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WHAT SHK SAXfeT Mm --I ImMi tan BMr tho Mow, A " * To] s-r- *•* A prey to bmshfolrtoas ; 'obff b«»IK> km no words of love, Ndrttoagm liter hand to press. So nan idem «vet bad been wooed By him ; tho fact was plaiu, for silently he sat and chewed H*e knob uiftm his cane. )gk 4"-^ SoBfttetiines he at the celling gazed, Boinet 1mPH his claneo would strajr Tolter,' but when her eyes she raispt i looked another way. And thus they silent sat till sha f " Said: "John, I ought to stata f * That pa and ma are out to tea, .y f And won't return till late. ' f* "Maw, while they're absent, dp not t>M8, *' JsSt j;rav svjsm'W'wt fW* : ... My hand you must not try to aquMM^'" 1 Nor steal from me a kiss." . At Obce the knob that graced his cane John from his mouth withdrew, And Saiil: "1 won't; don't think, Miag Jane, That I'd do that to you !" 4 ' $ A deeper silence then ensued •[. Than had prevailed before; John vigorously his cane's knob chntd, A frown Jane's visage wore. And thus they sat till half past ten, And when John rose to go, And asked if he might call again, 1 Jane curtly answered: "No!" *-BotUni Courier. y £ • I MEXICAN LEGENDL : With well-fftled bags after a fine day's fljport, we tamed oar faces toward the tongh-and-ready little hostelry where we %ere staying for a few days, up in Dakota. They 'Could cook a prairie chicken there, and there was good cider to be had, not to iuention the good beer. We decided to go back by a new route, and to follow, as far £s possible, the winding of the stream. After a very short time, however, the •Iream took a tarn nnd disappeared into the wood. It would have taken us too far Out of oar way to follow it, so we struck (ftut upon a path which we afterward found Ipas the chord of an arc formed by the itrenm. All of a sadden, and in no great time, we came npon the water again. The •un was still powerful, and a very pretty Rjpectacltt was now before us, as the stream Wound, widening amid rushes and flags, out of forest and round the side of a ninsula. The dragon flies swarmed, and e sunshine came beautifully through the | Shade of the over-bending trees. On a pant that had just shot the corner of the • f>eninsula a smart, buxom girl, probably fe hotel-keeper's daughter, I thought, lay lling at full length, half on her side, but With her head supported by her arms, and her face turned toward my companion and ^ , fciyself. She hadheaidthe rustle we had "J ' made in the brake, and was looking curi- Ouslv in our direction. Hal was the first io catch sight of this sadden apparitiou, And he paid so much attention to it that he fi] took a false step, and actually put at least V. One leg down into the water among the '--i tushes. The girl called out, laughingly; &e caught hold of my hand, and no harm f :, v Was done. When, we got to oar little hotel the first thing we did, after a toilet, was to make a lneat tea, sending some of the contents of ©ur bag into the kitchen for supper. As 4. " We sat smoking in the twilight Hal said, 01%-' laughingly: ^ . • ,v "Thought is quick." ( "I dare say," said I. > "What do you think of Ximenia?" fi "Who the dickens is Ximenia?" "The girl on the punt." , * "I thought she was a brisk, plump Nor­ wegian girl; a little lazy; untidy in some respects perhaps, but inclined to be dressy, And--" "Not a Norwegian.old fellow; a Mexican. Her name is Ximenia." "That last drink oat of the flask must liave gone to your head, Hal." I "Not a bit. Listen to the story of Ximenia, the Mexic maiden. I think I can repeat it all. There was, you must know, three fiundred years ago a young ^lexic chief named--well I can't remember those out­ landish Mexican-Atzec names, so I will ^sall him Popo. Well, this Popo built an : elevated balcony on the slope ©f a hill, •?' swell, we'll call itJKiki. He had contracted a great friendship for a young man whom "we will call Zozo; they were both fond of tnusic. Popo played on a horn, and Zozo on the pipe; and they used to go up into the Jbalcony and play on their instruments in the night; and in calm evenings the sound of their music was wafted by the gentle freeze across the lake to the village of - .t)hho, where dwelt the beautiful young .Ximenia, the sister of Waha. Ximenia could hear the sweet-sounding fnusic of the instrument of Popo and of l»is dear friend, Zozo, which gladdened her lie art within her. Every night the two friends played on their instruments in this faianner, and Ximenia then ever said to erself, "Ah! that is the music of Popo I ear." For although Ximenia was so prized by er family that they would not betroth her any chief, nevertheless, she and Popo d met each other on those occasions hen ail the people came together. I ^ In those great assemblies of the people, fiimenia had seen Popo, and as they often . ilanced at each other, to the heart of each £.jkpf them the other appeared pleasing, and rf' Worthy of love, so that in the breast of V ? each there grew up a Becret passion for the || >. other. Nevertheless, Popo could not tell f" * ^whether he might venture to approach .Ximenia to take her hand, to see would she 'J- tress bis in return, because, said he, "Per- "k - paps 1 may be by no means agreeable to rr- "per;" on the other hand, Ximenia's heart laid to her, "If you send one of your ^ female friends to tell him of your love, perchance he will not be pleased with you." • 1 However, after they had thus met for many, many days, and had long fondly jglanced each at the other, Popo sent a - messenger to Ximenia, to tell her of his love, and when Ximenia had seen the : messenger, she said, "Ah! then have, we each loved alike?" *k Sometime after this, and when they had &*.' . often met, Popo and his family returned the rock, wad from tbenoe to the edge of the water, and she reached the stump of a sunken tree