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Every Inch A Men. She sat on the porch in the sunshine i. As I went down the street— A woman whose hair was silver. But whose face was a blossom sweet, Making me think of a garden, I When in spite of the frost and snow Of bleak November weather, Late, fragrant lilies blow. I heard a footstep behind m*. And the sound of a merry laugh. And I knew the heart it came from Would be like a comforting staff In the time and the hour of trouble, Hopeful and brave and strong— One of the hearts to lean on, When we think all things go wrong. I turned at the click of the gate latch, And met his manly look; A face like this gives me pleasure, Like the page of'T. pleasant book. It told of a steadfast purpose, Of a brave and daring will; A face with a premise in it That God grant tae years fulfill He went up the pathway singing; I saw the woman’s eyes Grow bright iHth a worldless welcome, As sunshine warms the skies. “Back again, sweetheart mother,” He cried, and bent to kiss The loving face that was lifted For what some mothers miss. That boy will do to depend on; I hold that this is true— From lads in love with their mothers Our bravest heroes grew. Earth's grandest hearts have been hearts, Since time and earth began; And the boy who kisses his mother Is every inch a man. loving GUTS NURSE. BY HELEN FORKEST GRAVES. “Hush, Dorcasl Is that rain? It founds as if some genii were dashing buckets full of water against the case ments. ” “It’s rain, Guy. The equinoctial Btorm, you know.” “And that dreary moaning down the chimney—is it wind?” “Yes, Guy, it’s wind.” The boy shivered a little, and drew the bedclothes up around his chin. The redl flames from the blazing log on the hearth danced up and down like a magic-lantern, the shaded lamp burned steadily on the table. Dorcas Wynter stitched quietly away at her sewing without looking up. ‘ Tt must be an awful tempest, Dor cas, ” utter the lad, as a fresh gust of Wtind seemed to shake the old octagonal to|wer to its very foundations. ’ “It is, Guy. I heard old 9 ike say that the* tide had not gh since the year the Royal was wrecked off Paine Point.” “It’s better to be here, even Captain been so Victoria leg,” said Guy Paley, with a slightly b'j o^ebrows, “than out at sea in Ijor < as tl g^^Plcal better, Guy.” “Not^Kt I am a coward, Dorcas!” cried the uoy. “There are worse things than a storm at sea. And I have an in stinct that I shall be a sailor yet. But this sickness has taught me—this sick ness and you, Dorcas—that it’s better to "O for a thing in an honest, straight forward way than to try to reach it by sneaking. But I always supposed it was a fine thing to run away to sea, or else I shouldn’t have tried the get-out-of-the- Window- by- m idn ight dodge, and broken my leg. I’m wiser now.” Dorcas smiled at him with melting hazel eyes and rcse-red lips, revealing a line of pearls. “Poor Guy!” said she. “It was a hard lesson, wasn’t it?” “I think I needed it, Dorcas. If ever there was a thoroughpaced young ruf fian, it was I!” groaned the boy. “But, you see, nobody ever talked to me. Ecolding without end I got, I grant you, but no one talked common sense to me before. You are the only one who seemed to think mo worth reasoning with; and you shall see, Dorcas, that I’m worth the trouble. Once I’m up from this scrape, I’ll tackle my lessons in real earnest and try to be something better. And I say, Dorcas—” “Yes, Guy?” “You’re the prettiest girl I ever saw!” “Nonsense, Guy!” “Oh, but your arc—and the sweetest and the most sensible! I can’t think how you ever came to be housemaid in a pljce like this.” Dorcas colored a little. “Shall I tell you, Guy? I came as governess to the primary department, but I had no discipline, they told me. The younger boys did exactly as they pleased. I’ve always thought that Mrs. Vail, who succeeded to the position, had something to do with the bad reports of my management that reached Doctor Delfer’s ears. But that can’t be proved; neither can it be h^ped. I was alone here and friendlessJQand I was glad to accept a vacant position under the house- keeper, to mend liuen, care for the oc casional cases in the infirmary, and make myself generally usuful.” “I knew you were a lady!” exultantly cried the boy. “I could see it in your face.” “I would rather you would call me a rue woman, Guy, than a lady,” said Dorcas, moving the lamp a few inches further back, so that the light should not shine in Guy’s eyes. | “But I say, Dorcas, how old are you?” “Rather young, I am afraid, Guy— lonly nineteen.” ‘ ‘And I am fourteen, Dorcas. Will you wait