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Thrre arc 22ft cottons mills in the South, consuming 255,000 bales of cotton. The English postofhcc 'loos all the express business in Great Britain, carries parcels at an average cost of eleven cents each, and make? a protit of $2,250,000 a year. It is announced that Secretary Blaiuc, in consultation with United States Minister Ryan,"lias arranged a comprehensive piau for the promotion of reciprocal trade between this country and Mexico. The latter Government will umjueslionably accept. Suicide as a risk to life decreases rapidly after the thirty-fifth year, and the very old take their own Jives as rareiy as the very young. Under ten and over seventy years of uge, suicide i6 extremely rare and rakes an insigriScnut place in the statistical tables. The American nation uses mo'c soap per capita than any other on the globe. Where the English uses four pounds per head we use tire and a half. No other nation uses over three pounds to our five. Italy uses least of all, and Russia beats her only by a few ounces. Cremation is coming more and more into vogue in Germany, iu spite of the expense ami certaiu legal difficulties which render its performance in some parts almost an impossibility. At Gotha no fewer than one hundred bodies have been cremated during the present year. The nickel-in-the-slot contrivance has been utilized for the sale of postage stamps. A machine has been inveuted which will produce a two-ccnt stamp when two pennies arc placed in the slot. There are also machines so contrived that a large number of stamps can be obtained when ten or fifty-cent pieces arc used. The inventor of the machine wants the Unuommon! tn firinnt it.. v*v. w J The number of persons employed last year in and about mines in the United Kingdom under the coal miues regulation act was 534,935, of whom 3035 were women working above ground. In these mines there were 821 fatal ncci^ 4 dents and 888 deaths, the number of accidents being nine less than in the preceding year, aud the number of deaths 107 less. Miss Mamie Isdell, ? dashing Missouri young woman of twenty-two years, has just been married to Jesse Fovel, of Calhoun County, III. Mr. Fovel, who is seventy-nine years of age, was compelled to give his bride 6100,000 in securities and money. Miss Isdell, who was educated in a convent, is a very beautiful girl. The groom has grandchildren older thau his new bride. A Hebrew colonization society numbering 500 members has been organized within the last two months in Pittsburg. The organization is known as the "Lovers of Zion," and its object is to colonize Palestine with American Hebrews. About 1SOO colonists have gone from this country already for this Durpose. This is the outgrowth of a movement begun in Europe several years ago among the Hebrews of the middle and lower classes to encourage emigration to Palestine to once more make Jerusalem the capital of the Orient. The leading Hebrews in this country, it is said, are opposed to the movement. - " Unlike most countries, China holds the ouicide in honor, and by her laws extends to him the most lenient consideration, having regard iu all cases to the motive which prompted self-slaughter. The motive is not unfrequcntly revenge, as the Chinese law requires the householder on whose premises the dead body is found not only to provide the funeral expenses, but to compensate the relatives of the deceased. As suicide is thus a means of rescuing one's relatives from poverty, it has been made in China a fine A curious dcvci ipment of it is the practice of offering one's self as a substitute for a person under sentence of death. This vicarious payment of legal penalties is, of course, much appreciated by rich criminals who arc enamored of life. Secretary Rusk, although not the first Secretary of Agriculture to sit in an American Cabinet, is the first to issue an annual report. The AN ashiugton Star asserts that ''it will attract general attention from the fact that it enters with some minuteness into subjects which show the real value to the country of such a department, conducted with skill at the executive end of the line and liberality at the Congressional end. It is ridiculous to claim that the usefulness of a piece of governmental machinery like this one ends with the collection of statistics and few general advisory functions. The Sec-rotary proposes to raise h>8 department from that level. He wants a national meat inspection law, for example, which shall enable public officers to locate the centre of any disease which breaks out among American cattle, and prevent tiic shipments of live and dead meats unfit for consumption. Another excellent recommendation is that the forestry interests of the Government be given more intelligent attention. As .hey arc now, there is absolutely no way i". which timber thefts ana forest fires :; be prevented; and the loss to the avernment Irorn these sources, as shown / Chief Fernow's figures on repeated occasions, is greater every year than the IN HOrK OF- SPRING. ! Above his rest deft autumn softly weaves I J A coverlet to wrap uie new grave in, J I And broiders it with gold and scarlet leaves, While spring's sweet mysteries of bloom , begin ( j Beneath the mold o'er which the sore heart . grieves For hopes that perished, like a flower in j frost? t A symbol that each passing season leaves, } To say, That is not dead which scomoth j lost. Cold, silent lips, which our warm lips have i' kissed. ' Dear hands, whose touch can never bo for- j ' gotten, | j Friendships that vanish like a summer mist. 1 We have j*ou, and. behold, wo have you i ' 1 tint | 5 I A lonesome shadow falls across the floor From each low grave they heap beneath the sod IVhere sleep the ones we miss; but evermore 1 We have them safe in Paradise, with God. ! 