V ) Tho church-going habit it infinitely Stronger in New York City than it is in any of the Western cities. Tho Stnto of Connecticut in in Im perative noed of moro income or largely reduced expenditures, for it njinnt $,"27, 41)3.09 more thnn its in corao in 1890. Tbo Now England States liuvo bo Como, an tho returns show, tho best recruiting ground for tho Socialists. They ollcil 2,1 li votes iu Massachu setts, 1,22:1 iu Couucctiout and 558 in Ruudo Island. Tho total vote cast for presidential electors at th recent contest was 13. 900,000. Tho popular voto in 1892 was 12.110,000. In 1888 it was 11, 400,000. There was nt the recent election a fuller vote in proportion to the pnputntion than at any preceding presidential contest. According to the Revue Scicutfiqne (lerman physician hus established a sanitarium in the mountains of Car niola, Austria, for tha latest mode of treating chronio diseases by allow ing the patients to wander about out doors, in all kinds of weather, without any clothing whatever. Tho reform pawnshop conducted in New York City by a number of phil anthropists is paying sis percent on the 8200,000 invested, and a number of branchos will bo established. One pereent a month is the interest charged while tho rate of the rogular pawn ahops is 3 1-2 per cent. In bis weekly review of business Henry Clows, tho well-known New York financier, says that "credit is needed to restore impaired capital and resume suspended operations." He adds that "we hnvo now entered on a phase in which great revival of trade is inevitable. The fooling everywhere is in favor of a hopeful business out look." The New York Tribune remarks: The list of heroes of the African race is not overcrowded, and Maceo finds plenty of room on its roster. Irre spective of bis race, he will be eter nally remembered by Cuba as one of her martyrs anil deliverers. His were the deeds that shine in tho snddon making of splendid names, and his placo in history is in no need of a t roc bo to defend it. Rays the St. Louis Repnblio: Tho wail over the proof of the degenoracy of American sooiety to be found on the divorce records is not justified by tho facts. Tho marriages that find their way into tho divorce courts are few and far betweon. Because tho di vorce esses always crop out iu print and tho happy mnrriagos run along in obscurity, tho social reformers con--elude that sooiety is going to destruc tion. f TTT-. J Cc))iu tlgur?; show that tho most intelligent of tho immigrants to Am.cr ioa are Scandinavians, From Den mark, Norway and Sweden como the fewest persons who are wnablo to read ttnd write, tho fowest that havo to bo sjnt back by the cmigratiou commit. jjlouci'A " These sturdy, freedom lov ing blonds from the north are also among the healthiest and hardiest of onr population. The infusion of their clean, strong blood which, by tho way, is mingled in the veins of nearly 11 the royal families of Europe will do ninoh toward making tho perfect Amorican race of the future. . . Says the New York Tribune ; "Here in the Uoited States a notable de crease is to be Observed in the oourto y of mon toward one another during the last two decades. Twenty years ago men of tho best olnss in New York, ' Boston, 'Philadelphia, Balti i mora aud Washington I mention the . cities wber I had most ocoasion ta study 'manners in 1875 and 1870 rarely met one auothor out of doors without raising their bats from their heads. .In this coirutry. as in Eng laud, 4t is,by no means unoommon to hear men of Virtu and breeding giv ing oca another the lie, if not in so many words, at any rate by moans of 'point blank 'denial of a statement made. It is difficult to conoolvo any ' thing mora dlscouoorting to a man of delicacy and refinement, and yet it is thought quite natural and unworthy of being resented. Twenty and thirty years ago the' American enjoyed throughout .Europe a well-deserved reputation, aud even oelebrity, for the courtliness and chivalry of bis roan- ' sera toward womeu.Nowhe is oo long er entitled thereto.and his behavior in tbis reapeot is rapidly becoming as boorish and as rude ss that of his . English consin, whom be endeavors ;j with suoli pathetio defer- 'VA e and fidelity." ' - mm 'i'i..