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jVfQAIMfA s55Pl5F,,ri,-?w? '?ff?g!,s'J 'f fTS"-I9r! '"if-raB;-- -jstj-. , '--.' .j; .-- T;-fsia(e?!?;-r -TS.I r msm? r im WHOLE NUMBER 1,318. COLUMBUS NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY MARCH U, 1896. VOLUME XXVI.-NUMBER 48. PMBBl Cjrt C0temfc mmraL I ' n . ...v I,-- r A PAINTER'S MODEL. ME. XAVIER kept a shop at the end of the street. Such a tiny shop, with only one window in it. and a bit of counter piled high with bunches of gay yarn and boxes of cheap tinsels! There was a bird in a cage in maaame's window. He always sung furiously in tbe early morning, and a pot of mignon ette in blossom adorned the sill. Just across the road lived the sausage vender, a little old man, who wore a wig and dressed in snuff color. He was early at his post every morning, frying sausages, but, being cruelly afflicted with asthma, he could only speak in a loud, hoarse voice; so his daughter, An nette, a very dream of health and beauty, would stand beside him in her reat stuff gown and call in a voice as lusty as a chanticleer: "Hot sausages! Hot sausages!" Now, diagonally across on the next street was a tall brick building used as a storehouse. Its lower rooms were piled with dusty white bags full of grain, over which the satin-colored mice frolicked and grew fat the live long day, but up in the peak of the building was a large garret, rented to a poverty-stricken artist. Here were pic tures strewn all about the room, while in the middle of the floor stood a stout easel, supporting a bare canvas. Every morning the artist crept down frcm his lofty quarters to buy hot sausages of M. Laubeau, and to cast sly glances of intense regard at Annette, who. for her part, kept on at her calling as if there were no young men in the world. But when he turned to go back to his garret, then would Annette smile and toss her head, with its white cap, in a coquettish nod to the little madame across tbe road, saying as much: "See, I have an admirer!" and madame would smile back, for she dearly loved a ro mance. Sometimes she would beckon t Annette, and when the girl ran light ly across the street the old woman would say: "When shall the wedding be?" "Ugh!" Annette would answer. "Could I eat paint? I thrive now and am comfortable. Monsieur must make his fortune ere Annette weds him." "And he shall do it," returned mad ame; "I will speak myself to monsieur." That very day when the artist passed her shop with a canvas well wrappsd in paper under his arm, the little Frenchwoman called to him. "Come in," said she, "and show me the picture." Reluctantly he undid it and disclosed a pensive-faced Madonna. "Oh, monsieur," exclaimed madame, "she has a sickly look. I do not wonder you may not sell her; we have enough like her. Monsieur must paint different something gay and cheerful fresh, you know." "I am too poor to hire a model," said the artist, gloomily. ' "Ah, true," replied madame, "but suppose I could find a model. Would monsieur paint?" "Perhaps." "Come, then." She led the way through the tiny shop fJ JP"il "y "I LOVE YOU, ANNETTE." ' to the tinier living-room. There in one ..- corner, looking very big and clumsy, stood an oaken chest with the lilies of France carved upon it. The old woman unfastened a key from her chatelaine anu knelt before the chest She paused. "Monsieur must know," she said, gravely, "long way back in France my people were not poor, but rich. That was before the revolution, monsieur; before their names were knitted into tb cruel madame's stocking. They fell. Wc. have always been poor enough since. This chest contains my great grandmother's ball gown. Monsieur shall see." She unlocked the chest and lifting a covering of tissue paper shook out a rich white satin gown, heavily em broidered with pale-blue forget-me-ncts. The stomacher was thickly sown with seed pearls and wide ruffles of rare old lace edged the neck. The artist gave a cry of admiration. "A costume of the time of Louis XVI. How exquisite!" "Here are her slippers," continued madame. holding up a pair of white satin slippers adorned with tarnished gold buckles, "and these are the gloves sue wore. To think I have them yet, monsieur, and my great-grandmother dust these 100 years! We might have sold her toilette over and over again, when we were hungry and cold, but we always preferred to suffer for my . ' grandmother's sake. Now listen, mon sieur. Little Annette, across the street, you love her; I have seen