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JCOTHER'8 EYE. Well, my baby, how do yon find This great, round world? 1b it venp tied To a wee, email man like yon? 3b it very large? Have you found thnt out? 1b there plenty of fun to laugh about? Are there plenty of things to do? it very hard?if you sit down fast? la it ve'.y dark?if you'ro hurried poat A most amusing toy? Is it very soft 02 mother's breast? Ib it very swtet when lulled to rest, A sleepy, baby boy ? Does it often rain when things go wrong? Does it often trill a flo.d of song? Is It often heavy when the way is long? Is it happy, and sorr>, Anl grav<- and gay, Just as you find it? Every "day ? J^e baby opened his great brown cyea. Be looked me over with sad surprise. Where have you been these many days, That you're only learning a baby's ways? You'd better go back to your ink and your books, l'o your OJU sua wnyjj IUIU )UUJ u>' A babv's a baby, the whole world through 1 There's nothing el6e I can tell to yon. And whether he'6 cross, or grave, "or gay, A baby's a baby, anyway I And hie world of sorrow, of smiles and sighs, Ho finds it all?in mother's exes I ?-Churchman.. Lost Lina; -OR, HE BITTER AND THE SWEET. A Tale of Two Continents. BY MBS. NINA LAWSClf. CHAPTER XV. Hall, or Capt. Hutchinson, as he was mostly known, hr.d been on the watch since his arrival in Chicago. He knew just how every room in the Noll cottage was located, and just how they looked. Of the chambers, Lenora's was the best and Gertana's second; nothing was wanting for comfort and beauty in either. Lenora's maid's chamber was just off of hers, and Gertana's apartments were arranged in thfe same manner. The servanto' chambers were at the southern end of the building. A short corridor led from the main - hall to the servants' apartments, and ?' to the right of this corridor was a short ?ight of steps that led to the attic. There was also another short, steep flight of stairs that led from the end of this narrow passage, down into the backgrounds. It was by these steps (tne DacK nan door having been left open) that Hutchinson quietly stole his way into the cottage, with a small bag of provisions on his back. He ascended into the garret, which he made his only place of lodging for two weeks. In this manner, he had excellent opportunity of learning the ecrets of tne Noll cottage, and, with the information he had already gained from the unknown, he was able in that manner to plan and lose no time. The servants' hall was under that part of the garret where he slept, and, as he had removed a board or two from the floor, he was able to hear about all that was said. ? In the evenings after their work was all done, the servants would gather in this room, and relate to each other all they had done, seen and heard during the dav. On this, the night of the thirteenth, they assembled earlier than usual, and had a long, lively talk, but finally they retired to their rooms and were soon sound asleep. About midnight the cautious Bpy quietly stole from his hiding place, armed with a large bottle of chloroform. He had, during his stay in the garret, secnred duplicate keys for all the rooms, and knew just what key fitted eaoh lock. . Of course, it was not much trorOoe for him to enter the room of 9 tired, soundly sleeping servant ??nii7 in a very short time, he.hft^ everv servant in the - "011 aV a /innilifinr tliat. +."h<av UVUDC A-i-i DUVU U W"Uiv*vu vmwv -wj would not waken up until late the next morning. He then quietly stole down the main hall until he came to Gertana's room; there was no noise within, and the gau was turned off. For some unknown reason, the door had not been locked, nd he quietly pushed it open and en^ lered. As ho walked on the 6oft velvet carpet, no sound could be heard; he reached Gertana's bed without disturbing her. This strange midnight visitor then went to Nissou's room, and, after waiting a few minutes for the chloroform to have the desired effect, he drew the elide of his little pocket lantern, and glanced at his watch. "Good heavens! I have scarcely time flow to get the girl in the box and get to tl*at train. "Myl But won't they be a surprised set at that fine mansion when they see that beautiful girl!" He then drew from an inside pocket of his ooat a letter addressed to Madam Gertana Girindani, Noll Cottage, and laid it on the dresser in her room; then slipping quietly to Lenora's room, he found the door locked, and the gac not turned out, but very low. "I do not like to disturb them in here, sr have them make any noise, but time is precious, and I will risk it." He unlocked tho door as quietly at possible, and went in. Lenora was not disturbed, and, as she lay there on he: bed, Hutchinson at first thought hei dead. "Heavens! Is all lost, and have ] been working here for the last week 01 so for nothing? She can't be dead, foi 1 heard the servants say she was bettei this evening." As he moved the bed ho saw a slight rising and falling of the clothes thai covered her chest. **Ah! Thank God; Bhe breathes, and I am saved." A cloth, saturated with chloroform, was pressed to her nose, and the midnight adventurer