seven years for me?” “Guy!” J^be twenty-one then, and my jgd the boy, “and I’ll ■'f a eood crofea- sion, and if you’ll marry me, Dorcas, I’11 make the best husband that ever was to you, for I’m desperately in love with you, that I ami” Dorcas burst out into laughter. “Guy,” she said, “what a child you are!” “But you do love me, don’t you? ’ ‘ ‘Yes, of course I love you, but not a bit more than I do Cecil Parker or little Frankie Gaines.” “Dorcas!” “Well, a trifle more perhaps, because F ve had the care of you these four weeks, and you’ve really behaved very decently, but—” “Promise me, Dorcas!” “I won’t, Guy!” “We’re engaged, all the same,” said Guy, with a deep sigh of relief. “It is a bargain. And now you may get me my bowl of gruel.” “Yes, Mr. Paley,” said Doctor Del- fer, with a nod of his spectacled brows, “that wild boy of yours is a different creature. And the infirmary nurse has done it all. Not to mention the credit that the doctor gives her for keeping down the fever and managing the troublesome splints. He was the worst boy in the school. I don’t mind admit ting to you now, that I was seriously contemplating expelling him from our members.” “Guy always was a wild sort of chap,” admitted Mr. Paley. “But his aunts spoiled him. He never had any bring ing up to speak of.” “But this illness seems to have ex erted a wonderful influence over his moral nature,*’ added Doctor Delfer. “And I really think Dorcas has done it all. Her influence has been wonderful.” “She deserves a great deal of credit, I am sure,” said Mr. Paley. “I should like to see her and thank her. I ve brought a few presents for her—a warm shawl, a silver snuff-box and a black stuff gown—” Doctor Delfer gasped a little. “She—I don’t think she takes snuff!” said he, feebly. “All these nurses do.” “Yes—but—there she is now!” The door opened and Dorcas Wynter came in, carrying a student-lamp, which she had just filled and trimmed anew. Mr. Paley. dropped the silver snuff box in astonishment. “I beg your pardon, I am sure!” stam mered he. And when the doctor suggested that the nurse had better accompany young Guy on the journey home, he assented without a remonstrance. “Nurse, indeed!” said Miss Sophro- nia Paley, a gaunt, high-featured dam sel of fifty. “As if a pretty, simper ing chit of a thing like that could un- —derstafid fflijthiHff-aboutewfuiug'r* - - “She does, though,” said Guy. “She’s* a brick, Aunt Soph. And I don’t be lieve I should have been alive now, if it wasn’t for her.” “You are quite well enough by this time to dispense with her services,” said Miss Sophronia. “A boy that eats the quantity of muffins and plumjam that you did at tea, last night, cannot call himself an invalid any longer. She has been here a menth, and—” ‘ ‘But she’s not to go away for all that, Aunt Soph,” said Guy, who was devouring roasted chestnuts like a dragon. “Ask papa. She’s to be Mrs. Paley one of these days, and—” “Mrs. Paley!” Aunt Sophronia turned green and yellow. “It’s come to that, then, has it? Well, I’ve suspected it this some time. And all I’ve got to say is—” “Seven years from now,” said Guy, with his mouth full of chestnuts, “I shall be twenty-one and she twenty-six. Not enough difference to signify. And,” he^ uttered, with a • grin, as his aunt flounced wrathfully out of the room, “you’ll get your walking-tickets, old lady, when I’m married! I’d as soon have a death’s head and bones around the place any time.” He was sitting curled up in the easiest chair in the library, reading a book, half an hour afterward, when the door opened and his father came in. Something in the paternal glance and movement struck the boy. “I never saw father look so young and bright before,” he thought. “Some thing must have pleased him very much. Perhaps Aunt Soph is going to marry some old fogy or other, and the coast will be clear.” “So you knew all about it, Guy?* said Mr. Paley, laughingly. “About what, sir?” “About my engagement. ” The book fell with a crash to the floor. “Your—what, father?” “At least you told Aunt Sophronia about it. Well, I’m glad you are pleased, my boy. And Dorcas says she shall always love you as if you were her own son. As a general thing, I don’t approve of stepmothers, but you and Dorcas love each other so dearly, that— Why, Guy, what is the matter?” For the boy had rushed out of the room with an odd, suffocating sensation in his throat. He met Dorcas coming in from the garden, with a bunch of scarlet holly-ber ries in her hand. “Dorcas!’’ he cried—“Dorcas, you are as false as the serpent-woman! You beau—” She comprehended him in an instant, though his voice was choked into si- ’ leuce. She flung away the scarlet cluster and put her arms tenderly about him. “Dear Guy,” she whispered, “I love him; but if vou are unwillini?—if it takes away any of the home feeling for you—it only remains for you to say so, and—” Her voice died away, her head drooped on his shoulder. There was an instant’s silence, and then Guy said, bravely: “Well, so let it be. My father is a trump, and you are the only woman alive who is worthy of him. And I sup pose people would say six years was too much difference in our ages, although, how they’re to get over the fifteen yean between you and father I don’t know,” he addel, with rather a forced laugh. And then and there Guy Paley learn ed his first lesson in self-abnegation. Dorcas picked up her holly-berries and went to the library, where her prom* ised husband stood. “I have just seen Guy,” she said. “Isn’t he pleased?’’ “Yes, I think he is,” hesitated Dorcas. “Guy is a strange boy—a noble nature. I am not sure, Horace,” she added, with a dimness in her eyes, “that I would have marri you if I could not always have had Guy with me. “And my true wife will be Guy’s true mother!’’ said Mr. Paley, drawing Dorcas tenderly to his side.—Saturday Night. The Brahmin or Zebn Cattle. This is a remarkable breed of cattle originating in India. They have great powers of endurance, are active, will outravel a horse under a saddle as used in India, make good beef and make an excellent cross for the cattle of the south. Mr. Albert Montgomery, son of Colonel W. B. Montgomery, of Starkville, Miss., now 1 ive stock merchant at the New Orleans stock landing, some years since imported a zebu bull from India. We saw him in New Orleans at the great exposition. He placed this bull on hia stock ranch in Texas and finds that th« cross with ranch cows is highly satisfae tory. His partner, Mr. Frost, writing to Mr.Curtis, says: “I defy any man to name the time when he ever saw a tick on the pure oi half breed Brahmins; or a worm from the blow-fly (screw worms, troublesome to ranch cattle in wet seasons). Further than this I defy any man to say that he ever saw any of them to die from a se vere winter. They are the grandest cattle that exist for southern climates.” We have not room for the other breeds of cattle described in Mr. Curtis’ book, and have been able to make but slight references to those we have noticed.— Picayune. A CHILtfMAN. Extraordinary Discovery by a Doctor in Kansas. One of the Most Remarkable of Human Monstrosities. Great Rain Storms, investigation of 106 cases of ranging from ni to^ twelve In an rainfall, ptiches in eight hours, Professor E. Loomis has found the area of one inch rainfall to have extended at least 500 miles in length in ten cases, and to have exceeded 700 miles in three cases; while the entire rain area was frequently an oval figure exceeding 1000 miles in length by 500 miles in breadth. Con cerning these heavy rains the following facts seem well established: First, no great barometric depression with steep gradients ever occurs without considera ble rain. This is true not only for the United States, but also for the cyclones of the West Indies, the China Sell; India and the Bay of Bengal. Second—In great rain-storms the barometric pressure generally diminishes, while the rainfall increases. Third—The greatest depres sion of the barometer generally occurs about twelve hours after the greatest rainfall. Fourth—A great fall of raiq is favorable to a rapid progress of th< centre of least pressure, while 4 small rainfall is generally attendeq by a less rapid progress. It is; however, plain that the rate of progres? of a low centre depends partly upot other causes than amount of rainfall.— Trenton {N. J) American. Keep Your Eyesight. Dr. F. Park Lewis spoke recently, says the Buffalo Courier, upon weak eyes and near-sighted people. Ha stated that while people with near sighted eyes might show no loss of sight for years, still near-sighted eyes should be treated with care. The best light for the eyes was sunlight. A good light must be strong, white and steady. The heat of artificial light was then con sidered. Sunlight has the least heat rayselectric light came next; kerosene and gas were last and so the worst for the eyes. He closed by stating that in reading the back should be to the light, the eyes should be shaded and never be used when tired. One should not read with an uncertain light nor on the cars. The Smallest Screws Made. It is asserted that the smallest screws in the world are those used in the pro duction of watches. Thus the fourth jewel wheel screw is the next