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TRIW KLY ElTION. WE NNFSBORO S. C.. A U FJST 4,i 1894D 14 WHEN THE BIRDS COME. 0 Who siugeth so sweetly, h so blitheeome, so clear, d Out there in the garden? What stranger is here? Oh, welcome, thrice weLcom, I My Lionet. 'Uts he! How long I have wated, Have waited for thee I h Now wearisome winter May bid us tLion, For birdling jiLL bring us The dowers aoew. A nest in the hedgerow Olote by he will weave. And call me each morAng My chamber to leave. The violet is peeping From out te fresh green, And soon will the blossoms Upon it be seen. b And soon In the foliage, C The fragrance amid., Iu his beau:ifulx home My bird win be hid. The springtime is with us, The springtime so dear I My swtetheart, my darling. My Lmet is here. A HUMBLEFAILURE. n I was gettipg my Irst lesson n b business. "Now, my boy," said Mr. Jenks, the Superintendent% "after ail I have told you, I want to give you a bit of warning: If you want any C oandy, eat all you want in the store, - but never take a piece away unless you pay for it. So with everything else. Remember that in business b strict honesty must be observed." I had been in the store for some week., selling anything from self binders to matches-for the store was e the only one in the village-when one day a man came slouching in and b asked for the "boss." There was t nothing striking about him. His race impressed me as being two-thirds f covered by a tawny beard, and his dark, uncombed hair hung down over his eyes, contrasting disagreeably with his dusty complexion. A loose cotton shirt, drawn into wrinkles by t half a suspender supporting a pair of patched "overalls," with a pair of s heavy-soled shoes, identified the man as one of the poor farmers of the plain north of the village. To the "boss" l he explained that three years ago he bad traded his 2-year-old calf for a colt, and that the colt was now a horse, and that a uple of days ago 1 be had taded his second cow for an- B other horse. Now, having two horses, it he had a mowing machine, d he could do his own harvesting very t quickly, and then he could mow his ne ghbor's fields "on shares," and thus pay for the mower. Could the boss let him have a mower and iay for it in the fall? He had never gone into debt so heavily before, and he knew it was a risk, but he thought. he could do it, and then his Billy was awfully smart-he had terned his letters already, and he was only six. f he tould make a little money with t the mower he could buy Billy boots and a coat to go to school in the vii lage. I thought the man grew faintly t animated as he spoke ot Billy. Evi dently he was making the &reatest speculation of his life for Billy's edu cation. The result was that when he drove home a mower was tied to the hal-dozen boards on four blockt wheels which were his wagon, and the same d'ay I entered in the day book of the store: "June 3d, Eph raim Goodnow, to one mower, SoO., Three months at 1 per cent.i monthiy." Sept. 15 had passed, and Ephraim Godnow had not paid any of the three bills for $61.80 sent him. Mr. Jenks, therefore, sent his assistant to collect the bill, saying that in such a bad year, when all the crops had railed, the store could not afford to have outstanding accounts. But the assistant reported that Goodnow had no money wherewith to pay the bill, and the only way to colleet it was to tae his wheat-and at the present t low rate and the poor year it would E tae nearly his whole stock-or his I horses, which were worth about $.0 C each.; '-Well," said Mr. Jenks, "I need a couple of horses to hurry on the har~ vesing. Go up to Goodnow to-mor4 C row and take his horses. I'll give I him sixty dollars for the span. If he t objects-well, we can collect it Dy law." The afternoon of the next day ( then, the assistant and I started out to cross the prairie to the hills, I twenty miles away, where Goodnow ' lived. The ride across the prairie s did anything but cheer our spirits. I N~earing the foothills, the grass grew: scantier and the sand ridges more frequent, and the prairie dogs from C their mounds barked at us every few ~ stes. A glistening green enake ( crawled slowly around a sagebush. I Toward sunset we reached Good now's home. Home! A hole about four feet deep had been dr~g in the ground and covered with untrimmed poles meeting at right angles. The po.esB had been covered with dry branches I and these with earth. One gable was waled nD with branches and earth'C like the roof, while the other was I closed with sawed boards in which was a door Two panes of glass, set with out a frame in the boards and held in place by a nail at each side, served for windows. To one side of the "dug out/' poles had been planteli in the ground and covered with willows and straw and earth-that was the stable for the horses and the cow.