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I 1 I C i' SY r t v. iy viy I . "V. C 000 I I'. ) i i-.U A f I) i i -A r s r ' J! I V t 1 ' 1 7 lb ' J ..V V' VOL. II. Notice to Subscribers. EXPIRATIONS. Am the easiest aad cheapest means of uoti- 8 ring subscribers of the date of their explra ons we will mark this notice with a blue or red pencil, on the date at which their subscrip tion expires. We will send the paper two v.eks arter explratien. If not renewed by that time it will be discontinued. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given to the twenty sYm Subordinate Alliances of Red Willow county that there will be a meeting of the Alliance relief commit tee in the opera house in Iodinaola, at one o'clock p. in., on the following dates Nor. 8, 15, 22, 29 and Dec. 6th, 189C, for the transaction of important business. J. F. Black, Chairman. OBTINlNu PV-TIR CASTS. Dow Repifc.i r I :.'.-. mary Are Sujlil tit I'ice of Stat tl Muiteamii, We get our piaster casts of cele brated s itues and other art work, from the great museums of the world, in Rome, Berlin, Paris and London said the curator of the Corcoran gal lery to a Washington alar reporter "la those great institutions perhaps not more than half a dozen in num'ier are gathered practical! all of the important original antiques in exist ence. The only way in which it is possible to secure reproductions of sueh priceless reiics is to obtain per mission from the authorities in charge of the museums to take casts. Not a-lways is such a liberty eas' to secure. Yon must remember that art works of the sort are absolutely irreplaceable, and, inasmuch as there is always some danger incidental to the making oi casts, no matter how carefully the thing is done, you will readily undt , s4and bow it is that reluctance is apt bo be felt in allowing the thing to be done. Not iufrequeutly it has hap pened that the taking of a single cast was permitted, but a repetition of the process refused, simp!)' because it was not thought desirable to take any more chances. There would be no object in taking a second cast were it not that a moid wears out after a while and will not reproduce the original satisfacto rily. It is a fact that nearly all of the oasts used in art schools for drawing from and such purposes are casts made from casts and not from originals. Oasts exhibited in galleries, however. OBght always to bo first-hand, because the second-hand ones lack the finest sculptured outline.'1 "How do von urocure the casts?" "We send to firms in the cities I hare mentioned, which regularly make a business of supplying things of th sort, having arrangements of confi dence with the great museums. If it is a statue from the British Museum that we want a replica or we are obliged to send to a dealer named Brecciani, who is the only person per niitted to make casts of art objects in that institution. Brecciani uud the other dealers in this line of business publish regular annual catalogue which they send around to art galleries and merchants everywhere, price lists accompanying. According to their schedules, a bust of Caesar is worth $150, a fragment of an ancient frieze the same amount, a reproduction of the celebrated Disk Thrower' 37, a caraytid $30, and a whole harpy tomb $45. The last, of course, is a partic ularly elaborate piece. When we want anything in the way of a cast we send on an order, just as for any other kind of merchandise. The making of a cast from a statue is an exceedingly difficult affair. For the head and face alone fifty or sixty pieces are required feo make the mold; the ear will take twelve pieces. Work is begin, say, by placing one scrap of moist plaster of paris over a small section of the face, taking care not to cover any more surface than the plaster when hardened can readily be withdrawn from without breakiug. When this piere has become hard it is permitted to remain sticking to the statue, while another scrap of plaster is applied to an adjoining section of surface. In this way the task slowly progresses until t he entire statue is covered with the hard plaster, the bits being sepa rated from each other by a sort of shellac on their edges, which prevents them from sticking together. After this has been accomplished it only remains to remove the pieces of plas ter, which tit together, into the shape of the desired moid. Probably the finest collection of antique sculpture in existence is iu Rome. T.ie drawing teooks sold for children are designed by artists of more or less merit and published by the great stationers." Mod or n Literary Chances. The aspirant for literary honors with pecuniary remuneration should remem ber that the most famous names in the literary guild earned their money for the most part in other than literary ways. Bryant was an editor and pub lisher. Longfellow ami Holmes and Lowell were Harvard professors. Emerson and Bayard Taylor were lecturers, and Taylor was also a Trib une editor. Curtis and Stoddard de pend upon editorial salaries; Stedman is a broker, and Halleck was John Jacob Astor's private secretary. And ne might go further