thing to being invisible, and to the naked eye it looks like dust. With a glass, however, it is seen to be a small screw, with 260 threads to the inch, and with a very fine glass the threads may be seen quite clearly. These minute screws are 4-1000 of an inch in diameter and the heads are double. It is also estimated that an or dinary lady’s thimble would hold 100,- 000 of these screws. is No Shamming There. Bagley: 4 T understand your wife sick.” Bailey: “Yes, she hasn’t spoke a word for three days.” Bagley: “By gracious! She must be a pretty sick woman!” There has just been-diacovered in the south part of this (Dickinson) county, writes a Kansas correspondent of the dole-Democrat, one of the most remark able monstrosities of-thf^hjjman family ever known to exist in this section. It is a child-man, or rather a child’s body with a man’s head. A few days ago a prominent physician was making a call on the family in which the monstrosity lives, and while talking with his patient he noticed an object in a cradle at the opposite end of the roomf It was care fully covered up, but he thought he perceived a beard showing from be neath the covering. He could get no opportunity for a more careful examina tion at the time, but in order to investi gate further, informed his patient that other calls would be necessary. Upon a subsequent visit he managed to be left alone in the room with the cradle and its mysterious occupant. Hastily pull ing off the covering jfhere was dis covered a sight which made his heart cease for the moment to beat. It was nothing less than n man’s head joined to an infant’s body. The large eyes blinked at him, and the lips, bearded and mustached, made inarticu late sounds, but no gleam of recogni tion or intelligence was observable in the being’s face. Determined to inves tigate the matter more fully, the physi cian called the man and woman of the house, and demanded an explanation of the sight which had met his gaze. At first they were angry that he had pried into the secret that they had guarded so well, but at last, seeing that further concealment was impossible, they made a-clean breast of the affair and told the following story: Nearly thirty years ago a man named Reed moved into Kansas from Illinois. His family consisted of himself, wife and one daughter. The latter was about seventeen years old, a n d rather good- looking. They settled near the junc tion of the Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers, in the vicinity oL. what is now Junction City, and the * daughter mar ried a trapper. Her first child was a boy, and she died in giving it birth. An older sister had come on from the East by this time, and she took the mother less little one into her family. Its father was killed duriig ,the border troubles, and she practicajly adopted the orphan. The child grqw and thrive! hOrffially until it wa3 J ’Urbout four years and six months old, when it seemed to cease developing. Soon it was noticed that development had not been arrested in all parts of the body. The head kept on growing as if it belonged to the sturdiest child in the State. Year after year this strange growth went on, and still there was no change in the infantile body or limbs, though the head continued its growth. The sister and her husband moved into Dickinson County, where they have since resided, and took the child with them. The grandparents are dead and the monstrosity has reached the age of twenty-nine years. Its head is as large as that of an average-sized man, and is crowned with a heavy growth of coarse brown hair. Heavy beard and mustache are on its face, and lines of maturity show upon the cheeks and forehead. The body remains, from the neck dowm, that of a four-year-old child. The child, or man, cannot sit up as the monstrous head is too heavy for the muscles of the trunk to lift. It lies in the cradle helpless, and watches with a brute-like gaze the doings of those around. The mind is somewhat in advance of that of an infant, but is still practically inactive. No speech or general intelli gence has been involved from the strange being. It must be fed from an attend ant’s hand, and though its teeth are well developed, its stomach can digest noth ing but the simplest foods. The tiny hands and limbs are as soft-fleshed as the veriest babe’s, while, the face and head have the harsher feeling of maturi ty. There seems no reason in the mind of the physician who made the strange discovery why the monstrosity should not live to the age of three-score years and ten, though it would seem to be a blessing to the world to take its life from it. The