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HO! WINTER. I. Ha! Winter, ho! Winter, King cf the northern blast! You meet us all, you greet us all, With grip that free:'-es fast. In regal pomp you've gathered up Your royal robes of snow, And by their trailing men shall trace Whatever ways you go. Your grim retainers all, alack! Make but a cruel train Of biting sleet and stinging winds And ice and frozen rain. The rich with furs and bla??iir Hearths _ . _ Your carnival may scorn. While Mirth anil Cheer will reign supremo From wassail cvo till inorn. II. But hal Winter, ho! Winter, What about the Po r! Who've no stronghold against the cold, No bribe or sinecure To set at bay the stinging day. Or soften down the night? Who note the thickening window-panes With sinking hearts affright? Who draw their babies c lose and sing Their shivering lullaUys, Then sleep and dream of steaming feasts Their hunger-sleep supplies ? To wake at morn with shuddering sense Of lengthened fast and cold, And find that gaunt-eyed Want bath wrought Its trace within the fold. Ha! Winter, ho. Winter, Hard your reign on thee; God pity such! and sen 1 warm hearts To all who starve and freeze. ?Maria Barret Butler, in the Current. KARL BKRGER'S PUPIL BY O. A. C'01'KI..YNP. Karl Merger went to Milan at just the tight time. It had bccome quite the fashion to run down the Italian method of instrumental instruction, and to extol the method of their Northern compeers. Karl Berger came. I lis name sounde 1 like aGermau's, and he played music like a master, aad that was a!I that was needed. Pupils flocked to him, and he set his own prices. Even the city itself, through its governors, agreed to place three pupils with him annually, at its own expense, as long as he should remain there. This was triumph enough to turn the head of a much older man, and Karl himself was only three and twenty years old. He sat in his room one night about two weeks after his arrival, smokine his biff nine with china bowl and congratulated himself, llerc was success indeed! He wondered what his old teacher, the Herr Kapellmeister, would say to his success. lie looked around the room, furnished as comfortably as most in the city, and felt a grim satisfaction in know- j ing that the plebeian Karl Merger was | taking his ease in the very chamber where / Ca,sar Borgia had once slept. Ilis was a nobility as high as his ancient predecessor, lie said to himself, and he laughed grimly, for the young Swede had but little respect for nobility, and he i often spoke of his ancestors, the Berger i Jaris and Vikings, as thieves and cut- i throats. While he sat musing, lazily watching the smoke curling up toward the blotch- j cd and crumbled, almost obliterated j frescoes of the vaulted ceiling above, a : servant brought in a note to "111 Maestro 1 Berger." The City of Milan informed his excellency, the Maestro, that the last y of the three pupils had been chosen, and the pupil, the Contessa Lucia Yinella, would attend him whenever the Maestro would be pleased to receive her. Signor Berger scowled and shrugged his shoulders. He had already, in the short time he had been in Milan, heard several contessas" play, and he had not been favorably impressed by theirgenius, and, indeed, it must be admitted that the ??-- la dies in question had a greater desire to see the handsome foreigner than to make any progress in music, lie had forgot- j ten that the three pupils were too poor to uay for their tuition and were therefore given their musical cducatiou by the charity of the city. However, he sent back an answer that he would give the contessa her first lesson at 3 o'clock the next afternoon, and then he took up his violin, and the contessa and Milan and success and the Kapellmeister passed from his mind, while the music j soared in tremulous vibrations through j '?' - the room. The next day everything went wrong. I -A He h fid v?t to lenrn tho 11:1 n1 sary for a teacher, :md the countless mistakes of his pupils, the jarring discords and the seeming stupidity rendered hitn nearly furious. At 6 o'clock the charity pupil, Contessa Lucia, was ushered into 1 his presence, followed by an old woman, ' her escort. The contcssa did not look ' very aristocratic in her dress. Every- ! thing she haci on was cheap. In fact, i except that her dress was neater and more tastefully arranged, it was abojt the same as the servants. The maestro | was walking up and down the room with ' an ominous frown on his face, ile > wheeled around and looked at her. "Well, Siguora, what do you wish?" j he said, crossly. v A "I have come for my lesson, Signor," she replied, timidly. % He looked at his tablets. "You are either too early or too ! late. There is a C'ontcs-sa Vinella who i comes now. But if she does not come?" j r&. , "I am the contessa. signor," and j she proceeded to unwrap | her violin from its green ! covering, while the servant hobbled to 1 the nearest chair. "You came to amuse yourself in a : ? . dilettante way on the violin." "I camc to learn to play, Maestro; to j be able to teach music some day. Who ] knows?" and she laughed a litt'e nerv- j ouslv. "Contcssas don't teach music," he I said, scornfully. "It is only poor plebei- ' ans who do that. Let m:* hear you play." ' She nestled the violin on her shoulder ' caressinirlv. ant obedientlv commenced. I The air was simple, a pleasant lullaby, in ! n minor key, soft and sad, which had ! been sung by many Kctnan mothers to : their children. One of those airs,which, | like the German Lieder, one lmds anions | the people, its author and origin lost in 5 antiquity, yet everlasting from its pathos i and tenderness. The violin was lit to ! be its interpreter, an old Cremona almost j black with age. The music floated out from the live quivering strings. The girl, her eyes almost closed and her head bent ! forward, stood erect, playing. The old J servant sat listlessly, caught by the music | EK'C . swaying to and fro, as if rocking some ! Bjgfcr. child, dead fifty years ago. Karl Merger ' stood frowning lu the shadow of a curV tain. What right had a contessa, a young girl, to play like that? What right ? had she to a violin which was so much better thin his? The soft repeated J l!?)i . strains came to an end, and the girl j ^ turned proudly toward him. "It is a wretched picce, wretchedly played," he said, crossly. "You will ; never make an artiste of yourself. It lacks soid, it lacks rhythm, it lacks pC everything." These petulant words?words which "the honest Karl tterger was ashamed of j even while he uttered them?struck the \ young g:rl like a blow. Her face, proud and happy at her successful rendering of the simple peasant air, fell suddenly at this harsh verdict, and. girl like, she burst in o sobs and left the room, while the servant stared stolidly at the fierce foreigner, and then rose and hobbled after the girl. Karl Berger felt ashamed of himself and his sudden lit of anger. lie took up his own violin, but it sounded harsh. He was cold and courteous to the pupils who came that afternoon, but he was glad when the day was over. They were lighting the lamp3in the courtynrd below when he looked out. lie watched the servants as they nut the lamps in their places, and after they had left he stood at the window looking absently down on I the empty courtyard beneath, -when he I bsw a figure coming slowly across the yard, lie stepped out on the balcony and called to her, for he recognized the escort of the Contessa Lucia. When the woman had come up he asked her: * "Where docs the Contessa Vinc'.la live V "In this house, siynor, with a relative. The contessa has no other friends and she lives here, bat not in idleness, signor! She is too proud for that! She takes care of the house, and works like a servant. She has no friends but me; , I was her nurse. She is too proud to go with others in the house. Even her rela- , tives do not patronize her, and the ser- ] vants are always very polite to her, and always obey her, but behind her back they laugh at her here, and call her the contessa-of nil-work,'and the 'contessa cook.' Her grandfather, the Count 1 Vinella, had taught her music, and she 1 worked so hard at it that she might earn ' her own living that way. Last week she wpd the prize at the conservatoire, and the city was to pay her tuition T^ith you. You should not have spoken so harshly to her, signor? I found her in her little room cryingasif her heart would break." 