( The cow, thin at the sides, was tied to a post under the shed, and a woman dressed in a dirty yellow I gown was milking her. Back of the "house" was a sand pile, wh ., two half-naked childrer, were ing handfuls of sand at each from the inside of the house tought 1 beard the wail of a babygec Goodnow was just coming in fro his day's work, Cdriving his horses be fore his mowing machine. At his sid we a boy about 12, whose RED-HoT invectives won't warm cold facts. WHEN the gambler -wins a dollai he spends two. TRYiNG to please a dead-head Is 8 waste of time. TIImrry never shakes hands witb a good chance. THE man that gets loaded must ex pect to be fired. TEREsOLUTION stutters with both tongue and feet. AN ad valorem tax on dudes would yield no revenue. PoOR men can ill afford the luxurj of rich associates. NEVER treat your principal as if it were your income. IN writing for the press try to filla want, not a column. BECAUSE some men cannot master a truth they pronounce it a lie. A cym'c remarks that it' is gener, ally puzzles a horse to know what a woman is driving at. THm English Government appear* to hold that a dynamiter in prison I. the right man in the right place. TE chances of a "greater New York" are baing seriously handi capped Ly the demands of Sing Sing upon her present population. STIKEs are costly affeirs to tht States as well as to the strikers. While the latter have lost $1,800,OOC in wages, it has cost the several Stat, s $500,000 to suppress riots and save property from burning. IT is estimated that there are 750, 000 bicyclers in the United States, and people. who have to cross Michi gan avenue, south of 35th street, about seven o'clock In the evening, are willing to make affidavit that T25,000 of them live in Chicago. A vERY interesting and picturesque pamphlet has been published by the Pain Fireworks Company, illustrat Ing- the famous pyrotechnicat dis plays that were made during the sea Bon of theWorld's Fair. There were sevent'y-flve such displays, forty illu _,'mntions, and twenty-two naval and land pageants. The cost of these ex hibitions was $250,000, the largest amount of money ever expended in pyrotechnic art within the same lim its of time aLt space. PAuLINE MAnKHAM, a burlesque actress famous for the shapely con tour of her nether extremities, fell Into ar unlighted excavation in Louisville a year ago and broke one of the "twin symphonies"M which gave her professional prominence. She sued for $10.000, and a Louisville court has just awarded her $4,000 damages, and this, too, solely on the grounds that the injuries sustained prevent her from wearing tights. Louisvile property owners had best fence in tbeir cellars at once or they will be filled with thrifty and shape ly soubrettes. N{EW YORK .JoUENAL: The Increase of crimes of violence during a heated term like that through which we are now passing cannot fail to suggest to the student of social science the multiplication of comfortgIving ap 1iances-anid notably of fresh water ind cooling shade--as agencies likely tdiminish the number of murders and suicides. If poor people could find more comfort at home they would not flock together into places in which bad drink, added to the abnord mial excitement produced by the high temperature, soon deprives them of caution and urges them to violence. Let the Tenement Commission re \ect on the Influence which the In crease 'of comfort In model tenement houses could have in preventing crime. THERE Is apparently no limit to the accommodating spirit of our col lege authorities when the under graduates show that they really mean business.'One of Yale's crack sprint ers was dropped recently because he paid more attention to athletics than he did to his studies. He has been reinstated, however, according to a Bocton paper, because he was wanted in the team that has gone to England to contest for athletic hon ors with Oxford, and it was neces ry that he should be a student in ular standing in order to compete. hus does matter triumph over mind. he faculty un-loubtedly feared that they remained obdurate the whole wd of sport-loving students would to some opposition shop idences of sun worship are o well the man be would be. On ne of the horses rode a 1,ttle white aired boy, about 5 or t, dressed in a irty shirt and a short pair of pan ts ,u.u wa., i e up vhi e.; Lear.y > the waist-it was Billy. Near he shed the horses stopped, and Illy, with his little hands, struck' is horse on the neck and