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WHISTLE THEM AWAY. Have you any petty cares, boys? Whistle them away, There's nothing cheers the spirits, Like a merry roundelay. ,< No matter for the headaches, S 'Neath silk or hodden-gray. For the sake of those who love you, Just whistle them away. 'Tis strange how soon friends gather About a cheerful face; That smiling eyes and hps count more Than beauty, wealth, or grace; But I have seen it tried, boys, When trouble comes to stay, The brave heart leaps to work, and strives To whistle it away. Thee as you climb life's hill, boys, J Put music in your toil, Turn to your traitor trials, A whistle for a foil; Be steadfast in the right, boys, ; Whate'er the world may say, Temptations never conquer those Who whistle them away! ?Mary A. Denison, in Youth's Companion '" FEARLESSNESS. BT ROSE H. LATHROP. "Genevieve Chamberlain is too silent," remarked Hall Balkan. "When she come3 into the room I feel as if I wanted 4 to shake a secret out of her perfect mouth; but, as she is very dainty and very beautiful, I don't really do it." The young woman who sat near him as he spoke, painting fancy work, and who could not quite compete with a great beauty, thought that Balkan was showing off, being irritated by Genevieve's apparent indifference and was trying to console himself by grumbling at her, although he would have been very critical of any one else who dared to do so. This young woman, who could reflect intelligently, was, nevertheless, a perfect child in guilelessness. She could stand in judgment over people, as a child does, and cause no antagonism at any rate, in a nature as generous as her own. She was the sort of girl who would remain sweet and naive as an old woman. Nellie Featherly looked round at Balkan, in a moment, and responded: "Now, there is nothing mysterious about me." "You? I should think not! You are so fearless, straightforward and amusing." Vam nnJfo JllnciAn anAiirvli JL UU UAVC UUV 111UC1VU vuvugu about me, I think," Nellie pouted over her satin scarf, which was bursting into flower and leaf. "You have made me out just one of the ordinary, -useful tossme-aside kind of women, and, although you are right, I do hate to hear the fact repeated." "I don't care what you think of yourself or how you construe my appreciation of you," answered Balkan, saucily. "I am perfectly content with cd joying your traits and sitting where you paint." Nellie went on busily, with a dozen pretty attitudes and motions and a rather dissatisfied expression of countenance. Whether it was her work or her words which annoyed her, Balkan was not sure. "That's exquisite, and no mistake," he went on, peering over at the drawingboard on her knees, upon which the satin was stretched. "Oh, please don't say pretty things," Nellie cried, "Somehow, you seem insincere to-day!" "I? My dear Miss Featherly, I should not hesitate to tell the truth, rather than prevaricate. To be quite honest, I would tell you the truth about anything in the world you could ask me; though with others I might be as silent as Genevieve, instead of confessing to actualities." "If I ever want to ask you anything I will remember this," the young amateur rejoined, with the nicest smiles into Balkan's earnest face. Cecil Morton sauntered across the room, during the little pause ensuing and said that the day was too good for staying in the house. Why not go to walk before dinner? The young people, eight when all told, were visiting some dear old country gentlefolks to whom Nellie was nearly related, and who had asked them out of town for a week of sleighing, and other winter fun, the snow being in better condition than for years past. That evening they were to go sleighing by , moonlight and it was super-energetic for Morton to talk of walking. But wc all know how these restless people of energy or muscle rout us out of little lazy tete-atetes and fireside luxury. Neither Nellie nor Balkan wished to be stigmatized as loth to exercise and so they rushed out of the parlor to find the others and get well wrapped up agaiust a coolish ramble; while Cecil Morton smiled to himself in a mirror to think of the commotion he could effect at will. Nellie and Genevieve paired oft, intentionally, as the group left the halldoor ten minutes later. Something agitated Nellie's beautiful friend, as the former was able to discover through girlish intimacy, which is a very deep thing indeed. Genevieve's face looked calm and pale as she said, in a low, rather tragic voice, to the affectionate girl beside her: "My heart is almost breaking. I am so wretched, and so surprised. To think ? of it! Never have I loved before, and every one always on their knees to me. And now, the very one who absorbs my thought?cold, cold, cold!" "Don't be silly, Gen. You're so fired up at finding any one you can become romantic over, that you are as blind as a hickory nut, beside being dreadfully awkward when he's around. Moreover, Hall Balkan is perfectly splendid?so handsome and so manly! I don't wonder wonder you like him tremendously. And the idea of his not coming under your 6pell! As for me, I just know he thinks you are irresistible. I know you are in his mind"-4"You love me, and try to think me a vanquisher of all hearts, no matter how hravfi and frr>p" rrmrnmrpd Genftvievp. 