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‘ To keep us goingâ€"and so. goododayl ' Of each day's growingâ€"and so, ’ inane; MM-d LIFE. A little work. a. little play. A little warmth. a little light. Of love bestowingâ€"and so. good-night! A little fun to match the sorrmv good- morrow l A little trust that when we die _We reap our -,sow1ngl And so. good- by. â€"Du Maurier. â€"â€"â€"_ FLO\VERS FOR THE WINDOW. The room in which Isam writing'has a large bow window, facing south, in which are over 90‘ plants; it is the mid- dle of February and I have nearly 30 buds and blossoms, writes Frances Harris. This does not include stone- crop, creeping Charley and a. quantity of sweet alyssum and mignonette which has just come up. I give about 15 min- utes a day‘to my plants, and an hour extra once or twice a week. Each year I learn how to care for them more easily, so that I spend no more time now than I did three years ago, with half the number of plants, and have far better success. Plants are like children. you must give them their fair share of your heart and your home. A mother does not only give the baby cradle room, or even a nursery; the baby has its rights and privileges in every room. In a way. though in a less degree, this must be true of your plants. It will not do to stick a» pot here and there because they fit the sur- roundings, without regard to sun or water. ' Begin with three or four plants, and do not take any printed words as gos- pel truth about your petsâ€"try for yourself. For instance; I had a beauti- ful nasturtium, about eight feet high, one summer, in full bloom in Septem- ber. The floral authorities said it was no use to take up such a plant; sow fresh seed. I thought I’d try an ex- periment, and lifted it very carefully and put it in my bow: window. After the first week I picked from 20 to 30 blooms from that vine every week till the inert May] Again. we are told it is no use wintering old geraniums, as they must rest. This year I was not able to raise slips, and in'October I pull- ed up a couple of dozen large geraniums from a neighbor's border, cut them down almost to the roots. and I catch sight of a dozen buds by just glancing at the window! One writer says car- nations need sun, another advises plenty of moisture, but not much sun; try both ways. But to return to our' first; plants. Give a few moments every morning and evening to them. Never let a leaf or bloom die on the plant; if it begins to turn, out it off and wash the rest of the leaves towards nightfall. No matter if some old lady who has won- derful success with flowers does say she has no holes in her boxes, nor any drainage, be sure you have an inch or so of broken crockery and charcoal in the pot or box, with holes to let the sur- plus water run off. You may take it as a rule that soft-stemmed plants need more water than woody stemmed ones, and almost all enjoy being set in a pan of water once in a while, to drink till the water has moistened the top earth. if your plants are kept healthy. in- sects will not attack them in such num- bers that you cannot pick them off. If a plant is infested with green aphides, isolate it, and shower the leaves fre- quently. If you possibly can, have oil- Cloth under your boxes. so that you can use a watering can frequently. Dusty plants are like dirty childrenâ€" utiractive only to the owner. I have found 1 have the most blooms by pot- ting iuy plants and then sinking them in boxes. Not only do many refuse to bloom till root-bound. but I can change them as they seem to need it. A scar- let and pink geranium have bloomed Silil‘ by side. f.iirly "swearing at" each other, as the French say, but as they are in pots, the pink one changes places While a white. carnation. and harmony is restored. Do not think it is too late to start a few plants. A Bermuda or Easter lily can be planted, set in the collar for three weeks and then brought to the light ; iliough it will not bloom in time for Easter, you will enjoy it in May. Nusiuriiums will bloom in eight or ten Weeks. and there is no prettier window vine than the tall variety. Sweet aly_s- sum and mignonette will flower in six or eight weeks. while you can buy a Chinese primrose for a quarter, that will bloom till next summer and be a daily joy and interest. If someone who is clianCes to read these lines. someone who feels as if life could never have any interest for her. let me beg you to try the care of a few plants; they re- mind us of Him who made them and us; we learn to trust Him by studying them. My roses would shed their leaws and look wretched; 1 put them down cellar for six weeks, then brought them up. cut them back, and the? are now among my most promising p ants. May not God have seen the need of the cellar treatment in our livesâ€"of ruth- less pruning! Yet he sure at just the right moment we shall be placed in the sunshine; if not here. then before his own face. and we shall blossom at last. all the better for the hard, dark daysl sad and lonely rises son nuances. Syrup from Orange I’eel.