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THE ALU-KIND MOTHER.
La, whatever is at band
Is fall meet for the demand:
Nature ofttimes giveth bast
ft hen she seemeth chat i93t.
Bhe hath shapon shower and sun
To the need of every one?
Bummer bland and winter drear,
Dimpled pool and frozen mere.
All thou lackest she hath still,
Near tby finding and thy fl;L
Yields her fullest faith, and she
Will endow theo royally.
Loveless weed and lilv fair
She attendeth, here and thereKindly
to the weed as to
The lorn lilly teared with dew.
Each to her hath us9 a3 dear
&s the other; an thou clear
Thy cloyed senses thou may'st see
Haply all the mystery.
Thou shalt see the lily get
Itsdivinest blossom; yet
Shall the woed's tip bloom no less
With the song bird's gleefulness.
Thou art poor, or thou art rich?
Kever lightest matter which:
All the glad gold of the noon,
All tne surer 01 me moon,
She doth lavish on thee, while
Thou withholdest any smile
Of thy gratitude to her,
Baser used than usurer.
Shame be on thee an thou seek
Not her pardon, with hot cheek,
And bowed head, and brimming eyes, '
And her merciful "Arisd!"
?James W. Riley, in the Century.
A CASTAWAY'S STORY.
We were on the run down from Yokaft&ma,
Japan, to a port in Cochin Chiua,
on a ?nglish tea brig called the Russell.
Our course lay to the south down the !
Pacific to the island of Formosa, and ;
then around into the China Sea. I*; was
the season for squall*, and the first four i,
days out gave us plenty to do, although
we made good progress. One the evening
of the fourth day, iust as twilight
was coming one. a sudden squall laid us
almost on our beam ends, and while in
that position we were swept by a sea
which carried me overboard. I don't J
suppose I was even missed for the next i (
quarter of an hour, and I was no sooner ! .
in the water than I understood the brig !
could do nothing for me. No craft
leaves a man to drown if there is the
slightest show to save him, but I knew ,
the brig had her hands full with the ,
quail. I was near done for before I got !
a breath ot air, and I had not yet pulled ,
myself together when I flung out my .
arm and tou.hed a solid object. It !
proved to be a cage containing about j
twenty live fowls, which had fctched (
away,and I wasn't over five minutes mak- ,
lag fast to it by raean3 of my belt. By ! !
. the time I could look around the night'.
had come down and the brig was no- .
, where to be seen. The squall lasted j
about twenty minutes, and then passed ,
away, to be followed by a steady breeze J
daring the entire night. <
I had no idea that the brig would re- ,
turn to look for me, and the best thing ,
1 could do was to make myself comfort- .
able. The water was warm, the night J,
balmy and starlight, and the sea was not i (
beavy enough to annoy me much. I had .
every hope of being picked up next day, ! ]
as vessels were numerous on that route, j
and so, taken all in all. I was not in de-',
pair. I was driven to the west at a !
Kcady pace up to about midnight, and
then a queer thing happened. 1 was on (
lop the coop or cage, which was buoy- j
ant enough to foat me a foot above the (
surface. It had no doubt been lashed to !,
Ibe deck by a rope or two, and portions (
af these ropes might have been trailing
mnderneatb, or it may be that in going
averboard it entangled a rope. At any
rata, at about midnight there was a sudden
commotion under and about me, , 1
urn then my craft started off at almost
railroad speed. I have an idea that a
b'g shark came nosing around after me
?nd became entangled, but it might
have been some other large fish. Whatever
it was, was fast and acting*a9 a tug,
and the way he towed that cage along
the surface was a caution. He tried
diving, but he could not pull it under, !
nd seeming to be more frightened by
this discovery he set off with increased
peed.
For at least three hours the shark, or j
whatever it was, ran to the west at a rate
of speed which could not have been less
lhaa ten miles an hour, and the first
flush of day was in the horizon at my
back when there was a shock and a crash, j
and I went end over end off my float. .
To tell the truth, I was asleep. I had J
been lowed so steadily and rocfe so easily '
that 1 went to sleep without knowing :
that my eyes had closed. I struck out
and began swimming, confused and ,
frightened by the shoc\*, but I had not
Bade a hundred strokes before I beached !
jsolf on the sand and saw that I was !
ashore on an island. I sat down to wait ,
ior auyngnt, ana wnen it came tne
situation was plain. I was on a thickly '
wooded island, and 200 feet f ora the
beach due east of where I stood was the .
wreck of my hencoop entang ed in a !
oral reef whxh now and then showed ,,
its head above water. Between me and !.
the reef the water was ten feet deep and .
quiet enough to f oat a canoe.
Off the southern coast of Japan there are !
lot of islands called the Lieon-Khieon
Eoup. All of them are inhabited now, j'
it at that time only the two or three '
larger ones were peopled. I was only a
common sailor, but it did not take me
great while to figure out that I had
been cast ashore on oue of this group. I
Had I started out to become a second
Pobinson Crusoe, I could not have
chosen a better location to begin busi,?e
s. The climate was perfect, the
island loaded with various wild fruits,
and fish were leaping up all around me.
