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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1897. VOL. LXII. NO. 10. M HAT ?3ASI-! he sc W< SO II mi wi og rx \v. j OW pretty she was as she sat with her shape ly fingers danoing on the keyboard of her typewriter. I think in the tims to come when this shall have become the classic period for tho future centuries, as the ancient Greek j? tho classio for ns of this time, that instead of the maiden with the distaff as we have, they will have tho maiden at the typewriter, as one of tho beau tiful figures that make art everlasting. Her eyes were so blue, her eae?? were so pink, and truly, her hair must haye been transplanted from the banks ot tb* Pact?las whose shifting sands were crystals of pure gold. letter'3 ^ nC&* diolatin2 0 On the window pane next io the street were tho words "Hurford,, . Winker & Co., Brokers," and the man ' dictating was the Blinker of the firm He was aleo the Hurford and tho Co seeing that bc had bought ont every body else, including the well-known name of the firm. And what a man waa Blinker Haverbill Blinker. A bachelor of forty years' experience, a business man of large and increasing wealth. J calculating speculator, a good all ronnd fellow, and among women the jory prototype and synonym of bash fulness. Tolee him bow and smile to and at a lady when meeting her would have led the most critical to say he was a courtier of courtiers, but if it became necessary for him to go be yond tho bowing and smding limit, hm ?- v? f?rt?er obarO8 for tt*T hill Blinker. Strange to say, too, he was not always conscious of his weak really thought he was quite a ladies* man. When he recovered /rom one of l! these latter attacks he vas always sar rounded by a large circle of sjmpa. thizmg friends (male). Until within six months he had never been abie to persuade himself I that the real and only way to accustom m himself to the use of a woman's society ? 7Sli eiPl^a- ',]ad7 typewriter," U and jhen he did it because a relative IS of his, his aunt, in fact, in a neigh boring town hud asked him as a spec ? l?r ?, ^eljl the **"Shtet of an old Behool friend of hers, it eofe dis ires*, who was quite a skilled stenog rapher and typewriter. it ww entirely beyond tho compre hensibility of Mr. Blinker's aunt that Mr. Bbnker vo-1-* : ment, know There faying ... woma c _mont; en-he sohoi .Tb . - ?* : - ?** Swt ance . . ... - cftlled abo >:CIOSK, sa? ?u? oifcce boy and the clerk having insisted upon her remaining for a.few minutes until Mr. Blinker should return, sae eat down near the window and waite!, never once noting the fact that the office boy and the clerk were each put ting in every moment of his apare time watohiog her and wondering? what tho mischief business an angel right from heaven had with Mr. Blinker. When Mr. Blinker finally appeared, and the office boy and tho clerk col lapsed, ho hadn't the least idea who she was, and his heart began to pound so on the inside of him that he thought it was the janitor turning on more steam and shaking up the radi ators in tba office and halls. It wt.B the very first time he had ever seen a woman in his office, and the experience was so entirely novel that for an iu stant ho was speechless. 4,l8thi8Mr. Blinker?" she inquired, rising to meet him as he cams hesi tatingly toward her, MYes"'m," responded Mr. Blinker, as if he wera a schoolboy about to be licked for pasting a wet wad on the wall. "May I inquire to what I ara indebted for the honor of this visit, ma'am?" Blinker would no more have mado such an egregiously silly and stilte I speech as that to a man than he would have tried to have told the truth in Chicago, but this was a woman, and . Blinker wa* not responsible. "Your aunt," said the visitor, with a roguish twinkle in her eye, but Blinker didn't sea it any mora than he saw profit in honest politics. .?1-I-beg your pardon, ma'am," be stammered. The,very idea of his saying "Ma'am," to a girl like thatl . It would have been criminal if Mr. Blinker had been responsible. Then she told him who she was, and the way Mr. Blinker began to assume airs and strut around as if he were a migh y potentate with a lot of sub jects was as funny as it could be. Now she bad been with him nix mouths, and he sat near her dictating a letter. In the midst of it he stopped short. He had been tempted to do this many times before. He had studied the matter thoroughly, as he thought, and having considered it in every light and having deliberated upon it for many days, and having tried to ac complish the desired result by evory means in his knowledge, he had at last determined to do this. Therefore he stopped in