so. She has a heart as sweet as a nut and as bonny a face as ever the sunshine kissed. If I put these robos upon her she will look like a grand dame fit for mon sieur's brush. She will be fresh like the rose and as beautiful. She shall be monsieur's model and I will make his fortune." That night when the sausage vender took bis stand Annette, free at last, slipped across the road, and the old madame robed the girl in the ball gown and fastened her soft fluffy curls In a knot high on her bead with a quaint tortoise-shell comb. Wrapped in cloaks, the two stole down the street and en tered the tall building. They threaded their way among the dusty bags, scar ing the silvery-coated mice, and climbed the stairs to the artist's studio. ' When his eyes fell upon the vison of loveliness madame presented to him they shone with a new light. Love? Well, part love and "part artistic rap tnre, but in either case AnHette was the caswe. The little Freachwawiclaafe4 hf r hands and laughed joyfully. "Did I not tell monsieur he should see? Have I not fetched him a worthy model?" Always during the sittings madame sat decorously by, knitting industri ously, but keeping a sharp eye out, as became a chaperon. Not the slight est symptom of love-making escaped her. The portrait grew beneath the brush as if the very fairy of good luck had lent her spell to the artist. Never had his palette glowed with such colors ncr had such hitherto impossible tints blossomed forth. Every detail of the fresh, young face became familiar to him, until at last from the canvas look ed forth the sausage vender's daughter ia the grand dame's robes, as beautiful as the proudest lady in the land. "I can do no more," sighed the artist Then madame arose, and, taking the girl by the hand, led her toward the door. "Monsieur has no longer need of us," she said. "Adieu." But the artist would not have it so. He pushed past the old Frenchwoman and stood before the girl. "I love you, Annette," he cried, "will you not marry me?" "Tut, tut," said madame. "You must speak first to M. Laubeau. We will have no bold American manners here. If he consents, then Annette may think of you. Come, Annette." It was Indeed true that madame had brought good luck to the poor artist The portrait was sent to a picture deal er. In less than a week it was sold, and orders had come through the dealer, enough to set the artist busy. He went to thank the old Frenchwoman. "The good people like something fresh," said madame. "Monsieur might have sat in his garret and pined and been melancholy till he died. Good luck would have none of him. One must be brave and smile to win for tune." "I owe everything to you," said the grateful young man. "Ah, true," returned madame, non chalantly, "but tell me, have you yet won M. Laubeau's consent?" "Alas! He refuses me Annette's hand. He will give no reason." "We must learn," said madame. Leaning far out of the window of her tiny shop, she beckoned frantically to the sausage vender across the road. He came, followed by Annette. "Why it is M. Laubeau refuses his daughter to the young monsieur who loves her truly?" asked the French woman. "1 could not get on without Annette," grumbled the old man; "there would be none to cry hot sausages." "True, true," said madame, "but must the young people be unhappy for this?" "I am old," continued the sausage vecder, "and I have buAnnette. If I yield her to the young 'monsieur who will care for me?" "Let me think," said madame. "Ah, J I have it! It is said only the ycang should wed. but I say it is well to be comfortable in one's old days, and a companion is needful. If M. Laubeau wishes it I will reconsider the proposal made to me years ago; he shall fetch the sausage and stand across the road and set it here in front of my shop. The priest shall make us one and I my self will cry hot sausages." Athletic. In tbe Christianity-of to-morrow men would learn the sacredness of the body. Athletics to-day percolates into all kinds of society. Men thunder against women riding the bicycle, but the thundering does not decrease the num ber rf women astride the wheel. God is behind this craze for outdoor snorts. Mei now need health, and God will give it to them, just as he gave the world st am and electricity after many years, a; a time when it was most needed. Out of this improvement in health is to come a race of strong men and women, who will be the greatest toilers ever known in the kingdom of God. Rev. J. E. Smith. . A Sabstltate for