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" ' . " f ' HELP AND HOPE. We look on the face of our dead through our tear*, And all but their virtues are blinded from sight; Their faults are eclipsed by the shadow of death, And love round their brow weaves its halo of light. Now we have naught but thoughts kind and forgiviug, Ah, why should this boom be withheld from the living? We press passionate, heart-breaking kisses to lips That aro cold and resi>onseless, and feel not their thrill. That perchance once have sighed for their warmth and the word That some aching void in tho sad heart might fill. Oh, why do wo wait and delay in the giving, To bestow on the dsad what was craved by the living? We lay on the cofTin tlie choicest of flowers. As we fold the pale hands o'er the cold, pulseless heart, TVhy not throw the llowersin their pathway in life, Cheer the earth-weary heart, soothe each wound and each smart.' Ah, what is love worth, if it be not forgiving? What avails help, if not for the living? Be kind to the living! O'er faults that you see, Cast Charity's mantle, though friend or though foe. Trust the dead with thy God; put thy hope in His love. And haste while you may life's sweet gifts to bestow. Love is not love which delays ia forgiving; Have hope for the dead, but give help to the living. if? a a TT'??7. ?JU/O. n. U(UWt/tJ? I Uf A, (H VH-vC A f? A DAY'S ADVENTURE. "When John Klliot was three-andtwcnty, an.uncle died and left him five hundred dollars. In itself live hundred dollars is not to be despised, but it is always too much or too little tor a working basis. For a year John reflected on the ?|uestion what he should do with it, and then he decided to go to Eui*>pe. The matter seemed simple enough to him. As a captial for business the legacy was meagre, and it was too much to fritter away in fractions. If he kept it for a rainy day, how wa3 he to kuow that he should not have the luck the old woman who saved her supper for her breakfast and died before morning? But if a man is to live in the world, surely he should see it, and what is easier to do when one is four-and-twenty, untrammeled, and full of good health and spirits, and with a purse in the pocket:1 T.kV*r* IaaL' o rnnr'o V?a!?^ou frrtm Viia law studies and sailed to Havre, arid he staved away for twelve months and sixteen days, and in that time he saw much and had many adventures. But as his fortune was imail and Kurope is large, he had to make his own leg3 carry him over a great deal of ground. One day in the fall of the year, when the chestnuts we;e ripening, .John was walking along a narrow defile in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada. Far above him rose the rocks, bare and stony; but his own path was shaded by trees, and he walked over grassy ways. Quite early in the day he sat down by a brook which ran down a stony and precipitous bed, and let the peace and rest of the silcnce bring hint dreams. If ho had but known it, upon this very stone there once had sat a Moorish knight, wounded ia the light in the dciilu. Here his squire had unbuckled his visor, and watched the death shadow?which is always gray ?steal over I113 face. But of this John knew nothiug, and he contentedly whined as he sat theie: and if he thought of Christian and Saracen it was only in reterence to '.ranada, to wnicn he was yoing. He thought of robbers, but he was as ignorant of them as of Moors, and feared them as little; and indeed in all his walking he never met a bandit. After a time he arose, and to the tune of "Annie Laurie'' took up his march again; and if there is a better test for a whistler than is this tune I do ' not know it. Suddenly he heard a shout from the rocks above, and looking up he saw a Spanish sailor waving his hand. John had gone to Kurope knowing no language but his own, but he had picked up a few phrases in Spanish, and so he called back and said he thanked the gentleman very much. It wa., not, perhaps, a very apt reply, but John had not understood what the sailor had said, and the phrase sounded well, and had the advantage of being in the language of the country. The sailor was, however, not satistied, and again he called, and this time John assured him that all he. John, owned was at the distinguished gentleman's service. 13ut even this did not please tne stranger, wnotnen tnougnt it wise to run down and join .John, and thus try the criect of a nearer intercourse. He was a handsome young man, a little older than John, and his clothes were so beautiful in color aud so well suited to show off his vigorous figure and tine face that John wished himself an artist, so that he might make a study of bo clean and picturesque a subject. Yet it would have been more to the purpose had he been a linguist, because then he could have answered tho sailor, who seemed to be in doubt about the road. It would, however, have been of no use to have understood Spanish, the sailor's command of that language being even more limited than John's was. But tho sailor stammered along, until John betook himself to his own language, aud said he was an American, and spoke only English. At this the sailor smiled, seeming well pleased, but he replied in German. Then they locked at cach other and laughed, * and began to walk on side by side. Ut course they talked, and were very polite to each other, and seemed amused and rJnocnrl tn tnrrptVior en it K ? ~~ ? o > ? ? . little th;it they did not understand each other. But this will happen when talkers speak the same language, and even if we use the best hnglish there are times when our nearest friends do not comprehend us, and their interpretation of what we tay is astouishing aud not to be believed. But these two young fellows had no fear of being misunderstood, faucyiug ihat neither was understood at all. They told each other stories, and laughed together, and pointed out what they liked, and