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r ________ A FANTASY. I lie in a dreamless sleep While shadows over me creep: I am thrilled with a rapture deep As the drifting clouds pass by. I hear the rustle of leaves, The birds in the garnered sheaves, And the wind that wearily grieves Through tho stubble, brown and dry. I have never a thought of care; Forgotten t he old despair, Too blest for even a prayer. With clasped hands I lie. Thei-e is peace in the darkened room, 55^ There are lilies in perfect bloom. And the haunting, rare perfume Of jessamine floating by. No glance I backward cast; A seal is on the past, And the future, vague ami vast, Beckons with bated breath. iBut the wind goes shuddering In*: I hear a strong man's sigh And a heart-sick child's low cry: Is it life, or is it death.* ?Sarah D. Hobart, in Lippincott. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW. He came?the day was dull and dead, The skies were cold and gray: The slanting rain lteat on the par.i And bluiTed the tossing hay. life*. so (*eal *''s tender tone, His smile so sweet to see, jinai- in my iieun uie sumigm, suoue, And all was fail- to 1110. He's gone?the day is fresh and fair. The skies are warm and bright. The robin sings; the blithe l>oe wii: ;s O'er fragrant fields his flight. But dim and blurred through tearful eyes The sunlit bay I see; For on my heart a shadow lies And all is dark to me. ? Walter Learned, in Manhattan. THE DOCTOR'S WARD. c "Marry Kitsie!" I)r. Grealy cried, pushinjj.back his chair and stariug at his sister.iu amazement. "What in the rl cVinnlrl unv nno \rnnf tnmnrrv ]\il sie for?" "For a multitude of reasons'," Miss Dora replied,with a pleasant little laugh. "You seem to forget, Jack, that she's not a child any longer, and that half the . eligible young men in Ballycoyle are in love with her already." " That's not saying much," the doctor replied, grimly. " There are only three men in the place that can afford to keep a wife; but what you say about Captain Challoner fairly amazes me. Why?why, 5tr $ he's very near as old as I am!" "Even so. Jack; you're not <]iiite a >' patriarch yet, you know. Just think for one moment?what brings the captain here day after day and evening after evening?" "Well, then, to tell you the truth, Dolly, I rather fluttered myself that he came to sec me and play cribbagc with me," the doctor replied, "looking gravely at his sister. " I did, upon my conscience!" F?' "Then you're a conceited old goose, that's all I can say,"' Miss Dora replied, laughing heartily at her brother's evident amazement. ''Frank Challoncr comes to see Kitsie."' " Then be sha'n't see her any more," the doctor cried, ringing the bell violently. "Here, Bridget, where's Miss Kitsie?"' he roared, as an cWerly woman put her head in the door, holding the handle in * her apron. "Where would she be, sur, but upstairs?fixin' herself for tay?'" Bridget replied, in nn aggrieved tone. She did not like being summoned from the kitchen for such a trifle. "lhen go upstairs this moment, and tell her she's not to come down to night. No, wait a second?I'll go myself. Or you go. Dora." "Bless an' save us, miss, the masthcr is taking iavfc 01 nis rinses: isnaget exclaimed,still clinging to the door-handle: ?nd at that moment Kitsie came tripping down stairs singing gavly: " 'Oh! there's nothing half so sweet in life As Love's yonng dream!'" "What do you know about love's young dream, miss?" the doctor said, as she entered the room. "Nothing at all, Uncle Jack, but what the song says." Kitsie replied, looking at him curiously with a pair of the bluest eyes,shaded by the longest and most deliant black,curly lashes. ''Nothing in the world yet; but,sure, 1 may be wiser some day." "Hum!" the doctor growled, throwing a triumphant glance at his sister. "I'll take care you learn none of that nonsense - yet a while." "Miss Kitsie, jewel, will ye come here one minute?" Bridget called from the kitchen; and when they were alone Miss T\ ???,-t u.. u?_ ,.u.. I JL/Uia ai'juu uj uci uiuiufi o uuaa uuu looked at him sadly. "I am sorry, Jack, that I said anything about Captain Challoncr; but now that we've broached the subject, wc may as well look it fairly in the face. There is no doubt, whatever, but lie admires Kitsie?who could help that??no doubt, either, it would be a fine thing for the child if he married her. He is rich, and a thorough gentleman?though not so young as I could wish, perhaps. If anything happened to you to-morrow, what would become of Kitsie? While I had a crust she would share it, of course, :.nd Bridget would work her fingers to the bones for her; but it would be a poor prospect for a bright, merry, lovely young thing to be shut up 111 solitude and poverty with two heart-broken old women. Life at best is uncertain, Jack, and a doctor's more so than many people's, going, I as you do, in the way of illness every day. Wouldn't it be a comfort 13 you to know that Kitsic was well provided for and happy?" The doctor sat for fully five minutes, gnawing his mustache somewhat savagely; then he took two or three turns up and down the dining-room, and stood looking out of the window for a minute. The prospect was a pleasant one?a strip of smooth emerald lawn, the white . road leading to the village,, and beyond the beautiful blue sea and the white cliffs of Bally coy le. For seventeen years lie had associated fAitsie with the fea, the cliffs, the lawn, the pretty cottage. How would it all look when she . was gone? What a change would take place in their happy home! How would Dora get on without her loving, constant comHow would he, Jack Grealy, bear the lossV It was so sudden and unexpected that he hail scarcely time to realize what iosinLr Ivitsie meant to himself. He jwoulu not think of it. if this - * " ' "grave, handsome, wealthy suitor could win her, let him; he would not stand in her light. lie had been everything to Kitsie for seventeen years?since he rescued her, a tiny baby, from the sea at the risk of his own life, and placed her in his sister's arms. There had been a wreck off 44 Old Man's Nose," and the only two persons saved were a tiny, golden-haired baby a Hindoo woman?evidently her nurse? wuu ujcu auaj vi m v <ii ivi. For seventeen years the child hud made the sunshine of the doctor's home, the music of his life. She knew no other friends, was not even aware that she was their ntece in love only, and had no claim on either Uncle Jack or Aunt Dora; and now the first stranger that came by would take her away. He or some other?it was all the same. Jack muttered. lie would have to lose her, and he might as well make the best of it. "I suppose you're right, Dolly," he s id, at length, turning to his sister; "Challoner.would be an excellent match for Kitsie. But I never even thought of such a thing, and for the moment 1 was ? * ' siirnrituir) Of pnnrsf- T tell him ' her history, the little there is of it." And then he left the room with the slow, unsteady step of a man but half awake. Miss Dora looked after him for n moment in pained surprise. It slowly dawned upon her that there was some thing wrong with Jack?something strange in his face and voice and manner, and that somehow Kitsie was the cause of it. But she was a wise woman and knew when to be silent us well as when to speak, only she thought deeply and sadly of the trouble in Juck's honest gray eyes. After tea, Kitsie sat clown to the piano, and played over her uncle's favorite airs, ''The Meeting of the Waters," "The Young Play Moon," "The Coulin," and other plaintive, old Irish melodies. "Play something else, Kitsie," the .. doctor cried at last, "something new? something English. I'm tired of the old ?'t.\ Irish airs, they're so melancholy." "Then I'll play y#ii something from 'Pinafore.' I know you like that." Kitsie cried, merrily, and the doctor smothered an exclamation. He hated "Pinafore"?hated it doubly at that moment for he remembered that Captain Challoner had given her the music. ' . i jgr^rgV t At that moment the captaiu himself was announced, and after a pleasant evening he rose to go at 10 o'clock, his usual time for saving good-night. But when the doctor accompanied him to the door he lingered for a moment, and then said he should like to have half an hour's conversation. "The fact is, doctor, I have something serious to 9ay to you. and as I am summoned to England on urgent business, I should to say it before 1 go." "Come into the den," the doctor said, leadiug the way. lie knew quite well what the captain was going to say and neved himself to bear it. " You must have seen, doctor," he began, "that 1 admire your niecc, Miss Kitsie, very much. She is very beautiful, artless, and unairected, and if I can succeed in winning your consent and hers, I should like to make her my wife. I am a rich man, and 1 do not think you will have any reason to fear for her future if you intrust her to me." "I believe that, captain, but I can't answer for Kitsie." the doctor said a little huskily; 'in fact, I have no legal righ* cither to give or withhold my consent, as the child is no relative cither by blood or marriage, nor is she my ward in reality. I picked her up seventeen years ago, when a ship was wrecked oil ' Old Man's Nose.' She has lived with my