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A Story of Patriarchal Times.
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N'u«. as Uur h.*»! af Jc-phtbab !
».or>»4 down the struts of Miner.
• k’.Ur all along the people «. beared and J
aboaied u they |««ad. brkiid at Jepb- I
*b*h * side la front of them tb»rr rude ;
tL i-.»a« aaa Adiaa abd toot brhiud
M •*» Ala »(iat A ad bjr this token
•1* 'hr tariff that hr had a on
*Aar» fur fctwarif la battle an 1 that
Jrt»h*hah strove tha* to show the favur j
**•*•1 ha had toward him. aad with
***** 90km ul their shoutings * i.jug
ir J* j..11 ih the (iikid. ■ *” w«ra
ctias of “bua| lit# Adlan*"*
An. a* then » utxit «am* « »• n to
;Le cars <f Xamarah. behold the flash
ej«*h her cheeks gr « deeper and her
*yr» ret aw# (kirwn Aad r»rr the
swd4;iery pressed aooard followed by
#n..«nts of triumph fro* tb< crowd.
Aad Jeytltah tfc- mighty «aptain.
r**de a Bight-Mark • turg* r while that
«d 4i .aa was a bite a» Bill Both
*a#a were rtad la gleaming arts or. on
»h-• h the rays of rh*- setting sun made
blaar* of ffi«td |r# gilding the silffer
•if th aid. aaa • beard, aad burnish
ing the got4 of Adiaas thick carl*
which aw4 a part of his shining
heiawit, Aad ever as they rode, the
rtr» of Loth were turned toaard the
hum* of Jephthah for Jephthah bad
vowed a vow onto the Lord, and had
•aid “If Thom ahait without fail de
liver the children of Ammon into my
9h*|4 then It AMS he that whatsoever
• umrth forth of the doors uf my bouse
to awe; tnr whea I return in p*<e
from the children of Ammon, shall
wstwljr be the Lord’*. and 1 will offer it
A for a burnt offering * And he
looked to see what It should be.
Iht the youag aaaa Adica who knew
aof of Jephthah'* vow, aad had said
oatight of the tidings seat to Nama
rah by the carrier bird that bring a
secret between the matdra and t.nisclf
- knew that Xaaurah wowld be p#
tmred for their coating aad rightly
t bought that she would come to mee:
them.
AM now a* tney irpe to t om*- nigh
to the hoiut. bt^uli. the |mt door*
w» thrown open. and forth there
»t*f the asaidea Va marsh «lad all in
.-whit* and sold, and after her her maid
ens with timbrels and dances But
Xamarah came first with her bead
wet and all her face made glorious
■tth M The childish timidity she
was momt to »tu« had varnished not
and she ?a*ed the hand of soldiery a
royal princess ia her bearing She
felt herself a queen Indeed, for happy
love had crowned her.
And as she came, behold the two
men who were at the head of the great
haat drew rein and suddenly checked
their home* and all the soldiery halt
ed All eyes were on the beauteous
fare of the madealt# maiden hers only
seeing the faces of the two men who
led the boat.
Ifer gaae nought first the fa-.e of
Adtaa. with a tram herons fealty which
she row Id not control. and as their
looks met thus fee hold >br joyousaess
of his heart gleaned forth lc*o his
eyes • hK’h met her* »it*, a . >.k that
thrilled her son! with rapture. For
n moment aim was blinded with *e
a&asy. and ana naught before her but
light, swpresne bewildering; and then,
with the reduction of that light upon
her tar*, she turned he; raptured gaxe
upon her father, and suddenly the
r' S'- Hght U- a«Se a gTfS*. d»rk!.e,a
whkh likewise cast Its refi---ttot» upon
her; for the face of Jephthah her fath
er ess as the face at a msa ia mortal
throws and behold the hand that held
the bridle shook and fe.t and his body
averted m the aaddir. so that he would
have fallen hat that the young man
A dins seeing the maiden s sudden
* k .age .of countenance had looked to
ward its sow*, and w.as Just in time
ts put was his hand and stay Jrphthah
ia bis place.
rhea Adina dismounted and ran to
Jepnthak’S side and while the maiden j
Ksmarnh herself laid ho.4 on the
bridle of hi* horse, the young n-n as
sisted him to the ground, and with
Ns marsh's help led him lato the house
The eyes which had but. lately looked
noch pdr »h *m-k other, eat hanged
now kwhs of pain aad horror. for it
«a» quickly passed from mouth to
minr-ir that the great • sptaia had tew
sesaed with mortal illness, and that the
joy of his Victorians rwtnm sad meet
mg with hia danghter was like to tost
Ai* hi* mo
fVnt abr* be beard the*
aord*. deabid ai»t *»•*
• I* ** mi a* y* «r. O mra of larad; ,
aerertbrlms thr hand of tb» l>»rd is .
b*a«y upua wm th.» da? < mut to g*
Mt from m* all na«* thr mal4*e X»
moral std tbr you** man Adma."
