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HOW TO LIVE. So should we live that every hour May fall as falls the natural flower, A self-reviving thing of power ; That ever}- thought and every deed May hold within itself a seed Of future good and future need ; Esteeming sorrow, whose employ Is to develop, not destroy, Far better than a barren joy. ?Lord Houyhton. I ] UNCLE PAUL'S WIFE. It hail rained all day: and at night, with the same dull, monotonous sound, the rain still fell on the gravel walk be ..i. i.;i? tKr, ueum iuu wiuuu>>, uunv iuivu^u dark old pines at the back of the house went the continual mournful soughing of the east wind. I was weary of all indoor occupations, and could not resort to invectives against the weather, for 1 had 110 listeners. My uncle. I)r. Paul Eastman, had ^onethree miles through the wind and rain to visit a patient in the almshouse, a little boy whose life was nearly ended, and Mrs. Eastman was visiting her friends in a distant State. In an idle, half dreaming mood. I lay on the sofa in the pleasant library to await my uncle's coming. The cheerful firelight sending its warm bright glow over the geraniums and roses in the deep bay window, over the few pictures on the walls and the well filled book shelves, banished all thought of the wintry desolation without. Above the shaded lamp, on the little study table, was a portrait. It had hung there for many years, the old housekeeper said. I cannot describe that pictured face, so nobly, so serenely beautiful. Would you try to describe the look which the one you love wears for you? Neither will I try to paint with words that face, which was the full realization of my thought of those messengers who come from the unseen world to strengthen and bless the weak and suffering among mortals. "Was she Uncle Paul's first love?the fair young girl whose loss has darkened all the years of his early manhood? I had heard something of the gieat sorrow which had cloudcd those years, and of one whose life of beauty had kept her memory fresh in the hearts of many. I had heard, two, of the tenderness with I which Uncle Paul took to his home, which should have been hers, her invalid mother and little brother, and cared for them till the mother went to join the j; daughter and the boys were fitted for | commercial or professional life. But j? there was a mystery in his life. If he had * loved and lost the one whose face was Eicturea there 011 the canvas how could e ever have given the place that would have been hers to the respectable, commonplace person whom I have known for five years as Mrs. Eastman ? The longer I watched the sweet face C looking down upon me the greater seemed the mystery, and so thinking I fell asleep. A voice awakened me. "Ah! Miriam, dreaming ?" "Yes. uncle: dreaming of that face above your study table." He walked across the room and stood silently before it a long time. Then he came to me. "It is very like her, Miriam; and she was as pure and good as the angels." "Can you tell me of her, uncle ? What was her name 2" Then, after a short silence, he told me his early sorrow and revealed the secret of the mystery that perplexed me. "Her name was Grace Hyde. She was eighteen and I was twenty-one when sh? promised to be my wiie. 1 was just nnishing my professional studies, and had my own way to make in the world, but I was strong to do my work and to fight my battles, for Grace was awaiting the result. Her love would strengthen me and her hand would reward my victory. " 'I will not fetter you, Paul,'slje said; I'I know how the promise of many young lives has been unfulfilled because the daily needs of life and the necessity of a practical answer to the questions: "What shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewitl^l shall we be clothed?" have wearied the spirit not yet ready for its life-work, crippled its energies, and chained it to an ignoble service, while the nobler work it might have done, waits for another. Give all the time you need to the highest culture, the fullest development of your intellectual strength, find for yourself a fitting sphere of labor, and then, Paul, I will go with you, and together we will make life beautiful.' ' I could not* combat her resolution. She was firm, and her father said: 'Grace is right; in the future you will acknowledge it.' "So I finished my studies in the university and went to Paris. Grace, pale and tearful, with her little hands in mine, said: 'Be worthy of your best self, and may God forever guide and bless you, dew Paul.' And then we parted. "I had not been away three months, when a letter froiu Grace announced her father's attack. 'An attack of apoplexy,' she wrote. 'Poor mother, it is a terrible blow to her; I know not how she will bear it. I prav that I may help her, and that God will give me power to comfort her.' After that her lotters were not sad, but there was a subdued cheerfulness, or it might have been an effort to be cheerful, and there was an impatient looking forward to my return. She had such Erust in me, such a noble ambition for ie, I was always stronger and better fter reading her words. Her influence I was arounu me conunuaiiv, uiiu mc temptations of Paris life were all powerless. I could not disappoint her trust, yl would try to be worthy of her. 'I had been in Paris nearly two years, land was preparing to return, when one day a letter, directed in an unknown . hand, was given to me. I opened i ; hastily, with a presentiment of coming (ill, for I had heard nothing from Grace for many weeks. There were these words from Dr. Merton, the family physician of | the Hydes: Deak Paul: Graeo docs not wish to alarm " her mother, and therefore wishes me to write. I Her days are iiumbcre'l. Come quickly, if you would see her. "You can imagine the slow passing of \ the days that were bearing me to Grace, f She was dying; she might be gone be' fore' I could reach her; mid, as if in 5 mockery of <ny impatience, the dull, \ monotonous ticking of the clock sounded in my ears, and the minutes passed so slowly. At last we reached New York. A. lew hours' ride in the cars and I was in A . I went immediately to her house, but there w?s a strange name on ' the door-plate. I 'ang, and inquired where Mrs. Ilyde had removed. The servant gave me the street and number. I soon found the house, a small cottage, in a retired street. 'What was the cause of this removal ?' I asked myself. 'Why had they left their old home ? and why had Grace never mentioned it in her letters ? "Was it possible that poverty had been added to the sorrow of that great bereavement and Grace had concealed it to avoid giving me pain?' Absorbed in these thoughts, I stood at the door of the cottage, just as Dr. Merton was passing out. He grasped my hand. 'Welcome home, Paul,' he said. 'They are all expecting you. Grace is quiet; she does not suffer now. I tell you, Paul, there is no use in trying to keep her here. She belongs to a better world. Angels like her are not given to us for a long time. They do their work quickly and then go home.' "He had led me into the little paTlor, and in a few words told me all that Grace had concealed from me. Mr. Hyde had died insolvent. His creditors had seized upon everything. Mrs. Hyde had rented a small house, and furnished it plainly with the little remnant of the estate ?Li.i 1 i.1,? niUCU WHb icn uiuui. ru?, even men most intimate friends, knew how very small this remnant was. Grace obtained a large class of pupils in music, and at night, when she returned, weary from her lessons, she taught classes in French. With a brave heart she worked, sustained by the consqiousness that her mother was saved from toil and her little brothers were unconscious of the loss they had sustained. " The constant, wearving toil was too much for one so wholly unused to it. While the spirit was very strong and the heroic young girl found peacc in living for others, the warning caine. She must rest. A little longer she struggled, then sank,and there was no help for her. Her earthly work was done. * * * The old man wept like a child. I could not weap. In my heart, a rebellious voice was saying: 'It must not be. Grace shall not die. Life is worthless without! her.' * * * "That evening she was my wife. I begged that it might be so; that I might not Jose sight of her while she remained. ?ow beautiful she was?my Grace?in iat hour, with the dark hair brushed bttk- from the pale forehead, the un natural brightness that shone in her eyes and the burning crimson in her cheek. " To love and cherish till death do us part."' Are those words uttered with a inll^ feeling of their significance when hopes arc bright and lile sterns only to have commenced? To us of solemn import. Death might, come to do his work in one week, one day, one hour, and I should have no (irace, no wife. "But she was mine, mine! and to- j gether we waited the summons that I should separate us. In the few days that I remained she told me of the bright hopes of the future?our future?that had sustained her in the days of trial, and of the faith that had made all things easy to bear. "If I had known it would end so, Paul, she said, 'I would have told you: but I thought I was stronger, and would work bravely without telling you anything that .would pain you, and you would soon come. Hut it is all right. I shall be yours in the other home. Walk worthily here, Paul. Consecrate yourself to a noble life; remember all the dreams of your life, and perhaps in the home to which I am going I shall know it all,' "Thus the days passed till the messenger came, and Grace went with him." My uncle sat a long time, with his i i ? ? 