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jPP^^TT- ^ S3?Ce^- - . sfcr- . *1 A Little Child's Message. She wasn't on the* playground, she wasn't on the lawn. The little one was missing suid bedtime eoniimr on. We bunted in the garden, we peeped about to see If sleeping under rose tree or lilae she might be. ' ?nt nnibtnir caine In answer to all our anxious " Jail ~ Until at length we hastened within tin- <i:u keninK hall. And then upon the stillness there broke :i silg - very tone? The darling mite was standing t'-fore the telephone. And vjftly, ns we listened, came stealing down tbo $tajrs; "H'lo. Central! Give me Heaven! I want to say my prayers." ?Sydney Du.vre. __ HOW I1E LIKED IT. "And is this the girl my nephew Paul has married?'1 said old Maj. L'Estrange to himself. "Why, she is nothing but a child, and a lovely child, I too.1' The soft, yellow twilight was enfolding the drawing-room in its enchanted glamour, and Dolores, rising from her piano, stood with large eyes and lightened color to receive her new uncle. She was only 16, but she belonged to tlie beautiful creole race, who blossom so early Into woman nooa, ana sue nau the dignity of a youn^ princess as she stood there all in white, with her jet black hair gathered into a net of gleaming gold. Youn?: I/Estrange looked -first at his ' wife ana then at his uncle with natural k pride. "Here she is, sir!" said he. "My little Dolores!" And then the old gentleman courteously advanced, holding out one slander, ?- 3 L'!.L .^.1 .. aristocrauc nanu, on wmcu jjieameu * diamond of rare size and water. "I am very glad to see you. my dear." said he, courteously, and not without a tender accent of affection. p?? Aud from that moment all Dolores' secret fear and dread of her husband's uncle vanished. - "I am so glad you are not a cross old crab/1 she said impulsively. Has Paul given me such a bad character as that?" said the old geutieman. .-miling. "Oh. no, no!1" cried Dolores. "But he always nays 'My uncle will like this ?my uncle will disapprove of that,' until, don't you see, I nave learned to l>c afraid of this unseen potentate. But." with a shake of the blue-black curb, "I am not afraid now. Oh, I am sure I shall love you very, very much! Might I kiss you. please?" "You might try," said the mnjor, i looking very much pleased: ?ud from that moment Maj. L'Estrange mid his niece-in-law were sworn allie< and firm friends. "And you love him very much?"said the major, speaking, of course, of the one Prince Charming wiio had ensnared the Creole's heart. "Oh. yes!" cried Dolores. "I am sure, Uncle Gerahl.thnt there is no oue like him in the world. ^S'o oue!" f. *,Au?i he in good to you?" "Yes. al ways." "Am! are you happy?" _ "Yes. ami?except " Hallo!" said Uncle Gerald. "Here's a flaw in the diamond?a crumple in ^ the rose leaves! There ought to be no such thing as an except!" "There isn't." stoutly maintained Dolores. "Only??" "It's the "?.me thin**" said Uncle Geral(t, shaking his heaa. "An 'only!1 Come. Dolores, what is it? OpeQ confovsinn. rt*mcinbor. is ?rood for the soul What is the meaning of this mysterious ouly?""Dolores hung down her head, the ink black lashes drooped ovfer her peach-blossom cheek"It Isn't anything at all. Uncle Gerald," said she. "Only?I should - - like a little money to spend sometimes." "Oh!" said the major. "Why, how is this? Paul isn't a miser, I hope." "Not in the leifet," cried Dolores. "But?but?I hardly know how to explain mvself ? he thinks I ought to ----- _ come iu mm *vi jrouujr * He thinks I should keep within a certain limit. Of course he's right, but it's a little hard sometimes. There's no need for a woman's spending money, he says." "Ah!" commented the major. "And I wanted some.bou-boris dread - fully yesterday," said?Dolores,laughing t ' and" blushing. "Of course it's ridiculous?a grown woman like me wanting bonbons like a child; but, indeed Uncle Gerald. I couldn't help it, and I was ashamed to ask Paul for $1 to buy French candies with; and if there's an organ-grinder, or & beggar, or a poor woman, selling DUtions anu snue-sinugs why, I have my rings, and my ribbons, I and my bracelets, but nothing else." T.he major smiled and stroked his while silk beard as he sat there in the bamboo chair in the shadow of the sweet southern passion-vines. "It is a hard case," said he. "Yes.isn't it?" cried Dolores, earnestly. "I toM Paul he ought to give me a regular sum for pin-money, but he k only laughs at me and says I am a ' - little goose. How would he liko it him self, 1 wonder?" "Ah!" said the major; "how,indeed?" \ "And flowers!" cried Dolores, claspL _ ing her hands. "There was a floweralon^ yesterday with the sweetest t/tt-pan lilies and tuberoses always mate me think of beautiful New Orleans. Oh, Uncle Gerald, I did so want those waxen darlings! But Paul says it K makes a woman extravagant to have tall the money she wants. Would the tuberoses have been extravagant.Uncle f' Gerald?" "No," said the old ffeutlcman. looking at the beautiful speaking fa.ee, "I don't think they would. But now, litL _ tie Dolores, thei'e comes vour pony up the drive. Go lor your airing ana leave I me to sleep." L But the major did cot sleep at all. W"- Unmeditated. He faced the financial problem of the L'Estrange household L and resolved to conquer it. Ik Paul L'Estrange came up from the city that evening in excellent spirits. ; "My dear uncle," he said, "I shall [ have to call on your generosity once r- again. Only fancy n>y meeting Hall |i and Ovington on the parade this afterAnd thev tell me that Col. Praed ami young Jennings are in town WL also. So I hav? just ordered a little bachelor supper at Auramo s lor io? yf morrow evening." "Ah?" said Maj. L'Estrauge. "I looked at that chestnut maro.sir," added Paul. "She is simply j>crfeet,so I t?M oiie Plan to bring her up here. 1 am to have her for $37o. It's a bar^-Indeed?" .Paul L'Estran^c turned quickly EOf aiUUUU 4V/V/XVVX* rtV "Is anything the matter, sir?" said J "The matter? No. Why should there be?" "Only your tone was so peculiar? 