In the comuioroe of the world Ger man trade is growing at Great Brit ain's expense, and the United States takes from both. Literature like nearly everything else nowadays, has come to tie a com mercial commodity, governed by the laws of demand and supply, and the author, to be successful, must "get down to business." As the mothers' congress has given rise to a mighty demand fir a fathers' congress, it is evident that the small boy will have to go into the congress business himself unless Be ts to lose his liberties altogether; If every cigarette in the worhi were destroyed human morals would sensi bly improve. Undertakers will tell you tbat when the body of a confirmed cigarette smoker is eubalmed it turns green. This shows that the poison docs not stop at tire lungs, but sat urates the entire body. Our Chicago man Is clamoring for tbe coinage of a silver seventy-five cent piece. He claims that it "would stimulate trade," as a purchaser would not bo so much impressed by the cost of a thing wlien he could pay one coin for a seventy-tive-cent arti cle, as ho is when lie continues 'to hand out a half-dollar and a quarter dollar for that article. Fashionable Xew Y'ork City has abandoned to a very great-extent new fashioned door bells and substituted old-fashioned knockers. Tlie older, tbe more battered and mistghtly tbe knocker is, tbe higher price it com mands. Shrewd manufacturers are pandering to this fad by getting up imitations of these antiquities. In ap pearance tbey are more antique than the originals. It is queer how many works are published treating tile novel histori cally. The books may Bo said to show the general interest In fiction, bat here is tho world running over with novels, novels innumerable, of which no man or woman, even tf a profes sional reader, can read more than a small part Are novels so many that conscientious persons can only read about them? It Is a practice common in many branches of knowledge, ami sure to commend Itself to the eom fortable soul. It ts uot too much to say tbat by the death of Stephen Crane one oi the young American writers of most promise has gone. His literary per formance often exhibited poor taste and tbat particular kind of affectation known as overstraining; but It slxrwad signs, none tbe less, of real and virile genius. Mr. Crane's later Work was not marked by his early crudities and In tbe "Whilomville Stories," for in stance, in Harper's Magazine, his touch is as delicate and his thoughts as keen as Mark Twain's EVCD though Kiplingesque at times, his spirit was distinctly American. In tie great mass of labored fietidn and oon ventional authorship of to-day, out pauses at the name of Stephen Crana Hypnotism has vastly in vogue in the last fifteen of twenty years. The causes of its phenomena and the forces which regulate and control them arc as little known as ever, but this does not bar its ac- ceptance as a form of social amuse ment, nor its exploitation by thought less youths and greedy charlatans, whose only object Is to gain a little cheap notoriety, or wring a living from a credulous populace. It lias been forcibly demonstrated, however, that men of sound judgment ami ex- perience are required to make success ful and safe operators, and it is just as logical for the law to license this profession and impose rigid restric tions as others involving a tedious course of study and preparation, thinks the Atlanta Constitution. What may be termed a novelty characteristic of tbe times was made the feature of a club dinner of rail road officials in Xew York City tbe other day. Of this club. Senator Chauncey M. Depew is president, but owing to the pressure of public du ties in Washington lie was unable to be present and preside. There was a time when such a circumstance would have prevented the Senator from malt ing an address to the gathering. Times have changed, however, and conditions have changed with them y the aid of telephone receivers laced at each seat the diners were maided to listen to a speech addressed to then) by their absent president, who was talking at a distance of over miles The incident is a striking one as Illustrative of the extent to which the progress of invention has broken down the barriers of space. THE ANGLEWORM. An Angleworm yawned and stretched bim sell out, Then sighed and drew himself in— wAlthough I can render myseai sliarfc-and stout. Then instantly quite long and tMn, This earthly existence 1 always haw found To !