CROSSING THE BAR. Suasot sod evening ufar, And one clear roll for me: And may there be no mooning of the bar. When I put out to sea But such n tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the bound less deep Turun again home. Twilight and evening bell, Anil after that the dork I And may there be no sadness of farewell. When I embark: For ilio' from out our bourne of Time and I'lnco The flood may bear me far, 1 hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar. M'SUANE'S DIAMOND. It was a singular incident that once came under my observation, while trav eling in an English railway eoaeh, and one that afforded me a good deal of amusement at the time of its occur rence. I was an American tourist, traveling on small capital and large assurance; the latter of which, allow me to remark, increased in proportion as tho former diminished. I was journeying from tho picturesque little town of Hadley, on the London and Western, to tlio great me tropolis, where Bob, my fellow tourist, was awaiting my arrival. I had taken a run down to Hadley for a few days, for the purpose of visiting a couple of ruined abbeys in the vicinity, and hop ing at the same time to escape from the fog, smoke and noise of busy London. I left Bob in town, for, alas! he did not appreciate moss covered walls and antique battlements, preferring, by far, the giddy throngs of the Odeon or the Alhambra. 1 had enjoyed myself to my heart's content in wandering among the venera ble ruins of a bygone age, and vaguely speculating on the lives of the former owners of the ivy mantled structures. In fact, the time had slipped away so pleasantly that I was greatly surprised one evening to receive a letter from Bob, saying that I had been away a week, whereas I had said three days would bo the limit, and that if I wanted to see London in Yuletide garb, I had better "hurry up," to use his expression. Whereupon, I had packed my Gladstone, and, having settled my account and bid den farewell to my jolly host of the Black Horse, not without much regret, I found myself settled iu a compartment of a second class railway carriage, whirl ing away to the metropolis. Upon entering the compartment I glanced casually around and observed, to my surprise, that its only other occu pants beside myself were a rather oldish man, wrapped from top to toe iu a huge ulster, and whom, by some unknown mental process, I set down as a well to do merchant, and a tall, seedy looking indi vidual with an honest, sun browned face. I was at a loss to determine the calling of the second of my fellow travelers, and the old fashioned portmanteau that rested at his feet did not serve to en lighten me—the aforesaid mental process was at fault. I concluded, however, that the two men were as unknown to each other as they were to me. They had civilly made room for me when I took my seat, and then, as the train began to move, the tall man began talking to him of the ulster, and kept it up. After I had made myself as comfort able as one can be in an English railway coach, I drew forth a novel and tried to read. I say "tried,"' for the attempt was a complete failure. The carriage was iieastlv cold, and between the rattle of Lhe train and the incessant talking of the tall man, I had to re-read the first page of my "Haggard" tale three times before I got the sense of it, and it wasn't very deep reading either. Then I gave it up in disgust, and leaning back, with the stoical determination to grin and hear it, pretended to go to sleep. The tall man had just finished some "good story," with which ho seemed highly pleased, and its denouement was evidently satisfactory to his listener, for ho of the ulster was giving vent to a se ries of throaty chuckles. I immediately made up my mind to listen to the next yarn that the loquacious tall man should tell, and I felt the more justified in doing so because it was largely his fault that my reading had been interrupted. I luul not long to wait, for the effect of the last tale had not yet worn away when the tall man began: "There's another good story that I know, and I can vouch for the truth of this one, because, you see, I was one of the actors in the affair myself;" and then, not pausing for any comments, he con tinued: "It was way back in the pros perous days of the South Africa diamond fields. I landed in the colony when a mere boy, and, after knocking around • Cape Town for a year, came to the con clusion that I'd never make a fortune there, and that I had better strike for the | interior, where they said the Kohiuoors were to be had for the picking up. "Well, I reached the diamond district, just how it doesn't matter, and, of course, soon discovered that the reports I had heard concerning the wealth of the dis trict were greatly exaggerated. How ever, I was there, and had to make the best of it. "There wero a couple of fellows in the camp whom I took a fancy to, and so we three pooled