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CHASTE. PIIU
PIIOH.
J. R. WOUD,
Ueu. J'tUM. Ag't.
Ueu. Muuuger.
LANGUAGE IS SrYEET.
EXPRESSION BY THE TONGUE IS
NECESSARY TO HAPPiMESS.
Life Would Re MIKlity Deaolata Without
Swrrt Words Mnrh Mora Itrttutirnl
Conlil We Mnka Till Kxlntrnre If We
Took More I'alnn In Tnlklng.
How wonlil yon enjoy life with sweet
words left out? My littlest one runs to
me and with both arms alxmt my neck
pnlld me down to kiss me, and whisper
is if it were a new necret: "P ipa, I love
yon. Oh, how I just lo love, love you!'
What a pest it is to he pulled about o
when one is busy! How it ili.tlocates
one's collar and one's thoughts! But.
what would you tnke for such prattle?
How would you like it cheeked, and in
stead of such spontaneity be compelled
to imagine you are loved? Denr mo, old
man, but why so fusRy? Do yon not
know yon are loved? Do not actions
spenk louder thnn words? Does not your
wife cook your meals, and does not your
girl put your room in order? Must you
also lie mussed over and gabbled to in
order to be satisfied?
Then conies my oldest boy, a grand
fellow, stout and wholesome and brainy,
and before I nm nware his arm is about
my neck, and he pulls my head over on
his shoulder witli n kiss and a "Papa,
you are awful dear to me." Pshaw, what
is there in words? A few sounds noth
ing else! I am not so certain about that.
I only know that I would not take a mint
of money for that small bouquet of my
boy's words. No, not for the world would
I have to guess at his affection and get
hungry for a solid certainty. There is not
enough such eloquence, as I have looked
about the world. And yet it should not
flow too eas.ly. Tonguy love is quite
another thing from open heartedness. In
my Qjrinion we should bring up our
young folk to easily and frankly express
their feelings, only not to express any
more than they feel. The art and trick
of speech is to be more eloquent than
true, and so to turn love into a lie.
Somewhere I have lately read a good
story of a married couple that from
some spleen vowed not to speak to each
other. Well, if they had not really loved
they could have got on without talk, but
in this case they could not. So by happy
inspiration they used the household cat
as a go between. "Go," said Betsy,
"and tell John that dinner is ready."
"Go," answered John, "and toll Betsy
I am on hand." "Here, puss," says John,
"tell Betsy this pudding is remarkably
good, and I ,vill take another plate of it
if she pleases." "Go tell John," answers
Betsy, "that I am glad he likes this
peach shortcake, and he shall have three
pieces if he will."
So for years they kept their vows, bnt
told their love and gut on famously. It
is a general fact that friendship grows
stronger by a short separation and cor
respondence by pen. A man or woman
will say sweet or true things in a letter
that they would not say first by month.
I do not quite nnderstand this, but I
know it is true. Friends treasure let
ters, and friendship never is quite itself
until a few letters have passed. en
courage young folk to write letters to
learn the art of talking well. One would
suppose it would be the other way that
good talkers should write well.
How came it abont that the tongue
and adjacent organs got control of lan
guage? Possibly Dido can explain this.
Slie leaps and bounds about me in over
whelming joy. Her nose is in my fuco
and her paws on my chest. At last, ut
terly unable to express all her emotion,
she throws back her head and explodes
in a bark. It is nothing but an explo
sion, bnt it is a great reliof to her.
That is the beginning of speech in all
creatures only a noise made by the
rush of emotion through the mouth.
By and by this noise is modified to ex
press different emotions. The dog can ex
press a dozen passions and resentments,
and yet most of these are told by the
tail and the body in general.
The next Btep is, or was, to modify
these sounds into musical roles. The
bird does not enunciate first, but sings.