Gold. A French journal describes a new substitute for gold. It is produced by alloying ninety-four parts of copper with six parts of antimony, the copper being first melted and the antimony afterward added. To this a quantity of magnesium carbonate is added to in crease its specific gravity. The alloy is capable of being draws out. wrought and soldered just as gold is, and is sal to take and retain as fine a pofish as gold. It costs a shilling a pound. Women of Hangary. Women in Hungary will henceforth be allowed to enter the Buda-Pesth uni versity and become doctors and apothe caries, or study in the philosophical faculty. They must pass the same high school examinations as the men, how ever, and for that purpose the govern ment will provide them with opportuni ties to study Latin and Greek. Coldflb. Goldfish are of Chinese origin. They were originally found in a large lake near Mount Tsientsing and were first brought to Europe in the seventeenth century. The first in France came as a present to Mme. De Pompadour. NEWSY BRIEFS. In Japan the wealthy classes regard it as bad form to ride a horse faster than a walk. The winter is so mild in France this year that daisies are already blooming in tbe Parisian parks. There are 39,951 Italians in New York, the largest colony of this people in the United States. Brooklyn comes second with 9,563. During 1895 the London mint struck off 72,245,295 coins, about 10,000,000 more than in 1894. The value of the gold coin was 3,592,625; of the silver coins, 1,196,168, and of the bronze, 40,995. In Tartary onions, leeks, and garlic are regarded as perfumes. A Tartar lady will make herself agreeable by rubbing a piece of freshly cut onion on her hands and over her countenance. The influx of immigrants into South Africa is continuing at such a rapid rate that the Cape Times fears that before many months have passed they shall once more be face to face with the un employed difficulty. A fanner named Christ Bennecke ar rived in Princeton, Ky., last week in a prairie schooner with his family and most of his household goods, having driven all the way from Cbadron, Neb,, distance ef about 1,400 miles. MONKEY DRESSED UP. HIS OWNER IS A RICH AND SPORTY NEW YORKER. A Veritable Bern Bnamcl No Ha Pajamas Sad a Bath Rob aad AU Other Clethlas Accessories of Howl las; 8elL NE of the New York Union club men Owns a long bearded, white face. d, Japanese monkey, whose proud distinction is that he is the best groomed and best dressed monkey in all the world. His name is Brummel, ami the expenses of his wardrobe form an Important item In this gentleman's household accounts. With alt the rest of us, Brummel descended from his an cestors. That is all anybody knows of his past It was in London recently that the owner conceived the idea of providing his monkey with decent clothes, says the New York World. Man, he argued, owed a certain debt of gratitude to dead monkeys, which they could repay in no better fashion than by showing a decent courtesy to living ones. And to this forcible reasoning Brummel owes his wardrobe. His master sent to Poole. Mr. Poole is the most fashionable which means the most expensive tailor in London, an! therefore in the world. One has to be introduced before Poole will make clothes for one. This was the talk: "You make children's clothes?" "No," replied Mr. Poole. "Won't you make an exception to ycur rule, in tnis particular case?" "I'm sorry," answered the tailor, "but we haven't got a man in the place who can make a decent suit for a boy." "To be fair with you," was the hes itating reply, "it it isn't a boy." "Oh," said Mr. Poole. "Yes," the ambassador went on, "it "isn't a boy, it's a monkey." Mr. Poole drew himself to his full height and with considerable hauteur replied: "That's different I thought it was a bey. Will you bring the monkey here, or shall I measure him at his rooms?" "I guess you'd better send to his rcoms," was the reply; "he's not ac customed to tailor shops." "What kind of a suit do you want?" "Oh, I want several suits. A whole wardrobe, in fact. Brummel needs a dress suit an ordinary everyday suit, a golt suit, a dressing gown, pajamas and a bath robe." "How about a watch and chain?" asked the great London tailor, with a rare burst of British humor. "To tell you the truth," was the re ply, "he had a little silver watch once, but he couldn't digest it. and it re quired two doctors to get it out" Mr. Pool sent Dent, the famous Dent, his head cutter, to measure