1 To me. it often seems that death must be I Like going on a journey, very far, Across the mountain and the solemn sea, , To dwell in a new land where strangers [ are. ' But if a friend is there we loved of old, Our eager thoughts fly faster than our j feet. And when in ours their loving hands we ; hold. The stranger-land seems full of welcome sweet. 1 How fair his grave will be when spring comes ' ( back, j And from the mold that hides his face I | awny, \ The violets grow, and every robin's track I j Is covered by the creeping things of May. ] flow fair his face will be when dreams come j ] tine. i ( And we stand face to face with him, and ! see ] The rapture of a joy we never knew Break in the eyes we miss so constantly. j Sleep well, warm heart, so brief a time on earth. j' Beneath the dead leaves and the autumn | rain: That which men count as death, in heaven j is birth; Flowers die, we say. but bloom in spring 1 again. 1 The violet, above you, in the mold. Awaits tne resurrection or rn<> year. And when its leaves, in April days, unfold, ' We'll say, "He lives with God, who once was with us here." ? Vick's Magazine. l! SHE DID HOT MEAN IT. j! "Marry you? Not on any considera- j' tion. Why, Mr.?I mean John, of course j not." ' Such was the disconnected reply, I which blue-eyed Nellie Loring gave to j Jclni Hart well's request that she would be his wife. He, looking gravely at her, answered. "But I am very rich and can surround you with every comfort. More than that, I can help your father out of his troubles and can put. your brothers in the way of getting a good start in life. More than that, and most of all, I tell you for the j hundredth time, Nellie, that I love ! you '' The girl grew pale, and, for a moment, seemed to falter. Then her lips became , set. and, returning his glance with one { no less steady than his own, she said: "You tempt mc sorely, John, but I must not yield." "Tell mc one thing," he pleaded. "Do you love me?" Her cheeks grew painfully red, then whiter than before. With a nervous grasp, she caught the gate by which j they stood, and trembled visibly as she j spoke in a tone scarcely above a whisper: . "No, I do not." He regarded her for a moment in ' amazed silence: then, lifting his hat, j turned away. He seemed as he did so to try | to say "good-bye." and she herself made j an ellort to speak n worcl of farewell;; hut the rising tears choked her utterance, and sadly and silently she walked up the garden path to the door of her home. Once within that friendly shelter, she hastened to her chamber, and. throwing herself across the bed, let the tears flow freely. "Love him?love him," she moaned.! "Oh, John, I would die to make you happy. Oh, why do things go so wrong?" And with weeping and self-reproaches she spent the long summer evening. Meanwhile John had gone to his hotel, paid his bill, and taken the first train to i the city. The story of the events which had led j up to the scene just described, was not a | long one. Nellie Loring was a farmer's daughter. ! i She was yet young, being scarcely twenty; j was pretty, piquant, and although quite j J lackiug in repose of manner, was a lova- | j bit* specimen of a country-bred girl. Her j I father was the owner of a tine farm; but ! recent losses had greatly embarrassed him. ! and he was not a little troubled about I Nellie's future and that of her two younger : J brothers, neither of whom were fitted, physically, for farm life. John Hart well was a young man of toll onrl lino lAALnnrr e/\mn. ! l-liuu-lltl, tuil <*1.1 VI l I VIV lUUllll.-, .UV- j what grave and dignified in manner, hut frank, manly and simple in his tastes and , habits. He was very wealthy, although : his style of living would not have led a casual observer to that conclusion. "While yet a lad, lie had been impressed with the poverty and misery of the great city j in which was his home, and was full of 1 plans to alleviate them. In pursuance of: these he hud come to the pretty village ' near which the Lorings lived, and having j met Nellie, had speedily lost his heart, j In the hope of winning her, he had pro- j longed his stay to a much greater length than he had intended. As for Nellie, she was at first awed by the grave and handsome young stranger; then had grown to feel a happy security j in his presence, and had ended by return- ; ing his affection with the whole strength j of her nature. Her native modesty I taught her