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3HHBF7Tn?^'^r* ?{*< **Y-'~ ^T * 'TJP '"* 1 sr ~ * i BEFORE THE GLASS. i _____ - ! Sm stood More a looking glass-A winsome, prvtty dark eyed less? Her bead a UtUe to one side Aathough all mankind she defied. With cheeks so rosy, neck so white, Her loos hair o'er her shoulders fell, l Her brown ejes sparkled with delight; It needed do soft speech to tell That she was fair; she knew U well. And her soliloquy ran thus: t "How awful slow the time would peas U It wasn't for this looking glass 1" ?F. 8. M. In Harper's Basar. v | CHIP'S CURE 1 Every now and then a horseman, broad hatted and be-weaponod, with jangling Mexican spurs and leather "chap" leggings, dismounted, tied his "cayuse" pony to tlio gnawed rack, and joined the group of cowboys I 5 iu. _i J_ _? ?-li ? ivuukiuu 111 uiu BUUUU ui osuuuru s postofflco. With each comer tho first question was: "How's Chip?" "No better. Old Man Ashburn replied, each time. "Looks to mo like that tliar was a mighty heavy load to put onto a child like Cnip," said Santa Fe, the cowboy, with the gaudy Mexican sash about his waist. "A load uv pain an' misery big enough to break a man down, an' she nothn' but a child 1" ,rYer right, only she h'ain'tachild," Soko red cheeked Posy; she's? ow old, Ashburn?" "Seventeon." Ashburn answered. "Hanged if I knowed." said Santa Fe. "Reckon ycr right: but I got so ust to seein' her amongst us, a-ridin' the cayuscs an doncin' an' laugliin' an' singin liko a happy child, that I'd plumb fergot she'd growed up." "Me, too," said Ready Rose. "I'm mightily afcard she'll never rido nur run no more," said Old Man Ashburn. "Ever scnco sho was athrowed sho's bo'n a-gittin' slowly but shorely worse an' worse, an' " "Wal," interrupted Santo Fe, with grira earnestness, "1 li'ain't never bo'n sorry fer tho way wo run out o' tho Range tho cuss tnat roped the cayuso an' got her throwed." "Nur mo 1" cried a cowboy chorus. * Af. tllA Cniltul rvf o falw* 11 Man Ashburn hastened within the building. Presently ho appeared, dragging carefully behind nim a splint bottomed rocking chair, in which reclined tho wasted form of littlo Chip, Ashburn's crippled daughter. At sight of her, tho iinpulsivo cowboys waved their uroad hats and went through tho motions of shouting lustily. But very little sound came from their distended mouths. "Hello, boysl" tho littlo cripple saluted, weakly. "I jest couldn't stay in thero any longer when 1 heard you all talking. Pa didn't want mo to como, but I told him" "Sho 'lowed," interrupted Asliburn, "that she'd como out yero if she'd to crawl on her hands an' knees, an' I reckon she'd" "You bet sho'd a-dono it 1" broko in Santa Fo. "That's what she'd a-done," agreed Redely Rose. "How nice tho sunshine seems I" said tho littlo cripple. "I'vo been n-thinkin.' often that mebby I'd never Fit out into it ag'in to run an' rido as ust to. Somo way" "Sant," whispered Posy, "hanged if I h'ain't sorry wo stopped at runnin' out the cuss that got her throwed" "Mo. too 1" returned Santa Fo. "Ort to a-killed him then an' tharl" "That's what wo ortl" agreed Reddy Rose. Even tho slight exertion attendant upon tho short trip from tho littlo bedroom to tho door seemed almost too much for Chip's enfeebled frame. Her laco gTcw paier, and she leaned wearily back in tbo old rocking1 chair. "Mobby I'll never see you again, boys/' sho piped. "I" "Old man," interrupted Posy, "you better tako her back now." "But I don't want to go," tlio girl protested. "I want to stay an' seo the Doys, an'" As easily as if sho had been of but a feather's weight, Posy took her in his strong arms and carried her back into her little bedroom carefully and very tenderly. His brown check was close to . ? "nri**=*-'"i p ?" li" whispered. "An' you, Posy," sho answered, spftly. "Boys," Old Man Ashburn was saying as Posy rejoined tho group about the door, "things looks mighty black. She's a - sutferin' an' a - sufferin' an'" Posy rushed to his cayuse, filing himself into tho saddle, and dashed away across tho prairie, followed by his comrades. "I couldn't Rfnnrl it " lie flmm as tbo ponies bounded away to tho eastward. "I jest couldn't stand to hear that poreolo cuss a-tellin' of little Chip a-gettin' ncardcr an' nearder death, an' lie, her dad, not ablo to help herl" "Say," said Santa Fe, suddenly, "wo ort" "You bet 1" interrupted Posy. "Wo ort, an' wo will do"-? "Thar comes Hank 1" broko in Roddy Rose, as tho littlo mules and faded buckooard that comprised tbo turnout of Hank Bitters, tho mail carrier, emerged from tho distant timber. "Kink's got a passenger." Obodient to tho touch of tho nugo Mexican spurs, tho cayuscs bounded toward tho approaching vehiclo nt tho cowboy's favorite gait, a keen run. Hank Bitters' passenger, an old gentleman with a phenomenally bald head and a general appearance of filmAci nmlicli wie/lAm Vio/1 MWMWW ?? J iiUVI UCOll glUW- I ing room and more uneranfortablo | ever sinco entering" the cattle country. The conversation of the stago driver, and later of Hank Bitters, had not served to allay any of his apprehension. , M.W'y," said Hank* with grept grav-. ity, "soTino uv:theso y^ro cowboys is pizon?plumb ' pizon 1. .An' .l-ecldossl ,t\VaJ, reckless.h ain't no nanio for itl Thoy'yebadl" ... His auditor'shivered. ' "Kill a tnan I Jest as quiek as to oattu ihun sight quifcker,#fcne of 'em., -? I've knowed"?? < ? . - ? 