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Everest, Kan., boasts that to her ag- j
gregation of "lady barbers" "lady
preachers" and "lady doctors" alie
has now added a "lady butcher."
We've heard of those lady killers be
fore.
Spain may yet go to the extreme of
instituting a law suit against the I
United States for damages resulting I
from the war. There is no map that j
exactly describes the peculiar curve* 1
of the Spanish mind.
The Coroner's jury in London has
found a verdict of manslaughter
against the two women responsible for ;
the Christian Science treatment tried
on the late ITarold Frederic, and the ;
further proceedings will bo followed j
with interest not only iu England but i
in this country as well, where the doc- i
trines of the Christian Scientists have i
met with astouishing success.
•
One of the most curious iustitu- !
tions connected with the British navy
is the oilice of "Inspector of Sing- I
iug." On all the trainiug ships the |
boys are instructed in singing, by I
tutors, who receive about fifty dollars |
a year for the service. On each of
these ships there is a tonic sol fa '
jlass, where the boys are taught to j
sing patriotic airs. This ability to j
siug stirring music has a very enliven
ing and inspiring influence upon the
crews, and might, iu some cases, con
siderably frighten an enemy.
c?no cannot but admire the ladies
who sailed as stowaways on army trans- !
ports for Mauila. The Government
ordered that no women be allowed on j
any ship carrying troops across the
Pacific. Several volunteer officers
ordered to Manila had wives who were
determined enough to defy the Gov
ernment in order to accompany their
husbands. So they secreted them
selves more or less mysteriously on
the troopships with their husbands.
Since the presence of these fair stowa- ,
ways was announced in the newspa
pers as soon as the ships sailed, it is
fair to suppose that tlicy were not so
hidden iu the hold that there was any
danger of their perishing from starva
tion before discovery, nor yet so dis- I
guised as to conceal their sex. At the j
same time, the ladies were technically |
stowaways, and as such orders were j
scut by later ships to land them at \
Honolulu,
WORDS OF WISDOM.
* Little boats are seldom stranded.
Don't shear a goat to get line wool, j
Friendship is a mortgage on priuoi- |
pie.
Investigation is a cure for preju- ;
dice.
Every blessing brings an obliga- |
tioii.
Seed sowing is more profitable than
tare pulling.
until never loses any ot its power
by being spoken in love.
The heart regulates the life. Get
the heart right and your life is sure to
be.
The men who have made a noise in
the world have not used their mouths
alone.
The profundity of man's thought is
not always equal to the depth of his
silence.
The man who cannot change his
opinion belongs either to the grave
or the asylum.
Laying the ax to the branches in
stead of "the root of the tree," will
not keep new ones from sprouting.
The important thing is not what
men say of you, but what you make
them believe. —Rain's Horn.
It was a vision that made Cornelius,
the Roman send for a Christian
preacher, ar/d it was a vision that made
the preacher willing to go. Science
and human reason may not recognize
spiritual phenomena, but neither rea
son nor science can consistently deny
the possibility that the great Being in
Whose realm crowd the infinite mys
teries <>f the universe, did send mes
sengers of regeneration to the pooi
heathen river pirate.
Output ot Sewing Much In en.
Mure than 500,000 scwuig machines
are made every year ipVthe United
States, being nine-tenths of those
made on the globe. About 200,000
persons are employed in this indus
try.
TEAR AND SMILE.
"What are you?" said a tear
To A smile playing near,
"With a Hi ok wring shimmer,
You transiently glimmer
On the meaningless features of mirtfrf
Hut vou nothing express
Of the anguish and stress
That make up man's portion ou earth,"
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LD bachelorhood j
still claimed me, ;
\\ hut my chum, 1
4 Jack Addison, j
j [ f ■■•Oil J ha<l been mar- I
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' x J ■ iiioutliH. 11
'V ini.l s.'eu until- |
x ing of him since |
* 1887, when we
had taken our degrees in the same
1 batch. We had been friends at Cam- j
bridge, not perhaps very iutimate, but
I with that kind of friendship that cou
i sists iu loafing in each other's rooms
j mid walking together down to the '
' boatkouse most afternoons. I had I
thought of Addison perhaps half a j
dozou times since I came down from :
the 'Varsity; probably my image had
crossed his mind about as often.
