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.'r" c .A- sy- , -. -5" ' -" A i. - V ! i v, . V .3," - - I ES Ir V" . VX j. THE PUNCTUAL TIDES. ,wB Waah en tto sea coast fiebbly Roar; Bat dm aadaVnttag wracks taey GrtaiRagtfceoldaad ft th Ion tMK with Bring; Mtato ten tie far praCoaad; we know not way We know not way. 7e tides of tine, they rise or fsB Want that wUto waste that drdaa al; Oar year in vaster periods move, . Aa oar poor lores hi lasting Love in lasting Love. -Don Bead Ooodale to The MY MOTHER'S HYMN. What an unconscionably long time seems to have elapsed since the old days on the far away homestead In the Berk shire hills! How the years have dragged themselves along, so that, although I have several more birthdays to come to mo (if I live) in "the twenties," I seem to be already an old man when I think upon the farm and mother and the old meeting bouse and all the sweet mem ories of the time when I was a boy and knew nothing absolutely nothing of sorrow and trouble and hard knocks. Even today when, young as I am, I have to confess myself worn and wearied, battered, bruised and broken, scarred and seared by contact with all the rough ness, the rudeness, the dirt, the grime, the sin and the heartkasness of the world even yet I bless God for the halo of goodness which has followed me, in all my wanderings, from my Massachusetts home. I wastheyoungestof the merry young sters who had grown up, under our fam ily roof tree, to youth and manhood, and was the last to break away from the comparative quiet of New England for the bustle and hurly-burly of the great west. My two brothers were full grown men while I was still u small boy, attending our village school, and nothing could keep them at homo when the gold ex citement broke out in the Black Hills. After they went away my mother and father never saw them more. The next events of importance in our family were the weddings of my two sisters, follow ing in rapid succession. Then, more than ever, I became my mother's companion and might have re mained so, perchance, to this day had not death claimed her and father for his prey within a few short weeks of each other. Father was a good man and I always loved, honored and respected him; but to me I think, nay, lam certain, he was never as dear as mother and I felt this more during the few short weeks that mother lingered after father's death. How she liked to have me sit by her bedside and read to her sometimes fromonoof Dickens' masterpieces and sometimes from her well used Bible! How it pleased her when I would sing (as a boy, I believe I had a pleasant, mu sical voice) one of her favorite songs or a hymn from 'the little brown covered hymn book! How contented she was, on the day that she passed away, to have me place my hand in hers while she whispered her farewell words. "Give me the hymn book, Bod," she said to wards the last. I gave it to her and watched her as with much feebleness she tore from it one of the pages worn so thin and much soiled by constant handling "Keep it, Rod, my boy; keep it alwayB, and when you are a man read it. and sing it it is your mother's favorite hymn." I have never parted with that torn scrap, and while I live it will never be bartered for the largest bank note in ex istence. Sickly sentiment, is it? Be it so; there has, God knows, been little enough of sentiment in my life, and I can afford to indulge this one soft feel ing which I possess and treasure. Ten years passed away. Amidagroup of rough men assembled in a saloon in a small frontier town I was the central fig ure. I was arraigned as a culprit before a mock judge and a mock jury, undergo ing a mock trial for stealing a man's en tire outfit coat, pants, belt, pistols and boots. I was innocent, quite innocent but the circumstantial evidence was strong against me, and, besides, I had certainly been associating with a very "hard" set I knew full well that the chances were greatly against a verdict of "not guilty," and I was also well aware that punishments were not graded in that locality. Sentences for all crimes were uniformly severe and execution prompt. The evidence was taken in five minutes and then the judge (a miner like the rest of us) turned to me: "Hevyougotowt to say for yesself, RodKunberly?" "Only this," said I: "I am not guilty." "Is that ah?" said the judge, while a low rude laugh went around the room. . "We all thought that you was squat', Bod," went on the judge, "and we feel like giving you a fair show. Whydont you own up, now, and throw yourself on the mercy of the court?" "Judge," I replied, giving the man his mock title, "I am square. All you boys know me," I went on, appealing to the crowd, on whose faces I failed to see much expression of sympathy. "You fellows know I don't pretend to be any great shakes, but, before