4' > .f , *Hit paused hnd gaicd thbWfchtfully ',%l U?o Gdl hat of his companion. "I've knowed 'cm to shoot n states man jest for wearin' a plug hat!" "My stars!" shivered the nassongcr. "Knowed wuss'n that. W'y, out on tho Soap Kivor range" Ami Hank Bitters luridly pictured the depravity of tho cowboys of tho Sonp river region. "But surely they would not harm me," quavered the passenger, "if they wer<^a|>prised of tny identity 1" 1 "If theylcnew who I was." j^Mebby they'd let you off easy,n con"And when we do come in contact with thorn, you will do your beet to soothe them!" "I'll do what I kin," returned Hank. "But it's mighty finnicky business." And so he worked upon the fears of his passenger till the old gentleman gasea oppi ehensively about, as if he expected to see a doeen fierce cowboys leap from behind every bush, to make of his person an impromptu revolver target He was nearly ready to cry out with alarm when, as they emerged Al AZ L. 1 1..1 j n 1-^11 uvui uia uuiuw. uo uooeiu ijanw re and hia comrades careering towards tboni. The yells of recognition with which thoy greeted Hank, while still rods away, sent a great thrill of terror through the old gentleman. ' 'Tell them who I am I" he whispered, hoarsely. "Tell them I am a man of pcaco bound on an errand of mercy 1" "I'll do the best I kin," returned Hank, with an inward convulsion. "But it's mighty risky business 1 They're pizon, plumb pizon !" Ab tlio cowboys circled about the buckboard the passenger almost gave up all hope. "Tell them!" he whispered to Hank. Tliat worthy, with a tremendous wink at Santa Fe, called out: "Don't bo brash, boys! This yere gent's on his way to visit a ole time friend down on tno Cimarron, what's got a crippled boy. As a favor to me, don't hurt him. Name's Doc Bristow, M. D.. uv" "What?" cried Posy. "A doctor! Got yer tools an' medicine along, doc? "Yes, sir," quavered the physician. "Got them along!" cried Posy. "Then yer jest" "Hold on!" broke in Santa Fe. catching Posy's idea. ' :We don't want no botch doctor. Doc, air you up to yer game?" "f hardly" "I mean, do you know yer biz? Do Sou size up with the balance uv the octors?" Dr. Bristow's professional pride, up in arms in an instant, overcame his fwirs "Know my business, sir? Up with other physicians, sir? Why, sir, I can say, without a particle of boasting, that I stand head and shoulders above ! my professional rivals?hoad and shoulders, sir I I am the author of" He named a work with a sonorous and complicated medical title, that conveyed littlo or no meaning to his hearers. "I performed, sir. one of the most remarkablo cures of the present century by restoring Senator Heywood to vigorous health." "B'liovo I yeared about that," said Santa Fe. "rLowed he'd die, didn't they ?" "Certainly! Ninety-nine cases out of every hundred thus attacked succumb. Therefore 1 am justly accorded great credit for my almost miraculous cure. I" "Boys," said Posy, "we want him 1" "That's what wo ao," agreed Reddy Rose. As the cowboys reached this decision tho party was within a hundred yards of Ashburn's postoffice. "Doc," said Posy, "you'll have to two y?*? a while." The physician's air of gratified professional pride was instantly superseded by fear. "Oh, gentlemen, spare me!" ho quavered. "I will not wear it again u you odjcci 10 its appearance 1" 44 'Pearance uv what?" asked Santa Fc. 4'My bat?'plug,'I think you call it P' Hank Bitters threatened to explode with delight, but the cowboys never even smiled. ( Tlio physician was so loath to leave the vehicle that ho had to be dragged out by force. "Take it cosy, doc," soothed Posy. "We don't moan no harm 1" Dr. Bristow, little reassured, mentally anathematized tlio day ho left his city homo to throw himself into the clutches of theso white savages. "Doc," began Posy, "kin you cure a girl what's mighty nigh acad frum bein' tlirowed frum a cayusot" Dr. Bristow's professional instinct got the better of a portion of his fears. ' "L_think I ?afol?jjsay I c^pu gir^ _ ; if a cure is possible,1' ho said. Posy led tho way to Chip's bedside. ' Chip, this ycro is Doc Bristow. Doc, this yero is Olo Man Ashburn, PTiin'a tln/1 fV\mo aIa man 1" Ashburn followed him out of doors, and Dr. Bristow was alone with his pationt. The cowboys wero very grave when the physician reappeared. "Gentlemen"? lie began. "Means you an' Sant, I reckon, Posy," said JRcddy Rose. " What'll it bo with little Chip, doc?" asked Posy. "Although her caso is extremely precarious, replied the physician, deliberately, "with proper