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\ THE 0CEAN_0 In the ocean of the sky The cloudy tides go by, Impetuous fare and ceaseless bear ^ Their preclou3 freight on eddying air, Perfume and purple dye. By earth's gr6en banks they sweep, ** 8ilent and soft as sleep, But ocean's tide is not so wi Je As the ethereal streams that glide In the vast upper deep. Their quiet currents flow, "Where the high forests blow, They gather the wine of tree and vine, The scent of grape, the breath of pine, And scatter It as they go by, Frail argosies they float. That waft the quivering note, The echoing trill of greenwood hill, The unconscious art, the untaught skill _ Of many a feathered throat. Henrj I The Haunl H By Helen Fo A LONG, low build/j ing it was, with a JH venerable mossa ^ *0, I grown roof and AA fjkSl rT huge Btacks of ~fr(iA if ill /) chimneys rising up jmmfM *9 from either end? afclIFJA/ufe a house of which Of father Time had been the sole painter, and where every board bore the mellow, brown:/ ish impress of the suns and rains of " more years than Hiram Melwyn cared to count. Just in front a magnificent butternut tree tossed its pluni6S of foliage, like deep billows of green; and lilac bushes, all empurpled with fragrant apikea of blossoms, hedged in the woll.wnrn stnnft doorstens. Melwyn Farm -was the oldest place in the neighborhood, and Hiram Melwyn was prond of its unpretentious antiquity. June evening though it was, there was a chimin the air, and a great wood ^^fire blazed, with cheerful, crackling PPfctound, 4pon the hearth, with ruddy reflections playing on the wall and 1 ceiling. A bright-colored rag carpet, woven in stripes, covered the centre I of the floor; the splint bottomed chairs were ranged neatly in their places, | ^ and the tall clook in the corner, with J asparagus .wreathedvin misty green k round its face, ticked solemnly in I unison with the monotonous purring of the gray cat on the hearthstone?a scene of cozy content. There were only two persons in the room, Miss Prudence Melwyn?an antiquated spinster?and her pretty young cousin, Mabel, from the city, who had come to Melwyn Farm to drink new milk, and absorb the crimson glow of freshly gathered strr?7-? berries and roses into her somewhat pallid cheeks. And an artist would have enjoyed the tableau?Mabel leaning forward with the firelight mirrored eofifl.KvAtrrn V>oir on#? rlilaforl Ui OBViU-KT* V ?? A* UHli blue eyes, and the spinster equally absorbed in the recital of her thrilling tale. \ | -"Oh, Cousin Prudence, how ter Ski rible!" kK -"yes, it's all true, I assure you, my dear. Eight on the edge of the woods Mk^-you drank yourself at the spring ^^^rK^s afternoon?the Indians scalped her, in cold blood, a hundred years ago; and on moonlight nights they say yen can see her ghost flitting about through the trees, all' in white, with outstretched hands, as if calling for aid; and the groans, my dear, they say are quite frightful!" ' i "Did yon ever see itf, Cousin Prudence?" ) "No?I can't say I. e^er did; but I've talked with those tfnat had, and they say it's a sigh^fto freeze the blood in your veins I'Jr "A hundred yeajrs ago!" repeated Mabel. musincrlv ?/ K ' "Old Chloe, wWo used to live here, declares shej^^s/>ften seeu the white "llgnlng up and down the stairIcase in this very house, when tbo moon was at the full; and, my dear, some nights there are certainly sounds about the old garret that I can't call wind, nor rats, whatever Hiram may say." Mabel drew nearer to her cousin \rith a little shudder. "Oh, Cousin Prudence," she said, *I have always wanted to be in a haunted house! How I wish I could , see the ghost! Hush! What's that?" * Both women sprang to their feet I \fith a little scream; but there was no I more serious cause of alarm than a j hearty peal of laughter from bluff! Hiram Melwyn himself, who had I entered noiselessly at the back door. "So Prue's been telling you ghost _ 1. l.'iil. T> . 11 n T\ jl ? 