak, which abuses its power over
women aud children and domestic ani
mals.
The true knights to-day are those who
organize and carry on the societies to pre
vent cruelty, aud to enforce the laws bear
ing upon those who for a little gain make
men drunkards.
The giants and dragons to-day are those
cruelties and brutalities which abuse
power and ill-treat those who are at their
mercy.
Courage is an element of manliness. It
is more than readiness to encounter dan
ger and death, for we are not often called
to meet such perils. It is every-day cour
age which is most needed—that which
shrinks from no duty because it is diffi
cult ; which makes one ready to say what
he believes when his opinions are un
popular; which does not allow him to
linger, or postpone a duty, but make him
encounter it at once ; a courage which is
notafiaid of ridicule, which is not the
slave of custom, the tool of fashion.
Such courage as this, in man or woman
OT child, is true manliness. It is infln
itely becoming in all persons. It does
not seek display ; it is often tho courage
unpretending though resolute. It holds
fast to its convictions and principles,
whether men bear or whether they will
forbear.
True manliness draws its strength from
religion. It looks np whatever things
arc good, true aud excellent. It rever
ences the divine element in all earthly
phenomena. Seeing an infinite grandeur
manifested in the lowest and most minute
works of the creative power, it rever
ences God as the all in all.
Unless we have faith in something l
above ourselves, our strength goes out of
us. Our power comcß from a boundless
faith and hope ; from a conviction that
amid these changes of time there is some
thing imchangable and eternal. Rever
ence for a divine presence In the soul and
in nature is the support of all true man
liness.
By manly qualities the world is carried
forward. The manly spirit shows itself
in enterprise, the love of meeting difficul
ties and overcoming them ; the resolution
which will not yield, which holds on and
perseveres, and does not admit the possi
bility of defeat. It enjoys hard toil, re
joices in stern labor, is ready to make sac
rifices, to suffer and bear disaster patient
ly-
It is generous, giving itself to a good
cause not its own ; it is public spirited,
devoting itself to the general good with no
expectations of reward. It is ready to de
fend unpopular truth, to uphold the weak.
Hiving resolved, it does not go back, but
holds on, through good report and evil re
port, sure that tlic right must win at last.
And so it causes truth to prevail, and
keeps up the standard of a noble purpose
in the world.
SEVERAL weeks ago a portion of the New
York World?* relief funds were placed in
the bunds of Governor Beaver's com
mittee, in whose possession it still re
mains, but we aie pleased to learn that
Ihe World sent an agent with its residue
of SIO,OOO to Johnstown, who distributed
the full amount to the sufferers. This
tenches a moral. If you wish to give any
thing to charity give it yourself.— Ex.
sKqi'El. TO A JOHNSTOWN DEATH.
One of James .Murray's Papers Recovered
Aitvr ili'lng MysU-iiou.slv Lout.
West Chester Jeffersonlan,
Joseph 11. .Munow, the Western sales
man of Hayes. .Murray & Co., Philadel
phia, who, immediately after the Johns
town fiood, went to the devastated town
to look for the remains of James Mur
ray, a member of the firm, who lost his
life there, recovered one of Mr. Murray's
papers on Thursday last, while on his way
east. The circumstances were peculiar.
Mr. Murray's body and his valise were
found in the ruins of the llurlburt House
about June 7th. The valise was left in
the ruins while the body was being car
ried away. Mr. Murrow upon his returu
could find no traces of tlic valise or of any
of the papers that were in it. Diligent
search on the part of the policemen and
detectives in the submerged district failed
to find the missing goods.
After .i week's trip west, selling goods.
Mr. MUITOW stopped at a Sunbury hotel,
on his way east, and casually entered in
to conversation with a strautrer. The
talk drifted naturally to the Johnstown
flood, and the latter remarked that he had
a relic which he valued very highly.
Drawing forth a wallet, he gave tile as
tonished salesman a scrap of paper which
proved to lie Mr. Murray's certificate of
membership in the Franklin Institute.
The st:anger said he was given the paper
by a man In Pittsburgh, ami protested
that lie did not know the giver's name or
how the certificate came into his possess
ion. Mr. Murrow brought the papi*
home with him.
I'litcc TIN' Money in Proper IIHIHIS.