-. ... IL'I Mrs. Buckler's Sweet Apples. ii T cnARLKS a. n, hoiimits. Antumn was just beginning to re veal li or so If in tho henrt of South Monntain the gorgeous autumn of western Nova Soot in. It was abont eight o'clook in the morning, and the air that streamed lightly over the shoulders of tho bills had a most brac ing savor. Mrs. Buckler, n freckod but comely and tnll young woman, was just setting out for a twelve mile tramp to tho little settlement in the Valloy, where she had to return a flatiron and a pair of wool-curds which she had borrowed from an obliging neighbor. - Neighbors, in those days, were few and far betweon in the country dis tricts of Nova Scotis. The great omptincss created by the expulsion of the Aeadians bsd not yet beeu filled up. For the neighbors, it behooved them to be neighborly, Mrs. Bockler was an untiring work er, and her rare visits to the Valley constituted her only holiday. She bad to walk, of course, as her husband had no horse, and ahe had no ambi tion to ride one of the faithful but ex tremely deliberate oxen. Aud, indeed, a matter of twelve miles seemed nothing of oonscquenco to her. "Be sure and got back before dark, 'Miry I" admouished her husband, leaning meditatively against tho wood pile at he watched her kiss the chil dren for good-by, "Shooh I Steve, I reckon yon oan put the babies to bed all right for once, can't you? It ain't often I got off; and when I do, I like to mnku a good day of it I" "It ain'a lookin' aftor the childron that I'm thinking of, 'Miry, as you know right well!" replied Steve Buck ler, earnestly. "But yon know how thick the bears are ou tbo mountain this year; and thero'a no manner of doubt that was wolf brushed by nio in tho pasture night beforo Inst. It ain't sare for you to be coming up through the woods after dark all alono that way. Stay all night, if you tlud it getting Intel" "Oh 1 1 ain't' afraid!" averred Mrs. Buckler, stoutly. "I niay get back aforo dark; but if I don't, I'll bo care ful aud carry n light with mc I" These confident words sho flung back over her shoulders, as she started gaily down the rough woodlaud wuy. Arriving in duo time at the settle went in tho Vulloy, she did Iter crruiiiU, picked up tho now, an J richly enjoyod the rnro luxury of a gossip. Time went all loo quickly ; and it was on the edgo of durk ere sho thought of starting for homo. Thon,of course, there were vehement protests. Her friends urged her ,to stay all night, picturing the porila 'of tho journey, and representing that hur husband would never dream of exporting her. But Mrs. Buckler, us. hur friends al ways said, was very "set." Putting asido all arguments, she started out ou her long aud lonely tramp. She had little to carry, but that' littlo was somewhat troublesome to manage. It was au npronful of sweet apples for the children, a treat which sho knqw tUoy would enjoy. Sweet apples wore thou u rarity iu South Mountain. Wheu nt lougtli Mr. Buckler reached tho hint house on the edgo of the Valley, mid found herself face to face with the long olioib up tho mountain, she felt compelled to uo knowledge in her heart that tb night was very dark. Aud she had yet four miles to go, through almost unbroken woods. In those four miles there were but two cabins to break the mo notony of the way aud the further of those wn a mile uud a half from , her home- She hositatod a moment, then weut into tho house, and asked for a pine-knot to light bur on her Journoy, Here again she wus urged to stay ; but lighting her torch she set her fuou resolutely to tho mountain aide, 'As she penetrated among the" ancient trees the unsteady light of th'e pine knot oast atrs'nguiy utovlug sbailows, and monstrous shapes seemed to spring np aud disappear ou -all sides. For tlm first lime alio grow nervous, mid folt nil inclination to glance over her bIioiiMi.t. This she presently co li quet ed with sumo scorn. Neverthe less, slid could not help hastening her steps; and tha lirst cabin in the inotiii tnlii had the air of n refilgo to lirr, ns alio tui in .1 in to get a fresh ine- kmil. Here, loo, sho mi strongly prctajd to end her journey for the night. Hut now her obstinacy was well aroused. Hhi) wns nettled at herself fur Imvitif; felt afraid. It was with something of the air of one who goes forth to battlo that nil ii gripped her torch and clutched her nproti of sweet apples, ns she turned ngnin to the blackness of tho furest path. Between this cabin and the next the distance wus but half a mile. Her nerves were now getting so well stead ied that sho no longer cured for the looming and shifting shadows, till at length n shadow distinctly smaller than the rest madn the underbrush rustle audibly with its motion. Her heart guvo a most uncomfortable leap, audslio straightway thought of tho wolf which her husband had spukeii of. But, wolf or shadow, it tlud awuy with out menacing her ; and she came iu safety to the last cabin between her and home. Hero the neighbors wcro iislcep.uiid she bad to arouse them in order to beg souther pine-knot. The one which sho bad got at the previous house-was by no means burned out, but she foarcd lost it should fail bo fore tho end of her jonrnoy. The sleepy iieighbors were astonished nt her nppcarunoe. They threatened to detain her by force, when sho refused their invitation to stay all night with them. But Mrs. Buckler was by this time a good deal "worked up," as she afterwards expressed horself; and she treated their kind persuasions with