1 Bionea, ney, nine x>exir t yuu believe a word of 'em, my girl! Ghosts have enough to do in their \ own world, without coming back to this." "Indeed, Hiram," said his sister, bridling, "yon know very well tliat Chloe " "Bother Chloe?an old bundle of bones and superstitions! I'll be will- j ing to eat all the ghosts that ever haunted Melwyn Farm?aye, and without salt or pepper!" "How can you use such dreadful language, Hiram?" "And how can you women folks be such fools? That's what I want to j know. Come, stir around, and get | the supper, Prue; it's seven o'clock, and I'm as hungry as a grizzly bear!" Miss Prudence obeyed. She knew very well, from daily experience, how difficult it is, in this proBaic world, for the ideal to combat the real. Supper had elbowed the shadowy assemblage of ghosts completely off wie uciu, auu even iuuyei, IU opivu ui her sympathetic thrills of terror, showed a good appetite for stewed apples, country cream and flaky tea biscuits. She sat up late that night, in her ^ own room, reading an ancient and ^0 moth-eaten copy of "Alonzo and HKMeliBsa," which Miss Prudence had ^Hwiamaged out of an old chest, as a aH|^?ng tribute to the sentimental Dhks of her young cousin?sat up ^HB^^Khe tire on the hearthstone had down to a heap of white the tall clock in the room I^HHR^K^Mf^ing twelve, in solemn, find I promised HB^HBHS&sit up HH^HRfiB^HfiflB^^losed her book, HHH^KHHB|B(d'-began to preBHHHBBI15e& ' r F THE SKY. I When the grent r*d sun is spent, They follow the track he went, J They pillago aQd bar his cloudly car And fling as gift to the Evening Star | The gores of the Occident. She sits liko a queen on high As the sunset tides go by. And round her throne like jewols strown The luminous hues of niuht are blown In the ocean of the sky. God sets the tides of the sea. In His gracious band they be, Aud twice a day they stir the bay f With the smell of salt aud th9 flash of spray, And twice to the ocean lee. And I like to think Ho keeps The key of the greater deeps?. And everywhere spreads out His cara And covers the ocean of the air Witn the love that never sleep?. j Robinson Palmer, in Hartford Courant. ted Spring. g rrest Graves. Iff A low, moaning wind had risen, and was murmuring, with said refrain, around the old house; and as Mabel drew aside the snowy-fringed curtain, the moonlight, struggling through dismal racks of flying cloud, streamed fitfully in. Instinctively her eyes sought the cluster of pines on the edge of the woods, that marked the locality of the Haunted Spring. What waB it that paled her cheeks and checked the warm life-current in her veins as she gazed? Not the ghost? Yes, eurely it was the ghost?something white, dimly visible, threading its way in and out among tho dark trunks of the trees, now glimmering into the patch of light, now disappearing entirely from view! % Hastily thtowing a shawl over her shoulders, Mabel ran across the hall to the room where her Cousin Prudence slept. "Prudence!?oh, Cousin Prudence! I am so frightened!!' she cried, "Frightened, child! "What's the matter?" Miss Prudence?a fearful sight to behold, between her cap-border and curl-papers?sat up in bed, rubbing her eyes. ?.1 L^UUltJ IU Uiy wiuuuw, auu occ ivi yourself," whispered Mabel, tremulously. "The ghost !1' Miss Prudence scrambled up, and scudded across the hall, hurriedly assuming her green calico "double gown" as she went. "Are you sure you haven't been asleep and dreaming, Mabel?" she asked. "I have not been in bed at all, Prudence. There, look at it!" She clung cdnvulsively to the spinster's arm. Miss Prudence herself quailed as the white thing glided across an opening in the woods, when the moonlight slept in momentary calm. "It's the ghost, Mabel 1" stammered Miss Prudence, recoiling from the window. "It's the ghost, Cousin Prudence!" sobbed Mabel, clinging still closer. "I wonder what Hiram would say new?" ejaculated miss rrudenoe, triumphantly, although a little inclined to be hysterical. "Let's call him!" suggested Mabel. "And me in this double gown and curl-papers? Bless your heart, child, I should never hear the last of it! Besides, he sleeps like-a log?it would take ten men to waken him, after he's once dropped off, until five o'clock, when he wakes of himself, and " She stopped abruptedly?for upon the midnight silence there arose a wailing sound, between a groan and a shriek, rising into discordant shrillness, and tlien dying gradually away. Another and another followed it, and the two women huddled together, looking each other blankly in the face. "That's just exactly as Chloe described it," whispered Prudence. "No living creature ever made that sound!" Mabel shrank away from tho window, with chill perspiration upon her forehead. T.nf m/a rrn In rrtnv "rr\r\m nrif.li ttati XJW 1UW jjV tw J VUA A VVUi tl <VU J VUj Prudence. I am afraid to stay alone," she faltered?and Prudence could feel the violent trembling of her every limb. ''There is that frightful groan again!" Miss Prudence led Mabel back to her own apartment, and they lay down together, drawing the bed-clothes over their heads, and ercLauging tremulous whispers, as if the ghost eculd hear them. "Well, it's odd, I must Pay," began the spinster, "that I've lived here all these years, and never seen it until to-night. I do believe it is because of you, Mabel." Mabel shuddered. She was beginning to think it was not quite so nice to live in a haunted house, after all. "Hush! What's that?" she suddenly ejaculated. "I think it's rats," said Miss Prudence, tremulously. "Xo; but that creaking sound!" "That's the old butternut tree. It -n -- 1 ?