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ml-ML THE RED CLOUD CHIEF. t. THOMAS, Publisher. RE CLOUD, NEB1IASKA. THAT EVE IN BETHLEHEM. 0 little chllrftvnl-Thcn the Chrl-tma" Evo, That Mc-ssctl cic. draws near. Awl everv -. nice ts full of eagerness. And every near of cheer: When the warm firelight "jjalnst tho outer cold A h.inpv picture draws Or children iraiherin? In cozy rooms, Waiting for Santa Clans: Of ever-rreens thai bear stranyo fairy fruit, Aiitlnn wlio-c lirswiches kIow Tho burning- caudlej; or of rooms whoro liawr The blockings in n row; My thoughts go b.iek to that far time, when fell Thieveon noth'chein. Wln-re tlock" Mcpt n:i I he lonely ojen plain, llieirfelieplicrils watching them. And I vai fee again that stony ground And heir the night wind slxli. A oiij by one the utorlastiux star3 Come out within the sky. And I ran see the look of wondcting a"o On every haidy face. When -odd. -nly that glory like the sun ionu at: about the place. And lh-y Itecatne afraid. Hut a clear voice Out from the dark piko then: Tear not; 1 bring glad tidings of great joy A hlch -hall to to all men! " Fir unto you this day a child is lxrn, A S.ivi ir: 'then a cry 01 multitudes of angfls through the air: MSloo-tofJcHlonhigh:" Poor, humble shepherd, yet gicn thnt great Mi., Th high"st upon eirth, Of having the very an sell coma to thctn To tell the dear Christ's birth. Little th" wonder then, is It, that on 'Ihis hallowed eve's return. When on fie laden iKiughs of "evergreen 'I he gleaming csind.es burn; And by tie- I'.reddes rows of stockings hamr, I'.iir girts awaiting them. That I .-tumid bring to mind, with grateful tear. Thoo plains of Hcthlchcm, And picture to myself the lowly men Listening the lleacn-sent word That for all time and to all men was born A Savior and a Jrdl Clara Dotu Hate. HOW SANTA CLAU.H CAME TO THE 100IMI0USE. It was a roomy, comfortable-looking white house, .shaded with apple-trees. It stood a few rods back from the main road, and perhaps that was the reason that Santa Clans' reindeers always dashed by without giving a single glance up the lane where the bare old trees sighed and moaned in the winter wind. It certainly was not because there were no little children there, for no less than ten found shelter beneath this one single roof. There was simple Sue, grown almost to woman's size, but a child still, to whom dandelions and buttercups would always be golden de lights. Here her mother had died ten years before, and her father had not . even left her the inheritance of a name. There were pale-faced Jamie Dyke and his sister Katie. Fanner Dyke had drunk up his house and barn, his cattle and crops, his honor and health, and when the grave closed over him anil h's heart-broken wife, these sad little or phans came to the poor-houso to live. There were Tom and Jack, Mary, Jennie and Tab, whose histories were all sad enough, God knows; but I am writing to tell you of two little children who were to spend their lirt Christmas in this refuge for the poor -"Little Cap'en," as people called the mite of a hunch back boy, who came from his mother's grave to good Mrs. Hurst s sympathiz ing care, and who could just remember his sailor father ami how he had sailed away in tho "pitty sip;" and littlo Daisy, who had opened her blue eyes mouths after the sea-weeds had shroud ed her brave father. A fall early in life had crippled little Ben and made him the constant companion of his dearly loved mother, and his little face grew to rellect the sadness of hers. Baby Daisy was like a little sunbeam that gleams and dances upon the wall of your darkened parlor. The shutters are closed, the curtains arc drawn, but there it frisks, defying shadows ami darkness. So Daisy had frisked and danced and sung. Santa Clans had never forgotten her, though the Hour might be low in the barrel, and tho coal-bin nearly empty. Only, one sor - ,row had touched her, and "even after 'the first few nights of bitter crying for her "dec mamma," her smiles began to come back, and her merry laugh mado music in her new home. Even' one loved her. Old Jim, who had "drunk his wits half away, anil worn out tho love ami patience of his nearest kin. had always a kind word for her; and wonderful horses and kittens, dollies and dogs, were cut out by his ready knife. Mrs. Hurst felt almost a mother's love for these little ones, but her heart had a heavy load of care, and her hands were very weary with each day's work. Old Aunt Lucy Stone took them into her withered anus and broken old heart at once. "The Lord sent 'cm, Mrs. Hurst." she would say, "the Lord sent 'em." Her faded eyes were very dim with crying for a graceless boy who had long since forgotten his mother; but they looked with sympathy upon every little creature around her, and fairly grew bright with glances of love for these little ones. It had long been her self-appointed task to act as peace maker among the jarring, discordant elements of this heterogcueous family; and it had como to pass that she bound up the dirty, cut lingers, bathed the poor little "bruised heads, pitied the scratches, was sorry for the aches, and even kissed the battered little beings about her as if she had been mother to the whole Hock. " Praying Lucy," the others called her with a sneer; yet old Jim wanted Aunt Lucy's "yarb tea," when his " rumatiz" was too much for him; and growling "Mother Moody" wouldn't let any other nurse como near her when down with any one of her fivo hundred complaints. To teach tho children about her some Christian f rayers was her great delight, and no itlle pauper dropped off into his dreams without being coaxed into saying some thing that passed for a prayer. Aunt Lncy had seen a great many earthly hopes fail, but her laith in " God and littlo children" was strongs Thanksgiving came and went at tho poor-house. It was a feast day there. Mrs. Hurst would have it so; but many a phantom sat at the board, and many a poor heart was sadder than fasting could have made it. Christmas grew near. Little Daisy chattered oft its wonders. Santa Claus was coming. He would bring "hosscs and dogs, and d esses, and slates, and pictures, and books, and dollies ittlc bits of black dollies, and great big dollies and " . The children listened in wonder. It was an Arabian High ts" talo to them. As the days Hew on, the child added to her prayer: "Bess Santa Clans, and make him member everybody." Every one hated to spoil her littlo dream, and Mrs. Hurst was pondering ways aud means for some little Ghrist Tniis when Aunt Lucy took the matter up. "Daisy, dear," said she one night when the darkness was settling down, "Santa won't stop here, darlin'; he goes right straight by. I've lived here nigh onto ten years, and he never come once!" Not come? The littlo heart -was al most bursting with grief, bnt the woman rows and tne jved. She mas, all set her. hting rds sly tfor Daisy grew epiict as she listened to the sweet old story of the