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THt g*rrgft MIWAC1.E, nmil tb« kto*a iwd mtllow mold, 11 ft» Its crown of bios and goldi *"X ĥ̂ lo°'u ""l Shall hum th« wakened be«f 1 la«TM7pleas Ant pl*C« A United Sowera shall spring la fragile „il i»act, ^Pfff ^trpugb the winter darkness, •till and deep, •prlng calls them from their alM]^ gracious rain, the dew. The aun, perform their miracle ane«} Beanimating life--a subtle b*eath-- Thrills the cold heart of death. jBut not to death alone Shall the great mystery of life be known © soul 1 that questions In doubt and pain. Thou shalt not ask in vain. Behold how all things grow! "The prescient germs, stirring beneath the , v • snow, j&rs^k: >> om ihelr bonds at last and tud the eky ]£• Eastertide draws nigh. Ho shalt thou likewise wake, iThy narrow cell, thy cerements, forsake. iHothed in immortal youth, seeking eternal ' day, 'Arise and go thy way. --Mary E Krout SISTER SIMPLICIA. When the great bell at the Convent of Our Lady chimed out on Easter morning its peal fell on the ears of filster Simplicia, who for two hours had been kneeling in silent prayer in the chapel. The light of the rising sun streamed, through the stained-glass windows' •ad fell across the nun's } ale, inscruta­ ble face, Y&oftijf, gently from the choir rose throw or, n mn.n, gtftltfllig ffc* ohaneet turned qu.okty and looted tip at the carved lattice. "In tanto suppltcio," rang out the wonderful voice. "It's Sister Simplicia," whispered seme one in the pew behind the man whose uplifted face had grown white and tense as he listened. "She must see me," he murmured to himself. "Quia non posset contrlstari," sang Sister Simplicia. At that instant her eyes, cast absently through the choir grating at the throng below her, marked one listener. For one supreme moment Sister Sim­ plicia faced the past. Away rolled convent walls; lights and music grew dim; people became as shadows. Only the Bcent of the lilies --the tall, white Annunciation lilies-- remained. The garden where they grew * * * the drip of the water in the fountain * * * the moon­ light * * * youth * * * love * * * long aero * * * long * * * . The voice had faltered but an in- etant; it rose again and sobbed away into silence. And then, as Sister Simplicia fixed her eyes once more upon the emblem of the greatest martyrdom the world has ever seen, suddenly one of the lilies snapped its brittle stem and came drifting dm™, down, until it rested in •SRWiye ww3T.gr . ! "- BOR* ' , • * they' ATTEBWABD& m l AXONO IU Lu.ru the chorus of voices in the Easter |gan: "O JiUi et JUiee. } Bex **elesti8, Bex <florie&, Morte turrexit home, Am7iMa.n As the "alleluia" rang out Sister fltaplicia's face became transfigured. A wonderful face it was--the face of a woman who has lived and suffered and eonquered, too. Sister Simplica was a mystery in the little community of which she formed • part. No one, save Mother Patricia, knew anything of her fcfe before she entered the Convent of Our Ladv. That she was a woman of good breed- tar, refinement and education was self- •ftdent. Her acco mplishments were varied and she possessed a superb con­ tralto voice. A woman, too, of great sympathy and tenderr*ess, she was the &aol of the children who boarded in the Institution. "Sister! Sister!" cried many happy little ones, as she stepped into the con­ vent garden after prayers, and she was •t once surrounded by a group of beau­ tiful children, plucking at her gown •nd clinging to her hands. She had a •mile, a caress or gentle greeting for •II, and as she gathered great clusters of the tall, stately annunciation lilies to decorate the chapel the children Iwzzed and fluttered about her like %ees and butterflies. When the last fair lily had tound its {lace and the air of the chapel was ©avy with perfume, Sister Simplicia passed into the choir to run over for the last time the solo she was to sing at the public service. Pergolesi's *!Btafaat Mater" was to be done by the •faoir, a chorus of children's voices •rid the accompaniment of organ and fesilos. The music at public festivals the folds of her black veiL' Sister sim­ plicia detached it gently and held it to her heart--only a moment--then let it slip to the floor.' Crushed under her feet, its balmy breath floated up sweeter in dying. The organ, the 'cellosy the voices burst forth in one grand triumphant aspira­ tion. Sister Simplicia had straight­ ened, and held her head erect. Not once did th« deep gray eyes glance downward. The pid/ look of peace had returned. ' / Sister Simplicia was the nun again-- not the woman.7-rEdith Sessions Tup- per. ' EASTER CARDS. TBK BOLO. OftfWQVK ntfW lilllft nil WwlJ Bl|yi XV Thousands. It