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4L VAN tLYKE, Editor u< Publlslnr. 1 ILLINOia WATER LILIES. BT UUt KAIim. friend, I wandered all alone to-day BMU« A take. w><l took a little boat, an eager stroke I pushed away TP» tbe farther side, and plidteg note" s3*Vih -u •m) rJ':V;.' i Mta changing co ors fla»h, and pale, and glean-- WM I did naught bat muse una idly dream. SkK& was the mood thai rested on the Unit tttlw aweet lak«<, and each tbe hm - •Mtoetedin it, that I saw confessed Vbe calm of my own soul, tl» pot** <0f ftoflHng when we feel most deep « eestacy of dream* and sweeter Bleep, *; "SRIbe boat was drifting for I hooded not Eta course ; when endden it stood still; Stlaokod about and saw that it was oaugla In a fair isle of water lilioe. Will V MM fancy my emotion, and the scene ' "®f water, snowy blooms, and leaves of : Mo I plucked some, and one broad leaf I palled On which I guess tbe elbows of two sptnta, Two lover-spirits, with ey«s <f emerald, Oeold roet tbe whole of these short sunnier : nights, %bUe that they gasa, .drinking the other's thought Speeding the love that makes voiced language naught. "AM this hugs bunch of blooms I took Oat of their watery home and brought away, : Vis ae peonias, whl- e as if shook From the moon's gardens. If you try you ! . may Detect a wild and fleeting odor in their folds ."Wfccto as no other flower I know of holds. f'ttia bee i4ts ne'er despoiled them; they ; HLKVC oeen fair from his wonted paths; per­ chance Hie fire-fly slept in this small room till day. Lighting its ivory walls with fitful glance Of golden light--tbe nervous dragon-fly, * Sender and green, has often hovered by. And they have seen the night-stars rise and set, And pleasured in their tangled mirroring*; And they have heard the shrill frog's minuet. And voices of tbe wind, and unknown things HUM. fill tbe chorus of the night, And nursed on these, their thought is pan aad bright. mien do not question me why T have sent Yheoe wild white lilies unto thee, Jfcw tiiey are poems true and eloquent Sprung from the twart of nature. May it bat < Since that 1 give them to you, you can say are more clear and beautiful, I pray? : --Chicago Inter-Ocean. m AWFUL CHARGE. ?&:. •<;' , The little combination freight and ^ffusenger train that runs from the i ' e n t r a n c e of the great Hoosac tunnel awray up through the mountains along f ' J the hank of the Deerfleld lliver waits 4$ • patiently on its narrow-guage side ^ track until its larger contemporary '! J. from Boston comes up and empties >• < 4 »ut whatever of its freight and who- SC ever of its passengers are destined for fv^ * tbe little villages farther up in the f ^ ^ mountains. As soon as the Fitch- * W*, burg train has pulled out of the sta- t ,i£S Uon and into the tunnel the smaller I-;, combination is left master of the ' T-/. ®eW, and, after backing coquettishly tj* .; * trom its side-track with many a puff .'V, smd flutter and much ringing of a llglj, ' not untuneful bell, it starts sturdily >ljrv Around the curve and begins its jour- hf ney of twelve miles up an up-grade track. A|;•;*?; One quiet evening in the earlier < -part of July a young woman, accom- |;V - h panted by a girl who seemed > < ,, to act to the capacity of maid rather H t than companion, alighted from the 5 ' e^clock train from Boston, made some l'» Inquiries of an official at the Fitch- ^stat ion, and then made her way £» ••Ones the tracks to the other train / which was waiting respectfully at a Y:' adistance. Just as the train from yr Boston was about to start a young man came hurridly to the platform of the car, looked earnestly across the tracks, and then disappeared inside the car to return a moment later with a tan-leather brella, and a cane. est and annoyed, tracks and climbed passenger car on UK" • Sfe satchel, an urn- He looked earn- but crossed the into the single the narrow-guage Hlfit i*/ toad. The car was a combination passenger and baggage car, and he climbed in at the baggage car end. Presently the train backed from the side-track and started along its up­ -grade journey. The young man took, up a position gage end of the car and seemed to give himself up to admiration of the • country through which they were LIAISING, "Oh, yes, but that waiver so long ago." ' ' f \ "It was long ago," said the young jman; "it seems an age." Miss Grenville matle no reply. She sat there brown-eyed and self-con­ tained, and presently looked out of the window again. Hie young man made another issue. "What on earth brings you to tills forsaken region?" he asked. Mias (Grenville looked at him Inquiringly. "Is it forsaken?" she asked. ."I think it is very pretty." i "Well, yes, pretty, but not--well --exciting. 4 *I)o you like excitement?" asked Miss Grenville sweetly. "I do not, but you do--or used to.