Brummel, and within two weeks the monkey had the neatest little wardrobe that ever mortal monkey possessed. His dress suit is made of costliest broadcloth, faced with satin, and stitched throughout with silk. His walking costume is of heavy English tweed, and when you see Brummel with his cap perched jauntily upon his head ana a walking stick in one hand you have a vivid impression of having seen something like it before probably upon a transatlantic liner. His pajamas are of the lightest, finest Chinese silk, and the monkey has be come so accustomed to them that he refuses to go to sleep without them. The bath robe, which is of some fleecy material, soft to the touch, pleased Brummel so much that he actually learned to take a bath every morning, for the pleasure of feeling it upon his back. Of course, Brummel has a valet to look after him, and you may depend upon it this valet earns his wages. There is no monotony in his life. His first task in the morning is to run to Brummel's little bed and see if Brum mel is still alive. With Brummel's in ordinate fondness for eating everything that shines, from hand-mirrors to sil ver hair-brushes, this is always prob lematical. The owner, however, is very fond of the little fellow, and spares neither trouble nor expense to make him comfortable. Taken all in ail, the clothes for this monkey cost as much, suit for suit, as the clothes his master wears. No man we meet on Broadway wears finer or more expensive garments. In fact, one can't buy finer. Mr. Vandcrbilt's dress coat costs just as much as this mon keys, no more and no less. Brummel's position in life is truly enviable. He has all that he requires and has no responsibilities. "Tommy, dc you love your teacher?" j "I would If she wasn't my teacher," . mid Tommy, "flhe's awful alee," ... mssvmjmsmsm rSjigiB3?-. is. A Pic tor i eJ Qjuhtyaxy rvp Tm Bav 11 rrai - IvV . a . mm m. a SOMETHING ABOUT PRINTINO. Sosae Cariosities Ahoat tho Art Preserra tlvo of AU Arts. China, the "cradle of the arts," claims the honor of the Invention of printing. Away back in the year 593, nearly 1,000 years before Gutenberg is sued the first volume of his famous bible, the Chinese were using the "block system" of printing, says the St Louis Republic, and in the tenth century, 400. years before Europe had become ac quainted with the "art preservative," the almond-eyed celestial typos were better versed in the science of setting movable types than were the America printers of the days of Benjamin Frank lin. The "block system" of printing, which was so well known in the flowery kingdom less than six centuries after the birth Of Christ, did not find its way to Europe until about the first of the fif tenth century, when "devotional man uals," each bearing a portrait and a few. Ui.es in printing, became popular. These cuts and printed lines were ta ken from engravings made on a single block, the very earliest-dated specimen of that character made in Europe bear ing date of 1423. There Ib still a ques tion as to who was the first European printer to use the movable types. It is not a question as to what Europeans invented movable types, for it is known that the honor belongs in the far east The honor of being the first to adopt the system appears to rest between Laurenz Coster of Haarlem (died 1440), John Faust and John Gutenberg. In th- above list some include the name of Peter Schoffer, a son-in-law of Faust. Dutch authorities claim that Coster was the first to use the movable types, and that Gutenberg, who was at one time a workman in Coster's shop, stole the idea from him. The Germans give Gut enberg the honor and set the date of his first successful practice of the art at 1436. The first entire European book ever printed from movable types bears the name of Johann Faust on its title page. It bore the name of "Tractatus Petri Hispani" and was printed at Mentz in 1442. As Gutenberg did not Wil-IB(S3SIPI- A PicfcorieJ put his name on all of his books or the date when they were issued there is some doubt when the first appeared or how many were issued. Gutenberg's great work was his Latin bible, which appeared in 1456, and which is often catalogued as the "first book ever print ci on movable types." Lives of Animal. Button, Flourens, Humboldt and a great many other eminent naturalists, scientists, etc., were of the opinion that the natural limit of earthly existence among the animal creation is five times as long as the time expended by them in reaching