J I - THE KEI) CLOUD CII11W. FRIDAY, .H'NKIg. 18.Ui. 3 f- SECK1CT OK HINDOOS. IKI TRICK Or YOCIS' rLOWER POT LAID BARE. IlUe curry liy McinMrnr Itiiccotirnn III-rlh 'Hi it (nine I'roin Ant 1 1 tltt unit Win I nil of t ormlc Arid Vili-ne III till' Itdl'lic. CIuNCK Is making plain, oiio after the . oilier, all the tuyw- torles, old nnd new, of tlie world, vlille It Is devising on It h own account feats more nuu cl ous tli.m lcgcrde itialn or thcosophlc lirceipltatlon ever thought of, says tlie Ne w York .loin mil. The last m stery to lie revealed and to have the cold light of Fclentc thrown upon it Is the fa moils old trick of conjuring, of the Yogis, the nsiotlc "adepts" of India, of planting a seed In a potfttl of earth In plain sight of a curious audience anil iniisiiiK It to prow within an hour Into a lldiirlshlnp plant, fiom which the '.ilos Minis could actually be plucked. Scores of people of a veracity not to be doubl ed have seen this feat pet formed and hae been bathed at Its wcmdeis. Some hne tried to explain the mys- tcry by claiming extraordinary slelpht-of-hand on the part of the Yopls, and others have Insisted that the "trick" was the perfection of hypnotism. No one who ever witnessed this soemlnglv marvelous piowth could he Induced to believe that the plant thev finally saw bail aetuall.v prown within this short time fiom the ccd. It wax cither that they had been hypnotized, bound b the will of the operator, and had Imag ined that they had seen the plant grow from moment to moment under the thin cloth thiown over It. or c Iso that by trnnp superb skill of lepeidenialn the pot (ont.ilnlnp the seed had been spir ited av.ay befoie tin ir eyes and a new pot with a blossoming plant set down in Its place at lightning -ped. A clear-headed, (old-bluoiled scien tist, however demolished thiM theoiles a shoit time ago. piovlng conclusively that, whatever else It might be, the plant-prow lug maivel was no fraud. At a icceiit Yogi serine, to which lie went pieinred, tlie ageil magic Inn planted the seed and coven d the spot with a cloth, and the man with a turn lor science "snapped" his cktpctlp lainer.i at It. A moment or two later he took another snap shot and othots at tegu lar interval!1, of about three minutes each, until the Yogi showed the dower ing plant. The shutter of the camera, set by clock woik, pei formed Its duty faithfully. With palus'aklnp enre he then de veloped each plate. In each the cloth coveting the pot was le.u ly vNlblo. In only two, the llrst and the last, was there a sign of any human figure. These two plates showed the planting of the seed and the throwing olf of the "loth, exhibiting the altc.nl flowered plant. On all the otlieis then1 was- simply the image, without a blur, of the covered pot. Only, showing amazingly that In some stiange way the plnnt had been Tinllv Iniced to glow, the cloth, a it wnt teen on each Mice ceding negitlve, was i.iised plainly a little higher. In the series of plates theie was a con stant rlse. Thus It was made evident to all of Uritlsh India Hint the "plnnt trick" ,vas no delusion, but some lneoi)prch"iisi ble marvel. So far much was gained, but It remained for a i lever Fmnch savant, M. Itaggoiicau, to dip out the secret and to dlseovci precisely the way It was done. The series of photographs convinced him that there was no fraud. As a pre liminary to his study, he set about ex amining closelj every detail of this seeming mliacle. Theie must be sonip science about It If there Is no trickery, he l caponed; some hidden princlpl" of nature, or some chemical combination mixed with the earth, not known to modern science as jet, and locked In the breasts of thete "adepts" for centuiics. He observed, flist of all, that the Yogis never attempted the "trick" un less they had brought along paicfiilly pii.uded, some special earth or soli. At one o It struck him thnt the secret might la.v In this peculiar enrth. Hut the Yogis would not tell him its nature, much as he pleaded or divulge to him where It came from. More and more was ho convinced that some htr.inge