'But my former conquests have not been all-convincing, because Mr. Balkan is really the only true, fine person of enviable position and means whom I ever met in our set. There seem to be a thousaiul foolish bachelors to one downright hero!" "I think Hall is a fine fellow." Nellie again admitted, softly, thrusting her little hand upon Genevieve's arm for a few steps, and then stopping her arbitrarily, and letting the others catch up with them. "How far north we seem!" she then exclaimed. "I am sure the Arctic Sea is over that hiil of pines by the meadow. Ribbons of white cloud and this exhilerating atmosphere make me feel as if I were somebody else! Oh, we are explorers. Is that a Polar bear or a snow drift?" she concluded, pointing to a white banked gate post by the cattle lane. ?imi - i Mrnrinw ?? iiinin?i Cecil Morton tried to shuffle the little party in such a way that he would come next to Genevieve; but she evaded him, by sheer force of desperation. And, as luck would have it, Hall Balkan came up to her with his fine, hearty good cheer, and asked her to walk with him as far as a wide-spreading elm at a considerable distance down the high road; and Nellie Featherly heard him say it. A damask flush all over Genevieve's face made Balkan glance round to see if the sunset had begun yet; but the West was as gray as a flag-stone. Genevieve was willing, and they started off at a huge pace, which the rest tried to imitate; but not too well, as every one of the girls thought that Balkan wanted to propose to his companion, and determined to let him have a chance. At last the two figures in advance stopped under the delicate tracery of the great, bare elm-tree, and seemed to be talking earnestly. Then a cry went up from Nellie Featherly, for Genevieve had sunk to the ground, evidently in a faint, and Belkan kneeled at her side. "The walk was too rapid for her," exclaimed Nellie, off-hand. "Oh, Mr. Morton, why must you always be asking us to go for constitutionals; they'll be the death of us!" And Nellie, whom no one had ever seen really provoked before, gave him a cross glance; and then went on a run, accompanied by the reproved Morton, toward her friend, while the others followed more or less ardently. As faithful Nellie ran, she discerned a strange, black cloud rolling toward them all, down the snowy road. Soon the motion oi two prancing norses Decame apparent; and as Nellie reached Genevieve's prostrate form, in the middle of the road, over which Balkan was bending in absorbed dismay, the plucky girl realized that a runaway team was in full swing at a few yards' distance, and quite unobserved by any one but herself and Cecil Morton, who shouted to Nellie to have a care and jump aside. But this Nellie never thought of doing. On she ran, beyond Genevieve, whose danger was so imminent?and what could she do to avert the danger? In her muff was a ball of snow, which had been reduced by careful manipulation (under Morton's instructions) to an icy consistency; capable, as her teacher had explained, of killing anybody, if rightly aimed. It is by no means easy to swerve the direction of a maddened horse. But one of these was running away because the other wanted to, and he yet retained some common-sense. At any rate, Nellie drew forth her icy ball in a twinkling, and hurled it, by good luck, at the saner horse (for they were now closc at hand) with such splendid vigor and true aim that it hit him furiously on the nose. He plunged aside, slipped on the hard crust of the old snow beside the road, and keeled over, carrying his rampant mate with him iuto the ditch. They were a powerful team belonging to Nellie's uncle, and were dragging an empty wood-sledge. Their driver was hallooing in the distance, as he ran wearily along. Nellie pondered a moment over the success of her defense and gazed at the quivering limbs of the foe, and then turned back to Genevieve, panting. The crirls were on the bank at the other side of tlie road. Meautime, Balkan had but just looked up, realized the peril and caught Genevieve in his anus, while Morton threw his weight wildly upon the young man's struggling shoulders. It is always in some such way that a person weak in emergencies assists the real actors. So swiftly do runaway horses proceed that it only seemed an instant since Genevieve had fainted. Now