Il
'HAT'K W1IV I MIKM VOL
Our Hub; Uj clown
In her llltlc nlfilitiin,
Ant klur.1 Hit- again ami affsln
Oil fon-lirxit tit rlierk,
On lip Ihsl would rpraV,
Mill found Uitwrlrr hul tolbelf Rain.
TIipii Im.tbh, liuM,
To til Ur a wont,
I wkrd lift the que Mlon so ot't,
Tlil lf ami that lutrr
AV oTff fil over,
A If llirj- rrr urrr "hen loM
Ttirrr, close at lirr tlilr,
"Do you love met" I crlfxli
Wxi lifted lirr pilun-crui.fl hrait,
A ptllltrd 'lirprbr
Wionr In lirr K'J ()'
"VVJi), ij.at'n why I klM rnu,' MiimM,
THE WOKI.il OF HCIK.NCi:.
Oris In nl Ihc'Virlherit TimMcr
nlr I'lnm.
Prof. Asa (3 ray. In a recent lecture
on forofil gengrnphy nnd nrohn-ology.
Iieforo thn Hnrvnrd IJnlvcrally Nnlurnl
History Society, published In Iht Atnrr.
ican Journal nfNeltnrt, claims Hint our
firesonl Horn comes from high nnd not
ow latitudes, Tim true explanation of
thn whole problem of the distribution
of plant ! In Imi found liy looking to
tho North to tlin Arctic '.mm. "North
if our fonut n'glons," lot ny, "comes
thn r.ono unwooded from cold, thn roue
of Arntlo vegetation. In thin, rn it rule,
thn siiceles urn thn same roiiml thn
worlu; as exeetitlntia, some nm rustrlct
4d lit it pitrl of llin I'lmln. 'Mm polar
projection of tlin earth down to tlin
northern tropic, shows to thn njn us
our maps do not how nil thn lauds
coma tognthor lntooiin region, mid how
iinturnl It mny ho for thn anion species
itiiilnr hnumguueous eoiiilllloiii, to
spread ovnr It, Whnn wn Know, morn
ovnr, thnt sea mid litnd have varied
greatly since those spcelca existed, wh
mny well believe thnt mi) oi-imn gap,
now In thn way of equable dltrlbtilloii,
may have In'i'i't bridged over. Thorn Is
now only onn cointhlninldt' gup. Whnl
would happen If n cold period wore to
coma on from thn North, nmt wore verv
slowly to imrry thn present Aictlc ell.
main, or something Hko It, down fur
Into thn Tciupnrnto ZomiP Why, Just
what has liuiipnucd In thn glacial peri
od, when tlin refrigeration somehow
pushed nil these plants hnfoin It down
to Southern Kiiropo, to Mhldlu Asln, to
tlm tnlildln nml Southern pnrl of thn
I'nlted Slates; nml, nt length rccndini;,
left koiiiii pnrlxof thi'iii Ntrnudi'd on thn
ryrunotx, thn Alp, thn Apcmiliinx, tlm
C'nmmKUM, on our Wlilto nml Itonky
Mouutalut, or, Mhnrnvnr tlm could
oiinnpo thn Incnm.ilnjf wniinth its well
liy n'oninlliij; mounl:ilui in hv mending
uorlhwnrd nt lower lnnU. 'I'lionn tiint
ki-pl together nt n low Invnl, nml mndn
mod their rntrcnt, form tlm iiinlu hody
f prcuciit A ret lit vegntnllon, 'riion
thnt look to thn inouutnlnt hnd their
linn of ret rent cut oil', nml hold their
ptMltloim on thn uioiiutnlutopi under
cover of thn frigid cllmnto dun to ele
vntlou. Thn comlltloniof tliee on dif
fnrnut conllnnnH or illllereut luouu
t iiln a nrn ulinllnr, hut not wholly nllke.
Sumo upeclei proved licttur mlupteil to
one, mimn to nuotlmr pnrt of tlm wuililj
wrhnro lent ndnpted, or v ndnptnhle,
they hnvoperiihed', wlmrehetler nilnpt
cd, they coutlnun- with or without
Nomn uhnuun nml Imuee the dlveridtl
vntlou of nlpluv pluntx, ni 101 tlm
Xnunrnl HkeneM through nil tlm Noitli.
rn lienilophem. All thla nxnclly np
lillnn to thn 'remperntit Zone vegetutiou,
nml to thn ttccrt thnt wn nrn concerned
with. Tlm clnw wiih anletl when tlm
foiull hotnnv of the high Arctic rcgloiiM
immu to light, whnn it win demouitrn
ted thntln the tlutCN next preceding tlm
glnalnl peiiod In thn Intent Tcitlmy
from Splty.liergen nml Icclnml todrenu.
Inml and KniutMohntkii, n cllmntn like
thnt wn now nitjoy iirnvnlled, nml for
Hta like thinn of Nnw I'nglnn i nml
VlrcInU nml of Cnllforuln, clothed thn
latul. Wn Infer thn ollmnlu from the
trr; nml thn treei glvn mtro Imllon
llonHof thn ollmsito."
.flolrrN Ochh leinMM.
