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- w r 1 1 -U nwi I HI • [' mm TO %p tfcs i r this pMfm shfM fcn >«Q»IM»i11ll--f •• «W.li«W»lWM wrt AM--.ta >W» ix fools other men •rot Ton can always discover that is injurious; the food that tastes good. , WHEH a man has a bad habit, and admits that he can't help it, the devil is la foil coatroL THERE is something VERY discourag­ ing and disgusting about a divorce suit, and there are BO many of them. IT is always allowable for an old man to act youog, aud always safe for a girl of fourteen to octUHe ft woman of forty. i A FINE pussy cat in a Chester, Pa., family jumped for a rat, caughts its neck ribbon on a nail and strangled to death. THE grave du* to receive the body of William P. Weidner, of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, was eleven feet long and nine feet wide. EVERT time a man says he can't atand it, he remembers that he is standing it, and that be will continue to stand it for the rest of hi* life. AN Oregon town has been enjoying some queer foot contents. One foot race over plowed ground and another over railroad ties, each for a large stake* are among the unique events. THE biggest orange tree in Jieiirtsinna is claimed to be in Terrebone Parish. It is fifteen feet In circumference and fiftv feet high The yield this year is expected to re»ch 10,000 oranges. GERMANY'S squadron of evolution will be sent out in two divisions of three bat­ tle ships, a dispatch boat, aud seven torpedo boats each. They will be manned by 250 officers and 5,000 sea­ men. EVERY time we meet our friends, we give them new impressions of us. When we part from them, we should always endeavor to leave the best im­ pression we oan. It will be the one longest remembered. ACCORDING to an Eastern report Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has been much improved by a Western trip. It wouldn't hurt certain New York editors if they should imitate Mrs. Beecher's example and travel in the West awhile. A LARGE number of Manchester, N. H., people, old and young, are saving all the one cent pieces of the issue of 1891 on the curious rumor that the Government has called in all the cent pieces of the issue of 1891 series. A GERMAN paper states that Dr. Lehner, of Augsburg, has solved the problem of manufacturing artificial silk, and cannot be distinguished from it. A limited company is shortly to be con­ stituted to work the invention. THE next time you wish you could be a woman, and wear a thin dress in sum­ mer, think how it must feel to have a bundie of hair on the top of your head. We don't suppose there ever was a girl so proud of her hair that she did not wish in summer she was bald-headed. THEY are talking of holding an extra session of Congress in Chicago during the World's Fair. Wait awhile, gentle­ men, and you will see all the sessions of Congress held in that city. It is only a question of a' little time until the National capital will be located where it belongs--in the center of the coun­ try--and Chicago is about the proper spot . "Son should never neglect your per­ sonal appearance. No matter how glad a friend is to see you, he will look more at your clothes than he will at you. Your clothes play a very important part in your life. You are judged by what they make you. If they make you ap­ pear a guy, it is your fault, for it is in your power to make them show yon to be a very neat, sensible looking person. THE other day a New York man en- ' joying the advantages of delirium tre­ mens fell from a fifth-story window and . (so the report in a local paper puts it) "when he struck the ground he was ; dazed, but not hurt." In view of the fact that when he set out on his down­ ward trip he was delirious and when he landed he was only dazed, the con­ clusion is logically irresistible that if 'he had fallen from a tenth-story window he would have been utterly cured. THE crime of embezzlement, which is ;; the technical name for one form of theft, is usually one of the most inexcusable of all offenses against property, as it implies the holding of a place of trust '/ which must pay a reasonable sum to the delinquent The drawing of' a f liberal salary leads to liberal or even ;«• lavish living, and it is a truism to say | that the man with $1,000 a year who £ spends $900 is better off and a safer man to tru9t than is a man who earns ;* $5,000 annually and spends it all, and v a little more in addition. Sbakspeare, Spenser, Hilton, Cowley, Butler, Dry den, Pope, Cowper, Gold­ smith, Byron or Moore; not of Sir Philip Sidney, nor of Sir Walter JBtalaigh; not one of Drake, Cromwell, Hampden, Monk, Marlborough, Peters- borough or Nelson; not one of Boling- broke, Walpole, Chatham, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Grattan or Canning; not one of Bacon, Locke, Newton or Davy; not one of Hume, Gibbon or Maoaulay; not one of Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds or Sir Thomas Lawrence; not one of David Gar rick, John Kemble or Ed ward Kean. _____ Gkn. BtTTLra's reoent experience in •Tudge Carpenter's court in Boston brings out this narrative in one of the papers of that city: It was while the late Judge Colt was presiding in the Supreme Court at Salem, during the trial of a noted case in which Gen* Butter WM ounrel, that the General