nursing and the care of a skilled physician, sho can bo restored to health. A delicate and dangerous operation is necessary. If she survives that and is attended by" "She will be! The big doctor'll be thar," said Posy. "Who might he be, if I may askf questioned tho physician. "Doc Bristow " answered Posy. ojuu x uauuui* ir.mmn. n?y raent" "Blank your engagement! In that thar room lies Chip?little Chip that" "That wo all love,ovcry last one uv us" broke in Santa Fe. "You bet!" cried Reddy Rose. "But" "An'," interrupted Posy, "the cuss' that got her hurt was run off the | Range, but the ouss that kin cure her, but won't, will novcr leave the Rangte | a-runnin' nur no way." "That's what ho won't!" agreed ' Roddy Rose. Dr. Bristow'sdefncd to'fully -ealize 1 what Posy's words implied; - ' Noxt day, long before the hour for performing the operation that was to end or savo Chinas life, the cowboys had congregated in the shado of Ash- < burn's-postofflce.- . Posy was not with l them. "Posy," little Chip was saying, as slio feebly strokod tho rousrn head 1 bent above her, "if I?if Iclon'tget i out again, give each of tho boys one of these." Then she weakly drew from beneath her pillow as many locks of hair, tied with little pioces of ribbon, as there wero cowboys in tho group outside. 1 Tliero was one for Posy, also, he noticed through the mist of tears that 1 i dimmed his oyes. J .Chip $oftlv .stroked Posy's - ' *????????mmm rougn netux, da do Mnt still lbwer IX hia lips touched hers, and a hoi tea fell on oach cheek. Then, far brave than he, she turned her faoe away. "Gooa-by, Posy," she said. "Good-by, Chip." He staggered out of the room, an dashing the tears from his eyes, 1 grasped the doctor's arm with a fore that made him wince, and whispers hoarsely: "Go in, now, an'?an' If her goo< by was the last one, God forgive y< This yere iron"?half drawing his.Js volver ? "never misses flia anV Wal, you'll never gooffen the Range! Dr. Bristow hod made no idle boii when he spoke of his professional akil and all of tnat skill was called int action to preserve unsnapped the chor that bound poor little suffering Chi to life. When the operation wasovi and tho crisis past, the great physicia tottered through the door and fe fainting into Posy's arms. "Sho is safer he gasped, as h opened his eyes. As if moved by a common imp.uLm tho cowboys mounted their cayuat and galloped off across the prairie i whirlwind speed. Two miles awa they halted, and gave vent to thei rejoicing in yells both long and loud. a. monin lator, wnen muo unip wi able to hop about quite smartly on h< crutches, Dr. Bristow asked of Poei Of whom ho seemed to stand in drea* ful fear, if he might loave for h: eastern home on the following day. "But, doc, I thought you was lcee to go out on tho Cimarron?" Nothing was further from Dr. Bri tow's desire. He told himself that ho could but return home, it woul take a most powerful attraction indee to draw him away from it Santa Fo and Old Man Ashburn hel soveral mysterious conferences, i which Posy was not invited to tali part The result was apparent nei day. Instead of the faded buckboart Hank Bitters arrived in a long sprin wagon, which, as Reddy Rose sai< was simply "gorgis" with red paint < tho reddest red; and Hank himse was gotten up for the great occasio "regardless," in an uncomfortablesu of new store clothes, topped off by collar that persisted in ruling his re neck most outrageously. A cleric* looking personage who accompanie him was saluted uy the cowboys wit shouts of "Preacher Bluel" The cowboys wore all in holiday a tire, and even Old Man Ashburn wi quite "smartly" arrayed. Posy stare in wonder at tho group, but from tl way little Chip smiloti and blushed, was evidently not at all a mystery 1 her. "Posy," began Santa Fe, awl wardly, "I want to say for me ai the boys an' Old Man, yere^that v 'low wo know how you an' Chip fe< towards each other, an'?an'" "Wo reckon you both show might good tasto," broke in Reddy Rose. "Knowin' this," wont on Santa 3JV "wo ? that is ? you ? wal?darn i you're goin' to git married yere, ai now * an'?an' yero's yer wedoin' pre) cut from me an' the boysl Boon's it over you're gcin' ?to start on a weddii tower. Wo low Chip needs travel; and Santa Fo thrust a roll of bills int the hand of tho astonished Posy. Tho lattor presently essayea to ea press all his thanks, but th^cowbogi After ^Posy and Chip had been mad one, Dr. Bristow was the first to l equal to tho occasion. He first pn posed and carried out tho kissing < the bride. Tho cowboys followed sui and Posy, still half dased, wn* nwi-l knocked off his feet by a rush of con rades to claim tribute from the temp ing mouth of tho now made bride. When the very red spring wago departed, its occupants were Posj Chip, Dr. Bristow, besides Hank Bi ters, the truthful. Just before the entered tho timber they waved a adieu to tho cowboys congregated b fore Ashburn's postoffice. Santa Fe unwound his guady Mex can