In U recent nitdrcM before thn (!eo.
grnphlcnl Section of the Hrltltdi Science
AntiKintfoti.SIr WwillnTlionipMin.who
Imsilr ' the aclnutliln party on thn Ohnl
lengnr trio, pointed out hoiiic cnrlotM
features of tlm ileiioill uowtoimlng nt
great dept'i In the ocenu. Uer tlm
whole men of the I'licllic, for liutnnce,
unit Specially In Itn deep wntern, the
tliHIgo hringn tip n line led clnv. If u
inngiiet ho ilmwu through n ijunutity
of UiIh tittu utny well dllVuned In water,
U will hn found to hnvn caught on Iti
xurfaon mime minute tnngiietic Miheru
leu, nomn nppan'iitly of inetnlllc Iron in
n pnnlvc Mute, nn'il Aomn of met illlo
nickel, From tlm nppearnneo of then
pnrllelen, mid fttini tlm clrcuniHtniiwi!
that uch liinguetio dust hiv henii ill
nvly tleliHitcd In tlmneillmoiilof hiiiiw
water, wiiiii) nrn of opinion thnt thev uro
f ooituilo origin -In fnot, nM-etmlvely
inlnuto meteoric. Summing up whnt
In known of the hed of thn ocenn. Mr.
ThoinpKon nnyat
"So far an woenn Judge, nftr n moit
careful oomiiarntlvo CMiinlnntlon, the
tlopoMl whlcli In nt priMent hein form
U at extreme deolhn In the ocean, iloen
not ixrnHiiii either In xtnicturu or In
clicmlonl ooinpoKltion with tiny known
Xoologica forntnllon: nml, moreover,
wo am inclined to believe, from n con.
alilorntion of their Ntruuturn mid of their
Imbedded organic retiming, thnt none
f thu older foruintlomt wern Inld down
at nearly ho great depth- thnt, in fact,
none of tlioso have any thing of nu bv
i character. Them Into msunrcoc
t4sud to show thnt during past geologl.
ca! ohangen nbyssnl IkjiN have never
been exposed, ami It nccuik highly prob
Wn that until comparatively recent
Rcologlcal periods, niiuIi bciUhtivo not
boen formed. It appear now to be. a
generally received opfnlon among go
logisUi an opinion which was tirat
brought into promlncnco by Professor
Dana thnt tho masilvo' eruptions
which originated tho mountain chains
whick form tho nkeletou of our pnwent
continontH, anil tho ilcprcailonH occu
plcil by our present neon, data from tho
Macular cooling nml contraction of tho
cruBt of tho earth, from a period union
wore remote tliuii tho deposition of tho
earliest of tho fosUlferous rocks; nml
thnt during the period chroub led b) Mie
miceeaahn oeditiieutnrj ajativn, with
ninny tnlnoroM'lllntloria bj which llnw
lied ntena hnvu li-en nltcrnntely ee.
vnted ami ilnpreaaed, the brond reaiill
hna Ik'O thn growth by Ur,'v'e ateoa
of the original mountain cjxfiia nml im
continent by thelnletiefntion, niiilllin
correapomllug deejK'nltAr of thn origin
nlgrooic If thli view fit) correct -and
It certnlnh nopean to me that thn re.i
nnlng In lu fnor l ver cogent It la
ijulto nilbli) tint until comparatively
recent tlniea no part of thn ocean wna
aunicleutly ib-ep forthc fortuntloii of n
ohnrnctcriatlc nbjaanl tepoit."
I'auperlam in Irrlam),
It N terribly on thn lucrcn. From
Hut Irith Timtn wn lenrn that, out of n
populntlon of o.OOO.OOO, nenrlv IVH) (m
nrn aupporte liy public relief, ami tho
number of pnupnra, w nrn told, In In
rrenalug nl thu rntn of l,HiO n month I
To aupMirt llili vaat nrmy of pnupera
thn Inlxirof Ireland la tntcd 9t,(N)0,XK)
n enr. Of thla mill thu anlnrlea of
workhoiion olllelnla nod thn coat of the
pauper prlaona cat up nearly Ml),
(n0.
it iiaed to bu anld thnt Ireland wna
oveppopiilnled. Well, fnuilliu killed ofT
l,(),00 of thn people, mid ncntlcrcd
!t,0K,0i.0 morn of them nil ovi r thu
globu, )et lion- la Irnlnml to-dny In her
rnga, Hlth her begglug-lmg over her
ahoulder, ami Imrbeggnr'ahnmlniteml
ml for relief I
Tlin inml who niu thnt Irelnmt la
oerpopulnted the "ninn who tell )on
nuy country In the world la overpopu
luti-d either willfully Una or c!n lie
dona not know whnl hnlatnlkliignboill,
llelgllim lO'klnV la the llioat populoita
...i... i.. 11 Y.... i i.' ..'n i..