to keep a watch upon her i tongue, and she had answered her lover's j protestations of esteem sometimes with j pleasant bantering, but oftener only by a > happy glance. "I will wait until he asks me to he his . wife,"' she would tell her heart, when ' its quick heating almost forced the ' words: "I love you!" trom her lips;! "and tell him then what he is to me." j It happened one day, as she sat in her favorite seat beside the river, that two j ladies from the city, who were standing r.afir, but not in sight, began to speak of her lover, and for the first time, she learned of his great wealth, his high position iu society, and his plans which were already the talk of the circle which he moved. j "And to think he will mar his future," laid one of them, "by marrying a com- t non farmer's daughter; for I believe ho 1 s in love with the little minx." "How his sisters will despise her, c vith her country-bred airs," replied the r )ther. "and how ridiculous she will op-1 >ear in the Hart well parlors." j I The first laughed as she answered; "I \ 1 eel half sorry for the little thing, for all ! 1 he people here seem to be in love with i ter. Yet he is certain to tire of her if 1 le marries her." 1 What a revelation it was to poor Nel- j s ie, who, until this moment, had never ; 1 reamed that such rocks and quicksands ! i ay in the course of true love. Jler first! i bought was that she had been foolish to J 1 masrine that her lover had been serious j 1 i-? ? in his professions. Her next was a re- I solve to refuse liirn, if he made an offer ! if marriage: and she would do this, not : so much for her own sake as for his. < fhey said she would wreck his future by j Harrying him. There would be a wreck, i she said to herself, but it would not be j j his. And so it came to pass that, when ! that very evening, he offered her his j hand, telling her that his heart was already in her keeping, she crushed her j happiness to the earth, and gave her fal-! tering refusal. * * * * * * A year had passed, and Nellie sat be- j fore the farm-house door, changed but little, except that she was a trilie more womanly in appearance, and her expression was more thoughtful than in the old J days. It was her habit to sit thus at J evening, and her thoughts would always ! turn to the hour when she parted from j her lover. The tenor of her thoughts I was interrupted by the sharp click of a j horse's feet, on the hard road. In a mo- j ment a carriage drew up at the gate, a : brisk, business-like man alighted and came quickly up the pathway. ' Is this Mr. Loring's?" he asked, as i he reached the door. Nellie arose as she answered him in the | affirmative, uud invited him to enter. | Having shown him into the little parlor, I die left him to summon her father. "By George,'' said the visitor to him-! self: "she is a lovelv ffirl; what news it I will be to her." He glanced around the room with many smiles of approval at the signs of j taste to be seen on every hand, and had I liardly finished his hasty inspection when j the farmer entered. The visitor rose ! and bowed. "Is this Mr. Loring?" he asked. "Yes," was the reply. "Were you in California twenty years ; ago! But stay, let me first introduce: myself. I am Joseph Roberts, a lawyer j iff San Francisco." Mr. Loring extended his hand with i old-fashioned courtesy, as he replied : "I was in California twenty years j ago." "You bought some land there, did vou not?" "Yes." "And own it still <" "Yes. I have had offers for it, but j not for a long time. I never felt like selling, as it. represents to me some of the best years of my life." "Do you wish to sell now?" "I think perhaps I would, if I could i get anything like a decent price for it." "What would you say to two million dollars?" "Two what?" was the astonished reply. M" 1-tl Al- 1 "Two million aouars, was rue chhu answer. Mr. Loring hesitated a moment before replying. Then speaking slowly, he J said: "I would like to know something: more about the matter before answering." "You shall be told everything there is | to i.c!i* only promise me the refusal of! the place at. the figures I name if you de- [ cidc to sell. I would like that promise J because, to speak frankly, I suspect that ( you will have other offers." Mr. Loring readily gave the promise asked for, and his visitor entered into a ! long and elaborate explanation, the sub- j stance of which was that a valuable sil ver mine had been found on the prop- ! ertv, and a half dozen different concerns ; were on the lookout for the proprietor. J It was finally agreed between Mr. Loring . and his visitor that the former should go ! to New York at onc e and make further j inquiries from there. He said very lit-1 tie to Nellie of the object of the lawyer's visit and of his own sudden journey to ] the city, except that she might hope for i very good news. The result of his inquiries was that, he ; sold the property for two millions in cash, i retaining to himself n quarter interest in j the mine, and the first that Nellie knew I of her altered fortunes was when she awoke one morning to find herself an j heiress. ? * * * * "Bv the way, Mart well, have you met j the new beauty, Miss Loriug? She has j just returned from Europe. I warrant | that you have seen nothing more lonely i in your three years' absence." "Loriug?" repeated the other, his; grave, handsome face coloring slightly. j His friend noticing it laughed, as he : replied: "Why, Hartwcll, there must be ' something in a name after all, since vou, r> - j who are known as a woman hater in both hemispheres, blush at the name cf a; woman." Hart well had by this time regained ! his self-control, and his voice showed no , trace of emotion, as he said: "1 was not aware that I changed j color, and you must be mistaken. I i will answer your question. I have not seen the new beauty." "Well." laughed the other, "you can ! say that no longer. 