Nevertheless, though I would not
have walked more than half a mile for
the pleasure of seeing him, it was
with uuaffeotod cordiality that we j
shook hands in Piccadilly the other j
day. Chance meetings are always !
agreeable, and even to come across an |
old enemy is better than nothing. The '
pleasantest evening I have spent for I
years was after a casual encounter !
with old Larking, who used to lick |
me regularly every day my first term
at. Bchom.
>.n course Jack asked me to dinner, i
It is the Englishman's custom, wheu,
having exhausted all the obvious
topics of conversation, he can think of
nothing else to say. I accepted, be
cause just then I was not sorry to get
a dinner for nothing. Besides one is j
always curious to see the sort of girl I
who has cared to throw herself away !
upon an old friend.
Jack, it seemed, was now partner iu ]
a factory, and apparently had plenty
of money. Anyhow, Jack had a very
comfortable little house, nicely furn
ished, and gave me a very fair dinner,
good without being ostentatious. Mrs.
Addison proved to be a charming
woman. She was extremely pretty,
with that Irish combination that I
have always thought so effective—blue
eyes and hair rather darker than com
mon. She was also a lively talker,
without a trace of shyness. Jack,
| when at college, was the shyest man
: I ever knew; but it is a commonplace
i that men of this sort always contrive
jto secure the best wives. I confess
she fairly fascinated me, and we talked
together the greater part of dinner.
AVheu she rose to leave us I noticed
she wore in her bodice a little gold
brooch in the form of a bicycle wheel,
j with a large diamond for the hub. As
I I held the door open for her to pass
j out I asked her, laughingly, if she too
had fallen a victim to the general
i craze.
"It is my talisman," she said, with j
a smile at Jack. "You must ask him 1
about it."
"Hullo!" I said to Jack wheu 'she
had goue, "a romance, eh! Out with
it, old chap."
"It was my wedding present to
her," replied Jack. "The reason why j
1 I chose it is a long story."
j "Armed with a cup of coffee—black, j
please, and one lump—l can stand !
I anything." .Jack handed me the cup, j
and began with a preliminary cough. •
"It was two years after we came i
; down, ' lie said, "that I made the ac- !
] qunintauce of the lady who is now my
, wife. She was then Miss Trefusis, !
and lived with her father, old General
| Trefusis—poor fellowl he died before
jwe were married—in a retired village
I in Devonshire. The Geueral was a j
j good old chap, and I won his heart by !
j allowing him to beat me at golf. The
j fact is, I had gone down to Devonshire
so as to be near Westward Ho! You
j remember I was one of the few men
! who were enthusiastic golfers before
1 it became the rage?"
"You got your blue for it, I remem
ber."
"Well—if you call that getting a
blue. Anyhow, Westward Ho! lias j
always been one of my favorite links,
niicl there it was that I first met the ,
old General. I can remember as well
as anything the first time L saw him. j
He hud driven off from the seventh '
tree, and lost his ball in the rushes. !
I was just behind him, playing a
round myself and as he had gone well ;
off the line, and seemed to have no
chance of getting on to it again, I !
thought I might as well play on. Uu- j
fortuuately, as frequently happens in j
such cases, I pulled my drive badly,
aud landed on a clump of rushes just
iu front of his nose. I never remem- j
ber hearing more violent language in i
my life. However, I apologized pro- ;
fusely, and, by a curious coincidence,
we found the two balls lying close
together in the same clump. That
pacified him, and as lie was also
playing alone we finished the round
together.
"That was the beginning of quite
an intimate friendship. We got to
playing together frequently, and at
last he asked me over to dine at his
place. I had brought my bicycle with
me—it was one of the good old sort,
with a fifty-six-iuch wheel, you kuow
—and I rode over in the afternoon,
carrying my dress clothes iu a bag. I
saw Dolly that evening for the first
time, aud I need not tell you that I
lost no opportunity of seeing her again.
