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FlfTY FOR COMPANY Sw * ? . ? I r 1b wot ?Ml for people It keep their boot he? t *m thloge? the boot bed, M*cfcl?e? fortbetrgneeto; ooeee keep (or tbom their but looks, amm iad words; some f> still farther tad keep all their piety for ttek Mot a bit of It do they use (or tbomselrss or their fsmllles; It is aerer seen on ordinary occsstona, and oo to perhaps all the nicer, and there Is all the mors of It for company. Cnoosfc of It there surely Is, If not a forfeit. The visitor to treated to It with a liberality like that of the West* ern housewife, who, on being told by her minister that she might pnt lees molassss la his tea, insisted that if the mads It all molasses It wouldn't be too good for him. It was Mrs. Simpklns' parlor? a nice, religions hollf parlor, rery. A mon ctrOns great Bible, bound In line mor occo and gold, with a purple ribbon book-mark, a yard long, dangling wblte crucifixes, toy alone In seeming sscred oess on the msrble centre table. Three certificates of life-membership in re ligions societies bung in henry gilt frames upon the walls. No idle orna ments or rsln curiosities on the what not, but Dlrlne songs and sacred hymns, Baxter's Saints' Rest, Taylor's Holy Liring snd Dying, Howe's Bless edness of the Righteous? books ot ex sited piety, that bear their renders like angel wings to the very gates of the beautiful city. Beside them wore choice piles of magazines, labelled "Guide to Holiness." lhe air of the plnct was still and solemn, almost holy. Deacon Wilson felt that it was while he waited there for Mrs. Simpklns. He took up a num ber of the "Guide to Holiness." and opened It. "Perfect Love." "Heaven Below." "Living Below Our rrivilese," be read in the table of contents. "What a godly woman Sister Simp klns is!" he said to h!ms?lf, and laid the magasiue in p!ace, feeling himself so far from holiness that the very titles of the articles were dlscouragiug to him. "I am glad there are some good peo ple,*' he added, looking uround the room, at the "pnrlor Bible," and the life memberships. "Yes. Sister Simp kins is a very devoted woman." Mrs. Simpklns entered with sweet and* placid countenance, and grave, subdued manner, like on?* just leaving chapel service or closet meditation, and ?n low. chastened tones, welcomed the deacon, and assured him of her high estimate of the privilege of Christian communion, of the strength she de rived from Christian association, the comfort from Christian sympathy. The deacon had barely time to make t suitable respoiibe, when she in quired: "And what is the state of Zlon. Seacon? What say the watchmen on her wslls?" The question was general, and tlie fleacon. was safe in the answer: "Few go In at the gates." "And why? Why is it?" exclaimed Mrs! Slmpklns, with nn nit nnd tone "it touching solicitude. "Why must We wait ?o long to sec the spirit of Sod poured but? Surely the fault l? ;n ourselves. The church Is living far below her duty nnd her privilege. Too , many of us are not yet sanctified. I wholly sanctified? one with the Lord. Too many of us still cling to the world. Mill have appetite for the fleshpots of Egypt. We must come out from the world, and we must not look hack." "Oh!" groaned *lic good deacon. "I feel sometimes thai I am the Admit in fhe camp of Israel, the Jonah that hin ders the ship." "Do you ever read the 'Guide to Holiness?' " asked Mrs. Slmpklns. when *lie had fully delivered Iter opinions on the condition nnd duty of the rburch. The deacon confessed that he j bad not. "It's an excellent work, dea- 1 ?on." said Mrs. Slmpklns, with slightly '.ncreased warmth of manner. "I can recommend it with entire confidence. I have read it three years, and find it very spiritual. Perhnps you would like to read It. Take this last l im ber. if you would." "Thank you, sister, not to-day. Some other time, perhnps." "The work strenuously urges the doctrine of entire snnctiflcation; that It I* the privilege of all Christians. What do you think of It, deacon?" queried Mrs. Simpkins. "Oh, I don't know," sighed the good man. "The command Is. 