THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
Great men and little men,
Short men and tall:
Great men have great mlnde.
And small men, small:
Great mitnln rob little minds.
All to make a name:
So great minds get greatest minds- j
And 1 his is fame.
Rich men and t>oor men;
Rags at Riches'door;
Rich men have rich friends.
And poor men, poor;
Rich men live by poverty.
Poor men live by stealth;
So rich men get richest men—
And this is wealth.
Pretty maids and plain maids;
Maidens altogether:
Pretty maids have pretty ways
To keep mankind in tether.
For maids are weak, and men are
strong.
Till Cupid flits above:
Then men are weak, and maids are
strong—
And this is love.
—Cornhill Magazine.
Lord ItoBebery’H Guest.
In tho month of May. 1889, there whb
an evening party in Berkeley square,
and in the early part of the day Lord
Rosebery had met in Piccadilly a Scotch
farmer with whom he had some ac
quaintance, and he asked his friend to
“look in” in the course of the night.
The farmer duly presented himself in
something that resembled his idea of an
evening dress. All went well until the
Scotchman got into the supper room,
and after eating a variety of delicacies
he lighted on an ice cream—a form of
nourishment that was new to him. Hav
ing taken a large spoonful ho managed
to conceal his discomfort. But seeing
his host he thought it his duty to inform
him of what had taken place. “I don't
suppose you know, my lord.” he loudly
whispered, “but I think I ought to tell
you—there has been a mistake some
where and this pudding’s froze."
Lord Rosebery grasped tho situation
in a moment. With perfect courtesy
and with a pretty appearance of critical
inquiry, lie tasted the ice cream. “So
it is.” he said: “that’s very strange.”
And then, after speaking to one of the
servants, he returned and said to the
Scotch fanner: “It's all right. 1 am told
that this is a new kind of pudding they
freeze on purpose.” and taking his
friend's arm led him out of the room.—
H. W. Lucy’s “Salisbury Parliament.”
Using Postage Stamps for Seata.
Americans who chance to receive let
ters from Russia are usually surprised
to find the foreign postage stamp on
their envelope used as a seal—affixed,
that is to say. to the center of the side
opposite to that on which the address is
written. Sometimes Russians settling
in the United States continue the prac
tice acquired at home, much, of course,
to the annoyance of United States post
office officials. A case of this kind oc
curred recently in New York state, but
it was explained quite inadequately by
a writer, who alleged that the colonists
sealed their letters with the postage
stamps because communications from
the United States were usually opened
in the Russian postoffices before being
delivered. As a matter of fact the habit
is diffused all through Russia, and sim
ply means that distrust of the imperial
postoffice in that country is widespread.
—Free Russia.
Baldness Among Young People.
If the unsatisfactory statistics that I
have been able to collect can be relied
on, the proportion of baldness in boys
and girls under twenty is about eighty
to seven. As the majority of girls at
the age under consideration wear their
hair loose, or in simple "Marguerite"
braids, so that there is little likelihood
of deception, while unwholesome head
gear or other individual practices can
hardly as yet have had time to produce
any material effect upon either sex. we
may regard the differences indicated by
the figures as practically due to the
working of heredity alone.—Miss E. F.
Andrews in Popular Science Monthly.
Royal Road to Wealth.
“There’s a man.” said Jobbius, “that
came here two years ago with only $200
to his name. Now he’s worth a cool
million if he’s worth a cent.”
“You don't say so,” said Jenks. “How
did he make 60 much money in so short
a time?”
“Well.” said Jobbins. “he invested his
$200 in a tailor's shop and then made
love to the very richest girl in town.”—
Somerville Journal.
A Pair of Pheasants.
When a resident of Bellefonte, Or.,
picked up a pheasant he had shot in the
mountains near Ins home he was sur
prised to find that the bird was con
structed on the plan of the Siamese
Twins. Both birds, lie asserted, were
perfectly developed and the connecting
link was half an inch long and a quarter ]
of an inch thick and joined them just in :
front of the wings.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Two Famous Opals.
In the last century a very round and
brilliant opal was the property of the
amateur Fleury. Another, said to be !
fascinatingly vivid, was owned by a j
noted French financier. These two were I
regarded as marvels of beauty among
gems.—Harper's Bazar.
A good conscience is to the soul what
health is to the body—it preserves con
stant ease and serenity within us and
more than countervails all the calamities
and afflictions which can befall ns with
out.—Addison.
