Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NEWS IN BRIEF. -Blue Is the mourning color in China. -The first college was Harvard, in 1638. -The United States have 43,003,000 sheep. -Umbrellas were Imported from India in 1772. -Chinese botanists can grow oaks in thimbles. -Last year our railroads carried 600, 000,000 people. -Nails were first made in Rhode Island in 1777. -Geese in mig,,ting often travel over 6 000 miles. -The average height of the elephant Is nine feet. -A single tobaoco plant will produce 360,030 seeds. -At the equator the average annual rainfall is 100 inches. -The earth receives only one two billionth heat of the sun. -A teaspoonful of microbes contains over 4.000,000 Individuals. -Botanists say that there are upward of 50,000 varieties of plant. -The will-o'-the-wisp is caused by the decay of vegetable matter. Vegetarians say it is a pol ular fal lacy that meat is needed for strength. -Rivers hold in suspension over one hundredth of their volume of solid mat ter. -Aa oak tree nearly five centaries old was recently felied near Castliten, Int. -De La Reynlere's "Almana3h des Qlourmands" Is the most famous cook Dook. -France has three dynami te factor es which produce over 25,0. 0,00 dyn% nite cartridges a year. -Berlin, Germany, has the widest train roof on the coutinent-that at anhalt station, which 18 198 feet live nches. -The Fijian belleve that the souls )f all people of marriageable .e % no lie unmarried can never ent r luto aeaven. -So dense is the water in the deep at part of the ocean that an iroul'Ld. if it were to sink, would never rea-h tUe sottom. -A writer alculates that it !a' es dight times the strength to go upstairs shat Is required for the same distance )n the leveL -Doctor Eu..- ne L. Crutch!&W^, of Gaitimo:e, .id., Las r ceve I the vold neials of the Sacety of Siteue-, Lt tr and Art of Lonuoi-. -Peach-stons3 are used a fuel .in 3alilornma. Tnrey are ipoi-' by :auning iactories,and bring $15 jcr ton. -A ..ave A quarter of a mila in >readith and f..r.y feet h;O i not iese bly felt .t a depth of 223 famous. 'lha rewani of a race of litliputdIans, aelie ved to be t be ance: t.rs of t be Ulexlcan Azes have heo unea.rthed it E* T1eune.mee. --Au agencey for tb6 t a of exclusive *e Ipe.s for soupe, sauces and estra~es tas bten opened in Parie by a ' retied -lash must have been an inventron - f th~e oldI Rom~ans, for it i4 ielated hat thy mnixeid ali sorcs oC meats ajidi * ouund-d thi- 14 - - - - ..;isa (Cail.)Btg Tree grove has 427 big trees. The largast is 34 feet In diameter. Through a tunnel or hole Cut i one a wour-hurse stage is d~iven daily. -Luminous earth worms have re sently bea seni near Richmond and x~lec parts or the Thames V41!ey in Enugland. .ut it is pointe'd out that -- these phorphdai' scent anuelids are not uncormou, having been descibed by Carimm as e ir'y as the year 16-0. P --The humn body contains 150 boneu and 500 muscle; the hea?rt beals a* yen' y times a minute, diaplacing e seh time f..rty-f our gr .mmes et lood. Al .be blood. pa-ses urought the heart in -The ancient Romans made the kitchen one of the chier rooms or the iiou:e. It was paved with ti'ee, while .he walls wer e hang with pictures ana '-berwie decorated. -It Is ca~lc'tsi that on a bright mmmiier day there are rated !rdlo the uir Ly evatratin Iromn tus~ surface of the Meditearanean 6,280.000 tens of wattr. -Cable dis'atches are generally re selved at the rate of twenty to twenty Sve wor ds a m no. An expert teleg' rapher of a land line ser~ds about for:y words In that time. -It has bee'n estimated that a bell of common s~ze, whose scund iaould penetrate a distance of three to five miled on shore, could if sub~meged in the sea, be hea,.d over sixty miles. -The phenomenon of ,phosphorase ne a not universaily undetstood. Objects ossessing: this property absorb tight luring the day and emIt It at night. -Doctor Sieiers, of Giessen, has re Selved a grant of $2000 from the Hlamn surg Geograpi.al Society for e: plora :ions in the Llanos of the Orinoco. -Fulgurites, or lightning tubes, 'aused by the lightning striking in iandy soil, have b..en found in New hiexico thirty feet 1one. -The first Sunday school in New Tork City was started about 1816 by M4rs. 1)a'vid IBethunie and Mrs. Mary lhfason. --The la-gest Gothic church inl the world is Cologne CathedraL. Its foun lation stornes were laid in 1248, and ;he edifice was com;2leted in 18j. -Black patches shaped hk~e stars, :rescents, horsisanoes, and even li..e :oatcnes and hoises, were worn by the ladies of the cours of Q ieen Aunie. -A kite it.ig 1 000 feet long blea mU'i lodged against the rigging of the BAltimre scho,>ner Soutiier when it ras in tne Atlaatic thirtLy-five milce ~rom land. .krror of opinion mIay le tt)1'ratdd w';pre reason is left free ta C fi at t. The strongest man in trie worl i ie one who can best control h~iis~r. We sometimes thirk w u nee more krace, when all we need is mer e res.. O)nstmnacy is good for nothog; it is the caricature of firmness. FightL the hbit of taki~n man,smsl vtews ot' your neighbor's actions or The moan wh'o dioes the n cst coim .ialring generally thas the least time to A mistate is one of the things th . T HE ALPt-!Ae- 1 T-TREE. BY C!.AK LOTT BATZ3. To Ihek aU play was ood, A'l lear. Iiv very bad, Until one night, when tired