LITTLE WOMEN ME mn ATOMS A 8 the tall young woman entered the dining room with her friend, a little | woman who was one of a party at a table near the door catted out admiringly: "Oh, Miss Wilder, #T seemed very pleasant!" replied the friend. "I suppose you thought she really meant what she said Just now, and that she showed a sweet, generous na ture In making that remark. Well, she didn't mean It at all. Blie merely wanted to call atteutlon again to her own dimlnutlveness, which she con siders much more fetching than my height." 4'Ob, Is that the trouble?" laughed the friend. "Well, she Is a dainty little thing." "Of course she is." said the tall yoUng woman, whose tone now bor dered ni>on asperity, "but she need not make invidious comparisons at my expense in order to call the fact to people's attention." "This isn't her first offence, then?" "No, indeed: it's a habit of hers. Nature provides all small women with this method of attack to enable them to get the better of their larger sisters. They usually pretend to ad mire, iu order to emphasize by con tract the more attractive quality they themselves possess. "That is their indirect method. The direct is more effective and' usually consists in calling attention to their shoes. Sometimes It is gloves and l?elts. but usually it is shoes. Just this morning, when we were all out oh the piazza, and there were enough men around to be worth the effort, that same little Mrs. (Jriinston over there, apparently casually regarded het feet and then suddenly laughod her pretty little laugh. ' " 'What do you think of these new shoes of mine?" she demanded en gagingly. 'Aren't they perfectly huge? But you know I thought that for once I would get shoes that wouldn't scuff out the first time I wore them, so I bought them in the boys' de partment/ The stout neat little shoes she displayed were at most No. 2s nud as I wear No. 5^ and had on a short skirt you may imagine how pleased I felt. . "You know I am five feet eight and weigh 150, and my waist measures twenty-tive. I had nevet been sensi tive about any of these statistics, or given them any particular tbought'un tll Mrs. Grlmston began to emphasize thein. Nearly every day now she says something like this. 'Do you know that I have gained ten pounds since I bailie to this hotel? I got on the scales to-day and was perfectly amazed to see them go up to 115. for I have never weighed more than KM before! And. my dear, I am ashamed to coufess it. but I bought a new belt to-day and had to ask for size twenty-two!' "Anothei universal trick of little women Is to assume the helpless, de pendent role, which, of course, appeals to all mankind. They have to have someone cheek their baggage and buy their tickets for them. They con tinually find It necessary to be helped down from high places or up steep places or across mud pnddles. over wh ch you have stepped without stop ping to consider. They never fail to call attention to this by saying, as the.v smile gratefully up at their pro tecting male escort. 'How I do wish I were as self-reliant and Independent ?s you are, Miss Prinder! It's dreadful always to be a trouble to one's friends, 'lhis causes the protecting male escort to reflect with gratification what a tine thing it is to aid her with his manlv strength.. "Invariably, too, the smaller the woman the greater Is her social as surance. All my life I have wonder Ingly watched little women, who, with the most serene composure and self confidence, preside over women's u "? 8t?r In amateur theatricals, or respond to dinner toasts. As for me. if I nm conscious than mofe than three persons are listening I am overcome with trepidation at the sound of my own voice, so I never even think of at tempting platform efforts, "Of course no little woman will ever admit a lack of timidity. Oh, no in deed! I have watched them perform with the most amazing coolness and self-possession and actual enjoyment of tiif centre of the ntngp, receiving the plaudits of ah audience with sweet composure, and th?n have heard them say in nrlvnte. 'Oh. my d-ar, I had such a dreadful stag? friirhr that I was slninly III. I would give anything to have your self confidence!'" The tall young woman sighed agnln before she pnrc?"d?d with her dinner. "There's a good deal of stuff written nowadays," *hd. "about the tail woman's r?ign and the advantages of Inches, but there's nothing In it, '''he little women hare the better of ui ??vary time. "-Chicago News. St th* to* Nn?t*. Aa attendant at Mount Vernon not long since found a lady weeping most bitterly and audibly with her hand kerchief at her eyes. He stepped up to iher and said: "Are yon In any trouble, madamr "No sir," she sobbed. "I saw yon weeping." "Ah!" said she. "how can one help weeping at thp grave of the Father of Wis Country?" "Oh. Indeed, madam," said he. ? oys answer?' "No reply came. " '('an no one tell me?' I repented, sternly. 