'Speak of angels," you know. Here she cotnes." ITartwcll looked in the direction in- j dicated, and what lie saw made his heart, i almost cease to heat. If his friend had I been regarding him then, he would not i have accused him of blushing. His face ; was almost ghastly in its pallor. Changed j though she was, far more beautiful than | he had ever imagined she could become, ! graceful in every movement, bearing her- 1 self with a quiet dignity that added to ; her charm, sh.: was the same Nellie j Loring, who was ever present in his, thoughts?whose image he had vainly j tried to banish. She was coming straight: toward him: and his friend, without rc- j moving his eyes from the lovely figure, j said: "Hartwoll, we arc in luck. She is: coming near us. Let us ask our hostess j to present us." "No, thank you," was Hartwell's J reply as he turned on his heel and dis-1 appeared amid the throng. The other: remained where he was, and in due time was honored by the presentation he so much desired. "Who was that tall gentleman stand- j ing by you just, si moment ago?" asked Nellie, during a pause in the conversation which followed the introduction. "That must have been Jack Hart well, he best fellow in the. world, though a ittle weak about women." "Why. is he too fond of them? H3 ioes not look like a man who would be itfeetcd in that way,"-said Nellie. "Oh, no. Quite the reverse. Noiody knows anything about it; but I be* ieve Jack lost his heart years ago and las never since found it." "Poor fellow," said the girl; but if her companion had seen her face, lie vould have thought the adjective strangely misplaced. A little later Hartwcll v.-as standing in i remote corner of the conservatory alone ind lost in reverie. The never-to-beforcotten scene at the farm Lrate came be Tore him more plainly than the gorgeous bank of flowers besiac which he stood. Suddenly he felt n gentle vouch upon his irm. lie turned tqcyfind Nellie at his side. V "You did not say 'gooc-byc' that, day three years ago, when we parted at the gate, John." He looked down into her upraised eyes, his own beaming with the old-time tenderness and said:$ "Shall I do so now, Nellie?" For answer she extended her hand, saying: "Not until you have forgiven me for the last words I spoke that day." Then her voice dropping to a whisper, she added:' "They were not true, John." His forgiveness was not long withheld. When, as the ball broke up, he parted from her at the carriage and turned to join the friend who had first told of her presence, the latter said: "I thoi^ht you Sf.id you did not wish to he presented to Miss Loring, Jack." "Why should a nc^n want to be presented to his promise*? wife?" was the reply.? Godey's Lady\\ Book. Girls Who I'ain'l for a Pittance. A comparatively new industry has sprung into existence in New York city within the last few years. It is the manufacture and decoration of all kind3 of bric-a-brac and "novelties," and includes such things as slipper-holders, handkerchief cases, photograph cases, spectacles cases, portieres, sofa cushions, cravat holders, table covers, lambrequins, fans, shawls, lamp-shades, shaviDg-paper holders, screens and mary other trifles. The materials used in the construction of these works of art, some cf which cost several hundred dollars?aDd the simplest bit of celluloid painted, fram $1 to $2?is silk, plush, satin, celluloid, tin, pasteboard, japanned and water-color paints, embroidering silk, leather and ivory. There arc several large establishments in the city where these articles arc made and sold at wholesale. Ir. one in Fourteenth street, about .forty girls are employed, whose wages range from $3 to $0 per week. The girls who embroider receive. 