with this list. "Whittier began as an editor, and only in middle life attempted to lean upon literature alone for a support, which his early savings and simple habits made possible. It was always Long fellow's advice to young men who wished to be literary to have first, and mainly a vocation independent of the finer. If a young writer thinks he possesses genius he may. of course, ex periment with it; but it will serve his purse and peaco of mind better to -o secure some of iabor and income that is more philistine and worldly, and ride his Pegasus only at inspired intervals. For it is a fact, in spite of the occasional big figures that are riven as the results of literary work, pure and simple, that the men who prosper or have prospered by that alone, are only, at any oue time, a few dozen in number among our sixty-live millions of . people. Ztritc' Home Journal. There Is abunUaiu c.v.tt cr. . a m I 1 9 loricai ana pnuoiogiciu. 10 prove that lan- that pronunciation of ti:o English ruage known as me iimsi) brogue i the bestaud purest English known. Boston Olooc. BKiut. ; KS. It wa In the-' mouth of Jnre that Bright-Eves, the Indian girl, who had been brought up by the old backwoods man, Silas Parker, and lita wife, as their own child, went out into the woods to gather blueberries. v There had been a lire in the woods that winter, and where it ran the berries grew thick. When Bright- Ej-es had tilled her paiJs she would walk down, into the village and go call ing from house to house, "Berries, blueberries! who wants nice blue berries?"5 until she had disposed of them all. And what with the berries and sassafras bark, which she sold to the druggist, and wintergreen and cala mis root, and nuts in autumn, and her little bead-work-bags, there wa3 alwavs enough to put bv to buv Bright- Eves her grav calico frocks, shoes for her pretty feet, tarn for her stockings. and those little still straw hats, which she trimmed with the gray wings of the birds that Father Parker shot at times. Bright-eyes was very independent, and fonder of giving than receiving. To-day, the berries being so thick, e had a great harvest, and high noon had come and it was time that she went home, tidied herself, and went down to the village to be in time for the housekeepers who wanted berries for tea; when, as she gathered up her pails, slinging them to a sort of yoke she placed upon her neck, she heard a groan hard by, and after some search found a man lying among the underbrush, bleeding from a terrible wound in his shoulder and apparently near his eud. - The first thing Bright-Eyes did was to stanch the wound as well as she could, with certain herbs of which she knew, and bind it with her apron; the next to go for aid. In a little time the old woodsman and his men arrived, and together they bore the wounded stranger to their home. The rough, self-taught surgeon of the place attended him; the bullet was extracted, the fever allayed. That the man had accidentally shot himself had been self-evident from the first and it was certain that had not Bright-Eyes found him in the woods he would have bled to death in a very little while. He seemed grateful, and not averse to expressing his feelings. "Old Parker, as he expressed it, "took a shine to him." "Though he's a city chap and a college fellow," he said, "he don't put on no frills." The name he gave them was Charles Graham, and he would gladly have compensated his host for all the trouble and expense ho had been at. but that in the far west, at that date, the thought of receiving payment for sucn things was never entertained. ' "Stay as long as you like; we're glad to have you," old Parker said, and Graham lingered. That Bright-Ey.es was the attraction,, was soon very evident. More than one man of the place had married an Indian girl, and Bright Eyes was a Christian and went to the little church on Sunday, and wore the dress and had the ways of white women. Moreover, she was beautiful. No one wondered at bis fancy. . The. girl gave him her whole heart and soul; and when in the autumn he went away, he slipped a brigiit ring with a jewel in it upon the girl's finger, and said: "Before the snow falls I will return and marry .you." He left also many presents. Stuffs " more costly than Bright-Eyes had ever wofn. and the girl set to work to fash ion them 'into garments which she should wear when she was his wife. But the snows came and he returned not; nor did any message come from him. And people began to whisper when they spoke of the Indian g'rl, and to say that all the teaching on earth would not change a savage; at last Bright-Eyes held iu her arms a little dark-skinned babe, with its white father's features and its Indian mother's eyes. ' The old people were not cruel to her. They did not drive her forth. But one morning they awoke to find her gone. I will not stay to disgrace you" she had written on a piece of paper pinned to her pillow. "You have been very good to me. Good-by." As for Charles Graham, he had bv this time almost forgotten the prettj' IndiaD girl who had amused him that junimer in the woods, and thought