><• n most consummate bore; There's nothing to do but make hok in the ground, And nothing, alas! to live for!" / *Tvrt. tut," said the (Jrub Worm, iddeg matic and slow, "Why look you so sad and sedate"? Cheer up, little lirother—you otutain)y know That tisliormen love you—for belt, Though some creatures lead a umuiltooaas life, That may be, indeed, murh man? .spicy, Tbcy pay up with Iveauachcs, mud t*>- rows and strife Unknown to tlx? genus lun&rici. •'Just think," paid the Grub W'aro, "bow simply you're mu'le— Haw uncomplicated you grew: The gard'ner may cut you in twirin with his spade. And instead of one worm, ore two! Each portion strikes out in a diHerout way, And soon lxth are hardy arid fat! Where else will you tiail 111 a ereaUiPo of clay Such wonderful structure as that? Serenely eontenteinr>ared with which we aie ;i& bright berapliim, From sin und pollution excriQTt. Ah, Angleworm! Angkrworin! Happy thy lot! In Earth's tranquil breast to abide, Without a regret for t-l things jwu Iwue not — Impassive, whatever betide Suit her any nor hope, nor passion inr fear. Nor visions of happier states. I Gin light with a smile or dim with a twos, lie 6conis both tho Furies ami Kates. And, bound to this poor little orMm of Earth That floats in tlx? Infinite Vast, Man gropes about blindly, twixt anguish and mirth, And guesses and doubts to the hist. May be. 'mongst tlx? millions af glorious spheres Tliat roll through the region? of God, Are beings—of Jove and Apollo the peem, To whom we are as Worms of the Clod! iSiiirit. § Wben a Friend Deals | I With a Friend. M Eti ■Franklin Miohaal. pa . iQQQfIQfIQQ.QOQQfICHJIjaI S, "7*" XD you say tlie mortgage * /\ is twenty-five hundred Jul ] kirs, due March 1st 1 ' £ "Ami you cahJt go* the | money anywhere?" "Novhens I've tried every, pfcms tn town, even old Peddicord. Money is tighter now at the !anks than at any j time since the panic started. They won't let ant a dollar eXrept To -old customers. So if you can't do this, | Bad, my home is gone, that's all" "Hem! Just state that laupositton ' over again, Mac." "It's this: I'll transfer the tttte of the furm to you: you assume tin; mort gage and hold the place in your name; when the panic s over and I get straightened out Til take tt lasck. pay you for what you've paid out and for your trouble besides, if I am nev er able to redeem it, the CarniTl be yours for good; understand?" { "Yes; but Mac, you surely know that j this is not a good business pruposL I tkm." ] "Yes, I know that well enough. It's a proposition I would make to no-man living except Itnlston lilalr. The hind would bring at least seventy-live dol lars an acre if times were good; urrw it I would not sell at all, and if tbe mort gage is foreclosed 111 git little or nothing for my money ami work. Olive and 1 are both sick and dis- I couroged, but if you can do thts for j us, we'll have one ekauoe left to get on our feet again." j "Well, I don't know what to say. I must have time to think. My Irar | dens are heavy enough now, as you | know. At the same tins' I feel as though I must help you. Hi tell you. you drop in—say Thursday morning— and I'll see what I can do for you." Tho above is in substance tbe talk that took iilace between the Reverend Ralston Blair and Philip MeChire one rooming in February, 1805. Tbe men had been intimate from bpyliood. j They graduated from school together, : Illalr at the head of tin' class, Me [ Clare ucnr tlie fooL Blair was bril ! I Unit and popular in school; McClure ] was dull nmi reserved. BlaJr passed I tlirougli college and eutored tbe min istry; McClure went from school to the farm. Blair scored a success from ( the start; married a girl as ambitious ; as liimsclf, anil was at this time pos ] tor of tlie most fashionable church in Ailsbury. McCluve married pretty Olive Plnkney, bought an eighty-acre farm two miles out from Ailsbury and i prospered until hard times, poor crops, I low prices and sickness combined to i reduce liim to the extremity we have \ seeu. The feeling that existed between the young men could not be called friend ship; it was not reciprocal. On Mc- Clnre's part it was genuine hero wor ship. He idolized Blair; he gloried in his successes, and, above alt else, bad absolute faith in hint. Blair, on the other hand, accepted McClttre's wor ship and encouraged it because it sat isfied the demand of n selfish nature. He was one of those mortals who, while- incapable of deep feelings him self, was yet able to play upon the heart strings of those about him. But to resume our story. The out- j oome of the talk recorded nbove was : that McClure's farm was legally trans ferred to Blair. MeClure at once moved his wife and two babies to Ailsbury; took possession of a small cottage and found work in a brick yard. lie was a good worker. The farm was rented, and throe years passed without Incident. But tlx l souls of tlie McCluree were wrung with anguish when they beheld the havoc wrought by oitroks renters on their little farm. The young orchard, their special pride, was trampled to death by horses and catttle; the lawn iu front of tlx? house was turned into a nursery for pigs and geot tom one. Mistakes are less common than might be supposed, however, for fatnilies who lay their dead in the rented section seldom pay more than the fee of $1 to cover one year's inter ment. All bones look alike to them after that lapse of time. The American designation of the native is Spiggoty, accented on the first, syllable. Its origin is indefinite, but it may have come from the native ambition to speak English and to in form all comers of that desire. The native tongue, accustomed to soft let ters, struggles hard with the k in "speak," and makes it sound like g cut off short. English is Ingles. When "speak English" encounters a Porto Kicon, the result may