fs well-known that the late Sir Andrew Clark bad a contempt for the view that hard work hurts a man, says the London News. From the latest of the series of articles re­ producing in the Lancet instructions Riven by him in clinical medicine at the London hospital, we make the following interesting quotation, re- riving in his own words a bit of autobiography, with the substance of which our readers are already fa­ miliar; 'Labor is the life of life. And especially is it the life of life to the delicate. And when any organ is sick, it is then truer than in health that even in sickness and delicacy it is better for the organ to do what work of its own it can, provided it can do it without injury. And lean say to you from a considerable ex­ perience of tuberculous pulmonary disease, 1 can say with perfect con­ fidence that those who have done the best have usually been those who have occupied themselves the most*. 1 never knew my own par­ ents. ' *'• They both died of phthisis. At the age of 21 1 myself went to Ma­ deira to die ot phthisis. But I did not die, and on coming back I had the irooa luck to get into this great hospital, and in those days they were not very pleased to have the Scotchmen coming to London to oc- occupy such appointments. The members of the staff had heard that I had tubercle and they wagered 100 to 1 that I would only have the ap­ pointment six months at most The reason given for that was that I did not eat and worked too hard. "I got the appointment Thirty- eight or thirty-nine years have gone since that time, and it is all thfc other doctors that are gone. Only 1 am left here on the staff--an old gen­ tleman--not dead yet" There was one little mistake here, as the edij^or of the Lancet points out Sir Andrew Clark had for the moment forgotten that Dr. W. J. Little was still alive. '•Labor is life," said Sir Andrew Clark in the lecture above quoted, "but worry is killing. It is bad management that kills people. Na­ ture will let no man overwork him­ self unless he plays her false--takes stimulentsat irregular times, smokes too much or takes opium. If he is regular and obeys the laws of health and walks in the way of physiological righteousness, nature will never al­ low him or any other person to work too much. ' '1 have never yet seen a case of breaking down from mere overwork alone, but I admit that it t is neces­ sary above all things to' cultivate tranquility of mind. Try to help your patients to exercise their wills in regard to this--for will counts for something in securing tranquility-- to accept things as they are and not to bother about yesterday, which is gone forever; not to bother about to-morrow, which is not theirs, but to take the present day and make the best of it, Those affectiouate women who will continually peer into what lies beyond never have any present life at all--they are always grizzling oyer the past or prying in­ to the future, and this blessed to­ day, which is all that we are sure of, tjhey never,have." Under Diacipline. ••I tell you what 'tis, men are good enough fur's they go, but there aint one of 'em but what needs takin' down now 'an then." remarked Mr$. Sprout,as she unrolled her knitting- work and prepared to spend the afternoon with her sister. "I s'pose likely they do," responded little Mrs. Peters, who lived in constant awe of her stolid spouse; '-but it aint always easy to know jest how to do it, Mi- randy." •'Humph! it's easy enough If you only set about it" said Mrs. Sprout^ with a grim smile. And then she settled down to her story: "I've jest ben havin' a season with Josiah. He's ben tellin' me right along that I looked kinder dragged, an* last off I spoke up an* says I, 'It's enough t' make 'most any woman look dragged, Josiah, to be stand in' over the cookln'-stove this hot weather.' "Josiah, he looked all took aback, an' he says, 'l#l>y Mirandy, what makes you do sech a mess o' cookin'? Jest take things easy; 1 can get along with 'most anytrin'; you no need to cook up sech a v'rlety o' stuff fer me. Now le's start right out mu v ^ - . with breakfast t'morrer. You jest T 1 8 f i r m l y o n give me a plain, wholesome meal; I " -- - sha'nt be the fust t' complain.' "Well, he went over to his brother Jim's, an' he wa'nt home the re&t o' that day. I knew what he relished an' craved the most of anythin' but 'twas what give me the most work an' kep' me all het up, an' so I jest allowed that that was what I'd cut short on, seein' Jos ah cal'lated it didn't make no dift'rence what he eat "Well, next mornin' come, an' he set down to the table as usu'L There was nice piece o' pork an' potatoes an' garden sass an* doughnuts an' raised biscuits an' good coffee. 