insisted upon his light to introduce cer­ tain evidence which bad been repeatedly excluded by the court Butler, never­ theless, renewed hi* gtfemgt until the court peremptorily ordered him to de­ sist Judge Lord, then of the Superior Court, aud a resident of Salem, was within the bar, and as he passed Butler, said, "Butler if I were on this bench, and you persisted in trying to introduce evidence after I had excluded it, I would commit yon." Quick as a flash came the reply, "Judge, if you were on the bench, I shouldn't try it" MRS. ALONZO W. PAIGE, of Chicago, is to be congratulated upon the recovery of her stolen diamond earrings, and the public at !arge is to be congratulated upon the way she recovered them. Long before her jewels were taken by a burglar, Mrs. Paige took pity on a small boy who, on a bitter cold day begged her assistance for his sick mother. She sheltered the child, fed and assisted him. A few months later her jewels were stolen, and about three weeks afterward they were slipped into her open doorway, done up in a ootton rag, and accompanied by these words scrawled on the rag: "For the lady what was kind to me last winter." It is a pleasing story, at which hardened old worldly-wise sinners will sneer, but the possession of a heart not wholly blase will take kindly to it and feel deep down in it a rejoicing that the habit of condemning "indiscriminate charily" sometimes, as io this case, suf­ fers a richly deserved black-eye. THE working of the law passed by the Fifty-first Congress, allowing enlist­ ed men to purchase their discharge from the army after a year's service, at certain established rates, is beginning to excite attention if not apprehension It is said that about 700 meu have thus far been discharged under this provi sion, and that the applications con tinue. This makes a serious drain, con sidering that without this additional fa­ cility for exit it has long been found impracticable to keep the army up to its legal maximum. Still it may turn out that the new system is the best in the end. The annual losses by deser tions are reckoned not in hundreds, but in thousands; and if it Bhould be shown that this liberty to buy one's way hon orably out of the army materially de­ creases the number of dishonorable es capes there will be a great gain for dis­ cipline. The knowledge that an hon orable way of leaving the service has been thrown open must help enlist­ ments among those -who fear along pledge to an occupation they may not like. if FANATICAL advocates of Darwinism and its materialistic corollaries will make great ado over Prof. Garner's dis­ covery that monkeys understand each other and have articulated language. w.V' r vl^ue °f the discovery, if proved, jh"-^ r is not relevant in the Darwinian con- Ifc' troversy, science having shown that £ .* man does not proceed from monkeys. ^ generally people who know very little about science that make most of ? j ; it in their assumption that there is con- . flict between it and religion. "Pope Bob" ought not to be too fast getting up S:. ' new jokes at Moses' expense on the js;. ' strength of the Garner theory. j> ^ - ISK:.;,:-. THERE is not now living a single des- sendent in the anal* lino of Chaucer, Butterflies Bathing. It is commonly thought that butter­ flies dread water as a fine lady dreads rain; but evidently this is not true in Australia. The case of ss Auaivaliau butterfly deliberately entering the water to take a bath is recorded by M. G. Lyell, Jr. in the Victoria Naturalist. He saw it alight close to the water, into which it backed till the whole of the body and the lower part of the hind wings were submerged, the two forelegs alone re­ taining their hold of the dry land. After remaining in this position for something like a half minute it flew away, appar­ ently refreshed. Mr. Lyell says, "During the morning I noticed a number doing the same thing. In one instance' no less than four were to be seen within a space ol not more than three yards, and to make sure that I was not deceived I captured several as they rose from the water, and found in each case the body and lower edge of the hind wiugs quite wet While in the water the fluttering of the wings, so noticeable at other times, was suspended, and so intent were the but­ terflies in the enjoymeut of their cold bath that they could hardly move, even when actually touched by the net Ap­ parently the heat of the weather drove them down to the water, as immediately npon emerging they flew up again to the hillsides." Butterflies are often seen apparently sucking in the moisture around the edge of pools; but they have never before been seen actually to enter the water. ••On Time." It is a matter of pride with railroad companies to run their trainfe on time, or to come as near to punctuality as possible. This well known fact no doubt explains an incident which an English traveler relates iu connection with a journey which he took across the American Continent. It was one of the great transcontinental lines which had made special promises as to punctuality. On the journey, the English traveler seemed to notice a marked disregard for the time-table, but he was interested in the country, and made no complaint At last the Pacific terminus was reached. There he met a beaming official of the