1\ that is all." \ "Well, to tell the truth. I was thinking." s;u?l Maj. L'Estrange. W "Of what, sir?" questioned Paul, ff "Of where you meant to get the | money to pay for all these tliiugs." dryly answered the old man. r " *?"???? . "Why. from you, of course." said Paul, half puzzled, half amused. "You ft have always given me all the money i wanted." IF _ Bui that is no sigu that I shall alp. ways eontinue to do so," deliberately remarked the old gentleman. "Look Lhere, Paul. I am thinking of turning over a new l$af." "I don't understand you, sir." "Don't you? Then i must endeavor 1 to elucidate my meaning a mue. | money is mine, isn't it?" Most assuredly it is." answer e? 1. witIi knitted l>r<?ws. "\>eii. men. i nave a ngni to cleat it out as I please. And I am seriously thinking of stoppiug your allowance." "Of?stopping my allowance, Uncle Gerald ?" "Yes. If 3 011 want anything you can | come to me for it. you know." "Like a school-boy, Lucie Gerald!" | cried the young man, with crimsoning temples. "Why not?" serenely questioned the i old gentleman. "Do you know, I have an idea that it make* a man ex- j travairaut to have the handling of too ; much niouey. That, 1 believe, is your opinion also." Mine, eh?" echoed Paul. "It Ls what you tell your wife," said Uncle L'Estrauge, with a twitch of the corners of his mouth. Paul looked puzzled. But she it; a woman, sir." "And ergo, she has no wants! Is that logic, my bov?M "I um always ready to give her anything she wants!" exclaimed the young man. "Exactly the platform which I occupy in respect to you." said Gerald. "And yet you don't seem satisfied with the arrangement I propose. Come! Let's be judicial, inv bo v. Let us bo perfectly impartial. Fiat justitia, ruat caelum, you know. If my niece's monev is to be dealt out to her a penny at a time, so must my nephew's. "My dear uncle." crieu Paul jumping up, "I never looked at the thing in that light before. Mv poor, little Dolores. What a sordid old miser I must have appeared to her. Why didn't some one do my the favor to tell m? what an egregious idiot I was making of myself? What shall I do. Uncle Gerald? Shall I make her a regular allowance?so much a week?" "I dare sav we shall find some satis ;?,r !,? Kol. JUIWIWI > iUUUiUM U1 1.41V VU.Iance." said Maj. L'Estrange. with a smile. "It's of a sort ad homiuem argument, this of mine. 1 must confess; but it was a mil trouble to little Dolores, ami so I thought I would just hoki up a looking-^lass to you, Nephew Paul. But don't look so grave, you shall have your supper at Aurauio's. and your chestnut mare, and all those other little luxuries of life which have grown to be necessities to you. But Dolores must i?ave her bou-bous and flowers and little charity coins also. As I said before, flat justitia." "With all my heart, uncle,v said Paul, laughing. And so little Dolores won her cause ' >' o? - t 1 _ M. L. aner an. one came 10 ucr uucio iut noxt day. "Oii,uncle." she said, "I am .so sorry I told you that about Paul." Why. my dear?" asked the major. Because we have talked the mattei all ovck" said Dolores, "and he is so good. I am to hare a separate allowance all of my own. IsQ.t he splendid! And I wouldn't have him think I complained of him for all the world!" "Don't be afraid, my dear," said th? major. "It shall be a state secret between qs two forever and a da}'. And you are sure you're quite hanpv now?" "Oh, yes, quite." declared Dolores, with emphasis. Bui she did not know that Uncle Gerald wa< the magician who had wrought this wonderful change.?N 1". Lulycr. Laughed. The word "hell" among Germans la not looked upon with a horror that it is among Americans, ami oven the most cultured German would uot hesitate to use it any more than ho would the w?rd "heaven." A young lady who learned the English language in her home in the old country and can mint it ilmo-it-lv frt m. fMsliinnahlo party the other day. A grate lire had been kindled and the room was uncora. fortably warm. There was a pause in the conversation, when iu a rather loud tone of voice was heard the remark in English, but with a pretty German accent: "It is hot as hell in this room."' The eleetritied guests sat as if stunned for a moniont. and then as if by prearranged signal, all broke out in a laugh. Up to this date the German girl doesn't know what the laugh was all about.? Cleveland l'luin Dealer. DR. TALMACE'S MOTHER. An Eloquent Tribute to Her Memory by the Fuu>ou* Preacher. I never write or speak to woman, ?ays Dr. Talmage in