grumbled over what they di(l not. They gathered chestnuts and acorns as two children might, and about noon they lunched together under the shadow of a rock on which a pine-tree grew. "When they opened their knap sacks, and one brought out olives to eat with their bread and cheese, each nodded approval, and like good fellows made free of each other's provision, being sure of welcome. Then the sailor took up seme salt and laid it in the palm of his hand, and John, taking a pinch from it. the two of them ate salt together, and the (ierman embraced the American,and they both ajjain laughed. But really th? air was so exhilarating, and they wtre both so young, and full of vitality and happines*, that they laughed as babies cry, because it was the thing they could most easily do. Whether the sailor's road was the same as his own, John did not know; but they Kept on together, going steadily southwest toward the city of Granada, but being still two days' journey away from it. When the sun had turned toward the west, and all the shadows pointed cast, the sailor began to sing. His voice was barytone, but it wa3 so high that had an Italian singing master had the trailing of it. he would have pulled it up into a tenor. He would have done this because the Italian of today scorns the medium registers, and would rather sing high than sing well. But .John pricked up his ears to hear the song. It was old enough, and was plainly enough suggested bv the scenery, and it was very well sung indeed, although it was written for the / erlina cf "FraDiavolo."who is not usually a barytone. Suddenly lie paused, looked up at the sun. aud said: "rJs ist drci Uhr zwanzig Minuten. (It is twenty miuutes past threet. He was not proud of his voice, but he was of his skill in telling the hour by the sun. But John understood it as a challenge, and he at once took up tlie air ana carried it on. And they understood each other's operatic Italian. John's voice was a good clear tenor, and when he took his high notes with a tine flourish of his arm, who ever applauded a prima donna as the sailor did .jolmf and they nodded and smiled in great glee. So then they quit "Fra Diavolo," and the sailor broke into the duet between Liouel and Pluukett; and thus the two road-mates sang much of the opera of "Martha" to the ro:ksof Andalusia. But what entertained them best was the discovery that they could sing to each other what they could not say. When the sailor thought to compliment John by "God Save the King," John stopped him short by "Yankee Doodle," and this was plainer than a passport could have been So the sailor again embraced him, and aaid something about Chicago, which John replied to by denouncing the anarchists and by singing "Old Hundred." He chose this staid and ancient melody, not because it bore upon anarchy, but it seemed to him at the moment the most peaceable and orderly tune he knew. As the sailor joined in with him he supposed he understood him, and it seemed more like j the "Doxologv" than ever. Then the sailor stood still by a young I tree and sung some of the soprano part i from "Tannbauser" in as good a falsetto j as he could command, and fell on his | knees before the sapling aud looked I earnestly on it. John took this to mean that he greatly admired Wagner, a3 indeed he did; but still more deeply did j he adore a certain Fraulein who sang | Klsa, and this was what he meant, and I when he rushed forward to cmbrace the ! sappling, and then fell back suddenly and in great dejection, he meant to express the hard-heartedness of the prima donna. It was astonishing how many confidences they gave one to the other in song, and that ;.neither understood made no difference, because it is always sweet to tell, even if we are not comprehended. It was, however, to a very pretty Spanish woman that John sang Schubert's "Wanderer," and so explained i whv thev were on the road. She lived in a little house up high amoua: the I rocks, where the goats seemed more at j home than human beings; but when | John had sung to her. and the sailor had I by the drinking song from Lucretia Borj gia asked her for wine she went into her j house and brought out her guitar aud sang to them. I This pleased them greatly, because her ; voice was as pretty as her face, and she ; had a store of ballads they had never i heard. One of them she taught John, ' who had usod a guitar in the days when , he was a chorister and had a sop.ano i voice. It would be hard to tell which of the three was best pleased, and they ; were as courteous to each other as gran; dees of Spain could I.e. When the sun set they separated. : John took the road down the hill to a ' village where he meant to spend the I night, and the sailor struck out for ' the highroad where a coach passed each j evening just before dark. When they : parted the two men embraced each I other, and the German kissed John on ; both cheeks, and John kissed him on j the lips as he would his little brother. Tr? thn wnmnn .Tnhn his silver : match-safe, and the German followed it j by a silk hankerchief. And then, exchanging walking-sticks, they parted. They made, cach in his own tongue, many promises to meet again, and this each well understood and thoroughly meant. And they never forgot each j other. .John never went near a port or on a vessel without looking for his Gerj man friend in Spanish service, but he never found him. ! His chances, however, would have been better had he gone in search of a German baton who had followed an opera singer to Spain, and who, having failed to win the lady by his love and his rank, had schemed tp try love and romance. And it would have greatly pleased John, who wished his road-mate good fortune, had he known that the story of this adventure, told with en. thusiasm and eagerness, had made the singer pardon the intrusion of a rci jected suitor, and that the baron, losing no advantage, had at last