â€"Peel ‘l'our Sweet oranges. being careful not to get any of the white skin in. put the yel- low 1 in three pints of cold wail-r. add if a pound of loaf sugar. _and cook together into a syrup. This is him for flavorin . Orange Marina odeâ€"Take two dozen l I I y l i Seville or hitter oranges and weigh them, cut this skin and,le it off in Quartermwt in a cheese cloth bag and cook in water nearly two hours. until you can pierce easily with a straw. then cut in thin pieces about an inch long ', cut the oranges into halves and scrape out the pul and the juice. throwmg away the pi h. Take asmany pounds _of so ar as you have oranges. p_ut it.mto t e water you cooked the rinds in. and bell ten minutes. skim and add the rinds and pulp, cook half an hour, then dip in tumb ers and set away to cool before sealing. Orange Filling for Cakeâ€"Put half a pint of milk in a double boiler, moist- en _two tablespoons of cornstarch with a little cold milk. add it to the scalded milk, stir constantly until smooth and thick. beat the yolks of two eg 3 with fountablespoons of sugar. unti light. add-it to the cornstarch, take from the fire, and when cool add the grated yelâ€" low rind of one orange and two tableâ€" spoons of oran e juice, flavor with vanilla if you c oose. Orange Icingâ€"For the top of one good‘Sized cake use half a pound of con- fectioner's XXX sugar and one s n- ful bailing water. grated rind 0 one orange' put sugar in (about a bowl), add the orange peel. and stir until the sugar is yellow; add the spoon of boil- mg water, and slowly add enough orange juice to moisten the sugar so it Will spread easily. ~ FACTS IN FEW \VORDS. The city of London puts upon‘the mar- ket in one year over $10,000,000 worth of umbrellas alone. Edison prophesies that in ten years horseless carriages, will be the rule, and horse-propelled vehicles the exception. . One of the large paper-box factories in New Haven. Conn., recently received an order for 85,000,000 cigarette boxes. Two.young women have been appoint- ed'gardeners at Kew Gardens, London, on the condition that they wear trous- ers when at work. ‘ Johanna, the chimpanzee in Central Park, New York, is very fond of liquors of any kind. Port wine or whisky are. however, said to be her favorite. There is a shellfish in the Mediterran- ean which produces a. good quality of Silk. Fabrics have been manufactured from it, but only as curiOSities. In N'orwa and Sweden, before any couple can e legally married, certifi- cates must be produced showing that both bride 'and bridegroom have been vaccinated. A flock of 2,300 sheep at Churchill, New, were stampeded one day recent~ ly, and in some way two columns of the frightened-animals came together and. 360 sheep were smothered, their podties being piled up to a height of six ee . 5 Columbia, Ky., has a practically un- educated Baptist preacher who can re- cite every chapter in the Bible. It is said that one can call for any chapter, and this preacher will recite it in its. entirety with the greatest ease. The importation into the United States of, plants from China and Japan is for- bidden on account of the prevalence of! cholera. in the Asiatic countries. Noth- ing holds the germs of disease so well asdthe soil in which the plants are ship- pe . .Maine’s labor commissioner has been gathering statistics on the cost of liv- ing in that state. He figures that the average daily cost of liVing is 21 cents a day for each individual in the average family. The cost of living to single men. boarding, is 46 cents. These figâ€" ures cover rent, food, fuel and light. , Some idea of the immense number of rabbits in Australia may be gathered from the fact that-a man in the north- ern territory recently came acrOSS a “mob” of them about four miles wide, and as close as they could run together. Some parts of the country are so honey- combed with burrows that it is hardly safe to ride or drive. ’ By a vote of 31 to 11 the Iowa sen-I ate passed a bill making it a. crime to manufacture or keep for sale cigarettesl in the State of Iowa. It is known as] the Phelps bill, and will pass the house by a big majority. It makes it; unlaw- ful to handle cigarettes in any manner. They