all the girls swooped down from their perch helpfully, and surrounded their pale friend, whose swoon was so much in earnest that she had not stirred an eyelash. Nellie seized Balkan's hand and told him she must speak with him instantly. "Did you offer yourself?" she severely demanded, when she had led him, peremptorily, out of hearing of the others. "No," he gasped, gazing blankly, as a man does who is confronted with more Greek than he is prepared for. "Didn't you propose?" exclaimed Nellie, in the same indignant tone, which showed Balkan that he was a criminal, whichever way he pleaded. "Do explain!" he quavered, gently. But Nellie was off to Genevieve with impertinent haste, kneeling down at her side, calling for soft snow from under a drift and rubbing the beauty's temples and lips with it, while she explained to Morton how to get Genevieve's hands warm; much to his satisfaction, for she did not object to his covering them with kisses. The teamster came up, and Nellie found time to scold him for his stupidity. "I know you by sight, Jim," she said. "But that shan't save you. Go you shall from my uncle's service!" "But, Miss!" "No 'buts'! You might have killed a dozen people, you goose!" "As true as I live, Miss, I've always heard as how horses will run in winter, when the moon is near the full, as its been proved this day! So crisp-like everywaerc, .miss, unai uau j uu c.\pei;i/ of them." "Swear you'll never leave your hcrses without tying them tight," commanded Nellie, haughtily. "Faith I'll swear whin I'm out of your prisince, Miss!" Jim humbly answered. The horses were unhitched from the sledge, and the young people undertook to drag Genevieve home, which the stout poles at the sides of the conveyance assisted them to accomplish, as the girls could take hold of them and propel, while the young men dragged the cumbrous concern. The fair invalid was pillowed on muffs and covered wi^li newmarkets, and was pleased to revive nicely. It was first sunset and then deep dusk when the catafalque slowly reached home. It may be supposed that dinner was a little late that evening. Nellie cr.me into the parlor before the others, looking lovely, in still another ! of her Worth dresses, and Balkau was waiting for her, ready to pounce. Nellie's eyes, which looked unusually big and bright, because she had been crying all to lrerself, filled again with tears. She edged away into the anteroom, and he followed. "I meant," she replied, soto voce, "that when you love her, and when she loves you, and when you come out into the 'backwoods' and have plenty of opportunities, and when we are all looking on from a respectful distance, it is perfectly stupid of you not to offer yourself to Genevieve, and I should have fainted and died both if I had been in her place! She showed great self-oontrol not to have died. You had no business to stipulate the tree, anyhow, for of course she would expect everything to be settled before she got there. Oh! of course you think me outrageous to meddle with you and talk right out as if I were a novel, without respect of persons and open secrets; but I'm nobody in particular, and I will love Genevieve and put my finger into her affairs if I like to! And I'll just add this: that I'm going to arrange to have you both driven by the coachman to-night in the big sleigh, while we are apportioned off to little cutters. The driver's seat is way up." "But, my dear Miss Featherby?"Nellie " "Now, don'c be disrespectful. Of course I can only ask for an outward show of respect after telling you to offer your- | self to my dearest friend, whom we all know (goose) you are hoping to win; but that show of courtesy I stipulate for." "But how can I ask Miss Chamberlain in marriage if I love you?" Balkan squeezed in. desperately. Nellie sat down on the arm of a chair and looked up at him aghast, blushing and appealing. "Oh, you can't be in love with me!" she panted. "I wish you would not be so scornful," he answered. * 'You ought to have known it. Months ago, I was crazy about Genevieve, like the rest;'but only for a week, for then 1 met you. A man aon t sit staring all day at a girl unless he dotes on her! While I stare at you, your utter indifference to me is something appalling; but I had hoped to win you in the end. Then you take me by the the throat, yank me in front of somebody else, with orders, martial in their haste, and now cast me into a perfect sea of prematureness; for, of course, you'll spurn my allunheralded revelation. But I'm "as obstinate as you arc, and love you I will, by Jove!" Balkan sat down on another chair-arm, and being trim as a marble statue for dinner, and not having time to brush his hair again if he tore it a little, thrust his thumbs in his pockets and glared at the fire. A faint rustle of heavy silk at his elbow made him feel