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* WHEN DAY IS DONfc Low in the wnt the sun A lu* soft flood of color spread*. And weaves a veil of golden threads ^ When day, sweet day, is done t Xhe twilight fades and dies. * And darkless shrouds the sleeping earth, ' Tuo faint moon guards the nr.it star's t birth. t Cloud-cradled in the skies. Softly the wood-dove calls. 4 The tinkling bell sounds o'er the lea. t The night-owl watches from his tree t When evening's shadow falls. Comes with the dying sun c Rest from the mad world's busy mart; A peace that stills the throbbing heart; f When day, dear day. is done. -J. W. W.. in The Sun. J ????? i THERE was once an Army officer?be Is ts Army officer to-day ? for that matter, though on the retired list ?who ivas known familiarly to his West Point classmates and afterward to his Intlmstes in the Army as Bingo. ( There never was a bit of mischief afoot at the academy with Bingo oat of the running. As far as regulations were concerned, Bingo wss what is known in the Point's vernacular as "reckless." It has never been charged that the academy boys made too much of the few negro cadets who have from time to time been appointed to the Government school. Blniro didn't like the negroes and he never wa? at much pains to conceai the fact. His early training bad made him call tbem "niggers," and niggers they were to him and nothing else. It happened that Bingo w%a at tbe academy when Johnson Chestnutt Wlilttaker, the South Carolina colored cadet, got the whole country by tbe eara with bis woolly story that his own ears had been cut by the white cadets, who not only sliced these useful members, but hit tbe Isd over the bead with an Indian dub and also sheared off his crlap, curling locks close to the head. It was afterward proved that Mr. Whlttaker's ears were not cut. that be had not been hit by an Indian club, and that the hair clipping was done by J his own hands. It perhaps Isn't nec- 0 eesary to go Into the matter too deep- * ly. but two separate boards after In estimations which cost the Government many thousands of dollars, found out th3 truth of the affair and sentenced the negro cadet to be dismissed from the service, kind-hearted Sectar/ of War, whose father bad Issued the emancipation proclamation, saw to It that Mr. Whittaker was "let out easy." technlcsllty was the loophole. and so the colored cadet Is borne on the records as having been dismissed for deficiency in studies and discipline. It was tbout this time that the cadets. Bingo among them, received nil sorts of letters from all sorts of people declaring that the Government's tudenta were a lot of brutes, villains, nigger haters, beasts and so on to the Jtst' mm mobs* shot mon tnroin him. end of the vocabulary. The cadets were "sore," aa the slsngsters have it. If memory serves well Bingo was the orest lad In the lot. He said one day that he believed that niggers were all tut out of the same piece of black rlotb. He was looking forward to an ] 'Army career, but he said on two or three occasions that he hoped It wouldn't be his 111 luck to be assigned [ to a nigger outfit. "I don't see," be aid, "how It's possible to make soldiers ( out of such stuff." Well, it came about that Bingo was assigned to a colored cavalry regiment, the "Flying Ninth," as It was afterward called as a reminder of the day when the black troopers made a ride of seventy miles to the rescue of some of their white brethren, and this with nothiog under their belts but a cup of court' ;iqu a rnuus 01 ureuu. . Bingo joined hit command with a uniform ami a whole bunch of prejudice. He found bis black troopers obedient and possessing many of the sterling qualities that go to make up a food soldier, but it takes time and work to root out prejudice. Bingo never referred now to bin men as niggers. That would hare been bad form and unmilitary to something more than a degree, but when be thought of them there i* little doubt that bis mental Impression was that of a word having two g's in it. It was something loss than a year after Bingo Joined down at the isolated military |?ost in far away New Mexico that the Apaches broke loose. It was the summer of 1881 and there was the beat of hades on the desert. The Indian tmiihln tvjis n* hot as the weather. and It continued bet all through the 80s. Bingo was a Second Lieutenant He had been two or three time* through tbe ceremony of the baptism of Are. One day bis black troop struck the reds In a place called curiously enough, Cucblllo Negro. : -y? . v--#^?rr-v--V-vci New York City.?At this season of | w the year much attention is given to the p! making of comfortable bouse garments cl ind dressing sacques. Something cool si 'f-t:T7-" .