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• MOUlatUK. I la' I to Sad, •MA «H i foment mbmi |MA_ * viniKVRnviiM'w • wesftsuBailoWsai iwrtnil; wfcaJMMMstala . iidnhnwllnittmi «rBp« m ih* wtad th» i»ee.' ' *f Joy la the wnnnex teady t*ftde»w«y «rar tiw alafct the saos* MOM ... *taM»4M w!» OM «ayialert1**th-- ' »lip Hw irtrt w> low-- (Tiki b*tterfllee wbo o jitylwrf--wwttt tar dê M*..--. wias SAYINOS. ;\:V. fl i itti t' .._ ISAHBETURTR;^' tama«MtB«riwi the world ibitl overtax*. . _ tracks whmVn rows*- •st» walk la saow, - VIVI 1MK1|I OOIOFIOVM 9wm iy with whom we mm oar spMtal «IOTT idva. mflnahin browrhtme mnn M* Of learning bp* my nutn much a Yet; wltal of ur knowledge boast, I know my pnptle usuht me moat --Hfe TtUmucL MrtwUun coming to the irwl NOWIM disturb tn#-tr fortitude; - L<ke ouftofaor-wood the fire ilnm«fc ThMBah bitterness their virtue bkwai -Hindm. Tbetoturaei* little, bat how "trans-- Only at moot three iMfee* toajr; Hat when Ami wnnta ite nee •apply, Wo« to the nuHW'i eix feet bi*iL --Japmmeae. Kmj Thoosht, from esst or we Wetecaeed*" a favorite (meet.-- ltateach Desire, bo h fierce i OnntwH, aa you won'.drnle a $ i. ,* • ft* il:S MISTRESS UBSIE CARLISLE. Ka: *Xldkheredeplace whar dey wants f " H •<», Itarned from the kitchen table,where [f - jl had vainly been endeavoring to bring order.out of dire confusion. ^ * -mo told you I wanted a oook?" I ?f Inquired. f One man 'et lives on de joining place § tarns. He come ter town toget some | perviahuns Sat'y night, an' he he'rd 'em * Sayet de sto* you waa wantin* er cook, H ta t low'd as I was tired er pick in' cot- f toe,rd cum." g| I felt encouraged. All of her prede- ** oessors,* ho had numbered four in twice avi>, had informed me that "a gentmun or lady had riccum- . me to them," so I said, "What's your name ?" "HuRsie Washington Ky lisle. Dat's my name. Tee got & mighty gran' parae, ma'am, but no purs' 'tall." "Can vou cook?" "Loii yea, chile. I kin cook. Der ap kind er ocokin' Fc&n't do. I el supper down ter my house no ' 'en lae' Sandy night; an' dem nig- r cistern tilings waa der bes' 'er dey stuck er toof inter. An' knows -dey stroyed ennuf," she & rather a melancholy retro- I will give you a trial/-1 said. W0& Iwish you would come in now 4*iS pat this kitchen in order." In an ineredibly short 'Spiaos of tine ahe had everything spot- v leaaly tolean and neat, and was ready for ,, osiers; go with i a g t o t h : A n * I H s l f c n - aba did,etahe wua raised to ooofc oenldrft whttl* no' sleh tnt m _.. she lef'. As* dat dey took der veSsoahit, im'trumder w r̂jjasi 'nig- gwa Iwresa deyaelvaa, 1 doan apeo dtl wkihi 'vinfkn's gwine ter 'snade none uv 'elnter atep roua'in dat kitchea soon. Ton he'eir my nddk9 i ;;;; s r - sr 5 begun my ac­ ta IJrsie Car- Fonotually with >i# -v*ele-B»an" arrived, and waabrought in Saturday night her iS: Mr my inspection. "Miss Loaisy, dishere's my ole man." Aunt Crsie weighed nearly 200 randa, and the "ole man" barely 100. . Hla name. Charlie Barten,* aaid Aant IJrsie. • . f "Bat," I objected, "you told me your nMM W CirUsle. How can that be if , yovr luiaband's name is Burton ?" ^Solittia; <ao dey bofe is. I was , V" borned Kylisle, an' I spects ter die KfM*. an' I doan(t perpose ter go W^K Joolin' an' changin' er my name for no nigger. Dis here ain't de fu^' husbin' i* - K' had, an' more en likely 'twon't be ?J*4 de las'. You tell Miss Louisy good day, , ole man, an' cum along, 'causefmua' be Ijts?- flttM'iack tec dem v.ttinr" V ' II. ...'" t 0^, , mMfife Louisy," remarked mf '^mnd- „ '%&* maiden one morning, "dis here Bible er f % a yourn'8 jea' like Miss May's Bible, my »' ^ ' '• joung hi jails', et I used ier uus'. Miss " v >* May, she used to read ter me outen it, f *'t' an' me 1*0°' der jedgemin' day, an' dem cuou» kind er things. Miss i' , Louisy, what does you think 'bout der »s * „A - • }«dgemin' day enyhow ? I ax Miss May pgr Jf-' i, dat once, an' she 'low et der vuz gwine ter be mighty heap er 'citement den, "Mia* Loniay," ask^d late on, "is yer got time ter-d^y fer ter do a little writin fer me, 'cause I wants mighty bad fer ter git er letter off some­ how ter Waah. He's ray son ets in der >nitenshey, an' I ain't he'rd'from him ar long* time. I dun save a little money ter aen' him. jDey put him m dere five years cum di<* spring, an' der Lord knows when dey's gwine ter let him cam back ter me. Der mos' uv der folks, dey looks down on Wash, an* der ole man, he do»n take any count er him, cause, you see, he my fust hus­ bin *s chile; but I lores him, cause, Mka Louisy, he's der onlifist boy Fee got, an* he wuz alius good ter me. "I knows he didn't 'tend ter kill dat nigger, 'cause he jea' stack him wid hie poefce didn't, F® iket-knife, an' He tole me An' now his wife dun If f # but hit wan't gwine ter las' long. ; v? -*"4! </' "But dat ain't what I cum ter see you 5 ^ '4% *'*i 1 'boot. I cum ter tell you dere's gwine f.'