exultant. "If she consents to it, you might propose to me, then, in the Russian sleigh!" He turned, and the little creature's superb eyes met his. He caught her hands, and studied her face with blissful care. "I thought I was of no great account," she murmured, all of a tremble; and was suddenly kissed in a way that made her feel that for the future she had some one to guard her against all harm, and give her all the happiness she could wish for. ?The Independent. Shanghai Police. The first sight of Shanghai is only its In T T,,?o TTTQTT fA Ill dt SUifJIlSG* 110 .1 new x\jiuu^ urraj wwr the hotel the 'rickshaw coolie turned on to the right-hand side of the road. Instantly a familiar figure stepped off the sidewalk and shook a warning finger and the coolie swung baqk again to the left side. It was a policeman, no semiEuropeanized Mongolian languidly performing a half-understood duty, as I had seen elsewhere, but the genuine home article, helmet, blue suit, silver buttons, regulation boots, truncheon and all?just "bobby," writes Henry Norman in thfl Philadelphia Times. And his uplifted finger turns the traffic to the left in Shanghai precisely as it docs in front ol the Astor House at home. A hundred yards further on there was a flash of scarlet in the sun and there stood a second astonishing figure?a sixfoot copper-colored Sikh, topped by a huge red turban, and clad also in blue and armed with the same truncheon, striding solemnly by on his beat. Then we pass the Chinese policeman, with his little saucer hat of red bamboo and his white gaiter, swinging a diminutive staff, a reduced and rather comical replica of his big English and Indian comrades. Than no to-p r>r?S5 fhp. hrirlcrp into the French concession?I am on my way to the French hotel?here is positively the sergeant de ville, absolutely the same as you see him in the place de l'Opera? peaked cap, waxed mustache, baggy red trousers, sabre and revolver. And beyond him again is the Frenchified Chinese policemen. In fact,Shanghai is guarded municipally by no fewer than six distinct species of policemen?English. Sikh, Anglo-Chinese, French, Franco-Chinese and the long-legged mounted Sikhs on sturdy white ponies, who clank their long swords around the outskirts of the town and carry terror into the turbulent Chinese quarters. " Keeper of the Great Seal." The fact that we have a "Lord Chancellor," or "Keeper of the Great Seal" of the United States, is probably not generally known. His name is George Bartle. He was born in Virginia, and was appointed to a clerkship in the State Department from Virginia by Daniel Webster forty-three years ago. He is a little withered up old man of pleasahtly courteous manners, as befits a Virginia gentleman of the old school, but so secretive, partly by nature and partly by the habit acquired during the forty-three years of confidential service, that none of his fellow clerks ventures to ask him even the r J --- ?ui 1 ? 11U1U UX UU y Wiuiuut pcscuuu^ uiux nibu a written requisition from his superior officers authorizing him to give the information. He has sole charge of the great seal of the United States, and the Secretary of State himself cannot induce him to unlock the doors which guard that emblem of the country's liberties without a formal warrant signed by the President of the United States.?New York Star. How the Paris Exhibition Closes. The exhibition cjoses at night in the following manner: The gates are all shut at 10:30 o'clock p. M., when the cannon on the Eiffel tower is fired at that hour to announce the fact. At 11:15 o'clock two drummers beat the tatoo in the gardens, while 200 policemen and fifty municipal guards, carrying lanterns, gradually clear the crowd off the grounds toward the Jean bridge, where the only exit is found. By 11:30 o'clock the exhibition is empty, and all trespassers found inside after that hour are arrested. Policemen patrol the place all night, and firemen hold themselves in readiness to start at any moment should an alarm be given. A Summer Soiig. Some go to the mountains, And some to the sea, And some stay at home 'Neath their own fig tree! And I'm a mosquito, So happy and free, With nothing to do, But to do them all three? And you bet I will. .. ?Washington Critto. ? ? mi ?IT I n n A CHEESE FACTORY." BOW THE BUSINESS IS CARRIED ON IN WISCONSIN. Description of the Industry at a WeilAppointed Institution ? What Constitutes Good Cheese? A Cattle Controversy. A letter from Waterloo, Wis., to the Chicago Herald says: Nexfc in importance to the creameries are the cheese factories in this county of Jefferson. There ire a half-dozen large ones here, which, in a population of but 12,000, means that a large fraction of the meadows and grass slopes that form the prime source of wealth in this county are in the end, worked up into cheese. And