To the Editor of the Johnstown iH'iiiocral:
I regret to learn that the sufferers ot
Johnstown are still suffering, and that
great dissatisfaction exists, A large ma
jority of the sufferers have been sadly dis
appointed, which is greatl\ to he regret
ted, and that they 1 ave the courage to
give vent to their feelings iu strong lan
guage is greatly to he applauded. The
funds generously donated for the henelit
of the Johnstown sufferers should prompt
ly be given them. The money should at
once be given to the locul Finance Com
mittee of Johnstown, which is composed
of representative citizens of the town,who
are intelligent, and know best how to deal
with the perplexing affairs as they exist.
They are in hearty sympathy with the
suffering people. They best know the
need and impoverished condition of the
sufferers, aud they should have the money
to distribute. The several committees
who have the money of the sufferers have
not performed their duties satisfactorily,
and are therefore not unjustly censured,
and the public disposition that can be
made of the money—of the entire fund,
will be to hand it over at once to the lo
cal Finance Committee.
The money so generously and lavishly
given should not be given to officials.
G. NELSON SMITH.
Old Fashioned Institutions.
The Philadelphia New* has the follow
ing on Methodist camp meetings :
" Methodist camp meetings are one of
the old fashioned institutions which the
mercenary, utilitarian modern spirit has
not affected, and apparently cannot af
fect. They have lost none of their en
thusiasm, none of their popularity, none
of their iuliuence for good. They stir
the soul of the Methodist Church as the
bugle call stirs a great body of armed
men, aud the energies they awaken live
throughout the year."
.Johnstown Sufferers .Speak.
Asbury Park Daily Spray.
Several of the residents of ill-fated
Johnstown, who arc stopping in Ocean
Grove, were present at the First Metho
dist Church last evening and Mrs. Dean
Canan. an elderly lady, and the Misses
Maggie Davis and Letelia Canan related
their experiences on that terrible after
noon when the Conemaugh Valley was
swept by the flood. Other Johnstown
victims were present, but they were too
bnshful to speak. Mr. Bentley, a mer
chant of Williamsport, told very vividly
of the flood at his place. A collection
was taken up for the ladies.
A FOUNTAIN OF BEATTTV.
§NCE upon a time
there were a kin>
and a queen wh<
had only on<
daughter, anc
this girl, named
Sollna, nearly
drove her roya
parents to des
pair on account
of her excesslv
shut up alfulont
in a chamber, and
they each toon turns In carrying her hoi
meals. They groaned with despair every
time that they saw her.
"Oh, unhappy girl!" they said to her.
"By your birth you ought to become a
queen, but, alas! no one will wish to
marry you."
As she grew older the poor princess
beeame plainer and plainer.
When she was 16, she said to her
father:
"I can no longer remain shut up thus.
Let me go away. Perhaps I may find
happiness in traveling.
Her father was unwilling to have her
go, but she entreated so earnestly that
he finally yielded. Ho gave her a largo
sum of money, und ono night, wln-n
every one was sleeping, she slipped out
of the palace and started on her journey.
.She walked and she walked, und the
next noon she soutod herself under a
tree.
Suddenly she heard a plaintive cry.
She looked around her, and finally dis
covered a little lizard, which was lying
on the grass moaning with pain.
"Why do you cry'" asked Solina, bend
ing over it.
"A naughty child trod on me. I have
lost tho end oi my tail and I wish to
find It."
The compassionate princess found the
lost tail and gave it to the little creature.
"Thanks!" said the lizard. "Take this
for a reward." Anil it gavo Solina au
onion.
"But what am I to do with this?" she
asked.
"Keep it. Some day it will be useful
to you."
.solina put it in her pocket and con
tinued her journey. After walking some
distance she met an old woman carrying
a sack of wheat upon her back. The sack
broke and the wheat fell upon the ground.
Tne poor woman began to lament.
"Do not weep," said the princess to
her. "I will gather up the wheat that,
lias fullen from tho sack."
"Ah!'' replied the poor woman-, "all
the grains are counted, and if thoru Is one
missing my husband wi 1 beat me."
Bending over the ground with a re
markable patience, Solina gathered up
every grain.
"Thanks, my good girl," said the
woman. "Here, take this for your re
ward."
And she gave her a little knife with
two blades.
"What am I to do with this?" asked
tho princess.
