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FOR LIFE AKD LOVE.
Harriet Gelder was the moat provok
ing, pretty and altogether charming litUa
coquette that ever drove a devoted lover
distracted with her capricious ways.
Florian Coartland was handsome and
'winning enough to have enslaved some
ether woman, but bis heart was bound
up in the brunette beauty, who daily
destroyed his peace. She loved him for
all that, but he tried in vain to make her
confess it.
It was in the springtime of the year,
and ft had rained incessantly for two
weeks. Harriet resided with her aunt,
yiaa Hannah Linwood, in Thomway,
about eight miles away from where
Florian lived. Naturally, the Impatient
lover longed for fair weather, but as
there was no immediate prospect of a
cessation of the rain one Sunday morning
he resolved to set the weather at defi
ance, and accordingly sent for his horse
and prepared for his 6tormy ride.
If -be had been bound for any other
destination, he would have turned back
before going a mile, as the road appeared
to grow worse every step, and his horse
plodded through the mud, stumbling
frequently in the many ruts and pitfalls.
After traveling for what seemed to him
to be hours, he reached the bridge which
spanned the little river, two miles from
Thomway. In the distance he could see
the gray walls of the Linwood mansion,
and in his impatience he was about to
spur his horse to a gallop, when he
noticed tliat the land at a little distance
below the bridge was completely flooded,
the river overflowing, having submerged
it to a wide extent.
A point or knoll of land close upon
the river's bank formed a little island in
the midst of the whirling flood, and upon
this island stood a small wooden house,
which Florian saw was occupied, for a
thin wreath of smoke ascended from the
chimney. If there were people in the
house their position was most perilous,
as the waiter was rising fast and would
soon sweep away the house.
As Florian rode towards the house he
saw a f emalo form approach the win
dow, and a handkerchief was waved im
ploringly. Unhesitatingly he rode into
the water, which soon grew deeper,
and his horse was -obliged to swim.
Florian urged him forward, and drawing
near the house, the door was thrown
open and ho cried out in surprise, for
there stood Miss Linwood and Harriet
Gelder.
"Harriet!" cried Florian, "for heaven's
sake, how came you here?"
"Wo came to see a sick woman," re
plied Harriet, with prompt coolness,
"and the water rose before we" r
' "It is rising now, and fast," he inter
rupted, excitedly, "and there is no time
to waste. My horse will carry two;
. which of you shall I take first?"
,Tho sick woman first," said Harriet,
quietly.
Florian trembled as he looked at the
feeble old woman whom Miss Linwood
was assisting from her chair to the door,
and whom he had not noticed until
'Harriet called his attention to her. He
trembled with the appalling fear that
there would not be time to go and return
twice before the swiftly rising waters
should have torn the frail structure from
its foundations, for there was already an
. inch of water upon the floor. But he
only cast one glance at Harriet's calm
face and stooped to lift the sick woman
up before him. Without a word he
turned Ids horse toward the shore, and
the good beast, with its double burden,
struggled back through the flood.
They were standing knee deep in water
when he once more approached the al
ready shaking building. He did not
speak a word, but looked silently from
Harriet to her aunt, his white face grow
ing whiter yet as Harriet said, in steady
tones, "Aunt Hannah first."
"Harriet" commenced Miss Lin
wood. "Go, Aunt Hannah!"
"Harriet, I won't!"
"You must!" said Harriet, firmly.
"Harriet, Harriet! for pity 'a sake"
"You are delaying her. Miss Hannah,"
exclaimed Florian, hoarsely. "Come
she will not yield, if she dies!"
With a groan Miss Linwood gave- up,
and he lifted her upon his horse. The
turbulent waters washed into the room,
and Harriet staggered and clung to the
wall for support. Florhan's face was
ghastly as he bent forward and placed
his hand upon her shoulder, whispering,
in a choked voice, "Kiss me, Harriet."
She put ber arms around lib neck and
kissed him a long, passionate kiss,
which was their first and might be their
last.
He strained her to him, saying, "Har
riet, you do love me?"
"Yes. Florian."
Then she leaned against the wall
again, us he went, and hid her face, try
ing to shut out the sight of those yellow
waters creeping up the side of the rooms,
higher and higher with every wave that
rolled in through the door.