> Uiieii LTCMUM OU IVlliVljr UJ^UIO, "Cousin Prudence, I'm sure the curtain is moving!" "It's nothing but tho draught. Lie still and go to sleep child." "I don't feel as if I could ever sleop again, Prudence! Oh, what a dreadful thing it is to think that the spirits of the dead cannot rest peacefully! Don't you believo that if a minister were to come and say some prayers or something by the spring " "I'm sure I don't know," said Miss Prudence, apparently unlearned in the manners and customs of spectres in general. "Isn't it almost morning, Cousin Prudence?" "No; it isn't one o'clock yet." Sleep had fled from the eyelids of the two women. They turned, and tossed, and whispered, until the pearly tints of dawn, fairly coloring the eastern sky, brightened into the ruddy orange of sunrise, am5 Hiram's heavy step, passing their door betokened that the cares and duties of the day had once more arrived. And then they rose, pale and heavy-eyed, and began their matutinal toilets. "Why, girls, what's the matter?" demanded honest Hiram, as he saw the weight of mysterious meaning in their faces. Miss Prudence only shook her head as nixe broke the eggs into the frying pan, but Mabel was lesB reticent. She replied^- .. "The ghost?Cousin Hiram?we saw the ghost last night!" . "Nonsense!" "Ah! yoa may talk about its being nonsense as much as you like," said Prudence; "but we can't disbelieve the evidence of our own senses, I'm. sure. We saw it, and we heard its groans?and so might you, if the Seven Sleepers had been a circumstance to you!" "You saw the ghost!" "Yes," chimed in Mabel; "all in white, gliding around the Haunted tKa m r*rm 1 i nrlif a Tl rl n Vl I ""w "e>? > > ' Cousin Hiram, such groans!" "I guess you bad a double team o' nightmares," said Hiram, shrewdly. "Thai'a just like Hiram!" said his sister, indignantly. "He's like the doubting Thcmas Jin Scripture. He wouldn't believe it if he was to see it, as we did, with his own eyes." - "I wish we had called you," said Mabel. "I wish you had, too," said Hiram, picking up the milkiug-pail, and going out, with a laugh. "I told you he wouldn't put any faith in it," said Miss Prudence, while Mabel went on setting the table with quiet alacrity. "I only hope it isn't meant for a warning. Drusilla Peareon's husband's mother saw a figure all in while, standing by the churchyard wall, the very day week afore she died; and Squire Hopkins, down by the 6aw-mill She paused in her tale of horrors, for Hiram had re-entered, with a curious smile upon his face. "Well, girls, I've seen your ghost-." "Seen the ghost!" screamed Miss Prudence. "Seen the ghost!" faltered Mabel. "Yes. I couldu'tfind the old white cow nowhere, and finally I saw the west barn-yard gate had lost out its pin, and was squeakin' |dreadfully, so I just followed the tracks till I came to the edge of the woods, and there was old Bossie. cauorht bv the horns in them low-growin' cedar trees, and the ground around the Haunted Spring all trampled down by her hoof-prints. There's your ghost; and if any groan3 can be worso than the swingin' of that rusty-hinged old gate, I'd just like to hear 'em, that's all!" Miss Prudence stared blankly at Mabel?Mabel looked back at Miss Prudence, and Hiram chuckled audibly. "There's some excuse for Mabel," he said; "but I should think Pruehad lived years enough in this' world to know the difference {between a ghqst and an old white Cow." Miss Prudence said never a word, but went on dishing up the breakfast, while Mabel felt herself rapidly degenerating from the heroine, who had seen a genuine, veritable ghost, into a very silly little girl. , "Cousin Hiram," she whispered, laying her hand appealingly upon his arm, "you?you won't tell anybody, will you?" "Not if you'll promise never to do it again," said Hiram, waggishly. "Come, Prue, bring on the breakfast. I'm as hungry as two grizzly bears buid And Hiram Melwyn never heard anything more of the ghost by the! Haunted Spring. The Credit Stan's Costly Error. Sometimes a credit mau goes all wrong-?but not often. A country merchant came up from Indiana with a written list of the things he wanted. He said he was new to the business, but he meant to have a partner who was wise. After he had picked out goods amounting to $8000 he was introduced to the credit man, and he looked so uncouth and inefficient that the credit man wondered how go?d clerks had been wasting