cried, Whoa, whoa, Jacic, whoa," and the orse, seemingly well pleased, put is ears forward and turned his headi ) get a look at his lit le friend. While the assistant was talk ng tn oodnow I went up to the boy and lid: '-Hello, Billy." He lo ied at me with a pair ot lue dancingc eyes and answered very arrectly: "Hello, sir." "You can read, can't you, Billy?" continued. At that he grew excited and cried, 'Mamma, mamma, I can read, an't The mother, who had heard my uestion, and whose greatest delight 'as Billy's accomplishments, < uit lIking the cow, ran down into the ouse and brought out a little tat-. -red book of two or three do.en ages. To my surprise it was the re tains of a copy of Luther's Smaller atechism. Resting the book on the llar of the horse on which he sat, illy read distinctly from the first re aining page, aFor of one blood ath God made all men," and with at hesitancy the whole of Luther's omment. As he ended Goodnow came up and xplained to his wife the object of ur visit. He had offered to give ack tVe mower and one horse for ae use of it-without a horse he iust carry his wood fifteen miles, -om the mountains, and carry his theat to the mill, which was as far way. But the assistant had in isted on the horses or his wheat e food for the winter-and had breatened court proceedings. "iou see. mother," the farmer aid, "I s pose Billy can't go to school his winter." I thought his voice was a little usky as he spoke. The wife and iother said nothing, but their eyes led with tears. The big boy, with; lenched hands, leaned against the ow useless mower. and looked Lraight at us while we led the horses way, while tears cut furrows in the! irt on his face. The little ones of. he sandpile also began to under.: Land what was going on, and howled ud ?olled in the sand. Little Billy it dazed upon the around where he ad been lifted from the horse. hen we tied the hArses to "ur raon he ran to his mother and hid is face in her key; crying, not loud ut piteoisly: "Mamma, they're, Ling away my Jack-mam :.a, iamma." Goodnow cleared his brot. The sun must have been >w, for. I saw his eyes glisteu. I, :o, felt something moving up my roat until I could not speak. "Damme," said the assistant when' re bad driven over the prairie for, )me time, "that was a fine piece of rork. in the city these horses will ring $100 any day." Last vacation I passed over the amne prairie, and the scene of six ea s before came vividly ta n~y 2nd. 1 stopped at Goodr.ow's place. Syellow haired boy of 12 years or a ras in the yard. I cried: ''Hello, Billy." The boy stared at me. "is your father at home?" "Naw." "Do you still read, Billy?" "Naw."I And he turned and left me. ---ar ard Adv~ocate. Training to Speak. Bishop Wilberforce was noted for he variety of his speeches and ser aons. even when they all treated of ne same subject. His addresses at onirmation and at missionary meect ngs were remarkable for their varia-: ions on the same themes. A friend rho had heard him speak, day after ay for several weeks, in behalf of he Society for the Propagation of he Gospel, expressed his surprise hat he could treat the same subject such a variety of ways. The elo uent preacher re plied: "1 owe my facility mainly to my ather. He t oic pains to form in ze the habit of speaking. Hie would ee to It that Ithoroughly acquainted yself with a given subject, and then e iuire me to speak on it, with out Lotes, and trusting to the inspiration 'f the moment for suitable words. his practice strengthenied my mem ry and c Itivated the power o: entally arranging and dividing ? ubjet" The Earl of Chatham trained his' oi, William ratt, in a similar way. Ntt was the familiar friend of Will am Wilberforce, the philanthropist, d tbe father of the bishop. Doubt esshe learned from lFitt this method f cultivating the facu-lty of think og and speaking on one's legs. Telegraph Is Universal. The most widely separated points etween which a telegram can be ent are British Columbia and New :ealand. The telegram would cross forth America, Newfo.undland, the tlantic, England, Gern any, JEu.sin European and As alic), China. apan, Java ard Australia. It rould make nearly a circuit of the lobe, and would traverse over 20.: 00 m'1"5 in doing so. rrGo for the Water. .ts often exhibit somiething very like intelligence. If a 1 ucset Swater during a dry scason be .aced a few inches from a pumpkin r melon vine, the latter will turn nits course, arnd in a day or two re get one of its leaves into the rater. SERMONS FOR SUNDAY d, 9REACHED THROUGH VARIOUS It CLEVER PENS. b Eloquent Words of Bishop Cheney Ad- i dressed to Young Men-service to christ e Incumbent Upon Us