God, I have never told a lie to you or any one else, and neither have I ever taken what don't belong to me. I swear I am innocent of this affair." "Is that all?" again asked the judge. "Yes, sir. Stay" and I fumbled in my pocket for a scrap of paper which I kept inside my shirt. "You fellows all had mothers?" There was a coarse, loud guffaw, while one man exclaimed: "Thet's a regular bald headed, palsied old bluff game, jedge, an' I guess it wont wash with this gang!" But just then a tell, broad shouldered man a stranger entered the saloon. He had heard my appeal and had also heard the rough words of the miner who had last spoken. "By the court's leave," said the new arrival, "I am an old regulator, judge, and think the young fellow ought to have his say, whatever it is." "Good," came from the lips of the judge; "go on, my lad." "I was going to say, judge, that I have a little scrap of paper here not much account, certainly, to anybody but my self; but my dead saotber gave it to me and I've treasured it about ten years. It lent Scripture, but it's mighty near it, and I couldn't say anything more sol esanly than what I would say with my right hand on that page torn from my another's hymn book. Judge, lam inno cent!" "Gentlemen of the jury, what do you say? Is the prisoner guilty or not gmfltyr "Guilty!" camefromascoreof throats. Now I was not greatly afraid of death, though I would have preferred to live, aad anyhow did not particularly fancy dsath by means of a hempen rope. I felt that I was hardly prepared to die, lor I had of late given very little thought a. laMa-fam and to the teaching of my re. So it was not any norma notion of religion nor yet the loffearwBichledmetomaas I said, "I should lire, you to ansa last request before you pass On this scrap of paper tnere yahyawWchIaveafaitoh4ar sung before you begin bnsiweai Jerry Davis, there, can play and knows all the church tunes. Td like him to play and sing this one. And, judge, ask thePboys that don't want to hear it to step out side, because I shouldn't like to see thsm poking fan at it" "Boys, you hearl" said the judge, and strangely enough there was absolute silence, while not a man left theroom. There was an old piano in that western saloon, used for free-and-easys, noisy concerts and occasional dances, though it is doubtful if sacred songs had ever been played upon it during its sojourn at that settlement. Jerry Davis took the little torn page, struck a chord or two, and then com menced to sing in bis rich tenor voice: There to a fountain filled with Wood, plaaged beneath that flood Lose aQ their goaty stains. The dying thief rejoiced to see That fbantato la hto day. And there may I, though vile as he. Wash all nay atae sway. Somehow Jerry Davis voice weakened and he could not finish the hymn, which must have been familiar to many a har dened man in that strange company. As for mc, I was sobbing violently not so much moved by the words of the hymn as by the sadly sweet memories which it brought me. There was absolute silence for several minutes, when the stranger who had spoken a word in my behalf walked over to the piano where Davis sat with his fingers listlessly resting on the keyboard. He took the torn leaf, examined it critically and then walked over to me. Taking my hand in bis strong grip he spoke in a loud if rather husky voice. "Judge," he said, "I feel certain there is some ni""1" here, and I ask for a postponement of these proceedings for further investigation. This lad is my brother; my name is Phil Kimberly. I own the Kimberly claim over the hill, and am pretty well known along the Turtle valley." It was indeed my oldest brother, whom I had not seen for sixteen years. That hymn of my mother's had some how softened the feelings of the boys, for they willingly acceded to Phil's re quest. Two days later 1 was cleared of all suspicion and became for a time the most popular man in the camp. It is almost needless to add that I now treasure with more care than ever the little scrap of paper upon which is printed, in old stylo type, my mother's favorite hymn. W. II. S. Atkinson in Detroit Free Press. A Plot for a. PUy. T. Adolphus Trollope, in a communi cation to Notes ond Queries, propounds a knotty point that might be worked up into a subject for a drama, a farce or a comic opera, It is put in all serious ness, however, as a question of law. A. B. goes from London to Naples, leaving his wife resident in the former city. But he, unfortunately, falls in love with a young lady at Maples; and being a wicked man, with no fear of God and little fear of the law before bis eyes, he determines to deceive her by a bigamous and invalid marriage. He is according ly married, to all appearance legally, on board an English man-of-war in the bay, in the presence of