then went to the watchful nurse's bed. As soon as be thought it safe to make any noise he went back to Lenora'e bedside. "Ob, bow pretty Bhe is; I am afraid \o touch her, but I must, poor child lor I know she is miserable enough here. Won't that brave young chap idolize! hor? Heavens! Who would not? "I have never had a chance to pay hiir back for that little lift ha gave me once. Why, I -would have been a dead , Cian to-day if he had not come along 5ust then. I'll bet my life that after he once sees that girl, he can never love another woman as long as be lives." While these thoughts -were passing In this kind-he irted, but wicked young j jnan's mind, h* was busy wrapping nice j warm blanket* round Lenora's bodj, | iind, m iang hex little form from the bed, with the pillow still under her \ head, he stole from the house, and out \ into a blinding snow storm. An ex- I press wagon and a rough-looking1 Jbox wae atanlipfe in the ?llejrway, . while, crouched "clown "by the fence, was an old crippled driver, who had promised to work and not talk. Hutchinson then carefully placed the un- s conscious beauty in this rough-looking box, but it (lid not look so rough on the inside as it did on the outside, for the entire inside was heavily padded with the softest down, and* all was covered with beautiful pale blue shirred satin. The box was well ventilated, and just before the lid wps fastened down, a few white roses and buds were placed among the golden curls that lay scattered over the snow-white pillow. This strangely laden express wagon reached the depot just in time foi Hutchinson to gel the* box on the last through express. On and on they went, whirling across the country just like the wind. * * ' 1 .3 _ 3 The train wincn JAutcmnson Doaraeci passed through Michigan Citv, and that was -where he wanted to stop. He arrived juBt in time to get his charge to the place he wished it to go before the day dawned. He went himself with the express-man and knew that it was properly delivered. CHAPTER XVI. It was late the second morning after the party, but the shutters were all closed at the Noll cottage, and no sound could be heard within; already the place looked as if it had been deserted. Lenora's nurse was the first to recover from the effects of the chloroform, and then she felt drowsy and as if she had slept but little all night. Suddenly she thought of the patient left in her care, and springing from her couch she ran to Lenora's bed, but it was empty. "Oh, Heavens!" she screamed. "The child is gone, blankets, pillow and all. What shall I do, what can I do ?" and she. ran through the houBe wringing her hands and screaming at the top of her voice for help. She rushed into Gertana's room, her hair flying in every direction, making her look like some insane person. She rushed to the bed and shook Gertana violently. "Wake np, wake up! Don't you know that the girl has been stolen V" All the noise and shaking did not affect Gertana at first; but finally she slowly opened her eyes looked at the nurse in a strange, bewildering fashion. "What is the matter, nurse, and what are you doing here ? Ic Lenora worse?" "Mercy, meroy! Don't you know anvtliincr about it. madam? My, the girl is gone, isn't in the house; she has been stolen away in the night. Don't you know we have all been chloroformed and something awful has happened?" As soon as Gertana could realize what the nurse had been saying, she sprang from her bed and ran to Lenora's room, not daring to believe what had been told her. The bed was empty and all was as the nurse had said. This 6trange disappearance meant more to Gertana than the nurse knew of, and, as Lenoras faithful friend saw her plans so shattered she sank senseless to the floor. It was about noon before order was again restored to the excited inmates of the beautiful cottage. Gertana soon recovered from her faint, and, after eating some toast and drinking some wine, she felt stronger and had her maid dress her. In their excitement they had overlooked the letter that Hutchinson had left, but now, as Nissou -was arranging her mistress' hair she saw the sJi'angely addressed letter. "This seems to bptfu unopened letter for you, masifm. Have you read it ?" "Letuvf see it, quick, Nissou." She quickly tore open the envelope, and her eyes rested on an unknown name, also a strange hand. Her hands trembled as she read what was before her, in plain black and white, yet she could scarcely believe her own eyes. The letter was thi6: In the Garbet of the Noll Cottage. 1 Nov. 30.1875. f To Madam Girindani: This is but an explanation to yon. to relieve you of some anxiety on the part oi the girl who was kept in this house ag&insl her will. I know who you are. and do Dot wish to do you or thiB poor girl any harm; eo. I am a true friend to an honest, helpless woman, and would not stoop so low as to trample on your rights. J Kt? +Vk#v { tvs A wnii nro oKIa +A UUUUl UJ IUU nujt JV?u uiv o?uw tu 1V?