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' J . ' « ^ % •• - "" "" s .. >&Zxi , • )«.- **/•, . } ;•. ^•.•av |g|c||rw!t |Jlaindealw J. VAN SLYKE. Editor ami Publisher. McHENRY, ILLINOIS TOM ALEXANDER, a young man of Atlanta, and the possessor of a fortune, killed himself because the parents of a thirteen-year-old girl whom he loved denied him the privilege of calling on her. THE Paris Figaro recently manufac­ tured a tale concerning Count Moltke, tit which it was stated that the great General was so weak that a servant had to feed him with a spoon. To which the German papers reply that Moltke is quite strong enough to whip oeonee more. I OENERAI. WILLIAM MAHOKE, the Vir­ ginia politician, looks like Rip Tan Winkle with his long gray beard and tangled locks. He wears a long broad­ cloth coat, which almost sweeps the ground; a ruffled shirt, with small turned-down collar, and egg-shell shaped cuffs, from which his tiny hands protrude like the calix from a lily. His feet, "like mice, peep in and out" of bis baloon-shaped trousers. He has # soft, low, country burr in his speech. THE quilt patch from Calcasieu pariah, Louisiana, to form a quilt map -of Louisiana for the exposition, is now completed. The design is beautiful, and the workmanship ingenious. On one Bide a grove of pine trees is hand­ somely embossed; on the other side stands a deer in the midst of a field of golden rice. In the center are the words "Calcasieu parish," worked in red and blue. The groundwork is dark brown. The design and work are from the conception and hands of Mrs. £. J. , Jleyer, ot Lake Charles. MR. WILLIAM BIOELOW, of Detroit, number of trained soldiers is 850,000, of whom about 700,000 are of the do­ minant race. In addition, there are 560,000 policemen in the Empire. The school attendance is: United Kingdom, 5,250,000; Canada, 860,000; Australia, 611,000; India, 2.200,000; a total, in the Empire, of 8,921,000 pupils. As TO the silver dollar, the picture of the United States Government get­ ting in line before she New York Clear­ ing House and receiving the treatment accorded by a cross teller to a newly- employed messenger-boy, is, says the Chicago Current, very tiresome to the whole people of the country. The idea of a banking association compelling a National Treasury, in time of peace, to discriminate against its own legal tender--to except a toterie of finan­ ciers from the laws which are good enough for the people at large--that idea is monstrous. What right has Wall Street to dominate the Secretary of the Treasury? Has Wall Street done anything this year, for instance, which has entitled it to either our grat­ itude or respect? Not anything. Then give them silver or call the account square after the tender and refus&l of sil­ ver. The way the silver law is defined in New York is criminal. Mr. John Sherman first consented to the ar­ rangement, and no Secretary since has hod the rectitude to abolish the prac­ tice and execute the will of the people. THE "Memoirs of Lord Malmesbury" are creating a considerable sensation, and all the papers are quoting some of the choice bits. There are very funny glimpses in the private life of Glad­ stone and Disraeli; for instance, Glad­ stone's appearanoe is described as dis­ appointing, because so like that of a Catholic priest, and one of his crazes in the course of his musical education was an en lmsiastic love of negro melody, which he used to sing with the greatest spirit and enjoyment, never T who was a soldier, then a private, in lleaving out a verse. "Camptown the Michigan battery during the war of the rebellion, is now traveling in Europe. At the battle of Stone River Mr. Bigelow was carrying ammunition from the caisson to the cannon, when a (bullet came whizzing along and carried away nearly all of his front teeth. He apit out the loose pieces and mur­ mured: "Uncle Sam's got to buy me • set of store teeth or I'll join the rebs." And then he returned for another flan­ nel sackful of gunpowder. ^ JOSEPH M. ALSOP, who died near Spottsylvania Court House, on the southern border of the Virginia Wil­ derness, a few days ago, had his home at a historic spot. The veterans who Seould tell one of "Alsop's farm" run up into the tens of thousands, for 200,000 men were roundabout the place during the second week in May, 1864. The honored Sedgwick was the target for a sharpshooter's bit of leed right at Al­ sop's, and down he fell to fight no more except as memory and spirit that strengthened the Sixth Corps ever after. >£*|CHABLISS READERS kindness was pro- verbiaL One of many instances is re­ lated as follows by a friend: "At a critical period in my life I had lost my whole fortune in a disastrous enterprise, which left me high and dry without a shilling. I had dined at Albert Gate the night before. Next morning Reade burst into my room and planked a bag of sovereigns on tho tabl^. quite suffi­ cient to enable me to-tftw over my im­ mediate necessities, exclaiming ab­ ruptly : 'I saw you seemed rather gen* last night; there, that's something to buy postage stamps with, and if you want any more there's plenty left where that came from.' And he was gone be­ fore I had time to reply." ' f SOME hitherto unpublished letters of Prof. S. P. B. Morse arc made public by Judge W. W. Broadman, of New Haven, to whom they were addressed forty-two years ago, while the latter gentleman was in Congress. A feature of the correspondence, interesting be­ cause of the advances in other depart­ ments of, eleotrical science than tele­ graphy, is a quotation from a letter of Prof. Joseph Henry to the great inven­ tor. He Bays: "In the minds of many the electric-magnetic telegraph is as­ sociated with the various chimerical projects constantly presented to the public and particularly with the schemes so popular a year or two ago for the application of electricity as a moving power in the arts." ME. GLADSTONE has, of canfse, long ago lowered all legitimate records achieved in the field of exuberrant verbosity. Few are aware, however, of the fearful and wonderful rate at which he continues to add to the pages of Hansard. It is nearly twelve months since an enthusiastic statistician, who is also a devoted Gladstoneite, spent six hours each day during over fifty days in the library of the House of Com­ mons and sixty days overhauling the newspaper files in the British Museum in the task of tracing the Prime Min­ ister back to-the first recorded sylible of his political voice. This victin of hero worship found that Mr. Gladstone had talked, up to July, 1883, fourteen miles and a half of print He has added 700 yards in the interval He can hardly hope to put a girdle round the •arth, but he has far excelled all other windmills of his age in articulation. IK an address delivered by Sir Richard Temple on "Economic Science and Statistics," before the British As­ sociation at Montreal, it was stated that the population of the British Empire consists of 39,000,000 Anglo-Saxons, 188,QW),000 Hindus, and 88,000,000 Mo- hamedans, etc.,--a total of 315,000,000. The area of the Empire and its depen­ dencies is 10,000,000 square miles. The annual revenue is: United Kingdom, £89,000,000; India, £74,000,000; colonies and dependencies, £40,000,000; total, £803,000,000. Including local taxation, fee total rerenue fc £284.000,000. The Races" was for a time his favorite ditty. Disraeli appears as much less cold and apethetic in private than his sphinx­ like immobility in public would sug­ gest. He confesses himself on one oc­ casion, when there was a prospect of getting office, that he felt as delighted as a young girl going to her first ball, and, according to Lord Malmesbury, was, when outside of the house, always in the highest state of elation or the lowest depth of despair, according to the fortunes of the day. A fine piece of unconscious humor is this: "Disraeli *ras at the breakfast, and seemed rather low. He told me the Queen had sent him her last book." THE railroads, says the Current, wduld all be making money if interest were not being paid on misspent money. As it is, even, many corporations, after watering their stock two or three times, are compelled to greatly expand the meaning of the term "operating ac­ count" in order to hide from the public the true eurning-power of their enter­ prises. The Northern Pacific earned over >12,000,000 las>t year. Even with all the possible peculiarities of rail­ roading likely to be concealed in $7, 000,000 of "operating expenses," $5,- 425,820 left as a tribute--not to the men who advanced the money to build the road, but to the men who, buying the Btock after the real builders had lost their all, now gather a tithe from the people of the far northwest which is surely worth the collecting. So, too, the Wabash, out of nearly $7,000.- 000 received, paid only two-sevenths of that sum for labor. Now, why should any railroad, operated in the way a man builds a house or drives a team, take in $7,000,000, pay only $2,000,000 for labor, and still be bankrupt and in the receiver's hands? One of the surest reasons for these industrial ab­ surdities lies in the colossal fortunes piled up so rapidly and so recently in Wall street. When Jay Gould showed the doubting Thomases of the Stock Exchange $70,000,000 of "property," he did more to establish the truth of Proudlion's position that property is robbery than all the writings of Karl Marx or the orations of Ferdinand Lassalle. TO WOULD-BK RtiHAWATS. Concrete WaJn. An engineer tells how to make a cement or concrete walk requiring no great skill in preparing materials. These are water, lime, and gravel or ashes, or both. The gravel and ashes are put in a heap and wetted. One barrel of the waterlime is mixed with sharp, clean sand, dry, being shoveled over back and forth several times to get a thorough mifcture. A portion is then mixed with water into a thin soft mortar, and five parts of tne wet gravel or ashes are well mixed with it, so that every fragment is coated with the com- b ning raoi'tar. This is important, for obvious reasons. This concrete is spread on the graded walk and beaten down with a rammer until the moisture gathers on the surface. Some of the dry sand or cement is then scattered over the surface to absorb the moisture and the surface is smoothed over with a plank rubber having a sloping han­ dle to working it back and torth. In a few days this is bard, and becomes hard­ er with time. By making'divisions of thin strips of wood or tarred paper the cement mi^y be laid down in blocks, squares, or diamond-shaped, and for extra good walks the blocks mt^r be colored by mixing the finish coat with brown or gray or other colors alter­ nately. Advertising a College. College President--"Here is a li(ft of names which I think suitable for hon­ orary degrees this year." College Director--"My gracious! Looks like a Congressional petition. Why, you must have a couple of thou­ sand names on that list." "Perhaps no. I did not count them." "Where did you get the names, any­ how ?"' "Found them in the directory." "ho 1 thought. You've taken every Tom, Dick, and Harrv just as they came along. But what under the sup is your object ?" "To a Ivertise the institution." "Do you think it will do any good ?