4.1?? i 1 irtTnt-n l*Sm l*r?fnrp }io Ilt'ilU UI1 11IU IUU1V spoke again. Then he continued: "It is thirty years since Grace's mother and brothers came to my home. Mrs. Hyde lived but a few years, and one by one the brothers?there were three of them? made homes for themselves, and I was left alone "In this room I kept the books and plants she loved, and her portrait hung always above my study table; and so I almost lived in her presence. But there were times?when my loneliness seemed insupportable and life was a weary burden?I would gladly lay down that I might go to her. "Once I have seen her. Do not doubt it, Miriam. Five years ago I was very ill for many weeks. Grace's portrait was taken from the library and carried to my chainbcr, that during the long days, when I had only servants for attendants, I might have her face continually before me. The disease gained ground, and my physician insisted that I must have some more suitable attendant. I had at that time no near friend or relative within many miies' distance, and so Dr. Ives brought Jane Hope to the house. I had met her frequently in the homes of ray patients, and I knew her as a faithful nurse "In my half-dreaming moods I had fancied that Grace was with me, and it was not always pleasant to be awakened by the touch of a hand larger and tVinn V)or? nnrl to hear a voice 'UUS"V' " -?1 - that had precision and hardness in its tones, when I had been drooming of the voice so long silent. But I learned to know Jane better and to value her practical knowledge. "One night the narcotics I had taken, instead of producing their usual effect, had brought 011 a state of feverish wakefulness. Strange, shadowy forms floated around me, sometimes taking to themselves the faces of friends I had known in boyhood. I could not drive them away. I rubbed my eyes, and said: 'There is the table, and there the window. There is nothing between me and them;' but the next, minute the space would be filled, with my ghostly visitors. Stephen Grant, who in college bore the name of Euclid Grant, from his devotion to his favorite study, and something of a mathematical precision in every action, stood at the foot of my bed, in the dim light, wearing the same look of imperturbable gravity, his head covered with triangles, and his hands filled with circles and squares. In a low, monotonous voice he was reciting the causes of my disease, and prescribing for its cure: 'Let AB be the disease, anq CD the time. Then to r\t? Ho w?c inf-r>rriintf>fl hv UiU Vi AAV .".v. x ? ^ the dancing entrance of the youug girl, who thirty-five years before had taught him lessons with which Euclid had nothing to do. She came with the freshness of springtime around her, bearing in her hands arbutus flowers, violets and daisies, which she threw upon our Euclid. They fell upon him and wreathed themselves around the angles, circles and squares in which he had buried himself. Then a violin on the table commenced playing a lively strain, and tables, chairs and ghostly forms in wild confusion mingled in the dance, and I saw no more. "When I awoke the light still burned dimly, and the portrait of my lost (Jrace looked teuderly, pityingly upon me, and I knew that through all the Ions; years of loneliness thus had she looked down upon my desolate home. When my sorrow had seemed greater than 1 could bear one thought had strengthened me?the thought that in the home to which she had gone I should never more be lonely; she would be mine forever. "But that night the earthly future seemed so long and the way leading through it so weary and desolate, in my agony I cried: 'IIow long! oh! how longl' Then the face changed. It became a living face, as full of tenderness as before, but wearing a cheerful, hopeful look; and?you will think it a dream, Miriam,but I was not sleeping?I saw her as plainly as 1 see you now. She Beeined to step down from the canvas and noiselessly to approach me. I tried to rise. I stretched forth niv arms to clasp her; but the waving of her hand repelled me,and her upward look seemed Kn?A Knf * QKfi el rn?* LU dUJ, litic, UU.V uigiv. kiiv Uivii nearer, and then I saw Jane Hope, my kind, faithful nurse, by her side. Then she took Jane's hand in her own?that little pale hand?and holding it a moment she placed it in mine, and said, in those low, sweet tones, thrilling my whole being: 'Take her, Paul, my Paul; she will help yon and comfort you till you come to me. 1 am waiting for you Paul; in his time you will come, and then, my own?1 I knew nothing more of that strange night, nor of many following days and nights. 'During the days of convalescence the portrait had such a happy look; and when Jane brought me the tempting delicacies she could so well prepare, there was a smile of sweet contentment on the face. So I learned to watch for her coming, and to be very happy when she sat by me, busy with her sewing,or when I could watch her moving around the room, giving , those indescribable touches to its arrangements which do ?o much to please the eye. "When I was well enough to go out Jane came one morning to tell me she was going away. I told her all, and asked her to stay with me always. The next week we were married; and my kind, good nurse has proved the kindest and best of wives." A stranue ending to all of Paul Eastman's early hopes; a strange awakening from his early dreams. From Grace, the beautiful and gifted Grace, purified by suffering, whose saintly life was a holy memory in the hearts of all who loved her, to cold, stern, practical Jane Hope, the faithful housekeeper, and alas' nothing more, how great the change! Did the young wife, looking down upon his earthly needs, send a messenger to give Paul Eastman a wife who should mend his stockings and keep his house clean; make his gruel and hi. bed; nurse his gout and prescribe for his rheumatism; or was? it an overdose of morphine that did the work? Who shall say? He firmly believed that Jane was sent to him by Grace, anu so he is content; while I ?I only ''t:*ll the fie as 'twas told to me." ________________ The Loon. This wild aud solitary bird, once abundantly represented in this region?in the I old days of the early New England settle! ments?is now but seldom seen on our j Connecticut rivers and lakes. It is still occasionally met with, however, on some of our Connecticut waters, as on Hartland pond in West Hartford, Long Hill pond New Hartford (where, a few years ago, on a low-water island, it was known to rest), and other places in not much frequented localities. Dr. AVood, of South Windsor, shot one on the Connecticut river, opposite that place not long ago; but the loon is the hardest of all birds to shoot. His quickness is amazing. He will dodge a ritle ball by diving after he sees the Hash, and this at a distance not i greater than eight rods. The writer once succeeded in hitting one with a bullet at long range by creeping through thick cover toward a small and select company of these wild birds that were having a little picnic of their own in the water at sunrise; but unless they can be so taken they must be shot, if at all, as I)r. Wood shot his, by having his gun already aimed at the probable spot where the loon will rise, and firing at the very instant the water breaks, even before the bird's head really appears. Here is an account of the loon by the best observers of birds in America: _ One of the strong and original strokes of nature was when she made the loon. It is always refreshing to contemplate a creature so positive and characteristic. He is the great diver and flyer under water. The loon is the genus loci of the wild Northern lakes, as solitary as they are. Some birds represent the majesty of nature, like the eagles; others its ferocity, like the hawk; others its cunning, like the crow; others it^ sweetness and I melody, like the song/oirds. The loon represents its wildness and solitariness.? NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Steel buttons prevail largely among novelties. Black lace flounces are worn again over white silk dresses. Velvet butterflies come in all the brilliant colors seen in nature. Gloves with an embossed gauntlet are now sold, of every possible color. Colored^laces are very pretty and are extensively used this season for trimming | thin silk dresses. A Police Justice says that wives forgive their husbands, but husbands do not forgive their wives. A dry goods clerk says that it is far easier to serve homely women than handsome ones in shopping. V oniuroy is usru mjuiuuiiujs ili wiukination with figured wool delaine or surah silk for traveling costumes. Long silk mitts that reach almost to the shoulder are made for little girls of from four to six years of age. Low shoes of black satin are worn with white or