MY RIVAL
Somehow Jafit thro the drowsy BmHe o'er-
raws
* t The restless dimple midway of licr chin ;
- > . " . And bleep's moist linger quenched the hazel
flame
Her ctirlinir Jaslief" jonlously hedge in.
How Bvrcot her bluiuberJH divine
' t , my thoughts
tC vine ;
C I'm sure a yellow love-Jock atrnys athwart
The covorlft , us if it Bought to chine
Clobo to the happy beating of her heart.
She dreamt ) ! liuc not ofmo. To well I know
TVhoFC imnpro sways hop sordid little uoul ;
A stnlwurfj ciitleiniin , this favored beau ,
Not youni ? , and mther htout upon the
whole.
His hend litifh uhito of mnny MIIIUT'B frost ,
His benrd is hoar , his brow ia marked of
time ;
But in peed htead of { Tract's ho IIOH loaf ,
The beauty of his tieusuro is sublime.
In fact I had nome xvortliy girts of him
Myself , in dnys not passed beyond uiy
mind ;
'Tis true bis kindness now looks somewhat
dim.
As bypone favor * often do , I find-
Yet on this Chrislj.in > < iv ' they give incpauso ,
And lend nits gracu hin triumph to survive.
Reign ever her in pwire , friend anta Claus ,
She'll flout your duiinH next year when she
ib live !
Eva Wilder McGlusson.
THE EVIL JUMPISG-JACK.
BY EUGENE FIELD.
Christmas Eve the old clock stood in
the corner and sang"tiektock , tick-
tock , " until everything else in the
room had gon'i to sleep everything
except the jumping-jack.
"Tiok-tock , " said the old clock ,
and then it looked at the jnmping-
iack and asked , "Why haven't you
&one to sleep , too ? " i
peeped out from under the wardrobe.
" ! and I '
"Squea-eu-eak don't like
Bertha either ! " she soid.
"Tick-tock. tick-tockl" said the old
clock , "and why don't you like Ber
tha , Mistress Blue Mouse ? "
"She frightens me , " answered the
little blue mouse , "and she pets tin )
horrid old cat. No , I could ne for
like a child that keeps such bad com
pany. Depend upon it , no child that
keeps company with a cat ever came
to any good end squea-ea-ea-cak ! "
Now , while the old clock and the
jumping-jack and the little
blue mouse talked together ,
Bertha lay last asleep in her
little crib , and the old clock and
thejumping-jaok and the little blue
mouse were still talking and Bertha
was still fast asleep when there came
the sound of sloigh-bells and then
the noise of some slipping down the
chimney.
But instead of Santa Claus there
came out of the chimney and stood
on the hearth a very fat and very
sleepy-looking boy. lie wore fur
clothes and a fur cap , and the first
thing he did was to yawn.
' 'You're not Santa Claus , are you ? "
asked the jumping-jack.
"Of course he isn't ! " said the old
clock. "I know Santa Claus for I've
seen him twenty times ! "
"No , I'm Santa Claus' boy , " said
the boy ; and then he yawned again ,
for he was very sleepy.
"What on earth are you doing
here at this time of night ? " asked
the jumping-jack.
"Why , lather was so busy , " said
the boy , "that he sent me down here
with this box of candy and this box
of paints. One of them is for let
me see he said to give the candy to
good joke. "Now , "i na'ye gt > t even
with that child , " said he : "shewont ,
make me jump no not for another
year at least ! "
The little blue mouse laughed , too.
Of course , she got all the candy , and
she ate so much of it that for the
next week her doctor did nothingbut
give her paregoric , and he told her
that if , in the meantime , she tasted
any cheese it would be the death of
her , sure !
