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,'^y. Heart oivd Hand* .. -X lorod her in the early spring, When bluebirds mate and robius sing] My heart cried haste ! oh, speak ! make huto t My head made answer, hasto is wasto ! dropped the corn, I sowed the whoat, " The gammer came with blossoms swoot; And all the time my heart cried haste. And head mude answer, haste is waato t I stacked tho grain, I sheared tho fehoop, -I reasoned that my love would keep; My heart's loud cry of baste, oh, haste ! Was silenced still by haste makes wasto ! ' Tho ground is covered o'er with snow, Another w< d her weeks ago ! ? My mocking heart crics haste, mnko haste ! And mocking head, oh, hnste makes waste ! Jennie K. T. Dowe in Ike Century. Story of Princess M'Tse. In a volume entitled, "Central Africa?Naked Truths of Naked People," there appears the following: On the 3d of Angus!. (1874), while preparing to destroy the little baggage that King M'Tse had caused to be re -storea to me, a messenger arrived from the King bringing with him a M'Tongoli, who had orders to procure :"tne boats resembling those in which we had navigated the Lake Victoria N'Yanza, that I might the more easily . -descend the river. Tho M'Tongoli advanced toward me, and in the name of -King M'Tse presented me with eight beautiful young girls varying from ? 1 ten to twenty years of age. One of them, the daughter of the King, a t 'beautiful child of ten years, had been sent me as a special mark of his royal favor. The little Princess was the . living image of her father both in form and face. She was subsequently placed in school at Cairo (Convent of the Bon Pasteur), where she now is. The King had sent me also a boy. of ^twelve and two beautiful little chestnut-colored infants, scarcely able to walk. It was an embarrassing dilem: ma. To refuse was to wound African etiquette, and more, brave the wrath of a man to whose hospitality and \ kindness I owed my life. It could \ mot be thought, of, therefore I accept\ -ed and sent to M'Tse a message of grateful acknowledgments. \ I had quitted Uganda on the morning of the 19Lh of July to return by the river which left the Victoria iTYanza in the North, and which, un explored and unnavigated. still was <tke unknown link in the great prob-lem of "Where are the great sources of the Nile?" I had arrived in Kubaga, the capital of Uganda, one month before, on the 20th of June, and had ^been received as a Afbuguru, or white .Princte, by 10,000 prostrate subjects of -M'Tset who contained their fear of the wuttte man until mounted upon a < horse, which, unseen till now, was a still greater phenomenon. I dismounted V^ben they fled to the jungle, horrified 1t the disjunction of horse -:and man, Vr till then they had taken -me for a cAtaur! 1 had suffered the horrible hor?r of having thirty peoipie choked, Wecapitated or hewn to h nipfips in mv VeRfinnp. rII fur mv hnnnr 1 and that the \-ranger might be im pressed with t? power of the King. M'Tse and *Toki?names I had given the girl boy (M'Toki, signifying banana, the name given the latter on accoune%f his peculiar greed >iness in devori l bananas)?were ^charmed with tt^dea of making the .first voyage of th? % lives with us, and laughed and cbatt A together in their beautiful Uganda, Aguage, as if with wery bend of the * \r they were not eaving behind thei^%orever, perhaps, ~.he dense banana \ Vjst which had *oeen their home, ex< Jpging a life of almost perfect repose' 1 toil and care in the land to the i\hward. It is v \ efficient to say that escaped miraculously the threate,\al death by starvation, the lance an^vroe arrow of ' the en my, and successf \? arrived at 'v* the military ontpost OiOapueira. A .year later, having conclui^ekother imI portant expeditions, I wav\ my way to Khartoum, en route to s^Vo, under orders from Gordon to a^Aae command of the expedition wh. \ was to p ; co-operate with him by < cming an || -equatorial road from the In&^Ocean fc to the interior. 3\ s M'Tsft whs amonor t.hA lur types in my train gatheim for ^ ;; -ethnological study, or for pres| ltion *.o the Khedive as representAjL of |j .he races which had lately bec4,.'