tier kindness well paid for in the silk dresses and the handful of triukets he had given her. bometimes he said to himself: "She was a pretty creature!" and laughed a iittie. j.nac was an. But to every man one true love comes t last, it was not long before Charles Graham met his fate! One of his own race, a lady, beautiful and attractive, who gave her heart to him, and whom he married. He was very happy with his Mar garet, and for her sake resolved to live a better Hie. J? or her sake also, ne de sired to be rich. It was loug ago. The spirit of emi gration was abroad at that time. From the eastern states thousands weotiortn to the far west in search of fortune. Broad, fertile lands were reads' for them. Cities yet unbuilt were marked upon great maps. With energy every man could prosper, it was said. Fired with this idea Charles Graham and his bride joined the throng. The journej was neither easy nor pleasant but they were full of hope, and the merriest of the long, caravan-like pro cession, with its covered wagons. mounted men. and led horses, that day by day went farther and farther west ward. At last one evening they found them selves upou the verge of an Indian settlement, and though the very name of Indian was associated in the miud of the white settler with treachery, the signs were all propitious. The gray haired chiefs came forth to meet them. The squaws offered them corn and fish and fruit. The musio of. reed-fiutes and of laughter tilled the Tillage as the moon arose. All seemed to speak of peace and plenty. . Weary with long, sojonrn in the wajeon Charles Grahaai'a wife reclined LINCOLN, upon a blanket spread under some great trees, and her husband sat be side her. A little half-breed boy who bad been playing at his mother's knee came running to her. and she took him in her arms and kissed him. As she did so the mother approached and stood looking down upon them. She wore a blanket, and. with it 'seemed, to shield her face, either iu modesty or shyness. B it she made friend1, gestures, and a boy to whom she InjcWoned interpreted what she said to him. "She asks the white squaw who loves her little bov to sleeu in her tent to night, and to eat first of her food in its shelter." Margaret Graham was delighted with the invitation. "Come," she said to her husband, "it will be something to remember in the future." They arose and followed the woman to the tent. Within its shelter a feast was spread. The viands were tempting and the great calibashes were filled with a delicately flavored drink. This the woman, 'still veiling her face, pressed upon Charles Graham. He drank rather to gratify her than because he liked it, and soon a drowsy feeling stole over him, his hands dropped to his sides, and he slumbered. Hour after hour passed in oblivion. But at last a restful ness began to fall upon him; strange visions passed athwart his brain scenes of his early youth, faces forgotten for years, and for the first time in his life he dreamed of Bright-Eves, the Indian girl who had saved his life and loved him there in the old woodman's home among the western forests. She stood before him, smiling into his face. He slipped a shining ring on her brown linger. "Before the snow falls I will come back to marry you," he said. "Come soon; come soon," she an swered, "for you are my all;, my 'life, my soul, mv everything." With these words in his ears Charles Graham awoke, and, sitting up, gazed about him. The light of dawn was struggling through an aperture of the tent, the remnants of the feast lay before him. Beside him on the rug lay his wife. closely wrapped in a blanket. How still she lay? He did not wish to disturb her. but she was so motion less that she alarmed him. He put forth his hand she did not stir. He flung back the blanket from her face she lay before him, dead. A great wound in her bosom, her face gashed in many places, and scalped. and tied by a thong to her. neck was a ring with a bright stone in it. and a piece of paper on which was written: fco I return it to you. An Indian woman can revenae herself. I have jrone where yoo cannot find me. BRIGHT-EYES.' ihere were strong, desperate men among those emigrants. ,. As they listened to the hideous tale their com rade told, wrath took possession ol them. They pur no faith In the pro testations of sorrow made by the In dians, and thev were many and well armed. Before nightfall there remained ol that peaceful little village nothing bul a heap of ashes, among which lay the bodies of its men, women, and child ren. Tiie massacre was complete Several emigrants were wounded, bul only one killed outright it was Charles Graham. s Thev found him gashed with wounds, Iving beside the body of his murdered wife. There they buried them, heap log the stones high above the grave, t and left them sadly it was a dav no man cared to re member. But later, when the moon was risen, there came to the spot an Indian woman, with a half-breed chih iu her arms. In her eyes were n tears of pity or of sorrow." She stoppei before the cairn of stones, andspurue it with her foot. "So perish all betrayers." she