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To Build a Four-Day Ship. WHAT IKPROVEHBKT WILL FOLLOW TWIN SCREWS 7 The Present ledels Are all light, And it is a Question «More Power. The anl:o.loc.ment that two new heels for ships to be. v: the record between Sandy Hook and Queenstown Were to be laid down in the Clyde next season ha- rat the nautical sharps atspsculating on what points In the construction of the ships efiorts for improve- ment will be made by the designers. A casual look at a modern ship and a consid- eration of the speed obtained by the queen of them all will make most people believs that the new twin screw ships are about as near perfection as possible now, and yet no one really supposes that the limit has been reached. The question people are aski) g is what will be done next to improve the ships ? Itis just about ten years since the Alaska came cleaving through the water at a rate that lowered the rate for Sandy Hook can ages from above to below seven days. Dar log the time that has passed since she earned a grand reputation eight new Liverpool liners have been built and put in commission to break the record, and all but one, the Aurania, proved wonderful ships. Of the rest, the Oregon, the America, the Umbria, and the Esruria were built without any radical departure from the type of which the Alaska had been the queen in her day . They were BIG , SHARP SHIPS, with bigger and stouter boilers and bigger and more powsrful engines than the Alaska bad. They all had a single propeller at the sternto drive them. They were all good six-day boats. They were all elegantly furnished, and as each one came out and made a swift passage, the smiling agent charged and easily obtained $500 for a trip in the choicest of the state rooms. In the Etruria, with a record that lacked less than two hours of the five~day limit, it became apparent that the utmost speed attainable from a single screw had been reached. No practical packet ship could do better with one screw, lxcsuse it would not be possible to load a single screw with enough more power to increase her speed. In the City of New York a radical departure was made by using twin screws. The City of New York has not yet beat the Etruria, but her sister ship, the City of Paris, has done so beyond the possibility of cavll. She has crossed the Atlantic at twenty knots an hour from port to port. It has taken ten years of labor in designing ships to lower the record for 2, 800 knots by twenty- six hours. It was not wholly due to twin screws that the record was brought below six days. There have been improvements in engines as well. These improvements consist in triple expansion, instead of double, in the (spand- ing of the steam twice instead of once. ENGINES 0i“ VASTLY GREATER I’OlV'ER without the enormous increase in size, which greater power on the old plan would have demanded, were obtained. The boiler in the fire rooms were increased in siza and thickness of shell to increase the production of steam and withstand an-increased pres- sure. Engiuoors of middle age remember when the steam pressure in marine boilers ran from ten to fifteen pounds to the square inch. Now the pressure may be set down at 160 pounds. The force exerted on the propellers has run up from 6000-hcrte power to over 20,000. The ships have in- creased somewhat in size, and have been somewhat improved in model, but the increase in speed has come from such an adaptation of boilers, engines, and screw propellers as will enable the new ship to kick away the water about four times as faces beuaya so akeon observer that we hard as the old one did. But, as has happened once before in the history of the Liverpool trade, the ships have reached the limit of size, and they are once more chock full of machinery. It happened so when side wheels were used instead of screws, and when sin is instead of com pmnd engines were use . It is not possible to put more boilers or more engines into a ship like the City of Paris than she now has. No more coal bunkers can be got into her, nor can more propellers be added asters. The PROBLEM OF usrrra‘c MORE serum is a diflicult one. It amounts to one of get- tin more power without ccnsumln more coali or putting in more boilers. s is a question of economy. More power will whirl- tne screws faster and so drivs the ship faster. The screws on the City oi Paris turn over about sigh? times a minute ; those on some torpedo vs 200 or 300 times. if a ship of the sins of the City of Paris could turn her screws 900 times a minute, she would show an increased speed over the present queen by a wonderful difference. Of the naval architects whom a reporter consulted, Mr. William Coqu expressed the sentiment of all most concisely when he I ll : "The out radical step in improving the speed of the transatlantic steamers will be taken