out, A ciia-ming dream he( had: In a wide gardt-n space. All shine and greel, ston I he. Where, the sunnie4t, tairest place, Grew an Alahabet-tree. Fruits purple, gold and red. Bent every tini'st t wig: A's were apples, the buinche; of B's Bananas yellow and big; He spied an oranze-O: a plum. antd that was F; C was a c"rry. Q a quince. Ana a gie.a bie graote was G. How full of juice they were! How ripe the svnt~l!e!.eed! Ankd wlen 'e n:d eaten from every bough, U;ehuid Jac% liked to readi He ate from rea-treaked A I-ay duwn toX, Y, Z, Anil eried: "There never was anything So nice as this Aip:abet-tee I" Wide Awake The War to Manage Bennhie. BY M. L. B. BRANCH. Mane Shortledge has a fever, and her notner has sent Bennie over here to Au:tt Ann's for fe tr he'll catch it. Aunt Ant. is goiig to keep him till Mame gets well if It takes two months, sbe say:, becrse she Is sorry for Mrs *hortle-lge. Ile eleeps in te trundle bed in Aunt A-m's room, and he looks real cunning m Lii night-gown. When be first came, Marian and I curled his hair and showed him pic tures, and p'ayed with him all the time we were not in school. But after a day r two we got tired, and there were so many o'bor things we wanten to do we couldn't be bothered with Bennie. So when he came banging around with his picture-book. we'd s-y, "Oh, run away, Benniel We can't stop to show p'cturs now. By and by we will." TLen in a minute or two he'd come gain, and say: "It is bimebynow, Jamarian!" That's the way be mixes our names up, be causA he hears Aunt Ann say "Jane and Marian," when she cpeaks to us. Well, of course we couldn't stop to sow him 1.ictures when we had all our lessons to learn and worsted work to do; and besideR, I am learning to roclet. So when he kept teasing us, ,e'd say: "Oh, do get out of our way, Ben! Don't you see we're busy?" And once or twice we gave him a lit tle push. It didra' hurt him a bit, but he w-nt in a corner and erie], and Aunt Ann said we ought to have more patience. I felt sorry myself when I heard him sobbing: "I want me mawmnal I wa'-t m? mimmal" Fur we haa Leard that very day that Manie was worse and her mo' her was all tired out, but she couldn't lEave h r a minute. So then I told iFennie I would show im tenr pictures if he would let me lone af erwar's, and Marlan sad she ould give him a lozenge if he would et her alone, and so we got as much s an hour to do cur own work in peace. ennie went and sat down by himself In his little <hair; and he looked so for orn and so cunning I had halt a. mind o g i~ and play with him, but I just urned away and wouldn't notice hIm, nd got all the red done in the book ark I was working, before dark. After supper he cried again to go ome. Aunt Maria had or.e of her eadaches, but she took bim In 1 er lap nd got him to slep, and Marian and I ad a chanca to ao our sue Whben e went up-stairs to bed we arer'd bh AIt was really trying to have a child ie tnat in the house. "It mixes up your duties so," said ~larian. "It makes you fe-i as if you did wrong to learn your lessons and end ycur stocktnps I know Aunt nn ac'ually frowned at us when we ere ciphering." I siniled uder the bedclothes, for aian never does mend her stockirga till the very last minute before she puts hem on, but I agreed with her th-it it was too bad to be made to feel selfish hen we were doir-.g things we ought >do. The nex' morning one of the girls in shool lent us a splendid book to rea'4 but she said we must finsh it that same day, for she could not let us keep it any lger. So we thought we would read ll we 00: 1.1 at neon to get a start. As we turned irto our yard, there was Belinie wat'hing f )r ue at the win dow. He laughe-l and clapped h S hands when he saw us, and we could bear him call: "Jamnarien! Jamarian 1" "There now!" said Maria". "He o't let us re-ad one word. Let's go p garret and stay till dinner is ready." So w ben we went in we just laid our books and slates on the table in the rent entry, and slipped up-stairs ~stad of gcing into the sitting room. e found a nice p'aee up in the west garret by the window, and there we at iiie by side, reading as fast as we :uid for nearly half an hour. It was ifairy-book. "I wish I could be a fairy," sa'd Maran. "I could maie so i.any people happe. Either a fairy or a isionary." I thought .it was very noble in iarian to want to do so much good1, nd when Auiut Ann called us to dIn er we went down with our aims around each ol ber, and felt pleasant oward everybody. But the minute we opened the sit ting >3m deor, Bennie ran to meet us, ex laiing j 'yoUsly: "See my pretty horses! I drawed m all m)self. .Look, Jamarin!