sister and myself ever since, and is very dear to us both, but we have no right to influence her.'' "Still, 1 am sure she will be guided by your wishes to a great extent; at least, she ought to be, seeing how good you have been to her. At least, give me your consent to try and win her!" "Vou have it,'' the doctor replied; 4'and if you do win her you will be fortunate. She has a beautiful nature, a sweet temper, a loving heart. Kitsic is largely endowed with good qualities, and she is very lovely!" Captain C'halloner fully indorsed the list of perfections, though he could not help asking himself what some of his aristocratic relatives and friends would say to his marrying a nameless sea waif, brought up by a poor dispensary doctor in a remote little Irish village. He thought it best not to inquire too minutely into the circumstance of her rescue, better take her just as she was, I)r. Grealy's niece, than discover that she belonged to some one more objectionable. He resolved to discover the state of Kitsie's feelings the very next day? though he had not very many doubts or fears on the subject, she was always sog'ad to see him, and enjoyed his society so much? and that he would return to London and see what the very urgent business was that his lawyer had written about, j About 2 o'clock he called at the I cottage with the intention of asking Kitsic to accompany him for a walk on the beach. He found her alone, curled j up in an easy-chair, having what she culled a good read. Her uncle had gone to see a patient ten miles off, and her aunt on a shopping expedition to Miltown. The captain thought he might as well speak then and there" as anywhere else. For a longtime Kitsie did not understand him, and when she did she glanced around with frightened eyes, seeking snmft means of eseaue. "Oh, no, no, please, Captain Challoncr! I never thought of such a thing!" she cried, entreatingly. "But you can try and think of it now, dearest," he said, holding her hands gently. "I can't?I won't! Please let me go!" she sobbed. But he detained her, pleaded his cause with gentle insistence?told her that he knew her history, and pointed out that it was her duty to relieve Dector Grealy of his trouble and expense soon as she could; then he told her of his wealth, his home, his friends?of the new and delightful world open to her. But Kitsie listened in a dull, dazed way; only a few of his words rung in her ears?"You arc no relation to Doctor Grealv: you are alitte sea waif." At last she pushed liim from her with both her trembling hands. "Go away, or I shall hate you!" she " Ai ax'... 1.-I l.V?J cnca, passionaieiy. "iou Jiavu ruuucu me of all I care about on earth; I will never see you, never speak to you again, Captain Challoner?never, never, never be your wife!" And she rushed past him and into her Uncle Jack's study, leaving him to find his way out of the house as best he could. An hour later the doctor returned. Was that white-faced, trembling little form looking up at him with such mute, appealing misery his blithe, bonnie Kitsie? "My pet, what is it?"' he cried, stroking her hair tenderly. "Come, tell me ali about it." With many sobs and tears, Kitsie told -her story; how Captain Challoner wanted to marry her and take her away, and. worst of all, said that she did not belong to Uncle Jack and Aunt Dora. "As if I could ever leave you!" she cried, piteously. "Oh, tell me it was a cruel, wicked story, and that I am your vrrv own Kitsie?tell me. Uncle Jack!" ''Mv pet, it's true we saved you, but you belong to us all the more on that account, and you shall never leave us, dear ?never, till you wish to go. Come now, dry your eyes before your aunt comes home, and forget all about Captain Clial* loner." But Kitsie, once set thinking, could not forget so easily. She fretted and worried herself into a serious illness, and their Miss Dora had to take her away for a change, she grew :o thin and pale. But after the first few weeks Kitsie seemed no better, and one day, when the doctor came to see her, he resolved to find out what was the matter. " Kitsie, what is it?" he whispered, taking both her hands, and kneeling beside her. " My darling, can't you trust me? Can't you tell me what troubles you?" "I don't know," she replied, hiding her face 011 his shoulder. "But I must know, or I shall go mad. Kitsie, you are not fretting for Frank Challoner, are you? Tell me the truth, darling." ".Tiifk!" Onlv one little word, but it was enough another moment the doctor had taken*her into his arms, and iuto his heart forever, and little Kitsic's worst troubles were ended. When they returned to Ballycoyle a wonderful surprise awaited them. Kitsie was 110 longer a sea-waif, but a wealthy heiress. Her friends at last had discovered her. She had sailed with her father, mother and nurse from Calcutta, and their vessel had been wrecked. They were rescued by the brig that went to pieces on "Old Man's Nose," and only Kitsie and her nurse and two sailors picked up at sea escaped. They, however proved that a gentleman and lady and little jrirl had been on board their brig; and several other circumstances proved that Kitsie was indeed the long-lost daughter of a wealthy gentleman, whose fortune on his death went to his brother, and lroin him to his nephew, Captain Challoner, his sister's son. When Kitsie was discovered, the captain honorably gave up the fortune, but neither she nor thn doctor would consent to takiny all: half was more than sufficient for their wants, for they declare they shall continue to live all their lives in Ballycovle, only paying an occasional visit to Kitsie's Knglisti home. JIo>v to Sleep. In a recent paper read before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, Dr. K. M. Ilodgessaid: "It is a common impression that to take food immediately before going to bed and to sleep is unwise. Such a suggestion is answered by a reminder that the instinct of animals prompts them to sleep as soon as they have eaten: and in summer an after-dinner nap, especially when that meal is taken at midday, is a luxury indulged in by many. Neither darkness nor season of the year alters the conditions. If the ordinary hour of the evening meal is six or seven o'clock, and the first morning meal seven or eight o'clock, an interval of twelve hours or more elapses without food, and for the persons whose nutrition is nt fault this is altogether too long a period for fasting. That such an interval without food is permitted explains many a restless night, and much of the head and backache, and the languid, half-rested condition on rising, which is accompanied by no appetite for breakfast. This meal itself often dissipates these sensations. It is, therefore desirable, if not essential, when nutriment is to be crowded, that the last thing before going f/\ oV*rtnlrl Ko tfnlrinrr nf fnnrl Sleeplessness is of'en caused by starvation, and a tumbler of milk, if drank in the middle of the night, will often put people to sleep when hypnotics would fail of their purpose. Food before rising is an equally important expedient. It supplies strength for bathing and dressing, laborious and wearisome tasks for the underfed, and is a better morning 'pickme-up' than any nackneyed 'tonic.'" Hanlon seems to have discovered the rowed to wealth.? Whitehall Times. V gjfg , /' ' " MONACO'S GAMBLING DEN. A VIVIDLY DRAWN PICTURE OP A GREAT EVIL. Enormous Profit* o( the Conccrn? I in incuse Sums at Stake?Hun. drods I ill re il to Ituin nnd Death. I)r. J. II. Bennett says in a letter to the London Pall .Vail Gazette: Public attention has been forcibly directed for the last few years to the Monte Carlo gambling establishment at Monaco, and i to the growing evils which its existence entails. Of late the feeling of aversion, not to say horror, which it occasions has become so general in every country throughout Europe, both with the gov ?.l 1 *t.,. T | UlliCU ilUU IIIU ??V>CIUIiJ? mat l | cannot but think that its days arc num| bercd. Both Europe and America have I become fully awakened to the fact that the gambling house is a blot on modern society, and that its great and yearly increasing prosperity scatters ruin and desolation over the earth. The acknowledged profits of the concern are 17.0(Mt,000 francs, or nearly ?'700,000. No person living has probably seen more than I have of the .Monte Carlo gambling establishment, for I have resided in its immediate vicinity (Mentone) for twentyfive winters, and consequently no one is hotter (JlialltlCU lO SpcaK. OI 115 lliumi ?uu social influence on the surrounding populations. I took refuge on the Genoese ltiviera in 18">'.i, ill unto death, thereby saved life, aud have returned to it in the winter ever since. On my first arrival the gambling house was in its infancy, established at Monaco itself, under the patronage of the prince, and attracted but little notice. It wsis a very small and insignificant concern. When the gaming establishment at Ilomburg was closed, M. Blanc, its head, bought up the .Monaco business, ootainintr irom the ])rince a long lease with all kinds of privileges,which were, of course, largely paid for. Bringing to the matter great experience and a masterly mind, M. Diane's success has been stupendous. What much aided him was tiic fact