.
_ How do I know?
fiile
A Falter-
‘nat g. Then
helooKet comyla-
cently: ‘Now, I filer myself that’s
rather good. Listen, H.:
“The weary sun has sunk to rest,
And with him fades the dying day.
(76 nigh come hao ove he best,
Fit time love's winning words to say.
| *‘Tretty good, eh?”
“Good? Oh, Lord! You want to
change those last two lines. Yo
should say: "a
“Alas ! 8fill lives a love-struck crag
| Who can’t say what he wants fi
“Besides, ‘best’ isnt
br; ify | . }
could not please.
silence. whic
“Says Bo" yop
me?’ iw Hk
“Oh, ‘take a run around the block!
: There she , comes
now, and I g you fair warning if
you two stay here and scare -all
‘my fish away I'll tell about the
poetry.” = i ’
Divinely "all and most divinely
fair was Lady Mary. She al trip-
you hen a long
-af last broke with:
think she would have
ping sedately over the tender| grass,
the mountain winds kissing a delicate
peach blossom into her cheeks. Jack,
with his customary facility, rose to his
feet and the occasion to play the gal-
lant. Neither of ’em paid the slight-
_ est attention to me. I was supposed
to: be'dead.:
“Jack,” she said, sweetly,” ‘‘I want
you to row me up to the store. Will
# \ you?” 5
Of course Jack acquiesced, and the
i
’
two of them got into .the boat and
started. : .
Jack is a finished oarsman, at least
he generally finishes “it “in about ten
minutes. I knew it was t8 be inter-
esting, so I gave up the fishing and
watched them. - x
(Mem. later: They have drifted
down the river, botn behind Lady
Mary's parasol.)
Now, Jack being one of ‘those fel-
lows who believe in never losing an
opportunity calmly rowed the boat
out in the middle of theriver and
them, as I predicted, . shipped the
oars and opened the conversation.
‘How well we get along together |
Z ‘with all its winter privations, comes
in a boat,”’ he remarked, gazing senti-
mentally at the cliffs. >
“Yes,” abstractedly, ‘‘but I wish
you'd row up to the store.. I don’t
want to waste the whole afternoon
drifting like: this.”
“No, of course not,” waking up
suddenly. Two strokes. Then, ‘I
wish we could always—" :
‘“There are a lot of new people com-
ing tonight,” she brokein. ‘Mr. Eg-
gleston told me so.” Th
“Did he? H’m!” Then with a
_ brilliant idea, ‘“Are you ever inter-
ested in other people?” he asked in
his most beguiling tone.
“Oh, yes—now, there’s Christopher
P
‘hite.
ag
4
1.,you’re
both down
behind a
t part of it,
hime to hear
I love you.
answered,
why didn’t
”” gaid I,com-
POY, you may
ill,Jack.”’
TORY.
ng Pardon to
e
y story about
o him by a
Kentucky, who
said the sen-’
acter in Ken-
ember right-
wRte, but at any
as a nj
rabid sece§sionist. He
praise the South too highly
could not heap ébough abuse
fon the North. He wa: too old
go into the war with his sons ag
mained at home, doing all he gf
help the confederate cause a
the Yankees who inva
Finally he became so o}
the federal . genera
mand near Hel
prison.
position
BE com-
Ht him in
ge, the high
upied in the
tion and -espe-
ify to do any harm,
fed in his extenuation,
released. Instead of profit-
e warning, the old man -be-
ore persistent than ever in his
Once more he was clapped
nto jail. This happened two or three
times, and finally, while he was still
locked up, the matter was brought to
the attention of the federal authori-
ties. Tven Président Lincoln was ap-
pealed to and asked to commit the ar-
dent southerner to an indefinite con-
finement in order that he might be
curbed.
“‘Lincoln listened to. the statement
of the case¥with more than usual in-
terest. Then he leaned back and be-
gan to speak: with a smile upon his
face. ‘You are talking about old man
John Helm? . Well, did you know that
I used to live: when I was a boy'in
Helm’s town. He was kind to me.
He seemed to like me as a boy, and
he never lost an opportunity to help
me. He seemed to think,’ said Lin-
¢oln, with another of his almost, pa-
thetic smiles, ‘that I would probably
make something of a man. Why, when
I went out to Illinois, poor and un-
known, that man gave me the money |
to pay my way and keep me until I |
got a start. © John Helm? .O, yes, I
know him, and I know what I owe to
him. I think I can fix his case.’