maturity. Button gives the following table to substantiate that pe culiar belief. The camel grows for eight years, lives forty; the horse grows for five years, lives twenty-five; the ox grows for four years, lives fifteen to twenty; the lion grows for four years, lives twenty: the dog grows for two years, lives ten to twelve; the man grows for twenty years, lives one hun dred. How to Clean KM Gloves. Clean kid gloves with naphtha; put them on the hands, rub with flannel dipped in naphtha, and then wipe dry with a clean piece of white flannel. Remove the gloves and bang them up in the air. The first steps in renovat ing are uninteresting, but must be done well or the after results will be far from satisfactory. Silk embroidery may be cleaned with a camel's-hair brush and spirits of wine. Prepare to do the task well or do not commence it Be careful of explosive cleaning fluids, like benzine, naphtha, or alcohol. Always air good after cleaning them iu a fluid of strong odor. A Floating Chapel. A floating chapel has just been fit ted up at Kuttawa, Ky., to make evangelizing voyages along the Cum berland, Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The minister. Rev. Walter Marshall, who was at one time a commercial traveler, will take his family with him and will pay part of his expenses, if not all, he hopes, by doing such work as he can find at the places where he stops. His expenses will be very light Chameleon Silks. Changeable or chameleon effects in silk, fancy satins and silk-and-wool fabrics will continue to be very largely represented among spring importations, and to correspond with these will be made a superb display of wholly new Parisian and iridescent gimps, galloons, elaborate passementeries and appliques for dress garnitures. Developing tho Character. Character only can develop character. No child in that formative period of its life ought to be brought under either the conscious or unconscious influence of a teacher whose moral character is not above suspicion, Rev. W.- H. Moore. Juvenile depravity. u tiUt Beys AM Savages ! at m Certala Ag& Tae History or. our puouc senoon ai rfares plenty of examples of boys who :have tortured their fellows in a way swhich would have disgraced a savage, Say the London Spectator. It is to be feared, Indeed, that It is accident more than anything else which eaves boys f this kind boyi whose feelings have become petrified from actual crime. They are unable to feel and their lack f experience of the world makes the fear of punishment but a small detri ment It ii not to be wondered at that "boys in such a temper of mind may be converted by a series of unlucky chances and opportunities into the thoughtless perpetrators of really grave Iniquities. Fortunately these boys of petrified feelings do hot necessarily grow into bad men. The hardening of their na 4are as oftea as not undergoes ft com plete change with manhood. Their characters grow sensitive again and the lad of 20 would be utterly incapable of doing things which tbe boy of 14 could undergo without the faintest touch of remorse. We believe that schoolmasters of experience will bear us out in this and say that they have known plenty of utterly callous boys who later have entirely lost the savage taint and have turned into normal men. In this dangerous insensibility to which boys are so prone at 13 and 14 the boy is not the father of the man. It is difficult to say whence this in sensibility comes and why the child may be full of right feeling, the boy almost callous and the man again per fectly sensitive to the promptings of the heart and conscience. Though we are not among those who would make tbe normal nature nothing but an af fair of physical well-being and the soul a matter of clinical treatment, we are inclined to believe that the temporary and partial petrifaction of the feelings and the moral sense during boyhood may be due to the great physical changes that are current with it. These changes affect the boy's whole body and Culir)r,y AWp absorb all his energy left with which to give his heart its rights. Every one knows how difficult a thing is a 2-o'clonk-in the-morning courage and how hard it Is to feel kind and self-sacrificing when one is half-asleep. Sleep iness or extreme weariness makes one to a certain extent callous and indif ferent and insensible to the fate of others. Well, the boy who is grow ing up and down and across all at once and with a speed that takes one's breath away is physically as much op