which used to stand in the lake, and ahe clung to it with her hands, and rested to take breath; and when she had a little eased the weariness of her shoulders, she swam on agniii, ami whenever she was exhausted, she floated with the current of the lake, supported by the gourds; and after recovering strength, she swam on again; bat she could not distinguish in which direction she should proceed, from the darkness of the night; her only guide was, however, the soft measure from the instruments of Popo and Zozo; that was the m&rk by which she swam, for just above the hot spring was the borne of Popo, and swimming at last she reached the home of Popo. At the place where she landed on tho island, there is a hot spriug sepa­ rated from the lake only by a narrow ledge of rocks. Ximenia g6t into this to warm herself, for she was trembling all over, partly from the cold after swimming in the night across the wide lake, and partly also, perhaps, from modesty, at the thoughts of meeting Popo. Whilst the maiden was thus warming herself in the hot spring. Popo happened to feel thirsty, and said to his servant: Bring me a little water;" so bis servant went to fetch water for him, and drew it from the lake in a gourd, close to the spot where Ximecia was sitting; the maiden, who was frightened, called out to him in a gruff voice like that of a man: "Whom is that water for?" He replied: "It's for Popo." "Give it here, then," said Ximenia. And he gave her the water, and she drank, and having finished drinking, pur­ posely threw down the gonrd and broke it. Then the servant asked her: What business had you to break the gourd of Popo?" But Ximenia did ndjk'say a word In an­ swer. , ' The servant then went, back to Popo, and Popo said to him: "Where is the water I told you to bring me?" So he answered: "Your gourd was broken," and his master asked him: "'Who broke it?" and he answered: "The man who is in the bath." And Popo said to him: "Go back again, then, and fetch me some water." He therefore took another gourd and went back and drew water in the gourd from the lake, and Ximenia again said to him: "Whom is the water for?" So the slave answered as before: "For Popo." And the maiden again said: "Give it to me, for I am thirsty." and the slave gave it to her, and she drank, and purposely threw down the gourd and broke it; and these occurrences took place repeatedly between these two persons. At last the slave went again to Popo, Lincoln nnd the 4'Clary's Grove Beys.*' Public opinion at New Salem was formed by a crowd of ruffianly .young fellows who were called the "Clary's Grove Boys." Once or twice a week they descended upon the village a$d passed the day in drinking, lighting, and brutal horse-plav. If a stranger appeared in the place, he was likely to suffer a rude initiation into the social life of New Salem at the hands of these1 jovial savages. Sometimes he was nailed tip in a hogshead and rolled down hill, sometimes he was insulted into a tight and then mauled black afld blue; for despite their pretensions to chivalry, they had no scruples about fair play or any such superstitions of civilization. At first they did not seem inclined to molest young Lincoln. His appearance did not invite insolence; his reputation for strength and activity was a greater protection to him than his inoffensive good nature. But the loud admiration of Offutt gave them umbrage. It led to dispute, contra­ dictions, and finally to a formal banter to a wrestling-match. Lincoln was greatly averse to all this "wooling and pulling," as he called it But Offutt's indiscretion *liad made it necessary for him to show his mettle. Jack Arm­ strong, the leading bully of the ^ang, was selected to throw him,and expected an easy victory. But lie soon found himself in different hands from any he had heretofore engaged with. Seeing he could not manage the tall stranger, his friends swarmed in, and by kicking and tripping nearly succeeded in get­ ting Lincoln down. At this, as has been said of another hero, "the spirit of Odin entered into him," and putting forth his whole strength, lie held the pride of Clary's Grove in his arms like a child, and almost choked the ex­ uberant life out of him. For a moment a general fight seemed inevitable; but Lincoln, standing undismayed with his back to the wall, looked so formidable in his defiance that an honest admira­ tion took the place of momentary fury, and his initiation was over. As to Arm­ strong, he was Lincoln'^ friend and sworn brother as soon as he recovered the use of his larynx, and the bond thus strangely created lasted through life. Lincoln had no further occasion to fight his own battle while Armstrong was there to act as his champion. The who said to him: "Where is the water for two friends, although so widely differ- me?" and his servant answered: "It's fcll gone, your Gourds have been broken." "By whom?" said Popo. "Didn't I tell you that there is a man in the bath?" "Who is the fellow?" said Popo. "How can I tell?" re­ plied the slave; "why, he's a stranger!" "Didn't he know the water was for me?" said Popo; "how did the rascal dare to break my gourds^? Why, I shall die of rage!" Then Popo threw on some clothes and caught hold of his club, and away he went, and came to the bath and called out: 'Where is the fellow who broke my gourds?" Ximenia knew the voice--that the sound of it was that of the beloved of her heart; and she hid herself under the overhanging rocks of the hot spring; but her hiding was hardly a real hiding, but rather a bashful concealing of herself from Popo, that he might not find her at onoe, but only after trouble and careful search­ ing after her. So he went feeling about along the banks of the hot spring, search­ ing everywhere, while she lay coyly hid under the ledges of the rock, peeping out. , ^ _r T _ wondering when she