in the boiler room. We have been working all around the boiler room. Oar engines are twenty five years ahead of our boilers. We must get more power. We cannot improve the models. ’ It is the opinion of Mr. Cowlos that to get any further increase of power in the Liver pool packets the water-tube boiler will have to take the place of the present style. The noilers of the present ships send their hot products of combustion from the furnace through tubes that are surrounded by water. In the water-tube boiler the water is can tained inside of the tubes and the hot gases around them. The idea is as old as that of twin screws. But it has never been adopt- ed, psrtly because engineerawereocnservatite anr‘partlybtcause tbrrewereseriousdefects in the water tube-boilers rl'fered by engineers who were no: conservative. For instance, there was the difficult) of cleaning out the water tubes in case they got scaled up, and the difficulty of taking out defective tubes when defects were developed The value of the system has been ap treat for years, but while some of these boi on would MARX STEA)! b‘l' BIOUSLY o for a while, they were not durable. But within a year or so it has become poosible so get water'tubo boilers that were durable and easil accessible for to The tubes can removed separately for repairs, and there is no longer any danger from sedl. meat or scale. This sort of boilers has been adopted in harbor craft with access. The l adoption in Liverpod packets is likely to be the next step. The reason for this is that the water tube system, properly designed, furnishes a boil~ c r, capacity for capes ty, of about one fourth the weight of the or boiler. Thus the marine boiler weighs about seven- ty pounds per square foot of heating surface. 'I be water tube boiler may be made at from i. urteen to seventeen pounds. The economy I!) weight will leave the ship drawing less water. A further economy is in the fact that the metal in the heating surface in the water tube boiler is from one half to one- fiirh of thickness of the heating surface of the ordinary boiler. Then, although the metal is thinner, the pressure of the steam may be higher because the tubes are small, in diameter, and a very much larger heating surface is obtained for each square foot of rate surface. in short, to avoid technicalities, it is asserted that a ship could be designed on the lines of the City of Paris which would develop one-third more power. One-third more power would not make her a four-dsv ship, but it would increase her speed pr rhaps two knots an hour. It would bring the record well below five days and a half at least, and at the same time decrease the consumption of coal. There is always the possibility of some. thing new coming up, or at least the new development of some old principle in steam- ship transportation; but nothing radically new, like the placing of screw propellers in the bow, as wall as the stern, will be adopt. ed for the Atlantic packets until such new system has been well tried elsewhere. A Liverpool liner costs a million or more, and no such sum as that will be invested in an experiment. Propellers in the- bows are working with great economy in a few short distance ferries, but it will be a long time before there will be an Atlantic ferry boat with a propeller so located. That the bow propeller will come twenty five years from now, however, is believed by many engin- eers, because the wheel so located is un- questionably much more tflicicnt than to the stern. 0f the possibility of propelling a ship by some other method than the screw nothing need be said, because, while a good many inventors are at work on the problem, they are accomplishing not-hing. Rev ealed. A detect’ve, who had been very successful in discovering and arresting criminals under every disguise. said, lately, "I have but one rule to guide me. [obtain a picture of the man and examine his eye. Then I search for that eye. Every other feature of his face, together with his height, his size, his dress, he can alter. . But his eye he cannot change. That tells the story.” A gentleman who has long mule a study of amateur photography asset - - aat its chief interest to him lies in the uni v-ncious revel. atiou of character in a photographed face. “ If a man have any noble or mean trait latent in his nature, unknown to the world. it comes out in his photograph." hawthorne declared that dominant fatnin traits and likenesses were always revealed in these sun drawn pictures, even though they might not be visible on the real faces of the sitters. These assertions, if correct, only illustrate a truth which is as old ‘as mankind : that, as years go by, the character of a man writes itself indelibly upon his face. N at only the action, whether mean or noble, but the scores thoughts which are never put into deeds,â€"the sensual