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r-irnfiaradr.il« I. VAN 8LYKE, Editor and Publisher. McHB^BTR~ -V QUEgft LULLABI &k w? Y-i Sleep, nleep, little mouse; Vfceseld your father plows: s Your mother feed* pigs in toe sty. She'll come and dap you when you --Danish. Snail, snail. come ont and be fed. SPnt out vour horns anil then your Mad, And thy mummy will jiive thee mutton, For thou art doubly dear to me. --Chinese. . The moon shineg bright, .And the snake darts sWtft and light)1 I see five baby bullocks \ •And a calf young and Whiter#?* --Spanish. ®eep, my b«i*y, sleep, IBtep a slumber halt*. •weetly rest till morning light, Vy little (a mor bov. so brum. ^-Arabic. Vnsh, thee, ray baby. Thy mother's over the mountain _ There she will dig the little garden And water she'll fetch from the ri --In Zulnland. ltow, row to Battnarock, Bow many fish are caught in the One for father and one for mother, One for sister and one for brother. --Norwegian. Bush, hush, baby mine; Pussy climbs the big green ^ Xotner turns the miU-stonai>. father to kih thepig hasgo?*,, ,,-V .•--Swedish. • ^ -deep, baby, sleep; .",f'< Thy father gnartis the sheep The mot her shakes t he dreamland tree, .And from it falls sweet dreams for tbea; Sleep, baby, sleep. .n'iS* •; p* 'V. :!P- A SOUTHERN ROMANCE. : S. .% TTnlessone went afoot or by private • conveyance over the dreadfully new • and uncomfortable State road, there were but two routes by which a per- - gon might travel from Daceyville to ^ruao. One was by rail--taking either the i 8 a. m. or the 4 p. ni. train--over a wide circling distance of 150 miles to the State line junction, thence by stage each niorning at T o'clock thirty miles to Bruno. The opportunity came irregularly, or whenever a ddWn- bound boat happened along. By boat, from Daceyville to Shier's Land­ ing was eighty miles, and then by stage, each morning, to Bruno was twenty, miles. As the railway had been built within t he year and with some siight- tng of ballast the steamboat way was the more popular, but as boats came two or three times a day or two or three times a week as they saw fit, the daily trains overthe railway were the most serviceable. The Town of Bruno was not only a county seat, but it had the distinction of containing the only United States land office in a section of new country 175x230 miles iu area. Not yet a railway town, that dignity was fork­ ing its way toward the place as rapidly as ties and rails could be put down, and already the premonitory symptoms of a boom were well defined. I had lived in Daceyville five years «s accountant and confidential man tor Col. Ben Eastman, the pine land baron of that section of the Southern country, when, one afternoon as the signal whistle of a down-bound boat reminded me of the outer, busy and attractive world, I sat in my dingy little office trying to figure out why it was that I had been content so long to seclude myself with most monoton­ ous work, and society as well, for the small salary of $800 per year and board. True, I boarded at the Colonel's house, but since his only child, Miss Helen, had been sent away up the river to the Mount Marcy Female Seminary, I had found even that consideration of no account. As I mused over the situation, Col. Eastman, one of those prema­ turely old men whose devotion to money-getting had dug dollar-mark wrinkles all over his face, and whose excessive hard work in youth and early manhood had sent him across the npiddle-age mark with bent shoul­ ders and a painful limp, hurried into the office as rapidly as he could, say- tag: "Jack, I want you to take this boat and get to Bruno by 8 o'clock to­ morrow morning." Well accustomed to such sudden orders, i began hastily to put a few things in my little valise, and as I did SO Col. Eastman explained the purpose <Sf my visit to Bruno. \ He told me that Boss Bessard, our *3andlooker," had come in from "the bush" that morning, bringing with him She descriptions and stumpage figures of several valuable pieces of Government land. All of this I knew before, but 1 was considerably aston Jshed to hear the Colonel continue: •'Somehow, I don't know how, old White (who was Col. Eastman's rival in the pine land business) has got hold «f the descriptions of these pieces and tie took the 8 o'clock train this morn­ ing for Bruno. If nothing happens Jtoe'll get there about 11 to-morrow morning, see?" ? I saw the situation and as the ^ Colonel gave me a pacxage of money, - together with the mapsot the coveted land sections, he continued: "If that new land agent tries to question your authority or in any way aelay you, why you can enter the land in your *mn name. All I care about is to #uchre old White." , . And so, with a quick "good bye," I Can out of the office and down to the levee across the way just as the Bar- •erer No. 2 was hauling in her gang- flank. and as she steamed out from ehind the little wharf-boat I heard J- $he Colonel, who was standing half- way up the levee, shout: "Do it in 'toy name, if possible!" The Barterer No. 2, a little, old, weather-stained freight boat, was ftei piled high on her lower deck with '1^ peanuts and yams, and as I walked |#ft to settle for my ride I confess