our issues, and, having lo cated a claim, went to work. "One of my partners was from Lanca shire, and was as true a friend as I over had, but a quiet sort of boy. Poor fel low! he sailed from Cape Town a few years later in a vessel that was never heard of after she left port. The third member of our triumvirate was just tha opposite of the Lancashire lad, as far as soberness of disposition goes. He, like j myself, was a Londoner, and was the most jovial, whole souled fellow in the district. Billy Thompson was his name, but the boys had abbreviated it into Tompy.' He was forever playingaome joke or other on tho miiwH, so that they were always on tho lookout whoa Tompy was around. "There was an Irishman in camp by the na trie of Mike MeShane. He was a true sou of the Emerald Isle, light heart ; ed and 'aisy goin',' and, as was natural, he and Tom py struck up a warm friend j ship. Ho used to come down to our quarters almost every night, and many ' is tho good yarn that ho and Tompy used i to spin to while away the evening. All j that the rest of us needed to do was to : lie around and laugh at the right time." "I think 1 can hear Tompy now, as he ; used to ask Mike, when the latter would I come up to our hut of an evening: '"Well, Mike, have you found the big j diamond that's been waiting for you i these long years down in your pit?' •' "Faith, me bhoys, yez kin joke az I much az yez loikes, but, begorra! it'll be I moy toime to joke whin oi've found the jewel, as oi will some toime. Whist! ye spalpeens, don't oi tell yez oi've seen it in me dhramesV' Mike was c. thorough believer iu dreams. "Ilis pit was an old one that had been unsuccessfully worked for a few weeks by a delicate young fellow, whom no body knew anything about. He had be come more and more disheartened at his ill luck, and, at last, he was found dead in the pit one morning, with a bullet hole in his iiead, and a pistol in his hand. Poor hoy! he had given it up. For a long while tho pit stood empty—nono of the miners would go near it, for they declared it was haunted by the ghost of tho dead man; hut when Mike MeShane came into the district ho immediately took possession of it, saying that the spook would guide him to the right spot to dig. About eight months after Mike's ap pearance in camp a regular out and out Yankee struck the district. He was a good one and no mistake. "One night he sauntered into our hut. Mike wasn't around, strange to say, and sitting down by the fire, began to talk and to spit tobacco juice at one particu lar flame. Somehow tho conversation gradually drifted on to the relative abili ty of the English and Americans. Tompy, as usual, did most of the talking for Old England, while the Yankeedefended the United States: and I must say he downed Tompy, so to speak, on every point the latter would bring up. Finally, as a clincher to a particularly strong argu ment, lie ran his hand deep into his pocket and brought out what I thought at first was a large, uncut diamond. " 'There,' said the Yankee, 'do you think you Englishmen can make such an imitation jewel as that? See how it flashes even though in the rough!' " 'Pooh!'said Tompy, not a bit abashed, 'a greenhorn could tell that wasn't genu ine. That will do to fool Americans with.' " 'Will it?' replied the Yankee, with his peculiar drawl, and he was about to replace the false stone in his pocket—at at that instant a brilliant idea struck Tompy. " 'Hold on, my friend,' he said; 'Let's look at that a minute.' '"The Yankee handed the false stone over to Tompy, and the latter turned it over and over in liis hand. Presently he looked up and said— " 'You don't want to sell this piece of glass, do you, stranger?" " 'That depends,' said the Yankee la conically, as ho neatly extinguished the bright little flame by a larger shower of nicotine juice than usual. "Well, to make short work of it, they dickered around till, finally, Tompy traded a stone worth five pounds for the paste jewel. As soon as the Yankee was gone, Walters, the Lancashire lad, and I spoke up. " 'What the devil did you do that for?' we cried in a breath. " 'Never you mind,' replied Tompy, coolly. 'l'll have some fun out of Mike MeShane and this paste diamond yet.' "The next morning, while wo were eating breakfast, we were startled by a terrible racket coming from the other end of the camp. " 'What's that?" I asked. ' "Give it up,' said Tompy, with an odd sort of smile. 