imagin- ation, the cruel purpose, the lsfiy hope, the kind feeling, all these record themselves upon the features, or at some unex acted moment poop out at the world from bind the eye. The sin which we welcomed as a pleasant guest In youth may he hateful to us in middle age, but we can never ago 5:: make it a stranger to us. Some look or stark in our were once familiar with it. Among the z upcrstitious legends of the Scotch there are many stories of an unclean, wicked little fairy, who obtains entrance to a house. and lives thereafter in the cellars and coal-bins, taking a mischievous part in the family life. His persecutions became so intolerable to one household, we are told, that they hired a new dwelling. and at great loss “flittcd” from their old house, gclcg secretly by night, to escape their tormentor. But w on the cart with their movable: entered the gate of the new home the shrill, hateful voice of the wicked fairy was heard from among them, crying, “ Here we are l" The legend hints at a terrible truth. How many men havo rushed from one occupation to another, from home to home, from coun- try to country, to escape somo vice or habit which had grown loathsome to them 1 Alas, they could not travel away from themselves. God's grace, it- is true, can banish the evil spirit from the heart, but the mark of its footprint remains upon the threshold while life lasts. It is in youth that we must shut the door if we would keep that inner cham- ber undsfilsd. _.__.__..â€"_â€"-â€" It Unbit and Div. A little girl, after being out for some time trying to cnsnare the little fishes, in u. nsighbouring stream, wicha crooked pin and a thread-line, came running into the house, out of breath with excitement, and exclaimed: “ Oh, mother, I. got it 1" “ Got what. my child 3" " “’hy. got the fish." ” Butl do not see any fish.” " Why, moth- cr.” answa‘rod the little angler, her voice suddenly changin to mournfulnoss, “ Igct it, but it unbit an div 1" A Proof of Meanness “ Thompson. you're a very mean morn.” “ Thankyou, Dclliver. How so 1'” “I asked you to lend me an umbrella during the rain yesterday.” “ I remember. ' “fin-J you said, your umbrella was used up." “Well 2" “1‘0- 1 day I saw you with or. 2!: “at umbrella." “What of in!’ “You said it was used up." “ So it is. I all" ya use it on Don't sup- pose l’d use it as ..n, do you! ’ He Had Iiever Bet-n to a Church Pair. “ Have you ever heard this ad 0, “ Fair exchange is no robbery 2" asked E lick of De Glotl. ss Yet" “Well, it's of no account whatever, is it " “I always thought it: was pretty good.” "Ah, my boy, you never attended a “lover or the loves?" So an attorney in Dah- { rep church fair, where they exchange a two or three inch cotton tidy that no body wants, for fity cents. - THI‘ ORINOOK MIRACLE. llarchIous Tales of. the Effects of the Spice-laden Wind from the Pacific. . A! 3001‘ u 7'“ get into the Dakotas and the Canadian Territories, you hear of “ the chincoks.” From due, as you go westward, the stories grow bigger. The chinook is a warm wind which comes from the Pacific, crosses the Cascade and the Rocky Mountain ranges, and makes its genial influenccs is]: as far as the eastern border of the Dakotas. The farmer 0:1 the prairies does not know whence the chincok comecb or whither it goeth, but he does know that it is a blessed reality. When the mercury is away down in the drinks below zaro, so near the bulb that there is danger of its going out of sight, the eyes of the people of the four new States turn hopefully to the west. By and by there appears just above the western horizon a gray cloud, like floating mist, no larger than a man’s hand perhaps. That is the sure forerunner of the chinook. The cold may be intense ; water courses may be frozen to the bottom ; cattle may be perishing from hun- ger ; the ground may be covered many inches deep With their; existence may seem a burden to all things animate. Then the cloud appears. Twelve hours later what a transformation ! There is the breath of spring in the air. The snow is going ed. The cattle are browsing on the bunch grass. The coulees are full of running water. Doors are ajar. windows are open, and everybody is out in the open air. The chl- ncok has wrought the miracle. I When you stir the Dakotan or Manitoban about the blizzards he admits that they are severe. but as an ofl‘set he glorifies the chinook. In Montana the big stockmau still holds to the theory that he can carry his herds through the winter without feeding if only the chir ocks are frequent- enough. But in Washington, on the big prairies between the Cascades ard the Rockies, the most mar- vellous tales of all are ’told.