As Florian reached the shore a carriage
was approaching in tho distance, rocking
from side to side with the furious speed
to which the driver was lashing the
horses.
"It's the carriage from Linwood," said
Miss Hannah; "we have been afraid of a
freshet and they have taken alarm and
come to look for us."
Florian did not hear her; he was urg
ing his exhausted horse into the flood
again. The poor beast trembled and
hesitated; but Florian spurred him
fiercely on, smiting him with his clinched
fist and shouting at him in his fraatoo
excitement.
When the hurrying carriage reached
the spot and Miss Linwood's niwiiin
leaped to the ground, Florian was half
way back to Harriet. Mistress and man
atood with pallid faces and hearts that
hardly beat, silently watching the beau
tiful girl as she clung to her frafl sup
port, and the young man, with his whit
face, and his golden hair blowing back,
as he dashed madly through the flood to
While thev watched a ereat billow
caase rolling in front the river, roaring
fearfully, and tossing its yellow water as
it clashed upon Harriet's refage. Miss
linwood screamed, and her servant ut
tered a Iwarse cry, for where thehoaae
and dashers, and Fiorina's
stnsrriiar. riderless, towards
r saoment ana tney saw
Harriet yet clang to the stating
Florian was beside her upon it.
a fcrtr board, as the
ft within his reach.
the frafl raft with it towards
As he neared the land the
r into the
to Ids assistance, and hi a few mo
ther were all aanndinr noon the
laasLawet, dripping, but profosairy
tioakfal party.
They proceeded, as fast as the carriage
could carry them, to Linwood, where
they all found plenty of employment for
the remainder of the day ia getting rid
of the effects of their perilous adventure
eo far aa they could do, so.
It transpired that the sick woman had
act received any injury; Miss Hannah
.had caught a slight cold; Harriet had
caught a severe one, and Florian had
caught Harriet.
Gaaa.
A nalr recentlv brotuzht from Africa
has been added to the Central park col
lection of aaunals.
"There is no particular value attached
to the anf", except from their rarity,"''
remarked Director Conklin. "They are
the first pair of Morocco goats probably
that ever found then- way to this coun
try. They are young, in their second
year, quite gentle, as you see. and will
eat out of your hand. But if startled,
all their inherited wildness comes out
I never saw such animals. They seem
to have muscles of rubber, from the way
they jump. I have never had so much
trouble with the most dangerous animals
we have Iiere.
"The jumping of the thoroughbred
hunters in Madison Square garden a few
weeks ago doesn't begin to compare with
that of these goats. 1 put them in a
yard having a fence eight feet high, but
they jumped it so easily that now I have
a fence ten feet high.
"The space within their inclosure is so
limited tliat they cannot get a good start
to go so high, or 1 would not trust them
with anything less than a fifteen foot
fence. Then, they are getting accus
tomed to these quarters and are not so
easily alarmed as they were, but I think, if
startled, they might still clear this fence.
Their leap is peculiar. They crouch a
little, give a sliort jump in the air, and
as they strike the ground bound upward
again as if they were shot from a cata
pult. Tho muscles of their legs are ex
tremely tough, but the legs are not
adapted for great rapidity or endurance
in running. They have been developed
by generations of climbing on the Mo
rocco hills. As these goats get older
and their bodies in captivity become
heavier, they will probably become less
active. Possibly our native goat has
lost his faculty of high jumping, if he
ever liad it, 6ince lie became partly civil
ixed and accustomed :to a diet of brown
paper." Scientific American.
Tba Secret of Ills Power to Please.
A venerable white haired clergyman
hi one of the city churches recently
preached in Nonistown. Ho had hardly
got homo from the church before the
door bell rang and a charming girl of 18
asked to see him. He received her, they
talked about the serman and other
things, until finally she asked diffidently:
"Oh, won't you please give me a lock
of your hair?"
"Certainly, my child," said the old
gentleman, flattered at the request. 'Til
send it to you to-morrow," and he did.
On his return to the city ho had five
more requests of the same kind, and he
proudly boasted to his wife that he was
glad to see that he had sot yet lost Ids
power to please. He declared his trip
had been most charming, and all went
well until his wifo received this note:
"My Deaii Mrs. X.: Won't you please
ask your good husband to send me just a
little lock of his hair? We have all been
taking lessons in making liair flowers.