The lower races sing well and talk
badly. The highest art is to sing well
and talk equally well. So language
slowly gets stolen by a certain set of
organs that at first had little to do with
it. The legs and hands come less into
play to tell emotions; the tail, which
has done so much animal talking, is
aborted. I think it is aborted mainly
because its functions are mostly passed
over to the tongue. I have not heard
whether the tailed tribe of Africans wag
those appendages in friendly greeting
like dogs or not I would not own a
tailless cat or have a horse's tail even
clipped of its hair. It is to abbreviate
speech; it is to lop off the organ of ex
pression. Yon will see that my theory about the
development of language accounts for
many abnormal forms of speech. Pro
fanity is a mere explosion of sound,
closely allied to the dog's bark and the
cat's squall. It is not so wicked as it la
beastly. It is the natural language of a
vulgar fellow who has no art of high
language. Half the world talks by ex-
filosion and expletives. The more beast
y a man's habits the more profane he
becomes by necessity. It is his natural
language. What a stretch it is from
such a man to Coleridge or Emerson or
Lowell!
I heard of a man the other day, "Ah.
be is a great scientist, to be sure, but he
is also such a splendid talker." The art
of saying fine things finely you cannot
affprd to be without, "Live with wolves
and yon will learn to howl," says the
Spanish proverb. We ought to be ablo
to add, "Live with men and you will
learn to talk well." But that is not so.
There are ti o few really good talkers
really wise and witty tongues. E. P.
Powell in St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
He Knrw.
Judge Come, you'd better plead guil
ty. You'll get off easier.
Prisoner Ah, I twig yer lay. Yer
want to get home to dinner! London
Tit-Bits.
A Grateful Old Wiiinnn.
A dean was visiting his parishioners
when one of thnn, mi old woman, in
formed him that since they met "she'd
gone through a sivl t o' truuMi', Her
sister was (lend, ami there wnr a worse
job thnn that; the pii died nil of a sud
den, bnt it pleased tlio Lord to Ink' him,
and they nmn bow, they nr.m bow."
Then the poor old lady brightened up
and said, "Hut there's one tiling, Mentor
Allen, as I can sny, end ought to say
the Lord's been pi ; well on my side
this winter for green-;!" Exchange.
Detecting Dlneiue by the F.ya.
It is Jierfectly jiossible, by means of
the instruments of the Nineteenth cen
tury, to exactly learn the optical condi
tion of an eye, to decide, ju-t what
glasses, if any, are needed for its perfect
working, and it is also possible to look
in upon it, and by llie npifiii-uuce of its
tissues and its blood vessels to decide as
to the existence of serious disease when
Ihere nre few other symptoms that point
to it, when there may be none besides to
be found in the body that positively
prove it.
I may mention two classes of disease,
one constitutional and the other local,
which illustrate this statement. The
eye mirror opthalmoscope is the instru
ment by which such things are settled.
Bright's disease, a name carrying dread
to many a household, is the constitu
tional disease to which I refer. In not
a few cases the diagnosis of it is made
by the examination of the retina with
the eye mirror.
The expert will make no mistake if
the eye gives evidence of it, for its signs
are positive in minute bleeding from the
blood vessels and peculiar fawn colored
spots on the retina. The surgeon dreads
to find them, because they are evidence
of an advanced stnge of the malady
which prematurely destroys so many
lives. Bright's disease is in fact a de
generation of many of the tissnes of the
body, the walls of the arteries being
among them. In no part of the Wv
can this degeneration be so readily ...
tected as in the retina of the eye. Co.
mopolitan. lure Nnrcotlo Death.
Under chloroform, as under all anaes
thetic gases and vapors, there is a mode
of death which may be called the final
or natural. It need never be produced,
and never could be except under the
most unskillful management, and it is a
long time in its progress. When death
does occur in this manner it is by the
slow extinction of the natural animal
cymosis, and is illustrated, as to method,
perfectly by the simple experiment of
gradually extinguishing a candle in a
confined paco by introducing vapor of
chloroform into the air that fills the
space.
