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r m . voti .mk ii. I N Till-: ITBI.IC SCHOOLS. TciU'liiliy; the I'tt'ects of Alcohol l.'pou tin* VI ii in;% it System Popular 1 u.nornnco I Ie??-a riling this Subject A Nurcotir Poison. It ^ns a lot! step in advance when at ops taken in many Stall's to teach in the public schools the ef# forts of alcohol and other narcotic poisons upon t.ie n111< 1:111 system. Tim amount of popular ignorance upon this subjeet is frightful. While the terrible results an- acknowledged which follow tlio drinking of what tiro known as "hard" drinks?distilled liquors, such as whiskey, hrandy, ^in, etc. there is popular belief that it is only from drinking them to excess, and that in more moderate quantifies they are comparatively harmless; while the error is wellnioh universal that "soft" drinks wine, beer, ale, ete.?are not only not injurious, but healthful and nourisliino. n There never was a oreater error. No matter what form of rum is used whether the drink lie "I mr< I*' < >p "v.ift whether it In.' wine, or fermented cider, or beer the reason it is swallowed i:- because of tlie exhilarating effects which follow. These effects are caused I?y the alcohol which they contain. In cider and the various wines, there are fruit acids, etc., which impart a taste which is agreeable to some; but, all the saute, alcohol is the active agent, and were it removed entirely from these compounds, no one would think of drinking the nauseous slops that would remain. Now, what is this alcohol, w hose subtile influence cause alI spirituous, vinous or malt liquors to bo drank '1 Alcohol is a limpid, colorless liquid, of hot taste, which can only be obtained bv the fermentation of sugar or some substance containing sng?r. It is not produced in nature. Neither the grape, the apple, nor any . other fruit; neither rye, corn, barlev, nor any oilier irrain, contains one ? n 7 atom of it. Hut when the fruit-cejis of th" grape or the apple are crushed and tin' the juice extracted, a cal process, called, sets up, wh^-(, v the suear in these juices is split up into alcohol and carbonic acid, the latter escaping as a jras. When barley, or rye or corn is fermented, tin; starch which tliey contain is first turned, bv an anlogous process, into sugar, and then alcohol is produced, by a continuation of the process, from t he sugar. In its effects upon the human system alcohol is a narcotic poison. It is not a food in any respect. It is indigestible. It can not be built into bone or tissue. The orilv thing the body ran do with alcohol is to oet rid of it. It is largely thrown off by the lungs, as any one can believe who has come within smelling distance of the drinker. It passes through the skin, and works its way to every part of the body, and a portion of it passes to the brain, derantr injr the action of that orj/an, and . ^ r> 7 producing a species of insanity. When the alcohol roaches tin* l?rain of courso it is closely shut in, and, as it can not pass rapidly through the skull it is more likoly to remain in the brain than in any other part of the body, and here it does its most deadly work. The brain, when healthy, is so soft that it. would not retain its shape but for the skull. The sharpest knife is required to cut it without mangliniflJPs structure. It is necessary to immerse the ortran in alcohol for " . . ,n . some timn in ornrr to harden it, when a earoful examination is essential. A drunkard's brain presents a contrast. J t Ts already hardened, pickled almost. In the dissecting room it affords rare pleasure to a medical student to secure the dissected brain of an old toper. A celebrated anatomist said that ho could tell a drunkard's brain in the dark, bv the son.so of touch. A London physician reported a case, m which he found, upon making a post-mortem examination^ so strong a" odor of alcohc'ic emanating from the brain that ho applied a match to it, when it burst into a flame. The quantity of alcohol in the brain is sometimes so great that it can bo collected by distillation after death. It must not he supposed that eTory drunkard's brain is as hard as a tiw-h. led one; l>ut it may ho