65 per week, while those who paint receive 63, 8-1, $6 and 89 per week, according to their skill. On the scieens, tabic-covers, cushions, etc., the design is stamped and the work is comparatively simple, but on the majority of things the artist paints her own design free-hand. It is the latter class who make the most money, and the work is generally on celluloid and ivory, with japanned paints. The difference between prices paid the artist and the prices at which the novelties are sold is startling. Feu- painting and lettering? celluloTfl spectacles cases,for instance, the artist receives sixty cents per dozen, while the retail price is $1.50 apiece. The girls who do this work mostly live at home and are willing to do it at any price for the sake of extra pocket money. Many of them, however, support themselves, and in some cases others, by their brush, and the competition of the amateurs seriously affects their livelihood, and night work with piece work is necessary to make both ends meet. The busy season in the art decorative trade is from September T to April 1, the latter part of the season being devoted to Easter offerings. None of the girls belong to any labor organiza ion and the majority have no idea of agitating for better pay. The hours of work are from' 8 a. M. to 5 :ot) p. m.?New York Tribune. - i "What a Street-Car Passenger Saw. The average woman will scold if carried ten steps beyond her street, but if she holds a car two minutes while picking her way through the mut she should have crossed before signaling, it's all right. But there is a plcasanter view of the street-car man's life with woman, says a writer in the St. Louis Star-Sui/iiiy*, and a happy illustration of it occurred last night. I was the sole passenger of the car, having gotten aboard just as the train reached its outer terminus. The conductor was a young, beardless fellow, and had evidently just been married, for u little woman came aboard and sat with him while the train waited for "time." Iler pretty face peeped from the folds of a natty scarf thrown hurriedly on, and in her arms she held the cutest of little dogs. The young man and woman chatted in almost a murmur, and when the starting signal was given the young woman moved reluctantly toward the door and down the step. The youthful conductor followed, and just before he went out on the platform he looked back at the sole passenger. The lookappeared to be unobserved, and so the conductor stepped quicker and reached his hand for the retiring figure of his little wife. She stopped and leaned toward the door; her husband threw his arm around about her, and . It was only for a second, and then the sound of retreating footsteps came. "It's my last <vli-i uticl Til Sf> lmmr> sonn." pnllrrl nul ?hc youth; and in happy tones the young woman answered: "Make it very soon, dear." Female Kleptomaniacs. I was talking recently, said a writer in the Chicago Times, with the manager of a large store, where they sell everything from a clothespin In an overcoat. "There is hardly a day," he said, "that we do not arrest three or four women for stealing. We have a force of detectives distributed through the house and it keeps them busy watching all the crooked characters who come in here. Most of the women that we arrest we let go with a warning. But occasionally a professional shop-lifter comes along and we feel in duty bound to prosecute such offenders. The other day a lady wearing silks and sealskins was seen to take some articles from a counter and conceal them under her cloak." She was taken upstairs to the office and the goods found in her possession. She cried bitterly and begged to be set free, saying that an irresistible impulse had caused her to net as she did. She is the wife of a prominent Board of Trade man. ; We let her go and told her not to come near the store again. Almost every thief we arrest is a woman. On an average we have twenty-live of them t. week." CURIOUS FACTS. A curly walnut log was sold by a Burch, Logan County (W. Va.) man for $5000. The fastest recorded time made by an electric railway is about twenty miles an hour on a street car system. More than four thousand persons perished by a hurricane which devastated Barbadoes, October 10, 1780. Four telegraphic messages can now lie transmitted over one wire at one time by using the quadruple.* system. It is estimated that 250,000 persons in the United States are engaged in business depending solely on electricity. Eighteeu years ago a Kansas City mau paid $3(500 for a lot, and was laughed at. The other day he sold it for $132,000. i An Ohio girl has a photograph album containing the pictures of fourteen men to whom she says she has been cngagcu. In a colony numbering seventy-five in Tulare County, Cal., no church or saloon is tolerated, Board of Trustees governs the whole. J. J. Banta, of DeLand, Fla., has a Di tch Bible nearly 300 years old that his family carried to the State of New York when first settled. Will Hensel's wife, of Punxutatvney, Pcnn., decorated a favorite cat named Jonathan with a ribbon and a bell. Jonathan then climbed a tree and hanged himself. A wealthy citizen of Alameda, Cal., who died a week or two ago, provided in his will that if any of his children marry first cousins they shall forfeit their share of the property. The cost, in human life of the wars of the last thirty-three years, beginning with the Crimean War, is computed at 2,253,000 souls. This does not include mortality from sickness. While Charles Lawson was blowing up stumps at Everett, Mo., he found a powder can containing $750 in gold and silver coin. It is supposed it was hidden during the War of the Rebellion. In transmitting a message from San Francisco, Cal., to Hong Kong, Chin;!, via New York, C'anso, PenzaDce, Aden, Bombay, Madras, Pcuang and Singapore, about fifteen minutes arc consumed. There arc four brothers in Crawford County, Peun., all of whom are stalwart men and mar.