Soon it became quite the regular thing
for me to ride over in the morning
for luncheon—it was about five miles
off—and drive back with the General
•'You are rather severe,"
Said the smile to the tear,
• For as (lay, to shine bright,
Needs a background of night,
So grief must be bordered with gladness;
And the light of a smile,
More than once iu a while.
Helps a tear to unbosom its sadness."
Joseph Dawson, in the Spectator.
' for a game in the afternoon. Then
we would return to dinner, and I
would ride back ou my machine after
j a game of billiards at about midnight.
! It was perhaps the jolliest time I ever
! had in my life."
! "Except of course just now," I sug
gested, mildly.
Jack closed his eyelid. "Exactly,"
he coutiuuod. "Well, this sort of
thing went on for some three weeks,
until I was madly iu love. I turned
the matter over in my mind, and de
cided to mnke ail effort. I had a little
money of my own—not much, you
know, but enough to marry ou if we
did things quietly—and I thought,
somehow, that Dolly was aware of my
intentions, and did not altogether
disapprove of them. My holiday, too,
was coming to an end, and I could
not prolong it for more than a few
days further. So I made up my mind
to propose ou a certain Saturday. It
was not a fortunate choice, and if I
had not been one of those men who
liato changing their minds"—l smiled,
for Jack was known at Cambridge for,
the most vascillating of men—"l
should certainly have put it off.
Nothing had gone well that day. The
General had been altogether off his
play, and was not in the best of
tempers. I mysolf had foozled every
other drive, and you know what that
means. I had beaten him, but there
had been no pleasure about the game.
Even wheu wo got back, a good deal
earlier than usual, I remember no
ticing that Dolly was not quite as
pleasant to me as usual. However, I
asked her to come and have a game of
billiards after tea, meaning to get the
job over."
Jack stopped, and there was a long
pause.
"Well," I said, "what happened?
She accepted you, I suppose."
"No!" he continued. "She refused
me point-blank. The fact was, I must
have hurried it too much you know.
I was determined to get it over, aiul I
suppose I was too abrupt. The poor
child was takeu completely by sur
prise, or said she was. So, for that
matter, was I. It was all over in ten
minutes."
I began to grow interested. "What
did you do then?" I asked.
"There was only ouo thing to be
done. I got ou my machine and rode
off. I can tell you I was iu a awful
state. I neither looked nor cared
where I was going. After about au
hour's hard riding—it was just 7
o'clock, for I remember looking at my
watch—l found myself nbout fifteen
miles from home, and beginning to
I get hungry. I sat down on a mill
stone and reviewed the situation. It
was very sad. I felt as if my life had
j come suddenly to a blank wall. It
1 was no longer worth living. These
are the usual symptoms, I believe.
You will understand my sensation?
"Like Marias among the ruins of
Carthage," I suggested.
"I can afford to laugh at it now, but
; I can tell you that just then it was no
I laughing matter. I must have sat
there for more than au hour, think
ing. Then I realized it was time to
i be getting home, for, after all, even a
: disappointed lover must have supper.
| I thought sadly of what I should do.
' )f course, J had to go; I could never
see her again, never play the old G.en
j oral at golf or billiards again. Well,
it had been a very pleasant time while
it lusted. The next morning would
witness my departure—forever. ,
"I mounted the old machine, and
set off wearily homeward. Then a
sudden resolve seized me. Onco more
I wouftl go by her house, and cast u
glance at the roof that sheltered her.
It was a fine summer night, and I
should still lie home well before dark.
I started, first slowly, then, as the
thought of my folly came across me,
luster and faster, until I was riding a
good twelve or thirteen miles to the
hour—not such a bad pace ou one
of those old sky-scrapers.
, "Close to where old Trefusis lived
there is a long hill, with a sharp turn
near the bottom. It lias now been
marked with a danger-board, but at
that time there wore but few of those
useful inventions about. Iu any case,
had there been a dozen, it isnotlikely
that I would have stopped for them.
I was reckless that night, and to have
| broken my leg—perhaps even my neck
I —would have rather pleased mo than
otherwise. So at least I fancied as I
tucked my legs over the handle bars,
preparatory to a good rush down.