'Little boy on that seat next to the aisle, who led the charge up Stony Point?' " *1?1 doi.'t know.' replied the little fellow, frightened. * I ? I don't know. It wasn't me. I?I just corned her# last month from Texas.' "?Louisville Herald. A Work. The mos mxguldceut work of nrchl feci nr" is tli? Taj .Mrtli.ii iu Agra. IIIn >ll1*?au. It wi:s er.vted by Shah .Jehan j to the memory of his favorite queen, j It Is ociugoncl in form, of pure white marble, inlaid with jasper, larnelian, turquoise, ngate. amethyst* and sap phires. The work took twenty-two thousand men twenty years to com plete, and though there were free gifts and the lal?or was free, the cost Is estimated at ?10.000.00'). The Kntertslnuient Fund. A New York business house near White street aud Broadway reckons Its yearly entertainment fund at about $100,000. It does an annual business of over $20,000,000. Its salesmen are brljcht fellows who control trade. One who works altogether on a commission basis makes $25,000 a year, but of that spends $15,000 in eiiiertainlng his vet* touiwr*,--New Yovk Press. Thin are 2400 mineral waters U* tied la New York City. ? sign of politeness In Tibet on meet ing a persou Is to bold np tbe clanped band and stick ont tbe tongue. Tbe contemplated Broadway-Court* land skyscraper, wblcb will bare al most double tbe number of storiefc of any existing New York edifice, will ? 015 feet bigb. Tbe diversity of tongues to be found in one country is often u matter of surprise. Last year the Bible So ciety's agents sold tbe Scriptures in fifty-three languages in the ltussian empire, in twenty-eight languages iu Burma, iu thirty In South Malaysia and fifty-three iu the Egyptlau agency. The dressing of the hair is the most important part of the Chinese woman's toilet. The district she comes from may always be known from the man ner in which she does her hair, it also indicates her station In life. Young girls, whether married or single, wear, queues, colling up their hair. as. the Western women do. on attaining a cer tain age. Ostrloa are pleeeR of broken pottery which were used for memoranda iu an cient Egypt. Enormous numbers of them have been found while excavat ing, and they throw the most practical light upou the daily life or the country thousands of years ago. The inserip tlons comprise private letters, legal agreements, receipts and menu.ran-!:i of all kinds, ami we are mainly indebt ed to them Tor our constantly Increas ing knowledge of the land ol' Khem. if a flower pot is laid on Its side 1h? sla'k of the plant growing iu it gradu ally curves upward until it resumes tue vertical position. This is called ino tropic curvature, ami th-> question i* by what means tbe plan! is stimulated to change its direction of growth. Oi ?? theory avers that movable standi grains in tbe plant cells fall to the' lower side as the position is changed, and by their ^pressure influence Hie mechanism of growth, Rcccnliy Mi Francis Darwin, in England, has suc ceeded in accelerating the tendency of a plant to curve upward when placed horizontally by sulijecting it to the vi brations of a tuning-fork. He think# the shock of the vibration affects Ihf movements of the starch grains. The Chinese doctor sets up a terrib't racket when called to treat the sick. This is supposed to drive evil spirits away, and it unquestionably acts well in a great many eases. Civilization de mauds rest and quiet; all noise ii? barred from the sick room. An Amort can physician tells of a patient wlw had sunk into a coma preceding death "Some one In the next house struck up the 'Anvil Chorus* from *11 Trova tore,' I was very much annoyed and distressed, and tried to stop It. Sud denly the pulsation at the wrist be gan again, tbo patient gradually opened his eyes, and motioned to hi* sister. She bent low, and he whispered in her ear: 'Te duin te dea, that Is mj favorite tune.' said he. He recuucrated and entirely recovered." GREAT OCEAN HIGHWAYS. Panama Canal Will Cr*at* a N** " Worldte Str??t of the Sea#." The completion of the new Pamunfl Canal will have sor?e marked effect!? upon the great lanes or ocean travel Vessels have, to be