pressed as the man who is weary from overwork or loss of sleep. It Is true that tbe exhaustion of rapid develop ment takes a very different form, but it exists none the less. No doubt there are boys whose insensibility is deeper and can only be explained on the same lines as defects of character in nature. For the ordinary normal boy, however, whose insensibility is not permanent but temporary, the best explanation is, we believe, that which we have sug gested. The stress of growth to a cer tain extent puts the normal nature under a sort of chloroform. WITH THE WITS. "Men'll do anything fur money," saia Plodding Pete. "Yes," replied Mean dering Mike. "Some fellers'll even work fur it" A Frenchman declares he has dis covered a process by which wood can be made palatable. He ought to tackle some kinds of board. Lonesome Luke Does yer ever wish for a bicycle, Wally? Wally Wiggins Nope; I would rather walk a-foot than ride a-foot Fuddy There goes Grabwell. He's what I call a self-made man. Duddy Yes; people who know him intimately say he is all self. ETIQUETTE OF CARDS. Cards of condolence are sent to per sons after an affliction. Flowers and books may also be sent. Men's cards are oblong and quite small. The lettering is in clear-cut script "Mr." should never be omitted. It is now bad form to turn down tue corners of cards. This is an obsolete custom and entirely unnecessary. Cards for persons in mourning have a black border, not so deep as was for merely the style. In England a widow always drops her husband's Christian name and uses her own. In this country, as often as not, she retains the deceased's name. A debutante 6hould have her name engraved on her mother's card and should not have a separate card of her own till after the first season. When it is desirable to drop an ac quaintance it is only necessary to dis continue calling or omit the sending of reception cards. This should be con sidered as final and no explanation de manded. London has 75,000 street lamps, Paris 50,000 and New York 311,000: I AFRICA AND POWERS. THE PARTITIONING OF THE DARK CONTINENT. Sisaley Thinks ftho tost foY Territory That Kegtea Was AdmlrahU, feees!' sarjr, ana lasritaMo EaateaaTa Moral Beats. ENRY M. STAN ley, M. P.. has written an article entitled 'The Story Of the De velopment of Af' rica," which ap- mm. ttm. wKa aAl JXC Y4-7 tury. Recent f J events in the Dark Continent gtY this a particular tlsssV licess and importance. Concerning the partitioning of the continent Mr. Stan ley says: Until the Berlin conference ao Euro pean nation appeared to take any spe cial interest in the fate of the Dark Continent; but the three-months' sit ting under the auspices of Bismarck was a splendid school for Europe. The daily telegrams and editorial comments on the sayings and doings of many celeb rities regarding river-basins and de limitations, and the products and pos sibilities of Africa, were jnst what was wanted to instruct and start into energy tin- slumbering ambitions of nations as well as of individuals. What King Leo pold, De Brazza, and the writer had dene, others could do; and the scramble for Africa was the consequence, with all its jealousies, spites, newspaper ban ter, and menace. Thoughts of the period of from 1885 to 1890 remind me of the way my black followers used to rush with gleaming knives for slaught ered game during our travels. Foremost among the countries whose lust for territory was awakened by the Berlin conference were Germany, France and Italy. I do not blame them at all ; on the contrary, I think it admirable, neces sary and inevitable. The starving white man must be satisfied, or he will become ugly. Before these nations was revealed a huge continent with many millions of square miles undeveloped. In possession were several millions of black men, divided into minute frag ments of tribes, each of which was isolated on its ten-square-mile plot, up holding with tooth, spear and arrow its singular African Monroe doctrine Ugogo for the Wagogo, Uganda for the Waganda, Uguhha for the Waguhha, Unyora for the Wanyoro, and so throughout all the thousands of ten-square-mile sections of Equatorial Af rica. And a fine mess those tribal fragments had made of themselves and their lands after some fifty centuries or thereabouts of occupation! Murder in every conceivable shape rioted through out their territories. Naked and bestial they had lived from prehistoric time. It was death to any unarmed stranger to come among them, and death