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WOMAN'S WORLD.
With many a trim my stops I toka*
In man . a crook oud crevice,
And many a biscuit 1 mast b&ke
For Maud and me and Levis.
I sweep, I dust, I cook, I rise
Up in tbo morning oarly,
I wash the breilcfust dishes, and
I churn, and dress tho baby;
3 make the dust and dry leaves fiy
Against my new broom fairly,
1 chatter, chattsr as I go,
Because I rost so rarely;
"For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever, ever,
lgo on forever."
1 movo about and in auu o:?t,
While here the chickens feed in?,
And here and there at a hawk to ehont,
But little they are heeding.
I walk, I run, I skip, I hop
From one thing to another;
1 stop to dress a bruise or cut,
For the children run to mother.
Thon to tho garden 1 must go
To seo what work is needed, ^
For plants must bo set out, you know,
And then they must be weeded.
For men can't stop, for they must go,
But we work on forever, ever,
W'e v. ork on forever.
I scrape the tray and "put to rights*
The dining-room ana Kiicncn,
1 then go in my room to sew
And try to do Bome stitching.
1 wonder if there is on earth
No respite from our labors,
No timo to go and gossip some
With pleasant, friendly neighbors.
Before I end this piece of work,
And try to think a little,
I throw it down and run and make
A fire, und put on the kettle.
For men must eat and go. you know,
But womon can go, never.
Yes, men will come, and men wfl! ga,
But wo work on forever, ever,
We work on forever.
Lost Lina;
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' THE BITTER AND THE SWEET.
A Tale of Two Continents,
BY MRS. NDfA LAWSGJT.
CHAPTER XII.
The telegram which was sent by tTie
unknown to Captain Hutchinson at
Leadville, Colo., was answered in the
affirmative, and on the stated date the
men were closely closeted in a room in
one of the hotels in Lincoln, Neb.
"" W en, XU.IJ, mull liiio ?ci J irujJUAtant
matter that you have had the
cheek to call me here to meet jou for?"
"Ah, Hall, I thought yon -were always
the man on hand for a haul."
"Well, sol am; and now out with
the whole affair."
"All right; you know who I have
been with since I last saw you?"
"Yes. Jim the Desperate."
"Just bo; and now he has played the
little on me and I intend to be even."
The unknown then related in full
everything concerning this strange
affair, with which we are already acquainted.
"Ah, ha! Tan, you have Jim in a
tight box indeed. He played me a
email game once, about five years ago,
and now I will cancel that old debt
when I have a good chance.
"You say the girl shall not be hurt
nor swindled out of her money ?"
"Yes, I said so, and that must ba
r\?rf nf fho Imrrrnin "
rMJ w- ?~ ?"All
right. A man must be confoundedly
small when he will attempt
to cheat a poor, helpless, innocent
woman."
"That is the truth, Hall. I had not
thought of it just that way before, but
as sure as thunder and lightning that
is the chief point in the game that Jim
is trying to play."
"So much the wor?e for him. I am
right with you. And now for our plans
ofaction."
"I had thought it best to work it in
something of this manner, in order not
to compromise ourselves. About the
last of this month we intended to make
a haul on the First National Bank of
Springfield, Illinois. I was to go there
from Jouesboro, and investigate, get
everything ready to just step in and get
the money, and then I was to wire for
mw* ?"? * " " n - _ A _ 1- - -3 ? 3.3 1..
Jim. rue uoome wasxo oeamaea ue*
tween us, and I suppose I would get
about one-eighth, while he would have
the rest. I told him I would wire him
when I was ready for him, and so I
will. I like to see fair play, even in
this kind of work, but when ho is too
Bmart for that he must look out for
number one, and then take the consequences.
I intend to go back to Springfield,
look the matter up, and on the
night I expect Jim I will give the police
a key to the plan. Of course you
may be assured that I shall be careful
to be out of sight if they should want
_ J)
me.
"That will work all right so far; but
will r.*n innmcm olirmf t)ir> rr 1 i*l orwl
b* * "i,v*
that Italian woman that he has there ?"
"Well, now, that's just the thing?
that is just what I want you to see to,
and if you do as I say there will be no
harm done to any one but the man who
deserves it."
"All right, partner; I am willing to
agree to anything you suggest that is
anywhere near fair and won't compromise
me too much.
? "You will get into no trouble whatever."
"All right; I am willing then."
"I tvill return to Springfield, and
you go with me. We will investigate
matters there a little, and then you go to
Chicago to watch Jim's house; watch it
closely and get ^everything ready foi
the final act.
"Now, about that lovely farmei
girl. What do you intend to do
with her? Romember, she must
have those papers that belong
to her, and you know where her
home was. Jim said he had fixed it all
right with the mail carrier, and she
would never get any mail to hei
ancle's. Hard telling what they may
think of her Bilence."
