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12 VER Y DAY. Amid the tumult of the street And ceaseless tread of restless feet; "What varied human forms we meet; Every day. Some burdened with an whispered woe; Sad secrets God alone can know; We see them wandering to and fro, Everyday. ' Some seared by time's decay or blight; With furrowed brow and fading sight. Who haunt our feeet from morn till night, Every day. Some swayed by passion-deep and strong, Enkindled by some burning wrong. Unheeded by the listless throng Every day. The lusfeof power, the greed for ga?v Twin tyrants of the heart and brain; We see the ruin of their reign, Every day. The crafty ghouls that throng the street, Wearing the garments of deceit, Who breathe to lie and live to cheat, Every day. And some aspiring to be great; With beaming eye and heart elate, Scorning the thorny thrusts of fate, Every day. The youth enthralled by some fond dream, Or borne along on fancy's stream. Believing ail things what they seem, Every day. " The aged tottering toward the tomb, No light to lift their ray less gloom, Nor hope their weary way illume, "sd ? c- .Y?r'r-14Every day." Th? rich and poor, the old and young. With silent lip or nusnt tongue, And griefs untold or joys unsung; Every day. Thus in the drama of the town Some bear a cross or wear a crown Until death rings the curtain down, Every day. ?D. B. Sickles: Vigilante Vengeance. A UNITED STATES SEN ATOR S STORY. ENATOR SAN ders, of Montana, is one of the most entertaining talk ers in the Senate. A group of gentle men were sitting in his committee room one day listening to his tales of the early history- of Montana, when the mining fever was at its height. The talk turned on the different doings, of the Vigilantes, of which Senator San ders was leader. "Yes,0 said the Senator, retrospectively, * 'I have assisted m a good many send offs where a robber or murderer was launched into another world without the benefit of the clergy." *;Were you present at the execution of the notorious Slade?" asked one of the gentlemen. *'Yes," replied the Montana Senator, "and I could tell you a story about that execution. That was the one instance where the gentleman whom we assisted in waking his exit was neither thief nor murderer?or, at least, that was not the crime for which he was hung." "What was his crime?" again asked the gentleman. "We executed Mr. Slade for treason ?high treason against the Territory of Montana," replied Sanders, thought fully, ?'ancVthereby hangs a tale. "As you know, I was chief of the Vigilance Committee, and we had suc cessfully engineered about forty or fifty hangings, when we became imbued with the idea that a little more lawful form of government would be to the better in terests <t>f'our camp, Virginia City, then havm^aWat 10,000 population, ?So, one evenings we gathered together on the outskirts of the town in an informal mass meeting, and proceeded to choose from among ourselves officers lor our local government. Our organization was the .simplest thing in the world. We would turn to one of our members and say,, *You are a pretty square sort of fellow, and we know you to be as straight as a string, so you shall be our Judge,' and to another, *You are a heavy built chap and have plenty of grit, and you-shall be Marshal. ' I was Dis trict Attorney because. I had a smatter ing of law, and it was upon my affida vits that all warrants were issued. It seems strange in these days to think of constituting a court in such an off handed way and without the slightest vestige of Federal authority; but we did it, and our court was respected by all the citizens of Virginia City, Montana. That is, most of them all. For a time all went well, but after a while, when they we were not hanging- so frequently as before^ the lawless element grew bold er and more aggressive. "Thftfeadfer of this tpu^b part of our populacKl waaMr. Stade. I had known him for along time and we were the best of friends. He was warm-hearted and a powerful friend to those he liked, but a perfect devil to those who had incurred his displeasure. I have seen him come into a saloon where perhaps fifty men were engaged in playing billiards, cards, etc., and insist that everything should stop at occe and that they all drink with him. He would line them all up to the bar and generally had me next to him. He would raise hi3 glass with the rest of them, would wait until they had finished, when he would bring his glass on a level with his eye, and about a foot from' it, and stare, stare, stare at it with terrible intentnesa for two or three minutes. Then suddenly he would raise the glass, dash it from him with terrific force at the mirror, the floor, the barkeeper, or anything that seemed to strike his fancy, and draw his revolver and begin shoot ing indiscriminately. I would say to him, 'Slade, give me that pistol,' and in a minute he would hand me his gun and j 0 quiet do vu. 1 f< "I sug>ose I have done that same ; t< thing ten or a dozen times. I never j c could understand him at such times. He j t< was not afterany-one with deadly intent. I tl He simply seemed to be seized with a \ k mad passion, which he could not con- J s1 trol. He was the recognized leader of rr the toughs, and had about a dozen satel- b lites always on hand to do his bidding, j w A favorite diversion of theirs was to dash | b down the mountainside from their cabin j re homes, load up at the first convenient j ai saloon, and proceed to some house of j si pleasure, all the time getting drunker | c< and drunker. In the morning, when the ! si peaceful citizens got up, they would see \ h a pile of logs, not one left standing, and j al a group of shivering and crying women, sj This scheme of demolishing houses was c< the principal pastime of this lawless ; tl crowd. j et ?*One morning, after we had orgaD- p ized our court, news came that Mr. J sc Slade and his chosen friends had spent ; it a night at a disreputable house, and in j 0; the morning destroyed it as usual. We j oi sent our Maeshal with instructions to ar- J o rest Slade and-bring aim to court. In ! ?t due time they both appeared. Slade fi reaccable enough, and very gentlemanly, rr Alter hearing the case, the Court im- B posed a fine of $25, which was cheer fully paid by the defendant, and he de parted, inviting us all to come and have a drink. Not long after that Slade was again before us, charged with the same offence. This time the fine was doubled and paid with the same degree of alac rity which had marked the previous payment. Slade did not seem to profit by these lessons, for he was frequently before us, and was each time fined a sum double that of the preceding levy. "On one occasion when the fine had reached the sum of $400, Mr. Slade said he had not that amount with him, but would bring it in the next time he came to town. He acknowledged our power, and didVt care for money, as he was a man who made it easily. Well, he came to town several tiroes alter that, but did not offer to pay $400. It was not in his nature to long remain quiet, and soon he was again in trouble for a like offence. Our Marshal brought him to the court room, which was a portion of a groceiy store, with barrels of llour and grain around the floor and bacon and hams sus pended from rafters. We used soap boxes instead of chairs, and were not a very imposing assemblage. Mr. Slade came in peaceably enough, and stood quietly while the Court directed the Mar shal to read the warrant. As the Mar shal puUed out the document Slade, quick as a flash, sprang at him and jerked it out of his hands, at the same time level ling a revolver at the heart of his Honor. It was all done ip a second, and the six or eight henchmen of the tough had also drawn their pistols at -the same time. 