'Twas all made jest like that? re an awful onreasooable set, if women wasn't here to keep 'em where they'd oughter be!" The Amrkaa Agriculturist Telle How On* Can Be Made. Take a square piece of paper, bend the corners over, as seen here, and you will have the pattern for the Easter card, which is made of rough water- color paper, or it can be made of car­ tridge paper. The chicken is made of yellow plush. First cut one out of cardboard, one the exact size, of cot­ ton, and one a trifle larger, of plush. Scent the cotton, lay it on the card­ board and draw the plush smoothly over it. Glue it down on the back, and also on the card. Shade it a little with brown paint. Do the lettering and grasses, and also the turned-over cor- AM BASTBB CABD. ners with turist. gilt--American Agricul- DECORATING EASTER EGGS. Novel Effect! Produced by a Few Strokes of the Brush. A very pretty Easter surprise, which affords a great deal of amusement to children, is given by eggs, with faces painted on them and odd little head coverings. The eggs may either have their contents blown out and be filled with confectionery, or they can be hard boiled. The faces are painted with sepia, the eyea and hair being either light or dark, as desired, and the cheeks and lips are col. red with carmine. Antiquity- of tbe Pnnp> Machines for raising water may be said to be as old as civilization itself, and their Invention extends so far beyond written history that no one can sav when the art of lilting and distributing water began. Egypt, the land of unfathomable antiquity, the oldest civilization of the Orient noted not only for her magnificence and power, but for engineering skill, made practical use of such important devices as* the syphon and syringe, the latter being a remarkable inven­ tion, and the real parent of tbe mod­ ern pump Whether or not syringes were ever fitted with la-let or outlet valves, thus making the single-action pump, is not known, but bellows, consisting of a leather bag set in a frame and worked by the feet--the operator standing with one foot on each bag, expelling the Inclosed air, the ex­ hausted bag being then lifted by a string to retill it with air--implies the use or a valve opening inward, and it is difficult to conceive of a con­ tinuous operation without one. 4 representative piece of mechan­ ism occurs frequently on the sculp* tures of early Egypt It has the ap­ pearance of, and is generally believed to be a portable pump The hydraulic screw is also attributed to this peo­ ple, but their main reliance seems al­ ways to have been shadoof, seen everywhere along the banks of the Nile--an invention so simple, and so well adapted to their needs, that it remains to-day substantially the same as it has through all the centuries since history began. The same may be said regarding the chain pump in China, an inven­ tion the origin of which antedates the Christian era. This simple ma­ chine is in such common use that every agricultural laborer is in pos­ session of one. Where irrigation IF conducted on a larger scale the chain j pump is made proportionately larger and moved by a very simple tread- wheel, and still larger ones are op erated by yoking a buffalo or other animal to a suitable driving machine. Without Wives and Babies, Man is but an incomplete being without a helpmeet: in fact, only a moiety of a man, waiting to be per­ fected by the addition of a "better half." The royalty of his nature remains undeveloped while he is single. Only when he has a wife to pro­ tect and cherish, and children to train and discipline does he attain his true status in the world. Abdon, tbe Judge of Israel, whose forty sons and thirty grandsons filed off before him, mounted on three­ score and ten asscolts, may be sup­ posed to have felt wonderfully edified and built up by the spectacle. How the old man's heart must have bounded vpith honest exultation when he beheld such a cavalcade of his own raising. Modern papas do not trot out their offspr ng in the imposing Oriental style; but when they see troops of them capering about on hobby­ horses, nursing doll babies, and in other ways disporting themselves af­ ter the manner of Christian urchins of the present generation, they are, no doubt, just as happy as was the patriarchal Abdon, and much prouder than if they had eclipsed Praxiteles as statuaries or beated Cheops at py­ ramid building. Home and family!