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"1 ' Fj.1 'ft if iJS i e i 1 Ism.' ' i " : BED CLOUD CHIEF A. C. HOSMER, Proprietor. RFD CLOUD. XEEUASKA. OUR HOME. To My IIubIjsim. No nil. of srrhltcctural a'.ane. With columns tower and arch abounding. . Within apartments Unje ami Ion?. Ami sato.iy corridors resoundinc. Hut structure, claltnmconly crac I'ronortioncd to a restine place Our botnr. A spot where su.tiht Jlkes to i.hlne Through curtained windows feo'tly Klestainz At.4 liicUennsr through the harifflnj? ine Is ilitmced within by loe-llj;ut he.itnioa' From ejes, aclow wltu heavenly ray. And lljts, whure household jrraces play Our homr. The leave fcy whispering wind are tfrred. And rouno about the birds are sinking; "Within till sweeter sound I beard. The nllvery lauh or childhood nntfn;:. And tcndei tone and accent Ulnd. The soul of harmony unbind Our home. sal wises iV.-: :B by drlftln;: mow Ccstent we let the storm-wind bluster; We tacc th hearth-fire.' rudJy low While shadow drear behind us cluster; No Mail with bitter breath can chill The heart another's heart doth fill Our home. The pictures from the wa'nsrot smile n scarlet bloom through verdure showing; IVLHe books the lifeline hours beguile. And comers-sweet Is frerjy flowing A central i?Iow diffuslm- llcht. l.roud the reach of human sifhi Our home. Tn" thrifty hnusf-wlfe ,:U her round H daily enp:. yet hrerful duty. For toil Is v.--t jf toll abound With harmony and grace and beauty; The commonplace becomes divine. And water is lraufornnd tn wine Our hom Or weal or wre which e"er betides. There's j.y where heart on heart repose. When low: within the home abide I.ike ierftmif round the heart of rose; So fair a duelling plac it stands A tyjie of thst not made with hands Our home. Mm. itari H. Tijft. In HVfAwvi. OLD SEATOX'S I'LAXS. Excollont Reasons "Why He Con cluded to Altor Thorn. "Matter have, readied a certain p'int, and C'luiii must hear to reason." So "siiiil old l.uku Seaton to liin wife one evening in the autumn of tlic your. "If In- were a old man there'd be some ox rune for the fust she's a-umkin'; hut he's .voinip n:nl wHI-favonil and owns a iuartcr Mvtiuti t' kwmI lami, mostly aid for by his own hard tt'l. Any twarl ort to think her solf lucky: an' ("Itmi must hear to reason. Look inter the almanac, mother, and see when the moon changes. The pile's just ri:;hl , fat enough 'u'nnt too fat, but ivu mustn't slorter in the divrca, kaso why, the uieut'll shrink in fryin. First quarter comes next Tuesday Well, that's as pusl a day in any for iiu-lcillin', ami liettcr meat than Ir.'vti rib-, ami tenderJines few folks "ii'd cr.ive, oven for t woddiu' supper. I'i(j Klnrteivd and juit up n Tuesday, bakiu' done oa U.itietdny. anil weddin' on Tliurs duv that's the lay'm' out. Call Clum." Mrs. Seaton. tlie meek spirited Lady Cap Jilet of tliis story, oiit'ye.il. and presently Co lumbia, her daughter, entered. She was a trill. haiuUoiii" country j;irl, with a face liriht and smcen. When her father's "lajiii out" was n'jM'ited to lier. siio shook her bead, and .aid with Iow scorn- I wonder that you thould .suposo you could make me do it!'1 The old man rased and raved. He abused his daughter, and abused her mot her for not having taught tier llliul olHlieiice, and ended by atmsin a vrtaiii young man nimeil Kalpli Itryan, who had made love to Columbia, and who Columbia favored. "Tin Rood fer nothing, weakly druu-Htoro 'clerk, "I bout a dollar's wuth o laud or live sUx'k ui the world!" 'He lun that that's better than land or stock." s.;id Columbia; "he has brains and a Kmm1 heart." At this her father fairly danced about in Ids aiisry excitement. "You take up fer him, do ye.' Well. I've settled nil thai. He's hod his order, and you've lied yotirn. He keep ofT'n this place, or Miie as my dox Hull's cot teeth in his held, they s;its sot in his seruwuy .slianks. Itraiiis and a irood heart! To think of a fel ler with uolhiu in the world but brains un a pnd heart, bavin' the bae fortytood to ak a man ' my means fer his only darter!" Then, we prievu to say, Columbia forgot the fifth commaudmcut and sp.ke words to her par'iit's dishonor. llalph llryan is above us all. He con descended when he came to ask for his wife the daiighterof a man proud of his ignor ance; a man who could nevor be persuaded to learn to read and write!" "Ye sassy jade!" growled the old fanner, avagely. -Insultin' yer own father, who more'ii half dosarvesit for sparin' ye from tho work to go to scIkhiI. 'stid o niakin' ye hoe ivrn summers and shell the same win ters! Hut all the same, he's lied his orders, and you've lied yourn. Sure as your name is Columby Ann Soaton, so uro you'll be marrieil to William Haywood next Thurs day. Figger out what you want from town for tho supper ilvin's, and I'll git the same to liuurer; and if ye behave as a good girl ort. I'll do by ye, in tho matter o' outsettln' in a way that'll surprise ye." "I'll never niarry Bill Haywood," said Co lumbia, firmly. "Why. he has scarcely asked me! ! have never spoken a hundred words with the man in my life!" "Well, ye'll hev a chance to speak aoreral hundred with him before ye die of old age. And if he hasn't asked you. ho'a asked me. which amount to a good deal more ia this case. D'ye hear that ! Nobody can't aay a word ag'in him. and, if it wa'nt for the wld der Lockery. and ber nme-makin'. dam. agin' tongue, the gearls 'ud be crowdin each other ofTn the ioor fer a chance to atand up with him." The widow Lockery. In her own peculiar, serio-comic style, did give William Haywood