'Now,' said Mr. Sladef *I am about tired " of this business. ? 1 am not going to be drainedcjtny more, and I am not going to recogcze your authority, ;:or shall I pay that $400. I shall aold you per sonally responsible for my personal safety, and it any of your committee attempts to touch me I will blow your heart out.' "While he was speaking I was think ing, and, before he had concluded, quietly turned and walked out, as if thinking of something else. I walked out on the street, and the first man I met was a member of our Vigilance Com mittee. I explained the situation to him, md asked him to get on his horse and ride to a camp about two miles away md tell the boys we needed them. He ?et off in post haste, and I turned back :oward the court room. Just as I turned iround I came face to face with Slade md his followers, who had walked >oldly out oi court soon after I came tway. 'Come in and have something, sanders,' called the irrepressible. I said 0 him, 'Slade, get on your horse, and ?o home as fast as you can.' " 4What do you mean? Why do you ell me that?' demanded Slade. " 'Never mind what I mean?' I re died; 'get on your hcrse and go home.' "He didn't get on his horse and go tome, but he got on his horse and rode ,11 through town, bringing up at last at he court room. He was inclined to be ery proud of his defiance of the orders f the Court, and was insulting' to his lonor, who was still there. He was waggering around the store, when I lappened to look out of the window and aw that the house was surrounded by rmed men. The next minute they were 1 the room, and one of them was say 2gz 'We want you, Mr. Slade.' He turned pale and weakened at once. A rowd of his captors surrounded him; nd I left him safe in their keeping. I rent home, and was not there five min tes when one of the vigilantes came up nd said: 'Mr. Sanders, the boys have bout concluded , that they won't e bothered with Mr. Slade any >nger, and as there is ro place to eep him safely, they are going to hang im whether the Court wills it or not.' hurried to the court room and saw he-Judge and the Marshal and several thers, and after a conference we agreed hat as Siade^wasbqund to hang whether y our wishes, or not, it was better to ave him executed by order of the Court, nd thus preserve our hold on the com ?unity. TK^senteoeed him to death for igh jtreasbn. for inching others to re ellion and for himself seeding to over hrow our form of government. When lade heard of this he sent a messenger or me to come to him at once and make . speech in his behalf. I knew that it pould be worse than useless for me to do o, and refused to go on a fool's errand. Then he sent me to our Judge with a imilar request, but the Judge, knowing hat he was powerless to prevent the xecution, declined to see him. So Mr. ?lade was taken to a hill overlooking a ;ulcb, and a noose from a gallows (used o slaughter sheep) slipped around his ieck and a barrel placed ander him. ust as ha was about to be swung off, the loise of a horse's hoofs was heard and , mounted woman appeared in the dis ance coming at a breakneck speed. It ras Siade's wife; but by the time she rrived upon the scene, around which wo thousand people were gathered, the ?arrel had been kicked from under him, nd Mr. Slade was no more. "That is the story of the execution, ,nd a singular.one it was." During, the iecital of these stirring r?ents Senator Sanders seemed to forget iis surroundings and to be living over gain the scenes which he was depicting o his interested listeners.?Commercial razette. Stones That Move. In Australia, and also in Nevada, magnetic stooe3 are found which are ap arently endowed with the power of lo omotion. The stones are described as >eing almost perfectly round, the ma ority of them as large as a walnut, and aving the appearance of iron. When ;istributed upon the floor, table, or ther level surface within two feet or hree feet of each other, they immedi tely began traveling toward a common enter, and there He huddling up in a unchlike eggs in a nest. They are ound in a region which is comparatively ?vel, and is nothing but a bare rock, cattered over this barren district are ttle basins from a few feet to a rod or wo in diameter, and it is in the bottom f these that the moving stones are :>und. They are found the size ^f a pea > six or seven inches in diameter. The ause of these stones rolling together is ) be found in the substance of which ley are composed, which appears to be >adstone or magnetic ore. A single :one. if removed to a distance of not Lore than three and a half feet, upon eing released immediately starts off with onderful celerity, to joins its fellows; ut if removed four or five feet it re lains motionless. In the Falkland Isl ids there are rivers of stones which owly but surely move onward. They insist of blocks of quartzite, mostly nail, which fall into the valleys on be ig detached from the rock"y rid^e; oove, and become irabeded ip. the jongy soil. Tiiey are subjected to a instant expansion and contraction, as ?e soil is either saturated or becomes imparatively dry. Whenever the ex ansion takes place the stones slip down >me distance, however small or in?n esimal, and therefore are more or le n the move. These moving "moraines r stone rivers, are one of the wonder* P that part of the world. There are in tany plaaes stones or masses of roc\ s nely balanced that a touch make? then: love and commence rocking.?Yankee lade. BUDGET OF F&M HUMOROUS SKETCHES PROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Effect of Marriage?A Drawing Cai^ ?Trie Dear Thing?Fooled the Dentist?Footing It, Etc., Etc. He had but little mind, they said, And they called him simple John; He tooi a wife and that little flei: His piece of mind was gone. ?New York Press. why some?nrsxs hate friends* v. "I see ?Eiss San&rsjiuj? Mis? S irey are together all the J?aj|. JW&t ^ear friends they most Be.