Asd a bra they had ao 4oa* behold
Jn pbfbrh taaf ku riuCfcaa. aad aatd
* Aia»* a| daagbf-r thou boat
brought nr vary lour; mod thou art
oar «f tbrm «bat trotsWr me for I
lat* manr< my muatb aato thr Lord.
A ad SCaamrah mid aato bias
'"'Mf father If thou ha*t «pra**1 thy
mouth aato (k Laird, do to m* soporf
tag to Hat vbkb bath prwrerded out
td tb y mooth; fra—rb a* tb* Lord
batb talwa i i muni—- fur tina of thia*
lairilir «« tb* children of Ate toon **
Ao r*" d* aad bar rote* a a* Arm
a ad dear. but br« far* r**t deadly
ymrt, rtr* a* tb* tar* of thr young
asaa Ad1** pot oa a ghastly pallor,
aad a* b* blood briar* her ta bia shin
ing traor a great trembling srtaed
bias, ao that hi* armor shook. aad
aad mm bi* grnf behold brr heart bled
for him., aad for all tb* elsloms of brr
happy los* aad *b* taraed to bia
f^j~pi"tBets bi# iMW'ii.
Am* 44f*« i inspirit b*r to him. careful
mtK la hurt brr trader body agatast hi*
auul-ctad beuasf. gad it —erne I aato j
tbrm both that tb* barrtrr that bad
•arb aaa nra a* tin barrier betvern
their bodies hard and cruel and im
p*»*sb;e Hut there wan no barrier be
tween their lips, and as they softly
t* at h«*d and trembled on each other,
they ku.-« R<»t whether that moment's
i*f»ta*> was of pain or joy.
And Jephthah sat and Razed on them,
ami an he locked he was no longer the
mighty man of valor, but a ereature
.•me >:ri«*ken. *<» that his hands shook
for very weakness, and feeble and im
p. tent t» tr* fell down upon his beard
and trailed to his armor, while his
fare was chanced and piteous to be
hold. and he loo.t d. all at onee, an
aged man
Turning her eyes toward him. and
«*-* in* him in such unhappy rase. Na
marab flipped from her lover's arms,
and went and knelt lieside her father.
r;r line his net k with her tender arms,
and railing him all manner of caress
i:u: naiiof while she kissed hint with
deep kmagness on his forehead, his
«b«« ks an 1 his lips. Then did she
!«,<-. u his heavy armor, and remove
ea« h pin e in turn, beseeching him to
take comfort, and avowing toward him
an affeetio® more fervent and dutiful
than ever she had shown him in the
pa^* Hut Adins spake no word either
with or against her. but stood where
► he had left him. with his right hand '
bolding the elbow- of his left arm. |
whuh was raised toward his face, his
«hunt sunk in his palm. He was still
in complete armor, only he had re
moved hi* helmet, so that his sunny
curls w>re uncovered. Right goodly to
look upon he was. in the majesty of
hi» stalwart youth, but his ruddy skin
n> a?hen white, and in the great blue
eyes, which had so lately glowed with
*«> luminous a love-light, there was
u * the shadow of great despair. And
ever bi» eyes were fixed upon the
maiden, following ea< h movement that
*he in ole. and the hunger of his sou!
was in them.
CHAPTER VI'
Wt. n Jephtfcah. at h»* bidding stood
up. that Namarah mi '..t lift from him
the «>igbt of his heavy armor, he
turned and looked upon Adina. and a
gr*-at cry tm k- from him. and he sank
i« kaard into hi* seat and covered
bla fa*’** w.th his hands. But Namarab
bent above him and drew away his
bands kneeling on her knees before
him. and holding them in both her
own
' Nay grieve thee not. my father,”
she said, tenderly. “Let it be done
*o me according as thou has vowed.”
1 hv life is mine, and vowed to me!”
burst forth Adina. hotly, taking a step
toward her. as if he would wrest her
from her father. But the compelling
eves of the maiden Nam.uah arrested
him. and he turned, and began to pa< e
the apartment with the angry strides
of a *aged beast.
" Ah woe, my daughter.” Jephthah
-pake “that thy father, who hath sa
loved thee, should bring thee now such
bur: Ti had pleased me well that thou
*boul >.* wrei Adina. It was but the
morning of this day on which I
dreamed th* *e dreams, and to what are
they come? Alas, mv daughter, why
earnest thou forth to meet me. so con
trary to tby wont and usage? Thou
wart ever affrighted before the soldiery
and held backward when they came
about the door ”
"I *** even bold and fearless my
father, against ray usual wont, because
happy < j*c Namarab slipped from her
that love had made me so. and in the
presence of my lord. Adina, 1 had but
one f»ar only. !e>* I might fall of my
honor to him- who knew not my ways
ou knewe.«t them—and appear —«
cn tag and rngra* ious in his eyes.