bent the sap, ling and won a wife. And it would also have amused John had he known LUUb WUCICVCi Aiuunuaa uiiiuvuuu^?t ! who are known to be as eccentric as they are rich, were congregated, there did the baron look for his ; friend. But. after all, it probably was the Spanish woman who had the best in the end, because when she went to Granada with her husband, who was a matador, how many operas and how much music did she not hear while she and her friends were looking for the two foreign singers who had stopped at her house, and rested while they practiced their parts??Ilarper'n Bazar. A Professional Treasure Hunter. Standing in front of the IIolTmac House the other evening, with a hugt diamond in his s arf and a cigar in his mouth, was a man who follows a peculiai calling. Some four years ago he was a clerk in a grocery store in a little town on J.ong Island. Everybody in the town knew "Uil'iy" Delaney, but perhaps they wouldn't recognize in the well-dressed, haud^ome man in front of the Hoffman the Billy of a few years ago. He is a professional treasure hunter. His first delving experiment was on Long Island, and it was so successful that it enable him to quit clcrking forever. One day he turned up in North Caro, lina and organized a company to seek . for family plate hidden during the war. i This venture was not a daling success, s but it repaid the trouble. From South i Carolina he went to Honduras,and there I he struck a small fortune in silver coin which was buried over a century ago by I an alleged pirate. How Delaney came i to know its whereabouts will probably i always remain a mystery.?New York i S'ar. -r *7*:'< VTi'<g woIafs would7 PLEASANT LITERATURE FOI? FEMININE READERS Queen Victoria's Plate. The value of Queen Victoria's plate is said to be about $'2,300,000. It is generally kept in the "gold pantry" at Windsor, and but little of it is displayed except on state occasions. The appointments of her bedroom are very costly, however, all the basins being of solid silver, lined with gold; the toilet services are likewise of silver gilt.?Aeio York Telegram. Bis Mother's Portrait. A touching incident is reported in connection with the recent wreck, near England, of the Estrella de Chile. When it was thought that the vessel was doomed, an apprentice went below in a hurried manner. Afterward, when the crew took to the rigging, most of them held on with both hands, but the apprentice kept one hand on his breast. 'Have you got your money there, youngster?" asked a sailor. "Xo," replied the apprentice, "but I have the portraits of my dear mother and sister." It was for these he had gone below in an hour of danger. Watches Set in Umbrella Handles. In Macy's a day or two ago the attention of a casual observer was attracted by the extraordinary degree of interest with which lady customers at brief intervals seemed to regard the handles of their umbrellas. Inquiry of a salesman drew forth the statement that oue of the latest fads of the fashionable world is the wearing of watches in umbrella and parasol knobs. The instruments are of standard make, keepiug accurate time, nod add to $300 to the cost of an ordinary silk umbrella. Women lind them uselul in shopping excursions. ?New York Tribune. Advantage of Being a Blonde. Every year we get the cry from fashion writers: "Blondes no longer in style; they have been superseded by their darker sisters," etc. Kow, that's all nonsense. You cannot do away with the blonde, nor can you do away with frizzled, banged hair. Pre-eminently, the blonde is the beauty of civilization. She is among us, to stay as such, and she cannot be driven away. A brunette now and then may rise supreme over her by reason of wonderful loveliness, but we are speaking collectivcly. A woman can dress more effectively with blonde hair than with dark. It lights up better and is more youthful. A well-kept blonde has ten years'advantage, in point of youthful looks, over the average brunette. Once in a lifetime or so there arises a miraculous Drunette wno completely surpasses her, but for steady, ordinary good looks that make no pretensions of great beauty, the blonde carries the palm. You cannot expunge her in favor of the brunette even in literature. In the novels turned out during the past year there have been 1)^2 blondes to 100 brunettes.?American Hairdresser. The Latest in Fans. The old styles of fan have come in. The newest of the fan3 in the Empire fashion are made of gauze with iuchwide gauze ribbons on lisse bands running across in rows, each row being painted with a viue pattern in flowers, or with cherubs' heads or some scrollwork notion. They arc very pretty, often in exquisite taste and not dear, but there is not one of them which can compare with the genuine Louis Quinefans in those famous old Yernis Martin mounts which time has not robbed of their Justre, ana wnicn are now neing unearthed rapturously from the old bric-a-bruc shops and auction rooms. Some of them have mounts of nothing more substantial than paper, others are silk or vellum, all are marvelously painted with the smiling,simpering Marquesses, the powder and patches, the minute and delicate art, the graceful prettineis of that pleasure-loving era. The simpler of the antiques and the more numerous imitations of the antique are studies in pink?the soft pink and the blue and the white of Dresden china landscapes. The more elaborate and richer are wonders of gilt. The Human Hair. The durability of human hair is a fortunate thing for those whose .'calps more or less lack that adornment. What would be the condition of oue-hulf oi our female friends if human hair was as peri.