‘ ' ' Telling of what he had known the chinook to accomplish, Mr. Cosgrove, an American gentleman, said : _‘ ’ "I have seen eight feet of snowâ€"that is, eight feet ml asurcd as it fell from time to timeâ€"go off the ground here in twelve hours. That was the hardest winter I have known in Washington. Usually the chi nooks are to frequent that the snow has no opportunity to accumulate. But that winter it lay nineteen days Vbe‘ore melting. The farmers had not prepare- for it, and cattle had a hard time getting through. There was an interesting exhibition of the instinct of the poor brutes. At the very first sign of the chinook the old cows, which had been about to drop with hunger, could be seen staggering toward the tops of the hills. They seemed to know that there the snow would melt fastest and the grass ho uncovrr- cd soonest. In eastern Washington you can see teams working in the fields every month in the Winter. We have days which are cold and when the ground freezes to some depth, but one day’s chincokfng will take all the frost out of the ground. You may not believe, but I have seen six inches of frost go out of the ground in one hour. That is a pretty big story to tell farmers back in the Missimippi valley, but it is true.” Ex Gov. Sample, who is the authority on all such subjects, says the chincok is a balmy wind that comes from tho Karo Siroo, the great J spanesc current of the Pacific. The chinook is a cool wind in summer and a warm wind in winter. To it is due the absence of extremes in temperatures.‘ People in Washington do not freeze to death in winter, nor are they ever sunstruck in summer. Long years of close observation have taught the ex~Governor many interest- ing thl u about this curious wind. One of these th gs is that at times the chinook is odorlfercus as if spice-laden from the tropics. “The ohinook," said the err-Governor, “is so gentle upon ordinary occasions that its presence can not be noted by its motion. and yet it is almost miraculous in its effects. Show and ion disappear before it with great rapidity. It seems to be able to blow 9. ion distance between walls of colder air without parting with its heat. Sometimes it con- sitntes an upper current, in which case the remarkable spectacle is witnessed of snow melting on the mountain tops while ther- mometers in the valleys register below the freezing point. At other times it is the surface current, and follows the gorges and valleys as a flood might follow them. It seems to bear healing upon its wings, like Sandolp‘uon. the Angel of Prayer. This wind sometimes penetrates as fir as the upper stretches of the Missouri, and oven tempers the air on the plains of the Dakotas. Wherever it goes the chains of winter are unloosed and the ice bound rivers are set free. "The chinook is the enemy of the odious east wind, and, while ordinarily it yields its influence as gently on the zephyra that wait the thistle downs in autumn, still there are times when the winds engage in giant conflicts and fight for supremacy, now in the upper, then in the lower strata, on the mountains and in the valleys, alternately driving tech other luck and forth, swaying the trees, tossing the leaves, and swirling the rain drops or the crystals of. snow. But the combat is never long. and the victory is always with the chinook. The inhabitants east of the Cascade Mountains, when win- tcr has seiznl them and the east wind dashes snow in their faces, pray for the Chinook to come. They look by day for its moist front, and listen by night for the noise of its, com- bs: with the east; wind. And when it resch- su them they rejoice. Such is the cbiuuck, the blessed wind of the far Northwes' ” v. A Sheet-Gar Conversation. Daughterâ€" Don't speak to me of Mr. Smith, mother; I never could love such a man. Tnc husband th at I desire is one who is above the sordid love of gainâ€"one who ever dwells in the atmosphere of moral (x- altation. Motherâ€"Nonsense, Ellen ; you are pursu- ing a will c’ the wispâ€"an ignorant factitious- uses, you know. Critical Lawyers- Lawyers are very critical. Once a youv g lawyer, upon being told of an attachmens bstWeena young lady and gentleman, in- quiredwhcthertheycuog gentleman was the lfn wrote a challenge to a entleman to meet him “in the Four Acres, the some more or less." ' , . MIXED WIP. “ What did you mean, sir, by swearing before my wife! You must apologise l" “ Pardon, Mosieur l Pardon l I do make no apology. I did not know 23 lady wished to swear s: first.” " What's your name, sis 2" asked Chcl ley of the pretty waiter girl. “ Pearl, sir." “ Ab, you‘re the pearl of great price, no doubt 2“ " No, sir, I’m the pearl before swine.” Lady of the House (to tramp)-â€"Ycu on: as if you had nevar seen a meal l-I victuali before ‘! Trampâ€"Madam, you must excuse: me. I s’pcse I do eat aivk ward. but the fact 3 1 hain't had much practice lately. Young Hal (visiting a neighbor) â€"-\\'hy. M's. Hammer, you are quite big. Mrs. Hammerâ€"«Yes, my dear ; aid you have any idea that I wasn't? Young Halâ€"Yes, um, cause ma said you were so mighty small that no one could get along with you.