So many of the other girls asked him and
he sent it to them, but I thought I would
rather ask you to get it for mo. Now,
won't you please do this for me, it is so
hard to get white hair for lilies of the
valley?"
This was a terrible blow, and the less
now said about locks of hair in the mar
ried gentleman's presence the better.
Philadelphia
The city of San Salvador, the capital
of the smallest and most populous Cen
tral American republic, was founded in
1528. It has been three times almost en
tirely and eleven times partially de
stroyed by earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions. It Is eighteen miles from the
sea coast, hasan elevation of 2,800 feet,
and is surrounded by a group of volca
noes, two of which are active, Ban Miguel
and Izalco, and present a rftgniftnt
display to the psnwngcrn of steamers
sailing along the coast, constantly dis
charging masses of lava which flow
down their sides in blaring torrents.
Izalco is as regular as a clock, the
1 eruption occurring like the beating of a
nugnty pulse, every seven minutes, it
is impossible to conceive of a grander
spectacle than this monster, rising 7,000
feet almost directly from the sea, an im
mense volume of smoke, like a plume,
continually pouring out of its summit
and broken with such regularity by
masses of flame rising l,000f eet, that U
has been named 1 Faro del Salvador
the Lighthouse of Salvador. It is in
many respects the most remarkable vol
cano in the world, because its discharges
have continued so long and with such
regularity, and because the tumult In
the eartivs bowels is always to be heard.
Its explosions are constant, and are aud
ible a hundred miles off. It is the only
volcano that has originated on this con
tinent since the discovery by Columbus.
It arose from the plain In the spring of
1770 in the midst of what had been for
nearly a hundred years a magnificent
coffee and indigo plantation. Guate
mala Star.
flnnm nil rnaieanillna
A local physician says the prevalence
here of coughs, hoarseness and phlegm
expectoration is not proaucea zrom fax
ing cold, but from nhHng fine par-
tides of quartz dust, with which the air
has been rilled for severalmonths. These
particles are carried into the lungs and
throat and canes Irritation, and the fre
quent coujdunjr is the ineffectual effort
of nature to rid the system of the foreign
particles. The physician further stated
that constant inhaling of this fine quarts
dust Will produce ajiiijiiiaiiaaliwistlilan-
tical with and more speedily fatal than
hereditary consumption. He eked the
well known fact that the fatality among
miners employed in the Crown Point ana
Belcher is due to the upper levels of
these rnines beb constantly filled with
quarts dust, which has played havoo
with the young mm employed there dur
ing the past five years. The doctor re-,
ferred to christened the disease "quarts,
dust consumption," and says the only'
remedy for it Is to eniigrato to moisten
nnmama hita I WMfcinfffri fry.;
titory or locate on sands that are salt
from the kiss of the sea.1 The prevent-!
Ive is to keep the streets thoroughly wet
down and to cease fri Hatting fliam, wjtfc
quartx. Virginia (Ner.) Chronicle.
When the famous musirJan Banyan
was dying, his confessor wearied him
with a long homily, and he, rallying his
failing energies, -"mffl "What on
earth makes you come here and chant to
me, Monsieur le Cure? Yon have adence
of a bad voice."
More than a century ago an actor
nesned Paterson played the Duke in
Shakespeare's ''Measure for Measure"
(at the Norwich theatre). He bad jest
delivered the beautiful speech:
If I do kaa thea, I da last a thaw
use bb HoavaeH Base,
when he staggered back and expired.
New London Telegram.
"WelLmylitaeone,did you want to
w - -.are yon a lawyer?" ;
is it you want?" "I want," and
rasa resolute rise in her voice.
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Hreeh.
Thai Aatflaalty a
With regard to the discoveries on the
slopes of the Sierra de Managua, Or.
Flint considers that the human bones
prove indisputably the existence of man
In Pliocene times. Still we must recol
lect that in such an active volcanic re
gion as Nicaragua, with its hot and moist
climate, sudden upheavals and subsi
dences may be expected to have oo
currred, while the rich tropical vegeta
tion would rapidly repair the ravages
caused by the most devastating eruptions.