\I this letter this girl?1 know not her real name?will be far from Chicago, and in the hands of those who will care for and love her. ' I am aware of your kindly feeling toward her, and hesitated somewhat in taking her away in this manner; but have done so in order that no one would supect you. I have been in this house night and day for nearly two weeks, and have been able to learn much about it There was a largo bundle of papers, rightfully belonging to the girl, but she knew nothing of them. "Noll had stolen them and carried them to his library. Of course, he intended to make improper use of them: he intended to stoop so low as to get the girl's fortune, and then God only knows what he would have done. But, thanks to a mighty good streak of luck, he has been caught at this game, and I think it will be his last. I took those papers from a small drawer of a desk that stands in the library, and will give them to the girl. Do not know what is in them, for I consider it too base an act for a man to impose upon an innocent, injured woman. It does not make so much difference ahout my own sex. ^ A# VAIPH ?IT\ f m V) ana _ IUU HI X3 u\jy ?naic vi o j/ivovui. nuwicabout#, but I am. Before day-dawn to-morrow morning he will be securely fastened In the jail at Springfield. Illinois, where he intends to rob the First National Bank, but frill not suooeed. He has no one to blame for all this disgrace but himself. And now about your own interests. As I said, ] know who you are and whore your former jhome was. You have your own choiob to .make. Either go to that home or somewhere else; but I insist upon your iminedliately leaving this city. Your father is dead but your mother lives, and is still looking lor you to return to her. I am known as Captain Hutohenbon. Afl Gertana finished reading tMs strange letter, her hands dropped to her lap and she sat for some time entirely lost to what was going on around her. She was thinking how to ncoept that letter, and if all was true that it stated, what should she do ? If this party had taken those blank paper* from tiie drawer, .Lenora would bo no better off than she had been before. This was the hardest for Gertana to bear. To think that she had the original papers and did not know where to find Lenora to give them to her. And another painful thought was, that the poor, wronged girl, if she had not been taken to lur home, would probably never know that the letter she supposed was from her uncle, was forced. Eow~could this Italian, that had taken snoh an interest in Lenora, endure these maddening truths ? It was almost more than she could bear. Just how to test the truthfulness of that letter she hardly knew; yet, if those blank papers were gone, and if there were any signs in the att^'c of its having been recently occupied, there must be some truth in it. And, tog, the author of the letter spoke of her borne and mother, and said that that ' home was still hers. Her feelings were then of the deepest sorrow, yet tinged with a little joy. "Does the letter explain anything about my lady, madam V" This seemed to arouse Gertana from the deep train of thought into which she had fallen, and raising her eyes to the nurse's she replied, "Yes," in such a strange, hollow, s iddened voice that it startled the lookers-on. They realized immediately that something terrible had happened to cause so wonderful and sudden change in the woman. In some way the servants had heard about the letter, and all had gathered round she door to hear what was said. "Yes, there has something .very strange, indeed, happened. All of you wait here until I return, and then I will tell you what must be done." She then went to the library, and found that the papers had been taken; that was part proof, yet she was not satisfied, and went to the attic, where she could easily see that some one had been there, for there were a few dishes, ? wofnr cnmo TytpaVI ATld U Vi TT UVUA , UVAMW . ? cake left. "Oh, heavene! it is true, only too fcrae, and what am I to do, what can I do?" She sank wearily upon an old chair that fitood by a circular window, and gazed longingly and sadly out upon the bright, sparkling snow. How long she remained there she did not know, but she had come to a conclusion what was best for her to do. After this decision she went downstairs to relieve the anxious servants. "A very unpleasant circumstance will prevent your master from ever returning to this city. You are free to go where you please, for you will not be needed here any longer. I leave the city this evening, perhaps never to return. You may now go." And, as she slightly bowed, they understood that she no longer wanted them there. In a very short time each had gathered together his small possessions, and soon left the house, all very indig1 "> ? A- Al V- -I.! 1 J nanr, maeeu, 10 tuun ue amimssuu *nuout any -warning. Aa soon as they had gone Gertana ordered |Niseou to pack the trunks, while she attended to some business matters. After making all necessary arrangements, she made preparations to take the late afternoon train for Jonesborough, where Lenora's once happy home -was situated. Gertana and her maid arrived at Anna, the nearest station to Jonesborough. It -was about midnight before the train stopped to let them off, and of oourse tbey were compelled to go to a hotel until