colored costumes when black silk stockings are an accompaniment. Seventy-live dollars for a parasol seems rather high, but such is the price nonasked for some of these ''moat necessary" articles. Mountain parasols have long cane handles of serviceable wood, aud arc covered with Turkey red or striped gingham. I A charming dress of coipielicot surah with narrow plaitings around the foot has the entire skirt trimmed with black Chantilly lace. liraiding remains fashionable, and the decoration, instead of being worked on the material with the needle, is made in braid and sewed on. "White silk gloves, which reach well ui) to the shoulder, are worn by young ladies on dress occasions when there is only an epaulette sleeve. Prints in large and pronounced designs are much used for bodies and bunched up tunics. This is simply a return to the old Dolly Yardcn overskirt. A stylish dress has a sateen polonaise, oak ana acorn pattern, in snauesoi -jreen .and brown on a cream ground. The skirt is of pretty nonpareil velveteen. A pretty toilette for a blonde is of pale blue nun's veiling. The panels are embroidered with butterflies in black and white, and the plain blue skirt is laid in aecordcon plaits. The culTs are of black velvet. In West Cornwall women are commonly employed as painters and paper hangers, learning the trade from each other without serving a regular apprenticeship and following it as constantly as dressmakers or milliners pursue their calling. Some of the waterincr-place hotels employ public entertainers. These are women of talent, who play on the piano, sing, and in every way make the time pass pleasantly to the guests, for the compensation of board and a small salary. A dress of black nun's veiling has the skirt trimmed with black lace rutHes and the polonaise is ornamented with embroidered roses, pansies and lilies of the valley. The edge of the apron had loops of narrow colored ribbon over lace. Sleeves trimmed to correspond. An odd costume recently worn by a New York girl represented the four seasons. It ba$ four panels of satin on the skirt; green for spring, blue for summer, ruby for autumn and silver gray for winter, the first three painted with tlowers, and the last glittering with snow crystals and in her hair appeared a liappv family of robins, butterflies, humming birds and snow wrens. A gentleman who visited a New York jewelry store saw young girls buying jeweled garter buckles ranging in price from if'200 upward: also women paying $:j;50 for one jeweled smelling bottle, $150 for? srold-headed silk umbrella,$100 for corset-clasps of gold, $30 for a set of hairpins, $30 for a pearl and gold glove buttoucr. JfoOO for a pair of opera glasses clustered with glittering stones. A dress lately seen at a wedding was of violet and pink shot silk, trimmed with a deep flounce of lacc, headed with a very fuil piuked-out ruching. The upper part was covered with lace, forming an apron and drapery at the back, the latter arranged in loose folding puff's divided with ruches. The bodicc was open in front, and had a full vest very gracefully arranged over the silk. The bouquet was a large cluster of crushed roses, a garland of the same being held on one side of the skirt. The dress was short, and a large lace hat was worn with it, trimmed with a lovely cluster of violets and pink roses. A Country of Marvelous Contrarities. In a letter from Mexico a correspondent remarks: Mexico is a country of broad contrasts. Even in this city the palaces of the millionaires and the cabins of the poor and squalid are side by side; indeed, they are frequently under the very same roof, entered from different doors. In its 2,000 miles of latitude and in its three miles of altitude, Mexico produces all the vegetables, fruits and grain of every zone?every edible thing from the equator to the poles; yet her people are the poorest fed I have ever known. She produces all articles of clothing? wool in endless abundance; leather, cot ton of every grade, hemp, linen, felt, ratnic, and even silk?yet her peasantry are arrayed in soiled and tattered bagging. sufficient for the most primitive modesty. Upon her plains sleeps eternal summer, guaranteeing too and often three crops of the cereals every year, and lioth highland and lowland swarm with peons eager to work for eighteen to thirty cents a day. And yet food of a'l sorts is so high here as well nigh to bankrupt a visitor. Mexico could grow more wheat than Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri, and in the ticrra templada on the j central table lands two crops of wheat | are grown every twelve months; yet wheat flour is thirty dollars a barrel I here in the City of Mexico as 1 write. I There is enough grazing land in Mexico I in all seasons to support K\000,000 head of cattle, and cows seem to be plentiful; yet butter in these streets sells at a dollar a pound. The food of the poorer classes consists of beans and cornmeal baked, and they protect themselves from sunstrokes by a counter irritation and internal illuminaj tion produced by eating a sort of red i pepper that they call chilly on the lucasa-non principle. But beans arc two dollars a bushel and even Indian com is selling at the same price. Potatoes can be grown iu Mexico for twenty-five cents a bushel, but they are selling at ten times that; and hogs can be grown at a cent a pound, but ham is selling at fifty cents and it is from New York! Bananas and pineapples, which <rro\v almost within sight, arc higher in front of the houses than they are in San Francisco. Yet the poor keep fat on six cents a day. The Name of fclotl in Forty-eight Languages. IICUIUW?j-iuiuui \ji liiuau. Cliulduic?Elah. Assyrian?Ellah. Svriac and Turkish?Alah. Malay?Alia. Arabic?Allah. Language of the Magi?Orsi. Old Egyptian?Tnet. Arinonian?Teuti. Modern Egyptian?Teun. Greek?Theos. I Cretan?Thias. /Eolian and Doric?Hos. Latin?Deus. Low Latin?Diex. Celti'j and old Gallic?Din. | French?Dicu. Spanish?Dios. j Portuguese?Deos. Old German? Diet.. Provencal?Diou. Low Breton?Done. Italian?I)io. Irish?Die. Olala tongue?Dcu. German?Gott. Flemish?Goed. Dutch?Godt. English and old Saxon?God. Teutonic ?Goth. Danish and Sweedish?Gut. Norwegian?Gud. Slavic?Buch. Polish?Bog. Polaca?Bung. Lapp?Jubical. Fi n n i sh?J uma 1 a. Runic?As. Pannoninn?Istu. Zemblian?Fetizo. llindostanee?Rain. Coromandel?Brama. Tartar?Mairatal. Persian?Sire. Chinese?Prussa. J a panese?G oezur. ^ladagasgar?Zannar. Peruvian?Puchoeamao. | CONCERNING KING COTTON. nSTTEBESTIKG FACTS ABOUT A GREAT INDUSTRY. The Sacred Shrub of Imlia?Production or Cotton in Orientiiil Countries?Primitive iHncliinery, The traveler in the far East sees growing about the temples of India a purpleblossomed shrub, over which the Iliudu priests watch reverently. It is the sacred cotton tree from whose ripe bolls is made the tripartite thread, the Brahmin symbol ol the Trinity. Alinougn in no uuht clime and by no other race is this plant held in such peculiar and reverent regard, all the civilized world pay homage and tribute to the king whose throne is in the sunny cotton fields. And so they must from necessity. This king clothes fully one-half of the human race in his own fabric-;. and a larsre share of the remainder are indebted to him for an essential part of their raiment. In his employ a thousand "heavy-laden argosies" pass to and fro across the seas; at his bidding cities rise vocal with the sound ol whirring spindles and throbbing looms; .Merrimacs and AViliimantics do his will; and all around the world from the Himalaya slopes to the Carolinas, millions of human beings toil their lives away in his scr'itudo. The tiniti is not known in history when cotton did not form a part of the clothing of mankind. It is said that the "blue hangings fastened with cords of line linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble" in the palace of Ahasuerus, at Shushan. described in the />f Vctlinr wi.rn mudn of tlllS Ilia terial. Herodotus put it on record, 450 B.C. " The wild trees of that country (meaning India) bear fleeces as their fruit passing those of sheep in beauty and excellence, and the Indians use cloth made from these trees.'' The Institutes of Menu, written some 400 years earlier, contain many allusions to cotton and cotton cloth under various names. The cultivation of the cotton plant in India is traced back more than 1,000 years before the Christian era. The calicoes and muslins of that country have been famous for centuries. All the inventions and mechanical skill of the present day have not been able to produce such fine and durable fabrics as are woven on the rude and clumsy machines used in Oriental countries A French traveler, writing of the calicoes of Surat, says they are " so fine that you could hardly feel them in your hand, and the thread when spun is hardly discernible." Muslin has been made in Bengal so extremely thin that when spread upon the grass and moistened with dew it is almost invisible. A single pound of this thread has been spun out to the length of a hundred and fifteen miles. Clotn made of these delicate threads has been poetically described as "webs of the woven wind." In China and Egypt the production of cotton began at a