~l We icoked down. It was my elate! e had got it from the entiy tau~e, and rubbed out all my sums that I had worked so hard over the evening hie ore, and that [ was keep'ng on my late for that afteroeon's ac:tation! I was so provoked I uould ha~ve suaien "Yo nauobty, nauhty boA"' I 2ried. "Now yor.'ve spoiled my lesor', nd I shall lose my perfect card, and I o hig it's too mean I" A cloud came over his bright l:ttle race, and his lip quivered. I didn't :are if he did cry. I thought be ought O after doing suen a thing as that. I xpected Aunt Ann would scold him, 'ut he dian't; she only looked sad. There was no time to spare. Yarian id I ate our dinner, and went otY to :bool as gn'ck as we could. Before lie i il rang I step'ped up to tihe teach r and told her' low Bonnie shortledigc bad rubbe'd u'.:t my sums, and asked ter to excus- my levon. Sh.' was a [e~Pr deal ulcer than I thought she ould t'e. "Certaulv I w!!i excure you, Jane," be said, j'leasaintly, "and you shall inve your n erg s ju't the same. Feor itle B.ennme! I suprose he doesn't nnwa ton do en himsdf away rrom his mother. I am so glaa he is with you and your aunts,you can make hlim so haippy 1"1 I sat down at my des!, thinking to myself that folks didn't know what a trouble Bennie was; but all the afternoon I rept remembering how glad his little face looked through the pare when he saw us coming home, and how timid and sorrowful he was after I scoldeca him. When school was out, and Marian and I went home, there was Bennie watching again, but lie didn't call out to UP. We clapped our hands and laughed, and then he laughed, too, and met us at the door. Something had come over us both, so tnat we did not want to push him away. We got thp fairy-bok and finished it, and we let him see all the pictures. Then we wanter to (o our sums for next day, and I thought to m3self: "Oh dpar. now we shall hava a timrel" But Marian said: "Bennie, want to do sums, too? There's an old slate in the closet, and I'll give you a pencil." And then, don't you think, that little mite drew up his little chair and sat Cowin just as sober, and made little marks and lines all over his slate till we had ilnished every one of our sums, and he thought he was ciphering just as much as we were. Then he trotted up to Aunt Ann for tier to see, and she looked as pleased as could be. Well, just that little thing, that .eemed like an accideun, has been the greatest h-lp to Marian and me. We havei't had a Lit of trouble wi'.h Ben nie since, a .d we love him b. tter every day. I wish he was my little brother. When he wants to bang around us, we let him. When we are writing compositiona, we give him some paper to scribble on, to). When we study our spelling we glve him a word to spell now and then. He is so cunning! Ile spells like this: "B-1-d, cat!" And whn we work with our worst eds, we let him have a needle threaded and a bit of canvae, and ne is just as busy as we are. He Isn't any trouble at all, now that we have found out how to m;tnae bim; and when he thinks he has done something pretty well, his voice sounds so sweet, as he calls onf: "Look! Look, JamarlianI"-Youth's Companion. SWEETNESS AND LIGHT. BY MRs. TALBOT coKE. Few combinations ol words have, perhaps, of late years been more ridi. culed tban the above -no doubt be cause thiey became a "catch word" with the "too, too preciously divine" class of b.:ings, male and female, with which the world was flooded at the time of the blue teapot and peacocks feather craze. Yet, looked at dispas sionately, what a lovely combination they suggest. I !ancv most of us, however, know very "sweet' wtmen who are not only infinitely depressing but aggravating bsvond belief in their selfish mono tone. This special form of., so-called sweetness often accompanies a maladie imagina ire, by which I mean the in valid who can do anything she want~ to do, but nothing she doesn't! "I have my good days,'' she says with a smile of harrowing sweetness and it is quite remarkable how those "good days" coincide with any pleasant invi tation, or how the "bad days'' crop up when it is a case of dreary duty to be done, or boredom to be endured! Sweetness, therefore, is not so at tradive without light, i.e., brightness and unself6shness, and if this be so in wom'in it is so in her sorroundings. Take in that case sweetness to mean beauty of color, freshness of idea, and quaitness of arrangement, we still want light by which to really enjoy these attractions. 190w, we are all far too fond of blocking up our windows, in town or country-in the former, in. deed, this fad amounts to a mania. Look as you drive through the sqnares, terraces, streets, and "gardens" of our large cities where people most do con gregate, and notice the arrangement of even the dining-room windows; at best there are heavily patterned lace curtains almost meeting, with thick criins t ehind; at worst the lace cur tans are heavily crossed half way down, so that no breath of air in sum mer, no ray of light in winter, shall ever penetrate that gloomy dining room. And why is this sacrifice offered up? Only presumably, because (if in a street) it would be so dreadful if "the people oppos te" could see us at breakfast! For the life of me I could find no other reason. "Bunt then you've never lived in a city," I am told, which in no whit changes nf opinioin that if I ever do, I will have all the light (to say nothing of the sweetness!) which the city c m af ford me! I own, however, that many town windows are quite ugly enough t' make us thankful to hide them, but a deiihtul fashion has come in of fixing more or less elaborate tracery of wood work on the upper plate glass pane, ths par tly frustrating "over the way's" overpowering desire to see what we have for luncheoni and certainly mak ing a pretty window out o. an undeni ably plain one, and that at a ve.ry tri fling cost. Now I .ld that scbaurangement, wth a row of p ants in summer, and small eionymus bushes in winter, is quit screen enough for any dining room window. If