1 * - f Karl Bergcr rau his Hands through his hair. "I was wronar?very wrong. "Will you tell her I said so? Ask her to come again, and I will promise to be fairer." The next afternoon riie jrirl came in. "It was very silly of me, Maestro, to run away like that," she said; "but I want so much to be a good artiste, and I when you told tnc I could not?" "Dun't talk about it, ]>lea3C," interrupted Karl; "I was cross and tii cd, and, i if you must know it, jealous," and he j smiled grimly. "Yes, jealous, that you Cuuid play better than I." j Lucia flushed with delight. "it you mean mat?out no: 1011 are laughing at nle!,' mean what I said,"' replied Karl, determinedly. "I can teach you technique, perhaps; after that you have nothing to learn." So it was settled. One day, during the lesson, Karl said j abruptly: '"Would you like also to study at night? My evenings arc all my own." The girl laughed with pleasure and ! cried: "Oh, Mastcro, you arc so kind." I So, after the work was done, Lucia would come in with Marcia, her old ! nurse, and after the lesson Karl would j pick up his own violin and play. One night he stopped suddenly and said to her: "I wish you would not call mc Maestro. I am not a master in music. I am j j only a sham, and some day they will ' j find it out. I am not much older than I you and don't play any better. 1 want | ! you to think of me as a fellow student, not as a teacher." "What shall I call you, then?" Lucia ' I asked shvlv. " Ivai L" " That is a pretty name," said Lucia. "It was my lather's," and he went on to speak of his Northern home, of the snow-storm when all the family died but j himself, and how he was found famished and senseless, with his violin hugged to his breast. And Lncia sat still and drank in every word. Then she told him ' : of her own home and her past history, j j Each night after they laid their music ' aside they would sit and talk, and Mar- ; cia would sit and slumber quietly in her | I chair. Soon the opera season commenced, and i often the three would sit back in some j little box which had been placed at I Karl's disposal, and listen to the grand | creations of the masters. A happy time for both. Karl was all gentleness to the i little contcssa, and the grim young ! Norseman commenced to find himself ! making jokes to amuse her. He lo make 1 jokes?who had hitherto gone through I life in his sober, solemn way?to make j ! jokes! It was surprising indeed. They called each other Karl and Lucia, and | sometimes brother and sister. So things went on, till suddenly Marcia fell sick. Lucia stayed by her bedside ?e much as her work would allow. Tha lessons must cease till Marcia grew better. for she had no other chaperone, and of course it was impossible for her to go without one. The days seemed to drag slowly aleng, and the night-watching Lciran to tell on her. She grew paler and went about sad and musing. As for Karl, the first time that Lucia missed her lesson he became rather angry. "She thinks she has learned everything, perhaps, and is through with me," lie muttered. He tried to feel injured and banish her from his mind, and for awhile he thought he had succeeded. "When the long evening came and he found himself alone, he became restless and uneasy, and imagined himself only anxious that nothing might have happened to Lucia. He took up his violin, but soon put it aside, and then he went out to the opera-house. The prima donna was out of voice and the orchestra vile. Coming home he met one of the servants. ' Where is Marcia ?" lie asked. " > CI'J Sll'IV, So that was it. He went gloomily up stairs and went straight to the mirror and began to apostrophize his image. "Maestro Berger, you are an ass," he said quietly. "However poor she may be, she is still contessa and you are only ?Karl Berger," and he took up his violin and commeuced to play. But with all his self-restraint he found the days nery long and tiresome. One night Lucia sat alone in the'room when she heard Karl's violin. He was | telling his story of love, unconsciously, to the one from whom he intended to hide it. As the girl sat there in the darkness, holding Marcia's hand, she felt strangely happy and quiet. Suddenly Marcia opened her eyes. "Lucia," she said, "I am ever so much better." The proud contessa bent over and 1 kissed the wrinkled face of the servant | and said, gravely: "That is well; but you must sleep, Murcia, and not talk." "Play for me, Cara," said the old woman, drowsily. And Karl Berger heard suddenly from I Marcia's room the answer to his violin's j confession. Sweetly and softly it came to him at first, but soon it swelled out into full volume. It told all to him that was necessary. And when the girl ceased rtlavirwr <nii1 cnnlr 1i*ir?Lr in lift* plifiir I"V,U5 ,lll4\ ??") I blushing rosily red, there weie two peo- | pie in the house who were perfectly J happy. ; When Lucia awoke the next morning 1 and found Marcia better and the heavens and the birds in harmony with her happy. mood, the lirst thing she did was to kiss her violin, and when she had dressed and was coming down the stairs, sinking like a lark, she saw at the foot Karl Bcrger, his face flushed and looking very happy, indeed. "Tell me, little Lucia," lie said, eagerly, "didn't the violin speak truly?" I don't know what she said, for 1 didn't hear it: but I do know that Milan j was surprised to hear that very winter j that one of its contessas had married a i music teacher.? Washington JLitclut. The Direction ot the Wind. That the changing of the direction of | tln^wind is due to the shifting of the situations of greatest heat upon the earth is substantially proved by the fact that in certain regions of the terrestrial surface, where the situations of the greatest heat and cold do not aiter the direction in which they lie to each other, the wind does not change, but always blows in I the same direction from one day to another, and ail the year round. This occurs in the great open spaces of the tlw. w lnn.l ,r/.f heated up l>v (he sunshine of the day, and to get cool by the scattering of the heat at night. In those spaces, for a vast breadtli of many hundreds of miles, the sun shines down day after day upon the surfacaof the sea, heating the water most along the mid ocean track which lies most immediately beneath its burning rays as it passes across from east to we-t. This midway track of the strongest sunshine crosses the wide ocean as a belt or zone that spreads some way to either side of the equator. Throughout this midway track the cooler and heavier air on either hand drifts in from the north and from the south, and then rises up, as it becomes heated by the sun, where the two currents meet. In both instances, however, in eon.se- < (juence of the spinning round of tlie j earth, the advancing wind acquires a i westward as well as an equatorial drift, j The air current as it approached the midway equatorial zone, where the onward movement of the sea covered surface of the earth is performed with the vast velocity of 1.000 miles an hour, does not immediately acquire this full ; : rate of sliced, and lags back upon the ; ( ocean, so that it appears as a drift to- I , ward the west as well as toward the equator. On the north side of the equa- j , tor the wind blows all the year round I ' from the northeast, and from the south J side from the southeast, both in the At- . lantic and Pacific oceans. The e steady J . and unchanging ocean winds arc called } , the trade winds, on account of the great \ J service they render to ships carrying j j merchandise across these portions of the i j sea. lr. sailinir from England to the \ Cape of (jood Hope, through the entire j length of the Atlantic ocean, ships, be- , fore they reach the equator, have to pa?s , over a broad space where strong winds , ure always blowing steadily from the j ] northeast. That is the region of the . northeast trades. They then traverse a J space near to the equator itself, where j tiie northeast winds cease to blow, and j where the air is very still and calm, and ! } they afterward corne to a region to the j ( south of the equator, where strong | ; winds are continually blowing from | j southeast. That is the region of the ] south trade*.?Science fur AV. , T ~ 1 If we would avoid moral intoleronce, j ive must cultivate our imagination, widen , aur sympathies, search for excellence ] rather than defects, and give a gen- \ irons and ready honor to those virtuous { jualities which we ourselves lack, and j ivhich, from habit, we have come to es- \ ;cem lightly. Young ladies now wear scarf pins simi- r ar to the men. j FARMS NO EYE HAS SEEN. PLANTING AND HABVESTINO EASTBBW OYSTER BEOS. How the OjnIct In Cultivated? Enemies of the Illvalvc?Krinffln? OyNlerw to the New Vork Market. Oysters are raised by cultivation, just as fruits and vegetables are. They arc found in all seas in from four to six fathonu nt wntr?r nntl nnvnr :it a <?reat dis tance from tlic shore. They are most abundant in the quiet waters of gulfs and bays formed at the mouths of lar^e rivers. The principal sources of supply for the United States are the Chesapeake bay. New Jersey coast, and Long Island sound. Formerly the uorthern beds were almost wholly kept up by restocking