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Mrtnt by the IV •;*»*-*• ^ I* HWil^l.£QW8. S?. l^ft- *. *> •Hhw mlUBlBMll tag tin world of light "£n«, is infinite." - i!• the Sooth. l> -Wi to of oliwuMt elopes of torn C r in thn itm'i long droatn. vens that beam and bum. 'AgM'tll t|ttjnralIow.s ware gathered that*, , nttM mat in the flagrant air, '.ftotMud no round from the larks, but flew, / Wartrtng umler the blinding blue. Oat at th« depths of their so't, rich throat•, fluted the thrushes, and saNU . "ftpriwiloonght on the iniid air float<|T"*: Spring 1> coming and winter is doad! Oome.O twaUowa and stir the air, jKMt the buds are bursting unaware, • 'And the drooping eaves and the elm trees long lb beer the sound of your low, sweet song." . J0wei the roof« of the white Algiers ' Ftashingly shadowing tho bright bazar, Plitted the swallows, and set on < hears : TbeoaUof th • thrushes from far, from Jhr; jMghed the thruah»s; then, all at once JJ ; Ifeoke owe singing tho old sweet tones, •* Singing the bridal of sap and shoot, v. ntatree'p slow life between root andfroli, • ' 'Vut jast when the dingles of April flu wan .Shme with the earliest daffodils, * When before snnrise, the cold, clear ho*»f« Oleam with a promise that noon fulfils; {> in the leafage the cuckoo cried, Ched on a spray by the rivulet silo, ..... "Swallows. O swallows, come back again, <\ • .To swoop, and herald the April rainI •; jLtid something awoke in the slumbering hesrt -» 'Of the alien birds in their African fir, " Ahd they parsed and alighted, and twittered apart; And vl>«; in the broad, --h5ts dreamy square, i the sad slave woman, who lifted up m tho fountain her bread-lipped eertban cop, aid to herself With a weary sigh, •To -.riorrow;the swallows will northward fly!" !:!SWaverfy. UNWELCOME VISITORS. If*; I have a.little story to tell in con­ nection with my visit to India two years as*o. I had started on a visit tb a friend in an interior town, and, through an accident that befell one of the natives who accompanied me, 1 was detained several hours, and forced to proceed ' ery slowly when the band again started, the injured man being borne on a rude litter by four of bis companions. So it came about that it had grown quite dark before we reached our destination; but, as the moon was shining and the road was plain, I did not object to this. Indeed, I regretted that we heard t&e'fifovrtthat told how he i*» sen ted having missed his prey. Lying face downward on thbspring* 1 saw a light suddenly shine on the floor beneath the bed, and peeping out, I beheld Tibboo standing lathe door with a lamp in his hands. His dusky face was pale, and he, too, gazed as fascinated. > "Help, Tibboo, help!" I shouted as loud as I could, but instead of wait­ ing to help, Tibboo set the iaiup down upon the floor and ran. I could hear his retreating footsteps as they grew fainter and were Anally inaudible. I gave myself up for lo/t. I felt that it would be a very short time indeed that I would be able tc keep them away from me with the paltry protection of a thin wool mattress. They walked over me again and again, their huge bodies crushing me as I lay there helpless. ThQjf ' walked around and about the bed, peering under it at me, for they could distinctly see me through the springs. They made several endeavors to get under the bed, but the bedstead was a low one, and they were not able to get under. Then they nosed about the edges of tbc mattress. Every moment was an ace. Never in all my life was so much suffering crowded into so brief a time. My agony of apprehension was terrible. I knew that if one of the leonards tried to insert bis head under the mattress all would be up with me, becausc he could do it easily. And there was my gun in the corner of the room, not ten feet away, but so far as that was con­ cerned it might as well have been ten miles away. What a horrible, thing--to be caught like a rat in a' trap and torn to pieces in the very room in which 1 had thought myself so safe. But still, for some unaccountable reason, my fate was delayed. They both mounted upon the bed again and went prowling over it, growling fiercely at their failure to reach me. And they were both standing on my helpless body, when I heard presently a shot that was so near it sounded like the very crack of doom. With a v?;id, snarling scream the two leoparqt leaped from the bed. I threw aside the mattress and looked out to catch a glimpse of Tibboo's the shrubbery. had not made the entire journey after dark, as it was not so intolerably hot j form flying through in the daytime. » I noticed that my horse tremely restless and He had slipped up to the window, fired was ex- ! one shot, and fled for bis life. On uneasy duringi the floor lay Qne of the leopards, gasp- the last few miles of the journey, j ing and dying. h'4' tl .i* ' ;. V* "jsr . Y;?i- ;/&v I V ¥- !'