Babe in a manger cradled eighteen hundred years ago; and looking up with her own sweet smile, she said: "I des Santa Claus don't know we're here; but I less God'll tell him." The days Hew on, and Daisy's fears flew away with them. Santa was com ing, sure. He hadn't known, but he was coming now. No one said any thing more to weaken her faith, and she "chattered on, planning gifts lor every one. Heavy-snows fell the week before Christmas, and the children kept in doors or built forts in tho yard. Two days before, Old Jim seemed deter mined that no one but himself should leave the premises. Mrs. Hurst won dered at his unusual readiness at errand doing, but thought no more of it. If her windows had looked out upon tho main road she would have wondered what the passers-by found to look at on Iho comer; and if she had sallied out to solve the mystery, this is what she would have found "in black, staggering letters on a white board, nailed up lik a country guide-board, with an index finger pointing straight at the white house in the lane: XiT Jilt. SANTA' CLAWS l'l.nilSK ItKMKMBEIt THE CHILDREN IIKAIt. Some of the passers-by laughed Some said: "That is a good joke;" but " Kemember the children here" rang in many a father s ears as he planned Christmas gifts for the boys ami girls at home. Farmer Dyke's little boy and girl were some of the children, and Farmer Dyke had been a good neighbor and a faithful friend till the drink spoiled him. Everybody remembered brave Cap lain Ben and his pretty wife, and their little children were there. Before night it was all over the village. Tho fathers and mothers were all astir; the 3'oung folks were wide awake, and the children were wild with enthusiasm. Mrs. Hurst was surprised and delighted at a request to furnish a list of the in mates, with their special needs and wishes, from old Jim down to little Daisy. It was decided to have it all done quietly in the old-fashioned way: ami even Mother Moody was ifeguilcd into hanging one of her "blue and white mixed" in the long row of wait ing stockings. Mrs. Hurst and old Jim worked late in assorting and arranging the generous pack that Santa Claus lell at the door. Someone proposed. sending the children Testaments; but the white-haired old pastor said: "We will give the gospel of good works lirat, and preach to them net summer." But Christmas morning! Who can describe it --the astonishment, the bois terous delight of the children, the pa thetic pleasure of the older ones whose tears came quicker than their smiles! Daisy, with a precious mother doll ami a wee baby doll pressed close in her arms, trotted from one to another in a state of distracting delight. Thcro were "hosscs and dogs, and pictures, and books, and dollies ittle bits of black dollies, and great big dollies," jnsl as Daisy had said, ami that which met the wants of the grown up children besides; and when to the noisy mirth of the day was added the tender, encour aging words and beseeching prayer of the white-haired clergyman, it seemed to be Christ's da' indeed! But the beautiful dav was over at last, aud tired little Daisy whispered softly, as she offered a "good-night" kiss: "God sent him, and didn't for get" "Yes, darling," said Mrs. Hurst, tenderly, "God sent him, but Jim showed him the way." Snail Hunting:. I have nryself been an enthusiastic snail-hunter in my time, and it always seems to me that there is much to bo said in favor of the pursuit. Everybody knows that llowers and butterflies are beautiful; and when you show them a dead collection they are generally rath er disappointed with the result. A Iwrlus siccus after all, however well managed, is but a pale ami faded rep resentative of the living blossoms in all their glory. But most people are quite surprised," when you show them a col lection of English snail shells, to find that such lovely things are to bo picked up under the stones of our commons or among the dead leaves of our copses. There is some merit in making a beau tiful collection of snail shells. And though in the old days conchology nev er led to any real good, yet malacology, which is its modern "successor, has grown into an indispensable handmaid of geology and prehistoric archa-oloy. The snail-hunter who begins by gum ming shells on cards is sure to'ond by knowing a great deal about the anato my and physiology, the geographical distribution "and geological age of tho various species with whose external skeleton alone ho made his first super ficial acquaintance. Land and fresh water shells play a most important part in determining tho formations of ter tiary or quaternary age; and they givo us valuable hints as to the nature aud date of the cave deposits or the drift in which we lind the earliest remains of half-developed man. In fact, at the prosent day it is almost impossible for anybody to work originally at any of the later stages of evolution, human or animal, without having served an ap prenticeship at snail-hunting; whilo conversely, manv a snail-hunter who lirst took up shells as a mere fancy has developed with time into a full-blown working geologist and arelneologist The snail is not, in the hunting sense, a noble animal, like the stag or tho buffalo, but the chase after him is a healthful pursuit, leading one on to tho open downs and up the heather-clad hillsides: and in the end it is probably productive of much more genuino scientific work for humanity than all the deer hunting or stalking from Ex moor to Itothiemurchus. Cor. St. James1 Gazelle . Old Isom's Joke. The other day a show camo to Littlo Rock and was shamefully imposed upon by old Isom. While standing near tho tent he saw a crowd of "low spirited" boys, grieving on account of linaucial depression. "Docs yer 3'oungsters want ter go inter de exhibition?" he asked. The boys responded in nois3 chorus. " Well," como on, den. I ustcr bo a chile myself, an' unlike dc mos' ob men, I hain't forgot hit Count deso boys," he added, addressing the door keeper. The man began counting, and b the time the bo3's had passed in, Isom was walking around, talking to acquaintances from the plantations. "Here," said the showman, "give me twenty ticket-!." ""A hat fur? Does yer think me a lottery agent?" "You passed in twenty boys, and 1 want the tickets or the money." " I doan owe yer no tickets, an' I doan owe yer nomoney." " You're an old liar." "Looka heah, mister, yer'd better canvass this subject 'fore yer flings out sich a invitation. I didn't tell yer ter pass de boys in. 1 said count 'em. 1'se always heard dat showmen is good in 'rithmetie, an' I wanted to satis fy myself. Yer say dat dar was twenty boys. I doan 'spnte yer word, case 1 ain't no mathetician. S'posen I take a lot ob boys ter de cashier ob a bank an' axes him tor count 'era, does dat signify dat de cashier is gwine tor pa?s'em inter demone3room? No, sab.! Go on back ter yer tent, for I sees a regiment goin' in." The showman, remembering that he had left the