-hable as human llesh? What could art or science do toward restoring to weman her chief attraction, if human 11 row naarlr aa imnopio^oKlft nail ?w*g uwv uvrtnj mo v**. the human,head as ou it? Even death itself, which in time leaves no trace of flesh and bone, seems, under certain conditions, powerless to destroy our hair. Numerous are the [instances not only of the growth of the hair after death, but also of its virtual indestructibility. A very curious example of this was brought before public notice at the monthly meeting of a society of antiquaries. A member produced a photograph of the back hair of a young Homan lady, who, fudging from a coin found lying under her cotnn, must have lived about the time of Coustantine. When the coflin was opened it was seen that the bodv had been buried in gypsum with the head on a pillow. The front part of the skull had given way, so that the back of the head was thrown forward, and on it was a long folded tress of female hair with two 'et pin3 remaining in it. It was of lovely auburn color and in excellent preservation. Now, it is not for one moment insinuated that this interesting tress was such as young ladies of the nineteenth century hang over the back of the bedroom rhair. It indisnutablv belonged to the head of the Hoinan girl when she was buried. ?Pitiladelphia Pre%t. A New Empress. On November Sth appealed an edict from the Impress announces that Yehhoh-na-la, the daughter of the MancliuBrigndier-Gencral, Kwei-k!ang (younger brother of the Empress1, had been selected as the consort of the youthful Lmperor of China, and that two girls named Tata-la, daughters of Chungahuh, a Manchu V.:ce-Pre.-ident of a Peking Board, a^cd fifteen and thirteen years respectively, had been chosen lor the harem. The Emperor's marriage will take place, according to present arrangements, at the time which the Astronomical Board ha9 ascertained, 01 at all events has declared, to be pro> pitious. The process of selecting the Emperor's consort is interesting. After two inspections at considerable intervals, the number of candidates was reduced te thirty-one, who are daughters of mandarins of above the fourth rank, and, ol course, of Manchu extraction. Thes< thirty-one young ladies were conveyed in carta to the palace in the earl} morning at 2 o'clock. Tley entered bj the "Gate of theSouthern e'ea," whiol they crossed in six boats, and wen conducted to the palace, whict they Lreached at 3 a. m. A splendid banquet was then spread before them, after which they were ush, ered into the presence of her Majestj the Empress-Dowager by groups of foui and five. It may interest the ladies tc know that her Majesty wore on the occasion an apricot yellow silk long dress, i with a black velvet jacket. Each girl carried a tablet bearing her name and ; age, also the name of her father, banner, etc, which was presented to the Empress while the girl stood before her. After some interrogations, and in no few cases even monitory words for haviug continued to shave the forehead, her Majesty formed her opinion of the candidate, which, when unfavorable, was signified by handing the girl's tablets to one of the euuuchs with the order to I present the aspirant with a roll of silk. ' rnv - ??Jit. 1 -ill* wo a tlion to L-f>n me if in wim uer oniv. ... backto her cart, never more to participate in the imperial matrimonial competition. The pelection of a new Empress inflicts a serious burden on many poor | men whose daughters are eligible and I must be presented, but who have little I means to defray the expenses incidental to journeying to Peking and froquent I visits to the palace. Most of them pray to be put out of their misery at the first j inspection, aud those who survive to the last, and are then rejected are really to be pitied.?Ian Franciico Chronicle. Fashion Notes. All aprons now are lonz. Chatelaines are in again. This is a season of ostrich feathers. Short dresses are worn for outdoors. Ribbon is used more profusedly than ever. Dressy tea-gowns have silken waist <^recn in millinery appears to be as j popular as ever. The embroideries for dresses are many of them guipure. Some hats are quite caricatures, being so large, contorted and outre. The latest use for smocking is as a decoration for nightdress yokes. ] Youthful-looking blouses for misses j are made of gay plaid silks or woolens, i Black trimmings are especially liked i for red and green frocks for little girls. The deep Russian collar, pointed like ! a vest in front, is a fashionable piece of j fur. The style of dressing hair has a ; tendency to be lower than has lately been j worn. Some of the newest hos:ery shows ex- | | tremely gay coloriDgs and fantastic designs. Ripe cherry is the name of the very newest red. As yet it comes only in the finest of silks. The last idea for bodices is to have them very open around the throat, but not cut square. Jsew handkerchiefs are shaped like j vine leaves, aud button-holed around the edges with bright colors. | In the evening little wreaths of flowers ' are worn en chaperon?that is to say, very small and placed on one side. A bunnet that is shaped exactly like a saucer is very new, very French, very ugly; and the acme of discomfort. ; Some very handsome new mats and table scarfs are of gold colored satin I wrought with electric blue and silver. Dinner costumes of black corded silk : have elbow sleeves, which are finished with a fall of black thread lace headed : by a band of cut jet. Tucks, smocking and feather and her| ring-bone stitching in colored floss are ! the favorite trimmings for little girls' | fro.ka the present season. ; Long coats, that cover the entire dres9, arc made of black broadclotn ana I trimmed around the neck and down the ! front in a straight lino with Russian | sable. ! For little girls there are hoods in 1 white ticilienne or in cashmere. The crown is drawn with close rows of cordj iug and the front finished oil with lace ' ribbon and a full aigrette. ' { The new long inits ju3t brought out i for wear with dinner gowns, have no I lingers at all, but have a double row of : silk embroidery around the top of the hand and the edge of the