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TS -- .40 THE SEARCH. Upon my heart these vernal day, The longing keen takes hold To seek, afar from trodden ways, The morn's new-minted gold. I grasp nmy palmer's hazel staff, And blithely hie me where The ariel bluebird's lyric laugh Goes rippling down the air. I find within the sky no flaw, And all the earth to me Is tuned to one ecstatic law, The law of harmony. And rising from the dewy land Before my questing eyes, A little flower, divinely planned, In virgin iuty lies. Plueking this boon of earth and air, In hand and heart I hold .My own inalienable share Of morn's new-minted gold. -Clinton Seollard. H Il CLPE GORY!T TbPHR ES HOSE en,ter prising twins, Pauline and Polly Peters, age? seven, had just seen a wedding for ( / the first time in their short lives, and were engaged in reproduc ing the event to the best of their remem brance. Pauline, with a preternatural solemn air, held a last year's almanac in her hand and figured as the officiating clergyman, while Polly,.Fith - t pieee or (aito neting over her head and a bouquet of bachelor buttons in her hand, was the bride. The most impressive part of the ceremony, to their minds, was the throwing of rice and old shoes after the departing , couple, and the insur 'mouatable difficulty of introducing this fe are into th.lr renrodnation rde, Polly complained, very well throw- rice at herself, and,as Pauline thought it needed a hack or some kind of a conveyance to make the thing complete, it was at last reluc tantly decided to omit this most inter esting part of the marriage. The wedding procession, conspicu ous for a trifling oversight in the mat ter of a bridegroom, was on the point of starting down thebarn, where the event was taking place, when a young man drove into the yard and, hitching his horse, rang the bell to inquire for ">the twins' grown up sister. For a minute the children gazed at each other as the door opened to re ceive him, then a brilliant idea struck them simultaneously. Off came Polly's veil and down went Pauline's book. "That's Charley Binghiam come to take sister to ride," gasped Polly, dancing up and down in delight. "I know it," said Pauline excited ly, "and we haven't a minute to lose. You run right up to the house and get all the rice you can, and I'll borrow some of the neighbors." "Oh, Mrs. Herrick," she panted breathlessly, a few seconds later, as she rashed into that lady's door, "won't you please let me have some rice?" "Why, child, what do you want of rice? You are not having a wedding at your house, are you?" "Yes, mna'am, and please hurry, or it will be too late.". "But who is it for?" "For sister Sue," shouted Pauline, who was in too much of a hurry to stop for elaborate explanations, and raced back to meet Polly, who had had the good luck to find a bag of the stuff which the grocer had left on the kitchen table'. "Well, haven't they kept that pretty quiet?" inquired Mrs. Herrick of her caller, Mrs. Smith, as she picked up her kni':ting, and both ladies drew their~ chairs to the windows on the side next the Peters's house to watch the course of events more closely. "There goes Parson Hildreth!" ex claimed Mrs. Smith; and sure enough that reverend gentleman was seen coming down the steps next door. hav ing made a call upon the twins' father. "I thought that would be a match sometime; but what are those children doing now?" Pauline and P(,lly, in their stocking feet, were tying white hair ribbons to the horses' foretops, and two pairs of small shoes were seea' dangling under the carriage. There had been no time to hunt up cast-off symbols of good luck, so the twins had hastily di vested themselves of their own foot gear, and; only mourned that there weren't centipedes when they viewed the smallness of the collection. The little girls had barely finished tying the last knot and skipped into the barn after their bags of rice when Mr. Bingham came out to get his team. He was a desperately shy young man and not especially observ ing. Being slightly agitated, too, it is doubtful whether he would have noticed had his horse turned into a prancing zebra during his absence, and it is not strange that the ribbons and other decorations failed to attract his attention. Pretty Miss Susie Peters next ap pared to taka har place in the car riage, and Mr. Bingham had at: gathered up the reins preparatory to a start when a cloud-burst of rice en veloped them, the carriage, the horse, and a good share of