not 1K unlik? "splggely," which some Anglo-Saxon mind roughened into "gplggoty." Whatever tin origin, one hears every where of spiggoty people, splggoty money, and all else spiggoty. Every body uses the term, the natives having almost accepted it !is a proper desig nation. If into some official document sent to Washington it should slip, the public may know that it has come to stay, and that a fresh coin has en riched the language. A Successful Slint. A tall object suddenly held my eyes, says Maurice Thompson, in the Atlan tic, a great blue heron, stock-still on one foot, bis neck partly folded. Of course it was in full plumage; I could see the long streamers at the back of its head. "I should like those." I thought, or rather felt, while swiftly considering a plan of approach. Then, as If by premeditated action tin' songs ters began for the morning's melic battle; and what a tune they marchc/l me to! I stooiK-d and crept from cover to cover, light of foot as any cat; but the shot would be a long one for my heavy arrows with their wide feath ers, as the strip of shore marsh on which the heron stood prevented close approach. Fifty yards I call long range when using heavy-headed bird bolts. From cover of the last bush I carefully estimated the distance to l>e forty-live paces, and then drew up. Beyond the bird a line of silvery light lß'gan to twinkle on little clioppy waves. This was hard to overcome, for it shook iny vision and interfered with tixing a joint of aim, which I felt had to be above my target. Then, too, allowance for the drifting force of the breeze was a nice joint to set tle. A heavy arrow with a broad vane does not resist a side wind very well. Not to exceed two seconds elajised, however, before my bow added tts an cient note to the woodland nodley, and "whisli-sh!' whispered tlve arrow, going with tremendous force. I say tremendous, and hearing it hit you would not erase the adjective. Al though Its trajertor.v was high for so short a flight, the arrow went like a tlash, and, as true as it was swift, struck solidly with a successful sound. Parlor Magic. A feat which any one can perform with little or no practice is that of placing fourteen matches upon a table and lifting them all up upon one of the matches. This is how it is done: Pick out oue match—the one that has the flattest surface—and then place six of the other matches about one-fourth each across the first one, each of the six being parallel to each other and the thickness of a match distant from each other Next place six other mate-lies one-fourth eoeh across the first match, but from the otlier side, all parallel and in the spaces left by the arrangement of the first six matches. Now take the fourteenth match, lay it over the twelve matches whore they intersect, and by carefully lifting match No. 1 and holding match No. 14 in place you will accomplish without difficulty the feat.—Adelaide Herrmaa, in the Woman's Borne Com panion. Where Dmsmnttcr, Are .inpeilo, Chinese tailors are not designers; they can copy, and if one is patient and long-suffering, after many trials succeed in giving a good fit. (The usual tailor likes to give hut one trial, and that when the garment is finished.) He find- u j fault when told it must he taken apart and done oyer; lits invar iable reply, when shown where the fault lies and asked to change is, "Can do." Even after repeated mistakes it does not dawn npou his mind that it would be well to baste only lx'fore trying on. The machine-stitching is taken out.nnd be begins ills work over and over again. His unvarying pa tience nnd courtesy make you feel ashamed to eomplain of yonr own weariness of fitting.—Woman's Home Companion. The Kocket. The first locomotive engine which proved a practical success was pro duced by the two Stephensons, and was called the Rocket. In October. 1529, It received the prize offered by the directc-s of the Liverpool anil Manchester Railroad, and the question as to the superiority of the locomotive steam engine as a motive power was tbeu settle J. THE STRAWBERRY FETE. Where the oyster of late "Was the star oi the fete I Gotten up bv the ladies in churches. Now 'the strawberries reu O'er the saucers are spread, ; And the spoon on the lip oftc perches* On the side there's ire cream, Always held in esteem ! In all seasons and all sOT Matte 150 Vent-* ,Vgo. Prom investigation made by Dr. A. Campbell, paper making appears to be I a very old Industry lu India. In the i year IST3 the attention of the English I Government was called to the remark i able qmility of tlie paper made in the 1 State of Nepal. The fibre of this paper I was so tough that a sheet doubled on Itself could scarcely be torn with the fingers. The paper was so pliable ! and durable that It did not wear at the j folds during twenty ,>ears. Whereas J English paper, especially when eight i or ten slieets were folded up in one packet, could not stand keeping in ! the state uninjured more than four or five years. A copy of a Sanskrit | work, though 130 years old, was in | perfect preservation, having all that, time withstood the ravages of insects and the wear and tear of use.