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DOMINION.
8pirit and clay?
Strange yoke-fellows theyl
Spirit and clay,
Linked for a day,
Then away, away?
Tarrying not for yea or nayOne
comrade goes;
Daisies bloom over one's repose.
What did it mean, this union brief?
Strange! Could tho sky ling by no othor birth j
Have come to earth ?
For the twain were at war. till for base relief,
The nobler cringed?ay, shamo to te I!
Cringed to the clay, and its sceptre fell,
And all tho world did see
1UO UMil UC'i ? \UJWiy*
Sweet is the rest
In earth's mother breast;
Sweeter the rest
Up with the blest.
When earth's transient priest
Flies through the vast like a bird to its nest.
When time is done.
Quenched all the fires of star and sun,
Calm o'er the wreck shall tin spirit soar.
Yet (shuddering heavens, breathe not the
tale.
Lest angels wail,)
Wrecks more than matter are strewn on
life's shore
When spir t with clay is too weak to cope.
Child of such destiny!?horn to such hopol
Behold that fair hope lost,
And weep for a battle's cost.
Spirit or clay
Shall the scepter sway?
8pirit or clay.
Which shall obey,
Since either may?
(Trembles the balance such issues to weigh.) I
Dissolve we must?
The dust return to its kindred dust;
And shall it not bow to the lordlier mate
And willing: wait on its proud behest,
Till God see best
That itself be lifted from mean estate?
For He who created dishonoreth not,
And even the dust shall be unforgot,
And spirit to glorified clay
Be linked for an endless day!
?Rosalie M. Broadus, in Independent.
; KINGS OF TEE JUNGLE.
The idea with almost every person is
that a lion or tiger is always beui on at- j
tack, and that to meet one is to bring on \
an encounter. This is far from beicg
true. When infuriated by a wound or !
pressed by hunger almost any wild beast j
is dangerous to man, but there are occa- j
sions when the most ferocious of them i
deiire peace at any price.
At Neliur, on the wc3t shore of the !
Gulf of Bengal, I went out with a party j
of British ollicers to search for a man- j
eater who had created great devastation :
to the west. He had, indeed, driven i
most of the natives out of a section five !
miles square, and the number of people j
it was said he had eaten was above twenty.
The tiger's lair was in a large thicket j
which backed against the coa>t range of
mountains. In the midst of this thicket!
was an old ruin, and the beast probably
had his bed there. There were ten of us
in the party, including natives, and we
had begun to beat up the thicket when I i
tepped into a hole and wrenched my \
ankle. That settled me, for the day at
least, and I was assisted back to camp, j
which was about half a mile from the j
thicket. A sort of easy chair was made
for me at the foot of a tree, and one of ,
the natives was left to attend to my i
wants. I heard the hunters beating up
the game, but the pain took away my in
lerest in me nunr. x naa my Doot on,
and the man was softly rubbing my ankle
with brandy, when all of a sudden he
fastened his eyes on something behind
me, and his face became terror-stricken. ;
"What is it?a snake?'' I whispered.
"No?the tiger!" he gasped in reply, j
"Is he close at hand?"
"Not fifty feet away, sahib, and look-1
ing right at us!"
My gun was ten feet away, and we
were pcrf?ct!y helpless. Overhead was
afety, oat before I could reach my feet
and pull myself up by a branch the tiger i
would have me.
"CaD you catch the branch over your ,
head?" I asked of the native.
"Yes, sahib, but I cannot leave you." j
"Save yourself if you can, or we shall j
both be knocked over. If you spring j
into the tree the tiger may be frighteued j
off by your action."
The man straightened up and made a ,
spring, and the next iustant was safe in
the branches. He was hurdly quiet be- [
fore I heard the tread of the t ger in the
dry giass a few yards away, and the na-'
tive whi pered:
"Say your prayers, sahib; he is here!" ,
In a few seconds the tiger came up. I
was lving at full length, my head con
Ll_ t_!_l .1 . 1 T i
laeraoiy mgner man my ieer, ana so 1
law his every more. lie looked me full
In the face and uttered a low growl, but j
it was not one of anger. I sow that the J
beast was full of curiosity and wonder,
and hope sprung up in my heart. He
unified ai my right hand, which lay beiide
me, passed his nose down my injured
foot, and the fumes of the brandy J
seemed io delight him. He lay flat j
down and began to lick my foot aud i
ankle. His tongue wa3 hot as fire and
as rough as a cow's, and I winced now j
?. end then in spite of my effoits not to. I
It was something new for the man eater, )
and he was delighted. He licked away :
until I thought he had taken all the skin
off, and then he rolled over and over on ;
the blanket, as you have seen a cat do \
after feeding.
The hunters and beaters had beenj
^juict all this time, having come together i
for counsel, but now they be?an to shout
and tom-tom, and the noise came dowu j
to us very distinctly. The tiger sat up ;
and snuffed the air and growled. A gun
was fired and he growled again, looked j
up at the native in the tree, around the |
camp, and down at me, and then delib-}
erately walked off into the woods. Next
day he was routed out of his lair by the
beaters, and, without being wounded or
unduly angered, he charged among them j
with great ferocity and killed two and
wounded a thrd.