>- - ? -.. There was a fight on in just the time hat It took to cock, tight and poll the rigger of a Springfield carbine. The kpacbea were behind the rocks and rare covered completely by these, the :est bulwarks that nature affords. >Vben the troop bad reached the mid* lie of a little open space in front of he Apaches' fastness they were met >y a volley. It was death and nothing rise for the mounted men there in the >pen, and a movement was made for rover until a pli.n of flgbt could be irranged. In the meantime the "ping" >f bullets was constant. ( At the first fire of the red foe a , rooper bad tumbled from the saddle. , V comrade had sought to raise him . iml carry h^n back, but be discovered is be supposed that the man was dead, ind that the great risk that be would un during the time necessary to lift ilm to the saddle and be off with him ras useless. The supposedly dead man lay there n the open. The troopers were under ihelter. and while a conference was on imong the officers they kept up a fire >very time an Apache feather showed ibove a rock. Suddenly the trooper ylng on the blistering sands midway tetween the white and the red foes raa seen to move. The man was not lead. From the right of the troop a man prang Into the saddle and without a conl spurred his horse straight on to he bullet-swept field. lie was a olack rooper going to tbe rescue of his tricken comrade. Hie Apacbes bad een tbe movement of tbe man lying , rrone on tbe sand as quickly as bad , lis comrades. Twenty bullets went , traigbt to tbe mark. Tbe fsllen solder was dead before tbe black trooper , rbo would rescue blm bad reached bis ide. Tbe reds turned their attention o tbe hero who was daring death for lis fellow. They turned their rifles oose at b!m. One shot killed his horse, ( rbicb rolled to the plain. Another 1 hot struck tbe rider in tbe shoulder, nd still another broke his leg, and be ay there helpless, but getting what 1 over be could from the body of bis alien horse. 1 Just then another horse shot out from t be cover where lay the soldiers. Bingo. 1 n? Second Lieutenant, was on bis >ack. He spurred straight for the < vounded black bero. Apache shots I I norkoH nil hi? war. Bingo reached I < b ialien man unscathed. He dls- i uw?_.ted. and to the music of singing i mllets be lifted tbe soldier to tbe sad- 1 He and tben sprang to a place behind dm, and, putting tbe spur in deep, rent back for shelter, while the shots ormed a leaden frame about him. It was months afterward when Bingo net a former classmate. "Bingo," he laid, WI bear you made a hero of jour elf and saved the life of a nigger." "There's a mistake somewhere, rim," said Bingo. "I saved the ljfe >f a man."?Edward B. Clark. In tbe Chicago Record-Herald. H* Wh Tm Cltftr. An anonymous physician who lis* rrltten some "confessions" for the few York Independent tells this story ibout himself: "I received a request to from an old patient who was fraid she was taking scarlet fever. I ?s ponded at once. The patient waa I me of two elderly sisters whom I had itteoded for many years. I greeted ter in the sitting-room and noted her raise while In the act of shaking hands with her. By some witty remarks I contrived to make her laugh, which >nabled me to see her tongue. Then I said in a playful tone: 'If you will ret me a glass I will treat you to some >f my patent soda water.' She did so. [ put a tablet in the water, and she lrank it I want you to know that I ake pride in my original methods. I :ry to educate my patients to like, and lot lo dread, the visits of the doctor, [n this case all of my work had been lone without the direct knowledge of he patient, and I felt very good over t So I bade my patient goodby with extreme cheerfulness. She looked sur- ! prised and then said: 'Of course, you j irill come upstairs and see my sister?' ! Not to-day.' I said. 'Give her my re- j tpects.' 'Why.' she said, looking mys- j tilled and startled, 'how strangely you oiv" '9tMn?l.r T uth/uul 'IVKrV iuia. wuaugci/ ? ft tvuucvi. iv u/ * I Because I sent for you to prescribe j for my sister and you decline to see j ber.' It flashed over my mind in an ! Instant I had prescribed for tbe ( wrong sister. I was entirely too j clever." N#w Story of Kltehaacr. From New Zealand comes a new itory of Vlacount Kitchener, says the London Express. A trooper of the Third Contingent had been sent to Pretoria. Arriving ?t bis destination, be was sitting in a railway carriage awaiting orders. While he was enjoying a pipe a ragfeed-looking "gentleman in khaki" came along tbe line. Tbe stranger wore no stars or other distinguishing marks, and dlil not look In any wiy Impressive. Pausing in front of the young officer, lie asked: "Colonel?" "Yes," wu the reply. "Which?" "Third New Zealand." "Ah. yon are to Join Plummer." The stranger then