thumb. The newest jerseys are in directoire style, with wide, short revers of silk 01 of moire, and the lull space from the | throat down crossed at the waist line by a very broad wrinkled Empire belt. '! Two interlaced circular rings make a ! brooch just now much in favor with ! Parisians. Sometimes both are diamond | set or else one is of diamond, the othei j of frosted gold or else of black enamel. Scientific Legerdemain. In these days of adulteration, When all things are not what they seem, And everything is something else, it is no more miraculous that olive oil ! should be squeezed out of a ptanut than j that Java co.ice should be ground out of the chicory root, or that black pepper bo I only another nume for pulverized cocoa- j ! nut shells. Science is making such | rapid stride helping us in our gastrono! inic need that nature herself must get I out of the way or she will be run | over. Even the poor honey bee was accused, not of laziness, for that would have been too palpable an injustice, but of being too slow and spending too much time over the clover heads. "I wiil remedy all that," said Science. And she did. Shutting up the bee3. she knocked the bead out of a barrel ol glucose and told them to go to work and help themselves, which they did faithfully. Their long journeys to and from the flowery fields being done away with, they had nothing to interfere with their getting down to actual business. The scheme was a success, for the houev was piled into the combs in treble abundance and in one-third the usual time. And yet Science wasn't satisfied. Greedily she put her wits to work. "What's the use of going to the expense of buying bees? ] can make the comb , quicker and quite as well as tliey: and as for the honey?well, glucose is i honey!" | And so the occupation of the honey bee being gone, so fur as it had any hand in what is known as the ''honey of commerce," it now confines itself in a . small way to home manufacture, samples , of which, if the reader particularly | wants, he must particularly search for. , ? Washington SUti\ . A Picture of Life in a Mining Tovrn. virnrinin Citr T-'nfemrise rrives X 11W ? -? _ T o * this picturc of life in the mining towns ' of Nevada. A pnrty of ladies and gen! tleiuen in Sutro wanted to attend the ' theatre in Virginia City. Starting at " the mouth of the Sutro tunnel, at their ^ own doors, they traveled four miles un? dcr the mountains to ihe C. and C. shaft, 1 and then dismounting from the cars, r they boarded the cages in the shaft and ' were shot upward to thesurface, a verti1 eal distance of 1040 feet, coming out 5 \yithm a stone'3 throw of the ticket of1 lice. -'// - .. . . ;r-esp*> EMIT PASHA. A MAN' WHO HAS ATTRACTED WORLD-WIDE ATTENTION. The Remarkable Career of an Austrian Who Devoted HI* Life to African Civilization ? Stanley Sent to His Relief. Referring to the report that Emin Pasha, the courageous Governor of Egypt's equatorial provinces, was a captive in the hands of Khalifa Abdullah, the Soudanese insurgent leader, better known as the Mahdi, Harper's Weekly says: Emin Pasha is in many ways a most remarkable and interesting man, and pvpn ftnarf-, frnm the excitins? circum stances -which have lately concentrated attention upon him, he would deserve to be mentioned among the foremost of those who have devoted their lives to African civilization. According to the accounts given in German geographical publications, his name is Edward Mclinitzer, aud he was born at Oppeln, in Silesia, March 28, 1*40. Two years later his parents removed to Neisse, where his father died in 1345, and his mother remarried. At the Catholic school in that town he was taught from his tenth to his eighteenth year, and developed a strong love for natural history in many of its forms. Thence ho went to the iniversity of liresiau, where his scientific apt tudes and love of making collections of birds, insects, and so on. were fostered, lie chose medicine as his profession, and from Breslau went to Jierlin. Eager for new 3cenes and experiences, he established himself in l;i>4 as a Turicish government doctor in Albauia, and six years later was medical officer m an expedition to t-'yria and Arabia. Other e peditions carried him to various parts of the Ottoman Empire. WHen, accordingly, uoraon was mtrusted by the Khedive with the charge of Egypt's provinces in the upper Kile* region, it was not strange to find Dr. Emin assigned as a member of his staff; and when Gordon wns called away to Khartoum, Emin Bey, as his rank was at that time, had already shown himself so capable as an administrator that Gordon placed in his charge, with entire confidence, the province lying near the equator. Of the progress of events in Central Africa during the last six years we need not speak in detail. It is sufficient to say that when Mohammed Ahmed, the so-called Mahdi, under whom the sue- | cessful Soudan insurrection was carried out, began to extend his sway down the Nile, he also pressed Emin Eey in the equatorial province. The defeat of Hicks Pasha and the massacre of his command, Gordon's return up the Nile to Khartoum, and Lord WoUelev's campaign in the Soudan to rescue Gordon, with the British operations around Suakin, for a long time diverted general attention from Emin. Indeed he was for about three years shut off from communication with the outer world. At length a Russian traveler, Dr. "William Junker, brought through to Zanzibar the news that Emin had been gradually forced up the Nile, yielding station after station, and was established at Wadelai, not far lrom Lake Albert Nyanza, where he was threatened by hostile natives on the south and by the Madhi's forces on the north. This news came in the latter part ot the year 188H, and as soon as practicable & relief expedition was organized under Henry M. Stanley. Much difference of opinion was expressed as to the route to be taken, many