that the closure of Homburg was followed by that of all the gambling houses in Europe, so that gamblers of all nationalities, men and women, have been thrown into his clutches. Year by year the area of the pernicious influence of Monte Carlo has increased, in ever widening circles, until it is now felt all over the world, in Europe, Asia, Africa aud America. Its enormous influence for evil is best understood by a simple calculation which I owe to a professional gambler. As the chances of the table are one in thirty-six in f-ivor of the bank, to gain annually nearly ?700,000, which it professes to do, (17,000,OOOf.) ?24,500,000 must have been staked on its tables, must have been won and lost. The bank's ?700,000 protit is its royalty?lit the rate of one in thirty-six?on this enormous amount of money, which must, therefore, have been played, lost and won. If the 17.000,OOOf. are the profits after deducting the very heavy expenses incurred by the establishment, as I believe is the case, th<j amount actually played must be mucn greater. it is this fact of the gambler dealing with large masses of money that partly accounts for the strange fascination exercised by gambling. A careful player, who begins with, say, ?1,000 capital, may have lingered, according to the doctrine of chances, ?30,000 before he loses his capital. If he play long enough,the bank royalty of one in thirty-six is sure to swallow up his capital, and then he has had all the emotion of having been alternately successful or the reverse, rich or poor. He regrets when he has at last lost his initial capital that he did not stop when successful, which he never does, vows that he will be more prudent next time, and in order to have the chance sells, borrows, raises money anyhow. Often he loses all feelincr of honor and pro lit/, and, after risking his last shilling, plays his wife's dowry, his daughter's fortune, his employer's money, to end, may be, by suicide. At Monte Carlo often every fourth player is a woman; and such women! Truly they represent the sirens of old, and are infiuitely more dangerous, often ruiuing entirely those whom they circumvent. The womeL are not all, however, of this class. Husbands often thoughtlessly encourage their wives or daughters to risk a few tive-frauc pieces, or napoleons. on the table, and thus inocnlatc thern with tho gambling frenzy. It is principally to attract these really respectable people, to lead them by slow degrees to the gaming tables, that every r>r>ceiV>lrt nllnrnmnnt and inrlnr.pmfint is offered to all, to travelers and to residents, with the most unbounded liberality. A magnificent band of seventy-five musicians discourses sweet music every afternoon and evening. Theatrical and operatic performances arc offered weekly at nominal prices, at which the leading celebrities of the day take part. The gardens are, perhaps, the tinest in Southern Europe; the reading room is one of the best supplied, with periodical literature; and all are opened from morn to night, without restriction, to any welldressed person. Says the spider to the fly: "Walk into my parlor, my pretty flv." They do walk in by the hundreds, by the thousand, and are constantly sucked dry, destroyed morally and physically. When I first inhabited the liivicra the Monaco gambling house, as already stated, was a mere gambling club or casino, which excited but little notice. Now it has become the great attraction, the great fact. Half the people one meets are goimr or liave been to Monte Carlo. If friends are invited the probable answer is: [am going to Monaco, to the classical concert, to the band, or to an operatic performance, but few dare confess they are going to play, and yet very many do. Hundreds go from Mentone every day, thousands from Nice, Cannes, and even San liemo and Genoa. It is a growing pestilence, a real moral plague spot. People who ought to know better play away the money they brought to live with throughout the winter, and are impoverished throughout their stay, living on strict necessaries. This I hear from the Mentone tradespeople, who bewail the daily loss they experience from this cause. Many of their most respectable clients lose so heavily at Monte Carlo in the early part of their stay that they have to live from hand to mouth during the remainder. Many who come to the Riviera from i:r? i?c? .>n f?,wio early in the winter and have to return home to face disease or perhaps death. Other invalids*, better oIf send'again and again for money, sell, mortgage, burrow, entirely neglect their health, spend the days and evenings in the close, badly ventilated rooms, and die before the end of the season. It is very hard that people going to the south for health should be exposed to such temptation. In every hotel there is a band of gamblers who talk of nothing but rouge and noir, of numbers, of systems of play. These votaries of gambling arc not necessarily the younir and the inexperienced. Thcv are often middleagi d or aged men and women, and noblemen, gentry, generals, colonels, barristers, physicians. The demon of gambling has got hold of them. They come from the four corners of the earth; and the ruin that follows?bankruptcy, poverty, dishonor, suicide?mostly falls upon them at home at New York, Itio Janeiro. Hatavia, Calcutta, anywhere. It is said that during the winter about a suicide a week occurs in and near Monaco. If so, it is only a tithe of what occurs elsewhere through .Monte Carlo. For whom is this royalty of ?700,000 yearly, this enormous income, raised? Merely to subsidize a degraded prince, and to give colossal incomes and fortunes to half a dozen persons, who are ashamed of the source from whence their money comes, whom no respectable person would like to acruyniwjff ui ivuui. vut> ujuiuin, iiiiu to whom society only owes punishment as inciters to vice. A Clover Prince. A German paper tells this story: Once when visiting a small town in one of the smallest German states, the sovereign prince was received at the gates by twenty young damsels in white. As a piece of cunning strategy, the ten prettiest maidens were placed in the front rank, and the ten?less pretty ones in the second. Charmed with the attraci tive appearance of the vanguard, His SeI rene Highness did what comported itself S well with his sixty years and his princely dignity? he kissed every one of them on their beautiful foreheads. At the end of the front rank he made a sudden pause ?only for a couple of seconds, however; then he beckoned to his adjutant, "Sparrenholz, here, go on with the rest!" Medical intelligence. "Doc. or, I come to see you about my younger brother." "What is the matter with hiru?" "One of his legs is shorter than the other, and he limps. Now, what would jou do in a case-of that kind?" "I reckon I'd limp, too."?Si/tings. Whoever has learned to love, has learned to be silent. ' ' - ? >'* *: * ' - " - ' yt --V : ' SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The sawdust and refuse of the sawdust is now made to yield fourteen gallons of turpentine, three to four gallons of resin, and a quantity of tar per cord. Dr. Kollcr says that if silk tissues arc impregnated with cluomate of copper and then exposed to the direct sunshine, various shades of brown may be obtained, and the fabric is rendered waterproof. W. J. Knowles has exhibited to the London Anthropological Institute a chipped flint implement which he found in undisturbed boulder clay in Ireland, and which he therefore regards as evidence of the existence of man in the glacial period. Clover*does not seed in New Zealand because there arc no humble bees to fer I lili/.cthc flowers. Various attempts which have been made to introduce the insects have proven futile, but Mr. J. C. Firth has succeeded at length in getting a consignment of humble bees, which were transported in a torpid state in a chilled room. If successful in acclimatizing them, Mr. Firth expects them to save him ?0,000 a year in clover seed, all supplies having now to be imported. IJcports to the Paris Academy of Science on the lightning-strokes in Franco during 188:! show that such accidents were largely confined to the months of June and July, the number reported for July being 14:1, resulting in thirtcc" deaths. Most of the persons struck occupied positions near a tree, a chimney or a UOUSC OH an UIUWIIUU MW mm nvva around it: but thnrc were eases of death in open fields and on a roadway. Several accidents from lightning happened to persons carrying umbrellas. The manufacture of artificial human milk is growing into quite an industry in England. It is made from pure cow's milk, which is first boiled to destroy all germs, then treated with a digestive ferment called pancreatine, by which artificial digestion is produced, and is finally brought to the constitution as human milk by the use of dilute acids for precipitating the excess of albumen. Sick children in hospitals have been fed on this product, and gained most rapidly in i l.i- --.