with seed oysters from Chesapeake bay and the Hudson river, but of late the oyster reapers have secured the seed, or spat, as the fishermen call it, during the spawning season, and new grounds have been utilized until the area of the oyster beds can be measured by townships, and is constantly extending. Although there is no such thing as buying the beds of any of the public waters, yet oyster grounds arc, in a manner, bought and sold in this way: A man or a company will clear up a new placc and begin raising oysters. If these men wish to go out of the business they sell their squatter's right to their bed. The right is recognized in the business, and such a sale holds good by common consent. The spat gathered in the spawning season is scattered over the beds from which o\ sters have been gathered, or on newly-prepared ground, as the case may be. Here it lies from one year to live or six years. llockaways lie about one year and sounds from three years to five years. The increase is from three to six baskets for everyone of spat. The chances, as a rule, are in favor of a good crop, but the oystermen have many things to contend with, so that it sometimes happens that when they go to gather the oysters they lind cither dead ones or none at all. The oyster has its natural enemies, such as the drumfish and starfish, which destroy a great many, and in the second place the ground sometimes proves unsatisfactory. Sometimes a heavy weight of grass grows fast to them, and, pressing them down into the mud, smothers them, or, when they arc on saudy soil, a storm will occasionally covcr them entirely with sand. However, with the constantly improved methods of cultivation, means are being continually devised for the better protection of the oyster. Two-thirds of tne oysters now brought into the New York market during the summer and autumn come from the lower bay, and are called sounds. The remainder may be said to come from Kockaway, Blue Point, and the East river. The winter trade depends more or less on the supply from Chesapeake bay, although large quantities taken in the New York waters arc stored for winter use. Down on West street, a few biocks north of Canal street, a little fleet of oyster bosts, packed together like sardines in a box, may be seen any day delivering their cargoes. How one ever gets out is a profound mystery. The boatmen themselves say it often takes half & day to get one clear of the rest. They are small, single masted, and each carries a jib. They vary in length from thirty feet to forty feet. They cost between $500 and $2,000 apiece, according to their size and the manner in which they are fitted up. There are also a great many steam tugs engaged in the business. Each boat usually carries Jive men. The wholesale dealer, who have their houses upon rafts along the dock, own or have an inteiest in most of these boats. One dealer will often own a number of sail boats, or an interest ir. several, and perhaps a number of tugs as well. There are, however, many boats that are owned by the men who sail them. The boats usually stay out a week or six days. Each is provided with an oyster tongs and dredge. At lirst, while the oysters are thick, the men use the tongs. Afterward they finish up by raking over the ground with the dredge. The dredge is an iron rake in two sections. It has a bag hanging from the back of it. made of iron links. This is always held open by an iron frame. The oysters, as tlicy are raked up by the teeth of the dredge, are shoved back into the bag until it is filled, and then it is raised and its contents are emptied on board. It is either dragged by the sailboat with spread canvas or worked by steam. When a boat has a load of oysters, which is from one thousand to six thousand, according to the size of the craft, it carries the oysters to a water-logged j crib. This is done in order that the ! oysters may drink, and thus gain a fine, .,1 * vn n.l'rif ? rwl I [JiUfiijJ djJ|Ji;ui auii; xwi uiaiiwt, aim aiau supply themselves with a circulating fluid to stand lopg transportation. They are usually put in the crib at ebb tide, as it is only then that oysters open. After this other boats deliver them to the wholesale dealers. Oysters are classified according to their size, as extras, box, culling and cullentines. Some of the dealers open the oysters they handie, while others simply deal in them in the shell. The openers get At a thousand for opening the oysters, and one man can open from three thousand to six thousand a day.?New York Hun. Romance of a Senator's Sob. "I was surprised to read in the iW a few days ago that Charles S. Yoorhces, the son of the Indiana Senator, is the Congressman-elect from Washington Territory,"said a well known young Detroit lawyer at the Michigan exctiange last evening. "The surprise is due to the difference between his present position and his situation when he was a resident of Detroit." ' When did lie leave here?" asked a j Post reporter. "In the spring of 1881. He was here several weeks, and I'll wager he will never foriret his Detroit experience, cs pecially as it included his marriage to a I Detroit girl." 4'Tell us the story." "The paragraph ill the Post stated that young Voorhees played Hamlet once, and once only, some years ago, at an Indianapolis theatre. Hut lhut '.vas not the only time he appeared on the stage. He was thoroughly stage-struck and joined John McCuliough's company, coming here with that organization. He played minor parts and overacted them to an extent that caused him to be guyed by the audiences. Voorhees asked McCullough if the latter thought lie would ever become an actor, and McCullough told him he would never become a great one. He was a proud fellow, and immediately left the company. He had no money, and to obtain means exchanged his clothes for a shabby-genteel suit and some money at Van llaalen's pawn shop, and engaged board at Mrs. Clark's, whose house ii above Grand River avenue, An acquaintance brought Voorhees to mc, thinking I could aid hiin in obtaining employment on one of the Detroit newspapers. I took him to Mr. Quimby, of the Free I'mf, who thought Voorhees was an impostor and would have nothing to do with him. Then I took him to an afternoon paper miblisher. who tokl tlie Senator's son to write a sample article and submit it. Instead of writing on a local subject, Voorhues constructed a gushing iove-story, and was told that that style of literature was not what was wanted on the paper. That ended the attempt to make a news paper man of him. After this failure I saw nothing of Yoorliecs for several days. One evening the door-bell at our house rang, and when it was answered Mr. Yoorliecs and a lady were admitted. lie astonished me by presenting the lady as his wife.having just been married by Father Van Dyke. The lady was a Miss Biubie, a pretty French girl, who was boarding at the same house, and with whom Voorhees had become smitten. A brief courtship resulted in the marriage, Miss I3aubie havinir sufficient faith in and lo\^2 for the young nan, in spite of his imnecuuiositv and failure to obtain employment. The aewly-married coup'e passed the evening with us, the walk to the house and back Lo the boarding-place making up their bridal trip. Getting married did not improve the young man's financial condition, although I don't know us it hurt !t any, and after standing the strain as ong as he could he was compelled to ipply to his father for assistance. It :ame at once, and in accordance with Senator Yoorhees' directions the ex-actor ind his bride went to Washington. I ie:ird nothing of him until I read of his :lection to Congress, and, as you can ivell imagine, the news surprised me. It llustrates the marvelous change four fears will make in an average American's ife. It seems funny to think that the nan who was poverty-stricken and unible to obtain work in Detroit in 1881 is r> 1884 a member-elect of Congress."