AU-wnat Consti *utea Religion. Commends Purity of Heart. -<- B1LSHO P CHAS. I EdwardCheneyde- c livered an address r the other after. s noon before the i graduates of the i Chicago Nor mal a . Training School at r Christ Church, p Twenty-Fourth d Street and Michi Avenue. Sixty m e m b e rs of the t graduating c l a s., t beard the address, t the subject of c whiclh was "A Typ cal Young Man." t As a pre:ude. to his remarks. BishoT s Cheney quoted the passage of scrip- I ture: 'And entering into the sepul. p cher they saw a young man sitting e on the right side clothed in a long & white garment." "Warburton, the oriental trav. t eler," be said, "relates how in the 1 threshold of a wretched Arab hovel he t recognized an exquisite sculpture of t the ancient Greeks. Alexander the Great might have fea-ted his eyes t upon its beauty, but dug fro:m the a ruins of some ancient palace or tem- , p e the rare specimen of art was trid. a den by the bare feet of the Bedouin, with no thought of its priceless value. Such has been the fate )f the passage to which your attention is dl- 1 rected this afternoon. I am not a b heresy hunter, b!:t there is one preva b lent heresy which deserves only re- , morseless exti-pation. It is the d noti .n that a young man cannot be c pure in heart. It teaches him who b is first going out to face the terrible d temptations of ea ly life that he 1 may as well let the current sweep p him down stream. It asserts that a all young men are destitute of the d ve y quality without which no man c shall see God. t ".he noblest specimen of youthful e manliness is manhood robed In white. r I have hea d purity of the heart com- t pared to a diamond. But the illus- n tration falls short, You may polish a the gem till it becomes the sanctu. t ary of a sunheam, but you cannot ( make a diamond grow. No human q power can develop or increase its u size. - "Do rothing or think nothing," 1 concluded the Bishop, "that you t could not tell a pure, good woman. I bid you God-speed as you go out to our life work. I am here to com mend to you no womanish virtues; no feminine sentiveness of nature. I a plead for a true and nobie manhoo:d, n and to be such no qualities are so es- s ential as reverence and purity. Personal Religion. t "The moral conduct of man is m rality; the i~er ept~on of the in. iuite is theology; the union of the - wo is religion. He comes t~o per eive in the law of God his ideal. If he sees honor, truth, p)urity, benevo. ence, and says, 'these are the ac. uisitou I want to obtain,' th n his religion is no longer a law, it is an ideal. When a man gets beyond the point of doing what society, or what God requires, when he reaches the point of doing the right bcause it is the right, he has taken a forward y step toward the promised land; he he has got beyond Mt Sinai.I "'God,' said a little child, 'is something we like and something we c want to be like." jut there Is sonmc- ( thing even beyond this. When one f has come to have the divine idleal he begins to have the divine point of view. He comes to look at life from5 the spiritual, not from the temporal ~ and terre-trial side. lHe looks now upon his enemy a:, one more to be condoned than to he tonguered. He desires to relieve human misery. He wh> gets so near to God that he can see somewhat from God's own point of view stands so near to GoJl that he can see flimi in his own soul. "The life of Gol in the soul of I man is not the specialprisIlege of a rclu-e; it belongs to all humanity. The artisan, the lawyer, the mer chant who realizes this ideal in his C daily life, comes nearer to God. The biker who puts alum in his bread in S place of flour: the preacher who sub- i stitutes l,opularity for truth. are C both rec:eanits together. P'ersonal t religion is (I) hearing and ob ying I God's voice (2) taking Him as our ideal (1) seeking to b.e fille 1 with e His~ spirit. There is only one way in which God can manifest Himself to ( man, and that is through man. The c earth shall be filled with the Erlory of the heavenly spheres as the a r is illed with the rr.usic that trembles -t 1 it. '-Lr. Lyman Abbott. God's Clams Upon Us. '2 The claim of God to Christ's service is the claim that rests upon us all. ~ The Lord did not die to give us an C opportun ty for self seeking. We are not here on a vacation from God, Hie t sends every man of wealth forth to I be a savior of his fellow men, and a the business man who fails to be a c little Christ to the worlc nas made a t disastrous and irreparable business ( failure. A man of business has no 1 moe right to make personal proflt, the supreme p .rpose of his store, his shop, his capital, his factory, his railway, than Jes:.s had to work mir acles :or personal profit. We have no imore moral right than our Lord to direct our social, domestic. or inancial affairs for personal ends. Th Christian has no more right to n unconsecrated horse, or house, 61 ress, than Chrise, to an unconse ated cross. We are not our own; ,e are bought wi-th a price, and noth ig snort o an unreserved surrender E r self-interest to God's interest in umanity is moral or just. Not to e self-sacrificing in other's serv :e is Injustice. To be unloving, ven to the unlovable, is to be un odly.