~ "(J, yes; the college will become known--by degrees." -- Pnilade&Uia .. • V \ Sage Advioc to Youthful Aspirants for (Jrrsiter tilorjr Than They U»TV at Home. Come, now, my lad, but you want to run away. No boy ever yet „ reached the age of 15 without several times firmly tesolving to leave home. When a boy has made up his mind to do a thing of this sort he ought to carry it out by ail me:tns. The first step in the programme is to begin saving tip bread and meat. When you have a bushel or so of provisions hidden under the barn, or under the woodshed, you are ready for the battie with the cold world. Make your start at night. This will prevent the sun from tanning your complexion, and you will be quite cer­ tain of the company ot a tramp or two. Some boys leave a note pinned to the pillow of their bed. This note goes en to saf that the boy has been jawed, bulldesed, starved, hounded, and knocked down and dragged out nutil he kas made up his mind to sever the connection. He will never be heard of more. It is probabiy the best way to leave a note of this kind, as the family are then m>)de to fully realize their cruelty in driving the poor boy ont among strangers. "When you have packed up your little bundle and are off, it will be well to settle upon some plan for the future. Perhaps you want to be a sailor? Nothing is easier. Make your way to some lake or seaport, and most any Captain will take you. If he cau't disgust you with the sailoring business in about a week, tar buckets, eeasick- n ess, poor provisions, and a rope's end will be called upon to assist him. Perhaps you want to become a mighty hunter? Mi.htv hunters are not made in a few days or weeks. You w ant to begin by letting your hair and finger-nails grow, sleeping in a swamp, and wasting $20 worth of ammunition to kill a 10-cent chipmunk. If you have dec ded to become a bank clerk well and good; Make tracks lor the nearest city, and tho tirst bank you enter will jump at the chance of employing you at a salary of $200 per month. If it should so happen that the bank didn't do any jumping as you made your application, yon can console yourself with the letiection that it is about to bust. But, speaking in all seriousness, my boy, if 1 had a dozen sons I should be glad to have each and every one of them take his turn at running away from home. It is the best cure in the world for that disease called "swellhead There's a heap of romance in the idea of running away. You think of the sparkling pea, the green prairie?, coral strands, robbers' caves, and pirate treasures. You feel that you know so much more than your father that it is a waste of brains for both of vou to re­ main in the same house. You have been forced to go to school, and have been ordered to split woo l, and to go to the grocery after butter like a com- fnon slave. Don't stand it any longer! Pick up your duds and leave the house and go fourth into the world. What! Come to a full stop in the read before you are a mile away! You've got a peck or more of sour meat mil moldy bread in a pillow-case, 17 cents in your pocket, and just think how your father and mother misused y^u at home! The romance begins to wear off, eh? You don't care half as much about mermaids, and palm groves, and pirate ships as you did an hour ago. You hate to leave mother after all, and perhaps father isn't so much to blame for bossing you around. Come to thiuk it all over, perhaps you'd better return home and try to stand it for a few more weeks. A h! my son, but we've all been there! All these wrinkled, and dignified, and bald-headed old men you meet on the streets have had the same experience. We've had that same period of "swell- hend," and eight out of ten of us have packed our bundles and slid out to escape parental tyranny. Eight out of ten of us have slipped back again, too. and the experience was the right sort of medicine for the disease. Any time you come to feel that you are a poor, overworked, and downtrodden boy, and that if you only bad a fair show you'd know more in a minute than your tatlier does in an hour, just skip. There's nothing like it.--Detroit Free Pren*. Women Soldiers and Spies. 1 "General Sheridan, did yo,u ever have any experience with female soldiers?" "Oh, yes, frequently. Women were trying to get into camp under some pre­ text or disguise all the time. They were a great nuisan< e. I'll tell you about some of them at another time. There was quite a romantic story about a girl who tried soldiering in the 2d Michigan Cavalry, the first regiment I commanded.