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UK18H COUWK BT JAMES I.WAr.LtN. sir s; . t "There's a light In tlie eyes of mv Irish colleen; *' The a*uro blue skies nre iiat half a* serene. Nor the luum that shine dwa from their high j|!* thronoH above S Are as bright as the light in the eyes of my love. " Drink a toast to her health, ma/ she Ions reign J . as osiMrtt i: O'er my heart and my soul, my own Irish ool- M lean. Have yon seen the sun's rays chase the shad- i?s owi away ;< In the calia Hammer days when the meadows are gay V * Or the uioou beaming down on the waters at ,<* night I^eave af,i 1 vcr lined track i a i t a j)*f h-way of light ? Then ijWgc, if you can, of the lijht an<l tho gluten That flash from tho eyos of my Iriah colleen. Oh! the sparkle of gems thaV they dig from the mine; Or the doep, flashing hues from the rarest of wine; Or the lightning that gleams from the storm at night. Are gloomy and dark when compared with their light. No diamonds o'er glittered on empress or queen As bright ou tho eyes of my Irish colleeu.. Oh! the pleasure I feel when I most her at dawn, As lightly she trips it, like a gentle young fawn; How wild icy heart's pulsing, when I see her at noon, As fair as a rosebud in the sunshine of June; ' Ah > the glances 1 get when at eve on the green My arm is encircling my Irish colleen. Then a biuniwr I'll fill to my Irish colleen. Whose tonuy blue eyes are'so fair and serene That the stars that shine down from their Mpfr thrones above Would pale on the light from the eves of my love. ' . Drink a toast to her health, may she long reign as queen O'er my heart and my soul, my own Irish col­ leen. UP-HILL WORK. lE'iiuny Ntory of a liuirgy tUat Persi sted In Uoing l y Hill. BY FRED II. CAKRlTk. S was my solitary companion in tlie cabooso oi' a Dakota freight train, and to while, iv.vay the time he told tae about a trick the boys played ui>on an editor ii|> in a little Minnesota town who took his girl to a ball. Said my companion: *'One night there was a shindig out of town about a mile, at old man Plurn- mer's place. It was a big un--tliey had three fiddleis, an' the organ they bor­ rowed from the Methodist Church. Of course this 'ere Charlie Higgles--that "was his name -- this 'ere editor--of course Charlie must go. He blowed about it in his paper before hand, too, and called it a ,l.op, which prejudiced 'some agin it, too, if he had only knowed 'it. Well, he went out some six or seven miles on Gopher perairie and got old Hoss Per kin's darter to take to this hop, as he called it. They got to the r old manVn'bont dark, jess "as the head fiddler wa| turning up. " Well, the night wore on, which re­ mark I once read, and everything was . all O. K. The dancin' was kep' up lively an' ev'rybody had a good time. « Charlie, tho feller I'm talkin' 'bout, brought the girl to the blowout in one : o' these 'ere one-lioss buggies that has ^powerful small wheels in front an' pow­ erful big uns behind. Well, 'long 'bout midnight, mebby a little past, when it was as dark as a string o' black cats, 'bout twelve, or mebbv some past, I don't know exactly, some o' the boys went out to this 'ere buggy, kinder, an' sorter walked around it, "an' hefted it, an' talked a little, an' said it looked like rain, an' seized up the buggy, an' by-an'-by sorter somehow changed the wheels en the blame thing--put the be­ hind ones fbr'ard an' the f jr'ard ones behind, you see. The boys done it for la sort of u joke, I reckon. Mebby they wanted to see if a man what edited a newspaper would catch onto a buggy with its front r'ared up 'n the air like a treadmill. It made a powerful funny- lookin' buggv of it--'peared to be built some like er bufferlo--high in front an' low behind. I never seen such high- shouldered buggy before nor since. It looked 'sif it had its for'ard feet up'nthe • manger reachin' over into the oat bin. "Well, the night wore some more, till 1 o'clock, when Charlie, this 'ere youth what thought he could run a paper, said lie guessed they better go home. So he hitched up, an' old Hoss' darter put on her dry goods--her wraps an' fixin's- an' went out an' got in the buggy with Charlie. Still dark's the inside of a cow -no moon for a month, an' the stars all clouded under. 'There's something wrong with this 'ere buggy,' says old :Hoss' girl. 'No, nothin' the matter,' <says Charlie, 'we're jest goin' up hill, that's all,' an' then they both leaned for'­ ard to keep from fallin' over back'ards. "Tho girl still thought there was sometliin' out o' whack with the convey­ ance, an' said she allowed she'd have to tie a flatiron to her feet to keep from goin' out behind. 'Don't git accited,' says Charlie, 'we'se jess goin' up old Dad Hawkin's hill.' So they kep' nag- gin' along, slow like, an' Charlie let the boss stop an' rest ev'ry little ways, 'cause he said it must be 'powerful hard •work to draw up such a steep hill. So they kep' pokiu" 'long, pokin' long, an' Charlie 'lowed to get out an' walk if the lull got much steeper. So they leaned for'ards, an' part o' the time hung onto the dashboard with their hands if they did strike a little hill, an' kep' snailin 'long, snailin' 'long. "•A good deal of the time they stopped to let the hoss catch his breath, it bein' such a powerful long hill, an' then they'd sit there quiet as a pot o' paint, an' think. By-an'-by the girl begun to get spunky. 'I've traveled this 'ere road before,' she said, 'aa' I never seen no such monstrous hill.' 'Oh, that's all right,' says Charlie, 'we're now goin' up old Pap Nell's hill.' 'But where is the holler between old Dad Hawkin's hill an' old Pap Nell's hill ?' say3 Jule--her juanie .was Jule. 