* "Did I? I think s I must bare changed." "Probably; you are chanpable, said the young man very bitterly. The young woman made no reply. Marden looked uncomfortably at his boots for awhile, then he made a third attempt. "Will you please tell me where you are going, Grace?" he said. Miss Grenville turned slowly from the window. "I think you had better call me Miss Grenville," she said. "Very well. Miss Grenville, will you please tell me where you are going?" ' "Certainly. I am going to visit my aunt at Wilmington. And you?" "I am going to Wilmington, too --on business." Are you? Then you must know about the coach from Readsboro." "Well--er--the fact is--I don't. I decided to go very suddenly--that is I couldn't find out about the stage." "Oh," said Miss Grenville. "I have no doubt It will be all right," observed Marden, for want of anything better to say. "Oh, no doubt," said Miss Gren­ ville, perhaps for the same reason. But when they arrived at the ter- mirnis of the road they found that It was not all right. The stage was there, but every available seat but one had been taken. It was growing late and Miss Grenville was in despair. "You might go and let your maid come in the morning," suggested Marden heroically. The maid was interviewed on this subject, but was tearful and obstinate. Then the young man made another suggestion. The maid might take the available place and he would drive Miss Grenville over. He was sure he could get a horse. He would have to do it on account of his business, any­ way. Miss Grenville defended her position, but Anally surrendered. Hie maid took the place in the stage, and Marden went in search of a horse. Half an hour later, as the sun was going down behind the hills, a cada­ verous-looking horse, with almost a suspicious dislike to anything like haste, drew a single buggy out of Readsboro and along the pretty road toward Sadawga and Wilmington. They passed the outskirts of the vil­ lage, and the road began to grow prettier and more closely hemmed in with trees. The cadaverous-looking horse moved on with an uncertain jog that was a cross between a run, a trot, and a walk. The result was a sort of hop. Miss Grenville made tome atr tempts at conversation, but her com­ panion rewarded her with silence. She made several uncomplimentary remarks about the horse which were witty enough for an ordinary occasion, but Marden did not smile--he did not seem to be paying attention; so finally she subsided into her side of the car­ riage and said no more. Presently Marden spoke. "Grace," he said, "do you know why I am up here?" Miss Grenville looked up inno­ cently. "Of course," she said. 'TOT told me you had come on business." Which was not true, as you know. I came because I followed you from Boston." ' 'Frank, how dare you!" said Miss Grenville indignantly..... --> Marden went, on quietly. "And while I was stancj|j? out there in the baggage-car-- "I thought you were going to fall though he cast furtive glances into the other end of the car, out of the door," continued Miss where the young woman had taken Grenville suddenly. Marden looked m,': "tier place. She was seated near the middle of the car, on the sunny side, •and her maid was two or three seats behind her, with wraps and umbrel­ las and the various other parapher­ nalia that a fastidious young woman carries with her even on a short jour­ ney. Having made these observations the young man gave more perfect at- /tention to the landscape and looked 'less frequently into the car proper. "The girl was evidently unconscious of < his presence, or at least unmindful of It. She looked steadily out of the window and seemed to be -enjoying -also the beautiful scenery. -But presently the young man began togrow more nervous and restive. He moved uneasily from his position to the open doorway and sat down on • box in the middle of the car. Then -be went back to the door and leaned SMray out, looking up the track. Then fee went back to the box and ar­ ranged his four-in-hand nervously. Suddenly he got up and walked reso­ lutely down the car to where the young woman was seated. He walked much in the manner of one who has 'determined to take a bath\in very cold ^Water and goes at it with his nerves TKt the sticking point and his eyes •hut. The young woman was much Interested in the landscape as he came up and she did not not notice him. He was obliged to call her at- 4en.tion. \ "Grace," be said, t ^ She turned from the window with •Wondering eyes and looked at him a *noment. Then the light of recogn­ ition drove the wonder slowly from «feer eyes and she held out her hand languidly, r "Why, how do yoti do, Mr. Mar- -*len?" she said; He took her hand slowly: he almost ^poped tor it. He had been trying *11 the way from Boston to get up courage to speak to her, and now her wool, surprised "How do you do" was «lmost too much for him. There •was not even a traceable note of re- •entmeilt in it. There certainly was at her and theh went on again quietly: "You did not see me. You were surprised that I was on the train when I spoke to you." "Oh!" said Miss Grenville. "When I was standing in the "Why, no, of course not. was why I--why I liked you." "Oh!" "And I always thought you were the most