imagination can easily picture what it will be when gray hair has settled on the head and beard while the body remains that of a babe. The family, ashanud of the pos session of such a monstrosity, has re- ligiouslv hidden this skeleton in their closet from the world, and few know of its existence. It is only by accident that it was this time discovered. The doctor’s story has led several prominent citizens to take a trip to the farm house to see the remarkable freak, and all unite in calling it the most wonutrful being they ever witnessed. None, how ever, wdsh to make a second trip, as one look at the strange creature is enough to sadden their hearts and give them some thing to dream about for months. Hereford Cattle. That the Herefords are a distinctly pure race of English cattle, and of great antiquity, is undoubtedly true, but it is as probably true that they are allied to the Devons. The origin of both these breeds is difficult to trace, and they have valuable qualities in common. Both are wonderfully prepotent when crossed on other cattle. If the cross is by a Here ford bull, the red body and white face are apt to follow; and if the cross be on a pure Hereford cow, the color usually follows the dam. The Herefords are hardy and prolific, mature early, and are considered the best grazing cattle in England. They have no superiors in the United States, and of late years the bulls have been extensively used as sires on the great cattle ranches of the West. They do not come in the category of milking cattle, though many of them are good milking cows. In England the young cattle are largely bought by farmers at the fairs for feeding, and no breed has risen faster into public favor, as beef-makers, in this country. In England Herefords, at the Smithfield shows, at 22 months old have weighed 1480 pounds; at 23$ months, second- prize steers have weighed 1568 pounds; under three years (2 years, 7^ months), 1804 pounds; at three years and four months, weights came to 2074 pounds. A cow 11 years and four months of age weighed 2324 pounds.—Prairie Farmer. A Hot-Bed of Crime. Torture by starvation seems to be legal in Minsk jail in Russia. Eight peasants arc lying there accused of the murder of the chief forester on Prince Radziarll’s estate of Dabidgraski, who three months ago was found hanging in a solitary part of the forest. It was evi dent that he had been lynched for his unceasing tyranny over the peasants. Eight men were arrested on suspicion, and it has just come to light that during their detention they have been deprived of food, sometimes for three days to gether. In spite of these atrocious measures not one of the prisoners has confessed. Minsk, by the way (ancient province of Lithuania), seems to be a hot-bed of crime in Central Europe. To mention all the cases of brigandage, arson, murder, mysterious disappearances and public lynchings which are reported each week would take a whole news paper. Swindles and forgeries are too common to be even noticed by the au thorities, and nine-tenths of the Jew population are either convicted or sus pected fences. Domestic servants are being almost entirely dispensed with, as in very many recent cases they have been found to be in league with the brigands. These facts are strenuously suppressed by the press-censure office.— Timte - Difnocrdt: The Nebraska Homesteader. I met the professional homesteader to day in Sioux County, the extreme north west county of Nebraska. He stood by a prairie schooner out of which came a stove-pipe." Behind was a cow and calf and two dogs. t “"Where is your home?” I asked. “H’nt got no house,” he said, as he kicked one of the dogs and took a chew of tobacco. . “Where do you live?” “Whered’ I live!” he exclaimed, in dignantly. “I don’t have to live anywhere. I’m marchin’ ahed of civ’lization, sir. I’m homesteadin’.” “Well, where do you sleep?” “Sleep? I sleep over on the govern ment land, drink out of the North Platte, eat jack rabbits and raw wolf. But it’s gettin’ too thickly settled round here for me. I saw a land agent from Buffalo Gap today, and they say a whole family is cornin’ up the North Platte fifty miles below here. It’s getting too crowded for me here, stranger. I leave for the Powder River country tomorrow. I can’t stand the rush!”