Eighteen months later, in the Bengalese
district, I went out to a village
called Manday with two officer.*, to see
if we could not rid the ne'ghborhood of
a man-eater who had as bad a reputation
as the other. The beast was so bold
that he entered the village almost
nightly, invariably coming and goin^r by
a certain route. The nights were bright
moonlight, and when the sun went
down we commanded the people to keep
quiet and took up the stations selected
to cover the approach. I was the nearest
to the huts?indeed, I was seated belide
one of the huts which had been
vacated by its terror-stricken owner.
The next man was 1.10 feet away, and
the next 200. We had planned for a
converging fire on one pa-ticular spot.
The tiger had always appeared between
!i and 10 o'clock. Ten o'clock
came and we had seen nothing of him.
I pulled out my watch again, and had
just noted that it wa9 twenty minutes
after 10 when I heard a loud purring
close to my car, and next instant the
man eater was beside me. The shock
was so sudden that I almost fainted, and
there must have been a full minute when
I was unconscious of what wa9 going on.
On the ground beside me was a large red
silk handkerchief. When I could realize
what was passing the tiger was playing
with that, exactly as a cat would. He
tossed it up, caught it, pulled it along
the ground, and for three or four minutes
he had great fun. When he was
through he rubbed against me and
purred, and with my left hand I
smoothed his back. The old fellow
purred louder and louder, but after a moment
some noise in the village disturbed
him, and ho uttered a low growl and
i walked oil without even turning his
head. Five minutes later ne auempieu |
to leap into the window of a hut. got
caught in the srr.ill opening, and we
killed him while he was thus held a
prisoner. There was a witness as to
what happened between the tiger and !
I myself. Unknown to me, oue of the
I hunters h id slipped back to one of the
I huts for a drink of water, aud he saw
| the tiger skulking along between the
| huts, having entered the village by a new
route. He was not over forty feet from |
u?, as the beast made himself so agreea- j
b!e.
Captain Stevens of the Bengal Infantry
was on one occasion waiting in a ravine
for a shot at a tiger which the beaters
were trying to drive out of a thicket,
when the beast approached him from behind.
Its presence was not known until
it uttered an uneasy whine. When the
Captain whirled around he could put
his hand on the beast. He was greatly
upset for the moment, during which the j
tiger smelted of his legs several times j
and licked his long boot legs, which had !
been freshly oiled that morning. After i
three or four minuter, the beaters coming
nearer with their confusion, the tiger
uttered a low growl and trotted off, and
Into* tnro o native nil tO
llllUCU XUlUUtW.1 4HVU. Wtv ?
pieces.
While in the lion country on the Cape ,
of Good Hope a party of thirty of us !
were one day crossing a sandy plain. We j
were not within a 'mile of the woods, |
and it was the hottest hour of the day. A :
sudden cry was raised, and a big lion
came charging us across the hot sands.
He came from the woods, and that without
the slightest provocation on our part,
and he came for blood. A dozen of us i
fired at him, and he was hit twice before j
lie reached us, but he came right ahead, i
and had knocked a native down and was j
standing over him when he got his quiet- j
us. He was an immense fellow aud i
well along in years. We tried to tind i
some explanation of his conduct, aud j
finally concluded that he had been
hunted and perhaps wounded and had !
become reckless and desperate.
I once had such an alarm from a lion !
as to send me to bed for a couple of days. (
We were riding on a strip of sand with
the heavy forest at our right and a scattering
line of bu<hes on our left, when !
our attention was called to something j
skulking in the bushes. We dismounted, j
three of us, and crept torwara, scarcer- i
ing as we went. I made for a bush,
whence I hoped to secure a better obser- I
vation, and. as I turned it, being on uiy I
hands and knees, I came face to face |
with a big lion who was skulking in the 1
hollow. I was within four feet of his j
head when I discovered him. His eyes ,
were open very wide, and his breath j
came to me with sickening odor, but he !
neither growled uor moved for a long !
minute. We looked into each other's !
eyes, and I was so overcome that1
I was like one paralyzed for the !
time. At that short distance his
eyes had the bri^htues3 of electric
lights. Indeed, they seemed to burn
mine, and the feeling did not leave me
for four or live days.
After a minute or so the lion uttered a
low growl, and iat up for a better look j
at me. I was on my knees, and he j
snuffed at me and uncovered his great j
teeth. Perhaps another might have j
fired at him, as his big head and chest j
offered a targut like a barn door, and I !
had my gun all ready, but I hadn't the s
power to raise my arms. He growled !
again, and then turned around and i
sneaked off through the bushes and got [
away. When my companion* camo up I!
was too weak to walk to ray horse, and
on reaching camp I had to go to bed.
It was while referring to this adventure
some time later that a native related his
queer experience with a lion. lie was 1
returning to his village one afternoon ;
when a snake bit him. He was obliged j
to stop and f5nd certain roots, and make !
a poultice, and thus got belated. As he j
hurried on in the twilight a lion suddenly
leaped into the path before him !
and barred his further progress. Had i
the man turned to flee he would have j
been struck down. He stood theie, I
gasping with friirht and ready to col- j
lapse. when itsuddenly flashed upon him |
thut the lion appeared in playful mood. !
T he beast lay down and rolled over, j
pawed at the earth, and when the native !
advanced a step it became certain lhat the
liou was in lor a lark.
"While I was frightened almost to
death."' said the man, "I had sense I
enough to humor him. I jumped at him, I
and ho 1 risked and bouuaed like a I
puppy. Then I retreated, and he ran |
after me. It was two miles to the village,
and we kept up the play until within a |
few rods 01 the first hut. I had my hand J
on him twenty times.and when I entered j
the village I bad some of the hairs of his
mane to prove the particulars of my adventure.'?