The footprints themselves tell us little as
regards their antiquity. As before men
tioned, they present no evidence of be
longing to an inferior type of man, while
the sandal shod footprint indicates a cer
tain advance in civilization, since a man
who wears shoesat all can hardly belong
Lto tho earliest stage- of .human culture.
lYvonsidering all the circumstances, there
fore, it will, perhaps be wisest to adopt
Dr. Brinton's cautious conclusion, that
there is not sufficient evidence to remove'
these remains further back than the pre
ent Post-Pliocene or Quaternary period.
Knowledge.
Sapper Alter the Play.
The Sun is asked "whether it is con
tidered good form to take a young lady
supper after a performance at the
theatre."
Authorities differ. If- you think the
young lady is hungry, however, you
might be justified in doing so, even
though you should limit your own lunch
eons for a week afterward to make good
the expense incurred.
Secondarily, it depends upon the girl.
Plump girls are not,apt to order and eat
as voraciously as thin girls. This is ac
cording to Blax Muller and Professor
Euxley. A judicious outlay for bon
bons early in the evening, however, will
often check the feminine tendency to
ward terrapin after the play.
Moreover, you should be guided in
some degree by details of time and
place. If you have been at the German
opera, the difference of an hour or two
In getting home will not weigh with the
home authorities.
But, seriously, if you have been at the
theatre until say 11 p. m., if there is a
married lady in the party, it is well enough
to ask the crowd to eat, as they say in
Leadville. But if you are escorting a
young lady without a chaperon it is in
better taste to say nothing about supper,
since there is a distinct prejudice against
young ladies going into restaurants at
that hour except in a party where at least
one married lady is apt to be found.
This idea is sensible and good and most
people see its fitness.
Where young people are very old
friends they may feel like taking a little
latitude in such matters. There can be
no possible liarm in the act, but as it is
liable to provoke unkindly comment,
the young gentleman should consider
that any special comment by strangers
upon a lady is in itself most undesirable
in every way, and he should reflect tliat
other people have no means of knowing
that he and liis companion are more to
each other than mere acquaintances in
societv New York Sun.
The Gimlet Man.
"I should like to sell you a gimlet,'
Baid a careworn looking man, as he
walked into the office the other day.
"We have no use for one," replied the
cashier.
"But you should always look into the
misty future," went on the fiend, de
murely. "Next winter you will want to
make holes in your boot heels so you can
get your skates on."
"I use club skates no 6traps re
quired." Youmay want to screw some hoards
together some time. Tho old fashioned
method of driving screws in with a ham
mer ts pernicious, as it deteriorates tho
tenacity of the fangs of the screws, as it
were."
"Nothing today, sir."
"The gimlet also acts as a cork
screw" "I don't want it."
"It has an eraser, a pen, an inksiand,'
a table for computing compound interest
and a lunch box attachment.'
"I can't help it: I don't want it.'
"I know you don't. You're one of
those mean men that won't buy a gimlet
unless it has a restaurant, a trip to Eu
rope and an Italian opera company at
tached. You're the kind of a man who
would live near an electric light to save
a gas bill."
And the pedlcr walked out with his
menial plunge on tho perpendicular.
Texas Sif tings.
I'roaiotera of Existence.
Disease is a mean fellow; it always
strikes a man when he's down. Two
men come into a car together one over
worked, depressed, worried and exhaust
ed, tho other interested in his work,
which employs every faculty to the ut
termost, comfortable and happy, with
the conviction that his wife is the dear
est woman in the world, his children as
bright as any one's chUdren, and that he
isn't a very bad sort of a fellow himself.
A draught blows through the car as
usual, striking both men. They both
take cold; one has pueumonia and dies,
and the other a cold in his head, which
he sneezes away in two days; It is easy
to draw the inference and with it to de
duce the formula that comfort, cheer
fulness and hopefulness are the best pro
moters, of existences. DrJShrady.
Keep tba Ceaaraaatlaai Awake.
The first duty of a preacher is to keep
the congregation awake. Instruct the
sexton to let in plenty of fresh air.
Without air, without life. Break out a
few of those stained glass windows and
admit the sunshine! Darkness always
provokes a yawn. Clergyman In St.
Louis Republic.