—Omaha Bee. Listening. Little stars with g Olden feet, Wandering in the realms of light, . Softly move nor wake the earth Slumbering in the lap of night. Silent stand the listening trees, Every leaflet now an ear, While the dreaming mountain sends His deep, solemn shadow here, Flowers of beauty, rich and rare. Breathe their fragrance on the air. Hark! What music do I bear Floating on the air so sweet? Is’t the nightingale that sings, Plaintive in her lone retreat? No, ’tis she whom I adore, Singing of her hope and love, While the stars with golden feet Wander pensive, far above, And all nature seems, like me, Filled with wondrous ecstasy. —Washington Star. HUMOROUS. A brilliant essay would hardly be con sidered light reading. Questions of the hour invariably per tain to matters of some moment. He: Jenny, you are a brick. She (between gasps): Yes, a pressed brick. It is one of the paradoxes of life that the more a wife keeps her husband in hot water the colder he grows toward her. The Italians may be a light-hearted enough people in their own country, but here it is common to find them in the dumps. Indians, as a rule, have very small and shapely feet. Our youngest boy, how ever, says that “The Last of the Mohi cans” is simply immense. “At what age were youmarriei?” she asked inquisitively. But the other lady was equal to the emergency and quietly responded “At the parsonage.” Mrs. Parvenu—* ‘What. do you think of our statue of Yen us?” Miss Waldo— “I must confess that the face seems to mo rather hard.” Mrs. Parvenu— “Perhaps you forget that it is done in marble. ” A widow was summoned to her door to receive a splendid turkey. “Who sent it? ’ asked the lady. “I was tould not to lisp,” replied the Hibernian. “Ah, I can guess, ” responded the lady. “Be- dad, that’s just what I told Deacon Grant.” Ardent Suitor (to Kansas young wo man)—“Miss Gracie; may I hope that’’— Miss Gracie (candidate for alderman)— “Mr. Chug water, before proceeding any further will you please tell me how many votes you can control in the second ward?” Servant (to widow only recently be reaved)— “There is an old-clothesman at the door, mum, what wants to know have you-^got aoy omt-aS gMSweute ia- TEMPERANCE. SEVEN STAGES OF DRUNKENNESS. All the world’s a bar, His acts being seven t At first the 1 and steadfast in his good resolves; ion the wine and bitters, appetiser. And pining, yearning look, leaving like m The comfortable bar. And then the arg» meats, Trying like Hercules with a wrathful -front age. To refuse just one more gin cocktaiL Thee the mystified, Foil of strange thoughts, unheeding good ad> vice. Careless of honor, sodden, thick and guttural, Seeking the troubled repetition Even in the bottle's month; and then quits In fair°good humor while the world, jswima round. W ith eyeballs misty, while his friends him cat, Full of nice oaths and awful bickerings; And so he plays his pari The sixth age shifts Into stupid, slipping dranken man \ With “blossoms’’ on his nose and bleary-eyed. His shrunken face unshaven, from side to side He rolls along; and his unmanly voice, Huskier than ever, falls and flies And leaves him—staggering round. Loot scene of all. That ends this true and painful history. Is stupid childishness, and then oblivion— sans chain, sans coin, sansevery- Sans watch, tiling. —Washington Critic. DEATH TO THE BODY. “Alcohol is death to the body. The man who drinks it renders himself susceptible to disease, and particularly to diseases that pre vail in epidemic forms. When yellow fever or cholera appear drinkers are the first to be attacked. In the last yellow fever epidemic in Jacksonville, Fla., the physicians reported’ that hard drinkers were the first to fall Be sides rendering its victims susceptible to disease alcohol lessens the power to resist the ravages of disease when once the attack ha* occurred. The drinker that is attacked by any acute form of disease is likely to speedily' succumb. ' eased ] CUBE OF nnEBBXETY. Dr. Elliott, in a recent lecture at Toronto, e ves the four principal conditions that i observed for the treatment of inebriate* inebriates to be successful. The first is abstinence; thia must be absolute, and on no plea whatever^ fashion, of physic or religion, ought tk> smallest quantity of an intoxicant to be put: to the lips of the alcoholic slave. The second: condition is to acertain the predisposing ■twli exciting causes of inebriety and to endeavor! to remove these causes, which Vay lie ini some remote or deep-seated phy sictE ailment. The third condition is to restore the physical and mental tone, and the fourth condition is, employment; let the mind of the patient b* kept occupied by attention to regular work, and the task of reformation will be shorn at half its difficulty.