As for Bertha , she got the worst of
it , of course , for there she was all
painted up like a jumping-jack' with
a big purple left eye. She couldn't
speak or do anything else unless
somebody pulled the string , and she
had to stay that way a whole year ,
until Santa Claus came around him
self and fixed things. When Santa
Claus did come back he took the evil
jumping-jack away with him and
chanjred him into a nut-cracker. So
now the evil jum ping-jai-k has to work
harder than ever before , and nobody
is a bit sorry , I'm certain. But the
old clock "tick-tocktick-tock "
sings - , - ,
just the same as before , and once when
I sat listening to this strange music ,
which will go on long after you and
I are done with 'Christmas times' the
old clock paused in its solems singing
to tell me the story I have just told
you , and the olu clock knows many
other pretty stories which I may at
some future time repeat. Pittsburg
Bulletin.
.
J-O-.C2B
The Electric Piano.
I have been asked dozens of times
if the new invention thart plays the
piano by an electric attac jaent will
not decrease the number of Jiflents of
piano play ing when it comes toba gen-
i\ \
* * & & ' s 44'
? r H I i ? *
'Tm waiting for Santa Claus , " an
swered the jumping-jack.
"Waiting for Santa Claus ! " laughed
the old clock ; "why , you don't sup
pose Santa Claus is going to bring
you anything , do you ? "
"I need it bad enough , " said the
jumping-jack ; "I fell into the wash
basin three weeks ago , and by the
time I was pulled out and dried I
lost all the beautiful red stripes and
yellow buttons off my coat ; and this
left eye of mine faded from a lovely
purple into a dirty lavender. I have
been the sickest jumping-jack in town
ever since. "
< :0h , pshaw ! " said the old clock ;
"handsome is that handsome does ;
tick tock ! "
"But I shall be all right in the
morning , " said the jumping-jack ,
"for my little mistress Bertha put me i
here the fire and-whisper- j
by to-night , -
ed up the chimney , 'Please , Santa j ! ,
Claus. bring a new eye and a new suit j
of clothes for jumping-jack , and j
, S mta Claus , bring me a nice ]
Elease
ig box of cand-y. " j |
"So you like Bertha , do you ? " asked - i |
ed the clock. ! '
"Nq , not very much , " said the'
jumping-jack ; "she dropped me in the (
- wash-basin , you know , and then , too , s i
she makes me jump when 1 don't
want to. Last weete she pulled me
so hard that the string broke. " j j (
" ! " * said another ,
"Sque-ea-ea-enft j
- email vofce , ana the liifae btuemousey j
the jumping-jack , and TO , that
wasn't it ! I am to paint Bertha no ,
I'm sure I don't remember what he
did tell me to do , but here is the
candy and here are the painta ! "
You see that he liad forgotten all
about what he came for. Wasn't
that just like a boy ?
Just then a wicked thought came
to the jumping-jack. He winked his
one eye at the little blue mouse , as
much as to say , "You help me out in
this story and I'll make it all right
with you. " Then the jumping-jack
said to the boy , "I know all about
this , and I tell you what to do. The
box of candy is for me , and you are
to paint Bertha. You'll find her in
the cri'b over there. Put some red
stripes and yellow buttons on her ,
and don't forget to give her a new
purple left eye. "
"That's right ! " squeaked the little
blue mouse.
The old clock was so surprised that
it could ojily say "tick-tock , tick-
tock , " over" and over again , and
these "tick-tocks" were so sad that
tqars of sorrow filled the eyes of the
needles in the work-basket on the ta-
The boy was foolish enough to believe -
lieve the wicked jumping-jack. So he
handed over the box pf candy , and
then oh horrible ! he went to the
crib and painted red stripes and yellow -
low buttons all over poor little
"Bertha , and , having done that , 'he
painted one of her beautiful blue eyes
( the fcffc one.an awful purple ! Then
he tjed a. sttring to her , and climbed
up tlie ' shimney again ,
The j'unrffcng-idcJlr tfeauyfnt ft was a i !
erally known. I think not. Theelec.
trie piano plays just as well as can
possibly be done with hands and fin
gers , and all the expression and all
the accuracy are there. But never
theless it is not the skilled pianist
with intelligent fingers and sympa
thetic face who is producing the mu
sic , and one listens to it with a dis
tinct feeling that something is lack
ing. One wants to see the person
wfio is making the music. The in
vention , I suppose will be used large
ly in concerts , where several pianos are
needed and good time must be kept ,
and it may do much good in teach
ing. But nothing mechanical can
ever take the place of the trained pi
ano musician. Pianist in St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Difficulty Easily Surmounted.