My first move was to take olf ray wet
clothes and hang them up to dry, and
while they were drying I made a breaklast
from wild fruits. After getting into
my clothes agan I took an inventory
and found myself possessed of a sheath j
knife, a plug of tol.acco, three or four i
buttons, and a few silver coins. Had j
there been a wreck to draw on, as in |
Crusoe's ca-e, I should have been more
cheerful. I then set out to survey my
domain, and by noon I found that I was I
on an isluud about two miles long and !
enc mile across. It was a regular grove, j
with high and dry ground, and an |
abundance of fruits and berries. In
that walk I found the wild tea plant,
potatoes mai/e, onions, cabbages rice,
?tWTups^ mulberries, and bananas. There
were plenty of birds, but I did not find
a reptile or wild animal of any sort.
The island was a paradise in almost
every sense, but long enough before
igbt I was greatly troubled in my mind ;
as to how I was to get along A young
sailor with a hearty appetite craves something
more solid than wild fruits. I
wanted a fire, and I had no means of
procuring one. I wanted company, but
even the birds avoided me. I wondered
how I CDuld make a signal, and what
sort of a craft came that way, and how
lartothe west the other islands were,
sod before night I was so homesick and
broken op that I was ready to shed tears.
I crossed the island Iwice during the
afternoon, looking more particularly to
make sure that there were no snake3, of
which I felt an awful dread, and as I
failed to find any I made my bed that
night under a tree on some boughs I cut
Off I slept fairly well, and ray second
breakfast was again made cf fruits.
When I got my fill I determined to make
afire. The novelist of to-d\y will have
a cast-away youth rub two dry sticks to?
gcther for a few minutc9 and start a
blaze, but I got the dryest sticks I could
find and rubbed until I wa9 completely
tired out, and I could not even blacken
thorn. I got some dry moss and struck
stc>ne3 together, but the a; arks would
noc ignite it. Three-quarters of the day
was spent in eflorts to get a fire, and
then I had to give it up. A smoke
woi?'d have been the best signal to a
pacing crr.ft, but I could not get a fire,
aud a? I had no clothes to spare, being
in my shirt sleeves when I went overboard,
I had to abandon the idea and
hope that some native craft would touch
the shore.
I had landed midway of the island, on
the eastern shore, and the spot was as
* - ? ??. - rr?i
pleasant as any oilier locality. ini-refote,
on the third day I built me a comfortable
shelter under the trees, and
settled it with myself that I was in for it
fst some time to come. Twice that day
I saw sailing vessels to the east, but
miles away, I also went to the south,
west and north sides of the island, and
piled up shells on the beach above tide
mark and placed sticks on top of them
porting my way. Whoever landed
wou d be apt to see them and understand
that some one had been cast away.
A week passed, and no craft came near.
At the end of five or six days I was
thoroughly tired of my feed, but there
was no change, unless I wanted raw fish
or rfesh. I could have made a net out of
vines and caught some fish, or I could
oociltr li.nTn L-illiirl cntriA nf tVift llirds with
a club, but tho absence of a tire was
the drawback. Few men get less sound
sleep than a sailor. Many a time I have
promised myself a slumber of a week at
the end of a voyage. I ought to have
slept like a stone on my islaud as there
was nothing tu make me afraid, but I
was more wakeful than on shipboard.
About the middle of the second week
I had an adventure which quite broke
me up for the next day or two. Having
seen no sharks inside the reef, I had
taken a swim in the clear, still waters
every morning. On this morniDg, soon
after getting"out of bed, I stripped o f
and jumped in with a great splash and
began floundering about I was about
to strike out for the reef when I saw the
dorsal tin of a shark between me and it,
and I turned and landed without loss of
fimo a a t tnnlro/1 ha- v anmethinc
struck at me and fell short by only a
foot, and I leaped away just in time to
avoid another feeler of a monstrous
devil fish. I could plainly make him
out on the bottom, and he came within
[in ace of getting hold of me. The shark,
which wa* fully sixteen feet long, advanced
toward the beach, and as he
reached the spot where the devil fish lay
a row began. The shark was sei ed by
at least two of the feelers, and in the first
moment he was rolled over and over.
Then he pulled himself together, and for
the next five minutes the water was
churned to fury. I think the shark got
the best of the tight, as he made off after
a while seemiugly unhurt, while pieces
of one of the feelers came ashore t<J prove
that it had been severed from the body
by the shark's teeth.
The second week pa?sed, and a third
and a fourth. During the time I sighted
mauy sails, but they were always afar off.
I had become so sick of my fare that I
scarcely ate anything, and the lazy life
became a positive disgust. At the end
of the fourth week 1 woukl have agreed
to work one year at ditch d'gging without
pay for a parage to civilization. On
the second <luy of the fifth week there
was a gaie anu a neavy sea irom ine eusi.
At about noon on the third day a ship's
yawl nearly full of water, but containing
a woman, drove ashore almost at my
fe?t. There was a heavy surf, notwithstanding
the coral reef, and had I not
been on hand the boat would have been
pulled back by the undertow and carried
out among the rocks and smashed. The
woman had lascd herself to one of the
thwarts, and was nearly exhausted with
hunger and exposure. It was little I
could do for her except to give her
water and food, and it wa3 sundown before
she could tell her story. She was
the wife of Captain Bradbtirn of another
English tea brig, the Constellation. I
was coming down the Pacific when
washed overboard. She was going up.
A gust or scjua'l heeled the Coostellat'on
over, and she was boirded by a sea
which swept Mrs. Brad burn and two
men away, a id took with it the boat
and a lot of deck ratfe. The men she
saw struggling as she got hold of the
boat, but they were doubtless drowned.