""NVell, never mind about the f^irl
just now. I Lave already decided
what I shall do witJt her?but, the
Italian P
"Well, I told you where her old
home was, and only the other day I
heard that her mother was still searching
for her, bat to no purpose. Don't
suppose the girl knows anything at all
about it. What I want is fair play and
revenge on Jim. I hope after he is
caught at Springfield that he may
never see either of them again, and
Xtever be a free man."
"Hold, hold, Tanl I know iusl
:what I want and just what I shall do
for both the girls. Trust that Chicago
affair to me and we will come out all
right."
"Very well, we understand each other
now ?"
"Perfectly. I see what you want
and know just what I want."
"Hello! Well, we have just time
enough to eat a little supper and catch
lhat east-bound train. You seo we
have no time to lose, for I want to gel
Jim down to Springfield about the time
he returns from Milwaukee."
* m m *
"Ah, Hall is mighty punctual; I
-fenev he would be just the fellow foi
W*r * - . ?.; c this
game. I -will see what lie has tc
Bay/'
The unknown held a letter in his
hand addressed to Stephen Douglass,
Esq., Spriugfield, 111., 15ox 859.
He did not open the letter until aftei
ho had entered his room and securely
fastened the door, when he tore open
the envelope and read:
Pacific Hotel, Chicago, Nov. 25.1875.
0. K. all through. S. E. N. still at M. W.
Bijr party at the house tho 29th. S.E.N,
will be there. Saw Italian, but not the
other; will watch night of party. Wire S. E.
N. nieht of 29th. Have papers of the girls,
but don't know what thoy say. Not mine
you know, but a helpless woman's. H. A.
"Ah, yes. And so Jim won't be bach
until the night of the party. He hasn't
seen the girl very much, then, I should
think. I do hope she won't be a little
fool and take up with him after all. 3
would treat to know what Hall is going
to do with her, but no matter. I will
bet my last cent she won't be hurt iu
any way^ for he is as good as his word.
And so I am to wire Jim the evening oJ
the 29th. Yes, I see. It won't be unti]
the morning of the 30th, and then
Ha! Ha! I see, Hall, old boy. Jin;
1 ? Wnn/lflr llOTt
IliUHl CO'm? XLUJ-UL-Uiaicij'. ii uuui? ?v..
he found out all of those things, but ii
does not make any difference to me, foi
I am ready for S. E. N. any time."
Tlie unknown then threw the lettei
into the grate and watched it burn into
ashes.
The next few days passed wearilj
enough for the unknown, for he had his
work all done, except informing th<
police.
On the evening of the 29th he leisurely
strolled out of the hotel, down street,
until he came to the office of the Chiei
of Police.
He found the officer in, and as he entered
he handed him a card on which
was printed his name and business.
"Very well, Mr. Douglass; is there
anything I can do for you?"
"Yes, sir, there is. You see, I hart
spent considerable time on this case,
which, of course, you do not know very
much about as yet.
"Of course you arc always on the
lookout for 'Jim the Desperate,' and ii
is he that I have been shadowing foj
the last two or three months.
"I have found out that on the night oi
the thirty-first of this month he in
tends to make a raid on tlie JFirst JSa
tional Bank of this city, and I have
everything so arranged that you can
easily catch him in the very act
Of course, we detectives never entei
into full particulars as to how we know
of these things; but nevertheless you
know we do, and I want you to be sure
and be on time and ready to enter the
back door of the bank at one o'clock
the morning of December 1."
"Very well; I will be there fend secure
the man. You are right when
you say we have been on the lookou(
for that character, and when we once
get him in a cell we will keep him
there or give him some 'rope.' Is that
all you want?"
"Not quite. I have a special favoi
that I want to ask of you and it must
be granted."
?L lb 13 YY1 tLLLLi 111 J yv/TfCl jv/u uuui4
have it."
"I guess it is, and you can very
easily do as I wish. There are two
beautiful girls in Chicago at Jim'i
home whom he has very much wronged,
and one is kept there as his prisoner.
I have sent a party on to the city to
release the girl and let her go to hei
home. Now, what I want is this:
That after the trial you take this maD
back to Chicago and to his own home.
He will want to go, for, of course, he
will want to see the girls. Those girls
will not be there, and his home will be
forsaken; of course you will have to go
with him, and after you get him there,
convince him that that beautiful young
girl that he was going to force into a
marriage with him is now entirely out
of his power. Will you and can you do
this, Captain?"
"Yea, I will do it, but that is a little
out of our line. No matter, though,
it is worth a good deal to have such a
prisoner in our power."
"Very well, sir, that is all I want.
Good-night."
Anil the unknown left the office to
return to the hotel, knowing that most
: of his work was done.
CHAPTER XIII.
The morning of November 30tb
| dawned clear and crisp. All who had
j been at the party had been dreaming
j of Lenora's beautiful face, and the
! sweet songs she had suns.
ane master err the cottage was
awakened from his sleeping dream of
his daily thought, the little prisoner,
by a sharp, quick knock on his door.
"Hallo, what's wanting?"