-Rev. George D. Herron. Cold and Cheerless Intidelity. The gay, the witty, the luxurious, olite, and admired Chesterfield, ompared life to a journey, and com ienting on its dull and tasteless in- B< ipidity, remarks, in writing to a 01 riend: "As for myself, my course i already more than half passed over, na I mean to sleep in the coach the est of the journey." Such was the hilosophic res le of one who was istinguished ab- ve his fellows as i 'the man of pleasure." To the same effect was the declara 'ou of the great, the gifted, the al- v iost worshiped Voltaire, who rose to he most exalted eminence as a man f genius, and his self-c ncelt at one r ime predicted that Christianity her elf must be crushed beneath his feet. s( loaded with w rldly honors, sated ' rith popular applause, what is his p stimate of the infidel's life? "Li:e," h aid he, "is thickly sown with thorns, n nd I know cf o:) other remedy than V D pass quickly through them. The t( >nger we dwell on our misfortunes, L he greater is their power to harm u S. Let the reader compare with this ,t( he expression of Paul: "Our l'ght o< Lictlon, which Is but for a moment, 11 rork'-th for us a far more exceeding o1 ndeternal weight of glory." m fa Lo :usts.. "You have read about John the i aptist living upon locusts and wild -cI oney," said a clergyman who baa een traveling in Central America. Well, here's a locust," and be pro uced from his pocket a-well, a lo ust. It doesn't hop or jump, and ad no semblance of life because, in eed, it was notning but a great pod, 3oking like a huge cranberry-bean od, fully five inches lo:>g and almost b s big around as a banana. it had a eep niahogany-colored skin of hard onsistency. I have eaten many of hem. They grow on trees as big as Ims and fall to the g ound when ipe. Split them open and they con aMn a yellow substance looking like x stard. Mixed with water it makesd very deliclo..s and nourishing drink bat will sustain life for a long time. one of these pods will made a uart of , drink, and everybody # ses them. They may not be be lo usts of John the Baptist, but: understand that the tree grows in bat land of the Bible." Misfortunes Sometimes a Blessing. However others may think of it, e et I take it as a mercy, that now, nd then some clouds come between ie and my sun, and many times. me troubles do conceal my com- a rts; for I perceive if 1 should find o much firienciship in any inn in P iy p Iyrimage, I shoald soon forget, 8 iy father's house and my herltage i s -Dr. Lucas.____ Look Above and Beyond the Injury. Tf When we receive an In jury from ,pt ur neighbor, could we but brIng hi urselves to consider that he Is sim- -a ly the instrument of that e vil which ca od permits, and of which fle makes os se as a means of sanctification, our ain would lbse half Its sting, and ur charity would rise above the sea I bWtterness which threatens its undiots anid domments. CHRisTIANIA, Norway, has only ne church for 13,000 people, whi e or 26,000 people. IN 1895 Japan Is to have a parlia aent of religions in Kioto in connect on with the 1,100th anniversary of a he establishment of that city as the di apital of the Empire. t THE Board of Education of the bi lethodist Episconal Church shows an Di ucome of $87,652, of which $7(',000 D ras collected from Sunday schools m nd churches. - p IN France there 781 Frotestant ouses of worship. There are five sile soci- ties, and nineteen Protest- ct nt societies for home miss- Dj >ns, besides 118 Protestant periodi- DJ as. t PEV. DR. PHILIP S. MOXoM of ol pringfield, Mass., has among his 01 eare s every Sunday two people who te oe regularly from Boston. a dis. 0r ace of about, 100 miles, to hea. hlin d4 reach. 