a rather grotesque setting forth, somewhat aa follows: "I'd hecrd as how Billy was rather too avaricious for a young man. neglectin nks svlf and keepin' a mean, oudacious kind of ol bachelor's hall, all on account of sarla' nes. But I said 'twaa to his credit to be savin. It's creditable to git property, and creditable to save it, in all reasonable and becomin' ways; but there's a kind of Von omy that's both unreasonable and uabecom in'. Well, one day Ixvynie's little bov k-n and told me that Will Haywood wanted aoae o' my cut -short lieans to plant with his com; so. when ho was giviu' his corn the first plowiu'. I took a llr? e jwke o' them beans and started 'cross lots to the field I knew he was workin in. I kem clo.e up to him afore he aw uie, and had a chance to look the critter ovor; and I tell you he was a sight! Not that he's such a humly wretch. He's tall and well put uj. with a fairish face, only hi eyes haYC a narrer. borin sort 'o squint. But the way he was dressed! Hfcfcorv shirt that 'sail right. Cowhide boot ail right, too. But he hed oa gulluses made out'n a old pair o' buggy reins and a mangr old plug hat that was his father's the nap peeled off in places. And his trousers thev was the wort! I hardly know how to tell you about them; hewa wearin' thea onmentionables in such an enxnentieaable way. You see they bed becun to aaow signs of givin' out, and to make 'em last loBgerhe bad actually reversed "em put 'em oa front backwards and back f reat wards. Sure'syou live, tee bul his kaee faed made were, at the back of his tegs'. Well Ialaodtaar: Presantly I went oa to tell him how to plant tbem cut-shorts; but I'm blest if I know to-day whether I tol' him to rait afv Ivistife frk tt Kill as m. twjkaa tn tllv btfla I kep' a fillin' tip nni a fllUn' ap: and when I turned to go home, I got tbo off eye of his old boss, and then I hed to laugh. The crit ter gimme such a droll look, and the corner of his mouth kep' a twitchin' likj ho was goin' to bust right out! When that young man started oa arftcr his plow. I secretly pronounced him a annymaUxl skecrcrow. "WclL I sorntrcd notnn wards, and as I tiasaed Heaton's I sawthcoldnian out jrjttln' anew ground-chunk under a panel o" fence. He riz up and said: 'Good mornia'.' and I returned tne compliment in a proper man ner. Then I said fcort o' slow and airnest: "I just seen Billy.' "'WclL' the old fellow acapjwd out, 'Bil ly's all right, I guess.' 'No,' Bays I, 'bo ain't all rizht by a long shot. Keaton turned to his work a miuute. and then turned back to a-) and said: "Look here, now, Mist Lockery. I know what you mean ay the suiilci. Ion't go a-tellin' all over the kentry how Billy look when he's about his work. I know how that boy is wearin' off his clothes, and I know the reason why. He still owes some on the last piece of land he bought the WclL eighty and when he get that paid off and is clean out o' debt, his garments will come 'round agin, to their natural and proper position. Billy's all right. I tell ye: and the gearl ort to feel proud that be wants fer his wife!' "'Well,' says 1, 'if that's the way tne land lays, I pity Clum.' Then I ponied home." Mrs. Lockery was not the only one of the simple, friendly ueighhors who. in their hearts, pitied Columbia. Young Haywood wa a niggard from childhood. He was, moreover, accredited with a domineering win and sullen temix.-r. He was a meaner man than Seaton, and more to be dreaded, inasmuch as he was quic'.rr and had more latent force than the elder skinflint. Tho day after he laid ilnwn the law to his daughter, as before related. S-Mton went to town with a load of wheat to hell. He was charged with various small commissions in the grocery and confectionery line, by Mrs Seaton. Columbia had nothing to say. In the secrecy of her chamber she penned a lew lines to her lover, and her little brother Tom undertook to deliver the letter at the Imminent risk of ieing seen by his father Tuesday morning came, and with it the pig killing. Old Seaton himself reveled in it, audit was a not altogether unpleasant epi sode to his wife; while the two boys, Hiram and Tommy, were made glad by the un wonted turmoil, the scalding and scraping, tho hanging up, head downwards, of the sleek carcass, and. later on, by the white curly tail given them to roat over the coals to eat with salt. Columbia kept in the back ground. Once, as her father and mother were looking over a box of dried herbs, in search of summer savory for the sausage, she heard the for mer saying: "She'll I! all riht when the time comes. Bill was in town Saturday and bought u hull new suit of store clothes. I told him not to come 'round Tons Thursday; that Clum was awful busy, and that she was all right for the weddin' You sec, 1 knew he would lie. Hill goes to l.riertown to-day for the license." That evening, as supp.;r was preparing, and the farmer's family were assembled in the wide, bright kitchen, there came a re sounding rap at the door. The big dog bristled and growled, but a word from his master quieted him. Seaton himself opened tho door, and was confronted bvnn Irish tablecloth podijlcr. footsore and weary, who with many bows ar.rt much palaver asked for supper and u night's lodging "I guess ye may stny." said Seaton "We'll givo ye a sheer o' sech as we've got, and charge ye fer it." Tnese wei'ineu will t;ik' it in truck. Ye- c:i pav 'cm out'n yer pack." "I'm immense oblcogcd to yer." said the peddler, swinging his heavy pack from hih shoulder to the Hoor. "An' its the rare foine towels an' hand kercher.s 111 sliow the