"She simply whizzled along. Never
before, or since, have I felt the air
rush past mo with such velocity. I
1 had come to the bow of the hill at a
! good pa£e, and made no effort to check
| myself before the descent. There was
| nothing for it but to keep cool, and
1 watch for the turn. I felt intoxicated,
exhilarated to madness by the speed.
1 laughed aloud, and gave a shrill
i halloo of triumph. I was nearly at
I the turn.
"A woman's scream for help rang
! out as I negotiated the corner. Like
I a steak of lightniug I shot round, the
angle judged to a nicety, though I
' shaved a .stone at the edge of the
grass by a miracle. Fifty yards
further down were two figures, a man
and a woman, their backs toward me
running.', The woman was iu front;
| it was a chase.
j "I saw at once my game, and held
on without a sound. The bicycle
was racing along at close on forty
miles an hour, the rubber tires mak
ing no noise on the hard grouud.
There were none of your clanking
chains in those days. The girl—for
I could now see that it was a girl
ran nobly, but the ruffian was gaining
upon her. In three seconds I should
have caught him.
"Suddenly, in a flash, I recognized
the girl. It was Dolly! The sight
nerved me to a freuz}', and, as my
wheel caught her pursuer in the back,
I uttered a most blood-curdling yell
of triumph.
smash was terrific, and if 1
had not put my legs over the handles
[ should have been killed to a cer
' tainty. As it was, I came ott" remark
ably well, with a bruise or two, aud
rather cut about the bands."
There was a pfttose. "That was
how it happened," concluded Jack.
"Shall we adjourn to the drawing
room?"
"She was netted, I suppose, by
your heroism?" I surmised, as we
rose.
"Well—you see—l bad to carry her
home," exclaimed Jack, who seemed
reluctant to finish the story. "She
had faiuted at the critical moment."
"I see. And how about the rob
ber?"
Jack laughed. "I left him thero,
and, what was rather curious, I never
saw him—or the remains of my ma
chine either, for that matter—again.
The man was only a common tramp,"
ho added, as bethought that accounted
for the double disappearance.
"One more question," I urged, as
we ascendended the stairs. "Why
was Miss Trefusis—Mrs. Addison—
walking in a country lane alone in the
evening?—if the question is not in
discreet.
"It is most indiscreet," said Jack,
solemnly. "She has confided to me
since"—and he nudged me forcibly
iu the ribs—"that she had thought it
just possible she might happen to meet
me again along that road."
"I have never allowed him to ride
a bicycle since," said Mrs. Addison,
with a smile, as we entered the draw
ing room.—E. 11. Lacou-Watsou, in
Country Life Illustrated.
WONDERS OF PHYSICAL TRAINING.
A Powerful Athlete Muiln Simply by
Breathing Kxerrise*.
Hugo Prnessiug, one of the best
known athletes of Milwaukee, is a
wonderful example of muscular devel
opment produced by breathing exer
cises.
Two years ago he was narrow chested,
stoop shouldered, consumptive. It
was predicted that he could not live a
year. Hearing of the treatment of a
Washington physician, who required
his patients to undergo a regular sys
tem of breathing exercises, Pruessing
determined to try it. The results have
been truly astonishing.
At the outset he weighed 110 pounds,
measured 33i inches around the chest,
with un expansion of 1 finches. To-day
ho weighs 150 pounds, measures 38
inches around the chest when normal,
43 expanded and 34 empty. His lower
chest is 28J inches normal and 35 ex
panded.
The extraordinary muscles under
his arms are those possessed by few
other athletes in the country except
Sandow. It will be remembered that
Saudow, by similar treatment, built
himself up to his present marvelous
strength.
The breathing exercises are largely
a matter of will. He commenced
breathing with the upper chest. The
ordinary method moves the shoulders
and uses involuntary muscles instead
of the voluntary ones. Pruessing's
method of training keeps the chest
raised and gives a longer range to the
diaphragm. After the shoulder move
ment upper chest breathing is prac
tised, and then abdominal breathing
then the lower chest breathing, the
effect of it all being to build up the
chest, shoulders and diaphragm most
notably.