the Ladies' Horns Journal, but my mind wanders off to one model?the aged one who, twentyFrm-r venrs ocrn Wfi l>lj? awaV for tilts J -e>-' ? i j resurrection. About eighty years ago, and just before their marriage day, mv father and mother stood up in the old meetinghouse at Somerville. X. J,, and took upon them the vows of the Christian. Through a long life of vicissitude my mother lived harmlessly and usefully and came to her end in peace. No ehild of want ever came to her door and was turned away empty. No one m sorrow came to her but was comforted. No one askod her the way to be saved but she pointed him to the cross. When the angel of life came to a neighbor's dwelling she was there to rejoice at the starting of another im mortal spirit. When the angel of death catno to that dwelling she was there tc robe the departed for the burial. We had often heard her, when leading family prayers in the absence ot my father, say: "0 Lord, I ask not for my children wealth or honor, but I do ask that they may all be the subjects ol thy comforting grace!" Her clever: children brought into the kingdom of God she had but one more wish, and that was that she might see her longabsent missionary sou, and when the shfp from China anchored in New York harbor and the long-absent one passed over the threshold of the paternal hom? she said: "Now, Lord, lettest thou tbj &ei\?iuw ut*p;u t in yvitw- ivi ^v?^o have seen thy salvation." The prayer was soon answered! It was an autumnal day when we gathered from afar, and found only the house from which the soul had fled" forever. She looked very natural, the hands very much aa when thev wore 1 2 i_:? 3 *u.v aU:i,7?./V? empioyuu m &.umueas iui uiu cunuitu. Whatever else we forget, we nerer forget the lock of mother's hands. As vre stood by the caske* we cnild. no#' help but say: "Doesn't she lo^* beau tiful?" It wa3 a cloudless day when, with heavy hearts, we carried her out to the last restiug place. The withered leaves crumbled under hoof and wheel as we passed, and tho sun shone ou the Raritan river until it looked like fcut more calm, and beautiful, and radiant was the setting sun of that aged pilgrim's life. Xo more toil, no more tears, no more sickness, no more death. Dear mother! Beautiful mother! "Sweet is me smniDer oenoatn me Wlillc the pure spirit, rests with Goi." With such a mother as an example, is it strange that I should always have cherished the most exalted estimate of woman and womankind? Something Substantial. -Xo. sir." said the new senator from Maine, as he sat down in the new restaurant. "I don't like all this fancy business, with your big bill of fare,and these darky waiters in dr^ss-suits standing round. Tam't tin. I mind e'm at all, but a man can't get a decent meal iu a place like this with nil these fancy tixiu's; that's what I object to. What I want, sir. is a good.substantial meal, and I intend to get it. Here, waiter, bring me :i piece o' custard pie an' cup o* coffee!"- Ihtrcurd Lutmunn THE BiCCEST SYNDICATE YET. A t'orjmrHrioti Korineit to I-iic'il Two H' miKplierfn. "Financiers in i'hiladrlplii-i and in New York have succeeded during the past week in placing stork lor i In- , bigire^t syndicate tat) t>.>iiiw<t oil tlio filCe of III* yloiXi. Tilt- S\lidil'ttUembraces m the plans of its pro.Lgious entei-prise no less a feat thai tlie 1 lighting of two hemispheres, and the ! requisite cash is now in hand. Tlic incorporators of this great concern expect to meet during the coming week and perfect an organization under the title of tli* Anglo A in; ricaii Gas Lighting Company. Arrangements have already been completed to list $~>o,OUO.U()() of stock on June I on the Philadelphia and New Vtwk exchanges. The porson21:"*] <>!' the Philadelphia contingent of of the syndicate has a decided "iraetion" aspect, idl the lending capita! ists of that network of street rati ways tigurmg prominently in the gigantic amalgauuition. They a,?reinforced by the leading spirits of the old Gas Trust, and by no less important individual capitalists. \V. W*. Gibbs. President of the United Gas Improvement Company of Philadelphia is the leading spirit of the new S.wxi-sx TTl_? iKXri'/l iAin ouwn\ii|/wvuo ^ gate nearly $5,000,000. He bus been at work on the scheme, which originated in his brain, for nearly eight years, ami such has been his success that he is already alluded to as the Jay Gould of Philadelphia. Eight years ago Mr. Gibbs was unknown to local fame. Then he occupied a small oiftce in New York city as the president of a company similar in character to the vast enterprise now successfully launched, but on a decidedly miniature scale. Mr. Gibbs removed to Phila., and his establishment of the now great United Gas Improvement Company was attended with phenomenal success. A number of leading citizens were among the incorporators, including William G. Warden, George Philler. Tlios. I)ol:m. Henry (J. Liibson, \\ Uliam S. Elkins. P. A. B. "Widen er, John AYanuamaker, Henry H. Hueston and C. A. Griseom. During its existence of nearly a tlecaile the United Gas Improvement Company lm.