^* ' " "~ - 4'Not at all. You see each of them has an unmarried brother."?Chicago News Kecord. the dear thing. Miss Crofut?"This little cap and, spoon were given to me on my first birth day." Miss Pussley?"Oh, I must :.show them to mama 1 she has a perfect rage for old silver."?Puck. a drawing card. Jinkins?"What's all that rush'"and; scramble about at the bargam-couatet? to-day?"--' Minkins?"Silk, Ribbon & Co., have a dentist there palling: ieetk^&fc i|?lt price. "?New Y?k- Wel?jf^ * a clever ruse. "What's the idea of putting that card 'sold' by the picture?" asked the man who had given the artist room in his front window to display his latest crea tion. . "Then some one will-be sure to want to buy it," replied the artist,?Judge. footing it. She?"Well?" He?"Your father has just left me. When I asked him for your hand I told him that I was ready to put my best foot foremost, and?" She?"And what did he say?" He?"He said that he was also pre pared to do the same."?Judge. kothing thrown in. Landlord of Hotel?"Does Moneywug like that south room?" Clerk?"Yes, sir; he's delighted with it. Says he can take a sun bath in the bay window every day." Landlord?"He does, hey? We'll look into that; our .charges are extra for baths.'5?Chicago News Record. y: ' fooled the dentist. Mother?"Mercy mel; The denkstfcW pulled the wrong tooth." Little Dick (gleefully)?"I fooled him bully." "Fooled him?'* "Yes'm. I told him that was the one. I knew if he touched th' achin* one it ud hurt awful."?Good News. how it impressed a novice." - "Well," said Mrs. Bruggins, after a solo by a fashionable church choir tenor, "If that ain't the rudest thing I ever saw!"' "What?" inquired her niece. "Why, didart you notice fcjf^ Jos$ aa,j soon as that young man bega^i-'to sing" every other member of the choir stogped. But he went right through wir,h it^a?id I must say I admire his spunK^^WasV ington Star. taking no chances. ; Mabel (aged eighteen)?"Mr. Head strong fixed the day as the first Friday of next month or not at all, and I :in dignantly declined. The idea of bein^ married on Friday !" Mable (aged thirty)?"Mr. Mildman ner fixed the next Friday; week/* >' Her Next Friend?"But you're not to be married on Friday?" H Mabel?"Oh, well, this Friday doesn't count, you know."?Boston Post. too awfully rude. Cholly (at hotel table)?"Aw. waitah, bwing me a little aspawagus without sauce, don't ye know; just in its^natu ral state, ye know." The waiter brought it. Cholly?"I'm very fond, ye know, of things in their natural state, ye know. Bwing me a glaws of milk, now." Disgusted Drummer?"Just drive in the cow, waiter; he'il take the milk in its natural state, too."?Chicago News J Record. cause to be backward;" He had been out in the yard playing ball, and when he came into the house very suddenly and sat down with his Sunday-school book in his hand, his fath er thought it was full time to question him. This is how it all came out: ' "What did you do with your ball?" "It went over the fence." "Did you go next door for it?" "No." "Why not." "Because it went through the win dow."?New York Sun. JUST HOW SHE LOOKED. Young Mr. Fitts?41 I never shall for get how sweat you looked the day I pro posed to you, dear." Mrs. Fitts?"How was I dressed?" Mr. Fitts?"Lcmmesee. You had on a dress of some so?t, light;-colored stuff; I forget whether it was white or not. And you had a hat that was trimmed in?tha. was trimmed like most of the hats were trimmed that year, and shoes ?or did you wear slippers? Any way, I shall never forget just how you looked if I live to be one hundred years old."? Indianapolis Journal. HOUSEHOLD DUTIES. Mr. Nicefellow?"Ah, how de do, my little man/ Been helping your sister, I suppose. She told mc sue would be busy for a little while with some house hold duties." Little Man?"Yep. I tried to help, but I wasn't much use." "I suppose not." "No. She wanted me to carry some water, but I couldn't carry much at a time, and it takes a lot to get ink out of carpet, specially red ink." "Red ink?" ' "Yes, Sis always writes her letters to Mr. Warmheart in red ink. He says it reminds him of the way she blushes when he kisses her."?Good News. DIDN T COMMIT HIMSELF. Ethel?"Oh, Ernest, have you seen j father?" Ernest?"Yes; I've just come from his ! office." Ethel?"And did he give his consent?" ! Ernest?"I couldn't quite make out. J He was so non-committal." Ethel?"Well, what did he say?" Ernest?"He didn't say anything at all." Ethel?"Didn't you ask him?" Ernest?"I said: 'Sir, I wish to marry your daughter. Have I your consent?' and he turned and looked at me a miu ute, and he began to turn red in the face, and then he grabbed me and threw nie over the bauisters, and before J could ask him again he had slammed his door and locked it.*'?Boston Courier. hb was a brute. I ? brute of a husband off on a business j ir?p of a week recently received a tele gram to this effect: i "During the storm to-day your wife waa- atruck by lightning and rendered speechless, but not otherwise severely in jured. ^Physicians think she will be all right in a few days." Was the man overcome by this shock ing news, and did ho fiy to his wife's side? Not much*. He sent this telegram in reply. " - "Call oft" the doctors and Life her go afethit^?Detroit Free Press. ^ ^?r t^Sason?es pattest. "Now, sir," said Doctor Paresis, after making a careful examination of the symptoms, "I will leave you some medi cine, which you will take according to the directions I shall place on the bottle. But tue medicine alone is not sufficient.: You must give up the use of intoxicating drinks of all kinds." ^ "But, Doctor,'^leaded flie patient, "inever as? . thjan; I am a total ab stainer." "Um-m-m. Well, in that , ct^se you .:must\ discontinue indulgence in. to-; ^bacco;." fi - ^ifever used^t in any form." "No? Well you will have to dis-' pense with tea and coffee for a few ^months." >; ^ ^^?iever drink anything but water and milk, Doitor." "Indeed? Yours is rather a strange case. Then we'll try what effect a rigid abstinence' from a meat diet will have." \'I have never eaten meat. My parents brought me.up a strict vegetarian." "You surprise me. But you really must abandon the use of pa3try of all kinds." "Doctor, a piece of pie hasn't passed my lips for ten years." "Well, sir," said the physician, se verely, after a moment's gaze into the unfortunate man's face; "you are the most unreasonable patient I ever saw. How on earth is medical science to take hold of a case when the patient hasn't a single solitary thing to give up? I re sign the case, sir. I'll have nothiDg further to do with it." And he walked out.?Puck. Secret Murder in India. A report by the Indian Government, just published at Bombay, reveals a mo3t extraordinary state of affairs regarding an epidemic'of poisoning which