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UriltMl*.' *1 paras; ̂ _ ' Mosea,̂ rva^asefeQeniy tool j *«•, a man-Iiatsr: Sjffoal, t *»**•*<, od M^r fc rtoefct̂ . . I^HkWWcKJt. • V . ̂̂ 1, 'WW** i<KJ wr< . "Q®4 bless me-- -."T>-akatttaXMlc tissed tmtrr--" MW •»« Jo4»««»klB<t boar. IWa If lirelt. Wlat to lite bat a' prirtit. d ne «r naen, before I was b.>m fUm -was buying lilies wheh Balph yi^ci- --Aiverton first saw l»er in Italy. It was S_ $> <t|jjgder, a dust-Begrimmed aid palate wall, si the cornerof one of the streets l m ijjfai Fleeecc«. Balph Aiverton was out J*dat$y- in stottA of » breath of fresh doming air; before tile glare of the ?•, •**', June 4aj began. A few Florentine Women in lace, veils, holding fans be- | #,.*ipcr> %W0^ flNir.luu 'iiftd' the sun's rays, I',., • * Mpass6d anil repassed him on their ^ - »• VV to church or market; but it was an | .> ̂ ' wbich arrested his atten- K * *»'."& tioft. ^ , "Vuole, Signorina, WHofe?" clamored the flower venders together, while • s,,.#ach thrust their handful of dewy roses /" *©r "Virgin lilies" toward the flair face T. •* i ,f" AoC a girl with hair of the same (gold en- i\ 'k'• ted colors as Carle Dolce painted for • ijg "Angel of the Annunciation." Ralph Aiverton, the artist, could not tnlp thinking of that picture as he '"^watched her, lilies in hand, turn away * • 1 Sfipwn the long stone ledge of thePalaz- Strozzi, which serves as a flower tiie Via Tornabuoni The tall, •tight figure, in her quaint costume of sage green, went over one of the t "-fcridgee to the other side of the Arno. £ v And Balph meat home to his sttdio on this side of the rim. • * Be had taken a fancy to the angel • mr- hi. ? "• ' )w" v' <• -»HJ . .̂ fe < * -'r IPs "urr. i . . l-fhrS: . -,.**• & t Vi&f •ife- Cslwtoi* were own sake-the; butetill more coseation of tkosft with LiHas . In the middle of the cloister garden of the Convent of the .Ceitosa jtlvifp t stands an old well. "At looking?" asked BalphvleaviMf the red to follow the monk who,aeted»i|i(N man,and coining across to where LiMai, stooping jngdowfi . "I was tryuigtothink of sai4 lootdncr up with a nile. flU wells always «w* m» a cnfidtMf fancy to wish; they make ene think of the wishing-weUaui whieh one used, as a child, to believe." ka(m what I 'wish," «aid Ralph, with a Terror which was quite earnest. {Ehm was nothing far >«fc» WlNnb. 'whether it was the tone, whether ft was something she hia £y«& aa' thie ̂ stayed fixed on hers, or whether it was VUUI1H «V.™ ^»»»»--» farying to tauk oi a wuh.Hif |»ainted by Carlo Dolcey and a few days later found him seated with canvas and easel before it in the gallery of the ffitti. Some,«opyut Lad already been at •irort. there; aaoiher easel, with a lialf- finislu»di ricetch stood by the picture, &d there wis a high stool left vacant. ^ Ct was not long before it was taken : possession of by, its owner--the girl *i>J with the hair and face like the angel of the picture, the resemblance show­ ing stronger with the removal of her feat. Side by side worked the two En- •gliafc aiiosts all the morning with no ^ahafrige rf words. '• The'heiiday he came with the fixed purpose of winning a word from her i ' grave lips. An opportunity was easily t? some appeal about their com- work; it was followed l>y a mutual ^ - v- ttontmplition of each other's painting. fialph considered his own immeasnr- \ > '|Hj the superior of the two, but-he did i. ' r%et aay so, and talked because he ISted listener. But the conversation was the artists were discreet; and pt !̂ eace resulted. ̂ * ?4t'* "Ah, Lilias, so we have found you at cried a grand-looking matronly a%~ ;a v!^. • til«^y, who, with double eyeglasses and r, j^JBaodeker's guide-book, entered the \ - - Salle shortly before the hour for clos­ ing. She was followed . by a party of " own people, who came up and $ <* " '^ook hands with the girl artist. "Why, j . 1 ** Ffjg[t. Aiverton, are you here ?" exclaimed jt - - , ,a chorus of »ui prised voices, and then " - '̂jHmta i wre a repetition of greetings. >?i' ii fRe.%, in traveling, one comes across »? iriends in the most surprising way l" V' laid the leader of the party, whom they IbaUed "Mrs. Calvon." "1* thought you < mere still living in London. Do von %now my friend. Miss Vane? No! JLilias, may I "introduce Mr. Aiverton Jto you ? What a strange coincidence, Ifchat I should find my two friends at rrk on the same picture, yet unknown one another!" *> Then the whole giaap of £nglish visitors suddenly grew interested in the "Angel of the Annunciation," and in 'iiotf another. Mrs. Calvon pnt up her and gave her eriticia&m with all freedoti of an amateur who knows •tag abeat art. "Will you come s|md 'See us this evening at the Hotel de ' FEaro]*-, Mr. Aiverton?" she asked as tow l< ft the gallery. ?