sure, for year* gone Into I'anaina and Colon for the transhipment of tlielr freight across the isthmus bj mil. The effect ol the opening of the new canal may bv likened, says the Ixnulon Mall, to thai of the substitution of a strong bridge at a convenient place for crossing a river for a more or less uncertain ford. Such a bridge attracts wagon roads. The canal will draw toward it the commercial highways of the hemisphere. Vessels which are operated by stenro can pursue an almost unvarying line Their managers accordingly prescribe courses between various ports, known as lanes, over which practically nil the shipping moves. In crfse of a breakdown the vessel Is soonet "picked up" on a lane than in less frequented parts of the sea. Moreover, rocks, derelicts and other obstructions may be more carefully charted and watched on the highly traveled courses. There Is usually an east and west lane a few miles apart to lessen the danger of collision. Out of Dulutb. on the Great Lakes, there Is a four* track lane, two for passenger steam ers at.d two for frefglffers. Although the vessels of the world hnve no visible streets or crossings oi signposts, in the eye of the navigator they are thus very distinctly marked No railroad train makes so direct a I line between points as a steamship ' No locomotive engineer knows more j exactly where he Is at all times than I the si'a captain. j Hailing vessels, responsive to winds tides, and currents, go about more at . random. Yet there are enormous ai t as of th?? sea where no ssll or , smokestack Is ?ver seen. Even on the t steamship lanes of the Pacific one I seldom spies a vessel In a trip across ! tbe ocean. Nearlng the Suez, how ever. from either approach, and It will be tbe same with the Isthmian Canal i It seems as if the ships of the world ! were out on p-irndc. so plentiful i'"> J they suddenly become. A List From thr> flntilr*. New York State Is full of cities and j I towns of classic nomenclature. There ? must have beeu a wave of flraeco- ' Roman lore when the christening of inunlclpalltltes took place, with a by product of Asianlstn as a seasoning. There are such names as Rome. Troy, Athens, Cairo. Syracuse. Ithaca, Spar- ' ! ta. Italy. Wrcece. Egypt. Tyre. Mem I phis, Venler, Florence. Corinth, Parma, Milan. Naples, Hector, Ovid, | Delhi. Delpbla, Diana. Paris, Pompey. i ; 1 lion. Palmyra. Marathon. Mycenae, ] Napoli, Nineveh, Uahyion. Romulus, ? Slloani. Smyrna, Utlca, Virgil, Homer, j C'leero. Ceres, etc. PLUCK, KOHAHCC mho ABvarruHe. BOA CLIAB8 ? SHIP. HAT which la can Ins *? much trouble to Captila Dickson, of the | Yankee brlgantlne Daisy, got looae. and aa a reeult two watchmen In South Brooklyn or* mourning the Iom of two faithful flea beaten cur?. Ever aince Captain Dick, ?on caged the boa In hla coal locker, the snake has been trying to smash the door. He would coll up as far from the door aa he could get and then leap forward with all the force of his twenty feet of steel muscled energy. The door was reinforced, but some time after midnight he battered it so that it swung only on the upper hinge. Then tHe snr-e gilded out through the ?pace at the bottom. Toward 1.30 o'clock "Tom" Walsh, wie of the watchmen, heard his dog ?creaming in agony. Walsh's dog is >ne of the ilea ridden "yaller" varie ty. but be lias been a faithful compan ion for nearly nine years, ana Walsh thought a treat deal of him. He rushed to the dog's.rescue, and to his borror saw a huge snake wrapped Slosely around him. __ His ardor abated tomewhat. but he huutcd up a com panion, aud armed with crowbars they idvaneed on the boa. The snake aban loned its prey and placed himself in i posture of defense. The men were >n the brink of the wharf, while the make and the dog were close to a thed some twenty feet from them. Suddenly the snake shot straight for ward at WaJsh. The man was on the alert and as the boa leaped forward, ha fell on his face without delay. The boa missing his mark, went more than two-thirds of his length over the edge of tue pier, and then got a purchase with his tail in a crac : In the flooring. Before he could utilize his hold to get back the two crowbars were brought down sharply ou the *all and the snake plunged overboard. Tho two men saw him swing away in the darkness, his head two or three feet above the wa ter. but did not care to follow hlni. About two hours later a slight com motion wrs heard at the end of the next ph-r. The watchman there. James Elson. whistled for his dog, but no dog appeared. He went to the