At these words Adina'* motions
vrew more gentl.- and he checked him
to fc - walk, and came and stood near
by. bis chin sunk in his palm, as be
f< and Li- eves, with a most mighty
nt up iu N;t
mat ah
* But bow It newest thou, my daugh
ter that the victory was won and thy
father* ho-t returning, seeing I sent
no m***eitger before me. but made
L»*> mjrwHf to bring thee tidings?”
Then Namarab turned her fair face
upward, and said:
■'UBi *i*aK. It l»e known
•into Jephthah, my father, that the
thing that la upon us was partly
of cmr ova doing—thine and mine.”
Then Adina. wftened. mayhap, bv
the sight of the old man’s suffering,
and more yet by the nobleness and
•ti’>mi- ion of Namarah’s spirit, an
swered and said:
■'These words be true. O Jephthah.
f *r it waa even I that sent unto the
fiij leu tiding.-, by whirii she gained
the knowledge of our approach.”
"But how sendest thou these tid
&ai<t Jephthah. ”>»**eing that I
ga%e thee no leave to take a mes
senger r*
"Therein the fault was mine.” Na
marafa said ”if fault there be—for.
were it u«it tb«* trill of God. naught
that waa done or ia to be were pos
nt> <—seeing that I jjave unto Adina
one of my carrier birds, to send me
word of thy triumph and return, anti
the bird, in truth, brought me the tid
ing- thia morning. Seest thou not
then therefore, oh. my father, that this
thing that ia befallen us was to be?”
Then Jephthah bowed his bead upon
bis hands and uttered a mighty groan.
"How sayat thou, my daughter, that
we shall be delivered? K no west thou
not that according to my vow thou
must be offered a burnt sacrifice?”
Aa he spake these awful words, the
maiden's face grew whiter still, though
the courage of her eyes faltered not,
and through all the body of the young
man Adina there ran a great shiver
that again made to shake his armor
that it rattled and sounded, seeing
which. Namarah rose and ran to him,
fearing lest he might even fall to the
ground, no greatly he tottered and
trembled. Taking him by the hand,
she led him to a place beside her fath
er and gently pressed him to a seat,
while she herself sank back upon her
knees before them, holding a hand of
each, and as she lifted up her head and
looked at them, it seemed unto the
father and the lover both that her face
was as the face of an angel,
“Hearken to me. O thou to whom my
soul best loveth,” said Namarah, “for
there Is a voice within me that seem
eth to me to speak, and that most
dread and sacred voice saith to me
what it shall comfort thee to hear. ’I
will deliver thee,* the voice crieth con
tinually. and shall we not believe this
Heavenly voice? Let us. therefore, be
comforted, and take courage and pray
continually for deliverance from the
terror wherewith we are afflrighted.
For what is it that thy soul feareth O
Adina, and O Jephthah my father? Is
it not even the thought of parting?”
As Namarah spake these words, the
spirits of the men who listened to her
grew suddenly more calm, and the
faith and courage with which her own
heart was animated seemed to be in
some sense imparted to them, so that
Jephthah turned unto Adina, and spake
unto him in these words:
“Let not thy soul within thee hate
me, O Adina. for my heart is sad even
unto death. Forgive me the harm that
1 have done unto thee through ignor
ance. and let it be with us both even
according unto the words that this
maiden hath spoken, and let us take
comfort and have hope. Let us together
pray continually for the deliverance
that she feeleth to be in store for us.”
And Adina answered, and said:
“It shall be as thou sayest, O Jeph
thah. and the God of power hear our
prayers.”
Then Jephthah caused him that he
knelt in front of him, at the side of
the maiden Namarah, and as they
rested so. Jephthah lifted up his hands,
and blessed them. And as their heads
were bowed together, the short golden
curls of the man beside the long dark
tresses of the maiden, Jephthah rose,
and softly left them; and when they
lifted up their heads, behold they were
alone.
(To be continued.)
JOSEPHINE LIVED FOR DRESS.
Ilrr I.ore of Adornment and Extrava
gance In Gratifying It.
The love of the Empress Josephine
for dress, and her extravagance in
gratifying it, are matters of history.
Her annual allowance of 600,000 francs
a as not sufficient to pay for the grat
ification of her vanity, and year after
year her debts increased in the most
alarming fashion. Dress with her was
the absorbing object and interest in
life, and she was unwearied in her ef
forts to preserve and enhance her
beauty. Three times a day she changed
her linen, and sht never wore stock
ings that were not absolutely new.
