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| ^ THEMASTWR. AX IMITATION. Q. Tell me, oh, Sage! What is the true ideal? A. A man I knew?a living soul and real. Q. Tell me. my friend! Who was this mighty master? A. The child of wrong, the pupil of disaster. % Q. Under what training grew his lofty mind A. In cold neglect ami poverty combined. Q. What honors crowned his works with wealth and praise? A P/itience and faith anil love filled all his days. Q. And when he died what victories had he r.. won A. Humbly to live and hope?his work was done. Q. What mourning nations grieved above his bier.' A. A loving eve' dropped there a sorrowing tear. Q. But History, then, will consecrate his ?. sleep? A Hk Tin m f is lost; fin cols his record keen* ?William P. Johnston, in the Century. | . LITTLE DOT." # " He's a splendid card," exclaimed the manager, enthusiastically. "Is he, indeed?"said Vance Raymond, rather abstractedly, as he gazed at the packed auditorium. They were standing in the lobby of the Varieties. Raymond had dropped in for a few minutes while making his nightly round of the theatres. The manager, eaper for a good notice in the daily upon which his companion served as a dramatic critic, was making himself almost offensively agreeable. "The hit of the show!" he emphati. * ' callv affirmed. "You'll wait for him, won't you? He comes on next." "I don't know whether I can spare the time," said Raymond, smoothing out the play bill that had been crumpled up 111 his hand. And, in typo which stood out bolder than the rest, he read: LITTLE DOT! " The Phenomenal Child Artist, in his wonderful character changcs "?followed by more terms of a laudatory character, similarly extravagant. Raymond carelessly cast his programme aside and watched the two .upon the stage. They were going* through what figured on the bills as an "acrobatic son<; Nand dance." Presently they executed a .? remarkable somersault that brought forth a cloud of dust and made their exit, fol SsLv lowed by the deafening applause 01 ine gallery. In response they came out and bowed, and the stamping of feet and clapping of hands gradually ceased. The quiet that fell upon the house was * broken by the tinkle of the prompter's bell. The eyes of the audience expectantly sought the wings. The musicians raised their instruments and began to play one of the popular airs in vogue. "Watch him,'' whispered the manager. "A bom actor, and no mistake." _ As he spoke, a little figure, clad in a black velvet suit with delicately striped pink stockings, appeared 011 the stage. A crimson handkerchief protruded slightly from his pocket and an eye-glass dangled at his side. In his hand he held a light cane, which he twirled foppishly at intervals. Such a pinched, wan face he turned toward the audience, as he began his song in the yellow glare of the footlights! A feverish flush was on his cheeks and his eyes sparkled with un * * -rt j i.:? natural Drmiancy. nuvmouu icit ma heart grow soft with pity as he listened to the rare, sweet voice that to his experienced ear already showed signs of breaking. 'Poor little chap," he murmured; 'Tie's scarcely seven, I should judge." And somehow a tender thought of his two little chicks, dreaming perhaps of their childish heroes at the time, came to him. He watched Little Dot through the mist that had gathered in his eyes. The song soon came to an end and the .child disappeared, followed by the enthusiastic approval of the audience. The - * manager joined in the applause and turned to Raymond, his face beaming with pleasure. "Eh ? eh ?" he said, delightedly. "Doesn't he bring down the house ? An infant prodigy, and all that, you know. Ton my word, its worth the price of admission to see him alone." "Rather a tit subject for the Society for the Prevention cmCruelty to Children, I should say," rou.^rked Raymond, dryly. "For my part I hate your infant prodigies. They all ought- to be in their beds at this hour enjoying the sleep of healthful children." The manager eyed him sharply. "Stuff and nonsense!" he grunted. Then, in a more cheerful tone: "Just watch him this next turn. His drunken ;r~' man is something wonderful. I'm capa ? i 11 ? Die ot criticising mar, you khuw. he hushed the chuckle on his lips as Little Dot?a complete metamorphosis? staggered in with a high silk hat crushed over his eyes and a white handkerchief hanging from his coat-tail pocket. The drunken hiccough and thick utterance with which he rendered the song fairly convulsed the audience. When he was through, he was greeted with a terrific storm of applause. "True to life, wasn't it?" laughed the manager. ? Well, it ought to be. He's had plenty of chances to get points, goodness knows. *llis father's Whitely, of the 'Stars,' who are playing at the Globe this week. Good actor, but boozes too much. That is why he and his wife separated. It's lucky she's got the boy. lie's worth a cool seventy-five dollars to her every week." Raymond listened with eyes intent upon the stage. Little Dot was responding to his second encore. When he fin :r ?i,. UU6U I1C YVUJS VUUIIClUllfllJ irvtwuiaimvu. Again he came out and delivered a pathetic little recitation that evoked fresh applause. Raymond grew indignant. " What a shame!" he muttered, angrily. "They'd keep the poor little fellow before them the whole night if they could.'' At that moment Little Dot appeared . from the wings and raised his hand to his lips. The pink glow on his cheeks had died out. and in its place was a look of utter weariness. The audience must have noticed it, for the house grew still and the performance proceeded with the next act. * ' Raymond buttoned up his overcoat closely and left the theatre. It was a bitter night and the streets were well-nigh deserted. The snow lay deep upon the ground, and a raw, bleak wind blew the still falling flakes remorselessly into his face. In spite of all his efforts he could not dismiss the peaked, wan face from his thoughts. A picture rose before him of Little Dot, trudging his way back to |^\ the hotel in all the snow at an hour when V other children were cosily tucked away ^ in bed, and his heart was "filled with pity at the contrast. ' Poor little chap!" he said again, with a sigh. I'll give him a good notice." J. + The next night found him at the Varieties behind the scenes. At his request he was taken by the manager to the dressing-room that Little Dot occupied, and introduced to him. The child was with his mother waiting to '-go on." "It's the gentleman who was kind enough to write that notice about you," she said to him. "You must thank him for ifc?' "Oh, it was you, was it?" he said, turning his big blue eyes up at Raymond. ''You're an editor, ain't you?" The awe with which he asked this question brought a smile to Raymond's face. "Not exactly," he replied. "I write 'for the newspapers." "Do you?" said the child, eagerly. "How clever you must be! And it was you who wrote that about me. Thank you very mnch. You are very, very good." He placed his hand to his forehead and held it there a moment. Raymond noticed it and looked grave. "Are you quite well V he asked, kindly. "Quite well," the child faltered. "Only?only I'm a little tired and?my TTnrrv mnmmn " no tlin /Mill. ucou auuvo. * I"*? v??v v.... ^ boy appeared at the door; and, turning to Raymond, he he'd out his little hand. "Good-bye," he said. "Its time forme to go on." Little Dot hastened with his mother * through the dark and gloomy passage leading to the stage, and stood at a wing waiting for his cue. His mother stationed herself near by to assist him in making his changes. Raymond and the manager sought the front of the house. "That youngster is going to be sick," said the journalist, with conviction,. as vV-. ' they parted. "He looked half ill now. It's too bad that such a weak, delicate . ' child should have to be out nights in such bitter weather."' "Eh, what was that? Sick, did you say ?" cried the manager, with alarm. "I .hope not?I hope not. It might affect business, you know, if he didn't appear. He is the strongest card on the bill this : week." , _ other's heart lessness. and walked off. Somehow Little Dot interested him strangely. It miirht have been that he regarded the tiny favorite of the footlights witlj pitying tenderness, for the sake of his own children. The next night he returned to the Varieties to find the fears he had entertained ?1 ? reilll/.fll. l nu niiiuayvi uivi iiiiii itini .1 note in his hand. ' Head it," lie said, with a scowl upon his face. Thus adjured, Raymond took it, and glanced hurriedly at the contents. It was to the effect that Little Dot was dangerously low with the scarlet faver, and, as a consequence, could not perform the rest of the week. The words he read brought up a vivid recollection of the two babes who had lain in the terrible grasp of the scarlet fiend until only the great mother-love had won them back to life. A lump took possession of his throat. ' Poor Little Dot," lie murmured. ' 1 wouldn't have had it happen for a huudred dollars," grumbled the manaf;er. "It places mc in a deuce of a fix. t's almost impossible to put any one oil ot cMir.li clinvf Iiotipf. Ill JIK> jlJU^V til- OUVH r.iv.v " You're in hard lines,"said Raymond, coldly. Something impelled him before lie went to the newspaper oilier that night to seek the second-class hotel where the child and his mother were stopping. Passing a llorist's on his way, he purchased a bunch of the creamy, fullblown roses that were temptingly displayed in the window. These