> secured ownership of the ga*-lsghting franchises oi more than forty cities, the most important of which are Kansas City, Omaha, Des Moines, Allentown, Jeresy City, Patterson, Atlanta, Savannah, Columbia, "Waterbury and Lewistown. "When English capitalists, following their lucrative experience with American breweries, began casting wistful eyes upon generid American industries and examining their earning capacities, their attention wag quickly attracted by the alert and enterprising Gibbs to the United Gas Improvement Comp?iay. English agents who are now in New York city were sent oat to negotiate with the Philadelphia and New York shareholders of the plant. They repre A, 1 /-I..VI? T SPItlt'U out O UUUH VJUHI.-71 iiil-i, u jljvujdon banker, and the Imperial Continental Gas Company of London. Mr. Gibbs spent Friday and Saturday ill close conference with them in New York. ON CRUMBLING L'VEES. Mauy l'oople in Lonihl^ua ia Deadly JoopJ ardy. A special to the Daily State from Bayou Sara, La., says: "The relief steamer 'Doctooh' reached Bayou Sara landins: yesterday evening;. She litis made a trip to point liupo and come back to Bayou Sara. Her arrival was a Godsend to the people whoso livos are in jeopardy, for she has not only already saved any amount of property but a goodly number of lives. The real condition of things in the overflowed district is just coming to light. No pen is equal to the task of picturing the devastation and desolation of the people. More of the levees has gone. The water is backed up all around the surrounding country, and hundreds of lives are in jeopardy. The wmall stretches of levees still standing are crowded with men, women and children side by side with horses and cows. In an old raised gin house five hundred negroes wer? found huddled together. Their condition was pitiable. They were afraid of their lives, and were piteously begging to be taken to a place of safety. The crevasse at Allendale will overflow thirty of the finest plantations of the river. The -damage is incalculable. The distress in the overflowed district cannot be told. The Texas & Pacific boaf "E. B. Wheelock" succeeded yesterday in saving 200 people from the back country around Morganza." Th#> Mftnnlkln Mamlotta of Africa* Nelson had a curious account to give of the dwarfs of the Congo Forest. He describes them as the ugliest aud most j depraved specimens of humanity ho ever heard of. "Thov struck me as the dark and forbidding features of a nightmare." he said, "rather than actual human beings, when we first saw them. (), they're a bad lot. I tell x-^.1 U/>n.n<imuc< irn ctvilcV n VUU. ?? V where thev seemed a trifle less wild or more conlident. aud they used to come in swarms to the enmp. Ther, of course, had never seen a whit., man before. "The most disagreeable thing about them was their guilty, sneaking expression. They are cannibals, of course, and it always seemed to me that they came into our camp for the purpose of feasting their eyes on us. as a pack of hungry dogs might gaze longingly at a leg of mutton. Thcv could uever look us iu the fac?. 1 have felt their baleful gaze on me as I sat at my tout door, and the moment I ( liit T lnnVrwl all ovoc would instttlltlv ** V A. *VV *V % l*'* VJ - J be dropped. But I have detected them sizing up tiie others, aud fairly lickiug their chops. It used to make my flesh creep. They used to pay more attention to Jephsou than any of us. We were none of ua overburdened with brawn in those days, but Jephsou is of plumper build thau any of the others, hence his popularity with these impish cannibals. They admired Jephson because they saw at a glauce that he would cut into more steaks and better ribroasts than we others. "I tell yon what," continued the gallant Captain, "somebody ought to call the attention of the missionary societies to these depraved manikins. It would be a Christiau and a civilized act to send out to these benighted beings twenty or thirty plump, rosy-cheeked young missionaries and a few bottles of Worcestershire sauce. There is no such field for missionarv usefulness in all Africa as in the Congo Forests. Africans, I know, are as a general j thing ungrateful and unappreciative, : but I assure you there is a positive demand for missionaries among these dwarfs, and I will guarantee tluit every one sent will he duly appreciated, with or without tint Worcestershire sauce." ?Thomas Stccciis. im,?. u i a in- t-H l'oriiaud. Me., hafl ' made nearly *i.OOO.UOO m the mMB. CaCttUtf of cUewiBg-gwa' V it) Tli*1 English horse, employed in 1 lii" sti^efs of a <*iiy .?: 071 fli?? roads : ??!' tJj*- country. <i ?. io- a.; mwh work as ill** A'ao; n-.ui hoi smulaily placed. How.' Why? Is the En I glish hot si* Llian t!.. A.u.-j icau' Not :a :dl. I. I..- :.?<. ? .%? ij ! ' .{' J! havfe n?? > Hi*.* thai he is. 1 have seen bail, one laiiu t?;<(.-> - iu LoucIoji. Tin- simple e\pl uiatioji is. the | Knglisli have invested in perfect anu j permanent roads what the Americans exjK-nd in |x?rislt:xl>1?* liors--* that re . quire to be fed. We are supporting hundreds of horses to dvaur loads through holes that o\:gl:l t->l>e idled, over sand that slioul : oe hardened, through mud that ought i:t>l to be permitted to oxi?>t. We have the misery of bad roads, and are act ually or practical!}* called ujarn u? p-iy a premium for them. ii. would be demonstrably cheaper lo have jjood roads thai) ]>oov cues. 11. is so here. A ro.ul well built is easily kept iu repair. A mile of ^'.xnI macadamized i?