the captain, at 11 o'clock in tho morning of Feb. 10 the time being unquestionably ascertained. But the wife left in London died on that came Feb. 10 at half past 10 in the morn ing, the time being certified beyond all question. Well, the case is clear and simple. A. B. had been a widower for half an hour when he married and could, of course, legally do so. But, stay! When it was half past 10 in London it was twenty-three minutes past 11 in Naples. Had a telegram been dispatched instantly after the wife's death it would have reached Naples a few minutes later than twenty-three minutes past 11, and would have found' A. B. a married man of over twenty minutes standing! His first wife died, in fact, twenty-three minutes subse quent to the Naples marriage, though that was authentically declared to have taken place at 11 a. m., and the wife's death was with equal certainty shown to have occurred at half past 10. Was the marriage legal and valid or biga mous and null? Jules Verne and W. S. Gilbert, each in his different way, are the only two men competent to solve this problem. Philadelphia Times. Careleaa Talking. What grave errors are frequently com mitted through mere thoughtlessness. If we could foresee the pain that is often caused by lightly spoken words, how much more careful would we be in weighing their significance before utter ing them! One of the gravest errors of the kind I have ever known occurred the other day. I had called at the office of one of our leading citizens on a mat ter of business. He had just returned from a visit to his old home, where he had been attending to the sad duty of burying a near and dear relative, and as we sat talking about the business affair that engaged our attention a friend of the leading citizen walked in, shook him warmly by the hand and asked him when he had got back. Their mutual greetings were warm and cordial until the caller wound up his by exclaim ing, thoughtlessly, no doubt, and with out for a moment appreciating how apropos was the remark: "Hope you had a good time." I shall never forget the look which passed across the face of the afflicted man as, without replying, he waved his visitor to a seat and resumed his conversation with me. I thought to myself, if that man knew what a mis take he had made he would be more careful in future of speaking without thinking. Chicago Journal. x OO Cartridges. The power which pfcrolwim exerts In calming the surface of a troubled, even tempestuous ocean, is conceded by the most conservative navigators. However efficient petroleum may be in rousing a storm on land and generating a cyclone in every oil exchange of the United States, on the briny deep its influence is wholly in the direction of peace and quietness and restf nines. It lulls King Neptune's stormiest moods, and a few gallons have brought gallant ships safely through watery commotions that threat ened them with sure submerging. Here tofore a simple throwing or dripping of oil from the ship has been the method pursued. Now a Yankee inventor has patented an oil cartridge, which, fired from a gun, projects the oil far in ad vance tf the vessd and thereby stub the before the ship. By means of cartridges, it to claimed that a path an eighth of a mile wide can be made through the heaviest seas. Those that go down to theses in ships owe much to the memory of CoL Drake, of Pennsylvania. Pittsburg Bulletin. A Orel's BetrlMa SALBB3H, N. C, March 2. Bettia Lots, the 15-yeax-old daughter of John Lore of Davidson county, suffered a terrible death in a grist nuu. She was in the mill with her uncle, who left her there alone while he went away. Dur ing his brief absence thegirTa clothes sasse in contact with a rapidly revolv jajff shaft and carried her around,-with ack revolution striking her head nam the &mw with terribiafovos. WhemVsr w s m J nV. a- . m iuwwu Mumnw neroeam ana wa LITTLE HDMJEST t A PEEP AT A MERRY SCHOOL-OF YOUTHFUL VIOLINISTS. Fancy 800 little fiddlers all fiddling away at once! Fancy tha noise! Fancy the fun! It is like a concert of katydids to hear them, and like gtining npagfcoal of sand fiddlers to see them running up and down tbastsep stairs to and fro from their lessons. Moreover, tt to like trying to catch an old sBarttoddy sand fiddler to catch one of these little youngsters and ask him how he learned to fiddle and when and where. Saturday after ooontothetinaetossethesubaby virtu osos in their glory. From east, from west, from Harlem and Hoboken they come skipping along by twos, by threes, with maids in attendance, to worship at the shrine of the violin. Prof essor Wat son, of Fourteenth street, to master of this marvelous school, and he draws no lines regarding sex, age or previous con dition. Rich and poor alike come and are treated to the same free instruction, pcnus