cannot be given away. The pen- alty ‘is a fine or imprisonment, or both. By chance it has been discovered that even the most delicate tracery of petals of flowers can be reproduced in metal. During the trial of a new fuse the other day, a small leaf fell between a dynamite cartridge and an iron block on which the cartridge was fired. As; a result a perfect imprint of. the leaf' was left on the iron. I A watchdéig and a big red fox played tag in a barnyard at \Vhiting's Bill, Me., on a recent Sunday for over an hour, and apparently in the friendliest: spirit. The owner of the dog and his family watched the strange frolic from a window of the house. and forebore to interfere from curiosity to see the incident through. After playing with the dog for more than an hour the fox trotted back into the nearby woodsl from whence it came. QUININE IN \VAR. An invention. that of medical tabloids, introduced in African work by H. M. Stanley, enabled the British expedition to Ashantec to accomplish its work with slight loss of lifé, thereby affordâ€" ing a striking contrast to the French expedition to Madagascar. The French officcm resisted the efforts of the med- ical staff to provide proper accommoda- tion,for the sick, and they lost nearly 5,000 men from disease. At last accounts the English had not lost fifty men. A London correspondent says it was known from the first that the Ashan- tcc expedition was a doctor's war. and .far more care was bestowedon the med- icine chest. than on the ammunition wagon. lCV‘cnls proved that. quinine tabloids were far more useful than ball cartridges.‘ A CORDIAL INVITATION. - How are you keeping Lent this year, Miss Caustiquel‘ By staying at) home and entertaining disagreeable people. Come often. 11‘ seamâ€"rams. What is a goodv‘way to attract atten- tlon‘l One of the best ways I know is to leavmthe front door of a. street car open on a chilly day. incommensuml Ship‘s cnsw SLAUGHTEBED' AND sues BY CANNIBALS. The Inhabitants of the New Rein-ids Is-‘ land Will Even Eat Members of Their Tribe~hlghtfnl Experience of the Chief omccr of a Ship “’hose~ Crew “'35 Devonred. The most thorough cannibals. possibâ€" ly of the whole world, are the inhabit- ants of the New Hebrides Islands, of the Pacific Ocean. When they are not enâ€" gaged ln feasting on missionaries and other white men who foolishly venture into their country they devour members of their own tribe. For ages the natives have lived on human flesh, and the pre- sent races which inhabit those beautiful islands of the Southernl’acific must be exterminated before cannibalism be- comes a thing of the past in the Heâ€" brides. But they are also peculiar in their cannibalism. . , ~ The islands are'sectioned off by the tribes in very much the same manner as the counties of a. state. “'00 to the native who crosses over a boundary line. He is doomed for the cook pot then and there. Nothing will save him and this victim would do the same thing to his captors were they to cross over into his section. This has been the custom with them for ages, and is as much invogue with them now as it was 200 years ago. The natives, however, are very hon- est .in trade. \Vhen a member of an interior tribe desires to send something to the coast for barter he approaches the boundary line that} separates him from the adjoining tribe. He yells in a peculiar manner and members of the adjoining tribe, as the boundary lines are watched night and day, come for- ‘ward. A conference is held and the foot of both touch“ the imaginary line, but even now, though it is business, none dare cross over this boundary. The goods areihanded over by the trader, and in turn are handed to others, and perhaps may be passed from hand to hand for a distance of 50 miles until the coast is reached. THEY ARE HONEST. The articles procured in exchange are again passed from hand to hand until the original boundary line is reached. Each one takes his share of commission, and there is no intent to fraud; In this respect the natives of the New He- brides are entirely honest. Another confab takes place at that boundary line, with toes to toes, the remainder of articles secured are handed over to the owner. In this manner the trade of the country is carried on. If the natives near the coast desire fruit and other goods from the interior the bartering is carried on' in the same way. An English ship during a severe storm put in to one of the New Hebrides Islands in 1893. Anchors were cast and everything made snug. Scores of canoes soon surrOunded the vessel and the officers and crew not knowing the character of these cannibals, permitted