morning, when Gertana intended to drive out to the Rice farmhouse. The large flakes of snow had been falling all night, but when morning dawned th9 sun rose bright and clear in a cloudless sky, throwing his rays of light over the smooth bed of sparkling whiteness. About nine o'clock, a handsome sleigh, -with fiery jet-black horses, waited outside the hotel door for Madame Girindaui. She soon appeared, looking?oh, so lovely, in this clear, frosty morning 1 She now seemed free, like the happy, blushing girl she was eight long years ago. . ' "The horses pranced down tJ?e long road that led from Area to Jonesborough, while thi" coughs of the evergreens on eani side of the street were bendiig"ibw with their sparkling bur?3fn of snow. As they rapidly descended the hill, the sleigh bells jingling and the spirit* ed horses keeping time to tbeir ctnme, Gertana's countenance became more radiant, and her eyes sparkled with admiration of the beautiful landscape stretching before them. [to be continued.] George W. Carter, -who discovered natural gas in Indiana, and to -whose pluck and energy its success in that State is due, recently died at Eaton, Ind., from paralysis. Several years ago, at Muncie, he sunk a well several hundred feet deep, on the banks of the Mississinewa River, after coal, which was supposed to be there. On striking the Trenton ro*.k, the gas odor frightened away the diggers, who did not know what it was they had found. The well was filled up and the coal search abandoned, no one knowing the useful ness of the discovery. When gas was found at Findlay, Mr. Carter was one of the passengers on an excurson train run over to see the wonder. He found the great new fuel to be nothing more than what he had abandoned. He went home and sunk a well where he had filled the one up before, and got the first gusher in Indiana. There ia now talk of erecting him a monument. That country editors are sometimes very busy men is evidenced by the following editorial paragraph from a recent issue of the Waitsburg (Wash.) Times: "When we returned from din ncr on Tuesday we found a piece of paper sticking into the keyhole of our office door, on which was written these words: 'Been here twice to subscribe for the Times, but failed to find you in. Send it to me and I will hand you $2 the next time I am in town.' We very much regret being absent when the writer called, but Great Scott! we can't take money all the time. We'v< cot to '.ake time to eat." THERKisan old lady living in Polk County, Fla., who is quite a genius. She can write poetry and set it to music and has written two books. She hunts phosphate, plants trees, clears land, works in an orange grove, can knit dresses, make neat Bhoes, plait hats of palmetto and make flowers out of shucks. ... It is an interesting fact that in Colombia, where potatoes form the chief * 1 ' 11? ? ? ? 1 lOOU 01 tue peU]UU, tiuu nucio disea-e.5 run riot very often, the greater the altitude at which the vegetable is grown tne less is it liable to the disease, and at 9.00J feet above the sea it grows iu a perfectly healthy state. The Maine Savings Bank in Portland has 325 unknown depositors, of wliich nuirber twenty-six' have not troubled their deposits since 1850. .V ?&?& TJ, .. -2ir-C SAVAGE ARMS. I SHIELDS AND ARMOR USED ITS VARIOUS TillBES. Cocoanut Cuirass of South Pacific Isl andcrs?Thick Corcan Armor? A Body Fcnco of Sticks ?Some Shields. To those whose acquaintance frith armor is confined to that of the times ol Richard Cosur (le Lion, the primitive suits in the National Museum at Washington would prove a surprise. There have been knights of all nations and times; the first sword was a blade ol clipped flint, the first spear a five-pointed stick, the first shield and body armor of thick skin of wild animals. Those were the humble beginners of the famous ewords, shields and harness celebrated in song and romance. They were the eauipment of the brave knights whose names are unrecorded. JAPANMB WABB10B8. Defense and offense are the two great ideas along which weapons have grown; nature began it in the conflicts of the armored slow and the unarmored active animals, which we see repeated between the ships of to-day. When missiles besome more penetrating the armor must be made thicker, and so this fight has been waged with varying success in all world's history. The suggestion of the use of body armor at the present day would recall the amusing adventures of Don Quixote, and less than twenty years ago the Uhlans nf the Franco-Prussian war were clad in :uirasses and helmets of steel. These were tested before being issued by rifle dre at a certain range. It is just this nrt of armor of different materials that some barbarous tribes used up to a few years ago. ESKIMO WARRIOR. Some of the best-armored warriors that have been met with by later travelers were found by Captain Charles Wilkes, U. 8. N., in the Kingsmill Islands in the South Pacific. They wore a heavy cuirnss of cocoanut, woven over a bamboo framework resembling a barrel chair. Besides this they inclosed their limbs in a cocoanut network like chain armor. The helmet was of the skin