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or iioui. MSm WBXTCOKB MM*. fee nam* at Bola«--(all 'at we* eter r*» HUM, I reckon--and I'm kind (•oij aHMmal morning--looked roond j and then nptbe folks, I goes*. and--w<Bt ia, this man Bolua got "run in" Christ nrnedofct to see It, and ebeered, and ;«d the way f 4HWT drae,'pd him 'fore the mayor--far be oenian't <r wouldn't walk-- And Sacked h.m down >«r \iial--though ht er wouldn't talkl DrvnJet--they waa no doubt of itW'y, Ota mar- thai of the town X*ach fd and teatifiid 'at be toll UMtnlw'rtW <3 down 1 This man by the name of Bolus ? W'y, he rran (trapped hi* jaw Andenored on tbroogb hi» "hearin" drank : you ever saw I ; GM feller ipft la Wa boot-lef, f£d K&other*n drapped a small latttle eboak of ice down his collar--bnt he didn't wake at all! And they all nearly split when hia honor said, in oneof bis witty ways, > Vo "chalk it down for him: 'Called away--be back in thirty days I' " That's where this man named Bolus alid, kind o' Ilka in a at, Via* on the floor, and--drat my ears! I hear "em a-4auehin' yit! Somebody fetched Doc Siefars from jsst acroft ~4liefaalf-- - ' An* all Doc says was; "Morphine 1 »We"re toe late!" And that's ail I That's how they fo and hia name out--piece of a totter'at read: •Your wife has lost ber reason, and little Na­ than's dead-- Ooans ef yon kin--fergiye her-- bat, Bolus, as fer me? This hour I send a bullet through where my heart ort to be 1" jr<m by the name of Bolta! As his iwrilera broko Star ths open air 'peared. like to me, I heard a voice 'at spoke: Man by the name of Bolus I git vrj trom where yon lay-- CHtup and fmile white at em, with your bands Mowed Wat *lwayl ,Kw Tort World. , AN ANGEL • ? t ; ABBIE C. STKEKYER. any-.. Of course I was an old maid, fwdy in Maple Ridge could hare told you that, and a good many would have said I was several years older than the old family Bible affirmed. I felt all of my three and thirty years, and knew that the dark little face that looked back at me so soberly from the cracked mirror, showed them beyond question. But, what of that! I had other things to think of than that J was an old maid, many others. There was poor Susie, our pet, the youngest of us all, who would marry handsome, reckless Noll Dasher, who, after a wild life of only a few years, ended it in a drunkard's grave and left poor Susie and her two babies tome. Nor was that all, for Fred, onr eld- oat, the pride of my old father and mother's hearts, mnnt marry too-- which was well enough, only after one brief year in his city office, he too grew dek and died--bat oh, so peacefully, so nobly! "You'll care for my wife and baby, Mary?" he said, looking at me ao pleadingly, and I answered: "Yea, Fred, always." So it isn't much wonder I looked old, siace«ly my little dressmaking shop aloud between us all and starvation. Father and mother had become ao feeble they could only sit on either aide of the chimney and talk of their trials and sorrows. Suae took upon herself the care of As large household, and Pre shed •uayasecret tear at night thinking How waa and white she waa growing, oar beautiful little Susie. What did Fred's wife do? I-- that's a sore subject; no one ever said anything, but I've seen Susie shut her lips in a strange way when "the lady" •wept into our simple meals and never offered to soil her white hands even to wash her own dishes or clothes. "She's never been taught to work, I •appose," I thought; "poor thing!" Then I bent lower over my sowing •at up a little later. Thongs had gone on in this way for Marly a year, until one night when it waa growing very late, Susie came in sad shut the door of my shop care- folly. "What is it, my dear?" I said, cheer­ fully, for there was look oa her fsee that troubled ma. "Mary," she said, sinking down at my side and laying her pretty golden head <A my knee, "my poor Mary!" and then she begun to sob so pitifully. I had but little time to spare, for I knew Mrs. Greathouse must have her new dress by the next evening; but I dropped my needle and look her in my arms aad whispered: * "What is it, iny darling,tell me, won't you?" **Oh, Mary, so good,- so unselfish, I can't bear it. You are working your­ self to death for me and mine. I've thought and thought and planned, pnd there's only one way." "I don't understand--how hot your cheeks ara You're going to be sick." "I'm going to die. Don't look so startled. I'm very wicked and foolish, but I can't see yon kill yourself nor my precious children starve, I'm only-- going to get married." desperately. Then I felt her wholei body shudder. "Yes, darling, but who?" "I'm going to marry Mr. Caleb Lef- ftkgwetL". "Susie! Yon are mad!" "No; he proposed to-night as I left *ne ftore, and I accepted him, thaf's all; w^d°n't you congratulate me?" Because I can't for I know--oh, my Starting! I know you don't love him!" "Love! I loved once and got a sweet reward. Yes, I'm in love with the old •niser'a money, that honest." "Hush! Never mind, sleep on it, pet We'll talk about it to-morrow, I must finish this dress now." "Mary, do stop and rest, yon unselfish housekeeper! Your burden shall be lightened. I'm not half as miserable •s you fancy." But I knew what *he suffered, and I sighed, for things had come to a very bad state. What with poor father down with the rheumatism and Susie's -children suffering for shoes, and none of us too warmly clad unless it was "the lady"--that is what Susie had called Fred's wife to me more than once; but J could only sigh and remember that they were her old gowns. Nevertheless it did seem hard that •he aad her baby should have tine one room and a fire, and coal so dear. 25th, the next night, and 