Huge baskets were brought to her
every morning containing a selection
of gowns, shawls and hats, and from
these she chose wh2t she wonJ1 w»ar
during the day. She possessed be
tween 300 and 400 shawls, one o!
which she wore In the morning, draped
about her beautiful shoulders with
wonderful grace. Her evening toilet
was as careful as that of the morning;
then her hair was adorned with flow
ers. pearls or precious stones. The
smallest assembly was always the oe
asion for buying a new costume, and
that in spite of having almost incredi
ble stores of dresses at the various
palaces. For shawls the empress had
such a penchant that she bought all
that were brought to her, utterly re
gardless of the cost. The emperor, ex
asperated at his wife’s extravagance,
often became angry and rated her
soundly, with the result that she wept
and promised amendment, and then
went on just as before. Her love of
dress never wore itself out, and she
died decked out in ribbons and a robe
ol pale rose-colored satin.
Mi<tnntler«tnod Patriotlam.
Prof. Alfred B. Adams of New York
was a soldier in the civil war, and took
part in the Red river campaign un
der Maj. Gen. Banks. “At one place,”
he said recently to one of his classes,
"we surprised a southern garrison and
took many southern prisoners. They
were guarding a mountain of cotton
bales which were intended for ship
ment to Europe on account of the
southern government. Gen. Banks
promptly confiscated the cotton and
transferred it to his flotilla. Each bale
was stencilled ‘C. S. A.,' and over this
the northern soldiers with marking
brushes wrote in huge characters, ‘U.
S. A.’ I was on guard at the time,
and one of my prisoners, a handsome,
bright-eyed young southern officer,
said, ‘Yank, what’s that writing
there?’ 1 looked proudly at him as I
replied: ’The United States of Ameri
ca over the Confederate States of
America. Can’t you read—U. S. A.
over C. S. A.?’ He looked at me quiz
zically. ‘Thank you.’ he said. ‘I)o you
know. I thought it was United States
of America Cotton Stealing associa
tion" The next question he put to me
I didn’t answer.”—Pntladelphia Post.
Church’* Mint Presslm; Need.
Mm. Dp Silke—“I wish to give a me
morial of some kind to the church, in
memory of a relative. What would you
suggest?" Struggling Pastor—“A—er
an appropriately decorated—er—new
church furnace. madam, and a—a few
tons of coal.'
IlentWtry Among the Ancient*.
The manufacture and use of false
teeth is undoubtedly a pr*-uice of great
antiquity. The ancient Egyptians were
no mean dentists. Jawbones of mum
mies have been found with fa se teeth
in them, and also with teeth filled
with gold.
OIT the Old Block.
• James, you ought to control little
Jim better.” “Mother, we can’t; he’s
loo much like you.”—Indianapolis
Journal.
World’* Longest Hirer.
The Nile is the longest river in the
world, 4.200 miles. The Niger is 2,500
miles and the Zambesi 1,600 miles.
Seasoned conversationalists are care
ful not to put too much spice in their
remarks.
MERCERIZED COTTON
WHAT IT IS, HOW IT IS MADE,
WHAT IT DOES.
An EnglUhman Discovered the Process
bat Didn’t Develop the Wrinkle
That Mnde It UseTal—Silk Produced
Out of Cotton.
A boy sat before the fire anil watch
ed his mother's kettle boil. The lid
quivered, rose a little, and the boy gave
steam motor to the world. John Mer
cer, an English dyer, filtered caustic
soda through a square of cotton cloth.
Thence a new verb—to mercerize—in
the language, a new fabric on the mar
ket, and a new business, engaging mil
lions of capital, to cheer the unem
ployed.
The story of the boy, John Watt, is
old. but Mercer’s story is new and in
teresting. Mercerized cotton, either
cotton yarn or cotton cloth, resembles
silk absolutely. It has the luster of
silk; it will take on. like silk, the rich
est and most brilliant dyes, and it has
the unmistakable, soft-harsh, nestling
feel which nothing but silk ever had.
Also cotton under this process, does
not weaken, as might have been fear
ed, but it acquires strength. A skein
of cotton yarn in the natural state
tnat will carry thirteen ounces without
breaking, will carry, after mercerizing,
nineteen ounces. And if you take three
coats, and line the first with a plain
cotton lining, the second with mercer
ized cotton and the third with siik, the
cotton and the silk will wear out about
together, but the mercerized lining
will outlast them two or three times
over. Mercerized cotton is used in lin
ings. in underwear, in spindle banding,
in stockings, in dress goods, in neg
ligee shirts. There is a profit in mer
cerizing of from 100 to 200 per cent.
In the last year or two many public
dyers have added mercerizing ma
chines to their plants, and a good num
ber of mercerizing mills have been es
tablished.