or all rams. "You would be astonished," he said, as the unique entertainment drew to a close, "to know some of the names that are among the two thousand we have on our books already. No one, no matter how rich he may be, cares to throw away money on finding out simply whether a child's fancy is a natural taste era whim. So people who know of the school send their boys and girls to me. I can soon find out If the child has any cleverness, and I immediately notify them. If the boy of rich parents likes his violin, they naturally buy him a good instrument and engage a teacher. Other children come and go, more as their own fancy dictates, but they usually have some one, an older sister, or an aunt or a grandmother, who takes pridoin their little fiddlings and soon buys for them a violin of their own, which they can take home and practice on to their hearts' content. In that way I get a partial recompense for my time and trouble, and at the same time I have the satisfaction of knowing that I have been able to keep some children's minds away from worse things during their first few years." It was 2 o'clock when the youngsters began to arrive. Some fly down the street as if they moved on steel springs, grinning happy little grins of satisfaction as they pound on sturdy legs up to the rooms above. Others, coming for the first time, wander open mouthed along the street, asking now a hand organ man, and now a policeman, if they know "where the music man's place is." Unless they know Professor Watson's name they are apt to have some trouble in finding him, for Fourteenth street is full of "music men." At last they see some other little boy with a fiddle and their troubles are all over. Once upstairs, their real troubles are usually over, but the poor, unhappy kids do not seem to think so. A little twist catches their tongues as they start up stairs, and by the time they havereached the office a double bow knot could not tie them any tighter. Tho professor's daughter takes them in hand first and, after their unruly little members get limbered up a bit, finds out all about each new pupil Then she passes them along to the next room, where they make their professional bow to one of the teachers, to say nothing of their first violin. They stand around in helpless rows until the busy professor comes flying along, then one by one are stood out in the middle of the floor, their knees joggling beneath them, and set to work. TOE FIBST LESSON. "Feet so! says the professor, his right heel in the hollow of his left foot. Invariably the left heel drags itself up to the right foot. "Brrr!" says the professor. "You would tip over on your nose if you tried to stand so! Now tho violin under your chin, so that your cheek just rests on it to keep it steady. Hands off the strings, but holding the case, so! Elbow down. Bow in your right hand. Oh, no, never, my boy. That's a good way to hold a saw, but it's a bad way to hold a violin bow. There, look you. Thumb so! First and second fingers so last two fin gers so." Very clumsy the pudgy little fingers are to begin with, but in a few minutes when the violin fright is worn off the fingers begin to limber up, and in a sur prisingly short time these babies are sawing away as natural as life. In far less time than it would take a greater mind these youngsters know each string as well as they know their own names, better in fact, than they knew them when they faced Miss Watson in the office. Then they are crazy for a tune. Before any one could believe it possible their shrewd little wits have conquered tho mysteries of the staff and the notes, and they aro sawing away at e, a, d, g, d, a, e, with all the gusto of artists. The next step is to twist tho littlo fingers so they can slide up and down the strings and pinch them down at the proper points, and aS soon as tliat is done there begin to grow variations of the first wonderful theme. To an outsider tho hour on a busy Saturday afternoon is a wonderful sight The mental dexterity with which the clever professor liandles his small schol ars, lib patience, and the interest whict. he takes in tho poorest and least clover of these littlo free pupils, is something to be admired. Professor Watson was the famous Ole Bull's manager, and when he rinds a child whose heart goes out into the old fiddle that snuggles up under his chin he takes him about through the rooma and tells stories of tho great mas ter, and shows him the pictures and relics that liang about the wall, the watch which was his gift and, choicest treasures of all, his violins. New York World. BRONCHITIS. tvmntonu and Treatment nf Uoa la Ita Early Stages. During the winter season bronchitis is one of the most coasmon affections. It is essentially an inflammation of the bronchial tubes, but it rarely occurs