HONOR, NOT HONORS.
Denser and mightier, hour by hour.
Swells the throng upon life's highway:
Fiercer the struggle for place and power.
Till tae plants of old were as babes to-day.
And the heart or the novice with chill dismay
Grows faint at the sight of the hopeless race.
For how shall he soar if there be not space
For the strong, swift beat of his wines to
play?
True, there may be many that throng the start.
And eagerly jostle a place to win;
But only the patient and stout of heart
Go on as bravely as they begin.
And the ranks of the runners are straggling
thin
When the road grows steep and the pathway
rough:
Aad each will find there is room enough.
As he nears the goal where the race come in.
Tt not to all Is the lot assigned
To win the laurel and wear the crown:
mr Fate is fickle and Fortune blind.
Aad shedsunseeing her smile or frown:
Aad the foremost runner is smitten down
When the bay-clad summit is well-nigh scaled;
What then! Of a truth to have striven and
failed
la a nobler thing than unearned renown!
For the deafening roar of the cheering crowd
Falls sweet on vanity's eager ear.
And the fool is flattered if praise be loud.
And discerns not the true from the insincere.
But the still small voice that the wise holds
dear
Is the voice that whispers within the breast:
Thou hat fougbt thy battle and done thy
best.
When thy captain calls thou hast naught to
fear."
Then work while the blood In your veins rum
strong.
While limbs are supple and hearts are light.
While life is summer and days are long.
l Ere winter comes with its sunless night.
What tho' the deed that is done be slight
Feebly wrought and with lack of skill:
Not the work itself, but the worker's will
Availeth aught in the Master's sight.
False and hollow the voice of Fame,
Fades the gilt on her glittering scroll;
Nor hails she any with full acclaim
Till she hears the knell of his passing toll.
Then seek not a place on the heroes' roll.
Bat take for your guide in the world's de
spite Not "What shall It profit?" but "God and
right"
Honor, not "Honors," shall be your goal.
The Spectator.
Motto of Sir Richard Burton.
Widows
I LIGHT-
1 AX'T say as I like
to tell the story,"
said the man on
the cracker box,
as he accepted a
pipe of tobacco
from the stran
ger who was
waiting for the
stage, "but
seein' as von her
pood bit ef time on hand and these
here natives" pointing to the row of
Indians "don't understand a word. I
Kay I'll kind of help pass away the
time a-tellin' it agin. May I be so bold
as to ask who put you on the track?"
The stranger discreetly forgot who
it was, but he had heard that it was a
remarkable story and that the man on
the cracker box was indirectly inter
ested, and as he was always fond of
hearing- true 6tories, especially when
there was a little sentiment in them,
he begged for the one indicated.
"It ain't of no consekence," said the
man on the cracker box; "facts is facts,
and a leetle sentiment mixed in with
'em isn't goin to hurt nobody. If
you've planned to marry the girl you
love, an' got a whole lifetime of hap
piness ma jped out, with you and her
livin' in a section, on a town lot, and
you get left, you'll alwa3-s have a pie
turs as fair as Paradise, an' like enough
the reality wouldn't have panned out
half satisfactory.
"That noise? No, that ain't the
wheels of the stage a-comin'; that's a
tree-toad hollerin' for rain.
"Lemme see! It were night, "jest as
It is now, but 'twere what we call In
jun summer. 2o, Injuns, I ain't talk
in' of you, an it's time you'd got t ack
to the reservashun, redskins, every
mother's son of you.
"Now, whar was I? Oh. it were the
night after the vigilantes hung Slip
pery Dick, of Omaha, for trying to run
off two vallyble hosses as were owned
by the sheriff, an hira away to the De
troit house of correction at the time,
takin' in a lifer under guard.
"But we hem. I mean they the
vigilantes didn't wait for no sheriff to
let the law take its course. He were
found red-handed with them two
hosses. Sunburst and Baby Mine,
sneaking them down to the river to
the fiatboat. and we didn't stand on
ceremony, but told him to say a prayer
an' we all bowed our heads an' waited,
watches in hand Buch of us as had
them to time Lira, an when the five
minutes was up he went up, too. An'
I must say he died game. There was a
most bootiful scowl on his face an he
- never asked any odds of this world or
the next. It was the purtiest lynch
ing bee I ever attended, and don't you
forget it."