country lu nil F.uropn nml lu nil i'u
rope (hern la not n hupplnr, n morn
proapnrou, or a morn lmlutrioua pop
ulnlliiu tlinn la to bu found within It
conllnea,
Thu cnuu of tlm ill thnt nlllict the
hiimnii fiuully miiat not b liuputed to
(toil, Thn entire rcponlhlly real
on the ahouldera of tliimi who iiaailliiu
Hint It la their eapeelul buathnaa to imike
Inwa for uiiHoua nml Keep the people lu
order
Irnlmid hna ntituriil reaourcna aulllc
lent to aiippiirt comfortiibl) oO,00J,0(H)
of people, ludnpeudeutof the million
of tierea which hnvu been robbed from
thn people. Hmiunru million mom of
recliiliunhle Inml, which, under n "Uu
nml beiiellcent government, would be
aiialnliilng lu eomfoil n hnppv people
Inaleiid of u hut imi now eu u pnupnr
led populntlon II 'turn llie people to
their muiirnt luherltmiei , ediicuiu llnni
In tlm ocleucn of iigilcultiite, put 1m
proved implemeuta Into their linn I;
eiiubln them to iillli.u the mluerul ic
NourciH of the country; puh on iiinnu
fuctuie In it word, dUeralfy tmluatry
nml nbollah liimllordtam nml lu ten
ahoit ji'iir Irnhiml will preaenl to the
world u picture of coiiteiitedue Mich
un no country uvurhcfoicexhlhltcd, but
which. Indeed, m cry country under it
HVHtcin of troveiumeiit coiiformnbln to
the Iiih of (but iiiiiv nml itiiii nxhtblt it
wiill. n It'iiW..'
llie Meat Perfect Ihlug i.r Her Kind.
The l.omlou .lAi'oiriini minoiiucea
Hint "when u French womnu U n liuly
aim la.nulwltlntumlliig ihumulnrliiiiam
tit tlm bottom of bur untiirc, tlm mot
pel feel thing of her kind thu world hit
yet produced. If ahc hna not llm line
iiiiioncluumM of nu Kugliah Imly. her
Helf conelouauea aeeiu to be n iiece
amy chiirm, u component element of
her lucompntiihlu grucn It I thueli
conelonN witehery of Tltnnln, wlfli
kiiowa Hint lu the end (Micron mul
yield From her childhood aim liiiacd
uented heraelf aoul nml body toward
the Mine lame.' of perfect oiniictry; und
If her lip nrn not tlm lip of thn Hug
Hah 'roaubud gulden of girl ' thu no
cent thwt come from them nrn bright
er tlinn HmiiccenlN of allver bell; the id
la no geature of her thnt la not pericct
grnee, there la no movement In which
aim doe not aeetii lo ahed soft-tinted
light n lm pie." Novel thulcna, con
lluuctliuJ(irrm'r.ru,thutyplculFicuch
lumi "doe not Ioe tliein'u we Hugliah
do," thuruaaon for Ida reiniane being
thnt "he I too much lUu n womnu
hituaelf to be unite flee ft om the feel
lug of rivalry." Thin I the mot fill
Nome tribute by nu Kugliah lllerur
j'Hirtutl to the lovellue of French wo
men Hi it we lemember to hnvn rend;
nml the eapeelnl beauty of it eonit.
iieihnp, in tlm fuel thiit It might hnvu
lieen written by n Frcuchumu concern
lug thu lepreaentntlve Miuiig women of
the American itictropiul,
Dr. .Vlsen, the Seven Feet llcriull nml
Mler erMeniphU,
It I linposalblu for thu joiiiu:tlitof
to-ihy In NlemphNto chnuileln nil the
harrow lug or rouiniitlc lucldeutH eon
Heeled with the (5 rent I'lugue of lt7S
lie hna neither the time nor thu ability.
For thn (lit lire hUtorlun 1111111 bo left thn
tnak of giving to the world tlm trim de
tail of one of tlm greatest cilmultie.
Hint ever ntllleted mankind. Them In
one Incident, however, vouuected with
our Nurrowa thnt we cannot pn.. Dr.
Nelaon vviiNonn of thu tnHci. men ever
Keen on Mnin atmet. lie wna nearly
seven feet lu hlght. Dr. NcNonN wna
a well-known form on the street, lie
had not practiced hi profeaalou for
ninny vonr., but hnd accumulated n
large fortune, reputed to amount to
over n ipimter of a million of dollar.
Nelson dmaed meniilv. Ill entire
suit, from the crew 11 of Ids head to tlm
sole of hi feel, won not worth live dol
lars, at tirat eoat. Ami jet till man,
who had received u liberal education
vv us once considered n tlrt-elns physi
cian, won puajcHNcd of properly worth
$'.!.M.,000, liad lived for yenra a inNer,
nud llnnllv died and was buried like a
dog. In tlm Potter's Held Dr. NeNon
w.i burled, and Ids sou with him. Ills
wife still survives, but I in mtvlng con
dition. Here In tho South whom fast
living la tho ruin and economy tho ex
ception, the ease of Dr. Ne'lsou Is a
curious anomaly dilucult to explain;
this mlaor reslde'd in tho suburb, nbout
two miles from Court Siiuare, and al
though he frequently appeared on our
streets, he idiuttncd intercourse with
his fellows mid was as ftr remowd
fnnn swlnl relations with Ids kind in
if ho hnd been a ilcnieuof an uninhabit
ed Island lu tho far Pacific .VtftniAiji
AMliincht,
xuxn's i.om:i.v iiovikiok.