â€" J chnuy’s Uncleâ€"Now, J obnny, you know cannibals are people who live off each other. Johnnyâ€"You're a cannibal, ain’t you, Uncle? Johnny's Uncleâ€"thy, no, Johnny ; why do you ask 2 Johnnyâ€"Well, pa said to ma last night that you had been living off your relations for years. W Beautiful Objects in Malachite. I robably the richest and most, beautiful oxoibits from any foreign country, at the Paris Exhibition, are from Russia. The display of furs, bronzas, precious stones and j;walry is indeed remarkable. Particularly noteworthy are the objscts in Siberian lapis l. zuli, malachite, rhodcnite and jade. Tables, mantsls, vases, clocks and. other articles are made from these valuable stones. The lapis lazuli is the most costly, but its dull blue is less beautiful than the malachite, with Its brilliant greens, shad- ing from almost black through vivid grass green tonearly white. With theseiiutsnature has wrought a pattern in graceful whorls and scrolls, suggesting the ripples on a pool when a pebble is dropped into it. The polish taken by the stone is exquisite. One malachite vase in this collection is valued at fifty-two hundred francs. The tables and stands rings in price from etc ht hundred to five thousand francs. The tops of the tables are of malachite, each being apparently a. single slab ; but a closer in speclion reveals that th‘eya‘rc of numerous small pieces very nicely juiced together. maintaining the beauty of a very intricale natural pattern. . . , A fireplace and mantel, male of various Siberian stones in combination, is an especial ly notable feature of the display. The rich tints of the stone are brought out in strong relief, and the work svinccs great skill and taste on the part of. the artisans. ~ The man- tel is malachite, while across the front and s dos are designs in differently colored, highly polishod jasper. Bunches of fruit, done in stone, stand out from the jasper bash ; raspberries in :holon- its ; cherries in crooldolite : c‘usters If purple grapes in amethyst,iaud green grapes in jade,‘all so true to life, that one‘s mouth almost waters at the sight of these tiiigies of ripe juiciness. The price of this fireplace is ten thousand francs. * ' An entire “ salon," done in malachite, must indeed be a resplendent apartment. Smh a room the gentleman in charge of the exhibit described to us in terms of much in husium. It is in the palace of a Russian nobleman, Count Von Dcrvis, at St. Peter:- burg. The dimensions are twenty~fivc feet in length, the same in breadth, and thirteen foot in height. The furniture of the room is made of the same reeu stone ; and the entire cost is quote at sixty thousand roubles. The Hardy English- I asked a shopkeeper in Oxford how he could so qrickly tell an American. “Ba- cause,”he answered. “The Britishcr hasa ’artier lock. ’ And in truth the “Britisher” has generallya hearty loch. He seems to be a good animal, which Herbert Spencer truly says is the first requisite of success in life. He lives more in the open air than we do, has a more bracing climate, cooler in summer asd warmer in Winter, and in diet and business habits, doubtless, con- forms more nearly to the laws of health. The most markcdcnd pleasunt manifestation of this is seen in the women, whose rosy cheeks and youthful looks go with them much farther in life than in other lands There will be no decline in the physical vigor of the people as long as the mothers are healthy as appearanczs imply. Of the often noted were of walking of the ladies I had 8. str ing and pleasant cx perience in the case of my hostess, the mother of five children, a daughter of lhn bishop of Exetcr, well known in religious circles in the United States by his posts, "Yesterday, To-day and Forever.” Osca- sionaily she accompanied me in sight seeing. and although I am. I believe, an unusually good walker, i found 1. yard" more than once seeking rest, whil: are, um out any app..r- cut sense of fatigue, «acid " fflmmedlotc- ly on some errand of mercy or work of charity in her husband's pariah. .___.___._..â€"..._ The Dead Church- Wild, wild wind, wilt than never cease thy sighing? Dark, dark night, wilt thou never wear away 2 ' Cold. cold church, in thy death sleep lying, The Lent is past, thy Passion hero, but no: thine Easterday. faint heart, though the night be dark and sighiug ; ‘ Rest, fair corpse, where thy Lord himself bath lain. ~ Weep,idtar Lord, above thy bride lozv n v ; Thy tearg’ shall wake her frozen limbs t;- life and health again. Cristian. Kxxcsur. ‘ Peace, Geese Swallowed by Snakes- A farmer on Bullikin Prairie, Ind., b..d a drove of twalve half grown geese killed and sWsllowed by rattle-snakes c:s: of this (fly a few days ago. The geese were ch;cr‘.'-.