began to talk ol j "Inside orders" in a way that surprised I the New Zealander, who remarked that he was awaiting just such orders from Lord Kitchener. "Well, you've got them. I'm Kitchener," was the unexpected reply. The New Zealander took bis pipe from bis mouth, stood to attention and I began to feel uncomfortable, but be found Lord Kitchener absolutely devoid of "Hide," and a very genial officer. Xu'i Greatest Kotnijr. "Fatigue Is one of the greatest one* mien of the human race. Modern physiology shows that it is the cause of nearly half, and perhaps more, of the several hundred catalogued diseases that prey upon mau. In our age, with its high pressure, its hot and bitter competition, and the unrelenting struggle for survival, its moral and physical ravages are steadily increasing. Cities, in which an ever larger proportion of our i>eople dwell, are biological hothouses, aud. for aomc, furnaces, forcing development prematurely. and encouraging late hour% and excitement and consuming nerve and brain."?Ainslee's Magazine. a ^ : LADIES' DBK38INO 8ACQU1. ind loose is most desirable, and yet rl many women wish them to have a neat 8 appearance also. a A sacque that combines all these re- t< quirements is illustrated here, made of c white wash silk, with lace and em- a hrolderr for trimming. It la fitted to the figure with backs and under-arm gores, and ia plain acroaa the ahonlders in front The 11 neck ia cut allghtly low and square. H finished with a band of lace. ? The foil fronts are gathered at the upper edge and arranged on the lace. If preferred beading may be used to Bnlsh the neck and upper edge of front Pj and ribbons drawn through the beading. tied in a bow at the neck. p The sacque la trimmed with a band of embroidery at the lower edge. The sleeves are shaped with inside seams t; only, have comfortable fulness on the c shoulders, and have a casing stitched about three inches from the lower edge. Elaatic run through this casing draws the sleeve close to the arm be- ti LADIES' GARDEN I low the elbow, the lower portion form- v lng a raffle. Narrow lace Is applied 11 over the casing. f Stylish sacques in this mode may be 1 made of lawn, Swiss or dimity, with li pretty ribbons and lace for trimming, t It is also appropriate for albatross, eillng, silk crepe, cashmere or any r soft woolen fabric with bands of taf- 1 feta to take the place of lace or em- t broidery. o To make the sacqne in the medium v ize will require three yards of twenty- o seven-inch material. c Gown For > (JtnUa Psrty. y The gown illustrated U made of pale u green satin foulard, with spots in a darker shade. It is trimmed with ecru tj lace and white liberty sntin. p The waist is mounted on a glove- n fitted featherboned lining that closes f i~ #?., /.untr? fmnt Thi? foulard Is IU IUC V?w?tv drawn plainly across the shoulders In ), the back and displays slight gathers p at the belt A smooth adjustment is t maintained under the arms. I, The skirt Is shaped with five gores. narrow front and sides, and wide e backs, fitted smoothly around the waist and over the hips without darts. The fulness In the centre back is arranged In an underlying pleat at each side of the closing. To make the waist in the medium size will require one and oue-quarter yards of forty-four-inch material, with three-quarter yard of contracting mati '1 for puflfg and plastron, and live eig'no yaru 01 nu-utrr hut, To make the nkirt in I be medium size will require four nn?l fliree-quarter yards of forty-four-inch material. Folds MMqncratU Tacks. Broad tucks l>oo?t a certain style, out are not altogether simple in tbe making; especially do they take on kiuks when one attempts to adorn a Daring tioiince with them. Thin is really enough to test the best of tempers, and the sensible oues get around it by laying on rows of overlapping bias folds. The amateur will tind bar Lands quite full enougb with letting a few of these tormentors into the bluuse. One thing r they eat up an immense amount of material whichever way one mauages. d With Plaid Kklrta. Tremendously ultra are tbe pleated g belaroa of black doth or silk when t . i 1 orn with skirts of black and white laid. These skirts are mostly lo tin; becks. though some broken plaid* are ?en. and the kilt, the pleats stitched own to the knees, is a favored model, a some instances the blouse tg of the becked silk, but more often it * of ream lace which shows only as a est and big undersleeves once the lcket la 0^. The Jacket by the way. as pleated sleeves in flowing effect A ravorlte Combination. Wnite and green are also a farorue nmhinntinn In some cases the green red oral nates, and tbe white In otbera. i, large turban of coarse white braid as a facing of three large braid* of reen straw divided by folds