"But the widow," suggested the trav
eler, as the man on the cracker-box
lapsed into revery.
"It were the very next night, an' as
dark as pitch, when there come a low
knock at that door. It was after stage
time an' I hed druv out the Injuns and
locked up for the night, when there
come a soft knock that made me jump.
It are nervous kind of work, a bm-yin'
a host-, thief as has been hung, but I
reckoned he were buried safe an' sound
till the day of judgment, an' I opened
the door. An' then I were scairt, for a
tall woman was standing there.
"'This store's shet np, mum,' sez I,
but she jest slippid in an' said: 'Light
" a lamp, I want to say something
'She hed the sweetest voice I ever
heard, an when I had a light 1 see she
war voting an interestin like, but
tremblin' an' shakin' with fear.
1 Sit down, sez I, 'an' tell me what
yotl want.
" 'I'm the wife of the man thet yon
hung' here to-day for hoss atealioV
1B
1 .IT",
vor.
of our
True lfe is a democrat and not
stripe politically, but honor be
" You mean you're his widow,' sea
L, for I warn't goin to give in a mite.
"With that she cried and sobled.
Lord, how she did go on, an' me there
alone, an' I didn't know but she'd come
to kill the whole caboodle of us. But
Bhe never spoke a hard word of any
body, only cried an said she was a
lone woman an' Dick had always been
good to her, an now she hadn't a
friend in the world.
" 'Yes you have," sez I; 'if there is
anything short of bringin your hus
band back to life, I'm your huckleber
ry, au' you can bank on me every
time. .
"With that I reached out my hand
an' she grabbed it, an I soon had her
tears dried, for I am powerful consolin'
when I set out to be. an' I told her
that a man who would steal horses
was of no account anyway that 6he
war a sight too good lookin' to be the
wife of a hoss thief, and there was as
good fish in the sea as ever was caught,
an' she said I was a dear, good friend,
an' would I direct her to some nice
place where she could stay for a few
days, 'cause she wanted to see Dick's
grave, an' then she looked at me kind
of sideways and said she felt as soon
as she saw me she could trust me.
"I told you as how the sheriff had
gone to Detroit with a lifer. Well. I
took her right up to Mrs. Sheriff, who
was a mighty kind woman, ai' I sez:
'I've brought you company,' and told
her who the woman was. An they
cried in each other's arms, for women
are everlastingly sympathizin' with
each other. 'You shall have the spare
room, you poor thing1, and stay here
jest as long as you like, sez Mrs.
Sheriff, and went off to get her some
thin' to eat.
' 'Can you show me poor Dick's
grave from here?' asked the widow,
stepping to the door where I was
standi a'.
' 'No. I can't, sez I, 'for it's up oq
the bluffs,' and I pinted out the par
ticular bluff where the varmint were
buried.
' 'Do you see them two hosses staked
over thar?' I asked.
" 'Yes,' sez she, 'an' it's for them I'm
a widow to-night.'
" 'Thar's a tliousan dollars' worth
of hoss-flesh, an one is only a three-year-old.
There's trottin blood in
both of 'em. Your husband were a
good judge of hosses. mum.
' 'Too good,' she said, an began to
cry afi-in. an' then we went inside the
house an' I hed a leetle chat with Mrs.
Sheriff afore I left.
"We've bought two new dogs, an'
they are some bloodhound,' sez she.
A1 'lows he isn't goin' to run enny
more risk an' he swapped Bull
an Major for 'em. I'm most scared of
'em myself. Would you like to see
em?'
"'Xo, sez I, 'dogs ain't my line.
Don't let 'em eat up your company.'
" 'I'll take care of her, sez she, and
with that I said good-night to both
women and went home..