the cheese made here in no way yields to that made in Dane County, the Deighboring one, PRESSING CHEESE. and, in point of cheese, the leading one in the State as far as quality and taste are concerned. These arc especially noteworthy the three cheese factories at Kypke Grove, at Portland and at Waterloo. Most of the cheese made there belongs to the variety known as "cheddar," weighing about sixty-four pounds each, but in the smaller dairies, manipulated by private parties, "flats"?being of smaller size and weight?are made. The "cheesemaker," or foreman at the factory, is virtually the man who makes or mars the reputation of a cheese and gives it its market value. Hence the importance of securing the best possible man, and hence, too, the comfortable salary paid to such a man. If possessed of a fair amount of common sense to start with, and with proper attention and industry, a young man may become an expert cheesemaker within a single year. Oncc he is that he Is sure to always find a permanent situation paying him handsomely. As "helper" he earns but small wages, however, and many of the "helpers" never rise any higher for lack of brains or for more radical defects in their character. The "cheesemaker" at the Kypke Grove factory is Louis Woelffer, a young man of twenty-three. Though he has followed the trade but a few years, Mr. Woelffer has gained an enviable reputation as a man who understands his business thoroughly and who strictly attends to it. He showed your correspondent all through the factory and explained its workings. The milk delivered at the factory comes from a hundred different farmflM TwifVnn a raHiiiQ nf picrVrt. milpe Tf. 1R delivered daily ttAvhen fresh and 8 '' sweet. As at the .. I \\ creameries, strict } - control is kept over each patron's vSy milk, and tests are made regularly so *pr-~ , \\ as to always guard jS^E against the accept^ ance of inferior or " J :H unfit milk. The n chemical test is made wherever j suspicion ha; been hoistikg milk. aroused as to any particular man's milk, but as a rule the lactometer is sufficient to keep up the standard grade of milk sold. By a system of their own?freely accepted by the "patrons," in lieu of court justice, as a measure of mutual protection of their own interests?every fraud practiced by a patron in palming off watered or otherwise poor milk is heavily punished. Usually a fine of twenty-five dollars is imposed and promptly paid, and the fear of j this works as a contant and needed check on the unscrupulous and greeny. Kacn patron, besides, has to submit, at any time, to having his milk tested by an emissary of the factory during milking hours, and to having the result of this test compared with that obtained from milk delivered at the factory. If the two tests do not tally he is sure to hear of it. The milk when delivered is at once emptied into large vats, each holding between 350 and 500 gallons. Then it is heated by steam to a temperature of 84 degrees. This is maintained for ten or fifteen minutes. The coloring matter is then added at the rate of 1-fc ounces to every ll'OO pounds of milk. Then the rennet is put into it, between three and a half and four ounces of it to each 1000 pounds of milk. It is then allowed to "set" until the coagulation has proceeded to that point where the .vhole becomes a solid mass, so that when the finger is inserted into it the curd splits off clean, without leaving any particles adhering to the linger. At this point the curd is solid enough to be cut, which, accordingly, is done at once. The curd is fed to the cutter through a hopper, and it is thus cut up into small bits of even size. This mass is next packed tightly into the metal cheese forms, and as many of those forms as cheeses arc to be made are placed alongside of each other in the uress. One such press will hold enough X J _ cheese forms to allow the making of 1500 or 2000 pounds at one time. At the Kypke Grove factory the average daily quantity is 1000 pounds, which tiit: cunr> knife. means sixteen cheddars at sixty-four pounds each. It tnkes^ 10,000 pounds of milk to do this, ten pounds of milk to overy pound of cheese, which is the usual proportion if the milk be of good pure, rich quality. Then by means of a crank that works easily and exerts a tremendous pressure, this mass of soft cheese particles is gradually squeezed hard and dry. The wall of one form always exerts a strong pressure on the wall of the next form, so that this whole row of embryo cheese is pressed dry by the one manipulation. The whey exuding out of the form runs off through a groove in the bottom of the press and down into a hole in the floor/ iug. The whole operation is as clean and I as unobjectionable as it can well be. It i requires twenty hours of this pressing tc make the young cheese so dry and firm as to