The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, March 21, 1884, Image 6
-r 0 :9 HOME, FAKM AND GARDE. Fruit trees, as well as animals, re spond to judicious care. Soapsuds are a valuable fertilizer (or all forms of vegetation, especially serviceable for small fruits, and in the fruit garden proper will never be wasted. AT. Y. Herald. A correspondent says that the best means of removing moss and earth ac cumulations from an old shingle roof is to sprinkle lime freely along the comb of the roof and let the rains dis solve and carry it over the shingles. N. . Times. A good cough medicine is made oi boiling two ounces of flaxseed in one quart of water; and rock candy to sweeten it. to your taste. After strain ing, add also thy jiice of several lem ons. This should be taken at night, and if possible it should be hot when taken. Detroit Post. Have you any cabbage stumps? Set them out in the garden, as soon as the frost leaves the ground, where they will not interfere with other crops. Cover them half of their length. Green, tender leaves will soon appear which will jnve the earliest of greens. The blossom shoots will appear later. Cleveland Leader. The following is claimed to bo a very effective cure ior scratches on the fetlock joint of a horse, one which never fails: Wind s. woolen rag around the affected part, and fasten it and let it be till it wears off. No matter if you drive your horse in the mud, do not take off the rag, and before you are aware of it the scratches will be cured. Prairie Farmer. A writer in a scientific journal rid icules the idea that apples sweat and that they must undergo a sweating process before they are put in barrels in order to keep well. He states that only injury comes from leaving apples in piles in an orchard, and that the moisture found on them comes from the atmosphere. Ho recommends plac ing tli em in barrels as soon as they are picked. The way to make loose hair covers Is to take the exact pntiern in paper, lay tills on the material, and bato it round and cut it out, allowing turnings; then stitch witli the machine. The back of the chair will sometimes have to " be gathered, and fulled here and there to the front. It is a great improvement to put a gathered bounce round the chair covers. Where absolutely neces 3ary, fasten with buttons and button, holes. Use as few strings as you can; they are apt to hung down unwarily and look untidy. Ar. 1. Post. The winter radish is rarely found in farmers' gardens, though it is eonsid ared a treat by all who are fond of this regctable at this time of the year. Try it in the garden of the coming season. The see?? need not be sown "until the time for turnips. Thinned and well cultivated they will grow from ten to twelve inches long and three incites in diameter; when they are gathered bury them in sand in the cellar. Before using place them for an hour in cold water, tfliey will not grow well during the hot season and nothing is gained by haste In planting. Utica Herald. The Hole. The mole is considered a nuisance if not worse, generally worse. Wa have known fanners and gardeners to soak seed in poison to kill the mole. But th creature does not want the farmer's or gardener's seed. It is naturally in sectivorous and carnivorous. In its hurrowing it, of course, runs through the seed hills and rows, and may cut oil Tthe tender roots of plants and even ihcave the plants and when driven to it will eat the seed. This is to be regret ted. But we must not look only to the .losses from the mole. It confers some benefit. The question is, how much? If it does more good than evil, it is a friend and not an enemy. We are aware that the question is one that is difficult to answer, and that it cau not be answered except in a general way. One thing we do know: the mole must live, and as it lives principally upon the insect life under the ground, it must de vour large quantities of the pupa: of in sect enemies, worms, etc. Perhaps the mole will have to be placed with the birds in our estimate of its value. It will not do to charge him with every thing and credit him with nothing. Wo can conceive of no greater injury being done the farmer and gardener than the killing off of all the birds. If the birds were gone we would soon lind that the fruit that -had been saved from tl-cir depredations had been saved at a ruin ous cost. More properly speaking, however, in many cases there would be no fruit saved. The insects would do troy the whole crop. There is no mistake about it, as a rule we show little appreciation of our va rious mute friends, the birds, moles, toads, and the