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Make all money orders, checks. eto.,p <y b'e to the Tribune J'rinting Company, Limited. The Rev. Dr. Sheldon, of Topekn, ! Kan., holds the newspapers largely re sponsible for the pessimism of the age. The United States Is carrying of.* the great bulk of the trade, not only in ; South Africa, but in the foreign mar kets of the world. American hats are catching on in London and we may be able to get even for some of the awful English garments that linvc made a bit. on this side ol' the water. Tt is said that Mark Twain is writ- ! lug a book, the manuscript of which is j to he placed in a vault and published ! 100 years hence. Some of Mark's jokes j ought to he n~w again by that time. The natives of Lake Ossnl. East Africa, rose up and slew 200 tax col lectors who were attempting to collect j the salt tax. This incident illustrates one advantage of barbarism over civ ilization. The mosquito is accused of spread- j Ing malaria germs. There is some satisfaction In reflecting that the mos- i quite may have experienced a chill ; or two while carrying the germ about with him. A Spanish paper says that two des cendants of Columbus, Manuel and Maria Columbo, brother and sister, 1 are at present inmates of the Asylum for the Homeless, in the city ol' Cadiz. It is said tli-t documents in their pos session incontestably prove their de- ' see nt. A wealthy Englishman lias left 0 legacy of a quarto • of a million dollars to each of his two daughters, bur dened with the condition that they do not marry Americans, lie ought to be ashamed of himself after all the heir esses Ihe United States has furnished England. . According to the argument of an ahlo railway lawyer a man is legally enti tled to a car seat into which he has dropped a hag, bundle, coat, cane or ..mbrella. This may be so, but when a "knight of the road" tills up half a dozen seats with his sample cases and grips, it looks rather rough on the Bootless passenger. There has been talk for some time of erecting a "Pantheon" at Becl'n for the great dead of Germany. As Paris has its Pantheon and London its West- 1 minster Abbey, so it is proposed to build a temple in the Prussian capital to serve as the burial place of any Goethe, Ilumboldts, Bismarck.!, Von Moltkes or other such worthies as ohall adorn the German fatherland iu the ages to come. The projectors sug- ; gest the sum of $5,000,000 will bo needed for a beginning. The different countries of Europe 1 hold different ideas as to the age when responsibility begins and a person can be regarded as knowing the meaning of his actions. In England the law looks upon everyone over the age .of seven as a responsible being, and every child beyond that age can be prosecuted as a criminal. The same age is accepted in Mussia and Portugal In France and Belgium the age is eight; in Italy and Spain it is nine; Norway, Greece, Austria, Denmark and Holland decline to prosecute a child under ten, and this is tlic rule iu aoJie ol the Swiss cantons. Among the black hunters of kanga roos in Western Australia arc 27 wo men. It is a professional business and there are about 125 persons who make it their regular business to hunt and capture the animals A Missouri weather profit wlio reads the future in the leaves of trees says this will be one of the mildest winters ever known on the continent. THI SUM OF IT, A ?ky that heiuls above yon M iih bright stars shining trne; 1 A tender heart to love >oi And who's as rich as 3011? r. L. S., in Atluuia * (institution. | DISCIPLES OF IKE. 1 ♦ S j % BY H. W. MATHEWS. J • For tin* second time within live j minutes she raised the hinged cover of her basket and looked to see if there j was room for even one more trout, | and for the second time she let the i cover fall back to its place. Holding her rod out over the stream she : grasped the branch of nil overhanging ' tree and swung herself around into i a little open space where the sun- | j light managed to sift through the thick i foliage. Before h'T lay a pool, deep and ' 1 silent, formed by several large rocks 1 which nearly blocked the stream. On ! . every side were close-growing trees, j ' and the woods to right and left were softly carpeted with moss and fern. j j She stood irresolute, letting her eyes i drift from her basket to the tempting pool, where, under the deep rock shadows she imagined many a wily I trout, waiting for that very worm or fly which she might care to offer; and, as she gazed, she saw an insect drop ; for a 'moment toward the surface. There was a rush, a glint of golden scales, and then a splash, as the trout caught his prey and retired to his hole. As the rip pies died away, she saw him for a moment before he disappeared. | She straightened herself