-i :?i.j. ueuiiu uuu ,->.1 SELECT SIFTINGS. About 125,000 elephants are annually killed in Africa to supply the ivory trade. A famous bell, which in the old days of Florence used to signalize the outbreak of war, was called the martinelia. The caves or tombs of IJcnni Hassan arc excavated in the rock on the shore of the river Nile, and aro the oldest known monuments in Egypt, cxccpt the Pyramids. Picadilly, one of the fashionable streets of the British metropolis, received its njimn from the "nickadils," or ruffs,*vorn by the gallants of the times of the first two reigning monarch* of the House of Stuart in England. In the island of San Domingo there is a remarkable salt mountain, mass of crystalline salt nearly four miles long, estimated to contain 81), 337.000 tons, and said to be so clear that type can be read through a block a foot thick. In January and February, 1780, the cold was so intense that the harbor of New York was so strongly bridged with ice that the British dragged cannon over it from New York to Staten Island. Knyphausen was in command of the city i nf \'i>w York, and he became alarmed for its safety, because thus deprived of all the advantages of its insular situation. I The pickets were doubled and all the people put under arms, so as to prevent a surprise by patriots, who might cross the Hudson on the ice. One of the queer sights in the streets of Japan is the rows of wooden sandals, old and new, large and small, which arc seen outside of the doors of the houses, where they are left upon entering. They have a separate place for the great toe, and make a loud, clacking noise. It is surprising to see how quickly the people step in and out of them without even stopping. Straw slippers are also worn, and travelers starting on a journey take a supply of several pairs, in order to have new ones ready when the old ones give out. They cost only one and a half cents a pair. Names That Were Missed. Now thiit there is some speculation on what name to give the Northern portion of Dakota, in case the Southern part should be admitted to the Union as the State of Dakota, it ma)- be interesting lo note that just one hundred years ago, in 1781, an ordinance was drawn up in regard to "the territory ceded or to be ceded by individual States to the United States.'" The original draft read: "The territory northward of the fortyfifth degree, that is to say, of the completion of forty-five degrees from the equator and extending to the lake of the Woods, shall be called Sylvania. "Of the territory under the forty-fifth and forty-fourth degrees, that which lies westward of lake Michigan,shall be called Michigania: and that which is eastward therefore, within the peninsula formed by the lakes and waters of Michigan, TI.1 /'Inirnnrl Klri/i cVlnll hf?f?(lllod IlUIUil, Ui,. Chcrsonesus, and shall include any part, of the peninsula which may extend above the forty-fifth degree. ' Of the territory under the 4:id and 42d degrees, that to the westward through which the Assenisipi or Rock River runs, shall be calle l Assenis.pia; and that to the eastward, in which are the fountains of the Muskingum, the two Miamis of the Ohio, the Wabash, the Illinois, the Miamis of the Lake, and the Sandusky Rivers, shall bo called Mesopotamia. "Of the territory which lies under the 41st and 40th degrees, the western, through which the river Illiuois runs, shall be called Illinois, that next ad joining to the eastward, Saratoga; anil that between this last ami Pennsylvania, and extending from the Ohio to Lake Eric, shall lie called Washington. "Of the territory which lies under the :Sl)th and :>8th degrees, to which shall be added so much of the point of land within the fork of the Ohio and Mississippi as lies under the :17th degree, that to the westward, within and adjacent to which arc the conlluences 01 the rivers Wabash, Shawnee, Tanisee, Ohio, Illinois, Mississippi, and Missouri, shall be callbtl Poly pot amia, and that to the eastward, further up the Ohio, otherwise called the Pelisipi, shall be called I'elisipia." Each reader can judge for himself how much was gained and how much l^.f Ki? fl./? iVwit iin/l/.f ordinance finally agreed upon, these proposed names were not fastened up >n the Western territory and perpetuated in history. (Jneeii Cow. A few years ago many people stood ready to claim that cottun was king, indeed there are many gasping slaves today who claim the same thing. Statistics are abundant by means of which this claim can be, in a part substantiated, hut a very few people seem desirous of claiming that king cotton ever did much to improve society, education, or condescend to fight such a vulgar thing as a mortgage. Cotton maybe king or not just as people care to think. We don't believe lie is, but we do believe that the good old cow is ipiecu, and that with a frfiiitle ami inval nnrnrtsr* slw is I seeking to build up the lands that the old monarch has wasted. There is very little style about the old cow. She steps slowly and clumsily about her business, but she makes the business pay well. She plods along in heat or cold, wet or dry, eating what is given her, feeling interest enough in the family to look after the dairy interests under circumstances that would discourage anv other living creature; and when she is fed and cared for as she should be, she responds like a ijucen. She should be crowned with a new milking pail and an extra feed of meal. The good oid cow has paid ofT more mortgages, and paid for more farms than any other known production. She is mother of all our beef. In many a household she catches the wolt on her horns and tosses it far from the door. She has turned the tide of agricultural prosperity | in many parts of the country from a downward course in raising grain or cotton to an upper and prosperous one in raising stock, grass and hay. Flowers and grass spring from beneath her feet on the most barren soil. The old cow don't stop to enthuse over them, but converts them into good, solid, hard cash. King Cotton may well tremble when he sees good old Queen Cow marching in his direction. She comes marching along in advance of better schools, better morals, better farms, better men and women. The dead old cotton fields will burst forth into grass at her touch, and contentment and happiness will leap out of her milking pail. We take olt our hats to Queen Cow. May her shadows never grow less.?Southern J Arc Slock ' Journal. * THE WHITE HOUSE QUEENS. wowznr who have beighxd mr the executive majtsiow. Tlicir l.aboriouN Duties?The (irowth nnd Development of Social Int'lucnrc in tlic ( ovcrnmcnU The duties of the mistress of the White House arc auite laborious, and it is probable that society feels as anxious to know who it shall be as the individual herself to assume those duties, writes a Washington correspondent. The long hours of reception in which she must stand and shake by the hand the rows of nameless and unknown visitors; again, those occasions on which she must sit at state dinners and say pleasant nothings; ihc weary worn appeals for office which are made not alone to the President, but . < 1 J r_: ? ,1 ,l.? 10 ncr uy privueguu incnua us nun, u>c annoyances which her public station involves, and the self-asserted privileges of the press, all tend to make the position . an uncomfortable one. Of course there are many pleasant features and many which gratify personally, and it is hardly possible that any who know the details of its duties and pleasures would reject it or seek to do so if it were offered. Vet there have been those among Presidents' wives who regretted that their duties took them within the White House. Arthur is the fourth President who has entered the White House a widower. His sister, Mrs. McElroy, has been the acknowledged mistress of the White House during his term, and is ipiite accomplished in a social way. Very retiring in her wavs, and without ambition for pub lie recognition, however, she has been seen little by Washington generally and has only been known personally to a cir ciG cxtrcmciy immeu. iuu vtuiucu ui the White House, traeing back to the beginning, form an interesting chapter or series of chapters in the history of, not alone Washington society, but of the nation. Under Garfield's administration the social features had scarcely developed. Under Hayes the White House was open to all society, thousands attending the receptions, and lunch-tables were spread at the evening entertainments for many hundreds. Under General Grant the White House was gay, but there was not that democratic freedom which marked the regime of Mrs. (irant's successor as mistress 01 uic White House. Another term back, Mrs. Johnson,wife of Andrew Johnson, was mistress of the White House. She was an invalid, and personally entertained little, receiving her visitors in her chair. Her daughter, Martha Patterson, wife of Senator Patterson, entertained in her stead, renovating the war-stained, tattered habiliments of the mansion with rare taste upon the small allowance of ."530,000 which Congress made for that purpose. Mrs. Lincoln, who preceded, was mistress of the While House in a time of great turbulence and national tribulation, and there is small wonder that the recol iCCtlons 01 ner nine mere are nut uyicuable ones to those who were there during that period. An ambitious woman, with little experience outside of a country town whencallcd there, deprived of the counsel of her husband by the constant attention to public affairs which his duties required, stricken with grief during