quality of this earth was what made the mlraelp possible, rinnlly by a system of bribery that loosened, at least, the tongues of the corrupt Hindoo seivints of the Yogis, he learned that the "mas tcri"ohtulncil tho earth from ant hills, Piuzled more and nioro Rapgoueau per slelently experimented with ant-hill earth that ho collected with gicat ttou b.e, ignorant of vvhnt properties It might reveal, but sine that he was on tie light tinck. A chance that was the result of carelessness, pure and simple, laid the whole mystery hare to htm. While experimenting. ""' Kt a small quantity of te eaith, and tseveial ants at the same time. Into his mouth. It was nn unpleasant moment, but It gave him the tolutlon of the problem. He detected on the Instant, the presence of an enor moun qunntlty of formic acid In this earth, worked Into it fiom tho tiny bodleB of thousands of ants passing over and through It. The soil was c.linrged with formic acid, in fnct. direct from the ants. A few experiments showed him that this formic acid was the mysterious, subtle power, compelling the maivol , cms growths. After n little he found himself perfectly able to do the Hindoo trick. The entire secret proved to be that formic add quickly cats away the Integument sui rounding n seed. Then . M .C.IIoMHer, Agt., Itcd Cloud, Neb. 11 . -PV. V & lik-J 'a o v coming Into direct contact with Hip germ Itpolf. It stimulates beyond all emdencp Its prow tli, bilnglng about In merp niutupitts wh.lt unassisted natitm would requite weeks for. RENAISSANCE IN ITALY. Sj-iiiniuU Win lliinilltlril lllalnrl in. for Urine nn Symonds was :t.i when he published the tlrst volume of "The Rontilssuiuo In Ital.v." and he lived to lltilsh that large nuclei taking, as well as to wilte several books of poems and essays, to tianslate the sonents of Michael An pplo, the memoirs of Cellini and (5o.i and to compose a "Life of lliieuarettl." sa.vs the Quarterly Review. Ills ac tivity, great and Incessant, though Ill ness stiuck him down, ranged over the provinces- of lltciatuie with an ever- ilponlng Judgment and a fastidious choice until he could say In an In stinctive sentence: "We love the stcrne-ct things In life best." Tor the duties of the historian he was on more than one account singularly dlsqunll llccl. Names, dates, events which he had not seen or felt might be learned with facility, but vanished fiom his mind as If wiltten In water. "Vague, Ill-digested, Inaccurate, rich In pensi blUtles, poor lu solid stuff"- this de scription of faculties which vveie to be employed on a tnsk where tllbhon might have failed, does not Inspire ua with confidence. Nor will metaphor and niagery, whereby S.v winds hoped If not to subdue yet "to circumvent philosophical Ideas, furnish that In sight lacking which u student of tho lenalssance period Is sure to tut bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, to dream that the "win ship of the body" Is a "new birth unto freedom," and to de giade science Into the apologist of a sensual and decorated unbelief. Seeing he will not see, and hearing he ill not iindci stand. These are faults of a more serious kind than the parplc patches and rhetorical tone which their author has marked In his volume. He moves everjwhrre on the surfuic, content if he Is dealing with pa'irtors, poets, humanism, in a fashion almost operatic and on a system mi conventional that his characters fall In, lino foi line, with the legends and carlcatuios which a little Judicious criticism puts out of couit. Large and complex themes catholic Ism, the leformailon, the re vival of learning handled a thousand of times by p.utlsans. striking their roots deep, and abounding in tyrannous, Individualities, mat (inter as much as Junius II. and St. Chillies Hou-uinon, as 1'irismiis and Poil.liinn, Luther and Savanarola, would seem to stmogst a weighing and sifting of evidence and leadinesH to iioar both ides. Hut Sy nioiids will not alwa.vs be at the pains to understand the language he l- quot ing, and so faint is the snap which he lies upon his subject th it .vhcii a mas ter more judicial and inqulilng comics foiw.ird when Hlshop Ciefghton sets the Roman eventn in a Jus' perspective he has hardly a word to say beyond tlie suggestion that soiiiov!icre, qtinnil inenie. an adequate cause must he found for the' refoi niation. rotimy Not lit tui y. It Is curious to lind how often the pi Inter gives "ecstacy" when left to Ills own devle es. Authors lu these I'ays prefer the conect form "ecstasy." The late Dr. (lordon I lake. p. p.