- She came down in men's clothes, but was recognized by the soldiers from her town and was sent home again." "Did you ever have any women scouts or spies ?" "Yes, I had a great many all the time, and I'm free to say Ihey were more re­ liable and faithful than menwho served in the same capacity." "Who were they?" "I can't tell you that. I've got a re­ cord in writing of each one of them and of the exact service they performed. (Some of them were ladies of high social station whose sympathies were with the Union, bnt whose families were rebels, They often gave me the most reliable information I got, and it wouldn't do to give them away even at this late day, for it might injure them. If they wanted their services known you would have heard of it long before this, but the women who go about advertising that they were soouta or si ies can be generally put down as frauds" "Did the women 'spies work for the love of it'/" "Sometimes they did, but quite as often they didn't. Some of them worked lor the money there was in it They wvre impoverished by the war. Tbose whom they leaned upon for support were either dead or in the confederate army, and the women had a hard time of it to get along at home, particularly those with families, and they were glad to earn an honest penny. They under­ stood that they were to be paid accord­ ing as their information was reliable and important, and I usually found they could be depended upon."' "Didn't they try to mislead you?" "Sometimes they did, but never tried it twice. You see, I had a perfect sys­ tem of spies and sco .ts covering the entire country, and the same informa­ tion came in duplicate and olten in triplicate from different sources, and, loo, from sources that d'dn't know of 3ach others, so when information came in I could tell, usually, how accurate it wan." * "What became of these women ?" "The most of them were residents of the country where we happened to be, uid are living there still, i suppose. I never attempted to keep track of them j after I had no farther jtse for their ser- . vices. I have met some of thein since,4 however, and have had them call Vjion me when I was in their locality Aiace 1 the war." "One of the best spies I ev«y Aad," continued the general, "was rebel girl, the daughter of one of t»-v. most prominent and aristocratic families, of Virginia; but she would have a fit if she thought I was giving her away. She was only 18 or 19 years old then, and uncommonly pretty. I came near falling in love with her myself, aud 1 heard some of my officers who met her were badly smitten." "Have you seen her since ?" "Yes. I've seen her frequently since tho war;have seen her in Washington. She's married now, and in Europe with her husband. He is quite a prominent man--but I'm afraid I've told you too much about her. Somebody might gess who she is. "There is another girl, also, of an aristocra ic and high-toned Virginia family. From her I received some of the most important information I ever received of the enemy's movements; but, dear little thing, she didu't realize what she was doing. She was loyal to the confederacy as could be--as loyal as Jeff Davis himself,--but she was talkative and fond of admiration, »nd we used to get lots%f information out of her. Prominent rebel officers used to go to her father's house, and the folks there used to receive letters from the rebel army, and we were generally able to find ont all that was said and all that was written. But, as I said, she never knew how much she was giv­ ing away, nor what harm her informa­ tion brought upon her friends. "Then, there was Rebecca Wright. You remember hen I told you about her onoe, you know. She was the little Quaker schoolma'am who used to send me information through the rebel lines by an old darkey who peddled garden stuff among he soldiers, and was a lowed to go through the rebel lines fur that purpose. She is a clerk in the Treasury Department hero iu Wash ington now."--Exchange. A Dog Story* He would ride one of tho carriago horses when taken out to exercise, sit­ ting on his back like a monkey on a bear, the coachman riding the other. How well I remember it, as if it were but yesterday--those two noble bay horseB, Peer and Andrew, walking slowly along the road with their dis­ similar riders. The horses took kindly to their dog groom, for they loved him and he loved them, so that this equino- canine affection was ludicrously touch­ ing. They spent their lives together-- they and the coachman. They were rarely separated, for lie went with tho coachman when lie walked or rode, and ran after the carriage when he drove. And now comes the tragio part of my story. It happened one summer that my father and mother went to the metro­ polis--a rare event with them--and took the carriage and horses. The dog my father w uld not take, so he was locked into the stable when they left, and I and a brother alone of tho family remained behind. When Nelson was liberated, Bome hour or so alter the parjy had gone, he was in a state of great distress and per­ plexity. Ho rushed about in every direction seeking his' companions in vain. He did not howl or whine, but bore his grief in silence. At last he went into the coachman's bed-room, and, poking out a pair of his old shoes from under his bed, lay down beside them, expect ng, no doubt, that the man would return and look for his shoes. From this spot he rarely moved. With each day his misery increased. After a time he refused all food, and moped about, sad and stupid, so that it was most affecting to look at hjui. No one ventured to soothe or caress him, for we began to fear that he might be falling into a state Of melancholy mad­ ness, and that it would not be safe to meddle with him. All we could do was to leave food and water near him. And so he went on day by day. moping and pining, growing weaker and weak­ er, till he scarcely stirred from the room. It was nearly a week later, as well as I remember, when my father and moth­ er returned, late in