An AITerlliijf Picture f Ihe Original
Marrlrd ,an.
III l'glollllig a ei e of sketchea coil
rifriilng llie )oiitlilul im) 01 emiiU'iil
jii-opf t ai-ein eminently (ittlng thai
we commence with Adam It la rather
dllllciilt to iKMicelvo Adam aa n lKy, wn
admit, owing to thn popular auratl
tlon thai ha pnlnteil lion coinltig Into
thn world full grown, with whiakera
and iniMticlin e-iinpb'te, and a prevail
lug Ixdli'f that there waati't a boy In thu
world until live came mid ralicd the
Old Hoy with Adntn, )-l wo prefer to
think of our ancient progenitor a hav
ing hnd something of n boyhood, mid
wn ijimiii wn have aa good n right lo
theorln Umiii this subjeet na nti)lody
idi.
Adam wna probably na tniaohlnvoua,
unturallv, na lovs generally arn. In
fact, Darwin sovn he was 'ix perfect lit
tin monkey,' w filch, wu believe, la aay
nouyiii for iiilachliivouneN the world
over Hill hn hnd no companion In
Ilia gamlxil If hn stnld out after dnrk
mid got to cutting up, It wna nil by
hlltiaelf And whnl aport could he hnvu
ringing door belU without n lot of oth
er bova to "cnmper itvvnv" with? And
conaloer thu iiiulnncholy fiin of fatten
lug corda acroaa thu walk 11 1 night with
nobody to trip over them.
Wu cnu Imngluuouiig Ailniii, with
nil (tin liialluctM of n Iniy two iuchea
thick in Ida nature, looking about for
some w ay lodiverl hlnmelf iva other Inija
do, nml whispering to hiuia.ilf, 'I'an't
have miy fun''
Of course he couldn't by mi) po
blllty have nuy fun. No fun running
nwny from school, or atenllng oir to go
lu swimming, because them was 110 one
to lick him when he got hoiim. No fun
sneaking up Into thu lm mow to In
dulge lu n auricptltloiisgitiuu of eucliru
alwiivs hud to 'pbt) It nloiie,' He
coiooii 1 piu -iag, occituc nu iiiigiu
)cll M'vugot thu tug' all day. und there
would he mi one to come "and lake It
nwii) from him. 'Hi spl' had no charm,
for 11 boy soon guts tired of hiding when
he has to go to work to llud himself
Ami where Is there 11 boy wno like to
woik and llud hlmef,'
The mote wu think of Adam's lonely
bo)hood tho morn wu urn Inclined to
pltj him He never knew what n cir
us meant, itl least mil till evecumunml
lutiodueed him to one. It tit nu hnvu
nothing to do with that now as we are
only tientliig of Adam's bo)tiood.
hue, there was a big iiiemigerie nil
round him, but the aiiiinals were tame
nlhtlrs, Itiiiib mid lions Ijiiigdowu to
gether In thu most spliillcis concord,
Mid tho lilppopotumuses und cumin,
bird pbtv lug with each other like kit
ten. I.lttlo Admu imversat wu) upon
the highest soul ami gned awe strick
en, while 11 man in spnuglcd tight
sprung, whip lu hand, lut' 11 cage of
siiv ago bmislN Hint rolled their u)c.
gnashed limit ii.,ilh, nud 1 oared until
thu cmivns oveiliend Hupped for ver)
fear I No, Indeed.
He never saw a thiii-leggeil female In
shoit skills ride 11 loping hoisu annuel
a 1 lug, nml Jump I h rough 11 hoop, while
11 Ulan with his fitce pnliiled while mid
bis mouth u led exaggeration, tell thnt
convuMve nlon about shilling hn) into
his shoe to till them out, mid his calves
going down to cut the hnv Voting
Adam tmvursuw 'thu old clown, though
he ciiinu very siion after Adam's day.
und llm Jokes he commenced with ho
has been getting oil" ever since.
And how about has,, bull? Do you
suppose thnt Adam knew anything
about Hint exhllnrutliig diversion (but
Is now doing so much toward develop
ing thu Intellects of our Auicilcnu
.VoutliP Tlmie Is no likelihood of It,
not while he was 11 boy. His sou Cnlii,
however, seems to have been tlin Hrsl
w ho got up 11 club,' but it wn the death
of his brother Abel
While there weio so many things Hint
tin bov Adam missed, think not that
his solitary life was without Its eom
poiisuHou There wn- 110 other boy to
steal his marbles, or hide his top, or
leer nt him because lie had lo wear his
big brother's cast oil' clothes or holler
acroa Hie tinct thnt he hud 'n Idler in
the pou olllco,' or lix 11 bent iiln for
him to sit down on, or make faces nt
his sister, or spell him ilowm, or steal
his dinner, or tell on him when he had
been in mischief, or bent him out of his
Nwenthenrt. Adam escaped thine nud
11 thousand other iiuuo)tiuce.s Hint hoi
subject each other to. He ntidn't any
btothers nml sisters to tense nml worry
him, nml with whom he vvu compelled
to illvldi his playthings uml nice things
to cut Hint might conio that way Ho
could lenv'e n piece of awcclcnke l)ing
nioimd nn,v where, knowing Hint noun
of the rest of the uhllilicii would touch
it; nml ut night, on ictiiiug, he could
stick his 'gum' on lo the uendboud,
coiilldeut Hint It would rest undisturbed
until morning,
Whan ver trouble uml untio) unccs his
matrimonial life tiinv have brought
hltn, wo llud a kind of satisfaction in
rcllecting Hint Athim' bov hood was
exceptionally fue from care, ami on
that account wo nru bound to conclude
thnt hi life was not nu entire failure.