'I 'low as how the jjRoad Commissioners must 'a' filled it up iand made one long hill,' says Charlie. "So they leaned for'ards an' kep' a jmoseyin' 'long slow, an' lettin' the hoss rest so he wouldn't be all tired out when •hey got to the top o' the hill, an' still lit was dark as the inside of a infidel. Mebby half a nour they didn't say nothin', and then says Charlie: 'Jule,' feays he, 'this does 'pear to be a some- .what lengthy hill--seems 'sif some at- jmcspheric inflooence must 'a' length­ ened it cut.' That's what he said, at- jmospheric inflooence. "They poked a couple o' miles fnrder, all the time easy on the hoss: Then says Jule: 'We must be on the wrong •road,' says she. 'You can't fool me, Mr. Higgles.' 'Mebby we be,' says Charlie; '1 reckon we might bear off to the right.' So they jagged off to the right, an' went a mile, still up hill. Then they jagged to the left stiiluphill. 'Then they jagged in all directions, and pretty soon, after goin* straight up a long, steep hill for two miles, they turned squar' round an' started back, Imt they still had to hang onto the dashboard to keep from fallin' out be­ hind. " 'Well, smitten^ Caesar!' veiled Charlie, 'if this &n't the blamedest Country I over got iflto!' an' then he hit Ihe old hews a welt with the end of the lines. 1 reckon V*e'U get out o' this somehow, if we kill a Iionf An' then they went tearin' 'round on that perairie with the hoss on the dead run, an* Charlie a yellin'. SSufferin' Washing­ ton !' howls Charlie, 'it's all hill, no mat­ ter where we go, but 111 get out of it or bust!' Then he swung the lines some more, and Jule hung onto the dash-board an' had the histories. They kep' a goin' for pretty near a nour, Charlie gettin' mad­ der 'n' madder, an' Jule more histor­ ical. " TJout then it begun to git a little light, »n' Charlie happened to look at the wheels. There to each side of him, as lie hung onto the dash-board, them hind wheels was a loomin' up. each like the fly-wheel on a haw-mill engine. Then he stopped the hoss an' wilted. Jule seen the wheels, too, but she didn't wilt. 'We'll kinder keep this thing quiet,' says Charlie; 'we won't mention t to nobody--mum's the word.' "#'Yes, we will,' says Jule, a-risin* an' climbin' out; 'yes, we ll keep it quiet, you low-down, deceitful man. We'll hush it up, we will--p'r'aps! Haul me all over the perairie in such a lookin' thing, will you, an' tell me we're goin uphill! Good-bye, sir, our paths kin­ der sep'rate an' lay apart at this p'int!' an' she struck off across the country, ten miles, for home, an' left Charlie a thinkin', not loud but deep. "He didn't know how to ftx the wheels, of course, so he came into town with them as they was, in 'bout two hours, still thinkin' quiet, but powerful deep 3§own." _ Good Rules for Riding and Driving. When the horse is taken out for either riding or driviug, it should not be allowed to move at a fast pace for the first mile or more, otherwise, as its stomach is then full, it may injure its- wind and bring on the heaves. A good rule to observe before putting the horse up to a fast gait is to let it dung three times. This relieves the bowels to a moderate extent. If necessary to stop when out, and a cold wind prevails, put the horse under cover and blanket; if one is not to be had, then hitch on the lee side of some building. If in summer, put in a shade as clear from flies and mosquitoes as possible; if tlierg is no net, cover with a cotton sheet or light blanket. The best strap for hitch­ ing is one that buckles around the neck, as it holds more securely than a haltei or bridle rein, which are liable to be slipped. In crossing a river or bay in a steamboat or other conveyance in "cold weather, or facing a raw or strong wind on the road, hang a short, thick blanket from the neck spread in full breadth over the chest, to guard from taking cold. When the exposure ceases, re­ move it. Returning home from a ride or drive of some extent, if the horse is sweaty, let tlie last mile be done slowly, that it may be cooled a little before reaching the stable. Some blanket as soon as the harness is taken eff; others contend that it is better to rub as dry aa possible and then blanket. But which will be preferable will depend some­ thing on the weather and the nature of the horse, whether to dry quickly, or to sweat longer and copiously. Examine the shoes, and if gravel or any hard substance has got between them and the hoofs, pick it out. Dur­ ing this time the horse may safely take two to four quarts of water, at a moder­ ate temperature if in the summer and warmer if in the w inter. After being well cooled give all the water the horse will drink. Now wait a short time and then feed a little hay at first, after which his ration of grain or meal. Never let a horse stand or wade in water when he is hot, as it would en­ danger foundering him unless the water is quite warn, and perhaps even then. If ever forced to do tlm, exercise him well after it, fctid when stabled rub the legs thoroughly dry down to the hoofs; then he would probably escape founder. --Mx. , Two Sides to a Character. A writer in the Troy Northern Bud­ get has a good word for the railroad Hog. According to this person, to know the American you must .see all sides oi him. On a train between Jersey City and Paterson a poorly-dressed woman, carrying a baby in her arms, walkec through two coaches and was unable tc find a seat. The railroad Hog was there. In a dozen cases he had the whole seat to himself, and he meant to keep it. The woman finally found refuge in the smoking-car, ^n<l by and by the Hog went forward to enjoy a Havana and found her crying. " What's the matter ?" "Baby is very ill, sir." "And where are you going?" " To my sister's. My husband is dead and I have no home." "Have you any money?" "Not a dollar, sir." "Umpli! Sorry for you. Let me hand you this." The Hog has been robbed of his bristles. Woman's tears have melted