of the sea hedgehog. The suit is admirab!y fitted to tear out the jagged shark's teeth set into the edges of the murderous wooden swords and spears or these lslauas. i ne ivmgsmill natives acted on the belief that their mail was impregnnblc until Captain Wilkes thought it advisable to hang a suit in the rigging and riddle it -with bullets. Japanese differs from European armor by not being closely Qtting. It seems to be rather low in the scale, as it is composed of overlapping plates, a method that is frequently followed iu the beginning of the making of armor. COREAN WARRIOR. Numerous attachments were mads l>} the Japanese armorer to the original coal of mail or cuirass, covering the tmnl< and protectirg the vital organs. In feudal times in Japan, the daimios.or lords, possessed splendid and serviceable harness, which was often so heavy as to rrsx. ^ hamper tne movements, jne uciuicl na? generally shallow,with a mask before the face, made to look as grnesome as possible?looks are considerably more thin half the Oriental battle. In Corean armor we see another material useJ for defence. The ancient Corean soldier wore a coat of great weight and thickness, made up of thirty-two layers of course cotton clotb. The' helmet is padded and iron bound. On the outside of the front and rear pads forming the coat arc piinted protecting sentences from Buddhist prayer books. This kind of armor was probably introduced from r,L;? /i?< Pnnnnod fmiflrlit. IsUlZiU. V/UIIC3, iu buk WUXJIIVMI, against Mexican soldiers equipped in coats padded with cotton or stuffed with salt. The Borneo African soldiers also wear quilted armor, and protect their h.orf.?s with, the same materia!. Primitive armor only protected the body; the legs are left free to ruu and dance about in the skirmish fighting of wild tribes. The "Romans of Cali foruia," as theHupa and Klamath Indians were called, wore an armor of woodcD elats woven together, fitted, around the arms and ncck and fastened over the shoulders with bands of buckskin. A atone-hcadcd arrow like these people used a few years ago would be harmless against this fcnce of hard wood sticks. I'hev also made odd-looking coats of thick elkskin almost capable of stopping a bullet at medium range. Further north this variety of skin-armor is painted with grotesque Alaskan tigures in glaring colors. The Alaskan helmet is also a strikingly carved and colored object. An Aleutian skin coat in the National Museum shows a curious combination of ornament and protection. It is covered over with brass Chinese coin called ' cash," sewed on with sinew cord. It would be interesting to know how the Ai?.a;o?Artrtiiirnrl Phinnan mnnnv. t\li;UbiUL( U\^\j UliVV* VM?uvvv J . KD7GSMILL ISLANDER. ALASKAN WARRIOR. It seems strange that the Esquimaux high up in Behring Strait should feel the aeed of armor. With plates cut from walrus tusk he makes mail put together like that of the Japanese that are marvels of patience. When barrel hopes were to be had he sometimes used these instead of ivory. I ? i cm ;? loe vjnunccmes, on me cxucrmu &iuu of Behring Strait, had an armor made of bands of sealskin that telescoped like a tourist's drinking-cup. They had a shield attachment protecting the sides of the face, also a square breastpiece hinged on with leather thongs. A shield is detached or movable armor. "While it is tolerably easy to pick out all the tribes that have advanced to the use of a protection worn on the body, all the barbarian world use shields. Happy was the Indian that had a "medicine" shield; no bullet or arrow could hurt him, and, summit of Indian felicity, it was reputed to make him Bucccssful in battle and horse-stealing. The Indian buffalo-hide shield was generally showily decorated in colors and trapped with red flannel, pcalps, horse-hair and eagle feathers. Sometimes the designs relate the exploits of the owner, or are his own dream de vice, a kind of coat-of-arms. African shields compare favorably in point of area with a whole suit of armor. They are made of raw hide, wood 01 basket and slat work. The latter are as pretty weaving as can be found. The Congo negroes trusted their shields against bullets lor a time. One of basketwork in the National Museum has a hole made by a rifle ball that killed the man that carried it. * The large round Siamese shields are nen.Vy- *~uf spTTT^rattau. Long wooden shields covered with tufts of hair are found among the head-hunting Dyaks of Borneo. The New Guinea shields are of wood, partly covcrei with finely woven basket-work. The most wonderful shield in tht world is that used by 6ome Australian tribes. It is really a sort of parrying WIfK if thr> natirfi turns osidf any spear or other throning missile sent against him. An Australian gave an exhibition of its use to the Princc of Wales in London some year3 ago. He parried with case spears that were thrown ful' force at him from a distance of fifteen paces.?New York World. Honduras Has New Stamps Annually. The Government of Honduras change.? its postal stamps annually. The design af the stamps this year is pretty, much siore elaborate and striking than the stamps of any of