soaut courtesy. She almost ran from tho house; but in her npron, iimoiig tho sweet apples, sho carried tho ex tra pine Uuot, nit tho same. To ward off iiupleasaut thoughts, sho kept picturing iu her miud thu way tbo vhildrou would enjoy the apples in tho morning. Hho also thought of the remonstrances, tempered with ill-con cealed admiration, with which her husband would greet hur return. Hur blood quito glowed aguiu ns shu thought of tho lofty fashion in which sho would mako light of it nil. .Tnst at this moment slio kbw, in tho middle of tho pith before her, a largo black bear, w.itehing her curiously. Her heart stood still, and eh h ir- H.ilf instantly followed his example. Then she reflected tint sho must tip- penr ciltnly inditTeruiit, if she would hopo to escape. Slowly die moved forward again, waving her torch ; aud thu boar, stepping out of the path, watched her steadily fro:u among the uiidurlirusu iu sho went by. Then ho stopped back into tho path aud fol lowed hur. Her first and most natural impulse was to rim like tho wind for bouie.but this, after one startled leup forward, sho chocked with a mighty ell'urt of her will. Sho walked ou with swift but stoady stops, watching tbo boar out of tho corner of her eye, but all tho time clutching obstinately at hor aprouful of upples. Tho boar, very slowly, kopt drawing closer and closer, bent upon attacking, but oviduutly do- terred by dread of the torch. But tho torch, meanwhile, was burn ing low; aud Mrs. Buoklcr, in hur ex citement, failed at first to notice this. She was holdiug tho piuu-kuot over her shoulder, as a sort of shield against her pursuer. When, with a shaking at tho knues.shu realized that it was on the point of flickering out, she tried hastily to light tho other ; and in the effort some of her treasured apples fell out of hur apron, and rolled behind hur on the path. , As soon as thu buar camo to these apples he stopped, ami began devour ing them with the keoue.t relish. "Why I" thought Mrs. Buokuer, with a sudden lightening of . her load of terror; "it's not me bo's after, but the sweet apples I" aud straightway all her old oouruge returned. She pained, and took time to .light her new- pine-knot duliburntoly aud well. Then she hurried on; audit win some minutes before bor pursuer was'ugaiu at hor heels. And now, so sudduu are the revul sions of a woman's fooliugs, sho was concerned only for the sweet apples. They were the ohildron'a apples and it went sorely against her' grain to let a bear have uuy of them. Not until he bsd como most ) uncomfortably close could sho bring herself to again propitiate him ; : and then sha doled nut but three of the precious green globos, dropping them on the path bo hind her with slow reluctance. Tha animal took perhaps a quarter of n ml n ti to to dispose of this nig gardly contribution, and then came on agnln with a sirt of hopeful confi dence. "No!" declared Mrs. Buckle!, firm ly, "you ain't goiu' to have another one!" aud she fairly broke into a rnn. But when Hint heavy, shambling pal lop sounded clnso ut Iter back, her resolution wenkruod, and she dropped a cjiiplo moro out of tha apron. While the much gratified bear delayed to est these, she rounded a turn of tho rosd, nml was gladdened by tho silit of her owu window glimmering some two hundred yards in front. ('oiling her husband's name two or three times at tho top of bcr voice, till she saw hi in fling open the door and rush out to meet her, aim hugged the remnant of the apples to her breast, flung Iter torch at the boor, and sped liko a doer toward the house. Whether the bear fullowed hor fur ther or not, she never knew. It cer tainly did not oomo near enough to the bouse for her hushaud to catch sight of it, for, as sho flung herself into his arms, panting, triumphant, halfway between laughter and tears, he asked her what was the matter. "Mutter I" she cried, iudignnntly, "That's just like a iiihu, after all I've gouo through to got home I" And she pulled him violently into the house mid slammed the duur. Steve Buckler was quite too judi cious to remind her of tho fact that he had urged her cither to como homo before dark, or elso stay all nllit Ho did not even let it appear in his face for an instant that bo thought oi such a thing. He listened to tbo storv with all tho breathless v.xoitcinont that alio hud anticipated, praised her brav ery and resource, vowed to shoot the bear next day, ate ouo of the swoet apples, and thou, hoiur vury sleopy, went to bed. lint Mrs. Bnck'er, be. fore sho followed his example, proudly tucked several of tho apples under the children's pillows. The Independent. To Cai'o for I'nraled Prisoner. Tho Interior, Chicago, speaking of the Illiuois Industrial Association, organized for tho purpose of aiding discharged criminals, nays! "The Stuto expends ut least $2,000,- 000 each year in