\is tubjects. The little Prlnces&cJLs % amazed at the steamer which to Aj W from Gondokoro to Khartoum; in. ' latter place she saw for the first \ \ L , a house, at Berber a camel, and fina 1 j i In Cairo, the Oity of tho Victorid> 1 the El-Kahitah of the Caliph. shall I picture her delight and expra* X- sions of amazement? The ethnologl cal collection was turned over to thi Khedive, but M'Tse, in pursuance ol the idea which had decided me tc i bring her to Cairo, I determined shouli) C'1 be educated. With this object in vievs . I went to see Sister Agatha, of th< 5 :' . Concept of the Bon Pabtear, wbc readily entered into my pluis and un ; \ : -'V W'i'? ;" ' ' ?r "v derfcook her education, and a suflioiefjl BUD1 wao placed at ber disposal to meej th? projected metamorphosis. An ltt< terval of several years -went by, dUF> ing which I was frequently absent in command of expeditions engaged in distant explorations. I was in Cairo after my return from the Indian Ocean. Sister Agaths brought to see me a tall, magnificent* looking woman of the Abyssinian type, dressed in the extreme fashion, and tout a fait a la Parisienne, to whioli were added a pair of somewhat ultrt fashioned pink silk shoes with heeh Louis XIV. I did not recognize tht Sister nor her protoge until the strange likeness to the Queen of Sheba had seized my hand, and in accents which recauea tne nttie creature in tne jungle cried Moulima! (my master). It was M'Tse ! I stared, and was'dumb with amazement, and was in no wis? recovered from it when tho good Sister presented me a modiste's bill which showed that tho vanity of the newty Hedged Christain was fully as great as when nude she had decked herself with every vari-colored ribbon she could put her hands upon. Sistei Agatha informed me that it was quite time to place M'Tse in some home where she might become useful; and, in view of the modiste's bill, I was quite of the same opinion. She had been baptized, and bore the name of Marie. Marie, nee Princess M'Tse, e teredthe family of a kind Greek lady, and with what results will hereafter appear. Six years had gone by and a delusre of fire and blood had swept over Egypt During the interregnum of insurrection and disorder what had become ol the Uganda Princess? Pagan and Christian she was now a Moslem. One day in August, '83, I was in Alexandria, an advocate for my clients whowere seeking indemnity for the fires which, lit by the insurgents, had burned them out of their houses and homes. I was seated at the tabic d'hote of the Hotel Canal de Suez when I was attracted by a romantic story told by my Arab neighbor, whom I knew to be Achmet Bey, for he was thus addressed by his companion, whc was an eager listener to the story. lie spoke of a beautiful woman, the daughter of a King, who had been brought to Cairo from far-off Ethiopia; of her education, her charms, and how finally, after the white inan had confided her to a Greek family, she had been sold into slavery and had married her master, a Mussulman Bey like himself, but a drunken fellow who misused her; that a short time before she had escaped, and. seeking protection at his harem, had been introduced bj his eunuchs to his favorite wife, with whom she now was. It was M'Tse. ] startled Achmet Bey when I laid s heavy hand upon his shoulder and said: "Ye Bey, Ana el moalim fi, bint." (Oh, Bey, 1 am the master of hei of whom you speak.) I told hiin her story in a few words, and of the promise given me some time before by Tewfik Khedive that when the rebellion in the Soudan had been crushed and the opportunity offered an oflicer of rank should espouse the Princess and be sent as Embassador to the Court of her father. The ostensible reason given the Khedive was that such an act would be an exceptional opportunity to confirm the treaty which I had made with King M'Tse years before in behalf of Egypt, and by which he recognized himself as a vassaL I had another object unexpressed, which was that the Christian child, rejoined to her kindred, might convert her father, and perhaps her people, to the Christian faith. Achmet Bey was a man of kindly heart. He promised me, and even swore by the beard of the Prophet and by his religion, that he would be responsible for M'Tse, keep her at bis house as the companion of his wifq and when the time should come thai she should be returned he would pa> for her fantasia and marriage fete. The Mahdi has drawn a line tightlj across the country which separates hei from her father; a little while longei and the occasion may offer to accom plish the plans here detailed. If so, history may yet relate how the little waif, given in Court etiquette into th< hands of a stranger guest, returned it after years?as bread upon the watei ?to regenerate her people, and wh< may be known hereafter as Christian Princess M'Tse the First. How Boslness Is. With the theatrical agent it ii ^"booming." 