his selfishness. He returned to his car, gathered the other Hogs -about him, and said: " Come down! Poor widow--sick baby --no home. Come down." The Hogs went down for their wallets, and in ten minutes the sum of $40 was put into the woman's hand, and the Boss Hog observed: "There---there--it's all right--not a word! Now come back here!" And as she followed him into the coach a dozen Hogs rose up and in­ sisted that she take their seats, and all gathered round her to voice the senti­ ment : Poor woman! Poor baby; Isn't there something we can do for you ?" The railroad Hog can't" be crowded, but he can be melted. Electrical Filaments. Some interesting electrical exper­ iments have been described to the Lon­ don Physical Society by Mr. C. V. Boys. If sealing-wax, 'india-rubber, Canadv balsam, or any other sticky sub­ stance, be poured from a cup in a melted state upon the conductor of an elec­ trical machine, it will begin to throw out threads in an extraordinary manner. When the resinous matter is very hot, the fibers are large, and sometimes they may be so small as to be almost in­ visible. Each fiber shoots out as a cylinder with remarkable speed, then breaks into minute beads, which can be made to patter against a drum-head with the noise of filing rain. The cup should be turned away from both operator and machine, or both will be covered with a wonderful sticky web. When a candle is held near, the filaments slioot into the flame and sometimes cover the can­ dle, though sometimes they return to the cup after approaching* the flame, in consequence of discharging their elec­ tricity into the latter. Miles of these sticky threads may be drawn out in a few minutes, and the breaking into beads offers a ready means of powdering sub­ stances not easily pulverised in ordinary ways.--Arkansatc Traveler. HASDT TIHNG8. An In nan* Polly Tliat fonsMMi Most of Us at Times Md Makes L's Lota of Needless Trouble. [Zenas Dane, in Detroit Free Press.] What sort of insane folly is it that possesses some of us at times, and makes us save all our odds and ends of every description under the delusion that they •will "come handy" some time? They never do "come handy," but we cling to them with great tenacity instead of hav­ ing the good sense to bestow them on the ash man as his rightful preroga­ tives. My wife and I have well developed economical tendencies, and we pride ourselves on never wasting a thing that may "be useful" or "come handy" at any time in the dim future. I have read of men 'of wealth, who traced the beginning of their riches back to the time when they carefully saved pieces of twine, never cutting it from a bundle, but carefully untying it and laying it away for future use, until they must have had a barrel or two of old twine lying around some place. Once I read of a millionaire who set his fellow-men an example of thrift by get­ ting out of his carriage and picking up a rusty nail he saw by the roadside, and I emulated his example until I had about forty pounds of old, rusty, bent, and broken nails lying around; and about once in six months I used a pound or two of them in trying to find one that I could drive into a board without bend­ ing or breaking. At last I sold the lot for old iron and got 10 cents for them. Then I began to reform. The other day I began reforming my wife. I was cleaning out the accumulation of years in a closet in the basement and piling most of its contents up for the ash man when my wife came down stairs. "There are some things in that closet I want saved," she said, "they'll come handy some time." But I resoived to be firm. "You don't want this?" I said, hold­ ing up an old tea-kettle without any spout and with six big holes in the bot­ tom of it. "Well, it might come handy for some* thing some day." I tossed it into the ash barrel and held up a pair of very old boots, dis­ carded four years ago, and now green with mold. "No use in saving these, is three?" I asked. "Well, I don't know. A little piece of leather often conies handy in the house for a hinge or something." I called to mind a pair of leather hinges I once made, and the boots fol­ lowed the tea-kettle. "What do you want this rusty old hoopskirt for?" "Oh, apiece of hoopskirt wire often comes in use in a house." "It hasu't been asked for in this house since be'fore the war," I said. "Here's mi old hat of mine that's been lying iirouud nine years. Better throw it away, hadn't I ?" "Well, perhaps so. I've often thought of giving it to some poor man, but I for­ get it ever time a tramp comes around. I gave it to one tramp and he went off and left it on the front gate post." "Showed his good sense," I said "Do you want all these old broken dishes ?" "Yes. I'll have them all mended some day. I've intended having it done for five years." When her back was turned they went into the asli barrel. ^ "No use in saving-these old bottles, eh?" "Well, a bottle's a handy thing to have around. Better save them." "My dear," I said, "here are at least seventy-five old bottles, and to my cer­ tain knowledge we don't use one a year, ami I thiuk we can trust pur great- great great-great grandchildren to get their own bottles; so hero they go." In the same daring, reckless way, I threw away three old bustles, old bon­ nets, breeches, lamps, skillets, liair- combiugs, shoes, sawdust, tin pans, old papers, popcorn, wormy walnuts, soap grease, broken lamps, spoutless teapots, bottomless coffeepots, cracked kettles, and 10,000 other things that had for years and years waited their turn to "come handv," but which never would or could "come handy" in this world or in the world to come. flow to Make Good Coffee. Coffee is rarely prepared with the care and attention which is necessary to make it a jjopular stimulant. Even the ber­ ries require already a speciial