--what a dreary objectless life is his who has not these to rare for, and what a desert of a world this would be without the wives and babies. »n» famous at Our Lady's, and large ©udiences always assembled to enjoy it Ki' *v now through the chapel crept |P|> title soft rubtlo of silken skirts, the i& gentle footfall of the fastrthronginir ||t Worshipers. Suddenly the organ's «well shook the building; the priests P& • acolytes entered. The service had ; ^begun. Mingled with the odor of the _ Wiles rose the fragrant breath of the fi# incense; the musical monotone of the IHj officiating priest resounded through jh* (the aisles; the low murmur ot the |worshipers' replies seemed like , the Muttering of a distant storm, and a! Jpiglorious flood of sunlight lit up the f windows until every saint and martyr. mM: • -stood revealed in a blaze of gorgeous w|:. .color. - When Sister Simplicia rose in her 11 the white hand she lai£ upon the 'f'y. railing trembled. The lights, the color, S|Itjf |he music, the holy hour suddenly &moved her as the calm, impassive nun bad not been moved for years. Just dfop* before and above her swayed a large ' cross of lilies. Raising her eyes to the t'%' Xeacred emblem, Sister Simplicia sang. $ t 'As the rich, deep voice floated over 14 , the heads <>f the hushed mad listening the larger half of the egg, which forms the skull. A German student, with eye gla ses, cap and two bits of stick­ ing plaster crossed on one cheek; a grinning face with a tasseled cap, the tassel falling low on < ne side; a clown with wide mouth, angular heavy eye­ brows, snub nose, brick-red cheeks, and scarlet wool j eruke. Comical, too. is a negro, the face painted dark-brown, the features outlined with India ink, think red lips parted to show white teeth in a grin, a gold ring in the snub nose, and black wofclly hair. Then there is J,he "witch" with big, red nose, huge teeth, spectacles, and enormous cap.'-wjth broad ruffle and strings. Two 4babies," one with wide mouth, snub-nose, eyes tightly closed, and big tears on the cheeks, the face framed in a dainty lac$! cap, beneath which peer curls of lalry hair; the oth­ er a merry countenance, with a laugh­ ing mouth, showing rows of tiny teeth, will surely please the children. A lit­ tle skill in drawing is, of course, neces­ sary to give the rignt expression, yet even an unpracticed hand can give the characteristics of each face by a few strokes.--Washington Post. ; Village Lift In Mexico. A great cotton hacienda in Mexico is strongly built with walls like those of a fort; the tops of tbe walls are often studded thickly with broken glass of a jagged and deadly appear-: ance; for further protection, com. panies of soldiers are kept within the establishment A hacienda of this type, whethei devoted to the manufacture of sugai or cotton, the raising of cattle, oi mining of silver, is a complete little State, with every appliance for lux­ ury and security. It contains within its wall hundreds of peons, soldiers, barracks, a chapel, houses for labor­ ers. apartments for the owner and bis family, and every necessary of life for man and beast The administrador, or general man­ ager is the father of tbe great fam­ ily; he decides all disputes arising be­ tween the various members of it, and if be is only ordinarily just, nevei finds his authority disputed, but is looked up to with much respect and consulted by the peons in all family matters A gent'eman who was for some years administrador of an estate in the State of t oahuiia told me that while occupying this position he con< ceived a high opinion of the simplic­ ity. honesty, and trustworthiness of the Mexican laborer. In most of the haciendas tbe machinery is of a most primiti e kind, modern improve­ ments being used only in the largest establishments. *)inen£ oil 4 a real wholesome meaL 'Josiah he t $gan to eat. but he didn't say much I see him kinder lookin' the table over once or twice, an' he seemed sorter disapp'inted. Finally he lay dowh his knife an' fork, an' looked over at me real be- seechin', so't I couldn't scussly keep my eount'nance. " 'What's the matter?' says L •Don't your food relish. Josiah?' •' 'Ye-e-s,' says he, "but it's a kind of a slim breakfast, aint it, l|i- randy?' " >What is't you miss?' says I. " 'Well, there don't seem to be no pie on the table,' says be, lookin' fer all the world like a gre'tschoolboy. "1 got up an' fetched him a big piece that I'd saved fr'm the day be­ fore, an' set it in front of him, an' you never see a man brighten up the way he did! But right in the mid­ dle of it he looked up an' ketched my eye, an' he turned regular poppy color. " ' I a l ' l a t e i t ' s s o m e w o r k if make pies,' he says real humble; an' then I knew he'd come to a realizin' sense. "That was all I wanted ot him," concluded Mrs. hprout twitching energetically at a refractory knot "I'm will in' to do for him, but 1 jest Hare Comfort. He cannot be an unhappy man who has the love and smile of woman