fairly suppos. ed that the hardening effect of alco r1) h*l has 110 little influence in the proration of defeneration of the brain, , such as results in various forms of progressive paralysis. Numerous functional disorders of the brain are also traced to the habitual use of alcoholic liquors. Locomotor ataxia, an almost hopeless malady, involving the brain and spinal cord, is the result of intemperance. When alcohol is taken into the stomach it is absorbed and goes unchanged into the circulation. The heart, irritated by its presence, beats faster, and drives the blood more quickly through the arteries. Every excretory organ immediately s< ts to work fo expol it from tho system. ^ Tho lungs and skin Imvo already ~ . been spoken of; and the liver and , ' kidneys arc no less aotivoTy engaged * 7 -i ; ' ' * k it _*-.*11in?r rid of the infernal stulT. The effect on tin* liver is to produce, after consincranln time, an incurable disease cirrhosis or. as it is commonly known, Hiob nail liver,v from the peculiar appearance of that orjran after death. The kidneys arc weakened and inflamed, and llriedit's disease. an absolntelv incura!>le ailment, always fatal, is a frequent result of intemperance. The above is tin* merest outline of the oh\sicnl efforts of this pernicious poison. It cannot he too deeply impressed upon the minds of the rising generation that, no matter what cause may he alleged, nobody drinks wine, or heor, or cider, or whisky, or any other form of the rum, for any real reason save that it contains alcohol; that this subtle liquid is a poison, and nothing but a poison; that, like any other poison, its effects are proportioned to the dose, and that a small quantity taken daily will event ually be as destructive as u larger dose taken more frequently. /"/<</<> Jihttfr. Knell wf Hie I'loody Sliii-f. Xkw \ oi:k, Nov. 7. TIk' campaign in Ohio made liv (?ov. (ior<l??n attracted a jniod deal of attention hero, and it has boon talked about much more since lie went home than before, for the bitterness of the lie publican papers lias increased as election das has drawn near. I interviewed ('apt. John ('. ('alj houn to-dav, and he said: kkl think that (iov. (iot don did i/reat <rood. J Here in New York many men, even some Republicans, have expressed themselves as pleased that he went to ( )hio to make an end forever of sectional feeling as a factor in polities. The oftener representsttive Southern men come North to speak the better for the whole country, and the same thine is true of Northern men aeine j South. We live in a new era. Tin* old war issues are dead. (Jen. (Jordon is an ideal man to represent id^fehern siu tine lit. As l.e sa d at t'ineinnati lie beeum to preach recoi : filiation before the smoke of batt 1 ........ i.:..i i 11* \% 11 ir* ii ?* iiiunri.iir IIM'M ' of both sections who will rule in the future." The lire the seutiiuents of the ytandson of .lohn 'Calhoun. Kx-Oov. 1 loudly, of Ohio, who is now praetieiny law in this eity, talked wdlinyly about (iov. Cordon's ! cninpaiyn. "Yes,'' said he, U1 am j o 1 a(1 (iordon went t > Ohio. I wish more Southern men would mi there. The Ifopublieans of Ohio are a set of cranks. Their onlv stock in trade is the bloody-shirt and at this time in the world's history! They think it is the only way they can briny out the vote. Comber has just two issues protection and the bloody-1 shirt. Mural llalstead is worse olT man mat. tor Mc does not believe in protection. < )f course the Republicans are liohtiner with nil their mioht to control the Legislature, as a boom i for Sherman. Rut the Sherman I boom will "peter out." He will not bo nominated for the Presidency ! next year. Itlaine will be if In? wisli! es to be; if not, then Rhone's man Allison will be. *1 have, myself, been in the South and have heard threat numbers of Southern men, and none of them, with one sinole exception, reirretted the loss < f slavery." Gen. l?o<rer. A. I'rvor also was found in a mood willing to talk, but he did not think so well of the policy I of (len. Gordon's ?M)ino to Ohio as I ex-Governor I loudly and ('apt Calhoun. Said he: "Although I think Gen. Gordon the best of all