the midst of it. rtI am very sorry, Mise Prince," he began, quite abruptly, and as if he wanted to get through with the dis agreeable task in a hurry, "but I am afrtid I shall have to lose you as my typewriter. t?he clutched suddenly at tho sides of the machine as if to support her self. "W-w-wby," she stammered with quivering lips "why, Mr. Blinker, what have I dono that 1 should be discharged without warning?" , "Bat I'm giving you warning," he said, half with bravado, half with "po'.ogy. "You don't have to go right away." "I do not want to go at all until I know why I am going," she argued. Thia is all 1 have in the world, and I am entitled to know why I am unfitted /or this," , " "Ob, it isn't your fault, exactly. pr? ?Sh he: an th, ba sai wc no wi ee: wt sh di la o? tc FUL. BLINKER, I lie vient ou evasively. "There are ! snc.? things, you know, as misfortunes, , winch can scarcely be classe J as faults. Jn your case, Miss Tr ince, your mis fortune is that you ara too prettv," and Mr. Blinker actually tucked 'his cu to ?De sitle u4"- 8iraPered at her. She bael been suspicious for a long time, as most women are when they have their wits about them under cir cumstances similar to those surround I ln3 Miss Prince and Mr. Blinker, and I she almost smiled 1 brough the ruisl j that was gathering in her eye?. I V,?ou have nlways said, Mr. Bli nk ? er, she pleaded, ";hat von liked to ste pretty things in your office.'* He coughed nervous!*-, nneasily. How, many things he had said to ber he did noe know. How many moro ho wasted to say he did not snow. What ' n; was now saying he did Dot know how he was ever going to finish. "I know that," he admitted, ??hat eometimes, you know, my dear Miss Prince, a man cannot always heve what he want?. As long as I wa?? a I bachelor, Miss Prince, I could do as I pleased, but I am to be married, at least I hope so, and you know a man's wife sometimes differs with him on, what may seem to the world at large i to be quite tiivial points." , Married I . At one blow all her castles were s thrown to the earth, with not so much s is a corner standing to show that they t jad over been other than crnmblio" r ruins. True, ho had never said anything a Iefinitoly to her, but there is so muon c noro in what is nevor said, and daily t ?ut of the unspoken affinity which ii urely existed between these two con- ci [eniat people the more foolish woman a lad constructed such hopes as women a: herish to the. end of time. That he Ij iad thought enough of her to warrant n .ese hope.3, a thousanl wordless wit- h ?sses testified. Now thus in tho very midst of the ork that be had given to her to do >r him, and that she loved to do be ?use it was for him, the blow felt. "Yes?" she responded to his state entin tho faint pathetic oaeetion g that fills a woman's voice when ie is thus called upon to face her ?arl'e doom, and her hands uncon ?ously sought to go on with hei 5rk. "Yes, Miss Prince," ho said, with no und of sympathy in his voice, "and r?m pretty sure my wife will not per lt yon to remain here a3 my type- i iter. I may say," and he simpered I <} ain. "as mv nrftt.v tvnotrt.;?.-.,. .? | it EDU*t<Tv i-> -': - ? Li' **?. ? . ? - - e even weut furcuer ?uv? -- t r mind that tho lady was a widow, d had used tho traditional wilos of j widow on tho unsuspecting and shful Mr, Blinker. "By ali mean3, Mr. Blinker, ah? d' coldly, -gain Ihe wife. The ?rid is full of typewriter?, but it is t every day that a man can get a f?. At lealc such a wife as you de rve," and ia spite of herself there is something eoft in her tone that e did not want to bo there. Mr. Blinker noticed it, too, hut he dn't stop to comment upon it. "Good for you, Miss Prince," he ughed. "I knew you wore a woman ! sense." Sho shrank as if she had been inched with a hot iron. "Thank you, Mr. Blinker," she said, Now, if you please, we will go on i th our work." It had seemed as if a lifetime had Etst since she had written the last ord, and as she bont down over it, as the better see what it was, a tear fell poa the line. This Mr. Bliaker also observed, but lid nothing, teeming to enjoy it. "Before we do, Miss Prince," he aid, "may I ask a favor.at yoor hands -a promise?" "What is it? Yo3," she answered. Mr. Blinker brased himself. "Xhat, if this woman whom I am oon to ask formally to be my wife," ie said, "?honld refuso mo, that you viii marry me." For au instant the girl looked at lim, then sho rose to her feet, her eyes "airly blazing. Mr. Blinker saw that tho tigress was tbont to spring, and he was fright ?ued. * "Wait, step !" ho exclaimed, hold ing np his Lauds as if to shield himself Trom the blow. "Hold ou till I tell you