—New York Commercial Advertiser. % sell?” Widow (with a burst of grief)— “Ah, no, Bridget, not now, not now! Tell him to call a few days later. ” Miss Westend (on Chestnut street)— “What a stylish young lady that is look ing into that jeweler’s window! I won der if she is a married woman?” Mr. Westend— 4 ‘There is a gentleman with her, and I judge from his nervous man ner and worried look when she admires some particularly expensive gem that he is her husband.” ONE VICTIM TO DRINK. “Alcohol is death to the soul. It slow: but surely destroys the moral faculties, renders conscience unfeeling, and its victim becomes capable of the most brntal acts without any sense of remorse. It destroys natural affection, and its .victim at length hates those he should love and cherish. It enthralls the will and makes its victim & slave. Let me give you a single instance. “The Hon. Thomas P. Marshall was one of Kentucky’s most gifted sons. His brilliant intellectual endowments and splendid ora torical gifts early attracted public attention, and were recognizedby bis election to the Lower House of tE& National Congress. But following the customs of the times he became addicted to the. use of strong drink. The habit grew upon him until he became alarmed at himself. January 7, 1842, he esfrtirmi too iftnfta-nua 1 ' a stater of hervoos excitement Governor special friend, ceiving ent, he there, in the _ Hfre 1 signed the pledge again in the presence of a large concourse of the citizens of Washing ton, where, on the same occasion,he delivered ceiving encouragement, he there, in presence of his fellow-members, signed total abstinence pledge. Soon after. Time Brings Wisdom. Jack JJorrowit (furiously)—To think of it! There’s Twitcheli, my friend of five years, refused me a paltry ten-dollar loan this morning. Lambrequin—Maybe that’s because he’s known you five years. Jack.—Life. Tasting Without a Tongne. There exists a mistaken notion that the tongue is the sole organ of taste, just as the idea, natural but erroneous, is ex tant that it is necessary for purposes of speech. As a matter of fact, taste is as largely resident in the palate as in the tongue, while numerous cases are on record in which persons who have suf fered the loss of the tongue have been able to speak with clearness. Recently a proof was given of the widespread na ture of the taste-sense in the mouth. In a patient from whom the tongue had been very completely removed, it was found that sensations of sweet, sour and bitter nature were still present. Curi ously, too, no sense of salt-taste re mained. These facts would almost seem to prove that various parts of tongue and palate are set apart for the appreciation of different “tastes.” This idea supports the fact that the tongue possesses on its surface papillae or taste organs of different shapes and sizes. It is consistent to assume that such varia tions in the ends of the nerves of taste imply variations in their functions.— Neu> York Telegram. How to Put It Out. Zinc, placed upon the fire in a stove or grate, is said to operate as an effective extinguisher of chimney fires. Accord ing to this representation, when a fire starts inside a chimney, from whatever cause, a piece of thin zinc, about four inches square, is to be put into the stove or grate connecting with the chimney. The zinc fuses and liberates aciduous fumes, which, passing up the flue, are said to almost instantly put out what ever fire there mav be. The Big California Trees. The California red-wood trees grow in a belt, starting just north of here, with in fifteen miles of the coast, and more than two from it. They need much moisture. About six miles from Santa Cruz is a remarkable cluster of them, called par excellence the big trees, though certainly most of the “ordinary’ red-woods would attract crowds of visitors in the east. But in this particu lar spot of the forest, among all the rest, about thirty trees of enormous size throw all their comrades into signifi cance. These trees are all of them more than 12 feet thick and 200 feet high. Ten of them are more than 15 feet thick and 250 feet high, and half a dozen, still more vast, are dignified by special names, such as the Giant, Gener al Grant, General Fremont, General Sherman, etc. The Giant is the largest of all, though barely so, and is 21 feet thick, 60 feet around and more than 300 high. Their apparent height was to me a trifle disappointing. Situated as they are, in the midst of a tall forest, we could not get far enough away tc appreciate their elevation above the sur rounding summits. But when you see a trunk that takes you twenty long paces to circle, and thirteen men joining finger tips to surround, you realize that it is of enormous size. — Worcester Spy. Growth of Maples. There is a popular notion that soft maples grow much more rapidly than those of the sugar-bearing kind called hard or rock maple. The soft mapk naturally grows on low, rich, marshy ground, which may cause its greater luxuriance in such conditions. "Where both have been transplanted on high ground there is little difference in growth. The hard maple is a few days later in putting forth leaves in spring, but otherwise is just as desirable as the other, and for sugar-making is much more so.