perfect man in t&at spect." "Thank you! Iam very grateful; but will you tell me when it was that I failed to be what you thought me?" "And I always thought you were the most generous and unselfish man I ever knew, and I am certain that I never had any reason to change that idea." . ( "Well?" "And you know there was nevef anybody else that I cared for." \ "Well?" "You were always so handsome and so brave and--and--yes, I will say it --and so loving." ' „V, "Well?" "So you must see that I oould not have wanted to do it." 4<Oh, but that does not explain why you did do it." "I kriow it. Only it is so hard, and, Frank, you are not helping me a bit." "I dont see why I need to. You were independent enough to t^row me over and make me • miserable for life." "Have you been miserable, Frank?" "I think I have almost died," said Marden, solemnly. "Have you? I have been miseis able, too, Frank. And I have missed your steps, and your voioe, and your laugh--I have missed your laugh very much, Frank." "We used to have such peasant times together, Grace." Yes, and mother says that the house sounds so lonely without you in the evening." I thought a great deal ol your mother." I know ypn did. Yes, we did have happy times. I shall never for­ get them. And to think that now they are all over. I came up here be­ cause I hoped I could forget about it, and now [tearfully] you have brought it all back--again--and I know I shall go on feeling worse and worse-- and " Poor little Miss Grenville fell to sobbing as if her heart would break. It was more than Marden oould stand., •Grace," he said, "don't. Let's patch it up in some way. Tell me what I did, and let's fix it up." We can't," sobbed the youhg pian from her corner. ; f Well, tell me, anyway." A i It won't do any good,. Shrank, hot I'll try if you say I must."4 "You really must." ' : i "I know you'll laugh at me ana say I'm a goose. You always did do that." 'I will be sober as--as prayer-meet­ ing," vowed the young man. "Well, then, it was about that Miss Sanger--yoti know what you said about her." "I know I must be very stupid, but I don't quite remember all about it. You had better tell me. Where did I see her?" "At the pond, and It is really to your credit that you don't remember. I shall think of that and be grateful, Frank, in after years. I said she was horrid, and you said she was clever and had beautiful eyes." "I think I do remember now. She was the girl who had stch a funny squint, wasn't she?" "I don't think I ever noticed that, Frank." "Well, she did. And she didn't know who Ibsen was. That was why I said she was clever and had beauti­ ful eyes; I meant it the other way, you know." "Did you really, Frank? T^hen I have misjudged you all this time." Half an hour later Miss Grenville lifted a happy but tear-stained face from Marden's shoulder -loojied doubtfully up at him. "Frank," she said. ? . s "Well, sweetheart." "I don't believe I know who Ibsen - was, eitner. W as he one of those horrid nihilists?" "No, dear," said Marden gravely, "he wasn't quite that, but I guess it doesn't make any difference now."-- J. T. Nevxomb in Springfield (Mo&s.) 22e- pubUcaia. "1 anytime, FTFURTHLNR «(»0ottd-Ctaah . *;/•gjd i No man has a right to complain if strangers form their first impressions of him from his manner and jjersonal appearance. For the moment they - have no other resource. But while gage-car I made up my mind that you this is true, it is also true that? pre- would have to talk to me. I am more 6ure of it now. I have been trying to see you for two months and you have been able to keep me from it. I know I am a brute and that if you wanted to throw me over and not tell me why I ought to stand it; but I can't and I'm through trying." Miss Grenville laughed easily. A bough from one of the trees that skirted the road hung over within reach and she snatched a couple of-its leaves as they passed. "I wonder what kind of a tree that is?" she said. Marden took the green bough frotn her hand and threw it into the road. "Grace." he said, Mwby did you throw me over?" • , ' • Miss Grenville looked around as if for some avenue of escape, but none presented itself and she leaned back again in the carriage. "Perhaps," she said at, length, "perhaps it is better to talk it over. Though (hurriedly) you know it can never make any difference now." "Of course," admitted Marden, "I never dared to hope that." "It is very hard to tell," continued Miss Grenville. "Did you ever care for me?" asked Marden. Miss Grenville looked at him with wondering eyes liminary judgments of this kind should be taken for no more than they are worth, and if unfavorable, should be as far as possible kept to one's selfr- The Analoston Magazine relates a story of a man who was perhaps not so careful as he should have been in this respect. Silas Reynolds and Themas Judd-- known respectively as Uncle Silas and Uncle Tom--were-rich farmeija Illinois twenty-five years ago. in They were neighbors and very close? friends, and were both of them some­ what notorious