entrance unguarded, turned, when Isom ran away with an agility rarely exhibited in an old man. LtitU Bock Gazette In the Kifrhcn. A good housekeeper may for a mo ment shrink from rolling up her sleeves, putting on a real work-apron, and tak ing hold of the kitchen work in earnest But not for lon. Butting ones hands to the work reveals such gross neglect, and the abso'ute necessity that there would soon have been for a change, far better thaH any supervision can do. Passing round among the work, stop ping into closets or storerooms while iloinz some light work for cake or desserts, cannot enable tho mistress to estimate the true way in which her work is done. One who has not done anv rough manual labor for months, perhaps years, ma not willingly bend to tne work, if by airy rebuke for care lessness her servants leave her. For a day or two, when she lirst finds herself alone, all must seem strange and the work hard. She will make man3 mis takes and feel half discouraged. Her hands, long exempt from the rouh toil, will be stiffened and sore from handling ironware, the scrub-brush, or washing dishes in hot suds. But this will not anno3 her long. Soon she sees the great change a few hours of well-applied labor can make in pan tries dish closets, and particularly in the dishes themselves, and then she begins to lind solid pleasure in her work. The perfectly washed dish, polished with a spotlessly clean and dry towel, is a joy to look upon. 'J he silver takes on new luster, the glass is as brilliant as cr3'stal, and holding it up to see if any mote or speck or lint remains, if the lad sees only the clear, transpar ent glass, shining like crystal, no won der her face lights up with a real and far more satisfying pleasure than she lias ever felt in the tincst work of art. because this freshening up and renovat ing everything over tne House is tno work of her own hands, well and faith fully done. When at last from attic to cellar, order and scrupulous neatness reign, how much more a good housewife shrinks from bringing in " help" than she ever did from losing them! Such loss slie has found her exceeding gain. But she knows other duties have a claim on her time and strength, and, as a matter of duty, she must look for help. How firmly she resolves that in superintending her servants hereafter she will be sure that nothing shall es cape her notice. She will never allow herself to form her judgment of the elli ciency or faithfulness of those in her employ by trusting simply to her eves. This last experience has clearly shown her that her eye will never so readily or truly detect neglect or deceit as her hands. "These dishes look well. Yes. But let me take them in my hand. I 'hall easily know if they have been well washed and perfectly polished with a dry towel, The top may be clean. Is the bottom of the plate equally so? or, shall I find it sticky, because wiped with a damp- not overclcan -cloth?" Kettles and tins may look clean, and may have been well dried on the side of the range or in the sun before putting away. Ah! Take them up; pass the linger round the rim, or "binding, or where the handle or bail is attached to tlie kettle. How irrcasy! The inside seems clean, why should the outside be so important? Because in a day or two, if neglected, there will be found a constant accumulation of greasy par ticles where ashes from the grate will lodge, and an ugly cru-t of this deposit will soon give an iiupleas.iiit rancid taste to any foot 1 cooked therein, however clean the inside may bo. In no one article is this so apparent as in the pans used to bake bread or cake in. If not carc'ully washed and as faithfully dried, so that no semblance or odor of grease can be discovered about the rim. or inside or out. the un dercrust and sides of bread or cake can not fail to have an impure, unpleasant taste and smell. In sheet-iron pans it is more noticeable than in tin. All this a housekeeper who has had the pleasure of working without any so called help for a week or two, until every utensil ami arrangement about the hoiio is in perfect order, will bear in mind when, at last, she finds other duties must compel her onco more to resort to these incumbrances, and shof will most resolutely determine that tho work henceforth shall be so faithfully watched that never again will she bo obliged to have so much to clean up alcr any girl. Happy the woman who does not lind outside calls engross her time so thoroughly, the moment she turns the kitchen work over toanother, that many small thing-, here ami there, will have escaped her notice. To what proportions will those small items have grown when next she is left alone? Mrs. II. W. ISccchcr, in Christian Union. The Most Wonderful Bine-Shooting on Itccord. A San Francisco paper says: Prince Otto, the boy chief of the Ncz Perce Indians, the protege of Captain Mc Donald, and, without exception, the most wonderful rillc-shot in the world, gave an exhibition of rille-shooting at Piatt's Hall last week that was far su perior to the best work ever done by Carver or Dr. Kuth. The audience was select and included several English, French, Russian and Italian officers, and every one present was satislied at the close of tho exhibition that they had witnessed the most wonderful feats ever performed with a ritle. After going through a manual of arms that wouhl puzzle the oldest militia General in the Union, Otto commenced shoot ing. A framework was built upon the stage, within which were a number of swinging glass balls. Upon the rear plankment was suspended the ligure of a man, life-size. A live-cent piece was placed upon the top of the head of this figure. Otto's back being to the object, the word "about" was given, and the coin was pierced through the center. He then put down his ritle six feet from where he stood, turned a somersault, caught his rifle again, fired, and cut the string of the suspended figure at which he had previously tired. A pistol-barrel was then placed in a small steel frame; behind this was lixed a razor, with the edge facing the audi ence. On each side of this razor was a glass ball securely placed. The pistol barrel, razor and balls were masked with a covering of white cloth. The boy was then blindfolded and his back turned to the object. The "about face" was given, when he tired down through tho pistol-barrel, split his single rillc ball upon the razor's edge, and broke both glass ball on the right and left This remarkable feat was performed b the boy's sense of loca tion. Then a loaded "pistol was placed diagonally from where Otto stood. Three balls were yet swinging in con trary directions. "Otto fired, hit the trigger of the pistol and broke the three balls. Eight metal balls were then screwed oh the ten-foot frame. On the sides below and above balls were set swinging in every direc.ion. McDon ald stood in front of the boy. who then tired over his head, and at each side of him. and between his knees, breaking