company, who, polling his own watch out, said: "Just look and seo what time you've got, will you, pleas© ?" "It wants 10 miniates of I," said the Englishman, a little puzzled. "Yes, sir; 1*2:50 exactly 1 And that's the time she's scheduled to arrive 1 How's that for promptness? Crossing the continent, almost 3,000 miles, and getting here at 12:50 o'clock, precisely as advertised." "I can't deny that, yon know," said the Englishman. "In very fine, no doubt; but look hero--how many days were you late ?" j "Oh, a matter of two or three, per-1 haps; but we struck the ooastat lJ»or1 -POOR TIRED MOTHER," ttolmdliejwrfi W o f t b » g l a d n e s s t o b e f o u n d I n Of the flowers ever blooxutag, of the MWt-cm ing ansa, . Of the wangling* through the golden fftrtetfl or happy while-robe*J t hrongs; And Midlitlwr, leaning ooaily beck in hi* auy chair (Father always was s mutw hand for comfort anywhere*: » - "What a joyful thing 'twould be to kcow that «bM thi* life is o'er • 1 One would sttniyhtwaj hear a welcome bom that blessed shining shore ;* And Isabel, onr yonngegt girl, glanced upward from the reed She was painting on the water Jog, and mar- mural, -Ye#, indeed." And Morion, the next in age, dropped her book. And, 'Yea indeed," repeated wl.h a most eo- • static look. But iboth«r, gray-baired mother, who had come to sweep the room. With a patient smile on ber thin faoe leaned lightly on her broom, Poor mother, no one thought bow much she had to do-- • And said, "I hope it is not wrong not to mg e with yon. But seems to ma that whan I die, before I |i .n the blest, I'd Ilka just for a ittle while to lie in my grave • and rest." "80 Hatched l i y . f* t 'nu irr v¥5 .1" mim on the limb as - -_____ THE FREIGjJTE5'8 ST0BY K BY FOKKKST CXUS&^I'. •' Several stories had been told by the Gallons members of the iitt.e company which usually gathered of a winter's evening about the stove m "Meggs' General Merchandi>e Store," in the little mountain town of G----, C<>1. This company was made up chiefly of miners, surveyors and "freighters." These latter, it may be well to ex­ plain, are drivers of mu'e teams, em­ ployed in the hauling of freight up and down the mountains between camps or villages and the r&iiroad stations. In the narrative related by the last speaker, an incideuitul allusion was made to grizzlies, which remark elicited the following incident from Ralph HutchinsoD, a sturdy, reliable old freighter, whose recitals always received an attentive hearing from his familiar audience. '\S peak in' of bears," said he, "reminds me of a time me an' my two pards had, up iu the Nevada Mountains, 'long some­ where in the fifties. "We had worked our claims out, an' concluded we'd prospeot fur new dig- gin's further up the mountains, an' hare a hunt at the same time. "We packed our tent an' eamp fcin's on our burro, ah' started out. "We pitched camp one forenoon on a sort o' shelf on the side of the moun­ tain. "The boys said they'd go out an' try to scare up some game--a deer, or a few mountaiu-pheasants or cotton-tails--to help out on grub fur the next day or two, if I'd fix up thing) 'lound camp, an' have a goocl pot of Soffee ready far 'em when tuey got back. "I agreed: ao they struck out, an' I put upoitr lent, which wasn't much of a job, an' rigged things up kinder ship- shape. "Then 1 took my hatchet, an* stepped out a couple of rods, from eamp to a small dead tree, which the wind had blown over, an' broke some dry stuff out of its top to start the fire with. "As I wanted to carry agood big arm­ ful of wood back with me, I slipped my hatchet into its place at my belt, to get it out of the way; an' after I had laid down my wood, I forgot to take it out again. Must before we left thediggins, some Mexicans had brought around a lot of white beans to sell, the first I had seen in a long time, an' we laid in a sack of 'em. "So I went into the tent, an' got a basin of beans, brought 'em outside, an' set down under a tree an' begun to pick 'em over. "I put the good ones into a little tin pail, an' threw the bad ones off one side. I hadn't done this long, when a flock of magpies lit in the tree above me, an' kept up a regular stream of chatter. "They get mighty tame oat there, fur the miners like to have 'em around, on account of their bein' company, I far as I dared tew As I did this I hap­ pened to notice my hatchet hangin' in my ball "I jerked it out lively, an' when the bear wold make a gcab for me, I would hit him a clip on the paw with my katehet "This made him all the madder, an' he looked as though he would fairly bust with rage. But he didn't. He just made the bark fly, an' I begun to think that I'd either make a mistake in my war policy, or else natur' had madf» a mistake in not makin' the limb a little larger. "But I managed to stiok, an' kept bangiu' away at his paw with the hatchet every time I got a chance. "After a littlw his eyes lost their wicked fire, an' he shut 'em up once in a while, an* he sort o' lolled his tongue out. Then he quit clawin' altogether. "But 1 concluded to keep stilt a white; so I waited a spell longer. But 1 tell ye what, friends, me an' that limb was dretful willin' to part com- P»ny right pff, if the limb felt any as 3 OHoMKTt "The grizzily kept growin* quieter, ' before long bis head an' fore- quarters