natural enemies of in sects. If it were not for them, we would be eaten up alive. There is scarcely an insect that troubles our crops that would not at times at least, make our fields and gardens barren, but for their natural enemies and for 'the depredations of birds and perhaps moles and toads and even snakes. But gen erally we make indiscriminate war upon all these. The whole force of manj' a farm will turn out to kill a snake, if one is discovered on the premises; and we confess wo do not like a snake ourselves. But many of these snakes destroy largo numbers of mice and field rats, and per haps we mav be paying dearly for the satisfaction of our prejudices or fears by killing them. Moles are sometimes so numerous that they do great damage, and it seems advisable to poison or trap them. But even then the remedy may prove worse than the disease. Cer tainly we ought to stop the indiscrimin ate slaughter of the lower animalsthat infest the fields and woods. If we kill it should be done only after fully under standing the uses of our victims, and carefully comparing the good with the evil they do. We think that we can well afford to give the birds the little fruit they eat and periiaps, too, we can better afford to suffer the injury done by the moles rather than kill them, except pei haps under pecu liar circumstances. Stilt we do not like moles, and we generally trap them. But the point we wish to make is, that we ought to study such marteia mort carefully than we usually do. WaLm tturaL ' Spring Woollea Geeda. The new wool staffs forspringdresses revive the styles of our grandmothers both in their soft faded hues and in the quaint designs wrought upon them, or rather woven there, in old-fashioned sampler stitches. The cross stitches of tapestries and the beaded work done a century ago by painstaking needle women are now admirably copied by machinery in both silks and crewels on the rough-finished bison-cloths, the smooth albatross wools, and on many canvas-like fabrics. Small detached figures are most used for the sunken cross stitches, while the raised boucle figures are larger arabesques, birds and branches of bowers. The backgrounds for these designs, which are done in gay colors, are soft shades of gray, brown, blue or old red, with the greater num ber in the new ecru shades, which are now called Suede, like the colors so popular for gloves, Panama like the tints of straw braids, and champignons the pinkish-browns of mush-rooms. Only a part of the dress is made of these figured stuffs, and the preference is for confining the figures to the lower skirt, which is severe!- plain, and to the vet, which is the only trimming for the I basque; however, there arc many varia tions to tnis rule, anu me use oi rem nants and short lengths for combination dresses mav still be resorted to. Other fabrics for what the French manufact urers lalel grand'mere dresses copy to perfection in their weaving the stitches of quilting in the quilted skirts that formed the lower skirts of dresses in olden times. A small flower or leaf, dots or star, may then be printed all through the quilted 'design, and this antiquated looking fabric will form the full round skirt of a costume that has a basque and most oddly bunched up draperies of a plain color. For those who do not like figured goods there are ottoman albatross wools of the lightest quality, not heavier than veiling or bunting, yet woven with threads across that give repped effects; just the reverse of these is the fl-a-fil wools with alternating threads of two colors or of different thicknesses length wise in the fabric. Both these mate rials, as well as the summer bison- cloths, are of light weight, and are al most as transparent as muslin. A great many striped goods are shown both in wide stripes of solid hue and in others that have the fd-a-fd stripes in quaintly contrasted colors, or in two tones of a, single shade. The blue-grays seem to prevail in these striped stuffs, and also in the checks, blocks and plaids that are shown in fine wools; otherwise the pref erence is for the new ecru tints that al ways find favor in the spring. Cheviots come in all the striped anil checked de signs, and in the illuminated and Vene tian mixtures of color that have no set pattern. What is called Jersoy albatross is a sheer wool bunting woven in clastic webbing lik5 Jersey cloths. New plaids for children's dresses have their bars crossing in squares that are woven in Greek key patterns, and these show odd eontrasts'of color, such as Suede with shrimp pink, or gray with reseda, gray with Suede, or porcelain blue with