he sent to the sick room with his card and a request to know how the little fellow was. Presently the answer came?no better. Would lie go up? Mrs. "Whitcly would like to sec him. Raymond followed the boy upstoirs 1 ...fii tin. fl.ivlri.rmfl ronin I anu suiu\ uiiu'u u mi, The mother, with the marks of weariness about her eyes, came from the window where she hail been standing and led the way to the bed. "IJe was taken ill last night on his way back from the theatre," she whispered, in a hoarse, strained tone. "I thought it was nothing but a cold and? and did not call in a doctor. But he grew so much worse in the night that I had to send for one, and he says it's scarlet fever in it's most malignant form, lie has been delirious nearly all the time. The doctor did not tell me so, and yet? I'm sure he'll never get well again." She gave a bitter sob but her eyes were dry? her tears had been exhausted Ions ago. ' Oh, why doesn't he come, why doesn't he come?" She resumed her place by the window, looking vacantly out at the wild, black night. Raymond remained by the bedside and gazed compassionately down at the small face marked with livid spots. Near him stood a stand upon which his fragrant offering and several vials of med 1U1I1U ? fJ C J/iUCW*. Suddenly the little sufferer opened his eyes with a faint moan. For a moment they rested upon Raymond and then wearily closed again. ' Dad!'' the parched lips formed. His mother approached the bed noiselessly and bent anxiously over him. "Yes. Dot," she said, soothingly, "he will soon be here?soon be here. You won't have long to wait now, darling;" and looking up at Raymond, she continued. in a choking voice, ''he wants to see his father. I have sent f<Jr him, but ?but I don't know whether he will come. He drank and?and we parted. God forgive me, I have been to blame, too. Oh, do you think that he will come?" Raymond looked at his watch. The time lacked a few minutes of 11. "Yes, I am sure he will," he said, pityingly. "He is at the Globe, I think. The performance is scarcely over. i>o matter how heavy an actor's grief may be, he is obliged to disguise it sometimes and play his part. Yes, he will come, without doubt.'' Slowly the minutes dragged by. Finally a faint knock was heard at the door. She went and softly opened it. A man entered on tiptoe. " Thank heaven, you are here at last?" she said. " I could not come before,'' he uttered hoarsely. "How is he?better?" She mournfully shook her head. He went, and looked down at his child. His haggard face told of the violent grief that was raging in his breast. Raymond turned to go. He deemed the scene too sacred for his presence. But the mother grasped him by the arm, giving him a wild, imploring look. "OUlyy SHU oaiu. nt j VM< "While his father stood there, the child opened his eyes and recognized him. " Dad!" he cried, ft retching forth his little, hot hand affectionately. Ilis father caught it, and held it in his cool palm. "Yes, my boy," he said, his strong voice trembling. " Givejtic a drink, dad," he whispered, with difficulty. "Oh, dad,'' with a pathetic moan, "I'm all burning up!" His father moistened his lips with water. "There, Dot," he said, with forced cheerfulness. "You feel better now, don't you? And you're going to get well soon. Such good times we'll have together when you do! We'll?" The child interrupted him with a faint shake of his head. "No, (tad," he said, fixing his big eyes solemnly upon him, "I won't get well; and I want you to promise me? promise me?" " Yes. Dot," he said, with a groan. "That you won't get?get?that way !" He. looked steadily up. His father Vlio tnn full of illlfrilixh to uvr .? Wl LAAO vwvr ..... 0 speak. "That's a good clad,'' said the cluld, fondly. "I knew you would. You couldn't help it, could you. dadf" Every word was a stab at the man's heart. He turned to Raymond. "For God's sake get a doctor!" he said, brokenly. "He's dying.'' "No.no," interrupted the child,hastily. "It's too late?too late! Where's mamma? I can't sec. I want her "hand." llis mother came and held out her trembling hand to him. His father gently endeavored to draw her away. "No, no!" said Dot. the words coining in gasps. "I want both?both."' He strove with his remaining strength to join them together. They saw what he wished to do, a?d clasped hands. A peaceful smile lit up his wan face. He said no more, and yet they understood.?Malcolm Douglas, in the Continent. A Wonderful Child. A Richmond (Ind.) letter to the Chicago Xcwa says: We have a mathematical wonder here. It is a child six years of age, the son of M. L. Price, a journeyman carpenter. The little fellow does not know figures any better than he does letters, in which he is not perfect by any means; yet lie mentally solves problems way up in the hundreds that would require paper -and pencil with the average business man, and he gives you an answer as promptly as most boys of his years could give you their age. After answering a number of questions in multiplication he was asked if lie was prompt in addition and subtraction, and as he replied he did not know what that meant; yet when gtfen sums and subtractions to do he did them as quickly as he had the examples in multiplication. For instance, you give him .your age in years and he will tell you instantly howmany weeks old you are. Sometimes he will answer in this wise: Twenty times thirty are ten sixties; but an instant after he will tell you ten sixties are (100. However, in his calculations he is not governed by the rule of tens at all, for he just as promptly answers when the amount does not include a cypher as when it concludes with one. His father said lie began asking and solving problems in a small way the latter part of last summer; but he gave up tne habit until about Christmas, when he again became interested in figures, or rather mental calculations, and has recently developed the characteristic that certainly stamps him as a wonder. In appearance he is childlike, but in actions more manly, caring more about being with his father and the latter's associates than with his own playmates. In development his forehead is rather broad, but ' -/ I-!. 1 J 1 l,:? trie otner purrs 01 uis ucuu mm ?uo uuu^ are not beyond ordinary, his weight being forty-six pounds. His parents have two other children, not remarkably bright. The heart of a young man in Deervine. Penn., pulsates from 125 to loO times a minute. His cardiac organ must have been timed just as he was on the point of asking a grim old fellow for the-hand of his daughter.?Xorrhtown Herald. j Dr. Johnson, when in the fullness of i years and knowledge, said: "I never take up a newspaper without finding : something I?would have deemed it a loss j not to have seen?never without deriving ! C Zi. nnrl omncamAnf; " THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. AN AMERICAN MINISTER'S LOOK AT THE BRITISH PABIiXABXEXTT. l*cii Pictures of the KIo<*( Distinguished En;li?li Politicians at a Session of ilitf l.owcr House. Rev. Robert C'ollycr m a London letter to the Chicago Tribune, says: This chapel-looking room?is most oddly and inconveniently arranged for the purposes of a legislative body. It has long rows of benches rimning lengthwise the hall, and on these the members sit. There are 110 conveniences for books, papers or w riting. In instances during the debate 011 the vote of censure, and which it is my intention to describe, Mr. Gladstone wrote on ''blotting pads," resting on his knees, as did also Sir Stafford Nortlicote and others. During Mr. Goschen's speech he constantly stooped down to get his MS. notes from his hat, which was on the lloor just before him. It was well known that on this night was to be probably the greatest debate of the session, described by the prime minister as a "historic debate," and every inch of room, except in the peers' gallery, was filled. The Prince of Wales, I who very seldom goes to the house of commons, had sent word he would be I present, and seats were provided in the J 'distinguished visitors' gallery" for his | royal highness and his attendants. | Through the active courtesy of a right honorable member, the speaker sent me J admission for the same gallery, and, on the other side of a low rail, I sat next the royal prince and near to j M. Clemenccau. I was much interested during the entire debate in the apt and j often very witty comments of the prince upon the speakers and speeches, and in watching the intelligent, black, fiery eves of the great French radical. One might ! have known Clememceau was a French man?certainly not an Englishman?nv his frequent shrugging of his shoulders and his lavish use of gestures. I did not go into the House till after the dinner hour, and till just as it was filling up. About fl o'clock the building was packed full in every part, the ladies in their hijjh gtrilery, behind the bars, and to me the sight was really comical. About onehalf of the gentlemen in the building were in evening dress, and many of the young lords were in very full evening dress?in short,in the dress of "mashers," with very low white waistcoats. The Prince of Wales was iu evening dress of the most exquisite texture and cut. The prince has a name for being always most appropriately attired. Mr. Gladstone looks careworn. I lis face had an expression of trouble and anxiety I have never before seen it wear. He !olls upon the bench, never sitting upright. He was restless to a degree all through the debate, and, when not writing or moving about, he was playing with bits