the people on the street. The horse, a nervous animal, start ed with a jump, and further irritated by the fluttering ribbons before his eyes, swept down the street at a run away pace. The shoes swung back and forth under the carriage for some distance, but finally dropped off in front of the office of The Snowville Clipper, a country weekly whose force lived up to the motto, "All the news while it is news, while it is fresh." Editor Dodge. who had a lively realization of the fact that eternal vigilance is the price of items, cast his eagle eye out of the window in time to note the occupants of the fly ing carriage, the rice and the shoes in front of his office door. "Hold on, John," he called to the foreman, who had just finished mak ing up the paper. "unlock the last form and take cut half a column of matter; I will be back in a few min utes with something to fill in.. So sayi-g he rushed out, and strid ing up-street met by chance the very lady who had been visiting Mrs. Herrick that afternoon. "Heard about the wedding?" she asked him, as he drew near. "No: but was just going to find out, about it," he answered. "Young Bingham and Susie Peters, wasn't it?" "Yes: I was next door during the ceremony, and it was the quietest thing in the way of a wedding I ever heard of. Mrs. Peters likes so much style that I reckoned she would want to make considerable of aspreadwhen Susie was iarriet." "Who married them?" "Parson Hildreth, and he was the ohly person there outside the family. I don't believe their nearest neighbors would have known anything about it if it hadn't been for the twins. They were on hand with their rice and old shoes and aave the couple a good send off." "What was her dress?" queried Dodge, jot:ing down the points as fast as his g:rulous informant brought them out. "Well, she di have on the queer P.st~r' . a ride a white duck skirt, pink shht waist and ulain white sailor hat. She looked reageet, though, and as they were evidently going away on a carriage trip t. was well enough, but not what you wo t . expect from Mrs. Peters's daughter. No one would suspect from her dress, -though, that she was a bride, and that is probably what she intended." "Thank ou ever so- mueh; Mrs. 1 Irfsar ge-imetin"youhas saved me lots of trouble." Back he hurried to the office with gratification so plainly depicted upon his countenance that the idlers in the square, as the business part of the town was called, wondered what "Hustler" Dodge had got onto now to make him look so happy, and "setpril old farmers, who had driven doi- -o the village to do some trading, dedided to wait until after the paper was out before going home; "the women folks I would hte to read the news," they thought. "Now, girls, wake up," said the edi tor as he blew into the office, "and set1 this copy as fast as you can; we have only tel? minutes to spare, and; i won't do to miss the mails; people are toe anxious tolget The Clipper," head ded complacently. "Here is thel first take," he called, rafter a moment or two of violently scribbling, and type began to rattle into the sticks with' businesslike rapidity. In due time the article was set. up, the proof taken, read and corrected, and 4 lo'clock in the afternoon The Clipper-with a great newvs "scoop'" w.as awaiting its eager readers in 'the boxes of the postoffice. Mr'. Peters was among the first to1 get the paper, but without stopping to look at its contents he wended his way home and tossed the sheet into his wife's lap. :. - "Here mother, is the Illuminator?' his favorite name for The Clipper; "where are the twins?" "I put them to bed,". said Mrs. Peters, unfolding the paper, "that they might realize how naughty they were this afternoon, but oh! what is this-'Binghiam Peters,'" and with wide distended eyes-horror, indigna tion and amazement in her whole at- I titude, she began to read the news while it was news and decidedly fresh: "BINGHAM-PETERS." "A very pretty home wedding took place this afternoon at the residence of our esteemed fellow citizen, Mr. John F. Peters, whose eldest daugh ter, Miss Susan Amelia, was united in marriage to Mr. Charles Gerald Bing ham, a rising young lawyer ofjSnows ville. "The wedding was a very quiet af-' fair indeed, only the immediate mem bers of the bride's family being pres-l ent at the ceremony, which was per formed by Rev. Dr. Hildreth, pistor, of the First Church..1 "The bride, one of Snowsville's fair est daughters, was plainly but most - becomingly gowned in a white