the years of her stay by the loss of her favorite son, Willie, the painful experiences of her time in the White House culminated with the assassin's shot, which was heard around the world. Preceding Mrs. Lincoln, Harriet Lane, the adopted daughter of James Buchanan, who was the only bachelor President, gave to Washington society one of the most brilliant social administrations it has ever had. Mrs. Pierce, her predecessor, was a sensitive, shrinking women, who had feeu her son killed by a railroad accident but a short time before her arrival of tl-in WViilr> Ifnncp iirnl wlin. flnrin<r lmr stay there, attended to the social duties only because they were duties. The next in order, tracing back, is Mrs. Fillmore, who was more strongly marked as a literary woman than any since Abigail Adams. It was her taste for books which established the library now in the White House, her husband having, through her solicitation, asked of Congress and obtained nn appropriation of $:S0,000 for a White House library. No sarlder woman ever reigned mistress of the White House than the wife of President Taylor. She had accompanied her husband in all his war experience, caring for him in camp and counseling with him upon the field. During the presidential contest she prayed daily for Clay's election. "It is a plot,'' she said, "to deprive mc of the comforts of a home, which I hud expected to enjoy now that the war is endedShe came to the White House only as a matter of duty, her daughter, Betty Bliss, being pushed to the front to bear the burden as mistress of the establishment. When her husband died within the walls of the White House she was heart-broken, aud during the two remaining years of her life never mentioned the White House unless necessity compelled. Mrs. I'olk, who preceded Mrs. Taylor, still lives in the city of Nashville. She is the only woman who has ever held the position of private secretary to the 1'resi/1?n + ci)?r> hnvinrr fillnrl flint, imtiitinn through choice during hor husband's term. She was a woman of great ability, quite as familiar with the affairs of State as her husband, and even more so as to details. "Sarah knows where it is," was President Polk's customary remark when any document or book was wanted. She did not ever neglect her social duties, and was spoken of by an English lady as not being surpassed in beauty, style or dignity by any of three queens whom she had seen. I'nder Tyler the; White House had two mistresses. His first wife died there during the early part of his administration, and her successor. Miss Garner, of New York, afterward became known as the bride of the White House, being married to President Tyler in the presidential mansion. Mrs. Harrison never occupied the White House as its mistress, her health having prevented her from coming here with her husband, whose death followed a month later, belore ncr arrival. Van Huron was a widower when lie entered tlie White House; his daughter was its mistress. Jackson was also a widower when he entered the White House, having become so but a few months previous, and under the most painful circumstances. Ilis wife, who was a beautifuJ, gentle and trustful woman, married in her early years injudiciously and had been divorced. afterward marrying Jackson. During his campaign the tongues of partisan malice did not spare even Mrs. Jackson, but her husband had spared her, keeping from her the newspapers which contained these attacks. After his election, however, sittincr in her room ill a hotel at Nashville, whither she had gone to prepare for her journey to Washington, she overheard in an adjoining room the tongues of gossipers detailing the slanders which the press had published regarding herself. The agitation brclight upon her by this caused an attack of heart disease, and in a few hours she was a corpse. Mrs. John Quincy Adams, the wife of Jackson's predecessor, gave to Washington a more brilliant social reign than it had ever known, provoking Mr. John Agg, the first short-hand reporter ever in Washington, to the production of Infamous poem, a couplet of which runs thus: Belles mid matrons, maids and madams, All arc gone to Mrs. Adams'. Her reign was quite in contrast with that of her iiredecessor, Mrs. .Monroe, who was the daughter of a British oflicer, and little given to social enjoyments. I let predecessor, Mrs. Madison, is spoken of as the only woman of social genius ever occupying the White House. Her reign there was, of course, brilliant. .TclTerson, who preceded Madison, was a widower when lie entered the White House. He was not a believer in social life as it then existed, and gave few levees or entertainments. His daughter presided at those few which he did give, and Mrs Madisson, the wife rtf his secretary of State, occupied the place of chief lady at the White jlouse at tnc siarc dinners. Abigail Adams, wife of President Adams, who preceded Jefferson, was the first mistress of the White Mouse. She dried her clothes in the great east room on wash day, but was, for all that, ; a remarkable woman. A cookery book says, "always smell a ' salt oodfish before buying it." We al' ways do, and after buying it, too?for ' three or four days after. The fact is, ' you can smell a salted codfish without i buying it at all if you get within ten rods | of where it is. The odor of a salted j codtish is like the darkness that once ! settled on Egypt; it is something that 1 can be felt.?Somtrcillc Journal. > .. ? ? ' 'rv - " NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Red hose are worn with dresses of almost any color. Married ladies frequently wear black lace over shot silks of light colors. Dresses arc much less draped this season than they have been for many seasons nast. French modistes are using more materials of red and yellow than of any other color. 1 Alligators' teeth set as pins are used for holding the corsage bouquet this season. Between the a^es of fifteen and fortylive a woman can grow about seven crops of hair. Almost all petticoats to wool dresses are lined with canvass to give them consistency. White and eolored mull pokes, with Viilencienncs !ace ruches, are pretty for girls' hats. White flannel suits should never be laundered; when soiled they should be sent to be dry cleansed. ? A black satin basque waist has a mus1 n front of black and yellow striped satin and yellow lace sleeves. Spencer waists with shired yokes make a pretty change from those wi. plaits, and arc rather more dressy. Some new silk stockings have stripes running up and down: those in black and white are most fashionable. Hows of rosette shape now ficrurc on many of the French models as decoration for kilted and flounced petticoats. General Wallace says that although he lived in Turkey three years he never spoke to a Turkish woman during that time. Tunics with full blouse bodioe9 or red Adrianoplc arc worn with two toned gray or beige skirts of glace batiste. The newest bonnet is called the "Sequin," and in shape is not unlike the "Princcss," which was worn for several years. Many elegant black lace mantles have either the sleeves alone or the bodice only lined with red silk gauze. Capes arc shown in ladies1 cloth of various colors and arc finished with a ruffle of the same pinked in fine points or scallops. Small circular capes are again revived, but meet with little popularity, as they arc ugly, notwithstanding their unpretentiousncss. Patent leather low-cut shoes arc worn with bright-colored silk stockings, but they have not a very lady-like air for outof-door wear. Scarlet crepe sun bonnets trimmed with green com or with bearded wheat and green velvet frogs are worn at French watering places. A simple tucked petticoat, long overskirt and Norfolk jacket and trimming of white silk bindings of galoon, is the prettiest style for making white flannel suits. Wraps are lined with surah or louisine silks in blue and white and brown and white, and these often form the trimming of the dress with which the wraps are worn. Miss Mary F. Seymour has been recently appointed commissioner of deeds for New Jersey by Governor Abbett. She is the first woman who ever took testimony in a New Jersey court. lied Morocco shoes arc quite fahionable, but this bizarre foot covering is never becoming to the foot. Red bows and Rhinestone buckles are added to make them more conspicuous. Bonnets made of figured light foulards and lace are worn by little girls. They have soft crowns and frills of lace in double rows around the front, and are tied with ribbon strings under the chin The revival of bonnets with a peak in front, wherein decoration of flowers and ribbon may be added to fill in the spaec, is hailed with delight by those whose youthful bloom finds in them a becoming setting. The wedding gown of Miss Tooker, lately married at Newport, and worth five million dollars in her own right, was a fine white satin,covered with point and Mechlin laces and pearl embroidery, worn with a point laco veil and diamonds. Bishop Clurk performed the ceremony. At the famous ball given by Minister Morton in Paris, Mrs. Mackey is said to have outshone all French or American millionaires by the display that she made of diamonds and precious stones. She wore on this occasion the famous set of sapphires