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I. ¥ftN SLYKt, tittor and PubHtfcf . McHKNRT, - - - ILLINOIS. ^5 HER REVERIE, BT TO* WA.TX. m' A MT eoniM b«r litkan hilr: DouMt a lookicg-glftsi* woulddart * To trazo oft suoh a eoene. •OM blushes thronged her dimpled , tiny eorcrsied upon her shoulders, «k% And the white neck between. And she was thinking t hen, 1 trow, Of one -who in a whiaperei) TOW, Under the budcing elm, Bad told her they would sail their 1 _ <0d lakes where pale stars jileree tb* dart* With Cupid at the helm. Anon a faint smile pureed Iior lips . And Bhook her dainty iVnger tips ' - As breezes shake the bows. . And then a quick, impatient frown ; Came gathering from her wrineletaSMra . A n d p e r c h e d u p o n h e r b r o w # - ^ , Ah i she was thinking then, I weon, v ;f Of a pure clumsy dunce who e'en : 4 Had torn her silken dress, He waltzed too nosr her at the balfc^;' Her beauty dazed him--that was aS 'v He felt a dir.zincs*. 6",' •Drew*; "Twas I, and yet I tell her: Of hnn- glve hlm the tender beam Of smiles, and never frown. I by this verse have now confessed,';. -' ;s]w I deem myself, aye, doubly bleat ;"•>» ; j Just to have torn your gown." (k 4° a-Monsey'p We kly. 5ir' lOW JIM SAVED DOLLY. , k At mmt $?<. $v. Wi 4,* • I • Dolly and he were friends. How • f»r why the friendship was first struck 3 •/.- lip is unknown. But this much is ^•ertaln, that the first advances must p fiave omne from Dolly herself. For a tffriendship any kind, much less a $*>, friendship with a chubby, dimpled If little maiden, was not much in Jim's '4 '.. • line. J , ? . T h e r e w a s n o t h i n g a t t r a c t i v e a b o u t 0;:', $lm--quite the reverse. A great ^ XfiulkiiiK fellow, with a sullen face P'*:-;. %n<l «"VlI eyes. who, young as he was, iad dipped more freely into life's (M>k 1 linn is well for any man to dip. >nd .Mm had not come out of the F&l #Tdeul unsoiled. It was a rough |f > jblaee, that little Western mining camp in which he worked--a rough # - J)lae<>. full of cough men, with whom, Inoreover, he was no favorite. •'I calculate,'? said Judge Remis, was taking his ease outside after hard day's work, and blowing in a entle. meditative sort of way the curling smoke from his pipe--"Icalc'- V 'late that a more thorough-paced young j . Scoundrel than that Jim don't walk fj: the earth--durned if he do!" This sentiment, as fully embodying ^ * the views of the camp, was received if-V "ft*1 nods' of assent. "And yet," f said the Judge, taking the pipe from his mouth, the better to enforce the remark, "Dolly there seems sort o' ^ , Struck with him." gp, , "That's so," said Big Ben, thought- $•' , i The camp uttered a growl or two V .* of protest. What did Dolly see in yf ; him? was what the camp wanted to f';: tcnow--a question more easily asked I than answered. V Pretty baby Dolly! with her dimpled ^ ; - lace and brown eyes--darling baby Dolly! the God-given bit of childhood Y^;'. "which was blossoming in the midst ? of that band of wild, hard-living, ,M*; hard-drinking fellows, not one ol ' f.. whom at his wildest and worst would \; 4 have done aught to harm her. , "Just look at 'em," said the Judge, I ' raising himself upon his elbow from % the soft grass. < jTJ The men followed his gaze, and ^ About twenty yards away, appearing kj, jover the prairie ridge, they saw the . >'^wo» Dolly seaffd on Jim's beautiful V horse, Red Mustang, one of Jim's tjc./ strong arms thrown protectingly r V around her, the other carrying her |basket of berries, full to an extent ,:that showed that Dolly's chubby ftJi-'*'• little hands had never gathered them gll- v alone. t'j Dolly herself was regarding the l luscious fruit admiringly. "Daddy'll /I-' yike 'em.. Dim, won't he?" they ^ , • heard her remark. "Well," said Jim savagely, "seeing as it is daddy, I've no doubt he will. If '- Daddy's ready for most all he can • " get* |ji;\ Tfiere was a sufficient amount of truth in the statement to cause a || , smothered laugh of amusement F ' amongst the listeners, in which daddy, sy ... otherwise the judge, good humorly • ;!.K Joined. I;i- . Dolly did not laugh; instead her g£ *, hrown eyes grew troubled. Jim's re- sfr' mark had savored of disloyalty to U,V 4 daddy, and loyalty to daddy was part ^ • ot Dolly's simple creed. Suddenly 1 she brightened. "So am I," die an­ nounced. r "Are yer, now?" asked Jim. •'IK," said Dolly. "Aren't you?" v ^ r Jim made no reply. Catching ; sight of the spectators, he lifted W'\ Dolly and the berries roughly to the ^ ground and went on his way to his mf < ' customary mmxiy silence. |t"' Dolly, apparently quite used to , 4' „ i [ such treatment from her strange . friend, picked up her basket and " it trotted contentedly by her father's side. ' ffl/ "Who've you been with, Dolly?" said Big Ben, catching her up in his •; ,-s£4i arms and tossing her to the sky. "Dim," said Dolly from" Ben's §* f shoulder. The men laughed. "Well, I am surprised," said Big |p; Ben, loftily, "a little gell like you & <« taking up with such as him. I wonder %t you, Dolly." For answer Dolly