TWK OU UVMK.
I steal iat the o M. oil Wmr.
IT lib ailoaL smiu pic -.
For the dwrlliae of my HnMauixi days
1 now a aauated pafn
All ibewnioriMii &.vpo w,trs
Kiand furth before mf mi i.
With ekadoar flnter- bee luninf
To what is left behind.
1 list for souods wkere all Is still, "
For voices that are sfon :
But I only bear my howl tread
Alld tO broil's t III OKI to.
I see for forms ttia re no more
Amid the twilight ion:
B it 1 only i-emysl ilow drlc
Flung wide across -lie room.
And i wander sadly on.
..'.uou-cilid fancies '.iiru';'
I see mj mother's sj.-ei
Tb tt 8 viutihed aow so lou?.
I the for ns of those 1 loved.
Oi-i f ri . is ol bappie- yean ;
A id as- i g.z. my achioz heart
O'crflowa iu Hoodie- tears.
Ki. home, old home thou art not here I
Thy shudox only stays;
Tjou art no", in these silent rooms.
These loue. deserted ways.
But where the frien Is of other d ys
Have gathered, orient and fair
Where mtling forms of thote I loved
Are waiting Home is there.
Arf.ur L. Salmon-
WOMEN'S GARB.
Press
Opinions
To It.
in Regard
VTswsaa'aOne BmiuIiii CmIui.
Vhe new dress reform movement very
en ergetically insists on women show
ing the beauty o! their outlines from
under the arm and downward. , But
how about thoe hapless women whose
Forms Are lackisg any line of beauty? It
is all well enough to set up the Venus
de Miio for women to study, but such
Venuses are rare in real life, and study
ing the statue till eternity will not
round an angular form into one of
graceful outlines. Woman has never
worn but one costume mat is Decoming
to the whole sex, and that is the cos
tume that was worn by the Greek wom
en of old. Boston Gazette.
A New Feminine Garb.
The women's central committee of
dress reform that has been organized at
Chautauqua and that is to take com
mand of the hosts of the new crusade
ugainst corsets, skirts garters, high
heeled boots, fantastic bonnets and sev
eral other articles of feminine apparel,
is made up of notable members of the
fair sex, among whom are a poet, a
doctor, two lecturers, a business wom
an, a novelist, a preacher and a fashion
plate maker. It is to bs presumed that
the esteemed members of this brainy,
learned, progressive and aspir
ing committee will practica what tney
preach as dress reformers, discard the
garb which they denounce and appear
publicly in those garments which they
urge other women to wear. Some of
the most notable members of the com
mittee are residents of this city and the
reporters will be on the lookout for
their appearance in Broadway, Fifth
avenue and other street. New York
Sun.
Men's and Women's Clot Iii a;.
There goes a man with a palm le
fan, linen trousers and a duck poai. How
unevenly the pleasant,. -thlugs of this
life are distributed." Why should that
walk In a single thickness of linen
and go forth without swaddling binds,
and why should a woman be forced to
lace herself up in a corset, gird herself
with banns and swathe herself In drap
eries? What is to prevent her donning
:i pair of linen trousers and a straw hat
and taking things easy? Conformity,
my dear; that is all. That hydra-headed,
cast-Iron boweled, obdurate and un
flinching old gnome who presides over
a, woman's destiny from cradle to grave
has made cowards of us all. I wish we
women might devise a costume wherein
we should look like flowers rather than
like freaks. I wish we could leave off
being theorists and be 'me practical
exponents of dress reform. The old
Eve is too strong in us yet, even " after
the lapse of six thousand years, to lead
us to take a step to cause Adam pain,
and imagine the state of mind, our ow"
particular Adam would be in should , '
encounter us on btate street in a co
tume of linen trousers, palmetto I it
and the aroma of Iced beer. Chicago
Herald.
KOAD MAKING.
It It
KeMOwar to Build and Maintain
Good Roads.
It is difficult to wake tip the American
peonle to the value and importance of
good roads.
You cannot drive a dozen miles out of
Boston, north, south or west, except
through Brookllne and Newton, with
out finding the highways capable pf
marked improvement. One reason why
there are so many abandoned farms
within twenty-five or thirty miles at;
Boston or our other New England cities
is that the roads ore so ba 'iat people
will not use them or cannot make them
of service at all seasonerol the year, and
cannot therefore, afford to live without
communication with the outside world.
Our system of rood making outside of
tbe great cities and their suburbs is
worse than that which is now current
in almost any other port of the clvllls.
rfi world. In the .,- towns it is ' usually
hjft toa roodmaster, or the people are
allowed to work .out. their taxes in
nveadlng tha highways, with as little
knowledge of what ought to be done as
DootMacK am m tne making of a
newspaper. - Shoveling on dirt is tbe
American method of improving a coun
try road and all through New Hamp
shire ana otner states you win nod the
roads repaired In the spring and im
txoved in the summer by this process.