ducka skirt and pink shirt waist, and was at' tended by her twin sisters, Pauline~ and Polly, who showered the happy . couple with rice as they started away. on a carriage trip. "Mr. and Mrs. Bingham are ver~y popular young people, and The Clip per joins their host of friends in ex-1 tending congratulations and good. wishes." "Those wretched childrez," breathed Mrs. Peters, starting to her feet. Pauline and Polly covered their guilty heads with the bed eldthes.. But the sight of The Clipper turnedI the direction of her wrath, and she glanced at the item again. I"The poor little girl," she groanet. "how could anybody have been so itmid '.naS hamominglv gowned in white duck skirt and pink s:irt aist,'" with sarcastic empha:is. 'My daughter married in a shirt raist." "Don't faint, mother, don't. His steemecl fellow-citizen is going right lown to interview Editor Dodge, and rhiie I'm gone you can write up his )bituary, I'll guarantee that it will be ounded on fact, at least. Where's nv hat?" But Mrs. Peters was dissolved in ears, and before her husband suc :eeded in finding his head covering, done and unaided, Susie and young 3inghan: returned from their ride in t state of satisfaction that even The clipper was powerless to disturb. Af :er they had read The Clipper's ac :ount of their wedding,! Mr. Bingham ?iucked up courage to propose that hey regard it as a prophecy and pro :end immediately to fulfill it. Mrs. Peters, in the awkwark cir ,umstances in which they were placed, approved of the idea, and Mr. Peters, after a time, was persuaded to ip his hat at a less murderous-look ug angle, and departed in search of Parson Hildreth instead of the moving spirit of the press, while Mr. Bing iam sought the town clerk to procure L license. At the intercession of their sister, :he term of imprisonment was short !ned for the twins, and they emerged 'rom their temporary confinement in a state of subdued joyousness thatfouni expression in a remark from Polly to he effect that they would play nothing )t funeral after this. The ceremony was finally performed iccording to the directions laid down a The Ciipper, except as to (the ride's dress, a change in that par :icular being strenuously insisted upon >y the bride's mother, and "the popu ar young people" were able to re :eive the congratulations of "their 1osts of friends" with a placid smile. But Editor Dodge. never really, un lerstood why Mr. Bingham subscribed or The Clipper and paid down ten rears in advance. with the remark hat he liked to encourage genius, or vhv Mr. Peters at the same time stopped his subscription and tried for t whole year to exist by borrowing his ieighbor's papers.-Attanta Constitu ,ion. The Effect of Crime on Trade. "The bromo-seltzer trade is busted emporarily," remarked a down-town iruggist. "I suppose as many people get up vit beadache in the morning as ever, >u they- don't drown their sorrows in >romo-se1.er, since the Cornish ,oisoning case came out. 'Guess I'll et a bottle of seltzer,' remarked a nan in Here yesterday. "'Brono-seltzer?' queried a friend, ts if the very idea gave him a cramp. "'Er-well, no. I guess I won't,' -emarked the first man, as if he recol ected something. And he didn't buy t. Curious how people are influ mced by imagination. I'll bet there sn't an anonymons box of candy sent >nce a day in Chicago now. The Bot iin case kiocked that. People who end candy sign their names to it. Why, one day at luncheon I stepped n and ordered a box of candy sent ome. When I got there that evening ny wife was in a state of excitement >ordering on hysterics. 'Who do you hink could have done this, Henry'' he whispered. TIve saved the vrappei- and the string, andl I rouldn't touch a piece of that candy or a million dollars.' "Then the sausage trade was nock'ed into a cocke:1 hat for nearly tyear by the Luetgert trial. I know ~very time rmy wife suggested saulsage3 or breakfast that winter, I kind of vished she wouldn't mention it." hicago Inter-Ocean. -' Pine Cone Cathercr. Every one knows what a bright, >eautiful fire is made by burning pine ones, and country people who can ~et them use them a good deal. They re almost an impossible luxury for ~ity. folk, so thought a Southern wom n who greatly en,ioyed her fires of big xnes, and then the idea occurred to er to collect a quantity of them and hip them to a woman's exchange for ale. She sent in seyeral barrels, and nly asked the modest sum of $2 a arrel for Them.