remote period,although it was not until recent times that it assumed commercial importance. It was considered worthy of record by Chinese annalists that the Emperor Ou-ti, who ascended the throne in 502 A. D., wore a robe of cotton on that occasion, The cany explorers of America found the Cotton king already established here. Cortex received cotton garments as presents from the natives of Yucatan: and Spanish historians describe it as* forming the chief article of clothing among the subjects of Montezuma. Garments made of this material were found in exploring the most ancient Peruvian tombs, and there is evidence that it was cultivated in that country as early as 1532. The process of weaving cloth seems to have been one of the first arts practised among mankind. It has been found to exist among the rudest and most savage people, long anterior to the dawn of civilization. And although performed with the simplest and rudest implements, the same that are used to this day in many Eastern countries, the product of these primitive machines often surpassed, in many respects, the textures now woven in the mills of Manchester and Lowell. With the aid of a few sticks and the dexterous use of hands and feet, the native of India constructs a fabric of marvelous fineness and beauty. Down to the time of the introduction of improved machinery weaving was chiefly done in the homes of the people, and the weaver's art descended as a heritage from generation to generation. It was everywhere held in high repute as a most useful and honorable employment. The distaff itself became the sign of thrift and industry. The first manufactories of cotton goods in Europe were established in Italy, chiefly at Venice and Milan, wnose iustians and (limitics were highly valued in the households of early times. The Netherlands was the next country to adopt the art, which from thence was translated into England by the Protestant refugees from Flanders, after the capture of Antwerp by the Duke of Parma in 158").?yew York Ohxener. In a Sugar Honsc. Like a brooding mother hen, the old sugar house spreads its low roof wings at either side upon the river's bank. At one corner rises the towering chimney, a marvel in its way; round as a needle, and having its inner courses like the thread of a screw that it may thoroughly devour the black smoke which, otherwise would pour from the lofty muzzle. Ranks of corded wood on one side, ranks of blue,juicy cane with shoots and thick-swelling joints on the other side; wagons coming tilled with the sweet stalks and going to the fields again full of noisy children; men passing to and fro, every second one of them maunching canc; bright skies smiling overhead; sweet birds, merry birds, brilliant birds, here, there, and everywhere; the odor of autumn in the air, the sweet, gladdening sense of rewarded labor in the heart? all these betoken "the grinding season," when waving fields bow and fall prostrate before glistening, flashing caneknives plied by vigoious hands, and the year is arranging his affairs for his irrevocable departure to the eternal past. Soon the last touch of preparation is given; the boiler is scrutinized, the great steel rollers arc scoured, kettles are set afresh, troughs are calked, and bright, new barrels and hogsheads of cypress are liiled in readiness. It. is for other sugar houses to boast of steam train, centrifugal process or vacuum pans One advance beyond the primitive sulliccs for the unambitious spirits of such a one as this we view, and tliat is fully met in the long rectangular sheet-iron vessel with its row of compartments from "the grand'' to ''the battery." instead of distinct kettles. The lire is lighted, and roars under those large compartments or pans filled with water boiling furiously. An armful of cane is thrown upon "the carrier." Another and another and yet another; then an increasing supply follows, and up. up, up, it goes 011 the moving, endless chain of wooden slats, guided by skillful hands, it falls into the insatiate jaws of the rollers.and is munched and crunched till it falls away upon the farther side like a big wad of bleached straw. Along small troughs below the rollers rune t >ir? wlitfn inW> tlirnmrli fumes of sulphur in the perforated chest beyond, thence pumped to the "receivers" aloft, treated with lime water, and the word is passed below. Great dippers, whose handles arc measured by the foot, fly rapidly, the water is lifted quickly from the first of the pans or kettles? "the grand"?and the juice flows in, to follow again, after a while, the still retreating water, until, at last, all the compartments are filled with the boiling, foaming juice alone. Carefully, skillfully, the surface of each is swept with long wooden blades, thus forcing back from each the upheaved impuiities detached through the combined agencies, the sulphur fumes and the lime water. >So the work goes on, day and night, the divisions of time noted only for the in-coming of one set of workers and the out-going of another for needed rest or food. Hound and round, the three huge rollers ceaselessly revolve, while the many-jointed stalks jump and writhe and crackle as they are grasped and crushed by the cylinders; steadily, continuously, the little rill of expressed saccharine sap runs to the purgatorial purification of the sulphur chest, and so on through its several parts the work con tinues. Down at the last of the pans?"the battery"?he who is specially known as "the sugar maker" stands on guard. At short intervals he dips into the vessel, extracting a small portion of its darkening contents. Into this, when it has cooled, he drops a small glass tube with a metrical scale like a barometer's, and a tiny bulb below filled with diminutive leaden beads.?Junta Ji. Cable, in the Current. Seven of the jury who condemned John Brown to death are still living, and their ages average seventy years. WISE WORDS. * Choose brave employment with naked sword throughout the world. ! Genius follows its own path and rcachcs its destination scarcely needing a compass. That state of life is the most happy where superfluities are not required and where necessities arc not wanting. Discretion and hardy valor are the twins of honor, and nursed together make a conqueror; divided, but a mere talker. When Fortune comes smiling, she of ten designs the most mischief. When Fortune caresses n man too much, she is apt to make a fool of him. Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the clay. lie is poverty-stricken who is so absorbed in the little inclosures of which he holds the title deed that he loses his grasp on the bending universe. Self control is promoted by humility. Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil. Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappicst of all mortals arc those who have more of either than they know how to use. Mind-Reading. The editor of London Truth savs: Stuart Cumberland called upon mc one day last week to explain to me how he succeeds in linding pins and other such ' manifestations." If a person will concentrate his thoughts upon an object, and if any one?whose perceptive faculties are properly trained?takes his hand, the operator will be, Mr. Cumberland explained, inevitably drawn to the sopt where the object is. "Thought read ing, then," I said, " is muscle-reauing.' "To a certain extent," he replied. " but not absolutely. You have to watch for other indications; for instance, if I find myself close to the article thought of, the hand of some subjects gets hot, in others the pulse quickens. You must watch these indications as well as the muscles." " But surely you must have had a confederate when you tied yourself to a man by a string and found an object concealed by him." "No," he said, "I could feel the string dragging one way, and I followed the indication. When I came near the object the string trembled. This is the simple explanation of the mystery." "And do you mean to say that you oan take hold of a person's hand with one of your hands; and with the other write series of numbers that he is thinking of?" "Certainly not," he replied; "the person's hand must grasp the hand with which I write; my hand remains almost passive, and he, without knowing it himself, writes the numbers." "Well," I said, "I will think of something in this room, and we will see if you can discover it." I thought of a little cardcase that was lying on the table. Mr. Cumberland blindfolded himself. "Why do you do that?" I said. "That my own thoughts should not be diverted from what I am doing*'' lie took my hand; in a minute or two lie approached the table, hovered over the various articles upon it, and finally placed my hand on the card case. I had thought all the while of this article, and I could feel my hand involuntarily drawing him toward it. It would take a person a long time to acquire Mr. Cumberland's powers of perception; but any one can realize how the trick, if I may call it so. is clone, uy numcing 01 some uujuui, un ? table, and getting a friend to grasp his hand and try to discover it. . He has only to concentrate his thoughts upon the object, and the exact place where it is, in order to find that his hand resists