One might say that in nearly every
state this Is the process by which the
was are made.
Hot so are tha roads cons true ted in
England or France or Germaav. Sev
eatv vears oco or mora England had
Hsti roads as we have to-day, but since
Tsifora want oetora parliament ana ex
MbUaJtiM condition of British roads
M 1 sad since parliament paasad the
atgaway act, cngiaaaaaagrM
ac: improved the quality of Its r
f- tai aow they ore as good is an,
ea the eoatiaeaV Evei
' . I H bone of the delights o
vt-tetad a sjaai road. t
arivrjei im ti eharaotor of its
mr: It has 134,000 miles of
1 KrawsTt, aad spsati
,v tohwM them la
I. Jisfies la franee is also
vLt. JJL Clsffiaaiij a I
' control the policy of the governmental
ooirol of th-ae roads are that tha put
llicr.Nid. line the public posioffico a--"
i the court house, is public property ee
1 tabtisbed by law for the use of ai. the
! nMin!f auu'Miat the true resource ol
the country arc brought out by the con
struction and maintenance of good
mad but Tresaenet and Ins Knglish
' disciples. Telford and Macadam, have
' improved upon the Roman structures,
, and it-is now reported that the roads in
France and many in England are the
' best in the world. Cur.-.. was many
' centuries in wakinj n to tho value of
' good highways; the Lnited SLatca is as
' yet far behind the most backward Eu
j ropean countries, and yet wherever the
1 state or the citv or the town has uuder
! tak n to secure pood roads,
ithe-e has been an immediate
p blic response that amply compen
! sated f r the outlay. In New Hampshire
and in Pennsylvania the governors nave
publicly advocated tho improvement of
the common roads. Not loner aero the
! attention of the legislature pf New York
was called to this matter. In otner
states the public necessity has been
perceived. It may seem that the rail
roads have superseded the common
roads, but there is an indefinite amount
of short travel athich the railroads can
not touch, aud a great part of the local
prosperity, of the country depends upon
tb.e'fccility''w'lth which the city mar
kets can be reached by the farmers who
live from ten to twenty miles out of
town. It is to-day a problem of increas
ing importance to make quick business
connections, and there is nothing like
the facility of intercourse between the
town and the country to build up trade.
The civil engineer,Mr. Isaac H. Potter,
gives. In the Engineering Magazine,
many statistics to show the quick in
crease in the value of property that
could be reached by improved high
ways. He states that the improvement
in the roads of the country could be al
most paid for by the saviug of money to
the farmers and others in ' the expense
0( teams that are required, in excessive
numbers, to overcome the friction of
bad roads in transrortation.
It is not a question of pleasure, but
one of serious economic importance,
that our roads, especially the great
thoroughfares through the country,,
should be built and maintained in the
same style in which they exist in Eng
land or on the continent The unani
mity among the great nations of Eu
rope in maintaining the common. roads
at the highest possible grade of excel
lence . is a remarkable testimony to
their sense of their value, and tbe time
has come when their destin? of our
own population, and the economic im
portance or easy ana quicic communica
tion by roads from one part of the coun
try to another cannot be any longer
kept out of sight. If we had put one
tenth the money into good roads in
New England which we nave put into
railroads all over the country, we
should not now he troubled with the de
caying districts and the dwindling of
the small towns; at least the New Eng
land farmers would have had an en
couragement to stay at home which was
not presented to them at the time of
the great openings in the west. No
one begrudges the railroads, but before
we can develop any pait ot the U nit?
States as it may be developod, we must
increase and improve the common
roads by which the people are brought
into close and immediate relations.
The American farmer and legislators
are slow to be convinced that these im
proved common roads are capable of
making adequate returns for the ex
pense incurred by the state or towns In
constructing them, but the experience
everywhere in Europe is that
these splendid roads practically bind
the different parts of the country to
gether into a lively s;ial common
wealth. In the face of this large ex
perience, and of our growing population
it is not possible for us to give too much
attention to our great common thor
oughfares. Chicago Herald.
An Amer'cana Politer
Paul Lindau. tho German writer,con
tributes to a Berlin newspaper an arti
cle on impressions of the people of the
United States gleaned during the course
of his recent tour in this country. His
chief criticism o.f the Americans seems
to be that they are deficient in polite
ness, a criticism, oy tne way, which
will strike most' Americans as rather
cool coming fro .1 a German for the
Germans, notwithstanding their many
excellent characteristics, are generally
supposed to be. as a nation, somewhat
lacking In superficial polish 0f manner.