^. -vij: ter be a derbatin' at the church ter- > vr, night, an' I lowed I'd go cause 'tain't * *'*/% 7"* 8**®® ter cos' me nuthin". Sis Temple, .s ~ ' she say, she'd cum by fer me if I went." *«> i-5* • "What are they going to debate about?" I inqnired. "Hit's den reg'ier s'ci'tv, an' dey he« or speakm' ev'y munt. Dey is gwine tor prove which is der cleanes', der nigger et washes in der summer an' ' doan wash in der winter, or der one et '•< washes in der winter an' doan wash in der summer, and I want'a ter he'r 'em, an' ter cas' my vote." "How are rou going to vote?" "Who, me? Lord, honey, l'se gwine ter cas'my vote wid der summer ducks; 1 cause when cole wether comes, I never 1 Wets my skin fer no man. ji "Well, I wish after you settle the c question, you would try and get Mrs. Carter a cook," I said. "She has been j without one for a long time. I can't • understand it." | "Well, chile, I'll try; but I ain't ICS to promise, otuse dey's dun read the worda* and kmelwr Moxaoir, f-fPt eive Un all K ter my ««k«i, lir tifr tr? an'live rHa ̂ MI* Ml trouble; aa'tdl hitn« had er bin wuU&', W teli him howdy fer me--an" --good-by \n--New . Orlean* Timm- Demoorat, What do out in church." <4iead her out in church? youftMian?" "Iff? whenever der white ladlto wan|(Bir eook, dey jes letp Brud'r 8tm- •be lwiiw an' he reads her name out in cliunA,an'den lie say: 'Sis Temple, or whoever wuz der las' one et worked dere, will pleaae rise an' give her char- B jea' ' he tole me hisflof he ua gam an' mair'd agin, an' his little chillun, dey goes ronn' wid dey close all to'd an* raggit. an' dey never gets enuf ter eat, 'cepting I gives hit ter 'em. An' when I thinks maybe I won't nebber see Waah no mo', I feels like if de Lord wua will- in' ter take me I wouldn't have no 'sput- in' wid Him 'bont it." And Aunt Ursie threw her apron over her head, and sobbed aloud, while 1 felt strongly tempted to follow suit. I wiil see a friend of mine, a law- yer," I said, "and ask him to inquire about your son." "Thanky, ma'am, Miss Louisy; thariky. ma'am. De Lord He knows der ain't nothin' *t all I won't do fer you ef vo i'll jes' fin' out 'bout Wash fer me. Dey didn't nebber hab no rite ter sen' him der no how, 'cause ef der doctor had er jes' lis'en ter me, dat nigger wouldn't never died. Dese here door tors, dey comes a-messin'an'a-meddlin' wid fokes* insides an' er pickin' fokes' po'kets an' ha'f der time der ain't got Bio noshun what's der the matter. Ef dat ar doctor," said Aunt Uraie, gradu­ ally raising her voioe to concert pitch in her excitement, "ef dat ar dootor hed er lis'ened ter me, dat nigger boy'd er bin here now--you hear me talk ? 'Cause I tole him jes what ter do." "What did you advise ?" I inquired, willing to divert her mind from her troubles. ' Who, me? I Vised allum ter draw der parts tergedder, an' roaum to Bod- der 'em. Dat's what I 'vised, and gent'- men, if dat white man'd minded me dat boy wouldn't nebber died. I knows 'bout sick fokes, I doz, an' I ain't gwine ter low rate myse'f fer nobody; 'cause no later'n last week Sis Temple she cum ronn' heah an' she 'lew she hadn't slep' nun for fo' nights, 'cause der nuroligy hurt her so bad in her leg. An' I tole Sis Temple fer to get nine strans er yarn offen a black sheep and nine strans offen a white un, an twis' 'em togedder nine times, an' wrap 'em roun* dat leg, an' whatever she do not ter put dat leg outen der, bed fust in der morniii'--an' she dun hit." "Well?" I inquired. "Well, you dun see Sis Temple here dis mornin', didn't you?