to accompany him in every department of life. Tbe world may look dark and cheerless without, enem es may gather in his path; but, when he re- turns to the fireside, and feels the tender love of woman, he forgets his cares and troubles, and is a compara­ tively happy man. He is but half prepared for the journey of life who does not jt>ake with h m that friend who will forsake him in noemergency, who will divide his sorrows Increase his joys, and throw sunshine amid the darkest scenes. *r THE SoTtitjf Afffaut Because Ntst-mMM* Wfil A (fain Visit Koropo. The courts of Europe are Just now 1u a flutter of excitement owing to the announcement that Kesr ed-Din, Shah of Persia, will soon decend from the peacock throne and make a tour of Europe as the guest of the sov­ ereigns thereof, it is not as a polit­ ical figure that the Shah sends a streak of consternation through European royalty, but as an offensive individual personage. The etiquette of the Persian court does not reach the standard established in the three previous visits of Nasr-ed-Din .to Europe. The first of these visits was in 1873 and the second in 1779. He came again in 188V, and it wad thenobserved that his manners had not in the least improved. He still insisted, for ex­ ample, on throwing under the table his plates and other dishes as fast as he got through with their contents. Perhaps that is the approved Persian table etiquette But in a sumptuouly furnished European palace, with china as fragile as eggshells and worth its weight in gold, it is, to say the least rather trying. At bis first dinner as tbe guest of Queen Vic­ toria, in 1889, it is said, he thus de­ stroyed $1,000 worth of rare china. At all subsequent meals a number of waiters were kept standing close behind him to snatch up his plates the moment he seemed done with them, or at least to take them from his hand before he could throw them under the table. Even despite these precautions he brbke several things and bit some ot the other guests on the feet and shins with the dishes. On one occasion the Shah was seated at the table next to one of the most stately and dignifled royal princesses of Europe. lie was helped to some asparagus, cooked in a pe­ culiarly delicious manner. Picking up a stalk in his fingers, he sucked the end of it with evident delight Then turning to his fair neighbor he ex­ claimed, *'Ba! ba! How good it islN and thrust the same stalk into her mouth for her also to tast. Nor was his conversation less em­ barrassing than his table manners. Talking with a nobleman of great distinction, he suddenly asked: ••Is that your wife over there?" "Yes, your majesty." "But she is old and ugly. Why don't you get rid of her and tjake a new one, one of these youn£ and pretty women?" As he <*poke in a tone perfectly audible to the lady under discussion, and indeed to most of the company in the room, the sensation produped may best be left to the imagination. ISjTor was the scene less em harassing when the Shah one evening approached one of the royal princesses and began to pat and pinch her plump shoulders, saying, HOW VOICES ARE RUINED. Urad Waging and Hlngta* While Mattering from » Cold " '-'-ntnfl A musician tells a reporter ot the Utica Press "how voices are ruined." It should be read and remembered by ail young singers. Among other things he said: "The three princi­ pal sources of damage to the voice are, first, forcing the voice; second, forcing the voice; third, forcing the voice. Constant loud singini? has certainly ruined 00 per c?nu of all the voices In the world. The way to build up a voice is not to use the full force of the tone; but nothing more than medium at the outside. Jv this tbe pjwers are gradually de­ veloped and brought under control. It is just as natural to expect to build an armory in a month, as it is to build a voice under three years' con­ stant application. Sir Morrell Mac- Kenzie gives it as his deliberate opin­ ion, after a vast experience, that a voice cannot be built up in less than seven years, but the musician said ! that, after fifty years' experience, he ^ had found that three years' practice on the lines indicated above will { build up a voice almost to its artistic : capabilities. Singing when the pu- ! pil has a cold of any kind affecting I the throat or chest is highly injuri j ous. Practice at such times can hardly do good, and may do serious barm. The speaker quoted instances where total loss of the voice has re­ sulted from singing when the vocal organs have been affected by cold, and he advised students not to sing at all until Inflammation has passed. He strongly deprecated singing in chorus, an excellent practice, but one j attended with serious