Henry Golding, colored, wno lives
near Leery, Ga., claims to be 121 years
old. He says that he was years old at
the commencement of the revotationary
war. He belonged at the time to George
Humphreys, of Richmond, Va. Humph
reys sold himtoGeorge Heard, of Au
gusta, who had owned -him ten years
when the "stars felL"
-In Switzerland cars are run vp ton
hotel 2,100 feet above the lake, level by
rope traction, the drum being worked
trelectrie motors which arev driven by
dynamos two and a half miles distant.
iiaM.ihw.aare
A POTLATCH IN ALASKA.
CURIOUS FESTIVAL OMEIIVED BY
THE THUNKETS.
A "iiotlatch" is asocial Institution pe
culiar to the natives along the North
Padflo coast. The word means a "big
feast." but that does not signify all that
the same words do to the white races.
Blankets are the signs of wealth among
these people. To have so many blankets
Is among them to be just so rich. These
blankets are stored up And boarded just
as the miser hoards his gold, but for a
totally different purpose. The idea is to
have a big "potlatclT some time. Often
this takes place when tlie owner of the
blankets gets past middle life and feels
that the time lias come when he can af
ford to make tliis social display. Again
they are laid up and treasured so that a
big "potlatch" may be held after the
owner is dead.
The Thlinket village just north of and
adjoining Sitka now has about 1,500 win
ter inhabitants, those who are out fish
ing and working at the canneries all sum
mer having come in to stay until work
begins again in summer. Though .they
have been brought under some- civilizing
influences they are very reluctantly sur
rendering their native' customs. Among
those to which they still cling is the cus
tom of the "potlatch." .
ALASKAN POLYGAMY. '
At 1 o'clock a cannon shot was heard
ver in the village, to the astonishment
tf many of the Americana here. In
quiry disclosed the fact that ono of the
head men of the village had just died,
and tliat the cannon shot from an old
Russian carronade was to announce the
death. When the whites first'began to
make inroads among these natives polyg
amy and slavery were settled institutions
among them. Both still exist to some
extent at points of the greatest distance
from civilizing influence. The Russian
church in Alaska has steadily pur
sued the policy of breaking up
polygamy among the natives ever
since its missionaries began their
work more than a century ago. The
headman of the Sitka village was
brought within the fold of that church,
but attempted for a long time to conceal
the fact that he was indulging in a plu
rality of wives. When off at distent
fishing and canning stations he could do
tltis with impunity, and with little or no
danger that any of his people would ex
pose him. They will not testify against
each other if it can be helped. When he
came into the ranch or village last fall
ho was detected in this mode of living,
and, in u manner, coerced into surren
dering his youngest and most attractive
wife. Ilo had been married to the first
one "United States fashion," and as the
Russian church does not recognize di
vorce he could not put her away in favor
of the younger one.
The result of this was that this stolid,
taciturn Indian, whose appearance and
general conduct would indicate that not
a particle of sentiment entered into his
character, actually pined away and died
of grief. Nothing that his people could
do would stimulate him to any exertion..
None of the blandishments and caresses
of his first wife, and she was kind to
him, could arouse him from his stupor
of grief, and this stout and lusty fisher
man, who had braved hundreds of fierce
storms in his cedar canoedied actually
of a broken heart.
THE POTLATCH.
Now comes the "potlatch." He had
been laying up blankets against the day
of a royal, roistering "potlatch" in his
lifetime. A score of natives visited the
trader's store and bought nearly a ton
of stuff for the feast Canned goods,
boxes of crackers by the dozen, and
everything that could be obtained to eat
were liauled over by them to the village
on trucks to be consumed in the "pot
latch," which will last for several
days and nights. A "potlatch" without
something strong to drink is a compara
tively tame affair. The sale of whisky
to these people is carefully guarded
against, and when detected, which is
quite often, severely punished. They
buy large quantities of molasses, how
ever, and from this surreptitiously distill
an intoxicating drink called "hooche
noo," with which they enliven then
potlatches.'
Tho first night of this one has just
passed, and the howling and dancing
which went on hi the huge house of the
dead headman showed that considerable
'hoochenoo" liad in some way been pro
vided for the occasion. The house has
no chimney, and the smoke from the
fire, built in the center of the floor, es
capes through a hole in the roof. The
walls glisten with black soot. The dance
has no figures, but is simply a cadenced
step in a circle around the Are, the time
being given on a sort of tomtom or tam
bourine. When each dancer gets tired,
he squats down anywhere to eat and rest.