The observations on' .which he base
his conclusion seem to have been made
In business offices. His specific char
ges are that when a stranger bearing a
letter of recommendation enters an
American's business office the Ameri
can does not always get up from his
choir to receive his visitor; does not re
move nis nat,nor take nu cigar out of
his mouth- norxcuse4jimsorf If It be a
hotfcy andlie happens to be in -his
shirt sleeves. Worse than this, the
American Is verv llkelv to motion to
the visitor, with a short wave of the
hand ''not beggingly" to ' take a
seat.
It will occur to most Americans that
these specifications provo that the
American is busy, rather than he Is im
polite, snd that he takes it for granted
that his visitor will not care to be bored
with excuses for things that should be
accepted as a matter of course. Tbe
kind of formal politeness to which such
excuses belong nourish most, as a rule,
la soli to which the true politeness of
se.f-oaerlSce is a stranger.
Americans are ever ready to give up
their seats on the cars to ladles and
ever ready to go out of their way to di
rect a stranger in aa unfamiliar locali
ty. Politeness of this sort Is of some
utility to tbe recipient The Milwau
kee Wisconsin. .
Tbe attorney general of Pennsylvan
ia has served a formal notice upon those
Philadelphia papers that saw fit to pay
W per oent of the mooev they received
for city advertising to the city oOeials
who procured the advertisement for
them to restore that meoey to the etty
treasury oa or before the first of Sep
tember, or they will be proceeded
against aooordlag to law. The restora
tion of this 40 per oent rebate wUl leave
tha offending newspapers Just 20 far
ceat of their original charges far ad
vertising. They will have had the ban
sit of sobm very valuable axpiriiaas,
however, wfakih ought to be some oaa
solaUoa to them for. their loss at ms
y-
A. UwJiaw fcfltwl at Aafeim Vwawr
JT has ha Cd I1W for sstvutt !
myar'-j to Ua f warts.
I3THS' DEPARTMENT.
torn th k - rmi.uiu:.
IhsChll. .A ranrrnn'
tha Yeatafol wiaa.
:r33rw
Tfcs Kindergarten Boy.
Pawr-v was a queer bey. Or
h aan't a W at, -all. Mr.
perhaps
Wiggin
savs he wan one of the weirdct appari
tions ever seen in human form-tie
might have been a century old wh. n he
was born. A shrunken, somewhat de
formed body; a curious, melancholy
face: a head of dust colored hair that
might have shocked for a door niat-
.TW , - j . . Iw.i 1 hut
tin eye were rig inu p''"i
tiiere was a clean circle like a race
track aroupd his iiose. which member
reared its crest, untouched and grimy.
Now Puv had a friend: it was the
one nhiuing' object of his little life; and
Mi. Kate Douglas Wiggin, of r rinco,
was that Mend. And in the art insti
tute of Chicago the other day, says
the Tribune, she told his story.
Mrs. Wiggin formerly worked in the
Silver street free kindergartens of San
Francisco, and from that experience
uame "Tbe Story of PaUy." To talk of
Patey is to suggest the kindergarten,
for if it had not been for the latter
there would have been uo Patsy for
children and grown people, too-to
laugh and cry over. It seems that
Patsy's paet a past of humiliation, of
mean make-shifto: for ho was an off
spring of Our Lady of Poverty was
largely in the shadow until he appeared
at the Silver street klndergarteu and
inquired.
"Kin ver take me in?''
"Why, my boy, you're too big; aren't
you? We have only tiny people here,
you know; not 6 years. . You are more,
aren't you?-' This from the kind o'
pretty lady with towzled hair.
"Well, I'm 9 by the txwk, but I ain't
roore'n skerce 6 along 0' my losiu' them
three years."
"What do .you mean, child? How
could you lose three years?''
"Why, on the back stairs. My father
he trot fichtinir mad hen he was drunk
and pitched me down two flights of
'em, and my back waz inos' broke in
two so 1 couldn't git out o' bed till jest
sow.
His mother was dead, which was a
pity; his father was dead which was
not. The boy eked out a poor little life
at the Raffer'ty's. The woman Rafferty
took in washing, the man HalTerty
marched with workingmen's proces
sions and held ban..ers. Patsy told his
squalid tale to the end and said for a
titling finale: "Here's an on rouge 1
brung ver! It's skwuz somo, but there's
more in it."
So Patey became a klndergarted boy.
He had tits occasionally and his back
sometimes hurt, but he became in the
main happy happier than he had ever
dreamed of being and there sprang up
between the ylittle boy so cruelly dealt
with by fortune and the lady of towzled
hair a great friendship. Thcbm-'s uUvL
developed anufWuEl, lull of strange
" -Sclent thoughts, of queer fancies.
But' he strove in a feeble way to find
those three years again. It was hard to
think of this poor little invalid, so
young to struggle with languor and pain.