Francis Nautet , the Belgian , who
undertook to travel from Brussels to
Paris in a conveyance drawn by a
couple of handsome dogs , was pass
ing through Louvroll , a smaoun ' -
try town in the department clu Nerd ,
\ \ hen the mayor , on the strength of
the Grainmont law against cru
elty to animals , forbade him to pro
ceed. Mr. Nautet thereupon had re
course to a capital expedient for
overcoming the mayor's scruples.
He packed his dogs into the cart and
dragged the conveyance through the
town himself , When he had got
clear ot the boundary of the town
ship , the Belgian exchanged places
with the dogs , anfl. completed his
trip to Paris without any further
hindrance. Frenoa Exchange.
SAW HIS OWN SHADOW.
And TVJmt I * Moro II Took Ilor Photo-
i A Queer Jllnanilcrotandlngr.
You may smile when I tell you so ,
says a Noxv York letter , but there is a
man Hviuir in a fashionable apartment
uj ) town who lias actually gazed upou Iii3
wiiloiv. I don't mean sumo one els "a
widow whom people call his. butactualy
his own widow. This favored mortal has
not. only seen his widow , but has pho-
toorr.ipbed her. Nay. still mnro aston
ishing , on the back of the photograph
you may read four obituary notices cut
from New York papers and pasted
there by tiio man hinr Qlf. Mr. Carl
H. , a prominent art dealer and impor
ter of paintings , iiiuls it necessary to
make several trips west every year to
visit his rich customers in Chicago ,
Cincinnati and St. Louis. Whife on
such a journey last spring a train which
Mr. H. had come very ne.ir taking ,
playfully skipped the trade and rolled
down a hundred foot embankment.
Si'vcral were killed , aud Sins. Carl II. .
the young wife , was terribly shocked
to read her husband's uaiuu in the list.
She telegraphed to the company to
cause the body to be embalmed and
shipped to her , she being physic
ally unable to withstand the fatigue of
the journey.
Now Mrs. H. is a charming blonde ,
with hair of rich gold am ) n skin like
mother of pearl. To be sure she would
look lovely in widow's weeds , and
forthwith betook herself to Mine. M.'s
and ordered a complete mourning cos
tume to be ready iu two days. Scarcely
had the dress , bounet. etc. , readied the
house when a telegram arrived from
her lord aud master , detained at Chicago
cage , announcing that he would start
on the limited that morning.
Great heavens ! Carl had not been
smashed up at all. It was some wrong
mnn Hinf : Imrl lipr > n p.mh.ilmnil nml slir
now had the corpse on her hands , to
saj' nothing of the widow's outfit.
Fortunately just as the railroad people
were about to ship the smashed up Carl
to her , his owu people appeared and
proved propnrtv. But the widow's
outfit ? It had cost § 200. She hadn't
the money.
What was to be done ? At an\r rate
Carl must not know of it ; so , posting
down to Mme. M.'s she gave strict or
ders to send no bill to the house , and
promised to call with the cash in the
course of a few weeks. This was en
tirely satisfactory , but Mme. M. forgot
to warn her bookkeeper , and that machinelike
chine-like person not only sent a state
ment ou the 1st of the mouth , but as
was her custom , directed it to Mr. Carl
H.
"In heaven's name , Blanche , what
does this mean ? " he asked.
"Why , dearie , you kuow when they
telegraphed that you had been smashed
up , Txnd the newspapers all said that
you were dead. I went and and "
"Where is it ? " stammered the sur
prised Garl.