1 was harried with her gown. She oame in quite early tor it, but the rich silk was all finished. I trem­ bled a mite as she scanned it so olosely, but she found no fault whatever, and paid me the five dollars for it promptly. Her last words were: "You are looking far from well, Mary; Tom would hardly recognize hia old sweetheart if he could Bee yon now. You need rest, my dear; do take some;" then she passed out. "Good advice, excellent," said Susie in a hard voice, and I was glad she had not noticed what Mrs. Greathonse about her brother. "I wish you had charged her fifteen instead of live, Mary. The dress was worth it" "Yes, I know," I answered, drearily, "but even that would not have paid all the bil'p " and for the first time in Su­ sie's i»: ice I broke down and cried. Eveu us I wept softly and Susie tried to comfort me, somebody entered the little shop, and bending above Snsie and I, dropped a letter in mv lap--a great, big, funny-looking affair. "A letter! Oh, Mary! who would send yon a letter?" said Susie. "The lady" paused a moment in the shadows of the room and I tore off the A Ust of tk* OF EUROPE. lUftas *u»per®rs, Kings, PiwaMkwts. and envelope, aad there fell in my lap a great lot of bank bills. Money!" cried Studs, "money! Who--what does it mean? Oh here's a note! Listen! * 'DKAB MAB* Accept a little present from a loTtag FRIEND,'" That was all; we look at each other stupidly. '-v-i-' " Who could have sent it? Oh, Su­ sie! it's a mistake!" I gasped. \ "No, it's not, the letter is to yon and forjron. I find it is just $100. I'm BO I kept the money. I needed it so «orely, and they all said it really was mine; but I felt uneasy all the time, and wondered and wondered, for we fiadn'fc a rich relation in the world. iBut even that hundred dollars would not last forever, and by and by I saw Susie looking over her old things and trying to make up her mind that the time had come when she could tell her betrothed hnsband that she was ready. Poor, poor little Susie! "I've set the day at last," she said. "It's to be next Tuesday," then she be­ gan to soh. Once more "the lady" entered and dropped in my lsp another letter and book. | This letter was not BO bulky, bat ! when I opened it I found that it con- ! tained two bills of a hundred dollars j each. What--who?" I began vaguely as ' before,when once more "the lady" bent over Susie aad I, and, winding her white , arms around our necks, fell into a vio- ' lent fit of weeping. Oh, my sisters!" she sobbed, when she could speak. "Do you think me | blind as well as heartless? Do yon ; think you are to do all the work and ! me none ? Dear, patient fingers 1" and to our astonishment she kissed first my needle-pricked hand and then Susie's chapped and toil-marked. "There's the book," she continued; read it when yon can. I began it when my husband was first taken ill. I fan­ cied I could get it done in time to help him, but I couldn't Yet he knows --he must know, how glad I am to be able to help those so dear to him." "Florence," I said in wonder, "what are you talking about ?" "Why, my book, there it is in your lap, as well as the money for it--a por­ tion of it I always scribbled more Or less, but in a careless way, until I saw [New York Sun.] Queen Victoria now holds a place among the oldest sovereigns of Europe. In May of next year she will be 70 years of age. She has been on the throne for half s century. She enjoys good health, and bids fair to live and reign for many years yet If she attains the age of her grandfather, George IIL, she will wield the scepter (barring ac­ cidents) up to the year 1901. If at that time her son, the Prince of Wales, be­ comes king, he will have reached the ripe sge of 60 years, and his tendency to baldness will, doubtless, have be­ come more marked than it is now. The new German Emperor Frederick is 57 years of age, and the Empress, the daughter of Queen Victoria, is 48. Judging from photographs, he does not olosely resemble his departed father in the face, but she looks very much like her mother. If Frederick should live to be as old as his father, and perhaps he may, he will wear his crown, (bar­ ring accidents) up to the year 1922. His ailments dim his prospects, but the Scotch Dr. Mackenzie may banish his ailments. The King of the Belgians, Leopold XL, is 53 years old, and if he should reign till he reaches the age at which his father died he will be King up to the year 1910. He has. been on the throne nearly twenty-three years. The Emperor of Austria, Francis Joseph, is 58 years old, and he has worn the imperial crown for forty years. His predecessor was his uncle, who abdicated the throne in his favor when but 55 years old, because he was tired ! of the turmoil and trouble. Francis | Joseph is a polished scholar, a linguist, 1 an equestrian, an admirer of military j pomp, and a charmer. He is healthy, and bids fair to reign for a long time ' yet (barring accidents). | The King of Italy, Humberto X, is : 44 years old, and has worn the crown since the death of his father, ten years ago. He is but the second of the Kings of United Italy and his home is in the eternal city of Bome. The Emperor of Bussia, Alexander IIL, is 43 years old, and mounted the throne after the death of his father, seven years ago. The King of Denmark, Christian IX., is 70 years of age, or a year older than Queen Victoria, and is the second oldest monarch in Europe. He has wielded the scepter for a quarter of a century, or just half as long as the British Queen. One of his daughters is the Wife of the Bussian Czar; another of them is the wife of the heir apparent to the British crown, and his second son is King of Greece. The King of Sweden and