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I0YF8 WELCOMX
BT HEDDIK F. 3112X3.
3BIoom oat. oh, bonnie bright blossom of gold,
Tling thy bright pennons oat, (old upon (old;
Spring into blossoming roy&l and red, .
Sweet roses o( snmmer that hang overhead;
Chimes o( the bluebell, ring out loud and clear,
, Sho cometh I She cometh 1 My darling is near 1
I Spring up to welcome her, clover-bloom sweat,
1 Send to her footsteps and kiss her light (eet 1
f Twine o'er her pathway thy fingers, oh, vine I
Breathe to her, sweet-scented tassels o( pine!
Blend earth, air, and heaven to welcome my dear:
She cometh I She cometh 1 My darling is here I
?
TWO LITTLE OLD LADIES.
Two little old ladies?one grave, one gay?
In the seU-same cottage lived day by day.
One coul i not be happy, "because," she said,
"So naany children were hungry for bread
AQU UUtf lUHliy UWI UUb UIO ucmv I.\J omuw
When the 'world wag bo wickeu nil the while.
The other old lady smiled oil day long,
Aa she knitted or sewed or croonea a song.
She had not time to be sod. she said,
Whea hungry children were crying for bread.
Co she baked and knitted and gave away,
And declared the world grow better each day.
Two little old ladies?one rrrave, one gay.
Ifow which do you think chone t*ie wiser way?
--H. Maud Merrill, in St. Nicholas.
LOLA PULASKI;
OR
The Victim of Circumstantial
Evidence.
*
A Story of Nihilistic Plottings and Crimes, j
BY LEON EDWARDS.
CHAPTER IX.
bt okder of the czar.
Leeza, who waited on the people in
the strange tenement in which Lola
k and her father lived, was surprised to
b see the young lady, to whom she seemed
" to be much attached, come home so
early.
l'et Leeza was too good a servant to
express her curiosity in words.
Seeing her anxious expression, Lola
*aid, with affected cheerfulness:
"I have left my school for the pres?
a t tt?:m
exit, jueezt*. jjluw 13 mtuci
"He appears well, my lady. I saw
him a few minutes ago when the mes"
aenger brought him the strange package,"
said Leeza.
"A strange package, Leeza?"
"Yes, my lady."
' ""Who was it'{"
"I do not know."
"I shall soon have my curiosity gratified,"
said Lola, ascending the stairs,
tip which Ivan had preceded her.
In going to her own quarters she had
to pass Madame Berger's apartments,
and she was not a littie surprised to
find that lady and the fair Elizabeth
standing in the door.
Ivan had hurriedly told his mother
and sister of Lola's fresh troubles, and
the kind-hearted ladies were waiting
to condole with her.
They kissed her, and as Madame
Berger drew her in and closed the door,
she said:
"My poor child, there is a higher
king than the Czar; lookup, look up!"
"I have not lost heart," said Lola.
"If driven to it, I can raise enough
money to take my father and myself to
Paris, and there we can at least live,
and in addition to living, be free."
"Make no plans now, my child,"
?aid Madam Berger.
"And believe this," said Elizabeth,
^ coming over and encircling Lola's
neck with her round, white arms, "that
bo long as we have a loaf and a roof
they are yours and your father's. They
cannot keep us crushed forever. Our
day is coming, Lola; take courage from
the thought that our day is coming."
"It must come soon," said the gloomy
Ivan, "or I shall think this an eternal
night of affliction."
"And what reason did they assign
for this cruel act?" asked Madam Berger.
"None," replied Lola.
"How were you informed?"
"Bv that monster, Count Linwold.
He met me with a bow and a stereotyped
smile, and said, ' Miss?MissMiss.'
I prompted him by saying,
'Pulaski.'
" 'Ah, yes; I forgot, Miss Pulaski; I
regret to have to inform you that by
order of his Imperial Majesty?an order
that her highness the Princess Dag
mar concurs in?your services as under
governess to the royal children are dispensed
with from this time on.' "
With inimitable action and intonation,
Lola rendered the voica and manner
of Count Linwold, so that for the
moment all forgot their sorrow and
actually laughed.
"As I descended the great stairs,"
continued Lola, "I saw your friend,
Count OrlofF, to whom I hurredly explained
my trouble, and the noble gentleman
looked for the moment like a
Nihilist."
"If he were one," growled Ivan, "I
should like him better."
"Elizabeth could not like him better,"
said Lola, gaviv, "no matter what
^ bfewas."
W Elizabeth blushed, and Lola, leaving
J a good impression of her spirits behind
her, went to seek her father.
General Eulaski was surprised and
delighted to see his daughter so soon.
While he was by no means an imbecile,
he never asked her about her
work or remuneration, though she, like
the loving, dutiful daughter that she
was, never had a secret from him, unless
it might be her love for General \
Paul, and this she hardly dare to think
of herself.