A Frenchman who had by chance
passed over a narrow plank lying across
a deep gorge in the dark, on viewing the
spot the next day fell down dead whil
contemplating the dangers of the previ
ous night
A hay saver, consisting of a three sided ;
device which enables the horse to insert
his head into the manger, but does not
permit any lateral movement of it. is a
late invention.
The manufacture of snowshoes for
army use would establish a new indus
try that might employ a goodly numoer
of workmen. _
Obeying Instruction*.
When the new apprentice assumed hia
duties at the Turkish bath establishment
the manager thought he seemed rather
stupid and entered into a long explana
tion of what, ho was to do. He particular
ly emphasized the command that the at
tendant was to "rub ’em without mercy.”
During the day the manager heard a
great many complaints from his patrons
that they had lost their personal prop
erty. He thought that a sneak thief
must have come in to get washed, and
resolved to be on the look out. He dis
covered nothing, however, though he
peeked around most of the day like an
amateur detective, hiding in all sorts of
places.
Toward the time when the new attend
ant was to go off duty, the latter went
into the manager’s office and began be
having with much mystery. He walked
around like a wet hen, waiting u:i,.i the
coast was clear. When there was none
but himself and his chief in the office he
tiptoed up to the door and locked it.
Then he produced from his pockets five
gold watches, some diamond rings, a few
scarfpins and other articles, which he
set forth with great pride before the
manager, who, horrorstruck, recognized
the effects as belonging to his customers.
“You told me to rob ’em without mer
cy,” said the delighted novice, "and I
done it. Do yer think I’ll suit, boss?”—
New York Herald.
Buddhism in Greece.
A legend of one of Buddha's earliest
pupils tells us that the young man used
to pass the Whole rainy season in his
palace surrounded by dancing girls.
Once he saw a bevy of them asleep in
unbecoming attitudes, and he woke up
and said, “This will never do.” So he
joined Buddha. Now, a life of heavy
heat, long rainy seasons and unceasing
dancing girls is very well calculated to
bring a man to suicide or to Buddhism.
As far as Buddhism means unselfish
kindness (and it demands a great deal of
that from a true disciple), it is exactly
as good as any other religion which makes
the same requirement.
But as far as it is pedantic, morbid,
puerile and superstitious, busy with
arithmetical strings of propositions, with
austerities, ending in self hypnotism,
with an ideal of universal suicide, it is
difficult to see how the natives of a
temperate climate can acquiesce in the
developed doctrines of Buddhism. Had
Gotama come to Greece and preached at
the Olympic games it is unlikely that he
would have made a single convert.—
London News.
Big Pay for Little Work.
The number of accidents which have
befallen the big steamship lines have
been surprisingly few. When mishaps
have occurred large sums have been
awarded for comparatively trivial serv
ices, such as towing for a day or two.
The Ham burg-American liner Suevia,
from New York to Hamburg, broke her
shaft off the Irish coast on Jan. 27,1885,
and was towed into Queenstown harbor
by the tramp steamship Istrian, bound
from Boston to Liverpool. The Istrian
was awarded $23,250 salvage.
The passenger steamship City of Rich
mond, from Liverpool to New York, was
disabled at sea in November, 1882. She
was taken into Halifax harbor by the
tramp steamship Circassia, a service in
volving fifty-four hours of towing. The
salvage awarded by the British admiralty
court was $35,000.—New York Evening
Sun.
An Anecdote of Dorothea Dix,
A rural New Jersey member who had
announced in the house that the wants
and sufferings of the insane of the state
“were all humbug,” went to the parlor
of Dorothea Dix to silence her with his
arguments, but was constrained by her
gentle force to listen to hers. At the
end of an hour and a half he moved into
the middle of the room and thus deliv
ered himself: “Ma'am, I bid you good
night. I do not want, for my part, to
hear anything more: the others can stay
if they wan’t to: I am convinced: you’ve
conquered me out and out: I shall vote
for the hospital. If you’ll come to the
house and talk there as you’ve done here,
no man that isn’t a brute can stand you,
and so, when a man’s convinced, that’s
enough. The Lord bless you!” There
upon he took his departure.—Mary S.
Robinson in Century.
Like Mother’s Cooking.
An enterprising baker advertises
“mince pies like mother used to make."
There is something queer about the idea
that one’s mother could cook better than
any other woman who ever lived. Each
generation of men, when they reach mid
dle life, lauds mother’s cooking, and
compares it with his wife’s cooking to
her disadvantage. When that man’s
boy gets a wife of his own he tells her
what a good cook his mother was, and
so it goes generation after generation.