buff. Cashmeres are more largely imported than at any previous season, and in ex quisitely fine, soft and light qualities. Three colors most seen in these are Suede, sky blue, and cream white, and the novel way of using them is to put them under transparent embroider ies on white net, representing lace, in the wav silks and satins have hitherto been used. All garish luster is thus done away in these refined toilettes, which have the entire skirt covered with ecru embroidered net, which is itself made into a skirt of what is called piece lace, or else the front and side briadths only are covered with this uet. woven to represent many rows of lace. The designs arc similar to those of Oriental laces, and much of the pattern is done in darker ecru threads than the groundwork of the net. The tapestry figures and raised velvet blocks noted on silks and on bison cloths are among the new fancies for cashmeres; these, like the lace-covered cashmeres, serve for skirts, while the waist and draperies are of plain cashmere. Irish poplins, that have found favor again with English women, are imported in qualities of medium weight suitable for demi-season dresses. They will be used here by those who prefer corded ottoman effects, and are to serve for the entire dress, with trimmings of velvet- The sober shades of gray and ecru that prevail at present are very handsome in those corded fabrics of mixed silk and wool; there are also smoother poplins, resembling pongees, of substantial thickness that show no cords. Harper's Bazar. One of Webster's Stories. Daniel Webster was fond of a good story, and told a few illustrating his early life in New Hampshire. Ono evening at a convivial party, where he and several distinguished lawyers were present, the conversation happened to turn on the legal profession. -'When I was a young practitioner," said Mr. Webster, "there was but one man at the New Hampshire bar of whom I was afraid, and that was old Barnaby. There were but few men who dared to enter the list with him. On one occasion Bar naby was employed to defend a suit for a piece of land, brought by a little, crabbed, cunning lawyer called Bruco. Bruce's ca3e was looked upon as good as lost when it was ascertained that Barnaby was retained against him. The suit came on for trial, and Birnaby found that Bruce had worked hard, and left no stone unturned to gain the vic tory. The testimony for the plaintiff was very strong, and unless it could be impeached, the case of the defendant was lost. The principal witness introduced by the plaintiff wore a red coat. In summing upiortho defense, old Barna by commenced a furious attack on this witness, pulling his testimony all to isces, and appealing to the jury if a man who wore a red coat was, nndtr nny circumstances, to be believed. 'And who is this red-coated witness?' ex claimed Barnaby, 'but a descendant of our common enemy, who has striven to take from us our liberty, and would not hesitate now to deprive my poor client of his land. W making "any sort of red-coated statement!" During this apeech Bruce was walking up and down the bar, greatly excited, and convinced mat his case was gone, knowing, as lie did, the prejudice of the jury against the British, Whilst, however, Barnaby was gesticulating and leaning forward to the jury in his eloquent appeal, bis shirt bosom opened slightly, and Bruce acci dentally 'discovered that Barnaby wore a red undershirt. Bruce's countenanco brightened up. Puttting both hand in his coat-pockets, he walked to the bar with great confidence, to the astonish ment of his client and all lookers-on. Just as Barnaby concluded Bruce whis kered in the ear of his client: Tve eot him y our case Js safe;' and, approach ing me jury, ne commenced nis repiy to the slaughtering argument of his ad versary. Bruce gave a regular history of the ancestry of his reef coated wit ness, proving his patriotism and devo tion to the country, and his character for truth and veracity. 'But what, gen tlemen of the jury,' broke forth Bruce, in a loud strain of eloquence, while his eyes flashed fire, 'what are you to expect of a man who stands here to defend a cause based on no foundation of right or justice whatever; of a man who un dertakes to destroy our testimony on the ground that my witness wears a red coat, when, gentlemen of the jury when, when, when, gentlemen of the jury!' (here Bruce made a spring, and, catching Barnaby by the bosom of the shirt, tore it open, displaying his red flannel), 'when Mr. Barnaby himself wears a red flannel coat concealed un der a blue one?' The effect was elec trical; Barnaby was beaten at his own game, and Bruce gained the cause." Exchange. i A Thousand Wives. Do what they may, no Mormon lead er will ever equal the Sultan of Moroc co, Sidi Mulcy Kassan.