whenever it is sought to divert it fiom the ,direct ion toward the object which it, apparently of itself, strives to approach, in fact, the thought acts upon the muscles much in the same way as the desire to grasp something causes the hands to grasp it. In both cases the muscles involuntarily obey the brain. The Town of Ramleh. A traveler in Palestine thus describes the unique tower of Ramleh: To the left we saw a village named Beit Dejan, oft"n pointed out by reason of the similarity in sound of the two names as the place where the house of Dagtn was. The first three verses of the fifth chapter of Fifth Samuel, however, explicitly state that the house of Dagon, where the ark rested, was in Ashdod, on the coast south of Jaffa. Passing through an olive grove, said to have been planted by Napoleon eighty-five years ago, we ascended a hill, and at its summit found ourselves in full view of Rainlcli, three miles ahead, the only real village between Jaffa and Jerusalem. Just north, two miles distant, we could see the top of a Greek convent claimed to mark the birthplace of St. George. Itamleh-looked well from the distance, with its fragrant gardens, imposing Greek, Latin and Russian convents, and its fruit orchards. But it was indeed distance that lent enchantment to the view; for on nearer approach the streets proved to be like those of this holy city itself, full of dead cats. rats, dogs and even donkeys, which were awaiting the attention of those public scavengers, the jackals. There was quite a number of soap factories, the gray ashes of which were piled in large mounds outside the buildings. In these cities, where soap abounds, however, tilth and personal cleanliness do seem to much more abound. Nearly one-half the male population of the town arc blind, and this is said to be largely due to the influence of the fine dust from these ash piles, which is easily caught up by the wind. The tower of Ramleh is thoroughly unique. As it differs from any minaret known to have been crected by the Moslems, it has been inferred that it was the campanile of some splendid Christian church, which the Moslems converted to their own use, or else a Saracenic monument. It is twenty-five feet square atlhe base, and diminishes by picturesque offsets. That the architecture is not Mahomedan is also attested by the fact that it had stood scores of earthquakes, some of which have cracked every other building in Iiamleh. The Spider's Thread. In a lecture at Hoston, Mass.. Professor Wood dealt with the phenomena of spider life. The female is larger and murh fiercer than the male, who, while paying his addresses,is in constant peril, frequently losing some of his legs. In one tribe the female is 1,300 times as large as the male. The spider's thread is made up of innumerable small threads or fibers, one of these threads being estimated to be one two-miliionth of a hair in thickness. Three kinds o? thread are ,.f imi.if fnr tlif? | BJ'UU. o.n,.,6 , "" radiating or spoke lines of the web. The cross lines, or what a sailor might call the ratlines, are finer and arc tenacious?that is, they have upon them little specks or globules of a very sticky 1 gum. These specks are put on with even interspaces. They arc set quite j thickly along the line, and are what, in the first instance, catch and hold the legs or wings of the fly. Once caught in this fashion, the prey is held secure by threads flung over it somewhat in 1 the manner of a lasso. The third kind of silk is that which the spider throws out in amass of llood, by which itsud- 1 denly envelops any prey of which it is somewhat afraid, as, im cxarr.;:;*; a ] wasp. A scientific experimenter once 1 drew out from the body of a single spider 3,480 yards of thread or spider silk?a length little short of three miles. Silk may be woven (if spider's thread, and it is more glossy and brilliant than that of the silk worm, being of a golden 1 color. An enthusiastic entomologist is J said to have secured enough of it for the weaving os a suit of clothes for Louis ; XIV. 1 Why He Was Afraid. 'Mohnnv. cro un to bed now. It's after 1 9 o'clock.'' ? "Oh, pshaw! Vou conic along, ' motlier, and liold the light; I'm afeard."' j "Why, child, what are you afraid of ? ( You went up to bed many a lime without i a light.'' * , "But it wasn't when I had chapped lips, like I got now, and can't whistle , any; I could whistle then."?Kentucky J State Journal. , Girls in Russian schools all wear uni- ' forms, and mostly hideous ones at that. 1 A brown frock with a small starched linen 1 collar, and a black apron, fastened by j straps, is the dress in the lower schools; in the upper the color is gray. In the 1 institutes the frocks arc either green or 1 crimson, with black aprons for ordinary wear and white for state occasions. t The sting of a bee is only one-thirty- i I second of an inch long; it is said to be i | only imagination that makes it seem as 1 i long (is 4 hoe handle. 1 EXCITING SUMMER SPORT. FISBHTG POE SHABKB OFF THE COAST OF MBE ISIA.2TD. How tlic nan Eaters Arc Canglit With a Hook?A Long .Struggle Willi a Powerful Fiwli. A vivacious writer describes in the New York Times how he went shark fishing from Fire Island, near the metropolis. lie says: The uprising sun was struggling dimly through the haze when my sailor lad, an honest young fellow from Hjiy Shore,hoisted sail on the trim little sloop and hauled out into the channel. A wayward breeze broke upon the calm surface of the bay, and pushed against our little sails with gentle force. The water gurgled softly at the bow aud bubbled away a shining streak of silver in our wake. Early as we had started we were later than a handsome little sloop from the Wa Wa Yanda Club house, which was standing up the bay some distance ahead. "That's C'ap'n John Thurbcr," said the sailor lad, bracing his back against the tiller and making a spyglass of his hands. "He's after blucfish with one of those city fellers what belongs to the club, lie knows where the fish is, you can bet." To know where the fish stay is the objective point in the education of every native of the bay, and the hero worship likely to be accorded to the successful veteran is comctning uimciui 01 conjecture. It may account, perhaps, for the tone of deep respect in which my ambitious assistant spoke of Captain John. "You kin throw out, now,'' saifl the boy, at length, " Cap'n John isa-getting out his lines." Not at all unwilling to follow the example of so excellent u fisherman as Captain John, I baited a strong hook with bunker bait and let the line run out. Some persons troll for bluetish with a line as thick as a codfish line, but with the more sp'ortsmanlike rod and reel the fish has a chance for himself and the angler's skill is taxed to the utmost. When the fisherman is after sharks the number of bluofish caught is an indifference, hence the basketful of voracious two-pound shiners that were hauled aboard the sloop in the next half hour need not be mentioned here. At the end of the half hour we had drifted abreast the wooden pier leading down to the bay from the hotel. Then I felt a mighty tug at the thin line, and the next moment the weight was as suddenly removed. I reeled in the line as rapidly as the brass multiplier would work. The bait was gone and the hook was broken off at the shank. Without a word the boy seized the big iron shark hook, with its short length ot chain, and thrust a seven-inch bunker upon the sharp barb. "It's a shark," said the boy, as the heavy line was unreeled. "Bet he don't break this hook." Then the sloop tacked back and forth across the channel, working along slowly with the tide. For fully ten minutes the bait trailed along unharmed. "Hi!" suddenly yelled the boy, "lie's got it!" The line straightened out along the surface of the water with a tremendous jerk, heeling the sloop to leeward as thourrh a heavy puff of wind had struck her maintopsail. For a single instant the light under side of a seven-foct shark Hashed in the sun, and then the line went whizzing down toward the bottom of the bay. The line was paid out fivf>lv nnrl snnn the shark stonned. "Haul away!" I shouted, bracing my feet against the rail. The boy fell to with a will, and the shark moved slowly and unsteadily toward the sloop. Then a shower of spray from the shark's rapidly moving tail glittered in the sun, and before we could take a turn around a cleat, with the slack line the big fish had raced off ten fathoms astern. Gently we coaxed him back, hoping to tire him into submission. In sullon stillness he came within two feet of the sloop, and the boy reached for our shark killer?an old bayonet fastened firmly to the end of a hoe handle. "Here, jab him, quick," said the boy, thrusting the weapon across the stern sheets. Raising the spear like a harpoon I dioveitinto the shark's gills half a dozen times in three seconds. The blood spurted out in great streams, staining the side of the sloop and tnrning the water a dark crimson. The shark turned like a flash. ''Now, let him go,"cried the boy,who, in moments of excitement, seemed gifred with an inspiration of eloquence. A hundred feet of line followed the shark in a mad rush out into the bay. Then