persons urging that the start should be made from Zanzibar. Stan1 - 1- / - t ley. However, wa9 strongly m iavur vi the Congo route, and that was the one adopted. Early in June, 1887, Stanley started up the Aruwimi, an importaut branch of the Congo. A reserve camp at Tambuga was established, and then with a picked force he plunged into the wilderness to make his way to Wadelai and the relief of Emin. From the midsummer of 1887 to the close of 1883 nothing authentic has been heard from him, although there has been many disquieting rumors. His reserve force, under Alnjor Barttelot, followed on his trail during the past year, but before much progress had been made Barttelot was killed by one of the natives in his commaud. and the expedition was scattered: and soon afterward Jameson, the second in command, returning to the Congo for aid, died of fever. Meanwhile Emin had been repeatedly I heard from. One letter gave the welI enme news that the King of Uganda, at I the south, was less hostile to him than had been feared; other letters showed that Khalifa Abdullah, the new Mahdi, was not pressing him, so that he was no longer between two fires. Still another letter indicated that King Mwnnga had allowed the Arab Mahomet Biri to carry goods and provisions to Emin. Ono itV?of tVin nprrrnpQ hv care* JUblCl oavy ?? vu tu'tw V44V -.vp.-v,, ? J le^sncss, had burned the town of Wadeiai. but Emin was undaunted in spirit and rebuilt it. Indeed, when he learned that Stanley was about to succor him. he expressed the greatest determination not to quit his post. Presently it was learned that ho was about to be absent.from his station to explore the Kakibbi River. It is said that the Mahdi has conquered all the equatorial province; and there is no reason why, if Emin was captured at Lado, the Mahdi'a forces should not march up the Nile and take Wadeiai? unless, indeed, Stanley was left behind by Emin to hold it. But even if the success of Arab fanaticism is complete, the Soudanese negroes will not wholly forget what Emin has done for them. The Box-Elder. This tree some years since had a great boom, not only for its hardiness, but also for its value for making sirup, the sap beincr rich in saccharine" matter. A correspondent in Southern Dakota ask9 about its value for general planting, how the seeds may be obtained; what the general characteristics of the tree are like, and where it is hardy. In reply we would say wc know of no one tree more valuable for planting. It is handsome and not generally troubled with insects. It grows fast, makes a broad, deuse shade, is perfectly hardy well north. The range of the tree is, perhaps, greater than that of almost any other tree?that is to say. from the Gulf line to the boundary of Canada East, and up to J ake Winnipeg in the .North west. The real native region of the tree is the middie latitudes of the Mississippi River. Its general height is from thirty to fifty feet. The tree is dicecious, that is, the staminate nnd pistillate blossoms are borne on separate trees. The trees are readily raised from seeds, which ripen in the early summer and should be gathered and planted immediately. They may also be obtained of nurserymen by ordering in the lattei part of the spring. Tne seeds should be planted not deeper than one inch, in rows wide enough so that they maj be cultivated by a horse implement, and may be transplanted after two seasons' growth, where they are to stand.? I*rairie Farmer. POPULAR SCIENCE. | Hard-working Parisians average 1ms in stature than their idle neighbors. The sounds of the heart have been - recorded and reproduced by the phonograph. To remove rust from steel, take one half ounce of emery powder mixed with one ounce of soap and rub well. A French subterranean river has been explored for a mils or more by M. Martel, who derives from his investigations a theory of the origin of canons. The progress of the science of making perfumes is so rapid in America that tne manufacturer will soon be independent of flowers for his sweet-smelling essences. Professor Ayrton estimates that the power wasted at Niagara Falls exceeds that which could be produced by the annual consumption of 150,000,000 tons of coal. The microscope often reveals impurities in diamonds, particles of organic matter and bubbles of gas being common. Quurtz, chlorite, pyrite, hematite and topaz have also been seen. Hydrogen is shown by experiments of Dr. B. \V. Richardson to be neither an anaesthetic nor hypnotic, but if inhaled so as to be taken up by the blood it quickly kills warm-blooded animals, but I suspends life in cold-blooded animals for a long time before actually destroying it. M. Spring, the French physicist, finds i that the preservation of rails in use is | not the result of vibratory motion, or of an electric action produced by the passage of the trains, but is due to the formation of a coating of magnetic oxide by the compression of the rest on the metal. Langley finds that hardly one fourth of the solar energy, as we receive it, is visible; while Hertz astonishes the German physicists by showing that, although the visible violet rays of the spectrum I have do influence on ciectric aiscnarges, the disruptive effects of such discharges are increased by the dark ultra violet rays. The British Me Heal Journal mentions a report made to the Central Board oi Health at Melbourne, Australia, describing an outbreak of diphtheria in which the cases occurred almost simultaneously in the neighborhood of Daylesford. The local health officer's report presents strong prima facie evidence that the children contracted the the disease from cats, numbers of which animals were dying in the neighborhood. A variation of Dr. 0. J. Lodge's experiments on the electric deposition of dust has been tried by M. Soret. of Geneva. Steam submitted to electric discharges wa3 instantly precipitated, J ?va1a r\( fVio olitrfptA