seems to be--prevalent throughout the country. This the report attributes, in a great measure, to 4ho -facility with which arsensic and other poisons may be pur chased, and urges that stricter laws on the subject should be at once enacted. Among the cases cited is that of the son of a wealthy Begum who, being dissatis fied with the amount of the spending money allowed him, plotted with the cook to destroy the family. As a result of these machinations five died from the administration of strychnine. Horrified at the consequence of her act, the cook made a full confession and the murderer was hanged. In Podeysore, a young girl, who was on the eve of being mar ried to the man of her choice, en countered great opposition from . her fpends,- who, being uaable to postpone the ceremony in any other way, pois oned him with arsenic In Poonah, a g?r? robbed her mistress while she was ill, and afterward poisoned her. In the Kaladgi district a woman applied to the Mahaer, fer a charm to stop the quarrel some habits of her husband. The charm worked so effectively that the man died, after its administration, as did also a dog that ate tho remainder of the charmed food.?Bo3ton Transcript. Will Tea Growin the South ? Some years ago General Le Duc, th ;n Commissioner, of Agriculture, made an 7\ttempt;to grow tea in North and South Carolina, but his notions were so ridi culed by his friends that his plans were not completed. Quite lately, however, at a meeting of the South Carolina Agricultural Society, Professor W. F. Massey.showed a pack-. j age of tea which was grown and dried in North Carolina, and, moreover, an expert stated that this same tea would be worth $1 a pound, wholesale, in China. Mr. Massey thinks tea can be made a commercial success in the South. It is certainly hardy enough, aud labor is better there than in India. The manager of General Le Due's ex periments was for eighteen years a tea raiser in Assam; and he said that tea could be raised in the Carolinas for from fifteen to twenty cents a pound. It would, at least, do no harm to try tea raising, and, i'f we succeed, it wili add one mere item to the endless list of products which our country can grow lor herself. ?American Farmer. The Hedjrekoj. The hedgehog runs the roads freely. He is a quaint little fellow, our hedge pig, liaving far more intelligence than people give him credit for. It is curious, as you stand perfectly still is the middle of a road, to see him come running along, then stopping to sniff and whine and examine the high, strange object that hardly breathes lest he startle the little creature. Then with a gentle grunt be will pass you by. A very low yet quite decided grunt he give3, and he whines as well. Shakespeare, who seems to have been a most excellent out-of-doors naturalist ?a minute observer of life, indeed, in all shapes?noticed the hedgehog, and wrote: "The hedgehog whines at night." If any one of our readers possesses a tame hedgehog, let him examine the eye of the creature if he ha? not already done so. If the eye is the index to the mind, as I iirmly believe it to be, the hedgehog knows a great deal, and only uses his knowledge for his own special benefit.?B i ack wood's Magazi ne. How to Bring Up a Son. Make home the brighest and most at tractive place on earth. Make him responsible for the per- j formance of a limited number of daily [ duties. Talk frankly with him on matters in which he is interested. Sometimes invite his friends to your home and table. Take pains to know his associates. Encourage hi3 confidence by giving ready sympathy ami advice. Be careful to impress upon his mind that making character is more important than making monev.?Young Men's Era. A Snake That Hutches Eg^rs. Pythons, like birds, actually incubate i the eggs they lay. This was first ascer- j tained at the Jardin de3 Plantes, ia ! Paris. The female arranges her eijgs in i a conical heap, twiBg herself around them so that her head surmounts the summit of the cone, and thus can quick ly perceive the approach of any enemy. She will remain thu-? coiled for two months without taking food, though she has been kuown to drink copiously upon water being offered her by her keeper,? Quarterly Review. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. TO LAUNDER CRETONNE. Cretonne draperies, as a rule, are either sent to the professional cleaner or else ruined by home washing. A sample of the cretonne should first be washed in salt and water or in ox-sall and water to set the color and then be dried in a dark room. None of the ordinary grades of soap should be used. The greatest risk in lading lies in the drying, and a dark room should always be used for this if possible. If the colors are not too bright this method will insure satisfaction.? New York World. _____ THE CARE OF A PIANO. A good piano is not an instrument of a^day but rathef of "a lifetime. But this durability is only secured by giving it proper care. If a piano is ill-treated, it soon rewards the owner by becoming tin-panny and harsh in tone. But all ordinary practice on this instrument, whether by a grown person who under stands how to touch the ' keys, or by a child who is learning, will not harm it in anywise. A piano can be kept in daily practice in. a private family for years without becoming worn out if it be of good tone and make to begin with. No piano can be thumped or pouuded upon with impunity. A piano should be frequently tuned, and by a competent tuner. An in capable workman can easily work irre parable injury to the most perfect and costly instruments. For the first year a piano should be frequently tuned; aftei that the intervals may be long or short, according a3 the instrument is in con stant or occasional use. Dampness is the most dangerous enemy to contend against in the care of the piano. If it be kept iL a damp room, or a draft of air be allowed to play upon it, any instrument would be ruined, the tuningpins and the metal portions becoming rusty, and the cloth used in the construction of the keys and the action becoming swollen. Such a piano is an aggravation to temper if one attempts playing upon it. If the keys of a piano become dis colored or dirty, they cau be whitened or cleansed by removing the front and the slip of wood over them; then lifting each key separately, wipe off with a damp rag which has been wetted in clean, cold water. Dry with a soft cloth. If the keys are sticky from chil dren's fingers, the cloth used in the be ginning can be dampened with alcohol. Yellow keys should be exposed to strong sunlight daily until they whiten.? Ladies' Home Journal. . .. FRUIT PRESERVES AND JELLIES. The concluding remarks of Miss Parola's talk on the preserving of fruits before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society were devoted to preserves and jellies. She said : Preserving with sugar pound for pound is not extensively practised now, most . people preferring the simpler and more healthful mode of canning with a small quantity of sugar; still, there are some things that are better for the following of this mode. I think there is no fruit more delicious than the strawberry, either fresh or preserved; yet there is none about which the housekeeper feels more uncertain. It is something that cannot be preserved without plenty of sugar. . If you wish to preserve the pineapple by cooking care must be taken that it is not exposed to a high temperature for any length of time, as cooking hardens and darkens the fruit. All fruits are prepaied for preserving in .sugar the same as for canning. Then a rich syrup is made?four pounds of sugar to a pint of water?and the fruit is simmered in it until tender and clear. Such fruit as quinces and hard pears should be cooked until tender before being put in the syrup. Some kinds of fruit are better for hav ing the sugar added to them when partially cooked, while others should always have it added the moment they are' placed 'on the fire. Again, one kind is better for standing for hours in the sugar, while others should not have the sugar touch them until they are ready to go on the fire. There are a few fruits which are far better without sugar than with it. This is the case with the prune, with which sugar should never be put, long, slow cooking serving to develop a fine, rich flavor. Cranberries, on the other hand, should have a pint of sugar to a quart of berries, and the sugar, water and berries must go on the fire at once and be cooked rapidly for a short time. No other method will give a satisfactory result. T^.e last two sug gestions do not come under preserving, but I use them to illustrate the fact that the treatment that makes one dish per fect may ruin another. In no department of preserving does the housekeeper feel less sure of the re sults than in jelly-making, so much de pends upon the condition of the fruit. This is more, pronounced in. the. case of small fruite than with the larger kinds. When currants are over-ripe, or have been picked after a rain, the result of using them will be uncertain. Perhaps we notice it more with this fruit than with any other, because it is so generally used for jelly. An understanding ot the properties of fruits which form3 the basis of jellies may help the housekeepers to a better knowledge of the conditions and methods essential to success. Pectin, which forms the basis of vege table jellies, is a substance which, in its composition, resembles starch and gum. It gives to the juices of fruits the prop erty of gelatinizing. This property is at its best when the fruit is just ripe; better a little under-ripe thau over-ripe. When boiled for a long time it loses its gela tinous property and becomes of a gummy nature. These facts show the import ance of using fruit that is but ripe and freshly picked, as well as the need of care not to over-cok the juice. One form of p serves which is most useful, convenient and wholesome should be more generally adopted than it is, namely, the canning of fruit juice for creams, ices, drinks, etc. Certainly every housekeeper ought to preserve enough of tbe juices of the strawberry, raspberry, peach, apricot, grape, etc., for her own use. They can be preserved with or without ?: ^ar, but I should always ad vocate sugar. To Cure Warts. A very simple remedy for the cure of warts is the following: Pass a clean bright new pin through the wart, and hold it so you cau apply one end of the pin to the flame of a lamp; hold it there until the wart fries under the action of tbe heat. A wart so treated will take final leave. A wart with a slender root may be easily destroyed by fastening around it a silk thread or horsehair. After it drops off the roots should be touched with caustic to prevent it grow ing again. Hard warts should be cut smoothly oil with a knife or sharp scis sors, and then caustic applied to their roots to destroy them. Warts may also be cured by touching repeatedly with lunar caustic, bluo vitriol or chloride of zinc?American Farmer. The duty on raw sugar in "Germany has been removed and will now be levied on the sugar as it leaves the fac tory. REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "The KL.?'* Highway." Text: "And an highway shall be. there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of ho'h'ness: the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those; the wayfarinQ men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon. It shall not bt found there, but the redeemed shall walk there, and 'he ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy uvon th?.ir heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.?Isaiah xxxv., 8-10. There are thousands of people here this morning who want to find the right road. You sometimes see a person halting at cross roads, and you can tell by his looks that he wishes to ask a question as to what direction he had better take. And I stand in your presence this morning conscious of the fact there are many of you here who realize that there are a thousand wrong roads, but only one right one, and I take it for granted that you have come in to ask which one it is. Here is one road that opens widelv, but I have not much faith in it. There are a great many expensive tollgatos scattered all alonsj that way. Indeed at every rod you must pay in tears, or pay in flagellations. On that road, if you get through it at all you have to pay your own way, and since this differs so much from what I have heard in regard to the right way, I believe it is the wrong way. Here is another road. On either side of it are houses of sinful entertainment, and invitations to come in and dini and rest, but from the looks of the people who stan 1 'on the piazza I am very certain that it is the wrong house and the wrong way. Here is another road. It is very beautiful and macadamized. The horses' hoofs clatter and wring, and they who ride over it spin along the highway until suddenly they find that the road breaks over an embankment, and they try to halt, and they saw the bit in the mouth of the fiery steed and cry /'Whoa! whoa!" But it is too late, and? crash !?they go over the embankment. We shall turn this morning and see if we cannot find a different kind of a road. You have heard of the Appian Way. It was three hundred and fifty miles long. It was twenty-four feet wide, and on either side the road was a path for foot passengers. But I have this morning to tell you of a road built before the Appian Way,and yet it is as good as when first construed. Millions of souls have gone over it. Millions more will come. First, this road of the text is the King's highway. Well, my Lord the King decided tobuild a highway from earth to