Mercerizing began as far back as
1846 in the English town of Accrington,
where John Mercer, manager for the
firm of Hargreaves, filtered caustic
soda through cotton cloth. Mercer, by
accident, kept this cloth by him, hap
pened to test its strength, happened to
splash it with a dye. He found that
it was about twice as strong and about
twice as susceptible to dye liquor as
it had been before. He refused for his
secret an offer of $200,000 from a
French firm. He had the idea of an
immense syndicate, with himself at the
head, rolling up millions of profits per
annum.
Then it was found that cotton
shrunk in the mercerizing. A yard of
cloth would save in dyestuffs and in
raw stock, say five cents to its manu
facturers, but it would come out of the
mercerizing bath only three-quarters
of a yard of cloth. Against the profit
of five cents a loss through shrinkage
of about ten cents would have to be
set. That is why Mercer never formed
his syndicate, why mercerizing was of
no commercial importance until lat
terly.
For the remaining twenty years of
his life the man toiled ineffectually on,
and he died disheartened. But his name
lives. That is because somewhere
around 1890, Horace Lowe, in England,
ana Thomas and Provost, in Germany,
began to try to see if it might not be
possible to mercerize a cotton thread
and to prevent the thread from shrink
ing in the process. They more than
succeeded. They tied the ends of their
cotton thread to sticks and then mer
cerized them. The sticks did not
break, the threads did not even show
signs of shrinkage. So easy was it U)
do what Mercer had been failing at for
years and years.
But, more than this, they found that
cotton mercerized under tension came
out glossy, soft and rustling. To their
amazement they found that they had
transformed cotton into silk. The ex
planation of the luster that cotton,
being mercerized, takes on. is simple.
The soda and the tension together
change the nature of the cotton fibre.
The natural fibre is flat, shriveled; the
mercerized fibre fills out, becomes
round and smooth. And just as a
flat, dried raisin has no luster, where
as the full, ripe grape catches and
throws back the light, so there is no
luster to the flat fibre of the natural
cotton, but on the mercerized sort the
light shines and is reflected just as on
the grape.
COLD FIGHTING IN THE CRIMEA
ltritiili Soldiers Were Cl»«l in Kurs Dur
ing the Terrible Winter.
Remembering the bitter blasts which
so recently swept over the city Chi
cagoans will realize how valuable to
British soldiers were the fur garments
provided for them during the terrible
winter weather of the Crimea during
the war with Rdssia. The coats of the
officers were made of a fine brown fur,
cut in the well-known military shape
of the time. The coats and cloaks for
the men were not of so fine a quality,
but were, nevertheless, of a good sub
stantial make, and were, furthermore,
supplied with water-proof shoulder
covering. Both officers and men alike
wore very strong overalls of cowhide,
and it is on record that one London
firm alone secured a contract to sup
ply 50,000 suits of this material for
the men and 100.000 more for officers.
A noted London furrier made no few
er than 50,000 pairs o? large fur gloves
to complete a single order. Those reg
iments that did not wear bearskins,
as did the guards, were supplied with
a sealskin head dress, an exact copy
of that worn by Arctic explorers. This
cap was ; renounced to be both warm
and easy to wear and was a boon to
many poor fellows who otherwise must
have suffered terribly from frost bite.
Whatever may have been the mistakes
of the Crimoan-British war there #us
no stinginess on the part of the gov
ernment in providing the soldiers with
warm clothing, as is evidenced by the
fact that one cosignment of stores in
cluded 250,000 pairs of gloves. 200.000
pairs of lambs wool stockings, some
50,000 flannel gowns for the hospitals
and 60,000 greatcoats for wear over the
others.—Chicago Chronicle.
Men and women agree oftener In love
than in money matters.
bluff of land.
That Haa Iioon Mllding Toward the
SlUsonrU for Twenty Tears.
Atchison (Kan.) Cor. Chicago Rec
ord: a mile south of this town tho
entire side of a bluff is sliding into
the Missouri River. The avalanche is
“ <luarter of a mile long, and at i's
base is the most expensive piece of
railroad track on the Missouri Pacillc
system. There is probably not another
quarter of a mile of track in the United
States which it cost more to maintain.
1 he odd thing about this monster land
^bde is that it has been slipping down
for 20 years, and unless it takes an un
expected plunge will probably be slip
ping down for the next 20 years, and
possibly 50 or 100. The avalanche is
| moving more or less at all times, but
not enough to require watching by the
Missouri Pacific except about two
months in the spring. During the
winter the moisture is held in the
ground, and when the first thaws and
the spring rains come the great mass
of earth begins slipping. Sometimes
it (omes down a foot in 24 hours, and
once in a while it slides six feet. Tho
Missouri Pacific then puts a force of
from 20 to 50 men at work pulling the
track back to its proper place and
keeping it level. A man is employed
to watch the track at night and see
that it does not get so far out of lira
as to topple a train over into the river.