Norway, Oscar IL, is in his 60th year, and has reigned for sixteen years. He has favored some reforms. The King of Portugal, Luis X, is 50 Sears old, and is a man of enterprise and progress. He has been for twenty- seven years a King. The power and authority of the Ring of Spain, Alfonso XI1L, who is not yet two years old, is limited by the re- Ency of his mamma. He never saw i royal sire. The King of Greece, or King of the Hellenes, Georgioa^ I., is 43 yean of sge, and has been King for a quarter of a century, or sinoe he was 18, at which age he was elected to the Hellenic throne. He finds it s hard job to role the modern Greeks or keep their fsver. The Sovereign or Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid IX, is 46 years old, and •im OM MlMr*a MM, "There are many strange things oon» nected with the Oomstock likes," •aid an old resident of Virginia City. "You must remeubsr that while the main workings extend from the north of Gold Hill to Virginia) and below, a , distance of three miles, there Is a total sesroely know each other aot as though 0f 252 miles of tunuela, drifts, stopes, they were hail-fellows-well-met, had sumi>s, qaips and turns, making up the with a free*--id BMJ yraegleMniBB that a generation ago no gentleman would have penatttaa himself among his most InlttBfAa relative. In the first sp- proaohes ot members of ons sex to memberi' of the Other, there is no linger ̂ ant suavity, any hesitation, any wep*%ed lessrre; nien and women who been in the playgrotthd together and been acquainted all their lives. The demeanor of women nowadays to men is on a par with the male behavior we have described. Far from resent-1 ing the unceremoniousness with which interior workings as a total. Think of it, 252 miles; farther by far than from the Golden Gate to the Nevada line, and farther than aoross the great State of New York. Why, look around a lit­ tle. You might go as far from Wash- they are treated by men who are in iugton, D. C., as to Baltimore and baek reality utter strangers to them, they go to meet it half way, and permit themselves to be on a footing of familiarity--as far as manner is con­ cerned--with the first comer, provided he seem to be one of their "own set," that could not be greater if their ac­ quaintance had existed for years.-- London Standard. the great need, and then I found 1 could | succeeded to the throne twelve years SS write even better than I dared hope. I never told because I wanted to surprise you. Susie, little sister, don't dream of that distasteful marriage. I was so afraid it wouldn't come in time to save you. And Mary, gentle one, I've some­ thing for you even better than gold. I--forgive me! I found out all about your sad love story, of the quarrel long ago, and the lover in the West, and I sent a little bird with a message of your faithfulness, your noble life, and the answer came, (Oh the West is not very fsr sway) 'I'm coming.'" I wondered why Susie, with such a face of peace and joy as I had not seen her wear for years, should look startled and step back, while "the lady"--oh such a lady,--stood between me and the door. Suddenly she bent and kissed my hot cheek, and deftly snatching the comb that held my curls so primly --as I deemed most becoming a staid old maid--she fled with Susie into the next room and closed the door. I knew then why she had held her­ self so persistently before me, for, standing on the threshold of the out­ side door stood a tall man, tanned and bearded. I could not speak. I would have fled too, but I could not move. The tall man smiled and approached me, took me in his arms and whispered: "ft it my own little Mary?" And somehow in his Bheltering arms I found my tongue and answered boldly: "Yes, Tom." We call her "the lady" still, some­ times, for she is famous now and rich, and Susie and her children live with her. The old folks have found a bet­ ter home with Fred, and I cannot help but think they told him how we love his wife and of all the happiness brought us. How Prairie Wolves Go Hunttag. The prairie or barking wolves are very numerous throughout the west and north of our territory, and their predatory and destructive traits render them very annoying to Bottlers and travelers. They prowl at night around camps and feed upon small quadrupeds, poultry, or anything that will afford nourishment, and, like the gray wolves, sometimes hunt in packs of ten or more and pursue their game by reliefs, so that when one relief becomes exhausted another is ready to take their places, and thus alternating they soon run down and capture their prey. And as strange as it may appear it is said that when the game is brought to bay, all the reliefs are sure to be in at the death.--Outing. Modern Jerusalem. Its location is a little farther north than the ancient city. The wall sur- I aero, when the majesty who preceded j him was deposed. He is the twenty- ! eighth Sultan since the conquest of | Constantinople by the Turks. " j ^ The King of the Netherlands, Will- ism III., is the oldest monarch in I Europe, being now of the age of 71, i and entered upon the fortieth year of his reign recntly. The King of Boumonia, Carol X, is 49 years of age, and was proclaimed King only seven years ago, but before that time he had been for fourteen years the domnul of his subjects. The King of Servia, Milan X, is 34, and was crowned only six years ago, but before that he had held the throne for fourteen years by election as Prince Milan Obrenovie IV. He is the fourth of his dynasty since Servia threw off the Turkish yoke in 1829. His predecessor was assassinated. , The reigning Prince of Montengro is Nicholas X, who is 47 years old, and has reigned for