"A message for you, master."
"Very well, bring it in, Henry."
The message was the much-lookedfor
telegram that ordered him to
| Spriugtield immediately.
He glanced at his watch and saw
that it was nine o'clock.
"Henry, order me some breakfast
immediately, and go and tell your
mistress that I would like to see her in
the library at a quarter past ten."
The breakfast was ordered and the
messatre delivered to Lenora's maid.
"She is not well this morning, Henry,
and has slept hut very little all night.
I do not know whether she will be able
to go down or not this morning, but I
will tell her when she awakes."
Gertana had heard Henry come up
the stairs and wrap on Lenora's door.
She stopped to the door of her own
room that then stood slightly ajar, and
heard what Henry had said.
"Yes, Sylvester Noll, you want hei
^o go to the library, that you may torment
her still more.' Very veil; Iwillb#
there also, but behind the curtains, in
my old hiding place."
Lenora's faithful friend was dressed
and ready to go down to her hiding
plaoe at the appointed time, but the
weary little prisoner was still asleep.
As she had slept so little during the
night, her maid would not awaken her,
so it was long past the time before that
gentle, timid tap waa heard on the door
that Noll was so impatiently waiting
fr\T
It was then almost time for him to
Btart to the train, but he was determined
to see Lenora before he went.
As he heard Lenora's gentle tap at
the door he instantly opened it and
reached out his arms as if to draw hex
gentle, shrinking form to his bosom,
but she ntepDcd back out of hi-j reach.
"Good-morning, Miss Lenora. I was
afraid that you were going to disappoint
me. Have a chair; I want to talk
to you a few moments."
But Lenora would not sifc down, and
stood up against the wall while her
great, durk, beautiful eyes stared him
directly in the face.
"I had no particular reason to decline
your request for an interview, but
you are aware that your presence is
very repugnant to me, and I wish to
repeat again, that whatever may happen,
I shall never retract my first etafe:
ment. No; you may kill me, but 1
shall be firm while I breathe."
Her face was radiant with an angry
flush as she turned to leave the room.
"Hold! my beauty. You are partially
mistaken; yon cannot, get out of
that door, for it is looked. Be seated,
I have considerable to say to you, and
it is tiresome standing."
"Don't you dare come near me. I
positively refuse to accept that chair
while you are in this room."
She'had stepped back in one corner
as far as she could; the wall only prc^
vented her from fleeing, she cared not
where.
"Miss Churchill, have you not punished
me enough by your aversion
against me ? God only knows how hard
it is for me to keep from drawing yon
to my heart, and holding you there forever.
The very 6ight of you makes rao
wild. Oh, Lenora, for heaven's sake,
don't look at me like that. You will
kill me or set me crazy.
"Do pity me a little?do have a little
mercy on me 1 If you will only consent
in ha mv wife in the future, to love m'e
a little, I will be content, and the happiest
man in the world. Don't you Bee
I am burning up with the fever of love
that you have sent through every vein
in my body? You looked bo beautiful
last night, and this morning bo fair;
oh, never?never did any one see such
loveliness. Can't you, in your heart of
hearts, have a little pity on my misery ?"
As he ceased speaking his lovely
features were drawn with pain. He was
a master at controlling his feelings except
in the presence of this girl. He
knew tliat he had no power over . her,
and that now, since he could not persuade
her to be his wife, his only recourse
was stratagem or force. Lenora
stood looking at him without a shadow
of pity crossing her face. When Noll
ceased speaking, she replied:
"You have no one to blame for your
misery but yourself, Mr. Noll. You
understand, I do not consider you a
gentleman, and any rational person who
knew how you have stolen me away
from all my happiness and imprisoned
me here, when I prefer death to your
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wrong, and not the part of a gentleman.
I entreat you to act thoughtfully
and right. I wrote to my uncle some
time ago to come for me, and when he
does you shall be proparly punished;
but now redeem yourself a little in the
estimation of those who really know
you, by letting me go?by giving me
my freedom.
"O, precious freedom, I pray you to
givo me, sir, and let me go back to
those who really love.me."
"Ha, ha! Your home, you fair
temptress; your home is here, the only
one you now have, and I am the only
one who rightly loves you. For your
own Bake you had best yield and ba
mine. I will take you away from all
this?away off, in fair, beautiful lands,
where you shall want for nothing that
money can buy. O, yield, I beg oi
jou, for this is your last chance. I
will give you just three minutes to say
yes or no, and then, if it be no, I Bhall
place you in a little cell, just off my
room, and you shall be kept there
under lock and key until I return, when
I shall carry you off, as I brought you
here. Now, remember, just three
minutes."
And he drew out his watch to count
the minutes. One minute had gone,
and Lenora stood pressed against *the
wall, trembling, and as pale as death,
while her parched, pale lips were moving
in prayer to heaven for protection.
Two minutes had gone, and yet no
help came to the little sufferer; three
minutes, and the time was up.
