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J? *'.'* 535??; " : v ~r- " v" /; ." *; -r*^zr*7"r ~ ru2t. BT CONSTANCE FENI3TOH8 VOOLSOR Yes, Tom's the beet fellow thnt ever yon knew. 'list liiten to bit: When tbe old mill took tire tsu>l :he fiocrins Jell tl.r nigh. Aud with it. tietj'teas th re fa 1 in m; view. What do you thi..k u.y yes saw thro igii the tire Tbfit < rept alone crept tlo:ig. nisberand uigh-r. But Hol'iu, my l*?!?y boy, iuuguiiii! ;o soe The bh:niiig! ht> must'ba t* com.* there after inn, Toddltd alone rom the > ottag" with -lit Anyone uii>t-iu^ hire. 1 h :? wl.at u si ont? Oh. h i v 1 sbout-d. "K. r li' tive iV huke, men, feuve little l.oli.n " c-iin an.I u^.'iin They tri d, but the fire btld t..eui back like a Willi. I could bear them go it it. ::nd nt :t. ml call, "Never mind. baby. Kit >-t:ll like a itr is! We're conit:C to get you us fust ns we o; n."* They to.ild not s<e bi:n. b it i conle. lie sat Still tin a bcntn. h;8li.tlc arra v hat C&rofu.ly jilac d by his ?id<*; and Lis eyes Stareda: tbe t'.ume with r. baby's surpr s >, Ctlm and unconsc:o is, a1* iisara it cr. p.. 1 he rotr of tbe l!ro up above uiast huve kept The sonnd of his mother's voice shrieking hiB name From reaching ih? child. But I he.ird it. It (nine Apr in ?u 1 ncaln. O, God, what a cry I S'L? ttxf? wont faett-r; 1 e nv ibe spuxKS fly Where the m?-n worked like tigirs, nor minded the l:eut That e orehed them?when, suddenly, there at their fee , The great lx ams leaned in?they saw him?th?n, crush, Down came the wall! The men made a dash? Jumped to k t out of the way?and I thought, *AU e up with l'oor little Kobin I" and brought Flowly the arm that wa? leas; hurt to hide The Biclit of the child there?when twiit, at my B de, Bomc one rushed bv, and went right through tht flame Straight as a dart?canght the child?and then ccme Pack with him, choking and crying, bnt saved 1 Bale and sound! Ob how the men raved, Ebon ed and cried, and hurrahed! Then the J all Rosbed at the work a^aln. lest tue back wall Where I was lying, away from the fire, Should fall in and bury me. Oh I you'd admire To see Robin now; he's as bright as a dime. Deep in some mischief, too, most of the time. Tom, it was, save-1 him. Now, isn't it true Tom's the best fellow that evor you knew? There's Robin, nowl See, he's aa strong as ? log! And there comee Tom, too? Yes. Tom was our dosl Lost Lina; -OB,, THE BITTER AND THE SWEET. A Tale of Two Continents. BY MBS. NINA LAW30*. CHAPTER SXVm.?Continued. One year from the day they left the Bristol mansion they re-entered the United States through the "Golden Gate." All welcomed them home except Jeannette, and when she looked upon the lovely form of her successful rival, the hatred that she bore in her heart was almost more than she could bear. - 3 1. "l - j?,l 1* DJQ6 seemea no ue gia,u uu ?cc,mciu, and welcome them back, but all the while, that little cloud they had left behind them had been growing larger and gathering more fore a each day, and now was only waiting for a -time to come when it would burst upon them -with all its strength and fury; and shatter the foundation of their happiness as if forever. That year had seemed to Ray and : Lenora but one short month, and its days but hours of perfect bliss; that happy year had made a wonderfulj improvement in Ray's appearance^ and his little wife had grown taller and even more beautiful. She was noble, kind, generous, and the mistress of the Bristol mansion, 1 but she did not seem to realize that she T? T was a* we a it it j wumuu. i-* v eij uwlj loved her, except one, and Ray was never happy unless by her side. "My dear little wife, can it be possible that no shadow will ever cross our path ? Can I live on and on forever in the sunshine of your smile?" "I never care to smile for any one tut you, Ray, dear. Do not worry, for that will always be, and always be yours." Ray was sitting at his wife's feet and resting his head on her lap as they sat 1 by a window in the large family room, watching the stars appear, one by one, in the clear blue sky. He sprang to his feet. "A song, Lina, a song! I cannot eleep until afte* I have heard you ' wag-" Ray stooped and lifted the little form in his arms, pressing her close to his bosom, and carried her to the piano. The sweet, pathetic strains rose and rang through the whole mansion, echoing through the halls and corridors, and then passing out of the open windows, where it floated on and on, on the sweet perfumed air, until it was finally lost ia space. How happy they were as they sang there, in the gathering twilight, with no visble ripple on the broad, smooth waters of life. But there was a ripple, not yet visi- 1 ble to th >m, but it was day by day J gathering force, and would soon bo ' one mighty wave. That ripple, that 1 great wave in their lives, is caused by that long-gathering cloud. " ' One bright moonlight evening, about two months after they had returned to 1 Ahn fn ** * * u~ I ! iney wore walking m park. Ray was supporting Lenora witl > one arm and carrying lic-r guitar with the other. I "How lovely it is, to-night, Hay, and how beautiful the park and lake look, | bathed as they are in the mellow moon- i -'i. ^ ioi-? i V>ULL u ? XD 11U>C a iun v/ii WIAV ianv( ' dear? It will be so grand, and right here is the boat house." "All right, y.?a little Hecate. I will row across, if you like, for one of your Bongs." "Ha! ha! Kay. vou are certainly very generous, ana snail get cbe beTt of the bargain. My song -won't be anything, while to have you row me will be perfectly grand." The boat was soon lowered, and the laughing, happy couple left the little lakes of the park and glided out upon the dark, deep waters of the main lake. The air was balmy as of a southern -dime, and the lake was perfectly smooth. The little boat was allowed 4o drift; in one end sat the radiant L?eaora, while opposite sat her smiling, I happy husband. As the boat drifted out, leaving behind it a fine, silver thread in tlie moonlight, Lenora's soft, dimpled fingers picked the strings of her guitar and her sweet, gentle voice rose in a ! Bong that her husband loved to hear, and the mu-ic, so pathetic, so sweet, was wafted over the still, bright waters by the gentle breezes. Those strains, as ther were carried over the quivering sheet of silver by perfumed zephyrs, reached the ear of envion?, jealous woman. As tht little boat drifted on and on, and the music becams fainter and fainter, t?o great, dark eyes that had I watching eyeay rfiovennnt of the Eappy conple" since" they "firs! entered the park, now grew larger and darker as she still watched them in the distance and heard the echoing sounds of the floating music. This anxious listener was Jeannette Nathan, and as she lay there on the bright green grass, with the moom shining brightly upon her lovely form, drapea in the" heavy folds of "a ricfi white dress, she made a very pretty picture. Suddenly she sprang to her feet and stood erect, her great; large black eyes looked like balls of fire, while to to her heart she tightly pressed her white, trembline hands. "Oh, God of heaven! How can I endure this misery any longeT! It is killing me?it is eating tb? very heart out of my body to see hex with him all the time, and so happy. "She has stolen all from me; she has taken away from me my heart's idol, and through her I have lost my hope of heaven. Ok, God ! "Oh, my heart I See how happy she is, and Kay, too, while I?ah!?I am the most miserable creature on the face of theeartli. Itay loved me once, I know he did?yes, ha always loved me until she came with her deceptive smile and stole him from me. And he?ah, what of him! He is to blame, too." He ought to have been more sensible than to have been duped by such an artful and wicked thing. Ah! I am sad and lonely enough, indeed; no one cares for me, no one even thinks of me any more. I am now cast off as an old and shabby garment is, whereas I onoe reigned queen, and along those very walks Ray and I have spent hours of heavenly bliss. Oh, how can I live and see her happy and with him from day to day! "The sight of it all will blind my eyes and scorch my heart! No, I cannot endure the bitterness of it any longer. "Aunt Marguerite goes to England, to be gone a year, and in a short time that cursed woman that I so much hate will be a mother. "Yes. and when Aunt Marguerite returns the Bristol mansion shall be the darkest and most lonely place that the nun avpt shone nrvm. "I have the money, and shall have my revenge. Their preset heaven shall be equal to the bottomless pit!" CHAPTER XXIX. One dark, chilly night, abooit the middle of November a tall, -dark, closely clad figure might have been seen slowly and cautiously advancing through the park of the Bristol mansion, under cover of the darkness and the bushes toward the boat-homae. "Hallo! who comes?" "Hark I All right, you are here, I see." "Yes. And now be quick and quiet, for I thought I heard some one pass by not more than ten minutes ago." "Very well. And are you willing to help me through ?" "On one condition only." "Name it." "For five thousand dollars." "All right?you shall have it." "I must have half down now." "Well, wait here until I return." And Jeannette, for it was none other than she, glided quietly back to the mansion and soon returned with the amount. "Mere is your money, ana xnxs letter will tell you just -what I want you to io, and these two letters are to be disposed of according to the directions. Kemeimber, those letters must be mailed in Chicago, and when everything is done, and she is clear of the country, you shall have the rest of your money. No mistake, on peril of your life." Jeannette returned to the mansion without being seen, while her paid tool went back to his old sod house, in the woods down by the coast. Ah, humh! Two thousand five hundred dollars in my pocket now, and that much more comin' for almoot nothin'; purty good, I tell you, but I kinder hate to do it arter all. Old Jack'll need catch no more fish, though, while he lives, and?ha! ha! ghe's doin' the thing." Those were the muttered thoughts of rvl/l Tonlr Wilnt* on nlrl fioliormon tVioi had lived for years in an old log house, in the woods by the coast. No one knew -where he liv.