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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:!
Size 8H x 1CK< By mail on receipt of lOo. ?
East Side Agency E. 0. Burt/? line Skoes,
28i Crand St., New York*}.
Please mention this paper.
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Rates to Texas, Arkansas and California. ..
Pamphlets, etc.. describing lands for sale can be had
bj addressing J. J. FOWLER, East. Paw. Ae't, Utloa,
N. Y.: J. D. MoBBATH. N. E. PaM. A*'t, Boetoa;
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6Jt 7 Chamber of U Broidway,
Commeroe, Chicago. Haw York.
GRAIN & PROVISION BROKERS
Member* of all prominent Produce Exchange* in New
York, Chicago St. Looii and Milwaukee. (
We have exofatiTo private telegraph wire between OSjJ?j
ago and New Vork. Will execute order* on oar iaajs
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