rif CioifnVo.for.
Helling the Duiupllnirs.
St. Sv Ivestre's night in Hungary is
one of the most romantic mouths of tbe
)ear. All sorts of .superstitious belief
are attached to this night. Maidens of
till rank and ages throng to the hrlno
f tlm u M'ollcnt saint, who is suppo.
cd to know nil about tho future litis,
baud of every unmarried Indyof Christ
cudoin -a belief which costs him dear.
If ha hasn't been driven crnay long ago
by tho many thousands of 'iptcstlous
addressed to htm on this one special
night, at tlm moment when tho clock
stilkea twelve. Ii will surely become so
now when the number of eligible hn
baud diminishes In the same degree ns
tho number of unmarried Indies, eager
to changu their position, Increase from
year to ear.
A a civilised saint, whoso prestigv
has outlived that of a great number of
Ids brethren, St. Sylvestm gives his at
tention tlrst of all to the saloons -that
Is, to those who should till them, but
who on this night prefer to follow the
)oung people to tho kitchen, where tho
young ladies are occupied with tho
manufacture of dumolingv Such a
culinary exertion in ofaiHumtu livening
dress must have tin important cau-o.
'llie dumpling prepared b) Hexo dl
cst hand, art ordlnar) dumplings,
whon tb'stiny It la to Ix eaten. Fate,
lit rliOM'M this aimple farlnsciou food
to Imi thn liiterpretT of its deep". Kv
erj' ) oting Iml) of llm eirnpany wrilet
thn uaiiiea of all the eligible gentlemen
of her nciiunlfitnnre upon scrap of pa
er. which aim bides In the dumplings,
and al thn mono-til tho clock striken
twelve ahu throw thntri Into boiling
water
Now, It la tho habit of durnplliiga
when atillb'lently cooked, to reappear
on the aiirfaco of tho wabir. and thn
flrl diiiiipllng which reappears on St.
H)leatri)V n)u contain tlm young la
dy's doom that la, the lunm of her
futuru hiuband. Thn second diiuipllug
showing Itself on the surfnr,) bears In
variably the name of thn happy lovir'a
rival, wkllu tho third contains thu
rimmi of themlanrablncreaturo who baa
bom refused by thu morn or less fnsel
natlng Indv Thu Tcjuning and laugh
lug of thn )otiug people, thu blushing
ami frowning on all thosu youthful fa
eea nt the moment when thu (tolling
wnter send up thu llrt herald of mat
rlmony. I audi a pretty sight, thnt it
la not nt nil lo bu wondered nt when
thu dumplings sometimes guesa rightly-
lu Wr rn Tired ut FlnweraJ
"Hnvr you noticed thnt vou never
?row tired of llowera?" naks a writer.
Flowers are hcmitlful Kven thu hum
ble blossoms nt thu roadside are pretty.
It rests one to liMik nt llowera, Tiny are
loveliness perfected There is no'llnw
lu their beauty. In gracefulness delica
cy, co.oritig, fragrance, (lowers urn thn
masterpiece of nature's handiwork
Howev-itr plain may bu the furnishing
of a home If It I proii led with doners
It I mi attractive sput Flower rclinu
nun wno cultivates tlmm, nml ghuhh-11
nil who come in contact with them.
The) cost but little, vet how much the)
improve uml beniitlfy a place. Ami
w hen they oine In the spring time, lif
ter tlm frosts uml snows, how they to
Vive nml delight (he beholder. Ami lo
hnvu them lo the hotiso through the
winter, their bright colors mid growing
green in such contrast to llm bleak out
doors. Is 11 well spring of Joy.
And )et them I something very sad
dening iibout llowcts They deck the
bride uml smile mnbl the festivities of
life. Inu thu) ulo cover the dead Then
the) hnvu to bu got in the full Women
urn more uttuched lo dowers than tire
men. To them the blossoms speak in
11 luugiiiigu we cannot comptolieml.