'Guess you'd bettor take a look outside.' "Walters and I rushed for the door, and Tompy followed more leisurely. A laughable sight met our eyes. At the head of a crowd of miners was Mike Me- Shane, caperiDg about like mad, and yell ing and singing by turns, but all the while advancing towards our hut, and crying: " 'Hooray! Hooray! me bhoys, oi've found it at last, oi said oi would, and yez see me dhrames have come true. Och! Nora, me darlint, yer fartune's made.' "At that instant I happened to look at Tompy, and saw that he was trying to keep from laughing, and it immediately occurred to me that he had perpetrated some joke on Mike, and that the paste j jewel was at tho bottom of it. Appar- j ently, Walters thought the same thing, j for he said to Mike, in his quiet way: " 'Let us see your find, Mike.' " 'Not yit! not yitl' answered Mike, j 'But yez must come with me to the as sayer's to see how much it's worth. I Thin yez can look at it az long as yez j wants.' Just then a big rawboned Scotchman i spoke up, saying: " 'The mon's bewitched, lie's got na j diainint.' " 'Bewitched is it?' cried Mike, excit- j edly, 'all roiglit, me bhoys, he sez oi'm ! bewitched. Come along to the assayer's ! office and see.' ' So saying, Mike led the way toward the government buildings, in which the assayer's office was established. The crowd followed, and we joined them, be ginning to wonder how this strange joke would end. "As we filed into the low ceiiinged room used by the assayer, that individ ual looked up from his work. He was examining some gold ore that had been brought in from the Transvaal and was annoyed at being disturbed. " 'Well, my lads," he said impatiently, 'What can I do for you?'" "Taking off his shabby cap, that he kept twirling nervously in his fingers, Mike stepped to the front and said: " 'Plaze, yer honor, oi've found a dia rnint in me diggings this marnin', an' oi've brought it down for to find out how much it is worth and. the quality of the shtone. Begorra! the bhoys say oi'm i elanc gone crazy, and have been iHiram in'. but oi'll lave it all with yer honor.' "Whereupon Mike thrust his hand into his pocket and, slowly drawing it , forth, deposited 011 the table a sparkling white stone of unusual size. Giving it a hasty glance, and taking it for the Yankee's paste jewel, I turned to look at Toinpy. 1 could not catch his eye, however, for he was leaning forward like tho others, breathless with interest. " 'Huinphl' I mattered, 'one might think to look at him that he know noth ing about it. I did not know before that Tompy was quite so deceitful.' "Meanwhile the assayer was examin ing tho gem very carefully. He turned i it over in his hand, squinted at it through a magnifying glass, looking for flaws, I suppose, and, finally held it up between his thumb and forefinger, that it might catch the rays of the morning sun, as they poured in through tho square hole in the wall that answered for a window. The jewel certainly had, or seemed to have, a lot of fire in it, and I could not help admiring its brilliancy. "Then tho assayer, laying the jewel gently down upon the table, spoke, say ing very slowly: " 'That is the finest diamond that I have seen for six months. It is of the finest water, and is absolutely (lawless.' Taking advantage of tho yells and cheers that rose from the half a hundred throats at the assayer'.-. wortis, Tompy leaned quickly toward me and whispered: " 'By jovt! Mike must have missed tho paste 6tor.e, and lias really made a find!' "Then, before I could reply, Mike him self rushed tip to us, dancing from one to tho other, and began hugging us like mad, until I almost agreed with the old Scotchman, that ho was possessed. " 'Hold on, my good man,' said tho assayer kindly, 'tell us how you came to find this valuable jewel.' "As the cheers subsided, Mike cooled off a little and told the following story of his great find; " 'Well, bhoys," he began, addressing himself to the crowd, 'yez all know ax how how oi wuz forever asayin' that tho sliperrit of tho poor fellow phat killed himself (rest his soul now) would some guide me to the roiglit splint to dig. Yis terday oi began a new shaft, a little fur ther to the east of the old one, fur sez oi to ineself, "There's notliin' loike liavin' twonirns in the fire, Moike, me bhoy." " 'Well, last night oi wuz onaisy loike, and couldn't slape, so oi got up to take a bit of a walk. Oi hadn't no more than reached the door of the cabin when I saw sometliin' movin' from the bushes to mo new shaft. " 'Whist!' sez oi, 'tits the ghost of the former owner come back to look for some diamint that lie didn't find when aloivc.' " 'Well, me boys, oi laid me.