woald be found. At | Nicolay and Hay 8 Life of Lincoln. ent, were helpful to each other after­ ward in many ways, and Lincoln made ample amends for the liberty his hands had taken with Jack's throat,by saving, in a memorable trial, his son's new from the halter. This incident, trivial and vulgar as it may seem, was of great importance in Lincoln's life. His behavior in this ignoble scuffle did the work of years for him, in giving him the position he required in the community where his lot was cast He became from that moment, in a certain sense, a personage, with a fame and standing of his own. The verdict of Clary's Grove was unanimous that he was "the cleverest fellow that had ever broke into the set­ tlement " He did not have to be con­ stantly scuffling to guard his self-re­ spect, and at the same time he gained the good-wiM of the better sort by his evident peaceableness and integrity. last he caught hold of a hand and cried out: "Hollo, who's this?" And Ximenia answered: "It's I, Popo!" And he said: "But who are you?--who's I?" Then she ipoke louder and said: "It's I -- 'tis Ximenia!" And he said: "Ho! ho! ho! can such, in very truth, be the case! Let us two go, then, to my hohse." And she answered: "\es;" and she rose up in the water as beautifully as the wild white swan, and stepped upon the edge of the bath as gracefully as the shy white crane; and he threw a garment over her and took her, and they proceeded to his house, and im­ posed there; and thenceforth, according to the ancient Atzec laws, they were man and wife. When the morning dawned all the people of the village went forth from their houses to cook their morning meal, and they all ate; but Popo tarried in his house. So his father said: "This is the first morning that Popo has tarried in-doors. Perhaps the boy is ill; bring him here, rouse bim up." Then the man who was to fetch him went, and listening at the Wooden window of the house, heard two voices. Oh! he was greatly amazed, and said to himself: "Who can this companion of his be?" However, he had heard enough, and turn­ ing about, hurried back as fast as he could to Popo's father, and said to him: "Why, there are two speaking; I heard them my­ self in the house." The father answered: "Who's his companion, then? Hasten back and see." So back he went to the house and peeped in at them, and then, for the first time, he saw that it was Ximenia. Then he shouted out in his amazement: "Oh! here's Ximenia! here's Ximenia, in the house of Popo," and all the village heard him, and there arose cries on every side: "Oh, here's Ximenia! here's Ximenia with Popo!" And his elder brothers heard the shouting, and they said: "It is not true!" for they were very jealous inde<jd. Popo then appeared coming from his house, and Ximenia following him, and _ another. We had to abandon some his elder brothers saw that it was indeed I wagons, but got all our people through ' "It is true; it is a | safely. I lost my hat in the afternoon, to their own village; and being together one evening, in the large warm house of general assembly, the elder brothers of Popo said: "Which of us has by signs or by pressure of the band received proofs of the love of Ximenia?" And one said, "it is I who have;" and another said, "No, but it is 1."^ Then they fdl questioned Popo, and he said, "I have pressed the- had of Ximenia, and she pressed mine in return;" but his elder brothers said, "No such thing; do you think she would take any notice of such a low-born fellow as you atefV Hi then-told his reputed father to remember what he would theq say to him, because he really had received proofs of Ximena's love; they hai even act­ ually arranged a good while before, the time at which Ximenia should run away to him; and when the maiden asked. "What shall be the sign bv which I shall know that I should then run to you?" he said to her: "A trumpet will be heard sounding every night; it will be I who sound it, be­ loved--paddle then your canoe to this place." So the father kept in his mind this confession which Popo had made to him. Now always about the middle of the night Popo and his friend Zozo, went up into the balcony and played, the one upon his trumpet, the other upon his pipe, and Ximenia heard them, and desirea vastly to paddle her canoe to Popo; but her friends, suspecting something, had been careful with the canoes to leave none afloat, but had hauled them all up upon the shore of the lake; and thus her friends had always done for many days and for many nights At last, she reflected in her heart, say ingc,* "How can I then contrive to cross the lake to the island to Popo; it can be plainly seen that my friends suspect what I am going to do." So she sat down upon the ground to rest; and then soft measares reached her from the home of Popo, and the young and beautiful chieftainess felt as if an earthquake shook her to make her go to the beloved of her heart. But then arose that there was no Ximenia, and they said: fact!" After these things Zozo thought within himself; "Popo has married Ximenia, she whom he loved; but as for me, alas! have no wife," and he became sorrowful, and returned to his own village. And Popo grieved for Zozo; and he said to his father: U1 am quite ill from grief for my friend Zozo;" and his father said, "what do you mean?" And Popo re­ plied. "I refer to my young sister, izi, let her be given as a wife to my be loved friend, Zozo." And his father con­ sented to this; so his young sister Xizi was given to Zozo, and she became his wife. The descendants of Ximenia and Popo are at this very moment dwelling away off in New Mexico, they are now called Zunis, and never yet have the lips of their young and when I reached the post my hair and beard were a mass of ice. I was never so near giving out, and when we were near the post and a little mule all saddled came a£ong I dropped on his back and he carried me. in."