become fit for the curing room. The curing room is built of stone, ! large and airy. The cheeses are there set down on shelves, each by itself, and left ; fifteen days to undergo the curing or ripening process. This is an important , period in cheese life. If carelessly handled the cheese will spoil and become unsalable. Each cheese is 'turned every day, and its surface is rubbed at the same time, so that a smooth and hard rind is formed, which acts as a barrier, so to speak, against decay and "skippers." "If the turning is not done very carefully," said Mr. Woelffer, "the cheese will not only become moldy, but the 'skippers'? worms, you know?will actually walk away with it." After being properly cured the cheese is ripe for the market and for the table, with a rind on it as hard as a rock. JtJesicie these chee3e factories, however, quite a deal of cheese is made, in a small way, by the private dairies here. Most of it goes to Chicago or Milwaukee. There is at present in this country a lively controversy going on about the respective points of merit of Holstein and Jersey cattle. The advopates of both distinguished breeds are enthusiastic enough to put their beliefs j into practice, and the county, in consequence, fairly swarms with Holsteins and ; Jerseys, Alderneys and Durhams, as well as with half-breeds. The contention between the Holstein and the Jersey enthusiasts is of an, old enough date, however, to have filled thousands of pages in stock journals and books printed on the subject, and there is no intention to swell this mass of evidence on both sides by this letter. Suffice it to say here that both the breeders and owners of Jerseys and Holsteins have attained excellent results in the cheese and butter making line, and each camp of believers is as firm to-day in its belief as the other, j The controversy, on the whole, is having beneficent results, since it has served as a spur for each party to obtain the best possible showing. ^j|| _ v ' "hero," "lolo," and calf. A Jersey enthusiast is Fred A. Seeber, I who, with his brother, G. K. Seeber, owns a fine stock farm in the immediate vicinity of Waterloo. This farm has only recently been started and the herd on it is not as large as it will be. But it is growing every day, and meanwhile there are at least three magnificent specimens of the pure-bred Jersey to be admired there ?the bull Hero, the cow Lolo and their calf. They exhibit to thn fullest the best marks of the Jersey breed, and they will undoubtedly do much to improve the 6tock still further in this county. Making the Best of It. I. Hasty flight with the prize. ' ^ II. Stuck fast, but bound to get awajj with that watermelon. The Latest and Largest Steaiu Engiiie. The largest steam engine in the world is that constructed for the new new Italian cruiser, Sardegua. It really consists of four triple expansion engines, which can be used together or separately as desired, the entire combination being cajwblc of developing a force of 22,000 nominal, or 25,000 actual horsepower. The ship is driven by twin screws and two engines are connected to the shaft of each screw, but one screw can be stopped altogether if the vessel is to be turned around, or, for ordinary sailing, one engine only may be used for cach screw; but, in case it should be necessary to increase the speed, the other engines can at once be connected and the full power exerted. As usual with naval machinery, a large number of auxiliary engines aroused. On the Sardegna there arc no less than 20 compound auxiliary engines for feeding the boilers, keeping up the draught and so on, besides a great variety of single-cylinder machines.? American Architect. Judge (to prisoner)?"So you were drunk and disorderly? "What have you to say?" Prisoner?"I've a good deal to say, your honor, if you'll only give me time to say it." Judge?"Certainly; with pleasure. Sixty days will be enough, won't it? Our object is to please."? j Washirwton Critic. Mme. Boulanger is devoting herself to religious practices and observances at | Versailles, France, where she resides. / . c v - Four New Stars to the Flag. The flag of the United States is continually getting out of order. Thirteen stripes and tMrty-eight stars compose the flag at the present moment, but in a few months four Territories will become States, and the flag will be wrong again. Nor is it so very easy a matter to add four stars to a constellation which is already inconveniently large. At the distance of a quarter of a mile, it is often impossible to make out that the part of the flag called the "union" is composed of stars. When four new ones aie added, the stars will faav>j to be still smaller, ana, before many years have passed away, the number may be increased to fifty or more. Our flag-makers are already considering how to arrange the stars