"Guard it preciously. Some duy it wilt
be useful to you."
Solina put it in her pocket.
She walked and she walked, and camo
to a ditch, at the bollom of which lay a
little goat.
"What arc you (loin,? there," asked the
princess.
"Unfortunately I foil into this ditch
end 1 have brokeu my leg."
Tho kind Solina drew it out of theditch
and bound up the broken leg with her
handkerchief.
•' i hanks," said the little goat. "Sine
you have been so good to me I will give
you mv bell."
"What shall I do with It?"
"Keep it carefully. Some day it will be
useful to you."
Solina put it in her pocket.
She walked and she walked, and in the
evening arrived at a lonely farmhouse.
"Christian souls," she said, "1 pray you
give me shelter for the night."
"Who are you? Whore are you going?"
asked tho lurmer's wife who was prepar
ing the supper.
Solina told her truthfully her whole
story.
"Very well," said the woman, "you
shall bo cared for."
A moment later, seeing her husband
returning totiie house, she ran to meet
him, and repeated to him tho strange
Btory she had hoard, and asked :
"I have an idea which may mako our
fortune. It is this. We have a daughter
as beautiful as the sunlight. We will
present her to the king as his own
daughter transformed by u fairy, and
shut up here this ugly girl, the sight ..r
whom he cannot endure."
"But it will be impossible to deceive
the king, as you propose."
"Our daughter will tell him certain
particulars which will certainly allay any
suspicions."
"Well," replied the husband, "we will
try it."
So in the night the poor princess was
taken to tho attic and locked up there.
The noxt morning the farmer and his
wife took their daughter to tho palace.
The king and the queen admired her
beauty, and tho more beautiful they
found her tho less could they believe that
she could really bo their poor Solina, yet
could not but think so.
The third day tho unfortunate Solina,
overcome by hunger, cried, and, in a
loud voice, implored pity.
No one answered her.
' Suddenly she recollected what tho liz
ard had promised her. She drew the
onion from her pocket.
"Can you give me something to cat?"
she asked.
"Immediately," ropliod the little vege
table.
In an instunt. a little table appeared,
with a delicious dinner spread upon it.
And Solina, altercating with tho great
est relish, took the little knife which the
old woman hud given her, and suid :
"Can you opon that door?"
"In a moment," replied the knife.
And at once the door was cut in two.
Solina took tho bell and rang it.
Immediately an enormous flock of
goals appeared.
"What do you wish?" asked tho largest.
"Oo into the fields and devour all the
grass and herbs."
In an instant tho vines, the garden
and the fields belonging to the farmer
were ravaged.
Tho princess then left the house, and
walked and walked until she reached a
city where lived a king who had an only
son, who was very ill. All tho physicians
in the kingdom had been called in consul
tation, but none of them could tell what
was the matter with him. Some said that
he was mad. He seemed, however, per
fedtly rational. But ho had strange ca
prices, and he grew worse and worse.
One day as ho was seated at his win
dow he saw Solina pass.
"Oh," lie cried, "what a homely crea
ture ! I nover BUW one like her I* Make
her oome here."
In vain the king and the courtiers
sought to turn him from this strange de
sire.
So they sont out and had her brought
in.
"WMI you enter my eon's serrloer
asked the king.
"Very willingly," replied the prlneess.
The prince at once began to give hei
the strangest orders. Every day he was
seized with some new fancy. Thanks to
her three talismans, Sollna was aide to
procure the curious things he asked for,
Out one day, in one of his wild moods, lie
said to-the patient girl:
"Upon my word, you are altogether too
homely. Go!"
Solina left the palace weeping, and, us
she was walking along, she met the good
old woman who had given her tho knife,
and she told how she had been turned
out of the palace.
"Do not weep, my child," said the
woman. "I know how gentle, modest
and patient you have been. Some day
you will havo your reward. Come with
mo. Close by is a grotto in which is a
most marvelous spring. To whoever
bathes in it it gives an incomparable
beauty. Tho access to it is not easy,
but, thanks to your three talismans, you
can overcomo all obstacles. At the en
trance to this grotto you will see a terri
ble dragon ; throw your onion down its
throat and ho will let you pass. Further
on you will meet a giant covered with
steel from head to foot and brundishing
an iron club; show him the blade of jour
little knife, and ho will let you pass.