It can he illustrated also by the ex
periment of stopping ordinary fermenta
tion by the presence of chloroform, and
even by tho simpler process of using
chloroform vnpor as a preservative of
animal tissues from decomposition. All
angpsthniics are open to kill in this man
ner, but that is the safest anopisthnric
which puts out life in no other manner,
which does not, that is to say, cause
either of tho reflexes of spasmodic char
acter during administration. Asclcpiad.
When Jay Gould Waft a Hoy.
"At one time," said Mr. Woolhiser,
who as a boy worked in the same store
with Jay Gould, "while Oould was in
tho employ of Bumhana he fell sick.
My father, who was a general nurse and
something of a doctor, attended him
and brought him around all right.
Not long alter he recovered he met tny
father and said, 'You saved my life, and
if at any time you are in need and I can
help you I shall do so with pleasure.''
Fortune has not smiled oa my poor old
father of late, and being in absolute
need he wrote to Mr. Gould, telling him
of his condition and asking for help.
No reply was ever received. I think
that our letters never reached Mr. Gould,
or he would sorely have helped us. I
wrote to him only a few days before his
death for the fourth or fifth time. Gould
was always a good boy, and for awhile
we slept together In the same bed in tne
old store in Roxbury. Jay never missed
saying his nightly prayers before retir
ing." New York World.
The Study of Philately.
Philately is a atndy. It is a pursuit
that adds more to the life of the young
collector than any other of his pleas
ures. Philately in the present genera
tion is assuming vast proportions as an
instructive science and is even now a
formidable rival of numismatics. No
longer is it called a mania or a craze,
but a science teaching the geography,
history, language and the morals of a
country. Our philatelists are not mere
schoolboys and girls, although they col
lect stamps, but men of mature minds;
men well established in business and
Srofessions, men of sound judgment,
itelleotual and thoughtful men. And
it is this fact that gives the young col
lector encouragement, the knowledge
that such men do exist in the rank of
philatelist. Ohio State Journal
WOMEN AT ENGLISH RACES.
They Are Nearly Alnays Wealthy and
Attend nerause They l.ove ffpnrt.
The women one sees at tho races here
are the women of the fashionable world,
beautifully nl tired, escorted by gallants.
They move about on the l iwn, or pre
side at their luncheon' tables tinder tit
trees or over their hampers in their car
riages; they chat and promenade, takes
light interest in the races, walk alionl
the paddock and look at the horses, dc
the honors in a box or rest in their seat!
at the grand stand; but one doesn't se
them hauling out money to put on a
horse or chasing around to find out
"what's good in this race." One doesn't
see them consulting the tips in the morn
ing papers, or Jack's tips, or anybody'
tips, or in any way showing that they
are afllicteu with a severe attack oi
gambling fever,
The English women are the most
charming feature of the English races.
They, with their lovely toilets and holi
day airs, give it the garden party flavoi
that helps to keep it a swrt instead of e
business.
But it's not in naturo for them to al
ways look on and never participate.
English women have a finger in the
racing pio also. You'd hardly snsiertil
to watch them at the races, but they do.
They are usually women who go racing
for the love of the sport and who know
more or less nbout the horses. When
they want to bet they ask a comuiis
sioner, some gentleman who is betting
for himself, or else some one they can
tip for the trouble, to put a certain
amount on a horse for them. No money
passes on the course. Tho "settling" if
all done away from there, and usually by
letter and checks.
Women who bet heavily and contin
ually and there are such transact theii
business directly with a bookmaker,
just like a man. But this again isn't
evident on the course. When such ii
woman fancies a horse she sends a tel
egram from her home the morning ol
the day he runs, making her bet, or she
wires her bet or "order" from th
course before the race. Usually, too.
she's the sort of a woman who can retail
the latest fashionable gossip in piquant
stylo, while her equine "fancy" is add
ing to or subtracting from her bank ac
count. There are a great many English wom
en who bet in this way, and who now
and then stand to win tidy sums in tlit
early books on big races. Then there'i
a lot of playful impromptu betting al
places like Epsom and Ascot. I've seen
ladies lean over the front of the boxes al
Epsom and hand the shouting booklet
who stand in line in front of them sov
ereigns and half sovereigns and name
their horses, to give the day zest oi
"have it to say" that they were on n
Derby or Oaks favorite.