in town I would (regardless, for once, of the look out d baxve no thin curtains whatever d urig the winter months, but have a sdk frill edged with pretty fringe add ed. to just break the hard line of the thick ones. How mneh less excuse, is there for veiling and blocking the windows in a sqiare or "gardens"? I am always glad when I see a crusade beginning in a dreary street as to bringing in m~ore light. I noticed one the other da: whih the proprrietor appeared tbe knocking the two narrow-minded iokin; " es' of the drauwi er'~m ilt oie b'radl smi ing projectin;.gx panse or a cheery bay inzdow. and I longed to stop, peep into the duli din ig-! oomi, and then ran npstairs to realize ihe "sweetness and light" this wise alteration must have shed into the front drawing-roomn. What a difference to the outside of a dull level street it would make :f everyone threw out pretty windows, even in dining and drawing-rooms. Another hobby of m'.ne, in dark town houses, is that the rooms, though not leading into each other, should ?/'t /uP ih v#95/, o hher, and thus, say in ra stet where side viodows are impuos ihle, do away withi the defect of the light being all at one end of tl-e room. it is a common fashion in city, houses, having one dark room sand wicd in between two lighted ones, to have only unglazed sliding doors, or even door-ways with portieres mak in th Ad arkoo practiclly hnt a useless appendix to the two t-rs. A much better way is to have glazed slid ing doors opening into both the other rooms. If the glass is "ground" the room will retain all necessary privacy and yet be sufficiently light to be avail able for separate uses when so desired. Large mirrors in such a room are al ways desirable, if there is space for them, as they aid -in making the place cheerful by reflected light. As my constant readers know I am not burdened with decorative princi ples. I know what things I like and dislike, and, judging by the many grateful letters I receive, tl-e following of the former and avoidcanc' of the latter pleates a good many folks, and no amount of argument will ever con vince me of the "artistic enormity" of using mirrors as a means of increasing one's santy light. I think this tenet arose in the "Es - thetic" days, and, perbaps, considering the weird and "floppy"cr atnres whicli assembled in so -c lled "High Art' rooms, it was well for us that we had not also their reflections to contend withI but in a long low room, with perhaps but one window at the end, a mirror-craftily placed so as to reflect that window-makes a vast difference to the cheeriness of such a room. Yet still in many an old-world house a mir ror which would thus be well bestowed, is perched on the mantelpiece, where retching to the cornice-it has yet never had the good fortune to reflect anytl.ing more interesting than the whtite washed ceiling, which, when you come to think of it, makes rather a "wasted existence" for a mirror! Of color, as a civer of light, I am never tired of writing; only this morn ing a letter came, full of woe, (self made.as usual). "We have papered our dining-room with an jlive green-and bronn-paper, the curtains are bronze. green serge, and the carpet is black with a brown pattern; the room was dark to begin with, but now we think it looks more dismal. Will you kindly," etc., etc. Now, if this dear lady had spent a week trying to kill all "sweetness and light" in that unhappy dining room, she could not have succeeded more effectually! It should have had a warn* yellow paper with a so upcon of orange in it) a vellow ceiaing, with Oriental-toned carpet, chestnut colors, and lo! the poor, misunderstoo.1, downtrodden "dismal room" would have "smi!ed back," and amply repaid the outlay of intelligent attention. THE FAMILY DOUiOR. QUINsY. It is wonderful how the inflammation of some small organ or gland can give rise to considerable constitational dis- - turbance. The tonsils, for example, are only two smn'. almond-shaped a glands, whose function is to lubricate the foo.1 before it pansses into the gul- 1 let, and yet when they become in- I flamed, the individual nas usually to I pass through all the symptoms of a I hgh fever. The tonsils generally participate in 1 ay inflammation of that congery of rgans which is popularly known as the "throat." Even a cold in the head. laims sympathy from these two unfor unate glands, and they are also in rolvedl ini such constitational diseases s scarlatina, diphtheria, etc. The tnsils, bow'nver, being highly vascu- , lar in structure, i. e., provided with a close network of blood-vessels, are ab>le. o throw off any inflammation of 2 heir substance as easily as they appear ; o acquire it, and on this account any2 istrbance of these glands is not ooked upon as very grave. The most serious of the troubles to - which the tonsils are subject is Tonsil itis, or Quinsy. It is most commonly met witfl in young people, chiefly our - ing -the damp weather of spring or ntumn. Unlike the generality of ~ the:,e febrile affections, one attack of tonsilitis predianoses to another; this 1 fact strongly sup'ports the view held by many that the sufferer has a constitu- a tional tendency to the disease, especi-E ally since mere exposure to damp and old is sufficient to bring on an attack. 