Southerners to produce a eood impression in the North, still, as is shown by the temper of the leading Republican papers in ()hio, it seems unfortunate that he went there. I am afraid that it had a bad effect in stirring up partisan feelino aoainst the South. This fool I mi* i t-' of n* ' ' - |? V im- i o f* t t V i i " t ; I l I I W I IK ? I 11 it ! I It in I %i O ^ I in New \*ork or nnv of tlio Kastern States." A Muddled Minister. A preacher who held forth in St. I'aul during the early days in closing lip his prayer one Sunday asked the Lord: "To comfort the nflicted, heal the sick and raise the devil." The | congregation, was of course, greatly discomposed, and even the old doncon found it hard to keep a straight face. Horrified by this lansns lin : gum, the minister, in 11>f<, autirne, made matters very much worn:-: by : correcting himself in the words: , l4< )h, Lord, we did not mean rai e the devil, hut raise the dead.1' Tl; organist, who was a sagacious man, immediately took m the situation and helped tho very much rattled parson out by striking up on a hymn. A gentleman who was very zeal ous on the subject of horses, but not according to knowledge, bought a mare at an auction and rode her home. "Well, Caesar," he said to his saldo companion, "what do you think of her? She cost mo $500." j "Dunno master." "Yes; but what , do you think?" "Well, master, it i makes me t'ink of what the preacher I said yesterday?something about his i money is*, parted. 1 disremomber de , ' fust part. i 1 . / 3 TO TCUK WOE! COX WAY, s. mothkhs or Famous mkn A 1 >eseri pt ion of I lie ."Mothers o .Some Men of World-wide I'hiuie. The mothers of famous men are al ways interest ine studies. Concern ino iim) 11 v ??1 those women the worh knows much, but of the majority it i ignorant. The mother of Loui Atpissiz, tin- scientist was the wife o a Swiss I Votestant elerevmsm, am lived t<> st very old a?re. Louis wsi her favorite son and she trained hin with the greatest care. When, it 1 sr>7, l'rof Silliman, of Yale Col leoe, visited lier lie found her sit fou score si "tall, erect and dignified wo man," with animated address am Cultivated manners. When she wa: sissured by her mtest that her son' adopted country loved him and wsi proud of him, her strong frame wsi: agitated, her voice trembled will emotion, ami the Uowine tears toh the story of si mother's heart. Tin dav tlisii I'rof. Silliman left she wsi Ik ed n lono way in the rain to bi< | liiin and his wife farewell. Present in^j tliein with :i litie boiupiet of pan sies, she litule tlietn t 11 Iter s??tl "lie pensees were all for him." I'ensee it j Kreneh tneans both pansv an? I tlion?r|it. < >11 the fiftieth birthday o Aoassiz the Siit urdav ( 'lub of Hostoi eelebrated it with a dinner, ;tt whief Longfellow, lloltnes and Lowel read poems. In the poem of tin former, allusion was made to the n:it 11 ra 1 mother ;is mournino* over tie fiiet that the ereat mother, nature had drawn her son from the liresidt where she wished to keep him: And tie- motle'i* at home savs "Hark? For his voice I listen and yearn; It is irrowin-r 1 ite and dark And my boy does "j^y^tnrn." Aoassi/'s head duriio the readine of the' ' "Vml whet the allusion to his n. fwir tnadi his rudd\ face flushed with restrainet j feelinjr, tears ^fathered in his eves and as the hist line. w;i - uttered tin i dropped slowl\ down h eheel: . otu after .-tin it her. I'lie mother of Alphotiso and Krn ? I . l i i I _ I.V I 1 * A I'M I f.'IIIIH'l, l 11?" |- ICIH'II IKIVIMIM!-, WJl I an intellectual woman. She was i constant reader, and her childrei ' were earlv impressed with her stipe riority over other mothers, ami wen pre foundly oreaiful to her in aft" : life for her careful training of tliei 'minds. The father was a rich sill ! weaver, and had only an ordinary j mind. I ,oss of fortune soured him i and he seeiued to have little infill encc over his jriftod sons. I'ut tin mother was their inspiration and do j liijht. The childhood of DicUens was s< ; shadowed by poverty and his senxi j live and imaginative mind was si n ; keenly alive to the position that it i I " . * hardly possible that he could dra\\ | an absolutely impartial picture of lib [ parents. I lis mother had a keen up preciation of the droll and of the pa thetic, and likewise considerable dra tnnuc latent. >iie was a comely lit I tie woman, with handsome, briidi 1 eyes, and a jrenial, agreeable person I'Voin her 1 Jickens nndonhtedlv in herited his temperament and intel ! lectnal f^ifts. She possessed an ex traordinarv sense of the ludicrous , and her power of imitation was some thino astonishing. Her porceptioi was (juick and she unconsciously no ted everything that came under hei observation. In describing ridieu r*> Ions occurrences her tone and ?