- A few thrown into .n open fire will iake a merry blaze, nd the .cones were quickly sold to >eopl e who. immediately appreciated heir value. .The Southern woman ound her orders increasing almost oo rapidly, and has now a regular >usiness in supplying pine cones, and ne that involves no expense in carry ng it on. Gathering balsam for pil ows -is another industry that would lemand no outlay for a "plant,' and Swould be a pleasant and interesting >ccupation for healthy girls .who like o.tramnp the macuntains and forests. fw York Tribune. Polish Jehus. To drive -slowly over cobblestones s not a joy, but to drive four Russian torses at a gallop over cobblestones as something to make you bite your ongue and to break your teeth and to hak:e .your v-ery sou4 from its socket. mnost.solemnly assure you it was any hing but a simple 'drive to one fresh om the asphalt of Paris, for, like ehu, they -drove furiously. Their ores are all wild, i-una'way beasts, nd; they drive them at an uneven ~alopres4mbling the gait of our fir-e th#ne horses a,t home, except that >ursgo m'ore slowly. . Sometimes -the iorses fall down as they drivc across ~ountry~, or stop, only for stone walls r nicats. The carriages must be built, ,fIron; for- the front wheels drop a e feet into a burrow every now and en, and at such times an unwary ~merican is liable to be pitched over he coachman's head. "Hold on with Oth hands, shut your eve-s and keep roar tongue fr-om between your teeth" rould be ey instructigns to one about af "take a drive" in Po and.--Wom is';Hofra Companion, I TALES OF PLUCK AND ADVENTURE, A Trapper's Narrow Escape, Pierre Le Count, an old trapper, pf Wisconsin, who died recently, retained a distinct recollection of almost every incident of importance in his long life. Lncounters with flarce beasts were of so common occurrence that it was with difficulty he could be induced to refer to them or to give detailsonce the incident was mentioned. The killing of three bears in as many min utes-one with a bullet from his old fashioned mazzle-loading -rifie, the second with an axe and the third with a knife-was one of Le Count's iecol lections, and four great scars across his breast, which werq--isible when his body was pre -ed for the grave, bore evidence oi the fierceness of the battle. ' "That happened 'in-1847 said the old man. "I was trapping dn the up per waters of the Chippewa that fall. It was in the latter part ot October, if I remember right, and Iwas following .up a line of traps one aftdrnoon when I broke through an old indfall and fell over a log, landing right in a nest of four bears-two full grown andtvo six-months cubs. I was a-trapper and not a hunter, and usuallylet such var mints alone unless they tackled me but this time my rifle was up to my face before I knew it, and I brought down the old male with : bullet in his brain. The other three. started off, and as they went I let go at one of the cubs with my little trapping axe. There wasu't one chance it.five hun. dred that I would hit him,in a place that would hurt him, and I just threw it more under the impulse than with any expectation thai I would bring hifa down. But as luck would have it the axe hii him square in the head and he weni down with a roar. His' yell turned the old mother into a devil. She had started off on a dead run, but as soon as she heard the cub cry she-turned and came back on a gallop. Twenty feet from me she went up on her hind feet and came toward me like 'a enow slide. She looked as big as a buffalc and as ugly as a catamount. My empty gun was of about as much use as a snowshoe, andas therewas no time to think of a tree I just whipped out my knife and faced the music. She was about three seconds in knocking me over the windfall, but,- we clo -] drove the ten-inch blade o my knife between her ribs. Her nails found my shoulder and breast, and I was laid up eleven weeks. The scratch didn't amount to much. I would have been well in a week, but my partner was a greenhorn from Vermont, and when I sent him out to get slippery elm barb for a poultice he got basswood." What Pluck Did. It is the bulldog fearlessness and tenacity of an Englishman that makes him a conqueror even wvhen he faces a mob of barbarians. After the born bardmnent of Alexandria by the Eng lish fleet had driven the Egyptian troops out, the city was looted by thieves and cutthroats. Three oi four hundred bluejacketsiwere landed, who stopped the outrages by arrestin~ every person found with plunder in his uossession. On arrest a person was