And I've seen ladies going to and from
the paddock at Ascot stop to have a look
at the shouting ring, and go np to some
bookie and make a bet "just to have th
experience," and the bookie would be
Mas polite as a basket of chips," und the
"experience" would be filed away with
those other wonderful ones of hedged in
lives, like a ride on Jumbo or a dusb
into the Blums. London Cor. Chicago
Inter Ocean,
Native Wit In a Street Gain In.
Wit in the New York "young fellow,"
if sometimes brutal, is usually ready
and often imaginative. An unmistak
able oriental, in turban, liaggy trousers,
gay stockings and tinseled coat, sat on
a bench in Madison square the other
day, an object of interest to all the boys,
and apparently not displeased at the
attention he attracted. There came
along presently, however, two rough
looking young men, and one of them,
pausing in front of the stranger, looked
at him in undisguised astonishment.
His first surprise over, he called back
his fellow, who had passed on, and said,
pointing to the oriental, "Jimmy, git on
to this." Tho eastern stranger's splendor
seemed to call up some strange picture
in the rearward of Jimmy's imagination,
for his instant answer was, "Oh, Cin
derella; poll his fringes." New York
Sun.
l'0Klf's Aluria Clock.
Fogg staid up very late yesterday
morning, or very early, if you like that
expression better at any rate it was
nearly 4 (SJolock before he had roughly
footed up the amount be would have to
pay in hats and cigars and wine and
oyster suppers and climbed into bed.
He was to arise in good season, and set
the alarm cluck to ring "for all it was
worth" at 7 o'clock. It rang with a
vengeance, and fearful that it would
awaken the whole household he reached
up, smothered the bell witli his hand
and took the clock down into the bed to
hold it until it would stop ringing.
When he awoke again the bell had
stopped ringing and he was still hugging
the clock, which truthfully asserted that
it was after 0. Hartford Post.
Philosophy from a Child.
Two of the Virginians who have come
to tho Pasteur institute to be vaccinated
against hydrophobia were in grave con
sultation. "I am sorry you told the doc
tor that he must not hurt you," said the
elder, aged twelve. "I am sure you
would rather suffer than die."
"No," replied the other, aged six, "I
would rather die and be born again and
not be bitten by a dog."
Savants have tortured their brains for
centuries and not found truer philoso
phy, and the innocent say things that
make the experienced tnrn pale. New
York Times.
EXPLOITS OF A CROW.
VERY CLEVER INDEED, BUT HE MET
AN UNTIMELY DEATH.
Anecdotes liy a Man Who Hnxr Rome
Strange Things Kven Though He Hnil a
Gnn The Crow Distilled Certain Kind,
of Animals lie Was a Great Hunter.
"When this region was nearly all
woods sixty years ago," said an old
resident of Bell Meadow, "I picked a
young crow out of the mud in Tamarack
swamp, where he had tumbled out oi
the nest before he was old enough to fly.
I named him Abe and tinned htm, und
he developed into the brightest bird 1
ever saw. Like all tome crows, Abe
was mischievous and inquisitive. There
wasa knothole In the floor of our cistern,
and the crow couldn't find out what wa
under it, although he tried very hard.
"Several times a day Abe Hew down
to the creok, hunted up a pebble ami
carried it in his bill to the floor of tin
cistern, where he dropped it through the
knothole. The instant he let tho pebble
drop he would put his ear close to the
hole and listen. Ho could hear the peb
ble strike tho witter, and the noise out
of his sight excited his curiosity so inucli
that he dropped a half bushel of pehlilef
into the cistern before he gave up.
"Aim accompanied me on all my hunt
ing trips in the full und winter, and he
saw me kill live or six wolves, half n
dozen wildcats nnd several deer. The
woods were full of deer, and there were
so many wolves that we couldn't keer
any sheep. Abe took a great liking tt
deer and rnbbits, but he hated wolvei
and wildcats, seeming to understand
that they were destructive and danger
ous. One afternoon, the summer thai
he was a year old, Abe flew into oui
little clearing and cawed and fluttered
about as if he wanted me to leave my
work.