-Detroit Pout. * Contempt of court?j.'he way the old < nan feels when his daughter's lover liu- i jers into the small hours.?Baton Star. I NEWS AND NOTES FOE WOMEN. Muffs and bonnets must matcli. Some of the new fans have amber handles. Embroidered handkerchiefs are no longer fashionable. In Siam it is the custom for husbands to gamble away their wive3. Lace and hemstitching are the trimmings for dressy handkerchiefs. Underskirts arc made very full in the back, to supply the bustle effect. Fans composed of ostrich feathers in two colors are very pretty iu effect. Gold jewelry is gradually but surely unuinjj us way 10 jiopuiur i.ivui uy<wu. There are forty-eight women in Dakota holding the position of bank cashiers. An Indian girl, fourteen years of age, is the "boss" breadmaker at Lcwiston, Idaho. The latest French fashion is to notify the guests at country houses whom they are to meet. Mrs. Mary L. Leonard lias been admitted to the bar as the first female lawyer in Washington Territory. There arc at present seventy women in France who have received the distinction of the cross of the Legion of Honor. A Jersey City girl is at work on a crazy quilt composed of small pieces clipped from the silk linings of her many admirers' overcoats. I^ails of hammered silver are used to head the long pins thrust through the crown of the bonnet, converting them into articles ot luxury. Tying the bonnet strings in the back of the neck is the device adopted for the sake of warmth by girls without fur collars or fur-trimmed garments. There may be women who do not wish to be married; but has there been a woman who could take comfort iu the thought that she had never been asked to marry? Five hundred dollars for a pair of shoes seems a high price, but it has been paid by one of tlic society belles of New York. They were of white satin, and t !J J 1? were emuroiueruu wim jjcuris. English brides refuse to wear long trained wedding robe9, saying they do not carc to look like dowagers at their own weddings, where they propose to dancc in a demi-traincd dancing dress. It is not fashionable to wear light colors at a French wedding, unless one is a kinswoman of the bride. A rich visiting dress, with a very costly little mantle, is what the most elegant women wear. Chenille, dotted and embroidered tulle and tulle with designs in tinsel and floss, are much used with evening dresses of the delicate pongee and India silks and for the draperies of satins and gros grain silks. The full, pulled sleeve, not nearly so pretty in itself as the French coat sleeve, looks beautiful by comparison with the jersey, with which it is most often thrown into contrast, and it conceals the arms to perfection. It is prophesied that mignonette green will be the color most in favor for light gowns next summer. It is so exquisitely delicate in appearance that it always seems especially appropriate for the warm season, and if properly blended with scarlet even brunettes can wear it. As for blondes, there is nothing more becoming to the soft pinkness of their cheeks and to the gold of their hair. In Northern Siberia when a young man thinks he wants to marry a young woman he arranges to pay a certain sum to her father. Half of this sum he pays down and lives with the family of his lady love for a year. If, at the end of that time, he still wants her. he pays the other half of the sum agreed upon and gets her. If lie doesn't want her he says so and loses the installment which lie first paid. At a golden wedding in New York the llorist who decoratcd the rooms chose to use yellow blossoms, and produced a brilliant elTect. The bay window was tilled with ferns, butter-cup carnations and sunset roses, and yellow chrysantheniuns and golden ferns were banked everywhere. Two hearts in pearl roses were hung over one of the arciied doors, ai'.d the newel post was twined with yellow flowers. The long, thick crepe veil is very injurious to the complexion. The rough crepe rubs the skin oil and the poisonous matter is taken into the circulation in that way, as well as carried into the lungs in breathing. Such a veil worn for two consecutive years seldom fails to producc bad results. Similar goods about j the nock, and black silk and black cot- I ton goods also produce bad effects. Paris Iirs n feather dyers' disease, produced from the dye in which the black feathers arc dipped. Healthy Sleep. I think we may safely say that every one icipiires six hours' sleep in the twenty-four, and very many men and women, not to mention fools, require even more. Certainly, too much sleep is harmful; but too little is vastly more so. I would let each man regulate his hours of sleep by what he feels are his real requirements; always urging him to avoid the suspicion of laziness, to take into consideration the bed lie lies upon, and to watch the effect on his health of any system of sleep lie adopts. If you get up when you first wake, providing you have had six hours of sound, refreshing sleep, you can scarcely get wrong. But make sure of your six hours' minimum, and be wonderfully suspicious of the necessity for further sleep, as it is apt to become, not necessity, but indulgence. "Wellington could sleep at any moment; Baron Bunson could sleep for half an hour at any time in the midst of his studies, awaking refreshed, and resuming his work with increased vigor. A blessed gift this; such a faculty, combined with that of early.rising, is as good as a fortune to a capable man, or, indeed, to almost any man. Sleep is heaviest in the lirst few hours, gradually becoming lighter, and probably disturbed by dreams, as time wears on, until a slight noise disturbs us, or our rested system resumes full work of its own accord. Everybody knows that in dreaming part of the brain is awake and at work, wmle the other partis asleep?as much as the brain can i sleep; at all events, exercising lessened function. It is therefore obvious that dreamless sleep is most useful, as dreams are evidence of work by some part of the brain, detracting from perfect rest. A very important factor in securing healthy sleep is the kind of bed we lie ! upon. Feather beds I cannot commend; indeed, luxuries?and this is an undoubted one?are not to be sought by him whose aim is perfect health and strength. A spring mattress is very excellent, and the harder your couch, to j be comfortable, the more likely arc you > to secure healthy, refieshing sleep, not | unduly prolonged. It is a difficult mat- j ter to rise early from a feather bed, dilli- j cult to awake in a reasonable time, and j more so to leave its waiinth and cosiness [ in winter But the luxury must be sac j riliced to the more healthful influence of the mattress. The clothing should be ' light and warm; and I cannot but recom- I rrw?nrl tIir? nf hntivonn ! ...WV. ...V- ?..^v ,.v-v-.. | two blankets as being very warm, for j paper is a ]>oor conductor of heat. You get warmth by tliis means without undue j weight of clothing. Then your bedroom must be well ventilated, for you require j to take in an extra stock of oxygen dur- I ingthe night to help out the supply for i the day. You will sleep too much if the I air is impure. ? Leeds Mercury. Expensive Alderncy Milk. Mr. Webster was favorably impressed with turnip culture, and believed that it might be profitably introduced into Massachusetts, notwithstanding the high price of labor, lie endeavored to introtroduce English and Scotch husbandry to some extent on his farm at Marshlield, beginning by keeping large numbers of cattle and sheep. His farm at Franklin was cultivated in the old New Hampshire style, and he was very fond of making comparisons between the two. He had some of the products of his farm sent to Washington, and his blazing black eyes would gleam with joy, while j a smile "f satisfaction would light up his swarthy face, as he would ask a guest i at the dinner-table to boiled mutton of : his own raising, with potatoes and tur- ! nips of his own growth. What such a dinner cost him he never explained, but ho must have been some- I what like Mr. Alvin Adams, who accum- j ulated a fortune iu the express business. I and who said to some friends who visited | him at a magnificent estate which he j owned near Roston. '-Gentlemen, shall i I give you a glass of Alderncy milk or of ! champagne; the cost to me is about the samc.v?Boston Budget. A poet sings: "I miss you my dar-ling, my darling; the embers burn low on the hearth." It's an awful thing not to have a wife around to attend to the fire.