lopped down and hung limp aif motionless over the other side of the crotch. Then I let myself down from my perch as far as I could, an' dropped the rest of the way. an' Mfiil "I KEPT BAN GIN' A WAT AT HIS PAW EVEBY TIME 1 GOT A CHANCE." "I managed to hobble up to eamp, although I was so lame an' stiff, from lyin' on the limb so long, that 1 could hardly walk. "Here I loaded up my rifle, an' from where I stood put a ball through the brute's head--just to show what 1 could 'a done, if I'd had a chance, ye know, as well as to make sure he was dead. "It was nearly night by that time, an' before the coffee was foiled, my pards csme into camp with a black-tailed deer danglia' from a pole atween 'em. "But that deer didn't seem nigh* a long ways so big to 'em, after they had helped skin the grizzly an' cut him up. "The boys spent moatjjf tjbe next day huntin' fojpyy- burro," which had been pigh scared to death by the bear, an' had run for dear life. "When they found him, awsy down the mountain, he had crawled almost out of sight, into a patch of chaparral. "We had hung the bear-skin out in front to cure. When the boys came back that night, one was on foot an' t'other rode the burro into camp in fine style; but that burro hadn't more'n set his eyes onto the grizzly's skin than his planted his fore-feet into the ground, an' his hind legs were up in air. "This sent his rider over his head, slick as a whistle; but we grabbed hold of his lead-rope, an' hung on till the other feller hustled the bear-skin out of sight. "Next dsy, I picked over some more beans--for the bear had sent the others flyin' when be was after me--an' after I had parboiled 'em au' a piece of the bear meat, I set the meat in tbe center of our Dutch-oven, an' piled the beans around it. "Then I put the kiVer on, an heaped the whole thing round and over with nice live coals. "When I poked 'em off an' opened up the oven, it war done just as crisp an' tender as the fiftest bake of pork an beans you ever seed; an' that warn't the last one we had of the kind, nuther. Golden Days. HK PLANTED HIS FORE-FEET INTO THE , GROUND. s'pose; an* then they think it's a sign of good luck to have 'em flock to a new camp. "I kept on picktn' over the beans, listenin' to the magpies, an' try in' to get 'em to mock me in sayin' 'Jack'-- fur you never seed cleverer chaps than they are to mock everything they hear. "All of a sudden, I .heard something up the decline above me. "I looked up, and there war a big grizzly, just risin' up on his hind legs to get a good look at me. "He war growliir low to himself like, as though he >hadn't made up bis mind yet what/kind of a lay-out ft was before him. , / I "Quick as ^flash, I jumped for my rifle, which was lean in' up agin the front of the tent. "When I drew up to shoot, the bear war' a-tearing down the slope likety- split, like a big log down a slide. "I shot, but he onlv came the faster; so I dropped my rifle an' made far a stunted, sprawlin' scrubby-pine, a few rods down the slope below. "In a jiffy I was into it. Just how I ever got there, an' out onto the first big limb, before the grizzly reached me, I never quite knowed; but I got there somehow--just about a minute before tbe brute riz up on his haunches, made a lung© fur me. and landed kerslam into the crotch of my roostin' tree. "When he struck, it seemed as though he'd break the whole thing down, it cracked an' quivered so. It kinder made me feel like a? I war game myaelf-- the last chicken on the limb, an' mighty likely to drap. "But I stuck like a leech. The crotch of the tree bein' rather near the ground, the grizzly sort o' laid up into it an' looked straight at me. an' growled an' gnashed his teeth. I oould atood his yah-yah-yahin', but when he reaohed up his fore-paws, an' struck them wiokea olaws o' his into the limb I was on, about a foot from me, I begun to get interested, an' thought of prospectin' further on. "He war bleeaia' from the wound I had given him, an' I knowed if I could itmnsge to keep out of his reach, an' hang on a little longer, he would £&t too weak to keep upthe The Chines* to Make lr--. The Age of Steel says: The Chinese wall was prohibitory of imported labor and foreign idea. It was isolation on an imperial scale, and a big batch of the planetary crust inclosed in a fence and made secure with a padlock. British cannon made a crack in the old barrier, and the arts, sciences, and in­ dustries of the outside world followed the redcoats into the Mongolian en- closura The yeast in the dough has been working every since. Western civilization has inoculated an empire, and the pigtails of Confucius are com­ ing under the headgear of European hatters. China is not now the stagnant pool of the past centuries. It is being permeated with new ideas, and vivify­ ing energies of a^ien descent are perco­ lating through its institutions and in­ dustries. A shrewd, prudent, and thrifty race are. copying the figures of the Western slate, and in commerce and enterprise are making radical and rapid advances. Iron! and steel works on European plans are included in the new departure. On the slope of the Hamyang Hills, opposite tbe native city of Hankow, a series of works are in process of erec­ tion that promise to be oomplete and of considerable importance. They will comprise