that I did not look ahead with any especial 14 pleasure to tl\e eight or nine hours I p. • «would be obliged to stay aboard. All danger on time hanging heavily |*ipon me was dispelled, however, as I k" centered the door of the cabin, for there before me and in her own proper (person, stood Miss Helen Erstman; «nd as, in a half-dazed way I raised ^fcny hat, said, with a somewhat r V ludicrous display of unnecessary brav­ ery: / , - "We have concluded to face you i 5 ) fearlessly." ' Supposing the young lady to be at \ ;Mt. Marcy Female Seminary, I was J . amazed by so sudden a meeting with v * hec. out my surprise was quickly pot to flight by my amusement over her sensational attit ude and speech. Before I had composed myself suffi­ ciently to inquire how she had missed leaving the boat at Daceyville, a neatly dressed, dark-faced young man j stepped from behind the cabin door to a place beside the young lady, say- sjing: "Yes sare, we haf not fear of you. Ze lady is undaire my protectione. She is my fiancee. At Meestaire Shier's landing we s'all lie made man and wife and zen ze faader he may be please or ozzerwiseas he s'all choose." Compelled to drop the thought gf a joke, with which I had at first be- ^eome possessed and not wishing to see anything in the situation but a joke, I was about to appeal to Miss Helen for an explanation, when she interrupted me with: "We heard father shout to you to do it in his name and we know what ito expect, why you are here; but I .warn you, you have no possible au­ thority over me, and we shall both resent and resist any interference on your part." This speech brought me to my nor- jnal condition, so that with a most profound courtesy I remarked: "Miss Eastman. I assure you on my honor as a man that I had no sort of an Idea you were on this boat, and 1-ore- gret to say so, but I am quite con­ fident that no suspicion of the pres­ ent situation has ever entered your father's mind." The lady was about to make some Observation when I checked her with: "Besides, l am on my way to Bruno on business for your father and unless I can be of service to you. as a friend, I assure you that as you are of age " I am not, I'm only 19," she inter­ rupted. "I was going to say," I continued. that as you are of an age sufficiently advanced to know right from wrong any interference on my part, with any of your plans, is not required." At this declaration of independence Miss Eastman's manner toward me softened very materially so that presently and as though elopements were the most frequent and common­ place of affairs, we three, Miss Helen, her companion (who had been intro­ duced to me as Prof. Eulalio Dego- lado) and myself were seated to­ gether discussing the strange coinci­ dence by which we had been brought into each qther's company. I ex­ plained the purpose of my visit to Bruno and the true import of her father's: "Do it in my name if pos­ sible!" In turn she told me all about Prof. Eulalio Degolado, how he was the teacher of music at Mount Marcy Female Seminary, how all the girls had fallen hopelessly in love with him, how he was the only son of an eminent Spanish grandee and the sole heir to immense estates in Spain; how, in spite of all the alurements practiced by the other girls he had declared his love for her and had asked her to become his wife and "O! but weren't they a jealous set!" In this way she chattered along with no reference to and seemingly no thought of Daceyville and the old father who had been so good to her, until I asked; "When did you leave Mount Marcy?" "About 9 o'clock this morning, we knew we would not be especially missed until noon and, that they could not, when they did miss us, telegraph home without driving twenty miles over to the railway. And then too--'Lalio thought of this, --we figured that by coming on this boat right to Daceyville, we would do the thing least expected and so be safest in our fight, and--won't the other girls be mad!--and--and--well, why don't you say something? What do you think of us?" "I've no authority over you and have no business to think one way or the other, in this matter." i "Yes you have, I want .to know just what you think." > "Candidly?" f . •.<» "Certainly. Don't Ire, •'If ze gentleman will be so good? ' "Well, I must tell you first what I know, and then I can tell what I think without being misjudged. I know that you are a spoiled child, as is generally the case with those who have' no brother or sister. I know also that you are a romantic, impressionable and Impulsive young lady, as is ' usually the case with female seminary girls. I know that I do not know anything in detail as to this young man's character, and I think--this is where I tell you what I think--that you do not know much more about him than is known to me." "What do you mean* saire?" asked the Spaniard with a show of resent­ ment. "I mean to take Miss Eastman at her word, and to tell her candidly just what I think." "Yes, 'Lalio, that's all right. He means no reflection upon you; it is poor me who must take it, but I was ready for it. *Goon please." I have nothing further to say beyond expressing the hope that if you have gone thus far toward what may be a hopeless error, you