of paper between thumb and fingers. llartington, who sat next to the premier, was dressed in a dark morning suit, and was "sprawled out" upon the bench, with his hat half over his eyes during all the evening when nq't addressing the house. On the ministerial benches were Mr. Fawcett, the blind postmastergeneral, with his splendid, amiable, intent face, partly hid by his enormousblue spectacles; Sir William Harcourt sat erect with high and mighty mien. It is quite likely that Sir William has no more vanity than other men, but he does manage to make an impression contrary to this. He is one of the most brilliant speakers I have ever heard in any part of tlie world, lfe has a powerful physique, a kingly bearing, and would be a most impressive personality and a strikingly handsome man were it not for a certain indefinable peacockish air and expression. Mr. Chamberlain was in evening dress, with his accustomed lovely little 'buttonhole'' boquet in his coat, and looking for all the world as trim as a brand new yacht justjrigged for a trial trip. Mr. Chamberlain is as keen and trim of mind as lie is in appearance. Hack of the ministerial benches sat Mr. Forster and Mr. Thp tatter is scholar! v-lookin?r. and is regarded as one of the most interesting and "meaty'' speakers in the house, lie prepares what he has to say with great care and always brings something fresh to the feast. He is in this sense the most "original" of the political speakers of the country. He is listened to with respect and interest, and his speeches are read by all classes, as they are sure they will get that which has been thoroughly thought out. Mr. Forster sat with his head in his hands most of the time, and looked as if he were tired of the discussion and wanted to go to sleep, lie is a greal angular, awkward body, who might be taken in America as just, arrived from J Southern Indiana. His tan-colored hair and beard are .unkempt, and he gives one | the impression that he is a lion and a lamb, or one of the great Alps and an Italian flower garden rolled into one. He is as rugged as a roek-bound coast. He walks with unmeasured, imprecise step, and has somewhat the motion of an ele pliant. On the front opposition the bench the most remarkable face is that of Mr. Gibson. Next to Mr. Chamberlain is the vouncrest-lookinir man for his years in the house. He has a clean-shaven face and I snow-white hair, and the delicate complexion of a youth of 20. He is quick moving and as spry and alert as a lad. And what may I say of Sir Stafford Northcotc? I could not damn even with faint praise. He was ordained from all eternity to be saved. lie looks like a good man. and he is a good man. But the same beneficent power that made him "good" certainly never did ordain that he should be the leader of a great political party. In thi.vruse, therefore, there has been some breaking away from the order of nature. lie did look and seem so incapable last night! lie looked and seemed as if he knew he was incapable. Tapestries of Money Princes. The New York Dud says that the rich stufTs which are now used for hangings and upholstery are of amazing variety and costliness, some of them being worth nearly their weight in gold. Many rooms are covered with rich brocades and tapestries in place of wall papers, and embossed leather in most artistic designs is also used. The cost of tapestry, that is. the irenuinc article, places it be yond the reach of all but millionaires. There are in America but four spocimcns of the genuine Gobelin tapestry, pieces of which may have taken years to weave, and whose patterns have never been repeated. Mr. William II. Yanderbilt owns one of this number, another is in the West, and two are in the possession of an uptown firm who deal in artistic furniture. There are. however, many tapestries of elegance which are used, though nothing to compare to the great value of the Gobelin. A magnificent dining-room in a private residence in New York is complelcly hung with rare and antique designs in tapestry. The chairs lor the dining-rooms are covered with stuffs which match the hangings from the room itself. The chairs in more common use for a breakfast-room, which many houses have beside the dining-room, are more serviceablv coveied in leather of a handsome pattern. Some of these brocades arc sold as high as $85 and $45 per day. Such material is used both for portieres and for covering furniture. It is not always the case that whole suits of furniture are covered with these very rich stuffs; they are much more frequently used for small reception chairs. Dining-room tables of massive design have superceded those oval or round in shape. The lady who sits at the head of the table has in the case of a round table the least accommodations. Hut if the table be square there is room for the many pieces of service which she must use, and mere is 110 cruwuuij*, uma gmujj <<, desirable effect. The upholstery of the sleeping-room or boudoir gives also the greatest scope for the artist. Some bedroom sets of the Renaissance period are made of ebonized wood richly carved, and the price of a single set would buy some people a home. A bedspread rich in design was made of a heavy silk beautifully embroidered, the center of which was covered with point applique, which was worth in itself nearly $1,000. Elaborate window curtains of this same lace cost a fortune. The hull presents another field for decoration. and those large settles copied from Flemish designs, pieces of armor and tapestries of Teniers design produce a combination that is at once striking and artistic. Small Mouths and Whistling. , A young lady whistler is authority for the statement that much whistling makes the mouth smaller. As a recipe for lip elegance it has much to recommend it over the olden device of repeating the words "stewed prunes," which wc believe i9 still pursued in fashionable boarding schools. We shall soon expect to hear of many districts where the air is filled with the new order of feminine mnln/lr N/tina-Prmi. Elephants as Bnrglars. j A writer on the elephant gives the following account of an attack by wild ele- j )>liants upon a grain depot in the island of Ceylon: A small body of sepoys?stationed at an outpost at Fort de Galle, to i protect a granary containing a large quantity of rice?was suddenly removed, inorder to quiet some unruly villagers, a fV?u- tiiilo'e ilisfant. who had set our au- f thorities at defiance. Two of our party ( happened to be on the spot at the mo- i mcnt. No sooner had the sepoys with- i drawn than a herd of wild elephants, i which had been long noticed in the I neighborhood, made their appearance in 1 front of the granary. They had been | preceded by a scout, which returned to < the herd, and having no doubt satisfied < them in a language which to tlieni . needed no interpreter that the coast was i clear, they advanced at a brisk pace to- 1 ward the building. "When they arrived ; within a few yards of it, quite in mar- 1 tial order, they made a sudden stand, and began deliberately to reconnoitcr the 1 object of their attack. Nothing could < be more wary and method! ! cal than their proceedings The i walls of the granary were of solid stone- ! work, very thick, and the only opening into the building was in.the terraced roof, | to which the ascent was by a ladder. On the approach of the elephants the two as' tonished spectators clamored up into a 1 lofty banyan tree, in order to escape mis- ; chief, and there watched their proceedings. Had there been a door to the granary all difficulty of obtaining an entrance would have instantly vanished; but four thick brick walls were obstacles ; which seemed at once to defy both the strength and sagacity of these dumb robbers. Nothing daunted by the magnitude of the difficulty which they had to surmount, they successively began their operations at the angles of the building. A large male elephant, with tusks of immense proportions, labored for some time to make an impression; but after a while his strength was expended, and heretired. The next in size and strength then advanced, and exhausted his exertions with no better success. A third then came forward, and applying those tremendous levers with which his jaws were armed, and which he wielded with such prodigious might, he at length succeeded in dislodging a brick. An opening once made, other elephants advanced, when an entrance was soon obtained sufficiently large to admit the determined marauders. As the whole herd could not be accommodated at (nice, they divided into small bodies of three or four. One of them entered, and when they had taken 'their fill, they retired, and fheir places were immediately supplied by the next iu waiting, until the whole herd, upwards of twenty, had made a full meal. By this time a shrill sound was heard from ono of the clc^i-liioli wna rnndilv understood. .. when those in the building immediately rushed out and joined their companions. One of the first division, after retiring from the granary, had acted as sentinel while the rest were enjoying the fruits of their sagacity and perseverance. lie had so stationed himself as to be enabled to observe the advance of an enemy from any quarter, and upon perceiving the troops as they returned from the village he sounded the signal of retreat, when the whole herd, flourishing their trunks, moved rapidly into the jungle. The soldiers on their return found that the animals had devoured the greater part of the rice. A ball from a field-piece was discharged at them