their time on him. . "What terms do you want, Mr. ?" He stopped, and the visitor supplied the name. "Well, down in our country we always pay after harvest." I noof Yah iI AT> '4 JJUt liai AO -LVU VIWU % mean next harvest?in ^1900? do you?" "Well, that's when my people will pay me." "Oh, we couldn't do that. Ninety J days is the very best I could give you." And even at that he wanted to Know a great many things about his visitor's prospects. "How much if I pay all in sixty days?" The credit man quoted the terms. ; "How much in thirty?" A discount was mentioned. "How'ruuch for cash?" "Spot cash? Money down?" "Yes?currency." It was a wild question. The credit man knew he had no chance to get SS000 out of that man, and he quoted a beautiful disccunt. "Well, receipt the bill," was the countryman's rejoinder. And out from the folds of a S3 suit of clothes he dragged money enough to buy a yacht and run it all summer. He didn't put on much etyle, but he "figures" he saved the expenses of Ilia fllttMOrft trin f1hir?nnrn "Fironinor ?- ? Post. 4 Two-Leccctl Doff. A downtown flour aud feed dealer has a living curiosity in the shape of | a dog, which answers to the name of Rixey. The peculiarity about Rixey is that he is a two-legged dog, but can catch and kill as many rats in a given time as his four-legged brothers. In fact, he can do better than many. The other day iu a contest Rixey killed seven rats in four minutea^, This was a trifle over half a minuter' for each rat, a very creditable record.' He is over thirteen years old, pad was one of a litter o! five brothers and sisters, all of which are more or less deformed. The rear legs of Rixey are the only ones he can depend upon, the front ones having failed to develop.?Philadelphia Record. North Carolina Headache Core. Bruise thoroughly two handfuls of peppermint leavw and saturate with strong vinegar. them stand for fifteen minutes, then place in a large handkerchief folded three cornered and bind tightly to the aching head. Be snre the mint comes in contact with the bare skin. Drink two cups of hot mint tea, bathe the feet in hot mustard water and lie down under blankets in order to perspire freely. After several moments rub off briskly, and apply tho mint again to the head. Before the patient knows he will bo fast asleep, and. when, he awakens the headache wiB be Rone. - .. ! " * ? automobile vs. house. SCIENTIFIC DEDUCTIONS AS TO COMPARATIVE COST OF THE TWO. The Adnption of the Electrically Propelled Vehicles For Delivery Purpose* Seeing to lie Only a Question of TiiueCheaper Than Horse Service. Comte de Chasseloup Laubat's recent success with an electric automobile has attracted considerable attention to electrically propelled vehicles, and therefore the results of extensive experiments conducted recently by G. F. Sever and R. A. Fliess,. of Columbia University, and communicated to the American Institute of Electrical Engineeru, will prove of unusual interest. The work done by a horse in moving a vehicle over level ground consists in overcoming resistance to motion due to friction. It may be conveniently expressed in . foot pounds. When grades are enconntered the number of foot J>oundi of wcfrk perform Ean<l of road surface^^fti^dam, Nature of the loadDist^fcatiqii of 'the -load tfh'Vthe The result? herewith presented were obtained in an investigation, which was tindertaken^to.determine; 1300 pounds, and was drawn by a horse weighing 1100 pound*. Each wagon was provided wifihHiiJriver and a delivery boy. The a'tvage weight of the driver may be tl^ken at 150 pounds; tha^pf the boy,%t.l25 pounds. Thus the total Veight of the unit without load was . 2675 pounds. To this must be added tne average load, mull Vvfi nnnoiilerpd ?q hpinrr 500 Uiaj Uf\J vvuu?vtw WW. 0 ? pounds. Adding this to 2675 pounds, it gives the tott?r weight of the unit 3175 pounds.N 'y The result* show, tliat, starting from the store, the average speed while in motion was 6.7 miles Per,] hour. The actual running time was one hour thirty-six minutes. Time at rest two hours twenty-eight minutes. From the time the horse left the stable until he returned to it was four hours and fifty-two minutes. The time taken to load a^ the store was forty-six minutes. The time taken to run from the stable to store was two minutes. Hence the actual time the horse was working from the time he left the stable until ho returned to it was one hour and thirty-eight minutes. Time at rest three hours and fourteen minutes. > It will be noticed that the horse " *? ' .A. ? was at rest ana aoing uu wiu iui nearly two-thirds of the time. ''Beduring the work done by the horse to actual mechanical horse power, iC