may re­ alize the fact and correct it before it is too late. Now then, having at your request delivered my lecture, what do you say if we drop the sub­ ject and go on deck. Possibly Prof. Degolado will consent to add to the pleasures of the timeby giving us a little music." "Just at this juncture the captain invited us to supper, but immediately on the conclusion of that meal I re­ newed my proposition to go on deck. So well had I played the part of a diplomat--fori had made up my mind to stop the eloping couple at Shiers' . Landing in some way or other--that j soon we were seated together on the upper deck, on the port si^e 0f the pilot-house, with the Spaniard pick­ ing delightful strains from his guitar. Aside from my knowledge that an elopement was in progress and that one of the parties thereto was quite entertaining as a musician, there was no romance to the situation. Dark­ ness had enveloped all things, the asth­ matic churning of the boat's engine answered by the swirling swish of the stern wheel were the only noises that broke the stillness of the night, while the two basket torches on either side of the forward part of the boat sent gruesome shafts of light across the narrow, winding stream, to disappear in the darknen of the forest on either hand. There was no aftipafgtwy no sparkling waters and paifi of birds. I in fact, "tedious** would have been exactly the word to express the experience had it not been lor Dego- lado's guitar and the fact that ray mind was in active operation trying to devise son*e scheme whereby I Migty9IRCUn»VQIIt the music teacher. I weighed the chances of picfcftAig" a quarrel with him, having hip» ar rested, of bribing She captain t*> put him ashore and \yu-ious. wther plans, but I abandoned all of thereto subside in a condition of dogged pa­ tience, determined to take advantage of whatever# pretext or opportunity might present itself. Knowing-Miss Eastman thoroughly and confident that her susceptibility and impulsive­ ness had been made use of iri a moat; rascally manner by Degolado, I was prepared to go to almost any extreme- to save her from a life of regret. The opportunity came suddenijeandi unexpectedly, for as Degolado, was in the midst of a, performance of a. dreamy waltz, there came a direful creaking of the old craft's crazy up­ per-works, accompanied by an omin­ ous shock as she stopped abruptly, sending a.great tremor from fctem to stern and causing the frail, flat'-bot- tomed thing to list in a very disa­ greeable way. » # Simultaneously with the Captain's bell to siiop, the engineer ceased its working, the fussy splutterings of the wheel were silenced and as I assisted Miss Eastman to. regain her feet, £ heard her ejaculate in a suppressed undertone filled with disgust: "The- contemptible coward!" Not under* standing the cause of such a speech, at a time, I glanced astern just in time to see Degolado, a picture of fear, running furiously away from ua - Meanwhile, the bow holding fast in. the sand, the boat, carried by the cur­ rent of the stream, swung her sterni around until her wheel was among the branches of a huge, half prostrate sycamore on the bank. As she did this a gust of wind caught the- Aire in the basket torch, sending out a great flare of light and in the brilU iancy of the illumination we--Miss Helen and myself--saw the terror- stricken figure of Degolado,. as, with a flying leap, it launched out over the paddle wheel, landing dry 4hd safe upon the luxuriant bush of the tree and but a few feet from the red clay bank below. "It strikes me thet this yer end o' this yer boat hex got there!" said Capt. Medler quietly as he stepped from the pilot house to go'below, "an' while we're shiftin* the truck aft to float 'er off, you-all better take our small boat an' go ashore fer that ther d--d fool over yon," pointing toward Degolado, who was labori­ ously finding his way from the tree branch to the ground. Meanwhile Miss Eastman, very pale and much agitated, siezed me by the arm, say­ ing, "Take me to the cabin, please.'* I did as requested and no sooner had the young lady reached the com­ parative seclusion of the cabin, than growing herself upon a much worn settee, she bust into tears . moaning: "O, what a coward! what a wretched coward." ;; Not being an adept at handling women in tqars and for jfce want of someCliTng better" in the way of a: speech, I remarked: "You can stay here while I'll go see what I can do toward getting Degolado " "Jack, if you lift a finger toward helping that man back (iii'to thfc boat, I'll never speak to you as long as 11 '•«!" said Miss Helen with an earnestness born of instantaneous and absolute composufte. "I've made a wretched exhibition of myself and look to you to help me hackc vto toy better senses." Realizing that the crisis hfd been passed in safety and at the same time noting that she had addressed me as 'Jack," I left her alone ;with~ her tears, for a conference, with Capt. Medler. Returning shortly, I placed the key of the captain's stateroom in the hands of my protege, directing her to that apartment with instruc­ tions to go inside and lock the door, and to remain there until we reached S h i e r ' s L a n d i n g , w h e n I