led dies in themornin'." An hour or so later, down under the big sycniiion; by the run," or brook, Colu:ubiu stood talking with llalph Bryan. It was their first meeting since the me sage Tommy had carried on Saturday Halph urged a clandestine marriage, but Columbia would not consent. She was sure of only qae thing. She would never marry Haywood. Shu would refuse at the last moment, and tcar her father's wrath. "1 shall 1h banished from home, and I would not care for that, only on mother's account. I can hire out, and take can; of myself there, dear, I only meant till you were liettcr able t take care of :ne. It would bu folly for us to marry now. You must take your last course of lectures, get your doctor's diploma, and practice your profession at least a year lxforc we marry. We have often .settled that between us." Then Ralph broke out into hot, hard words against Bill Haywood. "Why couldn't ho have set his gopher's eye on some two-fisted giunte, like the widow Morse! She'd be a mate for Bill. When ber renters in town fall behind on quarter-day, she curries out their furniture with ber own hands, nails up the shutters, locks the door, and puts the key in her Kvket Why couldn't Bill have thought of her I What made him want my Anna!" "Things ought to b so different !" moaned Anna herself. "Father ought to favor you, you have dotie so well to support and edu cate yourself: and in a year or two we could lie married with all good reason on our side. Now 1 do not know what will hapcn "" And the strong girl broke down crying. Something did happen within the next hour that let a sudden glow of cheering liht over the dark prospect. Soon after aupier, farmer Seaton lax down on the calico lounge in the kitchen, to doze away in the evening till bedtime. The packman was shown to his room upstairs, where, after naming his family saints, he prepared to go to rest. He stretcbed his tired back and arms, with audible yawns, then took off his shoes and stockings, and proceeced to anoint his inflamed and blistered feet with Socerer'a 8alre." a a patent preparation, composed maialy of essential oils, whose puugent odor soon found its way to every corner of the house. Old Seaton drew his breath with deep snores, and the dream-elves were busy in his brain. Suddenly he awoke, aad sat holt upright. He snuffed loudly twice or thrice, then, fixing his wife with the glittering eye, he shouted in a whisper "Jane, me woman I Do vou kaow we're bein' klury formed ! Can't ye smell it !" Mrs. Seaton, who was knittiaf by the lamp, sniffed softly aad said: "Yes, father, I do smell something smells like medicine o some kind." "Medicine !" crieJ the old man ; "it's klury form, and we're got to be a budgiu' or we'll be put to sleep and robbed. It's that das tardly tramp upstairs. He kaows I sold that load of o' wheat Saturday, aad he kaows where I put the mosey. I dreamed a bit ago he was holding a bottle to aay nose. Git them boys out o bed. quick! Where's Clum I I don't know what to do she'd tbink of something!" Mrs. Seaton hurried excitedly to waken Tom aad Hiram, who slept ia a "recess' off the kitchen. The boys kicked and whined at being told to rise, then rolled over and went to sleep again. She then ran out oa the back stoop and called her daughter. As she re-entered the kitchen, her husband ex claimed: "Look at them varmints o boys! They are not getting up at all! Porc'ianercent lambs, to be smothered in their sleep! Wake up. ye youag whelp, and daace 'reaad here, or ye'll get a tech o the strap !"- Just then Columbia entered. After ad mitting that she "smelled something" she suggested to her roreal that if he thought the peddler was practicing upoa them, to fetch the zaaa downstairs, aad put him out of the house. "VeM llka tn Km ma .k .l.kkl woald yef cried the eld coward. "He'a armed to the teeth. Til warrant. Don't let eaa et down, aar dmt set stora ymtM, If yc val'y yer life and property. Opca U the winders, but don't go away, for I wast ye should keep your eye oa the red chlst. I'm going to load my gun and keep my guard en the outside: there's more of 'cm not far off. You. C'lumby Ann, run ortr to Abe Mott's and tell him to come here to wuasi. I dassent tackle that rascal alone." Columbia started to perform ber father's order leaving him charging his fowling piece with buckshot acd toacblng up the sleepy boys with his gunstiek. The path to Abe Mott's lay by the old sycamore, where she fouud lialpb still waiting, anxious to know the meaning of that frightened call from the house. She was hastily telling hint when they were startled by tne almost sim ultaneous rejwrt of two guns. They ran in the direction of tbo shots and came upon the vcene of a queer duel bctwreu whom would you gue:-jld man Sea'.oa ar.i Billy Hay wood ! It so happened that uiioa his return from Briertown with the Heeaso Bill had be thought bim of a pair of .saucy raccoons thai had been flourishing ratnly on the now corn that stood shocked ou a certain portion of hU ctate: namely, the -Wei's c:ghty " He determined to devote thu remainder of the broken afternoon to cleaning and prim ing hLsdoublc-barrcUod gun. and. wLn the mrjon hail risen he would try tor a sh? at the marauders. The "Wells eighty" disconnected with his main farm, and xt reach It he had to go through a lar.e that skirted Sealon's orchard. He was skulking alongon theerrand we have explained, when he sudden1; came ujon the o:J man. llkcwiio armed with a shotgun. The instant he came In sight, Seaton yi lied. "Take him. Bull!" ami fired, the charge blowlnr awnr the u; ;i:r