-d hut Jeannette, and she knew it by chance merely. In the early spring, as she avas gathering wild flowers in the woods, by accident she came near the door of this strange old house. Uld Jack was sitting on the stpp smoking his old pipe as she came up, and, in a short tinfe, she ventured to speak to him. It was in this manner that she learned of the sod house and first met Jack Wiler. Had there even a few stars shone on the night of their meeting in the boat house, one might have seen how Jack looked, as he slowly picked his way to his lonely home in the woods, but all was black darkness, and the hidcoun specimen of I humanity, -with its lon^', shaggy pray I bair ami beard, its rounded shoulders, ! i and stooped lo.m, could not be seen. 11 Fi aally he reached his home and en- > teied the dark, damp, lonely room. An old greas j lamp was lighted, and | jld Jack sat down in an old broken lliair t? read the letter that Jeannette . ;ave hiin. j "Ah, lmmh! I knowVI old Harry'd , be to pay or that dark, party -woman , would not have a finger in tlTo pie. I j Ejness I kin manage it all right, but it'll be purty lonely fur him in this Did dark room fur so long." The light was then blown out and j old Jack lay down upon an old bundle ' of damp, muddy straw, a richer but not happier man. Li the afternoon of the fourth day after that strance meeting the mai] was delivered at the; mansiou, and Ray hastily ran over the different letters. I A V t rpl _ ^ t 1 T J ~ AU: jLiit'ru ib n uuuu JL U-J uut kDDw; let me see what lie has to say." The letter was opened, and the noble-hearted man's face grew as -white as the paper before biin as he read on down the page. The letter was this: Chicago, 111.. Nov. 20.1876. To the master of the Briatol estate: The things I wish to state in this letter are not to be doubted, and I will be as brief as possible. You may think mo an impostor: it is not I. but that artful deceptive beauty that you now call your wife. I believe you to be an honest man. and I am in sympathy with you, for you, as well as cixu tiiu victim ui tiiau ?vuiau treachery. By mere chance I recently learned whero ehe is. and am acauainted with the manner In wnicn isneonierea your nouao; aisu. <.>1 the little scheme by which she succeeded in temporarily ??tiiblinhing her innocence. Her beauty and that innocent look 6he possesses will deceive most any man. It did mo. and I see it has you. The name she gave you on entering your house was fictitious, and I doubt whether any one knows her ri^ht name; you see she is not legally your wife. Her little plan to murder me failed, although she is not aware of the fact as yet. You see she has not altogether escaped me. aud now. I want my wife. It you do not believe me. call at the Hotel, in Michigan City, on the 2'tb inst.. and I will crova to vou these 6tate ments. "As for tfie fchild?why, o! course, I want nothing to do with it. r. E. PeThrope. As Ray finished reading that strange end awful letter, the contents of which pierced his heart like a two-edged sword, the paper dropped from his hands, and he sat there, in a dazed, bewildered manner, just how long he did not know. It was rapidly growing dark, and every moment only added a more saddened, haggard look to his face; the coals were black in the grate, and the room was now dark and cold; the wind whistled down the chimney, and made a dismal, moaning sound; but Ray heard nothing, saw nothing.; the misery, the awful n:gony that he endured, and the thoughts that passed through his mind as Tie sat there for hours "In the cold and darkness, no one ever knew. He "finally slowly rose from h's chair and' began pacing up ?nd clown the room, still buriod in sad thoughts. Suddenly he stopped in the center ai the room, his face lighted up >w!th a new light, while his eyes flashed fire. "It is all false, all a black lie, for my little darling is not false. No, no; but we are both the victims of some treachery, nnd I will go to the city this mo:ment and secure a detective and have this matter lifted -to the very bottom, and, *oe unto "the Ruilty onel" With two iong-fl'rides he reached the bell-rope and gave it such a mighty pull that it brought Thomas 4o the door in double-quick -tiijie. "Tom, have a horse saddled and at the gate for mo in just two minutes." And in about that short time the horse was th.ire, and Ray was waiting for it. "Go now, and t<ul your mistress that I am off to the city on business, but will be back in an hour ox so." He tilion lightly sprang into tha saddle, and put the -apur to thj horse. The clatter of the horsed hoofs w.