"I knew the crow had seen something
that displeased him, and so I picked ti(
two rifles and told him to go ahead, just U
see what he would do. He went squall
ing through the air toward Bell Meadow
brook, and when he alighted on a tree
he kept yelling and looking down in tlx
ravine. I looked, too, little expecting tt
see what I did. A pair of wolves were
tearing at a doe they had pounced or
and pulled down. I killed them both
before they got threo leaps from the doe.
nnd when Abe saw that they couldn't
move he cawed and croaked as thougli
be was glad.
"The next winter there were three feel
and a half of snow on the level, and we
had to wear snow-shoes to get around.
While I was splitting wood near the
house one cold morning the crow came
sailing and sqnulliug to the settlement
from the direction or Lake Henry. He
was excited about something, and he
perched on the log and went to flapping
his wings and dancing up and down. 1
understood him well enough to kuow
that he bad seen something that be
didn't like the looks of np in the woods
toward the lake, so I and my brother
and cousin put on our snowshoes, shoul
dered five loadod rifles and started into
the woods, Abe leading the way and
yelling.
"He led us to the hike, where we saw
a sight that I shall never forget. In a
space where tho wind had blown the
snow from the ice a flock of seven deer
had been cornered by a pack of five
wolves. The doer couldn't gut out on
account of tho deep snow, and the wolve
had killed three of them when we Kot
there. While we were blazing away at
the brutes the crow flew overhead and
shouted his approval. We killed the
whole pack, and Abe felt so good that
he rolled over on tho crust several times
"One day in the spring the crow cuw
a fisher catch a rabbit and carry it to a
hole iu a basswood tree, thirty feet from
the ground. My brother and I were
chopping near by, and Abe squallec
around till he attracted our atten
tion, when he flew up to the hole
where the fisher was concealed, W
chopped the basswood down, and tha
fisher skipped out and ran up a hemlock
tree to where the leaves were so thick
we couldn't see it. Abe flew np, alighted
above the fisher and began to squall, and
squinting tnrougn the foliage below him
I could see enough of the fisher to fire at.
I banged away, and down came Mr.
Fisher with a bullet in his head. Abe
fairly laughed when the fisher tumbled.
"s)ne morning I found six pullets on
tne noor oi tne nen shanty. A mink had
killed them, and that night I set two
steel traps and put one of the pullets be
tween. In the morning a mink had its
lore feet in one of the traps and one of
its hind feet in the other. Abe tagged
me in, and when he saw the mink strug
gling to get out he ran np in front of it
and began to yell in its face. I let the
crow torment it, and while my back was
turned the mink caught Abe by the neck
and bit him so hard that he died in a
few minutes." Cor. New York Tribune.
Always Willing to Loan.
Merchaut (to persistent peddler) Oh,
don't bother me this morning. I wish
you'd kindly leave me alone.
Morris Abraras (producing wad)
Why, shertinly, my frent, how much
and vot inderesht vill yon gift Kate
Field's Washington.
Sumatra Iluflaloes In Water.
The bnffuloes in Sumatra, according
to an English traveler, in fear of the
tiger take refuge at night iu the rivers,
where they rest iu peace and comfort,
with only their horns and noses sticking
above the water.
Nothluf Maw Under the Sun.
"I am beginning to believe that thote
is absolutely nothing new under the sun,
bnt tli at every thought is a revival orun
iinltntion or a downright pluglarlsm of
some one which preceded It years and
roars ago," said Calvin B. Southwood as
be warmed his feet ngiiinat a heater in
the rotunda of the Lindoll. "Even
the Inventions that appear so brand new
may have existed or their possibility
boeu suggested away back before the
dawn of history. At any rate this is evi
dently true iu the realms of literature.
In this line, If in nothing else, history re
peats itself and the world runs in cycles.