1 Wltv, v-i .1 i_ - i ifiou uio wiuuab ib is "getting liveVwitli the baby it is "rattling." i Vvith the professor of astronomy il Alooking up." >lftlththe newsdealer it is station r \/vVh the convalescent it is improv > V^V the sneak-thief it is "picklnj ^ V>T y.'V.V/. >tO ; y xSpVV^w 'V *^5 ?*."*? v?** ,"-V :.*; I'ji/Vsr*, .: * : * . ,^' , .' 'v ? cV , ' > v' ' j fHE FAMILY PHYSICIAN, ' , ^(j U;movc a Mote from the ?rc. 1 tfrtko ? horsehair and double It, ' leaving a loop. If the mote can be 1 8MB lay the loop over It, close the k eye, and the mote will come out as the hair Is withdrawn. If the Irritating 1 object cannot be seen raise the lid of k the eyo ag high as possible and place the loop as far as you can, close the ' eye and roll the ball around a few times, draw out the hair, and-the sub1 stance which caused the pain will be k sure to come with it This method is ' practiced by axtnakers and other ? workers in steel.?Medical 'Times. [ Treatment of IVervo*tm?eH*. i Exercise is of service, especially if . taken early in the day. Sleep?that ; is, rest of brain?is essential. Every ) nervous patient, should have nt least > seven hours?eight is a preferable number. During repose repair of t the nervous system is in i-xcess of the . waste; hence its vulue. With regard i to the therapeutic treatment of nervI nilQDPQQ tho ail hionf ia i?r\ nconnf ioUir V4?V uuvjwv AO OU COOUll tKUl r , scientific that uo patient whoso ail. ment is anyway advanced should do , well to attempt self-cure. In trilling j or incipient cases, all that is required is an abandonment of the producing , conditions, and, even when the disorder has made some progress, a general attention to dietetics?that is, s proper food, drink, exercise, sleep and t bathing?will generally result in the re-establishment of health. ' Atomic of the Muaclei of Baby Eye*. The two muscles?a set for each eye?act in perfect correlation, and - enable the organ in an instant of time I to cover an infinite range of vision. Wa flnO Oil i l?.1 ?*> ftr* ^ 4- ~ - J.1U UUO (1UJ UOOUIUUb UJ, tliu tl'lOSL'UpC, , i no system of lenses and prisms can ac1 coinplish this feat in an instant of ? time. I The utmost cnution is therefore iml peratively demanded of every person j to whom is consigned the care of the t young child from infancy to perhaps | ; the third year of life. It is during i this time that damage to the muscular j apparatus of the eye may be done. > The mother or nurse is eager to have baby see everything from a nursery j window, or from a carriage or car. i How many tired heads, languid eyes, ; and disordered tempers result from ' this mistake! How often is loss of accommodative power, or enlarged I pupil, or cross eye the consequence! I Worms, "inward tits," sour stomach, flea bites, and bad temper are some of . the morbid and moral posers which i the mother and the family doctor^poni der over. An indication of the delicate and , undeveloped muscular apparatus of the eyeball within the first two months* t of life is found in the ease with which [ some infants look cross eyed. It is ' well known that in sleep the eyes are , turned upward under the brows, and inward, and that a true crossed con j anion ot the optical axes occurs dur, I ing this state. An occasional temporary crossing1 of the eyes of an infant above two months of age should be carefully in, vestigateiL The child should be handled lightly; it should not be played , with too much; it ought to lie or roll ( on its back in preference to sitting on , the lap or in a chair. Any unequal , size of the pupils should be carefully , noted. It may be either the sign of some internal trouble or a simple , local affection of the muscular tissue controlling the pupil.?Babyhood* McCIellan's Farewell to the Array. Taking leave of the Army of the * Potomac in November, 1862, General McClellan with his staff roile rapidly along the front of the army drawn up ^ in line to greet their commander for the last time. As the brilliant group swept by the regimental colors of the Fifteenth Massachusetts caught his attention. Th?