twenty-eight years. In Germany there are three Kings and a Grand Duke, besides the Em- feror of Germany and the King of russia, who are one. There are the King of Bavaria, the King of Wurtem- burg, the King of Saxony, and the reigning Grand Duke of Baden. There are in Europe two kingless countries--France and Switzerland. Both of these Republics seem to be able to get along and keep the peace without the guidance of kings or lm- perors. _ The President of the French Repub­ lic, Mr. Carnot, is 51 years of age, and was elected to office in December last He is a graduate of the Polytechnic School in Paris, and held various offices before his election as President There are over 38,000,000 people in the French Republic. in the Republic of Switzerland the highest official of the government is the President of the Federal Council, who is elected by the Federal Assembly, holds office for the term of one year, and enjoys a salary of $3,000 per an­ num. The President for the present year is Ma. W F. Hertenstein. A Presi­ dent is not eligible to re-election until s year after the end of his term of office. The people of the kingdoinrand em­ pires of Etft-ope, besides sustaining the sovereigns with their families and courts, have the privilege of upholding a prodigious system of aristocracy. It is well for us that our fathers broke the royal power in the United States snd Forth America. • T U.J i , 1UUUU1UK 11/ ia l»WU KUU tt Utfcll limes m ' i af v 8Uck a • circumference, from twenty to thirty bod as that little, cooing baby was 1 hi«i> foot u«,.v rosebud as that little, cooing baby was I If I'4had time I'd have cuddled it by <the hour, snd strange to say, the another had called it "Mary." She aever said it was for me, and I often •woadered, but never asked her--for •ometkow all us simple folks were a bit afraid of the "ladv." It waa one dull, rainy evening in February when poor Snsie cams to me "itijjySir pitiful story of sacrifice she tuid resolved to make. 1 remember it because feet high, and five feet thick. There are five principal gates to the city, named Jaffa, Damascus, St Stephen's, Golden, and David's. Through Jaffa goes the greater portion of the com­ mercial traffic. The tower is named after David and is used as a oitadeL Within are four quarters--the Moham­ medan, the Christian, the Armenian, and the Jewish. The populatton isless than 25,000, most of whom aril Moham­ medans, who hold a tradition' that the The Decline of Manner?. The signal deterioration of manners that has for some time been going on in what is called good society is every year becoming more glaring and more deplorable. The delicate and subtle deference which every gentleman pays to every woman, because she is a wo­ man, and for no other reason whatever, | is already old-fashioned, and promises j shortly to become obsolete. No wo­ man now thinks of expecting from any man the polite homage which once on a time was the privilege of one sex and the honor of the other. Men come into 1 a room full of ladies with as much in- I difference and sans faoon as though they were entering the morning-room of their club, and quit it with precisely ; the sanle want of ceremony and self- i constraint While in the society of Wo* men they loll, lean, and almost lie at y N F I ' nuu UUlU a trtKUuOll LUN IQ9 111011 iftfe Cnrions Finds. In s lake in Berkshire a largo mis­ shapen and unwieldy ohub was found, so strange in appearance and unsightly in its movements that the most apt zoologist could not aooount for its lineal descent or say if it was piscatory or amphibious. The creature was found in a kind of cage formed by the washed roots of an elm tree by this lake. When young and much smaller the fish must have got into its strange prison. Limited to a mere turn, the wonder is that--as it must have forced its way in--it did not force its way out; but here it was, after years must have elapsed, taking quite the form of the gnarled and struggling roots. With no room to develop, the tail had almost disappeared, the dorsal fin was alto­ gether Obliterated, and tlie body had become very hard, and the scales like so much incrustation of mud divided into layers. The nose was so pushed in and the gills so enlarged that, when looked at fnll in the face, it had the appearance of a negro whose face had been despoiled of its shining and oily surface. Indeed, its existence was a matter of marvel, as th$ water snbsided and increased at . times, s& that in dry weather- it had only the moist muddy home and a semifluid for its subsistence. When removed it seemed a puzzle to know whether to class this strange discovery as a reptile, fish, or anything else. As some workmen were felling tim­ ber, near Heme Bay, they discovered in the center of one of the trees a cav­ ity in which were the remains of a cat The skeleton was entire, and some hair of a sandy color yet remained on the skin. It is conjectured that the animal, having entered a hollow part of the tree, was unable to extricate it­ self, and the wood in process of years had grown around it. Curious finds have not nnfreqnently been made *in trees. Some woodcut­ ters in the forest in Drommling made a strange discovery. They began to fell venerable oak, which they soon found * to be quite hollow. Being half de­ cayed it speedily came to the ground with a crash, disclosing a skeleton in excellent preservation; even the boots, which came above the knee were per­ fect By its side were a powderhorn, a ^porcelain pipe-bowl, and a silver watch. The teeth were perfect It would seem to be the skeleton of a man between thirty and forty years of age. It is conjectured that, while engaged in hunting, he climbed the tree for