end of the pier where he knew the dog had been, and found <.nly a slimy trail ami some deep scratches that had been made, apj.areiitly by the claws of his dog. lie did not know what had be come of the cur, until later in the morning when he compared notes with Walsh, and the fate ol the cur became apparent. About 8 o'clock Captain Dickson went on deck. To his mingled horror and Joy he found that the door of the locker was partly open. He did not wait to make further investigation, but jumped into the forward rigging and went aloft. He stayed there for awhile and then cautiously slid down a stay to the roof of the coal locker. Peering cautiously through,a small peephole, he saw the boa curled up on the coal, asleep, and with a much Increased girth amidships, marking the last resting place of Elson's dog. The captain thought It a good chance, since the snake was asleep from Its gorging, to capture him, but as he ap proached the door, he heard, or thought he heard, the snake move. He then slipped aloft once more, gave the snake another chance to get quiet, and. dc^ scending. braced and nailed up the door until nothing less than artillery could dislodge it. Next day the snake was sound asle*?p after Its feast. In anticipation of this he borrowed a shotgun and the fate of the snake was sealed. STANLEY'S CREAT EXPLOIT. Although the fame of Sir Henry* M. Stanlej, who dl?*d in I?ondon on May 10. will rest on lils exploration of the upper Congo and equatorial Africa, it ( in his search for David Livingstone I through the African jungles aud his finding of the missing missionary at j L'jIJI, on the shore of Tanganylkl, that Appeals most to the dramatic ( leeling of the world. In "Eceentrlcl I lles of Genius" Major J. B. Pond I quotes a witty reference to this I achievement, which was made by ! M-irk Twain 1>* Introducing Mr. Stan ley to a Boston audience: I^am not hero to dlspurage Colum bus," said Mr. Clemens. "So. I won't do that. But when you come to re gard the achievements of these two i men. Columbus and Stanley, from the I standpoint of the difficulties they en countered, the advantage Is with Stan ley and against Columbus. "Columbus started out to discover America. He didn't need to do any thing at all but sit In the cabin of his ship, hold his *rlp and sail straight on, and America would discover It self. Here It was. barring his passage the whole length and breadth of two continents. He couldn't get past it He'd got to discover It. "But Stanley started out to find Dr. I Livingstone, who was scattered?scat j tered abroad, as you may say. over the | length and breadth of a vast slab of ? Africa as big us the United States. It wns n blind search for one of the ; worst scattered of men." , In October. 1870. Stanley started out . from Bombay on his search for Dr | Livingstone on behalf of two newspa j P^rs. 1 he great missionary and geog rapher. on the last sad trip of his life hud plunged Into the heart of Africa' i Iv?!? *?* "St ronnt ,n th* "Prlng of ! , 1 or Ave yeari he had been light I ing for his lift* against the rnvages of i 'evpr ?nd disease, copending vainly ( against his old til? slur* traders, and wandering slowly about, study ing the regions to the west and south of Tanganyika, cared for and aided by the natives, who reverenced him as a superior being. Stanley moved Inland from Zanzi bar In the spring of 1871. By June he had reached (:nynnyembe, where be was again delayed. At last he was ?bio to proceed Into that vast wilder ness. somewhere In which was Liv ingstone. Whether Livingstone had gone across toward the west coast or had tried to move northward toward the Nile Valley Stanley did not know. The fact was that Livingstone, In ?xueuiity, had returned to Taofan TtU and lit mtlK UjtJL Thar* where mv supplies should havt reached him. ho learafd that all had been stolen. He wti almost hoptkM and helpless, sn old mas. 111. alone, with only the friendship of a few na tive tribes between him and death. In the nick of time Stanley arrived. *ftcr 4 month of wsndering end ter rible hardship. The meeting between the two wss most dramatic. To Liv ingstone It mesnt new life. It boojed him up till sll the bsrdshlps were for gotten. Together the two explored Tanganyika and then went back to Unyanyembe. where Stanley provided Livingstone with new supplies snd s new party of faithful blacks. The old missionsry returned to the jungle, to die s few months lster. and Stanley retraced his steps to give the world the story of his achievement. ON THE DESERT. Mr. Stewart