*y had been out in many a shower of lead, and had sufI fered especially at Antietam. Only a few rags fluttered from the shattered staff, which was patched with a band of tin rudely nailed on where it had been broken by a shot. No other color, in that part of the line at least, waB so badly torn. Riding rapidly, McClellan had passed the regiment before he could check his horse, but then he wheeled, returned, and halted, saluted the color, pathetic symbol of valor and sacrifice, by slowly raising his cap. The thunder of cheers that acknowledged this act of gracious courtesy revealed one of the secrets of j McClellan'fl popularity with his army. ? Worcester Spy. Protect Ion Against Falsehood. "Madam," observed the dry goods clerk, "these goods are warranted all wool." "I have heard that they are half cotton." "You must not believe everything ' you hear, madam," returned the clerk. "I do not, sir," replied the lady. \ "I have been married twice,"?New York Graphic. ? ' V' LADIES* DEPARTMENT. Women In France. There are no happier women in th< world than French women. For ever} hour there is laid out an appointee pursuit or duty or pleasure. Hei house and family are her first care but although an irreproachable wif< and affectionate mother, she does no1 let her duty take the form of drudgery. She knows her own value and fullj realizes the importance of keeping hei health and nerves in excellent order so she will not suffer her cares tc muster her, but wisely arranges everything with careful method, and allows herself time for social intercourse, foi music, reading, walking, dining, and I amusements of whatever nature she J j fancies.?Brooklyn Eayle. Women in the Morning. A bachelor writing to the Pall Mall Gazette, thinks the best time to judge of a wornap is in the morning. "What | is the most favorable time to see a woman in order to compose a character synopsis? Decidedly, I think, at breakfast and during the forenoon. As a general rule, if she looks well then she is in good health; if she dresses neatly she is tidy; if she is full of projects for a morning's work, and executes a reasonablo number, she possesses mental activity and bodily energy. Deware of the young woman who complains of being cold in the morning, who looks s'.cklv, who comea down late, who appears to have dressed hastily, who languishes a whole forenoon over a couple of letj ters to an absent sister or school-felI low. No matter how bright and ani I iimiou anc iii??y Appear xuruier on, j avoid her. Lead her not to your sub| urban villa; engage no matrimonial | apartments. She will not make a good I wife. She will make a bore and a slattern. A Flea tor Matrimony. We who are in the toils of life, bearing burdens of the day,see that continuous striving is no harder to us than to those who, standing by our side, have no burdens to bear save those of their own self-indulgence. I never hear a man say he would get married if he could afford it without distrustI t US O ? I tug mm. oucn men woum ne misers if they had anything to save. Such men would hoard and gloat and take pleasure in the physical presence of gold and silver and the rustling of bank notes. What is money for but to spend ? Why do we spend it but to secure enjoyments born of comfort and luxury for those we love, as well as for ourselves? You will notice I am not discussing this question of matrimony from the plane of morality, from the plane of companionship, from the plane of helpfulness, but solely and singly from the plane of independence whereon we stand, finding it a1* easy to support two as one, and half a dozen as two.?Philadelphia Press. ! Healthy Olrls. I Nothing, says Dio Lewis, is so ter! rible as severe neuralgia, and beyond l a doubt, girls acquire il often enough I by the conditions of school life. Headache in a school girl usually *neans exhausted nerve power through overwork, over-excitement, over-anxiety or bad air. Rest, a good laugh, a country walk, will usually cure it readily enough to begin with. But to become subject to headaches is a very serious matter, and all such nervous i diseases have a nasty tendency to rej cur, to become periodic, to be set up by the same causes, to become an organic habit of the body. For any woman to become liable to neuralgia is a most terrible thing. It means that while It lasts life is not worth having. It paralyzes the power to work, it deprives her of the power to enjoy anything, it tends towards irritability of temper, it tempts to the use of | narcotics and stimulants. So says Dr. I 'VT-l * ? - Heiauii, ana so say i. a. gin wno finds herself subject to neuralgia should at once change her habits, if but to grow strong in body. Of whr.t use is education with ill-health? A happy girl must be a healthy one. The Greeks educated their girls physically; we educate ours mentally. The Greek mother bore the finest children the world ever produced. The Greek education of girls developed beautiful women, and their beauty lasted till old age. The beautiful Helen was as handsome at 50 as at "sweet sixteen." raihlon Note*. Hoods on street wraps are popular just now. A dog collar of jets is still stylish and is always becoming. Five tiny plaitings finish the bottom of stylish French costumes. JQeck rachinqs are in greater favor than any other style of throat drees. Velvet broche on wool in figures are promtv?at features in fall woollens. . ' v.: to; /?, '. " ' jtj J Many of the woollen serge dresses for autumn wear are trimmed witfc braid. 