* s "Yes." "Yon ain't seed no signs er nuroligy abont her, is you?" "No." "Well, den," and AuntUrsie retired, with an air of dignified triumph, to the recesses of her own apartment. A few weeks after I told her that I had seen a lawyer about her son, and he had discovered that "Wash's" term had ex­ pired the previous spring, but that for various and sundry misdemeanors he had been remanded for six montha longer. If no other mishap occurred she might look for him belore Christ­ mas. HerOiappiness knew no bounds, and she went about her dutiea singing Triton unnecessary viSor Ole Satan rbot dat ball at met .J He abot by nf ter kill me; ' ^ Der ball pan-1 by and down ter hell,' Sins cool news e ne ier Calnyin, until I felt compelled, on behalf of the neighbors* ̂remonstrate. IV. ; ° As the time for the return w the pro­ digal drew near she began to prepare for him, and was constantly making ex­ cursions "down town" to expend her earnings in "sumthin' 'nuther fer Wash." Like all of her race, she had no idea of taking thought for her health, and if anything suggested itself to her mind that he would like, she would, at the first possible moment, go in search of it, regardless of wind or woatber. I ex­ postulated with her on discovering her drenched to the skin after one of her nightly expeditions, but I might aa well have reasoned with an infant. "I dei went for dese here hanker- che'fs, Miss Louisy; I seen 'em in der winder dis morin', but neber had no money wid me den ter git 'em fer Ufash." The next morning I missed'the sound of the biscuit-beater, and on investiga­ tion found Aunt Ursie in bed, with a husky voice and rapid pulse. The symptoms soon developed into that scourge of the race, pneumonia, and before many days I knew that my faith­ ful servant was leaving me forever. She could not realize her own danger, and it was pitiful to hear her count the daya bfrfpre her boy's coming and enu­ merate the little gifts she had in store for him. "Hit seems like ef my head ud )ua' stop huttin' a miunit I could thinker sumthin' et ud do me good," ahe aaid one day toward the last. "Dere'a dat cake got ter be made 'fore Wash Kits heer, an' Lord knows, I ain't gwine trus' dat nigger you dun got in de kitchen, Miss Louisy, ter shake a atltck at it." "I will have it made for you, Aunt Ursie," I said. "I'm thousan' times erbleeged ter yer, chile, but I wants per have er han' in der mixin' er dat cake myself, 'cause Wash allers did love der way I cook his viti les. How long you spec' it will be 'fo' I'm up agin?" "Not long, I hope," I said, not look­ ing at her; but something in my faoe betrayed me, and she made a fruitless effort to rase herself on her pillows, and asked, excitedly: "You don't think I'm jgwine ter die, does you, Miss Louisy? Hfafts en Shereliug* Nearly all the annoyances of whiter, says the Philadelphia Call, asiae fnm the fact that people do net know her# to meet and manage them. Of theee, getting the snow cleared off the men! Ja the mast troubl eanaea no end pf late arrivala at _ ot_busiaeea and an untold amonnt of iriag from beadaohe. All thia oak to trauM by attention to a few simple rulea, based on scientific, mechanical, and anatomical facts: First, borrow a shovel. Next proenre a pair of warm mittens, a neck-wrap of some kind, a bottle of arnida, and a chest protector. Now you are ready for work. Open the front door and push Borne of tiie snow from the front step. Now, having donned overshoes, which we forgot to mention, slip out and cloae the door after you, being careful to fix the dead-latch so it will not lode* Take the shovel in your right hand, the thumb upward and the fingera clasped firmly but not too tightly around the handle. Many persona cramp their fingers by taking too close a grip, a practice which also tends to irritate the tender skin on the inside.of the palm. Rest the ateel end of the shovel on the step and, placing one foot a little behind the other, let the handle sink of its own weight to an angle >f forty-five degrees. Be careful about this angle, for up to this time the principle of a pivot is being used, and if the angle is more acute than forty-five degrees it will be a sign that you are obtuse. Now bring forward the left hand and gently grasp the handle just two-thirds of the way from the top, raising the implement about seven and a half inches into the air for that purpose. If you take hold too low you force your right arm to do double work, as the left hand is merely a movable fulcrum. If too high the evil is in­ creased, The shovel, if properly made, will nearly balance when the left hand is in just the right spot, and after a few experiments this point can be de­ termined and if necessary indicated by a pencil mark. It is well now to slowly swing the shovel back and forth in the air, with the hand in the positions indicated, un­ til you acquire the proper motion. Next in order, not to get out of