scarf and wavod it in response and the other cowboys industnousl swung their hats and yelled till tk red wagon and its occupants ha passed from sight. "Ashburn, you olo fool, youi a-cryin'." said Santa .Fe. presently. "So air you I" spoke jveddy Roar you're not a hir better yec self 1" retorted Santa Fe.?Frank Le lie's. A Fascinating Young Lady. In Tipton county, Tenn., lives young lady, who exercises a fascina mg power over animals. The Jourm of Man says that sho is able toconquc and ride in a moment's time horse and mules that no one elso has eve been able to handle. Tho most savag dog in the neighborhood emails befoi her. Souirrels and biros come t her in trie woods and cat from he hand, and many times she has bee known to pick up a rabbit in the pat! She says that from infancy she he had this remurkiwblo power over wil animals, but only within tho past fe1 years was she aware that sho was ah a "horse tamer." Sho says sho is n< ;?... ?*4:? t?.i- /?-. VA/UO^IUUS VI UUktllilT lUriiJ UUV tUiUI in this. - II. : Thrifty Luclndo. Miss Lucinda Washburn, a nativ of Kingston, Mass., died in this citj aged 78 years 7 months and 19 dayi Bne came to Sacramento in the carl fifties, was an industrious woman, good financier, and at her death wo one of the wealthiest individual i: the city. Tho bulk of her proport consists of good paying real.cstafe i: many portions or this city. She wa somewhat eccentric, and went abou looking after her diversified interest dressed in cheap calico and a whit apron, while her headgear was invi riably an old fashioned sunbonnet c some light colored material. Her et tate will appraise up into the hundred r>f thniiinnHa onA {( to 1 many women in America by their it dividual efforts have amassed so larg a fortune.?Sacramento Record-Union Improving a Proverb. / "I've always admired proverbs, oA dear," Mr. Dusenberry said, ns ? rubbed his chin in a contcmplativ way. "They are chock full of ail niftcance. Thoy are laconic and log col. Now. for instance, there is tn Baying. 'Straws show which way th wind blows.' What could mor tersely" "Yes," interrupted Mrs. Dusenberrj with a twinkle in her starboard ey? "If you'd sift tho ashes evonr mora ing, instead of letting me silt then you'd know moro about the direetio: of tho wind than all the straws i. creation would show you."?Detroi Press. B&i^lH 1 ; 9m Tmm * M ftntwto? ,r Rudolph Stang, of Dusscldorf, has I lately completed, after more than ten 1 I yeart^ work, a copper plate engraving 1 of Leonardo da Vinci'a great fresco. , d r Ula MUeved that this is the first timo , c I the famous picture has been directly *J J Studied by the engraver. Raphael j d] Mt|gh<DlB splendid engraving was 1 ma* from a drawing of a copy of the kijnriemAjeejtttiiig, aim all other plates >1 issued since its publication in 1800 y p?fti been more or less imitations I" The history of Morghen's work is ! it instructive. The monks at Castelazzo I, hearing of the fame of the fresco in o the refectory of the monks of Santa , d Maria delle urazie, at Milan, commis- , p sioued Marco d'Oggiono, a pupil of | >r Leonardo, to paint tliom a copy for n their refectory. But being himself a U distinguished artist he coula hardly be ( expected to abstain from introducing ( io some variations of his oim. A drawing of Oggiono's copy, wnich was in 1 3, far better preservation than the origins nal, wa3 made for Morghen by Mailt tcini, himself an excellent artist, who y was more intent on the artistic nerfccir tion of his work than on its fidelity to (he original. Then came the engraver, is who is credited with having produced ir a work of consummate technical exrt cellence, but which cannot claim to 1- be an exact reproduction of Leonardo's So rrietunrv Sitang betook himself to the spot, a studied the fresco in its present state, 3S3 made use of all available sketches B- and original sketches in ado by the if painter for his work, some of which d were to be found in England. The reel suit is what he believes to be a repro: duction in copper of the work as it d Came from Leonardo's pencil, executed n as perfectly as modern art can effect e The engraving has been much praised tt by German art critics. ?London Times. M* g Help for Denning People. h The board of associated oharitios aids >f families almost exclusively, and very Lf material aid it is. As soon as the agent n of the society starts out he makes into ouiries in reliable circles as to the A habits apd characteristics of thopooplo d ?applying about the head of the i " family, if one exists, about the child dren, how many, if any, arc at work, h and if they, singly ana coilectivoly, i are hohest and industrious, or if they t- would be industrious if they had the , ?