tried by dru.mhead courtmartial, and the sen tence, shooting or flogging, was ex ect.ted without delay. An English man, Mr. Hulme Beaman, who as sisted in punishing the robbers, de scribes in his book, "Twenty Years in the Near East," a dangerous ex perience from which he was enabled to emerge by cool, fearless, bulldog pluck.. He had been detailed to superintend thme flogging of two prisoni and the shooting -of a third;, the sentence to be carried out at their_native village, a nest of thieves. Thei'd..Avere ten thousand of the riffraff looking on. Five policemen (Egyptians) and three Englishmen represented law an d order. The prisoner, sentenced to be shot for a murder, was fitted into a shallow grave. and the policemen fired a volley, amid the execrations of The mob. . Only MIr. Beaman and the Egyptian officer commanding the police under stood w-hat the mob were saying, and the Egyptian begged the three Eng. lishmnen to get away while yet there was time. They, however, insisted on seeing the flogging carried out, and remarked that the slightest symp tom of fear would excite the mob te nurdcr them. The flogging exasperated the crowd, already excited by the execution, and they pressed close round-the Eng lishmen. "It is time to put: an end to infidels torturing believers!" said a portly old Arab sheikh, close to Beaman's elbow. The Englishman seized the Arab, and tuld the mob they should be ashamed of themselves to sympathize with a murderer and thidves. A sul len silence followed. The prisoner, placed in a carriage, in wllich a police man and two Englishmen also rode the third riding horseback alongsidec -was driven at a walk through the dense throng to Alexandria, where mi courtmartial ordered them to be flogged. The next year that- sheikh called on Mr. Beamaan at Cairo, brought witlb him little presents, admitted the jus tice of his punishmnent, and he andl Mr. Beaman remained the best oi friends. The- -faintest sign of weak ness would have turneda that mob intc furious wolves. A Perilous Swim. While our soldiers and sailors were advancing the flag, las u-..mmer, a Aeas bu rave s any nf ther was done by a man of kindred race in far off Sierra Leone. This thrilling in cident of the native uprising is de scribed by a correspondent of the London Standard. At Rotofunk, a mission station some fifty-five miles from the coast, four of the white missionaries had been literally hacked to pieces by the natives. It was said, however, that Mrs. Kane, the wife of the superin tendent of the mission, had succeeded in escaping into the bush. With the hope of rescuing her, a force was dispatched from Freetown,! with orders to push through to Roto funk without delay. On arriving at the Ribbi River, hon ever, the force found that the natives had collected at Mabang, a town on the opposite bank, and had withdrawn all canoes and boats. As the river is over one hundred and fifty yards broad and six fathoms deep, a serious obstacle pre sented itself. The only officer who knew this part of the country was Lieutenant W. R. Howell, of the First Glamorgan Volunteer Artillery, a member of an old Cornish family, who had raised a force of volunteers at the commence -ment of the rising. He appealed for volunteers to Awim across .the river and bring back as many canoes as possibls, but there was no response, as not only would the swimmers be exposed to the full fire of the enemy, but the river was known to swarm with alligators. At length Lieutenant Howell, in spite of the protestations of his fellow officers, resolved to make the attempt himself. .-The enemy, evidently see ing what he was about to do,. assembled in force on the opposite bank, but were driven back some dis tance and kept at bay by the tiring of the British volunteers o.ver Lieutenant Howell's head. . When the Lieutenant had just reached mid-stream and was in the full current, he was seen to .swing round rapidly on his*Vek; his leg had beiMg seized by an alligator. It was only by swinging sharply round that he succeeded in freeing himself, but even so his thigh had been tWrn an lacerated in a shocking manner. Notwithstanding this injury and the work of the enemy's guns, the gallant officer continued his perilous journey, and at length reached the opposite bank, only to find that his errand was fruitless, as all the boats and canoes had been destroyed. For more than half an hour he con tinued his search, but finding the enemy again pressing him, and feeling weak from loss of blood, he