and cut a long and pliant twig from a willow close by. For the better preparation j of this improved addition to her bas ' ket she seated herself on a broad, flat | rock, whcli was within the shadow of 1 j group of hemlocks, and from which | j she could see the brock as It leaped j and tumbled onward and downward, j Apparently there was no way of fol- j lowing it, none, at least, but by con- ! stunt crossing and recrossing, and sometimes taking to the water itself. Not thai she -minded that it had been 1 the only way up above, where the ! trees grew, even thicker and the banks were steep beds of moss. 1 As she sat there thoughtfully gaz- 1 Ing at the pool, her sharp blade hnr | Ing the white and shining wood, she 1 I heard tin? noise of breaking branches 1 j down-stream. Silence followed, then ! j the crackling again. She showed no j ' Signs Of fear, but raised her head to catch further sound. The branches parted above her, so that, for a mo- ! nient the sun fell upon her head and shoulders, illuminating the soft felt ' hut of gray, half-tipped one side, j though whether from choice or the J brush of a bough one could hardly say. I She did not resume her work again, but gazed toward a bend below, all eagerness and attention, prepared for | whatever might appear. The waiting ; was not long. The first thing she saw was the tip of a rod appearing above the bend. She breathed easier. An ; angler need not be feared. The head j and shoulders of a man followed. At first she colud not see his face, for he was Intent on finding a means of pro- j gross, and his wet leggings showed that he had found some difficulty al ready. As he slowly advanced she gained I some idea of what he might be like. ' and then, as he reached the lower end of the pool above which she sat, he 1 raised his head and gazed forward. I caught his breath, and stopped short, las he saw her sitting there radiant among the dark boughs. Recovered froui her first surprise, she allowed herself to inspect him for a moment. : And then a smile hovered about her 1 lips. It seemed so absurd, and she j looked again to make sure. For she found that his clothes, barring the > one everlasting difference, were al most the counterpart of her own. The ! same soft gray hat, a shirt of finest i texture, white like her waist: a bit ! of a blue tie at the throat: his sleeves j rolled above the elbows, as were her j own. Gray were his knickerbockers, 1 and brown the loggins, high above his ' knees, protection from rock, brush, and stream. All this she took in at a. glance, and then her eyes fell to her ! short gray skirt, and again that faint i smile brightened her face, and she ! I knew that lie must know why she j smiled. Rlie looked up. He bad doffed his lint and stood where the light made gold of his hair. j "I beg pardon," ho said, without j hesitation, "I fear tlmt I hare spoiled your sport below. I did not know : | that this was a private brook." | "It is posted, but not lty us. I had j j permission from Mr. Butler lust year. I j But I have spoiled your sport above; j J my basket is already lull." i "As mine. I never bad snob luck ! ! as in the Inst in minutes. They have | j been conhag down-stream, but never 1 ■ too fast to stop for a tempting worm." I I "You use worms, then?" ' Yes: why not? One can't cast in a little shaded brook like this. I find I S can gel ten fish on a worm to two on a tly. It may not lie true sport, lint 1 j like ii: and the lisli, if not large are ail : i the more plentiful." I I have a large one here la the pool— n two-pounder. 1 feel sure. Would you I land hint for me. if I succeed?" | Yes, oi course; let me halt your hook," ' j "I think you had best stay as you I j are. lie will dart down-stream, ami It will he better to have you in the Way especially if my rod breaks." .. She placed her knife and willerv 5 twig on the rock by her side, and be -5 gun to pil ce a wriggling worm on her hook. She did it very carefully, per haps from habit, perhaps because she knew tliut he was closely watching her. Stepping out on the edge where she , could sec every part of the pool except beneath the rocks, she dropped the worm gently into the water near where til - trout had disappeared. She waited, but there was u< response. A second try; .. *eeoiul refusal to accept the bribe. The third time she let the worm come drifting down with the current, keeping It ever in the shadow. She saw him for a moment : then came the rush, a great splash as she hooked him, and then away down-stream he dashed, bending her rod and almost pulling it. from her grasp. But the man below caught the dying line and with more dexterity than sportsmen ; would have had him show, pulled the defeated trout toward land, and put I an end to his worldly cares. A minute | later lie had slipped him on the willow twig and held it lip for her approval. "Thank you so much. I should not have had him but for you. I think 1 : can rest content now." She sat down again and picked up her knife and closed it, putting it back in the pocket of her skirt. In doing so she glanced at her watch. "I must go on down-stream now; I have only a lialf-hour to reach the lum ber-road below. 