burled her hands " tn Big Ben's curls, laughing gleefully. v "Whereu^n a glorious game of romps • w| •, ensued. However, it so happened that Jim ;'X A was to give a practical answer to % Dolly's question as to whether he was V ' ready for all he could get, by com- 1^ ; mitting a theft--a daring theft, and •s^V' hy no means his first, althougn for ^ „»v; the first time discovered. ^ s|:|; ^ "Caugh' red-handed," said Big ' Ben, his hand tightning ominously 'H- his heavy stock-whip. The camp was soon ablaze with the news, and from every side there flocked angry, fierce-eyed men. They made short work of such# sinners in those days. A few yards of rope and the nearest tree used to settle the business effectually. A man might gamble or swear, or use his pistol as freely as he pleased, but in such a community theft was necessarily the mapardonable crime. "To the right-about!" said big Ben, Sternly. ; Jim scowled at him. He did not «sk for mercy, knowing that it would JMfc iifiilfiAL HA BTAMM hngfl hnnn thr 4 v SttM<mly, attnlS^ by tiki appssrsd JDolly. looking out at the world frotft her great sun bonnet. "Run away!w said thejpdge, sharply; "this 'ere ain't no. place for little gells." Doll was an obedient little soul,and In an ordinary case would have obeyed. But, baby as she was, some­ thing of the significance of the scene came home to her; Jim standing alone amidst that ring of cruel faces. She gazed pitifully at him. "Go away, Dolly," said Big Ben; *'you've nothing to do with him. He's a thief." Dolly's eyes sought Jim's for a de­ nial. As he met them with his own reck­ less onesv a something else flashed into them, and then and there he ut­ tered a downright lie: "Don't you believe 'em, Dolly; I ain't nothing of the sort." And, half involuntarily, he threw a wistful glance at Big Ben. Spite of his roughness, Big Ben must have had a soft spot somewhere, for, bending down to Dolly, he said gently; "There, you see, 'Dolly, I must have been mistook. This here fellow, Instead of being a thief, is a wirtuous youth, a innicent angel, In fact. Now run away." So Dolly departed satisfied. After she left silence and hesita­ tion fell upon the men. The little scene had touched them. After a whispered consultation, the judge, stepping forward, cut the cord round Jim's wrists, saying curtly: "Here, you young scoundrel, we'll let you off this time; but clear out of this. We don't want no thieves here." Without a word Jim turned on his heel. Some men would have left the place at once. Jim was made of dif­ ferent stuff. Expelled from the camp, he built himself a cabin on the out­ skirts, not trying to live the disgraced down, but enduring it with the dog^ ged obstinacy which was part of his nature. The miners, even Big Ben, ignored him completely; for Ben, for all that instant of softness, had cer­ tain rugged fibers of pride about him which led him to treat a thief with merciless justice. The effects of this "severely letting alone" system was not very apparent, which was no doubt the reason of its being carried on so long. If Jim had only shown a proper spirit of peni­ tence, he would have been forgiven. But, except he was a trifle surlier, he went on his way pretty rnnch as be­ fore, even Dolly being treated in pub­ lic with savage silence. But as she was not alienated, there is reason to suppose that he mended his manners when they were alone together. For together they still were at times; and although muttered protests went up from the camp on such occasions, not a man but had manliness enough to refrain from making Dolly part of Jim's punishment. So she and "Dim" and Red Mustang had many a line scamper together over the prairie. But there came a time when Jim" and Red Mustang between them were to do a fine work--a time when a sudden danger loomed out, and Jim rose to it like the brave man that he was--when with clinched teeth he subdued the demon within him, and proved that on occasions he was ready--not for all that he could get, but to give up all that he had. For a savage "whoop" rang out one night on the unsuspecting camp. Men knew what it. was, and sprang to their feet with a snarl of rage. Rifle in hand they rushed out. "Injin," said the Judge, coollyload- inghis rifle, and in the moonlight gleamed the dusky, painted figures. There was little love lost between Injin and white man. The "man- and-brother" period had not been pro­ pounded on either side. It was war to the knife on both. "Steady, boys! steady!" said the Judge, to whom such scenes were by no means new. Ready, there? Now--at 'em!" And "at 'em" it was. Down swung the muskets, out flashed the shot, and with a locjt? that was not good to see upon theipiaces, the boys began the work--sharp work--butchery. The savages swarmed into the camp, only to be cut down. It was soon over. But the Indians had fought bravely, and old, tried-hand as he was, an uneasy light had leaped to the Judge's eye. It was a close shave," hie muttered, wiping the great drops of sweat from his brow as he watched the fleeing band--"a close shave. A little more and--" The pause was suggestive. The day was already breaking when the judge turned in home. "Hope the little lass hasn't been scared," he thought; and involuntarily a queer, tender gleam passed over the weather- beaten face as he thought of his "lit­ tle lass." "Dally!" he said, opening the cabin door. There was no answer. "Dolly!" and then again a little quicker, "Dolly!