_p\s lures would he undatable, while hei manner was of the quaintest. Dick ens declared that to her he owed hi: first desire for know ledge ami tha his earliest passion for reading was awakened by his mother, who tauoh */ ' i him not only the first -rudiment ol Knjjdish, but also a little of Latin Poverty saddened and darkened man} years of her life, ami her chihlrei were early compelled to leave liei and earn their own 1 ivi11?f, l>ut thev all honored and loved her as shu do ! served. Hei^h Hunt thus writes of hi: mother: "My mother had no aeeom plisements but the two best of all i love of nature and of books. I)r Franklin offered to teaed her the on! tar, but she was too bashful to bo eoine his pupil. She regretted this afterwaids, partly, no doul for hnv ing so illustrious a master. Iler lirs ehild, who died, was named aftei him, I know not whether the antidote is new, but I have heard that when I >r. Fanklin invented the har moniea lie concealed it from his wif? till the instrument was lit to plav and ther. woke her with it one niyld when she took it for the music o angels, * * * 11 it vino* !>eor bom nino years later than tlio vimn^ est of tny brothers, I have no recollection of my mother's earlier aspect I ler eyes were always fine and hci person ladylike; her hair also retain id its color for a loiitf period; bill her brown complexion lino exchange* for a jaundiced one, which she re tained through life; her cheeks were n ' Sunken and her month drawn dowi with sorrow at the corner. Site re tained tlio energy of her character 01 ^ront occasions, but her spirit in or dinary affairs was weakened, and she looked at the bustle and discord o the present staty of society witl i c *' A ?1 _ ) ^.i<rr -stoxt:R WCT , rill RSDAV, NOV frightened aversion. .Wvcr shall I !V?r??-?*t her face, as it appeared to mo f coming 111> tlio cloisters, with that wcarv haiio of tho hcatl on one side and that melancholy sniilo! "()ne holiday in a severe winter, as she was taking ine home, she was petitioned for charity I?v a woman j sick and ill-clothed. It was in lilackfriars road, I think about midway. My mother, with tears in her eyes, ' turned up a gateway or some other I place, ami, lieckoninjr the woman to follow, took oiT her llannel netticonf s ami jravo it to Iut. It is supposed 1 that a cohl which ensued fixed the 1 rheumatism upon her for life. Actions like this have doubtless been 1 often performed and do not of neeesj sitv imply any oreat virtue in the performer, but they do, if they are at peace with the rest of the character. s Saints have been made for charities no greater." II "//nut's Ar^omj. -# O J o Save 11 is Mother. 1 i? We have had a (.lermau baror? - atnune us, Huron von Karlstine, who 1 has written a look about New York and its inhabitants. One of his a nee dotes is very oood and interesting: r ()n Washington's birthday he was i standing in a crowd on the corner of I Fifth Avenue ami Fourteenth Street, f waiting for the orand procession to i arrive. '1*lie first drums wort; hoard i in tin' distance, when a vounif man, ! in his shirt sleeves and hat less, pass rd through 'ho assembled nmltitudo and addiossed the jioliceman who kept the people back. ' ( Mlirer,' ho exclaimed, "mv motli' or is sick in a house near Sixth Avenue; she has suddenly been taken much worse, and the doctor says that if the procession passes our house 1 lie noise will kill her/' "(). I\., youno fellow,1* said the ' polieeinon, and left him to run up 1 the avenue, where tie stood twenty I feet before the procession and screamed, "Halt!" holding "p !