w o u l d C J M for her. "And be assured," said I,• as she was about to close the door, I'll see to it that that coward does not trouble you further." • • j • Just then I heard the roustabouts as they packed the sacks of potatoes and nuts from one end of the boat to the other, singing: , I'Oh--h--h git along, git along, * Xfe Bah-t'reh'sa ha-ad boat to baoo, .' Be oil, be on: Her nose is to de mnd, An' de da- keys day sweats blood, ; C OB de Bah-t'reh'S a ha-ad boat to be on, H;* Be on, bo on." . : ft was 10 o'clock before the Bart­ erer No. 2, freed from her muddy stocks and having Degolado and his badly-broken guitar on board, re­ sumed her course aown the river. By an understanding with Capt. Medler I had accommodations for the Spaniard provided in the lamp-room with two stalwart, deck hands at1 the door to see that he didn't jump off from the boat. I By the same arrange­ ment, too, the eminent musician did not accompany Miss Eastman and myself when, at midnight, we stepped ashore at Shier's Landing; I had arranged with the captain that when Degolado should leavje his boat he should not be sent adrift iii a pen­ niless condition. Of course, leaving Shier's Landing in a comfortable carriage at 5 o'clock the next morning, Miss H&Jen, afld myself had a delightfid three hours' ride over to Bruno and of course, also, I reached the Land Office in time to be several hours ahead of "Old White." Thus it happened, that about six months later, when consult­ ing Col. Eastman relative to a propo­ sition I had made the previous even­ ing to his daughter, he said: "It was because I expected this that I have never asked vou to transfer tof me that Government landjyou entered in your own name at Bruno last summer." . i; v '• About a year after my trip to Bruuo, myself and wife stopped on our wed­ ding trip at Atlanta, and one evening while in the gallery o^ the hotel rotunda a quartet of vagabond mu­ sicians of the Spanish student order were playing their guitars and man­ dolins in the office below. Presently, one of the quartet, as he held out his hat in an appealing way, looked in our direction as I dropped a bit of money to him, my wife placed her hand on my arm and drawing me away from the balustrade, remarked; ••Strange, isn't it?"--^ree tfress. A Man from fftmtoa Wka ndtefl / Dp a Cow3»(T Orsju Amwy? the passengers on a JPfclU*. delphia train coming north the other day wens- several New York drum­ mers, say&M. Quad. One of the latter was,a<x>iti«ti young man, who prided himselF OR bei ng A student 6f 'huniari nature. Wftw a number ®f drum­ mers are gathered together lihere you will hear bo;6st»ng and braggiag, and EACH,#I9 .HOC will put HM-wjwd his particular specialty aS'llse-best joke or trick of the season.. The young man's sp#«ialty was by aaad by dtily explained. Said he: "Gentlemen,'I have a little sbhem* which I hate named the 'Jonn Jlenry" scheme. It is worJted entirely on the fiSrnier, and it, furnishes one with, a wonderful insight into the character­ istics of the horny handed sons off toil. Perhaps you didn't know that, the farmer is naturally the most sus­ picious persons in existence, albeit he- | is ftftenest made the irictiitt of sharp- ' ers?" 'v ,,,a. ,, Two or three, of the «rowd doubted the truth of the assertion,' which was just what the coltish yaurtg man de­ sired, and he continued: . *'I propose to prove what I have g*i«L I have made a study of the farmer,' and I know him. from head to heel. Vou all see this watch? > it is a bang-up timepiece and cost $150. It it had Water bury works and a plated case, and "was worth about $6 I could sell It to a farmer for $ 15 as easy as rolling off a log. As it is straight goods it would scare a fariher to death to offer it to him for $10. "I think he'd snap it up," observed tme of the boys. "That shows you. are not posted. There is probably at least one farmer in the coach ahead. I'll just bet you an even $10 that I will offer him this watch for an X and he will take me for a fakir and refuse to invest." After some hesitation' the stakes were put up, and, followed by two of the party, the young man entered a day coach. Almost the first passenger in sight was a middle-aged farmer. He had on an old straw hat, was with­ out a collar, and one of his cowhide boots rested on the other seat as he interested himself in a newspaper. ' "My friend," began the young man, as he smiled a bland and seductive sitiile, "I have met with misfortune, and am obliged to" "I hain't got no money to give away," interrupted the farmer. "I do not ask for charity,'* con­ tinued the young man. have a; fine watch here which I propose to dispose of for cash to relieye my tem­ porary embarrassment." • "Don't want no watch.*' '• "But let me explain. He*ere a watch worth 4150. I will sell it for $10. Take it and look it over-!' The farmer hesitated for fcwhile and then took it, held it to his ear, shook it once or fwice and said: "I don't claim to be the sharpest man in this world, but I do hate to be taken for a hayseed." "No 'one takes you for a hayseed my dear fellow. I simply offer to sell you my $150 watch for $l6:" "Oh, that's it eh? Wallj guess I ' l l take i t !