half of the ancestral -tovc-iii5 li:T. Billy returna lire prrnjiptlj jepering his would-be father-in-law's left arm and shoul der. At the same moment be was seized from lyhlnd by Sca'.oi, t big dog. The half -crazed o.ii man rusl:d iqo:s his an Liiyonlst with a clubbed gar.. u?t as tho latter drew a hunting kajf.s and plunged it with fatal effect into the dog'.i:e k. b'eaton'a i'1-aimcd blow was parru-1. and the two men gave cacti other a look of enraged recog nition. Haywood then tinsl the remaining charge into the body of the writhing dog, and dia p cared on a loping run. The old farmer tutnbh.il down in the dust be-ltle Bull, muttering "Blood and carnage! l"ood and carnage y They got him up hi wife. Columbia, and Halph Bryan aud were taking bim into the house, when the eddler came limping out, his bandaged feet radiating the condensed jsirfume of a German pharmacy. Columbia managed to say to him: 'Don't let father see you. Get your paok and sleep on the haymow " "I will, mum," he whiHHrud, "'and light out airly. An' it inurtherin dhrunk the o-.vld man is." he remarked to himself, a! he climbed the ladder to the hay-loft. The next morning Seaton. sitting bolstered up in lod, held a conference with hisvalutsj friend and trusted udvi-ier. Abram ilott, whoi:ounseled him in this wise: "Ju-.t ke-p this young fellow right by ye for a few day., He knows more about sur gery than half the old sarjints inthe kentry. You mind when that drunken Jim Stiles got run over and his head peeled! Well, Halph Bryan wus ou the ground, and ho 'ussu straightenfsl outuutttorii sie!p.iiinl stetchett it to its place, and pnttetl it down and sewed it up. neat as a bad-cover, aud it got well ! See that with my own eye-. J He's a doctor, all but the diplomy, and the beauty of it N. lie diissent charge ye. You've got right .smart of fever mht, and you'll be laid up for a we?k anyho'.v; and if ye g't a doctor out from town he'll make a bill that'll take half yer summer's crop to pay. Just keep this chap ri.ht by ye -says he williu to say and you'll come orit nl' right in a few days. He's got tho most o' them shot out o' ye now, and he can pick the rest out ul odd spells, when you feel like lcttin' him." As this good r.rin wa leaving the house ho gave Columbia's ear a sly pinch and said: "Look here, my chicken: jNt credit yet I'nrle Abe with doi:i' ve a gjod turn in ven der." Seaton was quite ill for a week or two. He was also strangely subdued and chast ened in spirit I!" eemed to have for gotten a good many thing. He seemed to have forgot to ask how Ralph ha penetl to be there that night He for got to inquire after the sdJler He also forgot that he was the first offender in the shooting affray. Ho only rcmumlicrcd that he was u poor old man. who had been tired iihi:i and wounded upon his own land, and that his faithful and lielovtsl dog wa dead. He would whiiuer aud moan awhile, then drop off to sleep s'ucefully, wishing plagues of mildew and murrain on his old time favorite. Billy Haywood. One day after he w;is able to sit up. lie ai J to lUlp'i. who had lieen his constant, tireless at tendant : "You've acted the part of a son by m, and I'm goin to net the part of a father by you. o to Chicago th'u winter, and git yer diplomy from old Ku-.li. and when spring comes you and Clum ni.iy have yer own And they did. On the morning after th fracas, young Haywood et his wits to work to solve the problem, "what to do about it." He wa all ready to get married clothes bought, lioens procured, etc. As for ttie Seatons. he well knew that Bull's murderer daro not go near the houv for some lime to come. Sirs. Morse had often crossed hia mental vision, and before noon that day he bad actually proposed to the thrifty widow, the motto on whose coat of arms was: "Pay up or pack up." He then rode back to Briertown and bribed the county clerk with a barrel of winter apples to change the name in the license from Columbia Ann Seaton to Maria Morse; and the next day the very Thurs day farmer Seaton had so firmly fixed for his wedding Billy and the widow were married. Angelina Tent, in l'omoptitm. mm A Gotham Fairy Tale. 'You see,'" said a Broadway car con ductor, as he registered two fares on thi indicator in response to three just received, "it isn't as easy for us cos ductors to cheat the company as the public ees. to think. We are re quired." he continued, "as he collected five fares and rani; up three in a buoy ant manner, "to obtain five cents from every passenger, and then to register each fare on the indicator. Of course. he observed, meanwhile ringing ua one in exchange for two fares taken in. "each passenger sees me ring the indi cator for his or her fare, and it ia im possible not to do so without being found out. "Why.' he added, jerking the rope so gently that the indicator didn't ring for the two fares he had then pocketed, "if I did not register every fare I receive I should deem it proper for any one to have me arre;ed fordishonesty." So I had hits arrested. Puck: Gateau of Apples: Put into a sauce pan a half-pint of water together with a half-pound of loaf sugar. Let it boil, and when it become a thick syrup hare some tart apples pared, cored and sliced; add a pound of these to the syrup, flavoring the mixture with the lest and juice of a Icaoo. Allow it t boil, stirring it constantly: when the Bass becomes thick, pres it into a damp mold, and when thoroughly set turn it out on a dish; poor a thick custard around it and serve. Petectives swooped down upoa a funeral at Newbern. Tean.. and cap- tured a P horse tkief