11 was a pretty picture airs, w lggins
gave of the conversation, as the days
went by, with this child of cbanee. It
showed, too, what a grand work Is the
free kindergarten among the poor.
There was one instancs where the boy,
open eyed, sat In front of a picture of
victor, a brave St. Bernard, whilo the
lady, with his cleanest hand in hers,
tola him the story of the dog. It was
an experience as she told it, and
never to be forgotten. And in Chicago
this lady said:
"As you sit at twilight in the 'sweet,
safe corner of the household fire,' the
sound of the raindrops on the window
pane, mingling with tbe laughing tre
ble of the childish voices In some dis
tant room, you see certain pictures in
the dying flame, pictures unspeakably
precious to every one who has lived,
loved, or suffered. I have my memory
pictures, too, and from the fairest frame
of all shines Patsy's radiant face as it
looked Into mine long ago when I told
him the story of Victor."
From that time on Patsy was the first
to come in the morning, and the last to
leave at night. He took the whole
institution under his guardianship, and
had a watchful eye for everything and
everybody belonging to it. He had a
stormy temper which, however, he was
fast learning to control; and perhaps he
was not always Kind tor he was reared
in a hard school. But he was greatly
cnangea tor tne miter, lie was
never joyous; born under a cloud, he
nna uvea in its snaaow, ana sorrow too
early - borne had left Its indelible im
press, haang was gradually eliminated
from his speech, but it was never eradi
cated altogether. The tune was too
short. It was Petoy who sorted the
wools and threaded needles, rubbed the
btaek boards and scrubbed the slates,
But contented always. He once went
so for as to openly caress the lady; his
nrst ana last, inaeea, lor ne was shy
ana reticent in emotion, and never
showed his affection before the other
ohildren.
. But one day a severe fit came; the
lady was summoned In baste. The bov
had grown years older with tbe night's
pain, hut ths eyes shown out with new
luster and brilliancy. There was a bit
of prayer, and then
"ier never saut amen. Taint no
good thout yer say amen!"
rne amen oame lerventiy.
Then "I guess heaven is kind o'
like our klnaairgartent don't you?
na so 1 am i goin- to reel strange
Tnervll be nice places for Dlonics-
with flowers Moomin' in 'em, and lota
9 ataaia' like we have and the neonlaa
at good to each other "nd wait on the
sags is Td run errants for God,
lipase, nd everybody'll wear-
Petty
' had found hut three lost years,
. a ' A sjitssley Br ttwry.
; TM best time to hunt the grialy u
OSMOubtedly ia tha months of Septem-
bsr and October before they enteiflond
Iwtlre into their remote dens, and In
SajuoBih Of AprIL when they appear
ran aiier long nwp uunng tne win'
m : . " . .. . ...
a ngm anowiau win 1
suitor greatly in tracking
JPf isairiiaei has pi
f bsar ls tastas smart as
A lign snowtau win assist the
ine beast
proved that
IS man
UawHOTjrw -as m nunters of the
. H u . .. . '
Si y anue smw nim-wlll lead thev
1 t-m fer.asa, and
11 at once
waa 44. ajet'i rTiiltr."??"'
jM-.WB V? a after aC
xv?f www turn in
other
direction entirely different from the one
ly Wck followed - i
mensebrar for nine long
fort, mile, northwest of DaSf.
and before the tired hunter artuaHj
knew how far Master Pet
astray he found himself near Nez Pcrc
Pais a few miles north of Crown Peak
the biirgest mountain ia the chain In
Shoo? of finding and surprising the
"mg?y skinned" f
ho had
uo
am-!ll he powder of a rifle before.
Thatlri'ky brute lay down at that point
to rest fv a while.
H must have weighed about .W
pounds and measured by the imprint
' , .u. t v, fuller, nnw about
made on tur irau - . h ,
even and a half feet. Knowing that
darknews would overcome tne j.u.m.
he walked into a small o.
Perces Creek, and instead of wading
through aud coming out on the other
side, kept on drifting down the creek
for a few minutes and landed on tne
same side of the creek where he enter
ed, to return to his family which he
had prolmblv left in the morning I hen
be retraced "his old trail, after walking
once in a half circle of alout ten ie't
in diameter on the ground, finishing the
other half of the circle iu the c-rerk to
make the hunter believe that he had
crossed tie water. But nevertheless
Captain Dick, being up to his trick
through the dearlv learned eiiei'ienc
ofnianv lone aud l"'d j'irn,,.vs' 'V'"
lowed "alongside the creek until he
struck the new track and hunted Mas
ter Pet down just in time, when the
bear was about to retire for the ni:ht
under a big rock
The gri'zily is almost blind at night. 1 selves a very lnrKe wardrobe an. one n.-eu-iuvh
j rlemalie rare in the melbral
1r,..rais.. t'aotalu Dick UllL'Ilt HHH
tracked him for many days.