* Again that night the men were aroused by a cry--an awful cry, wrung from a strong man in pain; and when they hurried forward it was to find the judge with the fashion of his face all changed, pointing to the empty cabin, on whose floor shone the gleam of a tomahawk. That and the confusion of the place told its tale all too plainly--Dolly had been carried off by the Indians. And not a man amongst them hut what shuddered; for Indian revenge is a very horrible thing at its best; and the pitiful helplessness of a child would have no weight with a Black- foot warrior on the warpath especially if the child's people had defeated his own. In the dead silence Jim stepped for­ ward--Jim, with his shoulders well squared and a resolute look on his face. He eyed the group rather scornfully. "Going to stop here all day?" he asked. "Being as this is just the right time to give yojir horses a rest! Dm off!" And so he was, he and RedlMustansr together, racing over the\i>lain. But not before he 'swift, peculiarly*itk>us and Jim had broke her in himself I was preset ii breaking>l& W«J, boy as I was, I re­ member to fills day my feeling of ad­ miration as Jim quietly mounted her. "He's a blessed young scamp," said the man near me in involuntary de­ light; "but, by Jove, he can ride." So he could. Red Mustang exerted all her powers--which were by no meansislight--in the way of bucking, rearing, shying,kicking and plunging, to no purpose. With his feet well in the stirrups and a firm grip on her sides, Jim stuck on, sparing toeither whip nor spur, and making the lash curl round her in a way I thought then, and still think,was brutal. Ait when all trembling, she bowed her beautiful head, and with ,the dark flres of her eye owned him master, he flung away the whip and never used it again. That was just Jim. But after the first memorable tussie, when it had been so emphatically de­ cided whose will was to be obeyed, master and horse came to a very good understanding. Red Mustang's affections, indeed, had something pa­ thetic in it, and the fact that she showed th« reverse to every one else certainly did not lessen Jim's for her. Over the prairie the little caval­ cade started, with that easy swinging stride of her's, taking the lead and keeping it. Bftt Jim pulled her up sharply as there came a triumphant shout from behind, "Here's the trail!" Riding up, Jim looked at it with his keen eyes. * "That's no trail, " he said contemptuously. Now, the rest of the men having state<j that it was the trail, and be­ ing at least as well able to judge as Jim, did not receive his remark in the pleasantest spirit. "It are the trail," said Daryl Dash, m a quietly conclusive way, as if that settled it. "But it aren't," said Jim, squarely. Now. Daryl Dash was one of the most trusted hands in the camp, and, being backed up by Big Ben, the rest naturally took his side. "This ain't no time for foolin'," they said very sternly. "Here's the, trail, plain as can be; and we're goin' to follow it up." "I'm not foolin',"retorted Jim with a kind of desperate earnestness. the\plain. had 8eized\the judge's hand in a fierce grip, saying* with a totally unexpected catch in his voice, "Jedge, if I can, I'll bring her back." Not much, but it meant a great deal. Thoroughly roused, the rest fol­ lowed his example--not one hung back. All that fleet horses and brave hearts could do would be done for the little one I used to think Red Mustang the finest horse in the world and never wondered at Jim's pride in her. A , indeed, 'That trail's too plain for In j ins to have left, unless they done it a pur­ pose. I can And the trail right enough if you let me. Trust me ^>oys." My poor Jim! As a man sows so shall he reap. What had he done in all his reckless, dissolute life, to be trusted now? He was not trusted; nay, more; he was left, half mad with anger and despair, to find his trail alone. "Take it, or leave it," the men had said as they galloped off upon the trail. Away in the east the sun was touch­ ing the sky with red-gold light. Great crimson bars flecked with orange, gleamed out broadly, and then melted into softer harmony around, and before one knew it, the whole shinning mass united and out- flashed the sun. But before it did that, Jim made up his mind to do a very risky thing--to rescue Dolly single-handed. Who else was there to do it. The others had ridden away in a direction which was every mo ment taking them farther away from the right track. ' "My God!" he said wildly. Was it a prayer from those rough lips?