'He ye holy (is I am holy,' but, oil, dear! sometimes I'm afraid I haven't even been Justi fied? that after all, I shall be a cast away." "We need faith, faith to lay hold on the promises." urged the unwavering Mr*. Simpkins. "But my life la so poor, sister." groaned the deacon. "I come so far short In everything. The thing I would not do, I do, and what I would, I do not." "I believe It Is our privilege to live above sin," began Mrs. Slmpk'n*. when the door opened, nnd a smutty, uh cared-for little fellow, of half a dozen years, put in his head. "Yes, darling, you may take one off the bureau. Now don't disturb mother any more." "I believe It Is our blessed privil ege," resumed Mrs. Slmpklns, "to live above sin, to have Christ dwelling In na continually, filling us with perfect love, raising us above all doubts and fears, and strengthening us with the hope of glory." "A blessed privilege!" echocd the deacon, nnd rose to go. Don't furbish the parlor with any more religious show till you've given her as good wages as you'd think yourself deserving of If you were In her place. Don't go to ? single meeting when she will lose more by your going than you will gain. Don't say any more to the church about sanctlflcatlon here below till you've made your own family thtnlr such a thing Is possible. Leurn to be just before you even aim at perfec tion; learn to be patient before you think you have reached It; and be sure ?nd take the opinion of those who know jrou best before you come to a settled opinion on the subject. "Don't think I'm persecuting you, wife,, nor anything of the sort, I'm glad you're a pious *roman, ibA that's -on? reason why I married yon. Braj man likes to hart a good wife. I want a little of your piety myself: and the children wouldn't bo the woree for* some, nor Bridget; neither. We aren't deacons nor ministers, nor ?elnts, bnt we should Uhe to be treated In a sweet, heavenly wsy %metlmee, "I thank yon for this visit, deacon." aald Mrs. Slmpklns. "I think It Is good for the saints to speak often to one snother. Come egsln. soon, dea con, and borrow my 'Guide to Holi ness."* . "Thank 'yon, thank yon." said the kind-hearted dee con. hastening his movements, seemingly alarmed at thla second mention of the msgsslne. Thank you. 1 am glad we* meet eo often In the boose of Clod, sister.** "I am never willingly absent from the means of grace.** answered Mrs. Slmpklns with something like s glow of satisfaction on her sweet face. "I am glad you love God's worship, sister. Good-by.** And the deacon took his leave In no way benefited by bin visit, and feeling that he had conferred no benefit. Mrs. 8lmpkins was on spiritual heights too far above him. He could not touch the hem of her gnrmeut. She flew upstairs to her nursery, snd snatched the l>aby from Bridget. "Now go to your washing as quick as you can, and try to have It done In some kind of season for once. Aud have your dinner cooked decently, for once. If you can." Not a word or thanks to the poor ser vant for having lield the baby so long, while her work was lying undone below stairs. What hud so suddenly chnnged Mrs. Simpkins' look and man ners? What had driven away her sweetness and placidity, her heavenly smile? How changed her voice was! 80 keen and cutting. How angry she looked as she railed to her little son: "Jimmy, come here!" The boy obeyed. "Now don't you ever come again to the parlor wheu I'm there with company." she exclaimed to the young lutrudvr. as .-.lie cuffed him first on one ear ami then on the other, making both ring. She did not call him darling, then. "You're the worst boy I ever saw." she went on. "How many times have 1 told you not to come to the parior when I'm there with a.iy company? Aud yet you al ways come. Just as sure as I am there, in comes your frowsy head." This was true, for the child was bright enough to kuow his opportunity. The only sweet liberal time his moth er ever had, was when she was under the observation of company. Then, for appearance sake, she would al ways give him what he asked for. He always had to pay for it afterwards in tingling ears and smarting flesh, but he was well accustomed, tough ened. and did not uilnd them much. This unsalntly and unwholesome treatment hud only Just been admin istered to Jimmy, when an odor of burning food was perceptible. "Bridget!" screamed Mrs. Slmpklns; "your soup is burning. Bridget!" No answer; and leaving tht baby with Jimmy, Mrs. Slmnklns flew to the kitchen and snat?:.u\l a kettle from the stove. "What made you let the soup burn?" she exclaimed, as Bridget entered. "I was on the shod, ma'am." "But you ought not to be out of your kitchen wheu you've anything on the lire." "But I hail to hang out the clothes, ma'am, or they wouldn't he dried. I was so long with the buhy that the wnshlug'a far hack, ma'am." "I never saw anything like It. You've always some excuse, no matter what you do. Why didn't you set the soup back while you were on the shed V" "1 did not think of It. sure." ."And why didn't you think of It? I've tried so hard to make a good girl of you, and 1 declare I'm niost tired out." "Well, I've thoughts of giving you rest from me. There's no use in so much said, and being so tired, all for a sup o' broth." "No words. Bridget ; I never allow my girls to answer back. It's bad enough to have my things burnt up, without any Impudence from you." "You can look out for another girl to do your