>-id is more ea :lv supported thau a ]x)or lioj's*'. i^.it .ui : rII tiv broad tires of English veil. i -s i-.i.e much to do With saving tin* loads, while ov:r iiunow ones i-..i 4h?:i. up badly ?Springfield Republican. A <;ricu 11ui-a.I ('?> 1!. Tlie Ss'ii.s! <? committee on edlica- I lion and labor has ueeivc-d aconmiittee of the Association ol' American Agricultural Colleges and Experimental Stations. >\ ho piesented a memorial of their ne*-ds. Tile committee consisted of Henry E. Alvord, president of M uyl.uid Coll.James K. Smart. Iu-.li.uia: Alorrill K. (lilies, New Jersey: James \Y. Patterson, Kentucky, and Henry It. GooJell of Massachusetts. Tlio memorial says that atrueiiltural colleges, estabii it .1 umler the United States law of 18t;*2. an- now educating neaily t.*u thousand students. As a rule, all who finish a course of study at. these institutions are at once in demand for remunerative positions, many of them as teach ers oi natural science mouuvr iusiuutions, where the goou eil'eet of these colleges uro multiplied. Th.- farmers manifest a growing interest in the work of the colleges. The memorial saykthat tiio special auu immediate needs oi these colleges for more generous support arise from tiiese two facts: The cost of a proper equipment for scientific work, and the gi eat increase in the number of students. These colleges have now reached a point in their development where their future growth and usefulness ale conditioned upon their securing increased facilities for doing a larger work. The memorial asks, therefore, that at least 315,000 a year be provided now for each State, to be inert'used until a limit of not less than #2r>,iioo is reached. Mrs. Harrison's Laudable Wish. A lad}' who is quite intimate with Mrs. Harrison says that her great ambition is to have the projected alterations to tlie White House commenced during her husband's term of office. "You would be astonished to know," she says, "how much Mrs. Harrison is really interested in the matter. She has a great deal ol taste, and would doubtless like to have the opportunity of exercising it in the new arrangement* for the Executive Rnf iy iiAf flinf ivnvlrvn ITXailOiVXi* x/ui> a u l>; aivi/ uuuv v?.vja able vanity which makes her so earnest in the matter. She really desires to have the White House made a creditable establishment to the country, and one of which Americans can In,1 proud, as well as to lmve it made habitable." An Opium Victim's Vagaries. Particularshave been received niAIassellon, Ohio, concerning the strange and inexplicable conduct of Justice Peter Hawk, who resigned his office at the village of Bolive. south of tliis city, last fall, and continued to exercise the various functions pertaining thereto for about four months after. in addition to executing deeds, mortgages and other legal papers, it is known that he married at least six cou pies, which acts were unlawful. It is not yet developed wlio tho unfortunately mated people are, as they were non-residents who drove to the village to have their nuptial knots, tied. The Justice's acts are now ?xplained by the fact that he is a victim of the opium habit, has been driven insane from the use of the drug and has been sent to the county infirmary ?Cleveland Leader. Tho Lame Walk. I-'ititul indeed is tne condition 01 those who are confined to their beds , or chairs unable to walk. How grateful all such mast feel when they recover from their helplessness. B. B. , B. (Botanic Blood Balm) has made more than one lame person happy. Mrs. Emxia Griffiths. Unitia, Tenn., writes: "My little boy bad scrofula so bad his knees were drawn , up and knee* stiff, and he could not > walk. He derived no benelit from 1 medicines until I tried B. B. B. After using it a short time only, he can j walk and lias no pain. I shall continue to use it." I Mirile M. Tanner, Boonville, Ind., ; writes: "I had blood poison from birth. Knots on my limbs were f?s large as hen s eggs. Doctors said I would be a cripple, but B. B. B. has cured me sound and well. X shall ever praise the day the men who invented Blood Balm were born." Water Metaphors. According to the New York Ledger there is untiling under the sun which is the basis of so large a number of figures of speech as water. Its flow oceanward is likened to the lapse of time, and the ocean serves the poetH? though not rcry happily?as a symbol of eternity. But It is in the familiar figures of ordinary conversation that otic hearrf most 01 water. poor jm^uuicui won k , hold water;" a babbler is a "leaky vessel;" a half drunken man is "buff seas over;1' "iishiug in troubled waters'1 is another name for gett-iug into difficulty; "still waters ruu deep" is a hint that your quiet and demure person has more in him than the world supposes; strong dislikes arc compared to his satanic majesty's antipathy to "holy water;'* if a man is in a bad prcdica meat he is in "hot water;"-<iisappointment is a "wet blanket11?wet with water, of course; when *. lover gets "the raitton," *'eoUl water is thrown on hla hop^;" the hungrj man's "mouth waters;" fortune has its "tides" hs well as the sea; tUo must; informs us that there j are "tongues in the running brooks;'1 sometimes it "rains'1 blessings: and ' when an orator has exhausted his