While the tiger has mote natural
ferocity than the lion, he is not to be
dreaded as much when enraged. In
charging among the beaters the tiger is
generally satisfied with knocking a single
person down, and after this feat he will
mvariaolv make a bolt. The lion, on
the contrary, if once aroused to fight for
his life, means to die right there, after
doing all the harm he caa.
We weie in the Matable Land, Africa
? a Government expedition consisting j
of upward of i!00 men?and had gone ]
into camp two hours before sundown I
one day at a pool when one of the white I
men tired at a lion who was making olF. i
Thi; king of beasts had been "snoozing" I
in the shade of some bushes in the opon ;
plain, and had remained quiet in hopes
we would pass. When he saw us go into >
camp he made a sneak lor the forest, a <
quarter of a mile away, and had almost'
readied it when the shot was lired. There [
was no hope of hitting hiin, but more by {
accident than intention the ball struck j
the target. The lion was wounded in i
the ham. We saw him turn and bite at
the wound, and were laiuhing at his
antics when he suddenly headed for the
camp. Although he was a big fellow,
his mane stood up uutil it seemed as if
he was the size of a two-year-old steer.
His leaps were something tremendous,
and he roared at every springy
At least twenty shots were lired at the I.
j lion as he charged, and some of the
bullets tiung dirt into his face, but we
| might as well have tried to stop a hurri|
cane. He had be.-n insulted and
j wounded and he wanted revenge. The
first thine; he came to wa? a horse hitched
to the hind wheel of a wagon. He
knocked the horse over as he sprang,
lacerating its bai-k in a terrible manner.
Then he knocked down a native, brcakI
ing the man's collar bone,pulled another
j down aud shook the life out of him, and
j then attacked a second horse. He was
| on the horse's back as two of U9 fired
I and hit him hard. He fell to the ground.
i rolled over, and then sprang to the seat
-
of a wagon and pulled a native to the
ground. I saw him seize the native by
the right shoulder and fling him about as
if he hid been a stick. He got another
bullet here, and with a roar of pain and
rage he reared up beside another horse,
fastened teeth and claws in the animal's
neck, and pulled him down. by main
strength. He then fastened his teeth in
the horse's throat and dragged him
thirty or forty feet. Nearly all the
camp naa taKen to nigm or sougut smctj
ia the trees by this time, but just as the
lion was approaching another horse a
bullet broke his spine and ended his
career. We found that he had a very
sore hind foot, probably fiom a thorn or
sliver, and this perhaps accounted for
his ill-temper ana wonderful audacity,
though there are numerous instances that
a wounded lion fears nothing on earth
except a wild elephant.?New York JSun.
The Tnlip Mania in Holland.
A remarkable financial delusion (for
it could hardly be called a swindle) was
the tulip mania of Holland.
Conrad Gesner introduced the tulip
into Europe in lf>:J4, and in Holland, for
some reason unknown, it sprang into
great favor with the wealthy and fashionable
burghers. In another year its
popularity had increased and gardeners
were propagating new species, many of
which brought great prices for their
rarity. One bulb of the Admiral so.'d
for 4400 florins. Another variety, the
Semper Augustus, brought 5">U0 florins.
One hundred thousand florins was paid
for forty roots in Rotterdam, and that
transaction started the gambling.
This was in lG:iC. Everybody had
rrrtno till in marl Oram old Dutchmen
6"*u r
smoked their pipes and talked tulips.
Noblemen turned gardeners and raised
tulips. On 'Change tulips were listed,
and puts,cal's and futures were watched
as closely as "Old Hutch" or Phil Armour
watch the hog and wheat markets.
People of all classes invested all the
money they could rake and scrape in
tulips. Business boomed for awhile and
fortunes were lost and won.
The Dutch seemed to think that for
all time to come people in all parts of
the world would continue to pay fabulous
prices for Holland's tulips. The
flower had already achieved a shortlived
popularity in Paris and London,
but fashionable people were tiring of
the new plaything. Even the Haarlem,
a wonderful variety, of which one root
sold for twelve acres of improved ground
inM6, grew common, and seemingly all
at once the tulip market slumped.
Then there was a howl. Tulips could
hardly be given away. Every man was
accusing his neighbor of having led him
into the rraze. Defaults on contracts
and payments were common all over
Holland. The courts refused to take
cognizance of them because they were
gambling, and it wrs years before the
country fully recovered, tnougn it was
in most cases merely a shifting of
wea'tb, not taking it out of the c ountry.
To this day, however, the genuine
Hollander looks upon his tulips as the
English farmer does his fat cattle or the
Keutuckian his blue-grass-fed brood
mares.
Men Secretly Fond ot Jewels.
"Because a man displays no jewelry
upon his person it does not signify that
he doesn't care for such thing*," said
Editor Rothschild, of the }>ew York
Jeweler's Weekly, the other day.
"There are plenty of men who are as
passionately fond of jewels a< any woman
who ever lived, but they seem to regard
the feeling as a weakness which they are
half ashamed of. Some men will own
right up, but they don't like to display
their treasures, because it is not
considered good taste to wear much
jewelry.