Edward White. In his serial, "The Mountains." now running In The Outlook, thus describes his ex perience in the California aiknli plains. Most of the time we got on well | enough. One day only the desert showed her power. That day. at 5 lu the afternoon, it was 120 degrees in the shade. And we, through necessi ty of reaching the next water, jour neyed over the alkali at noon. Then the desert came close on us and looked us fair in the eyes, .'oncealing nothing. She killed poor Deuce, the beautiful setter who had traveled 4iie wild coun tries so long: she struck West and the tenderfoot from their horses when finally they had reached a long-legged water tauk: she even staggered the horses themselves. And I, lying un der a bush, where I had stayed after the others In the hope of succoring Deuce, began Idly shooting at ghost ly Jack rahhits that looked real. l??t through which the revolver bullets passed without resistance. After this day the tenderfoot went water crazy. Watering the horses be came almost a mania with him. He could not bear to pass even a mud hole without offering the astonished Tuneinali a chance to till up. even though that animal had drunk freely not twenty rods back. As f ?r himself, he embraced every opportunity, and Journeyed draped in many canteens. After that it was i.ot so bad. The thermometer stood from to 1(C. or 1(M"?, to be sure, but we wore getting used to It. Discomfort, ordinary pl:y- J sical discomfort, we came to accept ] as the normal environment of man. It ! is astonishing how soon uniformly mi- | comfortable conditions, by very lack i of contrast, do lose their power to j color the habit of mind. 1 imagine merely physical unhappiness Is a mat ter more of contrasts than of actual j circumstances. We swallowed dust, j we bumped our shoulders pbilosophi cally under the beating of the sun: wo breathed Hie debris of high winds; wo cooked anyhow, ate anything, spent long, idle, fly-infested hours waiting for the noon to pass. SKRYDLOFF'S DARING EXPLOIT The several successful sorties which Admiral SkrydlofT has made since ho assumed command of the Russian Via divostok squadron leads a writer in Harper's Weekly to describe the dar ing exploit which first made Skryd lolf's name familiar to the Russian people. The occasion was the passage of the Danube by the Russian army of liberation which was being sent to put a stop to the Bulgarian atrocities which Turkey was carrying on at the time. Russia had no Black Sea fleet then, while Turkey had a number ot powerful Ironclads and monitors. Ad* mlral Skr.vdloff's exploit was to 150 out in n small launch, and, aproaching a Turkish Ironclad, attempt to discharge a "torpedo"?a mere charge of gun cotton on a pole?as close as posslbl# to the Turkish warship. The first at j tempt was unsuccessful, owing to thf fact that when the electric current was turned on SkrydlofT found that the wires had been cut. presumably by a bullet, and there was no way to dis charge the guncotton. WOMAX KILLS A TIffER. Mrs. Lucia Morris, aged twenty three. recently killed the largest tiger ever known In the Kentucky rooun tains. She lives In a lonely spot of Nicholas County, and while her three year-old child was playing in the open dbor a tiger suddeuly sprang from a tall pine tree near by. Mrs. Morris heard the big cat growl, ' and seizing a broom she ran to the j ciilhl Just as the tiger was preparing to spring. Mrs. Morris struck the cat , a blow across the head, breaking the broom and causing the tiger to spring j The brave woman then struck the , beast again, and It sprang away lntc the bushes. ? ! Mrs. Morris feared the tli?er would return, so she locked the baby la the 1 house, and taking her husband's rifle, started to kill the beast. For two miles Into the dense forest she trailed the ti ger and at last brought It to bay lu a tree. By a well directed shot the Ken tucky woman put a bullet through tho big cat's brain. Mrs. Morris summoned help and skinned tho tiger, and has placed the skin in her home as a re membrance. Secreta of Old Rouim Hath. Women used to lose their hairpins a thousand years ago much In the same way as they do to-day. That, at least, Is the Impression one gets from the an tiquities found during lust year at tho Silchester excavations. j The most Interesting discovery was j tho building which formed apparently the principal baths of the Roman town. The exploration of the baths yielded a number of architectural fragments, Including a small altar, i portions of capitals and bnses, part