_ B.ilph accepted and came. In Mrs. ":von'» salon lie learne<l a little about iz» Vane. Her family, who were very poor, had consented to her wish to co«ie to Florence to (mint She lived at a pension--tlie Casa Chiara-which fcH^eped exactly to face the studio oocnpied bv Balph on the opposite side 1Amo. "tthile they were talking i ^ W her, Lilias herself airived with some 4r,„ Pe°i»le, who had been invited. ,K r "BWph Aiverton made up his mind 'mi evening that he liked her very , »t*&*{ Lilias did not make up her :f«s« ;^^auiid so quickly. She was quiet and ailent, with a grave, sweet look which eomehow connected itself with the ». •*, Lily- Bui wl^en it was *"• a il "n ^0me Salph olfered to escort u r » ^ c k t o ( ^ a s o C h i a r a . T h i s , vras the nrsi, but by no means the last, , time that he walked with Lilias along ® 4 the ri*er ai#e where the lighte shone, and ?®W*tlie of the Carraia to her ^ v . lun$e on the other side. ^Ih ̂o&M ioBet in ttie rooms of mu- . *• i ' ^nal friend*; where the evening would Jli ^ apjat, and* when^ whatever else hap- "* iNNwOf ot did not happen, the end was the Etme always; Balph Aiverton took care of Liliss across the river, and left her safely at the Caea Chiara. One day, by special arrangement, the Calvons and Lilias paid a Visit to Ralph's studio on the Lung* Arno. Some of the party lavished a good deal Of ecstatic admiration on his paintings, which he received for what tuey were worth; but the few words uttered in Lilias' low, steady tone, and the flush Of animation and interest on her other­ wise calm face, were unrigs he treas- nred. His studio" was filled with orig- ' r inal designs. As a rule he looked -down on copyists, but he had continued the copy of the "Angel of the Annunci- jatuwi, making his work laat just so V J ifef ** ili® time ^flia8 to finish - *|leet us at the Certosa^to morrow, •ij Ijfe- ^alvon to ltalph j "PLilias has H! M^f9 accompany us on a round of ilfl ai^its we wish to 'make to all 1 sights btforeleaMuig Flor- «om* electric mcasage in the air, re told; bttt there." oooM not hare conv«ttt wall, she guessed for that Ralph loved her. Together they leaned over the old stone sides, and looked dowa Into the deem round abyss to where fcur, fiur b*- low, the water reflected their faces against a background of bhu across whfcb at that mc»nent a fleecy csloud waa sailing. Bfdph*s wish waa that the day might come when Florence's should divide them no longer. wished" that the morrow might Eustace Catvon to Florence, silently, the two contrary wishes were sent down the old well--Balph. gness- ing nothing of how the other wish clashed with his own; Lilias just con­ scious that it was possible both should not agree. Then they recrossed the sunny gar­ den to join the carriages waiting in the shade at the entrance gates, and they all drove back to Florence. And the solemn, silence-bound monk's, unmind­ ful of the world's love stories, came out at sunset to draw"water at the old well, which to them Was nothing but .a souree of common usefulness. A few days afteiward, in the early morning, the .artists were left standing on the station platform, from whence a pile of luggage from the Hotel de 1' Europe had just cleared, waving adieux to the express train going north. Both were sorry for the departure of their mutual friends; both also had special cause in their regret. Lilias Would' have liked to have met Eustace Calvon again; she would have described hinl as "#n old friend--nothfcg more;" and so when he did not come, she was not broken-hearted, bnt bore the disap­ pointment very philosophically. Had they met that summer the old friend­ ship might have ripened into something stronger, bat business claims detained young Calvon in England for three days longer than the patience of his re­ lations could endure, and- when he was free it was in the Engardine--not in Florence--that he joined them. Mr. Aiverton soon made the discov­ ery that the old ladies--the chief occu­ pants of the pension where Lilias was living--were most charming and de­ lightful people. And so it happened that at last his evening visits became a scarcely-less-regular custom than the appearance of the 8-o'clock tea tray with its two large teapots of watery tea. It was never a dingy, never a poky place, that salon, to Ralph, for the girl with the golden glory hair of the angel was there, and her presence made it seem to him an earthly paradise. And somehow, even though the surround' ings were a crowd of o!d maids in smart evening caps, bad tea and a cracked old piano, Lilias learned better every even­ ing what the wish was that Balph had at heart; and her own