so quietly 3 noT- to disturb the services ia im leasL WONDERFUL CITIES. rmmuvm Ts rs la at Easts Ia41a Tho-e who found It difficult to be lieve ia th possibility of such ade-rtei city a that de.cribvd by Mr. Kidcr Ilai:jranl ia "She." may. if on may jndjje from a Ixjndon Timrs tetter, prt pare themxrlvtrs for greater wonders ia the architectural lino, wen if ha should confine himself to j-imple de scription o5 actualities when he takes Holly and hii friend to Asia. Say- tho letter: Ouy of th" strance.st thttiir In India is the multitude of ie?erted capitals. There are three old Delhi?, three suc cessive capitals of the Kat. all cls to each other, all -outh of the present city. One o! the three is Tuglm-kaad. a marvelou? city ou a hill, roofless- and absolutely deserted, but solid and gigantic. The second is Ferozebad, including- the fort of Indraput. with a handful of inhabitants. The third Is the old Delhi of Kutub. who was bora Turkish tl.ivi and died ElllOerur of t . ,. ... .... . . ,. ' '""- "" -""-'-- Kutuh Minar. the finest tower in th world. !pritii:in aloft like a living or-g-ittii-tn. and in the oldest mw)ue in India, the Kutub Mu-que. There is a Daultabad on the Nizam's dominions with a fort atop of a conical hill of black granite, artificially scarp-d. Th" (ort i rive hundred feet above the- plain: the city lies Mow. with Kurojwan fnrtilleation- and dry moats: but almost the whole of the city L a jungle, tall enough to hide a herd of elephants. There we ate the !est grapes we found in India. ri;enel nat urally in 1-'bruary. square ."ided. black, delicious. Thither it was that Tug luck, the builder of that southernmost I'elht. that still bears his name.d ragged the whole inhabitants of Delhi eight hundred miles oil. "Twice." says Hunter ("The Indian Empire." p. -'ST.). "he allowed the miserable supplicants, to return to Delhi: twice he compelled them on pain of death to quit it." It wa.s Tugluck who called the city Daul tabad. instead of Deogiri. lie wiw a scholar and .soldier, and u very early, if unscientific, bimctalist. "Having drained hi? treasury, he iMicd a forced currency, by which ho tried to make the King"? bra equal to other men's .ilver. Foreign merchant refu-ed the King's bras tokens, trade came to a at'tud. anil the King had to tuke pay ment of hi taxes in hi own depre ciated coimge." '1 here i- (tolconda. once tho capital of the Decani, rarely entered by tho traveler now. It Ls surrounded by a wall about four miles in circumference. The fortress is e;irt by a wall of about one mile. The citadel has an inner most wall, and on the wry highet plateau of rock rests the king: palace. It is a deserted city, except the smull garrison, with .solid maonry of hewn tone. still firm. A high wall of some tifty feet r in aro uitl the zenana, with one breach ou the .southeast side. AurungeK'". soldier made the breach. September. 1GS7. Hyderabad i half viih!e amid it: trees the 'bar Minar ami Mecca Musjid conspicuous above all. One side is the Mir A lam lake, on the other the Austin Sugar, a dozen .stnnll artificial lakes; antelope below you. nibbling gras where busy streets ran two centuries ago. ('rand tombs He ntnid orderly gardens outride the city, and granite hills lHtind tho horizon. m m EFFECT OF COLOR. Xnvel Mrtlioil Ailuplrd by I'hyslrlan la tli Treatment of the losaar. The effect of color on the insane is being thoroughly tested by a well known Pittsburgh physician. Follow ing the example of an eminent doctor in Italy, he lias lifted up one of the room of a patient's home in red. The windows are all of red glass, the walls are kalsomined in light red, the cur tains are of the same hue, and the globes of the gas-jet are opalescent scarlet. The craze for treating the in sane in this manner is prevalent all over Italy at this time. It is claimed by the Italian doctor referred to. thnt on a recent occasion he undertook the case of a person afflicted with melan cholia, who refused to eat any thing. This patient was placed in one of the red room.. The effect of the color was to make him as cheerful an a sane per son, and iu three days he voluntarily asked for everv meal. Dr. Ayres, of l'eiin avenue, who Is well-known as an expert in the treat ment of insanity, was asked his opin ion of the Italian idea. Said he: "I do not think there is much in it. Sev eral years ago we had in this country the blue light craze. Blue-glass aad blue wall paper were adopted by many physicians by way of experiment, but 1 never heard of any patient llng cured through such extraneous treat ment. I would rather place a sweet toned music-box ia the roots of every lunatic than any thing else. Music has a cheering effect upon almost all issaae people. That was my experience while I was a member of the medical staff at Dixmont Insane Asylum. 