the balls from any and every part where they were suspended behind McDon ald's back. A target was then put up behind McDonald's back. Tne boy went through the same performance, stand'n opposite McDonald, and rang the beU"(which is placed atthe extreme rear) at every shot by caroming on the metal balls. Six small lighted ta pers were then arranged upon a slender perpendicular pole; then, while in the various postures of vaulting and tum bling. Otto extinguished each respect ive light with nis rifle. Glass balls were thrown up in tho air in everv con ceivable direction. These Otto brok'j promiscuously' without any sight at all. xoralarge business-card was fastened ovr the point of kis ritle. This description of shooting ho con siders the most simple, and, though wonderful to the spectator, scarcely worthy his own prowess. Otto's av erage in th's class of shooting is ninety eighty out of one hundred. Utto placed his weapon at a point distant six fee. from him; then, at the word "rcadv." two glass balls were thrown in the air. He tumbled, caught his rillc. fired, and broke both of these balls with one shot. Twelve glass balls were placed upon a perpendicular pole in exact rotation. Otto loaded, tired, and broke every one of them in twelve seconds. To close tho performance, Otto, while his left arm was securely tied to his side, loaded, aimed, tired, and broke a large num ber of glass balls with his right arm. A Gunnison Bear Story, Ever one who has had occasion dur ing the past few days to paes Ed bells it Co.'s store has doubtless had his cu riosity aroused by the sight of a mon ster bear skin suspended from one of the door-posts. Doubtless it has oc curred to many that this very mam moth skin might have behind it a very mammoth story. Instigated by the natural curiosity which such a suspicion would incite, the reporter boldly attacked the sub ject and was at length rewarded by bavin" pointed out to him the man who trought in this trophy of the chase. Dressed in a duik suit, with high hunting boots, a blue shirt, a soft white hat; an athletic, well-knit form surmounted by a head a painter would envy, eyes of steel blue, theob-crted was" a fair sample of American man hood. He refused to allow his name to be used, but gave the facts as follows Some time in August a party of threo or four went out from Kuby on a hunt. When they had reached a point about twenty miles west of Uuby, on the res ervation, they succeeded in killing some half-dozen deer. Not being able to transpoit their game they buried it and left, intending to return later on. About a month afterward two of tho party returned, and, much to their dis gust found the deer had been dug up by a bear, as they supposed. One of them, accompanied by two dogs, start ed in pursuit of the bear on his trail. "I followed," said this gentleman, "up mountains and then down again, like the King of France: across gulches ami basins, where probably no white man had ever been before. All the time tho trail grew more distinct, ami the suspi cion that palpitated my heart became more certain as evert thing betokened a very large animal ahead. 1 might tell you how 1 scrambled over places al most impossible, but to make a lonjr story short, I came up to the marauder, and a moment afterward wished I was anywhere in the world except in front of that grinning bear. Why. gentle men." and he turned to the crowd standing around, "that bear was as big as the sitle of a house. " It was on the side of the mountain, miles from civilization, no assistance was at hand. One of my dog stopped about one hundred yards fiom the ani mal, aud with tail erect ami every hair bristling, refused to xo forward. I looked at the bear and tho bear looked at me. 1 looked around and saw there was no way out of it. Bruin also too'c in the situation and growled, showing the ugliest ll' trap 1 ever saw. "For a moment hostilities were sus pended, ami both sides studied the sit uation. Then 'Old Sleep,1 with a ferocious snarl, sprang lorward, but the bear did not notice him. Tho dog went nearer with one swipe of knocked him into the mountain side. ami nearer, until his paw Jhe bear eternity and down My blood was u:. and 1 let fly with my it did not seem to do U uieJie-ter, but inv good. Tho bear started at me. I fired again Still he came on. I lired still another shot, but couldn't stop the avalanche. The whole mountain seemed coming, and I know my hair stood on end. Nearer and nearer he came and again ami again I shot, but withoul any ef fect I thought it was my Ia-t day. My chips were ready to go in. but when he was oil about ten feet 1 fired my last shot and, thank God, dropped him. I made up my mind then that 1 hadn't lost any more bears and wa-nt going to look for any. Gentlemen, that bear weighed nine hundred pounds. Y'cs, sir, nine hundred pounds. And his skin, when green, weighed sixty pounds. He measured from tip to tip, eight feet "It is a line bearskin, but when -ou sec me looking around for any live, tin tamed animal that looks like a bear you can buy all the properties in Conundrum Basin for fifty cents." The gentleman in duck nervously wiped the perspiration, which the re membrance had started, from his brow and nervously walked away. Gunnison Colo.) Kcws-Ucmocrut. A Hint to Pot Hunters. Yesterday afternoon a man might have been seen hunying a'ong " est Temple street with two small snipe anil a teal duck in his hand. Been hunt ing?" :isked :v friend. " Yes. took a little jaunt up to the slough." Don't you think that game comes dear when you go so far for it?" " Oh, 3011 don't get on to my racket. I ain't such a blank fool as sonic people think. Here's the idea: I go out in the marshes and kill a few snipe. I take one to some friend's house and present it with a great flourish, I dwell on the trouble I took to shoot it, describe a few narrow escapes from drowning, and la tho trophy of the chase at the feet of the lady of tho house, with a studied Orien tal "salaam. Next day 1 am invited to dinner. For a ten-cent snipe I get a ro-al hw-out Then 1 give the other snipe to" the next unsuspecting family with a similar result The other day I sent two old, emaciated snipe to Gov ernor Murray; told him the night be fore I was going after 'em, but they had been lying in my room for two days. Got invited to an elegant dinner with wine. But of course I didn't eat the snipe. Too old a bird for that then the snipe were also too old. I'm going to take these birds to Shaughnes sy and get a $10 dinner. Oh, 1 ain't such an awful fool as 1 look. When I cau't get birds at the marshes I gct'era at the stands." Detroit 1'OiL Consideration for the Sick. Persons who have had and seen but little sickness cannot appreciate the suffering of a sick person from noue. During an attack of malarial fever, a few years ago. it seemed to the writer as ifthe members of the family tried to slam the doors, and we thought that if we recovered we should surely teach both