for their oddities and their shabby dress. They carried long hickory poles as canes, and Uncle Tom almost always had a basket on his arm, because he "couldn't bear pockets in his clothes." Both men were familiar figures about the old Board of Trade of Chi­ cago. One evening they missed the train, and were obliged to remain in town over night; so they went to the Palmer House, then just built, and the pride of the city. The night clerk was adapperyoung man, "with an air of cologne and im­ portance about him," and when he saw the two seedy-looking wayfarers reach for the register he accosted them with a measure of brusqueness. "Have you any baggage?" said he. He was told that they had not-- Of ccrariiL,, tlHS Wll, bntfii^ se; they oould pay a£ iiieanwhile could have . . _ w WJintfid. . ,..v "Can't change it, eh?" said Uncle Silas. The clerk repeated his statement that he couldn't and didn't wish to. "Well, Tom," said Uncle Silas, stuffing the bill into his wallet" and picking up his big stick, "come (ta, let's go to some first-class hotel; I told you we should have trouble If we came te>one of these cheap places." Only a Pi»oe or Ohslk, t Few people know what a . wonder­ ful object a bit of chalk is when ex­ amined under a microscope., Taike your knife blade and scrape off aj lfttle of the loose powder, catch it on a clean glass-slide, and place this on the stage of a good table microscope. Use a quarter-inch objective lens; and illuminate the field with a cane 1 Of light from the concave side of the re­ flector. The powder will be seen to consist of a confused mass of beauti­ ful shells, many of them of the most Curious form.1' i A better way; however, is to rub down a portion of chalk with an old tooth-brush. If you desire to prepare several slides, rub on about a tea- spoonful of the powder. Shake the tumbler briskly, allow the sediment to settle for a moment, and then carefully pout off the milky-looking' water.' = . Repeat this until the water remains clear, and you will then have left in the bottom only perfect shells or large parts of shells. Take up a small pinch of this deposit^ spread it carefully over the center of a glass- slide. Dry over a lamp, and if you wish to preserve the slide for future use, mount it in Canada balsam, pressing out the bubbles of air be­ neath the cover glass. If only in­ tended for present examination, you may omit.the mounting.--Macon, Td- egrapk. - An Anotent "HelL" Not many travelers visit Carrara, where the finest of marble <to COCIT stantly being quarried, as it has been for so many centuries, but, once there, much may be found in the way of legend and scenery to Occupy the curi­ ous mind. Innmuerable stories float about the place concerning the exis­ tence of hidden treasures. Gold has often been found in the neighborhood of the town, and not very long ago a crock of gold oolns was unearthed beneath one of the streets. A most curious . experience, how­ ever, was that of a quarryman who, in one of his rambles, stumbled upon an old deserted quarry, within which, half buried in grass and brambles, lay an enormous block of heavy mar­ ble. On examining ft, he found a number of letters rudely cut, [and half hidden under a crust of dirt. With some difficulty he managed ' to spell out the words: "Blessed is he who shall turn me over." j The man at once jumped at the conclusion that he had stumbled upon hidden treasure, and that his fortune was made. He rushed home and col­ lected some of his friends to aid him in the recovery of the concealed gold. After some very hard labor they suc­ ceeded in turning the hoary giant over. Another rude inscription met their eager eyes: «•Thanks, my friends. I was weary of reposing so long in one position.-̂ -CornhOi Maga­ zine. , 4 #0 A Very Clone Call. • A tall, squarely built and athlectic man of 35 or thereabouts, walked into the California Hotel recently and registered "John Kelly, Jr., Bodie." He is Superintendent of the Bulwer, Bodie and Mono mines, lo­ cated at Bodie, and recently he be­ came Involved in a dispute with a miner named J. C. Grant. The re­ sult was that on Easter Sunday the two men met on the street at Bodie, and when witiua a few feet of each other Grant drew a 45-calibre revolver, and without warning fired point blank at Kelly. The latter threw up his left arm, and as he did so the bul­ let passed down the inside of hlscoat- sleeve without scratching the skin, and made its exit at the elbow. They then clinched, but Grant kept firing and the second shot struck the collar- button in the back of Kelly's shirt, carried it away and plowed up the lining of his coat without doing other dathage. The third and fourth shots - went through Kelly's coat, which was unbuttoned, but the fifth struck him in the chiri. When it struck the bone, however, it Was de­ flected and, aftei tearing its way along the jaw, came out just in front of the ear. Kelly then wrenched the pistol from the other's hand and with it beat him into insensibility.' The former keeps tlSi coat and shirt that he wore at the time as a memento of his marvelous escape---Son Francisco Call. What Are We Coming To? The enormous mass of extra dead weight due to the carrying of the boiler, fuel and w&ter in the old loco­ motive will be entirely unnecessary in the railways of the future, which will be propelled electrically. Unques­ tionably .the future electro-locomotion will show a motor on every axle, or, at any rate, upon two axles Of each car, and every car running as a unit, in which case they can run coupled together in a train or not, as may be convenient.