mn. ttUU W UUU IUC J.IV/AW Ui vuw chine was sufficiently near the surface of the -water?the other pole being attached to the platinum cup used for the boiling ?the steam was condensed as rapidly as formed, presenting the anomaly of 8teamles3 boiling water. The wave motor, which was begun at Point Lobos, Cal.,about three years ago, is nearly completed. As described by a San Francisco paper ''it is a machine for utilizing the dashiDg in of the waves by turning their power into practical use, Buch as furnishing water for sprinkling the streete, flushing the sewers, and even driving cable cars. Only one piston has been put in as yet. This pumps at the rate of three barrels a minute. The motor will run from eighteen to twenty hours per day, and if the wind and tide are favorable can be worked throughout the whole twenty-four." The Capital of Hayti. Port-au-Prince, Hayti, in whose hark/v. ^afoina/1 a /?rvn fiQOQtnH steamer Haytian Republic, and where the American war ships Galena and Yantic went, is the seat of the Haytian Government, and a town of 40,000 inhabitants, advantageously situated at the foot of a chain of hillocks. The principal stores and workhouses are located on the "Bord de mer," or street facing the harbor. Brick and stone entei into the construction of these buildings. Port-au-Prince is the only town iu Hayti through which one can travel in a carriage, but as nothing of any particular interest presents itself to the visitor in the town he drives up hill and out of the city, pausing to admire the stately palace of the President, then driving on to Turgcau and Petiouville, two picturesque localities, where are situated the magnificent country seats of the President, his ministers, the American consul and tno.-e of the wealthy German and Haytian merchants. Portau-Frince is the Haytian's Paris, and well may they consider it as such, for in that citv is found the educated Haytian, whose language, manners and courtesy differ not from those of the Parisian. It is a grave error to suppose that despoti-sm, cruelty and uncouth manners characterize the Haytian. The people of the interior are ignorant, it is true, and possess bad passions, which are easily aroused, but the educated Hnytians seem endowed with more talent, show better breeding, use better language than a great majority of their class in some towns of the more civilized parts of the world. The active bar of Port-au-Prince is composed of very superior men, and the judges, who are appointed by the Government, are always men of erudition and high character. French precedents govern in Haytian courts. ? Waikiagton star. Magnitude or me roxmo i,roj?. The importance of the potato crop can hardly be estimated. From the small, insignificant tuber from the mountains, has grown up one of the greatest industries of the age. One hundred years ago they were hardly known as an article of food. !Now there is scarcely a table in all this country, or Europe, that is not supplied three times a day with the luscious esculent. It is a staple in every household, and forms the main portion of the food for the poor and laboring classes. In oermany, the crop for 1888, amounts to the enormous sum total of iil-1,1W4 bushels, valued at l5j8,o48, while the entire wheat crop of that country is only one hundred aud lour million bushels. With its immense populatiou.what could Germany do without the potato? In Sweden, the latest reports show 50,43-1,781 bushels of potatoes, and only 3,4UG,?17 bushels of wheat. The potato crop in that country is equal in value to all the other crops combined, oats excepted. In Scotland, England and Ireland the ratio is greater. In the United States, the crop for the year 18S6 was 108,051,001) bushel9, while in 1884 it was more than 1110,000,000 bushels, valued at more than one hundred million dollars at the local markets. C'ottou growing is the leading industry of nearly all of the Southern States. For many years cotton has been king of our products, yet who realizes that the market value of the potatoes grown in the United States is equal in value to one-half the entire cotton production. All of the oats, barley, rye, buckwheat and rice combined is worth less in* dollars and cents in the market, than the potato crop of our country.?Farm, Field and ijtocbnan. v 1 A Will in Rhyme. ~ H The following is a copy of aa authepj^H tic "last will and testament" of- the Willoughby Dixey, Esq., of Boswor^^^H Park, Leicestershire. It was proved 9j B Doctors' Commons, August 17/ and sworn under ?300,000. HM I If THS NAVE Or GOD. AWCIT. ,^^H| I I, Willoughby Dixey, of Bos worth Park, I ha oi/4 r\t o^mha nr nlorlr. Or pettifogger of the law, 9H Ready to make or find the flaw, . ,HH To my sister. Eleanor, of Bourne, Lest she her brother Ions should mourn, The welcome news she must hear, flDH That I give her eight hundred pounds year. And also on her do I fix , To be my sole executrix. flHHQ To sister Rosamand, whose bower Of happiness ne'er knew one hour, I twelve pence give, far more than's dus To such a sad, vexatious shrew. To Tom Drakeriey, my steward ever true,fl H Who did for me all man could do, I give in cash and notes, no little sounds, The sum of twenty thousand pounds.' H To young Drakeriey. ever true, Who-did what the elder could not do, ? , I give of sheep live hundred head, As good as ever Bakewell bred. To Joe. my groom, who swore ray stud None were surpassed in shape or blood, And that no knight of high degree Could ride a horse or hunt like me: I give him all that in the stable feed Or graze upon the mead. To Sam, my balitf, lest he repine, I give ray residue of stock and kine. My gamekeeper 1 give of guns a stock, Hfl By Joe Manton, Egg and Knock, He can go forth and shoot the feather^^HEH flock; - B| And when I am in Heaven above He can Dursue the soort I love. And to my servant from the ranks, ... HD That due to me ma; be the thanks, The chargers