-ffl soon heard far down the long, broad avenue, and now -the horse and rider enter the dark, thick -forest. As Ray dashedton, scarcely knowing what he would do firrt, two roughlooking, murderous men rushed from their hiding place, and ordered him to "Hah;!'' The horse stopped instantly. "Di-mount, and no noise, or you are a dead man." Whatoould he do? To disobey wr? death, and yet life thart night did not seem werv sweet to him. "Is it money or my iife yon want ?" "Dismount I" "No. Life may be sweet for me y-et; fly, Piinoe!" and he pieroed his borae's side with the spur. But before the horee oouid move, one of the men grabbed the rein, and jerked the horse back uprm his haunches; at the same time, a pktol-shot rang through the forest, and Hay fell from his hozsa. {TO BE CONTINUED.] Soap Eatb for Cleaning Jewelry. An exoellfifltbath for cleaning watches, jewelry, etc., according to the Union Yt 1 i- ?>AA/VAM jzirriuycrci 10 mauc wnu ouay, grains; ammonia liquor, 1157 grains; water, one quart. Shave the soap and melt it in the water. Then, add the ammonia. There are still a goodly number of watchmakers who prefer the good old way of cleaning a watch or clock movement with soap and water and a good brush, and they will find the above given t Drmula entirely to their satisfaction. Pour the bath into a receptacle containing the parts to be cleaned, but take care that they are entirely submerged, as without this precaution the parts exposed to the air would soon be covered with an oxidation which can be removed only with difficulty. The pieces, if well immersed, may for all that be left in the bath for a whole day without any danger whatever, steel pieces aie not whatever attacked, but, generally speaking, from five to six minutes are amply sufficient to cleanse them thoroughly. The bath may be used for a long time, and is thrown away only when1 it is top dirty or when it has lost its force. When not in use keep it in a well stoppered bottle. Dry the articles in sawdust, to which add a littlu Spanish white. A slight brushing will then bring out its pristine polish. This bath is largely preferable to the ordinary ways of cleaning witb benzine, cyanide, alcohol, chalks, etc. To reiterate, keep the bottle with tha hath well corked,to avoid the evaporation of the ammonia, which, should it occur, would remove from the bath its principal cleaning virtue. The Grecian Public Executioner. In Greece they have a hard time finding a public executioner. Nine years ago the executioner was a fellow who had been condemned to death for killing his wife; he was pardoned in consideration for hanging the other murderers. Last spring eleven criminals were to be launched into eternity, but nobody could . be fouud to do the launching. Therefore i :he execution had to be postponed. PlMftlJtT ft t<rtf nil /am a WlUllJLl ^UUUU fJV.UlUUyt JUL poisoning by the wholesale) consented to io the job if bis owd life was spared. He vas conveyed to the place of execution 1 n an iron cage and ^strongly guarded; )tkcrwi?e the populace would have torn iim in sWds, so violent is the prejudice igaiust the hangman. And after the xecution the hangman had to be spirited tway oc a man-of-war! < Some Tears figo, when the office of exscutioner in Paris became vacant, 275 people applied within the space of twentyrour hours for appointment to the post of listinction!?Chicago Neva. A Tiny Bug That Like3 Tobacco. Tobacco sellers are troubled just now by the visitation of a tiny brown, bug that seems to be a confirmed tobacco chewer and something of a connoisseur of the weed also. The bug is about the tize of a seed of flax and is almost the color of tobacco. It bores its way into cigars and eats large holes in the filler. It burrows its way through packages of unoking tobacco and lives in the fullness thereof. One or two observant dealers, John C. Davis for one, lftvc noticed thai the bug will bore into cigars made of Havana tobacco and packages of smoking tobacco in which there i3 a Havana mixture. The effects of the work of the bug are very destructive, for they ruin a cigar by making a hole in the wrapper, and all smokers know that a tiny hole or two inywhcre in the wrapper, except near the mouth end, ruins the draft of a cigar, ft is the first time the bug has ever been noticed, in Cincinnati at least.?Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. A remarkable Invention has been made in Austria. Glass tubes project before the train and if they are broken by an obstacle an electric movement is applied to the brakes, bringing ihe train immediately to a standstill. .... ~~ AZOPiE ISLES. A PA R ADISE FOR WEARY BRAINS AND BODIES. Primitive Life and Manners of the Natives?Plenteous Flowers? Unique Attractions of Madeira. "'A trip to the Azores on a railing vessel offers the seeker of recuperation something -wholly unhackneyed and also a larger amount of ^outing' for his money than he could get in almost any other direction,7' said Colonel John C. Bundy in speaking of a twenty-one days' sail which he took, shipping from New Bedford, Me,, and sailing to this picturesque little group of islands. "Of course," he continued, "like most things in life, this-trip has its drawbacks, but if one is in need >of perfect jest and can abandon himself to inertia, the sea and the wind, or the absence of it, he might fare worse, although he could hardly go farther for the sum of $125, which is the price of the round trip ticket from New Bedford to the Azores