The gri.zlv rarely tights, unless
forced to it bv the hunter facing him
and Uking a shot at him. This eve
ning, at the sound oftherillo, he started
up like an enraged Hirer, knowing that
he was trapped, and blindly made ready
for vicious attiu'k in the direction of tho
tree, from behind which the lire came.
When the. bear was within fifty yards
the ( autain fired aaiii. Though it
was almost dark the bullets struck the
shaggy monster right in the fore head.
Alas! instead of dropping dead he
started on a run, infuriated by the fiat
tenniiitf o( a piece of lead on his tender
skull. Within twenty yards one more
rang out from the never failing Win
chester rifle and the bear gave a bound
in the, air and tumbled over with w
enraged howl in his last breath. He
rolled over once more, stretching out
his mlehtv paws as if to reach for his
enemv and crush him. In a minute all
was over he was shot through the
heart.
timer Hie same rock where poor
Master Pet intended to prepare his
night meal the hungry hunter, lit a big
fire, and by the unsteady flickering
light bean to skin the beast with his
bowie knife. Being an expert the task
is completed within thirty-five minutes,
.and a slice of juicy meat of the ham cut
out, stick run into it and hung over the
now bright fire on a cross stick lying on
fjtwo forklike branches stuck into tho
rground. Detroit Free Press.
A SenatbU (lander.
It would hardly be supposed that a
gander would be wiser than multitudes
of men, but such is the case, as the fol
lowing incident proves:
Many vears ago a saloon stood in tho
out skirts of Mount Vernon, 111., on tho
spring Garden road leading southeast.
A mile or so away on the road lived a
sot who visited this saloon almost
daily, drinking when ho could pay for
tbe liquor himself or when any one else.
treated him" to it.
In fact this fellow spent most of his
time at this "grocery," as a drinking
place was called in those days.
This toner's wife had at home a
small flock of geese and among them
was a gander which, for some strange
reason, followed hi-; muster evcrv tune
he went to the saloon, plodding along a
yard or two behind his miserable mas
ter's heels.
At the saloon the faithful eander
would wait ontside, hungry and patient,
for the appearance of the unworthy man
he loved so well. Once, while waiting,
near by, he was worried and cruelly
bitten by a dog.
Another time, in the night, when
following his drunken master home, a
fox sprang from the bushes and pulled
some feathers out ot his wing. But
none of these things kept him from
going . daily with his mastm- to the
saloon.
If the man eot too drunk to travel
going home, and lay down In the corner
of the fence, as he often did, to sleep,
the gander sat close by till his master
could go on. Thus matters went for a
long time, till one day at Christmas
time a crowd of drinking fellows at this
grocery caught the helpless creature
and pourd down his throat a half pint
of rum. In a little while he flapped his
wings, squalled, and went rushing about
uere ana mere, ana tumbled over drunk,
There he lay a long time as If deid, and
did not get home till the next day. ,
From this the gander learned a lesson
anu was never seen at the saloon again.
C. E, Cllnu
Tha Birds' Banquet.
When deep snow covers the earth
and crust of ice seam highways and by
ways, so that the little birds in the air
know no where to turn for a grain of
corn anywhere in field and meadow
man s compassion saves them from star
vation. In every household through
out Norway, be ft rich or poor, a largo
tied to the top of the "starbur" fgranar 1
ZtZ eTery No:'flfi" farnTnitheV
th T flockiDir. celebrating
ble bunch of golden grain.
A Clever Pony.
Up o n - ..
iitttnRh-.u-i 1 T"18 rei"rkaWe
to m'J:1 V?l th-tsffordsdelight
ITT," than the one
and it la L aI i.1, Ita Mmo Ily
Ukesuchadog it wUl .hake hanl.
frneThf! ' lndu0ed tO give IU two
hhTd once Md ,Und P on lu
honeshWe any human bipea who
alr Ihe Children. - - -
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KUN,ftOUS UNIFORMS.
br U Prim
,f Wales.
. , ,i f uniforms navnt. mm-
lmM.!"-
of cur-. .!. pertalni.1,'; Iu u
orders of knighthood the 1'nnor f W
t - . (.-... a. r,. i'ruui
1 bold csnnol be lis niao ..".." . -. -'a
L.n-lon writer. Thi nmv m a si art
ifing fsrt to some of my revfrrs. b..t I may
remin l them that of mililary. militia. .nJ
, .!(m, hi KOVal Oliui
toiuii ::'," " - Illirt'v ,,. M. -4!
niu - - . .- .i.1,.i.i.
neoide ere aware tni ne i 1 -hii
f of each f the tun f'";-"""'
ii'h-v I...M ( srulrv.of the Tenth Hussars.
al)J of l be Itirte Il'iicnde. but it l so
renerallv known that he also honorary
Colonel of eleven Ka-t Indian reem.en.s
Including the Sixth Bengal
Guides tn. and the aecond (.boorkhas.