which attracted so much attention at the Paris exhibition in iy??. It is valued at ifriOO.UOO, and comprises diadem, bracelets, ring, earrings and necklace. The pendant to the latter is composed of one enormous sapphire of the size of a pigeon's egg, set in large diamonds. But then Mr. Mackey's income averages about $75,000 per month, and this is only one among many parures and sets of precious stones that Mrs. Mackey may call her own. Her jewel chest is valued at $1,000,000. Flour Made of Wood. In a letter from the Catskill mountains to the New York Sun the writer says: The chief industry up here is producing wood Hour, a kind of cousin to wood pulp. It was first manufactured in the Catskills about nine years ago, and now over twenty mills are in full blast. The process is exceedingly simple. Any soft-wood tree?poplar is the favorite?is felled and drawn to the mill. rt.l 1 1 .1 I 1 1 1 DC uarK ana uuugua uu; lumuvcu, uuu the trunk put in a machine which is nothing but a lead pencil sharpener on a large scale, with lour or more knives instead of one. On starting the machine the pencil sharpener revolves with great swiftness, and in a few minutes converts the log into a hundred miles of fine, clean shavings. These arc ground and bolted exactly as in a Hour mill. The product is a soft, fine, vellowish-whitc flour, similar in appearance to very well ground corn meal. It possesses a slight woody smell, and is almost tasteless. It is put up iu large bags and then dispatched, unmarked, to the buyer. I tried to find out who purchased the article, but with no success. The wood miller was not very communicative. " It makes," he said. " well I don't know how much exactly. One log may give live bags, and it may give ten. It sells well?that is, pretty tolerable. 1 reckon I clear about eight or nine dollars a day out of it?perhaps more. I never figured it up. What's it good for? Good many thins*. It's used to stiffen paper, but if you put in too much the paper gets brittle. Paper stock is dearer than poplar Hour, and that's why they put it in. If you mix the tlour with linseed gum and 'biled' oil you get a kind of oilcloth. Some folks mix it with meal to give to pigs and other animals. I guess it's good,hut I never give it to my hogs, and even those fellows give it to some other fellow's critters and not their own. Yes, I have heard that some bad contractors mixed it with meal for army and Indian supplies, but I don't take much stock in the story, because they could buy sour meal as cheap as ponlar Hour. It wouldn't pay to mill pine or cedar or hemlock: they are worth too much as timber. Hut any wood that isn't used that way can be milled into tlour. I use poplar almost altogether, but when I run short of logs I grind up buttonball, i birch, elm, or willow." The farmers dislike the new industry, as it promises to i?lav havoc with the forests, which are both an attraction to the boarder and a protection .to agriculture. The tun aeries years ago used up nearly all the oak and hemlock; the lumbermen have stripped the country practically of pine, cedar and walnut; the chair factories are consuming the hickory and maple; and now the wood-llour mill promises to grind up what remaining trees there may be. The Two Nymphs. Two nymphs named Luck and Ill-luck, who lived in a wood, wished to know which of them was more beautiful than the other. They went to a fox in the wood and asked him for his opinion, lie uiriiuu iu ilium iinu sum; 1 can (;ivuuu opinion unless you walk to and fro for a while. So they did. Quoth the fox to Luck, "Madam, you are indeed charming when you come in." Quoth he to Ill-luck, "Madam, your gracefulness is simply inimitable when you go out." A Story of London Life. The circumstances were very pathetic. The ruined gentleman continued to maintain the wife of his affections in a life of case by presenting himself as a one-legged beggar on a crowded city crossing, notwithstanding the conviction that it would one dny bring him to tfrief. lie was finally run over by his own wife's brougham. She had never suspected what his business was till she saw the victim of the accident.?Nutea aivl Queries. NATURA NATURANS. Where'er my eyes may turn or senses range, Inspiring nature points to life beyond; And when tlie soul, with rays of light that din. The stars, dispels the haze that floats and falls Athwart the rising dream of future life, As tranquil seas endow the tranquil air, Lo, from the depths of premonitions wise, Peace her glory sheds upon the heart that says: If life were not good for man, man would not live; If death were not good for man, man would not die; 'Tis life's fulfillment that all things should fade, Again to live. Naturo can ne'er destroy. Naught perisheth, and all that's dust is life. Still with care shall we await tho certain change, Like Fear mantled by her good behavior. ?Hugh Farrar McDermolt. HUMOR OF THE DAY. "Out on the fly I" is now the cry of the infuriated bald-headed citizen.?LoictU Citizen. Talk about babies; but then, we never indulge in small talk.?Chicago Sun. A man will put his best foot forward if lie lias a sore toe on the other foot.? Picayune. The rising of the tied?Turning out to build the fire and cook the breakfast.? Waterloo Obnercer. Stooping over to pick up a fair lady's handkerchief loses its joy when it sacrifices a suspender button. Since pantaloons have beeu selling for ten cents a pair Dctroiters have begun to look quite dressy.?Courier-Journal. "Ah, how do you vote this year, Smith?" "Same as I did lust?at the polls." And they passed on.?Button Pont. "That was a clothes shave," said the burglar as he tumbled over the fence, leaving a part othis pantaloons with the bulldog.?Life. In Cincinnati there is ft soda fountain called "Blizzard." It is probably called because so many men have been ruined by it.?Boston Post. "No," said Amy, "I'll have the wholt hog or none." "Please don't say 'whoh hog'," remonstrated the high schoolgirl, "anv 'linrlividnd nornine."?Derrick. ? Young physician?No, it is not ir good taste for a young physician whet writing to a patient to sign himself ''Yours till death."?Somerville Jour nal. A bit of poetry floating around in the papers is headed: "Thee, Thee, Onh Thee." It is probably Jay Gould's od< to the mighty dollar. ?Philadelphi Chroniric. "There! that's the summer hotel fo me," said Blgsby, pointing at an udver tisement in his paper. "None of you temperance houses. They advertise 'JIops every night."?Burlington Frc Press. Brown?An, JP'ogg! Quite a stranger How do you like your new residence Fine landscape, I suppose? Fogg?No there's no landscape to .speak of, bu there's two lire 'scapes.'?notion iran script. THJC BITT1CREST BITE, The bite of a ' 'skeeter" is painful, The bite of a bug will huunt: The bite of a sandwich is baneful, At a railroad restaurant; The bite of a serpent is sadd'ning, And nothing is worse than this; The bite of a bull-dog is madd'ning, While the bite of a girl is bliss; But a bite more painful than kerosene Is the bitter bite of an apple green. ?New I ork Journal. If there 19 anything that will make man cordially hate himself it is when hi takes a walk about a mile to the post office to find that he has left his keys a home, and then on going back afte them to find on opening the box tha the only thing in it is a card notifyin; hitn that his box rent, is due.?lh*t.o Pout. At a fashionable ball, Miss Gattlefrj who was rather careless in expressing herself, approaches Mr. McPcal, am says: "Supper is ready. Why don'tyo take a lady to eat?" "Be?be?because, replies the stuttering Mr. McPeal, " ncr?ner?ner?never e?e?eat la?laladies." Smart man, but he ought t be killed.?Arkansaw Traveler. Oh, frolicsome insect, tiiougn rar you ma roam,. Bee it ever so humble, there's no place lik comb; Where honey lies sparkling in beautiful well: Not even the tombs has more comfortabl sells. Comb, Comb! Sweet Comb! There's no place like Comb! Oh, lie stung me! The brut**! My probosc: is sore? Go back to your ugly-thatched beehive one more. The wasps wax impatient, the hornets at mad? They want you; I don't! When you go, I' be glad! Comb, Comb! Sweet Comb! There's no place like Comb! HEALTH HINTS. A Spanish proverb rc-ads: "When yo sit with yoyr back to a draught jou si with your face to your colHn. Doctor Visrouroux recommend a glas of lemonade, taken as hot as possibl every hour or half hour, as not only a: easy and agreeable but a most efficier cure for diarrhea. It is said that by the following siinpl method almost instant relief .of earach is ailorded: Put live drops of chlorc form on a little cotton or wool in th bowl of a clay pipe, then blow the vapc through the stem into the achin car. To remove a cinder from the eye it i recommended to send a flax seed in afte it. The glutinous substance which i forms with the lachrymal secretion, en velopes the irritating body, which is cai ricd out thus encapsulcd. Travelers o milu'jiv trains who are neculiarlv liabl to rcccive cinders into the eye, shouli carry a small supply of flax seed wit] them against these accidents. As heartburn is usually a symptom o some form of dyspepsia, to prevent i thoroughly, it will be necessary to cur the disease. Hut great temporary relic may generally be obtained