breath, rest the shovel on the steps, straighten your back !w>ne, throw back your shoulders, and inhale the exhila­ rating, antiseptic winter air. Now look up and down the street un­ til you see a boy. Beckon to him. When he comes strike a bargain with Him; give him the job and go in to breakfast. A Herse that Jumped 230 Feet. "Yes," said the reformed hostler, "I had a horse once that jumped over 200 feet on a straight road." - "Did he make it in one jump?" aa£fl f the mule driver. "Yes, he made it in one jump," said the reformed hostler, "and he'd a jumped 1.000 feet if they'd been there, as them was--pickled pig's feet in a barreL" "I drove a horse once," said the hon­ est stage driver, "that jumped through a wall four feet thick." "Did it hurt the wall any?" aaid the reformed hostler, insinuatingly.. "No," said the honest stage-driver, fiercely, "but it killed the horse." "Talking of horecs jumping," said the reformed hostler, "we had a horse that jumped every fence on the farm, and wound up by trying to jump over liia own tad." "Did he doit?" aaid the converted mule driver, breathlessly. "No,' he didn't!" said the reformed hostler, calmly.--New York Journal. Early "Cattle Drives." The earliest history that we are en­ abled to obtain concerning the Texas "cattle drive" dates back to 1857, when about 20,000 head of cattle, horses and mules were driven to Missouri, passing through Kansas City, Missouri, and crossing the river at what is known as Bandolph Ferry, three miles below the town, in the month of June of that year. The drive, though not very suc­ cessful for the first year or two, finally increased and became more promising, The business was continued and large numbers of stock were added to each annual drive from that time up to 1861 the breaking out of the war--which stopped this rapidly growing trade. After the close of the war--or 1866-- the drive North again commenced and it is generally supposed that at leaat 260,000 head passed from Texas through the Indian Territory, destined for points in Southwestern Missouri -- Dodgi City (Kaunas) Star. A Maternal Warning. "Whar's you bin, William Henry V "Jess down yer." "Who's you bin playin' wid?" "Kurnel Joneses and Judge Green's boys." ,"How many times has I tole yer not ter play wid po' whites? Look heah, Willyum Henry, Fze a mind to baste you. I>o vo heah me ?" "Yes'm." "You gwine ter run wid dem any mo?" "No'm." "Den let me gib you solemn warnin', Ef you doan' stay away from dem, I'll jess take de hide clean ofTn you. Ef you keeps on dis way, fust thing you'll want to be disgracin' yo' sex like Fred Douglass did, by marryin' ,a w'ite wo­ man."--Texas Sifting*. 1 want* to 1 > anxious to! 91 nr JMsora .tft'aew taMnagh aftnts. He IMUfWH and ad- men tad women in #|ul aATl iiiMaiiliili.in „ wants the ftafiies of aetl tther goods in the same jv. *ttttg tie very lflkely to drop theothe* article for the«k* of ttonewbooiu. Then he waists the ad d**aaii of tbe people who. have never Mied aa agm l̂mt who want to trr it to aeewhat tfefgr can do. He fa* a«enta in ayariety of papers, and a* * pretty hefty? expense. II costs him aanNml cents tat.er̂ ej letter of inquiry about his book that he reoeim To kh»6 letter ef iaquiry he sends his elab­ orate circulars. I ootne to the relief of the publiaher by aelling him a very large number of ogenta' addresses at a small part of the cost of getting fhem by advertising." "How do you get them? . "You see every publisher has a list of •pouts whom ho, has employed at one time and another. Nearly every one will sell me a copy of his list for a *on- aideration. The combined copies make a formidable pile of manuscript. Then there are the novelty men who accumu­ late large lists of names of agents. Agents from one line of special names. Invalids from another." 