"I know of half a dozen business men
and professional men who do not wear so
much as a watch chain; yet they carry
about in their trousers pockets thousands
of dollars' worth of unset jewels.
? -1 TT KM*
I'll 13 18 & Utile Out U1 LUC uiuiaaij, uu>
it is a fact nevertheless.
"The lato Henry Ward Beccher used
to carry in his pockets a number of
beautiful diamonds, pearls and other
precious stone?, which he would sometimes
take out iu his hand and gaze at in
admiration for several minutes at a time.
He explained this habit by saying that
there was something so pure and beautiful
about the gems that they delighted
and fascinated him. He used to say that
it was one of the traces of our far-back
barbarinn origin?the iunate fondness
for bright genis.
"I know of a physician up town who,
while riding about in his carriage on
sick calls, entertains himself bv jingling
a lot of unset diamonds, rubies ana
emeralds in his hands. He sometimes
groups them on the seat opposite and
looks at. them, while his face is lit up
with admiration and pleasure.
"Do ladies have this habit? Well, I
think not. I never met a woman who
cared to hide her jewels in her pockets.
On the contrary, they always like to
have them set and displayed as conspicuously
as possible. They don't believe
in hiding the light of their gems
under a bushel."
Teaching n Do? to Steal.
Dogs have been trained to do many
useful and many amusing things, but
the mo6t degrading instruction ever
given to a noble animal of its species ha3
come to light in Paris. A great Newfoundland
dog entered a noted store near
the Bastile, wandered about for some
time among the customers, and finally
seized a bundle containing some shooting
jackets with which he made off a3 fast
as he could. Some of the clerks saw
him, and about a hundred of them ran
after him. The cry was taken up in the
street, and the '"dog thief" was soon
being pursued by halt a dozen police and
hundreds of boys, beside the clerks. The
animal wa< finally run down and
marched off to the police station, and
eventually to the pound, where he has
probably been smothered before this.
Several shopmen complained that they
had been visited by the dog and had
suffered from his depredations, so that
'i ~ flint lm horl }>oon
mere is uu ........ ? ,
taught to steal by some Fagin of the
neighborhood, which is not a particularly
i expectable one.?Picayunc.
The Yanderbilt Tomb.
I saw Mr. Piukerton, who tells me
that every fifteen minute? each clock
placed in the Yanderbilt tomb is visited
by a Pinkerton detective, two of whom
are constantly on guard. One of these
detectives patrols outside the tomb,
while the other is locked iu and sits
behind the bars with a loaded repeating
rifle across his knee ready for
constant use. It would be next to impossible
for any robber to get away with
the remains of William H. Yanderbilt
so long as the tomb is protected as it i3
now. The Pinkerton men are hired by
the year, and there is quite a little colony
of them established on Staten Island,
ver/ near the mausoleum. They keep
eight or ten there all the time, so that
those on duty at the grave are retired at
frequent interval, and are, therefore,
not liable to fall asleep at their posts.?
ye u> Yore Letter,
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT IJTERATURR FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Maidens Coquettish and Coy.
Rather inclined to ba pretty,
Rather inclined to be good,
Rather inclined to a vague, undefined
Keeling or sweet slsternoou
Toward the young fellows who lovo her;
When they nave asked for hand.
Rather inclined to a vague, undefined
Keeling they don't understand.
Fact is, this maiden can't help it?
Natural born coquette?
Rather inclined not to make up her mind
To marry?that is, not jusc yet.
Sister she'll be to them all, and
Loving, and faithful, and true:
Rather inclined round her finger to wind
About?say a dozen or two.
?Chicago Times.
"Kissed By Mary Anrler=on.
Here is a pretty story of Miss Mary
Anderson, the great actress, told in the
Boston Transcript.: A few days ago, as |
Miss Anderson was passing through one
of the great dry goods stores, the salesmen
recognized her and whispered to
each other:
"Tnere goes Mary Anderson!"
A little cash boy, hearing the remark
too late to see her face, exclaimed:
"Oh? why didn't you let me know in
time I I haven't got money enough to go
to see her play, but I might have looked
at her."
The lady had not passed out of hearing.
Turning back she stooped and
kissed the boy.
4'There, my lad," she said, "you can
not only say that you have seen Mary
Anderson, but that she has kissed you."
A Maine Mother.
Cantain I?avis. of the five-masted
schooner Governor Ames, recently built j
at Waldoboro, Me., had a remarkable j
mother. She was not content in bring-I
ing up her own eleven sons and daughters
in the way they should go, but adopted
two or three other children. She was
the doctor of the whole neighborhood.
Physicians were few and inexperienced,
as is usual in small country pliices, and
Mrs. Davis wa3 always sent for in a
hurry when any one was sick. Many
were the men she saved from death.
One man, given up for dead by everybody
else, is now a very wealthy citizen
of a Western State. Often there would
be two calls for her at once, and in one
case a couple of men carried her a half
mile through snow waist deep to the
sick bed of a friend. She was presen;
at the birth of every child born in the
village for over forty years.?Leiciston
Jour ml.
Distinguished Old Maids.
Look at the list of old maids. Elizabeth
of England, one of the most illus trious
of modern sovereigns. Her rule over
Great Britain comprised the most brilliant
literary age of the English speaking
people. Her political acumen was put
to as severe tests as that of any other
ruler the world ever saw. Maria Kdgewnrth
was an old maid. It wa3 this
woman's writings that first suggested
the thought of writing similarly to Sir
Walter Scott. Her brain might well be
called the mother of the Waverly novels.