*?Call. SCENES IN A NAVY YAHD. A LITTLE WO ELD B7 ITSELF, AXTD WHAT GOES OH THESE. Ship* In Courtc of Construction and DciiioliMliinent?Tbo Routine of n Day's Work. The Bropklyn navy yard, like most military and naval posts and reservations, is a little world of itself. When one passes through the squalid part of the city that lies about its walls and enrrrtfno tVio cnlnmn IU1B tuc J^lUH "liW.v wj-v, ? M marines with gleaming bayonets keep guard night and day, he is in another atmosphere. The hum of traffic from the twin cities sounds far away. Before him is a broad street stretching down to the river, where men-of-war arc lying. There arc trees and green grass, ships being repaired and ships being demolished. marines walking* post and sailors moving about with the peculiar rolling gait which distinguishes the seafaring man. A driveway leads up a little hill to the left, to the commandant's house. Before the house stands an orderly in white gloves, and above his head a flag floats from the top of a lofty pole. About half way down the main street,in a building of yellow brick, is the offices of the commandant, where all the headquarters business of the " Naval Station of New York" is transacted. Here also is the office of tho captain of the yard and one or two other functionaries. Other buildings, mostly of yellow brick, scattered about the yard are machine shops, sail-lofts, store Houses, etc. There arc two immense -wooden structures, under one of which is the unfinished frigate New York, and under the other the old Colossus, now being demolished. In this, the chief naval station of the United States, there is always plenty of work to be donc^ for ships of war are always being fitted out for sea, or come in to go out of commission or to be repaired. For each particular work there is a department. There are the departments of steam engineering, provisions and clothing, navigation, ordnance, etc. At an early hour in the morning the sound of the hammer and saw begins to be heard, the machineiy starts up, the workmen and clerks arrive, the officers in charge of the different departments enter their offices, and until four o'clock in the afternoon the business of the yard is in full blast. Imagine tho business of a great ship yard combined with the supply of provisions, and manufacturing and supply of clothing for several thousand men and officers, the making of sails, ropes, spars, engines, flags and signals, the supplying ordnance and the thousand and one things that arc used aboard a man-of-war from a pillow case to a carpet or knife and fork. Add to this the work of the paymaster's department, where the accounts of all the receipts and disbursements consequent on such a varied business and the separate accounts of officers and men and civil employes are kept, and we will get some idea of the work at the navy yard. Then there is the care of millions of dollars' worth of government property and the sale of condemned property to be taken into consideration. Over at the Cobb dock the old line-of-battle ship Vermont is moored. She is the receiving ship, where men are enlisted and kept until they are transferred to some sea going ship. The officers stationed on the Vermont are generally those who have just come back from soir.e long cruise, and are sent here to get a little rest and recuperate. From early in the morning until noon the officers are.kept busy with the routine work of the ship, with drilling the men, shipping recruits, etc. From 1 o'clock until the dinner hour, at 5 .-:j0 o'clock, the ward room door io rlnenrtwl nnd thfi fMirtftins are drawn before the doors of the officers' state rooms. Some studying for examination for promotion; the sound of a guitar proclaims that one is cultivating his musical abilities; another may be attending to his correspondence or indulging in general literature. A portion of this time, too, is consumed by the officers in reading up on matters pertaining to their profession, for American naval officers are justly proud of their reputation as the best-informed set of naval officers in | the world in matters pertaining to their profession and strive honestly to deserve it. Is is possible that some of the officers may have their afternoon broken in upon by an order to take a draft pf men to Norfolk, Newport or Boston, or by an order to attend a general court-martial. At 5:30 the officers all meet at the dinuer table in the ward-room. Other officers from some *liip lying at the yard or a civilian friend or two may be present at this time, and when the smoke of post, prandial cigarettes mingles with the aroma of black coffee what stories arc told of "strange adventures happed by land and sea!" Then the thunders of Mobile bay awake anew, the Corean tiger-flag goes down in defeat once more, and all the storms that blow oil Ilatteras and the Horn are loosened again. There arc stories of Arctic exploration, too, and the rehearsing of many an old legend handed down from the time of llull, Paul Jones or Decatur, and heard nowhere except on a man-of-war. The stmnn-cr nt that board, seeing the spirit which animates his hopes, will go away satisfied that America may safely commit her pride of the past and hopes of the future to the officers of whom these are examples. The evenings the officers have to themselves until 10 o'clock, when the lights arc put out and sleep and silence reign over the great ship.?Xew York Tribune. ? A Railroad Magnate. In a letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer Mr. George Alfred Townsend reports as follows a conversation which lie had with one of the best informed railroad men in New York, whom he does not name. ' Whom do you consider the first railroad man in the Lnited States?" " We rather look at V. P. Huntington as at the head of the American railroad system. lie entered the field late, escaped the general misfortunes of the Union Pacific railroad, to which his company was the complement, an I with its earnings he has built a complete railroad system from San Francisco nearly to Mexico, and thence across the desert and Texas to New Orleans, and he has finished his railroad from Hamilton Roads to Memphis, and is thought to be the controlling spirit in the new railroad from Memphis to New Orleans. Therefore, he is the only American who controls a line from ocean to ocean." " Where is Iluutington's home now?" "In the city of New York. You see, he owns the American line of steamers from New Orleans. In this line there arc probably as many as thirty steamers. They are all American vessels, built at Wilmington, Del., and well adapted for their purpose. A branch of this steamship line runs to Vera Cruz. Huntington also has steamship facilities from New York to his initial railroad point at Newport News. I would not be at all surprised," said my friend, "to see Huntington one of these days complete his railroad system to New York city, lie has married the widow of one of his railroad officers, and has just bought her a very expensivo piece of ground on i Fifth avenue, New York. lie delights in paintings, and is a pretty good judge of them, while a modest man in his claims to artistic knowledge." " How much is in Huntington's rail- ( road system altogether?" " Nearly .1,000 miles. Some oOO miles of this is in river steamboats on the Col- j orado and Sacramento rivers. lie has j about 1.200 miles in his Central Pacific I road,about 1,300 in the Southern Pacific, ] some 1,200 miles in his Texas system; ] and he is also building into northern California. i Hanging Makes the Muscles ltigid. j It is strange how a little steady pros 1 sure on the windpipe alTects people. Of ] course it chokes them, but that is no reason why they shouldn't be able to move their limbs. They seem to loose all control over their muscles and give right in. I remember a case that occurred j in Brookville, Me., when I was a young j man. A woman, the wife of a wealthy t sea captain, threw a skein of yarn over f the top of an open door one day. and sticking her head through the bight that J hung down doubled up her knees so her feet could not touch and remained in that t position until she choked to death. One y would naturally think that when she be- j came unconscious her muscles would re- r lax and allow her feet to drop to the floor, i hut such was not the case. Hanging or I 'r choking seems to make every muscle as I rigid as iron.?Boston Globe. " Here's a whole ball of twine," said the irritable old gent to his musical niece, "and now I want a stop put to t this thing of settin' down in the parlor J i hull hours at a stretch, raisin' the neigh- | t bors, yellin' about 'The Lost Chord.'" I s She is now learning a new song.?Mcr- 11 chant-Traveler. J 1. A MAN'S COSTLY CANINES SPE2TDI2TG 8100,000 TO SATISFY A LOVE FOB DOGS. Dogs With Beds, Bathe, GacLlghted Boudoirs, Steam-Hcatcd Betirlng' Booms and Other Luxurlont A party of gentlemen in an Erie train, New Yorkward bound, were talking about men's hobbies, when one of them made the remark that a Bergen county man had spent $100,000 on a hobby. "What was it?" asked the writer, who was one of the party. "Dogs." "And who is the man?" ''Mr. E. 1?. Hearn, who lives just across the bridge from Passaic. lie is o Jnnwlmnnt el 1 nnri n f O n ("I f". in Lnril a ut;|jui iluwuu ou|;uitnvMuvu? ? , lnrd's establishment, and one of Lorillnrd's right bowers. You'd ought to see ] him!" | With Mr. Clarence H. Van Deusen, of ] Passaic, who is a connoisseur in all that pertains to canines, and who had courteously volunteered to conduct the introductory preliminaries of the visit, a trip was made to Mr. Ilearn's kennels one day during the week. The Hearn mansion is situated on the left bauk of the Passaic river, and is surrounded by elecrantlycared-for grounds. To the rear of the ri-sidencc are the famous dog kennels wherein are kept the dogs which have taken prizes at all the prominent bench shows of this country and Europe for many years past. The buildings cover the better part of an acre of ground, and are fitted up in a manner which would be the envy of