5 Linen cuffs are tied with tiny bow< ^ of narrow ribbon In lieu of sleevt buttons. r Fur shoulder capes are to bo worn, j but probably are not so fashionable as . last winter. A movable vest nlastron in is I r a fashionable accompaniment to black costumes. , A clasp is the most stylish finish for > the neck. Brooches are only usel in full dress. > Vests of kid or chamois leather are ^ worn with wool dresses made with i u 1 cutaway jackets. ^ ! In bonnets where velvet and fur j, are combined the fur must match the 0 color of the velvet. f The collar of dressy toilets is fast- n ened oil one side and is finished by a bow with numerous ends cut in points. k Valenciennes, so becoming and delicate, is to the most fashionable . rufiling worn on the neck and sleeves, b Short seal-plusli jackets .are trimmed o ^ with tufts of the material, and cloaks of it have ball fringe of the real seal Very attractive suits for children r i are made of coarse jersey cloth in dark e shades. These are for either girls or a boys. f i Plaids of all the brilliant tartans 1 i are very fashionable for children's i wear. Even outer garments are made , of them. Silk gauze in all the evening colors has self-colored chenille and silver ^ loops. Black silk gauze has gold and j, red chenille loops. London milliners are making a t specialty of college caps in velvet and i, other materials to correspond with v ' costumes for'autumn wear. a Bonnet strings should be only fiveeighths or three-quarters of a yard s long, and tied in a bow under the chin or only a little on one side. n Little girls wear a great deal of brown and red this season, but no matter what the color of their frocks, their stockings, to be correct, must be t black. i! A new trimming of feathers is the a plucked duck's breast. The color is 3 a lovely shade of soft gray in its natural state and it makes a lovely 1 ' garniture. Silk sashes, eleven inches wide and a three and a quarter yards long, have silver and gold bar3 with velvet brocade figures, and are edged with changeable plush. I A jacket just imported is of two v kinds of fur?otter and seal, the seal forming the jacket and the unplucked 5 otter the vest and trimmings. This was a tight-fitting garment. 3 Postal Savings Bank. It is generally agreed that a system of savings institutions that would be t easily accessible to the people throughout the country, give them absolute N security for their small savings, and * repay deposits at short notice, would, 1 even if the rate of interest were very low, be a great convenience to many 1 people in every community, and a great encouragement to economy and I thrift amontr workiDnr-men and people of small incomes. There are many 1 who think that postal savings-banks (1 similar to those which have been in I successful operation in Europe and in the British colonies for a number of years wou!d furnish iust the sort of faculties for saving that are needed in " this country. Many Americans know , something of the working of the postal savings-banks in England, where ^ they have been in operation since 1861. There are now upward of 7,800 of the post-otflces in the United Kingdom open, commonly from nine in the morning until six, and on Saturday ^ until nine, in the evening, for the receipt and repayinant of deposits. One shilling is the smallest sum that can be deposited. Ihe Government lias, however, recently issued blank forms with 3 spaces for twelve penny postage- n stamps, and will receive one of these 1 forms with twelve stamps affixed as a v deposit This plan was suggested by D the desire to encourage habits of sav- " ing among children, and by the sue- * cess of penny banks in connection 11 with schools and mechanics' institutes.' * x<iu una caa ueposit more man ?3U in | " one year, or have to his credit more 3 thon ?150, exclusive of interest. * When principal and interest together " amount to ?200, interest ceases until the amount has been reduced below ?200. Interest at two and a half per 3 cent is paid, beginning the first of the ? month following the deposit and stop x ping the last of the month ) receding f( the withdrawal, but no interest is ,, paid on any sum that is less than a ? 