- -opportunity. Tho society naturally d will want to know about tno revenues ie of the family and of their oxpenses and it debts, and if theso answers are all o right his report to the board will be a favorable one, and in a short timo tho c- necessaries of life, usually flour, meal, i' coal and wood in bulk, will be forthm t* ? *1? i o wuuui. AI> uuca UIKt] L11IJU, uuwover, si to do this, and if tho family were in distress and needed immediate aid y there are several individual means by which they might tide over their wants ?, temporarily. L This is ene form of charity which, if r it is slow, is certainly sure and subs' stantial once it is secured. It takes 's care exclusively of those who havo 1' lodgings, who live in tenements some" where in the city and receive charity o in that way. Those are usually very deserving peoplo and thoir histories t- are often sad and pathetic. Those who ?, are invariably the most deserving of is charity are always the most reluctant irijvue usXlng-1or it. Puor but proud, le they will often sell every piece of furie niture and household effects that somo> times have tender and pleasant recol>f lections in order to keep tho wolf from t, the door, and defer, if not permanently y dispense with, tho neceesitv of asking 1- aidl?McQrath in Boston Globe. tr The Value* of Diamond*. n Values of diamonds never change. Ti like pure gold they have a fixed *r value. Their prices change with tho j ae&ier ana ins opportunity for their n sale. Then again the price of diamonda Is largely affected by their quality and oolor. A atone that showB v sand cracks is rated low. A diamond, however perfect, if of a yellowish hue, 7 is not highly priced. There are stones of a reddish tint which ore very beautiful, but the pure white diamond outranks them all. The test of the white "? diamond is that it shall bo perfectly invisible when immersed iq^a vi&l of ? -^h^aaieally^ure water. such as is colp" lected from condensed steam. A diaB* mond is perfectly indestructible and is seldom, if ever, lost to the world. If the owner should lose a stone another person finds it, and the quantity of a gems goes on steadily increasing.? Diamond Broker in G lobe-Democrat, il 1 The Baby Kins of Spain. jp Stories of the eccentricities of the .g baby king of Spain continuo to amuse ^ Europe. The continent is laughing at c his latest escapade, which came near )r to involving his country in serious n trouble. A newly appointed minister x to Spain from an influential European ^ country reached Madrid, and after a d time was presented to the young potentate. The minister is bald headed, 0 but wears a long, flowing beard. "Oh, ^ mother I" exclaimed Alfonso when ho ^ caught sight of the diplomat, "he's combed his hair the wrong way." 'The relations between Spain and the minister's country are somewhat strained at present, but a settlement of e the misunderstanding is hoped for.? r, New York World. i. Y An Odd Dining Organization. ' " A very odd dining organization in " Philadelphia is knowa as the Iahmaolites. The apartment in which the y feast is held is always decorated in the oriental fashion, some of the features " I introduced_being very luxurious and - striking. During each season there is * a muezzin who presides and rules tho ? fea$t, and r*ho also delivers a mock m prayer and has a peculiar song. All !; wear turbans or fez caps, with long ' robes and ornaments around their j necks. ?Ohioago Herald. Dlwl)Mtton of tlul CMTfJ. Truly did Emerson designate dissipation as the greatest evil in life. lie , aid not mean dissipat ion in the narrow and common sens* of excess of drink- , y ing. He meant dissipation of all sorts < 6 ?the dissipation of vital energy in .. 0 the pursuit of trivial objects, social [' dissipation, wsste of time, waste of l" money, waste in general. Social dis0 sipation is one of the moat harmful 0 forma of dissipation, because it is so ' * insidious, apparently so innocent. We aro commanded to love our neighbors, '? but we are not commanded to call on * them two or three times a week. The ** amount of time consumed in superflul> ous and purposeless social intercourse D in this world is something positively 1 ? I appalling. -? New York Commercial I JAdvortisor. li / HOW RAMS FIGHT. Dm11b| Accord lug to th? Cod* of Their Ma Royal BhwpUhnini. 1 It may perhaps throw soma light on the obscure causes of the stupidity of 'T sheep to see them fight. To watoh two rams engage in a duel, which they do nj in a most gentlemanly manner, as if of it were as much a matter of etiquette is an engagement with swords fn the ' e environs of Paris, is better than most farces nowadays. Ju. Perhaps there are some ten or twenty W1 rams in a yard or corral, and presently nc two put their heads together. Proba- ?t? bly they are having a conversation, 7? and in it some debatable matter crops **, up, for one shakes his head imp** ^ tiently as if doubting the word of nis interlocutor. The insulted ram looks * ' up, advances a step or two, and they rattle their horns together. Instantly all the other irentlemen rather round els the two intending combatants march backward step by step with an admir- ' able slowness and deliberation. They are the two knights at the ends