of a large baslu of Purbeck marble, and i some singular pieces of metal. In a QI led up bypocaust were fouud at least 100 bone pins, which had evi- : deutly been used to adjust the back 1 hair of Homan women who used tho . baths. Probably tiny had been ! dropped in the way women throughout j the ages has shed pins, and were col- j lected by the keeper of tlie baths. J Some of them are quite three Inches long, and would make passable hut- 1 pins for the present fashion. A pair of gold earrings with uncut green gems are so bright that they , look as If they might have Just come , ont of a Jeweller's shop lu Bond street. ?Loudou Chronicle. News of Merest -TO AFRO-AMERICANS A Donation From Carnegie. Benedict College, a colored insti tution *n Columbia,8. C., will hare within a few months a library build I?* for which plan* hare been drawn snd which will coat $5,000, the money having been donated by Andrew Car negie. ? ? ? To Combat Prejudice. To rvinbat prejudice against colored tenant* in white districts, in New York, the Afro-American Reality com pany, of that city, has started an ag gressive campaign. Negro real estate operators and in vestors organized the company ? fCi-ui ly with a capital stock of $500.00U. The company own four live *tory flats, valued at $125,000, and holds ten other flat houses under five-year leases. The Afro-American Realty Compa ny wai formed after a struggle a year ago to oust colored tenants of uptown flats. ? ? ? ? An Outrage In Texse. A dispatch from Lock hart, Tex., says: A mob of masked vhitecappers has killed one Negro and severely beaten another, both beicg residents of this vicinity. , The fiob first visited T~>rn Coperton, who was taken f" m his home and mercilessly beaten. From Coperton's cabin the mob went to tie homo of John arreinore and endeavored lo enter the house. Larre'iore's wife opened flre on th"? mob which tho whiteenppers returned. After tho fusilade, Larremore was found dead in tho hallway of the home. * ? ? ? ? Pickens Highly Honored. A dispatch from New Haven, Conn., says: William Pickens, the young colored man who graduated with high honors at Yale a month ago, has just been cotlfk'd of his election to mem bership in the Phi Beta Kappa So ciety. It Is customary for the men elected to receive notifications during commencement week. In explanation of Pickens' failure to receive the elec tion to which he seemed eligible, as a high stand man, it was given out at the time that the society had adopted a rule that men wlio had not entered college when the class as a whole enterei, should be considered as not entitled to election except by speelal consent of the society. It was said that this rule barred Pickens, but the society now seems to have made an exception in his case. He is the only colored man belonging to the society. * * ? * No Prejudice Shown Here. For the second time within twelve months a colored ?~iinii?lcr of Atlanta has opened the session of the general cornci! with pra;er Lij?cn each oc casion the minister so honored has been Rev. H. H. Proctor, pastor of 1 thvj First C< ngr?gatini,al ChuscL Every session of council ccuuz.ences ' with prayer. Some times the minister who is invited to do this service does not appear, and council then nvites any minister or religious worker who nay minister or religious worker who Is present to pray. It was for this reason that Rev. Proctor was invited to pray. He had appeared for the purpose of requesting that stronger efforts be made by the municipality to afford ed ucations! facilities to the colored chil dren of Atlanta. He read a communi cation from various colored citizens asking for more put lie school facilities for the children of their race. The communication was referred to the board of education. ? ? ? ? Chicago Race Riots. ?rays The Atlanta Journal: Another example of the manner lr? which cer tain sections of the north regard Ne groes, when they have enous?t> of them, le being fu-nlshed in Chicago. The importation of a number of their "colored brethren" Into Chicago for the purpose of bresking the packing house strike has respited in a special of race war in the stock yards dis trict, the strikers assaulting and best ing the Negroes whenever th? y ran i get at them. Illinois, Indiana and < Iowa have furnished so many exam- . pies of race antipathy In the last few years that the rest of the country may well wonder what the result would be If those state* contal"?'d any where .he same per cent of Negro pop ulation as does the soutu. As a matter of