'Not necessarily. Every community t a lot of people who are always buy­ ing medieine. They are the most valu­ able lot an advertiaer can reach. The consumption remedy circular gives a hacking cough and a heetic fluah. The blood purifier circular flushes them with eczema. So it goes through the list of chronic and acute ills that flesh is heir to. They will buy anything from beer and bark to a steam atomizer to doctor a sprained foot. All these people at one time or another write to some advertising doctor or vender of the elixir of Hfe. I buy the names from the advertiser, classify them according to the number of times the names have been used by medical men and the last diseases that afflicted the writers, and sell them over and over again. Sometimes I sell the original letters outright. The careful advertis­ er sometimes varies the character of the circulars sent according to the charac­ teristics of the letter writer, even writ- ing a personal letter in some cases." "What other chtsses have you?" "Two general classes. One for the sharpen and one for the general ad­ vertiser. The latter class is cosmo­ politan, It includes all others, really, but it is made up mostly of farmers. "What pricee do these names bring ?" * "I have got as high as $25 a thousand for namea for sharpers' use. Good lists of habitual invalids are worth all the way from $10 #o$30 a thousand. Agents are so easily obtained that $10 is a big price; from $3 to $5 is ordinary. Gen- eral-use lists, copied from the letters, bring from $3 to $5 where they have not bean mailed to more than twice. When mailed to oftener than that, and where a year or two old, they get down to a dollar a thousand." "Are many in this business of yours ?" "Not continuously. They drop in, make a good thing, and straightway begin mailing circulars on their own account. The number of actual ad­ dresses handled by me in one year has never exceeded, 1,000,000, but it has crowded that figure closely."--New York Sun. St. Louis Commerce and Xaanfeeture. St. Louis is probably central to a greater food-producing area than either Chicago, Cincinnati, or New Orleans. It must always be a great shipping •market for grain, and has this advan­ tage, that the Mississippi remains open so much longer in the winter than the northern route by the lakes. It appears to have been in the year 1881 the largest market for wheat and £our in the world, and in produce, provisions, and iive stock second only to Chicago. Its central position makes it an eligible , x>int for handling the products of both Northern and Southern States. Cotton and tobacco, to an enormous value, from the ono join the cereals and lum­ ber of the other. It is the largest purely inland cotton market in the world, though led in this respect by a number of seaports. It has received in a year very nearly half a million bales. This marketing of supplies was the beginning, as it is the staple, of its prosperity, and is connected with its situation on the great -river. St Louis counts, in the Mississippi and 240 navi­ gable tributaries no less than 16,000 miles of waterway, to whioh steamboats from its levee penetrate, carrying arti­ cles up and down. Professor Water- house, of the Washington University, jn au interesting pamphlet on the re­ sources of Missouri aa far back as 1869, cited a r olid mile and a half of steam* lying at this levee, and what it iiaa grown to be since I have not space to show here. Upon this basis, later, hae grown up a manufacturing interest pf importance commensurate with the rest. Some 8,000 varied establish­ ments turn out an annual profit of $104,- 1)00,000, and putSt. Louis aeventh in ithe list of manufacturing cities. For the firat time Cincinnati, which figures 'sixth in this Hst, leads her as a rival. There are points in whioh Cincinnati is very similar to St. Louis, and others in whioh it is much more wide-awnke and advanced, though it has 100,0. >0 less population. A study into the differences and resemblances of the two would be interesting to make, but it would be a matter of speculative intereet merely, ainee the aueation of rivalry, at St. directed at Chicago, and ishop, be so Louis, ' w-1 • GIBL who can put a square bn a pair of pantaloons may not accomplished as one who can work green worsted dog on a vellow ground, but she is of more real value la the F«r de good) community. y' ' r. v : k> , , •. .... }.'• ' -l • .* v is otreetea at Chicago, Chicago only.