It was almost d;uk, as in my case, and
she als;) dro e to the west llow she got
ir.to the boat sbe cauld not remember,
nor was she clear as to how long she had
lloated. She thought it m ist have been
a great deal longer than I figu ed.
It was three days before the woman
picked up her strength und courage, and
by that time I was ready to leave the
island. The mast and sail belonging to
the boat had been stowed under the
thwarts and were safe, and all I had to
do was to fill a number of big shells
with fresh water, of which, as I have forgotten
to state, there was a supply on
the island. We left in the morning
heading to the south, and at 3 o'clock in
the afternoon we were picked up by an
American ship called Happy Home. She
was bound up for .'a;>anese teas, but
that same day we signaled an Knglish
ship coming out of Shanghai and bound
home, and Mrs. Bradburn was transfeircd.
That was the Inst I ever saw or !
heard of her, though I know the ship i
reachcd Kngland safely. I was a roving I
sailor, witn no nome or acturess, anu no
matter how badly her husband wanted
to thank me he knew not where I was to
be found.- iVVto 31 rk Sun.
Chinese Nuptial Preparations.
The preparations for the imperial wedding
go on uninterrnptc dly at Peking.
Thirty oltieials of the Ilau-lin Academy
are copying out hanging scrolls of au
spicious and poetical inscriptions, to bo :
hung in pairs; and twenty operatives of ;
the paste pot come every morning, cach '
with his passport in his belt, to the palace
to decorate the walls. The court
painters are also hard at work at the
mun^hin. or door josses, for which paper, j
paint, etc., have been issued to them by I
order of the Board of Revenue from the j
Color Department. ? JSan Francisco
Chronicle.
A Contract to Light Mexico.
N. A. Haven and John J. Iladdy, of
St. Louis, have received from tlio
Mexican Government the papers
conceding them twenty years' exclusive
privilege to manufactuic and
furnish water gas to all the cities of
Mexico. The company is known as the
Union Light and Fuel Gas Company of
America, with a capital stock of $3,u00,U00.
The President of the company is
D. D. Dewey, and the secretary John
D. Norton, both of Pontiac. Mich. The
papers are signed by President Diaz and
other officials of Mexico.
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS 8KETCHR9 FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Signs of the Season ? Misapprehension?Musical
Item?A Considerate
Judge?Put In a
Different Light, Ere., Etc.
When the water s'owly freezes
Jn the pump,
IVhen the merry winter breeze is
On the jump,
When the people of this section
Get a purplish complexion,
And the mercury's direction
Isa-slump;
When the merchant dons his great
Rubber boots,
And the school-boy on his skate
Executes
Most astonishing gyrations,
Elephantine demoustrat.ons,
When in full bias: are the uation's
:Boggan chutes;
vvuen tne attic room aoiu grow
Quite too airy,
When the streets because of snow
Become glary?
Then 'tis very safe to say
That 'tis not the month of May,
But the blizzardously gay
February.
?Harper's Bazar.
Misapprehension.
"Doctor Jenkins," a9ked an-anxious
patient, "don't you think it would be
dangerous to go into the water after a
hearty meal?:'
"It would be more dangerous to fish !
it out and eat it," growled the doctor.?
Judge.
Musical Item.
"One of these dollars is a counterfeit,
ma'am."
"How can you tell;"
".imply by sound. Just tap it and
hear how clear the genuine sounds.
That's tenor. JS'otice when I tap the
other one. That's base."- Siftinga.
A Considerate JudffO.
Judge?"Miss, how old are you?''
Wituess?"Well, I'm thirty."
"Thirty what?"
"Well, between thirty and forty."
"I'll put your age down at thirtynine;
I guess you won't lose anything
by that."?Texas Siftings.
Put in n Different Light.
In the garden.
"Are you not ashamed, cousin, to kill
a pretty bird like that'?"
"But, my dear girl, I thought it would I
look so well in your hat."
"True, I didu't think of that! It's
exactly the same shade of gray. You are
very kind!"?Ju/ge.
An Excellent Dressmaker.
Mi9s Travis?"Don't you think my'
new dress is too sweet for anything?"
Miss DeSmith? "Oh, lovely?exquisite!
I do believe your dressmaker could,
make a beaupole look graceful."?Burliny
ton Free J'ress.
Ho Wag Slow.
Drill Sergeant?"1 say, Schmidt, have
you any idea of how slow and stupid you
are?"
Private Schmidt?"I don't know."
"Of course you don't, but let me tell
you that an i- gyptian mummy is frisky ;
compared with you."
Not At All.
De Smith?"Don't you think Miss De
Collete is a splendid creature?"
Travis?"ies, all but her eyes. They :
aren't exactly the same color."
De Smith?"Vou ought to overlook a
little fault like that."
Travis?"I cau't. She's a foot taller
than I am."?Burlington Free Prtss.
Practically Unanimous.
At the beginning of our late war the
secession of one of the States was being
discussed in a little company one even- j
ing.
How do the ladies feel about it?" j
asked one gentleman of another.
"Oh," replied the person addressed,
"the ladies are for uuion to a man!"? I
iiU/^/o/
It Had Been the Rounds.
Miss Clara?"Is that a new riDg you
have od, Ethel? It strikes mo 1 have
seen it before."