alone; the mucous membrane lining the throat and upper part of the windpipe are, as a rule, affected about the same time. In the majority of cases an attack of bronchitis is preceded by a cold in the head. The faiHaiwmaHwn, which starts in the nose, travels downward, affecting the throat more or less, and very soon enters the bronchial tubes. When those are reached there are added to the symp toms of a cold a sense of tightness and of soreness or rawness in the chest. Those unpleasant feelings are aggravated by the cough, which to at first dry, hack ing and quite constant. As a rule, the person who to suffering from an attack of bronchitis to somewhat feverish, or, at least, inclined to be chilly. He has leas appetite than usual, feels dull and heavy and disinclined to exertion. Those who have bronchitis generally complain of a dull, aching pain in the back and limbs. The cough, which to at first dry and painful as some say tearing" gen erally loosens up in from on to two days, and then the patient "i shaV quite freely. The cougnea up generally of a yellowish or color and salty taste; than they become quite yellow. As soon aa the patient "ratoes" easily he to at once relieved; the pain and sottaass disappear, and he goat rapidly on to recovery. Acute bronchitis to usually caussd by taking cold. If one to suddenly chilled, an attack to very likely to occur. By too severe and sudden cooling of the body the blood to driven front the sur face to the mternal organs. The lining membrane of the bronchial tubes to very easily congested in that way. Consider ing all things, it naturally follows that bronchitis to more prevalent after sudden changes in the weather and when the same is moist and cohL When an attack of this disease comes on the sufferers who treat themselves, aa a rule, direct their efforts entirely to stopping the cough, without giving much thought to the trouble that ex cites it. The remedies which they usually take, while bringing, perhaps, some relief, yet more often do more harm than good, and really in the first stage of acute bronchitis there to seldom great need of what passes under the head of cough medicines. While there to soreness or rawness in the chest, the patient should be confined to his bed and kept on a light diet. Mustard poultices should be applied, morning ana night, and toft on until the pain from them to intolerable. After they are removed, a towel wrung out of warm water should be applied, and over that a dry one laid, and then several folds of flannel. In tho meantime, unless the' cough to incessant, there will scarcely be any need to give' medicine for it, and cer tainly, if any are used, they should be wisely selected. Flaxseed tea to an ex cellent drink, having a soothing effect in such cases. 'It should be taken often and in considerable quantities each day. If the patient to not under the care of a physician, and will not consult any, notwithstanding his cough to very trou blesome, keeps him awake, etc., he might have put up at the druggist's a mixture of the sweet spirit of niter, par egoric and sirup of ipecac, of each one half ounce. Of this mixture the dose for an adult to one teaspoonful, and it may be taken every two or three hours in a wino glass of water. After two or three days, when the cough has become soft and loose, and the soreness and rawness in the chest has disappeared, then, instead of the medi cine advised, tho sirup of wild cherry bark should be taken, in teaspoonful doses, every three or four hours. If there is much to raise, it will be well to take also of the sirup of squills one-half a teaspoonful three or four times a day. If one guards against exposure the af fection is likely to subside quite rapidly; less and less to raised until finally the amount of secretion is near that in health and the cough disappears. Yan kee Blade. Tlie Story of n Play. One of the most successful of recent plays fell into the hands of Charles Over ton, who offered it to A. M. Palmer, the manager of the Madison Square theatre, and whose judgment as to the value of a play is second to no one's. While Mr. Palmer admitted that the piece possessed many elements of success he did not think it was a pieco destined to have a long run. However, he agreed to run the risk of it. being a success pro vided Mr. Overton would permit him to produce the piece at the Madison Square theatre without having to pay any roy alty. After that, if successful, Mr. Palmer agreed to send the'ptoyouton the road. Every one familiar with theatrical' affairs knows that "Jim the Penman" is one of the strongest plays on the road today, and will also remember the phenomenal run it had at the Madison Square theatre. It to estimated that Mr. Overton and the Madison Square Theatre company together have made over $900, 000 out of it