-who has just ad ded the one thousandth wife to his harem, and has celebrated this unique millenary by a brilliant feast given to the other U99, or rather to the other GOO, for 400 are either dead or pen sioned off. Like the Mormons, the Sul tan does not keep all his better-halves at one place, but- distributes them among his winter and summer resi dences at Fez, Morocco, Talilet, and so forth. Even then, unless he has more palaces than fall to the lot of most Em perors, there must be enough in each house to seriously interfere with har mony now and then. We wonder if he felt "as much pride and satisfaction when he added the thousanth to the number as Baron Tauchnitz did when he published the thousandth volume of his convenient "Collection of British Authors?" For we imagine that after a man has married his three or four hundredth consort though on this point we must speak with the doubt arising from a total lack of experience he cares very little for a new wife, as a wife, and regards each further addi tion much as a collector looks upon a new Elzevir, or a new specimen of Jap anese pottery, or another pipe, when ho does not care to smoke, another violin, which will hang upon his wall untouched. It is the pleasure of the miser who heaps up stores: a pleasure, which, in this line of hoarding, only one man in the modern world, fortu nately, is allowed to have. It is cu rious, however, to observe that, while what might be called the physical won ders of tne "Arabian Nights Entertain ments" the carpet or the horse that traveled a month's journey in a day, the talisman that conveyed "one's words at once to the distant lover that, while these and the like are coming true by the power of modern science, the social wonders, as thej- seem to us Occidentals, are beginning to fade away. A son of this very Sultan, the Prince Muloy Edris, not long ago mar ried an Italian governess, who did not give up her religion, and who stipu lated that she should be the only wife; and a brother of the Sultan, the Sherif of Wezdan, has an English wife, who no doubt was equally "determined to have her husband all to herself. Boston Advertiser. Rosewood for Pianos. The defects of rosewood are undoubt edly making themselves felt at this sea son of the year more than any other, and therefore a discussion of the matter is now timely, and if a general course as regards this" material could be decided upon by the manufacturers and dealers it would not be impossible that a check ing piano might be a thing of the past. In this connection I might say that it is not merely rosewood as a material that should be" eliminated from the manu facturing of pianos, but the veneering process with any material. It is this process of veneering, or the covering of one wood with another by glueing, that is the real cause of the trouble, and we fear thercfs only one safe and sure way out of the difficulty, viz.: to use only solid woods. The use of solid woods immediately suggests the idea of can ing which of course gives opportunity for considerable 2)rol,L'r a,,(l artistic decoration which would lead to im proved outlines and styles of cases. The uniformity of styles amongst the various mnkere to-day is a bountiful source of evil and furnishes a good chance for much of the misrepresenta tion and consequent dissatisfaction on the part of customers, if some of the well-known and respectable makers would inaugurate the plan of a more general custom of requiring time to pro duce a piano after the order was given, or in other words develop their "custom-made department," it would be a step in the right direction. The trouble, however, is that leading makers are un willing to yield up the prestige of repu tation which causes the ignorant bin ers t hope that this particular brand may not have the ordinary rosewood, and so they go on, only afterward to make explanations. There is one fact, how ever, that there is a difference in rose wood, and a mighty difference in the manner of veneering, and if the trade will not unite in dispensing altogether with it, let them" join in requiring the best quality of thick veneer, for there is much that can be prevented of the pres ent mismanagement with even rose wood. Boston Musical Observer. Cafaada's Upper House of legisla tion, or Senate, has little attention or thought bestowed upon it by the peo ple. It is seldom in session, and has but seventy members, who aru ap pointed for