who tho woman is. It's yon, Miss Prince-you-yon-you! Won't you marry me? Will you bo my wife? Haven't yon always known I didn't care a cent for any woman on earth but you? Kath, darling, don't look at me like that!" Mr. Blinker was going all to pieoes mentallv aud emotionally, and the young woman took pity oa him, for it dawned upon her all at onoe that the moro bashful a bachelor is the more ridiculous ho is in love, and the only way to prevent a tender emotion from becoming ludicrous is to accept it on the spot. Which sho did, and Mr. Blinker never had another pretty typewriter. -New York Sun. Houses of tiie Stouo Age. On St. Hilda's Island, which lies in the Atlantic, eighty-two miles west ol the main island of the Hebrides, a bottle belonging to the stone age has been discovered, with a number of stone weapons, hammers and axe?. There are only seventy-one inhabitants ou tho island, which is 4000 acres in extent. Tho minister is at the same time the doctor and the school teacher. He sails to the mainland once a year to shop for the whole islaud. -Scien titio Americau. D:?n*t Like Poorhouses. There is euch a deep rooted dislike among paupers iu Ireland to enter the workbouie that in the county of An trim, tor instance, there aro only 1000 persons in six workhouses that have room for 5000. .A ?ACTQRYOE FEAR, DYOBl7f;'?IAJCKRS TC ALL SAF?TY RU LKS. Making and Mlx?ns th<? Te "ut Daily-siiRMtiea lu Jersey Wilderness. [RECENTLY tho Cnban Junta, S^iTT M11 WM THE BLIDIM^ amount, it would be sufficient to u"r some pretty big bo:es in he Spat iah ranks, ir properly applied. ^ Ihe concern that secured tbis or<fcr almost blow the earth into smither Ws WnlfdtM?Cm '??'."1 C0DcerQ ^ieh Dynamzte is a peculiar commodity nd it is manufactured under p?ouiiar ond.tions. Uncertaintr ia, the r?? in* ^Df-t^--te,aud SHS aating ieature permeates (he whole t G bbstown, N. J., a p]aco 60 ?" Qd n a section of the State so mrr -, mettled that the outsideio hi won hi ever have heard of its e^tenee^" ??ps, were it not for ibo dynam te i reason of the factory being to ed there. A brauch railroad rans o the property connecting with the noipal railroads and the Delaware mr. By these means the commodity shipped through the country and the seaport*. The factory spreads over a mile of amp land and is nothing more than ree.-fcCore of wooden buildings, one >ry in height, and not very securely lit. For the most part they look r all the world like the run down bins of the South and are just out as handsome. They have one odern appliance, however, and that an attachment for depriving light ng of its powers. None of these shanties are very ose to the other. Plenty of open ?ace is a necessity when tens of lousands of pounds of dynamite are ways lying around. Commercial rudence accounts for the cheap and Ottering look of the factory. Ex srience haB taught the owners that a ugle big building would be a rash aterprise. Explosions occur once in ?while no matter how carefully they re guarded against, and it is an easy latter to replace the shanty. A more potent reason is the protec ion it affords to tho work people. Tere all the.bueiness concentrated in Ml ha th th lil aa it m th fo is j tb tl pl di n w tl a IP r 8 a o c Io 1 c ( 1 ( i WOMEN* MAKING CAPS. one building and an explosion to occur in any one department, the shook would cause instantaneous upheavals throughout the building, killing or maiming every ODO in the place. .Several hundred people are employed in the factory, including a dozen women. Each and every one of them realizes the danger of thei" calling, and they exercise the greatest caution in performing their work. There are cer tain rules formulated by the company which they must obey, and this they are only too glad to do. Ono is that no matches, firearms or explosives of auy kind must be carried on tho person. Another is that no iron or steel pegs can be worn in tho shoes. Wooden pegs are permissible, because they are saje. This latter rule was formulate ! some years ago, after one of tho workmen had stepped ou a tiny piece of dyna mite, the naih of his shoes causing it to explode. The shock caused quiten quantity of the stuff on ono of the work tables to go off, the shanty was blown up and there were some fatali ties among the workmen. There ia no ncol of employing npeoial men to see that tho precan tionary mles are observed. r.s even ??rrlmlQ is a ?py nP?? hia neighbors, oSt? . BOrB?hat his safety ?Peni riLLIN'O CARTBIDQE3. Dynamite is principally a mixtur? of sulphuric acid, Chile saltpeter and boxwood sawdust. There a?e a good ?any, other things which enter inT its composition, and before it takes tho shape of the finished cartridge it passes through a variety of hand There ls one thins that the dynamite lob will never be usurped by machm Nearly a dozen of tho shanties are chemical houses. Thev are Sil?? "sarety buildings? anTare^? ? 