of the Pr lists. There is an instant's pause, and av then they hurl themselves, violently uu forward to meet forehead to forehead '? with a shock that ought to break their ~e gkulls. Then the solemn backward march recommences, the pause is made, and ^ the two belligerents leap at each other once more, and the terrible thud is heard again. Sometimes they run ten nj courses nefore one turns dizzy and declines tho battle, butoftener five or six J18 blows make the thinner skulled turn away, to be contemptuously hustled co in the rear by the conqueror. fif* Occasionally the sight of one set of m duelists inspires tne unocoupied lookers on with a noble ardor, and ^ couple after couple join in to maroh co backward side by side and rush forward in line to meet the opposing ** forces. It seems to mo that there is W1 more interest in this than the mere faroe of tho display. However such a habit arose it can hardly now be ad- CI vontageous to the species, and must tend to lower them in tho scale of in- Jn tellect, for while the thickest skulled remain lords, those with the most room for brains often get their oraniums cracked with fatal results. w This mnv linln fn avnUIn m Ot uncommon idiocy of domesticated sheop, just as tho duello among Aus- *n tralian blackfellows may throw lifht 08 on the dull, thick headeaness of some 86 of the native humans in that country. For their favorite methcM of dueling? at least it was that of which I heard most?is to take two clubs, and, hav- ^ ing drawn lots in some manner for the first blow, to strike the loser on the J11 head as ho bonds down with the ut- 411 most forco possible. If that blow is n< not decisive?and it is not always so M ?it is the turn of the other man to do J1* his best, and so on until a skull is cracked.?The Cornhill Magazine. w Authors Mid Publishers. Mr. Rider Haggard's friends complain that while he reoeived only $160 !n for the original edition of "King Solo- ?r mon's Mines," the publishers hare mado $60,000 out of tne book. This Is 50 "business." Why should the author and his friends be aggrieved! Mr. Haggard should hare made a better ? bargain, and, undoubtedly, in the future Mr. Haggard will do so. These inequalities of profit will by and by teaoh authors to change their methods 10 of book publication. Meanwhile they have no right to blame publishers, and must quiotly submit to the plan ^ of making thoir successful books com- f? pensate those publishers for the losses incurred on otlicr people's unsuccess- , ful books. Mr. Haggard, as a country ^ squire, with a fortune, might have ~! tried experiments with safety. Why should not a man who can afford it Ji! publibh his own book, "taking the ? risk," as ho would any other business fintnrnrifWJ If fills l\ai?amaf>?aaiie*/M? * ? mmuui, ar would not fowcr and bettor book* be m published! And would not this be a U| blessing to the reading world!?Pittsburg Bulletin. g FmhIUt Ides Ab?ut B?11|1od. til , A student deeply versed in eoclssiaaItical matters recently advanced a vbry or peculiar idea while conversing with a 043 mend. He Baid that the established religion of a country owed its princi pal doctrines less to faith than to the conditions of its climate and surround- 10 ings. He cited the beautiful religion ^ of the natives of India, who would not eat anything that had onoe lived, be- a cause, while all could take away life. a only One could give it. He argued that a religious belief like that could w only have its origin in an intensely nut oumaw nxe tnat of India, where JiJ animal food is not necessary to suetain life. Among the Laplanders such a religion could never obtain, beoause it waa absolutely necessary for the inhabitants of 60 high a latitude to keep the warmth of the body up to a w certain heat. Nothing but animal fat fo could do that?New York Sun. ^ A Bop* Walker's Coelfliw. ^ If I myself do not feel nervous, I n< am afraia the many persons I have carried on mv back across the rope m have felt a trme perturbed, save when ^ they have been professional assistants. w In reality there is nothing in the _ world for them to be afraid otT All v,. they nave to do is to sit perfectly still, ai refrain from olutcliinr me too tightly a around the neck and leave the rest to ei me. When I ajn carrying any one over for the first time. 1 coat to him continuously on any indifferent sub- m jects I can think about, and try in this manner to relieve his anxiety, and I gj always caution him against looking ^ downward when in mid air. Borne- m how, though, ho never seems quite w happy, ana I always deteot a gasp of n, relief when the end of the rope and i.a ? ' w ir ***** r.re roccuea. .more man * once the victim hoc devoutly exclaimed, "Never attain 1"?J. B. Blon- v din in Lippinooti's. ^ ' * tv Dm? Duty for ah. m In dozens of restaurants one kind of ? "stock" continues to do duty for many 1 differently named soups, the great vn variety of names astonishing the un- Us sophisticated country cousin.?Boston