| boht. rattan cane v. it .i both hands. The word was passed alono tlx) line, and adjutant walloped forward, bent over his horse's neck, ami e.xehaneed a few words with the policeman. Suddenly the command, 'forward inarch!" heard, and the immense body of men proceeded to the corner I of fourteenth Street without any music, except the lightest possible I tapping of drums. Then came, "Kioht wheel!" and nearly fifty thou' sand men. whom immense crowds wore* waitinir to see and Hirer, wheeled upjl-'ourteenth Street to llroadwav, land down Broadway they inarched ! without music until they were hoi yond the distance at which tliev inie-hl disturb the siek woman. No one asked why an army of well-drilled, admirably equipped men and many of hatllo-scarred veterans, I turned out of their path at the simj pie rrqvest of a single policeman, I armed with hut a little rattan cane. it would have heen hut a trill.no | matter for them to take (iothum; hut . I no, the general in command, when he received the you 110 man's thanks, j reminded him that his very natural request was addressed to lus oentleinen and soldiers. And a gentleman, j he he soldier or not, reveres the *a' ered name of mother. ?-#? Nicotine and tin* St oil inch I suppose that the least harmful : method of smokino is the use of a i j clean pipe with mild tobacco?a pipo j that has not ahsorhed the nicotine. The harm fulness of a pipe comes from its havino ahsorhed a ^reat quantity 1 | of uictolinc, so that you are constantly takino more or less of it into the I. ! ^ ^ , ? system. The ciear would come next I 1 r) | in favor. Of course, the stronger a pipe, is the more nicotine there is in it, and the more nicotine you have 1 the creator is the chance of iniurinir P I f 1 r ? *' n vour system. The chief constituents of tolmcco smoke are water, carbonic acid, carbonic oxide in a state of gas and nicotine. s When a man smokes too much the " the excess produces redness and irri1 tation of the stomach, and the mem brane secretes irregularly and does not produce the due amount of gas" trie, fluid. Hence, digestion is inter' fered with. That is the first phase. After a while the stomach oets into ' ' snch a condition that it tolerates this state of existence, so that tisercin I not the same nausea produced in :tn 1 old smoker that we find in a younger ' smoker. Whether smoking1 is good for a i man depends on his organization. I y do not think that smoking is ever f really honelicial for a nervous man. i Then, again, much depends on how much a man smokes, and when ho smokes. There are certain men who, . when they arc tired, wlion their nerv (jus system lias boon on too grea. a i strain, will smoke, one or two cigars ! . L thev will become <piiot. The nervI ous man should not sjnoke at all, Phlegmatic persons would he least > liable to be harmed. ? IP. M. Jiutlev. i ]\1. />., in (ho h'/ntoh. i, lie was a "jewel" when she mar ried him; six months later ho was > her "gem." When two years after, f she explained that g. e. in. stood for II "green-eyed monster." i . >,2C -A.2KT3D "TCTJK CC" 'EMKKU IT, 1887. Til K SI I < >T<. I' N POLICY . How it is Worked in tlio Iturul 1 > is I riots of Louisiana. Ni:\v Ohi.kass, Nov. 8. A special fr in I 'attcrsonvillc savs: This towti was profoundly ouitM yesterday, I manv of the negroes, who form a majority of the population, havino cleared out in the eonsequence of tin* alVair of Saturday afternoon. < )f that all'air everybody has a different st. rv to toll. The follow injr aro tho conclusions arrivod at after some pains and earoful oonsidorat ion : Trouble has been threatening in this neighborhood for sonic time past. The neoroes have been talkino freely ' of hurnino1 the town of Patterson* ville. It is state<l that one who is now a prisoner made a fell eonfession to lion. 1 )on (.'aITrev '>f a plot to burn the town, which was to have been earned into efTeet on Saturday nitrht I but the events of Sntnrdnv of ternoon intervened. Mr. CalTrrey went to Franklin on the afternoon train, and lias not, therefore, l>een interviewed. The shooting and wounding of four white men on Pharr's plantation on Friday