of white Ilk. Two slender wings, one white nd one green, lie on tbe crown, and n tbe brim is an ornament of cat teel. from which two green wings olnt behind the ear. Htid-PtliM Ribbon*. Moat delectable are tbe white satin Ibbon sashes, band-painted with raoeful buuehes of daisies or violets, t tbe ends and single blossoms scathed artistically over tbem. or those orered witb sprays of the most nat-, ral-looking wild roses. Put I j Little Dsncllac OrunnM. Pendant ornaments of all kinds are i high rogue. Very pretty little dang - - -? .nJ OS tuinga are U1UUC Ul mucia auu ilk cord aod shaped like a fuchsia. Buckle PrattlMM. A pretty thins in a belt bucklc is lade of two disks, each a little larger iian a quarter, with a flcur de lys lo urple enamel. NmImb Drawn Work. Mexican draw a work is used abort be hems and inserted In the yokes of hlldren's fine sheer linen.gowns. An Attractive Walat. Sheer tan batiste Is used for this at. active waist, with ecru lace collar and ?ARTI GOWN. rrlstbands. It is made over a glove* itted. featherboned lining of green tafeta tbat closes la tbe centre-back, .'be green shows through tbe batiste, ending a pleasing contrast to tbe neural tint of tbe fabric. Three forward turning tuck* are arBilged at each side of the centre front The third tucks are stitched from neck o belt to simulate a vest, while the then terminate half way down, proIding a stylish fulness that blouaef ver the green statin belt. The closing is made invisibly at the entre-back under a box pleat, the raist fitting smoothly in the back and inder the arms. A transparent lace collar completes be neck. These collars are especially opnlar during the summer, as they re much cooler and more comfortable ban those lined with stiffening. The elbow sleeves are shaped with aside senilis and tucked to fit the uper arms closely. The fulness between e poiQi wnere me iucki mop uuu iuc j?'er edge forma a puff that is gatbted and nrrauged on a narrow lace Ibow bam'. Tbe mode may be developed la Swiss, CCK1D BLOC3B WITH XLBOW 8L1BTM. Iraity, Iowa, organdie or any sheer rash fabric with lace trimmings. To make tbe waist In tbe mediam ise will require two yards of fortywo-Inch material. TWO GREAT CITIES. ydnsj to 0?fitrlp M?lbo?ra* ud * * com* Autnlla'i MatropolU. Melbourne has always been tbe largest city of Australia. In Its phenomenal growth It can be compared only with Chicago and San Francisco. In 1835 It had a name and fourteen inhabitants; in ISM) it contained 451.000 persons. Gold made Melbourne. For ten consecutive years the gold mines from sixty to oue hundred miles to the north and northwest produced over $50,000,000 of gold every year. Tbe many thousands of men required to mine this treasure bought their supplies In Melbourne and spont thetr money there. The city faced to tbe north where tbe mines were; its back door was on tbe sea. But tbe gold mines of Victoria have lost their old importance. They are still productive, but their yield is far inferior to that of the desert mines of western Australia. Melbourne is slowly losing the largest resource that made her great, and the wool and wheat trade is not likely to fully compensate her for the declining mining Interests. Tbe city was said in 1801 to have 400.896 population, including tbe suburbs. Fire years later only 451,000 persons were counted In tbe city and its environs. Tbe decline in population is probably only temporary. Many miners have been drawn away by more Sattering prospects elsewhere, but they will gradually be replaced by permanent settlers. < Tbe great city, however, seems destined soon to lose its pre-eminence. Sydney is steadily Increasing in population; by the last census it was only 42,000 under Melbourne's figures. Sydney is growing, while Melbourne is scarcely holding her own. There are a number of reasons why Sydney will probably forge ahead and permanently ; maintain its lead among Australian cities.?New York Sun. File* sail th? Administration. The present administration is opposed , to flies, and is lighting them through ; the Department of Agriculture. Dr. j Howard. Chief of the Division of Entomology. is the general directing the campaign, which is being prosecuted at present chiefly by the distribution of pamphlets, telling about all sorts of j flies, their various habits and dangerj ous propensities. For tbe better study i of tliem 2300 were caught in kitchens and dining rooms in all purts of the country and put on trial. Of these, ninety-eight per cent, were common | house flies. The house fly does not bite or biiuk- iuu prami uuukci iiuuj him arises from bis neglect to wipe his feet. He will tramp over flltb nml infected matter, and straightway track bis accumulation ov?r anything that any nearby family may be having for