the other SpsuishA.mcrican republics. The PostmasterGeneral, Mr. Burt Cecil, speaking of this, jaid: "It is because it is no expense to the Government at all that we make the change every year. Honduras has a contract with a large engraving concern in New York to furnish us with all the jtarnps of all denominations we want and Df any design we select, free, we simply !o return at the end of each year all the mused stamps and to receive a fresh supply of the new designs. The New York iouse makes its profit from the . stamp :ollectors. There are tens of thousands )f these cranks all over the world. At :hc end of each year uncancelcd Hondurian stamps of that year can only be had !rom the New York engravers. They, laving a monopoly, make the collectors ,iav roundly, and, I hear, make a good 'hing out of it."?New York Press. Willing to Oblige. Dr. Blinks?"Got a splinter in your foot, eh? Put it up here so that I cau see it." Billy the Tumbler?"Slitting)y, boss." ?Mumei/s Weddy. -v ?.%.?? ovv.*;v .v k ^;*+-v'' The Barber Pole and Basin. The sign of the striped pole, which can be seen at the door of every barber shop, was adopted as emblematical of the process of blood-letting, which practice was a common remedy for nearly all diseases until about fifty years ago. The patient's arm, usually the left, was made bare, he was then given a short round stick to grasp in his hand, the arm was then tightly wrapped with a narrow bandage or tape to the elbow. This was done in order to get all the blood above the point where the lancet was to be inserted. The red stripe on the pole is symbolical of the arterial blood, the blue stripe of theveins or venous circulation and the white of the arm. The brass basin sometimes suspended from the barber's pole (quite common in Europe, though rarely seen in this country) was anciently one of the utensil9 of the barber. It resembles a tin pie plate with a semi-circular gap in one side to encompass the throat ana 60 prevent the lather from soiling the clothes. This was found necessary, as the party being shaved was compelled to sit in an upright position. It will be remembered that "Don Quixote" assumed a barber's basin as a hemlet. It was not until the reign oi George II, about 1757, that the barber ceased to bo anything but a barber, as we now understand the term. During the fifth and sixth centuries the custom of shaving was nearly obsolete. It was not revived in Europe until the seventeenth century. During the reigns of Louis XIII and XVI of France, both of whom ascended the throne in boyhood, the fashionable people soon began to make free use of the razor that they might resemble their youthful sovereigns. It will be observed that the desire to imitate great men did not originate with the present generation and, it is safe to predict, will not die with it.? Washington Star. Triplet Steers. The interestiug picture given below of triplet calves is copied from the Rural New Yorker. The steers belong to Josiah 8. Kenerson, of Barnet, Yt. Mr. Kenerson writes of the animals: "The mother of the steers is a nineyear-old high grade Shorthorn cow which had always dropped single calves until May 3, 1889, when she gave birth to these triplets. Their sire was a very fine full blooded Shorthorn bull, which, so far as I have heard, had always begot single calves until this case. The steers were castrated when a few weeks old. They were born May 3. I bought them on August 12. They were allowed to suckle the dam until I look them on August 14. I then tried to teach them to drink new milk as taken from the cow, but they would not touch it. I fed SIIEM, HAM AND JAPHETH. thcrn on hay, ground oats and wheat bran, aid after a few days began to give them ears of corn left from the table in the boiling season. They relished the green ears very much. As the corn matureu x put, iuuui vu the hard corn, giving them two or three ears each now and then. They are now eating about three quarts of bran apiece each day, and also, first, a handful of oats, then two or three cars of corn and afterward a few roots?beets or carrots. They have gained very finely. They are colored exactly alike and marked rcirly alike, except that Shem has a star on his forehead. No person can .tell which is the tallest. A farmer called to see them this week and I asked him to select the largest one; he looked them over and carefully made his selection. I then "mixed them up*' and asked him to tell me the smallest. He made his selection, and, to his surprise, he had picked the same steer. Electricity Direct From Heat. For fifty years electricians have been trying to discover a method of converting heat directly into electricity, says the Hartford (Conn.) Courant, but until recently no results of commercial value have been obtained. Such a method now, however, seems to have been discovered by H. B. Cox, a young man from Maine, at present living in Hartford. He claims to have invented an apparatus for converting heat directly into electricity, which is so simple in construction that he does not dignify it by the name of machine. By Mr. Cox's method heat is changed to electricity as simply as water is changed to steam. His furnace is all that may be seen. From glowing coals comes the subtle current, without the aid of boiler, engine or dynamo. A jet of gas can be made to run a dental machine, a sewing machine, and anything which requires no more power than these. No power has ever been discovered that is half so cheap as will be electricity obtained by this new process. 