--Philadelphia Press. WORLD OF LABOR. f»OlKlr# OF INTEREST TO EVERY WAGE EARNER. „ Wbat-. fa War|Unrua«n « tks Count*?--A Toll. by an« ftj|.,. tka imI Workin(wpaiM sf Column for Tbsts Who ONDON fire­ men got an ad­ vance., -'-w aie Rd0p| which comfits an es­ sential part of an Am<0^oi experi­ ence. On his return he Again visited Boston and bethought himself of call­ ing at a house where he had fre­ quently dined on his former visit. In answer to his ring, the old butler, who had been in the family for many , years, came to the door. "Is Mrs. I B in?" said my lord. "Oh, sir," . exclaimed the faithful old soul, with tears running down his cheeks, "my master is dying!" Lord G , who 'Do you think that I wanted to do j nothing but Uncle Tom's basket, it?" she said. "You will have to pay in advance, Marden's face brightened wonder- j I suppose you know," said the pretty fully. "Do you mean that some- i young man. weed. 4 ¥ BOSTON hasa kindling wood trust. LOKDOST has 500,000 factory hands. BERLIN has 1 , 0 0 0 u n i o n Waiter girls. COPENHAGEN has 15,900 union men. XYNN shoe workers will reorganize. TUB States have 2,800,000 beehives. 'FBDBOO sheep butchers have a anion. NKW YORK hotel clerks have a union, v A VIENNA man joins metal and glass. CHICAGO furniture workers want eight hoiirs. ," ^ 'FHISCO painters want atf^ inspector Df scaffolds. ; NEW YORK bookbinders want shorter hours. ^ BROOKLYN Knights want city labor­ ers paid $2 a day. SAN FRANCISCO printers are win­ ning nine hours. THE Journeyman Tailors'Union has 11.000 members. , NEW YORK tin and sheet iron work­ ers won eight hours. ;E THE Overland cotton mill at Den­ ver has 10,200 spindles. ' NEW YORK railroaders have a build­ ing and loan association. ; LOGANSPORT (Ind.) cigar makers won 10 per cent, advance. A ROSKLAND (111.) minister has ex­ pelled union men from his church. THE Labor Tribune says labor is the leading issue in British politics. SIXTEEN labor papers have been ex- 3luded from the German mails. TOLEDO 'longshoremen won an ad­ vance of 5 cents per hour without a strike. AMESBURY (Mass.) lamp makers struck against their shop becoming non-union. > Aif immense wire mill is to be built at Johnstown, Pa., by the Cambria Iron Company. THE Pottsville (Pa.) Iron and Steel Company has decided to resume work with non-union men. * THE Yerruius mill at Sharpsburg, Pa., (Moorhead's plate mills) have re­ sumed operations with non-union men. THE members of the Fire Depart­ ment at Seattle, Wash., resigned on account of a reduction in their sal­ aries. SAN FRANCISCO street-car hands are organizing. They work fourteen to seventeen hours and they get $1.30 to $2.30 a day. THE American Glucose Company has reduced the salaries of its em­ ployes 10 per cent. The company has agencies in all important cities. SAN FRANCISCO molders have been aut seventeen months. They have taken snap shot photographs of scabs, and will send them all over the coun­ try. Two HUNDRED years ago one man did two men's work with his hands, and he worked twelve or fourteen hours a-day. Now one man does a hundred men's work with a machine., Why should he not be let off with eight hours?--San Francisco Examiner. Foil fioato 4,i«ae past the thought has frequently occurred to me that it would be wise to say a few plain words Concerning the course pursued by the industrial organizations of Aineriba since 1886. In that year began a warfare that at one time threatened the existence of the Knights of Labor, and caused more discouragement, perhaps, than any­ thing that occurred in the history of the labor ̂ movement since the war of 1861. It was my hope--ambition some called it--that at some day in the future all departments of labor would be firmly welded together in one solid, compact organization, so strong as to repel attack from any quarter, so wise as not court unneces­ sary quarrels, so elastic as to allow the peculiar needs of each calling to receive attention at the hands of those bfest qualified to minister to them, so regulated that no matter what the trade or calling of the mem­ ber he would be entitled to the same consideration and treatment wherever he went, whither umong those of his own craft or among others. This as­ sociation would work under the same ritual, the same general constitution and on the same understanding every­ where. Its members would transact such business as pertained to their own TOUGH paper ; stuttered a good deal (which rather in is