So it goes on all night long, and day in
and day out, until the supplies are ail
gone, and the blankets all parted with to
buy the means of keeping up the "pot
latch." The duration of the "wake" depends
upon the supply of blankets. The "pot
latches" invariably end in the impover
ishment of those who give them. A na
tive who gives a "potlatch" and retains
any of his property afterwards, is dis
graced. Tho widow, in this particular
case, has entered eagerly into the festivi
ties, and yet realizes that it will take the
last blanket before it is all over.
Some idea may be formed of the way
these "potlatches" end when L state the
fact that the steamer brought up two Indi
an women and one "buck" from a village
200 miles northeast of this, ail of whom
liad their noses bit off in a "hoochenoo
potlatch." They all got drunk and the
man bit the noses off two of the women.
Sitka Cor. New York Times."
Clara
. Said an attache of the theatre one
night as Clara Morris wasnearingthe
conclusion of her play: "It will be IS
o'clock before Miss Morris leaves the
house. When the curtain falls on this
act she will sob and scream all the way
to her dressing room, and there she will
sit for an hour recking back and forth
until she gets quieted down. Then she
will put on her street costume and leave,
the theatre."
Apropos of this I shall never forget the
first night of "Jane Shore," Don Piatt's
play, at the Brooklyn, theatre. Clara
Morris was interested In the play and
practically produced it It was a failure,
largely due to imperfect rehearsals and
the most scandalous mismanagement it
has ever been my misfortune to witness.
Morris was frantic. Through the per
formance, as she began to realise the in
evitable result, ber excitement became
almost uncontrollable.
The curtain did not fall on the last act
till nearly 1 o'clock.
I was there by special invitation of
Miss Morris. After the performance we.
with her husband, Harriot; adjourned to
an oyster hones to get some supper. She
wastoonervous to eat when the food
was pat before her, so she ordered Har
riot to have a fry put ma box and bring
it home with hiin. We went out WV
walked up one street, down another.
Harriet folknriac us all the time with
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o'clock before the poor
I-
etedand ahe could be inireced
home with Harriot and the fry.
Walkbagtbosci Brooklyn stree
bitter winter night I learned more of
Clara Morris than I had ever known be
fore. What I learned has no place to print,
bet I inay my this, that from that time
I have looked upon her with a deeper
feeling of respect and a deeper feeliag
of sympathy. Chicago Herald.
The vaxiptr of mrticlea) that niano
era find in pianos remarkable. It is
also extraordinary what a receptacle of
lost articles a piano can become Inthe
course of a few months. A tuner was
conversing with a Gktbe-Democrat re
porter recently about some of the singu
lar pluses of bis calling when he inci
dentally let drop the statement that he
found four diamonds in one piano and
had recovered a verytabetantial reward
for bis discovery from the lady who had
employed him. "You can understand
the shock given to a ring," he said,
"when a lady Is playing and brings her
fingers down in a crescendo.
"If a. stone happens to be loose away
it goes, and with that rare affinity which
valuable things have for getting Into
strange places, it promptly gets between
the keys and works down Into the frame
work of the instrument. And little
things like gems are not the only ones
lost hi this way: I have found coins of
all sorts or denominations In a loosely
set piano, hairpins, ordinary pins, visit
ing cards and the like.
"Where there are children around the
accumulation becomes greater, for the
little rascals have a fashion of stuffing
pianos full of every email thins; they
can get their mischievous little fingers
on. Of course the tone of the pianola
very much injured by the presence of
anything beneath or behind the keys,
but very few persons who use the instru
ment can distinguish when it fa a quar
ter tone out of the way, especially when
they are using the piano themselves."
St Louis Globe-Democrat.
TeadUae; ChOdrea ha Obey.
The father of the best disciplined boy
the writer has ever seen says: "1 never
siruck the little fellow, and should hate
very much to see any one else strike him.
I want him to feel that I am the best
friend he has, and yet that he must mind
instantly because we are good friends. I
think children an nagged at too much,
and told not to do too many things. If
they disuliey in some trifling thing noth
ing is said, and so they learn disobedi
ence, A child should be made to obey
every command, the small and great
alike, but should not receive too many
orders. One disobedience is the father
of another, and perfect discipline fa only
obtained by continually insisting on
obedience. Once a child knows he must
mind lie yields readily to authority."