1 tliank you again for this prize, and I trust you will still find some good fellows left up-stream." "May 1 not see you down to the road? There's hardly a place for you to get through." "Oh! 1 can manage nicely. It is part of the sport, and I am prepared for any tiling." She grasped her pole and took a step or two forward, on the opposite side of the pool from liim. 'May I not know your name, or hope : to ever see you again?" There was a | genuine ring in his clear voice. I "1 think you had best not know my i name—for the rest I can not say. Ae i cidonts will happen, you know. Per haps we may meet. I trust you will have good luck. Good-morning." She hesitated, then started forward more, briskly than was perhaps ncces . sary. She rather expected that he would say something more, hut he let her go on in silence. She did not turn, ; Imt went straight on. Once she slipped on the mossy rocks and nearly fell; hut he was still silent, and she 1 went on and was lost to view as she | turned the bend below, j He stood on the flat rock, his arms j crossed, gazing after her, listening to , the breaking of the branches. And so I noon came and went. Absolute quiet j returned to the woods, except as the brook bubbled and sang. The trout ( returned to tlieir favorite holes and ! forgot the troubles of the morning, | hut there above tliem, like a sentinel, I stood a young man. looking forward i into the unfathomable depths of the future. A mile below, at noon, a carriage had driven slowly across an old bridge several times. In it there was a lady and a small hoy. Sometimes the hoy begged the coachman to drive farther away, but finally they were rewarded | by seeing a well known gray-and ■ white figure. Soon she joined them, j going around through the woods to got to the road. Her brother stood up and greeted her with cheers as he saw the well-tilled basket and the two-pounder I held aloft. His oetasy knew no j bounds, and out he jumped to run to meet her. Holding lier disengaged band, be shouted out to his mother, — "I guess Helen's caught the biggest I tisli then* was to catch!" i Her only answer was,— I "I think I have." S And slio stooped and kissed him light | ly on either cheek.—New York Home j Journal. A I.OHMOII iii ILNIIIUTI Nature. | Here is a conundrum that the agent i of one of the big up-town apartment houses is wrestling with just now: , "Why is it thut the SSOO a year people I always insist on inspecting apartments Unit will rent any where from SISOO to 52500 a year - :" lie had been overrun ! with people of flint sort and was worn out with showing apartments to those I lie was sure could not afford to hire ' tliem. "Permits wore tried on two | other buildings that the owner of this j one had, and ho lost at least two tm- I ants, as he found out afterward, be- I cause they were not admitted to the j apartments when they went there to i inspect them without the necessary permit, So lie stopped the permit I u 1- j Hess oil this house. Now I am over | run with people who have no more in | trillion of renting the npnrtnionts than | I have of inlying the Equitable l.ife ! Building. We <an't always tell the | length of a man's pocketbook by the ! clothes lie wears, for some of the ricli j est of them dress rntlier shabbily. I j don't kick at the men. because I can't tell about tliem. But the dress and j style of a woman will tell whether lier husband can afford to pay S2OOO or [ SSOO for rent, and 1 know that I have I shown these apartments to 47 women ' by actual count lids very day who are i of tin' hitter class. I should think it would mak" tin in nil dissatisfied for j life with what they have go. to accept : for a home in the end. after inspection f of these elaborately ilnlshcd npart j meats that they know as well as I | do are utterly beyond the reach of j their pockotbooks. But women are ; queer creatures, anyway, and the man j hasn't been horn yet who can fathom j tlieir vagaries."