5 Another argument in support of this view is, that those who suffer from en larged tonsdls usuilly inherit the ten dency from one or both parents. The symptoms of acute tonsilitis are usually those of a high fever. The sufferer complains of headache, be comes very irritable, drowsy, and feels generally weary; as the night ap proaches delirium may come on, es pecially if the patient be young. TLhe temperature usually rises to 102 deg. or 103 deg., though in some acute cases a it may rise to 301 deg. or 105 deg. Thej tongue is coated with a thick, yello- he ish tur, and the usual symptoms of aa old are present, while salivation to an 3] ncomfortable degree is always no ticed bot only does swallowing food be ome difficult, but the mouth can hardly be opened owing to the swell- i ing of tLe tissues about the jaw. The* breathing is not much interb red witb, but the patient snores soundly during s sleep, and ever when awake the res- b 1iration is noisy. Sometimes the suf- a ferer becomes deaf, and this means at the inflammation has spread to theo ear; but this seldom occurs to any a great extent, so tihat there need be no nxety lest that organ be impaired. - Locally, the tonsils first feel dry, and he carious prickling sensation so com mon to all affections of the throat . makes itself manifest. After this un omfortable sensation has existed for some time--gcnerally from about twelve to twenty-four hours--the onsls begin to feel raw and sore, and dull, throbbing pain shoots up to- a wards the ear. Although both tonsils t usually participate in the inilammation, i one gland only wi'. be found to be r greatly swollen and red, while patches t f ellow secretion are to be noticed lotted over the gland. The other parts f the throat are aliso aff'ected, an the rivn,, or '-little tongne," likewise partakes of the iullammationl to a con Tese condlil ions conlinu" for abo-1 6 . nr or five uuays, after which they rdindly subside-, andi in from ten to Fourteen'days the patient is able to re-a ume his occupation. Freguently, howeer, the inflammation of the tonsil terminates in an abscess, int which case all the symptons become:a gravated and the patient is laid up a [or a considerable period. The abscess is usually opened by the physician in* , ittendance,~b~ut it often bursts of its wn accord. Soetimes an attack of quinsy may e stopped if seen early, but this is I ot easily done. An emetic should be iven, or aconite in drop doses admin .sterd every hour, while the gland s monid be toucedwith a solution of the 'i t rate of silver. All these measures, however, can only be taken under the auidance of a skilled person. Quinsy ~ no an .aeunn which should be. trifled wilb, for n!tbough not a grave disease in itsel, tonsilitis is often followed by other serious troubies. Those subject to quinsy should take every precaution to prevent an attack coming on. They should not wear shirts with low collars, especially as regards night-dress, while a warm light wrapper-not a hot, smothering comforter-ought always to be worn when they are oat at night. Any sus picion of a sore throat can often be cut short by wrapping a piece of nar row flannel round the neck before go ing to bed. Oar great-grandmothers were in the habit of using for this pur pose a stocking which they had worn during the day, and for some supersti tions rearon they always selected the one worn on the left foot! Once the qninsy has set in the pa tient shou!d Reep in bIed, and have hot fomentations or poultices applied to the throat. GargLes made with the tinc ture of capsicum, or the chlorate of potash, are very useful in relaxing the tissues. Locally the best applica tion is the ordinary powered bicarbo nate of soda, which should be dusted Dn to the affected tonsil. The suf ferer T 'I gain great relief from suck ing small pieces of ice, or a very sweet solution of lemon-juice may be sipped with grateful results T he slightly weetened jmice of the pine-appLi is ften very effective. Owing to the great difficuty in swat Lowing, the patient caunot take sulti food, so that concentrated liqid food honId be given in small but frequent Auantities. A lit le stimulant ii often usefu", eepecially in the later stages of the attack, when the pationt appeirs to be exhausted. It the mouti e:uaot be easily op-ned, then the sufferer should be made to inhale the steam of hot water with a little creasote dropped into it. When the abscess ripens it should be lanced; but this is a very delicate proceeding, and can only be p!r formed by a surgeon, for the tonsils are situ bed near very important and large blood-vessels. A popular method of "bursting the abscess" is to endeavor to make the patient laugh heartily; the effort to do so usually results .n the breaking of the abscess from the strain n the already tense tissues Before concluding, it may not be out Af place to say a few words about the enlargement of tonsils frequently met with in certain children. The condi tion is the result of a scrofulous con titution, which should receive imme iat - attention, otherwise the enlarged tonsils are likely to prove troublesome. A. long course of cod-liver oil and malt will prove very efficacious, and the en argement will often disappear when the child grows into adolescence. Oc !asionally, however, the enlarged gland 2as to be excised, but this is by no neans a dangerous operation. The