‘‘And then,” said Senator Mills,
“Lincoln went to his desk and wrote
a few words. The bit of writing is
treasured in the Helm household to
this day. This is what the president |
wrote:
‘¢ ‘T hereby pardon John IL. Helm
of Kentucky for all that he has ever
done against the United States and all
that he ever will do.
¢¢ ‘ABRAHAM LiINcoLN.,””’
—Washington Post.
Candle ¥ish—Food, Medicine and Light
* in Alaska.
With the discovery of the Klondike,
also the practical discovery of a fish
found along the Alaskan shores which
it is said will furnish food, light, heat
and medicine to the prospectors who
have gone into the new El Dorado.
This fish is of the smelt variety, but
larger and fatter. They are caught in
nets easily, and on being caught, are
found to be of a rich green color on
the back variegated with blue, and
with golden reflections on the belly.
On being caught these fish are dried
and stored. When the Alaskan is
snowed in and without a light, he sim-
ply inserts the tail of one of these fish
in a crack in the table and touches a
@
ost prominent | gi
fle civil \war came on/|s
i
| ELECTRIC LIGHT AND EYESIGHT.
"Gray and Blue Eyes Are Most Succeptis
we ble to Injurious Effect.
One effect of the advent of the X
on the eyesight. It hasrecently been
stated, says the Pittsburg Dispatch,
that sailors suffer much in their eye-
sight from the brilliant electric lights
used on shipboard. Gray and blue
eyes are the most subject to injury,
not being heavily charged with pig-
ments.” The men who work the search-
lights already wear dark blue glasses,
‘but it is found that these only miti-
gate the intensity of the light, and do
not absorb the source of the trouble,
the ultra-violet rays. These rays,
however, can be intercepted by gog-
gles or screens of uranium or yellow
the sailors of the French navy are soon
to be providéd.
Another interesting case bearing on
this subject is reported from a British
warship. -It seems that two stokers
on the ship, having a little spare time,
became engrossed in, the operation of
an electric drill, which was burning
out holes'in. a hardened steel plate.
Both men declared they only watched
thearc for about three minutes,and at
the time felt noill effects, except that all
objects appeared to be of a deep gold
color. Atmnight, however, both men
were aroused by intense pain and paz-
both recovered quickly after treatment.
The electric drill acts by fusing a hole
through the steel, and the intensity of
the light is greatly increasg 6 by the
rays of light thrown off hte Gkten
metal. The fact, too, ; oT k
is carried 4 ght is
poker as
PT the light,
: er effects be-
selves that he is
#But of the common.
Pnow used by all the
wnectric drilling shifts. A
ure of this affection is that
IRiagous to snow or desert blind-
and, as in them, the pernicious
lots of the electric light are proba-
ly due to the ultra violet rays of the
spectrum.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
It is calculated thatthe yearly amount
of food, water, and air which a man re-
ceives in the aggregate, comes to about
a ton and a half.
THe lightest known solid is said to
be the "pith of the sunflower, with a
specific gravity of .028, or about one-
eighth that of cork. 3 tim
The forests of the United States
cover one-quarter of the entire ‘coun:
try, and over $1,000,000 worth of tim-
ber is cut. every year.
« Durham Bullis the name of a farmer
in Greenwood county, Mo., whose
mother’s name was Ann Durham and
his father’s Jonathan Bull,
Fifty of every 100 school children
in Munich have their homes elsewhere
in Bavaria. The cost to the city is
$27 for each pupil per year.
Birmingham, England, turns out
every week 300,000,000 buttons, 4000
miles of wire of. different sizes, five
tons of hairpins, 500 tons of nuts and
20,000 pairs of spectacles.
The Vienna Medical society has
awarded the Goldberger prize of 1000
gulden (about $400) to Dr. Ruhemann
of Berlin for his pamphlet on the
question, ‘Is Catching Cold a Cause of
Disease?” .
In the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico,
the government lfas ordered that the
pupils in all the official schools - shall
be taught to write and perform all
manual tasks as well with the left
hand as with the right.
Of the 250 stamps which have been
issued the values have ranged from
one cent «to $5000. Five dollars is
the highest value among. postage
stamps, but newspaper stamps reach
the $100 mark, while a revenue stamp
may represent $5000.