treatment before they can yield the precious bev­ erage. They ought to be washed with warm water and dried again several times before they are roasted. The roasting, in itself, is an operation re­ quiring great caution. Berries which are roasted to a dark brown color have no aroma at all but a pungent burnt taste. The more the berries are crushed, the better and stronger is the liquor prepared therefrom. Well-made coffee extract, for which we can make a liquor more or less strong, as we like it, by merely pouring more or less hot water on it, is prefera­ ble to any other way of making coffee. There is a very simple way of getting at the nourishing^ gluten in the coffee, namely, by adding a small quantity of bicarbonate of soda. The gluten is easily dissolved in all alkaline waters, containing an excess of carbonic acid. For this reason the Dutch, and many coffee judges in Germany, boil their coffee in mineral water, and this is why we get such excellent coffee in certain cities or baths, because the wells there contain so much carbonate of soda. To prepare coffee in a chemically cor­ rect manner, put the ground coffee on the filter sieve, add a pinch of bicarbon­ ate of soda, aud spread the coffee evenly, and press it down tightly. Cover with the larger sieve plate and pour a small quantity of boiling water over it, just to moisten the charge of coffee. Ee peat the pouring of hot water in somewhat larger quantities, but al­ ways put the lid on the filter sieve, and continue to do so until the pot contains and aromatic, oilv, very dark extract.. Then take off the funnel and dilute with hot water until the extract has the usual strength of a good coffee. This coffee has all the aromatic prop­ erties of the berry. It is nourishing, as it contains gluten, and a proper pro­ portion of tannin, and is free from burnt and bitter substances.--Practical Con­ fectioner. Wanted--A New Amusement. The man that shall invent a new pup- ular diversion, that is, something brand new, not a modification from the antique, will indeed be a genius. Human in­ genuity has long siuce exhausted itself in devices for the entertainment of man, and in searching for new things one only travels in a circle. Here is the patent roller coast, for instance, which is nearly a hundred years old, having been used in Paris early in the present century, When the contrivance was called "The Bussiaa Mountains," because of th* re­ semblance of the sport of sliding over the snow-clad hills and ice-cooled vales of the northern country. A picture of the contrivance in an old Paris magazine shows that it was almost identical with the roller coast which is now found in many seaside resorts and picnic grounds. They have lately been talking in Paris of reviving the amusement, -- Boston Transcript. ! Corean Habits and Customs. Among the interesting papers read at the recent meeting of the American As­ sociation for the advancement of science in Philadelphia, was one on "Interviews with a Corean." According to this paper,, the relations between father and son in Corea are strict and severe. When a son comes into a room where his father sits he must stand with his hands folded until invited to sit. He sweeps his father's room, makes the bed, and rises early to make the lire, even at midnight. If the son wakes up at night, hungry or cold, he inquires if hts parents are hungry or cold also. Boy­ hood lasts until married. All property belongs to the father until he dies, no matter how much the son earns. If the son lives in a separate house, then he lias his earnings, but if his father should have no money he can sell his son's house. After the death of the father the money goes to the eldest son. The daughters are perfectly free about the house. They are familiar with the father and their brothers and act a good deal like spoiled children. Male and female servants do not sit down together in the same room. Servants are inher­ ited. They are bought and sold. Loyal servants work and support their masters when poor. The higher classes employ private tutors for the education of their children. In olden times there were public schools in Corea. The schools of the country are now of a private character. Five rules are drilled into the children from the earliest age: To obey their father; respect their elder brothers, be loyaHo the king, resjiect- ful to their wife, aud true to their friends. Coreans eat rice, soup, and fluid with a spoon. In this respect they different from other Asiatic tribes, like the Chinese, Japanese, and Manchurians, who employ, as a rule, chopsticks. At the table they never speak, and always eat slowly. In passing dishes both hands must beased. To use one is con­ sidered impolite. In eating rice, which is always eaten with a spoon, if the first spoonful is dropped, it is considered a sign of bad luck. Unlike Europeans, they believe the number thirteen to be lucky, but they agree with them in considering a horse-shoe over the door as bringing good luck with it. They also, as the people do here, get over bad dreams by saying that dreams go by contrary. lit occupying a new house the first thing they do is to have a woman carry in a bunch of matches. This insures pros­ perity. If the ear itches it is a sign that some one is talking about you; if it is the chin,, that cake will be received. If a Corean dreams of a Buddliist priest, he considers himself in danger of being poisoned. The hooting of the owl is thought to announce the death of the master of the house. Money found is considered bad luck, as it is gained with­ out labor, and every even-balanced Corean will spend it before he enters a house. This, he thinks, will avert aajr calamity.