heaven. It should span all the chasms of human wretch edness; it should tunnel all the mountains of earthly difficulty; it should be wide enough and strong enough to hold fifty thousand millions of the human race, if so many of them should ever be born. It should be blasted out of the "Rock of Ages," and cemented with the blood of the Cros?, and be lifted amid the shouting of angels and the execration of devils. The King sent His Son to build that road. He put head and hand and heart to it, and after the road was completed, waved Eis blistered hand over the way crying, "It is finished." Still further?this road spoken of is a dean road. Many a fine road has become miry and foul because it has not been prop erly cared for; bub my text says the un clean shall not. walle on this one. Room on either side to throw away your sins. In deed, if you want to carry them along, you are not on the right road. That bridge will break, those overhanging rocks will fall, tht night will come down, leaving you at th? mercy of the mountain bandits, and at the very next turn of the road you will perish. But if you are really on this clean road of which I have been speaking, then you will stop ever and anon to wash in the water that stands in the basin of the eternal rock. Aye, at almost every step of the journey you will be crying our, "Create within me a clean heart P If you have no such aspirations as that it proves that you have mistaken your way, and if you will only look up and see the fingerboard above your head you may read upon it the words, 'There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death." Without holiness no man shall see the Lord, and if you have any idea that you can carry alonr your sins, your lusts, you worldliness and yet to the end of the Christian race you are so awfully mis taken that, in the name of God, this morn ing I shatter the delusion. Still further, the road spoken of is a plain road. "The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein"?that is, if ? man is three-fourth an idot he can find this road just as well as if he were a philosopher. Many a man has been familiar with all the higher branches of mathematics and yet could not do the simple sum, "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?' Many a man has been a fine reader of tragedies and poems and yet could not "readihis title clear to mansions in the skies." Many a man has botanized across the continent and yet did not know the "Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley." But if one shall come in the right spirit, asking the way to heaven, he will find it a plain way. The pardon is plain. The peace is plain. Everything is plain. He who tries to get on the road to heaven through the New Testament teaching will get on beautifully. He who goes through philosophical discussion will not get on at all. Christ says, "Come to Me, and I will take all your sins away, and I will take all your troubles away." Now, what is the use of my discussing it any more? Is not that plain? After this Bible has pointed you the way to heaveD, is it wise for me to de tain . you with any discussion about the nature of the human will, or whether the atontment is limited or unlimited? There is the-roadV?go on it. It is a plain way. Still further, this road to heaven is a safe road. Sometimes the traveler in those an cient highways would think himself perfect ly secure, not knowing there was a lion by the way burying his head deep between his paws, and then when the right moment came, under the fearful spring, the man's life was gone and there was a mauled car cass by the roadside. But, says my text, "2?o lion shall be there." I wish I could make you feel this morning your entire se curity. I tell you plainly that on- minute after a man has b?come a child of God he is as safe as though he had been ten thousand years in heaven. He may slip, be may slide, he may stumble, but he cannot be de? stroyed. Kept by the power of God through faith unto complete salvation. Everlasting ly safe. The severest trial to which you can sub ject a Christian man is to kill ftin^ and that is gJ'" ry. In other words, the worst thing that can happen a child of God is heaven. The body is only the old slippers that he throws aside just before putting on the sandals of light. His soul, you cannot hurt it. No tires can consume it. No floods can drown it. No devils c;m capture it. His ?oul is safe. His reputation is safe. Everything is safe. "But," you say, "sup pose his store burns up?" Why, then it will only be a change of invest ments from earthly to heavenly securi ties. "But." you say, "suppose his name goes down under the hoof of scorn find contempt?' The name will be so much brighter in glory. "Suppose his phys ical health fails?" God will pour into him the floods of everlasting health, and it will not make anv difference. Earthly subtrac tion is heavenly addition. The tears of earth are the crvstals of heaven. As they take rags and tatters and put them ? hrough the p&oer mill and they come out beautiful white sheets of paper, so often the rags of earthly destitution, under the cylinders of death, come out a white scroll upon which shall be written eternal emancipation. Still further, the roa 1 spoken of is a pleas ant road. God gives a bond of indemnity aeainst ail evil to overv man that treads it. "All things work together for goo 1 to those who love God." No weapon formed against them can prosper. That is the bond, signed, sealed and delivered by the President of th? universe. What is the use of your frettinr, O child of God, about foo l? "Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into bands, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them." And will He take care of the sparrow, will Hp take care of the hawk, and let you nie? What is the u?e of your fretting about clothes? " "on sider the lilies of the field. Shill Hp not much more cloth* you, 0 vo of little faith?" Oh, this King's highway ! Tree-; of life on either side bonding over until their branches interlock and drop mi iway their fruit and shade. Hons?s of entertainment on either side of the road for poor pilgrims. Tables spread with a feast of good things and walls adorned with apples of gold in pictures of silver. I start out on this Kind's highway, and 1 find a harper, an 1 I say, "What is your name?" The harper makes no response, but leaves me to gu^ss, as with his eyes to ward heaven and his hand upon the trem bling striu^s this tune comes rippling out up on the air: "The Ix>rd is my light and my sal vation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord Is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid f I go a little farther on the same road and meet a trumpeter of heaven, and I say, "Haven't you got some music for a tired pilgrim?