"I have been much perplexed, Lola,"
said the old gentleman, taking a large
wallet .torn the table. "This, with an
unsigned note, was brought by a man. j
who left it and hurried off without a j
word."
"What is it?" asked Lola, in aston- j
ishment.
"Money," replied her father.
"Money!"
"Aye, five thousand rubles,"* said !
the old man.
Lola glanced at the bank bills which
her father held before her gaze, bufc ;
ehe did not attempt to count the money
?she did not even touch it.
"You do not seem to be delighted,
Lola," he said, as if he were hurt by
her manuer.
The ruble, sometimes written rouble, is In !
Eaasii worth about 75 cents.
"We need money very much," Ae
Baid, in her quiet way, "and this, dear
father, would make U3 comparatively
tich?if it were ours. Where is the
bote that you say accompanied it ?"
"Here it is," said her father, "but it
contains neither date nor signature."
fjg Lola took the note from the old
In - jman's hands, and read as follows:
ICount John Pulaski of Warsaw:
; ttONOBKD bis?i send nerewitn Ave thousand
rubles. If I made it a thousand times
kg much. I could not repay the debt I owe J
you.
Do not refuse this with the thought that
4t is either a gift or a charity to you; it Is
pf;-; Neither. I
H:' - V- j;
?.y > V ; -V J V- # The
money is rightly yours. It you doubt
it you have only to recall the many good
deeds done in the days ot your prosperity,
when the poor never left your castle gates
empty-handed, and then tliink that one of
these good deeds was bread cast upon the
waters, which has returned to you after
many days.
But I will not ask you to recall any of
your good deeds, for men like you do not
remember such things.
Let me assure you i vvOulu scrt send you
this part of your property if I could not
afford it.
If you refuse it, give it to the poor, for any
attempt to discover me at present will be
unavailing.
Suffice it to say. that I am now and alj
ways shall be, your warm well-wisher and
friend.
Lola read this over aloud a second
! time, not so much to familiarize herj
self with the contents as to find out, if
possible, the sender by the writing.
There was nothing official about the
!paper; the envelope was a plain one,
and the handwriting was of that
smooth, flowing kind which clerks delight
in, and nobles never can acquire.
"How long has this been here?"
asked Lola.
"About an hour, less perhaps. Do
i you know, Lola, I think it comes from
some of the young men whom I
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eral Pulaski, eagerly, for, from his
daughter's manner, he was afraid she
would refuse it.
"I hope so. Hark! wnat noise is
that?"
She hastily concealed the letter and
wallet under a cushion on a chair near
by, and turned to the door.
"Men, soldiers!" replied her father,
as the clatter of arms and the rhythmic
step of trained men could be heard on
the stairs, leading up from the lower
hall.
Lola was about to open the door.
Her heart told her that these were
police after herself or Ivan Berger, but
just as her hand was on the latch a
harsh double knock, as if made by the
hilt of a sword, sounded on the other
side.
She stepped back and called out:
"Come in."
The door opened and in marched
twelve armed men, with a subordinate
officer at their head.
"Who are you," demanded Lola
boldly, "and why come you her9?"
"We are soldiers," replied the officer,
"and wo come bv order of the Czar."
"What to do?"
"To find one John Pulaski, a returned
exile."
"I am John Pulaski," said the old
soldier, coming forward and facing the
officer.
"John Pulaski," said the officer,
reading from a paper which he took
? ? " ?- 3. 1 t I
Irom ms oeit, "i am commanaeu uy
my general to arrest you."
"To arrest me," repeated the Count.
"That is my order."
"And "who gave the order?" asked
Lola, stepping between her father and
the officer.
"It came from the Emperor, I presume
; I am sure that it -was handed to
me by General Paul," said the officer.
CHAPTER X.
IN DISTRESS.
"And General Paul sent you here ?"
said Lola, to the officer in command of
the guard.
"He is chief of the secret service,"
said the man, "but I guess he has to do
as he is told, like the rest of ui."
General Pulaski, quite overcome
with the shock, dropped into a chair,
and covering his face with his trembling
hands, he swayed his boly back
and forth, as if to still his emo;:on.
. Had these men come to arretfc Lola,
she would have been comparatively
calm; certain it is, she would not have
lost that presence of mind that always
distinguished her.
But now Lola was thunderstruck.
The announcement that General
Paul was a party to her father's arrest
cut the last piece of solid earth from
under her feet, and she was adrift and
being swept into an awful maelstrom.
. A frenzy took the place of her
habitual calmness, and thrusting her
hand into her brear.t, she clutched the
hilt of the Nihilist dagger and shouted
out:
"Back, miscreant! back, tool of the
heartless tyrant, and do not dare to
touch a hair of that old man's head!"