3 M the many acids which lelp to make dynamite what it is. Une of the initiatory stages of the mrtndges is "cooking" of the dyna oite gelatine. The prodacfc of the wok is nitro-glycerine Many acids re poured into a big Jeaden fob" he Qost conspICuou3 feature of which is I 1 ?ater is added from time to time to I i *ep the temperature ol the mixture | i t ndsto do but run. ...... After all the acids have been added e mixture is allowed to stand, and en nitro-glycerine comes to the top ;e cream in milk. It is skimmed oil d carried to another house, where is mixed with the prepared law aterial, principally sawdust. When the coalition has been effected e result is loose dynamite, looking r all the world like brown sugar, lt conveyed io another buildiog,called ie pack house,where it is studed into ie cartridges. The loose dynamite is laced in a dampened trongh on a ump table, and the men fill tho 'ong Arrow tubes with the stuff, usins^ ooden scoopB. Great oare is taken lat none of it drops on the floor, as happening of that kind might bethe reliminary of a big disaster. In this oom the cartridges are packed for hipment. The women in the factory re employed in a little house given ver to making tho paper caps for the artridges. As thero is no danger ,bout Ibis work, machinery is em doyed to some extent, and as a result inly a dozen women are employed. As little finished dynamite is kept >n the ground as possible. Stock is lever maintained. The dynamite is ihipped off as rapidly as it is jnade into cartridges, and the burden of watching it passes on to others. Educating Two Lizards. My first two lizards had been cap tured, one in the Spanish Pyrenees and the other at Tarn, in France; wherefore I called them the Spanish and the French lizards, but afterward gave them the names of Pedro and Pierre. I was surprised on the very first day that I occupied myself with their education to observe the abso lute contrariety of their characters and dispositions. Pierre, won over at once by tho honeyed dainties I offered him, soon became accustomed to let himself bo handled without trying to bite or run away, and to hide himself in my clothes, preferring the back, where it was warmer. Pedro, wild and untamable, if one tried to catch him, withdrew into a corner, and then stretching his paws in front of him, his eye glistening and his mouth wide open, hissing, springing at the hand that came near him, and, if ho bit it, holding firmly and causing the blood to flow, revealed a resolution that even impressed the young man in my laboratory. I made a cage for the lizards of iron wire, open above, and having & large room in my country house into which the sun shone all day on three sides, I put them in it. Pierre soon learned to leave his cage, to climb up to the windows by some rags I had hung to them, and passed from ono to another, following the sun. In tho evening he returned to the cage. Pedro, more stupid, tried vainly to got out of the jiriton, and, when 1 put him oh the le!ge of a window iu the sun, let him self be overtaken by tho shade, per sisted for hours in efforts to get through tho glas?, and finally went to sleep where he had been left.-J. Del botuf, in Appleton's Popular Science Monthly. The returns of the output of gold bj the l?aud (?oulh Africa) mines during 180G show a grand total of 2,273,697 ounces, ns compared with 2,277,G3i ounces during 1895. MIRROR SPEECH, NE? 31 ENTA L MALADY WHICH JATTACKS SOME PEOPLE. JJiicago Society Woman's Afflic wjm-SIrnllar Casca Noted Klse jvhere-PeopIe Who Tait. See and Write Backward. STRIKING and severe case of the mental malady called "mirror speech" has Veen r,l. i\?.ted ty". ? bram specialist, ^the Chicago-Times-Herald, This ?-sotder. which has onlv just been named, ?,nd only recently* discovered M bo a disease at all, had attacked in its ?faost persistent form a woman in I tho.factor's clientele. Tfiepatient is a decidedly well-knowu anafopnlar society leader on the south I ,7taJ[ She 18 ? nervous and delicate mttt woman, and has for some year^ heen under tho casual caro of ner {physician. During the fall she was .stricken with a eevere case of bratf feyer and prostration,from which sue tod apparently thoroughly recov ereujat least a month ago. While con valescent her family and immediate meng, noticed that her speech, when e7erj^e wna permitted to talk, was strangejy incoherent and meaningless. Ihey attnbnted the fault to her weak physIOal condition. In