life, two-thirds of whom owe their position to Sir John Macdonald. either directly or indirect'-. Ihe Sen ate's whole duty seem to be to pass whatever laws tne Lower House origin ates. N. Y. Times. Temperance Beading. HIE LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE. Whether the absolute prohibition or the regulation of the liquor traffic be the system best adapted to restrain in temperance is a question on which good men may differ. But, whether the law of the State be prohibitory or license, good citizens must agree that it should be enforced. Many earnest Temperance workers, in their eagerness to utterly banish the accursed cup from the land", do scant justice to the wisdom of the laws concerning the sale of intoxicants now on the statute books. In most States, notably in Massachusetts, this code of laws is conceived with great judgment and good sense. If these laws were enforced, it is safe to say that in temperance would be as effectually con trolled as under a prohibitory regime. That they are not enforced is" the weak point of the license system. The Li cense law of Massachusetts provides, among other things, that every seller of intoxicating liquors shall be a person of good moral character; that the liipior sold shall be of good quality and free from adulteration; that no liquor shall be sold to a drunkard or to any person known to have boon intoxicated within six months; that no liquor shall be sold to a minor, either for himself or for the use of any other person; that no liquor shall be sold on the Lord's Day, or be tween the hours of midnight and six o'clock in the morning, and that no open bars shall exist within four hundred feet of a school-house. The laws are excellent, but they have never been systematically enforced. A movement looking toward the bet ter enforcement of existing Liquor laws has been recently started. The Citizens' Law and Order League has for its avowed purpose the enforcing of what ever laws regulating the liquor traffic the statutes may contain. It asks no new enactment. its watchword is: "We ask only obedience to law." A movement so wise and so temperate has commended itself to the judgment of law-abiding citizens in all onr principal cities and smaller towns, and the cause has grown apace. The organization of a League is very simple. It has one active officer, either President or Secre tary, who devotes a large part of his time to the prosecution of the work. An attorney is employed in the interest of the society, who manages the cases that are brought into the jurisdiction of the courts. The law and order move ment is an aggressive movement. It passes no resolutions: it circulates few, if any petitions. It is an honest, work ing force. Some of the results accomplished by tho various Leagues may be brietly no ticed. The Chicago League has" been in operation for live years. At the time of its organization it was estimated that thirty thousand boys ard girls were daily patrons of the saloons. To save these children has been the aim of the League. It has prosecuted sixteen hun dred liquor dealers, and secured twelve hundred convictions. The members of the League have visited over three thou sand homes, and secured pledges from many children not to visit saloon-. In this work it is believed that a million dollars have been diverted from the till of the bar-keeper to the homes of the city. The Massachusetts League Avas formed less than two years ago, but it is safe to say that in that short time saloon-keepers have received many salu tary lessons, and have been taught to respect the law. The work which it is doing for children is especially gratify ing. The Secretary believes that not one sale of liquor is now made to minors in Boston where one year ago ten were made. In one town in Middlesex Coun ty ten saloons were ll urishiug in cloe proximity to school-houses when the League was formed. These have been obliged to close their business. The most hopeful sign in this move ment is the great interest, almost en thusiasm, with which it is greeted all over the country. Seventeen branches in as many different towns have already been formed in Massachusetts, and from all sides questions are pouring in in regard to the methods of work and its results. A convention, representing eight States, has recently met in Bos ton, and as a result a National League was formed in the hope of spreading the interest in law ?nd order to every part of the land. Also a grand Temperance meeting was held at Tremont Temple. The strong point of this new movement is that it gathers to itself all good citi zens of whatever