The officer stepped back.
For years it had been his duty,- by
the Czar's command, to drag innocent
men from the bosom of their families,
to part lovers, and to tear the strong
arm of the son from about the widowed
mother whose sole supDort he was. and
consign
to his exile.
But familiarity with suffering does
not always breed contempt.
It intensities generous natuxes.
It makes more susceptible quick
sympathies.
"I am not to blame," said the officer,
with unexpected emotion.
"Not to blame!" cried Lola. "Are
you not the tool of these inhuman
monsters ?"
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poverty to my family, and the prison
and knout for myself."
"And you do this inhuman work foi
bread?" Bhe asked, with madness and
scorn.
~ "No, not for bread; for life. What
* I refused ? A million of men, less
considerate, my lady, are ready to take
my place. Your father, I have heard,"
said the officer, turning to the old man, i
"was once a gallant soldier; ask him ,
and he will tell you that I mnst obey
at the peril of my life."
The officer's words touched General
Pulaski, and at the name "soldier," all
his manliness was stirred up.
' "This man is not to blame," he said
to his daughter. "He is simply doing
his duty. Duty has been a precious
word to you and me, Lola, and we
must not check it in another."
On hearing this, the officer and his
onards saluted, and Lola's hand fell
from her breast and hung nervously by
her side.
"I will go with you," said the General
to his guards. "It may be that the
charge against me will be easily explained,
and that I shall be released at
once."
"Where are you to take him to?"
asked Lola, somewhat calmer, for
she felt the force of her fathers reasoning.
"To the Neva prison," replied the
ofTcer.
"Then I shall go with him," she said,
putting on the cloak and hood Bhe had
taken off.
"It would be better that you remain
here, my lady; you would n^t be admitted.
And again, you could do no
good. My orders are to treat the prisoner
with all consideration. He will
not even have to walk, as a sleigh has
been sent to the door for him."
Though the officer's words did not
reconcile Lola to the awful separation,
they recalled her to a sense of her own
duty in the case.
She hastily packed a sachell with
such articles as. her father. would need
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at once and asked the officer to take
charge of it.
"I may say, my lady," said the officer
as he opened the door preparatory to
marching out with his prisoner, "that
you will be at liberty to call on your
father to-morrow, but it will be first
necessary to get an order."
"From whom do I get it?" asked
Lola.
"From General Paul," he replied.
The old man rcached out his armd
'and caught Lola to his breast and
kissed her.
With a piercing heart cry she clung
to him.
But gradually her grasp relaxed, her
eyelids drooped ana a deathly expres?
ision came over her face.
She would have fallen had not the
officer, who was but too familiar with
such scenes, caught her in his strong
arms and gently placed her in a chair.
Madam Berger and Elizabeth appearing
in the door at that moment,
the officer told them to care for Lola,
and then marched away with his old
prisoner.
Madam Berger and Elizabeth, with
fcries of alarm?for Lola looked to be
dead?rushed to her aid; but long before
they had restored her to conscious-*
ness her father and his captors were
cone.
Like a hunted animal, Ivan Berger
was always on the watch.
The instant he heard the police at
the door?and he was the first to hear
them, he very naturally believed that
they were after him, and with the lightness
of a shadow, and the speed of a
startled stag, he whispered a word to
liis mother and sister and started out.
Like many other Nihilists, he was'
an adept in sudden disgui3es.
As he flew down the back stairs, he
turned his coat inside out, reversed his
hat, and as he did so the long hair and
beard of a mujik fell over his face.
The man at the head of the stairs
was young, tall and handsome.
The man who shuffled out the back
door, though not what might be called
old, was a common laborer, with the
heavy step and ungraceful gait of one
whos'e elasticity had been crushed by
great labor and heavy burdens.
"With some haste, yet not enough to
attract the attention of the few people
he met, Ivan went round to the front
of the house where some of the mounted
police were guarding a sleigh and
holding the horses of those who had
gone inside.
He mingled with the crowd that
gathered on the other side of the
Btreet, their curiosity excited to learn
who it was that had excited the anger
or suspicions of the Czar in the gloomy
house across the way.
Ivan heard muttered curses, the very
lowness of the tones in which they
were delivered adding to their intensity,
and showing the smoldering hate
for the tyrant in the great heart of the
working people.
As he listened, his attention was attracted
to two men talking in a door
wnv behind him.
He recognized the voices as those of
Peter the student and Dr. Mulek, but
he was far too shrewd to confirm with
his eyes the evidence of his ears.
To avoid being understood by the
rabble about them, the men spoke in
French.
Ivan understood them as well as if
they talked Russian.
"Who can the police be after?" asked
Dr. Mulek.
"I shouldn't wonder if it was Lola.
An arrest usually follows a dismissal,"
said Peter.
"You think, then, she is suspected ?"