The Aliasing Link.
# Tlie party of scientists and anti
quarians who were exploring the
Kocky Mountains in the spring of the
year 2000, mounted on their uew 'OO
model bikes, suddenly heard a loud
cry of triumph from the lips of Pro
fessor Uubbertire, of the Suiitlisoniau
Institution, who was some distance
ahead.
Hastening forward they found the
professor standing by the side of the
moldering remains of a wagon. In
front of the decaying fragments lay
the petrified remains of four extinct
auimals.
"See!" said the professor, pointing
to the animal to the right, nearest the
wagon, "we have found the missing
link between that noble machine, the
bicycle, and the auimal kingdom at
last."
"What is it?" asked the excited
group.
"That, gentlemen," said the profes
sor, "is undoubtedly the fossil re
mains of a wheel horse."—Detroit
Free Press.
Lions Increasing In Kast Africa.
In several letters received by the
last mail from East Africa, mention is
made, I am told, of the unusual num
ber of lions that have made their ap
pearance in the country. One well
known hunter, whose experience ol
East Africa ranges over many years,
says that these animals are a perfect
terror, not a night passing withoul
one or more of the brutes breakiug in
to a Masai village aud carrying ofl
people or live stock. On oue occasion
recently a lion stalked into a camp,
and, in spile of all that could be done,
carried off a Swahili porter from withir
a few feet of a bright watch fire, where
there were men awake on guard. Mas
sailand is otherwise described as 8
maguificent country, teeming witl
game of all kinds, and as healthy a
can be for Europeans.—London cor
resnondence of the Birmingham Post
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I I^^ROAh^NOmJ
EflcctH of Bail Country Kohilr.
The pathway of life may bo rugged and
steep,
But the road through the country is
steeper;
The pitfalls aud snare 3 that beset us are
deep,
But the mud that surrounds us is doeper.
There are fence rails for bridges and mud
holes for drains.
And hard heads and boulders for gravel,
And broken down buggies 011 hillsides and
plains
Give warnings, like ghosts, as we travel.
Lank horses, by work and abuse broken
down,
Gaze at us from roadside and stable;
Young men reaching wistfully out toward
the town,
Or seeking its portals when able.
D .'sorted farmhouses, the fences decayed.
And the breezes through seed patches
blowing;
Where once happy children rejoiced as
they played
Hide and seek when the Held corn was
growing.
What joy for the youth as his longings ex
pand,
In life so restricted aud narrow;
His prospects, 'mid all opportunities grand,
But to follow the plow and the harrow.
Half banished from hope, and shut out
from the world
By a ilimsy but tangible curtain;
Society's pleasure away from him burled—
The roads are'"so very uncertain."
There's little onjoyraent in life scattered
'round,
And little of profit or pleasure,
In roads where the bottom can scarcely bo
found
With less than a seven-foot measure.
Let us seek some reform, then, at once, ere
we lose
All trace of our roads from our annals,
Aud make surface rouds that the public
can use,
Or else take the underground channols.
A Governor'® Road Message.
The recent message of Governor
Smith, of Vermont, to the State Leg
islature, dealt largely with goodroacls.
Their present law, he asserted, is en
tirely wrong, as over $86,000 are an
nually collected and then distributed
among the towns, to be spent by 245
highway commissioners in repairing
the roads of their respective towns,
while not a cent of it goes into perma
nent work or furnishes any lasting
benefit to the State. The money is
spread out so thiu that it is practically
thrown away.
The idea of the law was that the
smaller towns would Receive from the
State, iu the annual distribution, more
than they had paid us their share of
the tax, but the increase proves to be
too small to bo of any material bene
fit. On the contrary, the small towns
would receive far greater advantages
if the tax were used toward building
permanent loads and they were con
nected by theni with the railways to
which they are obliged to carry their
produce.