1 pound or not a multiple of a round. The interest is added to the principal h the 31st of December of eaoh year.? )( Popular Science Monthly. 'A . ,\r-: vv>,7 ' *'? '4CHILDREN'S COLUMNT" Little ThlnRi. Little labors rightly done, I,ittlo battles bravely von, Little musterios uchiovoil, Littlo wants with caro rcliovcd, Little words in love expressed, Little wrongs at once confessed, Little favors kindly done, Littlo toils thou didst not shun, Littlo graces meekly worn, Littlo lights with pationce homo? These shnll crown tho pillowed hoad Holy light upon thee shed; These aro treasures that shall riae Fur beyond the smiling skies. About ncciUca. "Mamma, what do they make neeles of ?" asked Dorothea as she looked p from her sewing. She was a brightyed little girl of seven years, of an iquiring turn of mind and industrials in her habits. "Of wire, Dorothea," replied her nother. "Steel wire ?" "Yes." "It must be very fine ?" * "It is so very fine that fifteen thouand ordinary needles can be made ut of one pound ot wire." "Do they make one needle at a time?" "Xo, dear. That would be a very low process, and would make them ather expensive. One hundred wires, ight feet long, are placed in a bundle nd cut into propor sizes by a powerul pair of shears; it is so arranged hat one man can easily cut about one nillion needles in a day of twelve lours." Dorothea's eyes widened. How are they polished?" she asked. "I hardly know whether I can ex?lain the operation to you," replied ler mother. "The needles are tied up n bundles and placed in what is called he scouring machine. They are kept a motion from eight to ten hours, vhich gives them a silvery appearnce." "That seems simple enough," oberved little Dorothea. "I didn't say they came out of the nachine polished,"resumed the mother. The rolls are then covered with puty powder and oil, wrapped in canvas, nd placed in a similar machine called he polishing machine. A third process j necessary. The canvas is removed nd the needles are agitated in a vesel filled with soft soap and water." 4,In order to remove the oil?" Dorohea asked. "Yea, dear. They are finally dried n ash wood sawdust, after which thej re tempered." Which means brittle, don't it, mam? ua?" 44 Just so. It is done by making them tot, plunging them into oil, and afteryard burning off the oil." Dorothea was very much interested. >he now closely examined the needle vhich she had in her hand. Mamma, do they drill the eyes and hurpen the needles before they temper hem ?" she asked. Yes, Dorothea. I was getting along oo fast in my description. A clever vorkman will drill and polish the toles of seventy thousand needles per veek." "That is a large number, mamma. Vre they sharpened on a grindstone?" "Yes." "One needle at a time?" Oh, no. An expert grinder will hold wenty-five of the wires at once gainst the stone, presenting all their >oints by a dextrous movement of his humb." n?iaKA/l 'v" ^vftvwuvt* ^/MailbU UO? liil^UII lOOf "Where are needles principally made, aarama?" "In Redditch, a small town neat Birmingham, in England. It is the ;reat centre of the needle trade, and t. may be said that it has supplied the vhole world for almost two hundred ears. Ninety millions of needles are urned out every week." It was a larger number than Dorothea's mind could grasp. un<rl ? J1 1? - 1 * ? du that 1, too, am gazing toward the ime pale orb, and our souls will hold weet communion. Good-night. A little later. Mian Clara (In the ouse)?Mother, do you know what . ?; 1 ?oome of all thoee cold buckwheat ikes left oyer from br?ckfsst? xjlu mo/ uao uoouiea in otu uuies r he asked. They are mentioned by some very Id writers. The beautiful Babylo* ian embroideries, which were often lade out of gold thread were wrought .* rith needles. The body of the wife f the Emperor Honorius, whose grave >-as discovered at Rome, in 1544, was trapped up in an embroidered dress, rom which thirty-six pounds of gold rere obtained. The needles used by tie ancient Egyptians were made of ronze. They had no eyes in them, wing to the difficulty of piercing nch minute holes in the metal." A Soulful Appetite. Miss Clara (at the front door)? ood-night, George, dear. As you ok upon the moon on vour lournav onieward. let the thought come to >