mut tereu, and taking her uov upon hei shoulders, stalked awav across th prairie. Family Story taper. One Masher Probably Cured. Two Boston women who" saw tin sights of the metropolis alone dast week used with good ettect a weapou which had proved eP.icaeious in dealing with the mashers of the Hub. Oue of them carried a parasol with a long and strong handle, which ended in a point almost as sharp as a brad awl. She found early occasion to use it in train on Third avenue. She and, her companion occupied a cross seat, and the double seat opposite was soon taken by one of the most offeusive of the masher tribe. Not satisfied with staring impudently at the ladies ne presentlv attempted to insinuate his foot between the feet of the one carry ing the parasol. Apparently by acci dent, she brought the point of her parasol down smartly upon the fellow's foot. He gave an involuntary ex clamation of pain and withdrew to the end of the seat ooposite the other lady. The lesson seems not to have been severe enough, for a few minutes later he insulted her in the same manner. This time he was punished in earnest. The woman carrying the parasol watched him, and suddenly leaning over to look out of the window she jabbed the brad and point into Mie fellow s mstepand gave it a qu'ck turn before he could draw his foot away, The man cried out with pain, jumped to his feet and limped out of the car. The passengers could not understand his actions, and the iady with the parasol looked as much surprised as anybody. N. T. Sun. A Deserved Rebuke. The ladv was young, and her school was a district school across the river; she was drawing a salary of SbU a month. A piano tuner was traveliu in that particular district, lor sev eral days he made ineffectual attempts to engage the interest of the school mistress. The business of having the organ tuned she left'entirely to her parents, aud the young exquisite felt as though he was left ut in the cold. so he asked her one dav: Why is it that so many school teach ers are old ma ids? With perfect sang freid she replied "Because we Uo not eare to give up a $b0 salary for a $U man." . torutn. NEB., SATURDAY, HE BLEW T'J J MILLIONS. Yoi)ff Mr. UobriK4 Intmrtnnr.r Wnt at the Rat t.f aiW.n n Ynr Early in the. spring of 1888 tlwre was a fashionable wedding in v .asnrngron. The contracting parties were Mr. Alexander H. Roberts of Philadelphia and Mis9 Marv Mott of this city. Neither of the parties was of age at the time, and much comment was made in regard to the wedding. It was known, however, that the groom wonld come in possession of a large . estate, and everybody thought Miss Mott was mak ing a lucky catch. It V was A case f love at first sight, and a marriage would have followed at a month's no tice but for the fact that Mr, Roberts was not in financial condition to under take the maintenance of a household. At the time Miss Mott was a singer in the choir of a well-known church here. Shortly after the wedding, and when Eolerts became of age. he "came into possession of $2,000,000. This money had been amassed by his father through luckv oil speculations in Pennsylvania. On the strength of this inheritance Mr. and Mrs. Koberts indulged in a Euro pean trip, and upou their return spent several months at a fashionable hotel in this city. Later they took up th'sir residence 'in Philadelphia, where they lived in style. Roberts had a trotting stable, a steam yacht,a pack of hounds, and suddenly developed sporting pro clivities. He seemed to take a special liking to prize fighters, and went so far as to make tuem welcome to his own home. He would throw the wine cellar open and entertain them in royal shape. These men would on these oc casions gorge themselves with drink. and frequently there was a rough-aud- tumble hght. On one particular even ing there was an eleven-round fight in the parlor, and the facts at the time were wired all over the country. Un this occasion much of the valuable furniture .was demolished, and Alex ander Roberts, in a bout with an out sider, received injuries which confined him to his room for some time. I he innocent vouug wife naturally took ex ceptions to the manner in which she was being exposed in public, regard less of the fact that her every desire, from a pecuniary point of view, was granted. She protested, and within a year they had separated. Koberts has proven his ability as a spend-thrift.for within the short period of two years he almost completely ex hausted his large fortune. He lelt Philadelphia, went. West, and located in Denver. Col. On Monday Mrs. Uoberts filled a bill in the Denver court for divorce. She alleges.1 that it has become impossible for her to live with him on account of his -alleged drinking habits. She also alleges, in her complaint, that the most of her husband's rnon'er is gone, and- unless restrained, he will very soon" make way with all of it. Washington, Critic Facts Worth Knowing. Sotfits of turpentine will take' greasi or drops of paint out of cloth. Appl it till the paint can be scraped oil. Tar cau easily be removed frore clothing by immediately rubbing it