Misi i thel (blushing)?"Yes, Clara;
young Mr. l'aperwate presented it to me j
lust night. I have accepted him."
Miss Clara?"Oh, indeed! I'm so1
glad. Accept my best wishes. 11
thought that ring looked strangely fa- j
miliar."?Life.
The Mother's Joke.
Mother?"I would not put too much
faith iu Miss Pert, John."
Son?"Why not? She's all right."
Mother?"Don't you think she's a
little llighty, apt to change, like a
weathercock?"
Son?"No. What makes you think
she's like a weathercock?"
Mother?"Because she's a little vain."
?Boston Courier.
He Didn't Advertise.
I?;-** TrnHpsman ? "How's business
with you, Smith:"
Second Tradesman (dejectedly)?
"Pretty poor."
First Tradesman?"I see you haven't
got any sign up."
Second Tradesman?"Xo; I don't believe
in signs. Goods Bpeak for themselves."
First Tradesman?"No, they don't.
It's my opinion, Smith, that, with respect
to a sign, you have either got to
put up or shut up."?Burlington Free
J*rau
Easily Suited.
Landlady?"Docs the turkey suit you,
Mr. McGinnis!"
Boarder?"It is excellent, Mrs. Hashwell.
I do believe that cook of yours
could roast a side of so'e leather and
make it tender and palatable. This is
(feeling confusedly that he has made a
blunder), I meau, of course, tender
enough for me. I'm not?ah?at ali
particular, you know. I can ?er?worry
dowu any sort of cooking, Mrs. Hashwell."
landlady (icily)?Thank you, Mr.
McGinnis!"?Chicago Tribune.
The Size Nothing to do With If.
Magistrate (to complainaut)?"Do you
mean to say, sir, that this woman's baby
can annoy you so excessively as you
claim? "Why, they live next door!"
Complainant?"Yes, your honor."
Magistrate?"And the baby doesn't
weigh more than fourteen pounds; it's
about the smallest spec'men of humanity
I ever saw! A baby that size
can't make any noise."
Omplainnnt?"Judge, you ought to
get married and have a few babies yourself;
it would broaden your intellect and
give you information that might be even
of legal importance to you."?Epxh.
Supposed a Ca?e
A small boy entered a Fourteenth
avenue grocery the other day ahd asked
v? i fa
the proprietor to trust him to two cents'
worth of candy.
"I don't know you," was the reply.
"But I live Just two blocks down."
"But what made you suppose I'd
trust you?"
' I supposed so because you've got two
barrels of kerosene out doors and I could
have bored gimlet holes in both of them
last night without anybody knowing
it."
The grocer compromised by trusting
the boy to a cent's worl;h of candy and
rolling the barrels into his shed.? JDctrdt
Free Prer.
He Admitted She Was Right.
He was seated across the room.
"George," she said "if a fire were suddenly
to break out in the house what
would bo your first impulse, do you
think?"
"Well, my first thought would be for
you, of course. I would get you
to a nlace of safety, and then do what I
coula to extinguish the flames."
"That would bo very nice of you,
George, to think of me first; but if afire
were to break out now, for instance,
wouldn't you lose valuable time in reach
ing me from away across the toomr"
"I don't know but what I would,'1
said George, as he changed his seat.
?Sunday C'ritque.
Both in Hard Lncfc.
This story opens on the third floor of a
magnificent Harlem compartment house.
He had been twisting about on his
chair trying to find words to express his
undying devotion, and had already begun
to hem and haw, when a voice camo
from the floor below:
'.Miss Candlewick," it said "I love
you passionately?madly; bid me but
hope, and all the dark colors of my life
will change!"
This was a bonanza for the young man
above.
"Miss Clara, darling," he said, tremulously,
"them's my sentiments."
Then another voice came from below:
"No, Mr. Goatee, I cannot bid you
hope; I love another."
"And them's mine, Mr. Morris," remarked
Miss Cla.a.?Harper's Bazar.
Salary No Object.
Young "Woman (at intelligence office)
?"Any situations open to- day."
Manager?"Yes. There is a fine opening
for a 'second girl' in a good family
on Sunny avenue, $4 a week. Duties
light. And you get your board free,
you know, and two afternoons off every
week."
Young Woman (haughtily)?"Any
other chances?"
Mauager?"Let mo see. H'm. Yes,
Grindem & Hardface.the dealers in green
hicies and tanners' supplies, in the basement
this side of the docks on Dingy
Row, want an assistant bookkeeper.
Salary small, of course "
Young Woman (excitedly)?"Never
mind the salary. Giva me a note to the
firm!"?Chicago Triiune.
Brains Always Win.
Stranger?"Beg pardon, madam, for
calling you to the door, but will you be
kind enough to te 1 me who thai
ignorant, vulgar, commonplace woman
in the house across the way is?"
Mrs. Gabb?"That's Mrs. Stuckup."
"Stuckup. Thank you. I must je
member the name so as not to waste ume i
on her in future. How did such a hope-1
lessly ignorant woman get on this very I
respectable street, I wonder?"
"I'm sure I don't know. I called on
her onco, but bhe never returned it, and
that ended our acquaintance,you may be
sure, the odious thing."