was found that it exerted nearly 0.9 of a theoretical horse power for one hour and thirty-eight minute3. This was all the work done by this particular hoi^se on this day. The following day this same- horse made two trips over the same ground. From this day the average work done per day by the year around by a horse in this class of service may be taken to be not over 16.5 miles, at a speed of seven miles per hour. The length of the working life of a horse in this service is saldom more than live years. At the eud of this time he has depreciated in value at least fifty per cent. It is assumed that it is possible for a horse to do twenty-one miles a day under a pull of fifty pounds, at seven miles per hour, and be in harness eight hours a working day the year round, or is working at the rate of 0.89 of a theoretical horse power for three hours per day. This, of course, refers only to the time in actual motion. Cost of Hone and Watron. The items entering into the calcutiou of the cost of moving one ton a distance of one mile on level ground in light delivery service in New York City are as follows: Cents. Cost of food per day for one borse. 32.00 Interest on cost of wacou (at six per cent, per annum) per day; original cost of wagon, $312 5.13 Interest on cost of hcrse (tit six per , cent, per annum") per day; original cost of horse, $125 i 2.0C Interest on cost of harness (at ?lx per cent, per unnqna) per dByyorlRlD*' cost of harness, *55.., .20 Part of stable rent charged tbVeiich horse, per day '. 9.33 (Cost of stable,' i-10,000. Interest at, >; six per cent., ;210J.1) ^ Forty-six horses iu stable*, ^*rt of, nir.79 " &OUI gUnij^D.I>>10 IU IIU13WJ, Part of stable rent chargeable to eaoh . wajion per day,tw?ntv-!oir w;igon3 to stable 9.30 (Part of rent cbarjjoable to wagons, 5822.85.) Part of cost of atten<ance to each borse 13.CG (Pour men to take uarg* of forty-six i horses, Mt $11 pir weok, per mat:, ?44 a reek for-aro of borse?.) Shoeing for ii rso per day (52 per month a liea-1h? year round)... C.CO Driver per <"gon. per day, $12 per iri ?o I wemc .Pi.-.Boy helper, .4' per waek.. 114.23 Totnl cos*,0^ 0Ije wagon, one horse and attc Jcuoh, per day SG4.83 It is 0 be understood tbnt this table rPreseut9 the actual cost ^er ; clay to liable in the city for a wagon j and hoi-6! the figures given being those of .stable connected with one of the li'S? lh-y goods houses in the city. Assumiu.five hundred pounds as the averagt;l?ad carried by any one wagon per the totnl -weight of < the amount hich causes the imii is* i MUST STARVE TO LIVE. The Only Policy to Bo Fanned by the Cautious Man. Medical science has taken up the food question so closely during recent years and gone to such trouble and expense to find out every deleterious '+; POU U?1S. Wagon 1.300 Driver * <;.... 1*C Boy 125 Load..... - 500 Total 2,075 Test* of Electric Wagons. The results of electric -wagons re* corded here were obtained under service conditions in the fitreets of New York City. More than sixty miles were covered in all, and every grade was surmounted with the greatest ease. It was found that the power consumption is not greatly affected by change of pavement as from cobblestone to asphalt. There is, however, a slightly greater power required on wet macadam than on dry, and more power is required on macadam than asphalt or cobbles. The grades were measured in every case after the tests were completed. The total weight was as follow s: Pounds. Weight of wagon .7 3,730 Weight of passengers 413 Weight of Instruments 37 Total... 4,200 The distance traveled was 6.25 actrua^ motion UOnB ^HTtJ mrBByiWy win ua uuuwii iu this ^tiomm&i&Vcost of operation, maioflBino^' JRc., of the electric ^or ^?rses *n jlthe ligj^aw^yery service of x{ew fYork City, the hprse being considered 'in the moat fayoftible light. ;.. ; It-jras fottfrdthat the total cost1 per 'day 'for .two horses, one driver and tone ^oy yjo: 4f2&'{54 cents. The wagon ' was-ip,travel fo&r*two mile3 a day, being; an avexqjtogl twenty-one miles per day for e^HKse. The time in'1 ian boar . could ipfc'^dnV^emdining the same. The Ooit flt power for 42-mile ran 71.23 .tpelghi carried, 2.2 tooa.) rltitiBrtst.on dost or wa^on, per any:... n.iu ^Oosroa^hg'oxi, $2300, ut C per cent. r|iiteroBt ongfable rent for one wagon. 9.33 Total.Cost; per day for 42 mile3, 1 faagdii, 1 driver, 1 boy... .337.77 j therefore, the cost per pound of ' delivery is 0.16158 cents, or 0.01698 j cents iess than the figures for thejv horse. The cost per carrmile is 9.232 ^ cents, or 0.968 cents less than for thfcfl horse. The cost per toA mile is MQh cents, or 6.12 cents less than for horse service. If consider load only it cost3 9.232 cents per pounds per mile, or at the rate .IBM 0.018464 cents per ,pound per mj|?