made of sea- creased the affect of his fashionable vaciiousness,) stared at the man an instant, as if he did not quite under­ stand him, and then rejoined, with dignity: "I--I d-didn't arsk for M Mister B , I* arsked for Mrs. Mreiiantaal Orawta* a Part oT UMHSO. A good many young men who have been denied the advantages of a technical education, or even a first- class public school education, but who are nevertheless desirous of standing high in their calling, even though they must work their way slowly up­ ward from the bench, the forge or the foot-plate, sometimes ask if there is any necessity of obtaining a good knowledge of mechanical drawing. To all such, we would most earnestly reply, ' 'By all means obtain a thorough knowledge of drawing." A man may rise to a fair position in any of the mechanical pursuits without it, but if he really wishes to become pro­ ficient, and to avoid having his up­ ward progress permanently arrested, his knowledge of mechanical drawing must be considerable. By such knowledge we do not mean the ability to make pretty pictures, or even handsome drawings, but rather a per­ fect understanding, of the principles of the art, and their applicability to every-day work. We have frequently seen the intelligent shop foreman make a drawing which a draughtsman might say looked "tough," but though his lack of expertness in the use of the instruments gave his drawing thai appearance, they would be in­ telligible and correct. Such knowl­ edge always makes it possible for one to communicate his ideas to others, and aside from this convenience there is a drilling of the powers of concep­ tion which is invaluable, and can be obtained no other way. A still further advantage accompanying a good knowledge of mechanical draw­ ing, is the better understanding of the fundamental principles of me­ chanics which almost invariably comes to the student as he becomes pro­ ficient in drawing. Every mechanic trying to rise should study drawing, even though he may never intend to work an hour in a draughting-ioom in his life.--The Raihmy Review. body forced you to give me up?" hei asked. j "Nobody, only I had to. One can't i marry anybody when that person isn't what they thought it was," said little Miss Grenville, getting confused in ] her generalization, but with a very ••©thing of pleasure. However, he convincing air. Marden made no an­ nulled himself together and took the swer, but his companion continued: *eat which she made for him beside "You know I always said that I never lier. J could marry anybody who was not "It uted to'be 'Frank,'" be said in, perfectly gentlemanly and " •Bswer to her -"Mr. Mardep." She ! "Do you mean that I am not a gen- -IIMvtlimr" said Mardeoi '• -v.., ...* . > • ' .! • id; • ' t: , - 4 fK7 ,f' >/•.£ - it'rfi ' , aJ*;, ' \ } {, ' Y 'Yes," answered Uncle Silas, slowly, "I suppose so," and with an air of humility he went down into liisjjrouser's pocket and fished up a puree, which he began to unwind. "What is the cheapest room you have?" he inquired. The cheapest was none too cheap, but the clerk named the figure. "All right," said Uncle Silas, "take it out of that," and he laid down a thousand-dollar bill. The clerk at once put on bis other I in the Washington University, St manners. He waft very sorry to bave [Louis, Mo. J ; Ot«d Him for a Ttl«pbon« fflM, Manager Joseph Breeman, of the Youngstown, Ohio, Telephone Ex­ change, said that on several occasion^ recently persons had carried oh con­ versations through his body. "I had occasion the other day to cut a wire," he said. "There were several persons desiring to use it, and 1 simply held an end in each hand and they hold conversation through my body. The service, they said, was very satisfactory, and I suffered no inconvenience." Americans Art) TrsTnltm. , Railway statistics show , that tbe American takes 2.7 railway trips a year, tlie Englishman 1.6, the Belgian 11, the Frenchman, the German, Swede, Norwegian and the Spaniard 5 each, while the Turk, the Swiss and Italian takp but 1 each. PBOF. A. T. WOOD has resigned his position as professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois to take a similar position in the "Orer-Study.*". becoming a common tbing to hear of boys and girls who break down by "overstudy."' Some parents lay the blame upon the graded system of public schools, which exacts the same amount of work from all pupils in a given grade, without regard to their several abilities. There is something in this, no doubt, and it may often happen that delicate chil- dren are worked too hard over their books. Yet it is probably true that in a majority of cases "over-study" has not been the real cause of the break-down. Good, "Square," hard work does not so often injure people, either old or young, as wrong ways of working, or bad, personal habits. The mental faculties are delicate tools, and must be carefully handled. One may take a bludgeon and whack away with it at no risk of his weapon. But suppose he uses a fine graving tool in the same