old and young of the household to go about their duties with less noise and particularly to open and close doors carefully. " The olfactory sense is also keener during illness and we well re member the nauseous sensation caused by tobacco smoke. One member of the family who was absent during the day and whom we dearly loved to have sft with us in the evening, joined us only after supper and after he hail smoked his pipe. He was sensitive and we did not care to mention our then great re pugnance for tobacco, but no doubt' it would have been far better to have "spoken out"1 than to have suffered night after night from the fumes of that dreadful pipe! Persons iu health are too apt to thipk such persons notional and treat them accordingly. Nervous and notional thev are. it is true, but they are sp ti tled to all the consideration iajfths world, and those who care orjClww should be willing to make everjjfeasoa able sacrifice to gratify tJMfllcsires. however whimsical thev mfT. v. Kxtral iViuc l'rrkcr. Economy In Brest. A dre that is so jwculiar ai to be striking, either from its brilliancy of color or any othr cau- should bo adopted only bv a woman who has many changes of raiment and so may wear it only occasionally, or the sight of it bcco:nes a bore, even if at lirst it is interest ng from its noveltv. Tho woman who has many dreses can afford also to give it away or convert it to sonmj other u-e before it is worn, while ftie unobtrusive dress easily lends Uself to ome different adjust ment, which gives it an entirely new aspect A woman who has but one best gown can "wear it with a difference.' bko the me Ophelia oilers to her brother, so as to make it suitable to many occa sions, especially it she have two waists, or "bodies." as the EnglMi call them. One kirt will easily outlast two waNks. mil tlurifnre this is :i real savin". But I suppose that there lo but one wa".t, or . the dress be made all in one pieee (than which there is no prettier fashion), and it should be worn one dav high in the neck, with collar and cuffs. m another dav with the neck turned in. and a lace or muslin lichu gracefully adjusted with bows or flowers, and a b.t of lace at the wrists, a pair of long gloves, and a more elaborate dress n of the hair, it will be ho irccly recog nizable. But the dress niut be ot a very general character." like b'ack siik. or some dark co'or. or the pleasure of the new impressou is lo-t The wie person with a small capital never buv any but a good and lasting thing. Each year she adds one or two really solid poses ons to her ward robe, which, trcateil with care, hi-t her mm years. Thus on a really small sum she may dies very beautifully. Without a capital one is often obliged to buy what can last but for a lew months; but there i- choice even here. There is certiinly a great economy in a woman's adopting foroc'-asions of ceremony one drcs lro'ii which she never diverges. It become her char acteristic, and there is even a kind of style and beauty in the idea. The changing fashions in color and material pass without affecting her. She is never induced to buy anything beca'i-e it is new. M10 is always the same. The dress in this case must have a certain simplicitv. It c sts her little thought ami little time, and when the old edi tion, becoming worn, gives way to tho new the change is not perceived, nor is jt noticed when the new iu its turn be comes old. Such dress as this must of course lie within certain limits. Suppose it to be a black velvet it would last, with care, at least live or six 3 ears. Suppose it to to be a white cashmere a dross of small cost, it could, with care, last two seasons: and then, cleaned. last another season or two; and then dyed, be turned into a walking dress to last two seasons more. There is a great cco'iomv in deciding ou a few becoming colors iu their sev eral shades, ami con lining one's dress to these. Choosing colors that harmon ize with cacti other, like gray, black, purple, blue, yellow, white and never buving any other colors, one may, in making over garments, use one with another so that nothing is wasted. It is al-o important to know what point of dress to umphasi.e. For in stance, one ma expend a large sum on a gown, and if the shoes are shabby or ill-made, the gloves worn, and the bon net la-ks st le, tho gown is entirely thrown away. But the gown may bo no longer new: it must now be careful ly brushed and well put on, the collar arid cutis, or other neck and wrist trimmings, must be in perfect order, the boots well made and well blacked, even if not new. the gloves faultless, and the bonnet neat and styli-h. The oflcct is of a well-dressed woman; no man. and very few women, perceive thnt the dress is not a new one. -.lr. T. W. Hewing, in JItirjcrs Mayazine. Litigation 0er a Booster. " Dat ar rooster am de berry samn one dat mus' been spir ted offon do roost of Mrs. Bennett, fo" shuah," said the venerable David Brown iu J11st.ce Paulin's Court in Newark. Saturday afternoon. 1 knowed it by de winkui' of de off eye. A niggah cz can't ketch onto de pints in a chicken ain't worf ljuilin'. Judge, I ken swar to dat rooster wld my las' brclf.'' Mr. Brown was a witness in the easo of Hittell against Bennett. The com plainant, a comely widow, sought to have the defendant convicted of breach of the peace, for calling fier a chicken thief. It was shown by tho testimony that Mrs. Bennett lost "a white rooster last spring, and that recently she saw in Mrs. Hindi's yard what she was sum was the missing chanticleer. She es sayed to take possession of it. but Mrs. Hittell foiled her. Then followed much vituperative language, and all tho women in the neighborhood got ex cited over the affair. Some folks as serted that Mrs. Bennett ought to know the fowl that she brought up from tho egg; others insisted that the fact that the chanticleer stayed on Mrs. HuteU's roost for seven months proved that it was her property, while not a few inti mated that it was strange that David Brown obtained a white rooster at the time that Mrs. Bennett's favorite dis appeared. Mrs. Hittell and Mrs. Bennett wero represented in court by lawyers, and nine white women, three colored aunt ies, two white men ami David Brown were present as witnesses. A crowd of lawyers and politicians gathered as spectators. David Brown was certain that he recognized the rooster as the property of Mrs. Bennett. He four times offered hcr?l for it, and finally bought one like it just as hers disap peared. " Are you an expert on roosters?" asked Mrs. Hittell's lawyer. " I reckon I is." was the reply, "coz I ketched 'em in dc woods on do ole plantation." "Could you tell 3'our rooster from Mrs. Hittell's it niy were put in a room together?" "What yer ax sich questions fo'? Does yer think Pse got no sense nor 'spcrience? Jest you pick out a coon dat can't tell his chicken fromanodder. (io way wid sich questions. Clar to goodness!" " I don't want any more from him." said the