many a mechanic of the metropolis. Mr. E. L. "Williams, Mr. E. I*. Hearn's manager, greeted the writer and his companion at the main entrance, and courteously signified his willingness to give any information within his power. He led the way through the canine boudoirs. Each kennel, of which there are a score or more, has a stone flooring, and a shifting glass roof which can be moved at will to let in the light or keep out the cold. Running water is located in a corner of each compartment, and each^ lighted at night by gas, and is heated by hot wator conducted through the series of buildings by means of pipes supplied from an immense boiler. Uoucnes, which would make the average tramp's mouth water, arc filled with clean straw every day and at night are fastened to the side walls by means of catches. A monster bath-tub provides .1 lavatory for the hightoued canines, and in one corner of the main building is ihc culinary department, where the food is cooked for the petted descendants of canioe blue blood. At the rear of the buildings, in the orchard, is the "run," where the animals take their walks abroad. Each kennel is ten feet square and is surrounded by ash sides, surrounded by a wicker-work barrier. Mr. Ileum has about twenty dogs at present, the "boss" dog being the Duke of Leeds. Money could not buy the inimal, Duke has taken several "Hundred Guinea" prizes in Europe, and has long been a favorito at all the kennel shows in this country. lie stands above three feet in height, and when in good condition weighs somewhere near 150 pounds. When standing upright Dulce was many inches higher than the tallest man who was present at the private exhibition. He carried away the honors of the recent Philadelphia show and also at that held 1 Ut Jiuiiucai, Leila, another famous St. Bernard, has also made a small fortune for her owner. Leila is nearly as high as Duke, and is about the height of the average diningroom table. She was also a prize runner at the fairs mentioned, and also at the recent non-sporting show held at Madison Square Garden. Leila's pup, Valentine, is a monster brute, and his frisky play with his mother resembled the playful antics of a baby elephant. Bonivard, which among the others, claims relationship with British ancestors, is also a monster dog. He is one of the five that carried oil the honors at Philadelphia, where Mr. "Williams had all the dogs on exhibition. Bony is another animal of the many that money could not buy. Most of these animals arc direct descendants of Sidney W. Smith's famous English St. Bernards. Joe Emmet's famous ten thousand dollar dog Hector, which, by the way, cost only $4,000, was sold to the actor for the latter amount by Mr. Hearn. Hector was raised here, but was born in England.?<Xeic York World. Great Men and Gastronomy. Dr. Fordyce, the distinguished English surgeon, ate but one meal a day. Dr. Parr confessed his love for hotboiled lobsters with a profusion of shrimp sauce. Pope says: One loves the pheasant's wing and one the kg; The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg. Drydcn said that a chine of honest bacon pleased his appetite more than all the marrow puddings. Sir Isaac Newton, when writing his rnncipm, uvuu uu u suuut> iuiuhuuiu of bread and water, and a vegetable diet. Dr. Johnson was partial to new honey and clouted cream, and all his lifetime had a voracious attachment for a leg of mutton. Dr. Palcy, having been out fishing for a whole day, was asked on his return if he had met with good sport. ' Oh, yes." he answered, "I have caught no fish, but I have made a sermon." Beau Brummcl, speaking of a man and wishing to convey his maximum of contemptuous feeling about, him. said: "He is-a fellow, now, that would send his plate up twice for soup." Pepys, of Charles II.'s reign, having company at breakfast, mentions: "I had for them a barrel of oysters, a dish of j neats' tongues, and a dish of anchovies, with wine of all sorts and ale." Pope, who was an epicure, would lie in bed for days at Lord Bolingbroke's, unless he were told that there were stewed lampreys for dinner, when he rose instantly and came down to the table. Frankliu at one time contemplated practicing abstinence from animal food, but having seen a cod opened which contained some small fish, said to himself. "If you cat one another I see no reason why we may not cat you." He accordingly dined on the cod with no small degree of pleasure.?Boatm Budyet. jsscftpiug a JjUyci-. A cclcliratcd judge, on riding up to a tavern, was surprised to see the landlord's daughter, a girl of eighteen, put one hand on the fence p.nd leap over it. "Do that again, my lass, and I'll marry you!" said the judge, possessed by some whim such as now and then seizes the most staid of men. The girl, without a moment's hesitation, again put her hand on the fence and jumped back again. The judge was as good as his word; for in a year or two there was an oldfashioned wedding at the old tavern. Mrs. Barbauld, upon whose "Karly Lessons" and "Hymns in Prose"" o.ir grandmothers were brought up, once jumped up a tree to escape a too-persistent woorer. When a girl, she was noted j for her lively spirit and bodily activity. She could climb and jump as well as the boys of her father's school. Her gymnastic feats and the roses on her cheeks made a deep impression upon a rich farmer. lie called upon her father, Dr. Aiken, anrl begged him to cousent that the youthful Letitia?she was but fifteen?might become a farmer's bride. "Go end ask yourself,''answered the iloctor, pointing to the \oung lady, who was walking in the garden. lie went, pleaded liis case, and was refused, lie remonstrated, urged, and become so im- j |)ortunate tbat Letitia climbed up a tree by the garden-wall, dropped into tbe lane, and left her suitor, astonished at Iter singular way of running from a lover. The disappointed man lived and died i bachelor, lie was not a reading man, md was never known to purchase any jookbut ''The Works of Mrs. liarbauld." ivhich, elegan'ly bound, adorned his ,iarlor during life.? Youth'a Companion. Concerning the Camel. The camel has twice the carrying lower oi an ox. \> un an oruinary ioaa | )f 400 pounds he can travel twelve to I ourteen days without water, going four- | ecu miles a day. They are tit to work j it five years old, but their- strength be- I ;ins to decline at twenty-five, although j hey live usually until forty. They are I )ftcn fattened at thirty for the butcher, I he flesh tasting like beef. The Tartars lave herds of these animals, often 1,000 | jelonging to one family. They were lumcrous in antiquity, for the patriarch fob had fj,000. The Timbuctoo breed is emarkablc for speed and used only for ouricrs, going 300 miles in eight days vith a meal of dates or grain at night aU. _____ Science marches steadily forward with he torch of progress, clearing up the mysteries of yesterday, and bringing : hose of tio-morrow dimly into view, but he stands palsied in all her efforts to : nake out what it is that chews off the 1 ?rim of a boy's hat.?Chicago ledger. ; -V : ' A BENEATH THE EARTH. When I beneath the cold, red earth am sleep ing, Life's fever o'er, Will there for me bo any bright eye weeping That I'm no more? Will there be any heart still memory keeping Of heretofore? When the great winds through leafless forests rushing, Like full hoarts break? When the swoll'n streams, o'er crag and gully gushing, Sad music makeWill there bo one, who:se# heart despair 1 crushing, Mourn for my sake! "When the bright sun upon that spot is shining With purest ray, And the small flowers, their buds and bios soias twining, Burst through that clay? Will there bo 0110 still .on that spot repining Lost hopes all day? When the night shadows, with the ample sweeping Of her dark pall, The world and all its manifold creation sleeping? The great and small? Will there he one, even at that that dread hour, weoping For me?for all? When no star twinkles with its eye of glory On that low mound, And wintry storms havo with their ruins hoary Its loneness crowned, Will thero be then one versed in misery's story Pacing it round? It may be so?but this selfish sorrow To ask such meed? A weakness and a wickedness, to borrow From hearts that bleed The wailings of to-day, for what to-morrow Shall never need. Lay me then gently in my narrow dwelling, Thou gentle heart! And, though my bosom should with grief be swelling, Let no tear start; It were in vain?for time hath long been knelling? Sad one, depart! ?William Motherwell. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The beautiful's no?A belle's frigid negative. "A Winter's Tale"?"I want a sealskin sacque."