Iletweeii llowera uml women there is a
inysteiiotis s)mpnthv. There Is s'lme
thing verv beuutlfiirin this Ton wo
men 11 llcnvcr is H)mbolle of purlt).
tenileriiess.dullcnoy. To a man a llower
Is suggestive of paper, sheets, over
coat uml oven bits of cm pet. Men
would love tloweis more, would better
upprecinlu their delightful lessons, If
thev did not hnvu to gi t out ut night
uml cover them up. It Is 11 iiiulnncholy
ierfoiinuiice, covering up flowers to
keep them fioin the fiost. One has to
take oh his slippers and put 011 his
boots to do it. He has to give nil In
leiesling rending to attend to it. Then
it is verv dnrk out doors, ami he steps
Into iiiilookeilfor holes, uml walks
Plump uguliiat unexpected objects. It
is mi operation that sorely tries his
temper, because of the dclaya; thu dif
ferences of opinion in regnrd to tlm
plants which should bu covered and the
sl.e of the article to be used in cover
ing; the liMlng of pins; uml the iiucer
tnlnly of the extent of thu work. No
mini knows when he commences the
tusk the amount Hint is to be done, ami
it I this iimlecisiou uml delay ami
changing about while the keen air cuts
Into (us unprotected frame thnt is wort
of nil. Sometime. he will get into the
house four or live times under tlm tin
pre don Hint the work is done, only to
lie cull d out again to attend tun new
plant, and to be repio.iohcdforhis haste
to shirk duty.
Thn seeds of long, and ninny times
fatal, Illness are sown on these occa
sions; for a mini generull) misculciil
ntes tlm time rcipincd to cover 11 lot of
plant, uml in the vexation that Is upon
lilin, hurries out doors in his shirt
sleavch', uml perhups bare-headed. This
Is cuii-ed both I in dcsoerntlon mid to
make Hie woik iuicf bv creating the
liuprcs.iiou that he expects it to he so.
if he went out comforubly bundled up
his wife would tuke that us mi curiie-t
invitation to keep him bobbing firouuil
In the dink nml frost) air half the
night, uml would do it, without doubt.
A man cnuiiot be too circumspect oil
such an occasion.
There nte iiiuii) initaling variances
of opinions in the matter of covering up
llowera. Them nte plants of smb n
hind) nituie us to m-eil no covering
during the tlrst frosts of ihe season. but
it pains us to a) Hint womnu Is not
aware of it. Then'u man und his wife
ditler ns to tlm strength of the ftost.
Ho knows thnt If there is to be n frost
at all, and it coming I very doubtful
it will bo so light us to do 110 harm
whatever Hut she, on the contrary,
declares that it will be so henv) a to
kill every plant and seriously meunuco
the fr it tree. Her obstinacy causes
much uuliiipplncs.
Pretty soon the time comes for carry
ing In the plant. Thu 'operation 1s
cnl.ed curryiwj them In, but hujuitnj is
11 much more pertinent term. Night is
tho popular time for doing It, beonuso
in the dark, and with his face full of
foliage, thn tiinu who does the lugging
knows no nunc where ho is going than
if he were blind-folded in a strange
ceinetery.aiid I far more likely to crack
his shins than to save them. " '
After a man lias chilled his vitals In
covering up plants, and strained his
spine in lugging them Into the house, it
Is verv cheering to hear Ids wife declare
that sm Is kick at heart of all the muss,
and It is thu last time ho shall ever
bother with tho plaguoy thiugs.
And ho will hear It. Il Is Just a cer
tain as death. Dunbury .Vlrw.
It isn't fair to infer that a man is
"corned" leeauso his voice is huskv.
A startling report
Julv tire-cracker in
pivVet.
Tho Fourth of
your coat-tail
Colloouy between new acquaintances:
l oneo sal on tho dudge s bench in
Texas."
"That -o! Where was tne
.Judge?"
llur-cUra and Thlrirs.
rWcrul y-ar sgo I w,i a pupil of
Jem Ward, the celebrated pugilist, who
taught me all f know nlmul the noble
art of sdf-defne.
When 1 went to ndou, and while
plating "Dundreary," I found .Jem lu
a statu of great destitution For an un
educated man hn naa a remarkably
clever wits, and mh,- not allt.Ie
artistic ability, which, had it bn ml-tlrati-d,
might have made a ii.une for
bjm In a higher sphere, I aided him
In a fiin.ll way, and eventually he se
cured a little public hou-o In White
Chapel
alts Phlllippa had written a piece
In which I wna to play the pnrt of n
burgtnr, and. in order to get mvelf
well up In the character, almost every
night after theprirformanceat the Hnv
market, I used to visit ihn neighlxir
hood frequented by this claas of peo
ple Among the haunts wo the place
01 .Jem Wnrd, known as tho "Utile
public "
After one or two appearance there,
however, Ward begged mu never to
come again in 111) own brougham, and
never to In tug money or jewelry, bill
to keep up n running account with
him, ami to treat tlm fellows, lo right
ami left, to nothing more vx pensive
than beer or gin. Hit told mu Hint the
verv cab that took me home worn run
and owned by burglars and thieves,
mid for several nights he accompanied
llie until wn reached the Hnv murk-el
theater, where he secured my own con
vevuuee and went to my residence In
Kensington I was thu mom or less
mixed up with many of tlm celebrated
cracksmen, robbers of various grades,
swell. mobsmen, and, I suppose, mur
derers, but, would you believe It, I nev
er met with thu slightest originality of
Idea in auv onn of them. 'I rue, there
was iniichtha was coarse, mid there
were chitrnctoristics of manner itnd nl
dress whlcli did not oscnpu my oliserv
ntion, hut, o fur a I am nwure, that
episode in my experience was of no
pructlciil artistic beuulit,
Dickens, with hi extraordinary pen,
bus more clearlv depleted in bis char
acter of Ihll Sikn, the iiiiiigliiur) bur
glnr tlinn prbnbl,v will ever be done
again, but the realit) doesn't exist.