"I'd just got the store open in the
mornin' when I was sent for in a treat
hurry to go Mrs. Sheriff's. Lord, but
she were a takin' on. Sunburst and
Baby Mine were both gone. They had
been run off in the night by hoss
thieves, and Jim, the hired man, had
been lookin for them since daylight
and there warn't hide or hair of either
to be found.
" 'How's the widow?' I asks, when
the hull story had been told half a
dozen times.
" 'I ain't roused her, sez Mrs.
Sheriff; 'she must be powerful tired to
sleep through such a noise. I guesr
I AM THE WIFE OF THE MAN TOD
HUNG."
I'll wake her up, an with that she
stepped to the door and rapped. There
was no answer, an' she gave the door
a shove and went in. In a minute she
yelled for me, an' if you believe me
there warn't no one there, an the bed
had never been slept in.
"You could hev knocked us both
down with a feather, for there was a
woman's, gown an a switch of light
hair, an a veil an' some other toggery.
An' fastened to it was a bit of paper
on which were writ in a plain, fine
handwrite:
" Ta, ta. Don't forget
"'The Widow.'"
"Then," said the traveler, looking
at his watch, "the widow was a man?"
"Thet's what they said; thet it
wasn't no woman that did the job, but
a pal of the man we lynched. It were
the slickest game ever played in these
parts; but, stranger, I believe she were
a woman-"
"But how did she manage with the
dogs?"
"I clean forgot the dogs. They went
with the widow. Leastwise, no one
ever saw them again in these parts.
When the sheriff came back he raised
partikeler Cain about them hosses, but
it didn't do a bit of good. There's the
stage comin 'round the turn now.
S'long, stranger." Detroit Free Press.
What the Teacher Wanted.
"Papa," said little Tom one day
when he came home from school,
"teacher says you must have me 'saa
sinated." "Assassinated?"
"Yes, sir. She saj-s every child must
be 'sassinated before he comes back to
school, because smallpox is in town.'1
"Oh. vaccinated?"
"Yes. sir; that's it." Detroit Free
Press.
i
f.enUous. (jMenwood Times. '
.Constipation1 and sick headache pfcr-
WILSON'S LONDON SPEECH.
Text of the American Statesman's Re
marks on(the Tariff.
The first exact copy of the famous
speech at the London chamber of com
merce dinner at the Hotel Metropole
the evening of September 27 reached
this country on the same steamer that
brought Mr. Wilson and is given be
low verbatim. It is from the London
Standard, which neglects to say
whether the speech was revised by
Mr. Wilson or not before being printed.
The dinner chairman. Sir A. K.
Rollit, M. P., in presenting Mr. Wil
son said:
"The new tarUt may not have realized all
the anticipations of the president, it may not
have ended a system that is at variance with
the true finance and the principle of trade, it
may be a compromise that is no compromise
but It established, if not free trade, a system
of freer trado than has existed in recent years,
and substituted for the uncertainties and
fluctuations that have been experienced a
period of certainty that must be of great ad
vantage to those engaged !n commerce."
Mr. Wilson then said:
-As a citizen of the United States I cordially
reciprocate, on behalf of my country, the
friendly words with w hich I have teen intro
duced by the chairman. For the last ten years
the United States has been the arena of the
reatc-st political conflict which has ever oc
ourred in the history of our people. We have
Just fought and just won the first battle In that
conflict, and although the seeming results are
far less than wo hoped and expected are in
themselves disproportionate to the wishes and
deliberate mandate of the American peopic
we are confident that those results and their
momentum will open out a new era in the
history of the United States and of the rest, of
the world. For the last twenty-five years we
have been following the policy of the Celestial
empire. (Applause For the last twenty-five
years we have adopted the policy of commer
cial exclusion; we have called off our ships
from the seas, and have clipped tho wings of
our Industry and enterprise. Never before in
the history of the world has the protection
system had an opportunity to work out its
beneficent results, if it hud any. in so vast an
arena; never before has it been so far tested
as to Its fruits and tendencies, and never has
It so conspicuously demonstrated its ovrh
falsity, its utter impotence as an economic
factor, and its lncompatabllity with pure gov
ernment and honest administration. Ap
plause. 1
"For a whole generation the people of the
United States were taught to believe that na
tional greatness, individual prosperity, higher
wages and increased welfare for the working
people and the geueral well-being of the coun
try itself were dependent, not upon free and
stable government, not upon individual effort
and virtue, not upon the energy and enterprise
gained in the new development of a new coun
try, not upon our ready invention and quick
adaptation of tho Instruments of modern pro
duction and distribution, not upon the boun
ties of Providence that gavo us a whole conti
nent for our country, free from connection
with the wars and internal policies of other
countries, but on account of congress taxing
all the people for the beneflt of the few and
upon separation from commercial intercourse
with the rest of the world.