Now, according to this theory, the art
of cooking has been steadily deteriorat
ing, but of course this is not true. Won
der if a boy’s appetite has not something
to do with the idea that his mother was
the best cook the world ever saw?—St.
Louis Republic.
Great Sport for Women.
I have followed many a fascinating
sport, bnt if womankind desires a pas
time that will intoxicate her brain with
healthy excitement, that' will give her
carmine cheeks and make her heart grow
young once again, let me recommend to
to her, from a most delightful experi
ence, the inimitable outdoor sport of ice
boating, and lot me also tell her that she
has not lived and therefore is not ready
to die unless she has had at least one trip
on a stretch of crystal at a mile a min
ute.— E. Pauline Johnson in Outing.
The Forgotten Fart.
Aunt Hetty—What in creation is the
use of these new fangled individual forks
and spoons?
City Niece (a follower of fads)—Don’t
yon think its rather nice to have things
which no one else uses? Forks and spoons
go into people’s months, you know.
Aunt Hetty—Yes—but, land sakes,
they all go into the same dishwater.—
New York Weekly.
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MANAGING ENGLISH FARMS*
The Bciwlta of an Intelligent ami Capublt
Land Owner In Foglnnd.
Mr. W. J. Harris gives a most helpful
and interesting account of the Hahvill
manor estate. This was poor land and
much of it was untouched for long peri
ods, being treated as a summer run foi
cattle. The investor, Mr. Harris, was
tempted at first to do what at that time
was generally done by landlords—con
solidate farms, pull down old cottages
and in fact generally reduce the avail
able population and labor on the land.
Several farms fell in soon after Mr.
Harris’ purchase of the estate, but he
was “converted” by observing that,
where the landlord or the farming ten
ant had allowed the cottagers to cu.ti
vate the land immediately around them
the value of the land had been doubled
by the laborer without indeed any guar
antee of permanent residence.
Instead of destroying, the new landlord
built and repaired, and having farms on
his hands was enabled to cut off certain
fields and allot them to cottagers. Small
farms grew np and the larger ones were
reduced. Thus land was let that other
wise would not have been—moorland in
closures, for instance—and it was on these
that the value of tho system made itsell
at once apparent.
Land not valued at more than fivt
shillings per acre in its rough stato be
came, when meadow land, worth from
thirty to fifty shillings, and as the cot
tages wore in demand the population
increased, and farmers knowing that
labor could always be obtained took the
largo farms, reduced though they were.
Wages have risen from ten and eleven
shillings to twelve and fourteen shillings
per week.
Mr. Harris says he made the mistake
of working his vacant farms with bail
iffs, thinking, as the land was in low
condition, he might do it better than a
tenant. Bn"1, as he says, it is the laborei
who knows best and who succeeds, pro
vided he has not more land than he can
manage. One of these small holders now
has fifty acres and gives occasional em
ployment.
One secret of the small fanner's suc
cess is that one man works on his fann
for no wages at all, and that is the farm
er himself. The small fanners help each
other, and they seldom let a crop stand
too late or get behindhand, as is the fash
ion with some misguided men, who un
derman their large farms and depend on
outside labor for chronic emergencies.
The harm that a large landowner can dc
by farming meanly is incalculable.—
London Saturday Review.
Old Time “Reviewing.”
The first age of the great modem re
views and magazines was an age of kicks
and rough horseplay. Party spirit ran
high under the regency, and literary
criticism, so far from being the “disin
terested” affair which Matthew Arnold
demands, was avowedly run upon polit
ical lines. Libel suits and challenges
rained upon magazine editors. Jeffrey
and Moore went through the forms of a
duel. The Chaldee manuscript had to he
suppressed in the second edition, and
cost Mr. Blackwood a thousand pounds
a3 it was. Aggrieved persons lay in wait
for editors in the street.
Thus one Mr. Douglas, of Glasgow,who
had been roughly handled in “Maga,”
came to Edinburgh and horsewhipped
Blackwood, and was in turn beaten by
Blackwood, who had re-enforced himself
meanwhile with a cudgel and with the
Ettrick Shepherd.—H. A. Beers in Cen
tury.
Why a Man Loses Faith.