from the us of anti-acids, such as magnesia, lim water, etc. The great thing is to pre vent it, by the use of a proper diet. l)is pose of pastry as you would if you kne\ it to be half arsenic. Let others cat al the sweet tilings. Take a large propor tion of animal food, though not salt o .smoked meats. Salt and water, or vin egar and salt, over the stomach ant bowels, with plenty of friction, shoul< never be forgotten. The Chinese Army. When, in the engagement at the Peihi in 1800 the Chinese succeeded in cap turing a gunboat, they determined t< turn their prize to account. Having witli this intention, lit the fires, and pro duced the amount of smoke irom tut funnel which they had been aecustomet to see, they expected the vessel to move and were much astonished to find that il remained motionless. We fear that thi; is but nn illustration of the condition ol the bulk of the land and sea forces ai the present time. They have the besi weapons, ships, and armaments pro curable, but they do not know how tr use them. The mandarins labor undei the delusion that European soldiers ami sailors are, man for man, no better thar their own defenders; and they belicvi that the possession of equally good arms would, in any future war, turn the scale in favor of their own overwhelmingly large battalions. They entirely iguorc the fact that the success of the weapon depends on the power and the will of the soldier to turn it to the best account. Only lately we .have seen Kgypt iiin soldiers armed with rifles slaughtered like sheep by savages carrying only spears. We do not believe that Chinese soldiers would ever present so abject si picture of cowardice as these Egyptian troops did at Teb; for, though they arc not men likely " to snatch bright honor from the pale-faced moon,'" they are by no means devoid of courage, and have shown on occasions that they can light bravely and with determination. But I tini-A mi libintr fnr thn urn. fession of anus. They despise it, and regard their soldiers as inferior beings, and as bein? tit only to be food for uovvder. it is obvious, therefore, that a complete change must come over the national mind on this subject before the necessary radical reforms in the army can be thoroughly carried out. But this is not the only direction in which there must he a complete change of front The iron of reform must enter deeply into the whole corporate life of the empire; the public service must be chastened and puritied; the laws must be justly administered; and the egregious folly of despising everything which is uot Chinese must bu given lip?before China will ever be able to place an army in the field which will face tin; foe with the strength una steadiness 01 iniiucu smuiura.? Blackwood''a Muyazinc. 'jf'- ' *1*' ' J WISE WOBDS. Hypocrites hide their defects with so much care that their hearts are poisoned by them. Every day iB a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore, live every day as if it would be the Inst. Any man may do a casual act of good nature, but a continuation of them show9 it is a part of one's temperament. One of the best rules in conversation is never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had left unsaid. Ilard words are like hailstones in summer, beating down and destroying what thev would nourish were they melted into drops. The net of our life is of a mingled yam, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. Blessed arc they to whom people go when they are in distress! Blessed are they around whom little children flock. Blessed are they upon whom grateful eyes look, saying, "Come again! I'm better for your coming." It is one thing to indulge in playfu rest, and another to be devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; and gayety of heart during the reaction after hard "labor, aud quickened by satisfaction in the accomplished duty or perfected result, is altogether compatible with?nay, even in some sort arises naturally out of? a deep internal seriousness of disposi tion. To passion, to joy, to anguish an end must come; but mere gentle living, de, termined by a framework of gentle rules and habits?why should that ever be ended * When a soul has got to this retirement, and is content in it, it becomes very hard to die; hard to accept the necessity of dying, and to accustom one's 1 self to the iclea. and still harder to consent to carry it out. i _________ t Henry Clay's Fortune. lien: Perley Poore says in his fdmlnis cences: "Henry Clay was pronounced } insolvent by his Kentucky opponents in ' 1842, and they paraded some mortgages on his property as evidences of his inabili ity to pay his debts. In a letter to a 1 friend, denyiug this calumny, Ml". Clay . said: 'I am not free, absolutely, from debt. I um not rich. I never coveted riches. But my estate would, even now, > be estimated at nnt much less than $100,r 000. Whatever it may be worth, it Is a j gratification to me to know that it is the i product of my own honest labor, no part of it being hereditary except one slave, who would oblige me very much if he would accept his freedom. It is sufiicient, after paying all ray debts, to leave my family above want if I should be sep' arated from them. It is a matter bIbo of c consolation to me to know this wanton exposure of my private affairs can do me | no pecuniary prejudice. My few credi? tors will not allow their confidence in m,e ? to be shaken by it. It has, indeed, led 1 to one incident, which was at the same time a source of pleasure and of pain. A friend lately called on me. at the instance of other friends, and informed me that ? /.noiirn fViof rriTT trofo I ILivy WC1C CUCU?i? t nuuv AAA J I?w affairs were embarassed, and that I allowed these embarrassments to prey upon my mind. He came, therefore, with their authority, to fell mc that they would contribute any sum that I might want to relieve me. The emotions which such a proposition excited can be conceived by Honorable men. I felt most happy to be a able to undeceive them, and to decline 2 their benevolent proposition.' " ,t r Redwood forests in California arc yeart ly diminishing, as this wood is inrreas? ingly used in building on the Pacific J coast. The superstructure of most dwellings in San Francisco is of redwood, and the 'Friscans cherish the belief that it > does not burn as readily as other light | material. * II __ . ,,, A ,, ? The JNavajos, a .New Mexican triDe or j Indians, are very rich red men. Theif wealth consists entirely of cattle, sheep ~ and horses, numbering respectively 7,000, 1,000,000 and 5,000 head. Their reservation is large and isolated, and the cliI mate is favorable to the increase of their e herds and flocks. S !e War is, fortunately for humanity, a very expensive matter. A real, live, Whitehead torpedo costs in England js about $1,800 and torpedo practice at $1,800 a shot is something almost too ;e costly for even long-pursed nations lika England. II At a recent scientific meeting in London it was stated that arsenic, in quantities large enough to poison beasts, has been known to find its way through the cround into wells fiftv feet distant. o ? U Loaa of Flesb and .Strength, jt with poor appetite, and perhaps slight cough in morning, or on first lying down at night. 6hould be looked to in time. Persons afflicted ss with consumption are proverbially unconscious c of their real state. Most cases commence with disordered liver, leading to bad digesn tion and imperfcct assimilation of foodit hence the emaciation, or wasting of the flesh. It is a form of scrofulous disease, and is curable by the use of that greatest of all e blood-cleansing, anti-bilious and invigorating e compounds, known as Dr. Pierce's "Golden i- Medical Discovery." c A band of young turkeyB routed an army >r of grasshoppers in Fresno, CaL, in two days g last week. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound s cures all female and kidney complaints. r At least twenty food-reform societies are it now in a flourishing condition in England. I- How to Srto Money, .. and we might also say?time and pain as well, in our advice to good housekeepers and ladies generally. The great necessity exist6 ing always to have a perfectly safe remedy i convenient for the relief and prompt cure of h the ailments peculiar to women?functional irregularity, constant pains,and all the symptoms attendant upon uterine disorders?inf duces us to recommend strongly and unt qualiflcdly Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescripe tion"?woman's best friend. It will save money. e Paris had 2,593 fires within its limits last e ye*1" !- Many Imitators, but no equal, as Dr. Sage's i. Catarrh Remedy. 4' A moniifapfiiHn9 * | Jiaa viuoou oujuivmu wtu aumuimuvv^u^ 1 j gunpowder was established ninety years ago. "Rough on Itch." r "Rough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions, I ring-worm,tetter,salt rheum, chilblains. 1 ! 