wish faded out of memory. Eustace was far away, and had never been more than "ail old friendRalph Aiverton was close, and made her understand that he would not be content until he reached a higher standing than mere friendship. Lilias surrendered. They settled it in so many words one day at the far end of the Cascine where Lilies had the search is made ; all the aarly morniag to late night, they hang ore* plaasara ?and the till' -palal* Wtkurthto see<the sights; river, the the second 'l&neath whose mbonlit waiters* Bo.,. dson her t^oonjtdoaa in & TWO DI^&?RAI>MMDI 3 search hU been aa MUM crowft 'Mfl _ the people have raw awiy ly to thfeirhomes. Sheldolt out upon the ccld, silver-radiance^! water iflowing ever onward; the line ol bright ljglrts fling their reflection across .the, mar on other nights, but one window on the other side is darkened --thbre shines no good-night signal there. Across the bridge come hnn^&g with swift, noiseless steps, a wfctdjirrif cession of those Whose offioe it is to, carry the dead--the secret oott9ra$ern- •HniPD^pK Ilfw . -™, r.- nitfjtllso of ew ToAto »a ̂ out vv«»nifwOMw lad, altttraonMi ahj.niiMtfori. a piiufi'̂ * ̂ **tam w«e<agrie ̂|ipoo<3«|pr«fth»; f i r s t p a M t t e a t . w a s » a ^ > g o l d d i s ­ covered # California wd tha Hne at onoe beoattie ^ormotiidy valuable, a«4 Commodore Vanderbilt, though he had made aieontracty flatly refused to eon* elude thenale and torn over the prc^>- erty. Chwioson didaU he could to get posseasipft, but to no effect. One Mn> he went to Vanderbflt's office, and, laying down the stim agreed upon as tin first payment and the oqr- t<aet,asked Vanderbilfc to take the money s«id lajus w |t&I'* .. i nc®la declared that he would <telhis wdwthaoontract. He tP/'lvi'". • mi ***. . ii fWU been left, tp wait for a friend! The friend was* late in keeping her appoint­ ment, and Mr. Aiverton happened to arrive instead. There on a stone seat just beyond the monument to the India Prince. Lilias promised everything re­ quired of her, while some light, fluffy seeds from a tree overhead fell, scatter­ ing at their feet, and eddied lightly around--north, south, east, west, like emblems of Uncertainty ; but Words were said which sealed two fates, and close beside them flowed the yellow Arno, which soon should separate them no longer. Happy days were those which fol­ lowed ; happier day wa3 that to which they looked forward in the following June. But before tbat day which was to give them to one another, came Eustace Calvon to Flonence^ And with him came discord, between the lovers. How it began, how it; continued, who was most to be blamed, none> bat l|hem- selves could ever suggest ; but Eiutace Calvon was somehow (uninte^ktaanuly) the eenter-cliord which < attiriKt thajkr. Ralph grew jealous, suspicious;MboWed heats and hastiness. Lilias Was proud, j resentful and turned cold as ice. Toe I whole Calvon party had returned to Florence, and Ralph chose to disap­ prove of them all. He' conxplaiiied that Lilias let herself be taononojUled by them, that Euatace talked too mneh to her; that he would not endure it;he would not stand it. Lilias, conscious that no cause for wrath existed, yvi finding Eustace simply friendiy and ciyil, resented such injustice, SBcf af­ firmed, impatiently that "no one should make her cast off old friends." Cir­ cumstances and mintmil helped to widen the breach» until , climax was reached one day in high words on the Ponte di Cartaja, where, without farewell, they parted--she across the bridge to one side, he across the bridge to the other side. Divided! yes, they had chosen division: A great crowd blocks the bridgeway and lines on either side the river's em* bankments--a black, silent crowed, which all day long hangs over the par­ apet, watching the water below. "A boat upset--two men drowned- the bodies are being searched for." So passes the news through Florence. Lilias learns it ou her way homeward at midday. There--passing along the Lung' Arno--she learns, too, the added rumor, "One is an English artist. "Let me take you bomif says Eustace ; Calvon, ' finding * ~h*r wj«| blanched lips adrift in the crowd. He leads her further up the river side, and. figures, robed fa black from bead to fbbf, duly the eyes visible. Two and two they go, carrying lighted torches before and after" the corpse. Some among them, it may be--noble. or citizen--have just been called from the dahoe-or the feast to serve as they have bound themselves to serve, at all times of necessi y/ Another minute they have hastened away on their midnight mission;the flare of their torches is seen no more. Lilias, standing mute, 'immovable in the moonlight, remembers how on that bridge, two days