some purpose, and. slipped into the hollow trunk, from whicn there was no release, and he probably died from starvation. Another mystery was found in the heart of an oak. From a tree of this kind a large block, eighteen inches in diameter, that had been knocking about in various yards and woodsheds, was split up lately, and in it was found an auger-hole about three- fourths of an inch in size, containing a bunch of human hair, done up in a piece of printed paper. The hair was near the center of the block, and fas­ tened in with a pine plug. It was ap­ parently put in when the tree was quite small, as the tree had grown over the plug to the thickness of about four inches, with the grain perfectly smooth and straight -- Chambers' Journal. Their Occupation Gone* Gradually, step by step, the washer­ woman has found her occupation gone. The increase of steam laundries has : driven her to other means of livelihood, i and where she once lived in opulence i on the proceeds of clothes washed at the rate of $1 to $2 per dozen she now j works out by the day or does house- : work. John Chinaman also has much to do with this worthy's downfall, but : his prices are far in excess of either steam laundries • or old fashioned ; washer-women. During the past few years many improvements have been made in laundry apparatus. A greater part of the city of Troy is given up to i manufacturing concerns which turn out annually hundreds of thousands of dol­ lars' worth of engines, whizzers, starchers, and other machinery used in rapid washing of dirty . linen. In Brooklyn to-day there are no less than 300 steam laundries as against three four years ago. Many Brooklynites a few years ago thought to obtain clean col­ lars and cuffs it was necessary to send them to Troy by express each week. A large number of firms made small for­ tunes catering to the whims of these capricious gentlemen, and although it was claimed that laundry was sent up the river weekly, by some it was thought to be washed in New York. A visit to a Troy steam laundry is productive of interest Each customer has a private mark, and although the clothes of 100 customers are thrown into a vat and boiled, they are, when starched and dried, sorted out in separate and oorrect piles. Brooklynites were at first inclined to look npon steam laundries with sus­ picion. They contended, and with a good deal of truth, that in passing through the machinery the collars and ouffa became worn and frayed. Acids, too, were sometimes used, and these had a tendency to eat the linen. The machinery used at first waa crude. But­ ton-holes were frequently torn out, while occasionally a collar would emerge from the process devoid of its outside linen. One of the most interesting pieces of machinery to be seen in a steam laun­ dry is the whizzer. This machine which dries the clothes, makes 1,000 revolutions a minute, and is similar to the sugar refiner in its methods of operation. The only hand work done is performed in the starching room. Here women are employed, each being seated behind a bowl of starch into which they dip the collars and cuffs. In the sorting room young men quick of sight, and possessing excellent memories, are employed. The average health of those employed in the hot rooms of a steam laundry is good. While their wages are not very high, the women are paid from $5 to $10 per week, while the men receive iron* again, and you wouldn't be much more than half through the Comstock. Then when you think of the great depth of these mines, the gigantic, in­ comprehensible weight of the mass resting upon the timbers, and the trav­ eling mountain, in which are these mines and on which is Virginia City, j yon involve propositions again that : have stumped the deepest thinkers. I For instance, queer polished sticks, as smooth as mahogany and no thicker than my cane are every once in a while being taken out of the old workings. They are as hard and as heavy as iron, and a knife will not make a mark on them. Now, what are they? Origin­ ally they were twelve-inch solid tim­ bers, and the millions of tons bearing upon them in all directions, perpendic­ ularly as well as laterally, for it is only in this way that the mines can be timbered, have pressed them to this shape. They are found sometimes in i bits, sometimes in long pieces, taken ' out where caves have occurred and the workings displaced. No known mech­ anism at present, nor in any age of the : past, so far as history recounts, has snch power to compress and work mar- ! vols with wood. The silent old mine has stumped the scientists. You have asked if it is really true that Mount Davidson is slowly traveling eastward, with the town of Virginia on her back and her mines within. It is true,' and this again has Bet our ablest men to scratching their heads. By the careful estimates of engineers Virginia City has traveled down hill ten feet in ' fifteen years, or about two-thirds of a foot a year. It is concluded that it is owing to the vast underground work* ings. But jnst how it is done is prob­ lematical. At any rate, however, the people of Virginia City are not afraid of the trip they are taking. They have been with it too long to get alarmed about it now. In the consolidated Vir­ ginia and California mines of the Com­ stock was another strange thing, too, that for a long time caused much deep study and a vast expenditure of money. The fires that broke out there on the 1500-foot level years ago and burned for years seemed inextinguish­ able. Every known means was tried. There was a large body of superior ore there, as many will remember, and the owners were anxious to get it It was no use, so they put in seven solid feet of a