--a prayer which the Good Shepard hf ard and answered? For Jim played fa hero's part that day. He found the trail. For the sun glinting down­ ward caught the light of a small pink object on the brushwood, and rested there lovingly. Nothing much--jUst the torn string from a little child's sunbonnet. But at the sight Jim broke into a suppressed whistle of triumph, and raced Red Mustang for­ ward as she had never been raced be­ fore. I never like to think about that ride. Enough, the Red Mustang responded loyally to the situation. From "noon to dewy eve" she carried Jim steadily. But when, trembling, foam-flecked and parched with thirst, he stopped her as the Indian camp loomed in sight, he knew that his work was cut out. "Quiet! old lass! quiet" he said, cautiously dismounting and patting her, with a look on his face that few but Dolly or Red Mustang had ever seen there. The gallant steed seemed to un­ derstand, and, suppressing a whinny, rubbed her nose wistfully against the caressing hand. Half gliding, half creeping forward, Jim took m the situation at a glance. The Indians had evidently only just stopped, and were hastily improvising a sort of camp. But, unsuspicious as they were of being followed so soon, Jim knew that this careless bustle of arrival would not last long, but that sentries would be set to guard against any approach. Suddenly his blood thrilled, fpr there before him, not a dozen yards away, lay Dolly, reposing on an old blanket in the healthy sleep of childhood. It was a foolish thing to do, per­ haps, considering the state Red Mus­ tang was in; but then Jim was des­ perate. How he crawled forward, seized Dolly and got back with her to ged Mustang unperceived, he could never have told himself. But get back with her he did and in a flash the three were off. "Dim!" said Dolly, clinging in blissful content to the rough-shirted arms. Ay," Jim answered, glancing down at her as he tightened Red Mustang's girth, "you go to sleep, Dolly." So Dolly's little brown head nestled down, and Jim and Red Mustang made what speed they could, which was not a very great speed, although there came sounds rroni behind which made the mare tear forward and turn Jim white. The Indians were in pursuit! Mile by mile, hour after hour, that fearful race went on. The rugged line of hills which camp were in sight could Red Mustang She was already ominiously, and time had come. get dowft Mfe;'TVe-^rte-- I've--a a partie'lar reason for wanting to get down here" and the arm hold­ ing Dolly as gently as a woman's kept her head well forward. "Red Mus­ tang '11 take you to the camp all right, if you'll be a brave little gell and go alone." "Oh!" and Doll's frightened (dutch was very firm. * "Will you, Dolly?" said Jim, fever­ ishly. "Dolly! Dollyl Will you? For me." "Iss, Dim," said Dolly, with ^quiv­ ering lips. Dismounting, Jim fastened her swiftly and flrmly to the saddle, and gave Red Mustang the word. "Good­ bye, Dolly," and Jim's mustache brushed the rosy lips. "Good-bye, Dim," said Dolly. Red Mustang whinnied uneasily. But her master told her to go, and Stl6 "She'll do It," said Jim, with a great sigh of relief. The Indians were very close now. In a curious, concentrated kind of way, Jim gazed at the plain, which the moonlight was kindling into p>eaceful beauty. Then, with an ugly light in his eye, he drew out his bowie-knife and turned to face what was before him. , ^ « « « j '• .1' :* *." "Who so givcrth#^»f water to one of these little ones, he giveth it unto Me." And Jim had given more than that; he had given his life;-for the next day Big Ben and the rest found him on the plain-- scalped.--Webster's Journal. A Natural Cariosity, * ' Devil's Lake, In Calhoun County, Ala., is one of the most remarkable curiosities to be found In America. The lake is oval in shape and covers about four acres of ground. No veg­ etation of any kind grows on its banks and nothing lives in its waters. Even snakes and terrapins shun the waters of Devil's Lake, and fish placed in It die in a few hours. The water is clear limestone, with a pecu­ liar taste which makes it unpalatable to man or beast. Horses or cows will not drink it no matter how thirsty they may be. Down below the surface* of the lake may be seen what appears to be the charred and blackened trunks of large trees. They stand upright In the water, but have neither root or branch, and never rise td the surface or sink to the bottom. The lake has no outlet, and the volume of water in it is the same all the time. A strange fatality attaches to this lake. Once it was the favorite resort of thle boys in the neighborhood for bathing and swimming,: but now they never go near it. Fifteen boys have been drowned in its waters in twice as many years. A few of the bodies were recoveredbut those who were drowned any distance from the banks sank to the bottom and were never brought to the surface. The depth of the lake has never been ascertained. Sounding to the depth of 700 feet found no bottom and the people in the vicinity say the lake has none. A Hemarkablo VoyaK*. Two sailing ships recently lay in the Mersey that had left Liverpool on the same day last year, and after voyages of nearly 30,000 miles for each re­ turned to port, at Liverpool almost