• T„ K , Sometimes he trembled and snorted, and constantly wanted to run, so that it was all I could do to hold him. One of the old men in the band kept looking around apprehensively. "The horse smells some wild beast," IK said; and after that we kept a sharp lookout for it, but, though at one time we heard a crackling in the iMishes, as though from the presence of a light foot, we saw nbthing. About 9 o'clock at night we reached the town, and inquiring for the bungalow of my friend, found it on the farthest outskirts of the village. J rode out there, leaving the others to put up at a public house. When 1 reached the bungalow, what was my Chagrin and disappointment to And that my friend and his family were alt on a sea voyage, and had left the ' place in charge of a single servant, a native, who had lived with them • lince they first came to the country. ; "But the house is yours, Sahib, With all that it contains," said Tib* boo, with his profoundest bow; and ao, as there was no other prospect, I turned my horse over to Tibboo, threw ; myself into a hammock under the | trees, and proceeded to enjoy a little | fest. for I was tired down. Tibboo •jbrought my supper out afterward^ dfe- rlpghtfully spread on a little table, and ifet it beside me--ah, they know how to do things, those Indians--and af­ ter I had eaten be brought me the iiost delicious cigars, and between the cigars and the delightful sensa­ tion of rest, it was near midnight be­ fore I managed to tear myself away from the hammock and go to the room which Tibboo had prej ared for me. It was a lovely room, hung round with matting and with win- • / flows opening to the floor. y; ' There is no need of closing the windows," said Tibboa "In this country they all sleep with the win- The other stood by it, nosing it over, licking its wounds, J and making a low moan that was half i a grow!, it paid no attention to me | when I looked out. I saw that Tib- i boo had left me to my fate again, and ! that now or never was my time to eet the gun. If I failed in this at­ tempt my last chance was gone, for I could easily understand that the kill­ ing of its mate would make the sav­ age creature more fer^eious than ever. Slowly and carefully I dragged my­ self from beneath the mattress, and prepared to spring without further hesitation. Just as I was ready it turned at me with a growl that would have daunted a far stouter heart than mine was at that moment 1 sprang for the gun, notwithstanding, but a blow, from one of those terrible paws as I passed it brought me to my knees. Still, 1 got the gun. I owe it to that fact that 1 am here to-day. I got the gun. The beast was upon me so quickly that' I had not time to bring the weapon to my shoulder, but was forced to defend myself by thrusting the muzzle into its mouth. Then I reached down and pulled the digger. It was as queer a shot as eter was made, I should think, but it broke the Leopard's neck, and he rolled away from me, and was dead before he quit rolling. , Then Tibboo came b^ck, rascal that he was, and asked, witfa that low bow of his, "Will the sahib please take another room, fbr<this one needs at­ tention?" ••You miserable wretch," I cried, "why did you si^oot but one Of the leopards, and leave, me at the mercy of the other one?" - And Tibboo replied, with immova­ ble calm, "Because my gun has but one barrel, and I was not an Ameri­ can that 1 Should desire to go away and boast that I had killed two leop- dows open--though I have seen coun- ards with one shot." ^ tries where it was otherwise." <r, - I smiled grimly as I remembered' that I had seen a country or two of that kind myself. But I went to lc3ps Tibboo assuring me that he « ; , s w o u l d b e w i t h i n c a l l , a n d t h e o p e n •£ • - ' After which I went toJ bed, while Tibboo remained up and showed the two leopards to a mob of half-dressed natives whom the two shots had aroused from their beds. We found afterward that these leopards had pi^oSMd no ordinary noise would haVe i .-waked ine. One time in the night I 3 r became dimly conscious that a dog ff was being killed somewhere, but I jdia not wake enough to appreciate jpV • the situation or to wonder what it "was."' • " • - v J I think it must have been about 2 o'clock when I was at last startled v; i. wide awake. I said that no ordinary noise would have roused ma What I RATIONAL QUAflAlfrtNS Sea£• of the Mesnn to fmsm a*sltfc| -FmswiI i4Mt Casvmss. After a i&rolot|ged struggle, says the Youth** Ctompamon, in which all the usual means of opposition to a bill before ContjmlM^Wore employed, the House of ;:Hp>r#tentatives adopted the Senate* bmendhients to its own bill "granting actional quarantine to" and Ipposing additional V.. ' * 1 4 Rtsmm power duties upon Service." This action was the Marine Hospital the practical cre­ ation of a new national quarantine, of such a nature as has not before existed. The bill was subsequently passed through its final s&ges, and was signed by the President. ' Quarantine, or the enforcement of certain regulations upon vessels to prevent them from landing in the country persons afflicted with con­ tagious or infectuous diseases, or goods infected by them, has been a very muoh mixed matter since 1879, when the bill establfshing a national board of health was adopted. Prac­ tically quarantine has been in the hands of the States, and the national government exercised very litte au­ thority in the matter. Last year, during the prevalence of the cholera id Europe; the President- issued an order enjoining a certain detention of vessels from infected ports, this detention to be enforced by the collector of .customs at each port; but it was necessary for him to specify in his order that the deten­ tion could be made only where it was in harmony with State authority. 