|sp or. 0.00194 cents less per pound tUraj pfor. the horse service. *' r The cost per day for the two horsesV 3? wagon, driver, etc., necessary'to accomplish thirty-six miles a day was . , found to be 428.54 cents. The cost 'j of covering 11,268 miles will then b*?.* S1562.20. Here it must be remem- * bered that 365 days have to be tak^a, The cost per car mile is then 13.86 cents. In light delivery service in large cities, where several units are employed by individual firms, the adoption of the automobile would seem to be merely a question of time. For this kind of service it seems pre-eminently the best solution. It is cheaper to operate than horse service, and the mechanical problems have been so far solved as to make the vehicles commercially successful. The advantages that will arise from the , substitution of J mechanical propuN. sion for horse traction on a large scale-' are so well known and understood that any extended consideration oFthe , subject seems unnecessary. A^ohg ; the many advantages, ..howeveJktli^ following would seem tfo'be - titfrahost . f. , J . ' W7y ' " important: V?Automobile Advantage*. I Hygienic conditions of large itfea will be improved and the cost of street cleaning decreased. S The wear and tear on pavemefeta. and streets will be reduced and ifhe use of rubber tires will lessen tihe noise in the crowded streets. Traffic.ia cities will not be so cc ingested, owing to the saving in ro< >m now occupied by the horse. When we consider that there are appro simately two hundred thousand horaes used in New York City alone, and that a horse increases the length of a unit by nine feet, it can be readily appreciated how sreat a saving will be effeoted. When the use of automobiles lias become more general1 the cost of operation will be reduced. \ < Danger of accident from runaways '< will be eliminated.?New York Herald. ' Turn in;: tlio Table*. * Mr. Jones has an orchard. (Mrs. Smith ha*> a boy. The following | dialogue explains it^lf: ! "Mrs. Smith, if you don't j keep ( that boy of yours at home I'll ha;ve the | law on him." ; ( "What do yon mean. Mr. Jonfis?" j "I mean that your boy hasj been ' c stealing my apples." ' j I c "Impossible! Johnny is the best j \ hoy in the world. He'd never think ' j of doing anything wrong." 1 n "Uut I saw him in my prchard, v and " / t "It must have been some other n boy." j f "It was not some other iboy. I c caught liim with his pockets stuffed j with green apples." j "Green apples! Oh, you horrid man! You ought to be asJiamed of yourself?leaving unrip9 friiit where f j)oor, innocent, children can get at'it. b Now, mind; if my Johnny gets sick, I y shall make you pay the dostyr bill.ig. v ? !S S German June IJn^s. > T , .... 1.1. tiune uut,r? lire luiua. xlx j^/ona \jl jj Germany this year. At Brody school j, children lately gathered twenty-five ami a half hundred-weight from a sixteen-acre field. Some one has figured out that this means 1^270,000 June b bugs. ^ Long l)av 1 l^Lprway. ,, At- Ward bury, N^^^ttf^tongesfc ^ clay lasts from 22 without h9N|^L jdiiiititii&iz. A: ?.< s? quality in articles of every-day consumption that the man who studies hygiene attentatively can only eat?if be believes all he reads?at the great risk of contracting disease or poisoning himself. Bread is not to be thought of as an article of diet. It is a treacherous compound, consisting largely of alum and potatoes, and, concocted in some insanitary cellar, it is teeming with microbes and totally unfit for food. 1 No careful man will touch beef owing to the number of tuberculous carcasses which are constantly being placdd upon the market. Mutton and lamb are al?o to be tabooed on similar grounds, and no one would think of touching pork for fear the latelamented piggy might have died of swine fever. The vegetarian chortles in his joy and points out that jjone of these things, except bread, affects his Btyle of dining. But his triumph is shortlived. Boot vegetables are to be dreaded because of wire-worm, tomatoes induce cancer, cabbages may become poisonous by the application of improper fertilizers, and, therefore, are best left alone, while; in addition to the disease microbe which deyotes its attention to the potato, thtfre is always the risk of damage to ^ /-rrrona liUV Ui^courg w guuo, Butter and milk are poisoned witli boracio acid and other noxious preservatives, to say nothing of the artificial coloring matter which is frequently added. Eggs are dangerous, because so^many of them are packed in lime to^eep them good, and recently, too, a