before, she had parted with him she loves; recalls the proud ̂ hard words which have been their last, and tries--very hard she tries--to real- ice tbat betWefen them now tuns the Biver of Death, and that before she can whisper tha word "Forgive!" she mnpt wait until she, too, shall reach "the other side." "O Balph, if you were here but for one short moment I think I could make you understand!" Then, as if in answer to her half-uttered cry, some one who/un­ noticed, has with rapid, uncertain steps {&ssed twice or thrice below the bal- cony, pauses and looks up and calls her by her name. •' Dqwh in the front vestibule, still left opened to tlie street, with none near but the old half-sleeping concierge, she learns the glad news that all Florence has been under a mistake, that Rblph has come home from his prolonged stay in the campagna; tbat the Biver of Death has been bnt the dream of two sad days; and that .Ralph "understands" already, and has come to make her un­ derstand. No river need longer divide them. "Will you come to me there on the other side?" Balph asks onee more. # And Lilias answers, "I will come." «.' jt'v /""g • " • 1 • i ! -1- ifffyit Leg®» • The frog industry in this section is becoming one of no little importance, and the small boy is a bloated- bond­ holder for the time being, for hia goods find ready sale at the hotels and among private citizens. One who knows says the Laramie plains frog is the finest in the world. The flavor is preferable to that of the French product, and is far superior to those captured at Lake Ponchartrain. The clearness of the water in which they live in this section, its freedom from tlie many animal poi­ sons, and the temperature is said to produce the results cited above. The method of preparing the frog for mar­ ket is the only cruel feature connected with the industry, and should some member of the Humane Society devote as much time to cruelty to frogs as to prying into a family muddle when a recalcitrant boy is being punished, there might be some method devised relieving it of that one objectionable feature. Very few know how to pre-; pare a frog for the market. A waiter •m-the Denver News thus describee the modus fperandi He says: "The frogger takes the animals hind legs in his left hand and a pair of formidable-, looking shears in the right, and before aspmal knows what fate is in store for nunliis hind quarters are amputated with a speed and easa that would do credit to an army surgeon." If the frog was killed at this juncture no one could possibly object. But he is not. He is allowed to get along as best h6 can on his fore legs, often hopping around for hours before yielding up the ghost. The hind quarters are then stripped of their skin, put in old, clear water and are ready for the toble j --either for breakfast, dinner or luncheon. Frogs are the best for the table in so in rather harsh words- Oaraiaon de­ liberately went to the jroom, looked It, and put the key in hia pocket He then drew a six-inch Derringer pistol, racked it, and said : "Commo­ dore Vandsrbilt, it is now five minutes to 11 by the clock on your mantpt.. I will give yon.fifeminutes in which to sign that contract. If it is. not signed whtfi that clock strikes 11, at its last stroke, by the God that made me, I will spatter your brains all over this floor! Tick, tick, went the clock. Qaxrison'a pistol, with it huge, yawn- SS^?$!blIK bTauT H^oSd not move, for Garrison's eyes were as cold and hard as those of Atropos, the pitiless fate. A motion wotild be cer­ tain death within the instant, witn. no one near to keep time. It was iotir minutes, three minutes, and only two minutes before he had to die. When it was tairiy seconds to 11 YanderbiK picked tp Ms'pen, took the paper, signed it, blotted it, and handed it to Garrison. As the latter took it the clopk struck the first stroke ol II. garrison ijnlocked the door and went afternoon the news of Vandgr- bilf s oapitalation caused much wonder. Garrisofcf was asked bow it happened. "Oh, I aappoee the old man saw ne had beea wrong," was all tits reply he ever made. T«> episode of the pistol and the dramatic incident attending the signature Garrison never spoke • of:' Twenty years after it occurred, Com­ modore Vanderbilt himself told the story. For years everything Vander­ bilt could do was done to thwart the stout old. Commodore who had com­ pelled him to do wHat he had prom­ ised. But Garrison throve wonder­ fully in California. He made the house of Garrison. Fritts & Ballston a power ithe Pacific Slope. atieritittho*®! ̂ ___ ___ aant̂ bî i free m^T^Us 4 t̂£St "tee ' ibis. ra %a ardtinSltoW p*$ days the C6lonel lived a^grita'Pe-wpnld - llaLllW of tempting tenderness, and onoe On his ̂ down town, lie unconsciously stiOfmed in ffont Of i catfish testauraut fo watch a hungry toegW elt boiled Every newspaper he took up s^oke of great dinners, *a&. what cer­ tain man ate, and, stopping onoe, he meohanically took up a pieoe of paper that flattered toward him, and cruaheid i be discovered fhatit waeabill of The first Sunday night after the beginning of his trials, he attended oftturch, whe^e, be dedlared, one ootid sit free from suggestion of something to eti He looked around at the fat men, and wondered if they were hun­ gry,, and his month watered when he suddenly remembered having seen a roast pig somewhere during the day. Th6 minister arose and began to talk abottt the' Lord's supper. He wes im- aginative, and had the table stocked mth au the delicacies of the season ̂ He spoke of the venison stew &to whioh the betrayer sopped with his master, and he turned the cold roast around so thW Colonel could see it. ^beti lie exhibited a baked chick, and, - taking up a handful of Saratoga pota­ toes, he scattered them over the table.* Ill be Billy-be-John-Browned if 1( can etwad tlds. said the Colonel to his, wife, snd lie turned away. 'At supper he ate -his toast, which he declaKd was, not enough to tickle his throat. ind he aoeused his wife of making no allowance vfwpKtlw ejgiof |heW He Wg termined, thongh, for e?eiy one wltdr of his fast s^oke of how rapidly 'Oh, I'lI stiA it out!" he wonld say. I WO#d." ^kid an acqnaintanoe, (m are somewnat literary in your turn. Colonel, an# I suppose yon detfre com- fottJCromByron's trials," "Tes," the Colonel replied, although he kriew no more of Byron than a quar-. an tine officer does of the yellow-fever germ. "Bynm was Very fat, which, together with the bad condition of his feet, made him_a» objeot of pi|y; but when he be- gan'to die| himself liis flesh went down i;radnally ana became firm, while his intellect beoame bright. So, ton see, you have two aims to accomplish, not saying that your minds need brighten­ ing." Oh, 90," the Colonel said, watch­ ing a-boy who passed with 6 string of The Egg Machine. The hen is literally an egg machine, her chief purpose being the production of eggs. Like any other kind of machine, she must have the raw material with which to manufacture her prod- nets, and unless her wants in that respect are fully supplied she will be valuable only according to the degree with whioh sne is used. She has also a limit to her capacity and should not be expected to perform service beyond her ability, but should, however, be kept in constant running order so long as she is needed by her owner. The material upon which she should work must vary aoeording to the requirements of the manufactured article, and, as her in­ stinct teaches her how to select, all that is necessary is to place within her reach that vhich die desirps, and everything will be well. To produce an egg the hen must have a certain kind of food for the yelk or fat portion, known as carbonaceous, and for the white she needs food rich in nitrogen, from which she makes fclbumeh. For the shell she needs lime, while many other substances enter into the composition which it is unnecessary to detail, the omission of any of them being detrimental to good work on her part. Thus,, while we may feed a hen liberally, apparently, by omitting that which is needed to complete the pro­ cess, she may remain idle for want of a single substance, though fully supplied with everything else. She often gives indicatious of her wants, for the "soft- shelled eggs," occasionally noticed, admonish the breeder that lime in some shape is needed. The change of color | in their comb and wattles, the drooping of the wings and the anxions, nervous appearaucp are all signs that something the fall. They are Ihen'fatTnd^sT^k" I ™*ically, wrong, for when the po- and there is a ueculiar and desirable ductlve organs are not healthy the vjgor possessed at any other. In the spring j . . . •. ' thejr «r. poor andnot m p ĵUble, but ̂ ̂ KuT8 r^Vl fuTf'T0; ' - t̂eri.1 wX° r<»ol> of th. hen in 2^1 i order realize from her all that she ^?he Bocky mountain frog is not a I SJgy Sel®^ ' hSTeifthil^tter when sheSto'^d the alfcitude » s«mst him Bnt hej ^g comfiion thaTat anyothert^ makes a remarkably-savory d ish , and, £T* "* * , r~ "7/7 as said before, is be^mg'mowpopul I US? lar than ever in the Wtkr-iarawie ; ^ and m ^ tbem m wo*^ Boomerang. Ute ia Trises. The people of this city, like those of Paris, lively largely at restaurants. The number and icarietv of eating- houses are remarkable. They are on every street, and of all grades and finish. The proprietor of one of the largest told me they were furnishing from 4,000 to 4,500 meals per day. I know of no