1* one or two cases the national authority was defied. There was no efficient legislaticn under which a national quarantine was possible. The present act does not, indeed, take the matter of quarantine out of the hands of the State and lacal au­ thorities and place it in the hands of officers of the general government, but it manes it ynlawful for any ship from a foreign port to enter a United States poit except in obedience to its provisions or in obedience to State and municipal regulations which are in accordance with this national a;ct, or consistent with it. Moreover, the present act provides that where, in the opinion of the officers of the Government, State and municipal quarantine regulations are not sufficient to keep out pestilence, the Secretary of the Treasury shall make such additional regulations as he deems necessary; and if the State, and municipal authorities will not undertake to enforce these, the Presi­ dent shaW have them enforced by offi­ cers Of^bfae general government The Government is. to acquire possession of local quarantine buildings wherever possible. Thus, It will be seen, the new quarantine act is an assertion of the National authority over that of the States in this important, matter. I'he enforcement of the act is put into the hands of the Supervising Surgeon General ot the Marine Hospital serv­ ice, acting under the authority ot the Secretary of the Treasury. The act makes it unlawful for any vessel from any foreign port to enter a United States port without comply­ ing with the quarantine regulations, and subjects it to a fine of $5,000 if' it attempts to-do so. American con­ suls and vice consuls abroad are re­ quired to give vessels sailing for the United States b}Us of health, "clean" or "foul" as the case may be; and they cannot get into the country without these ' bills of health. Medical officers of the Government are to be assigned to serve abroad as inspectors. The Supervising Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital--the National health officer--is to examine State and municipal health regulations, and see to the enforcement of neces­ sary precautions, both as to the intro­ duction of contagious diseases from abroad, and theircommunicationfrom one State to another. Regular reports of the sanitary condition both of foreign ports and of United States ports are provided for. The Secretary of the Treasury is to promulgate the quarantine rules; and when a vessel arrives at a port which has not the proper quarantine arrangements, it is to be sent at once to ope which has them. The President is given power to prohibit altogether, by proclamation, the introduction of persons or prop­ erty from foreign countries which h%ye cholera or other contagious dis­ eases, when be deems it necessary to the public heaftfeu moreitf-br*d.. Sttch conduct atnonatf to your saying to the musician. "Your music lis so unbearable that I must talk to drown it out of my hearing. '• ' r 1 Otvt Bow » Pretty lH*«p potato* Doctor. Her if,' heard was not an ordinary noise. It was the sound of something creeping softly about the room. The footsteps were too soft for those of a dog, and raising myself on my elbow, I shouted, "Get out of here! Begone, sir!" The response was a low, deep growl, k certainly not a dog's growl. I reached* under my pillow for the box of matches I had placed there when I went to bed, got one Out, reached down to the floor and struck it. Never will T forget the sight that met my eves Across the room stood an enormous leopard, its fiery eyes gleaming in the light, its tail gently waving to and fro as it watched me; and just behind it, at one of the open windows, the head of its mate was visible, looking in from the veianda. I gazed as if fascinated, too hor­ rified to move until the match burned down to my fingers, and 1 dropped it. And there I was in the dark, with two leopards for comoany. I gave a shout that might easily have waked the seven sleepers, and that rung through the silent house with a ter­ rible roar, and at the same time threw myself to the back side of the bed, next to the wall. I did it without any definite purpose, except to get as far as possible from the danger. The moment I struck the wall, however, X thought of something else, and lerkiog up the edge of the mattress, I roQed track upon the springs and pallid the mattress down over me. At wie' same moment one of the leopards struck the place where I had been lying the minute before, and I : <f^t this awful weight upon me, and that they were very near