"We 'thought that a people enjoying self
government would in time reject such a policy,
but it was pressed on them through long years
by every argument and fallacy that could any
where be found to bring up falsehood. Every
appeal to selfish Interest was resorted to. We
have had every argument that has followed
the system of protection all over the world, in
cluding the infant industry argument, ac
cording to which it is proper to support and
cherish into premature existence in a new
country new industries, which was presented
to us with the authority of our first great sec
retary of the treasury, Hamilton, and fortified
by the dictum of your own great political
economist, John Stuart MilL Our workins
people were constantly told that their own
better wages and higher standard of living
depended solely on the taxation of foreign
Imports and that any reduction in the
taxation would plunge them into the hope
less condition of the so-called pauper labor of
Kurope, and our farmers were led to believe that
their only prosperity lay In providing for them
selves by taxing themselves a home market;
in putting the factory beside the farm to con
sume the products of the farm. Against all
these arguments and delusions we have been
compelled slowly and laboriously to carry on
this fight. We have had to reckon with the
difficulties of some of our protected indus
tries, with the crafty selfishness of others of
them, with the honest delusions of our work
ing people and theequajly honest fears of the
farmers, and with that general and potential,
if somewhat hazy, sentiment that taxing our
selves for the sake of American industries was
an American and patriotic act, and that those
who opposed it were seeking the benefit of other
countries instead of their own country. Ap
plause and laughter. Against ail these argu
ments I am glad we have prevailed with the
American people. They were not hard to edu
cate, because they have been trained by the
tradition and inheritance in tho great princi
ples of liberty, which is the heritage of all who
speak our language and enjoy our institutions.
Applause.
"When they could give their attention, free
from other distracting issues.to the great ques
tion of their own taxation, they were quick to
learn that Infant industries, supported by the
taxation, never become self-supporting, but as
age increases become more clamorous for pub
lic assistance. Hear, hear. 1 Our working peo
ple finally learned teat while taxation protects
to the benefit of the employer there was free
trade in that which they had to sell namely:
their own labor, an-1 that the compensation of
labor in our protected industries was relative
ly smaller than in the general unprotected in
dustries of land, and our farmers found after
long and costly experience and patient en
durance of high taxation, that tho surplus of
farmer products, which required the develop
ment of foreipn markets, was absolutely grow
ing larger than ever. The people at lare
learned that under the protection of our tariff
system there had grown up in the country
trusts and monopolies that were becoming a
menace to free government I applause and
were seeing the very wealth that thuy had ex
tracted from taxation debauch elections and
corrupt legislation. Renewed applause.
"Such has been the contest in which we have
been engaged for the last ten years, more or
less exclusively, in the United States. Such
was the growth and overflow of the protective
system in that country; for, while it would Vie
exaggeration to say that the tariff bill, whkh
was to become a law months axo, is in itself
the overthrow of the system, it marks the first
and the most difficult step in the revolution
which should go forward from this time by its
own impetus. I should not make my statement
complete if I did not tell you something of tho
accounts and objects that we have had in view,
seeking to emancipate the industries of our
country: and while what I may say may not
be so welcome to you as business men as what
I have already said. I do not feel that I should
show a just appreciation of your welcome to
night if I did not speak to you the whole truth
with the utmost frankness. Applause.)