- the para ble poet, as he has hern appropi lately tiilU'i- -p llshed a seile of lofty 1 ncal studies entitled 'Maulon Ecs tas.v," yci it Is quite common to see the title quoted with the substantive incorieclly spelled. Two examples of "ecstae.v" ciicitr in early chapters of Mr. Oeorpe Meredltirs "Rhoda Flem ing." In chapter vl., page ,'!S, a mood Is dcsciibed as being "mixed ntl'iingely of humiliation and ecstacv"; am) in the opening paingraph of chapter lx., page 112, a letter from a happy girl In Switzerland Is stated to glvo the Im pression "as of a happy splilte rest ing at celestial stages of her ascent up wind through spbeies of ecstney." Pi oof readout should assert their au thor If) In refeience to this won!. Notes and Queries. 'I ho Cilinn Kutcr. "What Is all that row lu the dlning reiorn?" nsked the dime museum man ager, with some Irritation. "It do bo the glass cater, sor," said the Zulu chleftnn. "He sas the cook give him a ciackled toombler nn he cut his toong on It." New York Press. JEWELRY NATIONS. Elaborately carved tortoise shell combs aie worn with Indoor costumes. Leather watch bracolotsarc furnished to match leather belts for outing dresses. Dental thread holders of silver have been added to the alieady long list of toilet articles. A large oval amethyst, surrounded by a wreath In varlcoloro.l gold, affords a stylish brooch. Luxurious affairs are tho fine gold mesh purses with aclnsp concealed by a hugo topaz or amethyst. With other addenda for writing desks are silver letter scales, In the body of which a watch Is Introduced. Ci-jes for veils are of openwork silver and are furnished with pads of allk In book form. Tho veils nro placed bo tween these silken leaves. Unique parasol handles uic those with dresden china figures In a frame work of gilt. Long Ivory handles, with tracings of gold and silver, arc to bo seen on other parasols. Jewelers' Cir cular. King Alforlso of Spain will be 10 years old next month and will then lie handed over to his military tutors and begin to study In earnest, Mrti -tj-(-.t,-!jl.Jt,t, LOUIS UACiGIUt iV CO.. , I 0dest EititbHstied Finn In Washington. U. C. ARTIFICIAL FOOD. Tlnii M (otnltii; W In u v Kin'. Illnx mi I'lnk lulilrt. It Is now puip.iesied that the time Is coming when bu.ul and bier and mill, or thelt equivalents will be pio duced nrtlticlallj in tin laboiatory oi the chemist, -iiys the New York .loin nal. Prof, lb rtlu'ltu. the distinguished French eliciul.it. Is the authority fot this s'litenient and lie chelates that the tlrst steps have alm.idy been taken and he Is Mire that the coining gem ra tion will have such aitlllclal food It will be the same food cheinicall.v . dlgestivcl.v and nun Itlvel.v speaklng.but will dliTei in form .lust what the foim of the food will In Is not hinted at, ev cept that it will ptohall.v be served .'old In the shape oftablets, and of an.v (dol or shale that may be deslted IMof Hcrt'ielot sa.vs gourmets and cplmtcs may mourn, but he fiels assumd when they have giown accustomed to the ihange the.v will eat nothing pienaicil In an.v other wa.v. In the future n binned beefsteak, chop or cutlet will be a thing iinknov n and a steak well done may be onlcicd in a dim blown coloied tablet or a stiak line niav be oidered in a tablet of light lose hue. The colors alone, the chemical piophel declines, will delight the eplciiiean senses and do much to overcome -mc picjudicrs th.it ate hound to elst when the change is linall.v Intiodiiced. It has been demoiistiated that even at pieent tea and coffee could be niaile aitltlelall.v In tliecheinlsfs laboiator.v If the