us several times. At any jrate, they were very near me that night as I lay under the mattress on which they were perched. --Boston True Flag. • • i ,1 . " iirf - Too Precise. U is almost impossible to tell a funny story to the listener who in­ sists upon precise statements and the proper use of words. "I want to tell you something funny that happened to me this morning," said Spatts, cheerfully. started down street after my laun­ dry, and--" "You mean you went after your washing, J suppose," Hunker inter­ rupted. "I' imagine iou do not really own a laundry." "Of course that's what I • mean," said Spatts, a trifle less cheerily. "Well* Ihadgone butalittle ways--" "I presume you mean a-little way, not a little ways," corrected Hunker. "I presume so." admitted Spatts, but the cheerfulness was all gone out of his manner. "As I was going to say, 1 had gone hot a little way when it happened. It tipkled me so thought I'd Just haite to lay down and die' "Lie down-and die, not lay down is the correct, fonh of the verb." •Ob, yes, I know; but those kind of errors seem to come natural--" "Not those kinds of errors, my dear boy. Say that kind of errors. But go on with your iunny story. I'm getting interested." '•'Are you? Well, I've lost my in­ terest in it. I don't believe there was anything funny in it, after all Good-day," Flushed and visibly annoyed, Spatts strode away. "Now J wonder if I've offended him!" thought Hunker. "Our lives are full of disappoint­ ments," remarked my friend, the surgeon, who is famous for his ability to joke with patients of any nation­ ality in their own language and make them forget their m isery for the time, "and I thought up to last week that I bad my full share of them. "Now I believe that lam way over on mv allowance. See if you do not agree with me. "Early last summer," he began, "a charming young lady was brought to my office from <» Western State in a pitiable condition. She had dislo­ cated her ankle some months before, and from unskilled treatment it had been put in such a shape thatl thought at first that amputation might be necessary. She was wasted away to seventy-five pounds, and a mere wreck of her former self. "I was luckily able to save the foot and bring her back to perfect health, and'she blossomed into one of the prettiest girls I have ever been. She and her mother called on me to say "good-bye' last Tuesday, and she was in the highest of spirits. She danced around the room to prove that her ankle was perfectly strong again, and gave me this handsome silver inksoand for a remembrance. As I accompanied them to the stoop she paused on the upper step and took my hand again. 'Doctor,' said she, 'be- yound the check which papa will send you and the eternal gratitude of mamma and myself I feel that you deserve some further reward.' Lean­ ing toward me she went on impres­ sively. 'You deserve a reward that most men would risk their necks to gain! You deserve a kiss- Mamma, kiss him,' and before I could get the pucker out of my lips she was down in the street sending up at me the most tantalizing laugh I have ever heard. » "Yes, as 1 said oeforer we all have our disappointments. Try a little of this Burgundy." New York Herald. A Romance of To-day. This world has a good deal of ro­ mance, and romance is the silver lin­ ing to the cloud of h^rd materialism of which life is largely composed; and the romantic is not confined to the narrow region occupied by poets or painters, but is meo in the workshop, in the harvest field, and in the wood­ land, and all men are the better for meeting it Only a Httle while ago a hired man who lives near Chicago went to town to purchase a pair of overalls, little dreaming of what was to follow. He was not an imaginative hired man. Alone the codl, sequestered way of life he kept the noiseless tenor of his way, and his hopes and dreams never soared above the plow and har­ row and the luscious bales of hay. However, to return to our theme, as the "solitary horsemen" novelists say, the hired man went to the store and purchased a shapely pair of over­ alls, for which he paid seventy-five cents in coin of the realm, and then he returned to his home and donned the princely clothes. It is not re­ corded whether they fitted him, but little boots it whether they did or not* no man can expect to purchase a bridegroom's outfit for seventy-five cents. He naturally put his hand In the pocket of the new garment, and there discovered a note written by the girl who made the overalls, aud asKing the purchaser to write to her. The mind of the hired man grasped the possibilities of the situation; he wrote to her. Could anything be more ro­ mantic, more like a novel than this? He received the following answer from the young lady:-- "I am glad YOU wrote to me; 1 wanted to know if there really was a man fool enough to buy seventy" five cent overalls." On Mount la a StovpM. Our footing, as we strove to and fro on the brink and tried in vain to see through the noisome smoke, was very unpleasant. We were on the mud outcast that very morning and so but a