Noll closed his watch, and the little
click of the spring startled Lenora.
He looked at her with a cold, strange
?? ? ? - ^ ^ ~ !? * atw ill rt4- Vi av r> v>
gazt?, UtS 11 11U n.nt; rr muv uci
would not be what he wanted.
"What is your answer?"
"No; never."
Just then Henry opened the door of
the library.
"Master, here is a letter for the mistress;
thi isn't in her room, and, too,
it is time to start if you want to catch
that train. The carriage is waiting at
the gate."
Lenora quickly sprang to Henry's
side, despite the weakness of her body.
Her little remaining strength was renewed
by the hope that aid would soon
reach her in her hour of greatest trial.
[to be continued.]
What She Told Jack.
She was a little bit of a bluc-eved
woman with the innocent face of a
child. The horse-car in which sh?
sat with a female companion stopped
suddenly, but the mild-faced little
woman went right on talking in hei
natural key, so that everybody heard
her say:
* 11 Til.. 1.1.
"Tiie man never wniKeu mo em iu
who could boss me, and J just told Jack
f.o. and lie hasn't, peeped once since. 1
didn't marry to have any man lead m?
wound by the nose?I guess not!"
It is iold in the Kausas City Timet
that Mr. Charles Francis Adams is now
reviewing and destroying the diary
which, like Lis forefathers, lie has faithfully
kept for many years. When his
wife, who is deeply interested in the
record of the days before the marriage
?a record which, by the w av, she hanever
scon?remonstrated with him foi
burning up the diary, he replied: "I
didn't know what a colossal fool I was a
quarter of a century ago." The othei
evening as President Adams sat by the
open fireplace tossing the white pages
of the diary into the flames, one by one,
he read to a party of friends an account
of an interview a qiiarter of a century
a.^o. It was something like this:
"Jteacheil Washing.on eariy una morning.
One of the first persons that I met
there was Senator Sherman, of Ohio.
Had a long talk with him, but the characteristic
statement made by the Senator
was this: *1 agree with my party in
large things an a matter of principle,
in small things as a matter of conveniens;"
What Enoch Pratt of Baltimore says
h "worth hearkening to: "My advice to
young men who are anxious to advance
in life has always been that when they
can earn live dollars they should save
and put out at interest one dollar of it.
Money at interest i.s like a calf of which
an honest old German once told me.
JJc said that the purchase of that call'
was the best thing he ever did, for the
calf grew just the same whether her
owner was asleep or awake, and almost
be fore he knew it she had grown to a
full-bizcd cow, worth many times what
he had paid for her."
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A DOLLAR BILL.'
PROCESSES IN THE MAKING OF
TAPER MONEY.
Engraving the Plates?Printing anil
Numbering Notes?Precautions
Against Counterfeiting Eml
in the Pulp Kettle.
"What volumes of history one of Unrlc
Sam's greenbacks could relate if it only
had the power of speech !
Whether their life be long or short, in
the interval that elapses from the moment
that they are turned out fresh, crisp and
bright -from the Government presses,
until they straggle back sr> dirty and
mutilated that even their denominations
are scarcely decipherable, they havo
passed through hundreds, perhaps thousands
of hands, figured in innumerable
transactions, been thumbed by millionaires
and hod-carriers?in u word, have
played an active part in busy human life.
There is much of interest, however, to
be told about them before they are sent
out on their career of usefulness.
MACERATOJt ($570,000 ON THE TABLE).
Take the work in the engraving division
of the Government Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, for instance, aa
this is where the manufacture of paper
money begins. No one engraver ever cuts
the entire plate from which a bank note
is printed. For instance; one man engraves
the portrait, another does the lettering
of the inscription; a third the
counters that indicate the denomination
of the note; another a section of the ornamental
border, for this is never en
graved in full; still another is engaged
on the seal, and finally the work of all
must be carefully scrutinized and the finishing
touches added before the plate can
be sent to the printer.
The reason why so much care is necessary
is to guard against counterfeiting,for
the more perfect the plate is in every
part, the more difficult it is for one or any
number of persons to imitate it.
It sometimes takes the engraver six
weeks to finish up a portrait, and after
tliof >11. must nut. in the background.
... , a ,
which consists of a close network of the
finest spider web lines, made by a ruling
machine with a diamond point.
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HAND PRINTING PREPS.
This may be seen on the dollar certificate
bearing the head of Martha "Washington.
Oq the same bill it will be observed
that the counter on the right hand
side, the centre piece containing the
words "One silver dollar," and the
counters and border around the centre
piece on the back, are composed of peculiarly
curved lines.
These machines are very expensive,
and are very complicated in their construction.
They work slowly, but with
great exactness, and it is impossible for a
i ounterfeiter to reproduce the lines exactly.
All the rest of the plate i? engraved by
hand. After the plate lor a special
series of notes is completed it is taken tc
the transfer press, where any number ol
reproductions can be made, which is reni
dered necessary in order to print the
notes in large quantities.