the courre of yi,fc. gre* Perceptibly worse, and tue physician's attention was called -a*** ?,er flpeech now became utterly wiw and beyond comprehension. She spoke no particular words, but seemed simply to articulate empty and non- r connected syllables. Thephysioianpro- * nounced it to be a case of ?mirror 1 speech ' an odd affection of the brain, mfwhich there occurs a complete re refrsal of tho order of syllables in a sentence, jost as tho order of a series 3f objects from right to left is reversed -yredeotion in a mirror. This curious brain trouble is far nproi prevalent and widespread than sevident to a casual observer. Al bough there arc few cases in which it ^cornes a persistent malady cf sonio lays duration, it lasts generally but a en hours, sometimes bat part of an 'lur, and most frequently for a few Mnents, days apart. It is due either extreme mental exhaustion or un mental excitement. It always :es the form of the perversion of syllables of a word. Some minds particularly more susceptible to it n others, and women rather than m are subject to it. It is a daily Mmrrence in listening to the ordinary ?m.>rks of an extremely tired woman I note how frequently she makes in unprehensible utterances, totally UQ. -. W& ?''>. rtrvH? i hi* ' ..... h ti ol SI pi fe m jo it oi ye if in; nc mt in hich man..... r in tc lip of the patient, who is unaoio rite from left to right, but only from ght to left, forming tho letters and meen jas biokwari. In the case of a boy recently noted i North Adams, Mass., afflicted with ervcrted viBion, the malady was per mnenl. lt was impossible to teach im otherwise His right hand was uided over a line of copy in tho roper manner, but the moment his and is released he instantly changes he pencil to hiR left hand and com oences to write in the mirror fashion, i peculiar feature of the case is that ie has no difficulty in reading the landwriting of others, although some peoialists pronounce his malady to )e one of tho optic nerve only. Cases of mirror writing have been requent, but the first case of genuine mronio mirror t-peech was discovered inly three months ago by a certain Dr. Doyen of Paris. He was tho first rather to establish the phenomenon as in actual montai disease. The discovery occurred in an opera tion performed on a young girl twelve vears old, who had been trepanned successfully, to relieve a severe cere bral abscess after inflammation of the ear. For some time alter tho opera tion aphasii, or inability to express ideas in spoken language, was persist ent. However, gradually as her health grew better the patient began to utter sounds, which, although they were uttered clearly and were perfectly articulated, nevertheless were totally incomprehensible. For example, some of her utterances were similar to tho following: "En-list do me to; mo let lone-a; kind-nn how." She would ejaculate this and simi lar phrasesi with great emphasis, and was totally unaware ot her incoher ency. The inability of her attendant and her friends to understand her conversation made her extremely an gry. She attributed their amazing lack of compr2hen3ion to stupidity, and tried to awaken their dormant faculties by repeating over and over again with injured vehemence her jargon. Finally it occurred to one to tako down in writing the syllables and phrases which she uttered. This was done, when, by this means, an unu sual discovery was made whioh formed the key to tho problem. The patient j was utterirg her sentences backward, as well ns changing the order of syl lables in a word, aud always with a striking regularity in misplaced or der and in form. The apparently meaningless utterances quoted above, when transposed mean : "Do listen to me; let mo alone; how unkind." , This striking abnormality lasted fonr or five weeks, when tho misplaced syllables gradually begau to fall into their proper place \ No sign of a re lapse has siuce been apparent, and the patient hu remained lu a state of per fect mental health. It was a caso of temporary aberration, thousands of which had occurred, but none had taken notice of its cause, or analyzed its PT .ptoms. It retnaiiied for tho French paysician to make "mirror tpeech" ?s a discosa an established fact. Waste gases 1 rom blast furnaces at JTordc, Uermany, uro to bu used iu fas i nioner, which will drive dynamos for light ?.nd poner. I" Faith in Unman Xatnivv ll is rather surprising fi?d "vw on Park R6T, New York City, a ca? that wu, its customers 'perfecdv callers. It la open day and nicht. faifh?nr?VD V-Vstem ?limpiici faith m the honesty of man. Whj]o wW Sht8!ri0Hy hi-^-class. it offen what nii?ht be called a very "com fortable^eal, with