the evening. The sound of the carriage-wheels and the tramp of the horses, as they entered the btable yard, was audible enough, and reached the ears of poor Nelson. He rose, staggered into the yard, and over to the coachman, who had come down from the coach-box. Then, lick­ ing his hands as the man stooped down to caress him. he uttered a faint cry and fell down at his feet. He was dead! --CasselVs Family Magazine. People of the Piankatank. Funny incidents are witnessed on board the steamer Avalon, which runs up the great Wicomico and Piankatank rivers. At most of the stopping places the scenes are interesting to a stranger. If there is one colored woman to leave on the boat there are a dozen or more to see her off. As the steamer draws near some of the wharves crowds of colored people are waiting for her. As the gang plank is thrown out a hundred excited beings rush aboard. When the whistle blows for leaving, ninety-nine equally excited people rush ashore, while the other one stands at the steam­ er's rail, and "good-by" is passed from boat to shore as the vessel draws out of hearing. Even then the strains of some old ditty can be heard from the shore. Among the conversations that are frequently carried on between the boat and the wharf as # some familiar face is seen is this: "How do?" • "Why, how do?" "How are you?" "Fust rate; how yon?" "I'm very well." "Been well ?" "Verv well, thank yon.1* "Folksall well?" "Yes, indeed. How's yours?" "Very well, indeed. Going up?" "Yes, iadeed. going up." "Been down long ?" "Yes, indeed, some time." "Good'bv." "Good»by." And the boat goes off. amid another shower <jf adieus."--Baltimore Hun. j His Congregation. - "One Jlarcli day," said the venerable Method^Bt divine, Bishop Pierce, of Georgia! "I rode ten miles through a drench ii grain toFlatrock Chapel, only to find fwo persons there, a man and a ter waiting a few minutes,, 1 e might as well leave here, as ill be no congregation.' But quietly responded: 'Through five milps of pelting rain I have come to hearipre ching.' I saw my duty, sEhd re|lied: 'You are right. You are entitled to it' For one hour I ad­ dressed my little congregation, and was never listened to with more atten- Every OUtar inturday. THE CRAZE FOR SHALL FEET. People Who Desire to Have Their Toea Cat Off. The competition between du^es in the matter of smdl feet has become so intense that they are visiting the con- sulta ion-rooms of prominent surgeons and asking to have their big toes am­ putated, so that ihey may be able to get into boots of the smallest eompass possible. Prof. William H. Pancoast, ot the Jt fferson Medical College, has, during the past month, been called up­ on by three men and one woman, all of them making the singular request. In every instance be refused to perform the operation, and the would-be pa­ tients went away disgusted. The idea of the surgeon's knife aiding them in their efforts to attain the beautiful seems to have occurred to hundreds of people simultaneously, like an epi­ demic. "I can't account for this rem arable desire for being mutilated for the sake of appearance," said Dr. Pancoast, "but I can say that it has, like all fashion­ able crazes, sprung up in a very short time. It must be due to the pointed shoe. You see the cutting off of a big toe would not materially shorten a foot, but it would make the end of it narrow, so that the patient would be able to wear a shoe as pointed as a dagger. This seems to be the modern concep­ tion of pedal beauty. By-aind-by the pointed shoe will go out and then these people who are having their big toes sliced off will be sorry." "Would the slicing off of his big toe hurt a dude?" "Not materially," answered the physi­ cian. "In fact, people whose toes have had to be amputated through disease seem to get ateng all right. I have had lots of patients whose toes have been removed, and they have alwavs been consoled when told of the dainty little boots they will be able to wear. And I really don't think they miss the toes. It is a curious fact that most of the applicants are men. Popular prej­ udice would at once conclude that none but a woman could be so vain. One of my visitants was a farmer, though what on earth he wanted with small feet I can't imagine " "It is a common thing for surgeons to have patients who want meeting eye­ brows eradicated," Prof. Pancoast con­ tinued. "In these cases we remove the hair by the roots and then apply elec­ tricity, which gives the person a sharp, stinging pain. After this treatment the undesirable brows never return. La­ dies who are so unfortunate as to have mustaches are treated in the same way, but it is so painful that they can oniy have half a mustache removed in a day. They go away looking very funny. It is getting quite common to do away with defects in the ear or nose. All these items are a part of a physician's regular routine; that is, all excepting the big-toe treatment, which I would never perform for anyone. I call it fly­ ing in the face of nature. The big toe is not a superfluity; in fact, it has a very decided ust>, and the profession should discountenance any attempt to abolish it."