Jane Porter lived and died an old
maid. The children of her busy brain {
wore "Thaddeusof Warsaw"'and "The I
Scottish Chiefs," which have moved the j
hearts of millions with excitement and |
tears. Joanna Bailie, poet and play |
writer, was "one of 'em." Florence
Nightingale, most gracious lady, heroine
of Inkermann and Balaklava hospitals,
has, to the present, written
"Miss" before her name. The man who
should marry her might well crave to take
the name of Nightingale. Sister Dora,
the brave spirit of English pest houses,
whose story is as a helpful evangel, was
(he bride of the world's sorrow only.
And then, what names could the writer
and the reader add of those whom the
great world may not know, but we know,
and the little world of the village, the
church, the family know and prize beyond
all worlds!? Chicajo Her ail.
A Model Vehicle.
The handsome and fashionable wife of .
Levi P. Morton is noted for the pos- |
session of a most remarkable coachman !
William White, who sits stilfiy on the i
high driver's seat of Mrs. Morton's car- ,
riotro wm nncfl in the emnlov of the !
" ? " ? "? I J ? I
Prince of Wales, and was brought to this
country by the JIaiqtra of Lome, while
that aristocrat was Governor-General of i
Canada. He has been in the employ of
Levi P. Morton for four or five years, ;
and is a sort of example to the other |
family coachmen of Fifth avenue in de-J
Eortment. The manner in which he tips
is hat upon being questioned or an-1
swering, his stiff-backed pose on his'
scat, his handling of the reins and whip j
?in everything he is taken as a model.
Even the livery stable proprietors, in '
outfitting equipages that are meant to
be mistaken for the private turnouts of
their customers, are accustomed to point
White out to their drivers as an exhibit!
of what they ought to aim at. But M?s. 1
Morton's carriage has interior comforts
that are not for show. A diminutive j
clock is set into the side where she can |
see it at a glance, and thus, in making \
a round of calls or keeping other en- j
gagements, she may know the time with- j
out the bother of taking out a watch. In
a drawer are compactly arranged a hand- J
glass, and a hair bru-h and comb, to be J
used in the carriage whenever the slight- j
est mishap of toilet requires attention, j
A. bearskin rug contains a flat tin re- I
ccptacle for hot water, and is thus kept
in a condition to warm the feet. Like
nmnv nf the vehicles made to order for
ladies of wealth, the back seat of this
one is of a height, breadth and up- i
holstered shape exactly suited to be !
easiest for Mrs. Morton. This carriage,!
although not singular in its appointments
of luxury, is one of the newest in
manufacture, and nothing more complete
is owned by au Astor or a Vanderbilt.?
Picayune.
Marriage in China.
After the usual preparations for her
wedding garments, a Chinese girl is
closeted for the period of thirty days
with the immediate female members
of her own family. The mother, or
the next eldest of kin, begins a
a series of instructions as to the duties
of a bride, aud how she must from now
on transfer allections and care to the
members of her husband's family in the
same munnor that they showed in the
family of her I irtn. mau is tne iove
and obedience of the parents and elders
of the husband. And that after her
marriage, for the per od of thirty days,
she must be careful to know how "to hold
her tongue, especially before strangers
and neighbors. And she is especially
warned to he neat and cleanly, as this
would prevent the husband from getting
a divorce from her.
These long and tedious instructions ;
are usually accompanied with much
weeping on the part of the women, as
they aro the final parting instructions of
the mother to her daughter.
When a girl is once married she has
forevor renounced ber allegiance to the
relatives of her infancy. Legally, she is i
no more to her family than aa utter,
stranger. But as a rule they return,
upon festivities, to visit the old folks;
even these visits any member of her
husband's family could forbid her from
making.
One of the reasons the Chinese belles
weep instead of laughing, as belles do in
this country upon the eve of their marriage,
is probably because they know
their times of freedom and ease are at an
end, or, at least, until they become
middle-acred or old women. The moment
the bride has thrown down her veil of
thirty days, she is, as a rule, put to the
most menial of domestic duties, by the
mother or e'der sister-in-law. Chinese
husbands are not supposed to own their
wives until after the death of their
pareuts. It is considered unfilial for a
man to take a wife and leave his parents.
There is no redress on the part of suc h
young married women for injustice done
to them by their cruel mothers-in-law,
except to drown them in silent tears.
Three days before the actual marriage
takes place, the'Chinese belle, for the
first time in her life, has her face shaved
of any possible hair. This is done bj
the skillful blending of two stout,silken
threads made into an oblong noose, and
twisted in such a manner that when this
noose or loop is opened with the fingers
of the operator the opening would sprin?
together so quickly that it would cut off
the finest hair on the skin without the
least pain. The parts to be shaved are
first well rubbed with warm pine ashes.
This process is called "Cho Mien." oi
the "female shave." Her next shav<
would be after her thirty days' silence in
her new home.
The girlhood bang is now combed up
and tied with the rest ol her hair,as this
bang distinguishes the unmarried from
the married wpmen in China.
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JllO unuc UUC3 uut pub uu aici uwow
apparel upon this memorial day, but the
poorest clothes she has, and over them
all is an immense red basr or curtain.