two large blast furnaces of the Cleveland type, with the appurte­ nances, apparatus, and machinery cap­ able of producing about one hundred tons of pig iron daily. A complete Bessemer plant will be added, includ­ ing two five-toil eenverlers, with cupo­ las, casting cranes, blowing engines, etc. The specifications also include a laige rail mill, with necessary ma­ chinery and apparatus. A Siemens- Martin plant will 'complete the steel work. The iron department will in­ clude twenty puddling furnaces and a plate and bar mill. These works will cover twenty acres. A foreign technical staff has *been secured, and iu tbe course of a few months steel rails for Chinese railways, soft steel for ships' plates and special metals for small arms, and a gun faotory will bs home productions. . A Question of Time. A druggist who sleeps iu his store was revelling in his first slumbers when he was awakened by a pounding on his door. "Who's there?" ho shouted. "A customer--open the door," the quick answer. Supposing some one was in urgent need of medieine for a sufferer the druggist hurried into his olothes and opeued the door. A man atood outside, whoplacidly inquired: "Have you the time?" "Yes," shouted the angry drugrist, as he bolted his door, "and 111 keep it, too." AMONG sprang repairs noticed is that cf the famous winged Lion of St. Mark in Yenioe. which had becppftiojiifed by intense frost last winter.; if' Lateat TO hi as. The latest fashiaaablc "fad" Is said to be the ostentatious display in public bv fasionable mothers of a tender interest in their offspring. There has been with this OIMS a long succession of favorites, and the period of change in each was that on which the fashion became so general that those who followed it were no longer.distinguished from the com­ mon herd. Among the different varie­ ties of the canine family each had its turn. The spitz, tbe poodle, the spaniel, the terrier and the ugly pug have been fondly cherished, provided with a nursery handsomely furnished, fed upon the daintiest viands, washed and perfumed, and bedecked with rib­ bons and jeweled collars, fondled and kissed and taken to ride in the lap of their mistress, and treated with the ut­ most tenderness and devotion. At last one of the patronesses of society in search of a new whim hit upon a device likely to captivate all the devotees of fashion. She had a lovely boy whose hair woujd curl without papers, and she put him on'tlie pedestal for worship. If YrisJjed to decline an invitation lo lunch or" to a card party, the new found excuse was a fear that her darl­ ing was uot quite so well, and she could not leave him. If the servant took him out for a walk, the mother must go close by his side, aud manifest her in­ terest and kindness by a multitude of loving caresses that, marked almost ever? step of the way. In the carriage he supplanted the harnessed pug, setting in his mothers lap or by fier side, and absorbing her cloeest atten­ tion. Her whole soul, judging by the outward manifestations, was wrapped up in her darling boy, and she had eyes and ears and smiles for nothing else. The fashion is taking rapidly, and motherhood i* apparently the one ab­ sorbing thought. The gay woman of the world, who in the height of the season scarcely looked on the faces of her children from morning to night, has suddenly become absorbed in the care of the sweet darlings, and professes to devote her whole time and attention to their nurture. It is said that the nurse claims that her duties are rendered far more arduous iu homes where the new fashion prevails. In addition to th$ ordinary care she has taken of he'r charge, she must now have them always ready at an instant's warning for a show parade. Intimate friends are invited, to the nursery, into which the fond mother rushes when the names of the visitors are announced, and where she pQses as the indefatigable caretaker of the little brood. Or, if the caller is not entitled to such intimacy, the hostess excuses herself as engaged ia looking after her household pets, or takes them with her to the recaption room as her inseparable compuinpa. Those^who liavg been ad­ mitted behind the scenes seem i little uncerjaia ^'hgth^r the children have loot ?>r gained by this change in the habits of the mother. A dog of what­ ever species was usnallv rendered worthless by being so carefully petted, and the transfer of the same attention and manifestation from a similar motive to a child of the family is not, as a rule, a blessing to the new-made pet The prospect is good for the introduction in time of a new breed of puppies more insufferable than their predecessors in domestic popularity,the pug and poodle. --American A analyst. Old Words and Naw. Some of the wo^s used by old-fash- ioned country people, aud laughed at by those who hear them, are not cor­ ruptions of language, but merely sur­ vivals of old forms--forms so old that many educated persons have forgotten, or perhaps have never known, that they were once iu good and regular standing' as English words. If an old woman "axes your pardon," she is speaking as the most careful English scholars spoke for hundreds [ot years, down almost to the end of the sixteenth century. Thus in Wyclifle's New Testament--about 1380--we read: " What m§n oj you i?, that if his