neecs sltv or the eoin.neiclal opportunitj should in No. Sugar Is another coin modlt.v unlveisallv used that can now be made in the laboiator.v . ami an In vention has been patented by which. It 14 el.iiinid. sugar can be made on a commercial scale from two gases at a price of little mole' than 1 cent a pound. In a long and Interesting teiort on the possibilities of obtaining food products by ail llii lai means 1'iof. Heithelot savt rim essential pilnclple of both tea and coffee Is the same. The dif ference of name lieiv.ien them and e-atfeln liasnil-eii fiom I he mhii-ccs fiom which thev were obtained. The.v an chemicallv lib tit Ii-iil In ((iiistluitlnit and their essence has often been made .vn thetlcall.v. The penultimate' stage lu tne sviitlusl'i is iliio-bionilne. the es sential principle of (iiioa Thus It mu.v be ccn that s.vnlheiii- ebemlsti.v Is ml to fiiinlsb fiom Its laboiatoilef i'ie tbice gicat non-alcoholic bever ngrs in geneial use. nd what Is Hue of food substance .. Is cquall.v iippliciihlc to all oilier oi ganle substances." 'I here Is little or no limit to the piofess'ir't piedietii is i oncoming the changed In the ptcHciit cNlsting conillilon of affaiu on this mniidiine spheie. He sa.vs: "1 one choose h to base dieaimi. prop.ietii fancies and so foith upon the pails of tlie pirsent one ma.v dieani of altcia ilium In the piesent conditions f liu inan life so gieat 'is to be be.vond mil (otitempoiar.v coiiceptlou. One can foie-'ee the (llsappeaianees of the beast? from the fields, because horses will no' longer he used for li action or cattle for food. The countless acres now given over to the gmv.lng of grain imdi ptodueing vines will he agricultural an tlqtiitiea which will have p'issed out ol tho memory of men The equal distri bution of natural food materials will have done away with piotectionlsin with custom homes, with natlounl fioutiers, kept wot with human blood. .Men will have grown too wise for w el and war's neeesslty will liav eeas"d tr be. The air will lie filled with aerial motois. flying by forces hoi rowed from chemistry. Distances will diminish and the distinction between fertile unil non fertile legions, fiom the causes named will largely have passed away. It may even tiunsplm that deserts now unin habited may be made to blossom and he sought after as gicat seats of popu lation in ptcfcieucc to the alluvial plains and rich valleys." The new food t Ii.1I .It Is predicted the coming genera tion will jive upon- In fact, the great proportion of '!., staple foods which am now obtained 'ly natuial growth will be manufactured illrert through the iiilvanie of synthetic eheiiil'-.tf j"' from their constituent elements, car bon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. As an ev'denco of the possibility of the eventful disappearance of agilciiltine, Prof. Hert helot cited as an Instance' of laboiatory products the dye stuff nllar lue, the coloring principle of madder, which was formerly a great Agricul tural Industry, but which Is now al most wholly supplanted by the artifi cial product from coal tar. He also declines that chemists can now make Indigo (Hi oet from its elements and ar tificial indigo will soon become a great coniniPicial pioduet. A century hence, if ii'l that U predicted Is true, people will be eating their soup, meat, ilsh and vegetables In tablets that will como In tin boxes labeled "keep it In a cool place" and they may be eating n. full course dinner while running for a train, or they can munch a eoinfort.'