OfcMnmiJionsin militia and volunteer
regiment he holds seventeen in a'l, ami.
a, every one knows, he i bnnrarv o lonel
of the Pomeranian lltcsars (lil.irhert
D,i a well as a Field Marshal In
ihc German army. Among the I rimes
more miscellaneous iiniform may De
rtyk(-ned those attaching to hi oniee
. Ixrd of the Hes (if. indeed.
lhi ofiice entuils even this mrtonal ic-ton
ibllitv). Hii!h Htewart of I'h.moutu I)oc
tor of' Mosie. flrand Mason of the Iree
masons, Elder Hrolhrr of Trinity Howe
ComuKMloreof live yacht rhibs President
of tbe Societv of Arts, Governor of ( hnr
terhoue, and Hencher of the Middle Jem
pie. Thus it will be seen how easily a
three fieure l"tl "y reached; and
Kranliu that in a liberal r entaL'C of
cases no uniform has ever to I worn there
must 1 still a sufficient number f vnr
: .1 i..ft ti, .nsiitnif- in lhem-
Itsi uii,niuirs . - --- -
.A in arrHiiveinents. I have doum. 110
" - , , . .... . , .
ever, whether the sugpestion of a kind of
Mme. 1 uvsauil ilevoioi rnumy iu im
bibition of the Prince or sles in ins
various unilornn wouiu oe a
show, fven if admirably carried out. It
la well to remember tbe moral ot tue say
ing, -Toiijours pcrdrir." whirl., Wiifj
translated freely, means it U e)ssihle to
have too iimih even of a good tiling.
A Telephone for Writers.
One of the luort Iwautiful of modern In
ventionsit retmilns to I wen wneiiier 11
U as useful as it i' beautiful Ihr iiislru
mcnt devised by Mr. John ItoU-rison f-r
the transmission of writing by electricity,
was exhibited nl the American Exhibition
In Ixmdoti.. tint of the top of a box.
which Is alout the size of an ordinary dis
patch lxx, protrurlii what has the ps-r-auce
of a alylographlr n. This, how.
ever, is not a pen, hut the handle of the
"transiuitler," and its lower end is- fixed to
a light brass perpendicular bat. Any mo
tion given by the hand you hold it just
like a pen to the handle of the transmit
ter is commiiiiVatcd by this bur to two
series of rartsjn diski contBiiied within t lie
Isjx, and, ufler various adveiitiin-s union?
magnets, ele., in carried nffiiin to Ihe lop of
the box, where it ii reproduced exactly by
a small inn -Holding p-.n, po.ni ri-stj
on a white pajMT tape. A clock wotk ap
paratus pulls this -tape along at a gentle
pace, and fu-r a little practice you find
that it is quite easy to move I lie handle 0
the lr:inuiiiler so that the en shall . write
legibly on the moving tuc. .Now, w hat
ever is written on Ihe .ta ln-fore y,m i
written siiniiilsneoiisly mile oft", ' or it
may be fifU mile off, on a similar lnje by
a similar insinimeni at the otlierenil or the
wire. The instrument Is verv comoaet uud
apparently efllcieat, and as U is quite ilnt
tiiere seems no reason uv a reporter nt-
ting lu tlie House or t ommons could not
straightway write oh his report of a debate
to be instantaneous v read off in Priming
House Square or XorthiimlK-rland street.
A name will be wanted for this machine.
Perhaps the "wire writer" will do.
Ills Wife Xfas Manetnz Krtltor.
Down from a secluded mountain village
comes this story of one of the ornaments of
the Athenian pulpit. The Hev. Mr.
is enjoying his vacntion with his family in
one of the most quiet and charming vil
lage in New Hampshire. The oilier Ia
hcjwas out on an all day fishing excursion
with his young sous and a visiting Inymau
from town. During his nliscnrc his" wife
received a large parcel of new pafs-rs and
magazine from town, and, according to
her habit, began marking as she skimmed
ihe articles she thought would e most
helpful to her husband. He returned at
night successful. lie and his friend bad
caught plenty of lish and were in as high
spirit as the hoy who went with them
After supper they nd down to look over
the mail, and Ihe visiting brother saw the
plentiful pioneer pencil marks of the tniu
Ister's wife.
"How' thi?" he asked, jokinglt
"Aren't you allowed to read auvihing ex
cept the tliingc Mrs. M piek', out for
you?"
"No," answered Mr. Jf , Sot a
thing. My wife U ilic managing editor of
my pulpit, and she 1, getting ready for the
fall campaign."