lawyer. " for he has no scn-e." " Fsc sotmore sense than a lawyer cz thinks a coon can't pick out tic right rooster in dc dark cz well ez. de light" After all the witnesses had testified. Judge Paulin dismissed the case, and advised the women to go home and be friends. They paid each -5 to a law yer, besides costs of court, and twenty men and women were kept in court six hours. The rooster wasn't worth a dol lar. -V. I Sun. X Menuonltc Scene. The Mennonites intend keeping to themselves, and have no intention of marrying or giving in marriage with thechildren of the land. Atfirst'some of the girls went out to service, bnt one having got married the order went forth that all the others were to return home at once which was done. As a race they are thrifty and industrious, but their neighbors say that the women do most of the work- " An open ditch about a mile in length, beautifully dug. and with the turf neatly banked up on each side, was said to be all women's work. Large numbers of women were also to be seen the fields- Bee. firof. Grant in Manitoba. "Short, but sweet" as an old maid said when she kissed the dwirf who was on exhibition. I'EKSO.XAL A.M) LITHE A KT. Miss Annie I-oi Can" i men tioned as the jHs-e"or of .l.0 all rarncd by her own charming voice. A writor having excited the wrath of Mr. Browning. " I should like." n. the poet, "to rub that man's noc in hts own books." Mr. Longfellow always ucs an old fashioned quill pen. The "old clock on the stairs" he dte not own. It bu-loii"-s to a famiiv in Pittslicld. Mass. Alphonse Daudet sas of his wifo that "she is an artist herself. There is not a page which I have written that she has not seen aud retouched, where on -he has not thrown her delicate lewder of blue and gold." The late Sidney Lanier publish! a .'hort romance, called Tiger-lilies, about fifteen cars ago. which appears to havo escaped the attention of his biographers. Along with much that was youthful and crude there was also much that 'a striking and fine. The Piinee-s Beatrice's birthday book ha- been published. It cun-it of twelve tastefully arranged groups and garlands suitable to the mouths thcyrrcprcent. w.th appropriate quota tions from the poets. The illu-tralions arc the (Queen's own dc-igns. - Oscar Wdde has re. cited tho tin kindest cut of all from Prof. Mahntft. who has cruelly utilized the college ca reer of the l.lv and stmllotver joet at Dublin as an illustration of tho the-is that a stupid boy gains more than a brilliant one f nun a university training. -It is almost a pity to spoil the lino story that General Ltl wrote his "Anti-oil and Cleopatra" the night before lie foil at C'hck-tniaiiga. and that it was found in his pocket saturated with his blood, but the poem appears in Cogjfeshall's Collection, published in l.s'C.0, tnrec years befoie Chiekamauga, and it was not then new. Litta. the opera singer, who mado an artistic success iu Europe and here, scenis to hate faded to turn her fame to tinaneia! account. She is now at her home iu Bloom ngton. 111 , in impover ished circumstances. After ropating the money adtanced by friends lor h r musical odiieat on and supporting her mother and -otcrtl sifters, she savthat all her earnings on the stage hate boon absorbed. - John J. Piatt and his wife, tko poets, are now in Boston. Nora IVrrv thus deeenbes them "Mr. Puitt. it may be recalled, was the early friend of Mr. Howells when Mr. How oils was still living in t'hio. and the two pul Iished a modest little book coiioiutIv. under the title. -Poems b Twolru-nds ' Mr. Piatt now has somethng the look that Mr. Howells had before ho grew broader and stouter, without, hotveter. Mr. Howells' prominent chin Both have the mo.st kindly and delightful of snides. Mrs. Piatt is the embodiment of her poems. She has a refined, sen sitive face, capable of expressing every variation of feeling iu figure slight, of meitiiiui height, ami converting in her whole personality the woman by an cl ement which is so largely maternal in her poems." IllMIOIttTus. " Bard out.' as the pool said when ho found the street door locked against him.- Marathon iwlcimnlcnt. Wear a cheerful countenance. If your mirror won't sinilo on ton. how can you expect an body will? Huston Transmit. Lai king confirmation -The report that the remaining bank- of Newark will import Eg ptian mummies for Di rectors. l'ur. Will the coming man shut tho door behind him? is the latc-t inquiry. It is to be hoped that he will; for the go ing man seldom does. SjmcrvillcJviir mil. " Who wrote the Book of James, in the New Testament? ' asked a Sunday-school tcichorin a Missouri vilhtge; and a little fellow at the foot of the class shouted, "The James Boys!" Chwujo Triitinc. A German sat on tho bank of a river watching an Englishman who was lishing. Finally he exclaimed: "Here I have been for four hours watching this man holding his line; strange that he does not lose his patience!" Aetw Frcie I'rtssc. Mary J.ine wants a recipe for pre serving the ha r. Certainly. I'se white sugar, "pound for pound,'5 add enough water to make a heavt sirup, add tho hair, and four ouuees oleomargarine, boil, strain and put up in glass or stone jars. Hartjunl Times. A boy at Columbus swallowed twenty feet of red ribbon iu order that he might afterward pull it out of his mouth, conjuror fashion, and astonish the family. The result did not, how ever, astonish the family half so much as it ditl the boy. Iloston lost. Young man. don't turn up your elegant, snobbish nose at your mother, if she does take a little unkindly to our cigarette smoking innate ways. She has watched you very closely from the day the light was too bright for your eyes, and it pains her heart to sco you blooming out into a swell idiot New Haven llcgis'cr. " I am thirty-two years old. a bru nette, and have .:".0,CWQ in my own right Will rou marry me? ' wrote a Brooklyn (N. Y.) woman to Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago. Western Mayors enjoy opportunities for mash ing that .seldom fall to the lot of their brothers fn the bleak New England clime. Hartford l'ot. It is told about a Las Vegas girl: WlMle sitting under a tree at Mineral City waiting for her lover, a cinnamon bear came along and approaching from behind began to hug her. She thought it was her king of men and so loaned back and enjoyed it hugely, murmur ing: "Tighter"' It broke the bear all upland he retreated to the hill ami hid in the forests three days to get over his mortification. 