*ied, and not one of whom is on speaking terms with any of the t others. Property litigation is the cause. Five miles an hour is considered good walking for a man, but W. T. Young, in Morgan County, Georgia, can beat this. He walked all the way troni Duluth to withiu a few miles of Madison, j a distance of over fifty miles in less than ten hours. Oaths were taken by Abraham B. C. 1892 (Gen. xxi., 24), and authorized 1491 B. C. (Ex. xxii., 11). The admin istration of an oath in 'judicial proceedings wns introduced into England by the Saxons. That administered to a judge was settled in J344. The bridge of the Pennsylvania, Poughkeej>sie & Boston Railroad at Port land, Penn., recently completed, is one of the largest in the United States. It is 925 feet 6} inches, and the viaduct is 993 feet 7 inches, making a total of 1921 feet and i an inch. A j'oung lady from Caldwell, Ohio, created a little scene in the ticket office sit Zanesville the other day. She laid a late-improved six-shooter on the countei and proceeded to search for her pocket, then bought a ticket for Seattle, Wash., s.hoved her gun in her pistol pocket and departed. Since 1869 more than 60,000 bodies have been buried in the Potter's field, on Hart's Island, New York city. There are no single interments. The bodies are placed in trenches, dug in regular rows, rorty-iive feet, long, fourteen feet wide and ten feet deep. Each of these pits will hold 150 bodies. 1 ? * ~ s ci,.;c?;onl: i ne estimaiea nuujuci ui vihw??uo over 408,000,000; of Buddhists, 420,000,000; of the followers of Brahma, :180.000,000; of Mohammedans, 150,000.000; of Hebrews, 8.000,000; ol atheists, deists and infidels, 85,000,000; of PngaDS, 50,000.000, and of 110C minor creeds, 123,000,000. "Several weeks ago, while Mrs. N. C. Deatrich, who lives near Philadelphia, was gathering hickorynuts, a blacksnake coiled around her ankle. She endeavored to shake it off without.a vail, whei. in her desperation she heroically pulled it off her ankle and threw it from her, which certaiuly required much nerve foi a woman. Scenes in Shun. ''An Aiuericau finds Bangkok, the capital of Sinru, full of the strangest contrasts and oddest sights," said Mr. Perkins, a returned traveler from that country. "He sees the river banks lined for miles with floating houses, the home? of many thousands and the scenes ol busy trade, tin one corner is the splendid palace of a nobleman, and on the next the hovels of the very poor. Here arc groups of Buddhist priests in yellow garb, shielding their faces with fans at the sight of women, and near them are gangs of the toughest of convicts clank ing their chains as they toil in the streets. Here are lepers horribly repulsive, unrestrained, and clamorous for alms, and r.oon, perhaps, the King passes witn a brilliant retinue, sitting on his state chair of solid gold. Fine ladies have teeth as black as polished ebony. When a member of the royal house dies the cremation ceremonies cost a fortune, and while thousands are witnessing the imposing display vultures are tearing dead bodies to pieces m the heart of Bangkok, and the poor are burning their dead, a couple of armfuls of wood serving as the funeral pyre.1'?Neoi York Sun. How to Luce Your Shoes. The other day the proprietor of a big down town shoe store showed me something J can vouch for as a good thing. He taught mc something I had no idea I was not fully up in, hut I am now very thankful for the lesson. Not one person in a thousand laces his shoes correctly. About tli': nearest anybody gets 10 u is to lace as tightly as possible. The cor root way is to put your foot when you are about to lace your shoe as much as possible in the heel of the shoe. You can do this best by lacing your shoes with the heel of your shoe resting in a chair standing in front of the one you are seated in. Over the instep the lacing should be drawn as tightly as possible. This will hold your foot back in the shoe, giving the toes freedom and preventing their being cramped. Lace about the ankle to suit your comfort.? New York Truth. TWO PHASES. BY OPIE P. READ. OHN. O, John!" A sleepy boy turns %A?) over in bed. J %gKL "Ho> John!" f "Git up, now, and b 'ItW*^feed your bosses. .:n . "**l)avlight lo.g ago." Syf//J^ How delightfully u y\ '/TvmIHsomnolent the morn' \uVlt Js^^Bi'ig air is?the very /?v *bloom of sweet \ "John, if you don't hKm\ x [ fill get right out this jV yJH minute I'll come in i%tf\ fv there after you." l^5^ \ John knows what jj&y this declaration means, but how JftZft-' ' harsh and raspiog is the thought of breaking the golden doze! He puts one leg into his trousers, and. with the silken strand of a dream still in his mind, he sinks back upon the pillow. "I am coming!" he exclaims. He hears his father's footsteps. He mutters as he starts toward the stablo: "I ir? -rw,r*T-?1 ck \vr?rkincr UUX1 1/ UCIiUt C ill ? - ? 