side by side. They left on Oct. 5 for Astoria, Oregon, and arrived there on March 1 or 2, having been In com­ pany with each other for a large por­ tion of the voyage. They were in sight for forty days. . Both captains had their wives on board, and during the forty days of proximity one of the captains and his wife enjoyed a Sun­ day dinner on the other vessel, the compliment being returned on the following Sunday by the other cap­ tain. Both vessels left for Astoria on April d; but this time one sailed for Dunkirk and the other for Havre. They left these ports at nearly the same time, and entered the Mersey within hailing distance after a voyage of 342 days. £o called marked the now. But hold out? trembling Jim knew that the If she were to reach <%S#|i^ Tarqaol w, it a trine, and lapptUra* ^ n, to America. ' 'The lumtum'society of this coun­ try, which has scraped together many comfortable millions, thinks that it must go to Europe to buy the finest stones, but the real fact is that many precious stones found in this country are not surpassed in the whole world in their line," said Edward S. Briggs, a traveling salesman for a New York Jewelry flrm. "And new discoveries are being made in the United States all the time where new deposits of precious stones are brought to light, but, as a rule, the matter is kept as quiet as possible, for you know how crazy people would go over a rich find of this kind. I am on my way now to Oklahoma Territory to investigate a find of rich pearls in a wild, de­ serted region along the Cimarron .River. For some years the Indians have been known to decorate their moccasins and belts with beautiful pearls, which, they claimed, they found in shells along the banks of the Cimar­ ron. But the Indians down £here have rubbed up against civilization Just enough to know the commercial importance of holding a good busi­ ness secret. Recently the locality where the Indians have for years been gathering pearls was discovered. While prospecting along the banks of the Cimarron a young man picked up several shells and, upon examination, found that they contained pearls. But precious stones of a high value are found in numerous places in the Ur-ited States," continued Mr. Briggs. *'lt is only a little while ago that the furor was raised about the fresh-water pearls found along the Sugar River in Wisconsin. Over $100,000 worth were found on the banks of this river within the limits of one small town­ ship last summer. Pearls have al­ ready been found in Texas, Tennessee, and Michigan. Texas produces fine specimens of the black pearl. Only last week I read an account of where a fisherman found a pearl worth $300* on the banks of White River near Martinville, Ind. But thousands of shells have to be opened before find­ ing a pearl of any great price, and by that fact you can see that pearl hunt­ ing is not likely to become a popular pursuit. "The turquoise fi likely to be an important product here. In the tur­ quoise deposits of Santa Fe County, New Mexico, a recent find has pro­ duced specimens of the finest robin's egg blue, not surpassed in beauty by the famous Persian turquoise. The State of Washington comes forward with a remarkable discovery in prec­ ious stones. A deposit of opal has been found, but investigation has been limited so far, and the extent of the find is not known. "Many other varieties of precious stones are found in this country, but the common mass of humanity knows nothing about it. Maine produces tourmalines of various hues; beauti­ ful garnets and green chrysolites come from Arizona, New Mexico and Montana; golden beryls come from Connecticut, and rich blue stones from North Carolina and Colorado. Sapphire and ruby mines are being worked near Helena, Monk, but so far only an inferior grade of stones has been found. Hiddenites of an incomparable light green, which are found in America exclusively, r come from North Carolina." - r the camp at all it must be without his weight on her back. "Dolly!" he said, with a shake which made Dolly open, her sleepy. A Dot CmiU, Gotham is Worrying over the dog census. The New York Times gives it a long editorial with the following tail piece: Even Mayor Grant will presently come to perceive the futility of any measure for increasing the revenue from the dog-tax, and the only , effect of his proposing thfm will be to get -himself disliked by the owners of the dogs. But the preva­ lence of vagrant cats offers a great field for reform, and if the Mayor will b^ing forward a well-matured project, for. a cat-census, to be fol­ lowed by cat-license and a cat-tax, he will make many friends and no enemies, except a limited nnmh«r ©f old maids, who have no vote$» \ Short Weight In OAMU ' ! Samuel Vandergrift, a coal mer­ chant of Burlington, N. J., last win­ ter offered a regard of $25 to any one who could prove his tons short of weight. A driver for another coal dealer caught a load thirty-flve pounds short and brought suit for the reward, Justice Rigg decided the driver was entitled to the money, and Vandergrift has given notice of