_ _ I //
NUMEEllING MACHINE.
This, however, is by no means a sim
1 ]ile operation. The different dies whicl
make up the complete plate must first bi
transferred to a cylindrical steel rol
separately. They must then be lai<
down, or "assembled" upou a singli
steel plate or bed-pioce. Vpon this bed
piece the various parts of the note up
' pears in intaglio, lrom which the im
pressiou is transferred to steel rolls ol
proper width, which is usually sufficiem
to contain four notes. The plates ar<
... -i r i n 1 ??
lettered J rum J\. 1<J JJ., nuu ima auothcr
check upon counterfeiting as th(
numbers must correspond to these letters.
The last operation to which the plates
arc subjected before they go to the print
iug room is the hardening process. Tuis
is done in various ways by an application
of heat and chemicals. The plates arc
then cleaned, waxed and laid away till
they arc needed by the printer.
The paper used by the Treasury Department
for its bills and noics is manufactured
by a private concern, and upon
its delivery is counted twice and packed
away in sections of from four to fort)
tshcets after it has becu damped.
Several different kind of presses arc
used in the printing division. The oldfashioued
hand-plate press and steam
presses of the latest and most improved
patterns are employed. Each press is
I provided with a register, which records
. ; '
automatically every impression that is
made.
Each impression calls for a sheet of
paper; so that all the clerk who makes
his examination at the end of the day
has to do is to see whether the number of
printed sheets returned correspond with
, the number of the register. This must
| also correspond with the record in the
wetting-room.
These precautions were necessary to
prevent dishonesty, for otherwise itmight
be easy for a printer to smuggle in a
blank sheet of paper and fill it with impressions
of $11)0 notes, and no one would
be the wiser.
The numbering division is the last
room through which the printed sheets
have to pass. Ilcre the blue numbers
and letters are stamped upon the notes,
in accordance with a system which has
been devised in order to make it easier
for experts to detect spurious notes.
When it is considered how large a
variety of bank notes, Treasury notes,
silver certificates, bonds, revenue and
postage stamps are printed at the Govern- j
ment Bureau, it will at once be seen of
how vast a magnitude the work of this
Department is.
I*. nnrenna rnn.
lb Al'Cj/3 IiUUUlbUO VA j/kiwv**.* w..
stantly employed, from artists and skilled
mechanics down to the girls who sort
over and counts the sheets of paper. In
1802 the Superintendent of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing had only one
male and four female assistants. The
Department now employs more than one
thousand persons.
The face value of the securities printed
by the Bureau from July, 1869. to July,
1888, aggregated 413,108,606,634, and
the amount previously produced would
probably bring the total up to $20,000,J00,000.
Wheu bank notes have outlived their
period of usefulness they are redeemed
by the various sub-treasuries of the Government
and sent back in bulk to the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing. They
?re then dumped into big cylinders as
large as locomotive boilers, which are
called macerators. Lime and soda ash is
then added and the cylinders put in motion.
When the mass has been reduced
to a pulp it is drawn off in semi-liquid
form, and pumped into the paper room,
where it is manufactured into thick sheets
of paper. Some of it is cast into various
forms, including little statuettes,
which are sold by the Washington stationers
and fancy-store keepers to visitors
as mementos of the National Capital.?
New York Press.
A Kablye Woman's Cnrious Jewelry.
The principal jewels of a Kabyle woman
.1?tnrrnfVior
Arc uuuuie sjiuuiui-i jsma ju>uv? ?vgv.Uv.
by .i chain?sometimes with an amulet in
the middle, used for fastening the dress
on the shoulders. Her dress owes very
little to the art of the dressmaker. The
bodice is formed anew each morning by
being secured on the shoulders by these
pins, which are generally alike.
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A KAETLE W0MAX.
Brooches arc of many different forms
and sizes. The large round brooch with
hanging chains and ball pendants is only
worn after a woman has borne a child,
and even then with a difference. Thus
the mother of a daughter wears hers in a
bodice: but the proud mother of a son
sets hers in the middle of her forehead,
with the balls falling over her eyebrows.
From this honored position it is sometimes
torn and flung in rage and defiance
at the feet of the husband when some
domestic difference of opinion has in!
duced him unduly to chastise the wearer,
( says the Jewelers' Weekly.
Earrings as shown in our illustration
are made of different patterns. Some
are small, to hang
from the lobe o? the X'
ear*, some are very * <
large to hook over ?s '^.iv . ^ J
the ear and are supported
l?y strings
tied at the top of y VWs/VYfr.
the head beneath s I
the headdress. The |.8ffi?.g.8fll
1 o n g, d a n g 1 i n g
chains which always /-/'/pvfijmf!
hang from these (/j 'fift ff
large ear-rings are 1 Ml/A Kkffw
decorated at inter- z.
vals with lots of
rough coral and with colored glass besds.