--Omaha World. ** ' Digestibility of Breadstuff*. Dr. Walzen Muller, the German physiologist, remarks upon the com­ mon idea that an admixture of bran with flour renders the latter much easwflt of digestion, and asserts that the smallest particles of the : grain, as well as the amount of husky portion re- tained in the well-known Graham flour, been neglected in learning the story of I produces aslight irritation of the digest- •reKR. Ximenia. I i • i - n _ canoe. A might be took six lest ahe , for thought, "perhaps across." So she gourds as floats, the water--three of she went oat upon Caught in a Wicked Blizzard. "On Christmas, in the winter of 1866- 67, I think it was," said Gen. Crook, "I encountered my first blizzard. It was in the high plateau country of eastern Oregon, at an altitude of 4,000 to 5j000 feet The ground was more or less covered with snow, and it was the best time to operate against the Indians, be­ cause the 6now on the mountains re­ duced the area over which they could roam, and they bad to come down to the plains. I had had a fight witji Indians and had some prisoners,, women, and children, and we were going in to old Fort Warner, which was fourteen miles from the point at which I started. The snow was all the way from a foot to fifteen feet deep, light, dry, and shift­ ing all the time. We had two companies of cavalry, but could not make any trail. Just as fast as a horse pulled his foot out of the snow the hole was filled up again. It was almost like walking in the water. The horse would plunge into the banks and it was all but impos­ sible to Iget through. There was noth­ ing in the world to serve as aland mark. I had but one guide, and he was a half- breed who had never been to the post but once, and was drunk when he was there. He hadn't a thing to guide him, for although the sun was shining we could not see fifty yards ahead. Yet the fellow exactly struck the post He was the most remarkable man I ever saw. It was instinct with him. He disliked to have any reputation as a guide. When we got to the post the snow was over the haystacks and everything, and the men had to tunnel form one house to their renowned ancestress, Ximenia. "There," said Hal, "that is the very pretty story of the loves of Ximenia and Popo." "Now I see what you meant by saying, 'thought is quick' That girl on the punt put you in mind at once of Ximenia hiding by the hot springs, and so you stepped into the water, looking at her and not minding your way, but then this was only a fair looking Norwegian girl," said 1. Hal answered, "No,'twas Ximenia!" R1D1H8 A CIRCUS HORSE. Haw the Girt with tho Golden Hair Lorni Mar fM-alysIng Feat*. A broad-baoked white horse, with a silver-silk mane and one of those bil­ lowy tails, rarely met with in real life, entered into the ring. There was an arch in his swan neck and a proud carriage of his head never seen outside of the circus ring. A white colored girth Becured a pad on his back, and the lines leading to his bit were of blue silk, frayed and soiled.- Then the invaluable young animal, whose capacity for taking up tricks was limitless, came on. She pushed the calico hangings at the cur­ tained doorway and walked to the horse's Side. She was a girl with a big bijpch of yellow hair on the top of her head, a pretty pink-and-white face, and a blue flannel bloomer costume cut high in the neck, ample as to skirt, and ending in a pair of Turkish trousers gathered in at the ankles. "I ain't a-going to do no knee work to-day," she said, stoutly, when Mr. Marks had swung her light figure to a seat on the pad. She at once lifted herself from a sitting posture to her feet and proceeded to clasp a snap buckle into an iron ring which was sewed to her belt about the waist The Bnap-buckle was at the end of a rope dangling from a gibbetlike arm above. "All right," remarked Mr. Marks; "one, two, three, and away you go!" He cracked the long whip in his hand with a report like a pistol-shot, and winked at the writer out of the toil of his eve. "Now, you will see some fun," he whispered. "The first few rounds of the riftg ought always to be taken by the beginner on her knees. It is quite as secure a position as sitting, and is almost indispensable in catching the horse's gait, but mademoiselle knows better than I do, and although she has only taken three lessons you have heard her propose to give up knee-work alto* gether--ah, I thought so." For the first half-dozen yards made­ moiselle went bravely on. Her slippered feet kept their hold on the pad, and although her body swayed dangerously with every move of her gently loping horse, she braced herself by bearing upon the bridle, and seemed deter­ mined to vindicate her judgment in abandoning "knee-work" at this early stage of the game. But with every yard the swaying became more pro­ nounced and her balance more precari­ ous, and suddenly with a shriek she fell. A fall of some five feet, while in erect position on the back of a movi: horse might easily be fatal, especial when the horse's feet are shod wi iron and the faller alights in his pat] But mademoiselle did not fall fi The rope dangling from the gibbet-ar: held her suspended from the middle the air, like a captive frog, kicki with arms and legs and making so vigorous remarks with her tongue un the horse had completed the ring's ci ingenious an explanation saved the ghost's life, but not his reputation, for the master of the inn being called up and discovering his neighbor to be the evil spirit, the latter was never able to show his mortal face again in the neigh­ borhood. Men of 240,000 Years Ago. If the claims of old descent were a justifiable source of pride the human race would feel elated this morning on being assured by the wise men of the British Association that authentic