"I should say so. Why, that woman
wouldn't know a lady frr>m an orang
outang; she wouldn't know a bright
spoon from a black one. It's an actual
fact that it isn't five minutes since she
said she had never heard of the Skihigb
silver polish; and when I even went to
the trouble to brighten a spoon for her
she said it looked just the same. Never
saw such ignorance. I suppose you:j
have always used the Slcihigh polish, of
course. You have the bright, cheery,
beautiful appearance of ladies who do,
but perhaps your supply is meat out, and
in that case "
' I believe it is. I'll take a package."
"It come3 in cans, madam. One
dollar, plea3e. Thanks."?Philadelphia
Record.
Drove Him Away.
Mark Twain, during h:s early days,
did not stand well among boarding
house keepers. The drawing youtn
was too lazy to pay his board. Once,
while working on the St. Louis Republican,
Twain, after many boarding house
hardships, cast his hungry lot with a '
hard featured widow named Perkins, j
The printers had told h m that she wa3 a
woman of gentle nature. They gleefully '
nnd nf thn first week. Mon- I
uwaiiv?u iuv
day morning when Mark came to the office
his face wore an anxious expression.
"How are you, Clemens?" said the
foreman.
"Slow."
"That's a fact. Glad to see that you
have entered upon tne week in so truthful
a way. How is your landlady?"
"Bad."
"Did you pay her Saturday night?"
"No."
"What did she sayj"
"Nothing, but she looked as though
she were chiseled out of stone."
"I should think," a tramp printer rejoined,
"that she looked as though she
were chiseled out of board."
Twain cast a quick glance at the
speaker, and, lazily reaching for his coat,
said: "My immortal so:;i is too tender to
stand the cruel shafts of sarcasm. Good
bye."
He dragged himself out of the office.
His career as a printer was at an end.?
Arlcunsaw Trace/er.
A Dependent Citizen.
The following true story is told of t j
well known member of the bar in Allegany
County, New York, than whom j
there never lived a gentlier, kindliei j
spirit. With his scholarly attainments
and profound knowledge of legal lore
he possessed the simple, dependent nature
of a child, aud, it may be added, 8
child's utter guilelessncss and faith ir j
his kind.
His wife, fortunately for ihe worldlj j
success of the pair, was shrewd aud,
practical in a marked degree; upon ho
strong independence of character ,Judg< I
C leaned heavily, except within th< i
domain of his profession, where, curiously
enough, his op nions were singu
larly prompt and infallible. In the do
mestic and social circles, however, hi
deferred to Mrs. C in the simples
matters, and so habitual had this stat<
of things become that it did not occui
to cither of them that there was any
thing unusual in it. From donning hii .
winter flannels to leading a card at th<
whist table he never pretended to ad
without "Helen's" sanction and advice.
But one day he showed his condition
of mental servitude in a really astonish
ing way. He was suffering from toothache,
and his wife sent him to the vil
lage dentist for relief. Obediently hi
went, got into the chair, and opened h i
mouth for the prelim nary examination.
"Which tooth is it aches, Judge." in
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quired the dentist, poising the forceps.
There was a moment's hesitation; then
the Judge sat up from his reclining position,
and looking innocently at the
dentist, said, in all good faith: "Well,
now, I don't know; I'll go home and ask
Helen."
Country Versus City Life.
The general death-rate in large cities,
says Dr. J. M. French, in the American
Agriculturist, is often twice as great as
in the sparsely-settled country, while
among children under five years of age
the difference is even greater than this,
t'o constant and well ascertained is this
difference that Dr. Farr, the English
rogistrar-genenil, has formulated the law
that the death-rate of districts increases
with the density of their population.
Investigations which have been recently
made upon a large scale prove conclusively
that all persons living beyond the
age of eighty years only, an extremely
small proportion were born or spent their
childhood in the city, while a large pro-,
portion were reared upon a farm. In
one case, out of one thousand octofenarians,
four hundred and sixty-one
ad been farmers all their lives, and
nearly all of them began life upon the
farm. In auother instance, out of many
thousands, only one person over eighty
years of age had been bora and brought
up in the city. Many of them had removed
to the city, and engaged in business
there, but all except one had spent
the years of body-building in the countrv.
The great majority of the successful
business men in our cities, and of men
occupying responsible positions in pub lie
life, were country born and bred. In
the country they obtained that roDustness
of constitution and strength of body
without which no one can long endure
the strain of business or professional life.
Thero, too, they build up that strength
of mind and character which is necessary
in order to overcome the temptations
of city life, and that steadfast determination
which enabled them to achieve success.
The reasons for these things are not
hard to find. The conditions of city
life are such as to lead to a much greater
prevalence of nearly all epidemic
and cnntacious diseases. Then tho
country lads and lasses enjoy plenty of
good air and sunshine, simple food and
out*door exercise. Their habits are
regular, their hours of rising and retiring
are early, and they live close to nature,
In the city these conditions arc reversed.
Pure air is hatd to find, night is turned
into clay, and life is artificial. The
strain upon the nervous system is
greater, the body is not as well nourished,
and the vital forces give out earlier.
An Arctic Explorer in Tropic Zones.
Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of
Arctic fame has just started for Mexico
to traverse an unexplored region of the
Sierra Jladre Mountains. Lieutenant
fchwatka's career as an explorer and
traveler has already made him famous.