them to come on board, believing that they were friendly natives, desiring to trade. \Vhat took place in' that ship can be best told in the words of the chief officer, who was the only survi- vor. . " I was sick in bed," he stated to the Captain of a ship which picked him up, “‘ when we arrived at that island. The Captain had been unable to get the sun for Several days on account of the bad weather. and we did not know until noon of that day where we were. I heard some commotion on the deck in the afternoon, but thought that it was the men at work. I had again dozed off for a while, but was wakened by a peculiar noise in- the cabin. Looking out from my bunk, I saw a sight that froze me with horror. Several negrocs were sitting at the table in the cabin. They were covered with blood. ber of them had human arms in their hands and were eating ravenmisly. I realized that cannibals had boarded the ship and I lay in bed. as quietly as posâ€" sible. The cannibals evidently believed that all on board had been killed and were now enjoying their diabolical feast. It was a sight I never want to witness again. BRANDISHED HUMAN BONES. " The natives, as the eating waned, began to brandish human bones and utter fiendish yells. For hours I was kept in agony. not. daring to move for fear that 1 might fare as had my Ship- mates. It was toward 9 o'clock in the evening that quiet came over the. ship, a. stillness that was awful. _'.l‘bough I had been sick for two Weeks, yet 1 some- how felt a supernatural strength'eome ovar me. I went. up on deck. What: a sight met my gaze! Blood everywhere! Human bonus and skulls wore scattered about the deck, telling a silent tale of horrible orgies. I was the only one, out of a crew of 45, left to witness lh'e ghastly scene and tell the story. The tropical moon shone with brilliancy on that grewsome deck. and the shadows cast wore human shadows. I let the anchor chain go, hoping that the ship would drift out of that lagoon. lut not a move. would she make. 1 finally lowered a'boat and sailed out of the harbor." _ This was the story told by the offi- cor of that British ship which fell into the hands of the canni )al natives of the New Hebrides. The natives of these islands are of fine physical form, but entirely depraved in morals. Murder and war seem to be their general wou- pation. The native who possesses a_balf a dozen empty rifle cartridges is a wealthy man. He can with one empty cartridge buy a half dozen Wives. During the last year or two the nap tires of New Hebrides, residing near the coast. have gone to labor on con- tract to the Samoan Islands, which are about 600 miles from the Hebrides. Dur- ing their sta ' at Samoa they are cloth‘ ed and fed. hen their time is up they are shipped back home and presented with an old rifle. a few cartridges and a suit of clothes. This makes each of them a nabob for the remainder of his life. i I i A numw ’ “r'r » BRITISH COLUMBIA. rw‘o QUEER LI’I'I‘LE miss What a. Western lien-nan: an to Say of San lax-um and Andorra and nu:- out its Industries. Mr. Simon Leiser. of Victoria. 3.0.. and cm of the best known merchants on the Pacific Coast, who is now_ in Montreal, was interviewd by a newsâ€" paper reporter. The British Columbia merchant is not one of those who beâ€" lieve Victoria to he a finished city and that all of‘ the trade is to be done at Vancouver. " The capital of the Provâ€" ince," he began, " is not only holding its own , but is making substantial progress. Business. in fact. is improving considâ€" erably on the Coast. The coal trade is looking up, and there is a marked change for the better in the lumber business. Mills that have been idle for over a year are now running full time. and large quantities of lumber are be- ing shipped to China, J open, and South America from Vancouver, New \Vest- minster and other points along the coast of- British Columbia." ‘ Mr. Leiser was asked if gold had been found in paying quantities on the Is. land of Vancouver, and he gave the re- porter to understand that» there was just now quite a. boom at Albernia, lo- cated a. little over one hundred miles from Victoria. Here splendid gold bearing quartz is found. pand many claims are being taken up by leading men of the Provincial Capital. He also said that Victoria derived a great deal of_business from the seal trade, the sup- plies for seventy ‘or eighty vessels be- ing purchased at that port. The seal- ers go to the Japan Coast, in December and January, after which they return toythe Behring Sea. The weather was bad last year, and the catch was only fair, but they hope to have better luck