"No doubt of it, Doctor."
"I don't. I think it has been discovered
in the palace that the Grand
Duke Alexis is making love to her, so
the Czar sent her off," said Dr. Mulek,
with the confidence of a man who was
very sure ui wuat ue was
"Nonsense! If the Czar arrested
every pretty woman his royal relatives
make love to, the jails of St. Petersburg
would be full of them. 4 By St.!
Peter!' I should not be surprised -if
they were after Ivan Berger. Ah, the
forty-eight hours are up, and he has
not 'kept his word. I thought the fel-.
low hau nerve, but he is a coward." !
At Peter's words, Ivan half turned,
to knock the slanderer down, but!
checking himself in the act, he bit hirf
lips and fastened his eyes on the house
across the way.
The curiosity of the people was soon
gratified." The jingle of scabbards and
the measured steps of armed men came
irom tne stone stairs tnrougn tne open
door, and then appeared the police;
with the old white-haired man?the returned
exile, in their midst.
"Pulaski of Warsaw!" gasped the
crowd.
They knew of the gallant Pole; his
name as a lover of the people was
familiar to them, and now their hearts
went out to him, and had there been a
leader who could show them hope of
success they would have gone to the
rescue of the noble old man.
General Pulaski held his head erect
and walked with a firm, resolute step,
that surprised Ivan even more than it
did the other on-lookers.
The officer and his prisoner entered
a sleigh; the soldiers mounted, drew
their swords, as if the General was a
most desperate character, and forming
on either side, they dashed away in
the direction of the Neva prison.
Still the crowd did not leave, but
remained looking at the house as if
fascinated.
"Ha!" exclaimed Peter, the student,
"that settles it. That will rouse Ivan
Berger if anything oin."
"Why so?" asked Dr. Mulek,
<itt_ * _ j. _ i -t *V.^
no ia a great uumirer ui i>uc mu
man."
"What if he is?"
"He also knows by whose order tne
arrest was made."
"It was made by order of the Czar,"
said Dr. Mulek.
"Oh, everything in Russia is said to
be dono by order of the Czar; but you
know and I know, aud Ivan Berger
must kuow, that these men are under
the command of General Paul, and
that they are carrying out his orders.
But let ua get back to the hospital,"
6aid Peter, takiue his friend's arm.
"First, 1 must see kola."
"But why, Doctor?"
"I want to find out how she takes it,
and then," said the Doctor, with a sly
wink, "the visit will give me a chance
to see the fair Elizabeth."
The two men walked across the
street, and Ivan watched them till the
weeping Leeza closed the front door
behind them.
Ivan's first impulse was to follow
these men, whom he had now good
reason to think doubly dyed traitors,
but again resisting the impulse, which
If carried out might lead to trouble,
he turned into the by streets and, by a
short cut, hastened to the gloomy
Neva prison..
He succeeded in reaching there just
as General Pulaski was alighting from
the sleigh.
As the prisoner was entering the
gloomy portal, that had shut out the
world from many a crushed life?by
order of the Czar?another sleigh
drove rapidly up, and from it alighted
General Paul.
The young soldier looked pale and
troubled as, ignoring the salute of the
soldiers he strode into the orison.
[TO BK CONTINUED.]
Orchards in Old Mining Camps.
One of the curious results of the decay
of placer and hydraulic mining in the
foothill region is the development of
orchards where it was once thought the
only valuable thing the earth produced
was gold. In Butte, Yuba, Amador, El
Dorado, Placer, Nevada, Calaveras,
Stanislaus and Tuolumne?the seat of the
richest early placer mining?the chief industry
now is fruit-growing. These
steep foot-hills, which were once lookec
upon as worthless, are now being planted
to vines and the choicest fruits. It is
found that this land, which has received
for ages the wash from the tops of the
mountains, possesses some peculiar properties
in which the richer valley soil is
deficient. For choice European wine
grapes it is unsurpassed, and for all kinds
of fruits it is specially fitted, as it gives
a flavor that can never be gained on the
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irrigaieu lanu. An uiu miucr wuu nos
worked in any of these counties fancies
he is dreaming when he revisits his old
haunts. When he left, the places where
ho had worked presented a good subject
for a picture of the abomination of desolation.
The hydraulic miner literally tore
up the surface of the earth and left as
complete destruction in his path as an
army that intrenches itself against attack.
Wherever he worked hills were laid low,
and great unsightly pits yawned where he
removed the pay dirt clear to the bed
rock. In other places great ugly heaps
of gravel and cobble stone showed the
fruits of his activity. Nature, however,
has been kind, and chaparral covers most
of these scarred fields, while others are
smiling with orchards and vineyards. It
is one of the modern miracles in California
?as great a wonder as gathering figs
from thistles. ? Globe Democrat.