-olf down close by mo hut an' watched the ghost. It wasn't so dhark but what oi could see him diggin' away for dear loife iu me new shaft, but all on a suddent he shtopped and felt in his pocket.' " 'Ghosts don't have pockets,' yelled some one derisively from the rear of the crowd. " ' Arrah, now, y' galootl' replied Mike quickly, 'your ghost wouldn't have need of ouo;' and not heeding tho laugh pro duced by this sally, he resumed: " 'As ci wuz ngoin' to say, he shtooped down, an' seemed to put somethin'in the hole lie had dug. After that, he filled it up again, and suioothen' it off so as to make it look natural loike shouldered lii 3 spade, az any miner would, and gloided away. When ho had vanished into the air entoirely (Tompy almost laughed out here), oi got up an' sez: " 'Arrah! ye spalpeen, it's there where ye buries yer threasures, is it?. By St. Patrick! but it'll slitay there till marnin', an' no longer; and with that oi wint in an' soon wuz pliast ashlape. In the marnin' bright and early oi wuz up, an', takin' me shpade, wint out and dug as near the place as oi could judge that the sliperrit had dug the noight before, an' begorra! the first lick oi turned up the silfsaino jewel before yez.' "As Mike finished his wonderful tale the crowd began to murmur. It sound ed too improbable for them to believe, although I had heard many of the same fellows declare before that they had seen the ghost that Mike described. How ever, Tompy, who evidently did not want the gho6t story investigated, came gal lantly to Mike's relief. " 'Never mind about the ghost,' he cried, 'hut let's give three cheers for Nora in old Ireland!! "The crowd responded again and again until tho rickety weatherboards of the walls rattled as though they would fly off. Then two of us raised Mike on our shoulders and carried him off; and him holding on tight to his 'diamint' and crying and laughing by turns. And I tell you, sir, tliero were not many dry eyes in that crowd when lie cried out; " 'Nora, mo darlint, yer Moike will ! come home to make ye rich at last,' for, i you see. most of us had a Nora some i where in the wide world. "1 may as well say that Tompy's paste jewel was never heard of iu tiie camp; hut I have an idea that, as Tompy knew j where to look for it, he disinterred it j that very night. "Well, Mike sailed from Cape Town ! in the next ship that left, but whetlier he ever reached home and Nora with his diamond, or not, I don't know, for I j haven't seen him from that day to this," - and the tall man brushed his eyes | quickly with the back of ids hand. "Yes, ye have! yes, ye have!" cried j the man in the ulster, springing up and j seizing his fellow traveler's hand. "Ye I have seen him to-night, now roiglit here! oi'm Moike McShane!" The tall man could not believe it at ' first: but when the truth dawned upon 1 him he fell to wringing his old friend's hand, till I feared ho would pull tho arm off. The scene was fast becoming em barrassing for me,, when tho train slowed up, and the guard throwing open the I door of the compartment and thrusting his head in, yelled: "Harlington station, Lunnon!" That was my getting off place, so seiz ing my Gladstone bag and my umbrella, I hurried out, leaving tho two long sep arated friends deeply absorbed in ex changing experiences.— Reese P. Risley in Yankee Blade. FIRE MADE BY FRICTION. HOW THE THING IS DONE BY NA TIVES IN MANY COUNTRIES. ! : • The Rubbing of Dry Sticks Together Is the Favorite Mothwl —Crude Inrontious ! Which Require a Dexterous Daioi to Operate—The Pottery ami F'mitfti* Plan. i One of the first tilings every child learn'i aliout lire is that certain savage races produce it by the rubbing of two ! sticks. Delightfully simple as the de i scription of the process is, any one who | has tried to perform tho operation will ! certify that it is by no means an easy I one, and very likely will afterward de | clare fervently upon oath that the thing I cannot lie done. Many travelers have tried, under the most auspicious circum- I stances—in countries where the produc | tion of fire in this manner is in every day use, with a grinning native to choose the weapons and give a practical exhi bition of his own skill—and after many joint and muscle aching experiments have given up the attempt in a state of mind liordcring on temporary insanity. "We ourselves," writes a traveler, "have been successful just often enough to un j derstand the uncertainty of the opera tion." JUDGMENT AND DEXTEBXTV. In tho first place judgment is required in choosing the sticks. The immense variety of tropic vegetation furnishes many sorts that answer tho purpose, but many also that will not; an expert some times may belong in finding two species suitable. One must be light and soft, the other heavy, of close texture, and both must he dry. Upon the heavy bit he cuts two grooves, in the form of a cross, fixes it tight—with his prehensive toes probably—sharpens tho light hit, places it in the intersections of the cross, and twirls it steadily between his palms. Gradually tinder forms, in the shape of dust, which drops down the grooves in a tiny heap on either side. If the twirling be interrupted for a second that repre sents so much waste time, which must be recovered at enormous interest. If the heavy piece shifts the tinder is dis placed. But the power of originating fire in this manner with facility is not an ac complishment possessed by every one, even in the countries where the practice exists. The in.militants of the tropics do not always depend wholly upon their two sticks; among many tribes they are nothing but a last resort. They have other methods of producing