quarter congealed. It clogged our Loots like new snow and there was, or seemed to be, some danger that it might fail to support our weight and let us down Heaven knows whither. Under these con­ ditions it was unwise to stand long in one spot, though, to be sure, the turmoil of the elements and the cold (thermometer at 38 degrees* with a fierce wind) was another effectual bar to this. There w^s such a shrieking of the storm fiend and such a merciless whinping of the bail and snow upon our checks, and such a striding inal- odor of sulphur that while we stum­ bled along we pi"oted round and round in vain attempts at self-pro- tection. Our view of Sicily from the summit is soon described, we saw | water none of it except the ground we trod Upon. Half an hour by the crater was . enough for us.--Cornhill Maga­ zine. •' "EDDIK, 1 wisht I wuz AST fat a* you, an'I'd be happy." /'You only think so. Us fat folks has our sor* rers, too, but they don't show, an' we don't get no s mfertv!" "Doa'te" for Pareata. Don't allow other members of the family to be in the room when the child is practicing, for it diverts attention and creates embarrassment enough to make the practice fruitless. •« Don't expect a pupil to like prac­ tice and to take an interest in music when he has to play on a piano that is out ol tune and order. Don't expect nimble fingers or profitable practice in a room that is below sixty-flve degrees Fahrenheit. Sitting still in a cold room does not tend to a warm circulation of the blood, but allows the fingers to become so numbed aud stiff as to be uncontroll­ able. Don't ask a friend to play for you and then as soon as the music com­ mences begin talking. Nothing is Be«l Clay Region of Texas. In the vast "red clay" region of Texas and Southern Kansas, where all the landscape is of a brilliant red color, the strata composing the hills are interlaid with thicknesses of gypsum which look like white sugar, says the Boston Transcript. This is sulphate of linfe, whereas chalk is carbonate of lime. By driving the water out of it plaster of paris is made. From the same material a new sort of wall plaster is manu­ factured. For both of these purposes the stuff is largely mined, as well as to produce an artificial stone called "staff." of which most of the exposi­ tion buildings at Chicago are con­ structed. So-called "chalk" school prayons are made out of the same substance, and also jewelry and Mother orna­ mental articles. These gypsum beds were deposited on the bottom- of the great inland sea »t a period long previous to the chalk-forming epoch. They are composed of limeV derived dirictly from the rocks of the land and deposited chemically'by ttoe sea water, which was extremely salt, like the salt lake in Utah. The gypsum sands in Southern New Mexico look ljke beds of snow stretching for miles and miles. All of that arid region known as the great basin is a strange and weird country. The rivers, in­ stead of flowing to the sea, disappear in the plains, drunk up by the dry soil and evaporated by the hot sun. There, it is said, one "climbs for and digs for wood." To find water one must ascend the hills, which are green, while the valleys are deserts. People dig up for fuel the roots of the desert plants, which are enormously developed for the pur pose of gathering moisture. Everyfflr In ifa »B(wW^«wi»piirt- ment of th* sleeper Ium! told a story except on* quiet* Jnoffensive sort of a man in the .corner, and the drummer eyed him with suspicion, as he fin­ ished what he considered the corker of the entire combination. As the drummer concluded the qufet man poked his head cautiously out Of his shell and coughed slightly as men do who have lain dormant awhile and rouse themselves to utter­ ance. "I rememoer," he said, without further preliminary, "a queer cir­ cumstance which happened to me during a summer visit 1 made some years ago in Kansas. I am reminded of it by the story our friend here"-- nodding towards thedrummer--"tells of a shower of fish falling from the sky. I can readily believe his story" --thedrummerlooked grateful--"and I hope he will believe mine. One afternoon we were sitting out in front of my friend's house, some three or four of us, noticing the peculiar shape, color, and movement of the clouds, when, all at once, as true as gospel, gentlemen, an elephant, alive and kicking, dropped right down in front of us out of the sky, and a more astonished looking brute I neversaw." The drummer sat spellbound and everybody else choked up, speechless. The quiet man looked around on his auditors. 'It's as true' as preaching, gentle­ men," he went on, "and though, as a rule in Kansas, it doesn't rain ele­ phants, it did on that occasion, and is accounted for by the fact that a cyclone had struck a circus twenty miles to the west of us, and further­ more it was raining lions and tigers and horses and hyenas and monkeys and tent-pins for a week afterwards, the biggest things, of course, coming down soonest" My dear sir," gasped the drummer as the quiet man was about to con­ tinue, "don't say another word. I travel for a liquor house and if you want a barrel of cock-tails give me your address and I'll send it to you by the first cyclone that passes our place."