subject ami begins to be tedious, we say I he has "run dry;11 news is always ! "alloat;" specu'ators are often "swamj)- ! j ed;" many people tind it impossible to i "keep their heads above water,'1 and ! i \*rv often in the absence of data for ! I 1 ,, j conjecture wo are "an ai sea. A shoe trudo journal says that tiie ; j best time to ?fet titled to shoes is the , i latter part of the clay. The feet are j j then at their maximum of size and j i sensitiveness. t w ? On The Grindstone. A hundred years ago or more it was A customary in some parts of New England for men and boys to wear trousers made of leather, says the Youth's Coin- 01 pinion. The historian of the lowu of & Wells,Me., remark* that sueh garments f< were not altogether satisfactory for b the rather curious reason that they Vi lasted too long. ? We remember hearing a matron of p the olden time tell a story of the tw jj hoys of one of their neighbors. They had begged of their mother that the\mi<rht lay aside their leather trousers ^ ana have a pair made of domestic eloth; but all their entreaties were in vain. 11 Shu vvould give them no other encouragement than to oromise that when the ? O " * ^ leather was worn out tJiey should have I! a pair of homespun. v They endured for a long time the v vexation of the unyielding garments, a which promised to be as lasting as the f< raiment of the Israelites in the wilder- c ness. c Finally all hope failed the boys and t their wits came to their aid. They took u to thv. ;'Tindstone. One sat upon it s while the other turned the crank. Iu imagination they saw themselves already clothed in the long-desired homeepuu. But, alas, their hopes wero suddenlv r t ii ... .I,,,:,. i Oiasicu. Ail ill UIIL'C LJJUli. xuuigi cauiv, round the comer of the barn and dis- 1 covered them thus employed. They f had still to wear the leather?for how t much longer the historian is unable to c say. t f Didn't Like The Memorial Window. ( Not long ago a prominent lawyer in 1 a western town put a handsome stained- ? glass window in the church which he attended. The design was the giving 1 of the law to Moses in Mount Sinai by 1 God, and, appropriately enough, the 1 text under the picture was "There is ( one lawgiver who is able to save and ] destroy." Soon after the window was f placed in the church an old townsman j of the lawyer attended a service and t began to notice the window, whose j beauty had been the town-talk for some time. It may be mentioned in passing that lliis niau had been recently ue- fcated in a lawsuit in which the lawyer * in question hail been retained by his opponent. So he was quite prepared to see many defects in the window. Apparently he saw what lie expected, for with a look of disgust on his face < he soon turned away from it. "Didn't 3*ou like ii?" asked an acquaintance ; after the service. "Naw, was the energetic reply. "I think it is an outrage to allow that man to advertise . himself in the church." "What do you mean?" "Why, didn't you read the statement under the picture 'There is one lawyer who is able to save and destroy!1 I call that about the cheekiest piece of advertising i hare *<>. u>r ? long time." Either throng i 1111familiarity with German tc- r bocause of near-sighted uesa. 1. i mistaken the word "law; ' for "lawyer;" hence his righteu . .dignati#%. ?aMOKi tfatiS m a Hi That is a terrible story co: ; from North Queensland about j: i who was lost in the bush. Ho u- ip all hiu water and then dropped billy" in the agouy of his thirst. 1-. -ud by, fortunately, he came to a n^^-r-hole where he slaked his thirst a:;.! found the road again. He had still some thirty miles to go, however, and he had unthinor whsituvttr to earrv water in. Of course it would be matlness to attempt to travel thirty utiles ou foot under a North Queensland sun without any water, so his readv invention came to his aid. lie had been horrilied a short distance back bv the skeleton of a man who had evidently been dead several years, lie went back and got the skull, plugged up the eyeholes with clay, and tilled it witti water. He then tramped that thirty miles on the water contained iu the skull. Can any novelist imagine a more <rha.stiy and frightful idea than this, for which we can vouch??l'ull M<(ll (iuzctli;. Dcpew at Vassar. woln ennoL'O'ra JL l/ISUlcll luaiv^ ^ the hardest audience in the United Stntes to faco is the 400 or 500 girls who are attending Vassar College. There isn't a woman's face upturned toward the lonely masculine person addressing them but expresses 10,000 shafts of wit upon his bearing, gesture, voice, and upon what he says. Yet our own Chauncey, a few days ago, ; went up to Poughkeepsie and daringly and unflinchingly endured this ordeal. ! Air. Depevr was introduced to the Vas: par girls by one of their number, a Miss Sanders, a pretty and bright womau. As sue was escorting iur. Depew up the aisle of the college hall she was observed to speak to the orator qnietlv, whereupon he almost laughed loudly, and, with his face overspread with merriment replied to what she j had said. There was a good deal of 1 curiosity felt as to this chat, andlinally one Vassal* girl said to Miss Sanders: I "What did you say to Mr. Depew when i you were walkiug up the aisle with Lim?" "I was wearing my lirst train," said Miss Sanders, "and Mr. Depew went too fast for me, and so I said to him, 'Whoa, whoa, you'll break my train.'" "You didn't dare to say 'whoa, whoa,1 to such a man as Mr. Depew?" "1 did ?why not? And he said he would 'slow up* at once. Being a rail way man lie knew wnai uroaKing uams meant."