—New York Sun. I Tile British government is the owner j of over 25,000 camels. Several tliou -1 sands are used in India to carry stores and equipments when the regiments are changing quarters. THE JIWELER'3 OUTING. Upon the deck he sat alone. The sky was sapphire blue; His cheeks took on a pearly pink, His eyes a topaz blue. The hearty way in which he'd dined He vainly was regretting; "Alas!" lie sighed, "I rather think My works must need resetting." Out o'er the rail he leaned, beneath The hot sun's ruby llanie; The emerald sen beneath him heaved, And he—he did the same. —Jewelers' Circular Weekly. HUMOKuuo. Nell lie sent his proposal in a box of candy. Belle—How perfectly sweet. Mrs. Buggins—The new cook seems very civil. Mr. Buggins—Yes; she must have passed a civil service exam ination. Sillicus—l was awfully downheart ed before I got engaged. 1 married for sympathy. Cynicus—NVell, you've got mine. Hoax—He's making rapid strides in his profession. Joux What is bis pro fession V Hoax He takes part in six days walking matches. Poet Sir. my thoughts are couched in words that burn. Editor—Quite right. In fact, I watclicd some of them burn only this morning. Tommy- Pop. what is a confidence man? Tommy's IV.;. A confidence man, my son, is one In whom wise people place no confidence. Mrs. Muggins (out shopping)—l'm buying some neckiics for my husband. Mrs. Buggins—Gracious! Will ho wear them? Mrs. Muggins—No; but I will. . .. .. "Billing and cooing may be all right in courtship." says the Chronic Bache lor, "but I have noticed that after a girl gets married she seems to forget all about the cooing." "You are the thirteenth tramp that lias asked mo for something to eat to day," said the woman, viciously. "Don't let that worry you, madam," replied the tramp; "I'm not supersti tious." "When I left," said the organist, "Miss Screech and Mr. Bawler were squabbling about which had the finest voice. Are they through?" "No," an swered the sexton, "they're still com paring notes." "Here is an article," remarked the star boarder looking up from his paper, "about a miser who had hid den away three pints of gold." "I thought gold usually came in quartz," snickered the fellow who had just paid his board bill, and thus felt him self to be a prlvlledged character, self to be a privileged character. SOME QUEER PRISONS. All tlin Comforts of If tm< unit Club Arc Proviilivl. That portion of the new prison on the Port Royal boulevard. Paris, reserved for political offenders will be a delightful abode. Oak tables sur mounted by mirrors, supplied with electric lights, ornamented with green shades, are more suggestive of the boudoir than the prison; nevertheless, they will be found there. The conver sation room, exclusively reserved for the prisoners and well supplied with books, newspapers and easy chairs, will certainly tend to make the Snnte prison more popular than the clubs, especially as. in addition to a splendid bath room, the prison boasts of a garden planted with beautiful shrubs, which will he illuminated during the summer months by electricity, and per haps the French government will pro vide a military baud as well. The prisoners on the occasion of the riots last year in Italy did not have an altogether bud time, on the whole. They occupied the same large cham ber, and, when not discussing various questions of the day, or reading or writing letters, each took turns at composing a novel, the length of each separate contribution being one para graph. The Finnish prison for debtors at llelsingfors was a elienp and pleas ant boarding house until the last day of 1890, when it was closed, it hav ing occurred to the ratepayers who did not habitually use it that it was an expensive luxury. Most of the In mates who were committed for three years preferred to stay there rent free, and devote tlieir funds to having a good time rather than pay their debts and go free. Recherche dinners were brought in—if the debtor could pay for tliem—with wines, spirits and tobac co; and, If tliey wished to return a- v hospitality, their friends outside t < jail could come in for the purpose f enjoying the same. Of course, in tli s ideal prison, the inmates could go out of- its precincts when they wished, but by a cruel legal enactment tlmy had to bo accompanied by a warden, who had, however, to don plain clothes on those occasions, so that the prisoner's social standing should not be im periled by being seen in the company of an odious jailer.—Cleveland I'lniu Dealer. Influence of II linger 011 Hie Mind. A French scientist. M. Lassignardie, has been investigating the influence of hunger on the mind, and finds that when it is prolonged the mental con dition resulting approximates that pro duecd by alcoholic intoxication. In tile early stages there Is merely an in creased mental activity and stimulated Imagination, but if the deprivation of food continues too long sleeplessness, frightful visions and murderous im pulses appear. Many of the symptoms of disease are identical with those of hunger. MMa!'"" tiooil Work of n Worn an' * Clnb. The Lucy Stone club of Worcester, .Mass., has bought a piece of property and a house which is to be converted into a home for ageil colored people and a temporary home for young girls. In connection with it a day nur sery will be established, and competent nurses put in under an experienced matron. The club members are re ceiving the earnest support of a num ber of citizens. A Brainy KngliMiwoman. Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of "England's grand old mail," is at present writing a life of her dis tinguished father. Miss Gladstone has Inherited her father's literary ability. She is considered one of the brainiest Englishwomen of the present day, and was for some time president of the famous Newnliam college for women, which has turned out so many bril liant women. Miss Gladstone posses ses many accomplishments. She was a devoted daugl t r and a constant companion of both father and mother throughout their lives. Large Earning of a r. at Singer. Adelaide ratti, who recently at tained her fifty-seventh birthday, has for many years held the record for the largest sum earned in a year by a woman, ller highest total for J2 months is $350,000. Her present Lon don concert terms are said to be S2OOO a night, but the highest sum re ceived by lier for a single night was SII,OOO at Buenos Ayres. Mine. Patti has written some "confessions" which divulge the fact that her favorite poet is Longfellow; her favorite novelist Dickens; her favorite pastime enter taining her friends, to whom she is loyalty itself. The chairs in Mine. Pattl's boudoir at Craig-y-Xos castle are draped with colored ribbons, taken from innumerable bouquets which have been thrown to her. All are high ly prized. Winter Jacket*. While long coats and tliree-qunrter coats arc the smartest for the new winter gowns, there are any number of short jackets that are exceedingly attractive. They are made In both Eton and bolero stylo, but the fronts have little or nothing to do with the original design of such coats. All the fronts are long enough to conic below the waist-line; some are made double breasted and perfectly flat in effect, while others have pointed rovers that are opened to show an inside waist coat of some different material, a lace yoke, and a large lace bow. Then there is a severe little jacket that is fastened at the throat and lias long points that hang down over the skirt, and tiiat is trimmed all around with a narrow ball fringe of gold or silver. Another jacket on the same lines is trimmed with narrow lines of velvet and rows of tiny flat buttons in gold or silver put on so that they overlap one another. Those jackets will look too cold when really cold weather sets in. but will make the costumes in tended for early autumn exceedingly gay and effective in appearance.—Har per's Bazar. Honors for Women ArtUts. Only two women received the honor able distinction of securing gold medals in the art section of the Paris exhibition. One of these is an Ameri can, Miss Cecilia Beaux, and the other an Englishwoman, Lady Alma Tade ma. Thus are the honors evenly di vided between the mother country and her big daughter. Miss Beaux is a particularly favorite artist in London. Her brilliant and decidedly unfeminlue execution and her masterly treatment, of most of her subjects has gained her an enviable reputation among connois seurs. She first made a success in London with her wonderful studies of children. She would go into one of the parks and see a tiny child toddling beside its nurse; with a'few strokes of her pencil she was able to catch an ef fect that gave one the idea in her sub sequently finished work of an instan taneous picture. She seldom troubled to do more than finish the child's por trait. The nurse's figure and the gen eral surroundings were only suggested but there wna so much movement and ingenuity displayed in the composition that the thing seemed instinct with life. Lady Alma Tadcma, to a certain de gree, follows in the footsteps of her distinguished husband; her dainty lit tle studies of classic Roman interiors, as well as her general treatment of her own peculiar genre of subject and surroundings, make her work exces sively charming, though perhaps not as interesting in its originality as that of the American artist. New Occupation of a Bright Woman. There is a clover little Frenchwoman living in New York City who lias found a new way of making a living and a very comfortable one it is. Many of the residents on the upper went side of the metropolis have children who have been brought up from their earliest days to speak French in the nursery. They have the ordinary chatter of the ordinary French governess, and this young woman undertakes to extend their vocabulary by a series of nature lessons such as they would hardly lie able to get from one not specially pre- pared to carry their kindergarten train ing to a higher