dangers to the solo vocalist If you can really re­ strain your ardor and zeal, and only sing iu the most exciting passages with a moderate amount of vocal power, you may do no harm, but the misfortune is that in a chorus tbe members are carried away with over- zeal and emulation of their neigh­ bors, and in very many instances do more harm to their voices as solo singers in five minutes than any teacher in the world can amend in five years. He also called attention to the danger of ruining the voice by straining it while singing in the public schools. Boys should not sing while their vo'ces are changing. His own voice had been a very good one while young, but was ruined by straining while singing in an English cathedral. kind of woman I like! You are not all bones! I will get rid of one of my wives and take you in her place!" IN A PEANUT FACTORY. New Word. J When little Maud began to go to school, she was the naughtiest of scholars. She was naughty in so reckless a way that Hilda, her sister, two years older than she. became heartily ashamed other. Maud occa sionally talked aloud in class; she made such absurd faces that even Ah," yo"u'are "the l!?e ^acher was forced to smile, and * " f lVtA AnAMlukA/1 MA I / have to take him down uowan' agin, t of 1 to 1*7,500. Tbe Neglected Continent. South America has been so called, and rightly called, from a missionary standpoint .With a population of 34,000,000, it has only 3J.> Protestant missionaries and 15,000 church mem­ bers. Figures can speak more graph­ ically than words, if the population of South America were divided equally among its preachers, each Missionary would have a congregation of 227,000 persons, while at home he would have only 800. The next worse country is Persia, with a population Preparing lldi Universal Favorite tor the Market. When the peanuts arrive at tbe factory, they are rough and earth- stained, and of all sizes and qualities jumbled together.. The bags are first taken up by iron arms projecting f r o m a n e n d l e s s c h a i n , t o t h e f i f t h story of the factory. Here they are weighed and emptied into large bin& From these bins, they fall to the next story, into large cylinders, fourteen feet long which revolves rapidly, and by friction the nuts are cleansed from the earth which clings to them, and polished, so that they come out white and glistening. From this story, the nuts fall through shoots to tbe third and most interesting floor. Imagine rows of long, narrow tables, each divided lengthwise into tbree sections, by thin, inch-high strips of wood. These strips also surround the edge of the table. Each of these sections is fioored with a strip of heavy white canvas, which moves incessantly from the mouth of a shoot to an opening Leading down below at the further end of the table. These slowly-mov­ ing canvas bands, about a foot wide, are (ailed the "picking aprons." Upon the outer aprons of each table, dribbles down from the shoot a slen­ der stream of peanuts, and on each side of the table, so close together as scarcely to havo "elbow room," stands rows of negro girls and wo­ men, picking out tbe inferior pea­ nuts as they pass, and throwing them into th& central section. So fast do their hands move at this work, that one cannot see what they are doing till they cast a handful of peanuts into the middle division. By the time a nut has passed the sharp eyes and quick hands of eight or ten p ckers, one may be quite certain that it is a first-class article, fit for the t.nal plunge down two stories, into a bag which shall presently be marked with a brand which will com­ mand for it the highest market price The peanuts from the central aprons fall only to the second story, where they undergo another picking over, on similar tables, the best of these forming the second grade. The third grade of peanuts, or what re­ mains after the second picking, is then turned into a machine which crushes tbe shells and separates the keruals These are sold to the man­ ufacturers of candy, while the shells are ground up and used for horse bed­ ding. So no part of this little fruit, vegetable, or nut whichever it may turn out to be. is finally wasted, but all serves some useful purpose.