manner? He ruins his implement and fails to accomplish his work. So it may be with the powers of the mind. The student may use them to excess on occasions. "Plugging" for examina­ tions, or for rescitatione, the prepara­ tion for which lias, on some account, been deferred--these are instances of abusing the . mental powers. Many children are permitted to study at once after eating heartily. This is indirectly an abuse of the mental tools, for it is an' injury to the body, and whatever harms the body is a thrust at the mind. Regularity of study, close atten­ tion while the book is in hand, and then a period of rest and diversion-- this, with correct physicial habits, will preserve young people very of­ ten from the evilsjwhich are set down to over-study. --Ladies' Home Compan­ ion. . Gaorge Vsnderbilt'a Carolina Pslasa Young George Yanderbilt's resi­ dence and grounds up near Asbeville, N. C., are being pushed rapidly to completion. When completed it will be second only to Senator Stanford's Palo Alto ranch as the grandest es­ tate in America. The residence will be one of the most costly in the coun­ try, and the surrounding park of 30,- 000 acres of land is being laid out un­ der the direction of a noted landscape gardener, who has been instructed to spare no expense. The Vanderbilt house will be two u u m i l e s f r o m t h e n e a r e s t r e s i d e n c e , a n d calling during certain hours, and] o ^n^i fnr Gf at other times would mingle with and fraternize with those of other callings. They would know their own needs and the bearing of their ills.on others; they would know what effect the ills of others would have on them; in a word, they would strive for the establishment of that government among men in which an injury to one would be the concern of all, but would be so enlightened on the requirements of all others that the concern of one would not injure i all through any unwise or hasty action. The rank and file of labor- i ing men who acknowledged that labor had wrongs that should be redressed did not object to the formation of such an association; on the contrary, It met with their approbation, and Were it not that those whom they selected as counselors advised against the extension of the scope of the Knights of Labor that organization would be well under way to-day and the Industrial Commonwealth would have been born.--T. V. Powderly, in Journal of the Knights of Labor. Bstsinod uii Kijcnitjr. A rather dense British nobleman, who had letters to the best houses in Boston, and who was the recipient of nauch courtesy, left the Hub, after ̂ a few weeks' visit, for the inevitable with la private railroad Tor the use ' ' George Vamlerbilt and his retainers has-been constructed, or is in course of * construction, to reach the nearest railroad station, which is twenty-five miles away. The bits of description concerning the house it­ self, the proposed furnishing and equipment of it, call up ideas of ex­ travagance and splendor which can only be gotten in another way by reading the "Arabian Nights." It is stated, in fact, that young Vander­ bilt has become so fascinated with the idea of establishing a North Caro­ lina estate that his thoughts scarcely concern themselves with anything else, <and he has spent and seems to be willing to spend any amount of money to bring things to a complete imaginable point. When completed the home will cost him something like $5,000,000. --Atlanta Constitution. it*,. A Bridal Tour. A loving couple from the rural dis­ tricts of Moose River went to Bangor the other day and got married. Af­ ter the nupitial knot hed been tied they made a tour of the town on the electric cars, took in a view of the shops and at a 99-cent store invested in a baby carriage, t b e i r o n l y p a r a b a s a l * , • > ' # - y > \ -s. - •• , \ "Vv1 • J if Sim PfcilMMpfcia on Mi* The Boston hot^l *ii|^ ̂ «gtauran$ waiters have formed tbeisieeives into an alliance for tbe purpose of redraw­ ing their alleged grievance*. They have drawn up a schedule of wag# that waiters of different classes ar» to receive, the hours ttiey are to work^ the rules they will submit to, and pay they must get fOr overwork. Regular waiters are to receive $30 § month, be on duty not more than tett hours out of the twenty-four, and be allowed three meals a day. These terms appear reasonable, as waiting' in the dining-room of a large hotel J§; trying work and deserves a fair com^ pensation and not too long hours. i. - ; f J But while the' waiters are taking'^^'^i^il PI f -y \ these measures to protect themselves they ought not to forget to protect a long-suffering public as well. I& while demanding fair wages for then)* selves they were to decide to abolish the tipping system, they would havfc, the sympathy of the public in attain ing their own object. Tipping has grown to be such an abuse that It threatens to cure itself by its very magnitude. From being a gratuity |fcr '•£ has come to be considered an obliga* > tion, and there are few travelers, e#». •' pecially