This is thrown over her head and thus
shuts her entire person from view, so
that at a distance she resembles a red
bag moving. But just before she is carried
to the sedan-chair (marriage hearse),
she is given a bowl of rice soup. This
she takes into her mouth and squirts
three times toward the south, which
means that after her marriage she would
have rice more than enough to eat for
three generations.of America.
Fashion Notes.
Green is still a leading color,especially
for combination with black or white.
Golden initials, as earrings have more
of novelty than of good taste in theft
favor.
The latest dangler for the chain or the
chatelaine is a silver or nickel locket for
car fare.
Princess gowns, when worn by very
young women, almost invariably button
in the back.
Some very handsome new party shoes
are of white kid, with heels of chased
gold or silver.
mi. _ r e r ?J? ?i?? ? ?11
1 ne iaauy ui i~uuuuu jcwcicis iuus an
to open designs set in small diamonds or
other precious atones.
A new boa is wide and flat about the
throat and down the front, endiuj, with
boas of bear or other long-haired fur.
"White gloves are now fashionable for
evening wear with white dresses, but
light tan are oftener chosen, even by
bridesmaids.
Evening gloves should reach to the
lower edge of the short sleeve, are iu
mousquetaire shape, and simply corded
on tne back.
Watered silk gauzes are new, and very
effective when used for evening cos
tumes, with deep feather ruches about
the hem of the skirt.
The hair may be worn low or high to
suit the taste of the wearer. It must,
however,be either one or the other as the
fashion demands an extieine.
The slender effect nowso much sought
in walking costumes may be attained by
wearing with them a shoulder cape and
deep cuffs ot long tieeced fur.
Bla -k monkey fur continues to grow in
popularity and is used quite extensively
for capes, collars, cuffs, muffs and bauds
down the front of long cloaks.
A nnw fi-imminff fnr nrnwna is
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cloth applique upon fur in the puckered
flower designs of ribbon embroidery.
The edges are covered with cord of contrasting
color.
A Farisian fancy for evening gowns in
the Empire style is the wearing of four
or five unhemraed skirts of tulle, the
uppermost one bordered with fifteen
rows of soutache braid.
Watches at present reign supreme.
They are used for everything?for card
cases, umbrellas, bracelets, bags. A
fashionable woman in Paris has put them
in rosettes on her slippers.
Deep yokes of passementerie are the
only trimmings seen on the new accordeon-pleated
cloaks. Over this is worn
in the coldest weather a pointed shouU I
der cape or collar of some rich fur.
The exquisitely tine India camel's-hair
goods and Henrietta clotli9 imported
this winter present a wide and beautiful
range of artistic dyes not obtainable
in any other fabrics of corresponding
price.
Heavy checked tweed, made into a
crnwn nf riffid simplicity. is incompara
ble for walking. Added to thi9, for cold
weather, is a newmarket of the same
material, with overlapping capes and
huge buttons, aud long enough to touch
the dress hem.
The velvet evening gown is the favorite
in Paris. Toilets of black velvet are
furnished with panels ut black Chantillv
over petticoat of gold satin, embroidered
in black and gold. The same black and
gold embroidery appears upon the pointed
plastron of the velvet waist. The
sleeves are long under the arm and short
od top or else draped a la Grecque.
Beasts of Bunion in China.
Chinamen have such regard for beasts
of burden, iuch as the o< and the mule,
that they make companions of them
when alive and never use their meat i'or
food when they are dead. These animals
usually live iu the same building with
their masters, hut in a separate apartment,
which is especially devoted to
them. They are not required to eat at
the family table unless they wish to, and
men's are served in iheir rooms without
extra charge. They are expected to report
any incivility or inattention on the
part of servants to the master of the
house. A pair of oxen can reside in the
house of their master and enjoy all the
privacy they would have in a stall of
their own, and a sensitive and retiring
mule is never in any danger of being intruded
upon. Yet some people think
Chinamen are not polite.?Texas Silting?.
Tyranny.
'Ti9 said that tyranny is deal,
And despotism powerless lies:
How can this be when over me
Fair Ethel so doth tyrannize
And yet?and yet?do not forget
I am content ber slave to be!
I am not fain to break the chain,
So sweet I find is tyranny.
?Clinton Scollard, in Harper'a.
HAYTL
A TURBULENT ISLAND WHERE
ANARCHY REIGNS SUPREME.
The Contest Between Legitime and
Hippolyte for the Presidency of
the Black Republic?The Haytien
Republic Episode.
Santo Domineo is one of the fairest
and most fruitful islands of the ocean.
Its soil is rich and its climate lovely.
Coffee, bananas, oranges and many other
fruits grow easily there, and the island
lias several fine harbors.
liut the western end of the island,
which comprises the Haytian Republic,
is cursed by almost perpetual auarchy,
produced by revolutions. The hepublic,
indeed, is only a nominal one. The
President, far the time being, is leally a
dictator, and the presidential office has
long been almost constantly disputed by
ambitious rivals, ready to attain their
end, if need be, b/ civil war.
One of these frequent revolutions
broke out several months ago, and has
barely closed at the present time. General
Salomon has held the presidency?
the term of which is seven years?since
ls7l'. He was re-elected in lod*. But
three ambitious men wished to become
President, and for this object did not
hesitate to stir up insurrection.
President Salomon was deposed by a
revolutionary committeee, and was
forced to Hy for his life. He sought
shelter on a British vessel, went to
Paris and soon after died there.
