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-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
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LITTLE HDMJEST
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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
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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
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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.
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