work. I can't suit you. and you've leave to Hud one that can." "How foolish In you, Bridget, to get mad just for nothing. It was my place to get angry, and not yours. It was my money that was burnt In the soup." "Ah. and there was no money burnt at all. and no loss of soup, neither for the children and me'll have It all to ate. burnt or not burnt? as you yourself knows well. And It's not all about the soup: tin re's enough more; fretting and fussing from morning till night. whenever yourself* In the house: and I'm running here for the children, and there for yourself, and me work to be done all the same, and ye never pleased, hut always this Is wrong and the other ain't right, and me working till 1 can't hold ine two feet t'wunst to the floor for the pain, and thin I've nlver done the work half well enough." "If your are dissatisfied, you had better go. Bridget; but first consider what It Is to have a Rood steady place, with good religious people. You Irish girls never know when you're well oft." "And It's not well off any one Is, that works in this house," answered Bridget. "I sha'n't listen to any more of your Impudence, Bridget. I wish you to keep on with your work till I can get an other girl," said Mrs. Rlmpklns. There was something Indescribably galling and oppressive In her tone and manner, that roused the worst feel ings the generous, good-natured Brid get was capable of. and she dashed the dipper from her hand to the floor before Mra. Hlmpklus had turned her back. Mr. Slmpklna came home tired and worn with business, and the first thing that fell upon his ears was the dash of th? dipper and the u?xt a complaint from hit wife. . vaats M?r "Win mamT* be Kind. -oh. Mam ims m w+? , **Wl mA the mtterr . I "flho mmUm of kcr mL* "IdMrt Mk woofer. She's at It w?i turslaj at tvo ?'dock, ud 1 loo tv In hard at It when I go to bod. and jrot I doa't boHno It Is em ' don" "WoO. whoso fSalt Is It. I shoald like to haswr* asked Mrs. Slmpktaa. "It lsa*t allao. I know," saowered her httobaad. -and It doa't seem to bs Bridget'*." ?Then I s'poee you'll hare It thst It's mine*" responded the wife. "I didn't soy oo." "Ton might ss well.** "Do you think ?? Now whose fault !? It? All our gtrls complain of being overworked, and scolded, and vmderfed, and underpaid; and yon hare the whole management of things here.. I leave all house matters to jai." "And this la what I get for my management." lnterupted Mrs. Simp klns. "But not all." .responded her bus band. "You get a great reputation fot piety; a great deal of time to go to meetings, male and female, aewlng so cleUoa. maternal associations. anni versaries. and every other religlouc meeting, far and near, that you cao hear of. And you get money fot 'Guides to Holiness,' and life member* ships, and great expensive frames to hang their certificates In. thereby obey, ing the Divine command, 'not to let your left ha rid know what your right hand doeth,' all your good work done aecretly that you may be rewarded openly." "What has all this to do with Brid get?" interrupted Mrs. Simpklns, a little touched by the cutting irony. "It has n great deal to do with her," answered lier husband. 'if It puts a part of your work 011 her. or tires you out so as to make you cross and un reasonable with her. or If It make* you pinch her in wages, or deny her in food, or wrong her in aiiy way; you'll allow that, won't you?" "Yea. if it does.'' "Well, don't it? I ask the question. "What would you have me do more than I do now? I should like to kuow." "Perhaps not more, but I would have you do somewhat different. You can make some equalization. Be as sweet and angelic with Bridget as you are with your deacons, as mild in the nursery where only God and the chil dren hear you. as you would be if the Maternal Association were here. Show a little of your deadness to the world and heavenly mlndeduess wheu the new fashions come. Stop taking the 'Guide to Holiness,' and give the mon ey to Bridget, as hei rightful due. and perhaps 'twould make is better. I'm sure it would make us happier, and you, too. Suppose you try and give us a little more family piety. "This is my first sermon, and I hope it will be productive of good. There's no company here, so I won't pretend that It lias been preached from a sense of duty, but because I feel out of patience r.nd Just like speaking my whole mind." Well, what did Mrs. Simpkins say in answer? This only: that she was glad there was uo one in her own family to hear hiin; that she was glad there were some people who had a good opinion of her; that the Rev. Dr. Smootbtonguc iiad told some of the church that very week, he wished there were' a few more women Just like her. ? Waveiiey Magazine. Diamond* In Storage. ''There are thousands of millions of dollars' worth