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Save thatwe know our lives are not evolved For tho feole end of filling empty shrouds.' William Ward in New Orleans Times-Democrat. HOW THEY MADE MONEY. Pack up jour things as soon as you please, my dear," saidMr. Chesney. "We're going to move on Saturday." Mr. and Mrs. Chesney were a matri monial firm, there was no question about that; but Mrs. Chesney had. always been a silent partner. ("If ever I get married," said Elma, a bright-eyed girl of seventeen, I won't be put upon as mamma is!" "Papa is & regular despot that's what papa is!" decided Will, a tall stripling of fifteen.) "Where, my dear?" askeu Mrs. Ches ney, with a little start. "Into the country," said tho family autocrat "I'm tired of this city busi ness; it costs a great deal more than it comes to. I'm told you can live at hall' the expense in the country." "But," gasped Mrs. Chesney, "what is to become of the children's educa tion?" 8 "There's a very good district school in the neighborhood, not more than a mile distant," explained her husband, "and the exercise will do them good." "And what are we to do for society?" "Pshaw!" said Chesney, "I wouldn't give a rap for people who can't be so ciety for themselves. "There'li be the housework to do, you know nobody keeps a girl in the country and plenty of jobs about the place for Will and Spencer. 1 shall keep a horse, if I can get one cheap, for the station is half a mile from the place, and I've bargained for a couple of cows and some pigs." Will and Spencer looked askance at each other. "It'll do us good to walk a mile to school," muttered the elder; "but father must have a horso to carry him half a mile to the station." "That's father's logic all over," ob served Spencer." While Mr. Chesney explained to his wife the various advantages which were to accrue from the promised move. "ItTs unfortunate," said he, "that El ma and Rosie aren't boys. Such a lot of women-folks arc enough' to swamp any family. Men, now, can always earn their bread. But we must try to make everybody useful in some way or other. It's so' health'. 3011 know," added he. "And the rent won't be half of what we pay here." "Are there an' modern conveniences about the place?" timidly inquired Mrs. Chesney. "There's a spring of excellent water about a hundred yards from the house," said her husband. "Have I got to walk a hundred yards for ever drop of water I want?" said she. "And a large rain-water hogshead under the caves of the house," added Mr. Chesney. "And I've already got a bargain in kerosene lamps. As for candles, I am given to understand that the good housekeepers thereabouts make 'em themselves in tin molds. There's nothing like economy. Now I do beg to know, Abigail," he added, irritably, "what are you looking so lackadaisical about? Do 3'ou expect to sit still and fold your hands, while 1 do all the work? Give me a woman for sheer natural laziness!" "I am not lazy, Georsc," said the poor wife, with a bewildered air; "but ail this is so new and strange at first. But Til try to get accustomed to it I'll try my very best." "Nevertheless, Rosic and Elma and their mother shed many a salt tear into the trunks and packing-boxes, on top of the woollen blankets and' rugs and piles of domestic linen. "I hate the country!" said Elma. "I'd as soon go to prison and done with it" h l "Oh, Ellie, don't talk so," said Rose. "There arc wild roses and robins there, just as one sees on the painted plaques in the shop windows. ' And perhaps we can have a flower-bed, and some dear little downy chickens." But the first sight of Mullcinstalk Farm was dispiriting in tho extreme. Between rock and swamp, there was scarcely pasture for the two lean cows that Mr. Chesney had bought as "a bar gain," and tho hollow-backed horse, which stalked about the premises like some phantom Bucephalus. The apple trees in the orchard were three-quarters dead, and leaned sor rowfully away from the last winds, until' 'their boughs touched the very ground; 'the fences were all gone to ruin, and the front gate was tied up with a string. "Is this toie?" said Elma, with an indescribable intonation in her voice. "We'll get things all straightened up, after awhile," said' Mr. "Chesney, bust ling to drive away the pigs, who had broken out of their pen and were squeal ing dismally under the window. Mrs. Chesney cried herself to sleep that night and wakened the next morn ing with, every bone instinct with shoot ing pains. "And no wonder," said Spencer. "There's a foot of water in the cellar." "Wc must have it drained," said Mr. Chesney, with an uneasy look; "but there's plenty of things to do first" And now began -a reign of tho strict est economy. Mr. Chesney himself paid for everything with checks, and not an article came into the house or went out of it without his cognizance. New dresses were frowned upon; spring bon nets were strictly- interdicted; orders were issued that old carpets should be resewed, and broken "dishes repaired with cement and quicklime. "Saye, save, save! That is the chief thing," ho kept repeating, briskly. Women-folks can't earn; they should try their best to save." "It's all very-well for-papa," growled WilL 'Ee goes to the city every day and sees something besides the pigs and the dead apple trees. He orders a new suit when he needs it Look at mam ma's patched gown and Rosie'sdyed bonnet-strings! Why, they can't even go to church, they are such objects! Me gets his lunch at a restaurant and tee cat cold beans, and drink dandelion coffee and sage tea," "Boys," fluttered Rosie, Tyean idea. Mary Fenn, who lives on the next farm, you know, came to see Elma and me yesteraay. Papa is earning his living; we'll earn something, too." . "1 should like to know how," mut tered Spencer. "I might go out some where as farm-hand, if it wasn't for that wretched old horse, and the pigs, and the woodchopping, and " Oh but there is something that won't interfere with the work, nor with school!"! said cheerful Rose. "Jast listen aU'I ask of yon is to listen! And the weeks grew into months, and the red leaves eddied down in little r swiils from tho elm trees, and "pig kflnrifciimo" came, and with tiie aid of ' TfionelMBTlfr.'Chesney laid aown bis own stocK of pork and saus ages for the winter with a sense of be ing triumphantly' economical. ; The family' had Jctt of complaining now. Apparently they were resigned to their doom. But there were some things that Mr. Chesney could not ex plain at ail. A new rug brightened up the dismal hues of the parlor carpet; Rosie had a crimson merino dress, trimmed with black velvet bars; Elma's autumn jacKet was edged with substantial black fur; and grand climax of extravagance Mrs. Chesney had a new shawl, in Elace of the old broche garment which ad been her mother's before her? He looked over tho housekeeping ooks with renewed vigilance; he con sulted the stubs of his check-book with a glance that nothing could escape. "I don't know how they man ageit" said, he, scratching his nose with the lead pencil that he always car ried. "I hate mysteries, anil I mean to be at the bottom of this before I am an hour older." He took hi9 account-book under his arm and marched into the kitchen, where his wife was clearing away the late supper. " " "Abigail," -said he. "how is this? I've given you no money. You've long left -off -asking for money. How have youlnanaged to smarten yourself and the childfcnup so? IwonTt be cheated by my own wife!" m Elma set down the pitcher which she was wiping and came and stood before her father with glittering eyes and cheeks stained with crimson, like a flag of battle. "Papa," she said, "you must not speak to mamma so. Mamma would not cheat you nor anybody else. It's money that we have earned ourselves. There! Now!" Mr. Chesney stared at the girl with incredulous eyes. "And if you don't believe it, come and see how," said Elma, Hinging down her toweL 'rMary Peim showed us. She told us everything, and gave us the first swarm of bees. There aro fourteen hives down under the south wall. Spencer sold the honey for us; and we planted all the nice flowers that grow down in the meadow, that you said was too stony and barren even for the sheep to pasture upon; and Will dug and hoed around them after the work was all done, and wc snt boxes and bouquets of lilies and verbenas to the city every day by Mr. Penn's wagon. And we gathered wild strawberries before the sun was up. and got cherries out of the old lane, and the money is all ours every farthing of it!" "Honey, ch?" said Mr. Chesney, staring at the row of hives, for Elma had dragged him out into the November moonlight to the scene of action. "Well, Tvc seen these many a time, but I always s' posed the' belonged to Squire "Penn's folks. And flowers, and wild berries! Didn't think there was so much money in 'em. Believe I'll try the business" mpself next year. Queer" that the women-folk should have got tho start of me!" And after that he regarded his family with more respect The mere fact that they could earn money had elevated them immensely in his sight But when spring came he lost his ablest co adjutor. j I Miss Elma incidentally announced to him one day, that she was 'going to bo married to Walter Penn the next week. "And mamma is coming to live with us, added Jinna.' "bhe can't stand the damp house and this hard work any longer." But Mrs. Chesney did not go to the Penn Farm. Mr. Chesney hired a stout serving-maid, and laid drain-pipes under the kitchen floor. If his wife really understood her busi ness so well, it was worth while to keep her well and active, he considered. "I couldn't well leave papa, you know," said Mrs. Chesney to Elma. "He means well, and now that Rebecca Beckel is coming here, and the kitchen is dry, we shall get along nicely. I wouldn't go back to the city for any thing now." "Nor I, cither," said Elma. "And oh, mamma, I shall always love those bee-hives under the hollyhocks, for it was there that Walter asked me to be his wife!" And Mrs. Chesney tearfully kissed her daughter. She, too, had been happy once, and had her dreams. It was to be hoped that Walter Penn was made of different metal from George Chesney. To Elma, however, all the world was coulcur de rose. Had she not the eter nal talismans of Youth and Love? TUNEFUL "CHESTNUTS." Origin or the Sweet llallads Which Never Grow Old. "John Brown's Body" is an old Meth odist camp-meeting tune, and the words were adapted to it by a glee club of Bos ton. It was first published at Charles town, Mass. Captain James Greenleaf, an organist of the Harvard Church, set the notes for music, and a Massachusetts regiment made them first noted by sing ing them in Fort Warren in 1861. The author of "Maryland, My Mary land" lives at Washington, and you may see him in the press galleries of Congress almost any day during the session. He writes gossipy letters to the Atlanta Chronicle. His name is James R. Randall. "America" was written by Rev. Sam uel Francis Smith, in 1835, and it was first sung in Boston on the Fourth of July of that year. Like the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" it was inspired by a'great tune, viz.: 'God Save the King." This tune is used in nearly every country, ami has been ascribed to Handel. The writer of tho words still lives in Massachusetts, and he says that he wrote the song at a sitting. He is now 75 years oltC- John Howard Payne's "Home. Sweet Home" was written for an opera, and he never got anything for it but his tombstone in Oak Hill Cemetery. It was first sung in the Covent Garden Theatei in London, and made a big hit Foster got $15,000 for writing Old Folks at Home;" Charles Dibdin netted several weeks' board for writing "Poor Jack," while his publishers made $15,' 000 out of it Crouch, the writer oi "Kathleen Mavournccn," received $25 for the production and afterward be came a Degging tramp, while its pub lishers could have built a brown-stone front out of its sales. George P. Morris wrote "Woodman, Spare That Tree," because the purchaser of a friend's estate wanted to cut down a tree which his grandfather had planted. His friend paid the purchaser $10 to spare it Mor ris was touched by the story and wrote the song. "Hail Columbia," was written by Joseph Honkinson in the Summer of 1798, and ft was first called the "Presi dent's March. ". It was always sung when Washington came into the theater, and one of the objects of its writing was the cultivation of a patriotic spirit among the people of tho republic. Joseph Hopkinson was 28 years' old when he wrote it It was first set to music by a German, at Philadelphia, named Roth. "The Star Spangled Banner" was written by Francis Scott Key while watching the bombardment of Fort Mo Henry. He was in a small vessel among the British ships, and he saw his coun trymen win the victory. All through the fight he watched anxiously to see if Ahe flag was stfll standing; looking for it at night by the flash of the bombshells. and anxiously awaiting the dawning. jluc uuug was pnmcu in. toe Baltimore American eight days after the battle, ! under the title of The Defense of Fort : McHenry." " ' - j Many people will be surmised to know that "Yankee Doodle" is not of Ameri can orijrin. Even the words date back I beyond the days of Queen Anne, aud the tune lsMill.oideiv in ..tne wwars 01 the Roundheads, says Commodore Preble m his book on " the flag of the United States, to which, by the way, 1 am indebted for much of this informa tion, "Yankco Doodle" was appliud in derision to Cromwell, and JVofessor Rimbault a prominent physician of 1 London, wrote the song directed at Cromwell under this title. The jmglc of these two songs is about the same, and the words are not much different. Dr. Schuehburg first introduced the song into this country in 1775, and this was also in contempt of the ragged colonial soldiers. At Concord and Lex ington the British, when advancing to tight, bravely played "God Save tho King," aud after they were defeated the Yankees, as they watched their retreat, struck up "Yankee Doodle." "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,' was written by Thomas a'Beckct an English actor.who in 1789 was a teacher of music at Philadelphia. ."The Blue and the Gray" was written by Francis Miles Finch, and delivered before a reunion of the army of the Po tomac. It was drawn out by the fact that the women of Columbus, Miss., strewed flowers on the graves of Con federate and Union soldiers alike. It was-publishcd iri the Atlantic Monthly, beptcmber, 1807. wi WIT AND HUMOR. Mousquetairc gloves are the rago ex cept near swimming-holes, where "un dressed kid" hold sway. Danville Breeze. A new game of cards is called "matrimony. ' If the man wins he takes the girl; if the girl wins sho takes the man. Philadelphia Call. China and Japan buy our dried apples freely. Thus docs American industry help to swell the population of tho Orient Boston Transcript. The information comes by cable that Oliver Wendell Holmes has sat down to table with Kings and Queens. This is interesting :is far as it goes, but how many of them did behold? New Haven News. "Really, madaine.- your daughter is perfectly charming. She must have had many oilers of marriage." "You are right; but then, you know, I am much too- young to let her marrv. French inn. Merritt I see you have a new servant girl. Little Johnny (confidentially) Yes,- and I tell you she's a corker. Bridget (sjteaking up) Indade Oi'm not sorr. Oi cum from Limerick. The Judge. Mamie Van Astorbilt "O, Mr. De Fly, see that Van Islip girl with Baron von Giescuback! Did vou ever meet the Baron in New York?" Mr. De Fly (lacouically) "No shave myself." Puck. "I am perfectly at home in the wa ter," said an old toper as he plunged in to the surf. "That is where you have the advantage over water," was the un feeling remark of a bystander who knew him. Boston Post. A learned crank named Adams de votes seven columns in a recent medical journal to "The Dangers of Kissing." He might have said it in five words; "Kissing often leads fo matrimony." Marathon Independent. "I am satisfied on every point but one," said a gentleman to an applicant for service. "I cannot get over your nose." "That is not to be wondered at, sir," replied the applicant "for tho bridge is broken." Chambers' Journal. A teacher, in catechising her class of boys at Sunday-school, asked, "Who was the strongest man?" A little chap of eight vears answered, without a mo ments hesitation: "Sullivan. Now ask me who is the best rower." Har per's Magazine. A small Louisville boy, after being naughty aud suffering greatly at the maternal hand, or rather slipper, stop ped sobbing long enough to look earn estly at his mother and say, with em phasis: "Mamma. I'm sorry you ever married my papa." Mr. B. (a prominent politician) Un cle Rastus, I want you to come up to my house aud vindicate the Kitchen ceiling. Uncle Rastus W-wha' dat, sail vindi cate de ccilin'? Mr. B. No, no, I don't mean vindicate. I mean whitewash the ceiling. New York Times. New cashier I should like to have an agreement with you to the effect that I shali have a week's notice in case I don't suit Bank president That is easily fixed if you will agree to give us a week's notice before leaving. New cashier (thoughtfully) Well, let it go. Omaha World. Bagley What in thunder does Peter by always get into the hist row of seats at the theater for? I have noticed him there scores of times. Bailey Peterby is a vcrv sensitive man, and is afraid he woufd interfere with people who sit behind him; he has such a high fore head, you know. Tul-Bds. Bobby came into the house sobbing and told his mother that Tommy White had kicked him. "Well, Tommy White is a very bad boy," said Bobby's mother, giving him a large piece of cake. "You didn't kick liim back, did you?" "No." replied Bobby, between bites, "I kicked him first. Acw York Sun. "Ah. Bagley! honii! again? How's Mrs. B. and Amelia?'' "Still at New port" "Enjoying themselves?" "Im mensely. Mrs. B. goes battling and Aurclia goes fishing." "Fishing? I didn't know' that the fishing was good at Newport." "I didtf t sav she was ashing for Call. fish." "O!" Philadelphia Miss Llewellyn "Have you read JoungMr. De Lyle's charming story? t is just out and is perfectly delightr ful." Mrs. Abernelhy "No;"l haven't seen it I didn't know that De Lylc possessed literary talent Did he in herit it?" Miss Llewellyn "O, yes. His father left him an immense forluuc." Puck. A railroad president in North Caro lina has been challenged to fight a duel by a member of the Legislature, but the railroad president absolutely refuses to fight, lie feels that the relations be tween railroads and legislatures are so close that death in either case would be fratricidal bloodshed. Washington Critic "I understand dat you hat vailed up in pcesness, Mr. Levi." "Yes; I vas un vordunate in a brivate sbeculation. Dat vas not de vorst I vas deceifed." "Vas?" "In my assignee He vas a scoundrel. He vormed his vay into my convidence und made me bay 96 cents on de dollar. Did you effer hear of such an oudrage?" New York Mercury. A Boston lady was making some pur chases in a drug store in Kansas City recently, when a countryman camo swinging along, and in a loud voice ad dressed the dapper clerk with: "Say! mister, goteny caster-ile?" 4Certainly, sir." he replied. "Do you wish it for 1 lubricating purposes.-" "1 bunder, no: Iwantcr greeze my waggin!" Boston Herald. Mrs. Bullion I'm afraid, Mary Ann, that you are inclined to be extravagant Mary Ann Me is it? Sure, you are xmstnaken. Mrs. Hnllion--xou burn : too many candles. Mary Ann Me burn candles, is it Divil a wan. Mrs. Bui- j lion Everybody notices it; even., your bean. ' Ipassed' the kitchen when he was here last night and I'm sure I heard ' him say something about your taper ! waste. The Rambler. a laconic tetter "in toe says of '49-' a member of a party of miners strayed away from his companions and was de stroyed by wild beasts. The friend up on whom it devolved to "break the news geutly" to the bereaved parents showed himself equal to the occasion by writing the following letter: Mister Smith Doer sur the Kiotes has ete yur sun's bed oil Yura John Jones. Harpers Magazine for September. Mr. Hendricks had returned from a week's fishing excursion, and the minis ter had been invited to Sunday dinner to assist in discussing the' catch.". "What kind of fish are these, pa?" in quired Bobby. "Trout my boy, brook trout," said the old man proudly. "Ain't they as good as fours?' "Fours? I never heard of such a fish, Bobby." "Yes you have. You told Mr. Feather ly that you had had bad luck, because you were the only one in tho party who didn't catch fours." Ncio York Sun. ' A lady writes to the Journal: 4,Our little 2-ycar-old boy is very fond of inedi- ' cine. No matter what the kind, ho ' takes it with evident relish and teases for it on all occasions. The other day he came running iu and said he was 1 sick and tired and his legs ached and he must have some. To pacify him his j mother gave him a tcaspoonf ul of cough j sirup. After lapping out the spoon he ! looked roguishly up to her and said in an appealing tone, Got two legs, mam- j ma; inns'' have anozer spoonful for zo ' ozer leg.' " Boston Journal. J It was at El Paso, Tex., that a citizen buckled on two revolvers, seized .an American Hag in his hands, aud was ' about to jump into the ttreet and yell, "Down with Aiexieo!" when a stranger , laid his hand on his arm and whisper ed: 'toif t! I'll give you a dollar not i to." "Ain't you a patriot?" howled the Texan. "O, yes." "And don't you ' want to see Mexico lioki-u?" "Certain- ' ly." "Then what ails you?" "1 want , to get rid of $6,000 worth of Mexican! Central stock first Please don't add to ' the excitement" Wall htrcct News. At a Country St tin. An elderly woman, with keen gray eyes looking sharply through steel bowed spectacles, enters and casually examines several bolts of lawn lying on the couuter. "Ah. good day, Mrs. II ." says the proprietor, coming briskly forward, anticipating a sale; "looking for lawns?" "No, I dono as I was." says the pos sible customer, guardedly; "1 was just noticing those." "They're pretty patterns. 1 just got them in." "They're all so light" "Light colors are all the rage this summer. But here's a black aud white piece that's just the thing for you. Now, isn't that neat?" "Yes, ruther; but it an't just what I like. How much is it?" "Fifteen cents a yard." "An't that dreadful high for lawns?" "Not for lawns of that quality. Just see how fine it is." "Yes; but they're selling lawns ev'ry mite and grain as good as that in the city at 8 and 9 cents." "impossible, Mrs. H !" "Indeed, they arc! And one of my neighbors got a good niece for seven cents." "They aro not such goods as this." "It's pretty nigh the very same thing. I hadn't calculated on giving more than ten cents." "Why, Mrs. II- this cost more than that at wholesale!" "Oh, I guess not Anyhow, I can't give but 10 cents a yard." "I can't take it" "I won't give any more." "Well, just examine that lawn close ly, now." "It looks well enough, but I an't at all sure that it won't fade." "I'll warrant it not to fade. It's a standard make and fast colors." "Well, how many yards are there in the piece?" "Thirteen; just a good full pattern." "Eleven would be a great plenty for me." "Now. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll let you have the piece for 14 cents a yard, seeing as it's all I've got left" "Can't you say an ev;n 12 cents to an old customer liKe me?" "No, really, I couldn't." "Fourteen" cents is too much for lawn that's selling cv'rywhere for 10 cents." Oh. I think you're mistaken." "Well, sec here, Pll give you 12$ cents a yard for it" "No, I couldn't go below 13 cents, and wouldn't let anybody but you have it for that" "Well, I'll give you 13 cents if you'll call it twelve yards." "But there's full thirteen yards in tho piece." "Well, call it twelve and I'll take it" "Can't do it" "I reckon you'll throw in thread and buttons and waist-linings?" "Couldn't do it for that money." "Well, say thread and buttons, then?" "I'll throw in a spool of thread." "And a card of hooks and eyes?" "Well, I don't know yes, I will." "Now, why can't you say buttons, loo?" "I really can not; I'm losing money now." "And you can't make it 12J cents a yard?" "No." "Well, I guess I won't take it I an't needing a lawn dress this summer, any how." Youths' Companion. m Great Things to Be Seen in America. A leading journal strikes a true chord when it asks the question: "Is it in order to seo walled towns that they (the intending traveler) would have gone to Europe? Where will they come across one more to their mind than in the Gibraltar of America, where Quebec sits on her rock overlooking her mighty river, with a view that has few rivals in the world, with her: ramparts and cita del, her mediaeval streets and dwellings, her cathedrals and convents, and strange schools and foreign tongues and immortal histories? Is it only ancient cities they desire? Then there is St Augustine among its palmettos beside the sea, almost at the extremity of tho continent and almost as old as the dis cover' of tho continent Is it semi tropical beauty of landscape and weather they would , have? Not all the soft vapored citiesby the Mediterranean will offer them more than Savannah and the Sea Islands. "Is it foreign life they want? Where will anything more alien to all our northern and eastern experience be seen or heard than in the Rue Royale and the Rue Bourbon, at the French market or at the Spanish Fort' of New Orleans, with its mocking-birds and magnolias, where, as late as the middle of June, gardens full of jasmine and oleanders, cape myrtles, and palms, with moon light that might be the northern sun filtered through domes of crystals, mako one doubt if it be plain, matter-of-fact progressive America? Or where will more quaintness and delight be seen than in the Texas town of San Antonio, where the roses lie on the red roofs of the long and low dwellings, where the jalousies are latticed with the vine of the night-blooming cereus, where tho banana trees blow to ribbons in the 6trong, sweet southeast gales, and the lanes are lined with figs and apricots, aud one walks under avenues of stately pecans; where forests, draped in mel ancholy moss, swaying heavily, make the landscape all unreal; where grape vines: interlace the thickets with stems the size of forest trees themselves; where the priests go about with flocks of little children clinging to their skirts, and where the ruins of the old missions rival injsculptured wonder many ruins of old Spain?. .Or is- it absolute Spain itself that our friends would travel over? Let them cross the Rio Grande by rail, and in Chihuahua and Sonora and the heart of Mexico they have reached much that makes old Spain; they have found the old Spain of 400 years ago, and have gone there dryshod. "Do our travelers want deserts and thirst for thotr summer experience? They will find deserts in Arizona rival ing all Africa, with colors and mirages that even tho Sahel does not give. Do they pant for mountain-climbing? If the'Whitc Mountains and the Alleghan ies do not offer difficulties enough, are there not Mount Su Eiias, with its 17. 000 feet of altitude, Shasta and Whit ney, tho terribly obstructed heights of Sogris ami of Snow Mass Peak, all the wild summits of the Sierras, the fearful beauty of the Yellowstone park, and the wild grandeur, too lovely to bo terrible, of the Yosemite? Aud do the Danube, the Rhine, the Nile allure? Then shall not the waters of the Hudson, with its picturesque readies, of the Mississippi, with its breadth aud volume, of the Columbia, with its gorges and cataracts, wash out all memory of lesser .and less beautiful streams. "Where, for mere beauty, for tho de light of the eye, can all Europe show us anything like a blossoming prairie through which we may ride all day and never come to the end of the blossom ing? And what hoary antiquity to charm the thought back to the source of races has Europe to offer-that shall out do the ancientness of the ruins of our prehistoric peoples in the heart of the continent? In fact, America is so full of historic interest and picturesque loveliness that it is wonderful anybody should wish to visit Europe at all be fore exhausting it; and if anything hap pens to deter people from crossing the ocean and incites them to become ac quainted with their own territory, they icannot be the lasers by it." Chicago Western World. N:v York Politician" at Saratoga. There is a certain sort of life whether it is worth seeing is a question that we can see nowhere else, and for an hour Mr. Glow and King and Forbes, sipping their raspberry shrub in a re tired corner of the bar-room, were in terested spectators of t he scene. Through the padded swinging doors entered, as in a play, character after character. Kaeii actor as he entered stopped for a moment ami stared about him, apd in this art revealed his character his con ceit, his shness, his bravado, his self importance. There was great variety, but practically one prevailing type, and that the New York politician. Most of them were from the city, though the country politician apes the city politi cian as much as possible, but he lacks the exaet air, notwithstanding the black broadcloth and the while hat The city men are of two varieties the -smart perky-nosed, vulgar young ward work er, and the heavy-featured, gross, fat old feilow. One after another they glide in, with an always conscious air, swagjrer oil" to the bar. strike attitudes iu group;, one with his legs spread, another witli a foot behind on tiptoe, another leaning against the counter, and .so pose, and drink "My respects" all rather solemn and still", impressed perhaps by the deeorousness of the place, and conscious of their good c!o:hcs. Enter together three stout int 11. a yard arrows the shoul-ier.s, each with -in cuoruioiit development in front waddir up to tin; bar, attempt to form a triangular group for conversation, but iind themselves too far apart to talk in that position, and so arrange them selves .side by side a most distinguished-looking party, like a portion of a swell-front street in Boslou. To them swaggers up a young sport, like one of Thackeray's figures in the Irish Sketch book -.short, in a white hat, poor face, impmlont manner, poses before the swell fronts and tosses off his glass. About a little table in one corner arc three excessively "ugly mugs," leering at each other aud pouring down cham pagne. These men are all dressed as nearly like gentlemen as the tailor can make them, but even he cannot change their hard, brutal faces. It is not their fault that money and clothes do not make a gentleman; they are well fed aud vulgarly prosperous, and if you in quire you will find that their women arc iu silks and laces. This is a good place to study the rulers of New York; and impressive as they arc in appear ance, it is a relief to notice that they unbend to each other, and hail one another familiarly as "Billy" aud "Tom my." Do they not ujmj what is most prosperous aud successful in American life? There is one who in make-up, form, and air, even to the cut of his side whifkers, is an exact counterpart of the great railway king. Here is a heavy-inccd young fellow in evening dress, perhaps endeavoring to act tho part of a gentleman, who has come from an evening parly unfortunately a little "slewed," but who docs not know how to sustain the character, for presently he become very familiar and confi dential with the dignified colored waiter at the buffet, who requires all his native politeness to maintain the character of a gentleman for two. If those men had millions, could they get 'any more, enjoy nient out of life? To have line clothes, drink champagne, and pose in a fashionable bar-room in the height of the season is not this the apotheosis of the "heeler" and the ward worker?'' The scene had a fascina tion for the artist, who declared that ho never tired watching the evolutions cf the foreign element into the full bloom of American citizenship. Charles Dud cij Warner, m Harper's Magazine fur beitejiiticr. Use and Abuse of Cold Bathing. In a general wa it may be said that cold hathiitir is salutary when a vigor ous habit exists; it is injurious when tho general strength is too feeble to admit of reaction under its influence. It is also to be employed when the system is relaxed by indolent habits, sleeplessness aud mental unrest During convales cence from fevers ami tedious illnesses its continuous use is productive of good results. Persons who ''take cold" easily will find the daily batli ot cold water a most effectual means of prevention. Tne corpulent need its tonic influence; the same may properly lie said of the dys peptic and those of the so-called bilious temperament Many who might prudently indulge in cold water bathing do so at first with fear and trembling. But this reluctance can easily be overcome. To learn to regard it as a luxury one should begin witli tepid water, lowering the temper ature each day. A cold oath should alt ways be of short duration. Its benefit is in the first impression made on tho skin and nerves. The immersion should always be sudden. The effect is then uniform. If the water is entered hesi tatingly, tho blood is driven from the lower extremities to the upper parts. The shower bath is especially advocated for its sudden and general shock, and its application to the head. Very many lack the conveniences of bathing, and yet none can be denied sponge baths. These arc easily applied, and are a general luxury. The ancient theory that after violent exercise and while perspiring freely, the body should be allowed to cool before immersion is no iongericcepted. It would certainly be lllflicinna tn OYorniso hofnra hafliinor tlio body's temperature being thus elevated J and reaction after the application of cold insured. I Sea-bathingjias peculiar advantages, 1 chiefly the cheerful surroundings, the ' low temperature, and the gentle shock of the waves. The vigorous can safely bathe daily; the less strong on alternate days. An hour before noon is the best time to indulge. The water should, not be entered hesitatingly, but,. a bold plunge taken at once. The more cour ageous will do well to dive. The aver age duration of the bath should bo from uvo 10 tea minutes lor cimurcn, imecu minutes for women, aud but little longer for men. To delay much beyond these periods is a pernicious practice, inviting debility and injury. On leaving tho water tho body should be rubbed with a coarse towel until the skin is heated and reddened. Afterward a brief brisk walk 1 should be taken. Those who feel weak j and depressed would do well to take a cup 01 tea or cottee. More powerful stimulants should rarely bo used. After diving, or wheu the head has been submerged and the nasal passages are filled with water, bathers will fre quently make violent expulsive efforts to clear them by closing first one nostril aud then the other. The danger is that in so doing they sometimes force water froin the back part of the passage up the tube to the middlecar, causing a "crackling sensatibn," and laying tho foundation for catarrhal inflammation. By taking a deep inspiration, suddenly closing the mouth, aud expelling the air through tho nose, it will be equally as effectual and tho daugcr referred to obviated. N. Y. Journul. President Tyler's Two Wires. I am indebted to Gen. Tyler, the son of President Tyler, for information about his father's marriage. President Tyler was married twice, ami he was the only president who was married while in the white houc Shortly be fore President Tyler died he said to his 'son: "My son, I have in many respects been a fortunate man; but in respect to no one particular have I greater cause to congratulate myself than iu that since 'I reached man's estate I have passed only two years out of the marriage re lation; for it has protected and preserved my moral life." Gen. Tyler describes his mother, the president's first wife, as a dark-haired, fair-skinned lady, with a person which was a perfect mould of beauty. She was of medium size, and looked much like the Empress Josephine, save that her skin wasfairer. Tyier met her at a ball given bygone of the wealthy Douglasses of Virginia, and fell in love at once. He was then about 19 years old, and it was perhaps a year before he became engaged to her. His courtship," says Gen. Tyler, "was much more formal than that of l to-day. He was seldom alone with her before their marriage, and he has told me that he never mustered up courage enough to kiss his sweetheart's baud until tiiree weeks before their wedding, though he was engaged for nearly five years. He asked her parents' consent before proposing fo her, and when he visited her at the home of Col. Christian, her father, on his plautation, he was entertained in the parlors, where the whole family were assembled together. As was the custom then among the bet ter class of Virginian families, the lover never thought of going out riding in the same carriage with his affianced, but rode along on horseback at the side of the carriage, which always contained one or more ladies in addition to his sweetheart to add decorum to the oc casion." President Tyler and his first wife were of nearly the same age, he be ing only eight months her senior. Their wedding took place on his 23d birth day, and their married life of twenty nine years was a most happy one. President Tyler's second marriage took place two years after the death of his first wife. TTyler was 54. The bride was a girl hardly out of her teens. Her name was Miss Julia Gardiner, and she was the daughter of a wealthy gentle man of New York. Gen. Tyler says that in the second winter "after his mother's death Mr. Gardiner and his two daughters came to Washington on their return from Europe. They visited tho white house one Thursday evening, and he, as private secretary, took their cards, they being unknown to him. and introduced them to the family. They repeated their visits to the white house during the season, returning to New York at its close. At the opening of the following season they were back in Washington and renewed their atten tions to the president and his family. Aft er a time President Tyler began to look with eyes of love at one of the Misses Gardiner and finally proposed a mar riage with her to her father and mother, His proposal was well received, and tho young lady being willing, the marriage was determined upon. It took place in New York. Gen. Tyler thinks it would have been an indelicate thing to have had it celebrated at the white house. President Tyler iived seventeen years with his second wife and had a number of children by her. She now lives at Richmond and receives a pension of $5,000 a year from the government Frank (J. Carpenter, in LippmcoUs Magazine. He Had Studied the Manual. A young man iu this city, who has been prominent in lyceunis aud semi secret societies, and whose strongest point his friends thought was the very natural and easy way in which he grasped parliamentary usage. He re cently began studying for the ministry, and progressed so far that he was in vited to take charge 011 a certain Sun day, of the services in a suburban church where the minister had gone on his vacation. "He'll be a shining light without a doubt," said his friends. But somehow when the young man came to get up in church to open the services he felt himself all at se.i and didn't know what in the world to do. So he pro vided for all ossible contingencies by inviting one of the deacons to sit up in the puipit with him where he could be on hand to prompt him if any knotty question arose. After the young student bad pronounced the invocation and the choir had got up of its motion and sung a voluntary anil a chapter of the Bible had been read the young man turned a little uneasily to the deacon.' "Hymn 499," whispered the deacon. The young man rose again with great confidence aud said: "It is moved and seconded that hymn No. 499 be now stiug. As many as aie iu favor of tho motion will signify it by saying aye." An awe-struck silence fell upon the congregation. "Contrary minded no," saiil the "presiding officer." "It is a vote," be went oiu The hymn was sung, and the services proceeded from that point like clockwork. It was evi dent that the young parliamentarian felt the ground firm under his feet Boston Record. A miss of tender years whom wc will call "Tiger," came out of her bedroom of a recent morning with the button hook in her hand, aud stepping up to her father, who was rcading"27ie Bulle tin in his favorite corner, said to him: "Papa, will you please button up my shoes?" "What in the world," said he, "do you want me to button your shoes for. Tiger?" "Because," said Tiger, "I'm getting old, and I want some man to wait on me." Her father was so much surprised at the infant belle's answer that he concealed his smiles by bending over her shoes. You sec, he "had once made love to that little girl's mother. Norwich Bulletin. An enthusiastic admirer of Rubinstein declares that on the day of judgment that great pianist will be asked to play a sonata. Ah! then there are eight vials of wrath to be emptied. St John saw only seven. Rubinstein's sonata will probably be the signal for the peo ple to pray for the rocks and mountains to fall upon them. Or upon the piano. Brooklyn Eagle. 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