Hayti was now in confusion, governed
by a revolutionary committee, which
appointed a provisional executive body
composed of seven men. Among these
were Generals i egitime, Thelemaque
and Hippolyte, all of whom aimed at
Ko r?r<>siflftnnv Alter a struffirle.
Thelema |ue was declared to have??received
the electoral vote, and installed
I himself as President in Port-au-Prince,
the capital.
His rival, Legitime, did not submit,
however, but bombarded Thelemaque's
house, and killed him and many of his
guard. Legitime then assumed the
presidency, wh.ch he has held by force
ever fince, and has recently declared
himself ' unanimously" elected by the
electoral college.
But Legitime's claim is hotly disputed,
especially by the supporters of Hippolyte,
the third aspirant, who are mostly
in the northern pare of the island. The
civil war seems, for a time at least, to
have ended in the establishment of
Legitime's power, but it may break out
again at any moment.
Meanwhile public attentionin theUnited
States has been especially directed to the
Haytian disturbances by the seizure of
an American steamer, the Haytien hepublic,
at the port of St. Marc, two or
three months ago. The vessel was
charged with having run the blockade;
she was seized, taken to Port-au-Prince,
and condemned as a prize of war.
The steamship had, in fact, taken on
board at one of the ports Hayti, a body
of men who carried arms, and had landed
the men at another port whither they
went to engage in the insurrection. This
act raised a question of international
law. For, on the one hand the Captain
of the Haytien Republic asserted that he
did not know that his passengers wore,
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other hand there was no real blockade of
any Haytian port. Ia international law
"paper" blockades?that is. blockades
which are only declared, and not enforced,
are not recoguL ed.
The United States Government proceeded
to take action in the matter.* A
squadron of three American war-vessels,
the Richmond, Yantic and Galena, was
despatched to Hayti. That this naval
force was sufficient is apparent from the
fact that the Haytian navy consists only
of a gun vessel of nine huudred tons, a
vessel of eight hundred horse-power, a
corvette, and two small sloops
The seized steamer was promptly delis
ered up to the American men-of-war,
on their arrival, by the Haytian authorities;
for they had no means to resist our
naval demonstration.
It is probable that, had any large European
"power occupied the same position
toward Hayti that this country does,
some excuse would be made for extending
a -'protectorate" over the Republic,
with a view to its permanent possession;
and it may be, even now, that we shall
bear of an attempt on the part of France
to take such a course.
But while the United States will protect
American commerce, and would no
doubt oppose the conquest and possession
of Hayti by any ?uropean power,
the time is evidently not ripe for us to
consider the expediency of occupying
Hayti ouiselves.?Youth.1* Companion.
Ice Fishln? Sport.
Fishing through the ice is a sport much
loved in all the Northern States. Our
New England grandfathers tell stories
of how the schoolmaster used to dismiss
school once or twice during the wintei
term and gajjown with all his pupils
to the mill pond, and sit there on the ice
duriDg the short winter days, a log lire
roaring behind them and a good big hola
chopped in the thick ice in' front ol
them, eating New EngUnd doughnuts,
cracking New England . okes, and last ol
all, catching?perhaps?a New .Lns'land
lish or two.
Fine sport is often found on the Hudson
Kiver during the winter months. It
is not at all an unusual sight to see a
crowd of skaters, boys and girls, men
and women, skating around oa the
f.ozea surface of old Father Hudson,
each inteatly watching for the 4,tip-ups"
to bob up, and indicate that some unlucky
fish has been captured. It is on
the Hudson, iu fact, that the sport
is paid mo9t attention to,. The tip ups
alone show that. There the plain, uuassuraiuir
crossed sticks of the lake fisherman
are relegated to a back seat. The
tip-upmustbe brightly painted aud must
bear at the top of t/te long stick a little
Hag. This last, however, is not entirely
for ornament, for ihe color of the lh'g
indicates the ''ownier" o! the hole.
The fancy fisherman has his own idea
about how a tie-up, ought to be made.
The old stager pins his laitli to simplicity
and makes a tie-up in the form of a
cross, the aims and front of which rest
on the ice, while to the short end is tied
the line. When the fish pulls, down
goes the short end of the cross or tie-up.
and up goes tne long enu, tue nsueiman
lays down his pipe and captures his fish.
Blue pike are the tishjchietiv caught,
and each one of them will weigh very
nearly a pound. There w a law against
taking the yellow pike, j> but that fish
brings more and weighs more than his
blue relative, arm who c<>uld expect a
fisherman to t?ow back a live-pound
beauty who had caught himself on the
hook? It would be riving [in the faee of
Providence. No; he finds his way into
a box with the other fish, ^ind the buyer
on shore kindly fails toi notice him.
Onco in a while the lucky: man pulls up
a big sturgeon. i
The fisherman counts 'fifty pounds a
good day's work, and sometimes brings
home 200 pounds. Prices for fish vary,
but a good man can usdally make from
$2 tu $10 a day.?New York QrapH:. j
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CURIOUS FACTS. ,
Over 1200 patents on cycles hare been
taken out in this country.
The Indians of Oldtown Island, Me.,
have organized a printing firm.
The fight between the Monitor and
Merrimac took place March P, 1882. jM
A Connecticut couple were recently^?
married after a courtship of twenty-four
years.