True Flag. The constitution of Oosta Rica pre- ?' scribes ^oepitallty to strangers as a ?f uum, nuu uocxares citizenship Wl to be forfeited by ingratitude to pa- t* rent*, abandonment of wife or chil- m dren and neglect of tho obligation* T[ due to the family, in There ha* been consecrated in Phila- ^ delphia a church for the exclusive use v] of the deaf. It is the first and only hlace of worship in this country, if not in t^ie world, that is managed entirely HORSE CAR MANNERS. n Inking in Maaam, And Woman ITho in to 80mo Bxtont Boaponalblo. "Tho manners of people in Brook' n and New York horse cars are ominablo," said din elderly gentle*n who stood on the rear platform a Fulton street car the other day. . am a traveling man," he continued, ind have had occasion to make a idy of this subject. For instance, st take a look inside this car and you ill see what I mean. First you will itice that while several ladioe are mding several men are sitting. That >tr will say is nothing unusual, nor it iu our cars. If; however, you ill look a little more elosely you ust notice that if some of the Iaaies. luppose we must call them by that imo. would move along a little there aula be seats for at least three more. , it... Mni t 1 -1 1 It -r wmv^ iuvtoi iivfc ujr a iuiiu ouuv, id the elderly gentleman stopped a oment to wine off some big drops that A trickled aown his back l'rom the ojecting roof. "Tho manners of the erage New York er Brooklyn woan, but more especially those of the rmer, are disgusting," he continued, tnd ihey are responsible to a large tent for the impoliteness shoyrn em by the men. Now in Boston you ill novor see a lady standing in a car, hile a gentleman is sitting. Why! rell. in the first place, there is much ore politeness practiced in that city beans and culture; men are not so irdened there as tnoy are in our rger cities, nor is the population so smopolitan. We are suffering in a eat measure from the lack of good anners due to the groat preponderice in our midst of foreign elements, oreover, in Boston conductors are nstantly upon tho outlook for the mfort of their passengers. If there a chance to mako more room they ill do it. 1 have only seen one or to instances of this supervision on o part of our conductors. Even in licago tho better class of foreigners id the native Americans will almost variably give up their seats to dies." "What made me mad, the other ij," chimed in another passenger, ho had listened to the conversation lietly up to this point, "was this: I as on a Brooklyn car and it was raing even harder than it is now. The ,r was jaramca ana many 01 me pasngers were women, young and old, any of them evidently being shop rla. for it was the hour of the close labor in the stores. A delioate lookg girl, who seemed very weary, was an ding at some little distance from e, ana I tried to attract her attention . order to give her my seat. I could H catch ner eye, 60 I finally aroso id reached over to touchjicr. I had > sooner loft my seat than a spindle oking dude, with a cape coat on. ippea into it. Was I mad? Was It rell. I should say I was, but what rula I dot I nato a fuss, so I quietly ipped out on to the platform and let y mad cool off. I'd have given a n to have punohed that dude s hood, lough, if I d have had him in a more eluded place." "That's it," said the elderly gentlean as he stepped nimbly to the edge ' the platform preparatory to iumpg off. "Well, they're all bad tough. heaven knows. Good night," id with a quick iump he disappeared l the darkness. ?Brooklyn Eagle. The Bllndman'i Dog. The street lamp on the corner of roadway and Twenty-ninth street is ie nightly business stand of a blind an and a dog. I watched them last ght, having becomo interested in em through the stories that had mo to mo ~of the dog's intelligence, beard the man ask the time of a gensman who stopped to drop something , the box. He was tola it was 10 clock. The gentleman walked on id the man called out to the dog: Dome, Tom, it's 10, and time for i to go home." The little dog itherea himself together, hold up the >x to the man, waited until ho took e money out and put it in his pocket, ittoned liis old- coat, and then stood i the curb and examined the cars uiing along. Finally a green one imo in sight and the dog drow the an out into the mud and stood until came along. The driver ovidently lew them, for when ho came to hero they stood he pulled up and oy got in. I was assured that it was regular thing, and that the dog has remarkable faculty for faces. It is id that he even knows tlio people ho give alms to tho old follow, and ivor foils to greet them with a demlstration of pleasure.?New York ar. Counting tho Mote*. Counting the dancing motes in a ir of sunlight sounds like one of ose hopeless, never onding tasks ui, * * i?u nuivu UiWlKUIUlt lOirlVB UDiigUI break the spirit of little heroines in e German folk stories. Something ore than this, however, has been thieved by modern science, which