23 Centa , Will buy a Treatise on the Horsb and His 1 j Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postaero stamps taken. Sent postpaid. Hew York Horse Book Co., 134 Leonard Street. New York city. } How to Secnre Health. Scovill's Sarsaparil'a and Stillingia, or j Blood and Liver Syrup, will restore perfect health to the phys c .1 organization. It s. > indeed, a strengthening syrup, pleasant 11 take, and bus often proven it-elf to b.; the 3 best blood purifier ever discover, d elTect[ ually curing scrofula, syphilitic disi. r lers, weakness of the kidneys, e'rysipe as, malaria, ' all nervous disorders" a d debility, bilioui t complaints, and all diseases indenting au * j impure condition of the blood, liver, kidneys, f I stomach, etc. it cornvts indigestion, espel I cially when the coinpla'ut is of au exhaustive " ' A--..? A lftB?an tVlO Vl'oAV UULUIO, UUVlug a WImem,; iv iro^u . i0v. c of tho brain and nervous system. . "Jtoujjh on Toothnchc." Instant relief lor neuralgia, toothache, faeer ache. Askfor"RoughonTootkach&"15&2oc. j Keep in the Fashion. Tho Diamond Dve9 1 I always do more than they claim to do. Color ' I over that old dresa It will look like new. i They aro warranted. 10c. at drugpists. Well*. . Richardson & Co., Burlington, vt ' \ Thousands, yes, millions, of bottles of Car> J boline havo bean sold, and the sale still goes , j on. it toero were no mens m mis ' ural hair renewcr do you suppose tJiat the 1 | people would still buy, as tbey continue to do. Llf? Preserver. i If you are losing yourgripon life, try "Wells' Health Renewer."faocs ckrect to weak spots. 1 , Freely Women* Ladies who would retain freshness and vivacity. Try "Wells' Health Renewer." If a cough disturbs your sleep, one dose of Piso's Cure will give you a nignt's rest. An international anti-vivisection congress I will be hold in l'aris next year. i The Vacation Season la dow upon us, whan thousands leok pleasure and ' recreation. But the first essential to enjoyment Is Kood health, and if you suffer from biliousness, dy?- j pepsla, scrofula, salt rheum, or diseases of the kid. ' nejH and liver, nothing will restoro you to health so j nulckly and effectively as Uood'sSarsaparilJa. Thero- I Core take this croat medloine bofore you talcs your vacation. "DurlnR the summer month* I hare been somewhat debilitated or run down- I havo takon Hood'* Sarsa- | parilla, which gave me now ?icor and restored me to I my wonted heilth and strength. William H. J Clocqh, Tilton, N. H." "I dorived so muohbeneflt from Hood's Sarsaparilla ; ;hat I think it has no equal." Mna. M. A- Knights, i Charlestown, Mass. Mra.W.O. Ashton, Lvnn. Mass., sir*she was a treat .offerer from sick headache; sho received great benefit from Hood's Sarsaparilla. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by nil Dracrfsts. 81; six for $5. Prepared only by I | 0. I. HOOD <1 CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mas*. I i IOO Doses One Dollar 1 Insurance is a goodthing*whether rapUad to life or property. No less a blessing to any thing that insures good health. Kidney-Wort does this. It is nature's great remedy. It to a mild but efficient cathartic, and acting at :T tho same time on the liver, kidneys and bowels, it relieves all these organs and enaMf them to perform their duties perfectly. It has wonderful power. Seeadvt._ t C'antlon to DairymenAsk for Wells, Richardson & Co.'s Improv* <: ed Butter Color, and take no other. Beware , .* of all imitations,and of all other oil oolar^for ?\ every other one is liable to become rancid aad spoil the butter into which it is put. If yom cannot get it write to us at Burlington, Vfc, to know where and how to get it without ex* tra expense. Thousands of teste have beta made, and they always prove it the best. Hay-Fever. After trying in vain for eleven years to cure my Hay-Fever, I purchased A bottle of Ely's Cream Balm, which entirely relieved me.?R. W. Harris, letter-carrier, Newark, N. J. JPrice. 50 cents. For twenty years I was a sufferer rinrfag the summer months with Hay-Fever. I procured a bottle of Ely's Cream Balm; was cured by ite use.?Charlotte Parker, Waverly, N. Y. Great Problem. ?Take all the Kidney and liver Medioirmc, ?Take all the Blood purifiers, ?Take all the Rheumatic remedies. ?Take all the Dyspepsia and indigestion cures, ?Take all the Ague, Fever, and billion SptCifiCSy r ?Take all the Brain and Nerve force revivers, ?Take all the Great health restorers. ?In short, take all the best qualities of all these, and the ?best ?Qualities of all the best medicines in the worla, and you will find that ?Hop ?Bitters nave the best curative qualities and powers of all ?concentrated : ?In them, and that they will cure when any ; or all of these, singly or ?combined ?FaiL A thorough trial will give positive proof of this. ife* Hardened Liver. Five years ago 1 broke down with kidney and liver complaint and rheumatism. Since then I have been unable to be about at alL My liver became hard like wood; my limbs were puffed up and filled with water. All the best physicians agreed that nothing ' could cure ma I resolved to try Hop Bftten; -V' I have used seven bottles; the hardness has % all gone from my liver, the swelling from my > y limbs, and It baa worked a mirtujie m my case; otherwise I would Lave been now in mr g-vk J. W. Moasr, Buffalo, October i, Porerty and Soffering. "I was dragged down with debt, poverty and suffering for years, caused by a dox family and larje bills for doctoricg. "I was completely discouraged, until am year ago, by the advice of my pastor, 1 commenced using Hop Bitters, ana in one month we were all well and none of us have seen * nek day since, and I want to say to all poor men, you can keep your families well a year with Hop Bitters for less than one doecorto visit will cost; I know it"?A WOBSXVO* . MMX, ' . ' :.^r J3T None genuine without a bunofc of green Hops on the white labeL Shun all the rile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hope? in Jheir name. KfrAM Caoms 19 Patau gi ** JjI0nc * ^rony* f7 B? Treatment wQK BT y *Mcur, NotaLlqaid or Snuff, Ap? P1! irithflagwv BK^FEVER GlTe it a TrlaL Moratfat drncditA. 60 centi by in?fl agpi, bottle hj nuii id \ ..,, : ? ? T 5 U?33 .' FEARFULLY COMMON* Kidney Complaint Anoaf bath SeXM mMd i|W-A Blilllui S?MT?7. Dr. David Kennedy, of Rondoot, V. Y., la oftes congratulated on the exceptional (bcceea of kk medicine called "Favorite R?medy" In an?til and radically cnring tbeae moat painful aal dangerous dlaordera. Proof* of this, like the toli ' ?rt hU tfantlnw. ami c>'; IUWIHK* MC WUSVOUU/ WIVU|t? ?v mmmm re published by him for the take of thonsandaej other sufferer* whom he desires to reach aad benei ' fit. The letter, therefore, maybe of vital import ance to yon or to some one whom yon know. It It from one of the best known and popnlar drojattti In the fine and prowine city from which he write** and donbttesa where thoee may find Mr. Crawford at hla place of bnslneaa on the corner of llain BM Union Sta.: SnaomLv. Man..MarchSLUM. | r&S; Dr. David Kennedy, RondouL, S. Y.: Dub Sn?For ten year* I had ben aflicM with Kidney diseaae In ita moit acute form. What f. 1 suffered moat be left to the Imagination?for ns one can appreciate It except who hare ml * through It I resorted to many physicians aid tl many different kinds of trea ment, and neat I great deal of money, only to find myself older id w mc than ever. I may say that I usod 85 bettlei of a preparation widely advertises as a epedio fot this precise sort of troablea, and found it en tint} useless?at least In my case. Your "FAVORITE REMEDY71?I say it witkl perfect recollection of ail that waa done for me be> ' sides?is the only thing that did me the slighted good; aniH am nappy to admit that it^sra mi permanent relief. 1 have recommended "PAVOBi ITE REM D Y" to many people for Kidney Ala us ^ and thev all aeree witn me in saying that JfeJIf DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITK REMEDY ha* not its equal in the vriSTVorf} for this distrtulog and ofte > fata! complaint. Uee this letter as von deem best for the benefit 4 other*. Your*,Jit, Lyman Cbawjobp. . WmJuui l.euj IIair Ucatarer. It U entirely different tram all other*, and as it* naiW udioates Is a perfect Vegetable Hafr Reetorer. It will immediately free the head from all dandruff, restoregttf hair to its natural color, and produce a new arwrta hers it has fallen off. It does not affect the health. which sulphur, lagnr of lead and nitrate of silver prepar- ' a tions hare dons. It will change light or faded hairrn a ? fewdsjittoabatatifaisloesjbroira. Ask you draggM *?. torit. liach bottle is warranted. Smith, Kilos / Wholesale Ac'ts, Phila.,Pa., and C.N.Onttentoa.N.'f; Paynes' Automatic Engines and Saw-WHs j|y OUR LEADER. We offer an ?to lo HT P. nioanted ?p*iD?r with Km. W-in. rolidSaw. 60ft.b'ltins.cant-books, riceompleU for operation, on curs. Engine on ?kida, #MJ leaa. 8-nd for cirouWfb). B. W. PAYNE 4e HONS, Manufacturers of all styles Automatic Ea? . . fines, from 2to3.u H.P.: also PnJleys, Hangen uA Snaftng, Elmlra, N, Y. Box 1850* Lying Afnta cant flZXLuxIM} the troth about Joints. Pot rott. \ ?$60.5 TON; WAGON SCALES.1 Beam Box. Tan Beam. Tnw? ? Paid. Free Price Lift. Erorja* iddrtf. J0HZ3 or BOTOHiVTOb BIK&HAMTOW.If. ?J .^ fig^HGOOD NEWS, MIHto 8 A Dl ESI ! K^Ji order* for oar T?U IKfll MjdX'oflces.Md^o ***^"* BSWrSffH fnl GoldBanaorMtmBajeChlnj ErKXmA Te*Set. orH*n<tam? D?oo?U? Gold B?nd Mi*? Row ^E^jftJjrtfcoUt* iddrM* Decanted Toilet Set. AiJSi?'AN TE.\ CO., i pTOhL!&EAT n^dg^^5illXg^! 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