He is a native of Illinois, who
rcceivud a West Point cadetrhip from
Oregon and graduated in ls71, when
he was assigned to duty with Colonel
Crook in the cavalry service on the
frontier. lie was with the great
Indian fighter until 1877, having participated
in nearly all of the Indian
campaigns. He was afterward associated
with General Sliles, Commander of the
Department of the Columbia, as aide-de
camp. In 188o he made the trip to King
William's Land in search of Sir John
Franklin's party. The remains of a considerable
number of the ill-fated company
who abandoned the ships Lrebus
and Terror, and unsuccessfully endeavored
to find the settlements to the southward,
were discovered. Scraps of Sir
John Franklin's records were found, but
as they had been torn up and strewn
arouud by the Esquimaux' they were of
no use. It was during this expedition
that Lieutenant Schwatke made the
longest sled journey ever attempted in
thu Arctic regions. Subsequently he
made an exploration to Mount St. Llias,
Alaska, ana last year he penetrated the
iuterior regions of Yellowstone Park.?
New York Graphic.
JLorse Dentistry.
"See that horse;" asked Ceorge F.
Case this morning.
"Yes."
"Well, in about two minutes a dentist
is coming around to put his teeth intc
Bhape."
"A horse dentist?"
(Cvnptic He'll trim the rou<?h edires
off and iu fifteen minutes he'll be the
happiest equine in the stable. He won't
feel any more's if lie had three boils in
his mouth and a scalded tongue."
The dentist arrived just then, opened
a tanned calfskin case and exposed a set
of shining tools. The horse, which had
been standing in a somewhat despondent
attitude, brightened up and looked expectantly,
but a little nervous. The
dentist didn't stand on cercmony. He
thrust his arm deep into the mouth and
acquainted himself with the length and
locality of the spike?. Then he thrust
in an instrument like a pair of tongues
and began cutting the teeth. The
roughened edges c<tmo off with a loud,
crunching noise. A smaller pair of
tongues was then inserted and about
one eighth of an inch was cutoff the
front teeth. They were then beveled
with another instrument and then all the
teeth were filed off smooth. The horse
looked satisfied as he was led away to a
stall.?D.troit Journal.
Thi Velocity of Elcrators.
Few persons have any idea of the
speed of an elevator. An ordinary gues9
wouldn't probably come within half a
mile a minute of being right. i^ome
elevators run as slowly as eighty feet a
minute. You always ask the conductor
about elevators of this kind, and hetelli
you apologetically that the old thing is
worn out, auu tnat mey rc soon guiujj i
get in a new one that will take tiie cake. <
The average sj eed of elevators is about
221 feet a minute. This includes ordinary
stoppages. The elevators in the
Equitable Building have a run of 13/5
feet from basement to top of building,
nnd it takes twenty seconds to make
thai run without stop*. In a day of
ninis hours these elevators run over ten
milos. The elevators in the Western
I'nion Telegraph Building, and in Aldrich
Court are exceedingly lively. They
have developed a speed of 500 feet a
minute. That is going pretty fast. A
person with a weak stomach would be
unwise to ride down in an elevator making
that speed. It would upsei his calculation.?New
York Frew.
riiiladelplna Built on a Gold Mine.
A few days ago I met Professor Alonzo
Chase, geologist of Cornell University.
The conversation happeucd to turn on
gold, when the Professor remarked
"One of the most interesting facts about
gold is that it is found in greater or less
quantities in all parts of the world. For
instance, the city of Philadelphia is
built on a gold mine. Tests have been
made of earth from various parts of that
city, all of which show the presence of
gold, but, as it yields only a few cents
to Ihe cubic yard, it would not.pay to
work it."?New York Star.
'V
~CINCHONA BARK.
THE PRODUCT FROM "WHICH
QUININE IS MADE.
How the Great Malaria Remedy Was
Discovered?Gathering the
Bark in the Forests
of Bolivia.
The cinchona bark, from which qui- j
nine is made, is found all along the ;
western slopes of the Ande3, from the j
Caribbean fcea to the Straits of Magellan.
The product of I'eru and Bolivia is the
best, and from those Republics, until re- j
cently, the entire supply of the world I
was brought, and an enormous quantity^
it is, for the shipments to Europe alone
have frequently amounted to twenty I
million pounds a year.
The natives of i'eru and Bolivia call
the cinchona tree the cascarilla. Although
it is asserted by some of the Peruvian
antiquarians that its virtues were
known to the Incas before the Conquest,
the credit of the discovery has been
gi7cn to the Jesuits. History, nowever.
has failed to preserve the name of the
padre to whom the discovery isdue.
The bark was introduced into Europe
by the Countess of Cinchon, the wife of
one of the early viceroys of Peru, who
was cured of a fever by its use, and who
sent a quantity as a gift to Cardinal de
Lugo at Seville. The cardinal spread
the knowledge of its virtues through
Spain and fiance in the early part of
the seventeenth century, and gave the
remedy the name of the lady who
brought it to his notice. It wrs originally
known as Jesuit's bark, and even
now is frequently leferred to as Peruvian
bark. The process by which the
alkaloid?quinine?is extracted was
discovered by Pelletier, a French
chemist, so late as 1320.
The tree is beautiful. It usually attains
a height of fifty or sixty feet when
full grown, and is four or five feet in circumference
at the base. The leaves aro
large, oval-shaped, dark green on the
outside, light green on the under side,
and they glisten in the sun, when a
breeze stirs them, like the foliage of the
the silver popular. The flowers are small,
white and fragrant. The roots contain
the greatest degree of alkaloid, but are
difficult to obtain. Moreover, as the
life of the tree is destroyed when the
roots are disturbed, the trunk and
branches are depended on for the supply
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Vi uut u?