dinner. It is easiei to discourage dies altogether than to teach them better habits. General-Entomologist Howard talks of a war of extermination, bat the first and most practicable thing to do Is to teach people In general as mncb as possible about flies; when and where they breed and why they are dangerous. It Is well known that stables are great nurseries of flies. It seems hopeless to attempt to regulate stables so that flies won't breed in them, but a good deal can be done by the use of knowledge and of sense; and where stables are so placed that their flies are particularly annoying, the use of chloride of lime will help matters very much. The great central truth about flies and the danger from them seems to be, tbe cleaner the place, tbe fewer flies, and tbe less dan per from those that are there. Common flies do not secrete poison: they merely carry it Don't leave any poison i around where they can get at it. Bury I it; keep garbage in proper receptaclesi and remove It promptly.?Hand's j Weekly. What VmIIIi Cannot Do. Jacob Ridgeway, a wealthy citizen | of Philadelphia, died many years ago, j leaving a fortune of $0,000,00.). "Mr. ! Ridgeway." said a young man. "you ( are more to be envied than any genj tleman I know. Think of the thou; sands your Income brings you every month T "Well, what of that?" replied Mr. Ridgeway. "All I get out of It Is my victuals and clothes, and I can't eat more than one man's allowance or wear more than one suit at a time. I can only live in one house at a time; as for the money I receive for rents, why, I can't eat It, or wear it; I can only use It to buy other houses for other Deonle to live In: they are bene flclaries, not I. I can only look at the furniture and pictures, and the poorest man who Is not blind can do the same. I can ride no easier in a fine carriage than you in an omnibus for five cents, with the trouble and attention to drivers, footmen and hostlers, and as to 'anything I desire' I can tell you, young man. that the less we desire in this world the happier we shall be. All my wealth cannot buy back my youth, cannot purchase exemption from sickness and pain, cannot procure me power to keep afar off the hour of death; and then what will all arall, when. In a few short years at most, I He down In the grave and leave it all forever? Youn? man, you have no cause to envy me." Whin Woman Courts the Mm. There is a sweet simplicity about th? marriage rites of Burmah. Travelers Will It'll US ma I u uvtuittrs U|HII| Iur wouiau to do tlie courting. When a maiden sees a youth whom she thinks woulil make a desirable husband, she forthwith offers him a stick of sweetmeat. If her accepts her proposal he at once eats her offering of affection, and from that moment she is his wife. No further ceremony Is nei-essary, and witnesses to the contract are not required. It is in the act of eating that thin primitive marriage rite consists, says the Philadelphia Times. ' But supposing that the youth declines the offer of marriage? This he does by assuring the girl that the Sweetmeat Is not to bis taste, and tbe maiden knows that she must seek elsewhere for some one who will ap preclate the lore which her offering betokens. Their Friend*. For every man who In hlw own wonit enemy there are a hundred who are their own beat frleudf -Puck. Our. Budget or Humor.. Alack! A fellow who lives in Dn Moines Tried the local "four hundred" to joi&es; He tided might and main, But entirely in vim, Because he was lacking in comes. ?Puck. Hte'Statas. "Pretty much of a fool, isn't he?** "Fool? Wby. be* a boro Juryman!* ?Puck. A Termeotor. Father?"Tommy, quit polling that poor cat*s tall" Tommy?"I'm only holding on to It. pa. The cat's pulling It."?New York Journal. Aaotktr Sbora Laab. "I understand that bis money is Unvested in Wall Street." "No; be took It down there, but tb? fellow who got It went to Europe."? ?1CH luik nuin. Thought It Likely. \ Mrs. Dootle?"And will yoa lore m? when I'm old and unlovely?" Doozle?"I suppose so. You see. I'll be old aod daffy then, myself."?Sao Francisco Bulletin. iKlgkt aod La(t. Fuddy?"She baa fifty thousand lb her own right." , Duddy?"In ber own right?" Fuddy ? "It was left to her. you know."?Boston Transcript. Hla AdTic*. "So you wouldn't advise a man to go i into politics unless be has money." said the beginner. "I didn't say that," answered Senator Sorghum; "if you can get somebody else to put up the money for you go ahead, by all means." ? Washington Star. Counting oa It. Wife of Eminent Philanthropist* "My dear, what are you thinking of? You gave that poor man only ten: cents." Eminent Philanthropist?"I know it, I Amanda. It will be $10 when it gets j Into the anecdote column."