iafest plan is to seek early medrcal ad rice, as there are seldom two eases dike, and no general rule can be ap >lied to the treatment of enlarged onsils. A continual application of the incture of iodine to ihe neck, near lie angle of the jaw, often acts bene icially, and every healthful condition > life, such as mountain air or sea >athing, sill be found helpful. NEWSPAPERSi IN CERMANY. ittle Enterprise Digl.iyed, Abouit the BIg' gest circuLlton Being 100,000 Daily. The newspapers in Germany are rgely sold by women, and the small Swsboy of America is unknown in erlin. Now and then, says a writer the Washington Star, ycu see a ian selling papers, but the greater art of the circulation of the jour als is by subs~rlption, and women iways dieliveir the papers. There are iany queer things about the news apers, and few of the Berlin journals ae large staffs of reporters. The cal news is about the same in all aers, and no one thinks of trying to aie a scoop, as it is called, or to ae the news in advance of his fe: ws The editors of the morning a;s leave their odlices at 9 o'clock d the papers are on the press at 11. y 12 o'clock even the printers have one home, and when General von iotke died at 11 o'clOCk at night here was only one Berlin newspaped' hat ha.l a line about it in its issue ext morn-:ag. The announcement the death was published in New ork and elsewhere in full, but the' eran newspapers knew nothing bout it The newspapers publ'sh items from, eir contemporary journals whichi hey should have had themselves, aing that the other papers say so nc so, and there is no life in Berlin jurnalism.- The papers have not a ry large circulation, and they doc ot make a great deal of mo~ney. he biggest of them sells somethmng ke 100,000 copies, and this paper iakes $137,000 a year and thinks iti ces wonders. Men who write for' he papec s are moderately well paid, d editors-ln-chief get from 64,O0 a 65,000 a year- The Germans arel od advertisers, and there seems td e no reasoni why the pape:s shoul ot do better. Every-thing urnder the' n is put intothe papers in the shapo, f an advertisement. And there is great deal of social news that w d ublish for nothing which is put in al a much per line. Engagements ard enerally ann- unced in the newspa~ ers by the parents of the bride an<~ lso by the groom. and there are irge number (of matrimonial adver isements in which men and womer ate their goord quialities and askfr usi ands and wives. Sometimes mn dvertse, stating they have a daugha er whom they wish to get rid of. anid a cue year there wvere 4(0 advert isea sents in one paper of persons seekin i etter halves. Marriages are alst ubished in the same way. and thern a ti-red rate for births and deaths The Germans are very proud of aving c-hi;dl.en, anld it is generall xpcted that a son or daught-'r wlIt uke his or her appearan, e in tho cwspafler columns immedi.itely u, is appearance in the world. Ti~en r always numbers of death notce3. nd the otieial advertisements of thd ity amrount to something. Adver isements of patent medicines have s mulh promnnce in the BerlitI ewspperS as in our o~wn. and alto-I eher t he Germarn is a vety god ad erisr. Comso-e with the good is like a. rage~e o)f Ilowers that permeates tl4 eighborhood. BE Dot penny-wise ; riches bav4 rmgs; sometimes they must be'set fly~ g to hiinug in more. Tuz~ primal duties shine al-oft, likd tars; the charities that soo'the and eal and bless are scattered at the fut' f man like flowers. We have sometimes-though rarel; -been so benefited by advice that w Ko not feel like echoing the conclusioi to which W. E. Beech comes in thi following article, which we quote fron Worthington's Mfagazine, though w, heartily agree with the rest of it. [ED. W. I. W.] Now about the only thing the aver age person is willing to give away i advice, and it is all that one can hop to obtain gratuitously. It is tenderei on all sides with liberality that wouli be praiseworthy if the offering wer more substantial. That it doesn'1 "buy anything" appears not to detraci from its value in the estimation of thf donors, who vie with each other in th( prodigality of their bounty. No dis credit, apparently, attaches to the very ?eneral method of palming off counter. feit currency in the shape of advice it dien of the genuine coin that bears the 3tamp of munficence, though the re. cipients doubtless have their own opin. ion of its value. While it may be as. bmed that much of the advice given i well meant, it is also true that som( more tangible evidence of good will would, in most instances, serve a bet. ter purpose. The counsel and encouragement thai one in perplexity seeks from a trusted friend, differs essentially from the ad iaonitions that come unbidden froH "all sorts and conditions of men." ] fancy that few people stop to think oJ uhe doubtful propriety of giving advice, aven when solicited. If the recipieni .ollows it to his own advantage, credii ii rarely given the originator, while ii it brings unfortunate results, one'i shoulders must be broad indeed tc bear the reproach that will be heaped npon them because of the error oJ ludgment. A lady desiring to invest a modesi !um in a remunerative enterprise re eently consulted a well-known tinanciez apon the subject. He said: "Madam, I never give advice." Inasmuch a the