—Courier-Journal. tives on the importance of total abstinence and the danger of the drink habit. “The May following he came to this city to deliver an address before the American Tem perance Union, which he did in the Broad way Tabernacle. The following evening he spoke with great power in the old Greene Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of which the venerable and lamented Dr. Bangs was the pastor. Fen' some time he engaged earn estly in the temperance reform movement, id a and seemed to be emancipated from his for mer bondage. But the enemy was only chained for the time, awaiting bis opportun ity. That opportunity came. Mr. Marshall became involved in a difficulty with J. Wat son Webb, which resulted in a dud in which the former received a slight wound. This was the opportunity which his old enemy had been awaiting, and he was not slow to take advantage of it. Marshall was induced to <h but i enemy 1 possession of his victim and bound him for the burning. In 1850, after leading the Ufa of a vagrant for a long period, Marshall was found upon the streets of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., a filthy, homeless vagabond. A former friend tried to save him, but all in vain. He rallied for a few days, and remained sober long enough to deliver an address on the 4th of July of the year named, in which he mani fested some of the brilliance and eloquence of his best days, but he r rturned to the South and to his debauchery, and soon thereafter ha filled a drunkard’s grave. How few com paratively that have been once enthralled by alcohol recover their freedom and maintain it to the end of life!—New York Voice. A Perfect Automaton. “This automatic dude is a great suc cess.” “I don't agree with you. It has been wound up, but it don’t go.” “I know that, my dear; that’s why it is such a great success. Did you ever see a real dude that would work?”— Tttuurr. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The arrests for intoxication in New York city averaged over 1000 a week last year. A saloon keeper in the New York Legisla ture gives his vocation as an “undertaker.” Two thousand girls were in training last year in the kitchen gardens of the W. C. T. U. Bulgaria has ten temperance societies, four of which are operated by men and six by women. An Inter-State W. C. T. U. Conference will be held at Mountain Lake Park, Mary land, from July 17 to 20. There are said to be forty vegetarian restaurants in London, some of which serve over a thousand dinners per day and no al cohol is provided. Mr. Powderly states that in one Pennsylva nia county, in a single year, $17,000,000 were spent for liquor, and it was estimated that 811,000,000 of the amount came from work ingmen. The Loyal Temperance Legion of Mil waukee, Wis., began work about a yea with fourteen children picked up iroj street. It now has a membership oy hundred. The temperance question was ably pre sented before the Delaware Sunday-school Convention held in Wilmington last month. The fact that the saloon as well as the Sun day-school is after the youth of our land was forcibly emphasized. A record of 100 times arrested was left by a New Haven man. who died insane. His ar rests were chieflyfor drunkenness, and it wa» through his excesses that his mind gave way. It was one of bis tricks, when arrested, to throw his shoulder out of joint, and. then by frantic groans to solicit the sympathy of the officers m charge. He was about seventy years of age. The Des Moines Register says that Iowa la having great difficulty to get enough con victs to complete its contracts at the Fort Madison Penitentiary; that every year the number of prisoners is smaller, so that the convicts that would naturally belong in the Fort Madison territory do not begin to be enough to do the work contracted for, and that in consequence two-thirds of the State must be scoured for convicts to help out Fort Madison where all the shops are and where the contract labor is done. A chain of “dry towns” from Bristol, i Tenn., to Roanoke City, Va., a distance of • 150 miles, has been completed by a prohlbi-' tion triumph in Abingdon, Va. / IBS