>d early lathe day by a gang of telo hon-u men at work on the Salamonie line, on their strange actions were commented on,but the Cause was not discovered until toward evening, when the one remaining goose was rescued from a circle of rattle-snakes and several of the tiles were killed, their bsilies distended with the goose they had swallowed. One of i , five feet in length. , , Tie Throstle. "Summer is coming, Summer ifccm‘a ~. 4" I know it, I know it, I know it. ‘ Light again, leaf again, life again, love again, Yes, my wild little poet. Slug the New Year in under the bite, Last year you sang it as gladly. ' Nuw, new, new, new l’ Is it then so new That you should carol so madly? “L'.ve again, song again, nest again, young again l" Never a prophet so or. z; ; And hardly a daisy as yet, little friend, See, there is hardly a noisy. ‘*Here again, here, here, here, happy year," U warble, unbidden, nubi'idcn. Summer is coming, is coming, my dear, And all the Winters are hidden. Loan Tsxxrscx. 'Ihose Wrinkled Bands. Those wrinkled hands that o’er a woman’s breast Now folded lie in death's last solemn sleep, Alas lfizcw cold and still ; but God knows est ; His time will choose ; while we in silence wasp, Who had by those dear hands been often blast, But now shall miss the love that fliwed so deep. No more shall we enjoy the.r soft caress,- Nor fcel again is air clinging tenderness. In those lines where the plough of Time has run And hcrfped with furrows deep the trace of years, The marks of toll, the change of shade and sun, The record of a lergthenrd life appears; Many a tale they tell of joys begun, ' And hopes soon ended in a dash of tears. Those veins of blue her sunny skins uuroll, That skin so fair the whiteness of her soul. But in ! as we read on, what sight iathisf A cherub form with dimplcd ban is and small, Brightkgclden locks, and lips that tempt a me, Like paintings seen on old cathedral wall ; Some angel Brill: from distant worlds of bliss, Phat-b sunbeams bring to this dim earthly all. Again We look, a laughing girl is soonâ€" To school she skips or rornps in orchards green. In these oddly fashioned lines next we trace The vision of a maiden sweet and fair ; By garden gate :he waits ; upon her face Rests light's rosy rings, as if gathcrcd there Tue crimson blush of thousand mornings’ grace; Or is it that glow of bliss beyond com- pare, Aug/ht else than lovc’s warm thrill, as there ' she stands, ' " Holding in her own another’s tender bands ? Life‘s busy noon unfolds ; and what hefeil In sober ago ; how hands now pale and cold Wore moved to kindly acts, oft strove to quell A neighbor’s grief, and wipe the gather- ing mold Of deathnfrom aching brows. Sickoods can to ; And pgor their saintly deeds confess with 0 . ‘ Then rest, swcct hands, with scars of battle won, Like folded banners when the day is done. Vanuatu LINCOLN. Preferences and Treasures. I’d rather drink cold water from the brook Than quzifi‘ excitement from a golden chalice ; I’d ratgcr sleep on straw in the shepherd’s ut Than lie awake and restless in a pals-c3. I’d rather earn dry bread in lusty health, And eat it with a sense of wholesome pleasure. Than feed without the ztst of appetite Off gorgeous plate mid unavailing trea- sure. I’d rather have one true, unfailing friend, Tnau fifty parasites to crave my bcuutv ; And one poor lass who loved mo for myself, Than one withouta heart who owned a county. Natnra is kind if our desires are pure, And strcws rich blessings everywhere around us ; While Fortune, if we pant in her pursuit, Too often grants her favors to confound us. Fresh air and sunshine, flowers and health and lovo, These are eudowmest. if we learn to prize them : The wisclrpan's treasures, better worth than 80 ' 9 And none but fools and wicked men do- spise them. A Choice Bit of Worldly Wisdom. . A countryman on a Staten Island ferry- DOJS was talking with a somewhat wizencd ‘ up old lady who was evidently his mother, and the latter was heard to so to him: i “ Wall, new, Sam, I don 8 think you i treated Lucind just right in the matter. She fol; awful ad about it." i “ Wall," the son responded meditativer and with an amount of worldly wisdom for which one was not at all prepared from I such a source, “ I’m kind 0' sorry, but then i gals will aloud a eight more from fellcrs than fellers will from gals." And the wrinkled old woman of bed and I was silent, as if she felt the impass hility of ‘ cont-reverting so obvious a proposition, and remembered her own youth and the things that h'.d happened to her then. A Practical Test. Little Willie (to his sister's basalâ€"You can’t guess what I've or in m cket Mr. Blinker. g y m ’ . Mr. Blinker-No, I cannot guess. What is it, Willis? Willisâ€"It’s beans. Mamma said you the rattlers was an enormous fellow .inut did't know beans, but I thought I’d try you. ,n