slowly, as before, we hauled it in, with the shark hanging doggedly to a hook that he could not crush. Again we brought him alongside, and once more did the glittering harpoon draw gushing streams of blood. "Shoot him!" screamed the hoy, in genuine alarm, as the shark began a new demonstration of ugliness. It was too late to shoot, for before the revolver could be brought to bear the gamy fish was two boat lengths to windward. Weary with the quick work, we hauled him in again, but with less enthusiasm than at first. The shark, too, seemed tired. Two central-fire cartridge balls were sent crashing through his head as he lay a boat's length from the sloop, and another shot stunned him so that we were able to slip a noose over his tail, and, with perspiration-compelling energy, hoist him up into the standing rigging. When we had rested and annointed our blistered hands we took his measure. It is not necessary to give the figures, as the practice of reporting measurements ana weight has fallen into disrepute with the innocent and confiding public. Three hours afterward the boy shoved a small pine stick into the shark's mouth, and for his tenerity nearly lost his hand when the dying fish turned over on the muscles of its tail and made a sidelong snap with its vicious jaws. The lad turned pale and made all haste to resume his place at the tiller. Early this afternoon, while angling for biuefish up the bay. we 'caught a small shark on the rod and reel. With lhc exception that one of the brass ferules of the rod was cracked and bent out of shape in the death struggle we got him on board without much trouble. Captain John Thurber and the member of the Wa Wa Yanda club took in a big catch of biuefish, and lost a length of line in a fight with shark during the forenoon. There seems to be plenty of sharks, as sharks go, in (Jreat South Bay. A Nation of Coffee Driukers. The Turks arc a nation of coffee drinkers. They use colTee as the Italians use wine or the Germans beer. Of course al coholic drinks are popular, but it is illegal to use them in public. Coffee houses are as plentiful as saloons in a mining town, and, in addition, itinerant venders of the drink are omnipresent on the street. These latter have each a small sheet iron stove, such as tinkers usually carry, an iron sauce dish, with a long wooden handle, a bottle of colTee. a paper of sugar, a can of water, a spoon unci a few small cups. When a cup of coffee is ordered from one of these fellows he retires into the nearest doorway, und rakes up the coals in his stove. Then out of the bottle is ladled the cof - ? -1 .... oil,,.. ICC, previously {jnimm iiuu iiii ini|/oi|>.> ble powder, a teaspoonful being taken for each cup to bo made. An eipial quantity of sugar is added, and the whole put in the saucepan and covered with water. Then the pan goes on to the coals, and is allowed to hoi I at once. The result looks inviting and smells ^ood, but you feel more friendly with it outside than when you have got it in. A Pathetic Incident. A pathetic little incident connected with the celebrated case before Congress regarding the reduction of fifty dollars [>er mouth from the pension allowed by the government to the late (Jeneral Ward 15. Hurnett, for gallant services rendered liis country, occurred on (he day of his :lcath. The congressional committee were seated in their room discussing the 2ase, hotly arguing for mid against the brave old soldier, whether or not to restore the special j>ension, which to them personally could mean so little, but lo iiiin was fraught with such weighty interest, when suddenly all were startled L>y the uuexpeeteil entrance ol .Mrs. i?urlett. Gazing around for an instant with i da/.cd, sorrowful air, she advanced a step nearer, saying gravely, with a wonJrous pathos in her voice, "Gentlemen, you can light him no longer, he is gone," ind then the brave-hearted wife, who, hrotigh all the years of trial and sorrow, lever once faltered in that helpful allegiance to her husband, which was the jright spot in the closing years of a once irilliant career, burst into tears.? Wnxhnf/loii Capital. liy a new process of treating petroleum ;ars, a French chemist has extracted a lew wax-like substance, to which the lame "petreoline" has been given. It las antiseptic properties, and is said to )c valuable as a food preservative. j belles on The beach. See the dainty, darling belles, Diving belles! How the music of their merriment melodiously wellH ! Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of splashing rhyme, To the motion of old ocean as his bosom prouflly swells With delight, in ms migm, At tho soul-ensnaring sight Of the beautiful and bounding bashful belles, Of tho belles, belles, belles, Belles, belles, belles, belles, Of the splashing, dashing, never "mashing" belles ! J"'ee the garments of the belles, Bathing Iwlles I What a world of ingenuity each charming c< stunie tells! Some are red, white, blue, Divers colors, every hue, While the many vte in brilliancy with any of the shells Which below, As they go, Vainly try to kiss the too, Of the sweetest and the neatest of tho bolles, Of tho belles,, belles, belles, Belles, 1 wiles, belles, belles, Of the natty and the natatorial bulles! See tho antics of tho belles, Friskv belles! How they frolic in the foamy waves, while flirting with the swell! O'er their skill they gayly gloat, As they dive, swim, float, Giving vent to their enjoyment with exasperating yells. While the sea Smiles with glee At tho jjirlish jubilee Of the jolly, jaunty, jubilant and ever joyous belles, Of the belles, belles, belles, Belles, l>elles, belles, belles, Of the streaming, gleaming, s . reaming, beaming belles, The ne'er subdued, tho rainbow-hued, the dainty diving belles. ?.Yew York Journal. HUMOK OF THE DAY. The king of Greece?Oleomargarine.? Philadelphia Call. An anxious inquirer asks: "Where is the best place for salt-water bathing?'' In salt water, dear friend.?Boston Pout. A lobster always blushes when he gets into hot water, but man, less sensitive, presents an unaltered front. ? Boston Budget. "Hard line9," muttered the tramp when he tried to cut a cloihes ro[fe and found it made of wire.?Neu> York JournaK A medical journal takes two columns to tell wakeful people how togo to sleep. Hah, .we know a good way; try to keep awake.?Burlington Hawkeye. Come into the garden, Maude, with a hand rake and a hoe. Here are the biggest weeds you ever sawed, growing in the onion row.?Pittslmrg Democrat. The latest boarder in an uptown establishment recently offended his landlady by pointing at the tish-balls and asking the waiter to pass him another handgrenade.?Puck. In some respects a mouse is far superior to a man. A 'mouse could make a woman rustic ,'iround and climb on the table and squeal, while a man couldn't make her budge an inch.?Pittsburg Don ocrat. "Don't you admire the range of my mind?" asked a literary woman of her husband. "No,"was the frank reply; "the kitchen range possesses a great deal more attraction for me."?Burlington Free Press. A young man or a young woman in love is as blind as a bat, and the beloved object might be as full of faults as the Platte valley is of toads without the one who is principally interested ever finding it out.?Philadelphia Press. A famous Prussian general was inspecting some military stables. " What do 1 see there," he said, in tones of thunder, to a sergeant?"cobwebs?" "Yes, sir," was the respectful reply; " we keep them there to catch the Hies, and prevent their teasing the horses." "How will mv love come back to me?" asks a poetess. Well, it i< a mighty hard question to answer in these trying times of a presidential campaign. He may come back all right, and then again he may not. You stand a good chance to win either way you bet.?Peek's Sun. Nature is guilty of some strange freaks. For instance; throw a ten-cent dog that has never seen water into the river, and it will immediately swim to shore; but when a $50,000 man, whose education in the natatorial art has been neglected, falls overboard, he incontinently sinks to the bottom.?Norristown Ilerald. CURE KOK TRAMPS. A hungry gleam in bis eye, He says he's sought work o'er and o'er; Oh, if he'd but a chance to try, He'd work his bones and muscles sore! But just, ere listening to his cry, Point to the w< nxl-pile by the door? He'll turn away with weary sigh, And you will never see him more. ?Philadelphia Call. A wri':cr in a scientific journal says a black eye is simply a "severe contusion of the integuments under the orbit, with great extravazution of blood, and eccliymosis* in the surrounding cellular tissue, which is in a tumefied state." And here all this time we have supposed that a black eye was simply the result of a little man calling a big man a liar. ?Norristown Herald. Electricity in the Futnre. "It is impossible to conceive of the extent to which electricity will enter into ii.