0 selves to death. Hope there'll come a time when I can lie in bed as long as I want to. This thing of snatching a fellow out of bed at such an hour is all wrong. The hogs and the dogs are all asleep, but I've got to poke around here and feed the stock. Wish I were a man?or a dog?I don't care much which." The years pass on. The trees in the orchard have grown old. It is early morning on the farm. A man gets out of bed and looks at the clock. "What time is it, John?" his wife asks. " Only three o'clock. It does seem as if day will never come, and that bottom field of corn has been liberally run away with by the grnss. It does seem that we can't get time to do anything." He goes back to bed and vainly attempts to sleep. Bhcuma ic pains are sending dispatches up and down his legs. An hour passes. A cock crows and birds begin to twitter in the locust trees. "Well, it's time we were stirring. Jim,oh! Jim." "Yes, sir," comes a drowsy answer. "Come, get up now and feed your horses." Ten minutes pass. No Jim. "Confound that boy, he's as lazy as a dog. Jim, Jim!" "Yes, sir." "Hustle out of there now or I'll come after you." Ten minutes pass. "I'll go in there and take a strap to that lazy rascal.'" He starts; Jim comes out. "You'ouglp to be ashamed of yourself, wanting to' lie in bed at this time of day. When I was a boy you couldn't have kept mo in bed at this hour. Jim starts toward the stable, muttoring as he goes. "Hope the time will come when I can sleep as long a31 want to. Wish I was a man, or a dog. I don't care much which." Ah Tiord. how we do foraret. The lesson wo learn is that everything comes too late. In youth we smell the lipc fruit, and we long to eat it; at last it falls within our grasp, and lo! our teeth are bad and our taste is gone.?Arkansaw Traveler. ?~?? Indian Horsemanship. It has been suggested that the easiest way to solve the "Indian problem," of which we hear so much, would be to employ all the idle Indians as soldiers. They are not, to-be-sure, amenable to the minor details of discipline, but they are equal to the Cossacks in all that goes to make up dashing cavalrymen. They are absolucely fearless, good shots, capable of enduring great fatigue and privation, and they arc sj leuI did riders. | A newspaper correpondent, having visited an Arapahoe camp, gives the following account of an Indian drill, ordered for his amusement: "Fifty fine looking young men, mounted upon ponies, drew up before ! the tents. At a signal from the chief J they began their evolutions with a loud I yell. "In a moment they disappeared over ! a neighboring hill. Then there sudI denly rose a mighty tramping of feet, j and they swept past again, so compact I that I ouly saw a ball made of horse3 | aud men. ! "Splitting in two, one body swept to I the right aud another to the left, and I again they disappeared. Presently 1 they charged each other in solid liues, I and while the spectator waited breathlessly for the shock of collision, tin files skillfully opened to the right aud left, and the lines passed the i.tervals without touching. "Now came the moment for displaying individual horemnnship. Some of the riders approached, each lying so ! close to the ])ony's back that nothing ! but the horse could be seen. Others II stood erect upon the animals' backs. |! Some hung to the horse by one foot I and one haud, so that their bodies were 1 completely protected by tho.e of the (j ponies. "These young warriors threw objects ' j upon the ground and picked theni up j at full gallop, ami drew bows and arI rows from beneath the horses' necks. 1 Somo of the men exchanged horses j while riding. j "Again, a man would fall from his horse, as if wounded, aud two others I j riding up beside him, would take him i I by an arm and a leg, swing him between their hnrsPR and carrv him off. ? "Tliis exhibition lasted nearly two i hours." Rest Needed. I # . A tramp kuows what it is to be legwearv, a farm laborer to be bodyweary, a literary man to be brainweary, and a sorrowing man to be ' i soul-weary. The sick are often weary, j even of life itself. Weariness is a i physical or spiritual "ebb-tide" which i time and patience will convert into a I "flow." It is never well to whip or i spur a worn out horse, except in the direst straits. If he mends his pace I in obedience to the stimulus, every ! step is a spark subtracted from ins ! vital energy. IdlcfftflkiS not one of j the faults of the present ago; wcari' ness is one of its eonunonest expc! rienees. The cheeks which many a I man draws on liis physical resources are innumerable; and as these reI sources are strictly limited, like any j other ordinary bank account, it is vcr | easy to bring about a balance on the | wrong side. Adequate rest is one I kind of repayment to the bank, sound j "loop is another, regular eating and : good digestion another.?New York j If'ilnexx. 