^ . . ' J . , He dropp&d tne» Watch into his pocket, fished up a $10 bill, and con tinned: 4*Haif the wheels may be gone when JL come to examine it, but a feller must take som# dftanices 'fir. this world." Then %he coltish young mdn turned red and white and blue, and he smiled and stuttered and stammered, and his bland smiles faded away as he ex­ plained that it was all a joke. The other wouldn't have it that way,how- tet^r, ahd:he finally closed the argu­ ment by spitting on his hands and rising up to fig lit the whole crowd. He kept the watch, and the young mfin •froirir Bostori will Tlafe an armful of sorrow-to hug for a^yekr to come. He don't know that one of the New Yorkers, having heard, of the trick arid expecting he would work it, had that farniier posted half an hour in ad­ vance. If 0hedid'it would break his young; and confiding heart. swraprodto wear it. In the Bank of notipe, meant partly for hint- and partly for snt?en read, "OerSss will not wear m*ista<%&»4W"i ing buiffeess hours," There is BO good reason why, if other rnejft wear mustaches, waiters shall not likewise if that js their preference. To don the hair oil the upper lip woald still further identify them with guests in the clawhammer coat. ' Besides,, who has a better right o priori to a mu*taehjp than a waiter?" For mustache iwns to masticate. If the landlords aad restaurant keep­ ers of Parts surrender in this respect to the waiters a surly cynic suggests that- they should then put a sign in their resorts, "Waiters-are forbidden to comb or chew their mustaches while in the dining-room." Did the cynic never see a /gentleman" do that? Is Jt more offensive to gastric or aesthetic tolerance than paring nails in a dining-room or in a sitting- room? Or expectorating: or doing any other personal service that be­ longs to privacy? If the waiters should adopt the ronstaehe as part of their livery, they might give "gentlemen" lessons in keeping it out of the soup- and the fflnger-bowl; and in not con«*tituting it, as many of their supposed! betters doy a regular receptacle for what a well-known person In a familiar place ealls "wittles and drink."--Chicago Herald. BOMB AMUSrffCT 6LIP8 « A Btrlk* for Liberty --and Mnstach--. While economists arfe engaged in demonstrating how much the world has lost by strikes the organized wait­ ers of Paris have served notice on ' th6ir employers that they will strike --one and all, young and old, married ,or single--if, after a period tobe de* termined hereafter, they are not to "be permitted to wear mustaches The leaders of this newest of modes by Which labor threatens to annihi­ late capital have been studying the subject of beards. They point out that to shave the head and face is the privilege of clerics, who thus in cer­ tain orders, regular and secular, sig­ nify their voluntary conformity with designated ecclesiastical regulations; mate--they are not ecclesiastics! They remind their supercilious: employers that, secondly, to be shorn is a desig-' nation of judges as well as clerks; moist are not judges as they are not clerks. Thirdly, they declare that although since clean shaven faces have become the mode for, those, who cat} 901 grow anything on the upper lip or qheeks of chin, Or for gentltfirien who adopt that mode for other reasorts, they can­ not distinguish themselves from these persons, a stigma they indignantly resent. They are resolved, therefore, that this badge of servitude they w|ll no longer carry. NW shbul<f*tneyr 'Mus­ tache comes to us- frojm fch» Greeks his- that are old. The fult WeaM' was recognized in all aees as worthy ripe manhood, although it might be exaggerated un- MTi • * * hung in candles Down to Diogenes' sandals, Soldiers alone claimed mttstaches after fashion made them more dis­ tinguished than chin beards; then.it became improper tor other classes of men to assume the right to beard the upper lip. In England, when the crown regulated all trifles of men's appearance, their wigs, gowns, swords, and salutations, mustaches were pro­ hibited all but soldiers and aliens and the judiciary were required to be clean* shaven altogether. So long did this absurdity linger that as late as 1835, when the mustache had again become popular for most men, it was looked upon in business circles as an im- VLMTRLEITY TS. Kcroacne. Some time ago we published a brief paper in which it was demon­ strated that under favorable circum- pstances the electric light could com­ pete not only with gas but with the kerosene lamp. The statement seemed at first sight an extraordinary end, but a little investigation showed that there were good and sufficient reasons for the observed fact, and this even at American prices for oil. Elsewhere the difference in cost may be> yet more striking, and a fine ex­ ample of a case perhaps exception­ ally favorable to electricity may be found in the city of Madrid. An ar­ ticle in one of the Spanish papers recently contained a long review of the facts with details as to cost. It appears that in the city mentioned the cost of oil is as high as 20 cents per pint, while gas costs about $2.35 per thousand cubic feet. Figuring out the cost in Madrid of an oil lamp of say 10 c. p. burning five hours per day, it appears that the total