The diadems worn, as may be seen by
our picture of a Kabyle beauty, are very
handsome and original. They are usually
made of three plaqnes of metal joined
together by hemispheres of bright metal
which have a very striking effect.
The plaques are always enameled and
enriched wim rouna picccs 01 corai set
, in rows, such as arc seen in a Jewish high
* priest's breastplate. The diadem is
placed around Hie turban-shaped headdress
and is supported in its place by
means of small hooks, which fasten on
e the top of the turban. A row of varied
pendants dangles over the eyebrows.
Tcry Frank.
, Prison Visitor?"You seem an honest
fellow and I feel an interest iu you.
Could anything he done to make you
1 more comfortable?"
Convict?"You bet!"
Visitor?"What?"
( Convict?4 'Lemme out.'!?Puck.
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TEMPERANCE, *
SWALLOWS.
We say the spring is coming, when
We near the blue-bird sing.
But when the swallows skim the pond,
We know that now is spring.
There's other kind of swallows, though,
Not feathered ones at all,
That do not indicate a'spring,
But often bring a fall.
?Edward Carswell, in Youth's Banner.
TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION.
The committee of the Presbyterian General
Assembly at Saratoga appointed to prepare
a memorial to Congress, in regard to
the liqour traffic, through its Chairman, I. N.
Hays, presented the following report:
' Your committee met at Harrisburg,
Penn.,on February 14,1890, all being present
but one, and with great deliberation and care
prepared the accompanying memorial, and
directed its Chairman, either in person or by
his representative, to present it to both
houses of Congress. Your committee was
most hearty and unanimous in the action
taken, and joined in the earnest hope and
prayer that it might result in great good to
both the church and nation. It was thought
best to present this memorial through the
agency of the Hon. John A. Anderson, of
Kansas, -who was not only a member of the
committee having charge of this matter,
but is also a minister of Christ in our own
denomination, and thoroughly interested in
the success of the movement, and he promised
to do all he could to care for the matter intrusted
to his management.
"Your committee is happy to report that
the Committee of Congress has reported a
bill, with but one dissenting voice, which is
as broad and comprehensive as could be desired.
It provides for the appointmeut of a
Commission, which shall consist of five persons,
to be appointed by the President, who
shall investigate the alcoholic, fermented
and vinous liquor trade in all its phases, its
relation to revenue and taxation, its effect
upon labor, agriculture, manufacturing and
other industries, and its general economic,
criminal, moral and scientific aspects, its
connection with pauperism, crime, social
vice, the public health, and also to inquire
into the practical result of license, prohibitory
legislation and the various methods of
restraint and taxation relied upon for the
prevention of intemperance. The truth is
that the most ardent friends of temperance
could not wish for more, and its bitterest
enemies should not be satisfied with less. It
is iust as fair to one side as it is to the other.
What is wanted is to have the full light of
day thrown upon this whole subject?facts
and statistics which do not lie?to which all
must appeal and before which all must bow.
"The great danger now is that, in the
hurry of business aud through the adverse
influence constantly at work at Washington,
this admirable bill, so favorably reported by
the committee, may not be acted on by Con
grass, or, if acted on, defeated tbrougn tne
apathy of its friends.
'"Your committee would, therefore; recommend
that the Assembly would, in some
suitable way, express its hearty appreciation
of the work done by this committee in
Washington, nnd urge upon Congress the
importance of speedy and favorable action
upon this great question, which so deeply
concerns the welfare of this whole country.
It is believed that prompt and earnest action
on the part of this Assembly, just at this
moment, will have groat weight in deciding
this matter."
The memorial to Congress referred to in
the report of the committee was appended.
The report and memorial were received,
and the motion then being on the adoption
of the report and memorial, the Rev. Dr. M.
Patterson 6aid:
"I move that the Assembly express it*
hearty appreciation of what has been don?
bv the committee, and refer these papers 'tc
the Committee on Temperance, witu instructions
to prepare some paper, to be sent from
this Assembly to Congress in accordance
with the requestof the committee."
The report and the memorial were
adopted, after which the motion of Dr. Patterson
was carried. The report of the Committee
on Temperance was* next in order,
and Elder Robert E. Flickinger, of the Fort
Dodge Presbytery, offered the following resolution
:
"Whereas, The reccnt decision of the Sn
preme Court of the United States, reversing
the judgment of the Iowa State Court,
and known as 'the Original Package Decision,'
has made it apparent that the several
States, in the exercise of their police powers,
are crippled and greatly hindered in theii
effort to control the sale or prohibit the traffic
in intoxicating liquors, therefore,
"Resolved, That this Assembly, in the interest
of temperance, morality and religion,
does hereby respectfully and earnestly petition
the Congress of the United States
speedily to enact a law or an amendment tc
the Interstate Commerce law that will allow
the States and Territories to prohibit the importation
of intoxicating liquors."
On motion of the Rev. Herrick Johnson,
the resolution was referred to the Standing
Committee on Temneranca.
facts unearthed bv the anti-alcoholic
CONGRESS.