--Free Press. JHlondtn's Narrow Escape. It isn't always safe to place too 'much confidence in strangers, as a good many victims of the bunco game have lound to their cost. /Sometimes physical danger results, as in the case of Blondin's narrow escape. Blondin; the renowned rope-walker, usually carried a man upon his back when walking the tight-rope. Form­ erly he was wont to bargain with some one to accompany him oh this dangerous journey. On the occasion of a performance in Chicago a man offered his services free Blondin ac­ cepted them, and ascended to the rope with his living burden. When the pair had reached the middle of the rope the ^man began to laugh heartily. "What is it that amuses you?" the rope-walker asked with astonish­ ment "Oh, a comic idei has Just struck me. 1 was thinking what sort of face you would pull if, during the next half minute, both of us were to fall down upon the audience." "But we shall not fall," replied Blondin, reassuringly. "But I have determined upon this occasion to take my life." At the same moment the man be­ gan to wriggle about so that the rope- walker nearly lost his balance. He, however, soon composed himself, dropped his balancing pole, and gripped the man so firmly with his hands that the latter was unable to move. Then, continuing his walk, al­ though in a state of great trepida­ tion, he arrived safely at the end ol the rope, and allowing his living bur. den to slide from his shoulders, he administered a box on both ears with such force that the would-be suicide fell down unconscious. I Hall Furniture. Among the revived customs which are better than the hew, is that ol building our houses with square halls. The long (and generally dark) ball of the past fifty years and more, while it serves all practical purposes, cer­ tainly does not possess the charm ol the broad hall which went before. Appropriately furnished, its open fireplace all aglow, books here, low benches there, what can De mow charming! There is a welcome in its very atmosphere. First, the walls should be covered with Japanese paper, and the hardwood floor with a rug in dull colors. The finishings and furniture should be of hard wood also Of the latter there should be a stand for hats and umbrellas, a bench or settle, a table (as a receptacle for a few periodicals), a standing lamp, and a screen or two. In this hall should be a low window, with bioad sill upon which to dispose numerous potted plants. Tailor tor Dogs. A Paris woman has found a new field of activity. She is a tailor for dogs. Her reception-room is fitted up with rugs, water-bowls, and bis­ cuit-jars for the delectation of pet poodles and terriers. Water-color pattern books from which to choose the costumes for the pets are among the conveniences, and the^e patterns are executed in anything from chamois to sealskin. IN our national cemeteries 318,- 870 bodies of soldiers have been in terred. IN 1892 there were 447,591 miles of post i-'outes in this country. Tito Wolfs Fatal Mistake. A hunter and a wolf had on inter esting mutual surprise to themselves in the hills near Helena, Mont, few days ago. The hunter, arrayed in a heavjy ^rolftklh ^vercoat, fur side outward, was examiniotf some traps set the previous night. He was stoop­ ing over one, rearranging the bait when there was the sound of a fierce growl and a heavy weight fell sud denly on his back, bearing him to the ground, so that he barely missed be­ ing caught in his own trap. He managed to shake himself free, and recovering his feet found facing him a full grewn buffalo wolf. The wolf seemed quite as much surprised as the hunter, and they looked at each other-for some seconds before the fight which ended in the death of the wolf, began. The brute evi­ dently was fooled by the overcoat and the hunter's stooping position and mistook him for another wolf. --- Rural Collaborator. The Dromedary Parcel Poet. The dromedary parcel post service in the German territories of South­ western Africa has given results bet­ ter than were expected. The drome­ daries are adapted to the climate, are not affected by the prevalent cattle diseases, and are not made foot sore in stony regions and do not suffer ex­ treme thirst when deprived of water for a week. They travel, each carry­ ing a weight of 250 pounds, as fast as an ox team. IN 1890 there were 82,329 prisoner? in our jails and penltentlari**! s For many yeafidoctors and hyglen* ists have bad miici* to say on the sub- ject of no food Just before bedtime. A number of intelligent persons have experimented in III is line, and hav* satisfied themselves and their im­ mediate associates! that there is a good deal of nonselnsc in this kind of talk. All brain-workers especially find that If they go to bed in any de­ gree hungry it often means a sleep­ less night and a weary dragged-out feeling next morning; fortunate in* deed are they if they escape a head­ ache. There