of diamonds stored in deep deeps, or underground safety de posit vaults at the Kiiuberly mines In South Africa." said J. II. Mortimer, of Chicago, at the Republican House. Mr. Mortimer was a British soldier in the war with the Boers In 1881, and he came Intimately acquainted with the conditions there. "The natives go down deep Into the mines and bring up the clay-like earth, which is spread in the sun and dried into a scaly brittle material. This Is examined very close* ly for the precious stones, which are picked out. They are nothing but rough looking pebbles, und thei^ value cannot be estimated with any degree of certainty until they are polished. But the pebbles are nqt polished at once. They are packed up and sent down Into the bowels of the earth ngain. The mine owners will not al low them to be sold, as the market would be Hooded and the price would go down so that there would be no protlt In the gems. Instead they are stored In big vaults, and brought up a few at a time, as the market conditions demand. As 1 said, there are fhous ands of millions of dollars' worth of diamonds stored away."? Milwaukee Kvenlug Wisconsin. Canary Bird In Prison. Charles Kelley, a prisoner In the county jail, awaiting trial on a charge of passing a forged check for a small amount, has a canary bird as a cell* mate, and the feathered companion is a real Jnllbird. because It has served time with its master in the penitentiary at Jackson, Mich., where Kelley trained it to perforin many remarkable tricks. The bird's name is Pedee, ami It can do almost everything from whistling "Yankee Doodle" in tune to "Mememberlng the Maine." Pedec can roll a game of tenpins, wnlk a tight rope, spell Its name by touching letters in the alphabet. Jump hurdles, ride a Ferris wheel and bicy cle, jump through a hoop, climb a lad der, ascend aud descend an Kiffel tow* er In miniature, escape from prison, say Its prayers, ride a merry -go-round, raise a flag to the top of a pole, work a treadmill and tefephone for seed. Jailer Whitman will Include Kelley and his bird on the program of a jail entertainment.? Chicago News. ? Blind Railway PaM*ng?ri. An effort has been made to obtain special conditions and great reductions on Belgian railways for the blind, who, It Is argued, cannot benefit by the beau tiful scenery through which they may pass. The proposal has been rejected by the legislators considering the mat* ?er, who see the prayer of the blind followed by petitions from the legless, the armless, and. Indeed, all the dam* aged, for ^ reduction Ui their railway expenses. IN JAPAN the MRRItWNOIMK LONDON MAIL T OKIO, Japan. ? Deeper than over plummet aounded In the ocean of poverty and human woo hare I de ?cen&ed hare In the metron. ?us of the par Bast, and found the worid'a poorest poor. Beside these ?tarred subjects of the 800 of Heaven, who cower outside his palsce walls, the submerged tenth of London are bon vlvanta, and ths groveling Rus sians of Gorky's, night refuges the spoiled children of fortune. What I hare seen I doubt If any Occidental haa ssen before me. for the existence of such absolute wretch edness is not revealed tc the tourist, and the ordinary resident suspects It not at all If he has heard some w hls per of the dolorous regions near at band. It Is not regarded as politic to be too Inquiring. Not by any possible ?hance will the guide or friend conduct the visitor to the quarters where Joy Is life's unknown qusntlty. Slumming In Toklo Is for the regu lation traveler the ssme as If In Lon don he went to Soho without exploring the East. None but regions of com parative prosperity are sbown. because the Japanese are proud of their uni versal reputation for cleanliness, for artistic surroundings, snd for a pov erty that Is always smiling, well washed and safely removed from ac tual want. Nevertheless. Toklo and otber cities have their social purgatories, their Sargasso seas of llvlug, breathing wreck and drift. In Toklo not fewer than 200,000 people seldom. If ever, know of a certainty where the neces sities of tbe next day will come from, and throughout the land the great ma jority are too poor to eat rice. The high grade rice grown ou tbe Islands Is exported almost to the Inst sack, and inferior rice Imported for tbose who can 'afford it. Rice Is not in every bowl, as the tourist fondly imagines. I have spent days and nights in the midst of tbis Inexpressible residue of Japan In company with a brilliant na tive sociologist, who, like scores of his fellow students of men and things, be lieves that Japan has left Its good days of general happiness and general comfort forever behind, and is enter ing upon a sordid and merciless age of industrialism, in which Its people are not fitted by temperament to com