American city wh*re one can live so cheaply so far as eating is concerned as here. Housekeeping is more expensive than in tne £ast, as renla are very high. But restaurant living ii reduced to the lowest possible coal. Hm te«dt is that hundreds ol CM tuples, together •urith much of the siK^fkmpfc bise rooms and then pitftoiMd by wealthy people and those wlte desire to be numbered anumg the "toay" oMe.it is very easy to run a i4tea!ar np to $2 or $8r bat at meet fwfrekai re îaurantf order are oiled and carefully Witched, bnt the hen attends to her pwn details if supplied with material, as ! ĵs t Ui%lniofj for egg produc­ tion. If she wean out aha supplies hiev I place with her descendants, ana is ever ready to act well her part if her owner Kill do likewise.^-JVirm, Field and Fireside. China's Strifes in Civill/atien. ' ̂*W. Bookwalter, candidate for (gov­ ernor of Ohio in 1831. has made an ex- j tensive tour around the world, covering a period of fourteen months n " _ r He trav­ eled over 6,000 miles in India, from the Himalayas to Ceylon, and visited all the principal islands of theladiiaa archi pelago, including Sumatra and Borneo. He devoted a good deal of tiao^ to Chi­ na and Japaft, and said hj» m sur prised to find what a peOple the Chi­ nese are. He Baw everywhere evidences of the stridea tber are making in ship­ building ana naval matters. They now control fully, half the earning trade of COast, ftjfffj •»»* ttlMmi-hjng ̂ i<i hunt ing trade intereate Wtbfrto , handled s^wi'by foreigners. Alt̂ ady 'cry is b^raî nhe EhgljA | lady tokl me her breakfast usually coat f must go," and it will be agitated as guides her faltering steps across one of' her 5 centa.--San Francitdo letter, thoroughly in China as the anti-Chi- ' " "V-ii.?";,.' * 6! V- A"-tw ir*'Jtt ' ' ' "gofngdownu" 3h , M i Thus the struggle was kept up>. One morning when the Colonel sat in ms oflfoe* a tramp entered and said: "Will you please give me the price of meal? I'm so hungry that I am nearing starvation." "I'm a devilish sight hungrier than you are," the Colonel replied. "Why don't you eat?" "Because I want to reduce my flesh." "That's all foolishness," the tramp replied. "Some time ago I was on a Coroner's jury and we held an inquest over a man who had starved to death. Oh, but he was a whopjper, as fat as he could wallow. The neighbors said that he was trying to reduce nis flesh and--" "Are those facts that yon are stat­ ing?" "Yes, sir, facts as solemn as the west side ol tf sepulchre when the sun is in the east." 1 The Colonel gave has bell a vigorous ring, and when the porter appeared he said: "Go to the nearest restaurant and order meals for six men.* "Six men!" exclaimed the tramp. "Yea, sir, for I suppose you are as lungrr as two men, and I know d--d rell I'm as hungry as four."--Arkan­ sas Traveler. t* The Twe CitlaaN. I / A citizen, having painted tike front of his grocery, hung out a sing bearing the word "Paint." Ah! so yott have been painting?" queried the first man who came along, sir.* "Is it fresh paintf*r , •• *- ̂ ̂ "It is." ' . r*-.̂ "Will it rub off?" ' »*-' " "It will." "Ah! yes--I see--so it does," con- tinned the man, ss he rubbed his hind over the boards and brought it away covered with daub. Moral. Never leave a fellow-mbn to find out anything by rubbing his back against it.--Detroit Free Press. V Children's Etiquette. • Always say, ye* sir, no sir, yes ffepa, no paps, thank you, good night, good moaning. Use no dang words. Clean faces, clean clothes, clean shoes, and clean finger nails' indicate good -beeed- ing. - Never leave your olothes about the room. Have a place for everything, and everything in its place. Bap before entering a room and never leave it with your back to the company. Bempmber this. Always offer your seat to a lady or 0I4 geiitlemAn. Never btit your feet on cushions, chairs, or tables. Never overlook anyone when reading or writ­ ing, nor talk or read aloud while others are reading. Never talk or w&sper at meetings or public plaees, and especially in a private roocft where anyone is eing- illg or playing the piano. Be careful to- injure no one's feelings by unkind remarks. Never tell tales, make faces, call names, ridicule the lame, mimic the unfortdnate, nor be cruel to inseets, birds, or anything else. BUCKSKIN mittens and trousers are quite costly, but von can make your cloth mittens and work-trousers wear nearly equal to buckskin by giving them a coat of resin softened by being melted with lard. Apply hot, to fronts only.--Rural World. COJCHKCTICTJ* is doaing np the wood- en-nutmeg business and going into the manutywture of elephant-tusk ivory. pixates ane beooming-«9- not tha food rw^witii TwotMnieailsM *By jinksf "The rndtly morn at kit is bora.