--Blue and Gray. Why He Wondered. In a certain community a lawyer died who was a most popular and worthy man, and among other virtues inscribed upon his tomb was this: "A lawyer and an honest man." Some years afterwards a farmers' convention was heid jn the town, and one of tbe delegates, of a sensational ti rn, in rambling among the tombs, was struck with the inscription: "A lawyer, and an honest man." He was lost in thought and when run upon by a fellow farmer, who, noticing bis abstraction, askt d if be bad found the grave of a dear friend or relative, said: "No; but I was wondering why they came to bury these two fellows In the same grave." • A FARMER would rather drive twenty-five miles than write a letter. j-®? she cherished so hearty a love for re­ cess that it was difficult to induce her to come in when the quarter- hour was over. As she was a very little girl, and quite unused to rule or punishments, no very severe measures were taken with her. But Hilda had at last borne all she could. "Mamma," she said one day when she came home, with tears in her eyes, "mayn't Maud give up going to school till she knows how to behave better?" "But I hope she will learn by go­ ing," said her mother. "We must have patience, you know." "But mamma, she does things that are just awful, i$nd everybody knows she is my sister, and I am so ashamed!" "Well, Hilda, I think we must keep on doing our best and just help her to be good. " ••Ob, I'd do that," said Hilda, two tears stealing down her cheeks. ••I'm not tired of Maud nor her naughtiness, but mamma, I am tired of being so conspicuated by her!*' A Natural Bridge of Agate. A mining expert sent to investi* gate some Arizona properties for Den­ ver capitalists recently returned, and reports the Ending of a most remark­ able natural bridge formed by a tree of agatlzed wood, spanning a canyon forty-tive feet in width. The tree had at some remote time fallen and become embedded in the silt of some great inland sea or mighty water- overflow. The silt became in time sandstone, and the wood gradually passed through the stages of mineral­ ization, until it is now a wonderful tree of solid agate In after years water washed and ate away the sandstone until a can­ yon forty-five feet in width has been formed, the fiintv-like substance of the agatized wood having resisted the erosion of the water flow. Fully fifty feet of the tree rest on one side and can be traced, but how far its other side lies buried in the sandstone cannot be determined without blast­ ing away the rock. The trunk visible above tbecanvon varies in size from four feet to three feet in diameter. Where the bark has been broken and torn away the characteristic colors of jasper and agate are seen. To the naked eye the wood is very handsome Under a microscope or miner's magnifying glass the brilliancy of the colorines is | quite clearly brought out In all their woudrous beauty and attractiveness. New Citizens oi* France. During 1892 4,537 aliens were nat- turalized in France and it is of some interest that 279 of these were Ger­ man . A thousand persons from Alsace-Lorraine acquired French na­ tionality during the year, and h:> Italians. 7^fi Belgians, and 83 Rus­ sians. Seven thousand eighty-eight children of alien parents, born on French soil, were counted in as of French nationality, without cboice or option of the parents by virtue o the new legislation promoted to check the foreign element in France and to work up an increase of the population which the native element fails to maintain. Altogether France ac quired in one way and another 22,892 new citizens during the year 1893. DrsTRBssiNo vomiting may be re­ lieved by applying to the stomach a hot shingle or woolen pad brought from the oven. A CRC88 man would be worth at least a dollar a day more if he would become irood natured. A GREAT many victims of laziness are poslntr as. victims of the hard time* %• NOTHING IS WASTED. Am the Squeal of a Pig May Now "" " . Saved. It used to be stated that the boat* tr > « ' £ v; -fi, faj if ? -> ; • ! • nesd ot slaughtering pigs was dond with such neatness and dispatch tha^ nothing except, the squeal was wasted j now, however, modern packing hous# , economy has advanced to such an exf* 1 "j tent that even the song of the dyinf| / > ,.4 pig need no longer be lost if *• anyone chooses to invoke the aid ot f Mr. Edison's phonograph to J»reserv*^ v ^ it. However, all jesting aside, very few people have any idea what ritrid eoon» * omy is practiced at the great slaugh* .