--WUliam Henry Bi in Harper'* Magazine. Louis XI. He took a great interest in dogs, and sent into foreign countries for them; into Spain for one aort, into Bretagne for another, to Valentia for a third, and bought them dearer than the people asked. Hê sent into Sicily to buy mule of a private officer in that country, and paid him double the value asked. At Naples he caused all the horses and . .. . A Wreat Jnfee. : . - ' Old Ned Wilaoa, Uasker tl stripe* on the mulee thewar.and was ones the dark pfopefi/ ef *... . ert Colonel, dedde& after tsiliog fi^Tto op^RSS^GJ* th® praotioe of medieine. TSe<£ rented a small shanty, advantageoualy situated e«h. the main street of » NtilMieftt known as "Sweet Homê and ea- nounoed to the public thai they were able to cure all diseases from chills to the most aggravated attafek <4 "dew pixen," an affliction wbfeh seems to have a peculiar fondness for the oolojred gentleman. They had not long en­ gaged in the practice of the healing art, when they were both arrested and ar­ raigned before a negro justice of the peace. "What's de charge agin dese heah Sessional gen'er men?" asked the Jus­ tice, turning to the prosecuting witness. "Charge iiuf, sab, ter aen' 'em whar de dogs doan'set under & ash hopper an' bark at de new moon. Da pizened my wife, sah." '"Splain vepse'fs," said the magistrate, inclining his head toward the college of physicians and surgeons. "Didn'do it," replied Dr. Wilson. "Neber pizened de 'oman," acquiesced Dr. Nath Potts. "But da did do it Jedge," de­ clared the prosecuting witness. "My wife was sick wid de chills, an* I sent fur dese gen'ermens. Da said datda'd hafter hoi' a 'sultation ober de 'oman's flution, au' arter da talked 'roun' 'er 'while, da gin'er some sorter tea an' da fust thing I knowed de po' creetur was dead as a las' year's buckeye. Dis is de charge, Jedge, an' ef dar s any law in dis country fur a po' man, da'll meet wid a punisment what'll sorter correct dar idees o' de practice 'o med'eine." "Dese facks is mightely agin de larned gen'ermen," said the Justiee with an air of deep decision. "In all my creer az a jurist o' dis lan', it ain't been my painful duty ter fling de light o' my knowledge on a wus case. Doc­ tor Wilson, whut has yer got ter say." Jedge, l'se so full o* laugh dat I can't hardly say nutten. De ignunc o' dis man would tickle an Injin. When we got ter de house, de 'oman waa dun dead, but in respeck ter our medecal skill, sor, she commenced to breathe agin jes ez soon as we went in. Ef we hadnter went in, she neber would have breathed no mo'. 'Dootor,' ses she, 'l'se mighty glad yo's come, for it gins me a chance ter say what I wanted ter say. De man what I married was a good cit- ezen, but he wan't my idee o' a puffick gen'erman. Ef I had my life ter lib ober agin, I would marry a man like de Jestice o' de Peace. Oh, he's so smart, an' now, while I lays heah, wid bof feet in de grabe an' wid only one han' out, suthin tells me dat man is gwine ter be a spreme jedge one o' dese days. Good by ter all, l'se gwine." "Dat's zackly whut she said," agreed Dr. Nath Potts. "She said dem words while we was makin de tea, but fore we could gin it ter her, she was dun dead agin. Now, jedge, dese are de facks." The Justiee reflected for a moment, and then, turning to the prosecuting witness, said: "'l'se ashamed o'yer, sor, ter hab dese edycated ziohions fotch up heah. Anybody ken see dat da un'erstan's dar business. I flings yer in de cas', fur mens charged^"--Texas Siftings, A Prize Baby. On an Atlantic steamer bound for New York, a year or so ago, the usual entertainment for the benefit of a Liv­ erpool charity was projected. There happened to be on board a good many "professionals," actors and singers, who all promised to take part, except one. who kept aloof, and stubbornly declined to assist. As he was the star most de­ sired, every effort was made to change his mind, and the committee of arrange­ ments at last applied to Mr. P. T. Bar- num (who was, as usual, an inconspicu­ ous passenger), and begged him to la­ bor with the reluctant singer. Mr. Barnum undertook the mission, and af­ ter stating the case and making his ap­ peal, somewhat to his surprise the wan at once consented. "I refused all these people," he said, and I dislike exceedingly to take part in this sort of an entertainment, but il you ask me, Mr. Barnum, I cannot de­ cline. I am glad to do anything thM will please you." Mr. Barnum felt much complimented, but protested a little, when the man continued: "You did me a great favor once, Mr. Barnum, and I never have forgotten it. You may not recall it, but I am under great obligations to you." Why," hesitated the great showman, "I must confess I don't recall--I don't remember any circumstance, and yet your face is familiar. I haven't forgot that. Where was it we met ?" Oh 1 it was thirty years ago, Mr. Bar­ num. I took the first prize in your first baby show. I've always felt grate­ ful to yqp."