I wu strui k by the fact, during in)
iissocuiliou with those people, that ev
er) person I met ut Wnrd's had himself
been 11 student of Charles Dickens, uml
copied hi Ideal in bis own rough-and-tumble
wnv I suppose the fellows
liked (he lomuuce of the thing, ami got
themselves up according!).
"lint vou won't doinahU Dickens
himself made thl chin a tmlv, nml
that he spent nights mid dav. weeks
mid month in pursuing this fuvostign
lion'"
That's true, but Ho, mixed such a
vast iniiouiitof poetry with the portrnv
ill of these totigii subjects, uml he 10b
bed them of their icnl deformity mid
made his ideals a gre.itde.il better than
the originals. In other words, hi ub
lects were overdrawn. Vou niit'lil m
almost the same thing about I.-imlseer;
for while lie painted bis animals from
life, the sympathy uml poi tr) of the
man's creature are illustrated in the
o)es uml general characteristics thnt
are almost human in their expression -another
iuatmicn of exaggeration. -.'.
A Soticrn
An Adventure wn llliuiilajn.
A correspondent gives the following
wonderful account of his adventure In
ascending one of thu Himalaya range,
about nineteen hundred feel h'igh
"We hud got within one hundred feet
of the top of Mcghumomhi! in safety,
when there was a stop. The live cool
ies woie leading, then cainu .liisram,
und I brought up tlm rear. Wo hud
not put on the rnjie, but were walking
close together. I asked what was thu
matter, and then 11 bamboo, which one
of the coolies was using as n stick, was
handed to me, and I wu asked what
hnd happened to it.
"It wns ineklng a hissing iioi(.e,omu
what like damp wood burning. 1 ut
once thought of electricity; but us them
was 110 metal about the bamboo, mid as
ni) ice axe wna silent, 1 liumlcd it back,
saying I fancl d It was only the wood
expanding with Hie damp We had
not advanced three step when there
was another stop, mid thu foremost
coolies cried out that their gods were
uiigrv, ami had struck them on the bend
n if with n bullet. They lav down In
(he snow, pre sing (heir hands to their
head, a if in pain. .Iiisrnm. think
ing this was sonto nonsense, advanced,
but he also erird out that he hid been
struck, ami had pressed his hand to his
head.
"Al the same instant I teceivcd a
sensible, though slight shock in tlm
head ami at once began to cr-ickle all
over From my temples, shoulders,
elbows and knees them proceeded a
noiso exactly similar to that which is
produced when one draws sparks from
nu electric machine. The sensation of
prickling was nlo similar to Hint ex
jieriunccd when the sparks are drawn.
Whether wu were sparkiing (all were
crackling) I cunt say, as I did not, un
der tho circumstances, pay attention
to ueh detail. Immeilia'teiy wo re
calved the shock I shouted to tho cool
ies -Lightning; gel down as fas as you
can.' Wo all set on" down tho ridge as
hard as wu could run, utterly regard
less of precipices, avalanches, nnd such
like.
"The crackling still Muck to Us, till
I shouted to tho men to throw away
ever) thing made of iron viz: their
axes, i stuck my ice ax in tho snow,
and thn coolius, on my adding that of
conrso 1 should pay for thorn, did the
same with their axes. We then in a
few pace pit rid of the crackling ami
of ihe prickling sensation. Xot lin
ing an electrician. I do not know what
amount of danger, if any, wo were in;
but I do know that wo all received a
more or less electric shock, and that wu
did not feel Inclined to risk the repeti
tion even of that, to say nothing of any
thing worse
Tho fanner who keep all the stock
hla farm w ill safely carry, and "feeds
thou fat,' soon has fai acres, even if
they were not originally so, from the
manure returned to the' Mill. And the
fatter the cattle are made the hatter the
ollwlll become. So fat cattle make
fat fanners.
oiuruitv Y.s.jon..vii.isn.
Han Ihe Uttrrl laklojc thr VUne p(
the Fornrr.
Thu nre it a grext eipjller The
adventitial! advantage of rank and po
tltiou, glamour of manner and delivery
and the pcraonal presence, the grace
and gifts of orntorv, disappear, and
arguments and facta go for their true
value.
'Hie pur'Hc of oratory wa to away
to immediate effect to fuio tho baton
ing uioa at a white heat to united In
alartaneou action The press is liko
the mill of ihe goda- grinding alowly
bul excelling small. Its aim is tho
alow upbuilding of iileaaaml the gradu
al Inculcation of principle-, which after
thought and discussion umy In time
In-ar fruit.