--Philadelphia Presn. KLGGESTIOXS OF VALUE. The Fighting Parson of Texas. Texas still has some pioneer preach ers. The San Angela Standard reports briefly a sermon delivered in that place by Andrew Jackson Potter, the fight­ ing parson. Among other things he said: "1 have preached out hereon the frontier for the past sixteen years, and I have lived and supported a large family. I must say, though, I got most of my support from the cowboys. YearB ago, where the town of Uvalde now stands, I have skipped from thicket to thicket in my endeavors to escape from the leaden bullets that were flying around in order to reach a little old log school house where I could preach to a few women and children. Now, look at Uvalde to-day. with its five fine churches, where spires point heaven­ ward. I went to Fort Clark to preaoli several yeSrs ago, and started in with­ out a church member, and at the end of twelvp months I quit without a mem­ ber. I thought that was the hardest place I had struck. One day, just af­ ter the boys had been paid off, I was walking up the street and noticed a lot of soldiers and gamblers collected in front of a saloon. As I passed one of them hollered: "Hullo, parson!" I went across, and they asked me to preach, saying that this was the biggest crowd I'd ever have an opportunity to talk to in Brackett. I said: "Gentle­ men, preaching is my business, but I always make it a rule before begining to take up a collection." Taking off my hat I started around. All that I presented the hat to throw in 50 cents until I came to a young gambler. Ho looked at the hat, shook his head saying: 'Parson, I'd like to chip in, but I'm busted.' I got more money in that place than any I have been in. Hold­ ing services at a place one time I took up a collection for the support of mis­ sions. There was a poor old lady pres­ ent who I noticed dropped a $5-gold piece in the hat. I knew she was very poer and not able to afford so much, and thought she had intended to throw in a quarter, bnt had made a mistake. So next day I met her husband and said to him: 'Look here, your wife put a $5-gold piece in the^iat yesterday. I think she must have made a mistake.' 'No, no,' he replied, 'my wife did't make no mistake. She don't fling often, but let me tell you when she flings she flings,' "--Galvexton (Texas) News. Profits for the Laborer, v In the Century Rev. Dr. Gladden has an essay on "Christianity and Wealth" from which we quote: "It must be possible to shape the organiza­ tion of our industries in suoh a way that it shall be the daily habit of the workmen to th nk of the interest of the employer, and of the employer to think of the interest of the workman. We have thought it very fine to say that the interests of both are identical, but it has been nothing more than a fine saying; the problem now is to make them identical. "It is not a difficult problem. The solution of it is quite within the power of the Christian emplover. All he liae to do is to admit his laborers to an in­ dustrial partnership with himself by giving them a fixed share in the profits of production, to be divided among them, in proportion to their earnings, at the end of the year. If there were no profits there would be nothing to divide; but a oertain percentage of the gains of the year might thus be dis- tribued when the gains were made. The emplover ought to have a large reward for his assistance, and for the intelli­ gence and experience required in or­ ganizing and managing the business-- a reward far larger than any^of his workmen. That principjleriew among them would think of disputing. Tney ynuld expect him to reap the benefit of his superior power; and they would understand that his acoumulations must be sufficient to enable him to meet the losses occurring from time to time. which they could not share. Bat if they could see that they were to be sharer* of his prosperity,--that the larger hisga ns were, the larger would be their dividends at the end of tiie year,--they would have a mo ive to do good work that now is lacking, and a wholly new relation would be estab­ lished between themselves and their employer. That this would be for the interest of the employer, I have no doubt; that it would attach his labor­ ers to him, and awaken a feeling of good will and a hope of bettering their condit on that would add greatly to their happiness and to their efficiency, seems plain. But the strong reason for the change, in the mind of a Christian man, would be the simple justice of it. A Mash. "I wonder "if that, pretty girl over there is not a flirt," said ore drummer to another on an incoming Illinois Cen­ tral train. "She looks like it," said his compan­ ion, "and what is more she and I have passed a good many happy hours to­ gether. I've staid many a night at her father's house, but I don't do that any more, and if you can make a mash on her, go ahead." The other drummer went over to where she sat and said: - * "Permit me. Madam." * "Certainly," she replifft, "My friend over there says he has known vou for some time," lie contin­ ued, as lie sat down. She blushed and smiled sweetly as she acknowledged the old acquaintance. "Very nice fellow," said the drum- mer. "L--I think he's ever so toioe," said the woman modestly. "Bully fellow, but he ain't very pop­ ular with the girls. Don't seem to care much about 'em." "Don't he ?" she archly inquired. "Not very much." "I like him ever so much. I have thought the world of him for a long time." "Happy old boy! Say you conldn't love me a little as his proxy, could you ?" "Goodness, no!" "Well, that's pretty tough on me; but if you think so much of him Pll get up and let him come over and sit by you." "Oh, I wish you would." The masher looked red and blue by turns, and got up and went over and told his companion what she had said, and added: "Say, old fellow, you've got her dead. She's mashed on you the worst way, and wants you to come over and sit by her." "Is that so?" queried the other, with a satisfied smile, arising and bowing to the lady, who beckoned him over to the seat with her, and then he went over and put his arm around her, and when the conductor came along he pointed them out to him and began to tell him what a mash the o her fellow had made, when the conductor smiled blandly, and told him to go and soak his head; that that was the other drum­ mer's wife, and that he had known her ever since she was a baby. The masher got off the first time they came up with a freight train, and went the balance of of the way as live beef.