--Ch ristian Advocate. Fabulous Animals. Of the many fabulous animals having their habitat in the Mongolian mind, says the Sic it'$ Cross, none is more completely domesticated and univer­ sally believed in than is the dragon rep­ resented upon the national flag, giving name to the throne, and having number­ less images in temples. They know each other's thoughts, plans, and wishes without intercommunication. Like all the other gods, they go once a year to the superior heavens to make an annual report to the Supreme Ruler; but they go in the third month, at which time none of the other gods dare appear; and their stay above is but brief. They generally remain in the depths of the ocean, where their courts are filled with their progeny, dependents and attend­ ants, and where the* gods and genii sometimes visit them. Their palaces of diverse-colored transparent stones, with crystal doors, are said to have been seen in the early morning by persons gazing into the deep waters. A fine Chinese scholar of my acquaintance, a graduate, gravely assured me that he had seen a dragon moving through the heavens in a storm and that he had had a distinct though distant view of his tail. To see one indicates good luck, and they are seldom seen by any but the right­ eous. It is said that the fish and ser­ pents that live to a vast age are finally transformed into dragons. Another animal frequently represented in bas- relief on the walls of temples, and sup­ posed to appear when a sage is born, is the Chinese unicorn. It has a body like a deer with the head and tail of a lioii. It lia-ra horn on its forehead, and 43 often pictured with the eight precious writing implements undents feet. One appeared in the time of Confucius, and the boor who saw it killed it, saying, "It is neither tiger, ox," nor pig." Con­ fucius saw its dead body, and bemoaned its being so uncommon that no one had recognized it. The well-known phoenix lives among mountains and lays cubical eggs. It is several feet high and has a long neck, long legs, and a long plumy tail. It has a resplendent variegated plumage, slim wings, a sharp tongue, and gleaming eyes. It gazes at the sun and moon, faring east by day and west by night. Its voice is flute-like, and when it calls, tigers flee away and all birds assemble around it to do obei­ sance. Its nest has never been found though its young have been seen. It only appears when a wise sovereign is about to be born. It affiliates with the dragon and dragons are sometimes hatched from its eggs. A Judgment Dress. Old Mrs. H , of Mackinac, was one of the most penurious of women. When she lay dying she told her daughter to bring her a many-colored plaid silk dress which she had always worn for best, and ordered her to divest it of its back breadths. "They are full enough to make you a goWn," said the old women, "and the front will be all I need." "If that's what you want of it," said the girl as she stopped ripping, "you can have it all. I wouldn't be seen alive in the old thing, and I should think, mother, that you wouldn't want to go flamming around at the day of judg­ ment with only half a dress on." That settled it, and the old woman was buried in the whole gown. --De­ troit Free Press. AT a Newport festivity a brilliant fea­ ture was a hunting quadrille danced by a dozen ladies in red hunting coats with a dozen -ladies each .wearing red THE NATIONAL GAME. not BBOTHKRHOOn OF PROrKSSIOV- AL BASE-BALl. FLAVtBS. JUtan Ward Says They Are Satisfied with the Present Arrangement, and that Were Will Be No Trouble -- Miscellane* ous News and Gossip of the lHainonu. [CHICAGO COBBESPOKDF.NCE.] John M. Ward, the great short-stop of the New York Ciub, and President of the Brotherhood of Ball Playom, while in Pittsburg last week, was shown a news­ paper article to the effect that the Broth­ erhood had decided to mnlte a fight o:i the reserve role, and not to be bound by it another-season, and that Ward had been chosen as the player to make the test. Members of the New York Club without exception laughed at it as absurd and characterized it as a "fairy story." Ward, who, according to the article, is to sustain the burden of the attack, read it careful­ ly, and, asking for paper and pencil, wrote as follows: "The story is absolutely without foun­ dation. If any such move were contem­ plated, certainly I should know of it. There has never been a season before, within my recollection, in which 6uch (perfect good faith has been maintained >etween clubs and players. Since the meeting of the League and Brotherhood last full the best of feeling has prevailed all around. There are one or two minor affairs that should yet be adjusted, and doubtless will be without friction, but that there is any snch move to be made as outlined is absolutely untrue. " Dan Brouthers, who is Vice President of the Brotherhood, and Haulon, another leading light, denounce the sensation in fully as strong terms as did Ward. All say they are well satisfied with the reserve rule, and want it maintained when not abused. Ward says ho expects to be re­ served by New York, and play there next season. In speaking of the proposed Australian trip, President Spalding, of the Chicago Club, said the other day: "The Ameri­ can team is nearly complete, although there may be new additions. I have just signet! John Healy, of the Indianapolis Club, and James Donnelly, of the Wash­ ington team. So yon see that all the Lengue teams are lepresentedin the combination." Spalding and Anson will spend the win­ ter on the Australian trip, but let no one suppose for a moment that the Chicago magnate's interest in the League or tae Chicago Club will be forgotten. Tim Murnan in New England and an equally trusty man in the Northwest have their instructions from headquarters; and let it be understood that, while there will be no wholesale change in the ranks of the team as now composed, it will carry a greater force of seasoned and unseasoned but promising bat" ery talent neit year than any club in the League. The result of the work (Tone by the League pitchers up to date is as follows: Won. Lott-I Woir. Lost, Keefe as 1*. Conway 26 Clarkson 24 Kroc 21 Welch 21 Butfinton 21 Morris 19 Galvin. 