to any member of their communities who showed the least sign of capacity or genius. From the Hottentot to the Shilluk. the Masai to the Bakongo. they were all alike; and so long as they ex cluded outside influences they would continue to deteriorate morally and physically, until they would become as degraded as the Pygmies and the Bush men. Therefore u was not harm, but tho highest good, that was coming to the savage African by the advent of civiliz ing white men among them. He was to be protected from the black-haired, yellow-faced Arab, who was incapa ble of pity. He would be saved from self, than whom there was nothing mere deadly. He was to be taught how to be human, and how in time he would become the equal of the white. Talk about the emancipation of the Ameri can negroes and Russian serfs! They were mere commonplaces compared to tin; emancipation of Africa from her self that dates from 1885. England was tli? last European power to engage in the rush for African territory. Her efforts for some years after the Ber lin conference had been confined to re serving spheres of influence, rather than to violent annexation, and to moderating the passion for African land manifested by Germany, France, and Italy. If any power had the moral right to interfere with this fierce lust for an nexation, it must be admitted that, after policing the African coasts for over half a century, exploring the in terior, and establishing Christian mis sions in East Africa, Nyassa Land, and Uganda, England was fairly entitled to it. Between 1S86 and 1890 Englishmen began to stir and succeeded in forming the famous South African Company, toe African Lake3 Company, the I. B. E. A. Company. The Royal Nigger Company had obtained a charter in 1SS6, and in October, 1889, a somewhat similar one was granted to the South African, with administrative power over 750,000 square miles. In 1891 it alsorbed the African Lakes Company, and thus British Central Africa, with 500,000 square miles, was formed. To the British East African Company was given authority over 700,000 square miles. Iltil : Vacant I-ook. Joseph H. Chcate seldom meets a suc cessful antagonist in repartee, but he met his match while trying a case in the surrogate's court not long ago. An old woman was being questioned about how a certain testator had looked when a certain incident had occurred. "Now, how can I remomber? He's been dead two years," she replied, testily. "Is your memory so poor you can't remem ber two years back?" continued Choate. The old woman was silent, and Choate asked: "Did he look anything like me;" "Seem3 to me he did have the same sort of a vacant look!" snapped the witness. The questioning was sus pended. New York Sun. Louisiana Monads. The United States government has taken possession of several mounds re cently found near Charleston, La., which some seem to think were built by De Soto. Recently a farmhand plowing near tbe mounds turned up Spanish coins bearing dates of 800, 1307 and 1308. The empress of Russia owns an er mine mantle which is valued at $50,000. It is a present from her subjects living in the provinc of Kherson. ABOUT VLADIVOSTOK. tho Bow Tory IatrtlaT anlaa oatpost. Vladivostok has the aspect of an in ferior Heagkong. of aboat a quarter the sise, says the Fortnightly Review. Hills crowned with forts rise roand it ap to a height of 800 feet. It lies on the soath side of a peninsula twenty miles long, called Maravief Amursky, in 43 degrees minntes 51 seconds north latitude, and 131 degrees 54 min utes 21 seconds east longitude. The town is between four and five miles long, but is straggling and unconnect ed and of no breadth. Some streets arc very steep and all are horribly dusty in dry weather, being never watered and being continually crossed in all directions by droshkas driven at a smart pace. Instead of pavements the side streets have "sidewalks" of planks, as commonly seen in new American cities. You take six stout planks, some twoaty-five feet b)Bg, and lay them side by side, and you continue the process for the required number of versts or miles (three versts are two miles) and the "sidewalk" is complete sate for n few props and nails where the ground is too soft, or the founda tion degenerated into holes. The droshkas are driven by red headed, snub-nosed Russian izvozchiks in low, glazed, stovepipe hats with very curly brims; red sleeves, plaitea black skirts and high boots. In them one often sees, lolling as passengers, a couple of frowsy