New York Cor. Philadel phia Times. There was sport in the coon hunt for our fathers, and in a measure a man's importance in some communities was judged by the number of coon skins he could nail to hto barn door after a hunt Why the coon has come to be despised by sportsmen in these latter days to one of those things about which the remark has once or twice been made that no fellow can find out He to as cunning as tho fox and more difficult to trail. He to, moreover, the cleanest of animals, and cats only the most wholesome of food. He should not be despised, surely, be cause he can be hunted only at night, for in threading the woods in the dark ness, following dogs that you cannot see, and whose baying alone breaks the still ness, there to a most singular enchant ment Even in localities where coons are the most abundant, nine out of ten of the present generation never saw one, and few people know anything about them or their habits. Although the coon prefers the vicinity of civilization as his ltabitat, lie plans to keep aloof from the eyes of men, and hto habits render this an easy task. By day he lies in out of the way retreats, in the depths of hollow trees or isolated crevices and holes in the rocks. He wanders forth only at night and al though his foraging expeditions may take him to the very doors of farmers, and even within the boundary hues of vil lages, he never betrays bis presence. If more than one coon to brought to bay in a tree they will invariably be females or a mother coon and her offspring. The scent the coon leaves on the trail to stall times less than that of other game quad ruped, but when the female to nursing her young during the summer months her scent to hardly perceptible to the dogs, thus saving her and her litter from many a race for life. The scent of the coon grows stronger as the cold weather advances, and through November and December the dogs follow it with com paratively little difficulty. Philadelphia Press. The Fasting We Dyln Attica, N. Y., March 2. Mrs. Emma Althouse, the fasting woman, to in a oandttion bordering on death. She awoke after sleeping eleven and a half days. Since then her pulse has been very quick, but feeble, her temperature unnatural, and her muscles motionless. Attempts to nourish her failed. Her condition to so precarious that it seems impossible that her vitality will last be yond a few hours. During the last year and a half she slept forty-seven days and nights, and in all that time has not taken enough nourishment to last a well person more than a few days. Lately when awake she has bean able only to move her eyes. Fair Infi Little Jeannette's mother found her one day with her face covered with jam from ear to car. "O Jeannette," said her mother, "what would you think if you should catch me looking like that some day?" "I should think you'd had a awful good time, mamma," said Jeannette. her fare bfightenuig. YouthV Companion. Forcliapped or cracked Itands uvea tea of witch ItazeL It is also good for cankered luuutii or throat, with gokfeH seal and white sugar added. Sab the teakettle with polish with a dry flannel cloth. THE HUMAN VOICE. DHTrCULTY IN MSCRmwtQ THEM ALL SATISFACTORILY. Tho human voice to saw of taluuncthnunwldch csn never be quataly described, and yet which an constantly tempting people to describe them. The posts perspire in vain, aad the novelists pant a long way after thesa, but nothing comes adequate to tae ject Even the muatoai cratto use of language tonnarked by an which the rest of the world trsaabtos at. do net succeed. Nevertheless, taw a few remarks which may be made on the outskirts of the subject. COsfFARKD TO OBOIST HOM. The human voice, in the flrsft place, to not a simple instrument, but a vsryecam phcated organ, with a great variety of stops. Yon hear the glycerine stop, for instance, when a man to trying to sell a horse be "doesn't want to part with," or to persuading a friend to invest in the 600 Woe Mary Janes be "happens to have to spare.'' Then man has another very useful stop, the sucking dove atop. When a man's wife bad to att up for him ha meats her with the sucking dove stop full on; you would think aa be comes along the passage, humming a psalm tune in it, that he had just descended from tho com pany of an innocent band of seraphim. This stop to ako made some little use of in business, though the majority of mam have not sufficient face to play it suc cessfully. Bold cabby very often has a try at it when he assures the stranger in London, with tears In his eyes, that tiie proper fare to five and sixpence; and the skilled restaurant waiter turns it on when he assures the doubtful guest that the wine supplied to actually what to named on the list There are also other varieties of masculine stop; such as the mad bull stop, which