"In this groat contest for tariff reform wo
have kept before the American people two
great objects. Ths first was to reduce and
speedily abolish all those taxes levied upon
them for the support and enrichment of pri
vate Industries and the establishment of tho
great principle that a government has no right
to impose any taxes except for the support of
the government. The second was the emanci
pation of American industries from those re
straints which have -heretofore excluded them
from the markets of the world. If I were
standing before you as an apologist and de
fender of the system of protection, and espe
cially of Chinese protection in my own country,
I should undoubtedly run counter to your own
broad and intelligent views of what Is the
wise and just policy for every not on, for I
recognize tliat nations, like individuals, may
sometimes profit by those faults of oth
er which their own judgment and
broader knowledge have saved them from. But.
standing here as one identified with the great
movemei for tariff reform in the United
States. I am not altogether sure that I can call
on you to rejoice over its accomplishment, ex
tent 04 yew aycrove of sound principles more
wu purtaoi cnuie anu toois. 10 re
move the useless weapons of horned
cattle at ten cents per head. If thns
than you follow selfish advantages. (Ap
plause.! Undoubtedly our voluntary retire
ment from the high seas and the markets of
the world was to the advantage of those who
were wise enough to pursue these ends, and
more than any other to the advantage of the
people of the United Kingdom. Our protec
tion was Intended to keep you from coming In
to compete with us in the home markets, but
now we have been tearing down the fences thai
shut ourselves out from competing with you
and other nations. Mot only in cotton, wheat
and corn have we an increasing surplus that
must find Itself consumers in other countries,
but we have to-day in tho United States a man
ufacturing capacity that can in six months
supply all the home demand.
Hitherto, under the protective system, our
manufacturers have been tempted and have
been able to form combinations, so to limit
their output, to maintain their prices, and to
look for their profits to monopoly rates and
a closed market to all the factories of the
world. But we have seen with Increased in
terest and satisfaction in our trade returns
that we are beginning to send out the produce
of our manufactories, and. more instructive
still, are sending out first of all the products
of those manufactories in which we are paying
the highest wages. If with the material
spoliation they suffered through the protec
tive system we may still invade foreign
markets, what may we not expect to do with
freedom from such spoliation? We have
learned the vital truth that high wages and
cheap production go hand in hand, and we have
no fears that there will be any lower
ing of the standard of life among our
intelligent laborers. If, then, the reap
pearance of America as a carrier on the
high seas, an importer of manufactured prod
ucts to neutral markets, may seem to you at
first a startling proposition, it is but the inevi
table and beneficent working out of those prin
ciples which we have been seeking to put Into
legislation in our country in the last ten years
The manufacturing kupremacy of the world
must ultimately pass to that people and coun
try which has the largest supply of the raw
materials and the cheapest access to them, and
which brings lo their development the highest
results of art. science and invention and the
most business-like methods for their distribu
tion. We believe, for these reasons, that the
supremacy must some day or other pass to the
United States, but there is enough trade in the
world both for us and you. The world is un
dergoing a development and transform a lion
under the gigantic forces of our own day, and
whatever we may do will not in the long run, I
presume, be your loss." Applause.
ONCE MORE THE FARMER.
Republican Calamity Howlers Angling for
the Country Vote.
The protectionist oracles and organs
are confronted again with the same
old difficulty. After declaring as
earnestly as they could for many years
that the intent and effect of a protec
tive tariff in general, and the McKin
ley tariff in particular, is to reduce
prices to the consumer, they have now
to persuade the farmers that the very
same result follows from free trade,
or the putting1 of articles he raises on
the free list. The burden of the wail
is evoked, of course, by free wool,
which is going, if the oracles can be
believed, to impoverish the wool grow
er and compel him to make mutton of
his sheep. Yet the simple fact is that
the price of wool has steadily declined
under a protective tariff; and not only
this but the protectionist oracle and
teacher has insisted throughout this
was what a protective tariff was for.