~ ?Utif. v.ivnrl aripntifir. uiu aumuuu ui ivnx . ? questions," said an electrician to a reporter of the New York Mail und ExJI/TXS. "Aerial navigation has long perplexed scientific minds, and yet I think the electric current will some day sweep away all the cobwebs and open up a way for the sailing of airships against any wind. As a wind from the west sends the sailing vessel to the north, east or south, respectively, I think the same thing will some day apply to ballooning. The navigation of the air is merely a question of lightness and forcc. The one necessity is the construction of a machine which will be able to produce a blow, as it were, upon the atmosphere in excess of its own weight. Of course, the machine is heavier than the air. but so is a bird. Its strength enables it to overcome the difference between its own weight and the weight of the atmosphere it displaces. Kdison says: 'If we cau solve the power question we can do anything with electricity,and so I believe. I am now perfecting an electric light that will render horse racing on the darkest night a possibility and a pleasure. It is merely a moderation of the arc light, and I am sure will be a great success. I have already succeded in making a marine iight that will send a gleam one hundred times a vessel's length, even on the darkest night. Heside that, I have simplilicd the incandescent liirht. to an extent that will permi* its being used at sen instead of the line and ])hinnnc:t for soundings. Soundings can be more intelligently made l>y the sight than by hearing. This light will illuminate the waters around the vessel to an extent fully ecpial to its own size. Il can also be used by divers, ship buildcs and stevedores. I shall irive an exhibition of these lights during the summer, and will be glad lo have you attend. The main question now is to reduce the cost. This done and 1 promise you some startling developments.'" Iitiiucnsi* Continental Armies. Colonel llennebcrt, a French professor, has compiled sonic appalling statistics in regard to the immense continental armies that could be put into the lield incase of a Kuropcau war. Not mere armies, but armed nations, he says, will hereafter meet on the battlefield, and the battles of the future will be gigantic massacres. By the law of the id of May, 1874, the German government is authorized to call out, in case of war, 15,000,000 men. By the ukase of January I, of the same i year, Russia is permitted to arm nearly I I 13.000,000. Of course, these numbers ' arc only on paper; but, deducting every- f tiling, taking the real number available | in the two empires, and it is positive J that (Sermany can put into the field 81(0,000, and Russia '2,500,000 lighting i men, thoroughly drilled and disciplined, 1 while, as Austria, by her law of Decern- I bur 5. 1 SOS, is permitted to put on a war ! footing 1,205,000 soldiers, an Auatrn- ' (icrnmn-Russian alliance represents, in ! round numbers, 7,500.000 combatants. } Join to these, as may be considered , certain, Italy's contingent, assured by j her laws of 1875, 1S?(? and 1872 at 2,570,000 men, and the quadruple league can dispose of a mass of tioops of all arms exceeding 10,000,000, with 1,000 batteries I of field guns. A Badger Baiting. An amusing incident in the unwritten \ history of Abraham Lincoln is told by J the Hon. Ward H. Lamon of this city, 5 says the-Denver Tribune. While the gentlemen were law-partners j in Illinois, ana before Lincoln was thought r of for President of the United States, they happened to visit an agricultural* fair in nn inland town of Tennessee. Lincoln was in high spirits and seemed bent on J fun. Wliile casting about for such J amusement as the exhibition afforded J Lincoln discovered an attraction in the f shape of a ^umed-down flour-barrel con- ' taining a badger. "Fifty dollars for a dog that will haul * * * M -1 i.J I tiie badger out 01 me Durrei, sauuieu the red-faced man who owned the outfit. "Fifty dollars, I say, to the dog that can haul out the badger." There were a few takers of the badger man's offer, but the luckless dog-owners who invested twenty-five cents in the experiment invariably lost in the speculation, for the badger'g teeth were sharp, and every dog that entered its stronghold came out in a jiffy, while the ferocious animal inside held the fort and grinned all over. Mr. Lincoln hit upon a happy thought. Taking Ward to one side they found a lank countryman with a still lanker mastiff. "Want to make $50 with that dog?" asked Lincoln. "Course I do," replied the countryman. The dog was bartered for, and as Lincoln approached the badger man, elbowing his way through the crowd, he said: "I'll invest a quarter in your game, sir."_ "The badger operator loonea ac ajihcoln's hungry dog and smiled as he took the silver quarter. Lincoln caught the dog and led it up to the barrel. Hastily grabbing the mastiff, he threw it into the opening hindquarters first. There was a pause only of a second, and then followed a lively scrape inside the barrel. "Hold on, there, cried the manager. "Fair play?" But he was to late with the remonstrance. Out sprang the badly frightened dog with the badger sticking to his hindquarters. The crowd parted, and away went the dog and badger into the inner field of the race tracTc. The badger stuck like 'a brother, teams ran away, women fainted, and the crowd roared. Lincoln fairly went into spasms of mirth, the fun was so enjoyable. The countryman owning the dog was paralyzed, as was the badger owner, who set up a great howl and was ifiad enough to tight. "Produce your fifty dollars," said Lincoln to the badger-keeper. "Foul play,foul play," cried the chagrined gamester, "and I'll never pay it." Here is where Lamon came in serviceable. Catching the badger's friend by the neck, he cried: "Give up the fifty dollars or I'll wallup you." Lamon's herculean proportions were too argumentary to bo trifled with, and the money was handed to Mr. Lincoln, who in turn gave it to the countryman. "V. 1 11 ?; j j me aog was wen puiu iur, uuu mo badger business closed up for the want of a badger. In a Chinese Gambling Den. A Chinese gambling den is one of the most repulsive sights to be seen in Hong Kong. It is generally a dilapidated hovel or mat-shed, through the chinks of which a gray light streams from within and a noise as of bedlam greets the visitor's ears. A score of voices are yelling and shouting together. The air is full of wild imprecations, terrible oaths and hysterical laughter. When the storm lulls nothing can be beard but the jingle of coin. Lifting aside the grimmy curtain that conceals the entrance, an offensive odor of foul breaths and unwashed linen rises up. The room is small, only about twelve by ten feet, and is crowded. There is a high table in the rodhi, at one end of whieh arc seated the croupier, the money examiner, with scales to weigh the broken silver. On the other side of the table is a motley crowd of haggard faces, with bloodshot eyes, watching the play with bated breath, and all in a state of feverish excitement. There is a checkered board lying on the table, arranged in squares marked 1, 2, 3, 4. The croupier throws a quantity of copper cash on the table and covers the neap with a basin, so as to prevent the players estimating the quantity of the heap. When this is done the players step forward and place their stakes on the 1. r?_ squares, according to eauu man a jjicicience. The croupier then removes the bowl, and with an ivory >od proceeds to remove the heap by taking away four cash at a time. The remainder will be, of course, one, two, three or four cash, and the winner is determined by the accident of the remaining number of cash corresponding with the number of the square on which he has placed his stake. The game is called fantan. A Seren-Year-OId Cologne Tippler. A Paris physician got into a great scrape lately by declaring that a young lady of seven, and belonging to a family of respectability, drank. Another doctor was promptly summoned and said the same thing. The parents were in despair and incredulitv. They said that their daughter actually disliked wine. "Watch her carefully," said doctor No. 2, and a few days later mamma caught the victim of the mysterious malady at the eau de cologne bottle.?London Vanity Fair. Among the many objects exhibited at the mineral exposition in Zacatecas, Mexico, is a piece of ore weighing 430 pounds, taken from the San Acacio mine, valued at $2,500. Since the Boston and Atlanta exhibitions there has been an active and growing demand for Southern woods from the North and West. , LydiaE. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound Is a sure cure for kidney complaints. There are 3,000 carp ponds in Georgia. "Biicba Palba." Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation, Stone,Gravel, Catarrh of bladder. |L Druggista The Conflict Between disease and health is often brief and fatal. It is better to be provided with cheap and simple remedies for such common aa PftMo c&r* fhan f/> rnn the risk of contracting a fatal disease through neglect. Dr. We Hall's Balsam is a sure and safe remedy for all diseases of the lungs and chest. If taken in season it Is certain to cure, and may save you from that terrible disease, consumption. It has been known and used for many years, and it is no exaggeration to ?ay that it is the best romedy in the world for coughs, etc. 25 Cents Will buy a Treatise on the Horse and His Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid. New York Horse Book Co., 134 Leonard Street, New York city. Heart Palm. Fnlpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness, Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by "Wells' Health Renewer." Farmers' Folly. Some fanners ail here, even against the full light of fact and discovery, to the old fash- i ioned folly of coloring butter with carrots, annatto, and inferior substances. notwith- ! standing the splendid record made by the Im- I proved Butter Color, prepared by Wells, [ Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt, At scores j of the best agricultural fairs it has received the highest award over all competitors. You will bo happy. Make your old things look like new by using the Diamond Dyes,and you will be lmppy. Any of the fashionable colors for 10c. at the druggists. Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, vt "Itomh on Rat?." Clears out rats, nuco. roaches, flies,ants,bedbugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers.__loc. Drgta. From Death's I)oor.t M. M. Devereaux, of lona, Mich., was a Bight to behold. Ho sava: "I had no action of the kidneys and suffered terriblv. My legs were as big as my body and my body as big as a barrel. Tho best doctors gave mo up. Finally I tried Kidney-Wort. In four or Ave days a change came, in eight or ten days I was on my feet, and now 1 am completely curad. It was certainly a miracle." Ail 'druggists keep Kidney-\\ ort, which is put up both in liquid and drv form. Every Day AiM t!m ?!rr?<ly tnaniivo bulk of avidcncfl antoth* I'u.Hi...- |M.wpr* iif llooil'a Sarnnparilts, l^ittnra nr? i omitinii.i lly IminK rocoimil from paoplo in wiitnly *(ip*- ' rni.M naotmun ot tho o.mntry tollin* of tln'ir i>ximr>nc? ?itli?n.l k'"*'I nnofll ilnrinwl from 11.> >.I'm N?r**p?rilln. ttimtnuw it is l>oin* apaoially o 'ir.inxnitmi for liability an.l *? a li|ntiil piirilUr, ni|M)llmit from th? IiIinni dti'ijp trui-n of omfiiU or oilier impurity- Now is th? tinin to takw It. "i 0*n n.iMy rooommoit't ii Hvl'a Snrvnp&nlta to say ona ill mini of nn oxoollrnt blood purltlor, or Any ona tronlit.'.i nitli nanroitniio** " u. t) MiVkauck, 44 111in11 htri'iit, (Mainland. o. Tako Hood's Sarsaparilla "Korllirrii months I una foil fined to tho hrmaawith kidttry mill livor dinnano, I na? <*ry much tun ilocn, nitli no npiiollto, mi.I tia.l oouglt I Knight bottla , of llood'i ."smrnpntill*. mi 1 after Inking it * *h,,rt timo I I Iiok.iu lo limit. No it 1 nni ?ii I lint I ,<an tin n good deal of work. I itivo iiiu. li fnith In llthHl'* s?ninp*rills."- ' T. F. KKVNoi.HN, l li'inlng, N- Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold hy all drusirist*. &l;six for $A, Madaonljby 0. 1. HOOD A I/O., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Do8ea_ Ona Dollar. If your hair is thin and falling oat, if yoa ire becoming prematurely bald, u your hair jb dry and sickly, use Carboline, the great natural Hair Restorer. One dollar a bottle. "Roach on Corn*." Ask for Wells' "Rough on Corns. "15c. Complete cure. Hard or soft corns, warta bunions. Public speakers and ringers use Piso's Cure for hoarseness and weak lungs. The losses by flro in the United Statea luring the half-year were nearly $54,000,000. >r twenty per cent over the total for the flm half of 1883, and $9,<J00,000 more than the bdghcet return for any previous corresponding half-year. A4rerti?iitff Cheats !M "n v? 1 * an iwmwnn to faofffat BB H(|l de In an elegant interesting rtyl& "Then ran it into soma advertisement thai we avoid all such, "And simply call attention to the merits oi Hcrp Bitters in u plain, honest terms as poa> "To indnee people 'To give them one (Hal, which so proves their value that they will never uas anything else." "Thb BsaoEDT so favorably noticed in all the papas, Religions and secular, Is ? < "Having a large sale, and is supplanting aO other mecndnea. "There is no denying the virtoes of the Hojj plant, and the proprietors of Hop Bitten have shown gTe&t shrewdness and ability * i* "In compounding a medicine wnow virtues are so palpable to every one's observation." Did She DM "Kol "She lingered and suffered bag, pining awwy all the time for years," - _ "The doctors doing her no good:" "And at last was cured by this Hop Bitten the papers say so much about." "indeed! Indeed 1" ! "How thankful we shouldbefor that medi? dne." i A Daughter's Misery. "Elerwn years our daughter suffered on a bed of misery, "From a complication of kidney, Uvar^rheo* ma tic trouble and Nervous debility. "Under the care of the best physicians, "Who gave her diseaae various nams* "But no relief, "And now she is restored to us in good health by as simple a remedy as Hop BittersJ (hat we had shunhedfar yean before using it* ?thi paeksts. Father Is Getting WelL "My daughten say: "How much better father is since he used HopBtttera." 1 'VHe is getting wen after his long suffering from a disease declared incurable." "And we are so glad that he used your Bit* tars."?A Last of Utica, N. T. j py Rone genuine without a bunch of green Eons on the white label. Shun all the vikf powdbcus staff with "Hop" or "HopsP la their name. N Y N U?31 ' A CURE FOR GRAVEL. A Common anil Palnfal Complaint?A Stat* ment Yon Mar Confide la. , It seems to have been reserved for Dr. Dartf Kennedy, of Roudout, H. Y.,to accomplish, througl his preparation widely known as KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY, what other* han failed to compass. The subjoined letter will b< fonsd of vital iatereet to sufferers from parol and to the general public: , Albany, March 20,1894. f Dr. D. Ktniudy, Handout, S. 7.: ? DkahSjb: Let me tell you frankly that I have nersr been partis! to proprietary medicines, as 1 believe the majority of them to be nothing bettes than methods of obtaining money from paop*' 'whom suffering makes ready to catch at any hops of relief. They are mean cheats and delusion? But your FAVORITE REMEDY I know by happy experience to be a totally different thing I had been a sufferer from grarel for years, and ha4 retorted to manr eminent physicians for relief, bsl do permanent good came of it. About three jean agoyonr FAVORITE REMEDY waarecon* mended to me. I can give y ou uie reauit in a aeo? tance: I triad it and it ctired ma completely- I an confident It aaveU my life. Yon can nae this lettep If you think beat. t Yonn, etc., NATHAN ACKLKT. j Captain Nathan Aeldey was for a long time cot? nected wiihtha Canal Appraiaer'a office in Albanw? He la well known and writea for no purpose bat U do rood to others. As a medicine for all dlaeasea of tho blood, liven , kidneys and digestive organs, KENNEDY'S FAVO RITE REM ED Y, has fairly won iU high reputation. Write, 1/ desirable, to Dr. DavU Kennedy, Kondoat, N. Y. CREAMJALM Causes no Pain, BsI^o^esheaEi] g1vcs iEIef at fhmever?I 0nce- '^rou^h Km. Treatment will g Cure. Not a Llquid or Snuff, Apply with finger. H/^ FEVER Give it~aTrIal. 50 cents at dreggistfl. 60 cents by ,nail racMarad. Sample bottle by mail 10 cents. ELY BBOl HEM. PrjgKUts, Owego, Jf. Y Paynes' Automatic Engines and Saw-MIIL We offer an 8 to l'> H. P. mounted Engine with MIH, 0-ia. solid Saw, &i ft. belting, snt-koolt*, riff complete for operation, on c n, JLIOu. Knjnno on skids, CIOI mis. Send for circular IB), n. W. PAYNE St SONS, Manuf.-ictrnra of all styles Automatic En? fines, from 2 to a o H. P.: alto Pnlleys, Haorets tu haftng, Elmira. N. Y. feox I860. , Walnut Leaf Hair Kcstorer. ^|U|fli<?|Upr - ' *-y It I* ?ntlr?l7 different from all others, and as its mm IndlcaUa la a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. It will immediately free the head from all dandruff, restore |ra hair to Its natural oolor. and produce a new growti * where it has fallen off. It doe* not affect the health, which sulphur, sugar of lead and nitrate of silver prone* ations hare done. It will change light or faded hairtns few days to a beautiful gloeay brown. Ask your draggisl for It. Each bottle is warranted. Smith, Kline A Co~ WholesaleJ^ts,PhiJa^.JV.jnd C.N'.Onttenton.W.y BD Lymg Agents cant SEIX and tall IHIIIN9 the truth about JONts. Put yoa> K01IEILM BH $60.5 TON! WAGON SCALES. fi m Via *Jl Beam Box. Tan Beam. Freittt I ! ! ! Paid. Free Price List Erery 8is% JhridyUU address JOirtS 07 BCIjEAHTOH' * BIMQ-HAMTOM. X. T. SGOOD NEW&^ 12 LADIES!if Greatest inducements erer ot fered. Now's yoar time to K*t cf orders for our celebrated Tear and Coff ee*, and secure abear.tl> f u I Gold hand or Mess Rose Chins Tea Set, or Handsome Decorated Gold Band lloea Hose Dinner Set, or Gold Band Mo? Doeotited Toilet Set. 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Solil by druggists. tfj yjy" "vx / 35 CENTS \ Every Farmer and Horseman should own a book descriptive of the ITorse, and the Disease* to which the noble animal is liablo, that sickness may be recognized in its incipiency and relief promptly afforded. Our book should be in the hands of every Horse owner,as the knowledge it contains may be worth hundreds of dollars at any moment. If you want to know all about your Horse, how to Tell his Age, how to Shoeiim, etc., send 25c. in stamps, and receive the book, post-paid, from NEW YORK HORSE BOOK COMPANY 134 Leonard St., N. Y. City.