is in the minds of many per­ sons no clear-cut line of demarkation between gorging and abstinence. If these people can not eat a hearty male, indulging in salads and heavy foods, they seem to think that they must take nothing at all, and indeed they are better if they do not take such hearty food, but this by no means in­ dicates that they must go to bed hungry. One of the best evening dishes is wafers made of sifted graham flour and a ripe apple. Pare and slice the apple and eat the two together, being carefjil that they are thoroughly masticated. There are many hygienists who claim, and possibly with some show of reason, that the hull of the grain that is ground in with full graham flour is not specially digestible. This being the case, an ordinary household sieve will clear the flour of the unde­ sirable material. A well-beaten egg, a cup of sweet milk, a pinch of salt spoonful of baking powder and enough of this sifted flour to make a batter about as thicK as that used for layer cake are put into shallow pans --lellycake pans are good--and baked in a very hot oven. It is not suffi­ cient that the oven be merely at ordinary heat, but must be at as high temperature as possible without burning, and the baking must begin at once. The result of this, if properly man­ aged, will be a crisp, sweet and deli­ cious wafer, that is, without ques­ tion, one of the most nutritious and easily assimilated of all foods. It is a debatable point whether an ordinary ESJ.1 of Eiisccllnncous ma­ terials is not better than none at alL The philosophy of this is that the active brain calls the blood to the head in such quantities that sleep is out of the question. The {Ugestive- powers call this blood from the brain, and this relaxes the tenison on the mental powers. In the animal king­ dom, and among infants,'the Impulse is to sleep after eating. Maybe some day or other, when we know more, or less, than we do now, we will be willing to conform to na­ tural conditions, instead of trying to force natural conditions to fit them­ selves to our fancy or convenience.-- Ledger How to Got Rid of HlffhblndeMb A tolerably well informed China­ man employed as a servant at the navy-vard, Mare Island, was asked the other day by his employer what he thought of the Chinese murders being committed of late at San Fran­ cisco, and what remedy and penalty he would propose to inflict; also what was a highbinder. High bind ee! He all* same hood­ lum. , He no workee; he loafee. He smokee opium; he wear mailee coat He cally knifee, pistol; him bad man gen'lly. What do with Chinaman killee man? You San Flancisco judge do allee same in China, then you have no more killee man. In China, man killee nuder man, catch him, bling him fore Judge; Judge say, 'John,. you killee man?' John say, 'Me no killee man.' Judge know he killee man for sure. So him send pleeceman to catch him all 'lations--fader, mudder, sistee, brodee, ccusin, all 'lations him can find, and bling him into courtee. Judge say to plisoner, 'John, you killee man?' John say, lYeS;* Then Judge tell pleeceman go chop John head off. and pleeceman chop John head off, and all 'lations go flee, go home. But if John tell .Judge him no killee man, then Judge tell pleece­ man, heap lot pleeceman, take John and allee John's 'lations, and kiilee allee. Then pleecemen takee allee down to the beachee and stand 'im uppee in low, allee same posts and choppe'm allee heads offee. That way do in China In San Flancisco vou Judge do allee samee, no more highbindee, no more murdee, no more killee man; but allee be citizens allee blong Salvation Army, wearee .led shirt and poke bonnet Se*?"--Val- lejo (Cal.) News. Trouble*. i In time of trouble, there is some­ thing to do more than merely express sympathy. Nearly always some real help is possible, and to discover what that is and to extend It simply and generously is the task of every one who wishes to be a friend in time of oeed. But this takes not only love and compassion and good wishes but also ludgment discrimination, thought, and patience. It is largely because these qualities are so seldom brought into exercise at such times that sympathy so olten seems power­ less for any efficient helpi Each case must be studied by itself, its past causes fathomed, its present grief ap­ preciated, its future effects weighed, the poss ble means of relief consid­ ered, before true help can be ex­ tended. This habit of thoughtful- ness is easy enough when we are con­ templating an enterprise of our own; why then should it be put aside when we approach so difficult and so deli­ cate a task as that of giving real succor and comfort to others in time jf need? ' Too Much or a Good Thing. An eminent professor makes the somewhat startling statement that excess of conscience has desolated New England like a scourge. Con­ scientiousness becdmes a moral dis ease and takes the place in the ipiritual life of nervous prostration in the physical life. People wbo are always fingering their motives, and unwholesomely preoccupied with di­ recting their acts, lose spontaneity, sense of proportion. Biit what is more important to human society is their tendency to become boies, whose virtues are worse than their vices. A better rule of conduct is that of z person who says: "I've made reason ably sure that my instincts are cor rect, so I let my aqts take care of themselves; Jn the long irun I am about as near right as my more 'con- f licientioutf hruthe^ f LABOK AND ErtTfiffPfttSB. mi M4 Oo-Operatloa- -- *rot* BIWJwliero,' : LONDON has 9,000 sailor* t MEXICO needs immigrante* , V,f FABM hands are organising, s , : THBRE are 5,000 union barbeip'"':' *.