fire. A na tive carries in his betel box perhaps a fragment of hard pottery and a morsel of dry fungus. Fixing a bit of the latter in the hollow of the former, ami holding it down with the thumb—in such away that it follows the edge—he smartly strikes his box. which is bamboo, of course, just as if he were handling flint and steel. The fungus tinder is glowing in an instant. The friction methods in use in differ ent parts of tlv world are various. One of the simplest is with the stick and groove—a blunt pointed stick being run along a groove of its own making in a piece of wood lying on the ground. In Tahiti Mr. Darwin saw a native produce fire in a few seconds, but only succeeded himself after much lalior. This device is employed in New Zealand, the Sand wich Islands, Tonga, Samoa and the Radack Islands. Instead of rubbing the movnble stick backward and forward, other tribes uiako it rotate rapidly in a louud hole in the stationary piece of wood, in the manner referred to, thus making, as happily designated, a fire drill. This device has been observed in Australia, Kamscbatka, Sumatra and the Carolines, among the Yeddahs of Ceylon, throughout a great part of South Africa, among the Esquimaux and In dian tribes of North America, in the West Indies, in Central America and as far south as the Straits of Magellan. It was also employed by the ancient Mexi cans,, and Mr. Taylor gives a quaint pict ure of the operation from Mexican MS., in which a uian, half kneeling on the ground, is causing the stick to rotate be tween the palms of his own hands. This simple method of rotation seems to be generally in use, but various devices have been resorted to for the purpose of diminishing the labor and hastening tho result. THE FIRE DRILL. The Guacho of the Pampas takes "an elastic stick about eighteen inches long, presses one end to his breast and the other in the hole in a piece of wood, and then rapidly turns the curved part like a carpenter's center bit." In other cases the rotation is affected by means of a cord or thong wound round the drill and pulled alternately by this end and that. A further advance was made by some North American Indians, who appear to have applied the principle of the bow drill, and the still more ingenious pump drill was used by the Iroquois Indians. For a full description of these instru ments we must refer the reader to Mr. Taylor's valuable chapter in his "Re searches." These methods of producing fire aro but rarely used in Europe, and only in connection with superstitious ob servances. We read in Wuttke that some time ago the authorities of a Mecklenberg vil lage ordered a wild lire to bo lighted against the murrain among the cattle. For two hours they strove vainly to ob tain a spark, but the fault was not as cribed to the quality of tho wood or to the dampness of the atmosphere, but to the stubbornness of an old lady who, ob jecting to the superstition, would not put out her night light. Such a fire to be efficient must burn shine. At last the strong minded woman was compelled to give in; fire was obtained, but of bad quality, for it did not stop tho murrain. A belief in the peculiar virtues of fire obtained by the friction of wood has at one time or another prevailed among na tions of Indo-European race, and not many years ago the obtaining of need (fire) was practiced in the Highlands of Scotland. One of its principal virtues has always been considered to be its ef ficiency against disease.—Fireman, Lon don. THE PLANTAIN EATERS. Description of Tliri-e of tho .Host Reauti fill Bird* In tho World. Among the many beautiful birds found in western Africa, none will compare with those bearing the name of plantain eaters, being so called because they feed on plantains and other fruits. The nat uralists call them Musophagidre, but it is not at all likely that our boys and girls prefer this to the more easily remem bered name appearing at tlu> head of this article. They are chiefly found in the forests of Senegal, and sometimes specimens are met with on the coast of Guinea. A somewhat similar species is also seen in Soutli America. The beautiful plumage of this variety of bird fully justifies the statement made by Bruce, the famous naturalist, that it is "one of the princes of the feathered creation." The most notable of its kind is the vio let plantain eater. It is a large, ele gantly proportioned bird, twenty inches in length, whose general plumage is of a shining, blackish purple, set oil to great advantage by the deep lilac and crimson of its wings, a combination of colors seen in no other bird in the world. It has a large bill, the outer half of the upper and the whole of the under inaudible being of n bright crimson, shaded oIT at the front or thickest part into a brilliant yellow and then merg ing into crimson agai" on I he crown and back part of the head. Around the eyes is a naked space which enhances the beautiful colors