Crows Attack an Eafflc.
A gray eagle which had its nest in the
Fishkill Mouutains, N. Y., has been seen
to alight several times in the asylum
grounds, Fishkill, presumably in search
of prey. A great flock of crows had
chosen that locality as a feeding ground
and resting place, and they evidently
looked upon the advent of the eagle as
an intrusion. The crows apparently de
Ciaeci to give me mujesuu uiru m uuderstaud
that it was poaching. At any
rate it is a fact that a dozen or more of
the crows attacked the eagle while it was
soaring over Rogers's fields and put it to
flight.
The battle lasted half an hour or more.
The crows which did not participate
kept circling around and around the combatants
and cawing incessantly. The
fight was witnessed by several persons who
picked up many blooii -stained feathers
from the ground.?New York Herald.
The High Collar and Long Sermon.
Showing Deacon "White during the
first fifteen minutes, second fifteen min
' utes, third fifteen minutes and fourth
fifteen minutes.?Texas Siftinos.
A curious gastronomic entertainment
was an oyster feast recently held in Colchester,
England. The celebration is of
very ancient origin. Ten thousand Colchester
oysters were consumed on the
last occasion by the Mayor and his
guests.
Coal dust is no longer regarded as
waste. It is made up into blocks for
fuel and found to burn readily, giving
an intense heat, with entire absence of
clinkers.
Henry Smith, of Brook Center,
Conn., was in the highway on his way
to his day's work in the fields when he
suddenly beheld in the road what
seemed to him a curious circus. A
blacksnake, a six-footer, was curled on
the ground, but instead of having a
head, as the serpents Mr. Smith had
been familiar with all had, this snake
~ ^a avtj ATk/1 in fl
beeiiieu iu uuu ouu iu iauo.
Eager to know the mystery of his
queer construction, if possible, Smith
picked up a stone and hurled it at the
strange reptile. He didn't hit him, but
the mystery came apart in the middle.
The big black fellow had swallowed
about half of another one that was
nearly as large, and of the same species,
but instantly he disgorged him
when the stone struck the ground.
Both snakes were lively and slipped
into the roadside wall before the man
could find another miisile.
Henry Exall, of Richmond, Ya.,
claims to have suggested a tower similar
to that now known as the Eiffel
tower as long ago as 1875. He says:
aI have yet my plans, and only last'
year proposed to the Mayor of Chicago
to put them in the hands of some of
the rich and enterprising men in that
city, where the tower would make a
grand show near the edge of the lake,
and over a large extent of country.
at 41,?
llic 1UUJUI I t;|?UUU LUUb bUC UlbJ
emnient could not enter on such a
scheme, and he did not propose to fa!
vor it so much as to propose it to tho
citizens."
A ccriocs ferry-boat is being built
for the River Clyde at Glasgow, Scotland.
Instead of requiring movable
lancing stagr* or bridges to meet the
rise and fall of the tide, the deck of
the boat itself will be movable, carried
on six hydraulic elevators by which it
can be raised or lowered. The boat
will be a double-ender, one hundred
and fifty feet long, of fifty-five feet
beam, and twelve feet six inches draft.
SCENES IN JAPAN.
CURIOUS CHARACTERS IN THE
CITY OF YOKAHOMA.
The Blind Shampooer and the Pict*
uresque Bread and Cake Seller?
A Newsboy in a Queer Riff?
The Children's Friend.
HERE is nothing, perM
n Jf haps, more characteristic
of scenes in Yokahoma,
Qbjfal *Jl /aM. says Frederick Stearns
Kp^MM^cMLin the Detroit Free
1/4 ^rmi t^ian numbers 1
persons who pursue 1
minor industries in the
^^j&^j^^^streets, carrying their
little workshops with
them, generally in the shape of small
wooden cabinets, two of which, to balance
each other, are slung from the ends
of a short shoulder bamboo pole. Not
only the form of the cabinet is indicative
of the trade, but some sort of cry is continuously
and monotonously called to attract
attention.
To these belong a numerous class.
They are persons born blind or who have
become so from the effect of small-pox;
are of both sexes, who walk the street
slowly, bamboo staff in hand, feeling
their wav along and blowing, at short
intervals, a plaintive note on a bit of
bamboo reed. They are very much employed
for massage or hand rubbing,
generally in the evening, the treatment
being considered a relief and cure for
rheumatism, pains, fatigue and many ills.
The treatment consists of vigorous kneading
and rubbing the whole body from
head to foot. The process requires
about an hour and costs one and one-half
cents of our money. How these poor
creatures find their way around the streets
at night without getting into the canals
or being run over is a marvel. In the
quiet stillness of the night the plaintive
whistle of the amma may be heard from
many directions at once. The amma, or
rubbers, do much dry shampooing or
rubbing of the head.