--Ihroug h Mail. FRAMES of white lace over tufted »|j bright colored satin are the newest tor • tf the family photographs in the parlor. ' ® OLD-FASHIONED palm-leaf fans paint- w ed and decorated with ri[>buns are now , Jf the most fashionable for fire hand * . screens. , . *. CHAMOIS makes a soft and pretty ma- :j >rial for embroidery. Pink, blue and yellow look well upon it It may also be used for hand-painting. To WIPE the dust from papered walls ^ .:r take a clean, soft piece of flauneL Of >4- < course, it must not be damp, but ^||> • dry flannel will remove the dust. TAR may be removed from the hands % by rubbing with the outside of fresh * orange or lemon peel and drying im- , mediately. The volatile oil in the skin 3 dissolves the tar so it can be wiped off. r SMALL plaques that may have become XJ obsolete in the design or too arthetical- .! » Il­ ly glaring in color, may be covered with * velvet or plush, upon which is embroid- ^ ered or painted a spray of flowers or ' T ; one or two peacock feathers. t tft&i, A ROBE for a child's sleigh, or for a - •*.!" man's either, is made by knitting a * stripe of bright-colored yarns, using, for this the odd3 and ends iu the house, * then have a plain stripe of dark-colored * ^ yarn: finish with a scalloped edge. 11 PRETTY table-covers and covers for ' # shelves and lambrequins, also, are%?; ««*ss made of the new ah ides of flannel, ' which come in double widths. For , ,) Vi, some uses it i* even preferable to felt, • and is found to be very serviceable. * A NICK present for a housekeeper is a ** set of half a dozen doyLes or small fruit napkins. The latest fashion Is to turn down one corner of the linen squares and work upon it an ^ranoe, banana or other fruit, varying the de­ sign on each. • FRECKLES, according to Dr. S%>e- V. maker, can be removed by a careful application of a little ointment of the . oleate of copper at bedtime. He makes K the ointment by> dissolving the oleatee of copper in sufficient oleopalmetic aoid to make a mass. f PRETTY splashers to put behind the- washstandsin common rooms may be' *,' ^ made of parts of old curtains; wash? •:?>** and starch them, line them wit bright-colored cambric and tack them!# up. If you have old torchon, or any suitable lace, trim the edges with that.) EMBROIDERED aprons are now very „ fashionable for bome wear, and may be *i made of satin, linen, pongee, or mus- *, , • lin, and decorated with silk, wools, or crewels, as the material snggests. A* •'* ^3 -5 very tasteful apron for a young lady isfe one of pure white pongee worked with . dainty knots of violets, the waistband^' strings being of delicate lavender ribbon. ^ , % 4 A City Of Pretty ttirls. "There are no homely girls in Que­ bec," a native-born Canadian said to a visitor to the ancient citidel city of Canada. "I have often stood at a win­ dow and watched for one in the throng passing on the sidewalks, but I have never yet seen a Quebec girl who could be described as ugly. I do not claim that they are ail absolutely beautiful, but there is something in the clear, in­ vigorating air, and perhaps in the soil and surroundings of this lofty and rocky city, that gives them sparkling eyes brilliant complexions, and elastic­ ity of step. Montreal is full of pi etty women, but Queheo can beat her in that respect. Have you noticed how easily our Quebec girls climb the steep city streets ? When they are ascending a sidewalk that slopes upward at an apparent angle of 30 degrees, they don't seem to mind it. They don't lag, they don't get out of breath, they don't stagger from one side of the walk to the other. They just go up OB light and gracefully as any lady can walk across a parlor floor. Yon can't do it and keep pace with them, unless you've boen brought up here. They'd tire you out before you got half way from Breakneck steps to Dufferine terrace. The exercise they get is partly the se­ cret of their good looks. "Then there's another thing that helps. They're out of doors half the time. On a pleasant evening, the ter­ race, that broad plank promenade which stretohes for a quartor of a mile along the top of the precipice under the brow of Cape Diamond, is crowded with them, strolling in pairs and groups, chatting, laughing, and per­ haps flirting a little. You don't mind that, do you? No. Well, look what a pleasant ground lit is. Two hundred feet above the waters of the St. Law rence, and facing one of the very finest views in the world, as everybody ad mits, which extocds from Point Levi down the river to Cape Tourment, and from the gorge of Montmorenci far back among the Laurantian mountains. You can't blame us Quebeckers for be­ ing