"Hidden away in one of my trunks ,
dearie. "
Bid Carl fly into a passion and accuse
the poor girl of being a cold-hearted
and calculating woman ? Not he. Ho
merely said. "Get it out , darling , and
put it on. I want to try a new lous ,
and you'll make a delightful subject in
a widow's rig. "
"Bless your heart , dear , may you
live a thousand years. "
( Kiss-kiss-kiss-buss-sraack-smack. )
Rev. Mr. Baxter on Fishing.
The last sermon by Rev. Whang-
doodle Baxter is thus reported by
Alex E. Sweet iu Texas Siftings : Bor-
lubbed Bredderen and Sistern : De in
spired psalmist has said dat a tishin'
pole has a fool at one eend aud a fish
at de odder eend , and from what I
knows about fishin1 I aiu't prepared to
dispute his word.
I hears a great deal of talk about
jatchin' black bass , and some mem-
bniius of dis heah brillantine assem
blage spends most of der time when
fley hain't loaliu' around de saloons
hunting for black bass , and when dey
comes home ( ley hain't got npne. Dey
rtou't seem to understand how easy it
am ter lind black baas. If dey had
any sense dey would know dat you kin
generally find a black bass in de cult
ured church quire. Heah ! heah ! heah !
Goin' fishing am bery dangerous.
Dar's 110 telling how many perils you
encounters when you goes fishin' . In
lie fust place dar's de danger of beiug
drowned , or gittin' sunstruck bekase
de bate am too strong. But de danger
don't stop dar. Dar's de danger ob
eatia' de tish. Most ob dc Gsh am ful
ler ob bones den dar am discrepancies
about. Sam Johnsing. De most won
derful ding about de fish am how do
meat eb'ber got between de bones.
Eatin1 fish am more dangerous den
callin' a perliceman a liar in New
York.
Dar's lots ob fishin' goin' on all ober
dis country durin' de summer mumfs.
I read in a paper one day last week
dat no less den one million fishing ;
poles am imported inter this country
ebery year by one firm alone , and also
that"in Ohio , where dar's prohibishun
until yer can't rest , no less den five
million jugs am manufactured ebery
year , all of which shows what a mania
dar am ter pull fish outer de water.
De guberment \Yashington en
courages de stocking ob de streams
wid fish. Hit's a mighty easy job for
de guberment ageuts ter put ten mil
lion small trout "or German carp inter
a small lake or creek , but Lawd , how
debblish hard it am ter pull oneob 'em
outftwid a fishin' liue.
De quire will now sing in B flat dat
oratorio beginnin' :
My son , RO ketch cle flnay tribe.
And try bnng homo a plenty.
But should one weigh five or sir pounds ,
Don't sw'ar it woijjueU jest twa&ty.
Russia's Grain-Exporting Port.
Russia is the leading grain-exporting
counJtry ef the-world the United States ,
Indi and Roumania following in- the
order qamed. Odessa is the leading
grain-cxgprtiug port of the Russjau
empire , and may be considered as the
principal business city. The export
trade has for many years beau almost
9Xclu3rvely4n , lieTiands of foreigners ,
and Odessa inight equally Tjre # tie called ,
a French , German , Italianor even 'a
Hebfew'city , as far as -TaBgjuaes
sppken or Ae pharacCerislIcs. ' of tb.e la
tte
ABORIGINAL LIFE.
INTERESTING' NATIVE AMERICAN
RACES IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Suggestion- * that the Managers of the
Coming Columbian UxpoMltlon Should
>
< KousIilor ,
In a recent article in tbo Chicago
News , some interesting facts are stated
in reference 10 the inhabitants of cur
neighboring South American republics. !
It ears : j
Ir there could have been some George
Catlin in Columbus' time , what a world
of trouble it would have saved future '
MEXICAN CAKRIKB.
generations who have only scattered
relics , dug from the soil , from which to
construct a picture of the past.