and return. "To be sure there is absolutely noth mg to vary the monotony ot tne voyage, save perphaps when a log covered with barnacles is seen floating near and a fishing expedition is qu'^kly fitted out to capture the sea bass or \ .g fish' as the sailors call them, that arc always in the wake of a barnacle covered log, or some .A'iff AZOIffiAN' PLOW. other equally unimportant incident, a | trifle out of the common, occurs. The passengers of these sailing vessels are usually a half dozen invalids who are seeking Ihe health which they have failed to find on land, and a few Portuguese, natives of the Azores, in the steerage, who having made their 'stake1 are returning to their homes to enjoy a life of affluence. The amount which makes them nabobs in their native isles is from $1500 to $2000, and having acquired this sum their ambition is wholly satisfied and they return to take their places as capitalists among the simple people whose riches consist rather in their few wants than in the magnitude of their possessions. * 'The volcanic origin of the Azore Islands gives them a wild and rugged pictureequeness which is a singular contrast to the wealth of luxuriant flowers in which they abound. Quite a distance out to sea oue can catch the perfume of these flowers and on the islands it is unpleasantly oppressive. Hedges of geraniums, fuchsias and heliotropes, five and six feet high, fringe the roads about the country, and on the mountain sides they are wonderfully effective. Every house has its flower garden, either large or small, and it is doubtful if anywhere in the world there is such prodigality of bloom to the square inch. "It is a singular fact that although there are those constantly returning who have been in touch with the world beyond these queer little islands, they make no effort to alter anything when they return and, possessed with the spirit of content, which has its abiding place there, they take their place among those who are utterly unconscious that the world beyond the ocean which surrounds them has moved on, and, as it were, left them back among the centuries. "The plow which is used here is a rude wooden contrivance, drawn by an ox and managed usually by a woman. Both the men and women work out io the fields, with no protection whatever, but when there is a holiday, or on Sunday, they all carry umbrellas, as tney are considered a badge of gentility, and whatever they possess or lack, an uin ?-? V " f? 'P'L 1? I ^ ^ j | A-i ? ;v-' - ' -\r* y ,... NATIVE OX CAT5T. brelln is considered a neccssnrv part of holiday .attire. A special indication of either wealth or position is a cloak with a capote attached. The capotc is a huge affair in which the wearer's head is quite ~ -1 lost. This is tne one emu, ?m-js 1^..ionable, ever stylish mode for the female Donulation of Azores. It is handed down Irom one generation to another as a precious heirloom and is worn year after year with the satisfying consciousness that it is the most fashionable and desirable of garmeuts. "The dwellings arc play house imitations of the castles of the,middle ages, covered with tile and for the most part without chimneys. In some of them there is an extension for cooking, aud whether or not this is added the smoke must escape through the tiles. The ox cart is the favorite vehicle and is similar to a stone boat. Two cows and some times two donkevs are harnessed to these sledges. However, the greater proportion of the farm produce is brought into the cities in baskets on the heads of the peasants or on little donkeys. Speaking of farm products reminds me of the fiuit. It is most disappointing, the flavor being very inferior, although the fruit is abundant and is semi-tropical. "Madeira is similar to the Azores in all important respects, although from the sea it is not as picturesque n3 cither Florcs or Fayal. I shall not soon forget the way in which we were conveyed from the wharf to the hotel. The vehicle was a queer-shaped affair made of willow and set on runners and was drawn by oxen. Seated in state in this unique carriage we were hauled up to the hotel. Even more out of the common than this unusual conveyance was the way we made the ascent and descent of Mount Church. There were seven of us, and we had three hammocks and two sledges, together with six bullocks and fifteen men to get us up and back. The men convcyed the hammocks, in which a part of tho party preferred to go, and the bullocks hauled the sledges. The view was magnificent all the way, and among other things as we were making the ascent we saw a queer bit of harvesting. A woman and throe children were carefully pulling up the ripened grain, one stalk at & time. We all returned in sledges, and this was the odd and interesting part of our trip. We came down as children ride down hill in the wiqter time, only we camo Dver a stone pavement at such a rate that the burning runners left a line of evoke behind them. The sledges were guided by men on either side, who, when it was oot very steep, ran beside the sledge, and orhpn the descent was more nrecioitOUS ? w A DONKEY AND HIS IX)AD. ode with one foot on the runner and the )ther constantly touching the ground. The distance, which it took us an hour md a half to make going up, we were ust twelve minutes in accomplishing in soming aown. i .reauy aon t trnoK mere is a finer bit of a sort of all-the-year round tobogganing to be found anywhere than on Mount Church. It is really great ?