bulk-head and shut it up. It burned for seven years, and it was only a year ago that carbonic gas was injected by means of costly machinery and the hidden fires put out The gas in there was so deadly that not a man could ap- Why«r*«sWf»a*. * . That the daughter fcf * millionuire has eloped with a eoeokman is in the daily prints as regularly ss the aeeonnts of tEe ses serpent the daughter of the best family has wedded a worth­ less fellow is talked about in every vil­ lage, and town, and oity as univers­ ally as the international Snnday-eohool lesson. That girls like bad boys best, and that they will forsake father and mother, disregard the advice of their truest friends and bring desolation to the^hearts of all, rather than renounce a dissolute fellow, are facts too patent to require proof. What is the cause of this ? In well-to-do families the girls we spared every effort and deprived of every opportunity to exercise their Will-power, and constantly grow up wholly unprepared to exercise judg­ ment, decisions and action. The senti­ mental, poetic, delirious period arrives. The emotional nature, under the stimu­ lus of awakening faculties, now becomes supreme, snd the girl is wholly under its control. If this neglect of her in­ tellectual and volitional nature is the cause, then the remedy is readily sug­ gested. Let hor intellect be exercised like that of her brothers. Let her study mathematics, history, govern­ ment, science. Try to make her sensi­ ble instead of accomplished. Feed her mind on the strong and sensible thoughts of good books, and do not starve it on the slop of the fashion magazine and sensational novels. Give her something to do that will require judgment, decision and stability of pur­ pose. Expose her to the hardships of child-life rather than shield her from them. There should be no difference in a girl's and a boy's life until they are ten years of age. She ought to be the equal of her brother in out-of-door sports. Until they are fifteen years of age they ought to have ti e same train­ ing in school. much ought to be expected from her as from him. After that time their education should differ, according to their different spheres of action. A true affection is an anchor to char­ acter, and if a girl's life were securely anchored at home she would not so easily be driven out to sea. The father, rather than the mother, is or can l»e a favorite of the daughter. If a father wishes to fortify his daughter against folly, let him retain her love and confi dence. Not Bimply respect and esteem, but love. And to do this he must feed the love of the child until that love ripens into genuine affection of a wo­ man. Many fathers deceive themselves. They think their daughters do lov^ them. They will think this when they connot remember ever to have had a confidential interchange of thought's, aspirations and secrets, such as we have only with those we love and fully trust. They cannot remember whon they had a caress or anything but a formal kiss; and yet they think their daughters love them. Does your daughter reveal her heart to you ? Does she really enjoy being with you? Will she forsake the society of others to be with you ? If your daughter has loved you and con- flded in you from infancy, and found in you that true friend she ought to find, do you think that she will forget all this and go contrary to your wishes ? Eroach it as it was escaping. It would 1 She -will not fall in love, but will enter ave been instant death. Now the best | into love deliberately, and her father, ore of the consolidated Virginia and ' who has her confidence, can counteract California is coming out of that place where the unseen fires long raged.-- San Francisco Examiner. I How to Get a Cinder Oat of the£ye» j Nine persons out of every ten, with a cinder or any foreign substance in the eye will instantly begin to rub the eye with one hand while hunting for their handkerchief with the other. They may, and sometimes do, remove the of­ fending cinder, but more frequently they rub till the eye becomes inflamed, bind a handkerchief around the .head, and go to bed. This is all wrong. The better way is not to rub the eye with the cinder in it at all, but rub the other eye as vigorously as you like. I A few years since I was riding on the engine of the fast express, from Binghamton to Corning* The engineer, an old schoolmate of mine, threw open the front window, and I caught a cin­ der that gave me the most excruciat­ ing pain. I began to rub the eye with i both hands. "Lot your eye alone and ' rub the other eye" (this from the en­ gineer). I thought he was chaffing me and worked the harder. "I know yon : doctors think you kuow it all, but if I you will let that eye alone and rub the | other one the cinder will be out in two minutes," persisted the engineer. I : began to rub the other eye, and soon ' felt the cinder down near the inner canthus, and made ready to take it out "Let it alone and keep at the well eye," shouted the doctor pro tem. I did so for a minute longer, and looking in a small glass he gave me, I found the of­ fender on my cheek. Sinoe then I have tried it many times and have ad- i vised many others, and 1 have never known it to fail in one instance (unless it was as sharp as u piece of steel, or something that cut into the ball and re­ quired an operation to remove it). Why it is so I do not know. But that it is so I do know, and that one may be saved much suffering if he will let the injured eye alone and rub the well one. ^-Medical Summary. Didn't Like Slogs. An old fellow who had gone into court to testify against the murderer of his son, arose and said: "Gentlemen, I want to say a few words. It ain't