.ble bmakfast unnoticed in an elevated train or a vablo car cm their way to business, If such means of locomotion are not out of date In that piogrcsBlvo age. An lis l,tiUlni'il It, She takes n great deal of Interest In theatrical matters and remarked to tho young man: "These cohter singers are very pnulur at piesent." "Yes," ho roplk'd. ncrvoiiHly. "I wonder why they call them col ters?" she went on In a pcnslvo tone. "I don't know, unless It's beciiuso It costs half a week's salary to go and hear one of them." Wiiiihlngtoii Star. Swlpiny' hlMrr. "Swlpesy, doesn't yer sister go to Sunday -school?" "You hot! An' she sings wld de nuBli lu front o' de big orgoul" " mv,iiviiy,,xzssesssssSXM wmmw Pitcher's Castorla. now ixi)iAXS(AMMiK THE PUYALLUI'S AND NISOUAL LIES I'LAY "SLA-HALL." 1 hrlr ii C hunt Ini-iinl llnn llnnt unit "IIiiiim" liiiMir(iint I m lorn I lie SlnliiK I'oml.t u( I'oiilrit, I mi mill I'lrf". Hi: soi lal event of the season for the Pu.v.illup, the N s qu,tll.v and a few White River In dians has just passed, s.tjs the Taiotna Ledger. It was tin annual gambling a n d hoise-r.iclng of the tilbes whli li took . place em the N'lsqttullv icscrvat Ion. The festivities began Saturtla.v. and lasted until Moiidio morning, when the.v council, and a procession of the most (lied Indians that the people along the mute have seen In inanv a d.i stared back to the Pu.v.illup reservation. Thcj bene no Illinois. It Is tuio. but thou they had their ponP's and blankets which at one lime dining Hie gambling the.v came dls.ixtionsly ueai losing The spoil took place at a gambling house kept b.v ",11m" Dimmod. a Nis quall.v Indian, ami located in a Heat ing live acies lu oMent on the llglll bank of the Nlsqtiull.v liver, four miles above .MaMleld station, vvheio the Northern P.ulllc nos-es the liver. Tlie game pla.ved bv tho Indians Is called "sla-hael" and wasactlvol.v pat tit ipaleil lu b.v thlil.v Piiyallups, live White River Indians and thlttv Nlsquallies the White River Indians, pla.vlng villi the Pu.vallups. The slakes put up b.v each side weie seventeen ponies, one cow and ten pigs. it was in this gambling house last Saturday afternoon that ".lack" Ska- nieiike. the leader of tlie Nlsqiiallv gamhleis, stood up and began singing the low dlige-ilke song which forms p.nt of the loieinony ami then handed l he bones to one of his men. The In dian tool, the bones, fumbled and clumped them, and then, holding a bniip tightly loncealed In either hand, began swinging them for a war) Puyallup to giuss which band contain ed the wiilto one. The gambling was in full piogiess. The scene was a strange one well woithv tlie brush of a Kiedoiiok Remington or un who indulge a liking for the wild and Pjii liihtle. The InlL'ht Wood Hies vveie burning in eltin r end of the mom. Ten foot fiom tin walls two lows of In dian men ,eio kneeling down, fining each otln i leaving a space or ten feet between I belli. In one row vveie Puyallup and White River Indians and in the other' were Nlsquallies. In the (enter of the kneeling lows of Indians wore the leaflets. "Tommy" Lane for the Pu.vallups and Sliamenkc for tin js'isqunlllcs. Hack of Hip kneeling bucks vveie benches lunnlngtbeentlii' length of the loom. On these sat the Indian women of the respective tribes, who watched the varying fortunes of tlie players with most Intent Intel est. Stuck in the gioiind in hpiiiIpIicuI.ii fin in. In fmnt of both Lane and Rka riionke. weie thirty-live small wooden pegs about tlnce Inches In length and oiie-louitb of an Inch In diameter. Those weie the 'beans" and vvh"ii one side won the thlity-llve belonging to the other, the game and pot was also won. Suspended fiom the neck of each In dian player and lumping In fmnt of his In east was a haudkei chief, beneath which ho deftly concealed his hands when the hones were given him to swing. The hones mentioned me thme In ches in length and one inch In diiinie ttr. Ono of them Is perfectly white, tho other one has two black rings at omul It. L'ach of the lenient has two sets of bonea, but only one set is used at a time. The game proceeds as fallows: The lea'der of the side whose tinn It'i" '" l,,a' 'li't"ts a singsong Incantation' to' .'