ap­ peal. I>iamon<t ink. diamond ink for writing on glass is a compound of fluoric acid and barium; the lattar has no effect, it being simply a white powder to give body to the acid. The" ink can be used with ^ a rubber hand stamp, and it should be allowed to remain fifteen minutes, when the barium will brush off, leaving the design on the glass. • • i • -- g-1 Endurance of a Daguerreotjrpa. A remarkable example of the en- during qualities of the daguerreotype is to be found in the old graveyard at Waterford, Conn. In the headstone that marks the grave of a woman who died more than forty yeafs' ago her portrait is inltfid, covered with a movable metal shield. The picture is almost as perfect as when it was taken. , . . IT is stated that cows only live fif­ teen years, but you can ne ver get peo­ ple who reside at hoarding houses to believe it. IT is no trouble for some editors to lie awake; the trouble is for them to eys«p - f I want you to do tometi^>{*IM?p ttom lying while they are asleep. A Parfeet Tiaatoit. Howard Paul was at the Grand Pacific recently. Americans of the present generation may have to cud­ gel their memories to recall his name. Even in England, his native soil, he is best rememberef by those whose salid days were over a quarter of a century ago. Howard Paul and his wife were the original "drawing-room entertain­ ers." Twenty years ago "Mr. and Mrs. «Howard Paxil's evenings" were as well known in London as the ballads sung by Sims Reeves. Their charac­ ter sketches and imitations of famous personages were the delight of May Fair and Hyde Park Corner. Mrs. Paul was pronounced by Charles Dickens to be the best commedienne, humorous singer and celebrity imper­ sonator in England. She died eight years ago, at which time Mr. Paul abandoned his talents as a mimic and devoted his time to writing for the maga^nesand newspapers. His sig­ natures at the end of English letters is well known in the Eastern papers. He is now the editor of the American edition of the Illustrated London News. Mr. Paul is in Chicago to look into the progress of the preparations for the World's Fair, in order to write a series of elaborately illustrated ar- Hicles on the subject. He returned to England at the conclusion of his visit here. Mr. Paul-told an amusing story of Dickens, with whom he Was on inti mate terms. In the days when he and his wife were giving their enter­ tainments Mr. Paul had as manager h man named Dolbey, whose lack of business ability was as marked as his enormous appetite. Mr. Paul strug­ gled along as best he could with his manager, but he was vastly relieved when Dickens chose Dolby to manage his readings on his second visit to the United States. When Dickens returned to London from his American tour Mr. Paul asked him how he liked Dolbey's managerial services. "He is a treasure, a perfect treas­ ure!" replied the great novalist, en­ thusiastically. Mr. Paul was almost taken off his feet with astonishment. • "Wha-a-what!" he managed to gasp. "A treasure? With all due respect to your judgement, Mr. Dickens, I never found him anything else but a nuisance. "Ah, but my dear fellow, there is a difference," replied Dickens, i "You engaged him for his head, t whereas I engaged him for his stomach. Why, man, he was inval- . uable. Those hospitable Americans were forever asking me. to eat or drink with them. All I would have to do woura be to make an excuse and follow it up with, 'But here's Dolbv, my manager, who I am sure will be delighted-' Why, Dolbey's castiron stomach and colossal capacity saved my life. I've come back strong as an ox, and Dol bey's a wraek--a total wreck. I wouldn't have MCR A Birds' Hotel. An Interesting hotel for suoii&er boarders is described by a Reading, Pa., correspondent of the Chicago Herald. Music is a popular diversion at summer resorts, but this place is no doubt exceptional for the qual­ ity and variety of the music fur­ nished by the guests. The pro­ prietor had his attention called, not long ago, to the fact that ladies on leaving home for the summer are often at a loss what to do with their pet birds, not wishing to inflict their care upon friendly neighbors, nor to trust them to careless servants. So he advertised for "bird boarders," and now his house is full. The rates%f board vary with the different species of birds according to the amount of attention they require, and the character of food suited to their tastes. Canaries are boarded for 25 cents a week. A common soft cracker, with mixed seed and occa­ sional hard-boiled eggs grated, with plenty of cuttle-fish bone, is all they demand. The noisy parrot is consid­ ered a profitable boarder at 50 cents a week. It is entirely satisfied with crackers* peanuts, sunflower seeds, and unhulled rice. ^ More aristocratic biras, however, such as bulflnches, nightingales, and mocking-birds, must have ants' eggs, which are prepared in Europe an«5 shipped here, together with meal­ worms and expensive seeds of particu­ lar kinds. One dollar and a half a week is charged for the board of these species. # The landlord