proof has been discovered in some Welsh caves that men, sufficiently developed from the ape to manufacture flint im- plimeats, existed on this planet 2 i0,000 years ago. To us it is a melancholy re­ flection that we should have taken so prodigious a time to attain so small a result. Even when the duration of the race is limited to the 6,000 years of his­ tory, the outcome can hardly be con­ sidered as satisfactory, and there some­ thing profoundly depressing in the sudden addition of a series of ancestors who spent 234,000 years in marking time, indeed, but in making no other mark in the world. The London Times gives the following report of the proceedings of the association: Dr. H. Hicks, F. R. S., read a paper on "Evidence of Pre-glacial Man in North Walea" He described the conditions under which some flint implements had been dis­ covered during researches carried on by Mr. E, B. Luxmore and himself in the Lifynnon Benko and Cae Gwyn Caves in the Yale of Clwyd, in the years 1884-6. The caverns were ex­ ploded by himself and friends for the first time in 1884, and some of the re­ sults Avere given by him in a paper at the last meeting of the British Associa­ tion. The facts then obtained had led him to the conclusion that pleistocene animals and man must have occupied the caverns before the glacial beds which occur in the arena had been de­ posited, as it had been found that, al­ though the caverns are now 400 feet above the level of the sea, the materials within them had been disturbed by marine action since the pleistocene animals and man had occupied them. Moreover, deposits with foreign pebbles similar to those in the glacial beds were found in caverns overlying the bones. Last year a grant was made by the British Association for the purpose of carrying on the exploration, chiefly with the object of getting further evi­ dence as to the age of the deposits in the caverns. The results obtained this 'iiew inQmrtiled cata-~s logue and pictorial ^ sheet, description andl pedigree of all stock] on farm, includinj Above All Reward. A handsomely dressed man, wearing kid gloves and a plug hat, entered a bank, and, upon being shown to the president's room, said: "I will take up but little of your time, sir. I want some money, not much, but just what you are willing to give." "Give!" gasped the president. "Yes. You see that I could dress in rags, get an organ, and sit on your steps, but I propose to be more of a gentle­ man. I know that a gentleman is nearly always welcome, while the groans of an organ are always annoying." The president arose, wiped a tear of gratitude from his eye, pressed ten dol­ lars iuto his visitor's hand and said: "Your gentlemanly consideration is above all earthly reward. You have set a glorious example to your contem poraries and--but I cannot say more." --Arkanaaw Traveler. lve, oranges which results in the separa­ tion of the pepsin from the husk of the grain, admitting of its mixture with the gastic fluids, thus greatly facilitating the process of assimilation; this me­ chanical irritation, particularly in the case of the aged and weak, being other­ wise producible only by the use of alcoholic and similar stimulants. Dr. Muller is of the opinion that bread should not be made without salting, for the reason that the starch of the flour contains a large amount of the salt of potash, which neutralizes much salt in the system. Again, dry bread, which has been baked some little time, is most healthful, as the chewing pro­ cess must of necessity be thorough and the bread consequently fully salivated previous to it« entrance intovtlie stom­ ach. He also particularly urges the desirability of mixing the dough of bread with milk. / DON'T despise the lowly, jaw does all the work. The under Neighborly Advice. Mrs. Minkle--What do you suppose was the matter with Mrs.' Winkle's baby ? Mr. Minkle--How should I know? "Well, the doctor said it had a touch of lead-poisoning, and it came from the face powder used by the nurse. I gave Mrs. Winkle good advice, I think." "You?" "Yes, I told her to get a husband who didn't care whether the nurse looked pretty or not" cuit and once more placed his back b neath her for her support - "Now, you see," mildly began tl trainer, as he helped her again to ti stand. "No, I don't see," she snapped, can ride this horse without no mo knee-work and I'm a-going to do it" Which she proceeded to do, b clinging to the work with a grit at a pertinacity which excited Mr. Marl unqualified admiration. "Let her keep on and she can coi mand $50 a week when the next seasc opens," he said. "From $50 to $' is the average weekly stipend riders of from two to five years' expei ence, and as it requires winter practie when, of course, no salary is paid, tl work is worth the money. All youn riders begin by riding on their kneei When they can go around the ring co: ndentlv in this position they must ris| to their feet for a second, then down o| their knees again, up and down, up ai down a thousand times. Finally, t young lady is able to stand erect wi a fair degree of confidence, and no when, no doubt, you imagine the hard-' est part of my task to be over, my work bepins in earnest "A human being standing on a horse's back is naturally an awkward animal. The girls want to go about the ring with their hands and arms either hang-, ing like pump handles at their sides or else launched out violently every other minute in an effort to keep their bal­ ance, the whole effect being stiff and ungraceful. I must teach them every desired motion, and have names for each motion, so that when I call for it the rider will know exactly what is wanted. For instance, when I call for 'foot'back' she is required to throw one foot bfehind her, < "There are several kinds of 'foot- back' and 'foot-front,1 each of which must be learned thoroughly. I never