.rlim luck. iuuws Joining In HiIh inuslca'i' J. ?. ''JJmi'aTni tlie bucks also. If they wish. Two of his men nro then designated by the leader to shake the bones, which are grasped by the player, one in either hand mid both hands me placed be neath tlie handkei chief hanging over Ills hi east, where be fumbles the bones, shifts them about ft mil hand to hand to confuse those who am keenly watch ing him from the other side, and then, suddenly drawing them from beneath tho handkerchief, begins swinging them to the right ami left lu fmnt of Irlni, The leader of tho oppo site sldo then guesses or names one of his men, whom Ire thinks may be tho nicne lucky, to guess which swinging hand contains the whlto hone. If the guess Is conect the leader of the side which is playing not guessing pulls one of tho bonus fiom the ground In front of him, and tosses It over to the leader of tho sldo which has made the correct guess, Tho "bean" Is taken by thewliiiierimd stuck In the ground with tlie other beans belonging to bin side. The bones arc also to bo passed to the guessing side, whose tin n it becorm s to play. Providing the puess In Incoirect the side making It tosses a benn over to the side playing and the man who lias shaken tho sticks has the tight to shako them again, while his opponents mako another gucbs. Hoth sets of bones wero guessed upon by tho panic man at the same time. If he guessed the white of ono and missed the other ho won u benn und one pair of bones, but lost a bean upon tho other sot which was shaken again for him to make an other guess. In this manner the hones and benns wero constantly passing buck and forth from one sldo to another with Jl tc?Z'mw 0 the urMng luck of the tllffcient sides Safiud..) 's game ended lu a draw. A YACHT'S NARROW ESCAPE. Ni'trl Itmi Unit it In Hip Durk liy it I rem h Miiii-ii'-Wnr. Talking of eollUlons leinlndn me of a little im Idem of some live years ago, which Is ehaiacierlstlc of sailors' pure. Heal (Uiitnon sense, willcs the carl of i'es.iit lu Casseirs Magalne. I was llng becalmed tloatlng about helplessly on a drill, night, same live miles out side Aj.icclo hat bur The Pi ouch piosl deiit. M Cm nut, had Just been there and theie had be. n nigh Jinks, which we missed through the contiailit) of the winds. i, out of the bin hot i ame a iittmhci of great ships of war. the Flench mid Italian lleets. and what looked their ollleeis, Hushed with poncho d honneur. of a little Fngllsh vacht bobbing .iliout in aimless fashion among them" One of them a tuiret ship, that looked, I am told, at least I iuiii.ooo tuns lu the gloom, came straight at us and our lime, or blue light, kept on link for eineigeiicles, bad no off i ct on her course till the last illume nt. w hen she altcicil her helm and shavi il us b a few .vanls. Had that altetatiou of helm come a second later theie would have been p.nagiaphs lu the London papeis, "A Yaibt Missing, ' and the eventual writ ing olf of the .vaehfs number at Lloyd's as "fniirrileied at sea," for the going over us would have scaicely woke the Iioiii lad's captain, and the ollloer of the watih would have nut uiully have s.iid nothing about the iu ( blent. Hut whete the sailor man's si nsn came lu was hire I had, seeing It was hopeless to think of getting Into Inn bur that night milled to my berth befoie the Heels inieiged and only he.nd of our imi nivv escape next morn ing. To my quest lint vvhv we down be low weie not warned or the imminent calastiophe. I leeelved the mply: "It woiild have been no use your coining on deck, shed lmvi gone clean over us and hoi t-ldi s wcic ton high for a Jump, even If then 'a Ik en time'" NEEDED FOOD AFTER ALL. I ho ti rn VI in IVIl Hi Hit for H- sii lllil tlie I'm I. Once a i leh wesioin mini who want ed loelilov life In New Yolk foi a few days took the poet in tow as guide nnd mentor, says t lie Scranton Truth. The westotn man's Idea of life went no fill Hie r than the playing of billiaids and dilnklng vvl'ie. For thme days ho moved aiimiid fiom chip billiard loom to iiiiiither. One of his pecullari ll"s was that after the Hist moinlng he did not tare to eat. Il lived on sttiuu liil'tf. The poet likes to eat. Up would from lime to lime suggest to the western mnii "TIiIh would be a good time to go and get a ulio P.ngllsh chop at oiind tit iitown's," or "what would you think Just now of a good, thick beefsteak, luolled and- " "Oh. hum bug! ' the wester ir mail would say. "We haven't time to eat, ami what do you want to cat for