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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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with finger.
H/^ FEVER Give it~aTrIal.
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