this year. The Western merchant also referred to the important fisheries 0f the Pacific Province. and to the great number of men em loyed. Besides the profitable salmon isheries of the North, and the Fraser River, the halibut fisheries of the Province are increasing in import- ance from year to yeari Steamers leave from both Victoria and Vancou- ver for the Banks on Queen Charlotte Sound, and frequently return with from 50,000 to 100,000 lbs. of halibut at a. time, all of which is sent in cold storage cars to Chicago, New York and Boston by the Canadian and Northern ~Pacific Railways. \Vith the extensive land ever increasing development of the minâ€" ing, fishing and other industries of the Province. Mr. Leiser is confident that British Columbia will soon become the Forms of Government. - The queer little Italian republic of San Marino with its thirty-three square miles of territory and its population of 6,000 lies up in the eastern spurs of the Aponnine Mountains. It is governed by a grand council of sixty, who are elect- ed for life, and two presidents. one of whom is appointed by the council, the other elected by the people. The little republic has an army of 950 men. who are employed only as policemen. San Marine is the only country in the world that prohibits the introduction of the printing press. The City of San Marino with a population of 1.700 is one of the queerest old towns in the world. It has undergone no change in 500 years. This republic began in 1631. A little but larger than San Marino in population, but six times .as large in area, is the republic of Andorra. It lies in a. valley of the eastern Pyrenees, be- tween France and Spain. It became a free state in 819. It is governed by a sovereign council of twenty-four memâ€" bers, elected by the people, and a syndic or president chosen for life by the council. It has an army of 1,100 men, and one big gun planted in the centre of the republic. This gun carries a ball twenty miles, and Europe trembles at the thought of its being fired. In Andorra, the capital, is the palace-a stone building several hundred years old. Here the councilmen meet. The ground floor is the stable where their horses are kept and fed by their mast- ers themselves. POISONOUS VAPORS IN AFRICA. Prince Henry of Battenberg’s death now appears to have been brought about by an act of military disobedience, al- though an attempt has been made to hush the matter up. The English ex- pedition to COOUlaEHIG. while crOssing (he eighty miles of pestilenlial swamp land lying betwuen the coast and the table-, land, was under the strictest orders not to leave the tents after sundown. The object of this was to preserve the Euro- peans as far as possible from the poi- sonous vapors that filled the air, the guardianship of the camp being confin- ed to colored troops and to non-com- missioned officers 'of the \Vest India regiments and of the Houseas. In spite of this rule, for infraction of which the severest penalties were promised, Prince Henry and Maj. Ferguson, of the Horse Guards, left_ theiruents one night and went for a stroll. The consequence richest of the Canadian Provinces, and was that both absorbed the poison, and that its capital, Victoria, will fully share in that prosperity. HERE AND TCEIERE A GEM.- The moral law is written on the tab- lets of eternity. For every false word of unrighteous deed, for cruelty and Oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.â€"b‘roudc. Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that for a time can make flesh and nerve impregnablc, and string the sineWS like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. â€" Mrs. Stowe. - Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.â€"Southy. There is in soulsa sympathy with sounds, and, as the mind is pitch'd. the ear is pleas'd with melting airs of mar- tial, brisk and grave, some chord in unison with‘what we hear is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. â€" Cowper. _ True modesty is a discerning grace; and only blushes in the proper place; but counterfeit is blind and sulks through fear, where ’tis a shame to be ashamed t'a ipear; humility. the parâ€" ent of the irst, the last by vanity produced and nurs't.