BREAD AND CAKE DEALER.
Every day a little chap brings to the
otond in frnnfr r?f thp Vlfttfil his
jiuiirvioua oiuuu ?u *4vu? v* <.?v ... ^
little square cabinet, containing fire,
diihes and food, which he sells to the
men. It is a kind of macaroni made of
glutinous wheat. This is ready-cooked
and served in bowls with a dish of sauce
made of water, soy, and sh reded bonito.
The merchants name is Udon-uri, taken
from the Dame of the wheat which furnishes
this kind of food. A good bowlful
costs two sen, equal to about one and
one-half cents, and it forms a substantial
mid-day meal.
Then there is a pan-ya, or bread-seller
?generally two together. They sell
sweet leavened cakes, like our cookies.
These pan-ya are often dressed in European
costume, the hat being made of
tinned iron, varnished black, the form of
our silk-dress hat. Each carries in front
of him a bass-drum, shaped cabinet,
highly colored, the sign "Sei-yo-KwaShi"
(meaning cakes made in the west)
being painted on the cabinet. Lanterns
and flasks hang from the top of the cabinet
and a large awning-like sunshade
rises up his back, spreading over his head
and looking ruaeiy line a roosicr a tan.
His cry is "Pan! pan! kimuray a no
pan!" at the same time striking on his
metal cabinet as if it were a drum.
The shimbun-uri, or newspaper boy,
wears tight trousers over which is a hantem
or robe, decorated with the mon or
iaiajng i
BLIND MAN SHAMPOOING.
crest of the small newspaper merchants
who handle the whole edition for the
newspaper. The folded papers are carried
at the ends of a bamboo pole, resting
across the shoulder, one end having
a cabinet for extra papers. Besides this,
the number of flags or bell give notice of
his approach.
One often hears the sound of a little
bell or triangle and hears the cry
"Aniai!" "Amai!" (sweets! sweets!) or
"Arnai to Karai" (sweet and biting) and
finds a street merchant of great artistic
skill, whose material is a sweet, yellowish,
plastic kind of sugar called "Ame."
He no sooner makes a stand than he is
surrounded by children, to whom he never
fails to l?e a source of delicrht. For
j penny, or even much less, he will make
j toys, figures of animals, flowers, balls,
bottles, gourds and imitations of any
object, and he does this with such rapidity
and artistic skill as to seem really
marvelous. The pleasure the children
take in seeing this done is shown in their
rmen months and words of approv
I - !
i al. The finished object is carried off in
triumph, played with for a while and
finally disappears down that universa
pocket of a baby?his mouth.
Ame is a fnrni of extract of malt, such
as we see so much of in America in
medical use. In Japau it is made from
millet (awa) auiMrora a glutinous sort of
' ""; rf>:
rice (mochi-gome), which, cooked and
mixed with barley malt, in about six
hours converts the starch into sugar.
The fluid part is drawn off and concentrated
by heat to a stiff, white mass,
which is afterward drawn out as sugar
candy is pulled till it appears of an
ODaaue white, which does not stick to
the fingers. Where the concentration is
not carried so far a fluid ame (midzuame)
is produced?a thick yellow syrup
which in housekeeping often takes the
place of sugar, and has various other applications,
among which is the making
from it of a sweet alcoholic beverage called
mirin. much drank in every house durinc
New Year congratulations. Midzu-ame
is also much used as a diet in consumption
and finds much flavor with the foreign
physicians in Japan.
A JAPANESE NEWSE07.
There is a rush widely distributed
throughout the northern hemisphere.'
Its leaves are made into mats in many
regions, but nowhere is it so important as
in Japan, where it is called I or igusa,'
meaning foot-mat grass.
Many a custom and household usage in
Japan is associated with this plant. Not
only the size of the Japanese room, but}
the house itself is determined by the floor-j
mats, as these by law are made of one|
size throughout the Empire. They are;
six shaku or Japanese feet long by three
shaku wide and one-sixth of a shaku;
thick. The shaku is 30.33 centimeters.1
The rooms are named according as they
contain four, six, eight or more mats.
These tatami consist of a foundation of
rice-straw (wara), closely bound and
braided; over this is a cover of the beautifully
and finely woven rushes (the igusa)
Nothing can be cleaner or sweeter looking
than a floor of this matting raised
slightly above the street with a little re-,
cessed-like vestibule where callers or customers
leave their sandals or wooden
shoes, never stepping on the mat except
in stockings or bare feet.
The houses being opened during the !
day, both front and back, all the family
life is seen working, cooking, eating,
sewing, spinning, weaving, all the industries
; and some one industry is conj
ducted in every house. All that is
| going on is open to the view of every
passer-by. One has only to make a
single j3tep and he can sit down upon the
edge of the raised matted floor. The
babies lie around or play in unconscious
nakedness. A child at least four years
old will stop its play, run to its mother i
who, naked to the waist, is busy at some
household work, and he will take a
strong pull at her breast and then go on j
| playing again.