often that I talk agin a man, but this feller (pointing at the murderer,) ought to be talked agin. He shot my son in a most insultin' way. Ef he'd loaded his gun with buckshot it would a been mo' in 'cordance with civilization; but whut did he do ? He loaded it with slugs. Now anybody knows that it ain't right to shoot a man with slugs. Jes think about it, gentle­ men. Chopped up a lot uv slugs an' shot my son with 'em. W'y, I'd have mo' respeck fur er hoss-thief than to shoot him with slugs. You all rickol- leck, I reckon, the time when Al* Pot­ ter shot Jim Beazely with horse-shoe nails? Whut wuz the_ result? W'y, , the folks hung him. Now horse-shoe nails air bad, but they don't begin to ; come up to slugs. Slugs are simply outrageous. Now; gentlemen, my idee is that we better take this feller out an' hang him to the wust lookin' tree we ken find. The great kyah uv civiliza­ tion is a rollin' too fast to be clogged by a feller that shoots folks with si' Arkansaw Traveler. Wag It Mind-Beadlagl > • Bagley--Bailey, do you know Gigley is a mind-reader? Bailey--No. Is he? Bagley--Yes, indeed. He quite sur- {>rised me this morning. I wanted the oan of $5, and as I stepped up to him and said, "Gigley, my dear boy, it's a long time since I have seen you. How Is your health?" I hadn't said a word about the $5, but ail Gigley said was that he was sorry, but he hadn't got it, and ^. - Bropklyn |is left me with a bow. the leading, if she is convinced she has made a mistake in her choice for life -- Exchange. With a Knife at lib Threat. . Washington is avgreat place for on* expected meetings. It is nearly a quarter Of a century since the war closed, yet there are meetings here! day the editor apologized, and ex- frequently of men who had acquaint- j plained that part of an item regarding BAB er mighty lftti* fialomims in , / true legion. < EF yo" wantah be called a meddlsr, offah advice. ^ DE fun ob an ahguttent ends w'en fists ah doubled. , - HIT offen happens dat money won't make de man 'less de man hisse'f makes M de money. How TO raise frogs--set the switch ^ wrong, with the lightning express com- ing at full speed. IT has recently been discovered that the way to prevent "trusts" is to refuse ^ to give credit--Areola Becord. AK Englishman, speaking of .lynch­ ing in the West says: "They gave 'im han' artichoke."--Areola Record. THE difference between a fine land- scape and a vegetable stew is, one is. superb and the other is herb soup. '(?*, I'VK kissed her in aonnet and ballad, ' '*H I ve woo d her in madrigals terde! V s "' . ^ 1 eT T fonrt pledge is invalid Because her old father's ave te. • : IT Doesn't make any difference how > pretty a girl |nay b$ if she likes some other young man better.--SomeruiMa Jo iima I. "vy RORERT LOUIS STEVENSON eats pigs' - il feet and cold mince pie just before re- : ; i tiring when he Wants to dream, out a- t' plot ror a new noveL--Texas Sifting». IT will make a big dfflerenoe to yon whom Von marry, • •• Your plans in life will be sure to miscarry, Whether she be Yankee, Datctti Irish, or ^""4 Quaker If you are not a bread winner, and the a brand . maker. A PHILADELPHIA oculist declares that the. use of opera-glasses strains the optio nerves and injures the eye-sight. J This accounts for the near-sightedness of so many old gentlemen who go tosee the ballet--Philadelphia Ledger. •" '; COLLECTOR (some years hence) ? Twenty-five dollars, please. Widow --Why, what for? "Was not your husband struck by lightning 1 ast week ?" "Yes, he was." "I am collector for the j American electric trust Twenty-five dollars, please."--Omaha World. i| "WHO was the wisest man?" asked the Sunday-school teacher. "Solomon," *? >' promptly replied a little girL "And who was the holiest?" "Moses." "Moses? What makes yon think so?" "Because I often heard papa speak of 'Holy Moses.'"--Boston Courier. Miss TODIDUM (complaisantly)--Ah, Mrs. Goldbags, no one could mistake who the mother of these handsome children is. You ought to be proud of them, for they inherit all their mother's beauty and grace. Mrs. Goldbags-- 'So I'm told; but you kuow I never met my husband's first wife. *! YOUNG MAN, never preserve a love- letter. The sweets keep slowly ebbing out of it till it gets to be as stale as a fourteenth-century witticism; and then : ̂ like as not your wife will get hold of it, and go and take all of the Paris-green you were saving for the potato-bugB.--- Burlington Free Press. PASSENGER (to stranger)--Minister of the Gospel, I imagine, sir ? Stranger --Yes, sir. I have been a minister of f the Gospel for forty-two years, but I expect to retire soon. Passenger--That ',t is a sensible move, sir. I think when '% a man has made money enongh in his 1 business he ought to get out of it and > H| enjoy himself.--New York Sun. j A MONTANA paper recently contained this remarkable notice: "Mr. Charles J Johnson and Miss Fanny West were 3 married by the Rev. S. Hills on Wednes- >1 day. So far no trouble has resulted,. |j ana those best informed as to the sitofc- tion say there will be none." The next a;i that Bailey---Wonderful. --Judge. ance during those stormy days and have not met since until now. One of the most interesting incidents in that line recently coming to the surface was a meeting the other day between Capt Hays, of St. Paul, and Commodore J. Edward Montgomery, of one of the Southern States. Montgomery will be remembered as a prominent figure on the Mississippi during the war a} New Orleans and Vicksburg and com mander in front of Memphis. He was finally captured while en route to Texas and his effects gobbled np, as was the custom in all those cases. There was some fine pictures among the effects