decided the authorities to iustit nte a seareh for arms j in the town, and at the same time to arrest several men who had made themselves most conspicuous by the loudness and feroeitvof their threats. Troops were ouartered on a steamboat lvino alongside William's saw mill, about a mile from town. I Tom there on Saturdav afternoon, between I and -) o'clock, the Attakpas IJanjr; ers. under command of ('aptain t'ado, together with it posse of citi/ens, | partly of this neighborhood and partj ly from Franklin, moved on the town. There sire several versions ? f what afterward occurred. The correct ! story is ]?r<>bablv litis: At the entrance to the town stand two cottages the one on the rij/ht occupied b\ a white man named llili| bert, and that on the left by colored I people. Mere, as the troops ap1 preached, they found a crowd of from ott to 100 excited neproes assembled. This crowd was ordered to disperse, and some of the members of the mob left, while others remained and assinned a dcliant attitude. ()nc nee-ro of notorious character threw his I wind behind him, as if to draw a pis. tol, and then, in a moment, the whole I affair was over. A regular fusilado was ? Mened epon the neoroes by the SheiiIT s posse and four of them were shot dead. It is asserted by the militia-- and | with considerable positiveness by some of them that no militia man lired a shot, and that all the killino1 was done by the Sheriff's posse. (Jantain (.'ado seems to have had ere-at difficulty in restrainine his men from j liiine1, but he appears to have sueneeded. JJesides the four negroes killed, one was very severely wounded. Two boys also are said to have I been hit. The Sheriff withdrew as soon as the firing bewail. After the affray the troops marched through the town, and many of . flu ?i (un'onu i-ol i am 1 1 I "? ; Tilts number of shots tired is variously estimated at. from 110 to 100, Imt | tIks firing was by no means indiscrim, inate. The four men killed were all bad characters. Their names were Wash and l)olj?h Anderson, brothors; Lew is Cooper, brother-in-law of the Andersons, and Robert Wrenn, a ne^ro saloon-keeper, who killed a man a week ami within a few yards of the place where he was shot. The dead were buried yesterday i by the troops. The town was e-uardcd and patrolled bv cavalry and infantry last, niolit. It was impossible t:> move in any direction without being challenged. (iivin^ and Receiving. Thorn is a meanness which will j grovel low in the dust fer gain; and j there is also a pride that will nob heiid gracefully to receive a favor. There are people who dread to be under obligation, and cannot rest until they think they have repaid it. Vet isi? not one kindof selfishness that withholds from a friend the pleasure of giving? True generosity is freer land broader than this; accepts in gratitude what is offered in kindness, j while it stands ever ready to bestow i what is possible upon those who may need'it. It is a great mistake to think that kindness consists only in giving. finite as often and as pleasingly is it shown by receiving in a glad and grateful manner the kind| 11ess otTered by others. ?> #> * Brain Boh or ol' Womankind. 1>... i . r f j>ui ociurc wn can lorm ail (> | > 111 ion as to the fitness of tlioir sex to produce hnl; a do/en immortals in a millennium we must first ask if historic and social influencos liavo produced a generation of womanly precursors, and a jrroup of women of talent, out of which the missing immortal inioht have emerged. It. does not quite settle the question to say, what is no doubt true, that if woman 1 hail stronger brains they mi^ht have produced both. The brains both of i men and women exercise themselves U"IfcTT:E?"XV habitually ujiou such stuff as tlio <mihturns of their aim and race sot before them. All I >1II >r IM< >11'; linrt tli?? l.r.im ? power of 111 a11ki11< 1 has boon spent, or w-1???1, in sinitmo tlf 1 Miilistiik's 11it? and tliioli* an enormous part of tbo brain power of womankind bus boon spent, or wasted, in eaj >lino Samson. Hut the victories of Samson pave tbo1 way for those of Saul, and tun victories of Saul lay tbo foundations of the throne of Solomon. Tim daughters of I H'lilah found no dynasty, tliouob tliev help to upset a jrood many. In otner words, by following the fashion which required toon to fioht, the men on the winnino side may drift into social and political re. lations favorable to the growth of civilization, while the primitive division of labor, which confined woman to the tent or homestead, cut them off, as a class, from the educational influences of power and free association with powerful equals. 