*' And wiping his lip an I taking a long breath, ho puts his mouth to the trun Eet and pours forth this strain : " Thev shall ungernomore, neither shall the v thirst any more, neither sha'l the sun lizht on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of tha throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." I go a little distance farther on the same road, and I meat a maiden of Israel. She has no harp, but she has cymbals. They look as if they had rusted from sea spray, and I say to the maiden of Israel, ''Have you no song for a tired pilgrim?' And lilce the clang of victors' shields tbe cymbalscap as Miriam begins to discourse, "Sing ye to the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and the rider hath He thrown into the sea." I pursue this subject only one step farther. What is tha terminus? I do not c ire how fine a road you may put me on, I want to know where it comes out. My text declares it, '-The redeemed of the Lord come to Zion." ?ou know what Z:on was. Thit was the King's palace. It was a mountain fastness. It was impregnable. And so heaven is the fastness of the universe. No howitzer has lon^ enough range to shell those towers. Let all the batteries of earth and hell blazaaway; they cannot break in these gates. Gibraltar was taken; Sebas topol was taken; Babylon fell; but those walls of heaven shall never surrender either to humanity or satanic besiegement. The Lord God Almighty is the defense of it. Great capital of the urivers9l Terminus oX the Bang's highway I When my last wound is healed, when the last heartbreak is ended, when tae last tear of earthly sorrow is wiped away, and when the redeemed of the Lord shall coma to Zion, then let the harpers take down their harps, and all the trumpters take down their trampets, and all across heaven there be chorus of morning staiv, chorus of white robed victors, chorus of martyrs from un der the throne, chorus of age:-, chorus of worlds, and there be but ona soa:; sung, and but one name spoken, and but o.ua throne honored?that of Jesus only. THE NATIONAL GAME. Gumbert is Chicago's winning pitcher. Baseball is getting a foothold in G er many. The New York's infielders are playing very weak game. Miller, of Pittsburg, has only struck out twice this season. Terry, the Brooklyn's cast off, is Pitts burg's star pitcher. Pitcher Cuppt was th9 luckiest find Cleveland ever made. Latham, of Cincinnati, has been having his arm electrically treated. The veterans are being crowded out fast to give way to young blood. The Cincinnati Club has engaged Pitcher Duryea, late of Washington. Forty players have been on the St. Louis j?y roll since the season opened. Virtue has developed into one of the most timely hitters in the Cleveland team. Gla?scock bas played everv game of the year but two with the St. Louis Club. m In Cincinnati Cross, of the Philadelphias, is considered the bestall round player in the country. The Washingtons have tried ten Pitchers this season. Cincinnati comes next with nine experiments. Ex-Fitcher Galvin has applied to Presi* dent Young for the first vacancy on the League umpire statt*. Young, of Cleveland, is probably one of the best wet ball pitchers in the League, as he uses curves but iitcle. The Lou svilles have tied the Clevelands for the best record of consecutive victories in the second season?ei^ ht. There is no immediate necessity of Anson giving up his position as a first baseman lor the Chicagos. He is playing as good as he ever did. A noticeable thing about Strafon's pitching lor Louisville is that ha nearly always throws a strike on the first ball to a batsman. Virtue, of Cleveland, and Comiskey, of Cincinnati, are having a tussle lor the houor of being the best fielding first baseman in the league. THE LABOE WORLD. About 55,000 London tailors are locked out of work. Grape cultivation employs 2,330,000 per sons in France. Hackmen of Chicago have the word **Union" painted on each side of the driver's seat. Great distress prevails among the 10.000 idle employes of the tin plate factories in the Wales. The Socialists of Paris have collected a fund wherewith they are to publish a daily labor paper. The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners has withdrawn from the Board of Walking Delegates. There are 37,000 women telegraph oper ators in the United States and the number is constantly growing. In several large factories in Cincinnati, Ohio, the working hours of cabinetmakers have been reduced from ten to nine. A member of the Illinois Legislature has sued a tobacco manufacturer of Chicago for using his photograph on a brand of non union cigars. A movement is on foot to organiz9 the in? snrance men, the agents and collectors into a National labor union under the auspices of the American Federation of Labor. The sixth annual convention of the In ternational Association o? Factory Inspec tors has just been held at Hartford, Conn. There are about forty members in attend ance. William Reese, the oldest iron-worker in the United States, died recently at his home in Bolivar, Penn.. aged 104 years. He was a native of vYales and came to this coun try in 1SS2. In consequenee of the recent troubles be tween Belgian and French workmen in sev eral cities of France a large number of B9I gians have been sent over the frontier by the French authorites. The Pacific Coast Seamen's Union has a membership of 4000 and maintains a large employment office. Before the Union was established wages of seamen were about $25 per month, while now they are from $35 to |50. _ PBOMINENT PEOPLE. Carl Schurz is an adept at the piano. Frederick Douglass plays the fiddle. Gladstone is the only Englishman who ias held the office of Premier four times. The Turkish Sultan's daughters take a daily music lesson from their father, who is an accomplished pianist. M. E. Galladay, of Holden, Mo., is proud of tbe fact that he is the Jineal de scendant of the original Mother Goase. A Democratic nominee for Congress in Texas, Judge Pascal, has a moustache that measures sixteen inches from end to end. Labor Commissioner Pecs, of New York, has held office for r;ua years, having been appointed in 1S83 by Grover Cleve land. The Queen Regent of Spain refuses to touch a penny of the $100,00J a year to which, as the widow of the late King, she is entitled. Bismarck used to spell his nama without the c. The present spelling does away with monetary significace of the names Bis-mark ?two mark. The mother of Rev. Robert Fulton Crary, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. is the only surviv ing child of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat. Rev. Dr. Milburn, the blind preacher and ex-Cbaplain of the House of Repre sentatives, has completed a work on the early history of the Mississippi Valley. Mrs. A. E. N. Robertson, of Mus^gee, Indian Territory, has been