Orders are issued to engineers to go
slow over the bad track, for the jar of
a train might cause an unprecedented
move. The current of the Missouri
River is always very swift in the
spring, and it wears away the earth
as it slides in. and it appears a few
miles below in the form of an island.
The bluff is one of the highest of tho
very high bluffs along the Kansas side
of the Missouri River from Kansas
City to the Nebraska line. Lying un
der about 15 feet of earth there are one
or more strata of rock aggregating from
20 to 40 feet in thickness. There seems
to have been a perpendicular split
down through this rock dividing the
bluff almost half in two, and extending
a quarter of a mile north and south.
The side which lay on the river, or east
side, slid because there was nothing
to hold it. while the opposite, or west
side, was up against another bluff.
Thus the cast side began gradually to
sink into the river and has laid bare
a wall 30 or more feet high in places.
Here and there enormous bowlders,
which hung for a long time undecided
with which side to identify themselves,
finally lost their balance and crashed
down, dashing themselves to pieces be
low. It costs the Missouri Pacific sev
eral thousand dollars and causes a
great deal of anxiety every spring, but
there is no way of avoiding it.
A DOCTOR PRAISES TEA.
Declares It Is Kefr’s'iln; When Taken
In the Erfainj.
“Nature is. after all. to be depended
upon pretty thoroughly,” says a phy
sician who has made a study of the
effects of tea on the system. “For ex
ample. it is the exceptional person who
craves tea at breakfast, a time of the
day at which it is least needed and is
frequently most injurious. Tea with
dinner, too, is not to be recommended,
because even if perfectly made there
is sure to be a little tannic acid in its
composition, and the stomach, in at
tempting the digestion of a heavy meal,
is much better without this principle.
About 5 o’clock, however, the hour
that fashion and custom agree in pro
viding tea. is an hour that is also
proper and favorable to the system.
The supply of energy with which the
day was begun is about exhausted, and
a cup of well-made tea is often a re
freshment and tonic that is both ac
ceptable and desirable.” In England
it is not only in the households, both
modest and elaborate, that 5 o’clock
tea is served, but in business places «.s
well, says the New York Post in
some, at least, of the newspaper and
periodical offices, everybody, including
the office boys, may have his cup of
tea in the afternoon. One wonders how
the exptriment would succeed of a tea
room in lower New York for the re
vival of the weary crowd that every
evening sets its face homeward, manv
of its members often unequal to the
scrambling and jostling necessary to
secure even standing room in our pub
lice conveyances.—Rehoboth Sunday
Herald.
Awful Railroad Fatalities.
More persons are killed and wound
ed each year in railway accidents in
the United States than on either side
in the terrific three-day battle of Get
tysburg. Looked at in this light, the
;early casualties on the railroads are
appalling. According to the latest re
port of the interstate-commerce com
mission, those killed in railway acci
dents in one year numbered 6,859, and
the injured 40.882. Of the dead. 1.958
were employes of the railroads, and
31.761 of the injured. In coupling and
uncoupling cars 279 employes were
killed and 6,988 hurt. Two hundred
and twenty-one passengers were killed
and 2,945 hurt. It can easily be seen
that the combined number of fatal ac
cidents to employes and passengers
does not make up the total for the
year. There is still left, of persons
other than these two classes. 4.6S0
dead. Of these, 4,063 are classed as
trespassers—that is to say, the> belong
to the vast army of hoboes who steal
rides on brake beams and trucks, or on
the tops of freight cars.
Intl'iftn' Rave fa the Bine Foi Fur.
Most of the fifrs worn by New York
belles come from Vnga Island, Alaska,
the great center for sea otter and fox
skins. The Indians there have caught
seventeen sea otter this year—to the
unknowing one a small quantity, yet
enough to carry the entire village of
250 persons through the winter. For
the skins they receive $700 each. Blue
fox is another popular fur sent south
by our Alaskan brothers. The Shum
agin group originally was planted with
black fox by the Russian-American
Fur company to augment the scant
supply left. I^ater the United States
leased the islands to different traders
and the Aleut chiefs, who stocked the
islands with blue foxes. The cross
ing of the two varieties has resulted in
the fine fur so popular for the past
two or three years.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom
to prefer censure w’hlch Is useful to
praise which deceives them.
PRESERVE FORESTS
URGENT NEED OF STOPPACE
OF WASTE.
The Greed of the Prenent Generation
of Capitalists Slay Leave the People
of the Future Without Necessaries
Even at Any Price.
Popular disinterestedness in the fate
of our forests is due to popular ignor
ance. Unless our supply of all kinds
of wood is kept up, every man, wom
an and child must help pay the penalty
in the near future. We read about
multitudes of people in Europe that
have to be satisfied with meat once a
week, because they have not a bounti
ful supply at hand. Meat Is scarce
there, and consequently high, so high
as to be beyond the reach of some.