3 Mis4 FANNY EOWARDs, the gi in vangelist, of Louisville, Ky., is re be orted to have saved 1,000 souls in et )ho and Indiana. She is 18 years at f ate, and lets her long hair hang di wn over her shoulders. REV. CORTLAND MYERS continues G a draw barge congregations in~ Brook- i b-n, and many who used to seek Dr. almage's Tabernacle now go to ear Mr. Nyers. Ils seiies of ser ions on Sins of the City are still ontinuedc in the Academy of Music. No TIwa's ha-se been received fro'n be missionary vessel Rlobert W. .gan ror more than eight months, nd so it is supp sed that she suc umbed to the fury -of one of the yphoons in the Southern Pacific )ce n while on her voyage trom ~okohama to the .lsland of Ruk. Soraoxius, the Patriarch of ~lexandria, now 95 years of age, and rho tas been a bishop for fif ty-five ears, is said to be the senior bishop f Christendom. Next to him come rchbishop Kentic' or St. Louis, rho was consecrated fifty years ago',t nd Pope Leo XIII, who was co" caed fifty-neyearsa o. LRE ROYAL NOBODIES t C X-KINGS AND EX-QUEENS LIV. a ING ON PAST MEMORIES. L rinoely Micawbers Who Are Indus. triously Waiting for Something to Turn Up-Lives Spent in Scandalous Dissipa. tion-Earope Overrun with Them. They're a Worthless Lot There are a good many royal per, mages in Europe out of a job, and: itside their "noble" blood there are . very few of them who have much of a claim upon pub lic interest. A few no doubt have to some extent in. terested them-. selves in science, art and literature, but the great bulk c of them are like e tINCE VICTOR NA-Dickens' Micaw POLEON. ber, waiting for mething to turn up. Take the descendants of the Bona rtes, for instance. None of them as so far amounted to anything, Dr is it probab!e that any of then ill distinguish himself. Prince Vic >r Napoleon, at 31, and Prince outs Napoleon at 2P, are about as r seless young men as one could i ine. They are of very slender in lectual capacity, have no serious i cupation whatever, and are simply i ving on their names, with the aid t a pension subscribed by the re aining adherents of the Bonaparte mily. The Empress Eugenie has earied of supporting them and has it off their supplies, leaving them a large upon other Bonapartists. s The Oralenist Princes. I The Orleanist princes are not nuch tter, though the head of the C mly, and the once possible sue- U ssor to the French s irone, the Comte de - t aris, did cast off e s inertia and come e rer to this country aid in the strugge .g r the ma' tenance - t the Union. The uc d'Aumale is, d rhaps, the best of i lot, but the Due Orleans has re- LCIKE DAUMALE atedly dragged the family name in ie mire, one of his escapades being b Ls notorious pursuit of an opera nger in Vienna. The Orleanists e pretty well fixed financially; in. ct, are wealthy. They are exceed-- t gly avaricious, however, and have a peatedly evlcted tenants from the t iserable tenement houses owned by s em, and cast them out into the e reet to live or die, as the casq ight be. A Dissolute Fx-Queen. Paris is the Mecca of deposed mon chs and worthless princes, the most a table member of its royal colony, rhaps, being ex-Queen Isabella of t ain. She is probably the most dis- . lute woman of royal blood in Eu, pe-at least has borne that unenv ma e reputation for many years. ough well advanced in years, she S ill clings to her old associations, and ~ r unsavory character has made her 9 marked woman even in the French pital. In every respect she is the posite of her daughter, the Infant a, Eulalia, who capti-J vated the hearts of the American peo- t ~' pie during her visit Sto this country. Don Carlos, the representat iv e o f . the Carlist party in ~ pain, is a gentle-~ ~ ~ ;man whose fame is1 N \':hiely of an unde MLLAmong 1 his other :ploits was the theft of his wife's amonds. Investigation disclosed e fact that he had pawned them, it the discovery did not seem to rticularly annoy the blue-blooded on Carlos, who treated the whole, atter as one of the pardonable' cadillos of a gentleman of leisure. Russia's Royal Nobodies. The Grand Dukes of Russia and her members of the imperial fain. r, with the exception of Grand t< ukes Alexis and Vladimir, amount s ~very little. The Czarowitz, Nlch as, has up to date given nto evidence it his capacity for properly rdminms. r ring the great power which will y e day he his, and but for the accl. nt of birh would be a nobody. jh andais in which the names of his fI prial relatives were mixed ul: f: ~ve been of frequent occurrence at b e court of St. Petersburg, and at t >court in Europe is there wiider v ssipation. d The imperial family of Austria is o > much better off than t hat of Rlus- iw a, intelle~ctually or morally. There p d b t. IMANTAELLA AS4 b chesses, but with the single excep- . nn nf. the~ Archduke AlbreChit non4 f themanounts to anything. AT, recht, who is nearly 90 years old, chieved undoubted fame as com. iander-in-chief in the war of 1866. nd particularly on the battlefield o1 ustozza. Aside from him, none ol be imperial family has