The tradition is that the Caribs , who
were such a terror to the milder tribes
of the "West Indies , had their origin in
our own Rocky mountains. Perchance
those Florida warriors who played such
havoc with the scbemes of Ponce de
Leon and De Soto were of the same
blood. The few descendants of the
.Florida and the southern Indians of the
United Stales constitute the civilized
nations of the Indian territory. The
once numerous Caribs. who , in the fif
teenth century , were virtually confined
to the Lesser or Southern Antilles , have
dwindled to a few hundred savages near
the Orinoco river. By going to the up
per waters of the Pomeroon some enter
prising agent of the exposition might
capture just such a Carib as slew the
Columbian Spaniard.
SIEXICAK BUTCHER.
The Arawaks , who disputed themain-
land with the Caribs. inhabit a strip of
Guiana back from the sea coast. They
are now a tribe ; they were then a nation.
Fragments of the tribes , whom Cabral
and Vespuciua saw , are now in the in
terior of Brazil , living in their fortified
villages along the upper Amazon , or
gathering rubber and drugs for the
English agents , who for years have had
an established trade with them. They
are most expert boatmen. The warriors
use gigantic bows and arrows , and their
war trumpets are enough to blow down
their houses. The more degraded tribes
place large pieces of wood-in their ears
and under lips , and roam along the river
banks , eating snakes , lizards , and mon
keys ; but it would be too much to ask
for living specimens of these monsters.
The broadchested Fuegians , with their
weak and emaciated lower limbs and
their wonderful powers of mimicrywho
have been trying to get warm since
Magellan's time , as they tried before
they should succeed the Amazonian In
dians , and be covered with a guanaco
skin large enough and warm enough for
the Chicago public and the Chicago
summer.
MEXICAN PEDDLER.
If the order of historic discovery be
pursued the Mexicans of the Cortea con
quest should next be grouped. The in
dustrious farmers of Nicaragua are pure
Indians many of them Aztecs. The
skilled mechanics of Guatemala , the in
telligent and independent tiulk of its
population , are descendant of a great
nation , which raised 200,000 warriors to
oppose the conquest of their land by
one of Cortes' lieutenants. Of the five
Central American republics Nicaragua
and Guatemala may particularly be
caned Indian nations , and their prosper
ity is , therefore , an index of native
capabilities.
cm tne upper Orinoco river. In Uolumj j
bia.aro a few bawds a ? an Indian nation ,
which at the time of the Spanish conquest - i
quest numbered 2,000.000 people , and
held a largo domain north of the empire
of the Incas. The ancient language is
still spoken by them.
j As you enter Ecuador and the ancient
empire of the lnca < you sTrike the hardy
tribe of Qultus , which give their name to
the capital of the republic. Their fore
fathers ore said to have been the fore
most painters and architects of the empire -
pire , and even now they are the bridge-
builders of Ecuador ; they compose , ia
fact , her farmer ? . miners.inanufacturera.
and industrial classes.
The Quichuar of Peru and Bolivia
have aquiline noaes and fine moutha and
teeth , are law of stature , but broad and
brawny. Tkcir.appcaranco stamps them
as of the royal race and worthy of as
sociating with the best of modern times. ?
The agriculturists inhabiting the diar
tricts around Like Titicaca are descend
ants of that ancient people whose mas
sive ruins have been studied In the
Museum of Antiquities. They were con- ,
quercd by the lucna.who absorbed many- *
of their agricultural and astronomical
The Araucanians have their homes ia
Chili and Patagonia. It was a confeder
acy of the Arnucanian tribe of Chili
which checked the Spanish advance
southward. The natives have broad and
heavy features , but bright and piercing
eyes. They have a republican form of
government , and are Intensely national.