-'-Ji tering plants. Scientific men are » constantly cudgeling thiir brains t<|) ^ devise .valuable (hemical, properties and new compounds in~..n»aterial|i.:.5y^^^l heretofore wasted or imputwdy tttilrr ' v '^1 ized. * The cross roads butcher who killi* a few animals a week, throwing away a large part of the offal, must mak* a large profit on the meat sold, but v modern utilization of by-productlf ' S- make it so the slaughterer who doet ' business on a lar,4e scale could raucfji better afford to sell the meat withoutr profit than to waste what the old* "" *,tl\ fashioned small butcher could not utilize The stomach of hogs, instead of*" being sent to the rendering tankst are now used for the manufacture of /. pepsin. " •' Pigs' feet, cattle feet hide clip- pings and the pith of horns, as well as some of the bones, are used for th#> ; J manufacture of glue ' -V The paunches of the cattle arf ; cleaned and made into tripe. \/ *i The choicer parts of the fat front-- f cattle are utilized for the manufac^ ture of oleo oil, which is a constitui ent of butterine and for stearine | 1 Large quantities of the best of thjr7. leaf lard are also used for the manu­ facture ot what is known as ' 'neu­ tral," also a constituent of butter* lne. The Intestines are used for sausage casings; the bladders are used to pack putty in. The undigested food in tbe cattle stomachs is pressed and used for fuel. The long ends of the tails of cattily ^ are sold to mattress makers. i The horns and hoofs are carefulljr : preserved and sold to tbe manutac* turers of combs, buttons, ete ^ Many of the large white hoofs to China, where they are made into Jewelry. All of the blood is carefully pre* served, coagulated by cooking with steam, then pressed and dried and sold to fertilizer manufacturers. All of the scrap from rendering operations is carefully preserved and dried and sold for fertilizers. Bones are dried, and either ground into bone meal or used for the manu­ facture of bone charcoal, which is afterwards utili ed for refining sugar, and in some other refining processes. Just Like Poor I*o» For many years there has been ah annual distribution of blankets and other necessaries, says a writei in Chambers'Journal Mission stations have also been established by the government and private funds in dif- icrent i arts ot the country, where as many of the blacks as are willing to conform to the mild rules laid down for the conduct of the establishment are housed, fed, ana taught. Their want of constraint and their instinct for a free, roaming life, however, generally weigh more heavily than does even their liking tor regular ra­ tions and a lazy life The majority prefer to become hangers-on about the townships and stations, eking out existence by begging and doing odd jobs. Every station and township has its little band of black fellow:" and their '£ins," who wander Rbou in wonderful assortments of the cast-off clothing of the whites, beg­ ging from everyone and not always clearly distinguishing between "meum" and ' 'tuura." ' 'Bacca" and sixpences are what they most favor, but nothing at lall comes wrong. Tbe men and women are alike inordi* nateiy fond of tobacco and intoxi­ cants. This fondness for drink has had not a little to do with their downfall. It is a pitiable sight to see the poor creatures loafing about the hotels, begging and praying for the maddening poison which they know too well is fast destroying them. Once having acquired the vices of the whites, their ruin is swift A few, but not many, are em*« ployed as cattlemen, shepherds and general help about the stations. They are also drafted into the police force as mounted troopers and track,, ers, and have done and are doing some splendid service in hunting down criminals who escape to the bush. Many are fine runners and athletes, but since abandoning the old wild life their prowess in these respects is waning. Mission work among the blaclti cannot be said to have been successful. Undoubtedly good work has been done by the de­ voted missionaries who have spent their lives trying to raise and en­ lighten the native tribes. The low type of intellect, the shiftless, aim­ less life the wandering habits, tbe traditional instincts of the aborig­ ines and the too often evil example set them by the rough "settlers have been hard to overcome SmolceleM Powder* Accordine to the leading military papers of Europe, the smokeless pow­ der has produced sch disastrous ef­ fects upon the rilling of the larger guns that some 500 have already beenfe? condemned, and orders have been is-^- ^ sued to suspend ios use in gun prac­ tice until furt er notice Enormous expenditures will in consequence be necessary to restore the Italian Held artillery to its former state of efflci- < ency, the sum mentioned as requisite for the purpose amounting to no less than $40,000,000. Artificial Ice. The Massachusetts State Board of Health concludes, from investiga­ tions of artificial ice that artificial < processes of freezing concertrate the impurities of the water in the inner core or the portion last frozen; that tbe impurities are least if dlst lied water is used; that tbe number of bacteria in artificial ice Is insignifi­ cant under the prevailing methods M: of manufacture, and that the amount ; « of zinc found in ice is insufficient to toause injury from its use