in the new flag. The law leaves it to their own taste, merely saying that, on the admission of a new State to the Union, one star shall be added to the union of the flag, and this addition shall be -made on the Fourth of July following such admission. As the States will not be 4 'admitted," in a legal sense, until after the autumn elections, the flag-makers will have a full year to consider the subject. All our naval officers are of opinion that the arrangement of the flag ought to be fixed by law, not left to the fancy of individual flag-makers. Admiral Preble, author of the wonderful book on the Flag, mentions that, some years ago, a gentleman in New York, on the Fourth of July, counted nine different ways of arranging the stars on the flags flying in honor of the day, and few of them had the right number. Some flags had the stars arranged in regular rows; others had them strewn over the surface; some had them in a circle, diamond, lozenge, star or anchor; and one exhibited stars in the form of the letters U. S. Foreigners might well ask: "What is the American flag?" If beauty and convenience were alone to be considered, nothing could surpass the old flag of thirteen stripes and thirteen stars. Yet there is something in the idea of each State being represented on the flag that is extremely captivating. Now that the number of stars is so large that the white spots modify the Kino <vf fhfl nninn it seems necessarv to do one of two things; either to scatter the stars uniformly over the space assigned to them, or to arrange them into a figure which shall give character to the flag at 'a distance. Here, to illustrate the firsb plan, are are the forty-two stars of the coming flag arranged in six rows, of seven each. i But it seems to lis better to adopt a different arrangement. "We suggest that the stars be formed into one star. The forty-two stars that will be placed on the flag on July 4, 1890, may be arranged with perfect symmetry, thus: The very idea of all the stars representing States forming one great star is agreeable to the sentiment of nationality, and the flag thus arranged would be very beautiful at a distance. If the stars are more crowded at the centre, that only gives the impression of a nucleus. In many ways this arrangement is excellent. How shall new stars be added? There is no great difliculty about that. A forty-third star can be placed in the centre. When there are forty-four or forty-five, the inner circles may be re-arranged. It is to be hoped that the next Congress will contain some member who will make a hobby of the Flag Question, and carry through an act to supply what the lawyers would call a casus omissus. ?Youth's Companion. Polly, the Privateer. The schooner Polly, of Bangor, Me., is probably the oldest vessel in service flying the flag, having been built in Amesbury, Mass., in 1804. She^served as a ' privateer in 1812 and captured several prizes. She was taken by the English man-of-war Newcastle and started for Halifax, but the Americans left on board overpowered the prize crew and recaptured her. Subsequently she lias been employed as a fisherman, and latterly as a coaster. She has never been wrecked, but has suffered several colli'ions. She is so good a sailer that it takes a larger boat to beat her.?New York Teleqram. Cnrions Musio. I "Himrnel! Dot vas gurious music!'1' "No wonder, ain't ut!"?Life. King Humbert, of Italy, squandered more than $100,000 during his four days' risit to Berlin. v'. ..y. ' ; V~-V * i' ' ?????? WORDS OP WISDOM. One need not live high to be above? suspicion. K"ever covet that which cannot pos-i sibly be obtained. Where much is sought for little i( often to be found. A wise man embraces an opportunity^ the fool hugs a delusion.. The happier one's thoughts the pleasanter will be his reverie. Hoping for the best will make the worst none the easier to bear. Perseverance, to receive a rich reward, nust have an object worthy of it. Those who follow will always be flat-j Sered by the other end of the string. It is better to repeat the idea of others* than to make an effort to be natural. ! The very essence of intelligence is thai uberty inspired in every living thing. Dull scholars are apt to be slow andj sure?slow to learn and sure to forget. Be persuaded that your own treasure^ are tnose wmcn you carry in ycur An easy -way to get a living is to flatted the rich, but the honest way is to earni it. ' * : The man who has reached a condition of perfection must suffer for room to dei velop in. \ Don't carry the whole world on you shoulders, far less the universe. Trust* the eternal. Nothing is more common or more fatal^ than grasping at an advantage at the cosv of ten times its value. If thou art wise, thou knowest thine own ignorance, and thon art ignorant if: thou knowest not thyself. A Dock Form. Not