Another good authority submits the
following: "Teach a child to mind as
you would teach him his letters. You
don't expect him to learn them all In a
minute, but one at a time. Insist on a
child obeying you promptly In someone
particular until he gets it learned, then
take up something else, and so on until,
instead of minding once a day as at first,
he obeys every injunction." New York
Sun.
Seltlas Cattle ly "Weight.
A writer in Mark Lane Express se
verely deprecates tho custesi in rogue
in England with buyers and sellers in
estimating cattle, or buying by the bead
instead of by actual ascertained weight
By this system he believes farmers are
cheated and robbed of much of the profits
in raising cattle, and advises them to
supply themselves with weighing ma
chines of their own, so long as butchers
and salesmen remain averse to buying by
weight There can be no doubt that in
such cases the farmer is at a great disad
vantage with buyers, whose opportuni
ties for determining the dead weight of
living animals are so much !-otter, from
the nature of their occupation, and the
wonder is that English farmers should
have submitted to such a practice so
long.
Much of this business of buying by the
headsays the agricultural editor of The
World, has iteen done in this country,
and, it is scarcely to be doubted, quite
generally to tho farmer's disadvantage:
but of late years the system of selling at
actual weight has been growing hi favor,
and cattle scales are now so cheap as to
have become common in towns, as well
as on stock farms, so that there ia no
longer any necessity for the element of
chance in the buying and selling of stock
as it is picked up through the country by
butchers or shippers. -No good reason
can be given why a fanner should aell a
bullock on an estimation of its weight
that would not apply with equal force to
the buyer after the meat was dressed.
It is true that the percentage of dead
weight varies considerably in different
animals according to breed and feeding,
but an accurate knowledge of the live
weight is an important factor in deter
mining the value of the animal before it
has been slaughtered.
A Peaalty of UBcoaveatioaalltjr.
A young man who dared to break
through stern custom and go to see an
Oakland young lady during the eclipse
last New Year's day was, upon retiring,
rewarded with a remark which must be
regarded as rather mean if the young
lady understood the full significance of
ber words. She said as she was closing
tho door: "I hope you will call again the
very next time we have another total
eclipse." Now he is waiting for an
answer from Professor Holdcn to know
if it be a fact that we shall not have
another such for 110 years. San Fran
cisco Report
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A Mather BeepeaelbfUtj.
Unfortunately not every mother thinks
it necessary to teach polite manners to
her children. Her boys do not take off
their hats when they come Into the pres
ence of ladies; ber girls interrupt rudely
to conversations. It fa a common occur
rence to our street cars to see an elderly
gentleman give up his seat to some, okl
woman wnile a e-year-oia youngster
spreads over room enough for two, and
with his mother looking on apparently
ignorant that ahe fa rearing a son with
the selfish manners of a cub. The .be
havior of her children fa a pretty clear
mirror of the mother's own nature. It
is from her they learn courtesy and gal
lantry and chivalric respect to women.
Lookers on at the rude or bad behavior
of the child cannot have a very flatter
ing opinionof' that child's home influ
ences. New Orleans Picayune.
"Where have yon nainil your
tionr" asked one clerk of another.
-At the beautiful little village of Z."
"Is it a healthy locality?"
"Healthy! It's so healthy that to or
der to start their new cemetery they
were obliged to assassinare an inhab
itant" America.
Of three women living in one house in
(Valker county, Ga., there are two wives.
two awjtbers-in-iaw, two deaghters-iar
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law, cures mowers, two
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Central train, to a fellow passenger)
Ever been west?
Fellow Passenger No.
"Great country, the west."
"I've beard so."
" "Iain't half appreciated yet."
"NoT
"No, sirt Greeley understood it,
though. Go west, young man,' was
what be said, and he knew what was
good for a young man.'
"Guess lie did."
"Yes, indeedy. Now, we had a young
fellow up in Chemung county, whero 1
live. Smarter'n a wlup. Could do any
thing. You'd orter sec him .speak
in the debatin' school. But, bless ye,
he hadn't no sort o chance around
there. All the good places filled."
"Why didn't he go westT
"He did. That's what I'm gettin' at
But he didn't want to go at first. He
kept hangin round, thinkin something
would turn up. but it didn't. Folks said
if he would only go west with his tal
ent he would knock tho spots ofTn every
thing. He would be a big man, sure.