was com .pelled to take to the river again, and got back in safety. A Hero of the Zulu War of 1879. It was at the time of the storming of the formidable fortress of Inhlobane mountain. This was a fastness con sidered by the Zulus impregnable, a huge square mass, with precipitous sides, and a flat top, four or five miles long. At either end was a passage up the mountain, each wellnigh inacces sible. Major-General Redgers Buller had charge of the operations at one end, and before daylight his troops began the arduous ascent. All went well for a. time, when suddenly they en countered a large force of Zulus ap proaching at an almost incredible speed. It was necessary to retreat, and Buller attempted to accomplish this though the-.ther troops were un able to cover hiiiin the perilous under taking. The Zulus thronged around the pre cipitous path, pouring volley after vol ley at close range upon the deserted band. But for Buller's heroic exer tions the whole force would have been exterminated. He rallied them again and again, cheering and encouraging them by voice and action. Many troops were dismounted, and to these he proved an angel of salvation. He took[two who were in imminent danger of being cut off, on his. own horse, to a comparatively safe place. He person ally saved six lives, besides all that were saved by his orders and his ex .ample. Although he had been forty eight hours in the saddle, and was suf fering from a painful contusion, he him self covered the retreat, charging again and again at the Zulus, thus gaining time for his men to extricate them selves from the terrible volley of rocks. Iss Hanna shot a Wild Cat. Miss Ruth Hanna, daughter of Sena tor Hanna, is the heroine of a wild cat hunt which occurred on her father's game preserve near Thomasville, Ga., recently. For some time a large wild cat has been annoying the other oc cupants of the preserve, and finally Miss Hanna determined to get its scalp. Accompanied by Howard Hanna, her cousin, both being mounted on fleet horses, she started on the chase before sunrise. The scent was taken up by hounds, and for nearly two hours. the two cousins rode over rough coun try. Miss Hanna shot the cat when it took refuge in a tree. She rescued the carcass from the dogs and bore it home as a trophy. Sportsmen said it was one of the biggest animals of the kind ever seen in that part of the State. Too Realistic a Drausa. In Cardiff, Wales, recently, at a tea entertainiment given to the parishion er. by the National School, the play "Red Riding Hood" was acted. The children had rehearsed in their ordin ary dresses, and consequently the wolf-skin was not seen by some of them until worn on the stage. Oni the wolf's appearance at the bedside of the grandmother, the child who was playing the part of grandmother gave a realistic yell of dismay and scrambled out of bed head foremost; the sight of her fat little form in a tight nightdress caused much laughter among the audience as she disap peared behind the curtains.-Weekly Tieeraph SCIENTIFIC'-AND INDUSTRIAL It is generally '-believed that the common house martin, which leaves England 7-hen nesting -time is over, spends the winter in Africa. Bat, al though millions of the birds disappeat from Europe every autumn, the orni, thologist, Dr. Sharpe, knows of only one single authentic instance of the capture of a martin in the Africancon tinent. In a late volume Dr. A. U. Fison says that "though our own sun hae paased the zenith of its career, it may, in the remote future, brighten intc rivalry with Sirius itself, which i; seventy-five times hotter and brightei than our central luminary. The dis tance from us of Arcturus is founi million times that of the sun, and hi. motion of 137 miles in a second must be continued for 700 years before he would be carried across a space in tht heavens which to our eyes would bf no greater than the width of the moou at the full." A new process for coating iron and steel consists in the use of a bath con sistina of zinc, tin, and aluminum. It is claimed that this produces a coat ing which is much superior to any now known, adhering so firmly thai the sheet will stand working after it has been applied and will resist corro sion and can even be heated red hot without injuring it. The coating if applied in the same manner as in the well-known process of galvanizing, that is, by dipping galvanized sheets in the metal alloy. The most ap proved mixture is made by melting together 81 parts of zinc, 14 parts of