proud of it. And there's where the Quebec girls breath the pure air that puts rosea in their cheeks and the snap into their eyes. Yes, sir; steep streets and plenty of fresh air, and, perhaps, the subtle influence of a world-famous landscape, form the chief secret of the beauty of our girls." A toreat Drought. _-- Richard A. Proctor says that the ag% of the earth is placed by some at 500,000,000 years, and still others of later time, among them the Duke of Argyll, place it at 10,000,000 years, None place it lower than 10,000,000. knowing what processes have been gone through. The earth must have become old. Newton surmised, although he could give no reason for it, that the earth would at one time become per­ fectly dry. Since then it has been found that Newton was correct As the earth keops cooling it will liecome porous, and great cavities will be formed in the interior which will take in the water. It is estimated that this process is now in progress so far that the water diminishes at the rate of the thickness of a sheet of writing paper a year. At this rate, in 9,000,000 years "the water wiH have sunk a mile, and in 15.000,000 years every trace of water, will have dissapeared from the face of the globe. It Makes a Difference. "Mamma, is it wrong to say *H*S go­ ing to thunder ?'" "Why, of course not Eddie. Why do you a<»k such a question?^ "'Cause yesterday pa said if yon were going to thunder he wouldn't care.-- The Lowest Classes. The lower classes--perhaps we snould|v*^i say the lowest classes--ID England-* '"* have their own especial characteristics, the chief of which is their ut er hope- ^5^ lessness of change. There is an ex­ pression upon their faces which seems. ... * to say: "Walk on me if you like; throw ,, mud on me if you piease--no doubt IT* deserve it Whether I do or not, I've* v - . -i no intention of trying to help myself." Here I am." > H. . The Frenoh lowest classes are very « ' <4 different They are not less brutal,,. ^ but they are less sodden. There is ":;- smouldering fire in theijr eyes which. " seems to say, " We bide our time Wef rj have not forgotten the red glare of thwn^ <1 ^ Revolution, if you have. We will kin­ dle that brave glow again, some day. Look out, you who-wear sill Why should you wear it, and we blouses? Why should you go in 1 riages, and we on foot? Fortune^ wheel turns round and ronnd, and out­ turn will come." It is the difference between the twqr; nations that, for the most part, th^.' lower-class English never dream o! French never dream of staying in * *fti ; and plan, night and day, how tfiey shall' pull down the ranks above them, and|'f * climb up over their prostrate fortunes,*' - *i us on a ladder. - •;*/• There is something almost painful in^ / • the servility of the English serving-man^--E^-- and woman. Tho constant, invariable "thank you," which is heard on every «• occasion, is preferable to the gruff and' ^ I olten rude treatment one meets with . * from Americans at home. , • j The servility appears when the "thank you" is misplaced. It implies that you have condescended in speak- ing at all to the person who gives voui •*»«? his or her thanks. You hand a letter •, ̂ to a servant in a well kept lodging- . . house, wikh a request that it shall be . ' posted immediately, and she says,'- 1 "Thank you." ' "I want fresh eggs for breakfast," you say. "Thank you." ' * "That fire will go out if yon don't I put coals on it at onoe." ^ "Thank you." Frenoh servants are polite, but in a. ^ •> different way. They don't thank yon 4 * for ordering them about; but they say, " "*3# , "Yes, monsieur." "With pleasure, madam." . '.i , * French shop-keepers are polite; but theirs is a treacherous politeness. The • French workman, whom you meet in the street, takes pleasure in elbowing you off the sidewalk. Evil expecta- • tions of future reprisals glint in his. s>it, eyes--sullen memories brood over hia» y dark brows. . The French lowest classes are less ' b comfortable to deal with than the Eng- ^7 * J lish. Carlyle wrote that half the world ^ were born saddled and bridled, and the ? "#'* "i other half were born booted and spur- . ^ red, readv to ride them. He knew/his , England,"but he wi.uld not have writ- f j' ten that in France.--Youth's Compan- . * *t»>4' , m m '4% -t:' One or Charles Keade's Correctloi The last night I was si Bloomfield terrace, previous to Charles Reade'a leaving England, he read to me a re- ̂ markable paper which he had written 'i: " on the book of Jonah. The subjeot was * handled in his masterly manner, bat ia b the full flow of his impetuous eloquence^ we stumbled upon one of his character­ istic blotches. It was to this effect: "Having now arrived at this conclusion, we must go the whole hog or none." I made a move--he stopj»ed and said: "You don't like the hog. I see?" "I ;..«*•/ don't," I replied, "doyou?" "Well, itfa a strong figure of speech, and its nn- |j||® derstaaded of the people, bnt yon are g|^ right, John--yes, you are right Itfr scarcely scriptural--so ont it goes.---• . Temple Bar. • ,< Cheap and Leve.y. ' Women who admire the hoanfjfnl ' **- : , bnt have no time to do fancy work, can * get one of the very handsome etabroid- > ered towels that are now so mnoh used, and, tying it in the middle ao that the knot lies flat, spre>iding ont the ends gracefully and fastening it oa » ^5 chair back, will have a lovely tidy with 1 ** , very little trouble to themselves.--ftl ' ;'W •* * •,#» -m\