put. a beginner at stand-up riding on a walking horse; the loping gait is much easier to ride. It requires considerable practice to stand on a walking horse, and absolute genius to keep a foot­ hold when the animal is trotting." Quin and the Wiltshire Ghogt. Quin and Ryaii were once on a jour­ ney in Wiltshire, says Mr. Gait, in his "Lives of the Players," when alighting at an inn where they proposed staying all night they were told by the land lord that there was not a room empty in the house except one which he could not recommend to them for a particular reason. They desired to be shown it, and, finding one of the best apartments in the house, inquired the reason he could not let them lodge there that night. "Why, gentlemen, to tell you the truth, it is haunted." "Pshaw!" said Quin, "if that's all, bring us a bottle of your best, and get us supper as soon as you can." The landlord acquiesced, when the travel­ ers, having made a hearty meal and drank their bottle each, began to think it high time to go to bed. "Ay," said Quin, "but we must dispatch this same ghost first, or perhaps we may have a troublesome guest when we're asleop." So* saying he drew his pistols, charged and placed them upon the table before him, when, having called for an addi tional recruit of wine, "Now," said he, "we are prepared." Twelve o'clock struck, but no ghost had yet appeared, though presently a rumbling noise was heard in the chimney. The rattling of a chain soon became very distinct, and a figure, whimsically clad, descended and made two or three motions without offering any violence. Hereupon Quin took up a pistol that was ready primed and expostulated to their spiritual vis itor. "Look ye, Mr. Ghost, if you do not immediately acknowledge yourself to be of human species, by G-- I'll make a ghost of you!" The phantom was too sensible to remonstrate, and falling upon his knees; roared that he was master of the adjoining house, and had contri ved an opening in the chim ney through which he made his way in that shape in order to terrify the host's guests and prevail upon him to quit the house, that he might supplant him. So six STM Standing for service this season. Strongly, fashionably bred. Great in­ dividual merit. Stallions suitable for ROAD AND FARM MARES. Fees reasonable. $10, $20 and $50. TERMS LIBERAL. Genoa Junction, Wis. EAT LOCKE'S -AND BE. HAPPY. | or* n the way. I believe the priests are sup­ posed to spend their time in medita­ tion, which, being interpreted by what saw, means extremely lazy. There certainly are schools in connection with the priests, and it is a remarkable fact that every Burmah can read; but the great bulk of the priesthood live in idleness. Every morning the * younger members go round to the houses' of the village or town with baskets, and into them the natives put small quantities of rice, the priest averting his gaze if it is a female who brings the dole. As several bodies of priests exist in every place of any size, each visitor receives every day a corresponding number of visits. This tax, multiplied by 365, represents a very serious inroad upon a poor man's resources in the course of a year. But no complaint is made; it is a custom- of the country and a feature of its religion. After this year's sojourn in the monastery the young priest will return to his home and pur­ sue his worldly avocation as before. But this return to the world will de­ pend very much upon what prospect fortune holds out to him. If he has but a poor outlook he will in all proba- Uility remain a priest; and it is not an uncommon thing at all for some to use the monastery very much as the poor do our workhouse, assuming the yellow robe in time of poverty, and doffing it when things look brighter. This ocher- ous garment is a veritable "cloak of re­ ligion," and on all unbiased sides it is admitted that it is shamefully abused. 1 » A Wonderful Instinct. It is a wonderful instinct tliat tells youth of age, and teaches the child of 6 the weakness of the grandfather of 90. The tenderness and care that mere in­ fants almost will display toward the old man whose span of life is nearly done make one of the most interesting and pleasant of studies. Children have a very clear and shrewd conception of the difference between people of differ­ ent ages. It does not come down per­ haps to a year or two, but decades make a difference. The child of 5 draws a decided distinction in many ways l>etween the boy in his teens, the man of 30, the man of middlo life and the gray haired grandfather, and part of the instinct which produces that de­ velops the same distinction with regard to sex, and is even finer in application to women than to men. But it is curi­ ous how the child recognized the nonogenarian, and makes a companion and an equal of him, occasionally show­ ing a sense of superiority.--San Fran citsco Chronicle "Undertones." THE first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, almost involving the necessity of proceeding in the same course, debt following debt as lie fol­ lows lie. Hayden, the painter, dated his decline from the day on which he first borrowed money.