17 Howders 16 IVhltiioy 15 O'Pav ..15 (retzein ...15 Vnn Haltran... .13 M. Baldwin 12 Casey 12 Boyle 12 Saiiders..., 11 Healy 11 Titcomb.. ft Staley. # TREES THAT LITE 19 FABLES. OShreve... 8 (ileaRon 7 1(> timber 8 11 AViduer S l4:Moc1<len 8 11 I). Conway • 4 It; ltorcbers 4 18 BurUick 4 10 liadboura 4 14 Hvan 3 21 1'fano 3 21.Beatin 3 12 Dailof 3 13 Mains. 1 14 (to< rg# 1 10 Knell 1 (> Tener, 0 IBiMaul 0 7|Sliaw.. 0 91 A few weeks ago Pfeffer, the great sec­ ond baseman of the Chicago Club, stopped smoking, thinking it would aid him in batting. His mother, who is all wrapped up in her son's welfare, anxiously watched his record to see if he did better. She discovered that he was falling awav and getting farther down the list every day, so she wiote him to again commence smok­ ing and see if he couldn't hit the ball. He received the letter last Friday night, aud, acting on his mother's advice, smoked three or four cigars before retiring. So far it has had the desired result, for he won the game Saturday by timely hitting and made a total of six with five times at bat in Monday's game. "I see that Anson is claiming as original the idea of removing the pitcher to the center of the diamond, so as to make bat­ ting better," said Umpire Ferguson to an Eastern reporter. "Why, I was the first one to suggest it, and not only to suggest it, but to try it. It was in Chicago, and Bond was one of tjje pitchers. Both pitch­ ers were hit very hard. I am satisfied thnt something like this will be tried next sea­ son. " The Cleveland# have been shut out more times this season than any team in the Association. They have received ten coats of whitewash. Kansas City is next ou the list with nine. Brooklyn has been shut out seven times, Cincinnati six, Louisville and Baltimore fivo each, St. Louis fonr, and the Athletics are at the tail end of the list with only three. DIAMOND DUST. Dwyer will prove a valuable addition to the Chicagos. Detroit leads the League in club batting and New York in club fielding. Dan Brouthers leads the Detroit team in batting and fielding. Anson will have some more $10,000 pitchers to sell next season. Dalrymple has been released from fhe Pittsburgs. President Young says there will be no change in the League next season. The present clubs will all remain in. Tho Ball-Players' Brotherhood will make a strong fight at the fall League meeting to do awny with the reserve rule. Anson does not deserve ill-treatment at Chicago's hands. The old man is the salvation of this city as a ball town. At least so thinks a Boston exchange. President Young, of the League, thinks the only possible method of increasing the batting without disturbing things too much is to move the pitcher back five feet. Keefe, of New York, hasHvon the most games in the National /League: King, of St. Louis, in the Association; Lovett, of Omaha, in the Western; and'Sowders, of Lima, in the Tri-State. { Hoy, of the Washingtons, has been for­ tunate in stealing second base this season, but when he once makes the attempt and is thrown out it destroys all his ambition to make a second* attempt in the same game. Boston can boast of being the only city to support a professional team since 1870 without a break. Chicago comes next, but during the year when the fire almost de­ stroyed the city the national game received a set-back. It has been stated that this will prob­ ably be Fred Dunlap's last season upon the ball field. The injury the great sec­ ond-baseman of the Pittsburg Club sus­ tained some time since has turned out to be of a more serious nature thau was at first anticipated. There have been G%jjhut-outs' in the League this season an(0!> in the Associa­ tion. The Chicagos have been shut out five times. An Eastern paper states that Buck Ewing had a chance to go to Australia, but declined. That is possibly true, for the ship sails regularly. He never could ;et a chance to go there under President Ipalding's invitation. The Boston Herald authoritatively re­ marks: "If New York wins the League pennant this season, the Boston team for 1889 will be organized with special reference to taking it away from her next year. Then look out for sport." A1 Spalding is quoted as saying that Cincinnati and Cleveland will be bidders for Detroit's franchise and team, should Detroit decids to retire this winter. There is a Breton legend that the afoss was made of the mountain' ash, bnt the aspen is the tree usually ac­ corded this eminence. In consequence of this, its leaves perpetually tremble: Still, when not a breeze is fitirrintv ' When the mint t-leeps on the Uiai:;(;>:y ' And all other trees are moveless. ^ ' Simula the aspen trembling still. A The "tree of 1" 'j" was not merelv a figure of speecn in ancient belief. Many Greek and Persian families claimed descent from trees* Cadnms sprang from a tree, the Archameiiidiff claimed a similar descent; and even Mars, according to one legend, was the offspring of li tree. Pliny says there stood before the temple of Quirinus, at Rome, two myrtle trees--one the patri­ cian, the other the plebian--aud that as these orders of society grew or dimin­ ished in importance, its tree flourished or pined. In Norse cosmogony, the tree plays an important part. It is here the woolil- tree--Yggdrasil--whose foliage is the clouds, the stars its fruit, and the sea its bed. At its foot bubbles the fountain of life, and from its branches tire was brought to man. Under it sit the throe Nornes, who weave the events of man's life. It's roots extend into the highest heaven and into the deepest hell. This tree was an ash, and another legend says Odin created Adam from the ash and Eve from the elm.