in their retreat; but they only wagged their tails as if in mockery, and soon disappeared in the recesses of their native forests. How Silver Spoons Are Made. Probably there is no article of table or other household use in the production of which so little of machine working is employed. Almost all the work on solid silver spoons is handwork; the exceptions are the rolling of the ingot into plates and the production of spoons with ornamentation in relief, which is produced by recessed patterns on the rolls. The material for spoons is coin silver obtained from the government mints in ingots, from trade for old silver, or from the use of current coin. This is melted over a charcoal lire in plumbago crucibles to :i certain heat, known to the adept by the appearance of the surface ot Ihe molten metal. It is poured into cast-iron moulds, forming bars of about seventy ounces weight each. These bars are heated over a forge fire of charcoal and worked on the anvil by hammer and sledge, precisely as iron or steel is worked, or are rolled into plates or ribbons. Occasional annealings are necessary to prevent cracking, the annealing being heating red hot and quenching in cold water. The ribbon for the ordinary teaspoon is four and a ! half inches long by three-eiyhths of an inch wide. When rolled, a blank of two and a quarter inches is lengthened to four and a half inches, to thin it down to spoon thickness. Before rolling or hammering, silver is very nearly as soft as lead; but by these mechanical processes it can be made hard and ri<rid. Good springs, retaining their qualities for years, cau be made of silver hammered or rolled. To form the bowl of the teaspoon, the bar, of three-eighths of an inch wide and less than three thirty-seconds of an inch thick, is hammered llat on an anvil with a crowning face until the workman has spread it into an oval, which is much thinner in the middle than at the edges, as the edges have to receive the bulk of the wear. The handles are formed also by the hammer, and a competent workman will so nearly produce the form of the spoon as to leave very little material to be removed by the file to dress it to shape. The curvature of the bowl is produced by repeated "coaxing" blows by a steel punch and a die of cast composition of lead and tin. No file-dressintr is em ployed on the faces of the spoon; only the edges are file-dressed to form. From the anvil and the die the spoons come to hand-smoothing with (Scotch gray stones i and polishing by stiff brushes, generally revolving brushes charged with "grits'' and oil. "Grits" is a peculiar metal found in several places?the best in Wallingford, Coun., that has some of the qualities of tripoli. but appears to be an argillaceous deposit with calcareous particles too fine to be palpable. Burnishing is the finish of spoons as of all bright silver goods. All these arc hand processes; machinery , line hut little tn do in tlu?* urnduntinn of solid silver spoons.?Boston Transcript. General Hampton's Prisoner. Mr. James R. Randall sends the follow , ing story from Washington to the Aliens- , ta (Ga.) Chronicle: "A middle-aged man approached Senator Hampton the other day and asked his inthience in pressing a ( claim before the military committee of j the Senate. The stranger then said: 'General, 1 am glad to see you again. . You do not recognize me, but you personally made a prisoner of me during the j war.' Comparing notes, Hampton found | out that it was a fact, and recalled the j circumstances. He was rcconnoitering , one night and missed his way. Around , him burned many more camp tires than j lie hail left behind turn, entering a House | lie discovered tlmt he had strayed into . the enemy's lines. A few soldiers were seated at a table and abruptly addressing them as if a superior cfHcer of ] their own army, he asked who they were , and what they were doing there. One j man spoke up and replied: 'We belong . to the Eighth New York regiment, and , General Warren sent us to get milk.' | Hampton felt that all of his nerve and ad- ; dress would be required to extricate him- | self from his dangerous position. He ] reached for his pistol, held it along his , thigh, and, on leaving the house, com- j manded the man who had spoken to him to follow, lie did so. Hampton mounted j his horse and called the man to him. , Bending down to the Federal soldier's car, j he whispered: 'I have a pistol aimed at j your head and will shoot you if any , alarm is made."' The surprised soldier , whispered: 'Don't shoot, I surrender.' i Hampton then bade him move on just { ahead of his horse, and so brought him j into the Confederate camp. It was this , man who, after more than twenty years, ' met his captor and asked a favor of him, as a Senator, that he was more than willing to grant." mi.. u.ufH n nit; iuuiu a neivuge. The London Truth tells the following: t A week or two ago one of our bsst known s peeresses gave her maid a month's notice, t accompanying the warning by a smack on c the face. The maid said nothing at the t time, but brooded over her wrong?. On 1 the day that her month was up, after she ? had received her wages, and her boxes \ had been placed upon a cab, she went l up stairs and commenced to "do" tier 1 mistress's hair. Having deftly fastened t it to the back of a chair, she calmly pro- o ceeded to administer a series of slaps to t the somewhat highly-colored cheeks o which were ready to her hands. Then, t with a low courtesy, she took herself off. 1 BIRDS THAT ARE PETTED. .'ACTS ABOUT PARROTS, CANARIES, c ASD MOCKHTO BIRDS. IVlicrc Tlifcy Come From and What 1 Tlicy CoM?Training up a Parrot j in flic Way lie should <>o> A barbaric screeching of parrot voices, i i twittering of feathered songsters, an in- ( :essant hopping from perch to perch in g nany cages, an odor, not quite offensive, lor altogether pleasant, sufficiently in'ormed the reporter that lie was in a bird 'ancicr's store. Here, ranged around the J wills in cages, were macaws, cockatoos, mrrots, (inches, lovc-mrus, rcu onus, binaries, pigeons, mocking birds, and a /rave, but. rather stupid-looking toucan. ' Fudging from the power of lungs the par- ] -ots seemed to predominate, but the cages, ' large and small, through which flashes of ' icllow light were reflected, showed that ' the canaries were in the largest force. "The price of canaries?" answered 1 the dealer in response to the reporter's < ipicstion. "Prom $3 to $5, depending ! something on their age and acquire- / mcnts. You can get an excellent songs- ! stcr for $5." "Arc the canaries greater favorites than i the mocking bird ?" i "The canary is the favorite cage bird, < not only on account of its beauty and ex- i ccllence of song, but for its intelligence i and docility. Xo, sir. they are not imported from the Canary islands, but from Germany, and to sonic extent from England and Spain. In Germany the rear- ( ing of canary birds is a great industry, and nearly two hundred thousand birds lire annually shipped from there to all ; parts of the world. Nearly 100,000 are received in this country. The German bird is superior, as a songster, totheEng- ' lish or .Spanish bird. It undoubtedly originally came from the Canary islands, whencc its name, for the species is still found in abundance in those islands. They are supposed to have been introduced into Europe about the beginning of the sixteenth century." "Very great pains arc taken in Ccrmany in the training of soncrstcrs, and the best of them bring high prices, from $15 to $25. Some birds have a compass of four octaves, and will execute shakes and trills in the most admirable way. Loud notes are not regarded as meritori ous, and it is a great object of training to have the song end wfth a succession of soft, descending, flute-like tones. It takes about six months to teach a young bird a perfect melody. They arc trained in various ways, sometimes with a musical instrument, sometimes with the human voice, but generally by being associated alone with a masterly singer. It takes a splendid musical ear to pick out a good singer. Not ouc person in ten thousand, perhaps not one in one hundred thousand in this country has ever heard the canary song in its perfection. It is like hearing Patti or Lucca?once heard never to he forgotten." "I)o you think it superior to the mocking bird?" In the domain of song among the average it is not. But the mocker has not those lovely domestic traits of the line intelligence that belongs to the canary. Nor is lie so reliable as a singer, lie will give you a wonderful burst, of song for a little while, and then all of a sudden break out in some snarling catbird notes that will spoil the whole effect. lie is apparently a great humorist, entirely indifferent to your pleasure, and only intent upon making game of some one. Now, the canary will never do that. He will sing you over his repertory of three or tour melodies, and take as much pleasure in your enjoyment as in his own. "What is the price of a good mocker?" "Twenty-five to fifty dollars. They are harder to get, harder to raise in confinement, and not so prolific. They stand high us favorites. The plumage is not brilliant?plain brown and white?but it has a remarkable genteel Jook. You might say, 'his clothes fit him.' Then, his carriage is eminently aristocratic, as well as easy and graceful, and his versatility is really wonderful. He can imitate any sound he hears?the hark of a dog, the mew of a cat, the sound of a hurdy-gurdy, and he can whistle so .like his master that