sone axe hym breed, whethir he wole take hym a stoon?" And Coverdale's trans­ lation of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, published in 1535, has "Axe and it shall be given you." So, too, when the same old woman says "piny" instead of peony, she is only following the ancient usage. In William Browne's "Britannia's Pastorals," printed in 161U, the poet contrasts "the ruddy play with the lighter rose." It amuses the school-girl of the pres­ ent day to hear lilacs calied "laylocki;" but Walter Savage Landor always said "laylocks," following, as his biographer toils us, a pronunciation "traditional in many old'English families." When an Irishman speaks of his "fader and moder" he is guilty of noth­ ing worse than talking older English than we are accustomed to hear. " Wor- schipe thi fadir and thi modir," says Wyclitfe's New Testament The London Athenteum recently printed a hitherto unpublished letter of poet*Gray written in 1761. It has to do with the'shipping of some goods to Cambridge, and opntains two flagrant Americanisms," so called. The goods, he says, may remain packed till he comes, "which will be in about three weeks, I guess;" and then he adds, "Mr. Gillam, I reckon, will stay for his money till I arrive." Gray was one of athe most learned men of his time, and a person of the most fastidious taste, yet he "guessed" and "reckoned" like any countrified Yankee. In other words these two Americanisms" are simply English forms of speech which have gone out of vogue in the mother oountry, and which for that reason have novel, American" sound to the modern En­ glish tourist. Axe," "laylock" and tbe like are now vulgarisms, and as such are to be avoided, but it is well enough to know that they were once as well received in good society as their successors are at present.--Youth's Companion. 10 AFFAIRS I IT I even, wa it was over. Than followed the attempt to get the poor fellows in condition to be moved to the ship. Nourishing food and drink were given to them, and they wero cheered by talk of home and friends and the latest news. But the process was slow at first Chief Engineer John Low seated himself by Lieutenant Greely, who, gaunt with starvation and wild-eyed with late despair, seemed to take little heed of him. "Well, Colonel," he said finally, after several apparently ineffectual efforts to arouse the still dazed officer. u there's one little woman will be glad of this day's work." Greely raised his eye*, then dropped them again half sullenly. "Little woman!" he repeated with *a sort of a growl; "she weighs 160 if she weighs a pound." And then Mr. Low knew he would come around all right Grtpinan and Pretty Girl. It was just at the beginning of file busy hour in the evening, and the car was crowded. People were packed like herrings inside, and on the platform there was the usual crush and struggle for four square inches of space. It was just at the beginning of a rain, and the gripman had no waterproof along. It seemed that at every v second door Bome one had to get on. The car was con­ stantly stopping. It was filled to the lagjimit lfflg ago. ^?tyj reople were waviugtneir»finJ from the pavement and clambering up and in some way. Nobody knows how many persons can get in a Chicago street car. At one corner three women, with babies in their arms, stopped the oar and got in. The gripman swore a little at them. At the next u man looked at the clouds, signaled the gripman and got in out of the wet The rain began to come down a little more decisively. The gripman started up and threw the lever far forward. He wanted to shoot straight to the stables without stopping. There was another man. The car had not ran forty feet. The gripman swore very roundly as he loosed the lever and pulled back on the brake. Then he started, bent the talons of the grip about the cable and plunged ahead again. There was another wo­ man. The car had run just half a block. The passengers looked up as they saw the waving arms of the waiter. They expected to hear a very volley of oaths at this second stop. The gripman's face was a study. First it was black as night Then he looked cloeely at the woman. He hated her and wanted to blast her with a frown. Then his brow softened. A twinkle came into his eyes. ,B# Ups parted and his great wooden face broke into a kindly laugh. \Ybat UajJ §he dapeZ Who was she? Did he know her? Nothing--nothing at all. He knew nothing about her. Slie was only a handsome girl and she laughed a caress right into his lips as he frowned at her. Seniles are better than scepters any day.