puuishiug criminals. It spends scarcely anything for their roforni. Tho association ahoro namod is endeavoring to supplement tho work of 1 bp Stato in tlm lust namod depart ment. Every month nt least, 100 ox- convicts cumo to Chicago from tbo prisons of Illinois and surrounding States. Of this number thcro aro many who have scrvod but a single erm iu prison and arc anxious to be gin a now lifo. No man is moro help li'sstlriu tho discharged prisoner. It is not strange that most of them ro turn to orimiual ways again. "Under tho law pasuod a year ago, most oouvicted prisoners aro given an indeterminate sentence. After a cer tain time, they can be released by tho prison commissioners on parole, if their behavior has been such as to war rant it. But so mo person' must bo- como responsible for the man di charged, agreeing to see that he has stoady employment, aud otherwise to watch ovor him. The diflloulty is in fluding suoh sponsors. This diflloulty tha Illinois Iudustri.il Association can meet if it ia fnruiNbod tho means. It is planuing to extond its organization throughout the Stato at oneo, so that it may, have representatives in evory couuty who wfll interest themselves iu finding persons to care for paroled prisoners. ' ' Monuments Iu Our Oreat Cities. Our greut oitios are not now exactly poor in statues; .but tho exceedingly accidental oharaotor of these memori als, due to trie fact that they are mainly tho result of private tubsorip tion, is cvidoncod by a glance at tho public out-of-door statues aud other memorials in New 'York city. To American literary men, distinctly as literary men, not one statue has been raised in that city; but there ore statues of Shakespeare, Walter Scott, and Robert Burns. One bust of an American author Washington Irving is found; and there are also busts of Cervantes, Suhillor, and Thomas Moore I It would bo hard to objeo't to these memorials of Old-World aa tbors provided they are works of art but one would like to soo them ac oouipiiuied by at least as many Ameri ouns. Atluutio MoutUly. In Franca there is a law compelling pbvsioians to write their proscription iu the luugungo of tho country. UF.nMAS in rist.rs wouas. The registration of business in Ger many has hud tho effect of showing how largo is tho number of women on- gagod iu trade. Iu Cbomuitz alone 0,000 retail businesses aud workshops are tho property of women. Phila delphia Tress. A IlIVAti TO TflE ri.'R MIFFF. The largo Empire muffi made of velvet, satin ribbon, chiffon, etc, are elegant rivals of the mnffs of various furs. A fur lining is now very gen erally put into both muffs of fur and the fancy styles. As tho ostensible object of this appendago of tho toilet is to keep the bunds warm, it is curi ous that no one thought earlier of the fur lining. A cheaper grade of tin- dyod fur that is proof against rub bing off on the gloves answers very well if tho muff is velvet, but sable, ot ter, seal, mink, aud other expensive fur muffs should be lined in unison. New York Post. CORKRTS OONE DV. If it really ia truo that tho Queen of Portugal has orderod the women of the court to remove their corsets, we msy look out for fresh assortment of modos. Style in gowns will change, bocanae the fitted frock aa we wear it today is not pleasing without stays. Interest in physical oulturo will in tensify greatly, sinco with less expec ted of dress moro will bo required of figure undor the clothing. Modos in bats shift with those in gowns, and the same is truo of shoes. Why would it not be an exoollont idea to let all of us see in that way tbo effect of tight clothing upon womon? Of course, common sense would re volt against the exhibition, just as common sense is, and has beon, op posed to every effort of tho human boing to bcoome acquainted with him self. But we are not all governed by common sense, thank heaven I Lot ns know the worst abqut woman and bor corsets. It can not bo so bad in its effect as not to know it. St. Louis Slur. A SOUTH AFItlCAN HEROISM. Wives of distinguished mon, but es pecially of traveling and lighting men, whose career of personal adventure demands frequent and prolonged ab senco from the homo of domestic felicity, ought not to bo forgotten, nya tho London Illustratrcd Nows, whon we talk of tho oxploits of man hood. But Mrs. Colenbrander, of Matabololaud, South Africa, is not a ituy-at-homo lady, having been her husband's constant companion in that country sinoo ho wont to Buluwuyo, in 1890, to nogotiate with King L.ibon- gnla for tho miniug privileges, which wero quickly oonvertod into the terri torial ooonpution of Mushonaland, tho building of forts, tho organization of a military force, and finally the con quest of all Lobongulu's dominions by the administrators of tho Chartored Company. Wo believe that Mrs. Col enbrander, though sho rides and (hoots aa straight as most