shade of Temperance opinion, and forms them into a solid phalanx to meet a common foe. Golden Rule. A Rum-Seller's Experience. A man named Stacy, the owner of a splendid drinking saloon in New-York, signed the pledge lately and closed his house. Hearing that a party of lads had formed themselves into a Temper ance society, he gave them his expe rience as a rum-seller. "1 have sold liquor," said Mr. Stacey, "for eleven years long enough for me to see the beginning and end of its effects. I have seen a man take his first glass of liquor in my place, and afterwards fill tho grave of a suicide. I have seen man after man, wealthy and educated, come into my saloon, who can not now buy their dinner. I can recall twentv customers worth from 8100,000 to SotO.OOO who are now without money, place or friends." He warned boys against en tering saloons on any pretext. He stated that he had seen many a young fellow, a member ot some Temperance society, come in with a friend and wait while he drank. "No, no." he would say, "I never touch it. Thanks all the same." Presently, rather than to seem churlish, he would take a glass of cider or harm less lemonade. " "The lemonade was nothing,'" said the rum-seller, "but 1 knew how it would end. The only safety, boys, for any man, no matter how "strong his resolution, is outside the door of a saloon." Sweden has a law that we commend to legislators desirous of reaching the drunkard but not the manufacturer and seller of drink. By this law a man drunk thrice loses the right to vote. Union Siqnnl. A law has recently been passed in Denmark which provides that all in toxicated persons shall be taken home in carriages at the expense of the land lord who sold them the first glass. Our Young Headers. TWO OPINIONS. HIS. I would not be a pirV" said Jack, " Because they have no tun: "Thev can not go a-ttshinjf. nor Ashootin? with a gun." HKU3. I would not 1)C a hoy." said May, ' For bovs are horrid tliinsrs. With pockets tilled with hooks and knives. Ana nails and tops and rtrinjis." Hunter's Young PcojAe. TOMMY'S WIHPPIMJ. He was seven years old, lived in Chey enne, and his name was Tommy. More aver he was going to school for the first time in his life. Out here little people are not allowed to attend school when they are five or six. for the law says: "Children under seven must not go to school." But now Tommy was seven and had been to school two weeks, and such de lightful weeks! Every day mamma l:s tened to long accounts of how "me and Dick Ray played marbles," and "us tel lers cracked the whip." There was an other thing that he used to tell mamma about, something that in those first days he always spoke of in the most subdued tones, and that I am sorry to record it of any school was the numerous whip pings that were administered to various little bovs and girls. There was some- . '- -i of sitting still. He knew his turn might come at any moment and one night he cried out in his sleep: "Oh, dear, what will become of me if I get whipped!" But as the days passed on and ttiis pos sible retribution overtook him not, his fears gradually forsook him. and instead of spcakingpitifully of "those poor chil dren who were whipped." he ment'oned them in a casual, offhand manner as "those cry-babies, you kuow?" One afternoon mamma saw him sitting on tne porch, slapping his little fat hand with a strap. "Tommv, child, what in the world are vou doing?" she asked. Into his pocket he thrust the strap. and the pink cheeks grew pinker still as their owner answered: could and the more questions. Tho next day Tommy's seatmate. Dickv liav, was naught v in school, and Miss Linnet called him up. opened her uesic. iook out a nine ruiing-winp ic was a uright muo one anu men ami there administered punishment. And because he cried, when recess came. Tommy said: "Isn't Dick Kay just a reg'lar" cry-baby?" (He had learned that word from some of the big boys but, mind you! he never dared to say it lefore his mother.) Dick's face flushed with anger. "Never you mind. Tommy Brown." said he. "just wait till you get whipped and we'll see a truly girl cry-baby then, won't we. Daisy?" And blue-eyed Daisy, who was the idol of their hearts, nodded her curly little head in the most emphatic man ner, and said she 'wouldn t be one bit s'prised if he'd holler so loud that they would hear him wav down in Colo rado." Tommy stood aghast! for reallv and truly, he wasn't quite so stony-hearted himself was big and manly, and he had . the opinion that this was just the way to win her admiration, time he didn't know what But all this i JJatsy aia that Dick's pockets