The people find it easy to obtain any
thing of which there is an abundant
supply. It is for the interest of all of
us therefore that the supply of wood
in every form be kept as abundant as
at the present time, that the things
that are made of wood be not advanced
so far in price that the masses will
have to be content with a very small
supply of the things that are made
from wood. A critical scarcity of tim
ber will mean a frightful advance in
the price of nearly all our utensils.
Building operations in Chicago last
year were the smallest in volume for
ten years due to the advancement in
the cost of material. Thousands of
artisans were reduced to straitened cir
cumstances and would have been ren
dered destitute wrere it not for in
creased activity in other lines that
made it possible for them to get work
outside of their trades. What will be
the effect on the building trades when
cost of lumber is many times what it
. juniiuns oi Duiuiings nave
roofs that need shingling this year and
new millions will need shingling next
year and the year after that and so on
into the distant future. When shingles
cost several times their present price
the owners of the buildings will find
these annual repairs a heavy tax. Sub
stitutes for wood, such as slate, will be
more costly than at the present time,
because their great rival—wood—will
have been taken out of competition
with them, and they will occupy the
whole field. Every carriage will be
costly on account of the wood in it.
Our agricultural implements will feel
the effect of the scarcity and every
piece of wood in the reaper or mower
will cost good bard money far in excess
of the cost today. Let every man
ponder the fact that he himself will
be affected in a thousand ways. He
will be taxed e.^ra for about every
thing he uses. What objects? The
chairs he buys for his home, the tables
for his sitting and dining rooms, the
book cases that hold his library, the
picture frames that hang on his walls,
the boxes that contain his goods in
transport, the barrels that hold his
fruit, the coffin that contains his dead.
He will be charged more to ride in the
palace cars made of wood and running
on rails laid on wooden sleepers; more
for journeying in the steamboat, which
must still be largely made of wood and
furnished by the same. His leather
will cost more because tanning bark
will be high, and even tar, pitch and
turpentine will be luxuries because of
the disappearance of the pitch pine
forests. The price of telegraph poles
will raise the toll for telegrams, and
his newspaper will cost more because
of the price of wood pulp. A man needs
only to look around him to see how
seriously a decreased lumber supply
must affect our prosperity. The result
must be an immense falling off in the
sales of hundreds of manufactured ar
ticles into which wood enters largely.
The secondary effect must be the lay
ing off of multitudes of artisans that
are now engaged in making those ar
ticles.
The enhanced prices will help no one
but the few that control the limited
forest supply, or those foreign coun
tries that can sell us some of their
trees. It is full time that we, as a na
tion, were looking after our own in
terests in the shape of our menaced
forest supplies.
NATIVITY PLAYS.
They Existed Before the Time of St.
Francis.
Nativity interludes and plays existed
before the time of St. Francis; the
first extant regular drama performed
at Christmas belongs to the precious
manuscript of the Abbey of Saint-Be
noit-sur-Loire, and it is one of the
earliest specimens of a modern drama
(as distinguished from mere dialogues)
which we possess, says the Contem
porary Review. Hrotswitha’s imita
tions of Terence alone preceded it.
The Saint-Benoit play is called “He
rode.” The shepherds (rather ne
glected in earlier art and literature)
now make their formal appearance
and describe how they have found the
Babe lying between two dumb animals.
The three kings follow with their of
ferings. w’hich they present almost in
the words of the Greek Christian poet
Synesius: "O king, take this gold.
Gold is the symbol of kings. Take the
myrrh. Myrrh is the symbol of
tombs. Take the incense, for Thou art
truly God.” The Infant Jesus is
brought out to them, not by the vir
gin, but by two nurses; the non-ap
pearance of the Madonna is perhaps to
be attributed to a scruple, soon to dis
appear, as to showing her in the first
moments of her motherhood.
Got Ahead of Queen Victoria.
Queen Christina of Spain has con
ferred the Golden Fleece on the Ger
man crown prince, and has deputed the
Duke of Veragua, who attended the
World’s Fair as the representative of
Columbus, to convey the order to Ber
lin. Queen Victoria, who intends to
give the crown prince the order of the
Garter on his 18th birthday in May
next, is said to be much annoyed, as
she wished the Garter to be the first
great foreign order bestowed on her
great-grandson.
Justifiable.
She—“His arguments seem to have
considerable weight.” He—"Of course
they have. He tips the scales at 200 i
pounds.”—Exchange. , i
LION CUBS ARE CHEAP
Se Kasll7 Br«d In Captivity, They Ar*
a Drug In the Animal Market.