11 i .i e ... . j i i' mm i i n i i" .1 woman <?i oxceptiouul eupaeity unci position iniirht appear l?\ eluineo unione tin* rulers of iiK'n, I>111 the opportunity would !>e owinjf to her connection I?v hirth or marriage with tlie privileged class, and would make no opening for others of her sex. A nn fi't nf/i ( 'rutin')/. Tlio Woman unci the !*i11. 1 \vnii(l(?r what women did before tlm little, treacherous, reckless, pointed, sharp pin was invented. If a man jroes to the opera with his collar pinned on or some portion of his1 simple* attire fastened in that way lie J spends that ni<dit in a irony. lie is afraid it will come out and lie's alwavs Ollttimr his lined im to th<? back of his neck to see if it is all liolit. Then ho strikes tho point, ; sum ami runs it, into his linger. Then lie xavs " gently under his breath ami turns to the opera i aoain. lint a woman has the most j perfect confidence in the little fastener ami it really seems to be steadfast and true to her. A woman will i daily oo into a room with her whole outfit haiiein r on the constancy of a ' pin end she'll never show the faint- I I est sijjfn of anxiety. It's ureal virtue, this confidence. She'll sit r. whole eveninir with the sharp point into the small of her back, and conj \\ e and look happy. It is just sue i expedience as this that makes a woman so strone" in endurinir the) trials of life. She bears so much i discomfort for effect that she is able to face all sorts of sulTerinir with' I fortitude. A man always carries aj pill in the back of the lapel of his I t \t* i?? fl?*? i Men lo , f l'?e ...v. * ?/ III I ll? IIIPMI' <JI ||1.^ What doos ho carry it thoro for? 1 | don't know, hot a woman always | asks for a pin some time and generally jn'ts it away from him. Then when he wants it himself suddenly | : ho finds it jome and he is mad. l*ri<le, Not Pot at ions. Senator Thurmun was altogether j I out of the u'av in supposing that (ion. Ilonry It. Jackson ceased to hoi minister to Mexico because of any j lapses of a bibulous kind,. The trouble was only in his arrogant and su- j porsonsitive temperament, which has kept him in hot water from his early j manhood to the present day. lie regarded the sending of Mr. Sedowick as a special aocnt of the! State department to Mexico, to ascertain the facts in the (hitting case, as a reflection upon himself, while, in fact, it was simply obtaining information which tins minister could not have obtained himself without ! passine beyond the proper limits of )iis diplomatic cilice. Had (icnoral ? Jackson been directed to ascertain all the filets, ho would, if sensible of | Iiis own position, have caused thorn I to In? sought for by n special agent, i and this was what Seretarv Bayard / V provided for. It can safely bo said then that it was not too much "aguadiente" that ! caused (Jen Jackson's removal, but rather constitutional sense of his own importance, which has not yet been concurred in by the peoplo who have had tlx? hazard to be in communication with him, whether in military or civil life. and (\nn'irr. I>uty in Life. A man is put into this world to do a certain share of the word's work; to i stop a gap in the world's fencing; to ; i -i _ 1 iui 111 < v<m>, ihmyoit iiimuie, 111 mo I world's machinery. By tlio defalca* j tion of the humblest individual, soino | of its movomiuits must lio thrown out of gear. The duty is to I?o got through, ATI el none of us may shirk our share. Stink to your post like a Roman soldier during the watches of the night. Presently morning will | come, when every phantom must vanish into air, every mortal confront that inevitable reality for which the dream wo call a lifotsmo is hut a