of the bill nud crown. Above its ears is a pure white stripe, ex tending backward and downward al most to the upper edge of its neck. Nearly one-half of the lower part of the wings is of a deep carmine line, glossed with lilac, the margins being tipped with the blackest violet color that spreads over the rest of its body. This dark violet be comes a very dark green on the under parts, and is particularly rich on the tail. The legs are black, and its thick, hooked and very broad claws, of the same shade, show that it is fitted for living among trees. This formation is seen in all birds requiring superior powers of grasping, the middle too of this particular species being of sufficient length to encircle any ordinary sized branch. Another-olegant specimen of this family is the variegated or crested plantain eater, so named on account of its very peculiar crest or "topknot," which is placed di rectly on the nape of the neck, and not, as in the majority of crested bit da. on the top or crown of the head. The gen eral color of the upper parts of this bird is very light gray, with a narrow, black ish stripe down each feather. The front and top of the head and the whole of the chin and throat as far as the breast is chestnut brown. The under plumage beyond the breast is white, each feather having a dark stripe down the middle, while the pri mary and secondary quills of the wings are blackish, with a pure white spot, farying in size in the middle of each. The feathers in the middle of the tail are gray, with black tips, those on the end being entirely gray. Its bill is pure yel low throughout, the crimson seen in the violet plantain eater being absent, and its legs are gray. Its length is the same as the first mentioned variety, but its middle toes and claws are somewhat smaller. Still another kind is called the crowned plantain eater, or Senegal touraco, and it rivals in beauty its violet bned com panion Like the bird just described, its chief attraction is a magnificent crest The whole of the head, including the crest, its neck, wing covers and around the shoulders is grass green without any gloss, and this color also extends to the under plumage as far as the breast, be yond which it becomes obscured and darkened with a blackish hue. The bill is blackish purple in the middle, but along the edges and within the margii of the sides it is a bright crimson, the tips of both upper and lower mandibles being blackish. Around the eyes is a crimson patch, the upper part of which is shaped some what like the teeth of a saw. Immedi ately in front of the eyes is a white stripe, extending to about one-third of the length of the upper eyelid, while beneath each is a black stripe running backward to ward its ears and terminating in a point at the lower edge of the crimson patch already described. This bird is smaller than either of the others, its total length from bill to tail being but sixteen inches. Taken altogether, these specimens of the bird creation stand unequaled in brilliancy of plumage and shapely pro portions, and it is to be regretted that bo cause of their rarity and extreme shy ness but very few specimens can be obtained. Were it otherwise those living in the neighborhood of museums of nat ural history would have a chance to feast their eyes on this matchless array of colors, and thus get a better idea of the beauty of the plain tain caters than can be conveyed by a mere pen picture. —Philadelphia Times. Testing: the Hardness of Waters. A rapid method for ascertaining the amount of lime and sodium carbonate necessary to soften a hard water has been devised by M. L. Vignon. It gives satisfactory results in waters which do not contain a large quantity of magne sium chloride or sulphate. Ho employs a standard solution of lime for titrating the water, using an alcoholic solution of phe nol phthalein as an indicator. The volume of lime water added is a measure of the lime required to combine with the free carbonic acid present in the water, and that necessary to convert the hydrogen calcium carbonato and hydrogen magne sium carbonate into insoluble salts. On filtering off the precipitate formed in this way from 100 c. c. of the water under examination, the filtrate is titrated with a solution of sodium carbonate contain ing one gram per liter, phenol-phthalein again being used to indicate the end of of the reaction. The amount of sodium carbonate required will give the quan tity of salts of calcium and magnesium other than acid carbonate present in the water.