â€"Cowper. There is this difference between a wise man and a fool; the wise man ex» pects future things, but does not de- pend upon them; and in the meantime enjoys the present, rememberinr the past with delight; but the life 0 the fool is wholly carried on to the future. â€".Epicurus. . A lofty mind always thinks nohly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable. and nat- ural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornmuiits, studies others’ tastes. and clears away from its own thoughls all that is useless and disagreeable. -â€" Rochofoucauld. . \Vhat know we of the world immense beyond the narrow ring of sense” \Vliat should \ve‘know who lounge about the house we dwell in, nor find out. masked by a wall; the secret cell, where the soul's priests in hiding invelll 'l‘he winding stair th'ii. steals aloof to chap- el mysteries ’neath the waftâ€"Lowell. A FISH THAT SllOOTS. The archer fish possesses the curious property of being able to shoot drops of water from its mouth with extraor- dinary accuracy for a considerable dis- tance. 'l‘his singular faculty is of use A fly to the animal in securing food. or small insect passing over the water has wry little chance. to escape from the deadly aim of the archer fish. This fish nuevur gets out of armnunition. and is not one of those unfortunate crea- tures who sees his best game when he has no gun. The archer l5 keen of eye, an excellent marksman, and is always ready. ' WISE PHEXUTION. Maudeâ€"Isn’t that new process of photographin ' through solid substances wonderqu ow I do wish l. could get a photograph of Algy's brain. ‘ Belleâ€"Why. do vou think there is anything serious the matter with his brain? Maudeâ€"No. but I want to be sure he-has one, you know. A BETTER TARGET. Maudâ€"I just hate to have Godfrey kiss me; it's such a hit or miss perform- 31108. Evelynâ€"I never noticed that he missed. 0 both lost their lives. TH E \VORLD’S TELEGRAPH \VIRES. A German expert, after a careful esti- mate, has announced (that the total length of telegraph lines in the world is 1,062,700 miles, of which America has 545,600 miles; Europe, 380.700; Asia. 67.400; Africa, 21,500, and Australia, 47,- 500 miles. The United States has a greater length than any other coun- tr'y.403,9llll llllithfillld Russia comes next although European Russia has only 81,- 000,1niles. The other countries follow in. this order: Germany, France, Aus- tria-Hungary. British India, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, Turkey, the Argentine Republic, Spain and Chili. In point of proportion. how- ever, Belgium leads With, 409 miles of - Wire for every 1.000 square miles of territory; Germany comes next, with '350 miles; Holland is only slightly be- hind Gcrmany, and the United King- dom has 281} miles ’of telegraph for every 1,000 miles of country. REMARKABLE FEAT. Perhaps the most remarkable feat of building moving was that successfully accomplished in Chicago, rccently,whcn a large stone church, with a massive square tower, was jacked up from its foundations and moved a distance of. 50 feet to_anothcr lot. The church was moved in order to admit light into the rooms of a big hotel on Michigan lth'll- no, at the corner of 'l‘wciily~tliii‘(l street. The hotel directly adjoining the lm- manuel Baptist Church, and the new oyvncrs of the hotel figured that ihe rooms next the church would be Worth vastly more if thi-yghad more light. They paid for the entire cost of moving the church, bought new land for it to stand on, and also bought the lot from uhich it was moved. The moving was done with entire safety and success. BAD LUCK FOLLOW’S Illillt. A “’arsaw lady i'vez-nlly engaged a quiet. rcspecinblia-looking girl of 16 to look after her lSâ€"monthâ€"old baby. As soon as he saw the nurse the child was frightened into convulsions; the girl was asked to go into another room, where the master of the house was onlertain- ing half a dozen guests. On her enter- ing the room a standard lamp on the table blazed up to the ceiling, three lurin- oil paintings fell down from the wall and a large barmneter flow across the. room and was smashed. The girl was not nlnrmwl and admitted that suob :l«"(‘lllvtnlx happens-(l frequently win-n sh:- was prc-sl-nt. She is a pale, slip-h1 girl, who suffurs from insomnia. Ur. O-li/uo..i-z, lb» psychologist, is in- lvestigziting the case. l’ECULlAR MANIA. A lawyer of lliddeford, Maine, is at. flicted with a peculiar mania for ml- lwting lumps of all sorts. His house is filled with every kind of lantern he has been able to buy, including a full line of lir-yule lamps. llcvisitsr Boston frami- ently,and always brings back with him anew lot of lamps. llis craze costs him a good deal of money. and he declares that he is aware of he folly of it, but is entirely unable to resist it. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Portraits of the German Empl-rot were shown in London shops aftur be had sent his cable despatch to the Boers, "arked "Reduced to M. from in. o, M -‘uru. '