trimming before Sf"; together, it ifl timp]y * plain place for an every-day man with occasionally a little7aomethfag. anything m the city. This, of courre can be sard of hundreds of rfmi?1 ^"?M tbe ?ytem of pavmeTt is fonacth.ng novel The proprietor a stout GermT, boasts no cashier as Rere is very little cash lo take io On the cigar counter is a day book. ico chest m ihe corner, if he wisher, bo ??KT-? q'l!et niP cat of * black bottle. Txien he orders what he wauts on tue bill of fare. It is eervcd np his own indebtedness and puts it Zr9116*?1'8 name iQ th0 in cluding the "nip," or a cigar, if ho prefers that. He then walk! eirene* out knowing no proprietor is glaring at him and no cashier yelling f80f hin? to como back and make the cash register good. This sort of child-like imphcity m running a business in the very heart of r. city filled with bunkers green goods men and gold bricks without number, i* said to be lnr2?jf? venture. The customers nimbly eettlo weekly, Friday and >aturday bemgpay days, and the pro hrnn?^T,?? ha3 yetto lose a bill brough deliberate fraud. A little xperience with a man like that is Iaiost enough to renew one? confi ance m human nature.-Pittsburg dispatch. ? Human Nature at IVcildiuiri. Alter all a wedding brings ont more nn ?a?Ur? tbaU ftn-V 0th<* ?UOC on and the comments, cynical and herwise, that fill a sacred edifice on ich occasion would, if collected tractive iorm of reading Mne happy couple after the honey Last ?Vedoesday night while the jous ceremony was being celebrated was my pleasure to gather these items -interest to the contracting parties: les, indeed, she is at least two lara older than ho is, and thev. sav s her first offer this from a simper" g spinster. ''He's awfully good-looking and sn, even if no ono knows how ho ide his money," commented the <?irl the ermine tippet. ? *W Pa7 her for?anQ igQ,fc Pl sc?^S* *i ''" nTvii^ ?lip to the correct way to woia. row back the bride's veil and other j JJ iportant matterd. - Washington Slr?, Secret Senat? Sessions. Ex-Presideut Harrison says in the idies' Home Jonrnal : In the Senate e uso othilie secret session is frequent td familiar. The Senate rules pro de that on a motion made and second I to close the doors on the discussion ! any matter, tho doors shall be oscd and r?main closed during such senssion. So when Executive nomi itions or treaties tire under consider ;ion, the galleries are cleared and the oors closed-only Senators and cer lin necessary officers who aro sworn ) secrecy being allowed in tho cham er. There has been an earnest at jmpt made to abolish the secret se3 ions of the Senate, but it has been in ffectual. These sessions aro called 'executive sessions," because tboy are Imost wholly devoted to executive usiness-namely, tho consideration f appointments to oflics and foreigu reaticB. It seems to rae that it is [uite as necessary and appropriate hat the consultations in" tho Senate as o appointments, and especially as to reaties, should be confidential as hat the conference bet .reen the Presi lent and his Cabinet, or between the President and others wLoni ho may ionsult about the same matters, should oe so. _ _ Oldest Known Insects. The oldest known insects are found iu tho Devonian rocks of North \mericu. They are referred to the arder Neuroptera, and allied to the Mayflies. In the succeeding epoch, the carboniferous insects make their appearance similar to the cockroach, the grasshopper, and the beetle. The moths are also doubtfully represented, but no butterflies are known. It is not difficult to understand why tho earliest insects should not have been highly colored. lu tho Devonian and carboniferous periods there were no flowering plants and no birds. Inseots are furnished with bright colors for the purpose of protective mimicry. Butterflies, for example, which have noweapoB3of defense like tho bees, oro oolored to resemble flowers, with which their Hve.? are chiefly associa ted. Birds seek thoso insects as their food, but they often mistake them for Howes and thus pass them over. In tho ancient epochs, before birds ex isted, it was therefore ueedless for in sects to bo protected by their bright color.-Boston Journal of Commerce. Birds Strangely Onc?ale;!. Mr. A. H. Thayer, au artist, believes j ho has disoovero.l that tuc iigh't color j of the under parts of bir.is and small ' mammal:* serves io couc jul them from I their enemies. At a recent meeting ! of tbe American Ornithologists' CJuiou ? ho proved by oKperim'jtjts that au ob ! ject uear'y of the color ol' tho ground, I iiko a potato, is very conspicuous when ' placed :* lew inches above the soil nud j viewed from a little dirt^Lce. But I when the under ai.le r.i painted white, 1 and gradually suaded iuro tue color ot tho upper pan, tho object di.