EVencli bacillus has1 found bis way in through the shell. . In addition to Qther drawbacks, cheese helps, to ruin 'digestion. ' Kaw fruit helps alcng cholera to a great extent. It also Contains prussic acid round the ekin, pips and stone. When cooked it inducfls dysentery. ,Qf- tinned and potted stuffs little jkeed. be said, except that the solder of the tine diakes fpr lead poisoning, and ppt^cl/^eats have recently been shown ft^fip^jnply a mass of spiced rotten filth taafl garbage. Fish); although possessing highly, nutritious qualities,should bdfavoided, owing to the large quantity which, is sold in an unfit state for humkn consumption, and the difficulty of Vbtaining it really fresh. \ With beverages the same difficulties present; ^he^s^ves to ^caj^d ? ? ^ No Perfect Vision. Of the many carious facta which' are discussed concerning the eye, what is known as "the,blind spot"seems tho least understood; .la eye itself certain things may gtf'on'" which give us wrong sensations, which, although not truly illusions, | are very much like them. Thus, when j we suddenly strike our heads or faces [ against something in the dark, we see Vstars" or bright "sparks, which we know are not real lights, though they are quite as bright and sparkling as if they were. When we close one eye and look straight ahead at some word o'r letter in the middle of this page, for example, we seent to see not only the thing^ire are looking, at, but every thing*?jse immediately about it and foi4 long way on each side. But the ' truths, there is a large round spot*, somewhere near the point at which we are looking, in whioh we see istence^oTtMs^Wmcf^fil^wa^nof' discovered by accident and nobody ever suspected it until Mariotte reasoned frnin flip ^nncAtnnftnn nf f.lia pvph^.11 j that it must exist and proceeded to | find it.?Philadelphia Record. TVhy Duel a Mosquito Bite? Just why the mosquito bites people is not yet known. It is not to furnish it food, for it is an established fact that a mosquito, after gorging hiaiself with Jiuman blood, dies within a few hours; whereas mosquitos that have never tasted blood have been known to live very comfortably even through the winter and into the next seasoD. rhe adult mosquito does not need food. During its larva stage it has stored np enough nourishment to last it all its life, and it is a normal statu 'or it to go without for the rest of its jxistencc.. All that it aeeds is moist lir, adult mosquitoes being known to pass the winter in damp cellars, living m nothing but tlie moisture, me act tbat it is estimated tbat only one >nt of 10,000 ever tastes human blood ilso proves that it is not necessary. iVhy it persists in torturing mankind, herefore, lias not yet been found out, iud scientists can only swear softly vith the rest of mankind, and make he general statement tbat the mos[uito is born with a vitiated appetite or human gore?an appetite tbat auscs the .death of the indulger.? i'hiladelphia Times. ) " . A Japanese Delicacy. That the Japanese cunsider salted rliale meat a delicacy would appear iy the quantities purchased. The rhales are caught off the coast of [orea, the flesh and blubber cut up, alted and sent to Japan for sale as ood. Over 2,000,000.pounds of whale leat was imported into Nagasaki alone ist year. An English Habit. The drinking of tea, cottsid^ed to e so thoroughly an English habit, as not kuown in Great Britain until G10, and more than forty jrears later ofleo was introducer!. vChocolate, 'hich bad been in favor a (few years revicuS; was supei bjr tea offee. OLD FASnlONED HOLLYHOCKS. Good old-fashioned flower that seemsLinking us to bygone dreams, Calling back the days long gone When our lives were in their dawn. Other floral gems may bear \ Softer tints of beauty rare, But there's none that seems to talk To us like the hollyhock. Seems to lead us once again To a farmhouse, old and plain, Hid away among the trees, And we hear the honey bees Singing at their work, as they Sip the hidden sweets away From the flowers that line the walk. Shadowed; y the hollyhock. Once again we see a face Touched with sweet maternal graco Bending o'er the flowers she Watched and cared for lovingly. See a mother old and gray Moving 'round in quiet way, j ? -. Wuite her venerable locks . A." the whitest hollyhocks. .. And we see another there At a neighbor farmhouse, fair As the sweetest flower that grew sK 'Neath her watchful eye of blue. See her flitting to and (ro in ner gown or cauco, Rosy cheeks that seem to mock E'en the crimson hollyhock. / - v; -'wJN In tne harvest time when wa Gathered for the annual spree Cradling down the ripened grain Rolling like a billowy