point. This fl'oung woman has orgaiiizt d a series of neigh borhood classes, and takes the mem bers, never numbering more than a half dozen, out to the parks or on trol ley rides not far from town. Conver sation while she has the children in charge is carried on entirely in French and in that tongue this young woman introduces her charges to the b rds, the trees, the flowers, the ani mals, as well as all the common things of life, the names of which her charges might not other wise have in their vocabulary. Such a task would be a rather hard one t'tMr the ordinary Frenchwoman to undelV take, hut this one, after an ordinary education in a Parisian school, devoted . two years to the study of botany, go- & ology, and natural history in one of the scientific schools in the French capital, and has a quantity of testi monials asserting that she is compe tent to teach these branches to ad- 1 vanced pupils. That indeed was to have been her life work until a change In the plans of her parents compelled her to come to the United States. Such a situation as she wished for could not be found, and it was an inspiration that induced her to take up this novel mode of teaching, at which she is meeting with success. The Beauty of Tact. Charms of a good talker are often underrated by those who wish to at tract, and therefore they spend too much time before the mirror and too little witli their books. To bilk well it is absolutely necessary that one should have something to talk about ami tills can only lie obtained by culti vating one's mind. ' Accustom yourself to talk of what ) you see and what you read. Don't think it too much trouble to talk to members of your own family circle, for many a one has become taciturn and unpleasing from thinking it not worth while to be entertaining to the home party. Cutivate the habit of story telling; you cannot lack auditors as long as there are children among your ac quaintance, and trying to tell a story in the way that will interest them will lie excellent training. AY hen conversing there are certain rules which should be carefully ob served. Speak deliberately and dis tinctly and not too loudly; rapid ami noisy speech is wearying. Find out whether the person you are entertain ing prefers to talk or to listen, and govern yourself accordingly. As far as possible avoid all mention of unpleasant topics, and try to find out what is interesting to your com panion. Some sympathetic folk seem to have a genius for saying the right tiling, •and it is certainly a faculty which can be cultivated. Never talk of yourself and your pri vate affairs, except to intimate friends; it is bad form and it generally bores people. Avoid, also, all unkind and censorious remarks about others, even though they may be witty, and never, if you can help it, make person al remarks, unless they are some thing in the nature of a delicate com pliment. If others say the wrong thing, try to cover their error. I The gold trimming craze is seen everywhere. Reddish brown is an especially favored shade. Wonderful diversity is found in the new combinations of fabrics. Panne is a favorite material for elab orate and costly tcngowns and negell gees. Many house waists have a square neck in front, filled in with tucked or gandie or chiffon. , New lints for the most part set well over the face, with very heavily massed trimming all in front. Skirts are still pretty much the same in slmpe, with flat, smooth backs of in verted plaits, gathers or shirrings. Fine hemstitching and drawn work add much to the daintiness ol the more expensive lingerie for trousseaux. Separate waists of fancy description X only of a tint to match the skirt, con- * stitute tile latest wrinkle in silk waists. Direct front fastenings are quite rare on jackets and waists. Double-breast ed aflalrs or those hutoued a little to one side are seen the most. Empire styles—First Empire, of course—hold full sway and are dis tinguished by statuesque, straight, fail ing folds and very slightly deflned. short waistline. Velvet for entire suits Is much In evidence. Silk velvet for high toilettes and velveteen and hunting velvet (ribbed) for street and utility wear are offered. One of the most decided novelties in costumes, a Parisian importation, consists of a dark velvet jacket and a skirt of white cream or delicate pastel shade broadcloth. The picturesque enters largely into tlie latest modes for small hoys and girls; with them-the long-walsted ef fects are just as necessary for style as for tlie grown-ups. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. The "Pingot," herald ed as the latest sleeve shape, is noth ing or less than the summer lingerie, only of cloth for jackets and heavier gowns.
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