in the summer, regardful <j| their own comfort who have the coujv age to resist the imposition. It begirt! • the day a man leaves his home for his vacation tour, and never stops until the door of his own house closes behinjjis him again. The chief annoyance in connection with the matter Is that the tippe t knows he is paying twice for the sanle: service--is, in fact, being robl»ed-- and is only getting indifferent service' in the bargain. There is some excugig for the practice in the old countries^, where wages are extremely low and the gifts from guests are often the only income hotel waiters have. Thdti the service a moderate gratuity will bring in England or on the continent is far greater than a much larger one will command in this country. A waiter in one of the best restaurants in London considers himself fortunatpS' > if he receives a gift of a sixpence-- ; equal to 12 cents in our money--fat : serving a dinner, and a hotel porter will carry two large satchels and S wrap up several flights of stairs and feel fully compensated if he gets thrjtr pence. A gift of less than twice osr three times that sum might be a0» cepted by a waiter or porter here, but in such a manner as to tell the givsjr plainly that he is receiving and not ; conferring a favor. ; ̂ The evil could be cured if the traveling public would unitedly ojh pose it, but there are always enough willing to submit to the exaction to compel others to follow their example. " A few years ago a leading hotel in Chicago sought to break up the - tipping system by publicly forbidding it and ordering the return of all the; tips to the proprietor, but the efforjt; was unsuccessful and passed into 4 'innocuous desuetude." The practice has become so well established at some summer resort hotels that f well-understood tariff of tips is in use, and no waiter will deign to receive anything less. The man who is un­ willing to be mulcted must have cour­ age enough to withstand a battery <$t - contemptuous looks from all the wait­ ers in the vicinity, who seem to have entered into a league to bulldoze re^/ luctant tippers. If the system is to contini^e It should be regulated and made public. Proprietors should be asked to display a card giving the tariff for >6e tips in their hotels, and reading' something like this: "For conducting a guest up the main aisle of . 4 dining-room, $1 to the head waiter; for service at the table, 25 cents, 'to the waiter; f<M handing a hat of shall, 10 cents to the hat rack; fcir brushing, 5 cents to the hall boy three times a day; for the postage stamp seller, double prices for stamps, etc." The public would then know what exactions it must submit to and could mal^e 4t£ calculations accordingly. An Interesting Mill Pond*. Half a mile from Sparks, on the Georgia Southern Road, is a pond at the head of Bear Creek. This pond Was dammed and a mill built twenty years ago by John Parish, who oper­ ated the mill for several years. This pond is one of the wonders of the South, and no one attempts to go over it without a pilot, and sometime the pilot gets lost. The pond covers about 2,500 acres, averaging six feet deep. Cypress and other growths stand high over the pond. Near the center of the pond is an island ol eighty acres, with twelve acres in cul­ tivation, that consists of one of tbe finest little truck and poultry farms of this section, owned by Mr. D. P. Pulliam. The dam that holds this body of water is only a few hundred yards long. The pond is a great pleasure resort for those who lik< sport. Fish of many kinds and large sizes are caught every day, but tbe people cannot catch them as fast as they breed. Tons and tons of fish could be caught and plenty left. - When the workmen were digging for dirt to build the dam, twenty years ago, they found landmarks of a nation of people that were here be­ fore the Indians. A crossing for ve» hides was resting under a foot of land that the first settlers of this counter could gaih no information of from the*" Indians. Further down in the earth they found the decomposed substance of a man's bones wrapped in a fibre resembling cypress bark. As best they could judge the bones were of a man above the medium size and sup. posed to have been of a giant hatiq|j^ that preceded the Indians. Catting- a Thread Inside a Bottle. Hand to one of your friends assr empty bottle closed with a cork. Y«**| will already have placed a crooked pin in the cork to which is attached a thread--a button at the end of the thread will serve to hold it stretched. You will propose to cut the thread without touching either the button or the thread, and to make assurance doubly sure you will seal the cork with wax. Leave the room with the bottle and return in a moment to present the bottle to your audience, the thread cut in twain, the lower end of it with the button lying at the bottom of the bottle. This amusing trick is done by the sun's rays through a burning-glass. A cleft* glass bottle should be esed in prefer* ? Vicetoa black one., :X! t, . •• • <:•