?Oblcago rribune. r- ? Rottud, Prabablr. Author?"Did you read the mau? script of my new play?" Friend?"Yes." Author?"Did you consider it well done?" Friend?"W<?I1, If It Isn't It will be when the critics get through with it." ?Chicago News. Waat Back os the BIa?. Gerald?"My brother turned crimson the other day." Geraldine ? "I never knew him to blush." | Gerald ? "I didn't say that be blushed." Geraldine?"What did he do?" Gerald?"Left Yale and entered Har-1 ard."?New York Press. And They Ntrtr Do It. "He would b* all right." said th? man who is always viticlslng others, "if it wereu't for bSr fearful habit of mendacity." "I have always regarded him as possessing the highest ideas of honor." "Yes. But be is one of these people j *- 1 ? ? thof tHo? 4 woo are Biwuja uuuuuunu) iiwi .mV< are going to tell jou the funniest story you ever beard."?Washington Star. Whin the Coak'a A war. "Are you ready?" asked the first man.' "I am," came the answer in a firm I tone. "Then rome. We may as well know the worst." Closing the door behind them tbey j resolutely descended the stairs. When tbey arose from the boarding* | house table, however, they agreed that I the meal bad been no worse than i usual.?Judge. Wlitrf the LIm Nut Be Draws. | "If these monopolists keep on." said ' the alarmist, "Uiey will own every- J thing." "No. they won't." answered Mr. Dio- j g^nes diujjs, wun die i-uuiinawui.; which always comes over him when h? has something disagreeable to comma* nicate; "they'll alwuys allow us little ambitious fellows to own enough to provide the assessot a basis for a tax levy."?Washington Star. It'a Up to ?he MiitrtH. | I I Mistreas (to new servant >? "There are two thing*. Mary, about which I am very pnrtieular: they are truthfulness and obedience " Mmw? Vm'iii: mid when tou tell m? to say you're not in. when a person rails that you don't wish to see. which is it to be. mum?truthfulness or obe* Hence?"?Kinx. , / THE GfiBAT DE8TB0YER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. FanUtaftk* Fly tad Um wtfwm**-?A Clover Editorial Frm the Hew Twk ^mtml Sbavlac tkrt Um Whisky Maker la M fMUlk aa Wlf. This ia a true story; not am acaimolatioa of peeodo facts. A mas had spread oat a sheet of fly paper. He noticed that from day to day the Bomber of .email Mack epecka increased, each a peck tailing the etory of the fly*a tragic end. * One day. out of idle enrioeity, be fell to studying toe fliee aa their doom overtook them. One fly eame to the edge of the paper, tasted tne treacherous, sticky preparation, then went away for the time being. Another fly did the aame, bat waded ?J La. DOJdiJ in* mau wu wjub yy|i? Another fly. flying down straight from abort, landed in tht middle of the fly paper. Hi* pleasant bos of anticipation v aoon changed to a loud singing noise, thai told of help lea* rag* and for. A* the flies landed on the paper each acted in a different way. Some beat their wing* frantically for a second or two, only to fall over cn their aides very soon and succumb to the aticky poison. Others showed more intelligence, and, when they realixed the danger, stood on the tips of their tiay leg*, endeavoring to draw themaslves up aud fly away. Now and then some fly, with a violent effort of his muscles and of his will, would actually tear hiiflself from the fly paper * and escape. Others could not git away, bat made heroic struggle. Tbey walked across the paper, dragging their heavy lap and sticky winci. climbing np on the bodies of the other flies in search of some means of escape. The man watched the flies, their different kinds of efforts, their different ways of dying, the long struggle* of some, the quick submission of others. It was a grewsom* but interesting spectacle. What interested him most was the stupidity of the flies, and the fact that not one of them seemed to learn anything from the fete of the scores of others stretched dead on the sticky surfece. "It is evident," said the man, "that these flies hare absolutely no capacity for think inc or for estimating conaequencea. "Each fly aa he approaches the paper must see thlt there are Korea of flies lying dead on it. Each of these flieel aa ha goes back and forth near thia death trap mint see the other flies straying, see their useless efforts, hear their tarrifivd burning?yet each fly in his torn runs the risk, and, tempted by the sweet, sticky substance, goes to death in his tun*. "I suppose that each foolish fly thinks that he will escape the fate of the others. Each one imagines that h* can light on the paper and get off again. Perhaps each has noticed the occasional fly that geta on the fly naoer and does escape safely. "What fools these flies are. What a foot each one of them is not to say to himaslf /vgl that what has rained ao many other flies will surely ruin him. Why do they not get out