is >w able to count the particles floats g in any given portion of the atosphore ana determine what proporm of these arc dangerous germs and hat are mere dust Dr. Frankland'i irious experiments have shown ui rw to count the mioro-organisms, id now John Aitken, of Falkirk, by totally different method, has been labled to take stock of the more innloss but hardly less interestig dust motes. Thirty thousand tch particles have been detected by im in the thousandth of a cubic inch ' the air of a room. In the outside mosnhero in drv weaOiAr tV>? ?nm? eaauromcnt of air yielded 2,110, hereos, after a heavy rainfall, the iimbor was only 521. That this )wer of prying into atmospheric creta will eventually yield very im>rtant results must be obvious to all. mong the most eurious discoveries ready made is the direct relation bereen dust partioles and fogs, mist id rain.?-London Daily New Iho main strength of American ought iron is 45,900 poundsi Engh. 43.741. ' I I ? Wfc? .. I n -J+ Controller Mormn'a Combinative. Controller Moran is a mathematician no small attainments in that branch abstract thought, and ho can juggle ith flfrilpou it-i iliai* ?v? lions and combinations, after the ost approved style. His attention as not long since attracted to a date last November which Included four les and four eights, vis: ll-18th-1888. iriosity led him to expand the dooine of possibilities involved in this id combination, and be lias demon* rated that a similar combination can>t occur again till tbo remote geo> "Did n't Know't was fl Loaded" May do for a stupid boy's excuse ; but I I what oaa bo said tor the parent who HI sees his child languishing daily and fails JH to recognise the want of a tonic and ^H biood-purifler? Formerly, a course of V bitters, or sulphur and molasses, was the il rule In well-regulated families; but now jfl all intelligent households keep Xyer?s Barsaparllla, which is at once pleasant ! .. to the taste, and the most searching and effective blood medicine ever discovered* n Nathan 8. Cleveland, 27 E. Canton st^ | jowwui writes ; my uaugnter, now IB * ' y??r- old, wm in perfect health until a 1 year ago when she began to complain ol I . fatigue, headache, debility, dizziness, indigestion, and loss of appetite. I concluded that all her complaints originated in Impure blood, and induced her to take Ayers Barsaparilla. This medicine soon restored her blood-making organs to healthy action, and in due time reestablished her former health. I And Ayer's Barsaparilla a most valuable remedy for the lassitude and debility incident to < spring time." J. Castright, Brooklyn Power Co., , Brooklyn, N. Y., says: "As a Spring Medicine, I find a splendid substitute for the old-time compounds in Ayer's Barsaparilla, with a few doses of Ayer's -> Pills. After their use, I feel fresher and stronger to go through tlio summer." Ayer's Sarsaparilla, PBBPARBD BT Or. J.*C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mess. Fries $1; six bottles, Worth gt a bottle. PIEDMONT AIR LlNTT"] RICHMOND ft DANVILLE J RAILROAD. OREENVILLE & COLOMBIA DIVISION A CONDENSED 8CIIEDULE In effect December 16, 1888. qn (Trains run on 76th Meridian time.) I NORTHBOUND No. 64. No. 61. I Leave Cha'slon 7 00*. m. Leave Columbia... f 10 '26 a. m. I Arrive Alston u 11 22 a. m. A care Alston 11 25 p. m. Arrive Union 1 25 p. in. 4 25 Arrive Spartanburg. 2 50 p. m. 6 45 p. m. Tryon - * ? " Saluda . " Flat Koek " Hendersonville? -'.i* ** Asheville.. 7 00 p. m. ? ; Hot Springe Pomaria 11 50 a. m. ir^rive Proeperlty... 12 22 p. m. ^ " Newberry..? 12 89 p. m. " Laurens " Ninety-Six... 1 45 p. in. " Greenwood?, 2 30 p. m. f Greenville?, 5 20 p m " Abbeville 4 00 p. m. " Anderson 4 40 p. m. " Seneoa ? 6 00 p.m. " Walhalla 7 00 p.m. 1% . Atlanta 10 40 p.m. 80UTHB0UND, No 65 No. 60 Laava Walhalla f8 00 a. m. " Seneoa 8 80 a. m. ? Anderson. .... 9 41 a. m. " Abbeville 10 50 a. m. f " Greenville...- 9 80 a. m. < ? Greenwood... 12 28 p.m. "u -J* " Ninety Six.... 1 12 p. m. .'- "'M " Laurens I " Newberry- 2 82 p. m. ' Prosperity..? 2 62 p. m. > Arrive Alston - 8 80 p. m. Leave Hot Springs. * 0 50 a m Leave Asheville 8 25 a. m Hendersonville " Flat Rock..-. " Saluda <i m ? irjvo | " Spartanburg.. fll 55 a. m. " Union 1 40 p. m. , 9 45 a m Arrive Alston 8 80 p. m " Columbia 4 40 p.m. " Augusta....... 9 05 p. m. ; -5 " Charleston via 8. Daily. f Daily except Suuday Through Car Service. Main Lino Trains Nos. 54 and 55 dally between Columbia and Alston, and daily except Sunday between Alston and Greeor ville. 1 Through passenger coach between Cha'stoc and Morristown, via B. C. Railway, Columbia t and Spartanburg. 4 , \ Tickets on sale at principal stations to all* > points. i On train No. 50 and 51 Pullman sleeper heween Charleston and Hot Springn, N. C., via A. C. L., Columbia aud Spartanburg. Jas. . Taylor D. Cardwell Sol. Una Att't Qen'l Qen. Patt. Ag't. Pa?$. Agent. Traffic Columbia, 8 P ger. 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