well with clean lard, and then washing out with warm water and soap. If soot be dropped upon the carpet. throw upon itan equal quantity of salt. and sweep ah uo together. Ihere will be scarcelv a trace of soot left. Turpentine and black varuish is the blacking used bv hardware dealers foi protecting stoves from rnst. If pul on properly it will last through thf season. Put French chalk or magnesia on silk or ribbon that has become greasv. and hold it near the fire. This, will absorb the grease so it may brushed off. Iron rust may be removed from marble by taking one part of nitric acid to 25 parts of water, and applying it carefully to the spots, liinse oil with ammonia and water. To make good mucilage without using gum arabic, take two parts of dextrine, five parts of water and one part of acetic acid. Dissolve by heat ing, and add one pari or alcohol. For solder, take a mixture of two parts of tin to one part of lead. For a soldering fluid, dissolve zinc in muriatic acid, then add a little sal-ammoniac, and dilute it ith a little water. To clean marble, mix whiting with eommoo soap. till thick as paste. Spread it on the marble and leave it for a couple of days. When the paste i cleaned off the stains will also be re moved. A carpet, especially a dark one. often looks dusty directly after sweep ing. Wring a sponge almost dry out of water, and wipe off the dust from the carpet. It will brighten it quite effectively. this is the way they clean and reno vate furs in Russia: Some rye flout is put into a pan upon the stove and heated, stirring constantly with the hand, so long as the heat can be borne. Then spread the flour all over the fur, rubbing it in well; then brush it gently with a clean brush, or beat it softly, till all the flour is removed. It is claimed that this method will make the fur appear almost or quite like new. Good Housekeeping. Chapped Hands. Chapped hands are an especial source of annovance to many persons during cold weather. Homely as the remedy mav seem, there is nrobablv nothing better or more effective than a simple rubbing with pure mutton ta htur f Inn nxrt nF cr rnrin to rwfl parts of soft water, with a few drops of rose water added.' will be found rery useful; so will vaseline or either of the following recipes: One uram of borax, six ounces oi rose water, and one ounce of glycerine. Une ounce of glycerine and one ouce of alcohol, mix together, then add eight ounces of rose water; bottle for use. Liquor ammoniac tincture of opium. spirits of turpentine, and olive oil. equal parts of each. After washius aud drying the hands in the morning. at miuuay ana in the evening, pour a leaspoounw or tne liniment in one hand, and rub th hands and fingers together as if washing them. Repeat the process with the other hand. II the sore parts smart tod much, the liniment should have a litt e sweet oil svidvd to u. Good ihitsekeetAng. NOV. 8, 1890. HARDLY A CSIN POINT, H.rlcfl L" lT A'i' ! Inftfncs 1 h re was a on of our iu! did nt go far fii!ny incident om in IN-citial suburbs which ;o help ..the. christian st-it'Vce doctrmi". says the ttosion irun script. The occurrence was in this A prominent exiMn.ilress of the doHrhi" of christian science was in-, viP'd by a number of ladies in one of the suburbs w ho had become interested in the-e doctrines and wanted an authoritative exwition of them to r;.ie out and talk on the subject. She came and began her address iu a small lecture-room. Ladies." she said. 'I wish to im pres upon your minds the fact ' that m thing exists as it appears to u to exist. All matter is unreal; it is a de hrdou, a hallucination. Nothing is matter all is miudi And this truth dots not apply merely to what is called disease aud its phenomena. The more ordinary things about us are as much hallucinations, as so-called disease. I will give an illustration.' "Yesterday I was eugaged in house work, and I had occasion to cut up and prepare :i number of quinces. Now, you all know how terribly quinces are supposed to stain and blacken the hands. For days and days, under the old thought. I have worn upon my fingers the dark stains made by paring quinces. Well, as I worked over these quinces yesterday, paring, quartering handling them. I" thought: 'How fool ish, now to suppose that these unreal, unsubstantial. non-existiug things should stain my hands!' and I resolved that they should not stain my hands, and that I would not look at my fingers until my work was over and then would find them perfectly clean. Well, ladies, not only did I par; and quarter those auinces. but after I had com pleted them I had occasion to cut and prepare a number or tomatoes, ana you know how dreadful they are sup posed to be. I pared my tomatoes, cut them and sliced them, handling them freely all the time; when I was all done with "both 1 rinsed my hands and looked at them, and they were per fectly clean and white, with not a tain upon them." When the "scientist" had reached the stage of the tomatoes the women of the audience began to look wondering. ly and significantly at one another, and when she announced the miracle hand kerchiefs were stuITed into mouths all over the little hall, and chests were heaving with suppressed laughter. Be ing in considerable part housewives. the ladies knew that in the nature of mere material things the juice of to matoes will wash away and utterly re move the stain of any other fruit what soever, and that after cutting up to: matoes not a vestige of the quince stain could have been left upon .the woman s hands, christian science or no shristiau science. Happiness. We mty commence by asking, what in this summum bonum of existence vhich all mankind so strive to attainP STn two answers -would be the same. tiv manv it is regarded as a phantom which, though constantly pursued. 