* ftenri/.iollfT OVnOTICIT7P ?JJUJ~b UIIU UUU VA|/VMW* T v< "Some idea of the simple frugality of the peasantry of these remote islands can je gathered from the fact that the -old gardener "who had charge of the hotel garden received thirty cents a day, and he had a wife and ten children who shared bis income. A good seamstress receives thirty cents and a laundress twenty-five cents a day- As ikras cheap and faithful service is concerned these iskads are certainly a veritable Eldorado. "Another attraction is the charming climate, which varies but a few degrees from January to December, save when the 'leste1 or hot wind from Africa sweeps over the islands, as it does occasionally. There was one of these winds while I was there and a cloud such as /inmoo with .1 rvp.lnnfi first ADDeared VvyuAWr** rt * VM ? "J w- ? ? ? ~JTX~~ above the mountains, and then the fierce and terrifically hot blast began to blow. These windstorms are, however, of brief duration and not of frequent occurrence, and the soft,perfume-laden air,the Edenlike simplicity and the old-time frugality which prevail, the cheap and easily-obtained service, the beautiful scenery and ocean-bound quiet make these islands in their way unique in attraction. Withal the hotel service is good, and however one wants to live and whether he wants eimply a season of complete rest away from this work-a-day world to pursue literary work, or philosophical research or to experiment in flower farming, the A --- ?" V.f\ {elnn^a in + ni+TT C3 UUU l>UC ioiauuo 1U wuva4 t jviuavj offer goldea opportunities."?Chicwji Herald. Preparing for Action. 'A half-hour passes, when, suddenly and without a moment's previous warning, the sharp rattle of a drum is heard, electric gongs clang noisily, loud and peremptory orders mingle with the rush of hundreds of feet as the crew hurriis to "general quarters." To the inexperienced eye, what seems to be a scene of J disorderly confusion now takes place. That portion of the crew whose stations j are on the upper deck, come swarming up the hatches; buckling on accoutrements,falls in; the keys to the magazines and shell rooms are produced, and stewards, servants, cooks and yeomen rii: tiit tackle over the ammunition hatches ii> readiness for the work of hoisting shel' ami cartridges.. The gun crews cast loose the greal guns, and the death-dealing Hotchkiss revolving cannons and the machine guns: til ^ ^ hatches arc Hastily put ou, winners ion uway, and the decks turned ' tops;, turvy" in an instant. Hides are handed out from the armory, accoutrement?, revolvers, cutiasves caught from thei' places, arid i:i an incredibly short timt order rises from apparent chaos, an:: every officer and mau is at his post, and the ship is ready for action.?icrilmer': MtfjdZihf. A Weighty Question. Stout Lady?"Now I've got to the bathing-house, how in the world am 1 Eoinc to set inside?" Law Professor?''What constitutes burglary?'' Student?"There must be a breaking? ' Professor?"Then, if a man entered your hou^o and took fifty cents from your waiscoat pocket, would that be burglary?" Student?"Yes, sir; because that would break me."?New York Ledger. Cupid is the divinity who presides over love matches. Of marriages for money the patron saint is Cupidity.?Jiuhje. The amateur photographer never takes n rest. It is about the only thing he doesn't take, however.?Statesman,. How to DIstiiifrnisli Poisonous From Harmless Shrubs. At the season of picnics, vacations find rambles in the country, writes a Chicago doctor in the Inter-Ocean, thousands of women and children, and some men, become poisoned by contact with or the exhalations from poison ivy or poison oak. The poisonous effects of both the ivy and oak (rhustox and R. ven.) are often very distressing, and so severe as to disable the victim from work for a long time. People could easily distinguish these poisonous shrubs and vines if they would learn the differences in appearance. Children should be early taught to tell the harmless woodbine from the ivy. They have but to remember that the woodbine or Virginia creeper has five leaves, while the poison ivy has but three. I send you drawings of all three. LEAF OF "WOODBr>T2. This vino (the loaf In illustrations onethird actual size) is not poisonous. poison nr. Old and young leaves of poison ivy (rhustox). The older leaves are bluntly iaovoo koro twrruvcu* aixm ^ edges smooth. POISON OAK. This illustration shows the leaves and stem of poison oak or poison sumach (rhu3 venenata.) The -edges of these leaves are not notched. The stem is bright red, aud the leaves are much smaller than those of the common sumach. The rhus aromatica resembles rhustox, so nearly that it is difficult