"And while you go fishinR " ' '
"She stav iu and looks awir-r my Inter-
?,,s-,!!'' h''T tr "-il eye on the
said Mr. M . ouicklv
A Orllijr Western Olrl.
A Towka wonmn lit 11 11 I
has taken s claim In western Kansaa at
hold. it. H,e "rmitler" of thai section has
endeavored to annoy her and force hr to
abandon it, hut she i, , American -r
and thus talk, to thm ft a nolice .iVk
upon her house and In ll, local tuner-
"Further depredaticiu In the way of
poking and peering in al ruy window, .fter
liifiht, or rarrv nir off ,J .. . ",lCT
otherivise snooklmV .m.3 'ZJ" ' "1 r
or mine, will result f. . 1 , , " r' K."
is s..niHhing ,WU the house' lo.de.i aud
with further provocation will go off and
you will most lik.i 1...... ...1 K na
iii .I0'.' do'I t Uke
-- , ii, , au rxiu r get your neiifli
bor to read 1 hi. iiM ... .."''Rn
igh-
hican
1o Cenfaslea sf Terbe.
( listomer Will i.i. ..v . . .
idotthinku;,,r
Customer If. It
wild wash 1 would take
fifwenvjrd, ClerkZoh,Th.m.3a
be washed f 11..1 1. -k.! " . tnw
Quite plain; quite forcible, and gran 1.7
Ically, aljsohucly correct Zl? T
f verbs there, CaVh! "'"'ob
A Hallf' eeo''"' wf a White Lie.
sble excuse to giveA tt2 f, Mw
ta ths "drowv',"'
bll ml a rsrasas aca ,
a Hay last r. talker Y. W 1
the nrm of Breaks A Pike, eUihoeJV
rltsnt and mounters, rame aero.
r.ei r.u in -rri inu purcnasrd aa"
",en..nwbo barf jut Jlfe
rum i mouniMiiu 1 Its fna ..
IfOlU IIH- III..U.IIA.IM SUV iioaw sa,
came out of a lerlge oa top of ths 1T,V
tain, ncr-.r Portland, shout flirre tfcwUf i
feet alove tbe Icvrl of the tea Tkt-TtT
ne icvri 01 ine tea TwirI
it was olHaine.1 nun
; the lime Nr. Kr.wk, J;
5 tail of the fish could tc !'
from wlilcu
lavers, At
. ,.u II Hie 1:111 01 I lie Bah mi, ,l l '
and that was all. He art to tNT
moving Ihe rock that covered u, V'
mainder of Ihe fish. He workej JL
fully aud jlowly for scvrral bourn
for ix wee ks, and was rewarded
taining a fine clmen of s petrified
is probably thousand of years old. ?!
fih is alxi'ut seventeen and one half w
lone and six inches through the wjjj -
thU kest part. Tbe outline of ih q'i'i
perfect, and the mnall rib hones rt,i
tincl as though they had Just bees pV
there. The upper and lower fini irTi
plainly seen, and tbe brad has retail ,
hse' The vctebral column is alwdaX
defined. Tbe stone proper is of t y
graybh tint, forming sn excellent rtiiXt
Imck ground for ihe dark ci At of kV.
ti.-.li. it is not unlike a codfish, a
r
Blinded v Saallgnt. - J
Iii thf wn ol Nillrnova, X. Y.aJf''
is a case that is puzzling the ocak t
( hiirlet Oilaon and his family lire,.
log house on a twrnly ecu- frm p
not find existence a bed of ruses,
daiiKhter. the eldest child, 11 yi-an f
birth was found to have some jwu, .
aliout her eyes, but nothing w u uJ
of it until she reached the ajtewpT
children notice objects, snd th n Ok 4 J
covery wn made I hut the wa UHnd, W
later on it was demonstrated that bt m
flclal licht she could see, bul suullrVi
veloped her in daikncM so far a her asA
evea were eoncerncl. This w romkr;
to the present day. 8he p'ayeil aiu.
Ik
weI ty tne lamp 01 ugm ami
she grew older. Bbe Is very ittnrti
nersona v. and as If lo coniuenisb se
her iecufiarity of sight, ber faeultie s
1.- ,r v-.. 1 . "K
most persons of her rank. Ili-r sfvitjA
the wonder of those who have lta'f
l.r ineniory retains Ihe hulk of what t f
red. It is a very singular cam 4
oculists, w ho have made an xwcan
of lier ryes, contess ineins ivu ,,
unable to tlelerminc the Catw of the Ji
Mindiir
1
C ollege Courtship.