A refugee hut on the Zugspitze, the
highest mountain in Germany (10,000
feet), near Garmisch, in the centre of
the Bavarian highlands; has been
opened. It stands on the Grat, be-
tween the east and west peaks, affords
accommodations for twenty-two guests,
and has been erected at a cost of
$10,000. : -
Chimneys are very fickle. You can
build one all right in theory, but when
it comes down to practice that is an-
other matter. Build two chimneys
side by side in precisely the same
manner. Employ the best skilled
labor and construct them exlctly on
the same principles. One may draw
all right, while the other smokes like
a pipe.
The great wall of China was re-
cently measured by Mr. Unthank, an
American engineer. His measurement
gave the height at eighteen feet.
Every few hundred yards there is a
Columbug.: I'm interested in him. I
wish I had him here this very minute.
Td kiss his dear little nose.” 2
«If T were only Christopher .Colum-
bus,” insinuated Jack.
“I wish you were sometimes,” she
cried, wickedly. ‘Then I could shut
ou up occasionally, couldn’ I?”
“4 Now, what could anybody do with a
irl like this? The end of it was that
. Lady Mary took the oars and rowed
to the store herself. -
Jack came to me disconsolately.
«Y wish I ‘was dead,” he said, I
told him how annoying it would be to
me to have him lying around dead.
-” ype said I talked like a fool.
© «Jack, my dear boy,” I said, patron-
'jyingly (I am two months older than
he), ‘the next time you try to pop
- the question be like a bottle of ginger
alt Goof with
baug and let al the
Sanlo const Of Abt," ho an-
“I wonder how
matel to its nose. It gives outs clear;
three-candle power light. The back-
bone is largely formed of phosphorus,
which not only causes it to ignite
easily, but also accounts for the
strength of the flame and heat devel-
oped. The substance of the fish,
largely fat, retards therapid burning as
the tallow acts in an ordinary candle.
The fish is algo valuable as food. Still
another use to which it may be put is
as a substitute for cod-liver oil, which,
siding the natural heat of the body,
serves to protect against the severe
cold. It is to be hoped that scientists
will discover a way by which the skin
of this fish may be made into clothing,
and its backbone sharpened into min-
er’s picks. <
Mountain climbers frequently find
butterflies frozen on the snow, and #0
brittle that they break unless care-
folly handled. © When: thawed the
_ tower twenty-five feet high.. For 1200
miles the wall goes over plains and |
Ww.
mountains, every foot of the founda-
tion being of solid granite and the
rest of the structure solid masonry.
The Sword of the Shah.
A Sheffield firm has been by special
firman appointed goldsmiths and sil-
versmiths to his imperial majesty and
to the court of Persia. They are exe-
cuting for the shah an imperial sword,
designs of which have been approved.
The blade is double-eged, of the finest
steel, inlaid with gold, The weapon
has a broad flute down the centre and
is of- scimiter shape, terminating in a
fine pointor clif. The scabbard is of
royal scarlet Persian leather, with
mountings in- gold filigree, while the
hilt is of-ivory, inlaid with gold ara-
besques and inscriptions. in Persian
text. The éross-bar and head of the
hilt is studded with diamonds, rubies
and other preciousstones. — Paris Mes-
butterflies recover and fly away.
selger.
ray has been to direct closer attention |’
to the influence of the electric light -
glass, and with these, it is understood, 1
THE REALM
Feminine Footwear.
These shoes are the latest novelties.
The high shoe inthe center is for
those who feel uncomfortable in a low
shoe.. It is cut out in scallops on
either side, the lacing thereby revealing
the stocking. The shoe at the top is
an entirely novel cut, but is becoming
to the foot, especially when worn with
a colored stocking to match the dress.
STYLES IN SHOES.
A glittering embroidery of jet outlines
all the openwork strappings of the
glace kid, which radiate from a narrow
central strap, also wrought with jet.
The model at the left laces from the
toe right up to the anklein such a way
that the charms of a pretty openwork
stocking are displayed to exceptional
advantage. At the left of the circle is
a dainty shoe in glace kid embroidered
with jet. Note the pretty arrangement
of the strap at the side. ’
Stylish Girls’ Coat,
Short, stylish jacket coats are al-
ways in vogue, and always stylish as
DEO
vet, still hold their :popular place as
hair ornaments for the evening: An-
other approved fashion is a black’ or
white ostrich-feather rising from a
bow of black velvet. Cut-steel, too,
is ftsed for hair ornamentation in con-
junction with either velvet or feath-
ers.