It would be embarrassing' to most
men to make a pood argument, or even
an earnest claim, under such circum
stances, because roost men are ham
pered with convictions. Fortunately
for the protectionist orators and ora
cles they are not troubled with any
thing' of the kind. All that troubles
them is the desire to get votes for
their theory; and to do this they are
quite ready to blow hot one day and
cold the next, or hot and cold the same
day if need be. But if the farmers
are wise they will demand of these
self-elected grades, who are striving1 so
earnestly to impress them with the
evils which are to flow from tariff re
form, to explain their past declara
tions as to the intent and effect of pro
tection. There is not one of them
who has not put himself on record
scores of times to the effect that the
purpose of protection is to reduce the
price of the article upon which the
protective duty is imposed; and their
speeches and columns bristle with
proofs that such is the result. Let the
farmers insist upon their showing1
wherein free trade in wool or anything
else is any worse for the farmer In this
respect than they have always shown
protection to be, or than it has, in fact,
been.
If it were absolutely certain that the
effect of taking the duty off wool
would be to reduce the price which the
farmer is to receive, he would be no
worse off in that respect than he has
been under high protective tariffs, for
they have invariably been followed by
reduced prices for wooL It is very far
however, from being" absolutely cer
tain that any such result will follow
from the removal of the duty from
wool. The cheapening to Jthe manu
facturer of the foreign wool, which can
only be used to advantage when mixed
with our native wools, will inevitably
create a greater demand for the latter;
and the inevitable result of an in
creased demand, unless the s'tpply is
correspondingly increased, is to en
hance the price. Whether this result
follows or not, the farmers as a class
the vast majority of them not being
wool growers will profit far more by
the reduced cost of living, and of
everything that enters into the busi
ness of carryirfg on a farm than they
can possibly lose oa woo', or on nny
or all of the products o tfie farm.
Detroit Free Press.
"The losses of the past two
years," says ex-President Harrison,
"defy the 6kill of the calculator." We
are more fortunate in knowing exact
ly how much money the public treas
ury lost from the time Grover Cleve
land left office in 1830 until he re
turned in 1S93. The interval was Mr.
Harrison's term as president, and he
left one ' hundred and sixty-seven
million dollars less in the treasury
than he found there when he went
into office. Chicago Herald.
What "on earth does this mean?
During the existence of the McKinley
act the country was constantly r galed
with fairy tales about the extensive
manufacture of tin in this country
which proved on investigation to be
utterly baseless.' And now when the
McKinley duty on tin plates has been
reduced forty-six per cent, and on tin
manufactures thirty-six per cent, a re
port comes from London ' that an
American syndicate is about to begin
the manufacture of tin here on u. large
scale. Detroit Fre Prea
in regaru io mowing; iwnisne ana
ringing the bell ia dieted by a
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
TWENTY TIMES A DAY.
Twenty tlme3 a day, dear.
Twenty times a day.
Tour mother thinks about you.
At school, or else at play.
She's busy in the kitchen. '
Or she's busy up the stair.
But like a song her heart within
Her kve for you 13 there.
There's just a little thing, dear.
She wishes you to da
ru whisper, 'tis a secret.
Now mind, I tell it you.
Twenty times a day, dear.
And tnoro. I've heard you says
I'm coming in a minute."
When you should at once obey.
At once, as soldiers. Instant, t
At the motion of command;
At once, as- sailors, seeing
The captain's warning hand.
Ton could make the mother happy
By minding in this way.
Twenty times a day, dear.
Twenty times a day.
Congregationalism
WEDDED AT TEN YEARS.
TTa Little- King of Kepanl and His Brldo
of Fire Years.
Everywhere In the east, and especial
ly in Hindustan and Nepaul, marriages
are made at a very early age. Parents
contract for the wedding of their chil
dren while they are yet but little boys
and girls, and neither the boy nor the
girl has any voice in the matter. They
are simply coupled with all the cere
mony and extravagant display that the
parents on both sides can afford, and
then the poor little things go back to
their homes to be nursed and petted
and trained until they are old enough
to have a home of their own.- Thus
this little king of Nepaul, the eighth
royal Ghoorka who had come to the
throne, was married when he was ten
years old to a baby princess half his
age, chosen for him from one of the
royal families of northern India. Nor
did it ever occur to the prime minister,
cr the priests, or the astrologers,-or
the match-makers, that either the
bridegroom or the bride had anything
whatever to do with the business.