old Rover starts up, thinking he is called out for a walk." "Do you meet with a ready sale for parrots?" "The parrot is a favorite pet and meets with a large and steady sale. There is no end of fun in keeping a parrot. lie is a humorist that bears cultivation. Of course there are all kinds of parrots? red, green, white, yellow, gray and particolored?and they vary greatly in their ability to talk. The African gray is probably the best talker and the best tempered ; the blue fronted Amazon the next best. Opinions differ on such matters, and, in fact, training has everything to do with it. A patient trainer can teach one of these birds to say many things. Most | people confine their eilorts to 'l'retty Poll' and 'Polly wants .1 cracker.' They pick up a good many phrases on their own account, which they are apt to utter when least expected. If yuu buy one you want to know something of its antecedents, c r you might be astonished some time at hearing the language of the barroom in your parlor. Poll is a long-lived bird; some say it will live a hundred years. They cost from $io to $2;>. No. I don't believe there was ever n parrot that could carry 011 a conversation, but they certainly know the efTect of what they repeat. I oncc had one that was fond of playing with the cat, but when lie got tired he would whistle for the dog to drive her away, and he would set the dog at her in a way that would make Miss Pussy hump herself. He could repeat many sentences, such as 'Go awav,' 'Come again to-morrow,' 'uoou morning,' and lie often said them so pat that it seemed as if he meant it. lie said many other words and phrases, such as 'My goodness,' 'I hope yon are well.' It is quite amusing as well as wonderful to hear a good parrot say things sometimes. I have heard a parrot that could sing a song containing several verses, articulating them distinctly, and there was :i talking parrot in Edinburgh some years ngo that made considerable sensation, for lie actually seemed to be able to carry on a conversation." A Cocoannt Plantation in Florida. An extensive plantation of cocoanut trees has been started in Dade county, Florida. The pioneer in this new branch of agriculture is Mr. Ezra A. Osborn, of Monmouth county, N. J., who owns a t rn r-t i if Innil jilonir the COflSt Of South-eastern Florida. The seed cocoanris were brought from South America. Cue hundred thousand trees have been -t out 011 a tract of about 1,000 acres at i cost of nearly $40,000. and .Mr. Osborn proposes to plant several thousand more ( next winter.* It takes about six years for I he trees to begin to yield returns; but it is estimated that in ten years the grove will pay ten per cent, on a valuation of : $2,000,000. it is said that cocoanuts can be grown in the I'nited States only on a small ex lent of seacoast in Southern Florida, so that the prospects for a very extensive jocoanut yield in tliis country are -mall. The cocoanut palm abounds in the East Indies, throughout the . tropical islands to the Pacific and ilso in the West Indies and South \incrica. In its native regions it grows to a ' height of from sixty to one hundred feet, ! ivith a cylindrical stem which attains a thickness of two feet. The tree tennin- ! ites in a crown of graceful waving pinnate leaves, and is very beautiful. On ' the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of I India immense groves may be seen. In * ['eylon. which is peculiarly well suited 1 for their cultivation, it is estimated that i Lwenty millions of these trees arc <jrow- ! ing. ~ ' Tlic first operation in cocoanut plant- ^ n^ is the formation of a nursery, for 1 which purpose the ripe nuts are placed f 11 squares, containing about 400 each; ! hese arc covered an inch deep with sand in J seaweed or soft mud from the beach, 1 md watered daily till they germinate, j iVhen the young plants are set out they ire put in holes three feet deep and from > ! wenty to thirty feet apart. A full i ;rown tree will mature about sixty nuts 1 innually.?Xcm York Olwrter. Osman Digna's Career. Osman Digna was originally a broker ] ind trader, and principally a slave trader. n Suakim and Jeddah, where he revived a severe financial blow when, ionic six years ago, a British cruiser capured two slave dhows, full of victims, s >n the way to Jeddah. Ogman Digna's rade then fell from bad to worse, his t louse property in Suakim was all mortgaged and he became hopelessly in- s oived Being of no great distinction rl >y birth, his selection by the Mahdi to ead a religious rebellion is attributed te h lie accident that Osman Digna, in on d if his incursions far south for slaves, met he Mahdi, who formed a high estimate f his ability and his influence, acquired o [trough successful trading.? London IHmw. SELECT SIFTINGS. Pueblo, Mexico, uses money made of ( loap. A Vermont man has a parrot that can ecitc nearly half the twenty-third jsalm. , When fifty-four people dine at the iVhite house the number of wineglasses . m the table is 378, or seven for each perlon. Dusting has come to be a business so ilaborate that it is done by women es- , jcciully trained for it, and who go about 'rom house to house with large numbers \f l?pnahno A Philadelphinn is making a smal "ortune by writing letters for young .vomen whose handwriting and spelling s not <juite etjual to their aspirations ifter elegance or to the style of their Iress. The inhabitants of Georgia have been jusily engaged in digging cj'clone pits iver since the whirlwind passed over the State, and whole families now go under ground whenever a very black cloud irises. A penalty of ?20 has been imposed upon all who assume the English royal inns, the lion and the unicorn, with a view to leading others to believe that they are employed in any department of the royal household. Investigations of the soil of the Campagna, Home, have shown that its surface earth and its stagnant water arc full of bacilli, which, when introduced into the blood of animals, produce a disease precisely like the malarial fever in human subjects. The investigations of Dr. Schliemann, at Marathon, have shown that the structure which has been regarded as the tomb of the Athenians who fell in the battle contains nothing but pottery and arrow heads of a date four hundred years previous to the battle. The Sumatran mountaineers have very little trouble as to State prisons. When a' man commits a serious crime, he is fastened to the ground by four cleft sticks set one over each wrist and each ankle, and is left there and given just enough food to keep him from starving until he dies, which he usually does in about four weeks. How to Prevent Fire*. The following simple precautions suggested by the New York Iiulcjiendent, if strictly followed, would prevent a great many destructive fires. The rules might be posted in every store, dwelling, and factory with good results: 1. Always buy the best quality of oil. 2. Never make a sudden motion with a lamp, cither in lifting it or setting it down. 3. Ncver*place a lamp on the edge of a table or mantel. 4. Never fill a lamp after dark, even if you should have to go without a light. 5. See that the lamp wicks are always clean and that they work freely in the tube. VI _..i. _ 1 f 0. never mow uui h iuuijj uum mu top. 7. Never take a light to a closet where there are clothes. If necessary to go to the closct, place the light at a distance. 8. Use candles just as much as possible in going about the house and in bedrooms. They are cheaper, can't explode, and for very many purposes arc just as good as lamps. 9. Matches should always be kept in earthen jars, or in tin. 10. They should never be left where rats or mice can get hold of them. There is nothing more to the taste of a rat than phosphorus. They will eat it if they can get at it. A bunch of matches is almost certain to be set on lire if a rat gets at it. 11. Have good safes in every place where matches are to be used, and never let a match be left on the floor. 12. Never let a match go out of your hand after lighting it until you are sure the lire is out, and then it is better to put it in a stove or an earthen dish. 13. It is far better to use the safety matches, which can only be lighted upon the box which contains them. 14. Have vour furnaces examined carefully in the fall, and at least once during the winter by a competent person. All of the pipes and flues should be carefully looked to. 15. If there are any closets in the house near chimneys or flues, which there ought not to be, put nothing of a combustible nature into them. 1G. Never leave any wood near a furnace, range'or stove to dry. 17. Have your stove looked to frequently, to see that there are no holes for coal to drop out. 18. Never put any hot ashes or coal in a wooden receptacle. 19. Be sure there are no curtains or shades that can be blown into a gaslight. 