expense amounts to about- $1.0(5 per month. There are plenty of places both in this country and abroad where the elec­ tric light companies would be glad to furnish even a 16-c. p. light at that rate. Low candle power lamps, how­ ever, are comparatively little used in this country. By turning to the London experience we find that the 10-cp. electric lamp could be fur­ nished at current rates at about 75 eents per month. In the ordinary practical use of kerosene lamps where a number are kept lighted through­ out the evening,as was the case in the paper previously mentioned, the re- result would be even more in faver of electricity, particularly if supplied by meter, for economy can be practised with electric lightning better even than with gas. From this bit of foreign experience it becomes evident enough that there are many localities where the electric light could be in­ troduced and prove a commercial success when compared with oil lamps even on 'the score of economy. At the prices fuling for petro»eum oil and gas in Madrid there can be no question as to the outcome of th comparison.--Electric World. Col. Bob's Advice, i. Everybody knows how busy Col. "Bob" Ingersoll is, but everybody does not know that, no matter how busy he may be, he has always a mo­ ment or so to spare, to give advice to the young. Quite a number of letters come tp him every week, solicit! ng knowledge on almost every subject. Recehtly one of these letters came to him When he was head and heels in work. It began: "Dear Sir: lam broken-hearted--." Col. "Bob" had not time to read more, but he made time to return a prompt reply. He wrote: "MY DJEAB BOY: In a month from now you will feel only half broken", hearted. In six months you won't feel broken-hearted at all and in a year you will probably be engaged to some other girl."--New York Advef- tiser. tatuc i/u U9' liujiu ui through the FrCniph^ has a tory, as most: thihgjf have thai An Iriah t'luh Stary. A verteran sportman, with rod and gun, who resides near Stewartstown, County Tyrone, has had a novel ex­ perience while fishing on 'the Tully- wiggan. He had occasion to cross to the opposite bank over a series of stepping-stones laid in the bed <^f the river. He slipped off a bowlder into the stream. The river was low, but he fell flat into the water and was thoroughly drenched. As the day was bitterly cold he had on an overcoat, and when he scrambled out on the bank he found something flapping about in the inners-breast pocket. A search revealed a three-pound trout. It was the only fish he caught that day. --Perry Journal. Cltjr Brad and Coentry Bred Hnntera. The chances of a boat's upsetting, of a horse's stumbling, of a gun's bursting, of wettings and freezings and snow-slides "and encounters with animals--you must take the risk of them cheerfully. And let me add that I have often heard soldiers, ex­ plorers, and hunters say that to the matter of pluck the city boy and man can oftener be relied upon to show plenty than country folks can. That is difficult to account for, but it has often been said, by men who have tried all sorts of their fellows in emergencies, that there is more will and moral courage in city-bred than in country-bred persons. However, there are occasions when the trials of wild life out of doors demands some things that the country boy possesses more often and in greater degree than most city boys--these are wihd, strength, and hardened flesh and muscles. --St. Nicholas. Cbes HostuiUeiia. Miss Russellinia Waldo--How tired you are! Miss Olivinia Lowell--Yes. Mater and I have been cleaning up our sum­ mer spectacles and getting out our fall ones.--Jewelers' Circular. \ Q UKIUCUS--What have you been dicing -«p in the country? Citicus-- Would B»«n All ftfebt -1 | if Said Diffamitlf. , Many persons have said in mistala precisely the reverse of what was iir thoughts. A workingrnan called on a country clergyman closely related to a ducal house. The appl icant wanted a letter of recommendation to a ne{ghboring nobleman, from whom he hoped to obtain employment. "Why do you not go personally to see •ay Lord?" the friend asked. "Well, you see," was the? nervous answer, "I do not like speaking to Lord X ; he may be proud ;«M1 not care to lis­ ten to the likes of me; it ,would be quite a different tShAag if it were your­ self,. for there's nothing of the gentle­ man 1n you." « Mr:- Bancroft ha» related that dur­ ing a holiday jaunt in Switzerland Sir Faul" Hunter was- lout.. But news llies apace and gather# as it goes. It was soon said that guides were away, up the mountain to t£nd a miss­ ing mant Somebody had seemor heard signals of distress* Lady Hunter, safe in the hotel, began to tremble for her husband. But Ms predica­ ment was not so desperate- after ail. He was discovered and given the necessary help and guidance in his descent. At dusk he re-entered the Alpine hamlet alone;, as ii nothing had happened. Wishing to avoid notice and curious questijowiings he had sent his guides to their own haunts. But as he passed up through a little waiting English crowd, Lady Hunter darted to meet him. "O, Paul," she eried, "I am so> glad to see you back! Where have y©u been? Some silly man has lost himself on