fact race feeling Is the saii r the country over. The only difference Is that lu the south where the Negro Is thoroughly known and appreciated for his merits he receives much under treatment. The few Ne groes n the north fare extremely III If they attempt to come on the stage at any moment of great popular ex citement, and it needs veiy little pro vocation to bring the northern race antipathy to the surface. The packers who are attempting to employ Ne groes as strike breakers are singularly thoughtless in giving this ever- present feeling an excuse to manifest Itself. Up to date the Chicago strikers, with but few exceptions, have been conduct ing themselves In a mo.it exemplary manner. Donnelly, |n one 0f bis ear. ly manifestoes, made it clear that he fully realized that a strike conducted In an o-derly way was the sort calcu lated to retain public sympathy, aad advised the men to refrain from disor derly o induct. And It was not until the thoughtless Injection of the race elo- I ment lato the situation that any vio lence worthy of remark was reported. ! It Is only proper to conclude therefore ; that is was not too much the fact | that the men wero strike-breakers a der. The further the Negro removes himself from politics the more selft> reliant will he become. _ The right to vote onght to be based upon lntellfc fence or property qualifications. Tho citizen ought to be taught to bring something to his country in his char* acter feifher tangible or intangible, and o'l^ht not to expect his country to add everything to him. The right to vote primarily ought to havo been conferr?d upon us as wo acquired In telligence and became competent to appreciate the purpose of the ballot. Tho right of suffrage should have Itfen handed ns In such a way a* to stliu* ulate development and progress. None but thore who possess and practlco civlo virtue should be allowed to vote. If we would win and maintain a per-uanent place In the civic re? lationi of our country, we must obtain It by reason of what is inherent in th>ep. This is divided Info an upp?V and lower story by means of a slide. The cov?.- is fltted with a glass window, 'n the lower compartment is placed a piece of comb filled with a syrup of *ugar and water. The slide Is pushed in place and the nearest flower bed or clover patch Is sought. With the box In one hand and the cover In the other, it Ia an easy matter to trip a honey bee busy robbing a flower of Its sweets. Watering le>r through the glass window, the moment s:hc quiet? down the slide is gently drawn. It does not take the bee long to dlscovei "ho syrup, nnd she at once begins to load up with this treasure. The box is now placed on a post iind a sharp watch maintained. Pres ently the bee Is sated, and, circling for her bearings. start* straight for the hive or tree. When siic comes back, for she will surely return, she will bring another bee with ber. and In turn this one will bring a third nnd so on until a line is established. Then, while one or more fill wltn the syrup. th.? cover Is replaced and the box carried forward along the line of flight. From the stooping point a new line will be established as before. Thus iti time will the bees load straight to their home. THE DANGERS IN DUST. Plea for Less Relentless Activity In the Household. Whether the bacilli that causes tu berculosls In the human being are the same as those which cause It in other warm-blooded animals, and even fish, or whether they merely change their appearance with their environment, IS a question for the bacteriological ex pert. That we may become Infected from other animals has not the vital Interest that the undoubted fact has that we can, and do, become Infected by the germs that other men carrj about, and that the home, the place where we take refuge from the ills of life. Is precisely where this dread dls ease attacks us. Inside the four wall* of our houses is where these deadly germs are implanted, are nurtured, and firing forth their harvest. It l? at home we must begin to defend our selves. It Is the part of wisdom to do away with the dust-catching drape rles and carpets. Have the rugs shak en and beated out of doors. If you must have carpets, sweep them wltb wet tea leaves sprinkled on them Wipe the furniture with a moist cloth, not flirt the dust around with a bunch of feuthers on a stick. Dust Is dan gerous. Remember tMt, Better to hove some critic w^lte "Sloven" in tho dust upon the mantelpiece than cloud the air with It and poison your whole family.?Everybody's Maga/.ln*