'ver alludes our grasp. Yot nnt such i Rousseau's definition of hanniness. which takes a more sub stantial form, it being "a good bank account, a good book and a good di gestion." Let us hasten to contrast his selfish egotism by quoting a passage from Good's "Book of .Nature:" "JNo one can be haoov without exercising the virtue of a cheerful industry or ac nvitv. No one can lay claim to hap- Diness without purity, without teni pent nee. without self-command, and consequently fortitude: and let me add. without a liberal and forgiving spirit." Alas, felicity would be indeed a myth were only the possessors of those Christian graces to be the recipients! Yet it is consolatory to be told that much of this charm lies in the pleasure of retrospection. We may turn to a nare of Sidney Smith, who says: "Mankind ure alwavs happier from having been so; therefore, if you make them happy now, in twenty years hence they will be happv by ity memory With a like thought, but with less concentration, as was his great nature, wrote Charles Dickens: "In the most chequered life there are so many little rays of sunshine to look back upon that I do not believe any mortal, uuless he has put himself out of the pale of hope, would deliberately drain a goblet of the waters of Lethe, even if he had it in his power." Upon this subject it is amusing to note te varied ideas of the sages "and philosophers; some, with treason to this sweetest gift of life, transient though it be. contend that there is no such thinsr as haouiness it being but C7 - " a chimera. It never actually existed in Eden, suggests one cynic, or our great pro genitors, content in their beatitude, wonld have disregarded that fatal fruit; while another morbidly affirms. "Hunting after a lost sheep in tae wilderness. When you fiod it the chances are that it is a skeleton." Nathanial Hawthorne's Jew words shall conclude our citations. Terse and unique as ever, yet what a depth oi tnougut lies in mis onei aeuience; 'There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow the latter oeiug eartniy ana none, me iormer composed of the substance and texture I OI eiemitV SO mat. 8 pil'llS Still wui- bodied may not tremble at it." Cost of a Head of Hair. A fine head of virgin-gold colored hair will br ng from $200 to foUU., ac cording to its length and 'luxuriance. aud to those who have it and are anx ious to convert it into hard cash.it may be pleasing to hear that there are ord ers in advance for all that can be pro- iiif...! f this description for the next five years. Chatter. No Ijashlnjr Allowed. There is a large farm in which there is only in Mississippi one old whip ind that is not used. The owner will not permit the whip la be used on any tf the stock, an 4 the farm does well ind the animals work with ft will with ml feeling the , PYCMY RACES. Stanley's VTnbiti, ttt Hottentots Ituohmno, nml Utrly Hrfton. Not the least interesting of the d is- coveries maie uy Air. otaniev on nis latest expedition, says the (JnUkm.in' Magazine, is that f the Wambetti the dwarf tribe living between the Upptr Aruhwimi and the Nepoko. It has' loug been a well-known fact that ihe Py giuies of Homer, Herodotus and Ktesiiis those of whom Plinv steaks as -dwelling amo'ng the marshes where the Nile rises" are something more than mere mythical beings; and almost every exploration of any impor tance undertaken of late years has thrown fresh light on the existence of a primitive Africau race, of whom the Wambetti are in all probability one ot many fragments, scattered through central and southern Africa. The tribes usually designated dwarfs or pygmies are numerous, oeariug a marked resemblance to each other, aud showing a marked difference from the people among whom tuey are scat tered. Their surest and most perma nent characteristic is their hair, which is woolly, but instead of being, as in the negro, eveuly distributed over the scalp, grows in' small tufts. This appearance, according to Prof. Vir- chow, is not due to the tact that the hair grows ou some spots and not on others, but to a peculiarity in the text ure of the hair itself, which causes it to roll naturally into closely curled. cim-.il lnpi-4 l:iviritr thn inl Rrvemnc pieces of scalp bare. The name ol awaris, applied ov some to these people, has been objected to as implying deformity or arrest.) growth, and therefore conveying a ong impression. Nothing of the kind can be said of the