'Within the past few years wonderful strides have been made in the line of surgical treat ment of the insane. With the aid of localization, marvelous cures have been effected recently, people who were ia former years considered incurable, be ing rather easily cured." Dr. Hutchinson, superintendent of the Insame Asylum at Dixmont. was subsequently asked if that institution had ever tried "the color effect." "Yes. to some extent." he replied. "We have now in the institution a blue room. It has blue glass doors aad windows, and the walls are of light blue. The room was fitted up that way some years ago. when the idea went abroad that blue would cheer and cure the vagaries of disordered minds. However, the room never cured aay one, aor will iu The patient that is in the room now has never shown aay im provement. I have no faith in the use of colors, nor do I believe that red. yellow or purple would be any better than blue. To cure insanity you saust strike at it is Us incipieacy." rflft burgh Ditpmtck, A change is coming over the lace of California. Where tke id mines need to be now forests are sprinfiaf up. The wind acd ih birds have doc Us planting. I GOTHAM'S TALL CURES. M. fair Cttfe4rt as It Asvsasw Abwvs tit Umut, The twin spire of Sc "fatrick" Ca thedral are the tallest church spirr ia America and rank among the tallest la th world. They ueaured In the archi tect's plan S-i feet, but there ha,t been a certain amount of grJn over this ia cislruction which BRake them about 330 feet from the curb. Tho only tower over a building in this country higher than thi Is. it Is be lieved, tht uncompleUsi one oo lh public building in Philadelphia, which will be o-V) fee, high when it U done. There are higher pire over Kuropean cathedral, among them thoe at Vi enna. Cologne. Chartlers. Antwerp and Salisbury. Trinity spire in this city is iM feet high. St. Patrick's spires, with the whole cathedral, were planned by and built under the- BUervMon of James ilenwick. of this city. The c thrdral was first projected by Arch bishop Hughes about 1M0. la lf53 Mr. Kenwlck drew the first plans. These were reduced in size and other wise changed by Archbishop Hughe-, nod iu IriVT Mr. Itonwick drew tin final plan. Tlie cornertone was laid on August 1.1. K1S -thirty year, one month and nineteen days before the topmot ston wa set in the last of the spires. The cathedral was dedicated nearly ten year ago. but the spire Here then onlv to a level of the roof of the build ing. They were left in that condition until the fall of IrvG. a hen work was ruxned. It ha been continued ever i ii except when the weather pre vented. eorge Maun & Co., of Hal titnore. did the work under contract. It has been done without a single ac cident to any jMron employed ujon the .-pires. The work at tirt pro ceeded rapidly, but as the distance from the ground became greater and the space in which U work decreased, fewer and fewer men were employed and shorter progress made. For the last fjw weeks only five or six men could be employed, and they had to be expert steepletark. The spire- ate of white marble throughout, except that a copper ril through the center holds the oxtremn upjier pieces comK)sing the llnial in place. The spire are octagonal in form, mounted on octagonal lantern tower that rise from the level of tho roof. Their deign is very elaborate, aud it has been carried out with ex-qui-ite workmanship that is n!nnL wasted at the great height- at which it i placed. - .V. 1. .". ADULTERATED PEPPER. tKaerllrnt Work llimr by th tl.uiI l. parrtnant of Aarlrullurr. The micrreopit of tho Department of Agriculture. Prof. Thomas Taylor. has begun an examination of the condi ments of commerce for the purpo-e of ascertaining which of them are adul terated, the method- and extent of tho adulteration, and of discovering method.- by which the con-umer may detect impure article-. The first article treated wns pep-er. and the method of the investigation is here briefly descriln-d. A section of a pepper-coru i placed under a micro scope, and magnified one hundred and fifty diameters. Its ap'vearauee is care fully noted and photographed, and a drawing in color- is made, showing ex actly how it lixiks. The pure powder of pepjicr-corn- Is then treated in tho same way. and. from a comparison of the Image of this with that of the sec tion, the changes eati-ed by grinding may lie noted. The next step wns to examine specimens of the pepper of commerce to ascertain if it presented the same apjMVininoe as the pure pep per already photographed and drawn. In a majority of cases it did not. thu differences being so striking as to mark it as an entirely different article. Prof. Taylor hits ascertained that the substance used in adulterating pepper l the seed or stone of the olive. Those are obtained in large quantities from the olive-oil factories, and ground up with the pepper-corns, the extent of the adulteration )eing in some cases as great as fifty per cent. No method of popularly detecting adulteration of pepper has yet been found. In bulk the pure pepper is dark er in color than that to which olive-eds have been added; but the difference is so slight that no person, unless pos sessed of a sample to compare with, would be able to discover an differ ence. Science. THE GREEN SPORTSMAN. Waal lb OM aatsr Talaas Its Mwv lee aa4 His Wars. The greenhorn is to be found in the woods as well aa anywhere else in the the world. His manners, his dress, his very carriage, all betray hia. His gun ia a new one: his shooting jacket aad boat smell of the shop. He has aa exagferated idea of every thing about the woods. To his verdaat im aginatloa trout are aa plenty in the lakes aad streams as herriag ia the mighty ocean. There is at least wildcat ia every tree and a deer feeding in ever- meadow. To his miad the dees forest is clothed ia a halo of mystery, of which he is to be the ex plorer; and. like Livingstone aad Stan ley, he Is to be the revealer of th t might v secrets. The eW woodsman makes aothiag of creaking trees, and the weird sound produced by one branch scraping against another would hardly command a passing thought. but 1 have known a novice to sit half a day by tHe side of this phenomenon, wait iag for a wildcat to show himself from the branches overhead. There is a tinge of disappointment occasioned