€*••"" • SALT LAKE has a coal inspector. '*• V; CHICAGO gasfltters want t4 a day. BUFFALO machinists are organizing. U**. " ENGLAND has 1,000,000 union men/: \ v • UNCLE SAM has 5,000,000 Welsh- men. '"T'-C*1; UNIONISM is expanding at Salt " 1 Lake. , .. BOSTON bakers will abolish Sunday"^'* w o r k - • • • • -- . . - i i s y ? BROOKLYN painters get $3 for eight V ? hours- - * v,. * CINCINNATI bricklayers want eight '•*' hours. v - LANCASTER, Pa, hps a nine hour' league. THERE are said to be 20.000' union b a k e r s . r ' . BOSTON marble cutters are getting4 together. v '^p, NEW YORK has 1,000,000 tenement; :! residents. > CHICAGO has 2,000 brotherhood^ engineers. MEW ZEALAND K. of L. jrill try co- operation. ^ CINCINNATI has twenty union bar-t ber shops. 10 '̂ £ 1 i* V. „,*>*• i . WASHINGTON prohibits the sale cigarettes. 1 LooANSPORT stonecutters have Just organized. FLINT glass woreers have a surplus of $100,000. BOSTON cooks have $700 in the benefit fund. THE eight hour movement is dead at Cleveland. * {SYRACUSE shoe workers struck against a cut * OTTAWA electric companies have amalgamated. FRERCH miners have formed a national union. Cn5ii5SK (Col.) silver miners struck for $3.50 a day. IN Paris one-fourth of the people live in apartments. A PROPOSED Tennessee law will label convict goods. NEWBURYPOKT (Mass.) textile work­ ers won an increase. Soaffe*Fall River weavers struck against $7.50 a week. PARIS has 150 butchers who sell horseflesh exclusively. A GLASS factory and floi|r mill will be located at Tacoma. CHICAGO pattern makers won 25 cents per day advance. ,fT , BUFFALO unions want an eight hour day for polieemen 7 • GRAND RAPIDS (Mich.) masons de­ mand 45 cents per hour. 1 SKAGIT COUNTY, Washington, has co-operative shingle mills. IlEituEw carpenters have separate unions in the Brotherhood. BUFFALO polishers* p&ters* and buffers have formed a union. BUFFALO stove molders kick against workibg fifteen hours a day. ;^ CONVICT labor will be inaugurated by Idaho under a recent law. NEWSPAPER writers* unions are cropping up throughout the country. THE largest boiler plant in the West is to be erected at Milwaukee. DRESSER tenders In a Providence woolen mill have struck for $2 a day. A FOUR months' boycott compelled a Syracuse baker to hire union men. GROKLUND believes that socialism will be tried during the next cen­ tury. BELLBVERNON (Pa.) ijindow glass blowers will establish a co-operative mill. _ ' DETROIT German printers were granted an advance of 2 cents per 1,000. . A DETROIT dealer was fined $25 for using a counterfeit of the union .cigar label. IN New Mexico the Atlantic and Pacific railroad discharged all anion hands. THE San Francisco Water Commit­ tee reeammends a reduction in water charges. . WHEELING carpenters want 20 per cent, advance. Employers offer 10 percent. A BILL to establish a bureau of labor is before the New Hampshire Legislature PROF. SPEIRS of Milwaukee says labor unions are good for employed and employer. TACOMA commission merchants have organized and demanded dh'e&per railroad rates 'V LONDON (Ont) tailors want an ad­ vance of $1 on coats. They receive 10 cents an hour. ; CENTRAL CITY (Ky.) miners struck against a screen that takes 20 pef cent, of their coal. • A LAW making fifty-eight hours, a week's work is before the iihodw Island Legislature: ' TORONTO union tailors want con|* tactors on municipal work'Compelled -' ~ 5 to pay 15 cents an hour. &'•>, A BILL making fifty-four hours AP* ; ^ week's work in factories is before th#* Massachusetts law-makers. THE Cincinnati Free Employment Bureau secured sixty-five positions for. the unemployed in a week. THE South is advised totacklesteel by experts, who think pig iron has been touched by that section. THERE are 1,400 German uni printers and $122,000 has been dis bursed by the organization in eigh years. Ton Dollars a IVoek. A housekeeper in Phtladel^ta^ whose table is well supplied with ap^C netizing food, says that for her fam^#| ily of six she expends $10 a week. O# this sum 80 cents is spent for twd^ pounds of coffee, 72 cents for t.w<j|l dozen eggs, $2 for five pounds oM. butter, ^80 cents for twenty-fiviff. pounds of flour, $1.12 for twenty*!' eight quarts of milk, 25 cents for flvJ^-* , pounds of sugar. The remaining; $4.20 is spens. for. cereals, yesetables^v fruit and meat, aud requires a, verjr- 0 careful expenditure to make it an*o- swer.--2Sew York Evening Post ^ t THE Grand Army of the Republic has a membership of 406.43&'