tin, and 1? parts of lead and 0- of a part of aluminum. The process is patented. - An interesting paper on the 'cfcts of light at very low temperatures was recently submitted to the Paris Aca't emy of Sciences by MM. Auguste and Louis Lumiere. By using liquid air they were able to obtain very low temperatures, and when a sensitized gelatino-bromide plate was immersed in it and exposed to light for a short time, no tint was shown on develop ment. When the plates were im mersed in the liquid air, but allowed to regain their original temperature without being exposed to the light, they did not show any changes in their properties. If, however, plates of great sensitiveness were exp.,sed at -191 degrees Centigrade, they re quired an exposure about .fqur hun dred times as long as at ordinary tem peratures. As a motive power, the explosive force of liber.a;ed.hea,hao.ofcourse, long been utilized, but .t seems that to the ingenuity of Rudolf Diesel, a Bavarian inventor, is due the con struction of a practically available heat motor. In this <evice, which is technically explained at much length in the foreign scientific journals, a shamr distinction is made between the te:perature of ignition and the tem perature of combustion. The first of these is a constant value at eact pres sure and dependent only on the phys ical qualities of the fuel, the higher the pressure the lower the tempera ture of ignition. Tue temperature of combustion, on the other hand, is variable, depending on many condi tions, and especially on the quality of the air by which the combustion is maintained, but is always higher than the temperature of iguition. Briefly, Diesel's radical departure from all previous practice is defined as consist ing in generating1 a combustion tem perature by mechanical compression of pure air by ingeniously adapted methods, utilizing this temperature to ignite the fuel, and by so introducing the fuel that the heat lost by expan sion is practically balancea by the heat added by combustion. What Presidente Cost. Presidents "come high, but we have got to have them." It costs us 114,865 a year for a Chief Execu tive. His salary is $50,000 and "found," as our Western neighbors say. The President's finding is rather comprehensive, covering about every possible requirement of a family. His private secretary, the clerks, door keepers, messengers and steward, and three other servants cost us $33,865 a year. Then there is a contingent fund of $8000 a year, which the Presi dent may use according to his discre tion. In furniture and repairs to the White House the sum of $16,000 more, to be used by the direction of the President, is provided by the na tion and is always expended. For fuel alone 83000 is allowed, and for necessary repairs to) the greenhouse there is 84000. Altogether the Presidential "find ing" amounts to the snug sum of $64, 865, nearly $15,000 a year more than his salary. The two aggregate S114, 865. Tuis is an imposing aggregate, but it is small compared with other Presidents. The President of the French Republic receives as salary 8120000' a year. 832,480 for con tingent lprpse and a handsome house, rent free. So we get our Prsident rather cheaply, after all. Boston Journal. New Chinese Nuts. The ly-chee nut has appeared above the horizon as the latest accessory to the luncheon or dinner party. It cmes from China, and in appear auc, taste and odor has all the ori eialismi of most such products. Be side becing hard to obtain, it is suffi eethy dear to prevent its becoming common, while it also possesses the value of being a decided novelty. But no hostess need fear that her guests will consume too many ly-chee nuts, to the exclusion of other viands on the table, for while they taste as san dalwood s weetened might be supposed to taste, two are about as many as the m.on palate cares for. THUMB SIGNATU'ES LtLAL Fin;;er Marks Adnissible as Eriucnce 13 Law Courts in Tudia. A bill has just beeii passert by ihe Imperial Legislative Council of India making finger-mart impressions aj-> missible as evidence. in courts of law. The reason for this measure is that the system of taking thumb marks for the identification of prisoners was in troduced in several of the Indian prisons some time ago, but in a test case brought before the Calcutta High Court it was decided that under the existing Indian Evidence act these impressions were not admissible as evidence. There was also the diffi cuhy of classifying and indexing the . finger