Chinese or a still frowsier Corcan. The fare is only 80 kopeks, or 1 shilling and 18 pence, an hour or over half an hour, and from point to point there are 10-penny and 5-penny fares, according to distance. The regulations forbid charging more, bat, with fine irony, allow the driver "to take less, if he likes." He may not leave his cab to take care of itself, may not "sing, make a noise or cause a disturbance;" he must temper his pace to a "town trot." and "keep to the right-hand side of the road." The troika has a dashing look; the horse in the middle trots under the arched duga, whose object and effect, when properly put on. is to keep the shafts at the same distance apart. The small horses right and left are can tering and their bodies incline a little outward from the car. In Vladivostok are few complete triple teams; gener ally there are only the "middle horse" trotting, and one other cantering on its near side. The water-barrel on wheels, drawn by horse or bull, and often driven by a soldier, is a frequent sight, carrying water up to the forts and to the upper town. A funnier horse vehicle is the sit-astride, a cushioned beam, on which Izvozchlk and cloaked and spurred of ficer sit, with dangling legs, one be hind the other. Women aad Their Lovers. It Is easy enough to tell a man by his friends but It ia Impossible to tell a woman by her lovers. One reason for this is that a man usually shows him self to his fellows as he Is but it is im possible for his fellows to know how he shows himself to a woman, so long as he is in love with her. In that bliss ful condition the rude, off-hand man of business becomes to his mistress a pic ture of clumsy courtesy: the coward is capable of feats of valor from which a French cuirassier would shrink: the mean tradesmanly fellow will stop be fore the shops of jewelers, hesitate, and at last enter; the rake will honestly re gret the hearts he believes that he has broken, and, for the moment, stead fastly purpose to lead a new life. But if these men find favor in the eyes of their respective women It is not for their pretty manners, nor their courage, nor their generosity, nor their pure mindedness. The women are not re pelled by their vices; that is all. They are not attracted by their lately as sumed virtues. Why should they be? They are not courageous, nor gener ous, nor especially pure-minded them selves, and as for their pretty manners perhaps their maids or their children could tell yon something about those that would astonish you not a little. London Realm. Physical Valae of Tears. Tears have their functional duties to accomplish like every other fluid of the body and the lachrymal gland is not placed behind the eye simply to fill space or to give expression to emotion. The chemical properties of tears con sist of phosphate of lime and soda, makins them very salty, but never bitter. Their action on the eye is very beneficial and here consists their pre scribed duty of the body washing thoroughly that sensitive organ, which allows no foreign fluid to do the same work. Nothing cleanses the eye like a good salty shower bath, and medical art has followed nature's law in this respect, advocating the invigorating solution for any distressed condition of the optics. Tears do not weaken the sight, but improve it. They act as a tonic to the muscular vision, keeping the eye soft and limpid, and it will be noticed that women in whose eyes sym pathetic tears gather quickly have brighter, tenderer orbs than others. When the pupils are hard and cold the world attributes it to one's disposition, which is not a mere figure of speech implying the 'ack of balmy tears that are to the cornea what salve is to the skin or nourishment to the blood: Ex change. The Way to Drink 31 1 lit. Many complain that they cannot dFink milk without its disagreeing with them. The most common reason why milk is not readily digested is that it Is taken too rapidly and it enters the stomach and becomes one solid mass, difficult of digestion. If it is sipped it is so divided on reaching the stomach that when coagulated, as it must be by the gastric juice while digestion is go ing on, instead of being in one bard mass it is more in the form of a sponge, and in and out of the entire bulk tho gastric juice can perform its duties. New Mirror oa tbe Market. " There isa new mirror on the market. It has a long handle, which is thni3t into a clamp on the back of a chair. 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