far from Boston, in the town ofj Easton, Mass., is situated the largest) duck farm in the world. For yean past the business of raising ducks for market) has been carried on upon an enormous scale in this neighborhood. The biggest' establishment devoted to the industry, used to be found along1 the shore,.it b? ing supposed formerly that the weft* footed birds could not possibly thrive; without plenty of water to swim in. Be^ sides, the ocean was a most convenient source of food-supply in the shape of liah^ which were ' caught in huge quantities with seine and net for quacking stock. The trouble with this method of feeding,' however, was that the flesh acquired an undesirable fishy flavor, calculated to diminish its selling value. Then, too, it was discovered at length that ducklings could be raised and make to thrive with* out any water facilities at all?in short* that natatoiy exercise was merely a lax-, ury for them and not a necessity by anjjf means. And it is on this theory thatths gignantic duck-farm at Easton is conducted. PiroMrfT?innf Qwnorfnininflrrpftrinw of the ducklings is performed artificially,i for this business is one in which art oUt= does .nature altogether. Even in old old times the device was resorted to of employing the maternal offices of the hen for hatching out the duck eggs and bringing up the broods. But now the mothcrly barn-yard fowl has been superseded by the incubator, which turns out the fuzzy little yellow creatures by thousands, ready to nestle under an imitation mamma with steam-pipe-vitals and gorge themselves to adult fatness on especially-* prepared soft food. The duck thus brought by patent methods to marketable size is sure to be tender, juicy and most delicate of flavor. At forty to fifty cents a pound it pays the producer admirably-! Most breeders says that the "Peking duck, a bird of Chinese origin, is the most desirable for all purposes. It is hardy, matures early, and weigh* from fourteen to twenty pounds to the pair.? Washington Star. Recipes to Overcome Wakefulness, j Among the many recipes that have < ! *??* /A? ATrA*/iAm5n<? TPolra^nTnoefll L/C C J-l given 1U1 uvgivuuuug ntwv*wiMvw is one devised by a Mr. Gardner, and formerly celebrated in England, but now almost forgotten. It is to lie on the right side, with the head so placed on the pillow that the neck shall' be straight; keeping the lips closed tightly, a rather full inspiration is to be takes through the nostrils, and the lungs then left to their own action. The person now imagines that he sees the breath streaming in and out of his nostrils, and confines his attention to this idea. If properly carried out, this method is. said to be infallible. Counting and repeating poetry are other means that have been recommended. Combing the hair, brushing the forehead with a soft shaving-brush, or fanning, are all good sleepr inducers, and might well be tried oa sleepless children. To these may be added the Spanish practice of getting a baby off to sleep by rubbing its back vdth the hand. A sen* sation of dry, burning heat in the soles and palms, which accompanies certain diseases in some people, is a cause of sleeplessness that will give way to sponging the parts with vinegar and water. Wakefulness is sometimes the result of lack of food, and a glass of cold water or; pale ale, or the eating of a sandwich, will, by setting up activity in the abdominal organs, divert the superabundant! blood from the head, thus removing tWfl cause of the unnatural activity of tn M brain. One reason why the. most gift*? of minds have frequently been afflicu ? by sleeplessness is Decauic uuuiij cacicj^h is too often neglected by people devotevlj to intellectual pursuits. For such persons there is no better soporific than muscular exertion, carried even, in extreme cases, to a sense of fatigue.?Once A. Week. A Tootli From a Man's Nose. A peculiar piece of dentistry was performed yesterday, by which a tooth was extracted from William Earnhardt's nose. Mr. Barnhardt was kicked by a horse sixteen years ago and some of his teeth were knocked out of place. When he had recovered from the injuries resulting from the kick he was troubled with a dull headache, which has scarcely ceased a dAy since that time. He also had a distressed feeling in the uppei portion of the nose and supposed that he was suffering from catarrh. In course oi time he discovered what he thought was an extra piece of bone and a doctor dug out one of the teeth. Since that time he had been troubled still more. There was still another tooth that had grown lonesome and longed to get out. Drs. Condon and Cook yesterday undertook the job of arresting the roving tooth, which had gathered little moss, and cap tured it. This is probably the first recorc of a tooth being extracted from & person't nose.?Offdm (GalJ Commercial,