were full of sugar plums: tip-top ones, too. for Daisy had tasted them, and knew that little pack- i etsofthem would from time to time find their' way into her chubby hand. All the rest" of the morning Tommy kept thinking, thinking, thinking. One thing was certain: the present situa tion was not to he tndured one mo-1 raent longer than was absolutely neces-' sary. Uut what could he dor should he tight Dicky? This plan was reject ed at once on high, moral grounds. Well, then, supposing some dark night he should see Daisy on the street, jiist grab her, hold on tight, and say: "Now, Daisy Kivers, I won't let you go till you promise 3'ou'll like me a great deal betterer than you do Dick Kay." There seemed something nice about this plan, very nice; the more Tommy thought of it, the better he liked it; only there were two objections to it- Firstly: Daisy never ventured out doors alter dark. Secondly: Neith er did Tom. Both objections being insurmounta ble, this delightful scheme was reluct antly abandoned, and the thinking pro cess went on harder than ever, till at last oh, oh! if he only dared! What a triumph it would be! But then he couldn't ves. he could, too. Didn't 53il She file dso "lJud thauheyl ....M i.. u;m ,..o,- ,i ; fw. ! she sav that she "wouldn't be one bit oi.:i Tll Fiili im J.L her there was one boy in the school who was not a girl-cry-baby! Yes, actually, foolish Tommy had de cided to prove" his manhood by being whipped, and that that interesting little event should take place that very after noon What did he do? He whispered six .;,.! l surelv Linuet knew both Tommy mamma quite well, and therefore she knew also, quite well, that only a few days ago the one horror of Tommy's life had been the thought that he might possibh- be whipped. Then, too, it was hij firt- tnrm if jln1 oml lilf riOT llO I t..i v 7. ,... ,-:.i...t . I . . ,.- - . . , . ,, . , . i keep him after school and talk to him c .. i ii i- of the sinfulness of bad conduct in gen- . eral, and of whwnenn- m particular J This plan she faithfully earned out, and the little culprit's heart so melted with- in him that he climbed up on his teach- I er's lap, put his arms around her neck nn,l &aL !,,- -,w i, wni,i i and kissed her. crving he would never be so naughty' again. He u...,g pauuiuu ijua..s auuuu u. startled by a sudden commotion on the whippings to restless, mischievous little , other silltof t,u, . - Tommy, who had never learned the art , inir nn ,,or . lt. . ,. ,. , ,nj . "I I was just seeing how hard I "..,rii !.,.', i,;,,n- ..r iC;'..-'. t.j-. hit my hand without crying;" ' . ilU .. ,,,;, ., ,,':,:,, ;:.,; he disappeared around tho side of .,..,. ; i,: . . , ,,.,, .,"- .-... house beiore mamma could ask any , ..j.IeaSt Vk" ! i :, .vhil, m(. . a little mortal as he appeared to he; he THi.fcv'-? houe had been secretly rather sorry for Dick, s'posin"- they but he wanted Daisv to think that he 'i,inr tnn " Had it been any other child, he would cIr:TT77' - i , ., r i:-.-.,......!,,. t.n w. have been punished; but Miss l'"M""" "T ?l?"r"l 'Tu" was just going to leu ner an auuiib ----- .' ,,. o,.i, c,.onoa tin. Diisv when in wilkod a friend of i oflen been tl vritaess to ,SHch st-enes ,tne luis , w nen m wated a inenu oi f j . h j strong lm- Miss Linnet's, so he went home instead, i ursL V"0 " "" ,, jn,7nn Cm The next morning he started for school Pession on the m ind -London Cor. with the firm determination to be A San Franciseo Chronicle. good child, and I really bel'cve he I """ . , would have hern had not that provok- j Tosh Billings says Artemns Ward inirliflln u-Iln'ri nfi lLiw mn.!iml ti-tal left Ills mother QOOW Ml IllS Will, tini in a very independent manner, her saucy nose away up m the atr, and scornful look in" her pretty blue eyes. It was more than flesh and blood could stand. AH Tom's "-nod resolution tluW H"kv-high. When twelve o'clock camo Miss Lin net's list of delinquents began in this wise: WHISl'KR MARKS. Thomas Brown - - - - K Mrlinilu.lorie n There was great excitement among the little people. How dared any one be so dreadfully bad! Tommy's "heart sank, sank, sank, when Mks Linnet said: "When school begins this after noon I shall punish Tommv and Me linite." And she did! She called them both up on the platform, made them clasp bauds and staud with their backs against the blackboard, then wrote just J above their heads: Thoma Ilrovn(0. . . ,t iiul -J Partncr ' dfcjjrare. MeiiniiaJnniM f Kpliwll -SB Oh, how mortified and ashamed Tum my was! If only she had whipped him. or if it had been some other girl. But Melinda Jones!!! (a colored girl). At the end of ten minutes. Miss Linnet let them take their seat: but Tommv'.