Dog-collars of jewels, or made of
bands of velvet studded with: pears,
jewels or jets, are more in vogue this
winter than for many years past. This
style is an approved one by the woman
whose neck has lost its youthful
primness just beneath the chin, and
will undoubtedly have a long reign.—
‘Woman’s Home-Companion,
OF FASHION.
Red is Again the Rage. -
A great Paris house shows a row of
counters at which nothing is to be seen
but red cloths. Every conceivable
shade may be found, and the variety of
material and range of width and quality
are really marvelous. Red is having
quite a following in Paris just at pres-
ent, the darker shades being the most:
popular. :
Black Velvet Costumes.
All black velvet costumes trimmed
with jet or embroidered bands of
moire ribbon are much worn by both
youthful and elderly matrons.
Girl’s Afternoon Costume.
The model given herewith, and de-
soribed by May Manton, is at once
youthful and stylish. It is trimmed
with narrow black velvet ribbon and
made with a full front of. soft tan-cel-
ored silk. : yi
The foundation for the waist isa |
of
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ih
2
A GIRL’S COAT OF TAN-COLORED CLOTH.
well as comfortable, writes May Man-
ton. - The model illustrated in the
large engraving is made of tan-colored
cloth, and is finished in regulation
tailor style. The broad backs ‘are
seamed at the centre, and are joined
to the fronts by means. of under-arms
gores. The fronts are loose, and are
extended to form pointed revers. The
right laps well over the left, where the
closing is effected by means of buttons
and buttonholes. At the neck is a
high roll-over collar, which closes
with hooks and eyes. The sleeves are
two-seamed and laids in pleats at the
arm’s-eye. Pockets are inserted at
‘convenient distance from the lower
edge of fronts, and are finished with
stitched over-laps. The garment is
lined throughout with silk, the revers
being [self-faced and interlined’ with
tailor’s canvas, as ave the sleeves, for a:
depth of three inches at each wrist.
‘With the coat is worn a hat of velvet,
with a Tam crown and ostrich tips.
To make this coat for a girl of ten
years will require one and one-half
yards of fifty-four-inch material. The
pattern, No. 7264, is cut in‘sizes for
girls of six, eight, ten, twelve and four-
| teen yea ’
Chic Little Basques.
The pleated round waist and the
full Russian blouse waist contest for
favor with the numberless chic little
coat basques, very short, very smart
and very much trimmed. Sometimes
we see the basque. portion cut in one
with the waist, and sometimes added
on. In other instances, the coat or
basque effect is confined to the back
only, while the frontisslightly pointed
or quite round: The back is in one
seamless piece, and is arranged in
endléss ways: below the belt-line.
Short jacket-fronts made by leading
French coatmakers open on full vests
of any soft material that gathers,
pleats, tucks, or can be arranged in
effective surplice folds inside square
or tiny rounded jackets of some heavy
textile. :
Aigrettes, beth black and white,
with tiny ostrigh-tips or bows of ve
Dainty Ornaments For Dress and Hair. :
vel- | tronk,
fitted lining that closes at the centre:
back, On it are arranged the full
front and the revers, that extend
down both back and front, and are
widened to form epaulets over the
shoulders. The sleeves are two:
seamed and moderately snug, those of
the girls being somewhat larger than
those worn by their elders. The neck
{s finished with a straight standing
collar of the silk, The skirt is four-
gored; and has all the fulness laid in
pleats at the back to give the fan ef-
fect. It is quite plain and is lined
throughout. “At the waist is a sash of
black velvet ribbon that harmonizes
with the trimming.
To make this gown for a girl of ten
years will require two and one-half
GIRL'S AFTERNOON COSYUME.
yards of forty-four-inch material, with
five-eighths of a
Fo
=~ ),
yard of silk for he)
STEN < Cs
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
A Brazilian doctor says that coffee {
is a certain cure for anaemia.
Trolley car ambulances are to be in-
troduced in the city of Pittsburg, run-
ning independently over all the stree!
car tracks as called for.
Miss Eleanor Ormerod declares thal
the English eockroach is in danger of
extermination before the hordes of
imported German black beetles.
What is probably. the: largest locos
motive in the world has just been com:
pleted and weighs, with the tender,
over 285,000 pounds. It is for use
in Mexico.