one of the mountains, and I feared it might be yoai!" Considerate,, kindly, but not quite--ift*its literal construc­ tion--a compliment. Some comical slips of the itongne are due to doubtful or insufficient in­ formation. There may be lack of im­ portant knowledge about the- person addressed. Victor Hugo once met a garrulous notary who talked with him on literary subjects. The lawyer be­ longed to the provinces, and he asked if his companion had heard anything before he left (Paris about "Hernani," one of Hugo's -Vwn plays. Hugo ad­ mitted that hi^had heard it men­ tioned. "It is a mlseraW stupid piece." "Very likely," said the poet. "The author must be an abomina­ ble person. One of my friends saw him in the street not long ago, and in such a state. The wretched crea­ ture nearly always drunk." The two passed into the same ho­ tel, and what was the consternation of the man of the libelous tongue when Hugo wrote his name in the arrival register beneath his traducer's eye.-- Cassell's Society Journal. r ..V ; * : W.V*# ... Gamblers* Suieldea. J" f could but obtain accurate statistics, we would find that gam­ bling was of all vicious habits, not even excluding hard drinking, the one which most predisposed its vic­ tims to suicide. Yet," continues this writer, "one does not quite see at first why gambling should so greatly predispose to suicide. The gambler prima facie ought to be a man trained by his ill-luck with fortitude." This, of course, is true only if there be nothing in the very conditions of his life secretly disintegrating that forti­ tude. Let us see. It is probable that an intelligent jury will always account for the gambler's suicide by supposing that ere he consummated the awful deed he had come under the resistless control of temorary insanity. Hence we must try to discover those facts in the gambler's inward history which lead to this insanity. I believe they are of two classes, according as we study his experience in the light of , ethical or of psychological and physio­ logical laws. In the region of moral consciousness I do not think we need seek far for the cause of the insanity. The loss of the man's whole posses­ sions by gambling must work upon him likea sudden accident upon a drunken man--it awakens him. And now, as he looks at the result of his career, at the obligations he has ig­ nored, the relatives he has wronged, even the iiches he has lost in pursuit of the gambler's passion, only one word can arise to his mind, and that is "Fool!" As he glances around,the men with whom he has been gam bling look at him in pity aiyi mutter, "poor fellow!" or "poor fool!" The very servants who have watched his ruin call him in their hearts "Poor fool!" I believe that this word of scorn, echoing within or without, filling the atmosphere for that man's ear, ac­ curately describes the shame which he feels. Ashamed, crushed, ru­ ined, despised by the associates who need him no longer, and called to no new and congenial surroundings by any human voice, the wonder is not that so many become insane, but that every mined gambler is not drawn in the hour of his awakening into the terrible vortex of insanity. The man who loses his all in a legit­ imate commercial undertaking retains at least his self-respect, and self-re­ spect is the soul of fortitude--Qoh- temporary Review. Th<m Iearned in ^fi&try ahd kindred scle»c« telte wffhat when we grasp a so to speak l**«?less band, a hand which appears to «rumple up in your ow%a hand with no apparent vitality in it, to beware of fte owner, and that the soft and fl rm to the touch hand is only possessed by* an honest man. TlSey also a$«ert that a ( hick, hard hand is a sure sign of ob­ stinacy and conceit is its owner. They tell you that long-fingered, double-jointed people cannot be sin- , cere- If they try. * Another authority adv^es: 'ybfrj waijft to know what sort of person you are examine your n**se critically in the glass. People of fearless disposi­ tion breathe fully and -freely. Air the fiercer animals have dilated nos­ trils. The drooping nostril shows histrionic talent. If) the nose also • droops ft denotes a tragic power, and if only the nostril, the capacity is marked for the interpretation of comedy. When the nose ss thin at the bridge it shows generosity, while a nose that is thick at the bridge argues acquisitiveness. When it is "tip tilted like the petal! Off a flower** the person is inquisitive. A project­ ing nose argues a disposition to in­ vestigate. It is ahead of the person, as it were, and wants to scent out things.