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Amoxg savage tribes the tree is often a god. The Ojibwavs thought that cer­ tain trees were deities and made offer­ ings to them. The Dacotahs worshiped many trees, especially medicine wood. Carolinia Indians venerated the youpon, or wild tig tree; the Mayas recognized a divinity in the trees; * the Tepanecs worshiped them, and Darwin saw a tribe which venerated a tree, the home of a deity called Wallecliu. ^ They poured libations through a hole bored in it, and around it were the bones of horses that had been sacrificed. Indian tribes generally worshiped trees, and some thought that they sprang from them. Darien tribes descended from trees, and some of the Aztecs claimed their origin from two trees in a wooded gorge. The oak is a tree celebrated in my­ thology and folk-lore. Many of the events of the early Jewish history are connected with it, and the oak of Sheckem, the oaks of Bashan, and other trees of the same kind seem to attest the importance of this tree. It was even more important to the Druids, who venerated it and its parasite, the mistle­ toe. Mysterious properties were some­ times accorded to oak trees. In one part of Englaud ague was cured by passing the sufferer under an oak branch that had taken root in the ground. Near certain cross-roads in Hertford­ shire stood an oak which was approached to effect a cure for the same malady. This was done by pegging a lock of hair into the tree and wrenching if from the head. Hasty Marriages. It might save the high contracting parties a great deal of future trouble were ministers not so speedy in marry­ ing any unknown young couple, who, being to him entire strangers, present themselves for that purpose. The Cath­ olic priests refuse until they know some­ thing of the position and parentage of the would-be bride. Marriage often proves a very serious ^ affair--in about two years after it is consummated. No­ body knows how they're going to like anybody until he or she has kept com­ pany with the other some time and un der a variety of circumstances. You want to know how the craft will work in foul weather as well as fair. This courtship business is very much like the polish on your boots. It wears only in the sunshine. Of course, the man must smile and smile and be a villain while he's wooing, and she, too, or she may not be wooed. There is in this a great deal of rank villainy on both sides. They are unconscious of it. But the villainy is there, all the same. They're acting parts. The world is full of such performances, day and evening. Sad, though, that such parts can't last all their lives. Thus: Time, candlelight, Place, front parlor, nicely lit up; things all slicked up. She, more or less dressed for company. He, ditto. Can't see her but two or three times a week. Stays two or three hours. Both coo. They seldom caw. The cawing comes after marriage, when both are eating crow. Silken sentiments and soft, soporific songs. He goes home in a dream of bliss. She, ditto. That's the way it should be years and veal's after they're made one. The trouble is, they may never be really made one. The* liasty marriage sen-ices by a minister who knows not but the groom has another wife, Mi's. Somebody stowed away somewhere, and possibly a responsibil­ ity or two besides, does not make them one. After death comes judgment. After hasty marriages comes often the death of this delusion and the decease of what they supposed was love for one another. What is done in such a hurry isn't so easy to be undone, when so often in after time both parties secretly wish it could be undone. It's like the "granny knot" in a reef point, easy to be tied by the "lubber," but hard to untie. But go on, children. Lots more of you will do the same thing. The tire is burning and hot, and lots of teuder lingers must be burned. --New York- Star. • ? He Tarried the Tables. Once on a time some young French­ men started a journal. On the day after the appearance of the first num­ ber the office was * visited by a little, stout man, neatly dressed, with cotton gloves, and an air of simple good nature. He politely asked for a copy to see the style of the paper, as he had the inten­ tion of subscribing if % * * "Give the gentleman a copy!" cried Jules Nor- iac, the editor. The little man thanked him, bowed, and left. Next week back he was again. "Not bad for the first number: not bad," he said to the clerk; "must see if it holds out." "We hope so," said the clerk. "Well, well, sir," he replied, "I am in the dry goods busi­ ness, I am; some things are good at tirst, but fade. . I will subscribe if the color stands." "Give the gentleman number two!" cried the editor. Nine times did the dry goods man return and nine times did he get a number for nothing. On the tenth occasion Noriac was there when he called. " Very good," said the dry goods man. "I like it; yes I like it, and if it keeps its color i'« this number I will subscribe next time." "Give the gentleman two copies," said the editor; then, taking the editorial scissors, he deliberately approached the shopkeeper and. cut out of the tail of his frock coat a square of cloth. " What on earth are you doing ?