20. Never examine a gas meter after dark. Webster's Court Dress. Mr. Webster and Judge Duane Doty, then of Green Bay, Wis., were warm friends, and the judge at one time was a visitor at Marshtield. Mr. Webster was very fond of fishing?the only out-door sport in which he indulged. While the judge was his guest it chanced that a - a... j ?i I line clay lor nis sport presemcu usuii. lie accordingly invited the judge to accompany him in his piscatory sport. The judge didn't want to go, and tried his best to get off, saying he would much prefer, with his conscnt, to pass that rainy day in Mr. "W.'s library among his books and papers. Mr. W. wouldn't listen to him, said he could pass any and as many days in the library as he chose, but such a day as that for fishing might not occur again while they were at Marshfield. The judge, as a last resort, said that he really could not go, as it would spoil his clothes, that the handsome black suit lie had on was his best and all he had, and that to go fisliing in it would spoil it. To meet this objection Mr. W. directed his servant George to go upstairs and bring down the dress in which he was presented at court in England, which George did. As soon as he appeared with it Mr. W. said: " There, Doty, is a dress for you; put it on, and come as soon as you can, for we arc losing valuable time." The judge replied: "Surely, Mr. Webster, you are not in earnest in what you say; that you want me to go nsmng in that elegant suit, and spoil it?" "Yes, 1 am," he replied; "that is what it has been brought down for." The judge still lingered, when .Mr. W., to settle the matter, said to him: " Have no anxiety about injuring the dress, for to fish or hunt in it is the only way it can now be made useful. Could I wear it in Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Boston or even here? 11 I did, wouldn't everybody laugh at me?" The judge was compelled to answer affirmatively to the question. " Well, then," he said, "pray what is it good for but to go fishing in?" This settled the matter. The judge put on the dress, and went fishing in .Air. \V.\s court suit, and saved his own.? Hurper'x Mittjazine. A Risky Speculation in Sheep. N. and 31., cadets, tall and hairy, and looking much older than they were, found themselves one vacation with only live shillings between them, and in need )f capital. They were accustomed to igricultural pursuits, and N. plumed liimself on his judgment of sheep. "Let us go," he said, "to the sheep fair at 10., and buy a flock anil sell them at i profit." They attired themselves in jroper raiment and went to lhe fair; liter a general inspection of the pens, hey bought 100 sheep at thirty-nine .hillings a head?that is to say, they igrccd to buy them. M. went with one )f the drovers to a public house, ostensi)lv to hand him over the money, but eully to gain time and to spend nis nvu 'hillings in treating him, while N. renamed with the other to dispose of his jargain at a profit if lu: could. For a .vhole hour he did no business, but in lie end lie sold the lloek at forty shilings a head, realizing t'o by the transiction. "We talk of a bad quarter of an , lour, but here were four of them for i >oor N. "Suppose you had not sold ' hem," I said; "would you not have got nto a frightful row?*' "Very likely,"' le said. ''All the time I was thinking ess of the buyers than of Botany Hay.'' 'or at that time we had transportation. ? Corn hill Magazine. A Proposal. 1 "Had a proposal from any of the fair ' ex since leap-year began, Jones ?" "I have, Brown; I had a proposal from he daughter of my boarding missus." "Gimini! you are in luck. How did ' he muster courage to make it, and what lid you say ?" : '"Well, you see, she keeps the books for ier mother, so she came to ine the other \ lay and proposed." "Yes, yes, lucky dog; goon." * "She proposed that I pay up my arrears 1 r git." "Whew!" ? "So I got.' -?SoTMrtiUc Journal. 11 BANISHED FROM MASSACHUSETTS, 1660 lt, Dvcr tho threshold of his pleasant home Set in green clearings, passed the exiled Friend, ,a) In simple trust, misdoubting no the end: it " Dear heart of mine!"he said, " the time has Cc come To trust the Lord for shelter." One long gaze ^e The good wife turned on each familiar va thing? The lowing kine, the orchard blossoming, "jj The open door that showed the hearth (Ire's flc blaze? Be And calmly answered: "Yea, He will pro jjj' vide." bi Silent and slow they crossed the home- pi stead's bound, w pr Lingering the longest by their child's grave mound. th "Move on, or stay and hang!" the sheriff f? . . ht cried. w They left behind them more than homo or land, di Ami set sad faces to an alien strand. 11 Safer with winds and waves than human l'e wratli, ^ With ravening wolves than those whose zeal for God Was cruelty to man, the exiles trod Drear leagues of forest without guide or path Or, launching frail boats on the uncharted hi sea, tl Round storm-vexed capes, whose teeth of j11 granite ground jj Tho waves to form, their perilous way they 6' wound, Enduring all things so their souls wero free. ^ Oh, true confessors, shaming them who did a Anew the wrong their Pilgrim fathers bore! 8l For you the Mayflower spread her sail once () more, T Freighted with souls, to all that duty bid 11 Faithful as they who sought an unknown j,' land. o O'er wintry seas, from Holland's Hook of c ?__j. b omiu: ^ Aquidneck's isle, Nantuckot's lonely shores, j? And Indian-haunted Narragansett saw The wayworn travelers round their camp o fires drawn, Or heard the plashing of their weary oars. jj And every place whereon they rested grew y Happier for pure and gracious womanhood, i< And men whose names for stainless honor ? stood, Founders of States and rulers wise and true. p The Muse of history yet shall make amends c To those who freedom, peace and justice j( taught, fl Beyond their dark age led the van of thought, . {? And left unforfeited the name of Friends. f Oh, mother State, how foiled was thy de- n sign! J The gain was theirs, the loss alone was thine s ?John G. Whittier, in Horner's Weekl>/. c S HUMOR OF THE BAY. 1 D e A stern duty?The rudder's. f The sticking point?The bcyonet. You cannot kill time by beating it. . d Always a wake?The track made by jj an ocean steamer. a The town collector knows when his j; work is dun.?Pretzel's Weekly. A linen shirt was first worn in England a about the year 1250. There wa.* a man D in our office yesterday who had on that \ identical shirt.?Rockland Courier. e A health hint: Don't call a very large, strong, sinewy man a prevaricator. If * you are sure he is a prevaricator, liire an- f other man to break the news to him.? I Bo* ton Globe. t Five big snakes were found in a block g of ice taken from a river in the north. Ugh! take away that ice-cream. Now, ? how can any girl say she is fond of it?? ^ Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald. , Different ways of looking at it: He? ? "Sometimes I envy a dog. Never has to dress or undress." She?"'Mercy me! \ The idea of one having always to wear c the same dress."?Boston Transcript. * Said the penurious railroad director: x "What's the use of compelling us to put e up all these signs, 'Railroad Crossing.' t Can't any fool see that it is? And if he ! can't, won't he find it out when he gets j hit by the train?" An illustrated article on Japanese art, in an April magazine, shows "A Man Writing a Poem." From the tortured, i melancholy expression of the man's face we infer that the poem is a comic one.? { Norristoion Herald. \ "If all the trees in all the woods were men, i And each and every blade of grass a pen; 1 If every leaf on every shrub and tree Turned to a sheet of foolscap, every sea i "Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes < Had nothing else to do but act as scriltes, i And for ten thousand ages, day and night, i The human race should write, and write, and c writa ? Till all the pens and paper were used up, t And each great inkstand was an empty cup, Still would the scribblers clustered round its t brink 8 Call for more pens, more paper, and mora ink." _________________ i Father and Son in India. In India a sonless man is an object of f pity. The father loves his son with an affection that governs all his life. The ^ most solemn pledge he can offer to bind r a contract is to imprecatc death upon his t son, should the sire fail to perform its i] obligations. The son is devoted to the a father. lie not only loves but reverences * him. and his life is at the father's service, a A pathetic illustration of this filial devotion was given during the war, occsioned by the Indian mutiny. Among those ' who remained loyal to the English was a a native gentleman, who commanded a n company of Mooltanec cavalry. Ilis only 11 son, a "fine young fellow, served under ? him as a private trooper. One day there 0 was a sharp engagement between the Mooltanec cavalry and the rebel cavalry. Father and son charged together and r fought side by side. The youth, indiffer- c ent as to his own safety, devoted himself v to the protection of his father. Many were the sword-cuts he warded off from * his sire, as they rode right and left among a the enemy. In the thickest of the fight c the son saw a rebel pointing his carbine at his father. Instantly lie threw his t body forward, and dropped dead from \ the saddle, pierced through the "heart, j It was a terrible blow to the old man. The lad was his only son and the sole c heir to his father's name and wealth. 4 The English officers, moved by this touch- " ing example of filial devotion, treated the ? old captain with marked respect to show I that they sympathized with him in his great loss. d The Dime Novel Author. ' At Frankfort, Mo., resides Mr. Joseph 0 E. Badger, .Jr., who is the author^of Is scores, probably hundreds, of dime !J novels. To a reporter of the Atehinson !! ('/tampion he'said that, to begin with, he was a ''pretty good liar," and had passed considerable of his life on the plains and < in Colorado and the Koekies, where most of his stories are located. Finding that ii his first story was accepted,he continued, a not with amy literary purpose, but be- 0 cause the pay was very good. The pay is about that given by leading B magazines for contributions of the same ia length, sav $100 for a "live-cent stoiy," atiad $200 for a "ten-cent story." Mr. 0I Hadger said lae coaild write a story iai ei two weeks, but that he had heard that "Colonel Prcntis Ingrahani" could write one in twenty-four hours. The best te-t of n limimii life is the aaiaoiuit of good it has I eon ami clone to others. Mi's. I.yiiii K. 1'inkhani aaaay lo given a sett of ci h taior aaiioaa^ those who have help.'d to rhiiaage sieknos into health, naa l to tntnsforiii X tin* diiriouss of suirea'iaig iutu the suaislainc of rest aaid hope. California lias uliout .VU.