says that the compan­ ionship which his feathered boarders enjoy in their summer boarding-house adds materially to their well-being, and in the case of song-birds to the quality of their singing. Among the interesting bird guests this season are a collection of Hartz Mountain and English canaries, sev­ eral macaws, Cuban parrdts, Amer­ ican finches and nightingales. The landlord endures the noise with equanimity and feels thankful that his guests cannot get out of their cages and storm the business counter with their complaints and -remarks,as sea-shore visitors sometimes do. Sarah's Letter, Mrs. Trimmer, who, in the last cen­ tury, wrote a series of delightful books for children, was herself a most precocious little girl, and showed sucli talent in letter-writting that her par­ ents early prophesied for her a literary career. The following letter, written when she was between ten and eleven, is worth quoting, as a specimen of the sort of epistle which children were expected to compose a hundred years ago. "Dear Grandpapa "and Grandmam­ ma.--As I now think myself capable of writing a letter, I do not know of any to whom I can address myself with more justness and propriety than yourselves, for you are my parents in a double capacity, and therefore may reasonably claim my utmost duty and gratitude. By your indulgent care and tenderness, under the gracious hand of Providence, you have blest me with the best of mothers. Let me, therefore, beg a continuance of your blessings and prayers, to enable me to set a right value on the privil­ eges I enjoy by having a rational be­ ing, and to put in practice the duties I owe to God, my neighbor and my­ self; and it shall be my daily prayer to the Almighty that He will make the remainder of your lives happy, and reoeive you at last into everlast­ ing felicity. My Grandpapa and Grandmamma Kirby and all my papa's family join in suitable commenda­ tions with your most obedient and dutiful granddaughter, Sarah Kirby." Imagine a youthful Maud or Ethel of the present day sending home such a solemn, stilted little letter from the sea-shore or mountains! Would not grandma pack her trunk at once and fly to nurse her, taking the family physician in her train? Yet little Sarah Kirby was not a prig; she sim­ ply "followed the fashions" of her day.-.', : ; •' I;" , A Good Claansla* Preparatt4|S» A lady called for this mixture ait a drug store: One quart of deodorized benzine, one drachm of sulphuric ether, one drachm of chloroform, two drachms Of alcohol, and just enough cologne to make it pleasant. When she had gone the clerk remarked to a spectator: "Do *you know what she wanted that preparation for? You would not be far out of the way if you guessed she was going to wash some soiled gloves. That is one of the best and cheapest preparations for cleansing that I know of. You pour 2 little of the mixture into a clean bowl and was the gloves in it as you would wash anything with soap and water. If the gloves are of the cheap kind, it is best to dry them on the hand, but a fine cloth, after having been rubbed to smooth out the wrinkles, may be hung on the line to dry like an ordinary garment! The preparation is an excellent thing to have handy, not only for rejuven­ ating gloves, but for removing grease spots from clothing and carpets, and for sponging coat-collars and felt hats. The ladies in this town can save con­ siderable money by following that one's example."--Christian UniOfk Dakota Whaat, Some interesting details of Dakota's phenomenal crops are in the form of accounts of big yields on individual farms One farmer in North Dakota thrashed out 1,034 bushels of wheat from thirty-three acres of land--a little more than thirty-one bushels to the acre--and he netted $858.20 on his crop. Rolette County claims yields of forty bushels of wheat to the acre, seventy-flve bushels of oats, sixty bushels of barley, and 500 bushels of potatoes. Yields of twenty-one to thirty bushels of wheat to the acre are common. One man has 700 acres of wheat giving thirty bushels to the acre. And the farmers are receiving 80 to 88 cents a bushel for their wheat. A Wasp Myatery. It is known that wasps' nests often take fire, supposed to be caused by the chemical action of the wax upon the paper material of the nest itself. May this not account for many mys­ terious flres in barns and out-build- ings. CHICAGO clergymen sincerely hope that the ballet is on Its last legs. ^ Trarr most assume who know the l e a s t . -- G a y . . . . . IDLENESS is the nurse of naughti­ ness.---Robert Burton. HYFROCRISY is a iorfc./^HSCHrfail treason.--Fontenelle. BENKFICEXCK--the salt of •-*» earthly possessions. -^Dr/ ^r Goodell. ' How QUICKLY Nature falls to J*. volt when gold becomes her object.-* Shakspeare. NATURE is the'master of talent, genius is the master of Nature.--J.1 G. Holland LABOR is the divine law of our ex­ istence; repose is desertion and sui­ cide.--Mazzini. . THERE is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.