80 finally he went."
"It was the making of him. prob
abryr "This was only two years ago, and
now, sir (rising in his seat and speaking
with great animation), and now, tliis
young man who hadn't no chance in
York state, where do you suppose
he faT
"I dont know."
"Well, I dont either. We haven't
heard a word from him since he left."
Texas Sittings.
Advice to Csatrlbatera.
You beginners seem to write nothing
but your views on politics, and your re
flections on art and your theories of life,
which you sometimes even think origi
nal. Editors wont have that, because
their readers dont want it. Every paper
has its regular staff of leader writers,
and what is wanted from the outside is
freshness. An editor tosses aside your
column and a half about evolution, but
is glad to have a paragraph saying that
you saw Herbert Spencer the day before
yesterday gazing solemnly for ten min
utes in at a milliner's window. Fleet
street at this moment is simply running
with men who want to air their views
about things in general. Each
thinks he is as original as he is profound,
though they have only to meet to dis
cover that they repeat each other. They
should write of the things they have
seen. Newspaper readers have an in
satiable appetite for knowing how that
part of the world lives with which they
are not familiar. Write on
politics if you will, but dont merely say
what you think yourself; rather tell
what fa the political situation hi the
country parts known to you. When a
Man's Single Barrie.
Tba Chora Girls' Tights.
I have referred to the frequent changes
of dress required, and I am credibly in
formed tliat getting out of ono pair of
tights into another is no easy matter, to
say nothing of the other portions of the
scanty attire which have to be put off
and on. To properly attire herself hi a
pair of silk fleshings requires no little
practice and skill on the part of the
wearer. Tlie finest sort of silk tights
are first gathered in the hand and drawn
on over the feet like stockings, the shoes
being laced on before the tights are
finally drawn into place. The waistband
fa formed of strong webbing, so as to
guard against the danger of tearing the
frailer silk, and by this the tights are
pulled into place and smoothed and
stretched and rubbed, much as a woman
rubs on a new glove, so as to cause all
wrinkles to disappear. The tights are
provided by the management, and tlie
girls are to a certain extent responsible
for their safe keeping. St. Louis Globe
Democrat. A Russian analyst, writing to the
papers, gives the following as a test by
which tea can be proved to be genuine or
not. Take a pinch of tea in agues, pour
vpon it a little cold water and well shake
Kup. Pure tea will only slightly color
the water, while a strong mfasion is
quickly got from the adulterated or
painted leaf. Now boil both sorts sepa
rately, and let thein stand till cool, and
the difference between them will be
most marked. The false tea will becosoe
still stronger after long standing, but
will resaain transparent Whereas the
pare tea will becoaao muddy or milky.
This last appearance arises from the taa
alo add which is a natural property in
pure tea, but which In artfAcial tea is
entirely absent. New York Telegram.
PedoJer--GanIsellyoaacakeofpoUsh-iag
soap, mum? It will brighten your
silverware like new, wffl put a shine on
yon piano so yon wouldn't know it It
cleans Jewelry like magic. Try one
cake, only ten cents, mum, and yon
never will be without it again in your
life.
of .the nones reflectively)--
Didn't I buy a cake of that
yon four years ago?
Paddler(hastily--3ood day, mum, ex-
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A Eratucky Hermit.
A curious hermit bus been discovered
hi Russell county. Ky. lie lived in a
rude hut of the most primitive construc
tion. He is very tall, and about 60 years
of age. Hi clothing consisted of a few
rags tied around his irson with strings,
and lib feet wore naked and badly frost
bitten All that be would tell about
himsrlf was that he was "Jim Billy."
He bud often boen seen by hunters, but
always eluded pursuit. Ho was secured
and taken to the count seat, whero he
will be cured for. New York World.
"After SwiabarBr."
"Mine eyea to my eyelids cling thickly.
My tongue feels a mouthful and more.
My senses are sluggish and sickly.
To live and to breathe is a bore.
My head weighs a ton and a quarter.
By pains and by pangs ever split.
Which manifold vrashuigs with water
Believe not a bit."
After Swinburne these lines may be, a
long way after for that matter, but what
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are costive, liver disordered, blood out
of sorts. Such an individual needs Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets.
They are pleasant to take and powerful
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The great would have none great, and
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