The importation of lions has almost
ceased, because it is cheaper and easier
to breed them in captivity. Formerly
an importer of fine lions could calcu
late upon getting $3,000 for a good
specimen, but today young lions bred
in captivity are almost a drug on the
market. The only demand for im
ported lions is to keep up the stock of
the breeding ones, or for very large,
powerful creatures, for it is noticeable
that the tendency in the cage breed
ing is for the animals to degenerate in
size and ferocity. Tigers do not take
kindly to cage life as the lions, and
they do not breed so satisfactorily in
captivity, and considerable numbers
are imported every year. Elephants
do not breed well in captivity.not more
than two or three ever having be^u
bred in this country; but the importa
tions of these animals are so large that
the prices obtained for them have
dropped from $10,000 to from $1,300
to $J,500 each. Numerous as monkeys
are in this country, they are not brel
here, as they do not breed well in cap
tivity. They are so easily obtained in
the country south of 113, however, that
prices obtained for them are merely
nominal, and there is little danger of
their immediate extermination. In
their native countries they multiply so
rapidly that the supply always keeps
well up to the demand. Among the
highest priced animals of today are the
rninoceroses. They are quite scarce,
and they do not breed in captivity.
There are probably not more than
half a dozen in number in this coun
try; all were bought years ago at good
round sums. Thus, the full-grown and
in Central Park cost the department
$7,000. and a similar sum was paid
for the fine African specimen in the
Philadelphia zoo. The hippopotamus
is another extremely rare and expen
sive creature and sales of these African
products are so few that it is difficult
to quote a price for them. The hippo
potamus born in Central Park is the
only instance of these animals breed
ing in this country.—Scientific Ameri
can.
INDIVIDUALITY OF TASTE.
French Women Will Not Dress Alike—
Americans* Mistake.
French women religiously cultivate
individuality. You can pass an entire
cfternoon on the promenade in Paris
and not see two women gowned exact
ly alike. No matter what is la mode,
the artistic Parisian adapts the styles
she selects to her individual taste and
type, rather than copies them. It is
claimed that American women are less
self-assertive in this respect, says
L’Art de la Mode, but the possibilities
and innumerable opportunities pre
sented this season have afforded her
great scope and the effect in the way
of greatly improved gowning has been
everywhere apparent. Decoration has
much to do with the most desirable re
sult and if a graceful drapery effect is
found becoming, as it always is to
women of tall, slender figure, this may
easily be accomplished by a certain ad
justment of trimming. On the other
hand, if severe lines only are suitable,
fashion presents any number of perfect
styles favoring these effects. Even
embonpoint is rendered less marked by
the deft application of flat, perpendicu
lar or ingeniously curved and gradu
ated decorations. It is a mistake to
assume that absolute plainness in
dress renders unduly large proportions
less noticeable. The subtle adjustment
of prevailing styles must be carefully
studied if an ensembly above reproach
is to be produced.
Where Woolf Learned Poverty.
Michael Angelo Woolf, whose black
and white sketches of street waifs en
dowed with most of the ambitions of
more favored children have given him
a lasting place in the hearts of the
people, knew what it was to be poor
himself. For many years he was an
actor. Once his company was stranded
as far away from civilization as they
could possibly get. Weeks afterwards
Mr. Woolf walked into New York an
artistic wreck. He was seedy, polished
with wear, but clean. He was un
shaven and wore no shirt. His boots
consisted entirely of soles held to his
feet by fragments of uppers, and his
toes were painted black so that from a
distance he looked like a man with the
gout to whom his shoemaker had been
uncommonly kind. It appeared that
Woolf was the only man in the com
pany who had received his salary in
full. He had spent every cent of it in
paying the railroad fares home of the
women of the company, and had
walked back every step of the way.
A Hie Map.
At the Paris exposition the city of
New York will make an exhibit calcu
lated to enlighten as well as interest
those who visit it. It is to be a great
relief map of New York, fifty feet
square, prepared under the direction
of the city engineer. It is expected to
cost 110,000. The new library building
on Fifth avenue, Gen. Grant’s tomb,
and the statue of Liberty will be
shown, as will sectional models of
some of the greatest structures and
“sky-scrapers” in the city, together
with models of the best sailing and
steam yachts. The compassion also
hopes to secure models of a typical
ferry-boat, a fireboat, and the best riv
er steamers.
Did Not Want to Be the Emperor.
At the time when the war with Spain
had been brought to a successful close
a number of statesmen were discussing
the future of the country over their
cigars in Washington. At last one en
thusiast exclaimed, addressing himself
to the most prominent member of the
group: “In my opinion we are drifting
toward imperialism and you, sir.
should be the first emperor.” “Not if I
know it,” drawled the great man: “I
am not fool enough to want to be the
first emperor of a nation of such good
shots.”
Eemintn* Superiority,
“Leonidas,” said Mrs. Meekton,
sharply, "whom do you regard as the
greatest general in history?” But he
»’as not to be caught napping. With
out a moment’s hesitation he an
swered: “Joan of Arc.”