--Boston Commercial. ^ -iM The Aeearaey and , wonder of Prof.. " •v! vr,v, M r • I- 'iiS ;-'v3s : :J. Embarrassing Snstisgs. In the Maldive Isles of the Indian Ocean, should your first visit to the old "Sultan of Twelve Thousand Islands" find him in the middle of a meal (a? it probably will, for he does little else but eat all day long), he will show his appreciation of you, if you are so fortunate as to please him, by squeezing up into a ball a handful Of his boiled rice and thrusting it into your mouth with fingers that look as if they had not been washed for a month, this being the most, flattering form of complimentary welcome which he can give to any guest. An even more embarrassing greet ing was of­ fered to me by a Kalmuck chief with whom I breakfasted on the further side of the Caspian Sea on my way through Central Asia. Having kindly spread a newly flayed sheepskin (raw side uppermost) for me to sit down on, he set before me a mess of broth sug­ gestive of that of the witches ip "Macbeth," and then, pulli his pouch a large wooden spoo ally caked with#irt, he deiij licked it clean and handed " With a hospitable smile! / • * * 1 *, n 4 v.vv v " ,'4 ii, •* 'f *,'"•! v 'V - / V KJ- 'K'-y S&k i>~ *«V , *'>.» mm knowledge was the completeness of it. That is the secret of the power of all great naturalists. They see what es­ capes the observation of others*, and are able to discover the meaning of slight differences that ordinary mea have not noticed at all. * ' A young artist once called upon Audubon, the great student of Mrds, to show him drawings and paimtinga* Aydubon, after examining the work, said: "I like it very much, but it is de­ ficient. You have painted the legs of this bird nicely, except in one re­ spect. The scales are exact in shape and color, but you have not arranged them qorrectly as to number." "I itever thought of that," said the "Quite likely,'? said Audubon. "Now upon this upper ridge of the partridge's leg there are just so many scales. You have too many. Ex­ amine the legs of a thousand par­ tridges, and you will find the scales the same in number." » The lesson shows how Audubon be­ came great--by patient study of small things. 7 r *- Morse Fan. A Mansfield, Ohio, doetdt" owner of a horse which has a fond­ ness for practical jokes. Recently the physician drove out into the country to answer a sick call. Ar­ riving he tied the horse to a post, : near which hung a rope attached to a large bell used as a dinner signal for employes on the place, and went in­ side. Shortly afterward the bell rang violently. The doctor and the man of the house both looked out, but could see nothing except the horse. They had hardly turned away, however, before the bell rang again, and again they looked, but could see nothing. This was repeat; ed, and the doctor determined to solve the mystery, so at the third ring, instead of going into the house, he stepped out and hid in the yard. He kept his eye on the bell rope, and in about a minute was surprised to see his horse lift up his head, smile slyly and give the rope a good, hard tugi When the physician sprang out and confronted the horse, the animal in­ stantly tried to put on a look of inpo- cetice, but was unsuccessful^ * The New Silver Co In* New halves and quarters will soon be ready for circulation. In the com­ petition by artists about a year ago between 200 and 300 designs were submitted, but not one was available. The designs that have been submitted to Secretary Foster were suggested mainly by' Director Leech, and the drawings are by Charles E. Barber, the designer in the mint at Phila­ delphia. The character of the devices is limited by law to this: On one side shall be an impression emblematic of liberty, with the inscription, "Liberty," and the year of the coin­ age, and on the reverse side shall be the figure or • representation of an eagle, with the inscriptions, "United States of America" and "E Plurlbus Unum," and a designation of the value of the coin. Most of the de­ signs were on scales too minute for use, and a classic head will make the neW coins artistic. The design is to be the same for the two coins, except the words designating the value.-- New York Sun. "• • -• • " Chess. * * The origift of chess is rfurouded in mystery. There is but'little doubt, however, that its birthplace was in India, and that it is an offspring of a game called caturanga, which is men­ tioned in the Oriental literature as in use fully 200 years before the Christian era. From India chess spread into Persia, and thence into Arabia, and ultimately the Arabs took it into Spain and the rest of Western Europe. The game was in all probability invented for the pur­ pose of illustrating the art of war. The Arab legend upon this point is that it was devised" for the instruc­ tion of a young despot by his father, a learned Brahmin, to teach him that a king, notwithstanding his poM&er, was dependent for his safety upon his" subjects. The Greek historians credit the invention of the game to Pala- medes, who, they claim, devised it to beguile the tedium of the siege of Troy during the Trojan war.--Detroit Free Press. # Beautv in Women. Beauty in women is often the mobile, expressionless type, which very few care to love, even if they do admire. It lacks expression and firmness, and this is due to the frivolous, idle, wasteful society life which they lead. If they had a purpose in life, culti­ vated a knowledge of polite literature, . earnestly studied the arts and sciences, ^ their faces would take a very different * v' appearance. It would possess that ^ indefinable grace and attraction which Spk counts for more than all the simple ^rs gi|ts of nature.--Yankee Blade. ^ ^ f prii M AUD--Is it true that you are IO love with Mr. Bullion? Clara--Mercy, I'ia #aiy engaged to him. •'*, " «. •'•i • . - ,* . * . »vv* IS N'i j " >1 >i Mi.-. tm*at?