for a novice to see the diflerence. This species emits a pleasant odor when bruised, ana the berries are very sour. It has no poisonous effects. Ravenous Chinese Pawn brokers. ' Pawnbroking is far more profitable in the Celestial Empire than in the United States. For whereas the America^'uncle" is forced to content himself with interest at the starvation rate of twenty-Sve, or at the most thirty, per cent, per annum, the Chinese "lenders" are authorized by their Government to extort as much as two hundred and seventy per cent, a year. The official limit until a few months ago was as high as two hundred and eighty-eight per cent., and the reduction of eighteen oont vnponflr rtaovoorl hr tlii> nrnvin cial Viceroys has caused wailing and gnashing of teeth among the pawnbrokers of the Empire.?New York Tribur.ji London Purple. The powder known as London purple Is called a by-product, obtained in the manufacture of auiline dyes. The crude coal oil is first distilled to produce benrole, which is then mixed with nitric acid, and forms nitro-benzole. Iron filings are then used to produce nascent hydrogen, with on excess of nitric acid in the benzole. When distilled, aniline results; to this are added arsenic acid, to give an atom of oxygen, which produces rose aniline, and quicklime, to absorb the arsenic. The residuum, obtained by filtration, is known as London purple, after v>Q?-innr hr>on dried, pulverized. and passed ? ? through fine sieves or bolting clotb. It is composed of lime, carbonaceous matter, and arsenic acid, the latter being the active poisonous principle, as in Paris green. ?Neio York Sun. Two persons may m Dorn at *nj same timo and die at the same time and yet one have lived one hundred days more than the other. The explanation of this riddle turns upon the familiar fact that a person who goes round the world toward the west loses a day, while the person who travels in the opposite direction gains a day. We will suppose, then, that the two men in question were born at the same instant " ' * * * ?A j In Wt. JLiOlllS, irOlU wu^uuc a the world may easily be made once a year. One of them goes always to the west, the other toward the east. One loses a day every year, and the other gains a day every year. When the men die, at fifty years of age, one has seen one hundred days more than the other. TEMPERANCE. I A BARREL OF WHISKT. B A drayman rolled forth from his cart to the A red headed barrel, well bound and com-1-1 And on it red letterf, like forked tongues <^HB flame, Emblazoned the grade, number, quality, fame, Of this world-renowned whisky from somebody's still Who arrested the grain on the way to th9 mill. So there stood the barrel, delivered, but I Could see that a shadow was hovering nigh? A sulphurous shadow, that grew as I gaced To the form of Mephisto. Though aordJ amazed, I venture to question this imp of the realm, Where vice is the pilot, with crime at th* helm, And asked him politely his mission to namiy And if he was licensed to retail the same Identical barrel of whisky, which he Was fondly surveying with demonish glee. "Oh, I never handle the stuff," he replied; "My partners mortal are trusty and tried; Mayhap, peradventure, you might wish tOv look At the invoice complete?I will read from this book; You will find that tliis barrel contains something more Than forty-two gallons of whisky galore." And e'er 1 could slip but another word in, He checked it off gaily, this cargo of sin: "A barrel of headache?, of heartaches, of woes, A barrel of curses, a barrel of blows, A barrel of tears from a world-weary wife, A barrel of sorrow, a barrel of strife; A barrel of all unavailing regret, A barrel of cares, and a barrel of debt; A barrel of crime, and a barrel of pain, A barrel of hopes ever blasted aud vain; A barrel of falsehood, a barrel of cries That fall from the maniac's lips as he dies. A barrel of poison?of this nearly full, A barrel of poverty, ruin and blight. A barrel or terrors, that grow with the , night. A barrel of hunger, a -barrel of groans, ?,i A barrel of orphans' most pitiful moans; A barrel of serpents that hiss as they pass From the bead on the liquor that glows in thfi ?rlflss ji? My barrel! my treasure! I bid thee farewell, Eow ye the foul seed; I will reap it in heUl" AMAZONIAN PROHIBITIONISTS. The following story of Amazonian prohibl-, tionists comes from Purdy, Teun.; James Phillips, of Adamsvillt, Tenn., has been engaged for some years in selling whisky in viwation of the four-milo law. Wednesday 6ome twenty-five leading women of the town held a meeting and sent a notice to Mr. Philr lips to move his whisky out of town in haste. He declined to do so. They then went to his shop and broke in and found several jng% which they placed on the outside. Mr*. Bailie Woolverton, taptain of the squad, took an a* and broke the jugs and spilled their contents. They notified him that if he renewed the traffic in spirits they would hickory-whip him and administer a coat of tar and feat& ers. TEMPERANCE HURTS THE POORHOUSK. "Eli Perkins,'' who was lately making ob? servations