pete, and whose proletariat is. more over. far too intelligent aud too proud to be exploited by capital. He is cry ing out a warning to Japan that her sent at the council table of the powers Is being paid for In tbe blood of her citizens, not expended as they would pour it forth cheerfully in war, but in factory and on farm, in shop and in office. "Think for a moment." h^ cried, re cently, as we looked at a Japanese bat tleship In tbe offing, "what a multi tude of our tiny rice fields it takes to support such a monster, and then re member that our people can't afford to eat rice!" But whether or not the last state of Tapan be worse than her first, let us proceed to Darkest Toklo. We will visit the Sliitaya quarter, which Is close by the beautiful U.veno Park. Toklo Is so vast; It is sucb an im mense sea of sheds, that from tbe highest point on the clearest day one ran see but a fraction of Its area? but here are fifteen districts of mean streets. The crazy structures called houses, which are In reality sheds, are strung along In a series of dilapidated and filthy compartments. To folk as poor as those who live here, cleanli ness. so dear to the average Japanese that it is above godliness, is out of the question. The walls nre decayed and full of crevices and cracks, the roof leaks, and tliere Is moss and broken tiles, the sliojl are full of holes or patched with newspapers, the mats are ragged, iirty and mouldy. There Is foul water in the streets and a still fouler stench in the air. whose source 1s often visible to the eye. Frequently one sees dead rats In the roadway, but for fear of the plague, they are quickly made away with. After coming from the daintiness and. delightful artistry of well-to-do Toklo, Shitaya Is the a born* inntion of desolation. The most tumble-down of these nbodes may be rented for from twenty to twenty-flve pence per month, but there nre houses so fine that they cost ss high as a penny, or even three half pence, a day. To afford one of these expensive residences several families club together, not alone for economy, but also for warmth. In winter all hands crowding together on the mats. Charcoal Is not always to be afforded, mid heat 'is a groat luxury these cold days. A whole block will sometimes take turns in warming hands at a hibachi, wherein a fe.w chunks of charcoal smoulder In a bed of ashes. Suppose a pipe-cleaner has hud a good day. and returns to his home with, say, sixpence. He will expend this in farthing purchases of mlso, n kind of soup stork, oil. fuel, tobacco and perhaps a little fish, which, if he feels reckless, he will eat raw with horseradish. He buys In driblets, and like the very poor lu all the cities of the world, pays enormous prices. Tills has been a very good day, and perhaps he will peep in at one of the tempting cake shops, which smell so fragrant to the weary and hopeless. However, he will be. In all likelihood, "broke" by this time, and will content himself with listening to a story -teller relating the ancient glories of Dal Nippon. Had our pipe-cleaner returned empty handed, he would have hurried to the pawnbroker, always near at hand, and raised a few farthings on his precious brass pipe, his hibachi, or his few poor garments not in actual use. With the money he would have purchased fish entrails or the offals from horses used for food, and perhaps a handful of scraps from a garbage barrel. With these he would have feasted with hlr family, and with them prayed that Providence would give him a batter If ?V t> itww, ?? that ha ailftl ? dala his gnnfls Tkt pavibnken httM off theaa wretcbea as la no other land. It la Impossible to aaeapa theas, a ad they never relent. Anything that coat above flrepence can ba pawned. Until November. or ev^n until rald artntsr, one can exist In Shltaya with oat bed clothing, bat when the night* get cold, with the fearful piercing frost of a Japanese winter, some covering mast be had. Now appeara auotbei plunderer of the poor In the go*?e of a capitalist, who renta quilts by the Blfbt He chargea. and Invariably collecte, from one farthing for a shred of dirty, patched old rag to a penny ot even twopence for a foul but heavy covering. Then. too. there are frayed allk qullta for bridal couples, but these are too costly to be reuted by many bridegrooms. Rent must be paid in advance, and before the family go tc sleep the collector comes aud gets either the money or the quilt With s refinement of cruelty, he does not ap pear until the lessee liss turned In, and the loss of his covering will be doubly felt. There are heart-rending scene* when penniless mothers strive to hold the quilt to protect tbelr babes from the chill and damp. Like tin pawn broker and the money -lender. the quilt lender is flinty -hearted. Few