main. , 9 I could see the winsome Kate" Watching us acros3 the gate, As we piled the golden sho&ks Just outside the hollyhocks. There amid the flowers we Sat one summer evening, she Blushing as the rose to hear What I whispered in her ear. There I crowned her as my queen 'Neath the moonlight's silvery sheen, ^ Placed upon her sunny locks Jast a wreath of hollyhocks. ?Denver Post, , ^ PITH AND POINT. ';$ He?"I am rather in favor of thd" English than the American mode of ' spelling." She?"Yes?" He?"Yea* indeed. Take 'parlour,' for instance^ ;'"i] having 'u' in it makes all the differance in the world." ' young man," said tho 3tern father, Vi? you don't com? - ' home earlier afterithis I'll know th? reason why." "Glaji to hear it, governor; that will save all explanations on my part. "-Tit-Bits. Curate?"I never saw such a set of idiots as X had to preach to this morning." Mabel (one of the congrega inii^ 4'T cnrtnnoA tlitf ia whv mn "VMj j. ou^/^vov vuwv J kept on calling them 'Dearly beloved brethren.'"?Tit-Bits. Miss Topnot?-"Isn't it too '"bad kbout this boik?" Miss Panhandle? "Why, what is the matter?" Mis? H Topnotr?"Whf, I didn't discover an- II iil I bad finished it that I~ had read it oefore."?Detroi^Free Press. ; A- (to his friend who is just leaving;he restaurant)?"Hold on! You're -f taking my hat!" B?-"Oh, no! Thia :s mine." A (jumping'up)?"Then * .f| l['m sitting on, my own bat! I \i Lhouglit it was jojttrs."?Tit-Bits. . -tfja \Dukane?'^Spifflns is insufferable. . .? eL is alwajrtMmfg, 'I told you so."' ~|S l ^ftwell-^Sj^Bsn v aa bad as Snagge. k3n?rgs is aBBjys explaining in great ' .* ?3etafc hbwJVplans happened to fail.'* \ -^ijyb'urap^-oniole-Telegraph. "CHkanitipi'nd France 'are. both i? favor disarming," said Gazzam. v "Are t|^y?'^ a9ked Kildnff in surprise. '^^tjn&fcis in favor of the die- ; inning o\Fraftce, and France is in sjj &vor^f mm* Germany. "?Life. BP^011 ^ove 1116 at all,'" y?UD3 "you me 'dear' any more."" "No; bufrydtt?e dear," he said;f"anJ for that I propois to call you 'down' in Jj the future.'?Cmhelic Standard and | ;rimes. 'I ke (anxiously)?"What did your i fatter say?" She (sweetly)?"Noth- ;* ing, except that he would look you up -M mil see if you had enough to support M a wife." He?"Urn!?my dear, .fl bacln't we better elopt to-night?"?- 0 New York "Weekly. ' ? "What is a stethescope aad what is it used for?" asked the professor of the class in anatomy. "Tee scope," answered the pupiW^^Httfl^H pedal extremity of the class, of microscope used by a doctor^^M^^^H purpose of looking into the che^^BH^^H patient with his ear."?Chicago He Didn't Bite. "I never can tell a story and .ityaame .out all right," ''woman jf.amu?si/- Vao other day% thought I had such a good one^no^'^H long ago. I was walking along and " B beard one street boy say to another, jfl 'Oh, you go buy ten cents' worth of potash.' 'What for?' says No. 2. 'Fet ten cents,' yelled the other, and raa V "I thought it was nrettv sood. and I I'd try it on Charlie at supper. But B when I told bira to go buy ten cents*' worth of potash he never said a word, B and I knew another joke had fallen flat and kept still. But the -worst was-BH later. He put on his hat and van-^H ished after supper, coining back in a. minute with a little parcel, that h&^^l banded to mo. ^H| " 'What's that?' asked I. " 'Why, the potash you said you^HR wanted,' answered he, aud I nearly ^Hj bail hysterics on the spot. Did yoix^^H ever bear anything so perfectly awful I won't ever try to get off anything funny again." MH And the little wotnan sighed as she walked away. Accidents Came Their Way. BHj While James and Charles Travis,. ^Hj of St. Joseph, Ky., were raising a> IH barn with jackscrews a brace slipped, HI hurling a crowbar, which struck James, inflicting a dangerous wound. flH A doctor was called, and just as h* finished dressing the wouud the build< JHH ing moved unexpectedly, throwing al) I the weight upon the foot of Charies.* His foot was badly mashed. A littlelater a horse rau away with a buggj. ;J| containing t-.vo of their sisters, Misses Josie ami Hattie, throwing them bott out and wounding both, the lattet seriously, as she was dragged som? distance. Uearlnz Itecovereil by Lightning. Thomas Short, a deaf mute, wa? standing in a barn door at Harpers- * field. Delaware County, N. Y., re? cently, watching an approaching '"3 storm, when a bolt of lightning struck | a nearby tree. He was stunned by v'3 the shock, but when he regained con--^ ,:M sciousness was astonished aud de? lighted to find he not only could hear B what was said, but could speak. Since the incident his powers have con- *^ffl tinued to improve. rJkH