that I role in battle: Horses that heard the cannon's rattle. And to my brewer 1 do give, Hoping that be long may live. Of malt and hops a rattling store, That when he's drank the ale he may bro^HS more. |HH Yes, and punchpons full of fine old rum, Filled as tight as any drum; And as he is a fellow fine. To him I give my stock of wine. nM With glass, I, yes. and everything That makes a joyous table ring. And to my gardener, rake and spade, And every tool that suits his trade; And as the poor devil needs some luck, t give him all the fruit to pluck; And in the garden he will find some green*-^^HH Cauliflower and kidney beans. And to my housemaids?noisv crew? My chairs and tables, not a few; M0H Brushes and brooms with eoose wings, And every other sundry thing. |MH And lest they should think me mean 1 give them all they'd keen used to claaa* Now to the cook I give my tea. 9H| Home twenty pounds of fine Bohea, flH And that she may remember me tflBH x give her all the good coffee. With sugar plums and good spice, HI Ana evervimng ioiks minus 19 mix; And lest that she should think these shams, ^H| My bacon 1 do give and all the hams, :vV ith bread and flour, and good salt meifr -^^9 And everything that is fit to eat. To Mary, my scullion wench, j^H| As good as need sits on the bench, fl And though her portion is but small, DN 1'is ail that's in the servants' hall, IM And that her mind may be at peace, She shall have all the kitchen grease; And she must search well o'er each nook For all the cook may overlook. To the old woman at the gate, NflH Which I have passed through of lata' Hfl Who to crack nazel nuts is willing, And to buy some 1 give a shilling; , But as that will only buy a few, 1 give her all that in the garden grew And as long as she dotb live, To her all the hazel nuts I give; l^D But if any she doth dare to sell, The next she cracks shall be in hell. BH But all I intend for her to eat, [For she will be short of bread and meat. And only on that proposition BH The nuts are hers by that condition. BB 'And lest a varletof mine showed repine, BB| To Henry, the laborer, I give my swina. Snorters collected by great pains, nB And all the store of swill and grains, ||^B To Mary Ann, who was my wife, 9H The joy and comfort of my life, II What Providence has given to me OH When 1 die I give to thee. Dated 1st day of .lune, 1815. 1MB Willouohdt Dixit, Bosworth Park, Leicestershire. Proved in Doctors' Commons, the 17th^^| <a.UXU3L, lOiQ. The Irridescent Sunbeam Treatment It has long been known that a freo^B exposure to sunlight or diffused day-Hfl light is tranquilizing to the nerves, and^H the physicians at Ale-sandria, acting WJ? upon this, have carried the test much^Hl further and distinguished between the^^l effects of different colors in the light. lH The sashes of an asylum window wer&^H filled with glass of various colors, andi^H the walls and woodwork were painted to HI match the glass. A patient suffering.^H from melancholia, who refused to eat,j^H was placed in one of the rooms withlHM walls and windows of a bright red.^H Three hours' exposure to this influence<^H produced cheerfulness and he asked for.^H food. This seemed very important to phyai-^H cians, who know that with the insanei^H whose malady begins with melancholia the refusal of loocl is the earliest, the H| most common, as well as the mos&'^H Hanrrprntis svmDtom. and is cenerallyi^^l j persisted in until nourishment has to bei^H | administered by force: so that the re?IH j moval of that fancy and the restoration;|H| 1 of a healthy, spontaneous desire for food^H j caused by only a few hours' subjectioni^H ; to light influence is an important fact ia^H I the annals of medicine. Another melan-.^H I choly patient, who always kept his handft^H ' over his.mouth so as to shut out foodi^H | and air, was placed in the red room andi^H : soon began to improve, and the next^H I day had so far forgotten the haliucina-'^H tion that he ate with a hearty appetitej^l ! Still another patient, a violent maniac, | was placed in a blue room and became I quiet in an hour, while a fourth wafl^H completely cured after passing a day ioi^H a violet colored room. ?New Turk Herald* IB Inilia-Hubber Horse Shoes. jHj "The proposed substitution of India-'^H rubber for metal in the manufacture of^H I horse shoes is based upon various sup^^H ' posed advantages," says a well-known1 ! New York authority to a Mail and Ex? j press reporter, "one of these being that , the former enables a horse to go easier | over all kinds of roads and rough or I smooth ground without slipping. The^J i contrivance brought forward for thi?^B purpose is such as to obviate in one in-^H stance the necessity of using an iron H| shoe, which can be moved momentarily Jg when the horse is shod with an iron I shoe. According to.this design the shoe I consists of an India-rubber bottom piece ! molded to fit over and around the frog j of the hoof, with a ledge or protecting rim rising up the front and around the level where the nails are clamped, the H| projection having an edge under which' a steel band or other appliance can beflf drawn and nipped tight to retain the ^9 ! rubber shoe. The band is connected by : studs, which pass through the heel part Hfl j of the hoof, this being cut away from the inner side for the purpose, and the stud or studs may work eccentrically to obtain grip or fixing. If the rubber shoe is used with an iron shoe the frog portiou or pad has a front plate and t*o^H side wings partially imbedded in to hold the rubber shoe in place. If the rubber shoe be divided or made thin in tha center, a swivel or other bar can be con? traded from the rear to reduce the width! of the pad, so that it enters easily and) also expands so as to fix the rubber shoes in position. Queen Victoria has requested that fori eign married ladies presented at corrt^H must be accompanied bv their huabaadi I