when you get all the wine you waul'?" And the poor, tltod pool had to ding along and pick up n bite as lie could from a lloe luui h. Liite on the thin! evening the western man got to tl; oil lie went to bod in an uptown hotel. Tito poet got a bed In the name mom. Soon as sleep ovei ciinip the fin mir the poet mug the IipII and requested a menu caul. Then he began at the- top and oidered stiaight down I In oiigh it eveiy tiling fiom blue points in eofl'oe to be solved for two. When the two suppers worn served he sat down and chcei fully ate them bolh. The western man slept light on. Next moinlng when the western man awoke and looked at the empty plates and the debils of the supper on the table Iip nibbed lib: eyes ami after indulging In deep thought for a moment looked ovc r to the other bed ami said to the poet: "I think you vveie right, after all: we did need something to eat. Heavens' we must have been hungry to eat up all that stuff last night, but I feel much better for It." And the well fed poet said, "Me, too'" 11m 1'rc.ii lii-r it ml the llrltcr. Lecturing recently on "(ireat Oratois and Pieachers I Have Known," Dr. lu?C.,,'K f(""l eiociislon to tell some very amusing ane?(K:jH belonging to the last generation -or trV" "1Hl 'i"1."1' Perhaps the funniest of tlieni"vvns"oiTho80 furmora nnd others who have of .lames Parsons of York. He ivionda in tho oust and doairo to sond chiving em tho box seat Into Doncasne Nobraskn nnd KunaaB Furtnor to during nice week, and, thinking probem ought to do bo now, while tho bly about anything nither than :.oico lo down tow. Fifty conts will eond llchii. when tlie driver pulled out hfTnr,u fnr nri?Ypnr ftnrh, Come watch, with the remark: "We'll be In time, after all, 1 think." "In time for what?" said Parsons, a Utile absently. "Why, the St. l.pger, of course" "The St. Leger? Oil. yes, to be -lire! Hut 1 never go to race meetings." No one would ever have supposed fiom his appearance that ho did. The driver was iion-plussed for u moment, but he soon excused his pnssenper by saying: "Ah. well, you're like me, I suppose, I always did like a real good cock fight a sight better." Toronto Catholic Reg ister. til. iiit rionrn. A new wm chouse In Pnrls hns been built with glass ffoors. Tho Initial cost Is coi'slijeiable, hut In view of tho fact that toughened glass Is so much longer lived than wood tho experiment Is likely to prove cheaper In the long run. Tax on L'uU. A new government tax of 1 mnrk on oath cat kept ns n house pot has been Imposed In Dresden. Thousands of animals hnvo been destroyed by owners desirous of avoiding tho "cat tax." "To Sweet fur Anything." Mount Desert, Me., has a school ma'am whoso name Is Daisy Peach. IN A CHINA SHOP, tint tin- VVnrli I Ilium In VViVicttrr, I nclnnil. Close beside Wen eester cathedral tit o tin uglv woikshops and tall chimneys ol the Roval iioiii lain woiks. When wo wateb the tbiewer molding on bis iniigle wheel the plastic clay we are filled with womlii at bis skill and ;"k oHiselves whence mine tlie clay which takes so leadlly niiv form the potter wills, mys mi English paper. The flint bovvldi rs found upon the plains of Hilttany lu France, feldspar from Cornwall and Sweden, hones f i tun Ametlcii, besides other tilings, all pa) tribute These unlikely constituents am calcined and I hen gioimd exceed ingly line in mills. The grinding takes from twelve bonis to six clays. U is a sight wot Hi seeing, those powerful mills lacing i Diinel tho deep trough (ninilc out of stone fiom Derhyshlie ) weighted with heavy blocks, churning each niateilal, for each Is ground sepai ately. Intoa thick white cream. When finished the liquids urn utialncd through line hair siovos and all particles of Iron wlihiliawn b.v menus of magnets. Tho dllTemiit Ingicillcnts are then mixed to gether In pi oiler propoitionn ami kneaded Into the ipquliPil consistency and then the clay Is ready for tho thrower The ait of molding clay has become much mom exact since thp em ployment of plaster of pails molds. Af ter the thiower, with the help of his wheel, has