--Chicago Hers dH. ->•- g* ' How flo Did It. There is a story of a Scotch Profes­ sor, which, though not a new one, hu­ morously illustrates a characteristic trait of1, Scotchmen--one that-has put them at the front all over the world. While a large party, among whom was an elderly Scotch*; professor, were shooting.on the moors in Perthshire, it buddeuly began to rain. There was no shelter iu the neighborhood, and as the rain fell' too fast to permit shooting, the sportsmen made, as they thought, the best of their misfortune by sitting down and getting drenched. But the professor, as soon as the shower began, wandered off, and was uot seen during the hour in which the rain fell. When it ceased he reap­ peared, and to every one's surmise there was not a drop of rain on his clothes. The wet sportsmen were annoyed as well as surprised, thinking he had discovered a place of shelter. But the professor was- reticent, and it was wjtl) difficulty thit at last they persuaded him to tell how he had man­ aged to keep dry. •»-- "Directly the rain came on,** said he, "I stripped and'sat on my clothe* until it ceased." . A Clover JLittle 0ojr. The gopher only remains a few sec- dnds/iu his hole, when he feels an irre­ sistible desire to come out again and look about him. Taking advantage of a knowledge of this habit of theirs, a lit­ tle boy, 8 years old, who was lost for ten days in the prairies of Assiniboia, 150 miles north of the Canadian Pacifio Railroad line, in 1886,-was able to save his life. The boy wore lace boots, with leather laces, and used to spread a noose made with a boot-lace over a hole when he had seen a gopher go in; he would then lie dbwn and wait for him to come out again. When the gopher, accord­ ing to his wont, putjris head out to see tbe world, the little boy pulled the string, caught him by the neck, and ate him. As there was plenty*of rain-water in the holes about, the boy got along very welLin this way tilTa search-party rescued him. Delivering Milk In Natal Our milkmen, or rather milk-boys, are unique, their sole garment consist­ ing of an old piece of sacking, with pockets of like material--sometimes as many as sixteen in two tiers,esewn on back and front, somewhat like an en­ larged cartridge belt. In each pocket is au old wine or beer bottle., containing fiie milk, which the boy empties at the house, eventually returning to the farm whence he set out with the same number of empties as he started with fulL--Chavibers' Journal. Thst "Little Woman." A ftory of the Greely expedition which may have beeu in print at the time, bnt is worth repeating, was told at a dinner one evening lately by a naval officer to whom the occurrance was a personal reminiscence, says the New York Times. He accompanied the Bear in its mission of rescue, and hap­ pened to be one of the party that ac­ tually found the small band. It is his­ tory that the moment was a desperate one for the Greely men. The last drop of liquor had been poured down the throat of one of them who seemed to be dying; and, about at the end of hope and resources, and weak with hunger and suffering, the little company was set­ tling into the stupefaction of over­ whelming misery when the rescuers sud­ denly appeared. Once more they were in the world At such a time a man is apt to conceal his amotions, and the tragic meeting was accompanied with a simplicity that in itself was tragic. A cheerful Halloa, old manl" from the rasouers, and a grunt or two from suoh Smothered Lambs. A farmer living near Govlon post- office in Emmons County, N. D., ibst ioO lambs by a singular accident When he entered the sheep sheds the other morning he found a number of dead lambs piled in a heap. The only reason he can assign for this is that his shepherd dog was accidentally looked up among the sheep over night by his herder and the dog stamped the lambs into one compact mass, and they ered to death in that shape. ' K; ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARI- '•W OU« BOURCE8. ', I« II IMBttmr* Arm Leesl Interest - -Accidents sad< ters- CHRIS GETTE returned to Quiney from ' Carroll ton with his 17-year-old sister Minnie, who was enticed away from bey home in McKee Township ten- ysar»a||W>::' by a man named Lindas v. Nothinghad been heard of her whereabouts until It few days ago. THE Executive Committee of the Frutt Growers' Association of Southeastern ? Illinois met at Flora and decided to boM a two days' session at Sayler Springs^' . f Sept. 8 and 9. The programme will toe ; : p re pared at once, and wU have on it for *| papers the Hon. Norman J. Col man, of S t L o u i s , a n d t h e H o n . A C . V a n , , Demon., of the United States Vernfloffie- al Department, and many other promt- *•'**,> nent horticulturists. These meetings ' t >• are very largely attended by the fruit growers of Southeastern Illinois. ; t*;- AI.KX. KXIOHT, of Aiicen, who has heretofore borne a good reputation, was ^ arrested at Eldorado, for horse-stealing. The crime was committed on the night , "H of July 1. He maintains that he is to* noccnt KNOK RICHARDS and Miss Anns Uleeke, of McLeansboro, went to Spring­ field and were married by the Rev. J. B. Briney, of the Christian Church. The groom stated that the young lady's parents opposed the match and they , ^ were obliged to run away. , / : AT Quincy, a deed was filed in the Re- ,* co-dor's offico transferring a tract of J ti*.