After passing him a hungry lion will
spring upon j-ou; ring the goat's bell
and lie will let you pass. When you
reach the spring, throw yourself into il,
all dressed."
Solina followed these instructions to
the letter, and came out of tho water
cbmpletoly transformed. Sho was now
as beautiful as she had been ugly beforo.
She returned to the city which she had
just left and hired a room opposite the
palace. The prince saw her and cried :
"Oh! What a charming young girl!
If she is of royal blood I will marry her."
The king, who could refuse nothing to
his only sou, sent one of his courtiers to
the beautiful unknown to tell the prince's
desire.
"I ain of royal blood," replied Solhu,
"But if the prince wishes to marry me ho
must first make me three presents—the
comb of a golden cock, the hair of the
Moorish king and a tish without scales.
I give him three years to accomplish this
task.'
The prince, who had fully recovered
his strength and who was very coura
geous, accepted thooe conditions. He de
parted and went in search of the gulden
cock, through forests filled with wild
"YOU HAVE DONE WELD."
beasts. After having undergone the
most terrible hardships and braved many
deadly perils ho finally discovered liiiu
one day perched upon a tree. Ho cut off
Ids oorob nod returned triumphantly:
"Very well," said Solina. "Now I must
have the hair of tins Moorish king."
This king was a man of colossal figure
and extraordinary strength. The most
valiant warriors could not look upon him
without a feeling of terror. But the
prince, desirouauf pleasing the beautiful
Solina, challenged this redoubtable king
to mortal combat. He throw himself
against, him, sword in hand, and received
a severe wound. He rushed forward
again, and a second time he was
wounded. But Ids ardor was unabated.
Ho continued the struggle, and at last
ho reached his terriblo adversary. He
plunged liia sword into his heart, cut off
iiis hair and carried it to Solina.
"You have done well," she suid; "vou
have now only to find the lialt without
scales."
That was, indeed, a difficult task.
Among so many miliion fishes, how could
he discover tho one without scales?
But. the prince was rosolute. Hebe
gan In li-.li and lie fished the whole of
thut day and the nexl. day, and for weeks
and for months. The time assigned by
Solina had nearly elapsed, but he still
sought the wonderful fish with a marvel
ous patience. Tho evening boforo tiie
day which would end the three years
came at last, and, in his net, he discov
ered a wretched looking little fish, and on
examination, he found it was a fish with
out scales. He carried It to Solina, who
said:
"I have no further task to impose
upon you. I will gladly marry you. Only
you must ask the consent of the king,
my father."
Tho prince sent ambassadors to the
king, but presently they returnod in a
groat rage.
"Tho king," they said, "received us
insultingly. He declared that he did not
understand our mission. His daughter
is with him, and ho has no other."
"Ah!" cried the prince angrily, "Solina
is mocking us. Let her be cast into
prison!"
Poor Solina was again locked up
without knowing the reason why.
She took her little bell and rang It vio
lently.
■ 'Oh, those who have already aided mo,
grunt me still your assistance!" she
cried.
"Here," replied the goat, who at once
appeared, "take tlds herb and place it in
your mouth."
Solina obeyed and immediately she be
came as plain and ugly as she was bo
fore her transformation.
"Now," suid the goat, "follow me."
Anil by its magic power, in spite of
locked doors and guards, it led lieroutof
prison and conducted her to her parents.
At sight of her the king and queen saw
they had boen imposed upon. Tho
farmer and his wifo confessed their de
ception and were punished as they do
served. Then, noting upon tho instruc
tions of tho goal, Solina took the herb
from her mom li and suddenly appeared
in all tier startling beauty.
She married the prince, and they both
loved together happily to a good old age.
—Boston Globo.
"Miraculous Berry."
At a recent meeting of the Linnißan
society In England a most extraordinary
fruit was exhibited, the so-oatlod "mirac
ulous berry" of West Africa, belonging
to tho sapotaceiß. Covered oxtoruallv
with a soft, sweot pulps it imparts to the
palate a sensation which renders it pos
sible to partake oi sour substances, and
even tartaric acid, lime juice and vine
gar, and to give them u flavor of abso
lute sweetness.—Exchange.
(trnti Medicament! In Parle.