of the Commodore, and these fell into the hands of Capt Hays and were sent North. Among other articles of value possessed by Montgomery were $150,- 000 worth of gold-bearing bonds, issued by the Confederate Government and secured by cotton in England. These bonds were transferable, and when dis­ covered by his captors they ordered him to sign and transfer them. This he refused to do. Taking him into a state room on the steamer, they or­ dered him to sign. He still refused. Finally, with a stalwart man on each side a knife was placed at his throat and he was ordered to sign under threats of the worst. "Cutaway," he replied; "I will not sign." And he did uot. That was about twenty-five years ago. Capt Hays, ftito whose hands the pictures fell, lived in Minnesota A couple of years ago President Cleve­ land sent him a commission as super­ vising inspector of steam vessels, and the duties of that office called him an­ nually to Washington. On coming here he hunted up some of the ex-Con­ federates here and asked after Com­ modore Montgomery's whereabouts. He found that he was still living in the South, and by persistent inquiry he found his address. On returning home he sent him the 'captured pictures whieh had been so long in his posses­ sion. This time when he came on his annual visit he found to his delight that Montgomery himself was here, and his first leisure moment was de­ voted to a search for him He found him at one of the hotels, and for three solid hours those veterans of the two armies recalled in friendly converse the incidents of those eventful days; and not the least interesting among t)iose events was the one in the state-room when those bonds were not signed.-- Memphis Avalanche. A Cowardly Insinuation. "Does your cow oringe and cut'!;* asks the New England Farmer, "and appear nervous and fidgety when you sit down to milk ber?" "Well, not much, she doesn't She isn't that kind of a cow. She isnt one of your shy, timid, bashful QOWS. She just fixes her eyes on vacancy with a glare that will raise a blister on an oak knot, sticks her tail straight np in the air, stiff as a poker, plants three feet firmly on the ground, and then feels around with the other for the milk pail, milk stool, milkmaidi finds them; fires them up somewhere into the blue empyrean, and remarking, 'Ha, ha!' amid the shouting, jumps over o six- rail fence, and tramples down an acre of young garden. Don't talk about cringing and curling to a cow that has to be milked with a pipe, line, and an incipient strike had got into the wrong place. ONE of our correspondents attended a large union meeting a few Sundays ago in which a somewhat flowery young preacher prayed as follows: "O, Lord, we ask that Thou wilt bless the Y. M. C. A." This is equal to the colored man's ascription of thanks to the Deity for what He had done for the world, "both B. C. and A. D." Such perform­ ances strengthen the hands of those who oppose all extempore prayelt#- Christian Advocate. 4 ^ An Ancient Home. The primitive man may be said to be absolutely unknown, and it was not until after they had made considerable progress toward civilization that otp prehistoric anoestors left works by which we have learned something of their rude life. This picture of the miserable home of the ancient Euro­ pean, who, for a considerable period, dwelt in caves, or even mere sheltered places among the rooks, has been drawn by Prof. N. Joly, of Toulouse, In this rocky retreat he took his meals, and allowed the remains of his food, uninviting to 019 fastidious - palates to collect The flesh of the mammoth, of the great oave bear, of the amphib­ ious rhinoceros, of the horse, the aurocks, the reindeer, the fox, and, doubtless, also wild fruits and roots, formed his staple diet. Usually the flesh of the animals was eaten raw; but fire had long been known, and even pottery had been invented, and wss used for culinary purposes. Hunting was his principal occupation. Armed with the stone ax, or mace, with the flint-headed lance, javelin, or arrow, he boldly attacked the animals, often o* colossal Bize, which then peopled oar lands, and of which many nave long since disappeared. He clothed him­ self in their skins, which he had early learned to smooth with the scraper, to soften and prepare with fat or marrow, and later by means of a stone polisher. During the reindeer age fish were pro­ cured with a barbed harpoon, and the shooting of birds was no longer neg­ lected. The bones and teeth of the reindeer and of contemporary animals were used in the manufacture of weap­ ons and tools, and even articles of luxury and ornament The arts of de­ sign were born; and the reindeer hunters of Perigord, and the bear hunters of the Pyrenees employed their leisure in carving their weapons, and in drawing or engraving on wood, bone, and ivory, the figures of the ani­ mals, and even their own image.-- Arkansaw Traveler. Hanging* the Horseghnet ̂ The horseshoe as a bringer or a sym­ bol of good luck holds its place firmly among the superstitious. Horahoe floral designs have been sent to the walking match contestants to conjure fate favorably. It is astonishing how few people know how to hang a horseshoe properly to make the charm work. Perhaps this is why there is so much bad luok in the world. Tho shoe should be placed points up. Otherwise "the luck will run off" Place the curve downward is the injunction of a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, full of inherited witchcraft But, after *11, Garfield was right** ibe milked with a pipe, line, and ( "An ounce of pluck is worth a aoand ̂ pumping station.-Bob BttrdcMftJ I luek."--New York World. ^ ^ ^ ^ f ^ • . - 4 t , . . . „ „ ,