I5ut the wedding was "perfectly
splendid." A picturesque concourse of
Asiat-c guests, with a sprinkling of
European strangers, was gathered in
the pavilions and rotundas of tho
palace; and there was profuse distri
bution of pretty souvenirs and gifts
among them. Everyone received some
thing a nosegay of rare eastern
flowers emblematic of happiness and
joy, a miniature phial of attar of roses,
a little silver flask of delicate perfume,
a dainty scarf or handkerchief
sprinkled with rose water, a curious
fan, a fantastic toy of ivory, a lacquer
box. And then came the little king
alone of course, for an oriental bride
must not be exposed to the public
gaze borne on a silver litter curtained
in orange and purple satin, embroid
ered with gold, and hung with massive
bullion fringe. Seated on a gTeat
cushion of cloth of gold piled with
shawls of cashmere and canton, he was
borne around the rotunda, a luminous
vision of flashing jewels, and a musical
murmur of tiny bells, from his plumed
helmet to his slippers.
And when he had made his royal
salaam, or salutation, to the guests and
THE BOY KIXO RIDING HIS PET POXY.
departed, the tamasha began that is,
the grand show and the glorious fun;
the nautch maidens, or dancing girls,
the musicians and jugglers, the glass
eaters and sword-swallowers, the Nutt
gypsies, who are wonderful gymnasts
and acrobats, and the Bhootiyan
wrestlers from the mountains. St.
Nicholas.
Monkey and Goose Contests.
Combats between animals of differ
ent species are a source of great amuse
ment among the Javanese. One of the
most popular contests is that between
monkey and goose. The monkey is tied
to one of the goose's legs, by means of
a cord, and both animals are set down
near the bank of a river, or pond. The
goose, standing in dread of the
monkey, seeks for safety in the water,
and the monkey, afraid of tho water,
exerts himself to the uttermost not to
be drawn into it. As a rule, the goose
draws the monkey into the water, and
then the cunning simian sit3 astride
the goose, in equestrian fashion. The
goose then tries to dive, and the
monkey prevents her if he can; and so
the fight goes on until the spectators
tire, and the animals are released from
an uncongenial companionship.
Wonderful Philadelphia Girl.
Though only five and a half years
old, Edna Grace Ilain, of Philadelphia,
with her tiny fingers can' bring thirty
different airs out of a piano. She has
learned them all in the last month. If
a ky, invisible to her, be struck she
can immediately sound the correspond
ing key of another piano. Let the en
tire keyboard be covered with cloth
not too heavy to muQe the sound and
she stil makes good music by striking
keys vhich she cannot see. Her first
etrok on the unseen ivory may be a
mistr.ke, but in a moment she hits the
right key, and then goes ahead without
making' un error. She cannot read
im.sie or words, but thoroughly under
stands the scale, quickly distinguishes
half-notes and keeps good time: . If she
hears a strange air two or three times
she can make her piano reproduce it.
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GREAT MEN AT PLAY.
Abraham Lincoln Took Great Delight h
Studying a Dictionary.
The majority of the world's gTeat!
men have been very healthy boys, who
loved boyish sports and wholesome ex-n
ercise, and yet by no means were theU"
ideas of pleasure bounded by a day's
fishing, game of football or holidays
as, for example, Abraham Lincoln, whoi
bears as great a reputation for physical,
strength as tall, broad-shouldcredV
George Washington.