Ex-Judge Henry E. Howland is cred
ited with the following:
It is the gross and palpable subter
fuges, deceits and evasions that are ab
horrent to our natures in dealing with
the outside world, like that in a prohibi
tion town in Maine, where a lank and
red nosed countryman called into a drug
store and placing a demijohn on the
counter said to the clerk, “I want a gal
lon of rum, baby’s sick,” or the cau
: tious sparring for an advantage sug
gested by the answer of the rector of a
! country parish who was revising his
i sermon one Sunday morning and was
waited upon in his study by his organ
ist, who asked what he should play. “I
don’t know,” said the rector, absent
mindedly; “what kind of a hand have
you got?”—New York World.
A Cure for Snake Bite.
Another treatment for snake bite is
added to the long list of remedies that
have come from many countries. It is
said that the natives of Australia have
comparatively little fear of snake bites.
They keep always at hand a piece of
string made of human hair. The string
! is tied tightly three or four inches above
the bite, a small circle an eighth of an
inch deep is cut around the two fang
! punrtures with a knife, and the largest
; vein below the bite is slit to allow the
blood to run out. The last stage of this
heroic treatment is the turning on of a
stream of water to the affected part and
the rubbing down steadily of the limb
for about twenty minutes.—Pittsburg
Dispatch.
The Number Three in Daily Life.
In the nursery rhymes and tales of
childhood who cannot remember the
| “Three Wise Men of Gotham” who took
a sea voyage in a bowl, not to mention
the luckless trio of blind mice whose
tails were cut off by the farmers wife?
Examples of this sort might be multi
plied indefinitely, but coming down to
everyday life, our meals are regulated
by the rule of three, while the sick pa
tient would be guilty of treason to lii3
doctor if he refused to take his medicine
three times a day.—New York News.
Success of Electric Plants.
The question. “Is light or darkness
conducive to the growth of an electric
plant?” was recently discussed by a de
bating society in a western college.
Some stated that light was, because if
no lamps were lit there would be no
profits, while others said that darkness
was, because if there was no darkness
there would be no need of lights. The
debate finally terminated in a draw.—
New York Press.
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Doubtless the most surprising, and perhaps
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The snub nose is peculiar to Russians, Es
quimaux, 'barters ami Africans.
Wall Paper and Carpets.
Many walls are rendered unwholesome hy
the paper that is supposed to adorn them.
Either the paper itself contains copper or
arsenic or some other injurious matter, or ii
has been on the wall so long that it has tilled
with disease-germs enough to intect a whole
family. There is no doubt that contagious and
other diseases, including consumption, have
been extensively propagated in this way. Some
old houses have walls with two, and even
three, layers of paper on them, the dirt ami
tilth of years being covered up and kept in
store lor successive occupants. This is almost
worse than the carpet nuisance; for though
carpets may become about the filthiest thing
that a house contains, they do wear out in
time, and are lifted from the floors.—From
“Sanitarian,” in Demores.’s Family Magazine
for February.
Projecting, rolling eyes belong to peoph
destitute of genuine ven -rat on.
Pronounced Hopeless, Yet Saved.
From a letter written by Mrs. Ada E. Ilurd.
of Groton, S. D.. we quote: “Was taken with
a bad cold, which settled on my l.ungs. cough
set in and finally terminated into.Consump
tion. Four doctors gave me up, saying I could
live hut a short time, i gave myself up to iny
Saviour, determined if 1 could not stay with
my friends on earth, 1. would meet my absent
ones above. My husband was advised to get
Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption.
Coughs and Folds. 1 gave it a trial, took in
all eight bottles; it lias cured me, and thank
God I am now a well and hearty woman."
Trial bottles free at A. McMillen’s drugstore,
regular size 50 cents and Si.
Thick, heavy, regularly arched eyebrows
always indicate sound judgment.
Good Looks.
Good looks are more than skin deep, de
pending upon a healthy condition of the vital
organs. If the liver he in active,you have 11
Bilious Look, if your stomach be disordered
you have a Dyspeptic Look and if the Kid
neys be affected you have a Pinched Look.
Secure good health and you will have good
looks. Electric Bitters is the gieat alterative
#nd Tonic and acts directly on these vital or
gans. Cures Pimples, Blotches, Boils and
gives a good complexion. Sold at A. Mc
Millen’s drugstore. 50 cents per bottle.
A broad conspicuous forehead always indi
cates great mental penetration.
Captain W. A. Abbelt, who has long been
with Messrs. Percival & Hatton. Real Estate
and Insurance Brokers, Des Moines, Iowa,
and one of the best known and most respected
business men in that city, says: “I can testify
to the good qualities of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy. Having used it in my family for
the past eight years, I can safely say it has no
equal for either colds or croup. Is seems to
expel the mucous from the lungs, and leaves
the system in as good condition as before
taking the cold. We have also used several
other kinds hut unhesitatingly say that Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy is the best of all.”
50 cent bottler, for sale by George M. Chen
ery, druggist. _
The best noses always showa concavity be
tween tile nose anti the forehead.
Your rheumatism may be bad; we will ad
mit it to be very bad, and that you have ex
pended a great deal of money for medicines
and treatments without receiving much bene
fit; but remember that others have suffered
even more, and yet been permanently cured.
No case of rheumatism can he so bad that
Chamberlain’s Pain Balm will not ease the
pain and help it, and hundreds of cases that
have long been regarded as incurable have
yielded to the soothing effects of this great
Remedy. The prompt relief from pain is
alone .vorth many times its cost. 50 cent
bottles for sale by George M. Chenery.
A mouth exactly twice as broad as the eye
shows dullness in apprehension.
A Good Record. “I have sold Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy for ten years,” says
diuggist E. B. Legg, of Vail. Iowa, “and have
always warranted it and never had a bottle
returned. During the past ninety days I have
sold twelve dozen, and it has given perfect
satisfaction in everv instance.” It does not
dry up a cough; but loosens and relieves it. It
will cure a severe cold in less time than any
other treatment. 50 cent and $1 bottles for
sale by George M. Chenery.
Warts on the chin or neck indicate industri
ous, active, sanguine persons.
With pure, vigorous blood coursing through
the veins and animating every liber of the
body, cold weather is not only endurable but
pleasant and agreeable. No other blood med
icine is so certain in its results as Ayer’s Sar
saparilla. What it does for others it will do
for you.
Are you Troubled
With gravel, diabetes, or any derangement
of the kidneys or urinary organs? Oregon
Kidney Tea is a safe, sure and speedy remedy
for all such troubles.
Any marked peculiarity of conntenance in
dicates some peculiarity of mind.
Wisdom’s Robertine
Is the only preparation used by fashionable
ladies to perpetuate a beautiful complexion.
Ask you druggist for it and do not be induced
to take anything else.
A projecting nose snd mouth show selfcon
fidence, imprudence and rashness.
Captain Sweeney, U. S. A., San Diego, Cal.,
says: "Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy is the first
medicine I have ever found thatWould do me
any good.” l’rice 50 cents. Sold by A. Mc
Miilen. _
“Take it before breakfast,” because it will
give you an appetite, regulate the bowels and
cleanse the system of all impurities—Dr. Hen
ley's English Dandelion I onic. Sold every
where. _
Shiloh's Yitalizer is what you need for Dys
pepsia, Torpid Liver, Yellow Skin or Kidney
Trouble. It is guaranteed to give satisfacti on.
Price 75c. Sold by A. McMillen. Jan 6 lyr.
Karl’s Clover Root, the new Llood Purifier
gives freshness and clearness to the complex
ion and cures constipation. 25c., 50c. and Si.
Sold by A. McMillen.
Shiloh's Cure, the greatest cough and croup
cure, is for sale by us. Pocket size contains
twenty-five doses, only 25c. Children love it.
.“God’s blessing to mankind,” say thousands
who have been cured by the celebrated Ore
gon Kidney Tea. Sold everywhere.
You have no appetite for breakfast. A few
doses of Dr. Henley’s English Dandelion
Tonic is what you need.
What is
Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher’s prescription for Infhnts /
and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute
for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil*
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years* use by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd,
cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves
teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency*
Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach
and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas
toria is the Children’s Panacea—the Mother’s Friend.
Castoria.
** Castoria la an excellent medicine for chil
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me of ita
good effect upon their children.”
Da. Q. C. Osgood,
Lowell, Mas.
K Castoria is the best remedy for children of
which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
Interest of their children, and use Castoria in
stead of the various quack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats, thereby sending
them to premature graves.”
Da. J. F. Kinciikloe,
Conway, Ark.
Castoria.
“ Castoria is so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me.”
H. A. Aacnga, H. D.,
Ill So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. T,
“ Our physicians in the children's depart
ment have spoken highly of their experi
ence In their outside practico with Castoria,
and although we only hare among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
produce, yet we are free to confess that tha
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
faror upon it."
Unitid Hospital and Dispkmsabt,
Boston, Haas.
Ai.ua C. Smith, Fret.,
The Centaur Company, T7 Murray Street, New York City.
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