The butcher, the baker, the candlestick
maker, all work in their houses
open to the street, pursuing their trades
entirely unconscious of clothing, save a
small white cloth wrapper about the
body.
A California Babbit Drive.
Onr illustration represents the result of
a rabbit drive in March last at Wildflower,
Fresno County, California. The
mound of slain at the end of the drive
was five feet deep, twenty feet wide, and
forty feet long, and contained 12,000
dead rabbits, the lnrgest and most successful
drive ever made in California.
These vermin have become so numerous
and destructive to the farmers, that the
wholesale extermination of them is imperative.
It is estimated that five rabbits
-,aaagjy*s"-e? .I, r
consume as much as one sheep. They are
particularly fond of young grape viues,
fruit trees, corn and other grain. This
drive was made by stretching fine wire
netting about three feet high and seven
miles in length, V shaped, terminating
at the smaller end in a circular corral
into which the animals were driven and
readily killed with stout sticks.?Scientific
American.
Nourishing.
Dick?"Say, Tommy, why don't you
I get a donkey?"
Tommy?''Oh, it costs to much to
feed it, papa says."
Dick?"No, it don't; I make my
donkey eat old newspapers."?Argosy.
The great-crested fly-catcher and several
other birds adopt an exceedingly
novel method to frighten away other
birds or lizards that would prey upon
their eggs. They wind into their nest
one or more of the old skins which have
been shed by snakes,so that these appeal
to be live snakes oniled about the nests.
In Cashmere 30,000 shawls are made
yearly. It takes three men a year to
weave a pair. It takes ten goats to furnish
the matarial for one and a half
yards square.
SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL! LESSON POld
DECEMBER 8.
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Lesson Text: "Solomon and the'
Queen of Sheba," I Kings x., 1-18?
Golden Text: Matt, ill., 42
?Commentary.
This lesson presents to uarfiolomon at the
very summit of his prosperity; be bad asked'
for wisdom and God had given Mm wisdom'
which excelled the wisdom of all the children
of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt, so
that people came from all Kings of the earth
to hear his wisdom. (I Kings iv., 30,34.) His
great wealth and some of the uses he made of
it is described in the portion of this chapter
which follows our lesson and in Eodee. iu
1. "And when the Queen of Sheba heard
of the fame of Solomon concerning the
of the Lord, she came to prove <bim with'
hard .questions." The fact that this visit is i
fully recorded both here and in II Chron. ix.,
and that our Lord Jesus Himself referred to >
it (Matt, xii., *42) marks it as an event of more ? J
than ordinary importance; and our Saviour's .1
reference to it points to a time and signifi- ?
cance yet future. Sheba was evidently
the uttermost part in one direction
of the then known world, a country
lying around the . extreme south of the
Red Sea. To this remote land the fame
of Solomon concerning the name ofJehovah ?|
had been carried. Observe here
throughout the lesson that it was not Solomon,
but Jehovah, whose name and glory
had thus spread abroad; Solomon being only
the human and visible channel of this great
glory.
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in ber heart." She came with a great train
of camels bearing spices, very much gold and ^
precious stones; somewhat as the wtaemea
from the East came long afterward to the
King of the Jews, bearing gold, and frank-.
incense, and myrrh (Matt, ii., 1, 2, 11); and'
as all nations will yet do when once the glory.
of the Lord is risen upon Israel (Isa. lx., 1-6).! Jj
3. "And Solomon told her all her que?tkms."
The first verse says that she came to'
prove him with hard questions, but now;
that she sees and hears him, every question;
is answered. Seeing Jesus is the way out of
every difficulty; and the many things which V;:
now seem to us so hard, dark and mysterious
will all be cleared up when we see Him as
He is.
4, 5. "And when the Queen of Sheba had
seen * * * there was no more spirit is Jjj
her." She had seen the Wisdom of Jehovah'
through him as he answered all her hard jj
questions, and now she beholds with her %yea
his house, his table, his servants, their standing,
their apparel, his cupbearers and his
ascent to the house of Jenovah; and as she $
looks upon this seven hued rainbow of glory, *
all sense of her own importance is gone with- ^
out an effort. A sight of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus will effectually blind us - al I
to the importance of self and to the attractiveness
of this present world.
6. "It was a true report that I heard." So
must all those have said who, having heard v
of the fame of Jesus, came to prove Him;
every question was fully and wisely answered,
every case of disease completely
cured.
? uuwuciui uuucvcuuv;b iuu nviua. uuv
must have believed something, or she would ; Vrsl
not have come on this long journey; but she
did not believe all she heard, for it seemed : v
too grand to be true. Israel's oppression by ' ,{
the enemy was always because 'they believed
not in God and trusted nof in His salvation.''