1st Vega Optic. Horr the Japanese Value Hnmin Lift. In our items from the native papers will be found one which discloses what appears to be an ordinary miscarriage of justice. For some time attempt I were made to overturn the train near Kioto by placing large stones on the track. Every etfort to detect the das tardly perpetrator as it was evidently the work of a single individual proved ineffectual, until at last one night ho was caught in flagrante delicto, and inarched oTto jail. It will be noticed that sentence has now been passed upon a ruflian who more than once at tempted the destruction of a train, with its living freight and the Judge has marked his sense of the gravity of the crime bv inflicting a tine of two yen and twenty-fire sen. equivalent to about rive shillings. Hiogo (Japan) Setcs. The MI ky Way. Many a'tranomers. frona Herchel downward, hav$ spent much time in observing and speculating npoa tho structure and functions of the great f tellar streams known as the Galaxy or Milky Way. This part of the heavens has recently been made an object of carefu' study by M- Houzeac, of Brus sels Observatory. He has indicated iM compos tion bj- means of cnrr of equal lura noti. mtenity. Looklac cas ually at the Milky Way. one might be di-po-ed to think its luminosity nearly the same throughout But M. Horaeau finds it a scr.es of luminous plates or masses, to the nnaber of thirty-three, each dimin'shing is brightness oattrard from the center. ""These are imaged almost exactly aloeg a great circle of the celestial sphere. The solar system is nearly in the plane of th's "equator," and probaby near its center. Our You ns: Headers. KITTIK TO SAS'TA CI.AU&. Illr l Krl. hat a lU joo rw. Kfcllnz- all otrr th w Min thwttir. Mhlln ilin eaisBcj- t!ru ! anil mokr, rur-vTcrsl Kri. rn a rwwlar w How j-ph manir t rsrrj- c . ! lion- 1)mi numif Jt ki llw rtgtt' m' III. il. 1MI fcrw.w ll tbrigss-l rll hn W'hr tn'l we Ur with Jar triuM ! How ran jtimi irm what wf nK wwiH IU twt" 11.. -n Tll W's" "" !h" Mr HHr W hut aroji'U l4ir lit rt f ih Hcstfjtojj. I p wtta itut MH vtr. O. h.iw IM Hkr it Vmw true 'f rw .A Jrtilj- ami ft. MVf myotic w Mir t tV. ! kwilit. Jt I Vu. tSt r '. Vfcr cblMrvtt an watchhi.". " ll nr lrl. whm itt-nixtit Tim om rmtwt ! a whirl. ti. , r. .... Iti-xlo DmuiithmWMIi Ctrl Ilrlnir methlHj prrtlj. Ur tot ar. j.hi vn. That was a thl ntifr whorr. MU 4.1 t s. U..w.l..- It happ-- ,vhi H." ''- Urine thrm morh h1 Ttrxumc t" r.t Krlv th.l'i aU wrvtitf. ainl It t lh- ai : All .atiu.tl l- t-jual "ll ya-itrt CUus ty. Krls k'xt tM Kr. I in trM mi n mtiit wr, put )nVIc nn t t'Ut "M .lii Ui'l If I-oi.lr hmm hHnn- wh.VI aw4 n4tU. Nctr inimt run.: tw it!- .t U: ItrttUMp b?r playthtain ami pt thi h mot". Wrapprtl 1th a mrsli' l-r "" I "tew; Nn n i' li, t.r - Ux I'M .' Ai .1 c v ln't the ractt.u- W "" trlV' TWhmK, A TKU WITH SANTA CLM'S. It was nearly nine o'clock when Tum my ami Kosy went to bed on Christmas F.te lliutr stockings had been hung up. and thev wMmmI tcrv tim -h for tin not morning toi-imo isaUu Ann was Kos ,s do'lv. and .she won .sNx-kings. One of them had to ho hin up w.th the others. In ton uunut's Tommv and Kosy and the dolly were all f.il asleep Iu the middle of tho night Tommy woke, and found Ke.sy Mltiug up in bed She was looking at'siiiuethiiig. Tommy wanted to know what it was. Ho turtind ovr. and what should he. sou but Snutn Clau-t himself! 'I lie dear old man was buttoned up to his chin in a coat of white fur. He was bu-y tilling the stickings. "'Then-" said Santa Claus. "Tvo forgotten Host's doll, and I shall hate to go all the way back and get sojmo thing lor it." "1 wih tou'd t.iko 1110 with o-i." said Tonnm. boldly. "An tne. too. if "ou plwasc. Mister Santa Claus." added Kosy. "Halloo!" shouted -aiila Claus, "you ntvaVe. youtig-tcrs"' "Yes. .sir." niiswereil Tommy, "mid tve want ton to take us U rule In tour sleigh." " " Well. well, well'." laughed the old man. "Santa Claus can't rufii-e tho children :ui thing, make hasto. I've no time to Ioe. ' Out of bed jumped the two children. Don't wait todte--.. ' x ud uifa Clous. " I'll put one of ton into each t my big pockets, ami t on" II lie it arm enough. Come tui Out on the roof thoy went There sttiotl tho sleigh, drawn bt night tiny reindeer. Santa CImis got into the sleigh, and drew the lurtnbes titer liitii, Toinmt and Kov peeping out of his pockets felt tort nit-t-ami wiirni. Come l)aher on. Hamer! hie. Comet! ' ."aid Santa Claus to his team. " Away we go'" And away they did go, right iu thu air and through the falling now-Hake-. Oyer thu Iioiim-s ami tree, oyer tho towns and citie-t, faster, faster, faster, they went, till they camu to Santa Claus' count iv. Here everything was of snow trees, streets, Iioiimjm, all umdo of mhmv. It was as light .s day. for high in the pink nky hung a great bright -diver moon " Is thai tour house. Mister Santo Claus1'' asked littlo Kosy. m thoy passed a beautiful castle all bntlt of let. "O. no. my dear" said Santa Cliuis. "My house is mattii'ert bit of rock enmly. Here we aie now. Hie. I'miH-er and Cupid! Maud still!1 Santa Clans jumped out of the sleigh with Tommy and Kosy .still ir. his pork. et.s Sure enough, there at nod Sniila Claus' house, all made of white, yellow and red rock candy, ami lighted up from top to bottom with Christum to pers. " I'll take you right into my work shop," Haiti Santa Clans, bouncing into a big room where hundreds of little men were at work. Thoy were ttitig up toys. Imoks and candies into thou sands of parcels. These were to go at twelve o'clock by Santa Claus' express to all parts of the world At tlio sight of so many lovely things Tommy ami Bosv both jumped out of Santo Claus' pockets. " Oh!" screamed the workers, "where ditl the earth-children como from?" "I brought them in my w'-ketjt," i-aid Santa C atts. I forgot this lttilo girl's doll. Hurry ami find a gilt for it. my m-n. for I must away again." The tallest of tho little men went to fintl the gift. Other gathered about Kosy, who was too frightened to speak. ""Isn't he lovely?" aid one. touch ing her long curls. "Yes. indued." added another. " Mo is prettier than the prettiest wax-doll wo ever madt." "She muslb cold; lct give hcrone of our little fcal-skin coats." n;d a: third, helping Kosy into a warm fur ; coat. Let's put candy In the pockets." I aid a fourth, -.toiling the j-o'-kets with sugar-plums. " Let's give her a cap to matrh the coat." said a fifth, petting a cunning cap over her vcllotv curls. I,et' ail kis her." .-aid a iuh. ' But at this Santa Claus jxjpped Kosy back into his porket "No, no.' said he. "oi migtit change her into an elf like yourselves." Tommy who wa never frightened at ant thing, had mounted a bicyele. and was t'ying up and down the ha'L Tho little men. Jorgetting their work, ran up and down after him. playing on tnimc.s. horns fifes anil drums. "BIes my heart!" cried Santa ( lain. " I never heard Mich a din in my life. Come, jou yotmgter. the doir gift is found, and I'm going to take you right back to led- " No, you don't." -bouted Totnmr. not unlcst 30U let mc ritle this bi cycle" '"You can't' -aid Kosy. "Iran." added Tommy. " I knr f can"" rilgo with jou." om1 one of the little men; "lean ride in the air like Santa Clam." The little man got on Tommy" back, find away they went! Ilosy and Santa Clan were in the legh. Tommy and the little man on the bictcle- On. oa. on! faster, fater. fxster! Tommy shouted in glee. Suddenly the wckrd little man bit Tommy's ear. He screamed, and knocked 'th elf off his back. The Httlc nun jamped on one of the re.ndeer. Tommy was no longer able to ride on the snow-Sake, and began to faH--down. down, down! O. how frightened he was! Down, down, dowa! The bicycle tcraci over two or three time), and down he went, head first mt- IkL Yes, when Tommy opened hi etc he found himself in bed. He oaly dreamed this lory. Rmt wa aaleep beside him. The blocking were twice xa big a when hung tip Kight in the middle of the room stood a splendid new bicyele. The early sunshine was coming through the nurery window. It wa Christ rnu morning. Our ir& Q'z. x' Hansen!! Ki.perln.ent. .