-iippears j by biendiug witii thu grono.i; the whiteness beu^a'ii oi>uu!erdC?s t?e ef fect ol thc thad ow ol the body. Your Gifts. ? I? you have tho gift of seeing, overlook o beauty; " Noting /anita io all your friends, is plain! not your duty. v . i If you have (ho gift of hearing, list to what is meet; Shut your ears to everything that is not good and sweet. b If you have the gift of talking, uso but pleas antwoios; Let vour 3P?wh be glad and cherry as tho songs of bird*. 1 -Emma C. Dowd, in Youth's Companion. Tito Gingerbread Man. Bat five years oid was little Naa mau.?,?I1 i? l0V0 With a PlflSerbread She said as she placed him basidojior cop. ^i hCV,h0r0Rui3h ?"le ml33 Dnvoure j her sweetheart with a kiss: An2*.u rou are!" 8111,1 "hie Naa~ Year3^9d' and tue m:lid ? - womwhooJ ?nr ^JUM? of suitors a dozin < r'two "For ho was a regular snap.1 sighed Nan. -Thc Commonwealth. The Blossom of 31 r Heart, Azuro eyos a-twinkle, Amber lo-jks a-curl, Sliver laugh, a-tiukle, ^lining teeth o' pear!; When she ls nigh . I gazo and sigh I cannot fly The spot; i hero is no fairer blossom than That sweet Forget-mo-ao:. Poet? sing of bery:?.' Gems of peerless Lue. Coula they me-:[ tho pe-?I in hor oye^ of blue. ? Each captivo wight Jo he bur kaltrht With wild delight Woul l plo : A>rSha eau snile to witch tho worlJ My sweet Forgot-m3-not. When the blossoms sb immer In the dawa o' ?lay Wnenher gleegrow< dimuu OD our wedding day, And In my pridu I lea-l my brir?e May joy betide Her lot; Tlie blossom o' my hfart for ave "" M,V sweet Forget-m<-.notl * ' Samuel M. Feck, in Boston Transcript. As to Friends and Enemies. >eSe perTn his ea?7 ^ b3CftUS?1 "h?* ie small, squaro letter, to sootrto mu (j... Orono Wuv -T?C fretted with discontent, io was ill and tirol; thotw^ hot day Ha 1 worn Itself to tho mereshu^reJ; bo bust of the light, a.-} it ebbed uwsy^?^^ Fell on her patient noedlo and thread. shadow came Dying across tho spaca Where the fading sunlight filtered through; aero was just tho gleam ot a sweet young fae?, AadaYOico said, "Here is a letter for you." ho quick tears blurred ia a sadden mist, Butsho brushed thom away, and thon sho smiled, ni you should have seen how she kissed and k;s jd The postmark's circlet, Uko a child. fhy, tho name brought back tho long ago When sho dressed in her best of afternoons, Then she found !t a pleasure lo sh. and sew, And her seams wero hemmed to tripping tunes. 'overly, chauge, and tho drudgery Of work that goes on without an end, lad fettered tho hoart that was light and free, Till sho'd almost forgotten she had a friend. .'ho people at homo so seldom write, Her youth nud its pleasures lie all behind; ibo was thinking bitterly but last night That "out of sight is out of mind." !?ow, hore ts your letter! The old hills broa lc Beyond these levels flat and green; 5ho thrills to tho thrush as his flute notes wake In thu vesper hush of the woods serene; 3bo eits again in tho little church. And lilts her voice in tho choir once more; Or stoops fora four-leaved clover to search In the grass that ripples up to the door. It was vo-y little it meant for you An hour at best when tho dav was done: But the words yon sont rang sweet and true, And they carried comfort and cheer to ouu Who was needlug to feel a clasping hand. And to hear tho voices she used to hear; And tho little lotter, tho breadth of the land, Was tho carrier-dove that brought home near. -Mrs. E. 8angster, in Christian Advocate. The Balancing of Trees. A very interesting suggestion con cerning the utility to n tree of tho irregular arrangement of tho branches is made by a correspondent of Nature. Watching a largo plane tree during a gale, he observed that while one great limb swayed in one direction, another swayed the opposite way, and although all the branches were plunging and bending before the blast, they did not move in inisou, or all at once in the same direction. But for tho peculi arity in the motion of the branches, he thinks, the tree could not have escaped uprooting; and ho tuggesis that this kind of balancing serves in general to protect large trees like oaks and beechen, which have their branches unsymmetrically placed, from being overturned by high winds. fortune for ?70. Several days ago Hie schooner Robert I. Carter struck on Alden's Rock, off the coast ol Maiue, aud to all appearances was a total los.-. Nautical experts agree i that she would leave her boues lhere nud her owners stripped her and sold Jtho built lo Charles Bartlett, wno bought it for $70 "oo ppec." \Viri I and tide Moated the BCboouer o0, und to Toe amaze ment of tho salts she drifted up L'or; land Harbor, lii&rtti ti had her to .v. in. Shu i-? worth $1>,')J\ aud his h sides a cargo u ;-JO tuns ot ec ?!, mo.