<XX) tons of wheat |" for export. 111 ? ftDo you ever have acute pain in j'our left hreiist extending to your arms, do you ever have suffocating feelings in region of your Iffirt.' If so. you have heart disease. Use B. Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator, a sure specific. S! jH-r Lottie. _ j(1 W'vomixc; Territory has hut eight organ* of i/.ci I counties. Thousands testify to the merits of Dr. I!raves' Heart Regulator as a cure for heart ? lisease in all forms. It is known from Maine to <'alifornia. (Jive it a trial for those distressed feelings. CiiK'AfU) has 5!'.'J71 nupils and 1,178 teach- ^ *rs in her public schools. Another I.He Savcit. ( ?T. C. Gray. of Dadeville, Ala., writes us: "T linvo Jwmn iisiiiir vr>ur Dr U'ni Hull's Balsam for the Limps, mid I ran say, of a truth, it is far superior to any other lung pre- ? |iaration in the world. My mother was con- jjr fiMi'd to her bed four weeks with a couch, and had every attention by a good physician, hut he failed to effect a cure: ami when I got ag ue bottle of your D- ?\*ni. Hall's Balsam bo for the Lungs, she began to mend riglitaway. bo I can snv in truth that it was the means of ?i wiving her life. I know of live cases that ?? 1M\ U'm. Halls Palsatfi has cured, ami my Sa nio'.h r is Letter than she haslieen for twenty ar years." '1? The short, hacking cough, which leads to 'onsumption, is cured by l'iso's Cure. Tin* metals abound in all parts of this J ;reat country, but the capital contains he most brass.? Waterloo Observer. ? "THE THIRD HOUSE." f i Good and Bad Member*?1The Remark*. I ble Experience of a Clone Observer of tta Working* Daring a Long Healdence at Washington. (Corre*pondtnce Rochenter Democrat'.) g No city upon the American continent has a -ger floating population than Washington, is estimated that during the sessions of >ngress twenty-five thousand people, whose ines are in various parte of this ana other untries, make this city their place of resince. Some come here, attracted by the admtages the city offers for making the acaintonce of public men; others have vari- * is claims which they wish to present, wrnie " e great majority gather here, as the crows j tck to the carrion, for the sole purpose of , tting a morsel at the public crib. The latr class, as a general thing, originate the any schemes which terminate in vicious lis, all of which are either directed at the ibiic treasury, or toward that revenue liich the black-mailing of corporations or ivate enterprises may bring. While walking down Pennsylvania avenue e other day I met Mr. William M. Ashley, rmerly of your city, whose long residence (re his made him unusually well acquainted ith the operations of the lobby. Having made my wants in tnis particular rection known, in answer to an interrogate, Mr. Ashley said: ' Yes, during my residence here I have be>me well acquainted with the workings of 10 'Third House," as it is termed, and could 11 you of numerous jobs, whicn, like the leathen Chinee,' are peculiar." '' You do not regard the lobby, as a body, it-ious, do you f' "Not necessarily so; there are good and id men comprising that body; yet there ive been times when it must be admitted lat the combined power of the 'Third House' . as overnriaen ine wmoi suepeopie. iubuuu , tfluenco of the lobby can oe seen in the I umerou-i blood-bills that are introduced at i i-ery session." "But how can these be discovered J" "Easily enough, to the person who has lade the thing a study. I can detect them t a glance." "Tell me, to what bills do you refer?" { "Well, take the annual gas bills, for in;snce. They are introduced for the purpose of leeding the Washington Gaslight company, hev usually result in an investigating com- ] littee which never amounts to anything lore than a draft upon the public treasury Dr the expenses of the investigation. Anther squeeze is the abattoir bills, as tney are ailed. These, of course, are fought by the utchers and marketmen. The first attempt 3 force a bill of this description was in 187 7, hen a prominent Washington politician ofered a tabulous sum for the franchise." "Anything else in this line that you think f, Mr. Ashley ?" ; , "Yes, there's the job to reclaim the Potornc flats, which, had it become a law, would ave resulted in an enormous steal. The fork is now being done by the government :self, and will ria the pla?e of that malarial tmosDhere of which we hear so much outide the city." 1/UlUlg JUUl HTOH-4CU..O UUO 1MTO J UU VA prienced the bad results of living in this limate <" "Well, while I have not at all times enayed good health, I am certain that the difculty whl:h laid me up so long was not mairial. It was something that had troubled ie for years. A shooting, stinging pain that at Lmes attacked different parts of my body. )ne day my right arm and leg would torture ie witn pain, there would be great redness, eat and swelling of the parts: and perhaps he next day the left arm and leg would be imilarly affected. Then again ft would loate in some particular part of my body and roduce a tenderness wnii h would well nigh jive me frantic. There would be weeks at a ime that I would be afflicted with an intermitting kind uf pain that would come on very afternoon and leave me comparatively ree from suffering during the balance of the wenty-four hours. Then I would have terriile paroxysms of pain coming on at any time luring the day - or night when I would be blige.l to lie upon my back for hours and ;eep as motionless as possible. Every time I ttemptedto move a chilly sensation would iass over my body, or I would faint from hot lashes. I suffered from a spasmodic contracion of the muscles and a soreness of the back md bowels, and even my eyeballs become sore ind distressed me greatly whenever I wiped ny face. I became ill-tempered, peevish, retful, irritable, and desperately despond nt." "Of course vou consulted the doctors re jarding your difficulty!" "Consulted them? well, I should say I jdid. on e to'd me I had neura'gia; others that I lad inflammatory rheumatism, for which here was no cure, that I would be afflicted ill my life, and that time alone would initiate my sufferings." ' But didn't they try to relieve your misTies:" "Yes, thoy vomited and physiced me, >!istered and bled me, sweat, steamed ind everything but froze me, but without ivail." "But how did you finally recover?" "I had a friend living in Michigan who had >een afflicted in a similar way and had been ured. He wrote me regarding his recovery, ind advted me tj try the remedy which. :ured him. I procured a bottle and comnenced its use, taking a tablespoonful after lach meal and at De ltime. f had used it ibout a week when I noticed a decrease of ;he soreness of the joints and a general feeing of relief. I persevered in its use, and inallv eot so I could move around without imping, when 1 told my friends that it was IVarner s Safe Rheumatic Cure that had put ne on my feet.'' "And do you regard your cure as permalent ?" "Certainly, I haven't been so well in years is I am now, and although I have been subjected to frequent and severe changes of veather this winter, I have not felt the first ntimation of the 1-eturn of my rheumatic rouble." "Do you object to the publication of this nterview, Mr. Ashley ?" "Not at all, sir. I look upon it as a duty I >we ray fellow creatures to alleviate their ufferingi so far as I am able, and any comnunication regarding my symptoms and lire that may be sent to me at 506 Maine ivenue, will receive prompt and careful atention." "Judging from vour recital, Mr. Ashley, here nivst be wonderful curative properties ibout this mr dicine." " Indeed, there is, sir, for no man suffered nore nor longer than I did before this remedy ;ave me relief." "To gee back to the original subject, Mr. Ashley. I suppose you see the same familiar aces about the lobby session after session?" "No, not so much as you might think, sew faces are constantly seen and old ones lisappear. The strain upon lobbyists is ieces.