Statistics had been prepared by the
Governor "to show the cost of trans
portation of the products of Vermont
from various towns which lie away
from the lino of the railroads, to the
railroads, as compared with the cost
of transporting the same article from
the railroad to market. From these
statistics it appears that on butter,
lumber, granite, lime, brick, cement
and hay the rate is from $2.50 to $4
per ton by team from the point ol
production to the railroad, while the
rate to haul the same articles from the
railroad station to the point of con
sumption is but from $0.40 down to
SI.G6 per ton. Iu none of these in
stances does the haul by team exceed
twelve miles; in none of the instances
is the haul by railroad less than 14U
miles, \
"The rates by railroads," said the
Governor, "will never, in my judg
ment, be higher, so that whatever can
be saved by improved roads out of the
cost of teaming these products ought
to go into the pocket of the producer
of the hay or the butter or the lumber
or granite or whatever is teamed. The
standard authorities give the saving in
cost of teaming over good roads as
compared to ordinary dirt roads to be
from fifty to seventy-five per cent., so
that there is from $1.25 to $3.00 for
every ton of freight teamed to go into
the pocket of the producer iu Ver
mont, if only good roads are made
where bad ones now exist."
The Governor therefore urges that
the Massachusetts highway law, mod
ified as required, be adopted in Ver
mont, and that the tax of $86,000, now
annually collected for road repairs, bo
turned over to State highway commis
sioners, who shall control its expendi
ture under the provisions of law.
In respect to cost of hauling by
team to tho railroads, the figures
given by Governor Smith show how
heavily the farmers suffer from bad
roads, not alone in Vermont but in
nearly all States in which similar condi
tions obtain. New Jersey, Massachu
setts and New York are working out
a remedy for these evils, m and the
other States cannot'do better than act
on Governor Smith's suggestion and
follow their examples.—L. A. W.
Bulletin.
Progress of the Crusade.
It's a long lane if it's a deep one
A bill designed to promote the con
struction of cycle-paths is to be intro
duced at the next session of the On
tario (Canada) Legislature. It is
modeled after the law in force in Mon
roe County, New York.
A public meeting of indignant citi
zens was held in Dublin lately to or
ganize the Irieh Roads Improvement
Association. The had condition of the
roads and streets about the Irish cap
ital necessitates some action.
An ideal pavement must be cheap
durable, offer little resistance to ti ac
tion,furnish a lirin foothold for horses,
suit all classes of traffic, be adapted to
grades, present a good appearance, bo
impervious to water, non- absorbent,
not dusty or noisy, easily cleaned and
not subject to decay.
NEWSPAPERS IN THE COLONIES.
Speculations About the Effects of the
Expansion Policy.
Now that the United States has col
! onies all its own American people,who
never do anvthiing by halves, will be
rushing over there iu great numbers
to the overdoing of everything in a
business and industrial way, and the
newspaper man will not 'be behind
others in this undoing, for undoing in
variably follows overdoing.
The population of Cuba and Porto
Tiico essentially Spanish, is composed
largely of illiterates, who are as indif
ferent to newspapers as they are to
cleanliness. Those who can read and
care to read are fairly well supplied
1 with very creditable newspapers pub
lished iu their own language by men
i of newspaper experience.
I The Sandwich Islands are made up
of a few thousand English speaking
people, fewer Portuguese and some
Chinamen and Japanese, but the great
body of the people is but half civilizetl
and full blood aud half breed Ha
waiians.
The Filipinos will require many
years of education before they will be
gin to read newspapers. The Sand
wich and the Filipinos groups have
newspapers adequate to present con
ditions.
That additional newspapers will be
needed to meet the exigencies of
changed conditions on these islands
goes without saying. Much American
capital will go to these islands, aud
much emigration of Americans will
follow thither. These will want news
papers in their tongue and newspa
pers that represent. American enter
prise.
So, too, increased trade with these
islands will invite advertisers to the
columns of newspapers published in
these several islands.
But, as said at the boginning, the
thing is likely to .be overdone. Be
cause there are possibilities open,
more will wish to seize them than the
opportunities warrant, and it will be
the'duty of the current chroniclers to
write the obituary of many a daring
newspaper, overcome of its rashness.
—Newspaper Maker.
Manners In the Field.