of the Inhabitants ot Sliitsys ever get enough money aliend to buy bed clothing, and the ghastly tragedy of renting Is re-enacted again and again for winter after winter. Where there are so many children having but a few Yrottou rags, the winter means acute misery Nothlug that was ever edlhle can he come too bad for the very poor to use Prom this and similar quarter? the scavengers go forth dally searching foi food, and they rake the city a* with a comb. Back they come at night laden with bad rice, decayed Ash and meat, scraps from slop barrels, broken food from restaurants, and all manner <>l queer odds and ends. This second hand food business lias an extensive language of its own. with special terms for every kind mid condition of ed'Ule junk that Is brought to the quarter. This jargon is wholly uiiintellihihlc to the uninitiated, and few there are who care to learn the language of the freezing and starving who rent rag? and dine on offal. Poverty has Its ultimate expressio* here? its last word. STEPHEN ENGLAND. To Outlaw Ih* Toy rintol. Senator Samuel II. Went lias aim?nl a blow at the toy pistol evil l>y the in troduction in the Legislature of a bill designed to prohibit the sale and use of that deadly weapon in Ohio. Mr. West's bill provides that It shall be uulawful after June 1 of this year to ?ell, ofTer for sale, give away, or explode any toy pistol, cap. cart ridge or other ammunition used in tlio same, or any cannon crackers. 01 other fireworks which contain d.vna mite, nitroglycerine, or other high explosive as distinguished from gun powder. The bill provides a penalty of uot more than $50 nor less than fine, and makes the dealer who vio lates the act liable in civil nctiou foi any damages or injury to any person who uses explosives sold in violation of the bill's provisions. This measure provides a sweeping and radical remedy for a great and growing evil. The toy pistol and the cannon cracker claim their victims by the hundred in all parts of the coun try at each recurring Fourth of July. In this city last sununet nearly a score of persons died of lockjaw due directly to wounds produced by those explo sives, and scores of other wounds were inflicted which put the victims in peril that was only averted by tho prompt and efficient aid of surgical skill. There should be no question as to the action of the I-egiclature with respect to this bill. If any other evil of like proportions called for correc tion, the action of the lawmaker* would be prompt and effective.? Cie* land Leader. Caught Alligator With a FUltllne. While deer, duck and quail shooting have been better this season in the neighborhood of Titusville than in several years, Itockledge, Stuart and a few other places seem to have the ex pert fishermen. But It takes a Merritt fisherman to catch alligators. We are told that a few days a seven-foot alli gator was caught wltli a flshlinc. The line was set and baited with a mullet, for trout. Tho alligator took the bait, and the hook fastened Itself in his throat. Had the line been a rope or chain It would liave been twisted apart or the hook torn out. The alli gator tired himself out. and was enslly taken by slipping a rope over his nose, securing his flippers, and towing him ashore, where he was killed with an ax.?East Coast Advocate (Titusville, Fla.). Honey From Mrvanty Colon I en of lire*. A load of extracted honey, weighing 4000 pounds, was recently hauled from Tuscola to Davison, and was tho prod uct of seventy colonies of bees owned by James McKay. This was an aver age of fifty-seven pounds per colony, i and worth, approximately, $t?oo. The | bees did almost all the work, McKay's part being merely providing hives and i comb foundations, getting stung a few times and extracting the honey? a light and pleasing task throughout. The col lection of two tons of honey in a single season by seventy colonies of bees was extraordinary doings. Still, the bee not only "improves the shining hour." but cloudy days and Sundays.? Detroit Tribune. Joint Affliction. , When the Halllday twins were babies their mother always referred to them collectively. This was natural enough, for they shared everything, from their baby-carriage to chicken pox. As they grew a little older, however, there were slight differences between Elnora and Endora, but Mrs. Ilallidny took no account of them. When they had reached the age of seven she stiil referred to them In a way which struck casual listeners as amusing. "Where nre Elnora and Endora?" asked a cousin, who had come to spend tin afternoon. "The twins bare jone with ttasfr father tt have otic of their teelh out/' ?aid Mr?, Halllday, calmly., .. . ? TNI VftSNBONE. . ? ? i i ? F ' 1 ' n mJ!? to Vm?mT ?t the last meeting of the Boston Scientific Society