1 ~* in MoinA hfi hnd 8 VV 111Ul UIO 11VLUV AU ? small furnace, which supplied the electricity for several lights, and all of his experiments have been successful. A Wonderfnl African Mountain. The top of Kilima Njaro, the wonderful mountain lying almost under the equator in Ceutrol Africa, has been reached by Dr. Mever. Several ascents were made to both the Kibo and the Mawenzi summits, the party remaining sixteen days above a height of 13,000 feet, and finding the snow-eucircled Kibo crater 6500 feet in diameter and 650 feet i deep. A height of 19,680 feet?the highest point in German territory?was reached.?Trenton {N. J.) American. Stanley, in his address to the Royal Geographical Society, describes a forest of 224,000,000 acres and 10,752,000,000 I trees. Doubtless 2,500,000 souls out oi Sicily's 2,534,099 inhabitants arc arabitionles3, iquorant and sodden as swine. The country lost by fire last yea $123,000,000 worth of property. Tee King of Danomey had for years ; believed that ono of his warriors coulc1 whip eeven white men. When on< Frenchman began to lick nine of hif fighters the King slowly realized thai he was "off," and he al.w "offed" th( heads of several of his generals for ooo eolation. V :9 |y TEMPEHANCE. 1 PAVING THTI STREETS. JS "Wc must have the liquor tax to pare OUT fl streets," says a politician. "If mothers hod the control, ^H| They could ?ave to-day |H The broad highway H With something not so white as tho sonls H Of tho innocent boys at play. B Why can't men pa to the business marts h With something narder than women's heartrt H Is there no gold that will serve their turn, 91 Save the shining gold of the heads that rest H Soft on a loving mother's breast? H Must those go down to adruukard's grave H In order that we the streets may pave?" H Salltc F. Chapin, in Union Signal, H DRUNKENNESS NO EXCUSE. B Says tho Governor of Virginia: "pieman H who pleads drunkenness to excuse a B crima should get a double sontenc3. It U H like s murderer asking to be excused for) chopping up a man on the ground tnat ho, H had stolen an ax and was carrying it along H when he met bis victim." The Governor. H persistently refuses a pardon to auy prisoner, H who was led to commit crime through ^ urumteuiiess. PARISIAN LIQUOR 8ALOOS3. At the recent Alcoholic Congress at Paris, it was elicited that, daring the last eight years, the liquor saloons or Paris have mcreased from twenty-four thousand to twen*. ty-nine thousand; that, in thirty years, the consumption of alcohol has been trebled, in -* the last ten years doubled, and that no MM than thirty-six million gallons of alcohoHc liquor have been manufactured out of potfi* * toes. The seed thus sown has borne its mevi* itable fruit in a startling increase of crima' disease, insanity and suicide.?New York Ledge*. RUINED BY RUM. Before tho wat William L, Knowles had the largest clothing store in New Yorkt Somehow the -war ruined his business and swept away his entire fortune. Ho took to drink and went down step by step until only means of livelihood was the distributinj^hM of circulars in the Bowery, when ho coul^HB get it to do. A few weeks azo he stumblj^^^fl half drunk into a mission, wnera he was duced to sign the pledge. He stuck to hi^^H word and was beginning to see rehahilitaf-^H tion before him, when he was ta&en ill rag bad t& go to Believue hospital. There, akm* and friendless, he has just died of heart fait ure in his seventy-first year. He was a rich man when the war broke out EIGHT AND WRONG 8TOCULUB. -: r-Man requires stimulus. It is hie spirit's native air. It is like the steam to the eazina! and wind to the sail. He ignorantly seen iti in the nicotine dream, the hallucination of drink and the brutal delirium of lust. Bat all the while, voices from heaven were call* ing him. only he did not listen, to God** ' modes of stimulation?the threefold lovei 6t the soul: one is the mystic bond tbatbtftfo two hearte and builds a home; another is' the blessed tie of human brotherhood thai broadens out into a work beneficent, and! crowning all, the love of God, the holy spirit * setting the soul aflame for unity with*Him. who is both its Creator, its Master and its Redeemer.? Frances E. Willard. "PROGRESS AND POVERTY." The London Christian has thesa para- graphs relating to the "drink evil," reciting facts which are akin to incidents in th* United States. "Progress and Poverty" is forcibly illustrated 07 toe report 01 a una- h lin company working two or three spirit shops, from which it appears that after pay- . ing all expenses the profits for the yaar amounted to ?5844 Ob. 8d.; with nearly ?000 H ^taWXiedforward. No wonrtar tfrrt-rrHartv M and (Ksea5trs*ta?Tian'd in hand through the fl Irish metropolis, when one firm, and there H