impressions, but this has since been overcome by a system elaborated by the Inspectoi--General of Police in Bengal, and the bill now before the Indian Office in England will probably become law, states the Sun. in a country like India, where the people are so illiterate, the mere affixing of a mark certified to by wit nesses to a- document has little legal value, the facilities afforded to forgery being so great. But the imprint of the lines of the thumb or of one of the fingers is a personal mark not easily falsified or mistaken. This method has been in use in the past in various countries, but.it is the first time that it has been introduced into modern law, and its working will be watched. with no little interest. It is an interesting fact that the conventional substitute in Turkish official documents for the royal or im perial arms on those of other countries is the modified form of the representa tion of the human hand. The toughra, as it is called, or sign manual, derives its origin from an incident in Ottoman history. One of the earlier Sultans, being unable to write, and having no 'seal convenient on the occasion of the signing of a treaty, placed his hand on the ink pad and imprinted its mark on the treaty in token of ratification. WORDS OF WISDOM. We love justice greatly and just men but little.-Roux. You can only make others better by being good yourself.-Haweis. Look. upon your troubles as the shadows of .coming mercies.-C. H. Spurgeon. A great ideal love must destroy either itself or the being who feels it. -Winter. Life is a stream upon which drift flowers in spring and blocks of ice in - winter.- Roux. Take care what yoa say before a wall, as you can not tell who may be behind it.-Saadi. - He is the greatest whose itrength carries up the most hearts by the at. traction of his own. -Roux. Order of every kind turns at last to pedastry, and to get rid of one, people destroy the other; and so it goes on for a while, until people perceive that order must be established anew. Goethe. Nothing is clearer than that those who would be happy must cease to seek happiness. and ask onlythepnrivi. lege of giving. The song will rise ini our hearts when we cease to live for ourselves and -begin to live for the good that we can do.-Amory H. Bradford. He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs3h'" world with great ,thoughts. He only - -- is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And he is greatest who does the most of all these things and* does them best. Roswell D. Hitchcock. Rezniniscenes of Dickens. One of London's favorite actresses, the late M:rs. Keeley, was fond of tell ing how Dickens superintended the rehearsals of "Nicholas Nickleby" in which she assumed the character of Smike-though he did not care much about any of his works being 'drama- -__ tized. The adapter had put into Smike's mouth a lot of stuff about the little robins in the field. "I1 shall never forget Dickens's face when he heard me repeating those lines," she said. Turning to the prompter he said, "Confound the robins! Cut 'em out." One of Mrs. Keeley's most trying experiences was the first night of "Nicholas Nickleby." As Smike she was made up as a most sad and desti tute-looking object. The curtain went up and he was dis-covered sitting alone before a wretched fire. The gloom was so deep that it was some time before the audience saw him. Then they burst out ini a loud roar of laughter. The favorite actress had been playing comic parts, and they mistook this for one. However; sh's stood it out, though she says it was the most difficult task she ever had. Then she spoke a few words, and the laughter ceased. There was a dead silence, and, as it were, .a stirled sob; and in a few minutes there was searcely a dry eye in the house. - A Princess' Autograph Bookr. The Princess Victoria of Wales has an interesting collection of autographs and original drawings, and has lately intrusted her album to Sig. Tosti, that -. he may procure for her as many addi- -~ tions as possible to her mementos of celebrities. Brne-Jones, a short time before his death, contributed a sketch to thi~ 4 book; Alma-Tadema and Megghetti .:. are represented, and the Princess has -- the autographs of most of the distin guished people of the day. Princess Victoria is not alone among royalties as an autograph collector, for Queen Victoria possesses a very valuable cot lection of autographs, to which in many cases she has added her own comments and opinions of the people