--Washing­ ton Irving. To BE happy is not the purpose for which you were placed in the world. --Froude. IT is the work of a philosopher to be every day subduing his passions „ and laying aside his prejudices.--Ad­ dison. THE intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very consider­ able one.. life has no <jonscience.--• Lowell. . " MANY a garden seen from a dis­ tance looks fresh and gfeen, which, when beheld closely, is dismal and weedy.--Thackeray. OUR own actions are the accidents of fortune, that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.-- Jaines Ellis. IF you are idle you are on the roaAr to ruin, and there are few stopping" places upon it. It is rather a pre- J cipice than a road.--Beecher. ; HEALTH is so necessary to all the duties as well as pleasures of life; that the crime of squandering it is i equal to the folly.--Dr. Johnson. • WHAT makes us so changeable in our friendships is our difficulty to dis- * j cern the qualities of the soul and the ease with which we detect those of the intellect.--La Rochifoucauld. SHUN Chose who cry out against fiction and despise it, and have no taste for elegant writing. Not to have a sympathy with the playful mind is not to have a mind.--George Meredith. , V ? j * H i The Monkey and the Traeha' •>jz j. A'! As I was lingering before the moil- key c; ge in the Dresden Zoological garden a slight tickling in the throat, a chronic trouble with me, induced J * '•} me to take out of my pocket a box of ' V? bronchial troches and to put one of Y them in my mouth. Instantly a-1* large monkey, of manifestly inspiring nature, thrust out bis hairy arm and ;' palm with a beseeching look that I ~V>| would give him one. - Why should he, too, not be allowed to enlarge his; terrestrial experience and share the j o y s o f t h e s u p e r i o r b e i n g b e f o r e h i m ? * 1 So I gave him the troche. Scarcely- * >ft did the bitter taste strike him than ,, he snatched it out with his fingers {*, and began rubbing it on the hair of ^ 'f > his arm, as if to rub off the bad taste. : Seeing, however, that the superior"? >1 being continued to such his troche v 'ti serenely, he soon put his own back ^ s, ^ in his chops, to give it a fuller trial. It proved too much for him to stand « V very long, and so he pulled it out a ^ second time and began rubbing it on.* ^ ^ the sandy floor of the cage. OverC- . ^ and over the process was repeated; - £ but each time his reverential eye fell VI on the superior being outside still ^ {"j peacefully sucking his own, a reflec- ^ tive expression came over his face, which as much as said: "Surely, If thatmajijrestgod out there enjoys V| this nasty thing there must be some ^ desirable quality in it that I am not fs |j| developed enough to appreciate." So ntly, the aspiring simian went}? ,'y until he had dissolved the last par- tide of his troche.--Boston Herald.. ^ 1 <'!t Remarkable Feat of Strength. E. P. Kendall gave a remarkable exhibition of his skill and strength with a ten-pound dumb-bell recently. He matched himself against eight strong men employed upon the grade work about the couutry court house and agreed to Dut up from shoulder to arm's length a ten-pound dumb­ bell more times than the eight men could. Kendall has a limb which makes it necessary for him to use crutches, and as he is of very slight build the result of the contest ap­ peared to be a foregone conclusion. One after another the eight men took their places, Kendall Jieeping t i m e w i t h e a c h o n e , a n d a f t e r u p the eighth man had dropped his arm from sheer exhaustion Ken­ dall smiled pleasantly and ran his ; score of consecutive lifts up to an even 1,000. His best score with a twelve-pound bell is 2,000 lifts, and; he has a brother who hold's the world's championship.--Seattle Press- Times. • " ' -ii 3 1 Capo Cod FhUosophy. flhe Journalist who leaves the preaS|%'.-•? for the pulpit doesn't enlarge hls?r* v. •" sphere of usefulness, but he may there »y increase his own chances of ^ ^ getting to Heaven. Tw >, We are obliged to do many things*^ \ that are distasteful, but courtship is . ̂ >• something a man can enter into with 1 all his heart. IX, How foolis* to say, "I like to hear < 1 * a man say what he thinks." Who'{ •jty, ever heard a man say what he didn't ^ think? Parachute jumping is not a bust- , |! ness that tends to elevate a man. . The office that seeks the man hasn't ^ much of a salary attached to it. Pottery dogs are a fashionable fad . * at present, and the possessor of a$Jf' * crockery set is nowhere beside the T " possessor of a crockery setter.--Cape Cod News. '•' '-5 ' ' . | Ii.p2;',";*'i• •' : ; Catting SMnflei.'^ \ A new machine for cutting shin­ gles is described as cutting 96,000 in a ten-hour's run. The wood is,,,.* steamed for five hours before being * ^ placed under a knife that runs at 17C r * ? strokes a minute, at which rate the l^; ^ shingles are cut smooth and ready for t treatment in the ordinary course. The steaming drives the sap out Of the wood and prevents warping. - AN exchange says that there is no if earthly reason why women should not be aUftwod» sr Aziu. ..L.? M