--Editor's Drawer, in Har­ per's Magazine. Osier Willow. The cultivation of the basket willow has been undertaken a number of times in the United States, but each time abandoned from the fact that American labor could not compete with the cheap labor of women and children in Europe in peeling and preparing the shoots. The value of osier imported into this country is about $6,000,000 annually, and it sells at from $100 to $150 per ton. The cost of raising is front $30 to $50 a ton, and the product varies from one to four tons to the acre. To ra se it the soil should be deep, well drained and thoroughly worked, but moist and capable of being overflowed in dry montha The osiers are propagated bv cuttings in rows three feet apart The ground should be kept clean of weeds. The crop the first year is of little val­ ue, but should be cut inrorder to have a good stand of shoots the second year. The shoots for market are sometimes cut in November, and from that time to April are equally good. After outtiug they are tied in bundles, and the lower ends placed in water until they are peeled in April, May, or June. After peeling they are cleaned and placed in the sun to be dried.--Chicago News. ersrau» unr uonuwi. x lunga de cas', fur ver ignunce. Gen'er- o' de medecal aohopl yer dis- A."--Texas Sif tings* W MATTHEW ABNOIS LIIR^ Pittsburgh, Looks like London, that is, aa much at you can aee it. J-*!*- ' • mm*# '>r .y the laws of is necessary in CoWt propwty of light,wbieh~facC makes" tex cure or nature of sutj&ria of ^ the Utmost mportafece, aa alao th« quality otfight t is exposed to. The direction, quan­ tity, ind even Oolor of artificial light ire uegatly tinder conttol, M we oan have lido lights or oenter lights, or both.ifde^able; can deteraLe their height above the floor, and bv tile form >f the globes or shades, andbyreileo- tors or sconces, can control the direc­ tion. The choice of the nuerfal and •oior of the globee or shades makss it possible to achieve almost any effect complimentary to the acheme of deoor- ition adopted; built is the compromise between the effeet by daylight and :hat by artificial light, thai makes the nicest discrimination in color contrast necessary. Of the three primary colors, red, yellow, and blue, yellow is the itrongest* and when used in equal quantity and intensity will predomin­ ate. A general rule may be laid down >hat no color composition can be ef­ fectively ccmplete unless the three primaries are present. For instance, if the predominant tone of a composi­ tion is purple, yellow must be intro- luced in some way to make the effect of purple fully appreciated, because purple is composed of red and blue, »nd yellow is the third primary; so in a generally green composition some red must be used, green being yellow and blue, and red restores" the equi­ librium. In an orange composi­ tion some blue is necessary, for the same reasons. The relative quan­ tify and intensity of thia third color is a question of tone, which, though capa­ ble of exact definition in any particular instance, must always remain more or less a matter of feeling, with which one person is more fully endowed than an­ other. However, there are many known facts that, when appreciated, save the trouble of experimenting in regard to the effeet of one eolornpon another in juxtaposition--the effect of what is called simultaneous oontrast. For in­ stance, a clear yellow may be made to take on a greenish hue*by contrast­ ing it with orange, because the eye supplies the absent pri- tnary, blue. So a blue may be made to assume a purple cast by being con­ trasted with a green, because the eye supplies the absent primary, red. The relative quantity and intensity of colors of a composition are called the values, and if these are true--that is, so bal­ anced as to realize to the uttermost the desired effect--the whole composition could be translated into another tone of color and still retain these valnes; as, for instance, a sunset that appears to us in values of reds and yellows would retain all its contrasts and effects if seen through a green or blue glass, [n short, the aim of the colorist is not so much to produce a certain effect by emplagring certain colors, ae to produce a certain effect by employing any colors that the nature of a case may force up­ on him. When he is obliged to con­ sider the effeot of existing things upon his work, it is in making stubborn facts hia auxiliary that he shows his skill.