men, has never beon prosent at auy of the actu al fighting. She knows the nutive languuges and the native manners and character probably better than auy English missionary's wife, and thu natives like her so much that she bad no feur whatever in accompanying her husband, VISH WARH EA OF CU1CAOO. A Chicago woman is famous for her assertivouoss. Sue is not ouly able to take care of herself, but usually takes a band iu whatever is goiug on about her. . ' A Miss Warner of Chicago, did this in quito a notable way a ftfw days ago. As sho was walking on one of the business streets sho saw a drayman beatiug his horse unmercifully. The animul seemed to be ba If starved, and because he dfd uot move rapidly with an enormous load his brutal roaster lushed him at every stop. Miss Warner appealed to several moa to interfuro, but thoy rofused to do so. . No polioeman wus in sight. and finally Miss Warner's paliencl gave way. S he rushed upon the cruof driver, and before bo 'realized what her intoutions were, sho seized tho whip with which ho was beatiug bis feublo horse, and gave him a taste oi his own medicine. Tho fellow leaped from his wagon, but tho irato woman kept np with him and gavo him a lash ing which he will never forget. After cutting him severely several times, she finished by breaking tho whip ovor his head. A big crowd gathered on tho scone, and Miss Warner w:is loudly ohecred as she finished her righteous work. A polioeman who had been attraoted by the disturbanoa asked her name bnt did not arrest bor. It seemed to be tho opinion of the citizens aud the officer present, that the plnoky woman had assorted tho higher law, and that ahe deserved thanks rathor than punishment an opinion with whioh we heartily agree, Atlanta JonrnaL WHY SnK TAKES BIS NASIK. ;'' The practice of a woman changing ber uamo on marriage originated from a Bom a a custom, and camo into use after tho Roman occupation, says a. writer in the Commercial Tribune. Thus, .fulia and Ootavia, married to Pompey and Cicero, were called by the Romans Julia of Pompey, Oetavi of Cicero, and in later timea women in most European cuautries signed their names iu the same war, but omitted the "of." On tha other band. at the beginning of the seventeenth, century, the usage seems doubtful, since wo find Catharine Barr so sign ing hersolf after she had twieo mar ried, and wo always bear of LadyJano Oroy (not Dudley), Arabella Stuart (not Seymour), etc. Some persons think that the custom originated from the Scriptural teaching that husband and wife are one. This was the rule of law, so far back as Braeton, and it was deoidel in tbo case of Von vs. Smith, in the roign of Elizabeth, that a woman by marriage losos bor former name and legally re ceives the name of her busbaud. The custom, bowever.is not universal. In Spain and Portugal married women do not take tbo names of tbuir bus bands, bnt continuo to bo known by their own. Ia many parts of tho United States a woman never relin quishes her maiden name, and is called by it as often ' ss by that of her husband. Even in tho rural parts of Eagland one often Und a married woman callod by her maidon name, and in country districts of Scot land it is sometimes fouud that both names are used. In many parts of France and Belgium thu husband's ami wife's names are used together when either of them is mentioned. Now York Tribune. FASIUOX NOTBrt. Flowered taffeta ribbon with the de sign outliued in gold uud silver threads is seen iu sash widths. Rose, black, two shades of green, corn color and white are shown in ao Euglish imported dress. - , Toques made of velvet, edged with fur and trimmed with j innty e'greltea sut on tha loft side, ara soeo, in many of the milliners' windows. " ' Velvet muffs to match velvet huts aro popular. They are lined with silk the color of tho hut trimmiug, and are bordered with fur or with foutlier trimmiug. Bolero jackets of black volvot.cdgil with a narrow border of mink, beyond which a double frill of black chiffon extends a little, are among tbo pretty drest novelties. A great deal of ombroidery is usud. Eutira waists and sleuvea of embroid cry are mado up and draped with rib bona, ailk, velvet or tho matoriul n the dresa with which the waist is to Li, worn- Some of tho new capes for theuti and opera wear have big rosettes chiffon on each sido of the colls whore it fastens in front, and froj those long ends of chiffon float alma to tbo bottom of tho skirt. . ; Iluirdreusiug is becoming lumothii fearfully aud wonderfully oomplioate Heads aro bunliy, brushy and frizzlt lim-r.ml helief. Tliura ia au uvidmtfc b ,, , uctio.h in favor of massive stylus, at 'tho very free use of false looks ie pii dieted. Curls nUo are roturniug I i .v.. : i ' luvor, aau puuu, crimp uuu wave aro deoidedly in the ascendent A
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