comes into play when the button's off again or the meatus underdone. Ladies' voices possess most of the mas culine stops and a few- others besides. They, however, make a little different use of some of them. A. lady, for in stance, talks politics through the glycer ine medium, and keeps the sledge ham mer for her domestic affairs, and for training mankind in the way they should go. She never uses her sucking dove stop in matters of business, but keeps it exclusively for affairs of a tender nature. At the approach of any eligible man out comes this Btop at once, and all she has to say to 1dm has the seductive intona tion of innocent candor. An exclusively feminine stop to the woodpecker, spe cially designed in those crises in the female economy known familiarly aa "being out of sorts." This stop gives a shrill, snappy timbre to the musio of tho lady's voice, which to much admired by the hearers, when they have acquired a taste for it Another feminine stop, and a pecu liarly beautiful one, to the Minnehaha, or laughing water stop. It to not every tody who has it in her organ, but when she has, and plays upon it, the hearer at once imagines himself under a green canopy by the side of a sparkling rill, and if he to not careful he sits there and forgets hto train. The Minnehaha to the queen of all stops, but, unfortunately, has a terrible habit of changing into the woodpecker late in life. PROFESSIONAL VOICES. The above remarks are inspired by or dinary private voices. A more extended view of the subject may be obtained from professional voices. The former play on one organ of many stops, but the totter have the run of a great variety of different instruments, natural and artifi cial. The stage, to which one looks for the ideal of what the spoken voice should be, supplies us with some charm ing examples. One especially beautiful stage voice to that usually described as "bird like." The bird voice to especially affected by the young and innocenfdra matio maiden, whose pride to to remind you of all the sweet songsters of the grove in turn. While she to heart free, she hops in a cheerful manner round the scene, and emits little chirps, something like a healthy sparrow devoid of care. When the inevitable young man makes hto appearance, she puts on the swallow and begins to twitter continuously; and when he arrives at hto declaration she sinks into hto arms with the true night ingale gurgle and ends a pathetic scene with a cadence of "jug-jug-jug." Then when things get a little mixed and he to thought to be faithless and to have taken money from the till, she comes out strong as a "pee-wit," and shrieks faintly over her blasted liopes, much as that plaintive bird does over a wormtoss moor. By and by there to a prospect of things coming right and she drops the pee-wit for tho canary. When she gets a letter from him you hear sounds as though a canary were fondling a fresh root of groundsel, and when all to explained and he arrives with the marriage license by tho 5 p. m. train, there to no more nightingale, and the curtain comes down on a final "jug." The well trained jeune premiere runs the gamut of the whole ornithological tribe, and the experienced playgoer can tell what the "situation" to from the bird she to representing, even though he to too poor to pay for a place where he can see anything. In the public meeting you hear the turkey gobbling in explanation of the object of the gathering, the bray of the ass in moving the first resolution, and the dock quacking in support, while there follow the calf bleating an amend ment, the cow lowing to "order," and the clucking of a multitude of hens car rying something simultaneously. It to, of course, for the evolutionist to say why assemblages of speakers imitate so closely the voices of animals, but he should not overlook the fact London Standard. A Warrlar'a MatrtaneaJal Fate. Walking along Lake Shore with an old soldier, who had married thrico and for money every time, I had some new and valuable light abed upon the ques tion, "to marriage a failure?' The war rior takes an easy view of life. He fa inclined to think that women are not as bad as they are painted, but that they re quire strong handling. "The marriage laws are much too easy on women. Now, took here! I'm a man of family I mean social position. I have an in come of between 93,600 and $9,000. Tton't much, but as Shakespeare says, ' Hto mine own.' I married a widow for my first wife. She had $5,000 a year of her own and no social position, as her fint husband was a saloon keeper. I got her into refined and fashionable so ciety. "How did she repay me, think you? Well, she Insisted upon spending all her own coin upon herself, and then de manded half of my btto income. Wasnt that pretty cheeky? She paid me noth ing for my social