-arily very great, and when you add to his the demoralizing effect of late hours and ntemperate -habits and the fact that they are fter found out in their steals, their disap>earance can ea;ily be accounted for." "What proportion of these blood-bills are uccessful ?" "A very small percentage, dr. Notwi'htanding the power aud influent of the >bby, but few of these vicious measures ass. Were they successful it would be a ad commentary upon our system of governi?nt, and would virtually annihilate one ranch of it. The great majority of them re either reported adversely or smothered in ommittee by the watchfulness and loyalty f our Congressmen. J. E. D. Merited Pralne. The universal jraise bestowed upon Kidley-Wcri as an invaluable remedy for all disorders of the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, is veil merited, its virtu s are univerally mown und its cures are reported on all sides, ilany ol stinate cases have succumbed to it f.er they had been given up by the doctors, .nd a thorough treatment will never fail to ure. Sold l.y all druggists. See adv. I am cured of Catarrh and deafness by Ely's 'ream Balm. My aunt was deaf in one ear. Vlter using the talm a few times her hearing vis restored. F. D. Morse, Insuranca Broker, ilikiabetb, N. J. Not n liquid or a snuff We recommend Ely s Cream Balm where a ure for Catarrh is cjlled for, and consider hut we are doing the public a serrice by naking its virtues known to those afflicted k ith this loathsome disease, for which it is in nost instances a perfect cure. Peck Bros., )ruggists, Grand Rapids, Mich. 50c. See adv. WlnelylAdopterf by Dairymen. The adoption by most of tne prominent airymen and farmers of the United States f tile Improved Butter Color made by Wells, lichardson & Co.. Burlington, Vt, is a'proof f tlu ir wisdom in a busines point of view, 'early all winter butt.r is colored in order to lake it maik table, and th:sio!or istne Lest. 1 regard to purity, strength, permanenc.' and eri'ection ot tint. " Kouuli 011 Corn*-" Ask for Wells' "Hough <n Corns." 1> . ? > * ? nr??4o Kuniona HICK, complete cure. i/uni?, . Fou dyspepsia, iNDioEsncttf, depression OfBplrs and general debility in their various forma, Iso as a preventive against fever and ague and therintermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphoried Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, [azard A Co., New York, and sold by all Drugists, is the best tonic; and for patients recover, ig from fever or other sickness it has no equal. Do it at once. For 10 cents get a package ' Diamond Dye; at the druggist's. They dor anything the line-t and most desirable dors. Wells, KichnrJson & Co., Burling- | in. Yt. Sample Car l, .*J2 colors, and bojK ; directions for i!c. stamp. " Rough ou t'oushs." Knocks a Cougn or Cold endwise. For liliren or adults.Troches, loe. Liquid, 50c. "Balmy sleep" is denied to nervous suffer s. unless they use Samaritan Nervine. I sullere 1 'vith paralysis'.* years. Samaritan ervine euro I me. Jos. Yat s. l'uterson, N. J. The Indian of falcon glance and lion bear- ii g. the theme of the touching ballad is gone: ' it the petroleum they discovered, now made j1, to Carboline, the Natural Hair Restorer, ti ill live forever. ' BHrlni-PaHm." ^ Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, orvi Tirinorx'Dispfmos. il. Drmreists. Rheumatism.?'"Wilson's Wonder" cures |4 * hours, or money returned. Sent 011 receipt $J. Medicine depot. '.''J Park street, N. Y. j'J Phoenix Pectoral cures cold and cough. 25. . Camphor Milk cures aches and pain* 25. ' "As a Last Resort" | Little Girl in Albany, N. Y? Terribly Afflicted, 5! Wonderfully Cured ^ l)ne of the DiNt remarkable cure* of scrofula on re- *' r<l is that of the little daughter of Mr. M. J. Qtiinn, ? >. 'JSii First St., Albany, N". Y. Bhe wr.t afflicted with roftila from birth, and physicians said it would be a iter for lior if she was dead. Her t-ther says. "Shu ? d thirteen running sorea on her body, besidos being 1' snlutoly blind for months. She lost the use of he: ? ill s and could not walk; In fact, was a mere skeleton > ? istingaway. Tho smell from the sorea was terrible, ' inK in a neirfpaper some cases of scrofula cured by ' 1wid's Sarsaparilla, I said to myself, 'Iwill tryabottli aiutrrsnn. ? n?su duo u?u vjwu iuo uioi umi ttlo I could vx> a change In hor, and when the wholi j ttle wrth taken tho abscossos almost entirely healed Cf tli the aid of Hood's Oliro Ointment, which I.most > is the finest I orer used. I kept on giving her Ilood'i n.iparilla, till now ?ho is well andj health;, running V nunc!. Sho has a splendid appetite. The neighbors ? n't know whit to make of it. Michael J. Quisn, No. 285 First street. Hood's Sarsaparillg inld by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared onli C. I. HOOD 1 00., ApoDwoarit)*, Lowell. Mass. 100 Poses One Dollar . . SOME PLAIN FACTS. tatementef a Gentleman ofKochwter, N. Y., Showing Power of Dr. David Kennedy'? Favorite llemcdy, (of Bondoat, N. Y.) oyer Diseases of the Kidneys ana Bladder. No pain which man has to end are nrpuMi that of ^ rare I. "I would rather die," exclaims the patient, ' 'than have such attacks Terr often." It oaaaed the eath of Napoleon HI. Mr, E. Dewitt Parsons, of 171 'lymonth avenne, Rochester; "N-iY., recently had ? smarkable experience with it. He'is a well-knit, fineJoking, hearty-appe iring gentleman. One day he fU irostrated with pain from the small of hie back to the bdomen. For some time previous hia appetite had leen fickle, his bowels Inactive, and he had felt sore bore his hips. After voiding water he had a severe lain and gnawing sensation. "For some time my di*. irder mystified m?, he said, "bat one day I read of ft aae very like my own In a piper. Iwrots the person rhose name appeared, and ho <" .firmed it folly. from that little incident I disco /end I had stone ia he bladder and gravel in the kidneys. I was greatly ilarmed then, bat the d'sease has lost its terror* to me iow, for I am fully recove-ed?cared by DR. DAY1D KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY, (of tondout, N. Y.) which I mon cordially commend to all joraons suffering from kidney disorders, pals inbacc, tone or frarel. My wife also regards It as especially ucellent for women. Dr. Kennedy has performed nany surgical operations for stone, when size prevented eraoval through the natural channels, and he has lever lost a case! NY N U?17 ^ am m Mn EJ Ely's Cream Balm, wM I >V H n n when applied by the finger into the nostrils, 5 TJ^Hwillbe absorbed effectwffljAM BffiSglrt V'r,Biv-,th* W IsjQX, - CI IDW COU'l head of catarrhal rlnu, M -lH 1 causing healthy were. ^ADJ tions. It alleys inflamWUrvrpVrD^Jw ^/Jra,tlon' PToUsota the ^W-r 6* M\ mx &JM membrane of the nasal KT ^/d??f?BM passages f roir fresh ' Hs / >SbBcolds, completely beak Bg y' jpCJEM tiio sores end ractorea. tfSt* and smell. A few / Vapplications relieve. MflHnyj VV? thorough treatment tV yaVV' 1 iff positive!* eure. Wn^TSty^ U.3JI. 1 AgTeeable to nse. Bond ?1 for circular. 60 cents at HAY-FEVER &SS?Sr"** ELY BRQTHliR^Druggigta, Qwego, N. Y? ^ Wk necs, they need tooWXhtCm* 'osf. Xbey become 9bealthfnH^actlM^tjf S^msch ^Bitt^TS^ STOMACH P*$Pf^JI? wrjE *ftH BT^w 19 iugAmgg gfl|fU^"ll|^tt AWD ISFALLIBLg sions, St. Vitas Dance, Alcoholism* Opium Eating, Seminal Weakness, lab j; potency, Syphilis, Scrofula, and all * -" Nervous and Blood Diseases. CgTo Clergymen, Lawyers, Literary Mien, "" Merchants, Bankers, Ladies and all whoee sedentary employment causes Nervous Prostration, Irregularities of the blood, stomach, bowels or Kidneys, or who require a nerve tonic, appetizeror stimulant, BamaritanNenine is invaluable. ' i ' 'l V ^-Thousands fTMPT GREATTproclaim it the most ^1 AWI>U> y wonderful Invigor- ji i I I i *. ant that eversustain- r U P Q 11/1 Ell I e<l a sinkiflg system. L|n|CllqVtBlJ i $1.50 at Druggists. *-K j v/c^5 The 0R.S. A. RICHMOND ,'..finV MEDICAL CO., Sole Pro- [ CONQUERORa] prietors,St.Joseph, Mo. ' ^ ChaafN.Crittenton, Agent, New Yodt ^ '?B- <S^> <^> -HIf f\n This porous plaster U fl X0 f&mcmj for lt? qnfek . _ _ __ ^ and hearty mHm la DI A 6TCD curing Lame Back, r IhHO I Cli% Ehotimntlnn, Sdatlfla, Crick in the Back, Side or Hip, NeuraI?U,'8a? JoM? and Muscles, Sore Chest. Kidney Trouhiea andanpagi ;?7ri._,?i ? TtflaothaLBtranctb> ens and Stimulates the parts. The 'rirto*o4, 2I?SS blued with gums-dean and readyto apply. ScpCTteW liniments, lotions and salves. Price 16 vtuH W >wt 11.00. Sold by draff m ABCAT prists-?nd country f\ I stores. Hailed on re- ^a ij ??$?>?&,,g? SUCCESS prietors, Boston, Mass. -H <?<S> -?- <^ > -B~ ' ty The best family pill made?IIawley*s Stomach sod Urer Pills. ?c. Pteasantln actfonandjggtotata^ Walnut Leal Hair Jteatorer. It Is entirely different from all others, and as Its nam* fadlcates is a perfect Vegetable Hair Heetorer. It will , im mediately free the bead from all dandruff, restore try Sir to Its natural color, and produce a new growth irhere it has fallen on. It does not affect the health. which sulphur,sugarof leadand nitrate of iUrerpreper* itiona h?T? done. It will cnanjfo ikdi or xaaeu iuu m. few days lo a beaatifal glossy Drown. Aakynnr drmjrut far it. Each bottlo ii warranted. Smith, Klin* SCoJ, Wholsaato Ag'ts, Phila.. Taand C.K.Onttenton.N.'E. SCRAPBOISS:! 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New York. _ l\t.A\TKI>?LADIES TO TAKE OUR NEW j 1 F.mcywurk at their home*, in city or country, ltd enrn SO to Sjl I '? i>er week, making (foods for our pring and bummer trade. Send 13c, for sample and rticulars. Hudson Mfc. Co., ->> ") Sixth Ave., N. Y. I AVIIU I CURED on a n^v principle, to I V a H ffl tump for ?l9 8 n Tlu-i?. with Re wrtxof U.vse*. . IIA itdl.I) HAYES, .11. I)., Uuuhtmton.N, Y. net* st^lo visltinir^cards, 10cents. GEM CARD ? to.-. I i.ouM .lfii.l Mamt) f?r ' irc..l:tr<. >1)1. I,. BISa _ <tf if c It) 6 vj i.! 'j HAM, Alt'), Washington, I). O. (.'ami'hor Mll.lc in thobo-t liniment. Pricoi'5 conte. k crisis Wanted for llm Best and Paxtest-aolUnj V Pict iri.il Boolcxand Bible*. Prirej re lticad S3 pel tnt. Sa riiiNAt, Piuushinu Co., Phii-ideX <a. Pa? PlKF.Stx Pkotorai. will euro your oouuhy ..IwMfc ) 1TPA1VO S<*iui scimpforoui* Book oa 'A E PflS I \ I'wnt*. L. BIX H AJi, P?fc M% 1 ! ! lSU rut Lawyer. jgton, D. 0. ]2H3HH!iaSKs3iSi CURES WHERE All ELSE FAILS. E Best Cough Syrup. TanWs good. P| Use Id time. Sold by druggist*. W . " *'*? ? , _ . ,-c-r: