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i. iaege crrr estates. PROPERTIES TIED UP IN THE HANDS OF TRUSTEES. TmAtmcy of raise tstcs 1b tlu City ef florton T.lfownd ludlridumUtj of Tnp rty Wlijr It U Bo Frequently Held "la Trust." The early part of the century, from 1812 down to 1848, was the era when many of tlio later millionaires were either young men just boginning at the lower rounds of fortune's ladder, or had ascend ed the first most difficult steps of the same, and began to see the prospect of in dependence within satisfactory reach. Somo were of Boston origin, but many of these men had started out of homes of large families on somo New England hill Bido, or in the small towns where progress was just beginning to change the primit ive order of things to more modern methods and conditions. Sturdy and rugged, in ured to hard labor, and early taught economy in the school of actual experi ence ; with a fair amount of schooling, such as it was and it was good and thorough as far as it went and a light heart and scanty wardrobe, these boys went out in tho world to sock their fort une. Many of them found it in Boston, where from tho humblest capacities they rose to be heads of mercantile, manu facturing and other enterprises of a "char acter and extent that were simply sur prising. They became simply active instruments in the development of the business and resources of tho country when the railway system began to make availablo their wonderful extent and riches. To this class of adventurous, industri ous and successful men of affairs came riches and possessions of various kinds, among them being real eatato in the best business and residential sections of the growing city. Somo, more clear headed than others, went more largely into the acquisition of real estate, judging that, with tho inevitable largo increase in pop ulation, land must become very valuable. Events justified their judgment. Some of these men returned to their early homes for wives, but the majority of them obtained helpmeets from among the families of their new homes. Children we're born to them, for in those days it had not become unfashionable to have fam ilies, and in cases large ones at that. These children had to be educated in a way superior to that of their parents, ana in the course of this process acquired new tastes and habits. The sons, espe cially, must have a college course, with all that that often means to the sons of rich men who havo largo expectations. Of course it was not alone the sons of men who had come to Boston -to seek a fortune that filled tho colleges. The early Bostonians were also thrifty and money making, and raised large families, and left extensive estates. Many of their eons, as well as those of the former, in herited enough of the paternal energy and ambition to impel them to go into their father's counting rooms and be come, in turn, great merchants or man ufacturers; and it is to tho credit of some of these families that even up to tho present day their representatives are to bo found in conspicuous positions either in trade or in the learned profes sions. But it often happened that where the sons of wealthy parents settled down to trade the grandsons did not, and in time we find old familiar names fading out from the activities of our city, to be replaced by new ones. It is, perhaps, a fact that tho majority of the bons of our wealthy people are little heard of after college graduation. Many of them have a dis taste for trade; many choose professions where they only loiter among workers, having no real incentive, lacking ambi tion, to work; while others become mere educated nobodies, with a strong tendency to live extravagantly, and spend all the money they can command. The fathers of these drones, noting their unwilling ness or incapacity for business affairs, will not leave them the control of property which they do not know how to manage, and, therefore, in their wills, leave thair property in the trust of men or corporate bodies in whom they havo confidence, for tho benefit of these heiru, with, perhaps, reversion to their children. The incomes derived support these men, and, if they marry, their families, in good stylo. In somo cases these legatees, hav ing scholarly or artistic tastes, go abroad, live and bring up families of un-American children in England or on tho continent of of Europe. Cases of this kind are not in frequent. Then there is the matter of sex in descent, and as daughters constituto about one-half the total of the children of rich people, their provision is quite an important factor in the creation of trust properties. Daughters of rich men are much sought after by dashing but ad venturous wife hunters. Experience has shown that to dower a wifo in her own control on marriage is to practically give her fortune to her husband. How to guard this property for her own benefit, and for that of her children, is the con sideration of the prudent father. In his will, therefore, he leaves tho daughter's share of his property in trust for her ben efit, or for that of her children, with the. right of reversion to the latter in the event of her death, the husband to liave no con trol of tho same, and the income to be paid directly to her or to her children un der reversion. But even this careful method was found defective. Where the husband was unscrupulous and avaricious, and the reversion to minor children en abled him to obtain control of the prop erty as their natural guardian in the event of Lis wife's deah, cases occurred where death was hastened by cruelty and ill usage on his part. To offset this, a con siderable proportion of the property was in some cases left so that the wife could dispose by will of the same, though not otherwise dispose of it during her life. There have been cases of trust and con fidence in sons-in-law, where tho latter have nobly carried out the wishes of the testator; but the temptation fo; a husband to administer the property of his wife for his own benefit is often so great as to be apparently irresistible. He can appropri ate the income to his own uses, perhaps squander it, and when the time for the return of his accounts to the probate court arrives he can obtain the necessary Touchers from his wife, though he may not have given her 5 per cent, of the in come. If she objects, he will say to her that he has lost the money in speculation, and If she does not sign the will he will be a ruined man, and forever disgraced in the eyes of tho world. To save him from disgrace, therefore, she yields and lives the life of a martyr. Cases crop out from time to time which show that, no matter how carefully the interests of daughters may be guarded, events will occur to neutralize the designs and desires of the testator. Boston Herald. SHOPPING IN MOROCCO. A Call Vpom tkeBaduw of Fen Ab Abo- tioneer's Methods. The next day a call was made upon the bashaw of Fez, whom I found in the act of sdministeiingjustice in the courtyard of his palace. The old gentleman was a clever looking Arab, gotten up most im posingly in a long haik and pink Moorish slippers. He received me most cordially, snn when he found that I was waiting for the letter from the sultan his hospitality knew no bounds, and he insisted upon By sitting at his right side while he xteted out sentences and punishments to . the malefactors brought before him. When he found I had never seen a man bastinadoed his delight was almost piti ful, and I am afraid if I had stayed every BBan in Fez would have been put to the o haMrtirtH" before the day was out, so anx ious was he to be hospitable and show me all that was of interest in the town. After seeing a couple of poor chaps thrown down and whipped just severely enough to make a man glad he was not in their place, the sight lost interest for me, and" I asked permission to retire, which was readily granted, and as the bashaw found I was planning to make some pur chases in Fez he sent for his major-domo, instructing him to see that the merchants of Fez did not take advantage of the white man who was the sultan's friend. - They did not take advantage, and if I Airar twt cadi annuofe tocethsr I nijrojntf to Bind for that poor nsg laetefl AMD and mas him my shopper ingeaeraLfor his style would make a sensation on Wash ington street and add a comfortable sum to my income. The shops of Fez are lit tle dog houses dog out of the thick walls, the floor of the shop being about breast high, and the shopkeeper sits npon the floor in the midst of his goods, some of which are piled upon the shelves over his head, but all throe walls within touch of his hand, so confined is the space. When you approach his shop, does he jump to his feet with an eager bow and a request as to what he can show you? Not he. Ha does not attempt to stifle the yawn that unjoints his face, and if he is near enough to the wall he leans against it and closes his eyes in pure weariness. If you ask him for something from the shelf above his reach, he asks in reply, without opening his eyes, if there is not something on the floor, within reach, which you can buy just as well. If not, be yawns again, calls npon the saints to burn your grandmother or grandfather, and reaching up, grasps a cord hung above his head and pulls himself to his feet. None of this for my buyer. He reached in, took what ho wanted, asked its price, put down about half what was asked, put the purchase under his cloak, leaving a string of howls and Arab oaths behind him. Only one man was bold enough to jump out of his shop and run after us, and to him the servant of tho bashaw administered a good box on tho ear, saying the purchase was for tho sul tan's friend by the order of the bashaw, and if the merchant did not return to his kennel, he would have him bastinadoed before night. This looked to me so much like high way robbery that I remonstrated, but Jacob said it was custom and all right and the usual way of doing; but I have an idea there was something irregular about it after all, for I noticed there was con siderable excitement wherever we tarried. Then we went to the markets where all the goods are sold by auction. The auc tioneer, who could be told by his lack of clothes, would take a piece of .goods from any of the shopkeepers and start out to sell it upon commission. Holding it as high aloft as he could he would shout some bid and start upon the run around the market. When he passed any one who wished to examine it, ho would drop it into their hands, allow them to examine it, take their bid, if they made any, start again npon his run, shouting the price like a madman, until he had made three circuits of the market, after which he would turn it over to the highest bidder. Cor. Boston Transcript. How Cards Are Marked. "How do you mark a card?' said a Graphic man to Charley Mosster as he stood on Fourteenth street and Sixth ave nue last night watching the world as it passed. "Easy enough," was his answer. "We do it in the same way that the blind man reads -by the sense of feeling. Before we can read these cards they must be put in shape. This is done with a ring which is worn on the most convenient finger. On the inside of the ring I mean the part under the finger is a little steel spur, not sharp enough to penetrate the cards and make a hole, which would be detected, but a slight 'indentation, re sembling a pimple, on the back of the card, but so small that with close obser vation it would not be noticed. "This we cannot see, but we -can feel it, and the location is the cipher-to the denomination of the card. Of course we have to see and handle the cards before we they can be 'marked,' but as we can handle from five to ten cards each deal, it does not take long to have all the important cards punctured. Reading cards marked in this way is easy to me. I have one sys tem as to the location of marks, and it is just as simple as telling the same by the location of the hands of a clock in the absence of the regular dial figures. Sharp players make their punctures so slight that they cannot be detected by the ordi nary sense of feeling. "The reading is then done with the ball of the thumb from which the outer cuticle has been removed by acid. The mother skin is very tender, and readijy responds when it comes in contact with the 'mark.' Greeks of this class can be detected by watching the thumb of the right hand in dealing. If it has a sliding motion up and down the cards then you can bet two to one that the dealer has got a book for the blind to read." New York Graphic National Habits of Expectoration The streets of Paris are a pore delight to me for many reasons, but chiefly be cause they are so clean. Why cannot our streets at home, the streets of Pittsburg, New York, Philadelphia and Boston, be clean, too? Certainly there is enough money spent on them to insure itt But so long as one thing is permitted in our American thoroughfares, which is punish able with arrest and fine here, just so long will our avenues and cross streets, our pavements, aye, even our train cars and ferryboats, be disgusting and dirty, un seemly and a constant reproach. I allude to the national habit of expectoration, the national disgrace, for it Is to my mind nothing less. Were I to see a man, whom I had previously adored, indulging in this habit in my presence in street, piazza, house or car. 1 should not adore him any longer, that is all; and here it is followed promptly by arrest, so consequently the streets are (other means being not only paid for but used), the streets of Paris are vhat ours are not fit to walk in. "Miss Marigold" in Pittsburg Bulletin. Children In a. IIotoL Children In hotel or boarding house are like wild birds in a cage, deprived of their right to fly and swoop and skint the air and to swell their throats almost to burst big with unchecked song. The wild bird droops and mopes and mournfully twit ters. Instead of singing, and grows dis heveled and dirty and unlovely, and the caged child grows weedy and pallid and constrained in its movements and pert and assured in its manners, and before it is adolescent it is a little world weary mani kin, blase of all amusements, supercilious to those not so wealthy or so well dressed or so fashionable as its parents and their friends, cynical and agnostic in all its views. Mrs. Frank Leslie in Philadelphia Times. Genua Ualvexaitloa. Twenty-six thousand nine hundred and forty-five students have attended the twenty universities of Germany during the winter session which has just closed. At Berlin there were 6,478, at- Munich 3.414. and at Leipsio 8.289. Bonn is seventh, with 1,119 students, and Heidel berg is only thirteenth, with 882. Rostock comes last, with 840. Only 1,644 of the students were foreigners. Of the whole, 8,735 students belong to the philosophical faculty, 6,650 to the medical, 5.701 to the theological, and 5,700 to the juristic. Two Men 1b Oray. A New York letter carrier in his regu lation gray suit with brass buttons was sitting by the side of an elderly gentle man who wore a slouch hat. "Your suit has a familiar look to me," remarked the latter. "Where were you a letter carrier?" asked the distributer of mail matter. "I never was a letter carrier, but I was in the Confederate army, and occasion ally I got over more ground in a day than you ever do." Texas Sittings. aet a. fieanaat BcTelatlon. (Time, 8:30 p. m. Present, Mr. Jones, Miss Belle and little Effle.) Miss Belle Is it not about time that you go to bed, darling? Or are you going to stay and retire with me to-night? Little Effie No, mo hain't 'going to stay wit oo no more. "Not? And why, dear?" Little Effle Tause oo snore. Mr. Jones looks uncomfortable. Bing hamton Republican. Tbe Fatal Camera. It is said that the body of a man with his head twisted off was found in an alley way back of a Chicago photograph gallery. The coroner's jury brought in a verdict of "found dead," but they cen sured the photographer for not being more careful when posing his customers. New York Commercial Advertiser. IIGBT UTERATURE. EFFECTS OF THE CONTINUED CON SUMPTION OF TRA8HYSTORIES. A WasBiasjtBB Bopertor Pries late the tkogserBts of tho due Beak Trade. Tho travel BcatUa Habit and Its Ko- Persons vary fond of reading, but with little spare time to indulge their taste, who visit a narrow shop near one of the de partments, are apt to come away with a severe attack of the blues. The shelves, counters, and even the floor of the shop are chock full of pretty nearly all the wis dom of the ancients and wit of the mod erns, done up in elegant but handily pocketable paper bound packages, which sell at from ten to twenty cents each. Tho shop, in fact, is a sort of headquarters for the cheap libraries now so numerous, and which are said to be doing great damage to the more pretentious branches of the book trade. Here, for $3, a careful person can pur chase a library more extensive and better than was ever owned by many a man whom the world calls great and wise. History, biography, poetry, philosophy, science, literature and romance are min gled in bewildering confusion and pro fusion. A glance at tho titles of tho famous works piled on shelf and counter fills one with despair of ever being able to road them all, so numerous are they; and yet they ore so cheap that a person with the reading habit feels ashamed not to buy an armful and rush off to his den to devour them at once. "Wo have several customers who read two and three books a day," the proprie tor said to an inquisitive reporter. "One man in particular used to come in regu larly every other or third day and carry off each time from six to eight volumes. Ho didn't appear particular about what ho read, but took them just as they came. He kept it up week after week, too. He had a place in the interior department, but was discharged not long ago." The propietor didn't ultimate that there was any connection between the man's reading habits and the loss of his position, but it struck -.he reporter that there might be. A BOOK A DAT. "There are plenty of people who aver ago a book a day, month in and month out," the proprietor continued. "These people are mostly novel readers, of course. It gets to be a passion with them, like anything else, and they give all their spore time to it. If they can't get hold of anew story as soon as they nave fin ished the old one they don't know what to do with themselves and are miserable like a tippler whose rations have been cut off or a morphine eater who can't get the drug." "Do yon notice much difference in the class of stories preferred by men and wo men?" the reporter asked. "No, I can t say that I do. The women don't seem to be especially fond of love stories. In fact, some women who come here won't read love stories or novels written by women. They prefer the de tective stories and mysteries of Du Bois Sbey and Garboriau and Zola's highly vored stuff. G. W. M. Reynolds' sen sational romances used to have a big sale, but they aren't in as much demand as they were." "Haven't the cheap libraries hurt the sensational story papers a great dealt'' the reporter inquired. "Well, not as much as I thought they were going to at first," the gentleman said. "I expected the story papers would be entirely driven out of the field by the cheap libraries, but I hardly think their sales have fallen as much as 25 per cent. The papers have to keep booming them selves all the time, though, or they lose ground badly. They aren't the bonanzas tbeyusedtobe. The newsdealers wouldn't be very sorry if the story papers wcro driven out of the field altogether. The margin of profit on them is very small, and the worst of it is the people who buy them are of the 'charge-it-and-I'll-pay-you-next-time' class. Now, if they foil to pay once it knocks the profit off a good many papers." "Tho people who read the story papers, then, are of a 'different class from those who buy the cheap library novels?" FALSE AND FOOLISH IDEAS. "Yes, as a rule, they are. The people who read these novels and serial stories get false and foolish ideas of life. This is especially true of the confirmed story fiper readers. They ore the worst of all. can tell one of them almost as quickly as I set eyes on her for tho story paper readers are generally women. They have a would be grand and romantic air about them, use big words and theatrical ex pressions, and try to imitate generally in their manner the highly wrought charac ters they read about in the serials. Girls brought up from the time they are fifteen or sixteen on this sort of reading aren't satisfied with a man unless he is like tho heroes of their stories, and they arc apt to wait a good while before they find one who seems to promise to come to what they call their 'ideal.' And then, if they do get married, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, they soon discover that the promises were all false; that they haven't married their hero at all, but only an ordinary, common place man, with not enough of the story paper 'ideal' to him to supply a paragraph In one of the sloppy serials. "These people with tho story paper habit," the speaker continued, "seem hardly ablo to control their impatience from week to week for tho succeeding in stallments of tho romances. Many of them make a practice of coming here about the timo they know the papers arrive and waiting until they can get them; and if they should happen to be late, and all the papers are sold out when they get here, then there is a row." "How many of the cheap libraries are there now in existence?" the reporter asked. "Oh, probably fifty all told," the dealer answered, "and new ones are starting up every week. The trade has got to be something immense. Many of the libra ries are published irregularly, sending out a volume once or twice a month. There are about a dozen which come out regu larly from one to three times a week. A couple of the leading ones for a while published a number every day, but they seemed to have exhausted the supply of uncopyrighted and foreign novels and other available books, and now send out Ihroe numbers a week. "We have an arrangement which makes the cheap libraries cheaper still," the speaker continued. "We buy back books which are not damaged in reading at half price, so that even people who read eight or ten books a week are hi no danger of bankrupting themselves by indulging in this form of dissipation. It isn't an ex pensive vice nowadays, at least in its im mediate consequences." Washington Star. A FoBith of Jaly Tale. It was Fourth of July. He had been Inhaling a good deal of powder smoke. So be said. It was not liquor; he said the fumes of the firecrackers had gone to his head. They had not bereft him of reason. He knew he had a wife and fam ily. When a man gets to his fullest ca pacity of inebriation, when he has for gotten where he lives, who is with him, whether it is Tuesday or Saturday, or what his name is, he will still remember that his wife has to be reckoned with. He knew that there was trouble ahead, and he was thinking of all sorts of queer excuses for his condition as he wandered to and fro looking for a hack to take him home. At last he came across a dingy looking machine standing in solitary dig nity at the corner of a quiet street. He was not so far gone that he could not di rect the driver where to take him. It was some way out in -the suburbs. The hack drove along, and as he bumped from back to front hi the usual erratic way one does in a hack, he tried hard to make np his mind what he would say to his wife when he got home. There earner a very lively bumb that put an end to his musing, for when he came down be found the bottom bad fallen out of the hack and the seat had come to fileces, so be could only grasp hold of the wo doors and run with the machine. He yelled1' at the driver, but the driver was deaf and for half a mile ha had to move as last as lasrttgs'ffcfuia go. tie aia not need any excuse when he got home. He was sober; so terribly sober that he had forgotten he had had anything to drink at all. Ho was mad well, mad is a mild word but he was knocked speechless when the hackman, after looking earnestly into the hack, instead of offering an humble apology, turned on him and said: "Say, what in thunder have you done with the bottom of my hack?" 1 And whenever his wife wants anything she asks him in the blandest tone: "John, what did you do- with the bot I torn of that hack?" San Francisco Chron i ide "Undertones." Now York In Mlrtsawmor. At a certain period of the year New York always reminds mo of a baker's oven, with the fires well fed. This period is now about upon us. There has been enough sunlight during the past couplo of weeks to got tho town well heated, and it will not cool again until tho season changes. It will not be much hotter, for "die sufficient reason that it cannot bo. July an exceptionally torrid sun can add to ihe enervating heat that is radiated Ly allies of houses, whose sunny walls scorch tho hand, and of streets whose pavements exhale tho caloric of f urnaco doors. By day the town sends up a shim nier of heat into the air. After dark it still retains its suffocating temperature. Every breeze that blows through tho streets is wilted out of all freshness in its passage, and in order to get a breath that is not stalo. you have to climb upon your roof, and you are in luck if the roof is a high one. The porks by day and night are like tropical jungles. Even in Central park you saunter as if in the calendarium of a Turkish bath, for whatever air does wander around its winding ways is exhausted by its journey through the city. The experienced New Yorker who stays in town for the summer continues to exist by keeping indoors as much as possible, alleviating the temperature with closed blinds and plenty of ice water. I have been in tropical cities in midsummer, where the heat was not as great or opprts sive as it is at the same season here. Al fred Trumble in Pittsburg Bulletin. Not a Humane Rifle. It was promised for the new Lebel (French) repeating rifle that it was humane, either killing outright or disa bling, but not torturing with the frightful wounds made by single nrers of largo cali ber, and indeed, so for as known, the magazine guns as well. Recent experi ments, however, have shown that the 8 millimeter Lebel magazine gun is no more humane than that of 11 millimeter caliber. Tho experiments were conducted by Cant. Jaricot, his men firing into dead bodies and at live animals at distances of 200, 400, 600, 1,000, 1,400, 1,000 and 2,000 meters, and tho result, as summed up by Dr. Delorme, are that the orifico made by the entrance of the eight millimeter ball is smaller than that of its going out, the same varying from four to six millime ters, according to the velocity of the bul lets the power of the new steel projec tile being greater than that of its prede cessor, the bones offering less resistance, and there being consequently less deflec tion of the bullets. The hope that the bones would have a "clear" fracture, with little of the splintering which is so pain ful, has not been realized. On the con trary, the bone is torn "shivered" would perhaps more nearly express what Dr. Delorme says in the article he writes on "Chirurgie do Guerre." And yet he says that the effects of the now rifle, as used at present, are trifling compared to what they will bo when the now explosives, melinite, roburite, etc., are used. Scien tific American. Coffee Among; the Arabs. The great event of the visit is the coffee. The host has a kind of brazen shovel brought, in which he roasts the beans; then he takes a pestle and mortar of the oak of Bashan, and with his own hands ho pounds it to powder, making the hard oak ring forth a song of wel come to tho guest. Many of these pestles and mortars are heirlooms, and are richly ornamented and beautifully black and polished by age and use; such was tho one in question. Having drunk coffee (for the honored guest the cup is filled three times), you are quite safe in the hands of the most murderous. So far do they carry this superstition that a man who had murdered another fled to the dead man's father, and before he knew what had happened drank coffee. Presently friends came in, and, as they were relating the news to the bereaved father, recognized the murderer crouched beside tho fire. They instantly demanded vengeance. "No," said the father, "it cannot be; ho has drunk coffee, and has thus become to mo as mv son." Had he not drunk coffee the father would never have rested until ho had dyed his hands in his blood. As it was, it is said he further gave him his daughter to wife. Last Journal of Bishop Hannington. Pineapples and Their Culture. A few years ago pineapples were a luxury. Now they are as common as native products. The fruit Is shipped here to dealers who make a specialty of it. The business in this city is practically in the hands of half a dozen large dealers. Barrels are usually employed for packing. The growers are not particular about sending barrels of a uniform size. Any package that can be had cheap Is used. Largo sugar barrels have the preference, as they hold nearly double the quantity that the small barrels hold, and the cost of transportation is less in proportion. On arrival the pineapples are sold to wholesale dealers The price is fixed by the condition of the market. Pineapple culture has become on im portant Industry In Florida. Key West has been growing the fruit for several years with perfect success. The climate there is about the same as In the Baha mas, and the sandy soil Is very produc tive. Along the Indian river in Florida large plantations have been stocked with pineapples. The product of this region is estimated as being three or four tunes as large now as last year, and in the near future it Is expected that the domestio fruit will supply the needs of the entire, country. New York Mail and Express. Some Alloys of Gold. A new alloy of gold and platinum, upon which Mr. W. 0. Roberts Austen has been engaged for some time, takes fire on being thrown into water, and the gold is released as a black powder, differing from ordinary gold in its property of readily forming auric hydride. This abnormal form of gold, which becomes normal me tallic gold on heating. Is said to have been long utilized by the Japanese. They ob tain it from its alloy with copper, with which they form ornamental metallic de signs upon knife handles, etc., and then release the dark colored gold by a pick ling process. In this way, they have pro duced an appearance of transparency in a metallic representation of water, at a place where in the design a duck was re presented plunging half its body below the scrface of a stream. Arkansaw Trav- The French Pronunciation. A Boston girl who has been visiting it seems queer, but Boston people go every whereat Newark, N. J., had been study ing French for months before she went on the visit, and had flavored all her imagi nations and perceptions, so to speak, with French. In driving about the town where, it hardly needs to be said, there is a large German population, the Boston girl noticed over the doors of a great many establishments the sign, "Lager bier." "Tell me," said the Boston girl, after inspecting one of these curious signs for the 100th time, "does M. Lahzhaybeeyay own all the stores in Newark?" New York Tribune. Not That Kind or a Flower. A young mother living in Detroit has one charming little daughter named Lily, who is very fond of playing out of doors. The other day she came home covered with mud. "Oh, oh!" said her mother, severely, "can it be possible that this is my good little girl, my sweet, pure Lily of the Valley?" "No, mamma," answered the little girl, sorrowfully, "I guess I'm your bad. naughty Lily of the Alley now." Detroit jrreeCTess. crrr and country. ONE-FOURTH OF AMERICA'S PEOPLE LIVE IN TOWNS. The Complaint la Other Countries Man lier to That in Oars Farmer' Seas Flocking to the Cities Where Win It End? Another Side. It has been lately estimated that more than one-fourth of the American popula tion now live In towns of over 8,000 in habitants, whereas fifty years ago only one-fifteenth lived in this way. The change is usually attributed partly to railroads, which make it possible to sup ply those largo collections of people with the necessaries of life, and partly also to tho demand felt for city conveniences, luxuries, excitements and companionship At any rato, tho results ore confined to no singlo nation qr continent. M. KebbeL in his Agricultural Laborer, says of Eng land. "Tho rising generation of peas antry take no interest in agricultural work. The best boys from the schools all set their faces toward the town, and scorn the plow." In France, M. Baudrillart finds that while the popula tion of the farming districts diminishes, that of the towns increases. This, he thinks, due largely to popular education, which has created new wonts and broken up tho old intellectual stagnation. He complains that in Franco a now and lower e of laborers is being imported from Igium and Italy to take the place of the French peasant, who seeks the towns. AH tliis is curiously like the complaint wo hear among ourselves. In New Eng land, where farming is difficult and turre munerative, we see many farms passing into the hands of the Irish and the Swedes, while the cities are built np by the sons of those who were once farmers. As you cross the prairies, where forming is still profitable, you may sometimes see wheat fields or corn fields stretching to the horizon, and tilled by the joint labor of some colored family which came within thirty years out of slavery. Not that those fertile regions do not still sustain a thriving race of farmers of the Anglo Saxon race; but even there they are dividing the soil, it seems, with races more backward. With all the skill brought to bear upon scientific agricult ure, it may be doubted whether it is an intellectual pursuit requiring as high a brain power as the more difficult branches of mechanical work the various applica tions of electricity, for instance ana if it were. It has an element of solitude about It that dissatisfies. a stuaxqe situation. "God made the country, and man made the town," says Cowper; but man seems for some reason to prefer his own handi work. To one who approaches the mat ter simply as a lover of nature the situa tion seems a strange one, but he is com pelled to recognize It. Talking in Colo rado tho other day with a Scotchman who owns a sheep ranch of 6,000 acres, I nat urally congratulated him on an employ ment so attractive, and spoke of the de lightful associations with the pursuit in the Scottish ballads, the writings of the Ettrick Shepherd, and so on. He Inter rupted me with the bluff assurance that he hated sheep, that he had herded them first In South Africa, and then in Colo rado, but wished that he might never see ono of those animals again, or -even hear its name mentioned. Thus, it seems, do poetry and fact diverge when people come to talk about rural occupations. Where is this sort of thing to end? If in England, with all the immense artifi cial prcbtigo that has so long attached it self to tho ownership of the soil, there is a growing Indifference to farming, how long will even our broad acres of virgin soil prove attractive? Yet there certainly is, somewhere in our hearts, a love not merely for wild nature, but for the pro cess of subduing it to order and produc tiveness. I talked tho other day with a young Harvard graduate, who went half a dozen vears ago from fashionable clubs and tho leadership of the "german" to a very isolated ranch in Washington terri tory, and he told me that such was hjs de light In the sense of ownership and growth that often, after a hard day's work, ho would stroll out In tho evening simply to look on his growing crops and orchards. "I felt about them," he said, "very much as I suppose a mother feels about her children." Though the sense of isolation had finally driven him away partly, however, for the sake of his young family he still felt the tie and the long, ing. ANOTHER VIEW OP IT. Side by sido with this vast thronging toward town life in the winter has come a proportionate longing for the country in the summer. All persons beyond middle age can remember the beginning of this amazing division of social life between summer and winter, which now gives to so many persons of moderate means a dupli cate residence for the two seasons. In our larger cities, where whole streets of brown stone palaces remain all summer as silent as the catacombs, It was formerly tho custom for those who resided in such houses to keep them open all summer, the family taking perhaps a fortnight's out ing to "the springs" or "the beach." and then returning home. Tho lengthening vacations of public and private schools illustrate the same change of habit; there was formerly almost as long a vacation In winter as in summer; in somo colleges much longer, that the students might teach school. But now the summer vacations last in some cases three solid months; and tho migration includes not merely tho occupants of the brown stone fronts, but vast multitudes of hard working families, who dwell all summer in a tent on tho beach, or in thoso hives of summer population by inland lakes or beneath mountains. If this tendency goes on developing for the next fifty years as for the last fifty, it may not solve the problem of scientific agriculture, but it will certainly furnish some antidote to the alleged evils of cities. T. W. Higginson In Harper's Bazar. A Novel Scarf Pin. A novel design was shown to a reporter by a manufacturer, which took the form of a skull mounted upon the top of a stout pin and connected therewith by a fine gold chain. The wearer, by gently pulling the chft". causes the lower jaw of the skull to drop, while two small diamond eyes fall into the sockets, thus giving the ob server an inclination to feel uneasy by its ghastly appearance. These pins are ex pensive, the price depending entirely npon the size of the diamond used. 'New York Mail and Express. Washington Correspondents. The correspondents, as a rule, are high toned gentlemen, and a cmiuptlomst would sooner think of approaching a con gressman with-bribes than them. Many of them'recelve salaries as large as those of the congressmen, and the only great difference in the two positions is that the correspondent is here as long as he does good work, and the congressman's head goes off, as a rule, at the end of two or four years. The trade in birds for women's hats was so enormous last year that a single Lon don dealer admitted that he sold 2.000.000 of small birds of every kind and color. At one auction In one week there were sold 6.000 birds of paradise, 5.000 Impeyan pheasants, 400,000 humming birds, and other birds from North and South Amer ica, and 800,000 feathered skins from India. Nature's Own Trae Laxative. The delicious flavor and healthy prop erties of sound, ripe fruit are well known, and seeing the need of an agree able and effective laxative, the Califor nia Fig Syoup Company commenced a few years ago to manufacture a concen trated Syrup of Figs, which has given such general satisfaction that it is rap idly superseding the bitter, drastic liver medicines and cathartics hitherto in use. If costive or bilious, try it For sale only by Dowty & Becher. Want of Sleep Is sending thousands annually to the insane asylum ; and the doctors say this trouble is alarmingly on the increase. The usual remedies, while they may give temporary relief, are likely to do more harm than good. What is needed is an Alterative and Blood-purifier. Ayes Sarsaparilla is incomparably the best. It corrects those disturbances in the circulation which cause sleepless ness, gives increased vitality, and re stores the nervous system to a healthful condition. Rev. T. O. A. Cote, agent of the Mass. Home Missionary Society, writes that his stomach was out of order, his sleep very often disturbed, and some im-' purity of the blood manifest ; but that ' a perfect cure was obtained by the use of Ayer'a Sarsaparilla. Frederick W. Pratt, 424 Washington street, Boston, writes: "My daughter was prostrated with nervous debility. Ayer'a Sarsaparilla restored her to health." William F. Bowker, Erie, Pa., waa cured of nervousness and sleeplessness by taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla for about two months, during which time his weight increased over twenty pounds. Ayer's Sarsaparilla. PREPARED HY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Mold by sll Prugjji.U. Price 1 ; six bottle. $&. Daily excursions have been arranged for over the Union Pacific Bailway, to San Francisco, San Diego, Colton, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Jose, California, also to Portland, Oregon, ut 880.00 for the round trip. Tickets are good 60 days for ihe going passage and good for the return trip for six months from date of sale, with the usuid stop over privileges in both directions within these limits. These tickets are also good by way of Denver and Salt Lake City in each direction. The Agent, Mr. J. It. Meagher, tells us quite a number aro thinking of making tho trip soon, and it wonld be well for those intending to go in select parties to see him and arrange for their accommodations. Mr. J. B. Frawley, Traveling Agent, Union Pacific, at Omaha, is arranging for these select parties, and will be glad to give any fur ther information in regard to these ex cursions. Parties who prefer can corres pond with Mr. J. Tebbets, G. P. & T. A., Omaha, Neb. Prosperity lets go the bridle. Women in Basinem. In this age of extreme activity and wonderful development, it is a note worthy fact that many women have made their own way in merchantile life, and successfully compete with men in many lines of business. Women, whether they labor in the household or in the store, are all liable to suffer from functions! derangements and the cares of materni ty. For all troubles known under the category of "female weakness," Dr. Pierce's Favorite Priscription is a tonic and tried specific It relieves the great est sufferers, and restores the patient to vigorous health and strength. It is the only medicine for women, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee, from the manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction in every case, or money will be refunded. This guarantee has been printed on tho bottle wrapper and faithfully carried out for many years. Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure constipation, biliousness, sick headache, bilious head ache, and all derangements of the stom ach, liver and bowels. To him that will, ways are not wanting, liarneld Branch, On the Great Salt Lake near Salt Luke City, on the Union Pacific, "Tho Over land Route," was formally opened to the public on Decoration day, May 30th. Ample accommodations have been pro vided, and the Pacific hotel company will huve charge of the hotel accommo dations at this famous resort under the supervision of the Union Pacific railway. No pains or expense have been spared to make this the summer resort of the west. It is only eighteen miles from Salt Lake City on the Utah & Nevada branch of the Union Pacific. Trains will be run ut frequent intervals daily between Salt Lake City and the Beach. Cheap trains, good baths, and excellent meals aro among the attractions. 3tf Fools give to please all but their own. A Natural Product of California. It is only found in Butto county, Cali fornia, and in no other part of the world. We refer to the tree that produces the healing and penetrating gum used in that pleasant and effective cure for con sumption,asthma,bronchitis, and coughs, SANTA ABD3, the King of Consump tion. Dowty & Becher guarantee nnd sell it for 81.00, a bottle, or three for $2.50. By the use of CALIFORNIA CAT-R-CURE, all symptoms of catarrh are dispelled, and the diseased nasal passage, is speedily restored to a healthy condition. $1.00 a package; by mail $1.10. Circular free. None is so wise, bnt the fool overtakes him. The PaMenger Department Of the .Union Pacific, "The Overland Route," has gotten out a fly-bill design ed to call attention to the summer re sorts along the line of this railway. It is a good bill and tourists, pleasure seekers, sportsmen and fishermen should apply at once to J. S. Tebbets, General Passenger agent, Omaha, Neb., for in formation in regard to the points of in terest along the line, before deciding where they will spend' the summer sea son, or vacation holidays. 3tf Where there is peace, God is. English Spavin Liniment removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps and blem ishes from horses; blood spavin, curbs, splints, sweeney, ring-bone, stifles, sprains, all swolen throats, coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted. Sold by C. B. Stillman, druggist, Co umbus. 6-ly To a child all weather is cold. Never Give Up. If you suffer with asthma, bronchitis, or any other disease of the throat or lungs, nothing can surprise you more than the rapid improvement that will follow the use of SANTA ABIE. If you are troubled with catarrh, and have tried other medicines, you will be un able to express your amazement at the marvelous and instantaneous curative powes of CALIFORNIA CAT-R-CURE. These remedies are not secret com pounds, but natural productions of California. Sold at 81.00 a package, three for $2J5Q, and guaranteed by Dowty k Becher. Cle-iriYhe traeX joy - im Jriw Y-t Hrr ""- A I S-. a W vL7 Af YBC$ SL iA W?JJSsaW mstmm Thisis theTop of the Genuine Pearl Top Lamp Chimney. Allothers, similar arc imitation. Ti -T !,! JL1113 CA.ICS. .LKiUUl is on each Pearl Top Chimney. A dealer may say and think he has others as good, BUT HE HAS NOT. Insist upon the Exsct Label and Top. FCB SALS EVERTWKttt. JMCE ONLY BY GEO. ft. MACBETH & CO., PHfsbargfc, Pa. Contains also full nd complete lires of both HARRISON &M0RT0N pe eitat standard beams. UIsM. with numerous superb por traits. Arnonff the authors will t found the names of Sena tors Fry e. Chandler. Hiwley, Injjalls. John D. Long-, popular ex-joT. of liavs.. McKinley of Ohio. ntes ci the Tariff. Henry Cabot Lodee. and a number of ethers of a hie oronu jn";. The tnly aulktntie Campaign Boot, ind-mfd ty lAat.Ktf.Cem. Don't be induced to get any other. Dis tance bo ninderance as we pay all freight charges. Send 5U cents in ic. stamps for outfit and be the first in tho field or n,?I ull particulars aid Special Terms sent free to all. i WINTER A CO., rubs., Springfield, Mas. 6000 Book Agents wanted to sell THX XJTE AJfD PUBLIC SEHVICE3 OP hrover Cleveland Full anl tomr.1.1. from hi, hnthnnl to LI, nomination In St Loal., with ronl rrnilniKrnm. Iiirfcl.ru ul ar.-cJot.-FrofoMlT UliuirittJ with !,! nwtralM "t wood nr.ln. Th took alao euntaliw a turvrb PoruJl aJ full nJ comil.i IilFK OF MRS. CLEVELAND, toceth.r with em!cta Mofraphy of ALLEN Q. T1IUHMAN. Thu ! th onl mmJUntie Lift. Don't b Induwd tu p-t ny otUr. Thr will probably ha uiiaathorliod Lir.t, tut thl U tho right oca. Di tanee no hunl.rasc., aa pay all tran.porta'In ctrgr. 8nd aO casta la le. itampa and ba It. tnt la the A. U. and tho. r..p the coldan haraaau IWIta for lull partlral.rs and Special Tarme eaol free to all. Addran, WINTER & CO., rubs, Springfield, Mass. TTinrnilirhlir oIMinU tllf IllOOtl. Which 13 thO fountain of health, by usinjf Dr. Pierce's Gold en Medical Discovery, and Rood digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, and bodily health and vigor will be established. Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors, from tho common pimple, blotch, or eruption, . A kA OTtM Qsv-rtftihi nr litnoil-noinn. K8- pecially has it proven lt efficacy in cunnjr Salt -rheum or Tetter. Eczema, Erysipelas. Fever-sores, Hip-Joint Disease. Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, Enlarged Glands. Goi tre or Thick Neck, and Eating- bores or Ulcers. Golden Medical Discovery curea Consump tion (which is Scrofula of tho Lungs), by its wonderful blood - purifying-, invigorating; and nutritive properties, if taken in time. For Weak Lungs. Spitting- of Blood. Short ness of Breath. Catarrh in tho Head. Bron chitis. Severe Coughs. Asthma, and kindred affections, it is a sovereign remedy. It promptly cures the severest Coughs. For Torpid Liver. Biliousness, or "Liver Complaint. Dyspepeia, and indigestion, it is an unequaled remedy. Sold by druggists. Price SLOO, or six bottles for $-5.00. RICHLY R.TTWA'R'DETJ are tlne who readthirt nnd then act; they will find honorabln em ployment that will not take them from their homes and families. Tho profits are large and sure for every industrious person, many have inailu nnd art; now making several hundred dollars a month, it in easy for any one to make ?5 and upwards ier day, who in willing to work. Either wx, young or old; capi tal not needed: we start you. Everything new. No special ability required; you, render, can do it an well as any one. Write to iw at once for fall particulars, which we mail free. Address Stinson & Co., Portland, 3Ie. tlecSsy The Commercial Travelers Protective Association of the United States, has a membership of over sixteen thousand and is probably the strongest association of tho kind in tho world. Mr. John II. Stone, their national secretary and treas urer, 79 Dearbone street, Chicago, in a ... ..., i i letter states tnai no uas ueen bevereiy t troubled at times, for tho past twenty years, with cramp and bilious colic which would compel him to take to his bed from three to six days while in St. Louis at their last annual meeting hei procured a bottloof Chamberlain's Colli-, Cholera and Diarrhrca Remedy and has ! since used it with tho best results. It is the only remedy he ever found th.'it ef fected a rapid and complete cure. No one can safely travel without it. Sold by Dowty & Becher. Tho friar preached against stealing and had a goose under his arm. An'Alroliite Cure. Tho ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT MENT is only put up in largo two-ounco tin boxes, and is an absolute euro for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and all kinds of skin eruptions. Will positively euro all kinds of piles. Aak for the ORIGINAL ABITINE OINTMENT Sold by Dowty & Becher at 25 cents per box by mail 30 cents. mar7y 1 3 -aUanBBBWnidBnTv'c" 3 ZZ. 'BFaBnnnnnnntianattiBnv.-t i '4SrBBBBflK9HHl7 -'. tXCflBBBBBBBBBBBaVBBaRaBUaKclBV 7 jBBanBaSwLKnBaaffJ53SJtf7'" JannjrlannanPr,r- -. ?iat'',w w Lfa. -- "j - a'XPCanTa'JannBBBBBBBBf -r -' '' Wus LMter Co. N'lKASKA FAMILY : JOURNAL WivKIy NVvt paper iMicil every Wednesday. ',V2 (VtiiuiMss f reading matter. eia i'Jiriru!" ?.!.:. k a State News ii" :. Nesi'eted Sim itS and JliM'eUanv. ', ".vim.li ii;:t-rt m ut frr-f-1 nay .Mrtt. "fej Kiilvu'ription price, a year, in Advance. Atl.lrf!-: 31. K. Tuuni:i: & Co., Colnmb'is, Platte Co., Nolir. L001S SCHKEIBKH. BlacRemll! sEa Weeoii Maker. All kinds of Repaiiing dune on Short Notice. Busies, Wag ons, ete., made to order, and all work tiaar anteed. Abo sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Mowers. Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. jf?r"Slioi nj.;ioM?o the "TfttttT!l." mi Ml, v.- XI.. Cfll.UMKlrS. Jlwlll BIHENDERSON .09 & 111 W. Minth St. KMMSAS CITY. M0. The only Specialist in th City who is a Regular Graduate in Medicine. Over 20 years' Practice, 12 years in Chicago. THE OLDEST IN AGE, AM LM6EST LOCATED. Authonwd by the State to. treat Chronlc.Xervoasand "Special Dl- eases," seminal weunen (nifnf ratviiciuil Dvhllltv llou oftemat tpmrer). Nervous Debility. Polaonfrd tfloou.liicers anunwtf mugs me vrry ' kind. Urinary Disease., and Id fact. all troubles or diseases In either male or female. Cures guaranteed or money refunded. Charges low. Thousands of cases cured. Kxperienceis important. All medi cines are guaranteed to be pure and efllcacious. being compounded In my perfectly appointed laboratory, and are furnished ready for use. No running to drug stores to have uncertain pie scriptlons tilled. No mercury or Injurious mwlt cinesused. No detention from busiuess. Patient at a distance treated by letter and express, medi cines sent everywhere free from gaze or break age. Mate your case and send for terms. Con sultation free and confidential, personally or by letter. A CI page pnnir Fop Beth Hxea. suit illustrated UWlfc sealed In plain euvelopw forte, in stamps. Y. ery male, f roru the age of 13 to , should read this book. RHEUMATISM THE GREAT TURKISH RHEUMATIC CURE. A POSITIVE CURE tor RHEUMATISM. $ for any c-w this treatment fail to I cure or help. (srcatCBtdUcarerY la mnoaJ! ormeillciD-. OneaoffUM rri.r; arwi iion remort feter ami pain In jolutu;! Cure corat.-tel la 5 to 7 da - Sen! ttate- I nacnt of ease with stamp fur Circulars. I Call, or aMrr4 I Dr.HENDERSON,l09W.9thSL.KairMC.ty,Mo. rAUULKS BltADSHAW. LVuticwirt to Fnublc t- Iiiuhell), BRICK MAKERS ! i?" Contractor and builders will find our " brick tir-t-clasH and offered nt reasonable ratett. We aro nlso prepared to do all kindrt of brick work. lrma)tSm gbSS.CoUGliS, .rnr ncnitw.-,icb '-Hi,. - -- --' ii ;. i nv- LuNC-5 -Sold .n GfWJS Send for ctcu!jr,$I fcrUmQfrrftS. lAfliETl NE MCDbaLOOTfur. caui THCONLY- nilaRAMTPrn 2 Br k.yCVVJ cure- row SmCilSHhrrc ATAR&.H fflltTlNEMEnfcCnVoRQVlLLE CAlJ SHHIrKMTJMK iowmr fc BECHER. Trade bupplied by the H. T. Clsbx Dauo Co.. Lincoln, Neb. 7mr68-l. h 11 g '5. HM AW1 Hfff "b MO J. a VCTT H A e a . V. s i 1 -7 r O I i