- Mere than thirtr v.v n t .-., wore two liU'cbrwUiM inttwe-J -. a Hal. Three ww a lorvt? cJMi-. tfntr full of oM mnnHr""f 4d rtfch. sdrr tJnT ll U p4T. .niMl tit finl tlirrn 9t day ,1 coitJ of ruy M U". ' . nik&4. WUo eteT nw 1 by tht rtH let a gwn :dto? 'ffwy orl t'i th - gt bv Uio hMir Wnjfthr. l. U IJmt hail iUJC el UInmI tlini wi iIwt iNrwk corn trwl into mli r Mi MW-d th gw oflll'j lH. fin winic tfc" J1C1 . ' " wit tW rv ! rm nl. One dar. wIhom tleir tMbr . c In null. Hal rlim! 1 sM m lb ! UM!-.m. fw tth h.. nm W hHtod tHr hs liaW rn ( blas4Jig-jHwdr. pt up tkjm to ' .. of the bv s' row-k. Hal fciww v n rort nrll. for W hd l I v ths-r use It to bte.t rek. llurm)t. Jwh!" 1m 9U "I found smui Hhk Hw"",tw! Wn t ehmeod do w hrtv tun-l ' l nf "Jk jwlrr. Cp chv. . IU. ru.liluL rind ttd lm lb ft tl -Now" wh t-n fen 'n .ho Hal. and lit ttUl l-r po 1 IHM nf the! fl. " a b ctmW thrtmjrh th l.Mm tint imrwl. Ihi". tfc wwli ' -etMir! be ihM tt jf hm, ! km vert Iwekt lr hw J- 1 1)mU U nwW n. 'ITmmi b -i.; 311 shhhI lb b t mak IH fc jfw m. but Iber dt uttbe ... . and t wosild nni ft't I kmw bw to fcx tV I "'. bo 4ib sltlr n tbw K ' and gvt a mnts-h. bw mnbr. ' w-nrk in I he pntttrt. tvr 11? I. l"i tM hbtf fv win- e I .lsl tbe M tns thm w.l t' lighted lb malrb. Hi tMpt . ti . ltHMh it u lbs ptwlr r L lb jjwn dd t . thorvuas m4 powtitw rimmgh for Umt mi tU tw httl bm ! kilKnt. bfil lb powdrr !abed n n. tUa' imU rigbl mut !!!' I singeing lls iMtbnw mml . v CltHM. 'That ended lb gjmjr. (nl 1 creit dw n stn'i-n, vt tj". I b m' ben bis Inther thum btxb aud th led stieak !. HnTHat. smarting lrtii tb bnm. b a ! guessed Hal w.nis pitttutht-d m! . i MiniMm;; the powdrr -Itmtt'i t'. Hftt. The lim-ntiic I'aruUj Anion Tatm ers. h le it is the formwr w b n 1 -itinehiinir) in vented ss.titMt. uiiniinl Inlnir. it ix very r.iWi h invents aHtlhmr for bis own . intc that for the inventor k 1 U t farming mo MMMttit bsil iWwrt . 1 . bt-st Viewed III this llgbi ll : -t . . wotnler ill with what anlnntftbutg 1 . I itt uioritoritHt machinery bin. t foeled. and een nrijinnJ - Iim nut to meet tli-tirindo wbhh. n t tears sitit'o. weio Mpd mld n lit? needed. A.s tbe j(rnn In . 1 .. extended, the sinl rnnier cjwih Idl a want, then in I14 rX n nieiits, t'linlly the lf tMder. when tho farmer wiw nl t b" l.. nhtmto the ilMHtitnnlftg !. hand, tho twiiitt binder m ? - -forward and liv tdtght altera! - iiih bines now ue twine Tin? gr of the lltriMHiiiJC mtw-b.ne hmI ii . grain drill luts tit-en n t rwalbtn ni ' t tlie ees of tho fitrtmn;: rlnN-s '.? Iuv tow oftlieni top to Htttr 'I t it 1 nuio abiHtl ly iiit?ie4 eontbtni. I wimhI ami iron, iievor j-lfoi t . tlitiiW of the tail dentil tf twlv mt-t j onmeiit each nnd oery mmhitn' . 1-0M. With increitwed jrin f4bl wl t tlouiaiiil forn plow t It-it t-iM do thing or turn an ihittjr iwnler ett'n. ntiUt plow, bnt tho termor I" ' life nf linn would never bT tl' '' of r.gguig it up thai wat. mHoi i Hfl!ittd wttb a cutter mhm!- ' . nitl .set the. ami bufkiM witb eol I - -l.llgem, jiiol a lltekor peg fur l ing pui. IhiI en-li wilbm lw . -will be doiio by miM-h - r. bnt wli" bo tho inventor ' O litublr it i ' " farmers thnt they m re-vlilj wlop " lalMr-ntmr der o. ! it them h-4 a skill that it vvidewei mi Hil.-tlinr that is keeping Mpwee w.th mt tml . ' but at the sntti' lnM it wmiUI ' mote promising It th fnrir I jtludt ihiI the print'ip'.- inntwHiM v tfy tin ilfiuaud mnde liv bit aed v t become an inventor htnt (. In 1 a po.it on an an aider awl !! ' tho Inventor, the merhHuiM of -farm in this country wtntfel Kr...ow j rapidly perfect od nnd Hit i'mI I possibilities become almo. boynn-l eolation. A a it now L there no dn ojc" t the farmer will thoroughly inform h " clf njMn politico! uMbjects. tuid w quaint himself fully upon tho "p" and "corner ' nf all trHt. !. '. ronl danger i. thnltijKin tho inrUt ' tho farm, it constantly rduflMtjr t- - Uom upon which mit-cu is lm-1. ' not be niMantlv ro. gtiljitd and pr-'Hip ly mot ant! sin-cc uiet w.th. opportunity prenenu llnolf. Tb or neetls broad eulliire. a dm in mind that can look abend, and vt'i-t t leaning townrd the domains of tie VentiVH genius, as apjdltMl u the re- ' allium of tho fnnti. and alle.l " nn inventive ntcill that can jmh - liid vantage ami tunt It to aIvt z. that -an invent somo way U l ' lad lurk, ami make prosier t a n ral gift u bo obtninod iy "" and which can. if unfortunately tJf"' scorns imjrlt.iMe. inmnt a iwlb-l "i hoiiorabbi ami Atieeowtfid ecp CUvtlntvl IkruUl. The SiauieM? Nation hiw re- ! lem plunged inti niHirtng ty t? death of tho court and IhhIv eleplnftt of tho King. One morn-H. nter hearty breakfast ho wnnl mad ,w ' unexpectedly ami tram-d'Hl He ,t b attentianu to death. To boi h-m wonM hare leon jtarrilatra. A at tempt to tranquillizo hw tHKtirei "pint br enoirefhig hni wiib s ring of holy !. boo. .plally b 1 by the high priest of ht w fv -lar temple, proved wfrt than infl- -nnl. for he broke through the rr. n I all but terminated tb high pr earner um the ot II a t. with great difhctilty driven inU : court of the jaLa-. wbrr. afur eral funous etn!eovors U baU?r lori the waifs with hi t-Ju. b mUmi toppled over on im sIe. tittered t cry of rage ami gar op Um xb" Naturally enough, tbu htory swflir was aUnbut&d to rrtmural tstrete on the part of one r other of th at tendant intnitd with um iucrei rm pbant'j fyeIing. The Kmx. ihf"-U. interrrgitod ll-e tvmborn of tbsr -phant's houM-hold in person, ajel fa mg to elicit any lailir'uiual conf f delinpienrr. tfecreed that they Id all be jmnuheiL Isaac Taylor, who ha been rr-t-el in Ashtabula Count r. OhU. uafs erter tnmt the regular axmf. ala'i the deerton. anl gives the fact m t.et case After a service of thrc- year ! was granted a furotijh U nst .New. York to meet his mother, who hk ttM turning from India, where heha1 trn -a a mUsionarr. He found heraw wa lid, almost helpless, with no rc? -1 supioTt- He cou'd not remain i bi snar without leaving hisr. m be serted aad w.th bU mother came ! b? Western Keere. where they baien J ltveL Tat lor was takes to CleTnJV for tnaL Arrenca puvstctas a Iritis oau pouter and other who haTe to --l ail uaj at tfcerr work to wear r a el iiockinz. which will pretest th-s i on ut rrrxoie vetsx. i r rr