by the knowledge of taw fact which later on. that of all solitary p! excepting perhaps the fabulous Great American. Desert the oabrokea wilderness has the fewest sign of aai mal life of aay place oa the entire continent, Tou may travel all day aad not see a partridge, s deer, wildcat, bear. fox. robin, crow or bluebird, aad hardly a sqtlrreL The deep weed ew a quiet day U the very aersoeiScatioa a still see. Game there ia. but it fathers in certain localities, accordi to the season, Tfee aewoataer has yea, but they see not: ears has he, bet they hear not; and yos caa trsst him to make noise esoogh to keep tbe feat v.it of siglsi. iTsraat ssh WOMEN AS 0OCTOHS. Mm rrWaa to Kvswy saaial rrsU "Ills only ajithin th lasttweaty Tve year that woaiea bar fceca par alt!ci to enter Rcdlcal csdl'sgw. said i graduate of thi Woman's Medical VH-ge of Chlcagix wTh schsiols af Anvrrica were th- first to admit roiaen." continued Dr DiS&0. aad F.ngiand -.- forvJ to to cac -loo- Thirty years ago Mr. Kr" Kllz.lth Hoggan wa obilgtJ to iv Kngland and atfe-nd a school in Zurich to gel a medical education. A short tide afterward Mr. arrt Atderia. now one of th mot nt-d of fcrsai physician v a well a Jlrv Agne" Mc Laren, had to leave Edinburgh to get their education ia Paris. It melmM strange that a city llkj rUlaburgh. boasting of the taost perfect school system In the world, had tso plaos where a woman might tud asAlarae if she wer . inclined. "Thert arc now four rsiKal e-lege- In th- United St..:-. situated at Now Vork. Illailelphia, ftaltl more aad Chicago. 'ITierv arc, -r-haps, tne hutidrts and fifty fo aiale physician now pnvticlng witll- cine in thi citr simI mnnf of thetu .r graduntes of our own collegtx Siiu- Its exlstenc th coHegt ha iwtit out two himdrrsl grnduAto U follow their profession and tln'y are scattered all over the world vnje ar' In Cali fornia, others Hre in tin Hist, and a ouinlsT are in Africa and India. hu who huve gone .-.broad anil acting v mlssim:iri . It ha U-n the utoni of foreign mlltinnry H'ietio to pay for the education of young women, providing they willpledgv themelv o act its mlt-sionnrie for thr pjvice of live year. Many Intelligent girls have taken advantage of thi opjsir tuuity to get au txiucallon. and afur -ervlng their time will l-ituUimdonL "Do women who become dix'lors In cline to any particular branch of med ical practice''" 1'hnt dcjHMids ii heri thev ar' bl eated. If they hettle in a large city, where ciatit can do well, many of them choose some inrtlcular branch. In Chicago ome have taken up nerv ous diseases and others the diseases peculiar to women, while I chose to l au oculist, Ther5 are alo some who an In general practice, and I have no doubt there are women In every special branch of medicine. Nov. I want to tell mi something you don't know There Is no eli(! iu the world that teaches students how to tit the frame of npavtaclus. although tht i fully a ItnjMirtant as that the frames should haw glasses In them. Unless the frame I adjusted iw thai Uie center of the len i dlrH-tly Ix'forv the pupil of tin eye tlie sjieclaeles neer give satisfac tion, and injure the Iion by ucnrlng. "t)jticinns hae Uy-omo very ejMrt in Iltting sjHsi'tacles Mcaue th'y stiiii the subject. The have to Im reti sjble for the mistuk' of (H.'ullt. and have learueI to place no dependence on the opinion of the average doctor, Pnyslelans in the country have no ' slble means of ordering -jMs'tai-Ies that will suit the eyes of their patient. Theji may dcserile the strength of the len that they nesl. but unless the frame is properly adjusted they might jtM well not order the sjectai'lc In It not strange that this simple part of everv doctor's slucation has Is"n neg lectisl nnd that uo college teachus It?" Chimgo .Vr s. BOY'S TIME-TABLE. Th rUaaaat ait "TrVt Tthlwcs In IJtti rrvslHy'a IJf. My little nephew ran ncn" a para graph, somewhere, which aid that any body could save at least two hour of wated time a day by running on a time-table Freddy brought the clipping to rnv and aked what it meant. ' I told him that I sup-Mtscd that It meant that a person could save two hour a day by having all his work or amusement planned and arranged beforeliaod -such and such a thing to l don at such a time, and another thing follow ing directly after, and so on. Freddy fmed .o much intTted that 1 advised him to make out a tins table for himself, and try running oa it for a few days. He said he guessed he would because two extra hourt a day would be a great help U him It. learning to strike out the Jr.lows, and possibly would srure him the t,ti position of pitcher in the school nine. The next day Freddy submitted the following to me: FaTtT TlMC-TtBI.1. A. at. 4A to 7 Gettin up. 7 to 7J Bath and frttln reddy fer brekfua. 730 to 8 Brekfua. 8 to 820 Praim. 810 to 890 Hard study. 890 Start fer akoot. t Get there (a feller mutt have sum fua ia life), t to 1090 Study and resit. 1090 to lOtf (oat to be longer). 1045 to 12 Study and resit. r. at. IS to ISIS Gotta r lunch. 1215 to 1290 Km it. 1290 to 1 Slews of thiaga. Play in bail mosly. 1 to 9 Skool age. Tafeat part of the day. S Skoo! over. Fua bgias. 3 to ( Bace balL aUsickle rid in. Goin to walk (umtlaea with a guri) Slidia aad skatia ia winter. Flyia kite. Bothria the dog- Peseta. Goia to ride with pa. Sboppia with ma (area I doat kao it befourhaad). Kaady. Ia bad tser read la. Slews of ether thing. to? Dianer (grate time fer me.) 7 to 790 Sochin much. Doat feel Ukeiu 790 to 9 Pa gets tfaa with paper aa reams suatala alewd. Sex I must begia to study. to 815 Kidria agiast it. 815 to 915 Slady. 