The authorities are at
present conducting a orusado against the
sesquipedalian nomenclature of oertaiu
obeinlcul conooutlons and modlcamonts
whloh oome from Germany. Among these
commodities are Antipyrina, Phenacotino,
and Sulfouul, which are manufactured
successfully in Gormauy, and after hav
i lng been duly tested and analyzed by
I Freneh chemists tuko a place in local
therapeutics, being eagerly purchased by
Parisians, who are much givon to the as
sumption of doses and stimulants at the
present moment. As it has therefore
been found us impossible to "boycott"
the "enemy's" drugs as It was to oiose
the market against his beor the medical
authorities of this metropolis have turned
their attention to the labels of tho Teu
tonics philters anil potions. French peo
ple will bo ullowed to convert their inte
riors, as usual, into receptacles for all the
drugs in tho Gorman laboratories, but
t-Ucy will tuko their medicine under Gallic
names.
After all the modlcal authorities are
right for it appears that tho familiar An
i tipyrino has been christened by Its Ger
-1 man manufacturers with the name of
1 "Dimethyloxquinzine." Another Greek
derivative of equally "learned length and
thuuderiug sound" is used to denote Sul
fonal. In order to save tne delicate jaw
bones of Frouch ladies who require these
medicaments tho learned academy of
medicine has proposed that doctors in
preparing their prescriptions for patients
should use tho French or ordinary name
of tiie foreign drugs, and that chemists
should furuiah them to customers iu tho
same way, taking euro to write tho sci
entific appellation of tho medicine in their
books. It is thus hoped that the max
illary members of Frouch patiouts will
bo spared, and that tho German origin
of popular drugs will bo concealed as
much as possible.
I 111 {ItM lH I I'l llgl'BNd.
It has been understood for some time
past that tho mightiest sovereigns were
beginning to grumble at tho expense of
their imperial and royal progresses. By
ail accounts, ind -ed, it is so enormous
that the most lavish must be staggered
when tho bills are laid before hi.a. The
public has been told that tho young em
icror of Germany disbursed ".CIO,OOO in
presents of ouesort or another among
tho courtiers of St. Petersburg, leaving
nis expenses and "incidentals" aside;
while the czar was yet more liberal. We
learn, therefore, without surprise, that
Ids imperial majesty is thinking twice
and again before accepting the invita
tion to visit Greece at the time of his sis
ter's marriage. Toil would bo taken at
several points on that journey. If tho
German monarch passed through Vienna,
oven though he did not stay at any cap
ital on his routo, there would be deputa
tions of welcome from the Austrian,
tho Servian, und, doubtless, the Bulgar
ian courts. If ho took steamer from
Trieste, much more from Venice, the
king of Italy would not fail to send a
galaxy of notables to do him honor. And
the o attentions, as we learn, signify a
••rani of gold boxos," diamonds and
jewelled orders. Then there is the Greek
eourt, and, abovo all the sultan. For the
latter a visit of such importance would
mean something like bankruptcy, and
this fact supplies a magnanimous ex
cuse for dropping tho whole soheme.
Tho German emperor i 9 checked by tho
promise of such superb hospitality at
Suimboul as his Turkish brother cannot
afford. And he saves all pockets by
abandoning his notion.—l "ndou Stan
dard.
A Soda Locomotive.
Four locomotives to bo run by soda,
winch tabes the placo of lire under the
boiler, have been built in Philadelphia.
They are for service on tho streets ot
Minneapolis, Minn., where steam en
gines are forbidden. The engine is about
sixteen feet long, eutiroly boxed in, with
no visible smoke stack or pipes, as there
is no exhaust or refuse. The boiler is of
copper, b! 1-2 Inches in diameter and 15
feet long, having tubes running through
it as in steam boilers. Inside tho boiler
will be placed five tons of soda, which,
upon being damped Dy a jet of steam,
produces an intense heat. In about six
hours the soda is thoroughly saturated,
when the action ceases.
A stream of superheated steam from a
stationary boiler is then forced through
the soda, which drives out tne moisture,
and the soda is ready for use again. The
cxsanst steam from the cylinders is used
to saturate the soda, and by this means
all refuse is used.
These engines are the first of their
kind that have been built in tlds country.
They will have the same power as those
used on the New York elevated roads.