C. J. Maynsrd, an authority ou birds, spoke of what proved to be a rery timely topic, "Why There Is a Wishbone." To begin with the speaker deplored the lac*, of knowl edge that exists regarding the struct* ure of the birds Internally. "For ex* ample." aald he. "It Is doubtful If fire men In the United States know much about the anatomy of the common roblu. The ornithologists know all about external characters, the color, ar rangeuieut and number of the feathers, methods of flight, habits and the like, but exceedingly little about the inter* lors of the birds they study." Classifi cation* have been made largely by ex* ternals. when study of the anatomy mnst be a very Important part of the subject. He had himself begun with the anatomy, and more than tweuty years ago. In some of bis publications, he dared to separate the fowl3 from the hawks. Tbey hare been placed in the same order, aud have so remained till very recently. Now others nave separ* a ted them even more widely than Mr. Maynard did so long ago. His deduc tions were from a knowledge of th? anatomy*. The wishbone Is called by scientists the furcula. and is In reality the union of what are in man ?ee two separate bones. These in the birds receive the brunt of the strokes of the wing that turn the creature In Its flight. Few re alize the strength of stroke of tlie bird's wing, it is snld that a swun'bas been known to break a man's leg by a blow of Its wing, and in like manner the wing heatings of the larger birds are dangerous if they strike the head or face. If. therefore, a large bird Is in the habit of making smldeu turns to right or left in its flight it must be fitted with a wishbone competent to wit lis land the great strain of the wing stroke ou oue side, with no special ac tion on the other side. For this reason, we llud in the eagle and like birds of quickly turning tligbt a furcula that is a perfect Itonum arch, widely at va riance with the gothic arch, which is the shape of the wishbone of our com mon fowls. The eagle's funuia is a solid rounded arch, everywhere equaliy strong, and not developing those points of weakness that, make our sport of s,eaking the wishbone possible. WORDS OP WISDOM. A woman knows a woman, no mailer how different they've been raised.? "The Substitute." 1 hold there is but one irremediable evil in life, that of growing tired of. oneself.- "The C'nrissiina." .luge the future bi the past, but when you liav a past you ain't got luuch future.? "Little Henry's Slate." Perhaps it is from overwork among the poor that death has been reduced to a shadow.- -"The iSray Wig." I ain't what they call a ppssimNt. but 1 think poorly of most thing*. It's safe!.? "The Adventures of Harry lie vel." CJood breeding sums up in its in* stiuctivc attitude all the efl'orts a mail has made toward perfection; aye, and all that his ancestors have made before him.? "John l'ercy Held." It is no use to pretend limt hard luck does not take the manhood out of a man. When lie lias an inferior part lu life to play, he begins to look the parr, aud he looks the superior part when he lias that to play.? "I.e; *-lou:e." Thinker* I.lve I.oug. Thinkers as a rule live loiip; or. to |>ut the proposition into more general terms, exercise of the minil tends to longevity. Herbert Spencer has died in his eighty-fourth year. Darwin reached his seventy-third. Sir (Jeorge Stokes his eighty-fourth, Carlyle hi* eighty-six. Tyndali was aei-ldi-ntally poisoned at seventy-three. Inn might have lived several years longer: Hux ley was seventy when he died, fihul stone in his eighty-ninth year. Dis raeli in his seventy-seventh. Newton lived to be eighty-live and Lord Kel vin is still vigorous In research in his eigthieth. To a great extent the brain is the centre and seat of life, what Sir William fSull called the central battery, and the stimulation undoubt edly strengthens the forces that make for vitality. Healthy exercise of either mind or body, of course, favors length of days, but the strivings of the thinker and writer are seldom quite of the healthy order. Darwin, ("arlyle and Spencer were victims el nearly lifelong dyspepsia, and y ? ? i ? > ceeded three score and ten. Tito l'eople Next l)oi?r. The reason why the people next door are invariably regarded as nw.?t wor thy of our javelins is plain to inc. They have n piano, i do not know of any race that is quite so unpleasant as the people next door. They are not like any ordinary people who live else, where. They obtain their music on the hire system, as it were, and it is generally of the type we most detest. Are we worldly minded? They chasten us obtrusively with hymns or Men delssohn. who is for some obscure rea? son regarded as a moral force in the suburbs. Are we of the clod? They hurl at us