novitiate and a school. W'/iyfc J/t/-1 ! ri//c. The length of a flash of lightning is estimated to occasionally reach ton miles Of course most Hashes are of , very much smaller dimensions. ' 'J?. ^ \ M M MM? 17.1 Hl'ic-H-ln'UC. < )no aero is enough especially if it bo a teiulor corn. Kvo was tli" lirst woman to turn over a now loaf. I lerbs corked in bottles will keep tlioir stroiiL'th for voars n ? Tin* story of Kve clothing herself with leuvos of figs was morelv a figr> * o Iter of speech. Many talk the loudest against sin when they are walking arm-in-arm with Satan. A great many men who start out to reform the world leave themselves o(T for the last job. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men *.yere born to succeed, not to fail. A large number of yachts are advertised for sale this season; but of course that's what yachts are built for. In th<* matter of speed there is a great similarity bcetweon a flash of ujMiUMiinif ami :i I?11 <1 unrounded ^ gossip. ('anada boosts a t>rit?11 r 1OJ' year old. Mo remembers having seen a clean ollico towoll wlion lio was a bov. Tito ( ,'zar of Russia receives the largest salary of any ruler on the face of the earth, lie ought to. I'o has the most dangerous job. I lenrv George says there will be a Labor candidate in the ne\t race for the W hite Mouse, All of the candidates will labor to g< t there. The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should bo such as to give him but little occasion to thi* k much .about it. "It's all very well," said the gravedigger, "to advise a young man to begin at the bottom and work up, but in mv business it ain't practicable." If you contemplate making a blind man a birthday present, don't select a pair of gold spectacles. Silver ones will answer the same purpose. "The pin," we are told, "has made * its way into the highest walks of life." <v>ueer. The pin has but one point in its favor. But then it has a level head and lots of brass. Next to joining a Masonic lodge, getting married is probably the most important duty the ordinary man has to perforin in a lifetime. Building lots are always more plentiful in places where no one wants to build. In some of the new boom towns tlieie is nothing but building lots to be seen. The average age of Europeans girls when they marry, according to a (ierinan statisticians, is t went v-si v years, wliilo that <?f men is twentyeiolit years. "Von never know effect without cause," said one disputant. '*Yes," said the other, triumphantly*, "1 have known a hen to scratch all clay without itchincf a hit." n It is with disease of the mind as with diseases of the body; we are half dead before wo understand our disorder, and half cured whey we do. There are twenty thousand more women than men in Washington. Washington can't very well bo a capital city f??r women who are mat nmonially inclined. There is a tendency in llio minds of many men, when they are heavily disappointed in the main purposes of life, to feel that life itself is u vanity ()ne of the notes jotted down hv Longfellow reads: "A j'reat part <>f the happiness of life consists not in lighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly rotreat is in itself a victory. A man was so delighted with some sponge cake that he ate at a hotel that ho went to a drug store and purchased a lot of sponges, taking them to his home for his wife to make sponge cake out of. Sawdust and petroleum are being used as fuel by V ermont manufacturers, on account of the increased cost of the transportation of coal since the passage of the inter-State Act. The man who does not think as you do is not always a fool. Of course the chances are that ho isn't ho wise as ho might be, but there may be a little loophole of oscapo fi ii? lii iii w/unoii liOr.i Tho oldest Christian church is that at Bethlehem, built in tho year A. B. 82/, by tho Empress Helena, mother of Constantino tho Croat. It is known as tho Church of tho N'ativit y. An optimist is a woman with now spring suit. A pessimist is a f woman without a now spring suit. An optimist is a man with a baby, one day old. A pessimist is a man with a baby 1S8 nights old and teeth 1 VM* v & If