?X. 1'. Gaul arul l'euton. A friend who luis just returned from Paris tells nie a characteristic anecdote, says the Critic. During the recent exposition there was a little railroad, Jive miles in length, running around the grounds. Tho track ran in and out among tho trees and buildings, and so near tnem that a passenger's head or arm thrust out of the window was in danger of being knocked off. To prevent accidents of this sort warnings were printed on large posters and ?n + Avrolc t\f ? ?/! c ta^rwuvi u|./ mioi .wo v/x A\_ ?? j? vi^ along the entire track. They are printed in almost every known language, including Asiatic and African tongues, ihorthand and volapuk. My friend counted over thirty languages and dialects. You would have supposed that none was omitted in such a list. But there was one omission, and a very important one. Not a singlo word ol warning was priuted in Germau. Some one said to th* manager of the road: "It looks ai though you don't care whether tho Germans got their heads and arnii knocked off or 1106." He :i 1 ??T* MJJIH *i il auu ivj'iivu* xh doc:' look that way, sure enough." It Iinitutfs tho Drum Major. The Eighth Hussars of the British army have a gazelle for "child of the regiment.'' It accompanies the regiment everywhere, ami i* an especially conspicuous ligure on the Sundaj church parade, when it accompanies I the hand, leading tin- line with a state! ly tread, apparently imitated from thai I of the drum major. "We've got a hotter scheme now 1 than holilinjr up a whole train," re1 marked a Western train robber to s j friend. "What is it?' "We simplj I kidnap the porter and hold him for ransom."?X. V. St/n. Western Merchant?"Your expenses were very hi;rh on your last trip, Mr. . Mendall." His Drummer?"Yes. sir: | blamed hi<jh. I ;rot snowed in with a j poker jrame at Pike's Peak, and had to 1 stay a week." ?Jiuljr. FREAKS Or THE TORNADO. I>:?r?ce Flock of Sheep Apparently} Blown Out into 8p?C?. J G. \Y. Doyle, of Smithheld, Heury juuty, was in the city yesterday, qJ told of remarkable freaks perM-med by the tornado in his neigh orhood. for the truth of which he ouches. About one mile west of Iminence lives James Diane., a proserous farmer. His farm was directly 1 the path of the tornado. A Mr. Iadox and child, who lived on the laco. were killed by a fidling house, ? nd Mr. Dane s residence was un??...2 1 i .t ... uuieu iu-iu mo uaiiib (.irmuij.aj_ic<a. But the most singular occurrence ran that a laixe llock of sheep on the uin was picked bodily up by the rind and blown away. The sheep re re missed the day following the t<um and diligent search was made or them all over the surrounding ountry. but no trace of the animals ould be found. So thorough was he search that it left 110 doubt in the uinds of those engaged in it that the lieep were actually blown out of the leighborhood. A few miles further on from the >rane farm a sink hole was found, inc which the tornado had disgorged tself, but had evidently held on to ts mutton, as none of the skeep were ound in the hole Into this hole the omado had dropped a large quantity >f articles, some of which had cerainlv been brought a long distance, is they were unknown to the people )f that locality. The article attractng most attention was a large, elegantly carved pulpit None of the churches in that neighborhood had lost a pulpit, and among iiem all, such a fine one could not lave been found, even had the tornalo gone around and selected the best. Beside the pulpit was a large quan;ity of be J clothing, mattresses, 'eatherbeds. pillows comfortables, sheets. etc. The bulk was held down dv a number of tin roofs, which also must have come a long way, as the roofs of that section were made of *liingles.?Lyuisville Courier Journal. ?The New York Association of Working Girls is composed of ei^li teen clubs, with a total membership of 2,035. The association has rented thirteen whole houses and thirteen rooms. It has 182 classes in dressmaking, sewing, cooking, etc.,twentythree libraries, five music clubs, twelve provident and benefit schemes, ? -1 A 1?? JL1U 1COU1VC viuwo. ?Ex-Secretary Bayard thinks Grover Cleveland is "the grandest Democrat of them all." and that he will be renominated and re-elected in 1892. THE WOLVERINES. A Ferocious Animal That Lives Only in th? North Woo<L? of Michigan. "Michigan is called the Wolverine state, but I dou't believe there are two dozen persons outside of that state that know what a wolverine is," said a native of the Green bay region, now a New Yorker, to a New York Sun man. "Far that matter, the people in Michigan itself who can tell you what a wolverine is are mighty scarce. Why this animal should be particularly a resi dent of the Michigan wilderness I do I not know, but I never heard of it being seen or hoard of elsewhere. The wail is a common animal all over the west, or at least it was before civilization limited its habitat, and the blaek beai is also found everywhere ia ?rreater oi less numbers. Then why