position. She got everything and gave nothing save the 5,000 a year when she died to a twenty second cousin near Prince Piamsril'ii home la Poojeraaia. My second wife wMmberscoadwMlowhood,butuota bit softer about money matters than when aha wis a maiden fair. Every thjnf aatttod upon herself, J mag for LD -if The great WASHIH6 POWDER has commenced to more and it will soon be in your wash-tub. a C3 O o CO C3 a O O MpHt Id - a 5. a -w . - .. a ran aarrjr, eanr nrsnaw, years away nan aww, wnea yea eeta n gesi tinar, yen amat crab it, yea knew. Give it a trial when you next scrub your floor or clean house ; try it for washing dishes. "GOLD DUST" is used in place of soap, and it will polish anything from a silver spoon to a skillet, and costs you nothing to try it. Ask Your GRoce For Goijp Pust And he will give you a sample r FWCE OF CHARCE.-ga Made only by N. K. Fairbank & Co., St. Louis. P. S. Fairbanks "Fairy" Soap will make the hands: white. the wedding breakfast. Sho had a large income and she never gave me a cigar. She went to heaven and left her money to a sister. The sister wouldn't marry mc. bat I got a nice littlo woman with four children, who Iiad buried tlirce vasr x2vtia and was as merry as a butterfly. Sho to ulivo now and to the hardest nut of alL She doesn't take half my money sho takes the whole of it. pays my bills end allows mo fifty cents a day for spending money. No, sir; marriage was no failure for three woraeu wlio had tho good fortune to marry mc." Chi cago Journal. A Cheap Leiaou. ' "That piece of paporLm'twortli shucks, to iW queried a stranger, au ho handed s. check in to the cashier of a Griswold street bank tho other day. "No, sir, was the reply, after a brief glance. "It to signed John Smith." "I see it to." "Ho'safraudT' "I think so. Where did you get the 0110087 "At tho depot. Lent a party $20 to get off on a train with, and he gave me this check of S0 as security." "Yon have been coofldenced." "I know it. I knew it half an hour ago. When I started to come to town my brother said Td let some one make a fool of me." "And you have." "I have. Turned out just aa he said. Say, wasnt that confidence operator rather fresh?" "How?" "See here. Here's a wallet with $3,800 In it, and the fool only asked mo for $20! Wont he kick himself if he ever finds out how cheap he let me oAT Detroit Free Press. An Cincinnati has the champion absent minded man. A gentleman living in the suburbs went In a store on Walnut street to make a few purchases. The only light in the store was a candle standing on the counter near the money drawer. After making hto purchases he handed tha proprietor a bill, and after returning him the change the proprietor walked to tho rear of the store to arrange some thing, when suddenly he was toft in the dark. He started toward the counter, and, groping around It, found, not the candle, bat the change. It struck him then that probably the man, in a fit of absent nundedness, had taken the candle instead of hto change. He started out after him, and, catching up with him, saw that ho had the bundle in one hand and the candle in the other. After apol ogizing for the mistake theetrangertook his change and gave back the candle. Chicago Times. A Portrait of Tho original portrait of Washington (right auto of the face) by Gilbert Stuart, long thought to have been destroyed by the arttot. seems to have been recognized in the hands of Dr. W. F. Channing, of California, who inherited itfromWhto distinguished father, Bev. William EOery Channing, who obtained it from his uncle, CoL Gibbs. Science. When m Stan la n liar. Unless you know that a man to an habitual bur you have no right to call him a liar of any sort. This is a decision handed down by an Ohio court. A man who lies a few times to no more a bar than the man who drinks now and then to a drunkard. Chicago Herald. The Florida TJmet-TJnton has this Item; "Uncle Chris Gray, the champion bear killer of Leon county, to 80 years of age, has seventeen children (the youngest not quite 1 year, old), forty-two grandchil dren, and Mys be togoodfor twenty years to come. He can split 900 rails aday and walk two miles before sunset." Fire Company No. 10, of Cincinnati, owns a dog which to said to have saved the lives of several firemen. The animal to described aa A large, handsome New foundland, and to 'credited with being able to curnb a ladder three stories high. The National museum has secured Col. Jaaaea Stevenson's private collection of Indian relics, entirely Pueblo. It con tamsseveralhunarepfeces,suxgthem an example of pottery for which Tiffany oaTeredaMO. Rnsntnr Morrill, of Ysraaoot, m public lit longer thaui now living. Ha entered- the house of representati vea thirty-four years ago. Caasamatlea Sarely Cared. 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