Zacharias was deaf and dumb for a season,
because he did not believe God; and we are
warned to take heed lest there be in any of us
an evil heart of unbelief, and lest we thus
come, short of our rest. (Ps. lxxviii., 22;
Luke i., 20, 62; Heb. iii., 12; iv., 1-3.) Notice,
on the other hand, the blessings of faith
as seen in Abram, Daniel, Mary and others.
(Gen. xv., 6; Dan. vi., 23; Luke i, 45; Acts
zxvii., 25). '" * v3
' Behold, the half was not told me; thy wis
dom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which
I heard." It is impossible to tell the half of
the hundredth part of the goodness of God, s
either of that which has been manifested in
the gift of His dear Son or of that which is
laid up for those who fear Him (I John iv.,
9; Ps. xxxi., 19). "Eye hath not seen.nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of
man the things which God hath prepared
for them that love Him, but God oath revealed
them unto us by His Spirit" (I Cor.
ii-, 9,10); and yet how few believed the things
which are revealed.
8. "Happy thy men, happy these thy servants
which stand continually before the?,
that hear thy wisdom." This was her estimate
of the privileges which they enjoyed.
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whether those who enjoyed these privileges
thought as much of them as she did is another
matter.
9. "Blessed be the Lord thy God, who delighted
in thee, to set thee on the throne of.
israel." In II Chron. ix., 8, the throne is
called the throne of the Lord, and Solomon
Is said to be King for Him. Such is the statement
also concerning this most wonderful of
all the thrones of earth, in I Chron. xxviiL,
5; xxix., S3, pointing us forward to Jer.. iii.,
17; Zeph. iii., 14 15; Luke L, 33, 33. ...
'Because the Lord loved Israel forever,"
or, as in 11 Chron. ix., 8, "To establish them
forever.'' The unsearchable and unchang?able
love of God is the reason of all His deals
ings with Israel, or with the church, or with'
nations. U >; gg
10. "There came no mora such abund-- :~t
anceof spices as these which the Queen of
Sheba gave to King Solomon." Gold worth; i
three million of dollars, precious stones and fl
of spices verygreat store; suet was her of-J
feriug to the King because of the narae-of Jo-. SB
liovab. What lira from the dead it shalLbe U
when the kingdom is restored to Israel, and' ^
the wealth of the nations is poured in upon '
them because of the name ^f Jehovah-. %
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| ir.ULU. ii., u, xsa. li., XX, xh ? ./ , __
11, 12. "No such almug (or algum) trees; :J
were seen unto this day." The navy of Hi-: M
ram brought not only gold and precious' fl
stones, but a great plenty of these trees: S
which Solomon seems to have used chiefly
for musical instruments (II Chron. ix., 11). ^
Thus we have the Gentiles supplying the m&- < \
terials for prayer and praise, inasmuch as
incense was a symbol of prayer (Pi czli, 2),
and the musical instruments were to praise
God with.
13. "And King Solomon gave unto tha
Queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever
she asked." Besides that which he gave her'
of his royal bounty he gratified her every
desire. He gave as a King, royally andcheerfully.
Do we in any measure Tsalize . '
chat we are joint heirs with Christ, that Ha
will fulfill the desire of them that fear JEQnv
that He is saying: "If ye shall ask anything
in My Name I will do it," and that we are
even now blessed with all spiritual blessings
in Him, while He eagerly longs to show us
all His glory? (Ps. c.tJv.,.19; John xiv., 14;
xvii., 24; Eph. i., 8). A full surrender to
Him will cause us to enjoy all these things
and Himself as including thorn all; but there
is no other way.
"So she turneAand went to her own coun-.
try, she and her Servants." She came thinking
a good deal of herself, and laden with
presents for the far famed King; she returned
emptied of self and laden with his favors.
Jesus will cheerfully receive whatever wo
willingly bring Him, but if we come with
any sense of our own importance, and get
anything like a glimpse of Him, we shall
wonderfully fall in our own estimation and
be glad to receive graciously from Him, instead
of thinking that we can give Him anything.?Lesson
Helyy.
There used to be a singular custom
at Holland House. The late Lord
Holland shot himself. It was the tra"t-L
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shot, and every night for years, puno*
tually at 11 o'clock, a gun was fired
from behind the house, for the purpose,
as the vulgar said, of scaring
the conscience of the murderer. The
gun has not been heard for some years
now.
There are between 500 and 600
Chinamen in Sunday schools and missions
in New York. They are there
chiefly to learn English, for there are
only fifty-three of the number who are
out-and-out Christians, that is, members
of the churchss. A reb'gious
worker among the Mongolians says the
church people have got to realize that
the Chinaman is a pretty hard subject
to christianize. j