Lincoln, when a boy, cordially hated,
the farm work, and yet faithfully acx
complished his share of it, looking for
ward every day to a twilight hour with
his books. When the last of the rough
tiresome chores were done, tall Abra
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S AMT8E5TKNT.
bam would drag his chair into the door
yard, and, tipping it back by proppinjp
his feet against the side of the house,
forget his labor in reading the diction
ary. His only other books were tho
Bible, "Aesop's Fables," "Robinson
Crusoe, "Pilgrim's Progress, a life of
Washington and a history of tho.
United States. When these lost inter
est he would walk to the nearest town,
and on precious bits of paper copy down,
such extracts as ho could make from
ponderous law books in the constable's
ofSce, in order to have fresh reading1
material. Even his dictionary studies
had to be given up in winter, when,
there was no twilight and no candlesj
so on the back of the wooden fire
6hovel, with a piece of charcoal, he
would amuse himself by working out
mathematical problems and writing1
essays, that could be shaved off. leav
ing him a fresh surface. Another of
his favorite amusements was making1
speeches to men working in his father'
fields.
Sir Rowland Hill, perhaps inos
American boys and girls do not know,;
was the man who, in the early part of)
Queen Victoria's reign, reorganized the)
postal serviee of Great JJritain, from;
which nrs is adopted, and made it pos-i
sible to send a letter for a few cents to
any part of the country. lie was thai
son of a school-teacher, but so delicata
he was not permitted to study with his
brothers. He suffered from loneliness
a gTeat deal, yet found perfect content
ment In lying flat on his stomach onj
the hearth rug adding up tremendous
columns of figures. Later in life ha
was celebrated for his knowledge of
mathematics, and held important posts
under the government, for which ho
was knighted.
Mr. Gladstone, " when he went to
Eton, was considered the prettiest lit
tle boy in the school, but he was not
very popular, as he cared very little
for outdoor games. His companions
rarely ever saw him run, and a boat ho
had for sculling on the river he inva
riably locked up and rarely loaned it
to other boys when he was not using1
it. What he dearly loved, however, was
to make long addresses on most serious
subjects in the school club of which he
was a member. Then for amusement
he helped to edit an Eton magazine,
for which he wrote a great number of
poems, editorials, translations and es
says. Thomas Jefferson as a boy rode well
and played the violin, but he most sin
cerely loved to study. When very
young he went to college and gave fif
teen hours a day to his books, and for
exercise at twilight would run for a
mile out of the college grounds and
back again.
Cuvier, the great naturalist, used to
make for his schoolfellows the tiniest
but most perfect maps of bits of col
ored cloth or paper pasted on a sheet
and then drawn over with dots and
lines to represent mountains, rivers,
towns, etc
A water clock and a sun dial, this
last marked out on the side of his land
lady's house when he went to board
ing school, were made by Sir Isaaof
Newton, who, as a little boy, was for
ever inventing something. lie con
trived a curious little mill, the arms of
which were made to move by a
pair of mice imprisoned in the mill's
tower. Though for a time at school ho
was rather a lazy boy, when, later, ho
went to live on his mother's farm, ho
shirked his daily duties often to stop
and build wonderful little water wheels
by the brook's side, or lie under a
shady hedge and study out long
mathematical problems.
Louis Agassiz was so expert a fisher
man when a little boy he could catch
them in his hand, fascinating- them
first by strange motions of his fingers,
lie kept a number of pet fish in a stono
basin behind his father's house, and
was clever at taming field mice and all
sorts of little animals and insects. He
was an expert little cobbler and
cooper, could make water-tight barrels
as well as a man, and manufactured
pretty shoes for his sister's dolls.
Perhaps of all things Daniel Webster
when a boy loved best was to read
alout. lie never remembered when he
first began to read, but as a very tiny
boy he read the newspaper rejrularly
to an old British soldier, who used to
carry him about on his shoulder. One
day his schoolmaster offered a prize of
a jackkniie to the boy who could learn
the greatest number of Bible verses,
whereupn the next morning Daniel got
np and rapidly spoke off so many verses
that the master had to beg him to
stop, and promptly presented ths
knife. St. Louis Eepublio.
This Mill has been rebuilt, and famished with
I Machinery of the best manufacture
I in the vnrlil Thot,