* he exclaimed. "Taking a sample of your goods," said Noriac, "and if it keeps its oolor I will bay » piece. "--Argonaut. ILLINOIS NEWS BUDGET. *t»ar*s xxcidests that lATEtY OCCITBStn, An Interesting Summary of the MMv s||5 port ant Dolnys of Oar Neighbors--W«d- «Hngs stHl Beathi -- Crimen, Cusaitiw, >»d General Xsw* Motes. --James McDonnell, living on Des- phvines street, Chicago, was run over aa£ killed by a Saata Fe train at Joliet. He jphs endeavoring to climb on tbe train tc 'return to Chicago, and fell under the wheels. ; --Joseph H. Guard, aged 73, father ei Mrs. H. C. Fisk and Mrs. B. S. Wood­ ruff, of Decatur, was kille 1 in a runaway accident near Philo. He was expecting to ' celebrate his golden wedding Oct. 20. « --The Illinois Grand Lodge of Xnights of Hot or, iu session at Decatur, adjourned to meat at Springfield in September, 1890, ? biennial meetings to be held hereafter. W. D. Dunning, of Chicago, was elected Grand Dictator, nnd H. F. Day, of Moawe- qna. Grand Recorder. • ' •--The Monticello jury in the HotmM murder case found the defendant guilty of manslaughter and fixed his punishment it twelve years in prison. X motion for» n6w trial was entered. --The Eighty-ninth Illinois Volunteer* held their fourth annual reunion in Aurora. H. C. Mohanna, of Belle Plaine, . Iowa, was elected President; J. W. Swic- kard, of Galva, Vice President; IT L. Evans, of Joliet, Treasurer; and J. K. Young, of Bristol, Secretary. --The case of Texas fever brought from Missouri to the farm of C. J. Berry, neai Jacksonville, has been quarantined. --One of the ancient relics in Perry County is a book owned bv Mrs. Chester A. Reyes, Sr., of Duquoin, whose husband was one of the founders of that city. The bbok is small in size, four by six inches, but contains 372 pages. It was printed in London, England, in 1707, and is therefore 187 years old. As the title page says, it was "Done into English" by Dr. George Hickes, and printed for Jonah Bowyer at the Bose, corner of St. Panl's churchyard, in Ludgate street. London. The title of the volume is "Instructions For the Educa­ tion of a Daughter, by the author of Telemachns; to which is added a small tract of instructions for the conduct of young ladies of the highest rank with suit- s able devotions annexed." The first page contains a very finely executed engraving done by M. V. Gucht, sculptor, and la entitled "Wisdom Is the Principle Thing. Solom." The book is handsomely bound in red morocco and tastefully trimmed with gold stripes. The old- fashioned type is used, and the last wool on each page is rapeated on the succeed­ ing pnge. The volume is dedicated to h^r Grace the Duchess of Ormond, by Dr. Hickes, who translates it from the French author, Monsieur De La Whetardy, a gen- ; tleman of the French Court, who wrote it for the j onng Princess of Nantes, and to whom it originally was dedicated. The Duke of Beaufort, f.ither of her Graee the Marquise of Worcester; her eldest broth­ er, an 1 the family confessor, Dr. Morley, Bishop of Wintor, are all mentioned in the dedication. The book was inherited from M. 8. Harrison in 1736, and thence in a direct line to Mrs. C. A. Keyes, Sr., to Chester A. Keyes, Jr., Jan. 1, 1861. Many theologians and citizens have close­ ly and admiringly examined the ancieiit curiosity, and pronounce it a wonderfully well-preserved relic of long ago. Mrs. Keyes has been offered large sums of money for the book, the last offer refused l>eing one of $1,000. . < --The State fair openea at Olney the 25tb, and was largely attended. A good rain fell the Saturday prior, leaving the roads in fine condition and the farmers turned out well. The display of lite stock was excellent, surpassing all previ- '• ous exhibits. The entries in the coach and draft horse department were very large, and the show of • fancy drivers and trotters was a third larger than last year. The poultry' and swine exhibit was very fine and the sheep pens were well filled. 'I he fair was one of the most successful held for years. --Wollert Johnson, on insine man, liv­ ing at 5208 LaSalle street,' Chicago, mads • a probably fatal assault upon his aged mother. The man has been mentally un- . sound for over two years, and receutly has at times been violently insane, though no qae suspected be was dangerous. Early in the evening he went to a drawer in the kitchen pantry, secured a large butcher- knife, and, without warning, plunged it into bis mother's throat, making a ghastly wound. Again he made a thrust, t)ie keen blade punctui ing the throat near the first • wound. The old lady dropped apparently lifeless to the fioor. Believing her to he dead, the maniac left the horse and went to the woodshed. An alarm was quickly given and an officer hnstened to the shed, where he found Johnson hanging to a beam. The man was not yet dead, and the officer cut him down. Johnson was re­ suscitated and arrested. He gave a coher­ ent account of himself and seemed to have recovered from his dementia, but when ( told of his crime did not appear to have any recollection of it. He was overcome with grief and said he loved his mother devotedly. Mrs. Johnson was cared for as quickly as surgeons could be secured*,!^ they pronounced the case hopeless. --Mrs. Emily J. Bea&ley, an old residant • <jt Champaign, died, aged seventy years. --Z. Brown, an old resident of Godfnqr, , was swindled out of $2,500. A man call- , ing himself Dr. Williams, claiming to be from New Jersey, had ingratiated himself ixto the confidence of Mr. Brown, pretend­ ing to want to buy his fainu Williams npi>e»red at Brown's farm and offend , Mr. Brown a large sum for the farm, which was accepted. Brown was induced to put up $2,50l> as a forfeit if he did not keep his bargain. They drove into town together, and Brown drew the money from the bank. Williams put the money into a bos, or appealed to, and then hand­ ed the box back to Brown, telling him be could keep it. Williams made some ex­ cuse and went away. Soon Brown opened the box and the money wa* gone. Will­ iams had played sdmc slight-of-hand trick. --F. Althoff, who has a family at SIS South Church street, Belleville, was killed by falling under the wheels of a freight train at the depot in Mattoos. He was oa his return fiom Tern Hll|% where he had been hunting fay