-,- I heart burned wrthin him. Daisu had m" laughed when he Mood there holding lie- " linda Johnson's hand! There "were deep crimson spots on Tommy's cheeks all that afternoon and a resolute deter- 4 mined look in his bright brown eves, but he was very still and quiet. l-ater m the itav the children were ' passing to her seat, accidentally knocked it out of her hands; without a "moment's 1 hesitation. Daisv. bv wav of expressing I ner leelmgs. snatched her slate ami promptly administered such a sounding "whack! on Belinda's back and shoul ders as brought a shriek of anguish from that poor, little unfortunate who began to think that if all the days of her life were to be like unto this day. exist ence would certainly prove a burden. dust alKJiit two "minutes later Miss Linnet was stauding by her desk, a ruler in one hand ami Daisy's open palm in the other. while Daisvherself, miserable I little culprit, stuod white and trembling ueiore ner. as she raised the ruler to stead! She is onlv iut a little girl, and I know she'll cry. it w'll hurt "her so! I'd rather it would be me everv time than Daisv-trulv 1 won't cr Oh, , ,,1,,.. wu;n mo"' And Miss Linuet did whip him, whil,: Daisy, tilled with remore, clung to him sobbing as if her heart would break. To be sure, somebody who o.'.ght to know, told me it was the lightest "feruling" ever child received: but Daisy anil Tom my both assured their mothers that it was the "dreadfulest. crudest, hardest whipping ever was." "And "did my little man cry?" asked mamma. "No, indeed! I stood up big as I could, looked at Daisy and smiled, 'cause 1 was so glad it wasn't her." Then that proud and happy mamma took him in her arms and kissed him; and right in the midst of the kissing in walked Daisy. "Would Tommy please come and take supper with liier?" Of course he would, and thev walked off hand in hand. When thev passed Tommv sufrirestcd: forgive Dick anil let him :Vnd Daisv agreeing. Q1CV cafC(1 that VOIinir g amj ma-nanimou?lv iuforme tieman out d him that ne w:ls forgiven and might come and jj.ive sum)er with them. What in the world they had to for give, nobody knows: but then, so long as forgiveness proved such an eminently satisfactory arrangement, all round why, nobody need care. The children waited outside the gate while Dick coaxed his mother to let him go, and standing there, hand in hanU; Da!sv piuckcd up heart of grace o,,, I -itli vm-msr cheeks and an air ...... ...... . w- w . nbout her of general penitence, said something very sweet in a very small voice: "I'm sorry you were whipped, and oh. Tommy, "I "wish I hadn't said you'd holler!" Amy Teresc 1'owclson, in Wide Awake. Poverty's Cleans. The practice of the guest bringing his own food to be cooked is a common one even among classes many degrees above poverty. For example, a young clerk, on say thirty pounds a year, will buy a chop at the'Leadenhall Market for his midday perhaps his ouly "solid" meal and take it to a neighboring chop house, where it is cooked for him and served with a piece" of bread for a penny. The chop", half a pound of mut ton, has cost four pence; total cost of solid meal, five pence. In Paris I saw - old veteran soldier one who wore several medals, enter a soup-house on the Rue St. Honore. buy a bowl of hot bouidle-a-baise for three cents, produce a roll of bread frcm his pocket and thus make a solid meal for live cents. In France even soup is considered solid. The butcher-scrap business in London affords, perhaps, the most striking proof of the extremities to which the Iloor a ", ' " dements of food which poor are reduced lor tnose nitrogenous a com anu wcl thev begin to close. At this late hour there is no chance of any further de mand for whole meats. But now com mences the trade in scraps. These con sist of such refuse as in America is; thrown to "the dogs or given to the "swill7' man " Tvinn I?, Inm'nn thi ilnn)3tl(i for it as human food is so strong that I"1 l M "" 0,,i ; i; an.i children are sent to stand in a line ana jwu iren re Vus0 at ten and twelve cents per Ul ' tA" i,. ,wwim,n.i ,m tn nno Inu- .Th'5 lJ S ?m? it ? tock m the m;",nJ;ee.n. 1 lIe P'T' ",f C Sfpnv SoS oi ant parents with his s.xpenny worta of refuse, the gas is turned ott and the butcher has shut up his shop. I have -)- v' - ..-tx .'illUIM.l IH'IR?, IU I ?Vf fill 5v;t IiImv- Tiimmv cunnir fi- r.TYI 11 CT I UUUl UUUUll ViwTfcH V left Ills mother 5i)W,wj m nis win, when he hadn't sixty cents to his nam. rflf 1 i Ml Y' It tKj r VFx mjT-J EaLwsa&'r' T-Vr .ysswailJET t 11 m&&