with dellaut persistency the latest blood-curdler from the "halls." The thing that passes with them for a piano Is called upon to do the work of three, and dividing our respective houses, bo It borne in mind. Is a beau tiful conductor of sound.? Outlook. I.onilon Rnt-Catrtier* KI|130'I,*8'l lint*. Over 200,000 rats -202,782, to be pre cise?have been caught at the Loudon docks within the last live weeks. They have fallen victims to the ofticial rat catchers, who visit every ship that comes Into port and do their best to rid it of live stock of the rodent va riety. "We are very glad to see them." said an officer of a South American grain ship 'on Saturday. "Wo came her J fairly swarming with the vermin, but since the rot catchers' visit I have scarcely ?cen one. 1 believe the ani mals come prospecting around before l vessel leaves port, and pick their ihlp like passengers. For Instance, I hoy would sooner sign articles on a grain ship than on one carrying pi* hou,"- London Mail, - ? Humor ?p Todavl He pai?l her compliment!. MN% . But bow be pay* her bills. la 't jwt to nay that marriage ? A mtn'i devotion chitU? \ ? PuckA Made It Warai F?r Bla?. ihe-' Aud did her face light upb Arthur -"I u a way. Her eye# ?napped fire and her cheeks burued with rage." Am OakMrd of Tklif. Janitor? "I'm going to make It hoi for you." Teuant? "But Isn't that contrary to all precedents?"? Town Topics. Rich Amwrlmm. 'What makes you think they are such rich Americans?" "Because they know so much more about other couutrles thau their own." An Kxceptloa. Belle? "Is It true that suburban fire men are always slow?" Eva? "No; I had one to propose to me In two days after first meeting."? Chicago News. *" The Polat of Similarity. He ? "Her complexion Is just like strawberries and creaui, isn't it?" She ? "It is somethlug like strnwber ries; It comes in a box."? Philadelphia Public Ledger. Doubt. Mrs. Newrocks? "And we shall enter society!" Newrocks? "Well, I don't know. Pre henrd that sometimes you cau't buy an Mission ticket."? Puck. Too Rralitllp Soubrette ? "So you wept out with a sen drama? I suppose there <vas a skipper in the play?" Comedian? "Yes. the manager skipped with our salaries." ? Chicago News. No Kiieouragement. Chubber? "I see the physicians have announced that Bacorn will recover." Perkins? "Yes, the lawyers informed them thnt the estate was not larg? enough to go around."? Butte Inter* Mouutniu. Tha Ship. "Young Spenderly lias been flying high since the death of his million* naire uncle." "Yes. he has found it smooth sailing since he came Into hi? heirship."? Town Topics. She Needs the Tim*. "What have you got your hat on for? The train doesn't start for two hours." "Don't worry. John. I may decide not to wear this one. Then I'll have to unpack my trunk aud get cut another one."? New York American. Too Late . Old Jllson? "One of my most trusted dorks got married." Mrs. Jllson? "I suppose you gave him a lot of good advice." Old Jllson? "No; he was married be fore I knew it? too late."? Cleveland Leader. . He Dlil. "I should have thought the old man would have done something handsome by you when you married his daugh ter." "He did. lie bad her teeth tlxed before we were married."? Cleveland Leader.. I.wnt Oliolcr. Clare? "Was he nervous when ho proposed V" Mae? "Not in the least." Clare? "Ho was when he proposed to me. but? oh, well, possibly he has had a lot of practice since then."? Cleve land Leader. I.iylng a Foundntion. "What do you think about the war in Asia?" "My friend," answered the man wh? Is slow but sure, "I haven't yet learned to spell and pronounce It. I haven't begun to think about it."? Washington .Star. A Trirll^x Struggle. Mr. Iluggard? "If you can't stop looking so sweet I'll kiss you." Miss Koy? "No, you won't." Mr. Iluggard? "Why won't I?" Miss Koy? "Von won't unless you can keep me from screaming, and? er ?you know you can."? Philadelphia Press, No Hurry. Miss Swectun (to young man who has just proposed)? "Indeed, Mr. flrlsque, I was not expecting this. You embarrass me very much." .fir. Urlsque (looking at his watch >? "I will give you one minute. Miss Vera to recover from your embarrass-' ? ?Chicago Tribune. Vfnrd on Them. "If these verses should be nc.rep ?m." said Woodby Ititer. "I think I'll have them published anonymously." "Don't do It," said Crlttick; "It Isn't right." "No?" "Just think of all the good fellows they might be blamed upon."? Pblla* delphla Press. " Plm?? Cull Ac^ln." fllopay? "I'll have to nsk you to ex cuse me to-day. I'm not well and be sides you'll have to sec my wife about this bill." Collector? "Oh! See here! You con* tracted this bill yourself and yot? should pay It youtself without " Biopsy? "But I tell you I'm not my* ?elf to-day."? Philadelphia Press, Jj