?Boston Star. If silence be golden dumb people ought to grow rich.?Si/tings. Remembering the poor is well enough; but it is much better to give them something.?Picayune. The ice man may not be much of a skater, but he is able to make fancy figures on ice.?Boston Post. ''I must shake oil this bad habit," said a tramp, as he gazed at his tattered coat.?New York Journal. When a trotting horse dies it is always one day after his owner was offered a fabulous price for him.?Free Press. The camel is the only bird we yearn to hear warble after listening to a man learning to play the violin.?Fall Iiiter Advance. An exchange asks: "Will the coming woman work'*" That will depend upon how lazy her husband is.? New York Journal "Reporters, like poets, arc born.' The writer might also have said the same of shoemaker?, tailors and grocers. Most men arc usually born. ? Graphic. " The wicked stand on slippery places, The righteous only wear a crown"? The preacher spake, and on the pavement, Like a weight of woe, sat down. ?Merchant-Traveler. Sho held my heart in a willing thrill, She held my ring on her finger small, Sho held my resjject, this maiden young, And she also knew when to hold her tongue. ?Boston Courier. "When you hear the old veteran with a head like an oyster bowl, telling the old story of the weather back in the twenties, you perceive that, in spite of the progress of invention there has been no improvement in lying worth mentioning. ?Ltncell Courier. A Great Singer's Precautions. On a damp, chilly afternoon this week, says a recent New York letter to the Boston Herald, I was in a Central Park restaurant. Simultaneously, two other riders sought tho same surcease from the wet diversion. They were Nicolini and his famous Patti; and you are wondering what the great singer could bavc to present her in a new phasc^ considering how many columns have been filled with descriptions of her personally. The fresh point which this view enables me to make concerning the only woman in the world whose wages arc thousands of dollars per day was the care which she took to keep herself from damage. Without her voice, Patti would be a handsome little matron of forty, but of no public value. Therefore, her very consequential throat was wrapped round and round with a silk scarf, which she removed on getting into the house. On the way from the carriage she had held a handkerchief to her mouth on saying something, so that no raw air should reach her vocal organ. Her feet in Arctic overshoes, her ankles in baby-like leggins. and her mantel enveloped her figure from neck to hem. But the oddest protection against catching cold was a wad of cotton in each ear. " She must have had earache," I said to a physician who makes a specialty of throat diseases, who has some of the grand opera singers for patients, and of whom 1 subsequently inquired on the subject. " Not at all," he replied; "she seldom rrnM out of doors in winter without plugging her cars. If is a strange fact that the vocal cords arc susceptible to the slightest chill entering through aural passages. There isn't any alTcctation in Patti's extraordinary precautions. You wouldn't marvel at tiie fiddler who owned an old treasure of a violin, and carried it in cotton for fear of breakage. Isn't it sensible, then, for a prima donna j to guard jealously the only voice she's got?" I judge, however, that Patti's stomach is composed of sterner and not less able stulT, for the beefsteak and onions that she washed down through her rarely sensitive throat with a bottle of ale were astonishing in quantity. How Condensed Milk is Made. "When the nulk is brought to the fac tory it is carefully strained, placed in cans or pails, which are put into a tank of water kept hot by steam coils. When hot, it is transferred to larger, steamheated,open vessels,and quickly brought to a boil. This preliminary heating and boiling lias for its objects the expulsion of the gasses of milk, which would j cause it to foam in the vacuum pan, and | also to add to the keeping quality of the milk by destroying the mold germs. A second straining follows, after which the milk is transferred to a vacuum pan, where, at a temperature below liJO decrees Fahrenheit, it boils and is rapidly concentrated to any degree desired. The vacuum pan employed is a close vessel of copper, egy shaped, about six feet in diameter, it is heated by steam coils within and by a steam jacket without, closing the lower portion. In one side of the dome is a small window through which the gas illumines the interior, while 011 the opposite side is an eye-glass, through which the condition of the contents is observed. The pan is also provided with a vacuum guage and test sticks. Much of the milk used in the cities is I simply concentrated, without any addition of sugar. The proccss of concentration is continued in the vacuum pan j until one gallon of milk has beeu re- ! duced to less than a quart. Condensed ! milk intended to be preserved for any length of time has an addition of pure ! cane sugar made to it during the boiling, and is usually put up in sealed cans. This sugared or preserved inilk, when prepared, will keep for many years. The Brain a Scrap-Book. What is the brain but a scrap-book J if, when we are asleep some one couiu peep in there, what would lie find? Lines j from favorite poets, stray bits of tunes j and snatches from songs, melodies from i operas, sentences from books, strange j meaningless dales, recollections of child- j hood, vague and gradually growing faint, ! moments of perfect happiness, hours of despair and misery. The first kiss of j childhood lovers, the first parting of bosom friends, the word of praise or the j word of blame of a fond mother, pictures I of men and womeu, hopes and dreams j that camc to nothing, unrequited kind- ; ness, gratitude for favors, quarrels and j reconciliations, old jokes, and through j them all the thread of one deep and endur- I ing passion for some one man or women that may have been a misery or a delight. ?San Francisco Chronicle, VV;=Y ... -j. Fate of a Chinese Parricide. Just outside the west gate of Shanghai city is a small hamlet where lived an old man and his son. The latter made it a practice of calling upon his father for cagh whenever he was in want of it, until the thing got rather montononous for the father, who remonstrated with his son, and being saucily replied to, the father attempted to apply "paternal correction" on his son; the son in rage then caught hold of the door bar and brought it down with such force upon the father's skull that he cracked it and killed the old man. The neighbors hearing the row assembled at the 'door of the house where the murder was com-, mitted and captured the son as he was endeavoring to escape. The members of fafrVior'a plun \xrnrn fVipn r?fil1nr? fr? gether, and at a solemn conclavc it was decidcd to administer on the spot the law set aside for parricides, instead of appealing to the magistrate, which invariably causes much delay, and perhaps the murderer might effect his escape in the meantime. So the parricide was bound hand and foot, and just without the*hamlet a hole was dug, and the wretched murderer consigned to its depths. The mud was thrown into the hole and the members of the clan stamped by turns on the grave until it was level with the ground, and so without leaving a mound or any mark to point out the parricide's grave, the asaembled crowd dispersed silently to their daily avocations. The above occurred not a week ago.?Celestial Empire. Taken at His Word. It was one of the genus tramp. He knocked at the door of a house, and when a kindly-looking woman opened it he said: "Madam, I am very hungry. I have had nothing for a week back." "Why, you poor soul," said the good woman, "wait o. moment and I'll find something for you." And she gave him an old porous plaster, and closed the door before he had finished thanking her.?Fret Press. 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Porous and strengthening, improved, the best for backache, pains in chest or side,rheumatism, neuralgia. 25c. Druggists or mail Mensman's Peptonized beep to sic, the only preparation ofbeef containingits entire nu'sitious properties. It contains blood-making force generating and life-sustaining properties; Invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acnte disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard Sc Co., Proprietors. New York. Sold by druggists. Catarrh of the Bladdar. Stinging,irritation,inflammation,all Kidney and Urinary Complaints, cured by "BuchuPaiba." $1. Dairymen Getting Rich. Progressive dairymen who are only satisfied with the best results, are adding to their wealth and conferring a benefit on society, by the rapid improvements they are making in the art of butter making. This class use Wells, Richardson & Co's. Improved Butter Color, and know by actual test that it fills every claim made for it "Rough on Conghx." Ask for " Rough on Coughs," for Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches, 15c. Liquid, 2oc. The Children's Health must not be neglected. Colds in the Head and Snuffles bring on Catarrh and throat and lung affections. Ely's Cream Balm cures at once. It is perfectly safe and is easily applied with the finger. It also cures Catarrh and Hay Fever, the worst cases yielding to it in a short time. Sold by druggists. 