African Pyg mies, who. though of short stature, are well shaped people of perfect nor mal formation. The section of the Pygmy race with which Europeans have come most in contact is the Hottentots and Bush men. The former call themselves "Khoi-Khoi," Hottentots being merely a ntcKuanie given iy eariy uutcn sei tiers, who declared that the natives spoke an unintelligible language, con sisting only of sounds like hot and tot. That keen observer. Moffat t, as long ago as the first decade of this centur'. noticed the distinct and peculiar char acteristics of the Iloiteiaots. and rec ognized their racial identity with the Bushmen. Surveying the Pygmy race as a whole,- we find' them -shorn of the mythical ami magical glamor with which distance and mystery had in vested them not so erv di Here nt. after all, from other human beings. but still -sufficiently interesting. JSTo wen auineuueaieu auu.i seems to oe much less than 4 feel 6 inches; while Dr. Petermann thinks; that the Pyg mies, on the whole, run about a head shorter than the average negro. I can not attempt to deal with the origin of the Pygmy race, or its rela tionship to the Audamese and llio Veudahs of Ceylon, who are said to have some characteristics in common with the Pygmies. But it seems clear that they were once -spread over a great part, if not the whole, of the continent; that they were broken up and partially exterminated b the advent f the stronger dark races; and that, .1 I A as a race, tnev are passing away, it is interesting to look at an analogous case in Europe. A race of small stat ure, light Irame aud comparatively low type, scarcely, if at all, advanced beyond the hunter stage, occupied the British island- and the northwestern part of the continent. They were partly massacred or enslaved, partly tnven into the mountains, by their Keltic conquerors; and in the lonely recesses of the hills and woods what with their weakness and their strength, their cunning and their skill in metals. their music and their underground dwellings, and their uncanny wisdom a growth of legend and poetry sprang up about them, till they w ere no longer known save as elves, gnomes, strolls or Good People," whom one dared not name. Merely a Machine. An indnstry ot great magnitude in Japan is silk culture. The silk worm is "educated to such a degree that it becomes a mere machine, and its life must be a burden to it. It lays its eggs in rows on cards; it spins its cocoon to order and finally dies when required. Silk worm eggs are white and about the size of the head of a large pin, and they are sold on cards like buttons! These egg cards may be kept all winter long without harm to them and hatched out in the warm months. The young worm is an ex ceedingly minute and delicate animal. and the mulberry leaves adopted for its food have to be chopped up as one as possible. As the worm grows older the leaves are not chopped finely until. when it is full grown, it is allowed to enjov a whole mulberry leaf intact. Ihis life of dissioation is too much for it, and with a little encouragement it seeks the solitude of its cocoon. The cocoons arc then thrown into hot water, which kills the larva and dis solves the mucilaginous matter that keeps the cocoon together. A silk worker aeiuv turns the eud, ana in a few moments the poor worm's home is about forty vards .of silk fiber on a reel. A few of the larvte are allowed to come to maturity for the sake of breeding purposes and the eggs. To get out they break a hole through the eocoons. Such cocoons are called pierced, and from ihem an inferior quality of silk is made. People Who Call in "Half an Hour.. The man who was hurrying into thl hatters Thursday was on business He wanted his old hat. "When did yor leave it heri-P" "I dunno," was the reply. They hunted over a treat pyramid of hats and found it, labeled July 2. When he went out the battel said: ''That man bought a new hal here, and when he went out said thai be would eall for it iu half an hour. It has now been four weeks. We throw awy 700 or 800 old hats every year.fot which the owners were going to cal "in half an hour." Ltwiston , (JUe. Journal. A Howell. Miss., bov. fourteen rear of age, has been HMiteiieod to prison lot ttorse steal in r. NO. 21. EFFtCIS OF SLANG. Oaty 8,000 tn 4,000 Words Bmplo4 la Ordinary Amrloaa 8pacu. A writer who has made the nse of words a thoughtful si tidy estimates tlmt the ordinary American employs from 3,000 to 4,1)00 English words in rdinary rpeecb. When it is consid ered, says the Philadelphia Builcitn, how numerous are the things in the house, store, in the street, in church. and all about us, all of which have names, which we make use of con tinually, and what perpetual motwn we see ana spea or iu the lorm oi verbs, and the prepositions and con junctions we have to use to make the tilings properly reiaieu, anu ma quan ties we have to describe with adjective and adverbs, and other parts of sjeech necessary to complete sentences, we behold how limited Is the generalao quaintanceship with the language ol which the root-word alone, as com piled by Webster, number 