--Samuel Smiles. HENIIY VIIL, of England, received the title Defender of the Faith in 1521, from Pope Clement VIL ' WasMagtoa's Birthplace. There is scarce a awn now ot the house in which Washington was born, on the lower Rappahannock, nor any more of the other house where he passed his boyhood, over against Fred­ ericksburg, and in landscape which must have been known to our soldiers who fought at Chancellorville. Both these houses were of the old Virginia stamp--big, roomy piles of lumber, with long, Bloping pent roof in the rear, and two huge chimneys slapped against the exterior walls at either end. It was at the home in Stafford County must have occurred--if it ever occurred--that episode of the cherry tree; and it was there, too, happened (after his father's death) that other better authenticated incident of the boy's subjugation of a young thoroughbred colt which nobody could master; and yet this intrepid lad, known as George Washington, and known for many athletic feats even as a boy, did master the brute, and so en­ rage him by the mastership that the poor animal, in a frenzy of protesting plunges, died under the very seat of the boy master. This martyr to young Washington's iron resolve was a great pet of his mother's, under whose special guidance the fatherless lad had now come; and there may have been a bone to pick between them regarding the colt; but never, then or thereafter, any real breach in their mutual regard or love. From his mother, who was a model country-woman and house-wife for that day--and for all days--Washington de­ rived, doubtless in a large degree, his strong rural tastes, his system, his apti­ tude for order, and that inexorable method, which, if he had been a lesser man, would have made a terrible mar­ tinet of him. The mother was full of it; and I cannot but think that Sharpies, in his charming picture (the only au­ thentic painting we have of her), has refined away somewhat of her august severities and serenities of character. She was always queen there, in that Staffordshire home--with son, with bailiff, with dependents all. If things went wrong, she came to quick knowl­ edge of the why. Throughout her long widowhood she clung to all the sim­ plicities, severities, homeliness, and out-of-door avocations of country life as if they had been royal inheritances. And are they not? When, in her later days, Lafayette came to see her and pay obeisance to the mother of his great friend, he found her in sun-bonnet working in her garden; and she was not caught at disadvantage by this chance, but wore, with an unshrinking and royal modesty, these tokens of her out-of-door reign. When Washington, in a spirit of ad­ venture, would have .gone seafaring in the British navy--wiled thereto by the preference of an eldr half brother-- the mother put her quick veto upon it; but she never vetoed his huntings, his dare-devil rides, his wrestling, his fencing, his leapin bouts; so he grew up sinewy, firm, and daring, and with ele­ ments of manly leadership marked all over him.--Donald G. Mitchell, in American Agriculturist. " PITH AHB FOOT. a The Effect of Dress. "Cleanliness is next to godliness," not because godliness is superficial, but because cleanliness is more than skin deep and produces an effect upon the soul. Says a Western preacher, in speaking of the tramp: "You know how you think you look after a long journey--you know how Eou think you feel. The outward man as relation to the inner. The slouch, shuffle, and unmanly front of the tramp is not necessarily because of the lack of heart. The lack of a shirt will ac­ count for it Georgq Washington, in continental ooat, cuffs, waistcoat, knee- breeches, silver buckles, and frills and powdered hair, fronts the world with dignity. But let him exchange rai­ ment with the tramp, and the Father of his Country will not. be recognized by his child. Oh, no; he will begin to shirk and shuffle, and get behind him­ self. He will stand uneasily, and rub the top of one foot with the heel of the other. Array yourself in stylish gar­ ments and visit a fashionable watering- Elace, and mark your reception by the otel clerk. Then go into the woods for a few weeks, and some fine morn­ ing, clad in an old blue shirt, torn corduroys and moccasins, unshaved and uncombed, appear upon the scene. The temptation to seek an entrance by the back door, and sneak up stairs and get your trunk, is tremendous." • Self-respect comes largely from the consciousness, of a good appearance. A man with well-polished boots will stand straighter than he who clumps the streets and crosses your parlor with brick-dust on his feet A clean. collar and faultless cuffs will sometimes-save a man from a dirty moral job as well as from filthy things of touch. John Doe in his Sunday clothes is more polite, more considerate of others, and in every way more refined than in his torn and tattered Saturday suit Change of dress has changed the man­ ners. Improvement in appearance has improved the man. We need not be­ come dudes. Neither should we decry good dressing. To teach cleanliness of person and neatness and taste in dress will sometimes be equal to preaching. We grant that the inward man controls the outward; it is true, also, that the outward exerts a powerful influence over the inward. At least » clean shirt is in harmony with a clean heart -- Morning Star. - The English Pag. fttit see -the dog which th«t Ladte i leading With a silver-plaited chair He is an English pug. What a Cyn-ic-i expres-sion his coun-ten-ance Wear does it not? But I don't suppose h can Help that. If I saw as Much < fash-ion-a-ble life as he does I suppoa I Should become cyn-ic-al too. But hope I Should Not look like him. Is h leading The lady, or is the lady Leac ing him? I give it up. Does the lad Love him? No, she does Not love hinfc She keeps him Because it is the Proper caper. When he ceases To be fash-ion- a-ble she will hit him on the head with a Club. Do you re-mem-ber when it was the Correct Thing to keep a Poodle? I do, distinctly. Ev-e-ry Swell fam-i-ly kept its pet Poodle. Sud-den-]y Poodles went out of style, and they All dis-ap-pear-ed. Whence did They go? I cannot Bfty, but 1 re-, mem-ber that their Dis-ap-pear-ance was Co-in-ci-dent with a fall m The price of Sau-sa-ges. When pet dogs are fash-ion-a-ble sau-sa-ges^ are not, and vice versa. This is cu-ri-ous, Is it not?