50 cents. Ely Bros., Owego, N. Y. The bottle of Ely's Cream Balm that I obtained of you last summer has entirely cured my little boy of a severe attack of catarrh.? Mrs. Saliie Davis, Green Postoffice, Ala. Ono.of my children, a girl about nine years old, had a very bad discharge from her head and nose of a thick, yellowish matter, and was growing worse. We had two different physicians prescribe for her, but without I t-I-c.. Tt7? rvon Palm ?n/1 UCUCllb. If D u icu o vi bUM* **>**?.) ??*?much to our surprise in three days there was a marked Improvement. Wo continued using the Balm and in a short time discharge was apparently cured.?0. A. Cary,Corning,N. Y. The Hope of the Nation* . Children.slow in development.puny,scrawny and delicate, use "Wells' Health Renewer." Lemon growing is rapidly becoming an im portant industry in Florida. Important. When you visit or leave Now York city, save baggage, eipressage and $3 earring# hire, and stop at the Grand Unir.n Ho.el, opposite Grand Central depot. nicelegan rooms, titt'idup at a coat of on3 million dolicrs, SI nnd upward perday. European plan. El* vutir. Restaurant supplied with theb^st. HorsJCirs, and elevated railroad, to all dep.its. Fatnilioi onn livn tj>-tt-r for less m.inny at riie, Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in tbJ o>ty. Under British rule there live about 285,000,000 human beings. The Pains and Aches Of rheumatism lime in many Instances been cared by Hood's Sarsapar.lln. The best authorities tay tbat rheumatism originates in a morbid condition of the blood. Lactic arid, circulating with the blood, at. tir.'ks the tibrous tissues, particularly in the joints. Hood's Sarsapcrilla, by its purifying and vitalizing aotion < n tho b.ojd, corrects the cause of the disease, and thus effects the most remaikable euros. Rheumatic Lumbago "I was troubled with rheumatic lumbsgo, and seems Hood's Sarsaparilla was recommended for that, I thought I would try it. After taking three bottles I felt like a new man. 1 was also unable to sleep nights, but after taking IKod'a Samparilli I could sleep as well asevcr. I woul 1 recommend Hood's Sarsaptnll* before nil others."?l. e- cassidt, Omaha, Neb. "I suffered from what the doctors called muscular rheumatism. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and sm en. tirely cured."?J. V. A. Pkocdfoot, letter carrier, Chicago, III. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by Druggists. St; six for 33. Made only by 100 Doses One Dollar DR. XiHTQXJIST'S (ftWF.'i illis?e?'\Vaiit, 9175 Spinal Corset, 3 00 YwjW Spinal Nursing Corset,... H 83 isgSji Spinal AbriominalCorset, 2 75 &h3 \ t& Becommendod by lesdicg physicians, delivered freo anywhero In the V. 8. on receipt of prica. Lady Agents Wanted. Dr. Liaqcist 's Spiril Corset Co., 412B'way, Hew York. CONSUMPTION. I havo a posttlro roraedy f??r tho above (Jlieai ; by I ti tino thousands of ca'ci of tho vr->rst kind and of long tuodlRK have ln?en cured. Indeed. o strong I * mv faith In Its efficacy.tha; I wl 1 n?n<tT\VO HOVTl.r.i FREE, together wiin a Va Ll'AUl.KTREATISK on tiiis dUoaM to anr 6uCT'*rcr. Uir* express and 1* 0. addr as. DR. T. A. SLUiTH, Ul PcarlSl., Stw Tork. R. U. 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Morphine Hnlilt Cnrod In 10 B 8 iSW 10 day?. No par till enred. <3?tT IUini Dr. J.Stephens, JLebauoD, OhioU. S.PENSION & 'INCREASE Many o!l:i-i-rH, s >!ilier?, n.tilor-i, widow.', children, motli?rH mid l.itlnT-i fvnrywa-i", still etiti led t> I'lvV^IO.N'-m.niv olliPcr-t, Mildirri, Million to IX'KK Vt*K of Pension. it in iloui.t.or "K?jccted," or "Uroujje.l," >\ UITI) IlKltL.'. This Agency not i l.y Wi. li n^t n, 1). U., or others. C.&nu )i.-io ti-.m ovi'p 2(t Matci nod Territories. Prompt ami snot-culill, otherwise no elmrfie. b.-nd t?<? ft itatis n.r reply and circular. Addreti I'U.v^lON iV- Ul-Al ll A<;ENCY, 224 H. Stiile fit.i Trenton, N". J. vl.nteU.S. Pension Agency, S. J.) ?????jjijs saij -J 'MR-. >*?V5am-Mf*? ?wl' #teM0WN'! 7'V . ji'VIVi V'i'v' i HMpW ' CTJEE8 B7 the dm of thfo at.t. BEHEDY, the fltomDTAPAflfli ach and Bowtli ?vo epeodlly regain their uy strength, and th? i THB blood 1? puailled. ^ | KIDNEYS It Is pronounoed by ; ' LIVEB hundred* of the beet BLADDEB doctor* to be th* OK- ( t Arm LY CTTB.E for all tra^HT kind* ol Kidney Dl?- j ORGANS it li purely v*g?- | I DEOPSY table, andmLre* when OBAVEL other medicine* foil. DIABETES It 1* prepared *X- BEIGHT'S presaly for thee* dl*DISEABE e**es, and ha* ntr?r PA-nm been known to foil. > n? One trial will ocroJfL, vino* yotu Tar Ml* by*Udrn*8l*t*. - > as J oa - B?ul ?* BEDB * wnV Pamphlet [2TSEVOT78 0f DISEASES i'" EZTENnOlT 1| yNrf ?UNT?8l< OB A/ V REMEDY irorr-EETENnoN WrJ ? CO., ? * UEINB. HUNTS (Kidney and Livor) REMEDY hu flayed from l:n*erinf duo as 3 and death hocdreda Who hare been givea np bj phyeicuni to die. a y a d?3 - 4^ h, TH,S PLASTE3; S t/S09 7 .Acti directly npon the nro* 31 MnB n cle? and tbe nerreeol Ue ?Q|Bf 5 back, tbe seat of all pain. I ml P" FOtt ALL e JMY %>> I-nnt Troublei, whether jnl local or deeply eeited tfcl* \ piaster will be fcroDd l? or?v- *i \ five imtant relief by apWt I ^ A IU* 1y d'r'bf 5"WWBtlle _ <W Por Kidney Trouble, ?ft I * m 1 Rlieumatlam. Neural (la, BK * MS Pain in tha Sid* and Back: if HnTOir liuidi'pethdy V' * 0,rtels n? SB s?14 b' Druifun fcr JS" W /A",. i^Bcenii, cra?e for SL. "* VAbJf <V Mailed cn rtcelpt of) fm ICTmr price by8mUb,Wo?ltt? IPUSTEIH PATTERNS OF ANY SIZE, j UNPARALLELED OFFER! Deforests t; THE BE8I''|. Or all the Magazines. ^ Illustrated with Original Steel Enpmw* ing?, Photogravure* and Oil Picture*. Etch copy of " Demorest's Monthly ilaonine," MB* mendng with November, 1884, will contain A. 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It was the First and is the Only PA IIV REMEDY That inttnntly ttops the most oxcruciatlnc pain, allays inflammation, and euros Congestions, whether of the Lunga, Stomach or Bowels, or othor elands or organs by 0110 application. It seized with threatened PISTKUMOJSTIA, Or any inflammation of tbo internal organ* or mucus membrane, after eipoBtiro to cold, not, itc., lose no tune, butapi'ly Ka-twiy'a Relief over tlio p.irt affected with congestion or iullammation ani euro tbo patient. A teaspoonful in hall a tumbler of water will ui a few minuto< cnre Cramps, Spa*nu>, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Headache, Diarrliooa, I), sjntoiy. Colic, t'latuieacy, and all internal paint. MALARIA CI KI D IN ITS WORST FORMS. Tbure it not a reni^Jinl Affaint in th? world that will cure Feter And Apuo and all oth**r Mnlnti itia, Hilioaa and other f?*ots, n" iled by I! A I)\V A \ 'S PI IjLSiM quick as IIAOWAVS KliA??\ KKI.IhK Fifty coins per bottle. S jIU by Druggiata. Dr. Eartway's "SarsasaHlliau ResoM THE GREAT BLODD PURIFIER, For the Cure of All Chronic IMseaae*. Chronic Rheumatism, Kcrnfuls, Syphilitic Coraplaint*, etc. (see otir l>>ok on Vnneroal. e'.c.; price twenty.tivo cents', tiluululir Swell,n.% Hacking L'ry Cough, Cancer, us Affections. Itl.vding ft the l.ungs. Dyspepsia, Water Brash, Wh-to SwhIIiiiks, Tumors, I'lDiplCS, Kljtchl". lauj.tl' TU Vl tllC t'.cr., Ulcun. Hip Di?nis"<, tio .t, r>ro| Hv, Kick*'*, Salt Riteum, B onchitis, Consumption, Diabetes, kidney, BUddor, 14T*r Complaints, etc. SCROFULA. Whether transmitted by parents or acquired, it within llin curativo ra.ige Ol the SAUSAPAUiLLJAN KK.-OI.VKNT. Cures h?v? been msdo wliers p':r?ons ha?e beon afflicted with Scrofula fri.m ill-irv> nit up to 2o, Siiand ? yean of *ge. bv l)K. li DWAV'S} SARSAPAltl M.IAN Hli>OI,Vl N i. a r.-n:oJy composed o: ingredients ol eitramdinary medical properties, esjn.it a: to pu:ify, h'*I, repair aud invigorate the broken down and wasted body. Quick, pleasant, safe ml p->rm.iinMit in it< treat men''end cme. bold by all iliUigist). Olio tlo.lar a bottle. Dr. Railway's Regulating Pffls For th* cure of all ihsnrde-s of the Stomach. Lirer, Bowels. Ki mcys, Bladder, N.r?ot? Dl,cases; Lo:? ol Ap;ot)te. Headache, Or.ntipstion, C'Mivena*, Indijestion. Dys| ?psii, Bi ioi>n-ss, l'ever, lull .mnution <>t tlie B; Wl'Is, Piles .'.nd all di-rargements of the lute, nil V)acera. Pure.y ycgc.cb'e, containing no mer* cury, mineral*. or deb ter ous iirrg". Price. 'Jo cents p<-r box. Sold by all druggist*. t^-Send a Mler stamp t. II Al?\V A V i.V CO., No, 82 H arrpn St.. New Vol k,for "talvi nnd'Iroa." TO TIIKPL'HI.IC'.? l?e sure ardask for Radway'*, and ?ee that the pame "Hadv.av" is> cu wlitt vou buy. ' I