The cascarilleros, or bark-hunters, eater
the woods at the closo of the rainy
season, about the first of May, and rema
n until the last of September. They
are organised under the direction of a
superintendent, or Examinador de C'ascarilla,
who is licensed to pursue that
vocation.
Bark may be taken in the forests by
any one, Out under a law of the Bolivian
Congress all the baric must be sold to a
company which has a monopoly of the
trade, and pays for it a heavy tax to the
Government.
It was formerly the custom to fell the
tree, and strip all the bark from its roots,
trunk and branches, but in 13(51 a law
was passed to protect the forests, and
now the cascarilleros are allowed to remove
only half the bark, which theyejt
in strips with long knives called machetas,
and in a few years nature heals
the wounds, and replaces what has been
;aiten away.
The best quality of bark is that taken
from the new limbs, aud is called the
4,tabla." This is worth, when dry, from
thirty to forty dollars a quintal of one
hundred and twenty-five pounds. The
second grade comes from the larger
branches, is called "char.jue," and is
worth fifteen or twenty dollars a quintal;
while the least valuable bark, that
stripped from the trunk, is called
' canulo/'and sel.'s for five or ten dollars
a quintal. One man can cut a quintal
of bark a day if the trees are plenty, but
the caacarilleros are paid only small
wages, forty or fifty cents a day, by the
speculators who send them out.
Before the season opens the cascarilleros
are organized into gangs, each
under an examinador, and carry Into
the forest supplies of food to last through
the season. They have a common camp
or headquarters, which is moved from
place to place as occasion requires; they
go from it in pairs every morning,
searching for the tree9, and at night re- j
turn laden with the results of the day's !
labor, which is stacked in the sun to j
dry.
The bark shrinks to about half its [
original weight when the sap is dried .
out. At the close of the season several j
days are spent in tying it in packages,
which are carried on the backs of the ]
? * ? nAnnnnionf PonH07.VA11fi for !
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the mule or llama train?, and are then i
taken to the citics, where it is inspected '
by the tax gatherer and then packed in
raw hides for shipment.
The cascarilln trees, scattered through
the dense forests, are located with great
skill by the cascarilleros from the tops
of high trees or the sides of ravines. In
gathering the bark the smaller limbs are
stripped first, then the larger limbs, and j
finally the trunk. ? Youth''a Comj.anion.
His Name Against ilim.
The Hon. Daniel Dougherty, who was
heard at Central Music Hall last night,
entertained a few friends at dinner in
this city, and for three hours charmed
them with his fund of anecdote. Three
brighter hours never passed, from all I
have been told. "My name has always
been against me," he said, as he turned
the conversation to himself. 4,A few
years ago I was invited to be one of a
party of promineut people who made an
inspection of the State Penitentiary of
Pennsylvania. In going through one oi
the corridors an attendant had occasion,
not knowing who I was, to call ou* the j
name Dan Dougherty, and in the twinkle j
of an eye three of the hardest-looking !
/?riminnla T l>vpr 8a\v nonned their heads j
tiuiuLig v? r*ri j
lout and answered 'Here.'" .Mr. |
Dougherty's guests roared at this story,
for he had to'd it as it can never be
made to appear in type. They had i
hardly recovered from holding their
hands on their sides when he added:
' There has been a Dan Dougherty hung
in Pennsylvania every year since I can j
remember." The plates fairly danced on i
the table. ? Chicago Mail.
Tiie Japanese Emperor.
The Emperor of Japan is a very ]
studious man. He rises early and break- j
fasts at seven or eight o'clock. He uses |
the knife and fork in eating when he j
takes foreign food, and he adopts the
chopsticks at his .Japanese dinners. He
varies his meals.sometimes takiug foreigc
food and sometimes Japanese. He is
fond of meats, and has a well-trained
Japanese cook to serve them for him.
It is not customary for him to eat with
the Empress, and he usually eats alone.
After breakfast is over he goes to his
study, and at 9 o'clock he receives such
Ministers of State as have matters to report
to him. His audiences with them
often last until 12 o'clock. He then roturns
to his own room and takes liia
lunch. This usually consists of fish,
meats, bread and wines. He is a good I
eater and likes good wine.?Londoni
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CUBIOUS FACTS.
Chicago leads in its number of enufll
parka.
The "Beaux-less Social" is a unique
title of a Baltimore Club.
A New York man recently paid $25
for an almanac 275 years old.
Among the students at Princeton College
is one seventytwo years old. 1
Sixty-three snakes were killed in on*
hole near Harvejsburg, Ohio, the other
day.
Few ladies consider that they carry
some forty or fifty miles of hair on their
heads. 2?
The Tour de Corduan is a fa morn
lighthouse at the entrance of the 61
ronde, in France.
The Chinaman is peculiarly distig'
guished from the European by his absolute
nervelessness.
A wonderful burning lake, abont hjrif
a mile in circumference, is discovered ik
Knox County, Ind.
Acrophobia is a new term used to describe
an exaggerated condition of feu
whan in hiffh ulaces.
o- *> TV
A tame crow belonging to a farmet
near Ridgeway, Canada, has been taught
to distinguish colors.
The streets of ancient Jerusalem wen
kept remarkably clean because everj
man swept his own doorway.