--Tid-Bits. IT was a well-meant but novel oom- pliment from a lady, who declared to her parson she did not know which most to admire--his sermon or his wife's new dress. BIGHT habit is like the ohannel which dictates the course in whioh the rlVer shall flow, and which grows deeper and deeper with each year. --Oan you tell me what th« most important thing is in a boarding- house? Boarder--Yes, the chopping1? knife. WHEN a Scandinavian falls in love no doubt the soft words he murmurs in hi|j|v-';iR native tongue are Swedes to the Swee£«fe --Lynn Union. . 1 MANY a young man who has been to4 " bashful to propose to a girl has had he| father come into the parlor at 11 o'clock and help him out " "WELL Algernon, she greeted with a smile, did she?" "yes," Algernon, "A benign one?" "O seven-by-nine one." ' PATIENT--What do you think of J| warmer climate for me, doctor? Doctor --Great Scctt! man, isn't that what I am trying to save you from ? ? "WHAT is afoot now?" asked alt acquaintance of a reporter who wai rushing for the office. "Twelve inchett < still," said the scribe as he shot out of eight ft' PHYSICIAN--You are to take thik mixture after meals. Poor patiefnt-4 But it's very seldom, doctor, that Ifc get a meaL Physician--la that casei^ take it before meals. % IF women consent to give up theip altitudinous headgear at the theater a|i night, men, in turn, should endeavor tQ give up wearing big heads in the montr . ing.--Philadelphia North American. f, A NEEDLE was recently found in ajjr egg laid by a Philadelphia hen. Heni-'< should never try to attend to their sew| ing and cackling at the same time. Thif weakness is confined to women alone. POLICE Court Justice to tramp a^:« rested for vagrancy--"What ia vouif income, sir?" "I have noa income^ shure; it's all outcome." " What do y oj| mean by ou tcome?" "The outcome o l ; my fellow-bein'a' generosity." -- Mau and Express. THE Bushnell (111.) Record, we art pained to observe, discourages the out* gushings of native genius by inserting t in its table of advertising rates the fol­ lowing : "Obituary poetry, selected, 20 cents per line; origihal, $2.75 per lin& ' cash in advance."--Chicago TribuneJ**" "OH, yes," wrote a Bostonian, wh® believes that his own home is the coolest spot on earth irt^midsummer, "it is afl very well for you to ask me to coma down to your famous hotel for rest and change. I tried it once: the porter gol the most of the change, and the land­ lord took the rest." AFTER the opera: Twelve-year-old miss--The opera was very long, wasn't it mamma? Mamma--Yes, daughter and very stylish. Miss--The balld girls don't sing, do they mamma* Mamma--No, daughter. Miss--Why do they have the ballet, then, mammap Papa--To" make the opera as broad 4$: it is long, daughter. Don't ask anf .i? more questions.--Washington Critic. HE--The movement against the higljk hat nuisance is getting quite a boonjLp isn't it? She--Th*y are making a lcjpf of talk about it in the newspapers, bqt they will never make me take off my hat in a public hall--never. He--ll think I might bring it about, my de if I were to cut off your allowance, you didn't have a new hat every weeks you might not object so much to its removal.--Lowell Citizen. A 5-YEAR-OLD friend of ours, starting out for a children's party the othejr afternoon, remarks to the maid who ia taking Him to the place of entertain-., ment: "Well, I've made up my mini to be a perfect gentleman to-day; I' don't mean to kick a single girl." Upoji his return home he was questioned aa to his behavior by his mamma. "Well/* he said, "the only thing I did was to yell 'Chestnuts' when they played "Mikado' on the piano." Bazar. _L ; / Extraordinary and Strange. " Frank Lincoln was in London a few months ago, and while there enjoyed? the hospitality of the Wandererik* Club. At a reception which ?ras given in his honor Mr. Lincoln told thja story: A Cincinnati lawyer, named Strange, lay dying upon a bed. lip had been a man of good parts and en­ joyed the esteem of all who knew liim. The end was fast approaching whe|| the pallid lawyer rolled upon his si<f£.; and called to his most estimable wif& "What is it, dear?" the good woman asked as she placed the cold ou|> stretched hand in her own. "When I shall have been buried;**' the lawyer murmured, his pale blue eyes filling with tears, "when I shall have been buried, Mollie, rear no monument above my grave. Let my tombstone be small and of pure marble. Upon this simple slab let not my name appear. Let the stone bear this simple inscription: 'Here lies an honest lawyer.'" "But, my dear," pleaded the good wife, "how are the people to know who lies beneath the stone ?" "The inscription I have given you, if prbperly chiseled, will explain all. Per­ sons who pass by my grave will see the simple stone and read the inscription, 'Here lies an honest lawyer.' If you happen to be in the neighborhood, Mollie, you will hear each one exclaim as he turns to go away,'Well, that's Strange.'" One of the dear chappies who had been an attentive listener hurried to tho cafe just below the main floor, and meeting three of his old cronies, at- 1 -AND lister; 'they'll read the hinscription, " 'Ere lies an honest barrister," and it*a natural, you know, for them to say, "Well, that's extraordinary."' Why don't you lawf? I thought it was a hawfnlly funny story when Hi 'erd it" --Chicago Herald. Sickness at the Farm. * New Yorker--Well, Jonathan, how are things down at the farm ? Country Cousin--Well, Nancy's gol the diphtheria and the cattle are all down with pleuro-pneumonia. New Yorker--I suppose, then, )| occasions yeu a good deal of anxiety. . . Country Cousin--Well, I guess s||: I've been up every night in the la#, week with those cattle.--Tid Bits. AN impertinent fellow asked a gentle­ man at a public gathering why he had shaved off his whiskers, and. was an­ swered, that to meet some men he to- quired more cheek thanvothers. WHAT nation is the most warlike at present? Vaccination, because it's al­ ways rising up in arms. •<; 'i