gentleman in question never give4 anything, he failed to receive the credit he deserved for his astuteness In refusing to give advice. Perhaps one shouldn't scrutinize toc closely the quality of a gift. Indeed, I know that to be the prevalent Idea, but in the interest of long suffering humanity ihere should be opened up a vein of truthful criticism in this field, showing that a lot of worm-eaten old saws are made to do duty, in season and out of season, and that they con stitute the 6tock-in-trade of those who are most fond of giving advice. Counsel may be epigrammatic or verbose, and is commonly the former, as one is credited with sagacity if able to express concisely somethinz pre sumably profound; so that maxims good, bid, or indifferent-comprise the oiitit of the average mentor. The wiseacre who places his hand patronizingly on the shoulder, and says: "Young man, let well enough alone," appears blissfully ignorant of I tl;e flavor of the chestnut while the victim usually receives the admonition much as the waiter does a tip-as a matter of course, without subjecting it to the analysis of reason, which would expose its fallacy. Literally con strued, it meane, stay where you are. It would effectually check ambition and mske indifference one of the virtnes. It would apply the brakes to nman progress, and bring about a condition of stagnation. Und -r the influence of such enunsel, Abraham Lincoln would have remained a prac ticing attorney in Slpringfield, General Graint woum nave continued in the leather business at Galena, and death~ would probably have found ,Tay Gould peddling mouse traps in New York. There are things uise and otherwise, and the precept in question is not of the former. Wl-o has not been cautioned thus? "Be sure you're right, then go ahead." No one can be sure of anything but death and taxes. I think that most persons just drift along with the tide, and if the end proves they were right, they take unto themselves great cit for prescience, while if the reve-rse happens, they derive satisfaction from having lots of company. if we could be sure we were right ere setting ont upon our road, it would greatly sirn plify mat ers: we should all be mil lionaires, or something equally desir obie, accordiog to our tastes; but, as a matter of fact, we must take our hances, it may be, that we are doing our best. Another mildewed adage that takes the form of a-ivice, and the utteran'he of which should, in my judgment. be regarded1 as a misdemeanor, is: "Live within your means." What is one to do who has no means? Or suppose that, through some misfortune, an in come is cut down, as it of ten is, below he sustaining point-how is it to be managed? The trouble with this par ticular heresy is that it has, to the un thinking mind, the appearance of re sonableness, and is frequently com mended by those who should know better. But aill it bear analysis9 Oviously, to feil one having a family to miamtcsin, and whose income may not exceed a few paltry hundred dol lar a year, to bring his expenditores within that sum, is to dvi:e an im possibility. One with limited means may be properly cautioned to spend no moey unnecess;.rily, but to arbitrariiy assert that in every case a man mast live within his income indicates a drieler rather than a sage. It ia noteworthy inat thid dictum usually emanates from those whose income is more than sutlicient for all their needs, and tiwy fail to comprehend that a hral compliance with thi. saiggestion would be, to some of their less fortu nate fellow creat~ures, utterly imprac ticble. Debt is an undesirable, and in some esses a ruinous, thing toincur; but it is away aheaid of starvation, or even suffering. Fifteen y ears ago I come, by cibauc, upna gentle man nidvancedl in years, u h' bore a name hon'ored ju the arnals if te tsate of New a.rk, anid who had, in his timP, enjoy~e-t t he coniven eu-e andl bar~'zleS attenidant up~ou a-i ample~ ifeou.e. iUeverses came-it mtLrs not ihow, and when I foun I Ll, he, with a wife and three children, was vainly endeavoring to eke nut a subibtenee on four deliars a week, u hih was all te was then able to earn. 1 made il(own his condition to some 2rieds, amt had the p'leasure of be "omingz t6eir almnou-r to an~ extent that roeewdt the old man, aind smoothed a a to thce grave. Surpose, insteadl o I hil. 1 ha'L e iid to him:i ''My friend, rue ronible wilh yo~n is, that you don'a Lve wthin your mleans." WVoenever 1 hear one tailk ug such cant, I am con strai.ed to say~ witn the antuior ot a -ry readtable li'ftie book I poses I imagine there are few yon'hs who nave not leeen advised to reach out after the unattainable, upon the as surance that "where there's a will, therms wa, and some of them have possibly been beguiled into believing there was a shadow cf truth in the assertion. There is usually a will, a will to be prosperous, or famous, or 3 brilliant ; but when one looks for the way, he is likely to find that it's some other fellow's way, not his. Looking back over the history of this Republio for more than a century, we note the career of many of its famous men, men of giant intellect, ennobling qualities, and commanding presence. They were imbued with a natural and laudable ambition. Having been entrusted Lty their fellow citizens with a measure of responsibility, and designated