accomplished nything worth t'lking about. A Crazy, Kingly Crown. The mental weakness of the ruling imily of Bavaria is a matter of in rnational knowledgre. King Lud rig drowned himself, his brother and accessor, King Otto. is supposed te e unbalanced; the Empress ol ,ustrIa, Otto's cousin, is scarcely etter off, and of all the family only ,eopold, the regent, is altogethez ree from the family taint. The princes of Saxony are far from eing great men-in fact, are very .ttle men In compari-on with their redecessors. The Duke of Saxe einingen is the exception to the ale, he having interested himself in eatrical matters and carved out a ame for himself as one of the great st theatrical directors and advisers a Europe. Ex-King Milan, of Servia, is a po t:cal and moral nonentity. le ha mania for gambling and other di+ ipation, and that is practically a,' fat can be said aboat him. On the Smoker. Although she had evidently trieo ard to conceal the fact, she wat eally a woman. From the tip of hei 4uare-toed boot to the brim of hei ailor hat she was about as mannis: i point of dress as the law allows. er costume was certainly close tc he line where propriety stops and isguise begins. When the car swung ;ound the corner she got into the aioke:r. She didn't mind smoke ot much-besides it was "advanced' L do just as the men. A4 the cm topped at the second crossing seve al men-real men-vot aboard. One big fellow plumped himseli own beside her. A couple of min. tes later he pulled out a cigar and tuck it between two rows of blact eth. Turning half around hegrunt1 d: "Say, got a match?" The ad anced woman didn't say anything. he simply looked at bim-just once -and for a very short time. And be big, unsuspecting fellow knew rhy he didn't get a match.-Phila elphia Call. Hot Weather Diet. "J suppose you would like to know ow to keep cool these hot days." Jid a well known newspaper man. ,ell, I have an unfailing recipe 'hich can be guaranteed to effe-t be desi ed result. I use it myself, nd know the system is a specitlc for be woes which maikind suffers in ich dog-days weather as we are now periencing. It is simple and easy -don't eat meat till the sun goes own. I have made this an Inviola. le rule during hot weather, and as consequence i am never bothered bout or by tne condition of the at. iusphere. no matter how high the riermometer may soar. This morn g for ruy breakfast I ate a place of rawberry shortcake and drank a p of coLee. For luncheon I par ok of some lettuce and tomato lad and a cup of tea. I will go in >cilnuer in a few moments and very robayly will order a thicir, rare :eak, and pay pretty generous at. ntion~ to it. Then I will come out, nd for an hour or two will be prob by uncomfrortably warm for the rst time during the day. I was led u adopt this system from observing e immunity froma su~ering on ac punt of the heat which the workmen i hot countries enjoy. 'lhis was articularly the case in Spain and taly, and when I inquired the rea an. I was told that a Spanish or talian workman would rather eat erosene with a wick in it than meat any kind during the hot weatber. au not a vegetarian in any sense f the word, but I have proven to my wn satistaction that a diet such as have suggested during the summer 'ill preserve anyone who follows It rom sultering in hot weather."-St. ouls (Alobe-I emocrat. flan ot wgiid S~s Among the curiosities which are casionally shown to favored visi rs to the Bank of England are some ecimens of ancient notes, a number them of denominations nou lunger vogue. such as EI, ?15, and ?25. here is also carefully preserved the dest surviving note, one of the year 9, the amiount being written in ik. Another curiousity is a note r 1,0),000, which was reluired r some transaction between the ank and the G3overnment, but in na case. too, the amount is written ith the pen. The longest tixe uring which a note has remained isde the bank is 1l1 years. It as for 225, and It Is comn ted that the compound interest *aring that longz period amounted to a less than ?6,000.-The Collector. The Dog Answered the Salute. A dog owned by Capt. Orcutt, eper k'f the Wood Island light, has 2come famous this weeb-. It is curs iary fo- passing steamers to salute 1 liu'ht a'nd the keeper returns it ringing the bell. The other day tug whistled three times. The iptan di d not hear it, but the dog id. e can to the door and tried to itract the captain's attention by - owling. Faing to do this he ran: var and then came a secon:i time itli no better result. Then he de ded to attend to the matter him if, so he seized the rope. which angs outside, hetween his teeth and gan to rng the bel-Lewitga jurnal.