'I hn aim of tho ("reck orator was a
direct result.whlch with a peoplu ao ex
citable mid volatile was of frcuent ac
complishment. Carried away bytlif 1
llery outbursts of Demosthenes, tho-
would declare war on thn spot. "Lot
us go nud tight Philip'" was thn cry
that rose and swelled as thu deafuniug
plaudits which followed one of his
rounded period died uway. Had the I
same bitter invective nnd s'trenuous nv-
jK-ala appeared in print, and been read,
stripped of Its magnetism of tone ami
gesture, the satuu uiun would hnvu met
each other nt thu bath or on thu mart
and said
"liy the way, did you sen that article
of Demosthenes )esterday on Philip of
Macedon?" .
"Vcs."
"Well, now, that wn n pretty slurp
editorial, wasn't It? If Philip don't
mind what he's about, I shouldn't beat
all surprised if wu had war ouuof thesu
davs"
-Shakspe.ire, in Ida drama of "Julius
Ciesur," has given us nu Illustration of
the power of oratory Tho result of
Murk Antony's oration, with Its trnns-y
pxrent theatrical coVcts nud forcnslef
trickor), i to transform the tickle Ro
man populace from tlm supporters of
men who slow Cicsar to save tliclt coun
try's liberties to avengers of fallen
tisiirpcta.
"We'll be avenged seek bum -kill
sbiv' Let not 11 trntor live!"
rises in response to his insidious
prompting from thro.tts)ot hoarse with
vocifeiotis applause of tho dead Hrutiis.
Such un appeal in thu columns of tho
press would hnvu been rend, admired,
ipioled, mid talked over for one day,
ami Hie next morning would have seen
its ilimsy .sophistrlus torn toNhrcds.nnd
Its real animus exposed in the light of
cum reiiectiou ami Hostile criticism.
Thn ilbtlngulshcd characteristic of ora
tory ns u precursor of thu press In thu
allien of a creator or exponent of public
opinion, wu this appeal to the trull
cut. iiurcllcctive impulse of the mo
ment, its constant aim to stir tlm emo
tions rather than to appeal to thn rea
son. Ancient history abound in Instances
where the magnetic, impetuous eweep
of some waveof eloquence, has borne
down all opposition, surcharging llm
multitude with its own electricity, ariji
decided some oiiestiou of vital national
interest with less deliberation than n
city council would now bestow on the
purchase of 11 new .steam Hie engine. -'iiim
V'mmMoo's Ltctun; ".(iirKi
h.itir Antcl ypc.i."
New Knglaml.
Many things strike minis being pecu
liar to New Kuglaml. The roads are na
good as our pikes in the west, being
naturally hard and smooth. Toll-gates
nrn unknown. Men do not ride on
horseback. Kvorybody goes in buggies
or carriages, drawn by one horse And
them nru no farm wagons, hy cart
with two wheels drawn b) oxen. Nerv
ing all purposes,
Kverythlng look smooth and neat.
Them am no rough edges, no fenco
corners full of weeds, no unsightly ,
plowed ground, no rotten rails, but hay
'Holds clipped clean, ami atone wall's
half overgrown with ferns nud golden
rod. Kven thu bowlders whlcli crop
out hem and there in pasture and or
chard cover themselves decorously
with lichens. Nothing is liure, new,
critdu or riw Kvervthing seems to
have lieen finished and thu order of life,
settled for soveral gcnernlions. There' .
are no new buildings, no improvements r
or innovation, bin the muu buildings
grew gray with ngo nnd gather lichens
011 them, nml tlm people walk in thu
rill that their fathers walked in, nud
never do mi) thing striking or origin il 4
Farming Is dona in a careful, frugal
milliner, and nothing i allowed to f
to waste.
There Is no speculation. A real es
tate agent would starve here; so would
a surveyor. Kvery one invests in slow
going concerns that pay inoderalu in
terest, and when one of them falls, It
is as if thu granite of their hill had
been riven, and thu old etablblmd or
der of thing dissolved Into chaos.
If an)- one la enterprising or original
ho goes out west or to tho cities, and
the countr) is left with a conservative,
orthodox population who have respevil
for ancient traditions. To upset ostaiw
ishod customs and disregard the tradi
tions of their forefathers, would seem
to them like pulling down the pillars of
the universe upon themselves, and top
pling all together into a crash of dust
ami confusion.
It is intep-sl'ng to lie a spectator and
look on. hut 1 should kick agvinil iho
pricks if I had to live in thi orthodox
dullness. 1 should want 10 do soma
unprecedented thing lo startle thu in
habitant of this mlllqvoml existence.
Just as I used to have a desire to talk
out loud In Quaker meeting, or throw
a lawk across ihe house and startleiho
elders on tho topmost seaU.
How .o produce a telling effect Com
municate a secret to a woman.
The man who married an Incorrij;
iblo shrew, declared to a friend ml
he had contracted a dangerous scold.
The swivt singer of Michigan ha laid J
in four reams 01 paper, and U now cn-
paged in writlnc a Biblical poem. Sho
has scratched all the hair off tha lop of
her head hunting for A word to rhjmo
with Nebuchadnezzar. Walt W hi 'J an
would make "creation" rhyme wit it.
and go tralght ahead.
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