A Paris chemist has at last sncceeded^B
m making real diamonds from a secretBj
composition. H
Chicngo has built more tall buildings
during the last year than any other city^H
in the country. \
A goose with her wings tied was sent^H
over Niagara's Falls the other day and^f
floated away alive. jfl
There is a boy in Iowa who has lost
both hands, both feet, both ears andH
most of his nose by frost bites.
The largest cannon in the world is at H
Ghent, Belgium. The diameter of the flj
bore is two and three-quarter feet.
Twenty years ago there were ninety* B
two lightning-rod factories in the United
States. To-day there are but three. S
A New Jersey jumper advertises him-^B
self as ''the only and original Sam Patch,
who has been in temporary retirement."
The enterprising people of Troy.S^
N. Y., are already talking about ceiebrating
the centennial of their great I
collar and cuff industry in 1920. 9
A New York coin collector who had I
his museum inspected the other day waa
gratified to learn that he bad only sixty
six bogus coins in the collection 01 tw.
They generally run about half.
The ldst sailing vessel built for the
United States navy was the Constellation,
completed in 1855. She is at preaent
in commission as a practice ship,
attached to the Kaval Academy.
The maltese cat of a drug store in
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., recently ate
thirty leaches worth twenty-five cents
each, and a box of lactate powder. The
entire cost of the meal was $8.50.
The word Gramercy, used to designate
the locality. Gramercy Park in New
York city, is derived from "der Eromme|
See," which is the name given to that
district in an old map, still extant. .
Last spring the Brighton Beach (N.
Y.) Hotel was rolled back from the ocean,
which threatened its destruction. It if
now thought that it will have to be :
moved again on account of the damage _
done by the recent storms.
There is fashion even in tombstones.
White marble monuments are going oat
and but few headstones are now made
for the fashionable dead in white mate4
rial. Granite in dark shades is the prevailing
rage, and nearly all the new
monuments are being made in that .
material.
The Maharajah of Jaypore, India, ia
buiiding a temple that will cost a million
dollars. The architecture will be most
elaborate, and ~*verv workman, from
architect to coolie, is a native. Carved
marble pillars, weighing several tons,
are lifted into place with no help from
steam or modern machinery.
Damage Wrought by Smoke.
The question of damage done by smoke
in great cities where bituminous coal is .
burned has received new light by a recent
paper contributed by Hon. F. A. Iiussell,
published under the auspices ot
the London Smoke Abatement Institution.
He shows that during the great
fogs of London in 1860, fogs much
were doubtless due in the main to
smoke in the atmosphere, the death
rate in London rose in January from the
normal winter figure of 27 1-10 to 48 1-10
for the week ending February 7, which
was the period of densest fog. At (he
same time the death for nineteen provincial
towns was only 2tf 3-10; in other
words, the cases of death over the average
of an ordinary winter period was
2?94. He estimated that at least tea
times as many persons were ill from the
BAme cause. It thus appears that the
dead and wounded in this contest with
a preventable nuisance was equal to
that of many famous battles. Mr. Rus^
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Sell computes mat me auuuai iu;s tu
the population of London in the way of
damage to buildings, furniture, extra
washing, waste of coal, extra lighting,
etc., not taking into account the en?hanced
death-rate, amounts to about
$25,000,000 a year. On this basis he
makes a new appeal for an effective resistance
to this great eviL Many of oar
-American cities, particularly those of
the Mississippi Valley, are interested in
this/problem. -New York, Graphic. , ,
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Oiieer Rules on Danish Railways. '
Every one who has traveled in Denmark
has noticed the enormous number
of guard houses along the railroads, and
the fac$ that women usually signal the
trains. As a measure of economy man
and wife are employed by the State, the
former as track-walker and the latter as
guard. The rules specify the relationship
to exist between these two classes
of employes, and rules are made to be
obeyed. When it happens that either
dies the survivor has just six weeks in
which to find another partner. Neglect
to do so is disobedience, punished with
dismissal. The employment of brother,
sister, or servant to till the vacancy is not
allowed. The guard or track-walker
must marry in six weeks or leave. A
ease of this kind occurred recently sear
the old town of ltibe, on the German
frontier. The stricken widower petitioned
the Government to allow him
an extra week or ,two, alleging that hU
work of walking all day nlong the railroad
track did not give him a chagce to
look for a wife, but his request waa refused
as in itself an infraction of discipline.
The hapless widower had only
Bix days of grace left, but he did not
want to lose his job and went skirmishing
with such energy that before the end
of the tilth he had a new wife flagging
the trains.?Iiel.oboth Sunday Hirald,
The Thinking Habit.
One of our "passion poets1' ha? lately
published a metaphysical poem, one
stanza of which will suffice to give an
idea of what it is:
Tbink health, and health will find you
As certain as the day,
And pain will lag behind you
Ana ioso you on me way.
Why not pursue this same line of reasoning
to the bitter end,somewhat after this
fashion?
Think wealth, and you will get it?
A million, more or less;
Think silk, and in the closet
You'll lind a gros grain dress.
Think land, when you are drowning,
Beyond all human roach,
Ani bv this happy theory
You'll b; washed up on the beach.
Think bread when you are hungrv,
And a feast will there be spreud;
Think sleep when you are weary.
And you'll find yourself in bed.
However much "thinking" may help
to materalize all the good things thus
promised, one grand result will certainly
be accomplished, for it cannot be denied
that the thinking habit will produce a
thoughtful generation.?Hurpm-'t MorUfi3>y.