--" •Ah; haj* said the man who does tte eounty offices, MaBH>tibeik birth,: eh? raMjVe popaing them prelty thidc this week. r Onesa fll take a wallB." •H»ar w«n in g*t • uik <mt ^ him if it takes a week," and the inter­ viewer left 9 vacuum just his size in the office. "The knight Is deftdM-H* ' 1 'The deuce he is.* remarked1 the obituary man, t a he; started'w the morgtse. • • .. isdfad; f-" '• ! tteie with mtiflied drum." Oh, elit another parade?" and the militia r ĵorter grabbed his canteen andatmok out. "Did I hear somebody call 'Time ?'" asked the prize-fight reporter, and he picked tip nis hat and sauntered jaunti­ ly out. As the poet was going down stairs, he met the heme reporter. "Would you like to know how my little verses run?" . . Bun, eh? What's their record? Do they belong to the 4-year-old class or the---- Oh, I see. Poetry, eh. Good-day." " The laat seen of the soulful man be waa going into the counting-room look" ing for the advertising agent or some­ body who knows the value of true p&* etry;--Chicago Herald. - HeadadM. . The sure cures for headache are qu- merous. The specific remedies are generally checkered in their experi­ ence. The Victim .often says in reply to inquiry, "Yes, I have tried that and everything else you could tbihkof, but nothing does any good, exoept it may be for a short time." It is none .the leas true that those wonderful cures have an actual curative record. The thousand and one prescriptions made are mure to fit some cases, but, as a rule, the best of them fail. The sys­ tem shows great cunning in combating medicine. One drug does well to-dî y wMbh may utterly fail to-morrow. The subtle forces of the atomach which go on errands to the head,, soon devise ways and means to circumvent the medicine and prevent repetition of the cure. Mere change is often the' beat of med­ icine, especially in paina of the head. Many a brain-worker haa found solace and comfortin ohauge foritsown iake. But >tius largely depends upon the kind of headaohe one haa. Beside the niek headaohes are "the rheumatic, nervous and structural headaches. The latter may be purely local, as the sick head­ aohe comes from the digestive organs, Meningitis is, perhaps, the worst form of structural headache. That is caused by a change in the membrane covering the brain. Sometimes a tumor forms in the head and presses upon the brain, causing intense agony. Medical sci­ ence teacMs 'that tne skull itself may be the seat df agony. The teeth, the membrane lining tlie upper part of the nosq, - diseased optical nerves, or ear trouble* may cause what pass for ner­ vous headaches. Heart aiseass some­ times lies at the bottom of the suffer­ ing experienced in the head. In fine, headaohe can arise from numberless and diverse causes, and if' the physician is skilled in reading the symptoms he learns from the headache what really ails the patient. The brain is in itself devoid of sensation.. It is a blackboard on whioh other parts of the system may state their respective problems. The frequent sufferer should be skilled in reading the chalk-marks without the aid of a doctor, and if he does that heed- fullv lie will find headaches, like nation- Sdebts, to be blessings in disguise, any an octogenarian owea bis or her longevity to,the obedience1 of the laws health whioh was enforced by liability to headache. - Inter Ocean: ?? . -- ' i H i . ̂ , Some Good at Last, - The Jaekson JPrtlrio/ tella of a lady who claims that she eata those quarrel­ some, belligerent little biros, the_ En­ glish sparrows, that are driving all our native birds out of the cities. She haa a wire trap in one of tlie basement windows, and after thirty of the little nupanoes are eagedk* ahe makes them into a pie. It is claio»ed that the spar­ rows are as plump and fat ae any bird known, and their flavor is delicate a^d flesh delicious. The lady learnea to Srepare this dish by seeing'her mother o it in England. The mode of entrap­ ping the Upkrrows is described as fol­ lows : "From a rear beewnent windo ̂ A utrsical «ranK~»tlie otaek; ot a ha^d-organ. of her house the lower sash baa ̂'been removed,and instead, a wire contrivance hus been placed there, which is in the form of a half cylinder. It is so deli­ cately balanced that as soon as a spar­ row alights on a projecting' bar its weight cttrries the cootrivanoe half way around, where it is stojpiped aud^mly by striking a projecting knob._ That utartlea the bird, wliioh find ltwlf c^r- rieAbv its own weight and the slow revolution of the wheel farto a large cage inside tha room, The sparrow finds a score of Its kind m the cage, which are keptthere as decoys to dxaw thither other sparrow* in the neighbor­ hood. A supply of grain is kept scat­ tered near the outside of the trap, and a well-filled cup of gwun reals directly beaoath the bar on which the birds hop for the purpose of procuring a meaL Iv the wall about the stove has been wmeked by the sto*e, cover tins black Smhi£t sî w^ffim^h^Sier pant os calcimine. aalf,ih eeitt meh'Vi to ,̂--7mto« turned and loQieS M a what she's got 011," the wottaaf "Now. aintdatafinê rickt ' , , ^^e'e get ow ̂ P ̂think dat ahe'a yerseTs dose, yerf ̂Thini Ub*'s been stealin' aemethin'o I ied ̂ CMna oa heah, now, er irp$,tee^aok.