I attended church Sunday fact, I assure
yon and beurd a distinguished gentle
man use a metaphor as his own which I
at once recognized as used once by Oliver
Wendell Holmes, and which in different
form I once ran across in an old book
containing the 'Canterbury' Tales. Yes
terday I read iu a magazine au article
by a writer of national reputation, who
used as his own the expression, 'Pride
that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.'
"This expression was evidently taken
bodily from the 'Poor Richard's Alma
nac' of Benjamin Franklin, and this dis
tinguished philosopher 1 feel sure bor
rowed it either consciously or uncon
sciously from an old German book full
of folklore. Many of these old thoughts
in more recent writers are unconsciously
reproduced, and in their new dress can
hardly be recognized. 'A guilty con
science needs no accuser' may easily bo
recognized in Hamlet's soliloquy, 'Thus
conscience does make cowarduof us all,'
but it appeared far back of that, in the
sacred pages, 'The wicked flee when no
man pursueth,' and no doubt in other
shapes ages before that. No, there's
nothing new under the sun." St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Mora Potato.
Renan had a great contempt for mere
words, however eloquent. One evening
he met at a sort of a literary dinner M.
Caro, the philosopher beloved of fine la
dies, who set himself to prove the exist
ence of God. His eloquent assertions did
not seem to interest the sage. In the
middle of one of his most sonorous pe
riods M. Renan attempted to make him
self heard.
But all the ladies were intensely in
terested. They would not have their
pleasure spoiled.
"In a moment, M. Renan, we will
listen to yon in your turn."
He bowed submissively.
Toward the end of dinner M. Caro,
out of breath, stopped with a rhetorical
emphasis. At once every one turned to
ward the illustrious scholar, hoping that
he would enter the lists, and the hostess,
with an encouraging smile, said:
"Now, M. Renan"
"I am afraid, dear lady, that I am now
little behindhand."
"No. nol"
"I wanted to ask for a little more po
tato." Fortnightly Review.
Indorsed for Offlee.
I nice looking old gentleman with a
florid complexion approached the ap
pointment clerk of the treasury one day
with an application for a place, indorsed
by some lotters of recommendation.
When the official asked him a question
he said: "Please write it down. I am so
deaf that 1 could not hoar a sound if a
cannon were fired off close to my ear."
General McCanley thought that this
was rather a disadvantage for an appli
cant for employment as a clerk, but he
asked the stranger to write his name and
address. The old gentleman shook his
head. "It is impossible," he said. ' I
cannot write at all, because my band is
palsied." Washington Cor. New York
Sun.
Aa Good as lfe Gave.
A reproof which was just and not dis
courteous was once addressed to a young
rector who bad been reared under tin
highest of church doctrines, und whe
held that clergymen of all other denomi
nations are without authority and cot
entitled to be culled ministers of the
Gospel. One evening at a social gather
ing he was introducted to a Baptist
clergyman. He greeted the elder man
with much manner and ostentation.
"Sir," be said, "I am glad to shake
bands with yon as a gentleman, thoagh
I cannot admit that yon are a clergy
man." There was a moment's pause,
and then the other said, with a quiet
significance that made the words he left
unsaid emphatic, "Sir, I am glad to
shake hands with you as a clergyman."
San Francisco Argonaut.
Why tha Child Cried.
A Brooklyn physician says that he wot
recently attending a family where the
little man of the bouse was in a some
what refractory humor, and thinking to
quiet him he said, "How would you like
it now if to punish you I should take
your little sister away from you?" The
boy sulked and did not reply, but as the
doctor arose to take bis leave the child
burst into a woeful blubbering. He wa.
asked what was the matter. "Doctor's
goin away without tukiu sister," he an
swered. New York Recorder.
Two Honest Men.
A Paris furniture dealer recently
bought from an architect au old writing
table, and in overhauling it he found a
packet containing 1,600 francs. He ut
once Informed the former owner of bis
find, and be was rewarded by an honest
declaration on the part of the architect
that the latter knew nothing whatevet
abont the money and wonld not accept
it Paris Letter.