915 GsraptobasL 915 to m WimtJa wtf -srhwy watch. !nSW9aV Uadressia aadcwUiarfit,? bed. ttttmmuraia. Grate big Uhk with ireesas. be a feller eaat stop to ia jwy thing macb. WasjsVar wy dreesas caal baag o rner like red th!a? P. S, Ware do tarn tao extry ora mm ia"-. a I timer, im ft.a- MISCELLANEOUS. Tb rrtiics v AaxrH I eyf4g algh alwilawmr maj"- Tbo airnar aumtr vi pa'awb) aal "civly is tec tkmw? huadevst . High waVtrnfaa e-i-fta't .. xrvof.re a e- raA?3thjew t., The Aug&t I'beamaisw- tvf (irri y that the jrear a.T.rr lb friVt h always bswa tti? si huth.4fei thai that city W tto-dAv om v1 C W-t ia tbr wr!atr ml1srmwjr'aittif li!l l vrsvr4y p7ilhcsi A tn. a a hti u' ttt..Tr mat wa asmfavacrd tu ra r for li ssai, to rrspelvw tssa liic t tivr pubjw hitching fJst SJfid thca wa -ai u .l! far thirty daysw A t30 Ul! vmas into the hjs. oi . hwsker with the! word wriUnn ta bold, legible) naad oa tt fe -This is the Ua of KUn' Tbc wnVww 4ltomhr the Utrj" ot a pen4llvrirt. prsruLfcttvT or a dlucbss Tho tamt triglat tiUids (mcm i Trwxx Vwlkln Cnnty, N C. "tofe ItctU brtks into hU nofgh.sr tiil rvMwn aai putting one rnd iI a jphon In a bam-l " walky ad th other in hi njtwiih, cvt attn4y fall that be hd not jMer fur brvwth. ' -xStetitl rank tho LaVfiU .- ' tlw mot reliable i al wUw Jrts; UusUcath. TtM'y lxsii rxiU.- j atnl Irritable before a torm. awi la ! ight tr nine intaKX wittuw tir y-ar their Indication ha ocn ocrtvt hv-a lh lroMtr b SaiiJ M.' aald a tittW 1 4t t4 ttalur a! hltor. do fntf c to lrsUm! m the int-r time. wh-nrt-r llstag troio up' ', ray dear. lt kcs yo ak uch a tiuo-tUia" "lt--nu.M tcorhcr says they alway h.rte ta w inter.' wa the reply of tbiWirvtng yminj hojwful. A man of itraxi. lad ! dlrvl uddonl tho other da bad a mt curious mania for toahng inuihi' sbi' . few ear ajju lw wa r ntrsi. arnl forty r tlfty jlrs or btr and allpiN! wen r;Vire.l AftT hi drukth overlty slr of woueu ht wen; fouud iu tho hut wfiett ho llvd alone. - An amiable young female pd gogile rtsldlng in tbo Mohawk Valley prile herwdf on the Hoo relation f trust and jmfllenc which Mlt l twrsn her aud tlm many tittle hhs in the primary department- On da a little follitw iui!r his waV t the te.-vih-er dek. and, with uittiy blubo and nun h embarrassment, finally tnanaj;! toi "Vuu don t mm. do ou. Ml -, If my panta don"t match my ctut The following fojgrU apj-rsl . the other day In the "sharp County i t.Vrk ) wnf; "W want ithlu tb next ity da. delUeMHl at our aie turn, eut end of Main trsit. or at r !'' residoncn. coiltb Jdi of tiiwti. within b'gal hour. l,O0 g4l ami lawful money of Cnite.1 "stat, lgbt one gallons tif f!rt- la ir:hMin. ! ! bushels of lirimo wheat, t-uentv Imr ' n'Isof cirn in shuck (no Uiikueedd). l.it"'! new uberllers. onJer fur tlfty morn new business cards and ad vrt! ments for our column wbl,fi winidi show that butne men apprxiatj lb" home patr Pndably the first prohibition jwtl tlon )ssuih1 in thl country has Uv-n dl coiensl In the Mate archive of N'ortli Candlna. On May '-', J7.V.. King Hag ler. of th Catawba, thus jtilloti.l Chief Justice Henley "I destr a top may W put to the selling of strtw,; llqiuirs by the wblt Mtplo to my jw-i. p!o. ejM'lll3- near the Indian. If th hit' (Msiipln make tnng drink let thrtn ell It to one another, or drink It in their own families. 'Hit will avoid a great deal of mlwhlcf which other wise will happen from my ep!ri grt ting drunk and quarreling with thi hiU i?iple " The Chief .Justice. appear from an Indorsement, pfsnn isd U bring ihn matter to thw tlivru or's notice. A FAMOUS DETECTIVE. f Ik Clv t4r mi BL In. ti. ia rwri rH. Th French dts-iive fore ha b-n irn-atly de..'rinl and dpre;iats4 by tb public of rcnt year, aad it ha bwtt commonly n-markml that It DfrnWrt bad lt that pnfiona aatoten and ability which dUUngul.br-1 hf. Claude and otbrr famous Itmistr. k bar- either publisbnd their own -perbmce, like that wortby. or wba hav beea deswrilw-i uder aasuavsl names by novelists f tha "Hbswian ehofd." The promptaew with which Alltnayer. the notortou swiadler, wa rerntly arrstd at Havre ahowa. bnw vor. that there i still swm ft tsiassl boueds" in the dfvtlve fcroa. M. I9udals. who was the prim mover ia the arrest of Allmayer. Is eae ef th. He U a maa bwtwwa tbirty-fv aad forty ysswa aid. with a short. rugfed award, ami lnts like a rtuad aad romfrlabte dtiew who has made his all. aad haw ataiBf to do for tha r malalii f bis life but to dlscum politics at band aad to play domlaoas la M. -feudal 8iea at all kinds of but Me tavarite birde are ftaaas-lers aad bif swiadlera. 5vr tAelswa. when tbera Ls aa Tmsisil ' calaeit to ba fallowmS fram tb bel sards to tbe beaks of the aVawru. M. eudais does aat dammln to traca bw mofderwrs aad tswrfiars to tWr lairs 1 the PaUrw M aubrt or tae diagy v lfsaMf Paria. Oa- f his ir cm tiraw was that of Savress. a railway cashier, who stJe ,. aat wbaaa be arreeted Vienna. Later oa be buat4 out slaioasr3T. who dered a looa woman la tb I re; ruim a4 Farm, two bo -halved aa old bmtrffij v datb it Um Yiacwaaew snwj, aad tawUy ax tanscated Moavet. the abscess lag lamak dirsrVr. to CertaMJaW. aad arkA th aid of two Lrraatia Mumm laid a trap far him into which a- ML M. l93dais was ob1fed v uupU tb Aleve iMcaoa h wi4. as be aaiaL bet !itt on aW bela f tbe asdic. Aa fwr A- tb dsasirs 'ami 1mbm4 Um kmbUfubxaw li swariu msd it mm oaljbrl chaaee that be haard of tbo swbsasr ia -aarmamdt. whtbr A- ijrer bad fame ha e4er to -tasf -aswewkb of bis i .".3 - &h. 1 " - "r -s. P 'tf"-. -5 TlS." ,. -T