^i o.' which is sulable.-?t?Svou Tran script. MOTHERS READ THIS. The Best Remedy. For notaient CoHc, Diarrhea. Dyaca tes?, Nausea, Coughs, Cholera In fantum, Teething CaUdren. Cholera Morbus, Unnatorol Drains from the Bowels, Pains, Gripm- LoS3 of Appotite, Indigestion aaa an Dis eases of the Stomach and Dowels. PITTS CARMINATIVE o ?U %?fx?r K-c-"ries children over tJie critical period of tcethi.-* ?ri ChildrenndTtoi, Mptheis, Adults nnd ud ifcn Pleasant to tbe taste, ena ne ver falls to pire sat inaction A tow doses will demonstrate Ito s2." Pe.Jative virtues. Price 23' cte it - ? ??etlo. Formic b7.druggist* 1 HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. .ENGLISH DBE AD CBUST FOB FOWB. Pnfcacnpfnlof bread crumbs into ?alf a pint of milk, add a clove of lie or a small onion left whole, a Hade of mac,, a lump of butter about the ?Mofa pecan nut, pepper and salt. Le .he mature boil until it thicken lo the consistency of drawn butter, it is Z\?n andrcace Q" removed when mich damher and more wholesome ?an gravy Cold boiled ham is al! .Tars served with roast fowl in England, "ghly ol the combination. A? HONEST MEAT STEW. i?,6"! h?Tfc -meat 6tew is a delictis ish, but this is one of the best w..vs ITll^ i0"1 the^atintosmaJl jce with a sharp knife and put to tewing gently ia a pint of hot wat? r sweet, not verv salty, beef eto?t tow t?l tttder, "then ??t in three ?blespoonfule of diced, cold-boiled o atoes. Stir in quarti of a cup of utter, two tablespoonfuls of flour till - js smooth, one tablespoonful of beef xtract, teaspoonful of lemon mina nd a teaspoonful of chopped parsley, tir this evenly into the bubblir cr fZ and eTe*80I> with salt and pepp* fw?t 18 ???d and you ?. bound ''dish Ifc 18 an client "hurry. BAKED BEANS, ' ?eas aitf i-^-.u?. ?ta -.".?of b^r. alf of cooked corn beet in *>av ??uno I the pot. Mix a tablespoonful of iolasioa and a quarter ot a saltspoon f pepper with one quart of boiling irfb?^nd pour over the beans. If ie liquirT^so^^npj; wholly cover them, id enough bouing^^a^to just cover ie beans. Cover tho potT"TtnC?bnike owly all day, being careful to ke?'p-^^ tie beans just covered with water, 'hey must he moist when done, but ot sloppy. If the whole oven is need d at any time, set tho bo:ms-pot on he back of the stove until ready o replace it. This quantity will lake moro than two quarts when [ene, aud what is left over can be used 9 A salad for luucheon afterward. For hose who do not like corn beef or >ork, two tablespoonfuls of butter and . heaping teaspoonful of salt eau bo ised instead. At serving time turn >ut ou a Hat dish and place tho meat n the centre. If the beans have been properly cooked each will bo whole, petali will be tender and have a rich, reddish color. Tomato catchup ia a harmonious adjunct to baked beaus, iud lakes the place of pickles. nOUSKEOLD HISTS. TJ.-:e milk pudding and stewed fruit for bilious dyspepsia. After washing, never wring worsted dress goods. Shako them. Bamboo furniture can be cleaned with a brush dipped in salt water. Soak black calico in ealt and water before wabbing, and so prevent its fading. Toilet vinegar, cologne water and alcohol ore good for oily and moist hands. Spirits of turpentine is tho thing with which to cleanse and brighten patent-leather. A dress pattern always makes a nice present, and can be bought in a box lor that purpose. Thc dirtiest frying-pan will become clean if soaked live minutes in am monia and water. Moderately strong salt and water tauen by the teaspoonful at intervals is a cure for catarrhal cold. No receptacle for soiled clothing, even if handsomely decorated, should be kept in a sleeping apartment. When baking ?ponge cakes always have a steady oven, and do not open the door for the first twenty minutes. Freeh fish should not be soaked in water before cooking; tbis tr.-atment only ruins the flavor and makes it soft. Whiten yellow linen by boiling half an hour in ono pound of tino so.'p melted iu ono ga'.?m of milk. Then wash in suds, then in two cold water?, with a little blueing. If your window glass is licking in brilliancy clean it with a liquid paste made of alcohol aud whitening. A little of this mixture wilt remove . ;>L'cks, and impart a high luster to tho Cl J ss. Electricity can be utilized for tab's i"ce::r?itiou in wonderful irayj. M;u: i tr.ro ice Jir.jf, Mirraun liu,; an electric light, produce a beautiful effect, ?ni I lights can be arranged a.?o jg ferns so tb.it they resemble a cloud of lire lies.