made a doctor of philosophy by cue University of Ohio for translating the >'ew Testament out of tbe Greek into the language of the Creek In dians. John t Blair, the railroad magnate, whoso 'Irst sale was a muskrat skin, and who new is- a very many millionaire, re cently celebrated his ninetieth birthday at bis home at Blairstowu, jS. J. His most recent enterprise is the Wall street banking ^cuse of Blair & Co. NEWSY GLEANINGS. BrnNO frosts have occurred in Kansas*. The North Dakota wheat crop is short. The indications are for a short crop of apples. There are 16,000.000 cows in the United States. The Indian population of Arizona is given out as 35.777. Propagation of fresh water fish will be triea in Texas. The horse-fly is injuring dairy cattle in New York State. On-e dollar American money is worth $1.58 in Mexican money/' Texas fever is reported among the cattle of tho Indian Territory. Tue boll worm has greatly injured the cotton in many parts of Texas. SLUMBER SON'a The m?T goes toiling slowly around, With steady and solemn creak, And my little one hears in the kindly found The voice of the old mill speak; While round and round those big whits wings Grimly and ghostlike creep. My little one hears that the old m?l sings: 'Sleep, little tulip, sleep F The sails are reefed and the nets are drawn, And, over his pot of beer, The fisher, against the morrow's dawn Lustily maketh cheer; He mocks at the winds that caper along From the far-off clamorous deep, But we, we love their lullaby song Of "Sleep, little tulip, sleep V Shaggy old Fritz, in slumber sound, Moans of the stony mart; To-morrow how proudly he'll trot you around, Hitched to our new m?k cart! And you shall help me blanket the trine,, And fold the gentle sheep, And set the herring a-soak in brine; But now, little tulip, sleep. A Dream-One comes to button the eyes That wearily droop and blink. While the old mill buffets the frowning skies And scolds at the stars that wink; Over your face the misty wings Of that beautiful Dream-One sweep. And rocking your cradle, she softly sings: "Step, little tulip, sleep V ?Eugene Field. PITH m POOT. "Born leadera of men"?Women.? Puck. The world owes us a living, but it hasn't yet authorized anybody to setttle debts of that kind.?Puck. Conundrums submitted for the. Post's gold eagle prize: What makes a coach dog spotted? The spots.?Boston Post, It makes no difference how ambitious aman be to excel; at this season he can endure being "thrown into the shade.'* ?Boston Courier. She packed a trunk with flannel gowns And took it to the shore. But when the damp air stuck that trunk Those flannels were no more. ?life; Mrs. Shmson?"My Clara is an aw fully delicate girl; she can't stand any thing." Mrs. Von Blumer "Neither can my Maude. She put on a sailor hat the other day, and it made her seasick." ?Cloak Review. Jones?"Why on earth do you offer such a large reward for the return of that horrid, yapping, snapping curt" Brown?"To please my wife." Jones? "But such a Large reward will be sure to bring him back." Brown?"Oh, no, it won't. He's dead. I drowned him myself."?Judy. An estimable but unhealthy lady who is taking the water at Saratoga was de scribing the symptom to a friend, and wishing to explain that she first visited the bath and afterward took her glass of mineral water at the spring, she said: "My dear, the treatment is very simple. You take your bath first and drink, the water afterward."?Texas Siftings. "Are you a mechanical engineer!** "Yes." "Do you know all about the combustion of fuel in locomotive grates I* "I know something of it. Why do you ask ?" 4 'I am looking for information on a certain point." "What point?" "I want to know if the father who discour- . ages his daughter's lover can be called a spark arrester?"?Detroit Free Press. "Bessie," said the young man, plead ingly, "this is the fourth time I have called at your home since I saw you last. Is there any way by which I can always be sure of finding you in, or at least of always knowing where you are when I call for you?" "You might ring me up, you know," responded the pretty telephone girl, looking dreamily at her shapely fingers.?Chicago Tribune. A Friend. A London paper offered a prize for the best definition of a friend. This d?fini* tion gained the prizes The first person who comes in when the whole world goes out. The following are some of the best definitions submitted; A bank of credit on which we can draw supplies of condolence, counsel, sympathy, help and love. One who considers my need before my deservings. Tke Triple Alliance of the three great - powers, Love, Sympathy and Help. One who understands our silence. A jewel, whose luster the strong acids of poverty and misfortune cannot dim. One who smiles on our fortunes, frowns on our faults, sympathr?es with our sorrows, weeps at our bereavements and is a safe fortress at all times of trouble. One who, having gained the top of the ladder, won't forget you if you remain at the bottom. One who in prosperity does not toady you, in adversity assists you, in sickness nurses you and after your death marries your widow and provides for your chil dren. The holly of life, whose qualities are overshadowed in the summer of pros perity, but blossom forth in the winter of adversity. He who does not adhere to the saying that No. 1 should come first. A watch which beats true for all time ind never "runs down." An insurance against misanthropy. An earthly minister of heavenly hap piness. A friend is like ivy?the greater the ruin, the closer he clings. One who to himself is true and there fore must be true to you. The same to-day, the same to-mor row, either in prosperity, adversity or sorrow. One who combines for you alike tha pleasures and benefits of society and soli tude. One who acts as a balance in the see saw of life. One who guards another's interest as sacredly as his own and neither flatters jor deceives. A nineteenth century rarity. One who will tell you of your faults and follies in prosperity and assist you with his hand and heart in adversity. One truer to me than I am to myself. A Kind's Stables. The stables of King Humbert of Italy arc exceptionally tine, says London Tid Bits, and contain at present nearly 150 horses, chiefly English bred. The double row of stalls forms a regu lar street, so beautifully kept that it is a pleasure to walk through it, and each animal has his name printed in large letters on a little board above the man ger. Upstairs arc tbe state-carriages and those used on special occasions. Some of these are magnificently upholstered in white satiu. The carriage in which the Queen drives every day is quite plain, but this simplicity is counteracted by t he brilliant scarlet liveries of her coach' man and footmen. In Ireland there are now a !"iiilo3 more sheep than there verein 1680.