114.000 Irre spective of proper nouns or names of persons. And it Is one of the noticeable fea tures of a fancy, habit, "fad." or fa-h-ion of our civilization, existing as well in the fairly educated as among the illiterate and ignorant, that the popu- lar spoken vocabulary Is growing con tinually less on account of an increas ing tendency to generalize qualities and characteristics In pat or pet words which are among the "stylish men and women considered en regie, and among the no less ambitious but not so well edncated classes deemed evi dence of proper familiarty with the daily march of events and the customs of speech, the continual use and reitera tion of slangy words that are "all the go" and constitute the badge of proper rapid tendencies. With the smart young misses every thing that is beautiful, sweet.delicious, melodious, resplendent, soft, and win ning, whatever pleases to excess the eyes, ears, taste, tone:!, or smell, if "lovely." Whatever is ugly, distorted, jarring, unsymnictrical, uncouth, dis cordant, and generally unpleasant to the eye. taste, touch, or smell, is "hor rid." The man about town, the swell of the parlor, the clerk in the store. the alert man of business, the critical attendant on the art gallery, and the habitual theater-goer characterize equally the slow, the deliberate, the careful, the plainly dressed, the pious. the plain-spolcen. the steady-going, the painstaking individual as "fresh, while the quick-witted, the alert, the tricky, the volatile, the gaseous, the oratorical, the romancer, and the jo cose are alike spoken of in a sort of deprecatory sarcasm as "funny." So also a man who has audacity, as well as one who is self-assertive and strenous or his rights, is equally said to be possessed of "gall." And thus isolated words used frequently to express the widest range of qualities, habits, or characteristics have come into voirue as uec ssary essentials or credentials to admission iuto the vanguard of pro gressive Americanism, to the curtail ment of the talking vocabulary aud the narrowing of ideas. - The difference in the meaning of. words is thus lost or become obsolete, aud with the disappearance of the vord to express exactly the Quality or characteristic intended there follows an obtuseness of discerment, a con fusion of thought, and an obvious pau city and shrinking of ideas. Inde pendently there! on; of the bad taste of ;ing slang words and expressions. they are making our people poor in tellectually and less able colloquially to hold their own among the other iLn- glish-speaking people of the globe. Give the Hoy a Chance. We mean your boy, the little fellow you left at home this morn n g when vou started for the store or oince. Don't forget he has wants, a real and tangible to him as yours to you. Remember he is no more a born saint than you were. And if 3'OU just reflect a little you will lo ashamed to think how far from it you were. Don't forget him as soon as his "good-by apa fades away behind you. Didn t je ask you for something? a j.icknife or a hammer or a new slate or some pencils or something or other? If vou love your boy and wish to show him that you do you might better forget a business appointment down town than forget his request. If he asks you for something yonr better judgment says he should not have, don't be content with simply ignoring the boy's wish, but take the time and trouble to explain your reasons. Boys, even pretty little ones. are quicker than you may think to see a point. Always give a reason for re fusal of his request, even if it is the one you too often give, that you can't afford it. And be careful bow you give that reason. It be has lost or broken his Jacknire, and asks you for a new one, don't scold him. Albeit you may give him a little lesson in carefulness, but don't tell him you can't afford to give him ten cents for a new one and theu before you leave the house pull out jour cigar case and light a ten-cent cigar. The boy will be drawing invidious distinctions before you know it. Business Chronicle. Flax-Growing In the Northwest. It is stated, on the whole, with the utmost positiveness, that every form and branch of the flax industry can be carried on here with a high degree of success and profit. We can grow the plant, can save the seed, can preserve and prepare the fiber, and can bleach the product as well as it can be done elsewhere except, possibly, in a few favored localities devoted to the manu facture of tine linens. But it seems reasonable to believe, in the light of what has been ascertained, that all the coarser forms of 1 nen products can be made successfully at home from the domestic product. This is most' im portant to Minnesota aud the Dakota. y here the crop of flax, raised for the seed alone, is large and growing. It gives, too, a strong probability of suc cess to the proposed plan of introduc ing toe manufacture of binding twin in the btate prison, ihe probabilit 3 U that, withiu a few years, we sha bad eursnlves iu full possession of a new, exteasiye, mid licrative form ol industry. hi. I '.. . . u. . k r l 'rcss. i I I A 'j XT'