-like a white 'omaa. "--Arkansmvf Trot*!«•. Iaaatir^OH îPe ĵ̂ woman, and teek ati hef «^MW8ff ina secmid,' and pilod tbeU n iQ o êr Us chain, uid neverhnrt her at alL , take down her Ue& MgtSttll the kair»pimi ia thei> /p*6pti'̂ hie^0|i the ' 4^y m < u l whohas ev^rbadarwJblasummer . hotet adHoining tha^bf a Woman, and j has beard her oome to her room aft mid- il night a$d take out 10.000 bair-pjns, one at ' tim^aiid dirbpl̂ iî at a dull tha# on tb a martfle-tep bereatt, %ould ' swear that lightning; oouldii't tkke a woman's hair off m less than twe :'M hbuM.--Peck's Sim. * ' !,?" . * / , .< • QUITS. ^ * *>'• O*'F ' * J ' TemlSwSSSl̂ sSiaetliato" At least It saskM as Undt makes doir? , i 1 k ytoveits' injBg >ian a d»y, 8tnldtfardarirrav*-mtd ricfat awajrl Par man I VM obMss^^j stoy--. J * -~2forr9*tovcnIfcra}tL "WHAT'S mesmarism?" aeked Hoots' little, boy. "Mesmerism, aim,, is the --well--let's see, how can I make yon understand it?--it is the-- where's your dictionary! But no, never mind. Fll explain it in another way," and [ then; Foots, who thinks' he has a remarkably-powerful mind, undertook to exetimesmerio infiuenoe on Ins son. iUsiaig hitfefes on ;J his son in a way that made tike boy f shudder, he said, as he pointed at the , J .clock: "See that pretltjr bird! Hear it % sing! Let's catch it and put it | in a cage," and he got up | and dragged the anwiiliog boy ̂ after him. bird! Pretty ,bird!" he aaid, as he patted the clock. f | jThen the boy broka awap with an ' i awful yell, knocking the olock down in ] his tenror, and yelling, "Ma! ma! pa's got theJima agam." And that wound jap PoOts' experiments in mesmerism.-- Cincinnati Saturday Fight. ' ; What May Happen. . " X«et ua take a look into the fntera Suppose* the 26d,000,000 oTlHindooa shomd rise and drive cruf the foreign in- yader; suppoaejalBo, whioh is m)t impos­ sible, that theChinwe, ̂ tntimup,supe­ rior fhnies, should defeat tbe Fr^non in the^vent of war, might there not follow a marvelous change in the relation of Asia to Europe? The Hindoos and Chinese Would have one common foe left--Bussia. That poorer now dom- inates Cenftral Aaia» mid menaeee both China and Hindoostan. Suppose the peopleT of these two empires should îte against Bussia. Their oombhed poptilatiBns conqnise abOut hilf'the jhuman race; why should net'their enormous •armies not only conquer Central Asia, bnt occupy Siberia, and menace the very existence of Bhssia? The Conquering armies of Central Asia have more than onoe swep* eve* the western world. It was the Tarcome who, in former ages, conquered China and India, and formed tne rank and file of the Mohammedan armies which overthrew the Eastern Boman empire, (conquered Spain, and plaoe<l the inde­ pendence of Western Europe in peril. Who knows but̂ t̂ some nine during the twentieth century history may re­ peat itself ̂ Demoresfs Mtmtkhy, - . .; A BemarkaMe Adailnslws. . "Were you acquainted with the!mur­ dered man?" awed the Proae^uthig Attorney of a witness for too defense jm a murder ..caee. Tha wffiingness of tha witness to eay all that he eoald in behalf af |̂ e prisoner waa amy appar­ ent, bythe way. . "I know^d him; he wm dahonesteet, t - T *• > - ' "Never mud about hia.hoaeaty. loa say you knew him*" : "Yes, aah,. aa' Iae proad ter say X aebber know'daiohanobW-- "NobMlyaaked yaaabotttthat. What was thecneditinn of hiahsalth? Waa he not in^ohart bealthr* : . : "No, aahlHe waa da fsebleat n|g- gah Iebwseed." 1 "Hewas kflledby tla aocused, Was he •' *! ; "IeeaV aay so, aaik Ify idaaam dat ha waa in akdi b«i health dat̂ ehen isf be hadnt been 'ha would hab died an] days previous, saW whan Ikeaae, atleast two -remuS&ings. OBITUABY head-lines in an exchange: "Death's shining mark--the grim Smith-henO lo|erWr committee, but treads ' the' pave." : A consTY out ih Dakota haa been naiuod "Brandy." We suppose to rouse nUtl A 1^$. ' ls<Jv " -,%! > -y, V~, * . Jf » ' . SjjiSSi 5*' Ma '404*% '-W f~" V - ' p~ *• t fV*-,t" the spirits of immigcation. Bet: A Tribune, K T:TO SOLOMON'S lodge of Chi .'estown, Mass. , is the atmio body in this counity. South fesi1- 7 V •W't" ' m f _ >*J V r m u \ ^ - J. ».v *4 M<r>, :̂ f4k