As has been remarked "the constitu
tion of Chili is far less democratic than
that of Araucauia. " the native state
lying between the Biobio and Valdiva
rivers. The long lances , the slings ,
bows , pikes , clubs , and bolas ( stone balls
fastened to a thong ) represent the
weapons employed by the brave Arau
canians to Buccessfully resist tfie Spanish
armies for more than a century. They
are splendid horsemen , their chief wealth
being their cattle , and their domestic
life is of a bigli order. The center of :
the national and tribal life is in this
compact Chilian state ; but members of
the race range the pampas of South
A FUTUUS AKAUCAXIAN' IIEUDSMAK.
America east of the Andes , and are
found , also , as the bold Patngonians of
the couth. Their language is spoken
to Cape Hornand east to Buenos Ay res.
By all means let the Columbian exposi
tion contain a complete picture of this
most hardy , proud , virtuous , and brave ,
race of Indians.
A WOMAN EDITOR.
She Calls All HIT Stan * I'lulii , Simple ,
Street , Short "Bear. "
The editress of the Woman's Penny
Paper , a London publication , is a true
lover of her sex , savs the N. Y. World.
She and her staff work together on the
most friendly terms. Not only are all
the articles written by women , but the
compositors are women , the ofiico
boy is a woman , and so are the janitor
and telegrapher. The editress has but
one name for her staff "dear. " The
assistant editor is called "my dear , "
but the rest of the help answer fo plain
and simple but sweet and short "dear. "
At home the fanny editress employs
a maid-of-alMvork. a womau cook.und
two " " iu the " "
"lady helps" "preservery ,
who put up the jellies , jams , mar
malades , anil fruit butters , from which
she realizes half the prolits of her
journalistic work. Disgusted with the
laziness and general worthlessness o
her gardeners , she advertised for fe
male labor , aad an avalanche of horti
cultural loveliness swept down upon
her. Many of the applicants for the
position of gardener were daughters of
clergymen. She inadu her selection ,
and has since openly declared that wo
men make the best gardeners in tha
field.
field.One
One of the dreams of Edward Bel
lamy is about to be realized by a so
ciety of English people who arc build
ing iu aesthetic Bedford park a block of
houses for the exclusive use of profes
sional and artistic women. There ia
to be a common dining-room and end
staff of servants , thus solving the do
mestic problem at one fell swoop. The
tenant can have as many rooms as sha
wishes to sleep in , work in , bathe in.
or receive in , and when once estab
lished the kitchen will give her no
concern than her bath or study. Busy
brainworkers will hail the scheme with
delight , and the whole world of wo
men will be interested in the results-
for it is generally admitted that tha
real cause of so many marriage fail
ures is to be found at the kitchen door.
Try as they will , women can never
make lovers out of dyspeptics nor har
mony out of indigestion aud disorders
from which three-fourth of society is
suffering. The Bedford apartnient
house will be so managed that women ,
of small means can be comfortably lo *
catcd and amply provided with fuel ,
light , and wholesome food.
Garfleld's Respect Tor Hancock-
General GarOeld came- into my studio
upon my invitation one morning ,
wearing a soft hat and smoking an
enormous cigar. He tossed the hat on
a chair , and placiug the cigar on. the
mantel said he was ready to besin
operations. He was a very easy sub
ject to photograph. lie spent some
minutes in examining the pictures on
the walls , until finally he came to a
portrait of General Hancock , that I
had just finished. I should have said
before that Garfield had not yet been 4
elected president ; in fact , at the time
I mention , the nomination had not
been made more than one week. He
liked the picture of H.incock. and
turning to me in a familiar way , said
that he should be
pleased to have ono
for his o\vn study table , for he ad
mired the man in many ways. I
placed one of Hancock's" pictures ia t
the package of photographs that I ent
to Mentor , and during the eampai ru
the two pictures stood side by side on
the mantelpiece in Garfield's home.
Such was the tribute that a manly m : &
paid to his opponent. A. Bogardus , in
Ladies' Horns Journal.
President Roberts , of the Pennsvl-
Tania Railroad , started life as a Crack
hand thirby jeara ago. The combined
salaries he receives now amounts to
8100.000.