The Anti-Alcoholic Congress in Paris
brought out many serious facts, one of
which is that the dram-shop? in Paris have
risen since 1880 from 24,000 to 29,000. In
thirty years the consumption of alcohol has
been trebled, and as much as 36,000^)00 gallons
has been manufactured out of potatoes
for the French market. This shows au average
yearly consumption of over twelve
quarts peradult man. Th8 consumption of
alcohol doubled between 1875 and 1833. It
attaius its maximum in the colliery districts
of the Nord, while strangely enough in the
wine countries of Southern France the consumption
is lowest. However, deaths from
alcoholism are much fewer in tho north of
France than either in England or Russia.
The Congress voted a resolution to the effect
that iuebriates should be treated as mad, and
that prison-hospitals should be created for
them.? Oncea- Week.
TJIE STIMULANT FALL ACT. ""r
Most of the favorite arguments of our
lager beer sophists postulate the assumption
that stimulants?in other words, poisons of
some sort or other, are indispensable to the
organic welfare of human beings, and that
the prohibition of popular tipples will compel
their votaries to resort to other and
worse tonics?ODiuin. absinthe or chloral.
The origin of that very prevalent fallacy is
the circnmstanca that all poison habits are
progressive, and that a toper, once initiated
m the worship of any drastic stimulant, will
either increase the dose oE his wanted tonic
or resort to more potent?and naturally
more deleterious?clings. Those facts,however,
are wholly compatible with the equally
important truth that lougcvity, health and
abundant vigor of body and mind may be
enjoyed by total abstainers from all artificial
stimulants whatever,and that children,
exhibiting evidences of exuberant vitality,
may grow up without betraying as much as
an incidental appetency for tea, coffee, tobacco
or any kind of alcoholic beverages.?
Voice.
TEMPERANCE NXWS AND NOTES.
The Indians at Syracuse, N. Y., have
started a Good Templars' lodge with eighty!
five members.
It was stated at the convention of the W,
C. T. U. held in Ontario, that ninety-three
per cent, of the young who joined the Band
of Hope remained faithful.
The great Whiskey Trust, representing a
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capital or more man ^ov,wu,una ueuum
to dissolve, and reincorporata as a plain
stock company, uuder the liberal laws of Illinois.
The Rev. Peter Thompson, London East
end Mission, has resolved, both for the sak<
of converted inebriates and young converts,
"to keep the Lord's table clean from intoxicating
wine."
The decline of drinking is again attested
by the declaration in the Loudon Telegraph
that., "for one club lifty years ago London
now has ten, yet the drinking within them
lias steadily diminished."
Tii? Mississippi Whitc-Ribboner* tells of f
"palace of justice" in New Orleans, which i"arranged
with due regard to the fitnass oi
tilings": tin lower story occupied by saloons;
the upper story by the criminal court.
"Sunday closing" has now been in effeel
in Minneapolis for nine months. The number
of Sunday arrests during that time has
been 40i>. During t he same period previous
to the enactment of this law, there were 72(
Suuday arrest?.
An Oneonta (N. Y.) pap?r saystbata partj
of Delhi young men had Jive gallons of liquoi
set out to their disposal recently. A young
mau, by the name of Henry Cunningham,
took a hand iu getting on the outside of the
whisky, and iu a few hours was dead, hi.1
stomacn being so distended by liquids as t<
cause death by paralysis of the heart.
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VORDS OF WISDOM. I
Second thoughts are the adopted cS>, |
drcn of experience. 9
The error of a moment may become 9
the sorrow of a whole life. 9
Flattery is a sort of bad money,
which vanity gives currency.
Life is like a flower, which is no soon-*'
cr blown than it begins to wither. ~;i| 9
Good will, like a good name, is got bTj 9
many good actions, and lost by none. H 9
If you promise at all, take care that ^ 9
be so that nobody may suffer by trusting, 9
The only thing which every one can, 9
do, and the only thing which any one 9
need do, is his duty. (j .:H
It is a sign of wisdom to be willing to. 9
receive instruction; the most intelligent 9
sometimes stand in need of it. I 1 - v9
Fidelity, good humor and complacency B
of temper outlive all the charms of a fiite 9
face, and make the decays of it invisible. 9
He that cannot forgive others breaks 9
the bridge over which he must pass him?j 9
self; for every man has need to be for-! 9
given. r&9
Talking politics is like the man who. 9
"? a1/^ rtirnno Tnnrr in tV?P dark
1UIIU W CU QU U1U V,lltuo iAUg am *mw I....
thinking he was on the path toward
home. fl
If one wish3l to take things easy when fl
one is old, it will be necessary to take| . fl
many things that are not easy when one. fl
is young. ,f|
There is no more virtue in a ballot fl
which is cast by a man instructed how to| fl
vote, than there is in repeating the words fl
of another. 9
Kind words are the brightest flowers fl
of earth's existence; they make a very; -fl
paradise of the humblest home that the ,"*fl
world can show.