roughly shaped tho clay Into what Is tin mod the "lining" It 1b taken off the wheel and put Into a plaster of pat is oast, which In turn Is plated upon the whirling wheel, and the "lining" Is then deftly molded to tho exact shape. As plaster of parls ab soibs molstiiip quickly the lining Is soon tlrni enough to be handled. It is then "tinned" like miliuiiiy wood or nn till and has li.nnlle-', which have boin molded in plaster of pails, llxcd by the same clay. The peneplain Is then maily to be baked. For thin It Is packed In 111 opt oof baking dishes call ed "seggars" and suppoited on evciy side b.v powdiiid calcined Hint. These seirgani an in 'do to 111 exactly one upnn the either, although they arc of illffeient hles.uiil depths, and they arc in ranged In columns side by side In the ovi ii. This oven Is then bricked tip ami eight tin sum lighted ami kept binning for loi tv -eight hour.;, night ami day. Most of the china Is gla.c d, an opeia lliiu i ((pilrlng care and skill. The ar ticle.! am bathid lu the liquid glae- a mudily-looklng broth ami a greater p.n t of the Hiipei lliums glaze shaken off. Hut II Is Impossible to free tliPin per fectly, beside c the lingers leave marks whlih have to Iip ipuiovciI after the glae has In en di kd In a hot mom. Women and glils am employed for this work. The ivoiy glae Is a delicate Milmou pink In fot e il Is halted, thu whiip a dink di ah. After It Is gla.cd Ibo piitli'iy, for the second time, is ti.nl.ed in seggars ami baked. After i Ills the coloied china Is painted and baked again. The gold Is nltto baked in. Few people know that gilt em C.ilna Is the put cut gold that can be bought. It Is gioiind wlih niurcHiy and tiupen ttiic Into a black-looking paint anil ap plied with a line camel's halt- prnell. Hoys are trained for llih' work fiom II v cars of age, it being neinly impossible for older people toaeqiilie the ucc anicy of eye and hand neeossuiy. It Is a gieat iliiiv.baek to the pioduetion of aitisilc pottPiy that the eoloilng Is totally different In Hie paint to the ipsiilt nfter burning. For Iiisiiiipp, gold paint Is black liefoni and dull gold uftciwaids; (he hiightiicsti hi produced by polishing it with an tigato. Other coloiu me obtained from metallic ox ides; lion gives icil. cobalt, blue, etc. mity. 1 bellove It would do tts all good could we put Catholic and Piolestant, the Haptlst and Culvci-sallst, together ami tell them to t) ml what s common to them all, and I have, faith to think what Is common to all would be what Is best In each, and thus living out what is both common and best wo should find a pine Christianity of both doctrine and action. Rev. Lee S. Mc Collohtor. PERSONALS. Professor Fall), the Vienna prophet, is a failure. Ills cataclysms do not np- twin r mi tlnif. nol Hlddiilph, the ncw"gent!omiin'iisiiur of the black mil, forgot his otlk'ial speech lu parliament tho other day. No wonder they call Edison a wlz'ird. He has taken out 711 patents up to date, and If ho lives ten years longer will probably make tho number a round thousand. John W. Mcrgcri, a caiponter In tho railroad Hliops at Topeka, has been ad mitted to practice befo-o tho supremo court of Kansas Ho has studied law evenings for llvo years. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Religion requires tho extirpation of all those passions nnd vices which ten der men unsociable and trouhlesomo to one another. Tlllotson. Severity carrlpd to tho highest pitch breakn the mind; and then In tho placo of a disorderly young fellow you havo a lovv-splrlted, moped preaturo. Locko. If I wero to trust to my observation and glvo a verdict on it, 1 must depose that, In nry experience, I have found that those who were most indulgent to themselves were (In tho mass) less kind to othets than thoso who havo Hvod a life nearer to self denial. I go further, lu my experience I havo observed that a luxurious softness of manners hard ens tho heart, at least as much as an ovcr-dono abstinence. Durka uQMbk - .( i "PlpMna'lfAniAi1intflVi rnA linniTB"' I! n n ' ' - l M 1 I 111 I M llllll'l' Hll I'll