There is a New England Vtni m
niissionnrii-s used to resort to Mount Btl
yoke N-miiiary to pick out nivtsottV,
eve of a voyage to the land of the hwh k
The Irgrnd may lie untrue, but
hardly a si miiiary town in the cooti-f ,1
where theolops of any . di-rtomiattiaf
abound In which lieing mlniMtn'rirw
Imi not bccnuie a recognized pro'ftii
among the feminine population. (Ak
students arc not so much given to w.-f
mony, brrauv there i no other profess
In which a wife Is such s nceesry irt.
of one's stfM-k in trade, bul separatimw
sexes is not going to hinder loe -mU
The chances are that In tlie ronlucatMbf
school the student masculine will still jaj
his leisure hours with the society girb 4
the college town, while the student te -nine
w ill al lend strictly to her nDhbCJi X.
ness. which is that of beating liimU4 'if j
c-lKs-rfs)ni she having, as a llarw a
oaVsnian put U, Dolhinvelse to fcikeuplr-.rtf,
mind if sho can. If it turns ojl a&
(fatly, it would be hard to bring lorsii
"oni tact or tnory any reason worw
lege nisrr ape should not bequl'citr
ami quite as happy as most oilier Iciadi.
Ahnwed Them llnw It Wn Haas
A jolly party was silting around 1 Ml
at a restaurant at Frankfort on the-Vsa. tt
(fermany, talking about the numeral
thef U of fall ovcrcoaU whit b had laa
tiecn reported from every part of th
They all agreed that such a thing osC.
not Kssibly happen to any one of ttal )
as they had their eye open. "Xenrwfc
less,' lnlerose.l a pnlleman. sitting tttiB
next table, "I winiid, if need lie, ott
lake to prove that any one of your aM
could easily be alistracted from underraalC,
very noM-s." They were astuni-h d. (-Hett
he explained that ft was only iit-ciiiptettU
engage a man in an interesting ronmlStlt.
lion, and while he continued underuViaxf 1
nuenre lo atise, take hi overcoat, pel
on, light a cigar and leave ihe rm a J
gracioti bow. The entire compsnt Hi
np a continuous roar of laughter star
amiislrg talc and the stilt more entrttil
ing practical illustration with whM?
relator accompanied hi wordsnd ni l
11
t'r,
mv
Lk S
out of the door. He did not corao hu e?
neither did the overcoat with a p-'"
l ook with f 100 In It. jjf
Mis Tod Her Tabbv at II Ian.
The inability of a woman lo throw siittllaW
thing so that It will hit tho object tlar i,
she aim was rather qnesily rfcmfttutnir.
in a London street the other eveeisr. J,ijZi
young person of 18, who m wlk"5T
along with a cat in her arms, was mdMr7,L
ly seized with a desire lo throw iwnictbta
at a young man of her scZusfntttnce, aJ
for lack of a better projectile, cnuj
nUSSV bp the l.iil and lliri'n- her St ll!tV.
Of coup the young man was unhni,
the cat went thVough s hon window,.
. F. T. P. O. C. T. A. took tip ibes.
Ier, nlmiit sii nollimcn were r.-quiresj
arrest the girl, and abe found herself W
a line and costs of 18 shilling to pit X
less she preferred fourteen day' imprit
r-c-t. v- i!me she will know l.cr lis
X i s i.u.. t.id lay the cat in the year!
man' arm, pull it ull, see him duly pa J
isbed. and save her money.
An Okie Her
A rase of undoubted falsehood, kty
rapid working of one's wiu, was brooni
to light in the Columbus, Ohio, city
finiiary director's office recently. A"
man had applied for a pass to Bucirf
whither be wished to go to see hi) a ';
and he laid great stress on hi old H"
jn evens tnr . . k ( . . inm Ik. 11 . ,s .
"Ilr, nM .! ..Ll llr
Ilow a 'i
"One hundred aad five."
"And Is your mother living t '
"Yes, sir. she Is."
"How old la ah.r
'Vi
"One hundred aad dfty this rnonu- It
And the old man wm betrayed t! rri
w look that ha was bnaklag th r,.
for the greatest liar oa earth "J
"w Ike OI4 aesrttaw. W.rkei t
Arnaudeau pUuhesla the i(evuS-s
iu an essay upon lb question so"r
ancient Erypllan ataaaged lo trsssj
sod II :t tbe Umeass rocls found os 1
(if temples sad bow they raised their
llak. Ha ikl.k. k.. .H.nirt
rlss af the Nile. Cl?-1
wock with as much wow.
WSS nrrriai I to saJaa at e liltl R
" ground they puthed H forward to
her waaud It to Ha sad held It in PJ
-mie soey rmerved the wood, wtt Z i
iwi ,ttc PK H was to twVh A
pbslMi was lifted horteoaully sndsjj'
e Waers thav waatMi K. esssrt 1L 1
ms e,
lar a
tMtfC
y it
-v wooa sway noa tae -M s
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