are hundreds such, can quote figures like H these. * * * The increase of the national H drink bill by seven and a half millions dur- H ing 1889 is a fact to bo deeply deplored. uB Fortunately, the bill for tho decade is lower H than was that for the previous decade, bat H no amouut of explanation can make it satte^^H factory that w.e should bo spending ?l33j^H 213,270 per annum upon intoxicating drinfl^Bl * * Itisbe^mnin^ to be askndj What^M is the uso of providing improved dwelling* for the working classes if the publican is to be permitted to come and settle close by, or B in the midst to drag the occupants down H again? By and by when Parliament can H condescend to practical questions affecting H the well-being, spiritual aud physical, of the H people, we hope the query wUl receive the H attention of 6ome of our statesmen. H IN EULOGY OF "WATER. ^ H It is related of the late Emory Stores that when sitting around a wine tablo with a H number of legal friends he insisted on drinb*1 H int jM water. Thev taunted him for his I abstemiousness, saying: "What is there ill j water? You can say nothing for it." Tick* ing up his glass he exclaimed: { "How do you expect to improve upon the| beverage furnished by nature? Here it fat? Adam's ale?about the only gift that ha* descended undefiled from the Garden ot Eden! Nature's common carrier?not created in the rottenness of fermentation, not distilled over guilty fires! Virtues ana not vices are its companions. Does it caass drunkenness, disease, death, cruelty tit; women and children? Will it place rags Oft the person, mortgages on the stock, farm and furniture? Will it consume wages and income in advance and ruin men in business? No! .j "3ut it floats in white gossamar clouds far up in the quiet summer sky, and hovers in dreamy mist over the merry fac3o of all our; . sparkling lakes. It veils the woods and hflfar of earth's landscapes in a purple haze, where filmy lights and shadows drift hour after hour. It piles itself in tumbled masses of cloud-dones and thunder-lioid?, draw3 1 theelectric fla&h from its mysterious hiding places, and seams and shocks the wide air with vivid lines or nre. it is carrion ay sow n winds and falls in rustling curtains of liquid H drapery over all the thirsty woods and- H fields, and fixes in God's mystic eastern H heavens His beautiful bow of promise, glori- I fiod with a radianco that sooms reflected outl of heaven itsslf. "Itgleams in the frost crystals ofuBH mountain tope and the dews of tin valley*. M It silently creeps up each leat in the myriad) H forests of the world and tiuts each fruit and H flower. It is here in the grass blades of the meadows and there where the corn waves its, tassels and the wheat is billowing! It geo* H the depths of the desert with the glad green' H oasis; winds in oceans round the whole earth, } and roars its hoarse, eternal anthem? on a H hundred thousand miles of cvvst. It claps j its hands in tha flashing wave crests of toe H sea, laughs in the little rapids of the brooks j I kisses the dripping, mose-covered, old oaken! H well buckets in a countless host of happy. R homes. ?| "See these pieces of cracked ice, full of pri?-.' matic colors, clear as diamonds! Listen to, I j their fairy tinklo against the brimming H | glass that sweetest music in all the world to H i V..1 f hintiner with thirst. And SO. itt' H UUO UUiti ..... ? _ the language of that grand old man, G-ou'gbf j I ask ycra, brothers all, would you exchange that sparkling glass of water for alcohol, tb*-' drink of the vory devil himself?"' TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. | The prise of 150 offere 1 by Mrs. George 8.' Hunt, of Portland, Mc., for the best essay by a college undergraduate ou the "Relation of Temperance to Political Economy," is arousing considerable interest on this subject among college men. Drunkards drunk are to b;> prohibited from ; riding in public conveyances iu New York, i It seems there arc no places in this world where drunkards are wauted, and yet there are thousands of young men who seem am* bitious to be drunkards, jj Good authority states that in a certain London hospital where alcohol is still freely, used in the treatment of fever cases, twenty-' fnur n?- cont. of the fever patients die^ whereas in the Glasgow fever hospital wtoere . j milk is used, tho mortality is only twelve per I The military commission of the Austrian I I Army bavc established a law that the offense I of intoxication should bo punished tho first H r ! time by a public repriuianu. Tho second of- H | fensc by several days' imprisonment in j guard bouse. The third offenso is evideiua^H that the victim is suffering from a chronflQH I | disease, and he is placed utrier constant sur-^H ' | John Higginbottom,an Eugish doctor,says: B J i ,lI gave alcohol in my practice lor twenty. j years, and have now practical without it for thirty years or moro. I have not found a single patient injured by its disuse, or a con , stitution requiring it; indeed, to nnd cither, H although I am in nay seventy-seven th year, 1 would walk fifty miles to set such an nn-1 m natural phenomenon." j