Soda engines are used in Berlin and
otiier European cities very successfully,
and they also traverse tlio St. Gothard
tunnel, under the Alps, where the steam
engines cannot bo used, because the tun
nel cannot be ventilatod so as to carry
off the noxious gases generated by a lo
comotive.—Kail way Age.
A C'oitrugpouM Young Womam.
A daring act lias just boen performed
at Montlucon by a young woman of 19—
Mademoiselle Jobard, who is the daugh
ter of a cafe keeper. She had manifested
a deep interest in Pezon's menagerie
since its arrival in the town, and it ap
pears that the lion tamer, either througu
pure fun or because Mademoiselle Jobard
made light of his exploits among the
wild beasts, defied her to enter the
largest of the dens with him. The chal
lenge was accepted with a light heart,
and all Montlucon turned to witness tho
spectacle.
Punctually at tho time appointed the
daughter of tho cafe keeper appeared on
l; 10 carpet attired in her bust, and escorted
by Pezon she entered tho cage amid tin-,
plaudits of those who had assembled in
t ho vague hope of witnessing her demoli
tion. Mademoiselle Jobard was slightly
nervous at first, but after a few moment s
siie walked around tho cage with Pezon.
tho lion and lioness watching her lazily
from their corners. Finally the intrepid
young woman stopped out of danger
without a feather in her hat being
damaged, and the spectators instantly
clubbed together and presented her wltJ.
two splendid bouquets.—London Tele
graph.
A £tory of Herman Oelrlclis.
One of tho tlireo young swells wlic
were dining with Oelriohs in the New
fork Athletic club determined to put his
host's far-fumed marine daring to a se
vere tost. The four men were arrayed
in full ovening dress. Aftor dinner the
large and deep swimming tank on the
llrst floor of tho building was inspected.
Standing on the sprlnging-boord, ono oi
the young men suddenly said: "Her
man, join mo in a header," and instantly
dived overboard, swallow-tailed coat,
broad expanse of shirt bosoin, white tie
and all. Without saying a word, and
dressed just as ho was, Oelriclis sprang
aflcr him. Tho other two could not
withstand this foolish challeugo to thoir
nerves, and in another second four men
in evening dress were swimming in the
tank. All this may have beea idiotic,
but it was certainly novel.—Philadelphia
Vews.
THE CRT OF THJB DRHAHE%
I am tired of planning and tolling
In the crowded hirea of men;
Heart wearj of building and Hpoiling
And spoiling and build in g again.
And I long for the dear ol d river
Where I dreamed my youth awagf
For a dreamer Uvea forever.
And a toiler dies in a day.
I am sick of the ahowy seeming
Of a life that la half a 1 i;
Of the faces lined with scheming.
In the throng that hurries by.
From the sleepless thoughts endeavor
I would go whore the children pla/i
For a dreamer lives forever.
And a toiler dies in a day.
I feel no pride, but pity
For the burdenH the rich endure}
There is nothing sweet in the city
Bvlt the patient lives of the poor.
Oh. the little hands HO skilful.
And the child mind choked with weadg>
The daughter's heart grows wilful.
And the father's heart that bleeds.
No, no! from the street's rude buatlw
From trophies of mart and stage.
I would lly to the wood's low rustle.
And the meadow's kindly p age. ,
Let me dream as of old by the river.
And be loved for the dream alway;
For a dreamer lives forever.
And a toiler dies in a day.
—John Boyle O'Reilly.
ROYAL RUT HUMAN STILL.
Head With a Crown May Be*
long to a Cowing Person,
Even in the court gossip of newspapers
published in different European countries
wo find the puthotie hints of human love
ind suffering which prove all men to be
sf but one blood.
Christina, of Spain, wo aro told.
At the time of her marriage was an an- *
gular, hard-faced, repliant woman.
Whose manners offended those who ap
proached her. But her passionate desire
that her baby son shall luherit ids fath
er's throne has altered her whole char
acter, She is gracious and friendly; has
acquired flue tact, and her manners are
now as charming as they were oueo
uupleasing. She has subjugated the
haughty grandees of Spain,and inadetheiu
loyal to their little king by her direct
personal influence alono. Every day is
new ba*ttle for her boy; and so far she
has won every battle.