Munich used to be notorious for its
. - *% .
excessive typhoid fever death-rate, if
being twenty-nine per 10,000 in 1856.
With the introduction of a pure water
supply and improved sewer system if
has fallen to less than two per 10,000.
The Semaine Medical publishes de-
tails of the successful experiments
made in Naples by Cantani in making
guinea pigs immune against the influ-
enza poison by vaccinating them with»
sterilized cultures of the influenzs
bacillus,
Professor George Lincoln Goodale of
Harvard university says that there are
now about 200,000 species of plants,
divided into flowering and flowerless
plants, and although nearly all of the
flowering varieties might be used for
food, only about 1000 are so used and
only 300 aredrequently. [mia
In a paper read before the Paris
Academy of- Sciences, M. Jacquemin
rommunicated the results of experi-
ments showing that leaves of fruit
trees, vines, etec., develop a ‘strong
bouquet. of the fruit when soaked in
alcohol. He thinks the quality of a
‘poor vintage might be improved by‘
the addition of some leaves during
fermentation.
The Birth of a Language.
~ Inthe new number of the British |
Central Africa Gazette a correspond-
snt gives some interesting particu-
lars of a mew language which has
iprung up within recent years im
Central Africa. - It is, he says, ‘‘a f
4 weird jargon, or perhaps language, on
1 par with ‘pidgin English’ of the
far. East, or the numerous other
tongues by which travelers and so-
journers in strange lands make their
wants known to the natives. Many
may not know of the language, but it
is spoken by hundreds daily, and
flourishes mostly where the white
man has built a boma, and in which
there is a Sikh garrison. The origin-
ator of it is the Sepoy from .over the
‘black water’ (sea). How was it first
introduced? When he first came into
the country did. he buy Dr. Stott’s
grammar and dictionary and endeavor ~
to learn the language grammatically
and comprehensively, as the patient
Europeans do? No; although here
today and there tomorrow, as we are
in conjunction with his comrades, the
conservative Sikh evolved from his
inner consciousness a language which
is learned by his relief from India in
tarn. Its component parts are Hin-
dustani, Gurmukhi, broken Swahili,
broken Manganjs, possibly a little
Yao and Sepoy English, forming a
whole curious in the extreme. Though,
of course, chiefly the mid
| guage of the country, it i
ally the medium of commu
tween the European and
and of when the white m
grammatical ‘book Mangan]
Sikh will step boldly into t
and with a few chosen. words make
the native understand.
Power of the Marseillaise Hymn,
Nothing of the kind in this world
can be more impressive than the way
in which an audience of six thousand
French radicals receives that wonder-
ful air, (the Marseillaise), says Col.
T. W. Higginson in the Atlantic. [¥
observed that the chorus of young
men who lead the singing never once
looked at the notes, and few even had
any, so familiar was it to all. ~~ There
was a perfect hush in that vast audi-
ence while the softer parts were sung,
and no one joined even in the chorus
at first, for everybody was listening.
The instant, however, that the strains
closed, the .applause broke like a
tropical storm, and the clapping of
hands was like the taking flight of a
thousand doves all over the vast
arena. Behind those twinkling hands
the light dresses of the ladies and the
blue blouses of workingmen seemed
themselves to shimmer in the air,
there was no coarse noise of poundicg
on the floor or drumming
but there was a vastery
sent up from the whole §
manding a repetition. 55H
the first verse was sung
the second time, several thousand =
voices joined in the chorus; then the
applause was redoubled, as if they had
gathered new sympathy from one an-
other, after which there was still one
more great applauding gust, and then
an absolute quiet. :
| __ But the Dog Would Not Keep Still,
A dog caused some commotion at a
prominent East Side church Sunday
evening. He sneaked into the church
and kept fairly quiet until the bass so-
loist was singing & beautiful selection,
“Wait Thou Still.”> But the dog did
not heed the injunction of the singer.
He barked right out in meeting, and
some of the audience smiled.” Just as
the singer concluded his song the dog
gave forth one sharp vigorous bark, as
if of approval. The singer di
show any signs of interruptio
certainly was somewhat tryin
‘lnerves to.sing while this
walking up and down the aisle” The
preacher saw the dog before he barked,
and so ludicrous was the situation:
| that the preacher could not refrain
from laughing. The dog was hustled
out af church,<but - not until he had
entered a protest in theshare of bark
and growls. —Columbus-Dispatch.