There is some occult influence which
frequently causes well-bred and well
intentioned people to forget their
breeding and their manners directly
they have a gun in hand and find them
selves on another person's land look
ing for game. Yet there is surely
nothing inherent in a taste for field
sports which involves such disregard of
others. On the contrary, as is de-
I monstrated by shining examples in
j great multitude, there are sportsmen
who show themselves in the field as
at home and everywhere thoughtful of
their fellow-men, and whose pleasant
fellowship is sought not only by the
| companion with whom they go shoot
] ing, but by the residents among whom
j they shoot, and to whose courtesy
I they are indebted for their opportuui
j ties of sport. Every shooter who thus
j treats a landowner as he would he
I treated in turn by him will have no
I difficulty in finding in this country to
j day an abundance of good shooting,
j Even if he shall at first be warned off
I and debarred by trespass notices, he
i has to thank for this, iu all probability,
j the gunners who have preceded him,
and who have made their invasion of
the fields so intolerable that they have
j put a brand and stigma upon all of
I the craft.—Forest aud Streuui.
j lixtra l*y For u Servant IVho Thlnlot.
I A friend of mine had just hired a
1 general servant, when that respected
| individual gravely inquired: "Does
j a girl have to think here?"
i The employer gasped a terrified
I "Wlia-at?"
i "Do I have to think?" was the
| stolid rejoinder.
j "Why, good heavens! of course you
I have to think!" exclaimed the now
! thoroughly puzzled lady,
j "Thou I'll have to have fifty cents
| more a week. I always does in places
where I thinks," said the girl deter
j minedly.
Thou it came about that, in her vo
cabulary the verb "to think" applied
exclusively to meals. If a mistress
ordered breakfast, luncheon and din
ner, detail by detail, the maid had no
occasion to "think." If ahe were
obliged to plan the meals herself, she
wanted fifty cents a week for the men
tal exertion!
Who could blame her?— Chicago
Times-Herald.
Heroes at the Ten.
The intensity of application with
which the mind follows whatever it
lays hold of in literary pursuits is ex
emplified in the ease of Robert Ains
worth, a celebrated writer and anti
quarian of the seventeenth oentury.
He had been for years engaged in a
voluminous Latin dictionary, and
while fascinated with this heroic, work
gave BO little time and attention to his
wife that he inourred her bitterest
joalousy, aud before the work was quite
oomplete sho committed the whole to
the flames. Instead of abandoning
himself to despair, Ainsworth set to
work and rewrote it, accomplishing the
entire work in time. The same bitter
disappointment was endured with simi
lar heroism by Carlyle when the MS.
of his "Frederick the Great" was de
stroyed by fire.
Japanese In Mexico.
An investigation shows that the
Japanese colony, which was estab
lished about two years ago in the dis
trict of Soconuseo, on the Pacific
Slope, in the State of Chiapas, is prov
ing itself to he a perfect success.
Over 100 more Japanese families are
now on their way from their distant
native land to the now colony, where
they expect to make their future home.
There are now nearly 100 families ol
Japanese located there. They are em
ployed in raising coffee aud tea. —St,
Louis Globe-Democm*-
ENGLANU A CENTURY AGO.
Those "Good Old Times" Were Fearfully
Wicked and Benighted.
The pessimist, regarding only the
iniquities and injustices of the present
day, has only to tnrn back one hun
dred years to find that the world real
ly does move on, that our to-morrows
will surely be brighter than the yes
terdays. A writer in Chambers' Jour
nal says of "One Hundred Years Ago
iu England:" England was at war with
France. To furnish food for powder
the recruiting sergeant was assisted
by the press-gang. In 1798 Nelson
won the battle of the Nile aud broke
the oceau power of Napoleon. The
laud campaign of Wellington had freed
the Peninsula. But the slave trade iu
our colonies flourished. The printing
machine was a mere hand-press. There
were no cabs or omnibuses. Steam
locomotion belonged to thirty years
after date.
There was no voting by ballot.