-: eighty acres to the Illinois Soldiers and '. Sai ors' Home for a consideration of SI4,- v - J J ooa The land adjoins the how * op the r ^,A| north. THE woman Forres, who went AW^JVL * from Vandalia and left her nine-month- _ old baby at the Arlington Hote!t prom- , isingto return in a short time, did not i comeback. It was a case of abandon- -y ...j ', ment as she telegraphed her husband, ^4"*: A. It. Forres, who is a telegraph op'jr- \ ^ ator at Fort Smith, Ark., that she had left the child and to come after it if he wanted it, Mr. Forres came after thO child, and will place it in charge of Its grandparents, who reside in Texas. THE Rev. Charles Shelly Hughes, the . noted bigamist, evangelist and forgetv i who was arrested and brought to Bon- ton from St Louis upon a charge of assault to murder his wife, was acquit­ ted of the charge, but wa; taken by Sheriff Smith to Sedalia, Mo., upon a i requisition from Gov. Fifer to answer the charge of bigamy. He would have ' been prosecuted for bigamy in Franklin : County had it not been for the fact that the State could not get its witnesses In time for the preliminary trial. \ IN Fayette County the wheat in quan- > tity as well as quality, is extraordinary. ? One field yielded thirty-eight bushels,: - • and another thirty-four bushels per acre. " - No rain to speak of has fallen for a ^ " month. In many pluses the com hH^ ^ beciji} t? tijrc A ' THKKK is to M a new State bank at * * ^ Galesburg, Sioo.ooo capital stock having ,? <, 'Jr-j * b e e n s u b s c r i b e d . , a l r ^ * i ~ r T p r r * . ^ Ax infant belonging to Green Perr^l4^^| residing near Marlon, was smothered la .f" bed.- PBIVATE NAGM?, a soldier at Fort •*>^ Sleridan, who was sentenced to three" years in the military prison for thrash- ' ing the First Sergeant of his company while intoxicated, escaped from the guard-house and has not been he since. Six HI'NDKKP bushels of wheat ing to W. T. Davis, of Marion, stroyed by fire. SEVKUAL Atchison newspapers have printed the statemont that Miss Bart- lett of Peoria, had eloped with Hiram J. Ward, a farmer. It was Miss Lizzie Bartlett, of Smithville, instead. A TRACTION* engine and separator go­ ing clown a hill near New Canton be- ( came unmanageable, and Joseph Muekin was crushod to death. He lived in Rock-; port JOSEPH E. JOKES and Joseph Brady, * charged with an assault upon an 8-year-"' old girl named Muller at Mendon, were taken to Quincy to avoid trouble. MARNF&R LKF, a native of Ireland, died ai Chicago, aged 106 years. His wife sNll lives, aged 100. They have four chiMi^jivinflr, the eldest being 80.' "PADDY" RVAVJ a Chicago levee tough, killed James Donly by a blow: with his fist, and escaped. The same , night James Houlihan shot at his wife v'. *<• three times without effect and suicided. WM. WIIITKLT, the traveling pho­ tographer who was shot by Will F. Cof- " j fey at Ashley, is in a fair way to re- -• cover. j i- %S'-' 'Ml--: $ Me B«m«mber«d Bis After her son went West he was prospecting, and one night foond him with bag and baggage at a large hotel, and in the morning he was offered one hundred dollars a month to tend bar, and only 'for you, he wrote Ms mother, I should have accepted it And if ttfa column should chance to meet the aye of that son, he will kn8w he is not totr gotten, and may the prayers and tears of that dear mother be always rememf berod when he is surrounded by «dl influences.--Michigan Farmer. A Desp AttsoksMBt. First Fly--Well, how do yoa Ukc this new fly paper? AT Quincy, by the breaking of a scaf­ fold, Contractor August Lange an«i Frank Peliman fell quite a distance and sustained fatal injuries. SKCKKTAKY GAUKAKI*, of the State Board of Agriculture, sent out warrants for $100 each to the county fair associa­ tions of eighty-three counties on ac­ count of fairs held in 18i'0. In compli­ ance with the law, warrants are being sent only to such associations as have made applications and proper reports. THE ministerial meeting of the Chnrch of Christ convened at Saylor Springs. The old board of officers was re-elected. GEORGE W. HIGGIXS, leading mer­ chant of Olmstead, Pulaski County, was killed by Miss Minnie Reddy, who was handling a revolver which was supposed not to be loaded. AT R^ck Island the strike of the 300 lumbermen of the Weyerhauser Denk- mann sawmill was adjusted and the men returned to work on bi-weekly wages, the firm refusing to grant the demand for weekly wages. GEOISOK MARKS, alias George-Walsh, was sentenced to six years in the peni­ tentiary by Judge Brent.no, of Chicago, under an indictment for forgery. AT Benton, a much needed rain fell, which just came in time to save corn and benefited other growing crops. Crops are very fine there. Tin-: meeting of the officers of the Clay County Veteran Association con­ vened at Louisville, and voted Baylor Springs the place for holding their an­ nual meeting, which convenes on Sept 2, 3 and 4, 1891. This will be the largest meeting ever held, and many prominent State officials have consented to be pres­ ent and address the association. A DISEASE which proves itself con­ tagious is raging among the cattle of Lawrence County. The cattle have sore tongues and weak backs aud give way in their feet One hundred or more cat­ tle have died In the county within a week. THE encampment of the State mtlitta at Springfield was one of the most prof­ itable the soldier boys ever enjoyed. Strict military discipline prevailed, and several times in the middle of sound sleep, the call to arms roust*! the whole camp. The commanding officers ex­ press themselves highly pleased with the condition of the state troots, and the boys are no less p eased w.th their ofih^ cers. WIIXIAX Monro*, a farmer living &aa* Kinmundy. was raking bay when oa» 4 the teeth of a large two horse caught in the ground and broke. iece of it struck Morris* "-year-oW Second Fly--Oh, Vm Just dead stuck j knocking the topaf tha ftoy's head on it Jpletaiyoff.