to par ticipate in the functions of govern ment, they ultimately aspired to the acme of offcial honor-the Presidency. They had the will, but they failed to find the way. Who shall say that the first Napoleon, having signally de. feated Blucher, had not the wdl to conquer Wellington too? Bat the way was not open to him, and he met hu Waterloo. The foregoing are fair specimens o. the material that enters into the com position of much of the bathos that passes for sage counsel, and, doubtlese, many deluded persons have believed that these bits of. irrationality were the "open sesame!" to all the hidden treasures of life, only to bewail their eredulity. "Advice that is given in good faith, and that possesses inherent value, is frequently useless because of non adaptability. That a round peg can not be fitted to a square hole is a tru ism not more obvious than that a recommendation can be used indi criminately, and it is the effort to a ply these wearisome old platitu to new conditions that bring well tentioned counselinto disrepute. In the little book previously men tioned as one of my possessions, I find this: "Don't whistle in the street, in public vehicles, at public assemblieg, or anywhere where it may annoy. Mem. : Don't whistle at all." I can not forbear adopting the admirable style, and at the risk of being charged with inconsistency, write: Don't give advice unasked; don't give it unless it fits the case. Mem.: Don't give ad vice at all. FOR THE BOYS. A writer in Successq wzfi Flowers who seems to be in sympathy with "the boys," writes thus: "If you want to renne a boy give him a buttonhole bouquet and he will wasa his face," says a writer of keer perceptiors who knows whathe is talk ing about. 1t is simply a clever way of illustrat ing the susceptibility of boys to the beauty and delicacy of flowers. I know a good deal about Lys. I Was OUe myself not r-Very many years ag-, and I have got vet outgrown some O my boyishr instincts. They are kept alive, per ps, by tWe presence of three little boys of my own in my own home. i The grluty Thomas Carlyle is cred ited with avjwg once sa d that a boy ought t be shut up in a barrel when he was eight years old and kept there until e was twenty-five, because of the un ndurable traits of his character as ma ifested in the years between the On might be pardoned for tuinukintg that, a man who could express s-niti. ets had been treated in t~ mann ern suggested in his own boy hood. The a -er e boy is not very senti mental, a dit is manifestly better for him that b a not be sentimental, but many of his instincts are retinesi and gentle, and a love of the beautiful is easly create in ni. Lau can teach your baoys any good and- true essons through th medium of flowers and a buttonhole uquet doe4 have. a refining influen on a boy or a. mian. Encourage y ur boys to sear them and teach them the significanCe of the flowers of whic the bonquet is composed. Don't let iem tLuak t it is unmanly or girl.h to wear in their but'onholes. It in most cases a symboi G refinement and a true beautiful. A GARDEN UNDER D[ In the March number o with Flowers, "Sister Gracion an interesting ske'ch of a flowe who cultivatedi a garden unde d sconraging circumstances: She was a young country girl ne,, and in the city where h e band worked in a factory. ~Tbeir h was in the third story and a piazza hind was all the yard they hadt. she pined for the green grass growing things in her old home. she to her husband: "1 must ha garden or I shall die of homesickne "Wei," said he, "shall it be on top the chimney, or in our bedroom "Neither, but on our b tek porch!" So she told him to make plenty of long narrow boxes, and fill them 'with street sweeping-that was all the soil they coldt tiud. So the young husband; goo-naturedly pounded away, made the b~oxes5 and pulled up many buckets of Earth 'The wife fastened up strings to the roof, and planted Morning Gories and Sweet Peas. Many a home sick hour was tilled caring for her gar den and the i lants flourished beanti-i flly. -he hsd some Scarlet Gern-. ams in pots, and als' i arigolds. B4d: sms, Asters and Zimas. Then he sad], "i most h~ve a garden:" and straightway procured two large butter tabs, litled themi balf fail of mariure and soil on top. In one was planted' Toato..s and in the next Cuc amners. The soil was rien, the ann was hot, they wre well wateredi and to se'e them gro deighedtheir simple hearts. In um h iwers ca'me and turned into really true '1 omnatoes and Cucumbers, and "every day they were eagerly wced, and happy was the wife~ when sie could put thbem on the table fresh frmi their own garden, snd so much heter than those bo.ught at the gro c -r's. So one can have a gardeu even - i they haeven't a foot of earth to ttan~l~ H low ang~els must pity the man who is afrai'l to close the atore on nrayer meting ni;;ht for fear the Lord will let hima go to the poorhouse. I'r is not always the i reacher who has the most pie on his tablde who is doing the mnest t-> keep the devil from havng an easy time in this world. "REJoICE with thema that do re-. oice." It is seldlom that a pre::cher gets happy when he hears that a neihboringlpast.r is having are THrvnE is no SOlicitude more dread. ful for a stranger, and isolated man than a great city. So many thousands of men and not one friend.