in Iowa, was ''interviewed" as b? was passing through Aonx City. He had been at Ackley the day before for the first time in nine years. Nine years ago it had seventeen saloons, and the banks and farmers sent $25,000 to the East annually to pay interest on farm mortgages. Now hfr found no saloon or sign of a saloon, and * banker told him that they only sent (2500 East during the past year to pay interest on favm mortgages. Not a policeman then now, and not a pauper in the poorhouse nor a criminal in the jail. The only bankruptcy there has beien in Ackley is th? bankruptcy of the poorhouse. Poor old poorhouse, it had to give up business, and the jail is full of cobwebs! "Yes," declared Eli, "temperance has hurt the poorhouse and jail in Ackley. It has ruined these in?n t??, ?-;n ?J..-., ?,?t. sviiuuuLu. iutt a mil cuuuio ouv/u * with great complacency ?National AdWb^^A eate. TO UNITE THE W. C. T. U. AND THE SALVATION ARMY. There is a movement on foot for joining the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Salvation Army. At least, that k what Frances Willard, the President of theWomen's Christian Temperance Union, said in a speech at the meeting of Salvation soldiers in Chicago. Miss Willard did not go into particulars; she merely gave an outline of what she hoped to see before another year rolled by. She had always been ardent admirer of the Salvation Army ever since ite landed in America and began its crusade against whisky and the slums. She had had a long interview with Mrs. Ballington Booth, which tended to a union of the efforts of the Salvation Army sisters with those of theWomen's Christian Temperance Union, and she hoped that at the next National convention the army would be represented and that Mrs. Balling ton Booth would be the first delegate chosen. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. In declining wine a man said recently: "I have no perjudice whatever against the useof liquors. I think the question is purely personal and I decided for myself years ago, I bad always been in the habit of drinking and had never found that I allowed liquor to interfere with business or duty. But once when I was in Salt Lake City (that was years and years ago) I made a speculation in eggs. I bought up all I could, equipped a wagontrain to take them to mining camps in Idaho and prepared to start. It was fall and I had decided to start on a certain eveuing in order to los3 no time in getting beyond the mountains, where there was danger of getting caught in a storm and losing all my eg^s. But the prospect of a long wagon journey was not a chcerful one, and in Bid^ ding farewell to comfortable quarters I solaced myself with drinking. I did not become drunk. I have never been druuk in my life, but I came to the conclusion that one day more or less would make little differ-, ence. It made all the difference in the worlcLIHfl I was caught in a storm which I should have^H missed had I started on time. I lost every ^ egg, was forced to abandon a valuable train, K and when I again lauded in Salt Lake City I was "broke." Drinkiug bad interfered witn ray business once. In fact it nearly rained me, when I should certainly have turned a pretty fortune. It has never cost me a cent since "that time.?Tribune. TEMTERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. A bright temperance lecturer s.ivs "Cultivate roses, but not on your nostV Supreme court saloons is what they call "original package"' establishments out in Kansas The great Boston brewer, Mr. Reufcer, testified that his beer contained five per cent, of alcohol. New York city spends over ?70,000,000 annually for beer, wines, ami other intoxicating liquors. A girl of twelve was recently committed as "a confirmed drunkard'' to an industrial in Son The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut held a thre.- days' convocation at Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, com* mencing August 20 and continuing through the ^th. Miss Francis E. Willard, of Evanston, Ind., head of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, has issued a request to all tna ' White Ribboners'' of the United States and Canada tu pray^at noon daily henceforth "that the heart *of the Czar of Russia be softened so that mercy may be shown to the exiles in Siberia."' This is how some one figures it out. "From a bushel ol corn a aistiuer gets wui of whisky, which retails at $16; the Government gets ?3.<VJ. the farmer who raise! th? corn gets forty cents, the railroad gets $1, the manufacturer gets ?4, the retailer gets *7. nn.l the consumer gets drunk. No wonder so many Kansas farmers are using corn as fuel.1' ^ Mrs. Luuier has given to the French remp-'rance Society 100) franc.-? to be given r.s a prizi for the best essay on tho> question, "U'liat are the consequences of hereditary ale ihnlism and what are the means of prevention or means to limit or lessen its effect>K' Tiie society wishes this study and research to embrace all the questions of moral, socia'. and therapeutic mjans for prevention and limitation of inebriety.