should the wolverine only have made its appearance in Michigan, where it was iu tht pioneer days as plenty almost as the wolf, and even now is a dreaded frequenter of the woods of the northern part of the state? The jvolverine is an animal that has some of the characteristics of the wolf, and partakes in other ways of the nature of the bear. The old settlers of Michigan always insisted that the animal was a cross between those two beasts, and that is the belief of north Michigan woodsmen to-day. wnen jvucnigau was aumiueu uw mo union the wolverine was still common, in fact infested all the forests of the state, and the state was named after him, owing to some of the characteristics of the animal admired bythehardv pioneers who hewed a commonwealth out of the great wilderness they found about their inland sea. "It is a singular fact that no museum or zoological gardens has ever yet had x specimen of this unique member of ' > T ;* tne annual Kiuguuuj. ? aaj n. ia omgalar, and I do not know that it is either, for the reason that they have never exhibited the wolverine is the great difficulty, not to say impossibility, of capturing it alive, or of keeping it alive after it is captured. They are the most avage of beasts. They have the ugly temper of the wolf, which they resemble in appearance, but in size and savageness they resemble the bear of the western fastnesses. But while having the size and savageness of the bear, they excel him in aggressiveness and ferocity. They do not have his clumsiness. Their wolfish appearance makes the fact that they are expert and agile trpp-rlimhftrs seem odd. In lving in wait for their prey they also resemble the panther, for they will crouch closely in the branches or forks of a tree and drop down upon their victim like one of those great members of the cat family. They will attack a man in this way as readily as they would a fawn, and many an unwary hunter in the Michigan woods has fallen a victim to some hungry and indiscriminating wolverine. The claws of this strange animal are much longer and sharper than the bear's and their teeth bigger and more pointed and curved. Their wariness is said by hunters to exceed that nf ftnv Animal on the continent, and they are seldom huntee for the sport of the thing, the danger being too great. It is only when a -wolverine has made his presence so destructive to the pastures and sheep-folds of the backwoods farmers that the entire loss of their live stook is feared that the farmers organize for a raid on the wolverines, ubualty employing a number of expert and daring woodsmen to direct the hunt. I can't see for myself what the pioneers of Michigan saw in this animal to perpetuate its memory by nicknaming their state after it, but the name is there, and Michigan will remain the Wolverine state long alter the wolverine is extinct." European Colonists fbr California. Several thousand families from England and Denmark will be settled in the San Joaquin valley in California this season. A large tract of land has been cut into twenty-acre fruit farms, and the colonists are now on their way -11 U irom me oiu wunu. 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If. !* uP US \NfKFD TO CUB) 1 -riok IIa'J Coiu.tixUioa . I. a <lMP ] gal t'rc-vsjt* xlt ii^ru: u-jublet, *"rl? J i,L> MuO. ifvl of <l{ilHaU asd M I w?.no WnoijuoiarsJ by . I3JJ BAHAfcl ? uP.UttOO, J WliS? .1A tin '.*<U>luii>K. TERRY M'F'GOO t r :* 4 VALLEY MUTM LIFE 5t i ASSOCIATION I y 1 VffitffllA. , s M. ERSKINE MILLER, * ^ President ASHER AYERS, Secretary. J. FRED EFFINGER, Treasui er. c Began Business September 3, 1878. o Reserve Fund $108,000. ^ j (Invested in Bonds and Mortgages on Real Estate.) V o ^ Insurance in Force, oyer $10,000,000. 1 Annual Premium Income, over $260,000. Death-losses paid, over... $1,700,000. Of which over $200,000 lias been paid in South Carolina. 5SS WS ma SSS5WABL2 WUCY. AS WRITTEN BY THH VaUIY X3TOA1 L3P2 ASSOCIATES Cf ?*sfl msiiu, ? Possesses the following ^ ATTRACTIVE FEATURES: 1st. Its Premiums are fixed ami made a pail of the policy contract. ' 2nd. It offers the lowest possible rates consistent witk security. 3rd. Its policies are incontestable after three years. J 4th. It gives a paid-up policy after fl five years. ^ 5th. At the end of any ten year period the insured has the option of either taking, 1st, the surplus to hi* credit in cash, and continuing the policy at his then rate; or 2nd, allowing the surplus to be applied as a oredit on future nreaiiums durii.g the following Ten 'tear period. 6th. The policy is renewable at the ^ 4 end of any Ten Year period without re-examination. , T+ll TTia r\/"i1 w?v_l i aLI VIA. AMV ^A/JUVJ MV4VIV4 3 B in the profits of the Company by reason of the division of the surplus l at the end of Ten Year period. 8th. Its form of policy is a model 4 of brevity, being simply a promise to pa}'. i 9th. It has no restriction as to travel. 10th. Being free from all techni- d J ii.. i:?(..is i twines wu tue ix^ncy-iioiaer oeing * allowed to participate W the profits 1 of the Company, coupled with t}w yery low rate of cost, it presents aa exceedingly attractive -form of insurance. Active and reliable agents can - ?m| make liberal terms by applying, with eefmnce, to LEE HAGOOD, . C<Huiubi&, p. f. j 1 -'--v - - \ -