The czarina of Russia, sovorul months
ago, with her husband miti children, was"
in a railway train which was wrecked by
conspirators. ror some time she
thought her oldest boy was killed. The
result was thut for a time her mind was
affected; the dead boy was constantly
before her.
The empress of Austria, it Is rumored,
owing to the suicide of her son, has lost
her reason.
The queen of Sweden lias long been an
invalid from some obscure disease. She
is extremely fond of mnsic, and her hap
piest hours are those when her sons sing
to her.
The most touching story which comes
out of the court surroundings is that of
the duchess of Cambridge, aunt of Queen
Victoria, who has just died at an ex
tremely old age. Her sou, who is over
seventy years old, invariably oarae twice
a day to sit by her bed side and entertain
her with family gossip. He never left
lier without bending his white head that
she might lay iter hand upon it in
blessing.
Many people are apt to think of roy
alty as removed into a state of splendid
triumph, insen-ible to pain or anxiety.
Vet the.,e brief glimpses show that kings
and queens ure but fathers and motheus
like the poorest slavo and dra.v their
misery and happiness from their children
just as keenly as though no "golden
rigol" bound thoir brows.—Youth's Com
panion.
Shooting the Ibex.
The Il ex is a wild goat, once distinct
ive feature of wnich is tho knotted horns
of large size. This tine animal was sup
posed by BtifTon to bo the original parent
of the common European gout, us well as
of the chamois; but modern zoologists
have found another primitive stock in
the Caucuses and in Persia. The mule is
nearly black, and stands three feet nine
inches high at the shoulder, with power
ful limbs, and with horns twelve inches
long. Not only good marksmanship is
required for success In the paisuit of the
Ibex, but a sure mountaineering foot,
and a steady head I hut. will look over a
precipice without getting dizzy.
The buck ibex has great speed and
agility, leaping chasms thirty feet wide
from rock to rook. Fogs are not nnfre
quent, am! the huntsman after search
ing for game all day, will be astonished .
by the sudden vision of a herd of ibex,
revealed at the lifting of tho vaporous
veil. C'upt. Henry bbakspear, in his'
"Wild Sports of India," relates how once
the black male of a herd actually ran
against him in a fog. The ibex, when
wounded, is very tenacious of life, and
may sometimes got away, sliding down
the clilT, after ho was thought to be dead.
—London Illustrated News.
The Luke Metre Drive.
"A plan is on foot," says a correspon
dent of a New York paper, "to make un
addition to Chicago's Lake Shore drive,
which, if carried out, will give this city
one of the iinest and most extensive sys
tems of boulevards and drives in the „
world. The present idea is to extend tile '
beautiful drive which runs along the
lake, through the handsomest portion
of the north side and through Lincoln
park. This drive now stops at the north
end of tne park. The now plan, which
is well under way, is to extend it as far
north as Lake IJIufY, twenty-five miles
north of Chicago. This section of coun
try is by for the prettiest in the neigh
borhood. Tho flat shores of Luko Mich
igan gradually slope upward until at
Lake Bluff they assume the shape of al
most perpendicular banks, rising to a
height of 100 feet, and showing the
waters of tho lake far below. A heavy
growth of timber stretchos to the west v
while at other places it is broken by deep
ravines that open up unexpeetod
glimpses of the lako through tho dark
foliage. The new drive will run along as
close to the lako as possible, and
through the villages of Evanston, High
land Park, the new military post, Fori
bheridan, and Lake Forest."
sanitary Celling* and Walla'.
This subject was brought before the
last meeting of the sanitary convention
at Hastings, Mich., by a Mr. Church, who
reecommonded the use of a coatiug oi
gvpsum or ulubaster which had been cal
cined by subjecting it to u great neat in
retorts. He states that after fifteen '
years' study of the subject ho believes
the sickness caused by so-called poison
ous wall papers containing arsenic is due
to other oondltions than the wall
paper, or at least largely contributes
to it.
Cnatom llouae and Photography.
Attention has been drawn to tho prac
tice of custom house officers open'ns
packages of undeveloped photogm pih
plates, and thus spoiling the labors n'i
trip to the antipodes. It is suggests
that it be sufficient that the owner ma ,et
a statement, on oath if neeossaiy, th.it
ihe contents of the package pro untie,
volopnd photographs and will spoil U
opened in daylight.