Pocket boroughs flourished; political
debauchery jvas rampant. There was
no police force. Superstition reigned
supreme; every village had its "wise
woman" and fortune-teller. Duels
were common; so was diabolical out
rages at sea. Men were executed for
high treason, forgery aud horse steal
ing. Hanging, drawing and quarter
ing were the cherished punishments
of the criminal code. The hemp crop
was the most flourishing aud fruitful
of harvests. The gibbet post cast its
baneful shadow over the land. Public
executions were a popular outdoor en
tertainment provided by the State for
the edification of the people. Suicides
were buried without the offices of re
ligion at the meeting of four cross
roads, with a stake through their
hearts.
Women were openly flogged. There
was a public brand for scolds. Whip
ping posts and stocks were prominent
in every town and village. Women
were placed in the pillory aud pelted
by the populace with rotten eggs, pu
trid /vegetables and the like. Flog
ging! was of frequent occurrence in the
army; deserters were incontinently
shot; seamen were summarily hanged
at the yardarm for mutiny. Evon
penny newsrooms had their persecu
tions and martyrs. On the 6th of Sep
tember, 1798, six informations were
heard before the magistrates at Bow
street and laid by the stamp office
against a Mr. Williams for suffering
iu his room in Old Round court sun
dry persons to read the Daily Adver
tiser amf other newspapers for the
consideration of one penny each. The
offense being held to be clearly made
out, the infamous Williams was con
victed in the penalty of .£5 on each in
formation.
How the Empress Paid Her Kent.
While traveling in Spain some fif
teen years ago the writer was enter
tained at dinner in Jerez by an Eng
lishman who was the owner of a fine
hunting estate on the south coast of
Spain, where he usually spent the
summer months. In the spring of
1882 the Austrian Cousnl culled ou
Mr. D and said that his mistress,
the Empress Elizabeth, understand
ing that he 'proposed spending the
season in England, greatly desired to
rent his place.
| Mr. D said he would not rent
his place to anyone, but be would
feel highly honored if Her Majesty
, would occupy it for the summer.
Wheu he returned with his family
in the autumn his wife.received a note
I from the Empress, saying that she
j would pass through Jerez on a certain
day and desired to breakfast with her.
Her Majesty expressed her indebted
[ ness for a delightful summer, and
I urged that she be allowed to make
some compensation for the place, but
the offer was gracefully refused. At
I length the Empress said:
j "Is there nothing I can do to show
my appreciation of your kindness and
courtesy?"
"Well," replied Mr. D , "if on
Your Majesty's return to Vienna you
will send me a small photograph with
your autograph, I shall be pleased to
possess it."
Several months passed without the
appearance of the promised portrait,
and both Mr. and Mrs. D rather
unwillingly arrived at the conclusion
that the illustrious lady had entirely
forgotten them and her promise,
when a few weeks later -an enormous
box nrrived, containing a finely framed
full-length oil painting of the Em
press, executed by the Austrian court
painter, among the first artists of Eu
rope.—New York Observer.
A Memory or tlie Crimea.
Mr. C. M. Courtenay writes a letter
which will interest survivors of our
soldiers aud sailors who were taken
prisoners in the Crimean war and
marched to Kharkoff, who will regret
to learn that the bright, kindly little
Englishwoman, Mine. Braillard, nee
Chillingworth, by whom they were
met on arrival and accosted in their
native tongue, has just died at Schloss
Sayn near Uobleutz, at the age of
eighty-two-. Her husband, a Swiss,
was at the time of the war professor at
the College of Kharkoff, and being ac
quainted with the Governor of the jail,
she was allowed to go down there
twice a week to meet the prisoners on
arrival, and to visit them afterwards.
Besides talking to them, aud being
the means of communicating to their
friends in England the nows of their
safety, she took them alt the comforts
she could—clothes, tea, tobacco, books,
writing materials, etc.—collecting
money for the purpose from her sister
and wealthy friends at St. Petersburg.
The officers on "parole" dined daily
at her house. Her unselfish kindness
met with no public recognition, hut In
old age it was no small pleasure to her
to reflect that though so much of her
life had been spent abroad, still that
when the opportunity was given her
she Sad shown herself a true-hearted
Englishwoman. Westminster Ga
| zette.