A citizen of Palmyra, Mo., got up ill
the night, went into the woods anil
felled a large tree while asleep.
Milan, Paris and London lead the
world in all that pertains to a thoroughly
artistic knowledge of dancing.
A Ulysses, Neb., man hsus built th(
"largest corn-crib on earth." It it 40<
feet "long, 42 feet wide, 12 feet high,anc
holds 25,000 bushels.
Experiments have proved that the faa
of a snow breastwoik eight feet thicM
and not sloping can defy most ordinary
projectiles fired into it.
There is no salary attached to thi
title of Emperor of Germany. The King
of Prussia, however, has a modest income
ot $1,200,000 a_year.
A person convicted of any crime it
China, except that of murdering one o
the royal family, can hije a substitute to
take the punishment, even if it is death.
The word "folk lore," invented bj
late W. J. Thomas for use in English
has been adopted by the French and ap
pears in the titlc3 of new publications.
A. New York dry goods firm give* ]
as its reason for paying low salaried
that ''the less an employe earns th J
less temptations he has to become a ba?|
man." H
The viola played upon by Nahaifl
Franko at a recent symphony societfl
concert in New York was a Gaspara dfl
Salo made in 1612 and recently sold fofl
13500. ,
Male sopranos are still to be heard ill
some of the churches in Italy. Twofl
one old and thin, the other young awfl
fat, divide the solos in St. Peters!
Rome.
A man in New York has fitted himfl
self for an expert witness in chirographjfl
and once h avingaeen a man's signaturfl
he can identify it again if simply show J
one single letter of the name. fl
0. R. Herr, of Stamford, N. Y., iM
said to be the possessor of the goi<9
watch whi -h ^'ajor Andre, of Rerolul
tionary fame, offered as a ransom to hifl
" "'on if ivniilH letliim eo free. . H
Perhaps the youngest couple that ere
married in Butts County, Ga., was Mr.
Allen and wife, who were joined in wed
lock rear Worthville. Allen was jus
past fifteen years and his wife wa9 Jiia<
years his senior. .-ii ::*
Fire Company, No. 10, of Cincinnati
owns a dog which is said to have sare<
the lives of several firemen. The aui
mal is described as *a large, handsom
Newfoundland, and is credited with be
ing able to climb a ladder three storiei
high.
Working a Paper Mine.
I recently met Henry Palmer, an ol<
California friend and one of the Argo
nauts, who told mc had abandoned th
West and had settled in St. Lawrenc
County. "What are you doing u?
there?" I asked. He excited mycuri
osity by replying: "Working a pape
mine. "What do you mean:" 'Til tel
you. When I was a boy I worked in I
paper mill at Camden and became fa
miliar with the cluys used for sizing anc
weighting paper. I concluded a shor
a:? If?1i/nrnill ond nrWTlf
IIUIU UJJU IV i\.?T W VMtiiVtuiM wu?? W|- ? ?
the balance of my days in the East
While on a visit to St. Lawrence Counti
I was riding one day along a new roa<
which had been cut for some distanc
through a peculiar formation of soft
white rock. I examined it carefull;
under the microscope and found that i
was fibrous, and seemed peculiarl;
adapted to paper makiug. I had test
made by manufacturers, who reportet
favorably, so I bought the land and be
gan lpining; we are now shipping oyer)
hundred tons a day, and it is rapidf
displacing the clays formerly used, as it
fibrous nature makes it a part of th*
warp and weft ot the paper, instead o
si ing only. No other such depoJit i
known iu the country."?New York B ar
A Qneer Family.
There resides in Urbana, Ohio,
veritable family of cranks. Two sister
and a brother are now living. Years ag
the father bought coats for the boys,bu
neglected one of his sons, John, Jr.
whereupon the boy said he would neve
wear a coat as long as his fathe
lived. He went upsta rs to hii room
* *? *411 t /mi nfnnn rroor
wnere ne rcmaiueu uum iuum,i,u
after, when the father died. The hous
was afterward painted all over with th
most grotesque and curious designs
While John, the peculiar, and a brothe
were disputing about these designs, th
brother said: "John, I wish you woul<
go upstairs and stay there." John die
so, remaining as before for four years
coming down to attend the brother'
funeral. John, the recluse, is bleache<
as white of a woman because of his loni
confinement. He is sixty-five years old
A sister has charge of the finances, bu
the sisters and brother live a seclude<
life, never mingling with the world with
out.
An Interesting Legislator.;
An interesting figure in the Pennsyl
vania 1 cgislature is the Hon. John S
Hhev. member of the lower Jlouse fron
Cambria County. He is pSst seventy*
was Speaker of "the House in 18o2, and i^|
the only representative of the old fchooH
Democracy now in public life in Penn'^g
sylvania. As S|)eaker of the House iiM
1832, he appointed the committee thaH
looked after the entertainment of LouiH
Kossuth and his suite when they visitet^B
Harrisburg and escorted them across th^l
State to Pittsburg, a large part 'of th<fl
journey having to be made in sleiehsH^
there being no Pennsylvania tfailroaa tS
Pittsburg then, ana the State cana^|
being frozen. Mr. Rhey is one of th^|
oldest and Ablest lawyer*, journalists an<H
politicians in active life in the State toM
day. His mother is living, and will soofl
be 100'years old.? New York Sun,
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