of this room, if they caA. or at Mat keep aa far away from the fly paper as possible?" Having thus mused philosophically, the man nut on his hat and went out, leering fnnliakiiMi tfl MM of themselves. The man turned to the right, then turned to the left, then went through * doorway,, and then he was on the fly paper th*t catches human beings. He was in a drinking saloon, and he bad a glass of whisky in front of him. At this point we may'studv this man it the saloon as be studied the flies on the flf pacer in his bedroom. What happens to the man in a saloon? Exactly that which happens to flies oa the fly paper. One man goes near the edge of the ** whisky habit, takes a little and goes away, like the first -fly mentioned, who approached the edes of the fir paper. This bnmfa fly who takes a little and goes away is almost sure to come back again in time. *? n? ? ?? * Other men who approach the whisky fly pil&r take a little and promptly wad* right in to their {lopm. * The human victims that light on tb* whisky fly paper hare as many ways of struggling, as many wars of dying, as many < ways of suffering, and as few chances of escaping, as the ignorant fly that lights on the sticky fly paper in the hot kitchen. Of human flies on the whiskv fly paper, pome struggle feebly for a while against the habit that has caught them, ana soon succumb. . Others last for a long while. Only ths ends of their feet touch the flr paper. They keep their bodies erect, and for tb? time being feel quite croud of themselves, | snd call themselres "Moderate Drinkers." But their feet are on the fly paper, and I with nine out of ten of them ft is only a question of time when the body and mind irill sink to the level of the feet, and thai will be the end of the struggle. An occasional human being MCtpea from the whuky fly p*per, and goes away to tell other* that ''whisky never hurt him." This human fly does the most harm. Ho sends others to whisky, and sooner or later he is pretty sure to go bade there himself. When you co into a restaurant, or any other place where fly paper is spread out, take a look at the struggling, suffering insects dying slowly and horribly in the ticky mass that falsely at trie ted them. Yon will wonder at the stupidity of each fly as it alights, regardless of the fat* of others. Don't duplicate that fly's stupidity in your own life. Remember that what has ruined others may ruin you. Keep away from the saloon and from the whuky bottle. Take a walk through the Potter's Field some day ?any man at the Morgue can tall yon how to oet there?and you will find the fruits of the whisky bottle, quiet and peaceful at last in their final rest on the surface of tip fly paper that caught them.?New York noiiniat. A Bishop's TmMbmt. Biahop Tucker, of Central Africa, giving his experience of teetotaliam to a prate representative, aaid: "I hare been a teetotaler for twenty year*. So far from regretting it, I would commence it eooner U I bad the chance again. I find Aat in Africa, not only ia a teetolar better fitted to cope with the climate, but he ia better fitted for the great physical exerciae which be haa to undergo. I have marched aome 10,000 milea in Africa, and have never felt the w*nt of anything like a atimulant. Indeed, I felt sure that if I had not been a teetouler it would have been impoaaible to undergo the fatigue involved in aome of the marching." The Biahop in hia prcvioue paatoral visit covered about 1000 milea, en* tirely on foot. This na harder than being Buhop of Bendigo. The Crusade In Brief. Von Moltke, the great German, waa strict teetotaler. Whisky won't get you into trouble if you don't drink it. There are 6,000,000 more total abstainers to-day than fifty years ago. Th<? niirnadi art* cirawine total ahati> nence lints closer about their employe*. Another of those humanity staggering thing*, say* the Chicago Tribune, is the national drink bill. The Chicago night school term is to b? shortened, but the saloonj will continue to run on full time. Swiss prison statistics show that drink i* the chief immediate causa of the crimc and arrest of 57.7 per ccnt. of the persons iu penal confinement. u* i L.t:? *uvw UI uu imuh ur jiraiiivx mi thoroughly treacherous a? is the use of intoxicating beverages. Its jtositive tendency is toward the slavery of its devotee*. Senator Hans trough, of North Dakota, introduced a bill to prohibit the sale of liquor in all public building* and immigration stations belonging to the Lnited State*. A "Committee of Twelve" has been evolved in Massachusetts. made up of representatives of three tcmperance societies and certain men engaged in education, to make out a course of study in temocranc* phyaiology. * 0 f?2 J* .t. 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