1 Ministku?Johnny, is your father a ! Christian? Johnny?Not since last j week, sir. He has l.? mght him a cheap typewriter. FOLLY AS IT FLIES. , A whisky de'il?the imp of the bottle. Song of the syndicates ? Gobble, gobble, gobble. A howling swell?The boil on a small boy's nock. The son who goes to work in a mill represents the flour of the family. The man who is hard of hearing is apt to be troubled with "hey!" fever. Like many a young man, nature be> gius her fall by painting things red. Winks?I didn't see you at camp meeting this year. Minks?No; I've reformed. A man discovers that gas isn't equal to coal when he tries it on a coal dealer to secure credit. Temperance Orator?What is it, my hearers that drives men to drink? Voice from the back seat--&alt mackerel. A man who was compelled lo sue an .il'l nnmrnilo trt ramvdr -U'Vlftf. lip OWAfl him, called him his pseudo friend. Sued??sued?owe? ? ah, yes, we catch on. "Now I am a highwayman," remarked the commercial traveller to the ferryman who was takiDg him over the river in a skiff. "Why?" "Because I am a rowed agent." Maria?It's no use my trying to please you with my cooking; you are never satisfied. John?You could suit me exactly if you'd only try. "How?" "By hiring a cook!" "Pa, what's the difference 'tween a cutter and a fitter the signs tell about ?" "Same thing, my son. My barber's such n beastly cutter that he's titter to adorn a slaughterhouse.'' Charlie (who has been blowing the cornet for an hour): "Say, Ned, dojou think there is any music in me?" Ned: "I don't know. There ought to be; I ^ didn't hear any come out." gA SnE ? What a beautiful world it would be if it were summer and day- ^ light all the time! He?Daylight all the time! H'm! When would lovers have a chance to do their courting? Tompkins?Heard you left the boarding house, Jack. Jack?Yes; the landlady was far too modest for me. Tompkins?Modest?how's that ? J ack?U, she insisted that we eat dressed beef at every meal. Mb. Goodcatch (calling on the oldest sister)?Why, Johnny, how you are growing! You'll be a man before your sister if you keep on. Johnny?You bet I will. SisterTl never be a man if she keeps on being 20 like she has for the last five years. Two Irish servant-girls were quarreling the other day. "Hhure," said the one, "an' didn't Oi hear yer mashther comin' in afther half-pasht 4 av the Dciglit!" "An' sure," rctorteu tne 'other, uan! didn't Oi hear yer mash'.he not conrin home at all lasht noight?" Fitzboodle?Now that you consent to be mine, darling, let us bo married soon. Belinda?Oh, no dear, let us wait two years at least. Fitzboodle? Two years! Oh, you don't mean itl Belinda - Yes, indeed, I do. Pleaseplease. let me think you perfect a i long as possible. Binolev: "Have you heard that Pushley is giving away a box of cigars with every suit of clothes? I bought a ytrhrygslrciday.?Tiji miswrW flighting up): "Thanks. I should think (puff), JBingley," that you would be glad (puff) that you only (puff) buy two suits a year." I Visitor?The boys do be tellin' me that Dinnis is sick abed. Is he any better, Idunno? Lady of house?I can't say just yit. Yoz see he thried to heighten me by hidin' under my bed protendin' to be a burglar, an* he's lyin' up stairs wid a broken leg an' two doctors a tryin' to take four bullets out o'his body. But how was T to know hiui in the dark? THE OLD MAN'S OL'TING. Bobby?Ma, did pa spend a good deal of time at the dentist's vhen he was in Chicago? Mother?I didn't know that ho was at the dentist's at all, Hobby. Why? "I heard him tell Mr. Smith that it cost him over a hundred dollars to get his eye-teeth cut."? Texax S'ftivqa. A Beautiful Yacht. The exquisite cleanliness of every thing strikes one forcibly on board tht Victoria and Albert, Queen Victoria'* traveling vessel. The deck is laid with <ork iloorcloth, over which, when the Queen is on board, a carpet is placed, and everything else that is to be seeD is of pure white, with gilded reliefwork and silver mountings. There are very comfortable little sitting-rooms on the promenade deck and behind the paddle wings, and there i-t also a dining saloon 0:1 the promenado deck, which has three big windows and a skylight. It is furr.i>hed in green mo occo, and the ceiling i< painted in white and gold. The state apartments below are placed on cither side of a corridor, and they are famished with n very pretty chiutz. The Queen's cabins are 011 the starboard side, and her sleeping apart mont contains a largo and nld fashioned but very com for! able-looking bedstead, with pillars and canopy, and next is the dressing-room, which was formerly Prince Albert's cabin, and i! remains as he left it his little writing table and wardrobe never having been moved. Large maps hang on the walls. The cabins occupied by Princess Beatrice (or by any princess who happens to be ! travelinc with the Queen tare aft of her Majesty's quarters, and on llio other side ot' ihe corridor a?c the cabins of the Princess ari l a large bathroom. 'ihe breakfast room is in the afterpart of the vessel, and it has very large windows and is hung with llie portraits of all the officers who have commanded the royal yacht. Tlio drawing-room is forward 0:1 tho port side, and it is futnished in bird's-eye. with a piano and scvcial beautifully carved side-table3. It is hung with portraits of members of the royal famil y | and in this room is a small library. Tho >| yacht is now lighted with electricity, y except in the Queen's own cabins. f f M