— lndustries, Who HUH Lord Chesterfield'* Sou? To turn to that feature in Lord Chester field's lifo which has impressed itself most strongly on the world at large—his relations with Ilia son—we find that, for the last quarter of his life, Lord Chester field lived almost entirely for his son (the issue of a liaison with a French woman of the name of Du Bouchet). This young person is much to he pitied. He is one of the most eminent victims of parental ambition, the determination that is, to make a son wliat you think you would like hint to be, riot that he was born to be. What Philip Stanhope might have been, we need not waste our time in guessing. Nothing very striking, prob ably. At best be seems to have shown signs of being an inferior Gibbon; his father is always telling him that he spends tort much time over bis books, so that probably he had a real taste for eru dition. But that was not at all Lord Chesterfield's idea of a man. "The clois tered pedant," "the illiberal pedant," is the object of his unceasing scorn. He determined that his son should lead the same sort of life that he had led, but be so much more successful in that he should have had the advantage of all Lord Ches terfield's experience. Unfortunately, the scheme of educa tion which lie devised was far from well adapted to carry out these ideas. At its root tli re was a fundamental error. Lord Chesterfield held a theory, of which he flattered himself ho was a living ex ample, that everything except poetry can be acquired, and, as in one place he thanks God that neither he nor his son was born to be a poet, for practical pur poses he may be said to have believed that everything, not merely facts, but feelings, not only outward Ila bits, but frames of mind, only waited for a vigor ous will to summon them and take pos session. This was a radical error of his, but he believed it with all his heart and soul. It is wrong, but nevertheless it may be a highly useful lesson to teach while the mind is in its acquisitive stage. Then it may act as a powerful stimulus, but it may be abused, and Lord Chester field certainly abused it.—Temple Bar. lie Wear* III* Blouse. There is a member of the French chamber of deputies who constantly wears a workingman's blouse. This blouse in France is worn by all workingmen. It is a coarse, blue garment made like a shirt and worn outside the trousers. The deputy referred VJ to, Mr. Thivier, JOt-. has been a work /iir&<i \ lnan ' an d was JJI I Jwyi/'i elected by work- Ail mon - went /-JI in *° work in a coal fj' HR mine when be "i j'll,; ' ? was 12 years old jf| 1i 7j ti 1 i I and never left ~"al II: h I; that kind of labor fj I >! I for twenty years. || 1 pcfr'j— I ' Afterward he be sßgal J~TBB came a vinogrow lOf SB ' r . ,!, '' l:i< r ! r k ;f in \wyw/Jflf m wines He has accuinu lated a • L- fortune, and al " - though lie es- M. THIVIER. pouses the cause of the workiiiguian he is not a Commun ist, as many such are in France, though he is a Socialist. Through all his career he has stuck to the blouse, and now that he is in the chamber of deputies he keeps his accus tomed garment. Perhaps he believes in a familiar couplet changed to read— You may take off the workingman's blouse if you will, But the wnys of a workman will bang round him still. Boston's Farragut. The Boston committee on statues have accepted the design of Henry Hudson Kitson, a young sculptor who has won fame on two con- r~~TI tinents. The sta- flnf] tue to be erected Jfcnf. in Boston will be of bronze, an d A* tf 1 \ will be cast _• ID abroad of solid j French metal. / jfcJ The admiral will I \ ,w7 s be presented I standing on the J Mk quarter deck, A EPTWI / holding his ma- CM M rino glass against vta j fill %///;, his breast. It will 'i/im f N f////j be of heroic size, Ui and when com- rr~ pleted will be a =a3= splendid piece of KITSON'S FABRAGCT. American memorial art. The sculptor, Kitson, wears many home and foreign decorations and medals, though he is but 25 years of age. t r- -, •- a ... kcX-<.*) L--.il *-i ... .4 \V!th Avers Mr : \ • ;or Its ch-unii- S h. i .-on the scalp,mid . ;im •• intend it for mo. dr. ■ 1; lamps the liuir soil ; . >i, i : • ■ - i'S color.prevents it ■ aicl, ' • 1M; hair lias become . eak •i- thin, proi ites a new growth. "To r. lore the original color of my ! iir, v.I LI huii '.iriicii preiiiainrelv iay, I iiscil Avcr'S Ifnir Vigor with en tire success, I .-in ■ . fully testify to the Efficacy f this pn p alio, l."— Mrs. P. H. David- HI. AH- . Tll.ii ia. La. " 1 m ■ 1 some three years with - A!- •. M . hair was fulling out !•••' • I : timed gray. I was a ■ ' r . .Vyer's Hair Vigor, and I I\- weeks the disease in my sculp I lit I LIIV liair re lined its original color." ( Itev.) 8. S. Sims, . U. B. Church, sit. J'.ei nice, 1 ml. " A few years ago I suffered the E.Rl'lro loss of my liair iVniu lie- effect - >1 LEI' -r I hoped that after a time eainre w.-IM repair the loss, hut I wnii.-L in Viet .Many remedies were sag RESTED Units, however, with Sllell pronf OL LIU-rii as i ter's Hair Vigor, mill I I>. gan tn-ise T: 'J'LIE result was all I could L..M ' A growth of liair soon tunic oi i a: III.V head, and grew to lie ..s -mi ■ t iieuvy as I ever had. and of a ii.nn. ■.! color, anil Jli'ml'i set."—J If. 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