Persons who fear their enemies by Icfr^Bfll
ing them, will become so entangled
obligations that a condition of servitude ~fl
will be their reward. <fl
Absence of Italian Farm Homes. \ uM
The abscnce of homes, and especially
of farm houses, in all Apulia, intensifies'
the sadness of the landscape. There is -dfl
not a farm-house, as we know it, in ;fl
Italy. There are, miles apart, huge,lowj' fl
prison-like stone structures called fl
"masserie," where the landowner's ;^H
superintendent, an ignorant, illy-paid? fl
bestial fellow himself, cares for a numj fl
ber of the animals needed in the field? I
and where the "massara" (literally, flelclri fl
house women) cooks the little needed for fl
the laborers. These 'masserie" are the; fl
ugliest one-story stone buildings iigjj > fl
aginable. They are invariably set on an fl
elevation to escape as much as possible fl
universal malaria. QuadrilaterSw fl
stone walls perhaps thirty feet squaJe B
rise seven or eight feet high. A portiopl fl
of the front will be covered with ~ aS I
almost fat metal or slate roof. Then! H
from the rear w.-tfl vaulted arches exteffd!
toward the front. These usually contalS
three compartments. One, the bestjS I
all, is provided with stone mangers en B
tending all around it for oxen, horses of B
i donkeys; in another, the "massariS 9
warms the slop given the laborers; and ujj
the last are stone benches on which Ifio B
laborers take their mid-day siesta anc fl
sleep at night. These swarm with vermiifi H
are filthier and more desolate than am
. prison known to man; and stand unj
relieved by vine, shrub or tree, repulsiw
and forbidding silhouettes of 'stoi$ iB
against a blue Italian sky. JtI B
Five other characteristic features~o| fl
southern Italian pastoral scenery sug^e^tS I
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US W1111 tuc uaooauvt mvumwm mV?, .
and contiguity to human habitations?
only to emphasize the saddening lone1||
1 ness of Italian country scenes. These are
! the "aja," or raised earthern or stone
threshing floor, shaped like a hollow
truncated cone, where the grain is troa
; out by blindfolded oxen; the cisterna, on
' cistern, for collecting rain water for th}>
flocks for use in time of summer drought
?huge structures sunken fully ten feefi
beneath the surface, with exposed walls
as high as one's head, averaging fifty feet;
in width and 20U in length, with an ana
cient windlass in the peak of one endjil
the low roof; the rcugh, white stoEfc1
walls which divide fields like endlessbai^
ricades; the "casselle," mortarless ciicti<
lar huts of stone, surmounted by rude
crosses, in which the field-guards ana
watchers find shelter,recalling the ghost?
ly sentry-houses among the bleach-greens
in the north of Ireland; and the "trsfi
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turo," a broad grass-grown highways
which for 2000 years has served in differ* 9
ent localities, like the vast stocktrailS B
leading "from grass to grass" when west* I
em herds are driven northward, for tlij
yearly exodus of Apulian herds to raoUnS
ain summer pastures.? Commercial Ai- flj
vert iter. - > 9
Enginemcn's Snperstltions.
The Pennsylvania Railroad CompaSjfl
will be compelled to abandon Engine
1313, now in use on that road, "it
garded by the road men as unlucky! " 9
There is not an engineer or fireman" on I
the road that has not a superstitious I
dread of the huge monster that during I
the past year has figured in more diaas^
ters than any other. In the first placeTiS I
plunged over the bridge at Latrobe lasn
summer, wrecking the whole train and) V
firpmnn .*md ten IB
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others, and seriously injuring about" a)
dozen persons. About a month aft&Pj
ward it collided with a train near Manorj
seriously injuring the fireman and wreck;!
ing a number of cars. Again, in a fewj
! weeks, while ascending the mountains}
; its boiler burst, and the fireman"wojr
blown through the cab window and badlyj
hurt. It was repaired and once more put
on the road, aud all went well until!
about six weeks ago, when it again ran}
, into a freight at Manor station, smashing
ten or twelve cars and slightly injuring,
the fireman. Lastly, while running neatj
Sang IIollow it got into another scrape^
. This time its oil can exploded and segj
J verely burned both engineer and fireman,^
; It is said that the employes of the roadj
intend to ask the company to discontinue
[ its use.?Philadelphia Press. ''
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TITE GROWLKrt. 9
\ I do not like to bs a man,
? ra fcate to bo a woman; 9
I do not like vile nature's plan, V
I'm sorry I am human.
I'd hate like time to be a beast, fl
' Despise the fish's lot; H
In fact, I'd care not in the least, ,
If I were not.
) THE HAITY MAN".
I'm really glad I'm what I am, V
r Though I should never growl,
If I'd been born a silent clam,
; A noisy beast or fowl: 9|
, Life suits me to a very T, H
t It seems one joyous psalm? S|
5 I simply overflow with gloe, jfl
) Because?I am. L\f s I