-- A. F. Oakey, in Harper's Magatiue. How to Keep the Witches Awsy. A policeman was searching a negro house in Atlanta, and turning over a pillow on the bed found a ease-knife un­ der it. "What is this knife here for?" he asked, aternly. "Gimme dat 1" excitedly shouted the negro woman who was in the room. "Dat's mine 1" "What ie it under here for?"asked the officer. "Ter keep witches from ridin* me." "What?" " Yessur: 'oepin' I has dat knife un­ der my head de witches ride me all night. I hear folks say if you pat a sifter on de foot er de bed de witches can't ride yer; but I tried dat--sifter don't stop no witoh. It takes a sharp knife under yer head fer to keep de witches of. If knife ain't sharp old witch light on yer and she ride yer. If knife is sharp she can't light on yer. Sometimes I lay and i hear old witch come in der winder. She go zing, zing, rip! but she can't light on me, 'cause I got de knife under my head." The offioer was taken back, but be­ gan to understand the situation when the woman showed bim that all the beds in the house were supplied with knives to keep the old witch off. The oman said the white folks told her the "old witch" was the nightmare, when her blood did not circulate, but the col­ ored people did not believe that, but thought thev were ridden in their sleep by an old witch. An inquiry developed the fact that the superstition exists to a very, considerable extent worn.--Atlanta Constitution * To Parents. Surround your children whett at home with objects and influences whioh will make their minds best able to enjoy and expand under the teachings of the publio instructor. If they see you sur­ round the home with beautiful things, because you love them, they will do so too. If they see yottr garden arranged for beauty as wallas utility, while all over the homesiead stern economy yields to a reverential love of nature, md to a sense thst the gratification of the eye and the mind is quite as import­ ant as the gratification of the appetite, they will grow up with liberal, generous feelings and opinions; they will be men and women who have the best interest of the world at heart. Nevermore. "When am I going to get that new auit of clothes I ordered three weeks ago?" asked Gilhooley, of his tailor, Herr Schneider. "Choqst so soon as you pays for dot oder suit I makes you last year.*' "But my good fellow, I can t afford to wait so long as tnat."-- Texas Sift- ings. I* you talk about your neighbors it is very much like blowing into a dust heap and filling your own eyes with dirt. If you try to keep honest yon will be too busy to know whether any 1 Que else is honest or not. *'* hK mtvy -CarlPrHzdi | iron of tkto Mrt.- ' ofi eii will be fish-balls.- y. feaphelor says fee is sing's' " ft m ikes mad to ask ghi mals efcefee of some --Texas Sifting*. A K£*££t̂ ve has been invented for the comfort of travelers. It is to be putnnd& th<| feet, with a mustard plaster ca the head, which drawa the heat through ths whole aystem. "BtfsWEss is pretty good," said aa undertaker «t» in interviewer, "but if lying was punished as it was in the of Ananias, I would |i§to to *&• large my worka and purohase fifty mora heatses." THE following is a copy of a bill POET, ed on the wall of a country village. 44A lecture on total abstinence wilp be de­ livered in tiie open sir, aiwfc imllnrtiinn "will he mads at the door to defray ex­ penses." " A GRAN© SXBZR (New York) owing linea 'S® &V * . **: ' , * has placed the foil desk in his shop: 1 ftMtoaitMiii -1 - ;s Ttwb (terId; " 5 V-: ' .*• Po sailor* irfve their faith tall soop#'. When they sail around Good Hopefl -Goeertueur Herald. <» Som^poorasijo!*, to bad lack bont; to "doabletteBonu^ "Leave Hope behind --Richmond Baton. Ballon, 'tie verr aad to tell, irossawsir*"™11 When all tt^atm and the la ele%i> > -*v No sailor feara to ronnd Cape Fear. «„• --ElevatedRailway Journal The sailor hopes to splice the m%in braoe When calling nor;h around C»pe Baas. --LouUvilt* Journal ir I were • Lnmti-t >im~lam -titum-tos la the land ot the oil «e and fig, I'd nit HII day on th* t< nlle lol-loo And play on the ihinfree-me-lig. And U la the Rumde»-dnm battle I tall A what s-its-nam-j'a all that I oravo-- Bat bury me deep la the what-yoa-mty Aafl̂ hwvthingum-bobs oamy f ravel Co when you've reached the land of jrum-ynia Ana are freed from all tfonble a'd wota, T. ' You'll burayour thnmb on your th«xwee-me-|ir. And howl foraa asbestos shlrtl . : - Old Niok will oome wit h his thtnsnm-bob lias To pat on your d<»- nnt-y qn 1%. 1 JKfilKffc0" •pta" • • --Xevcman Independent % WHEN A. T. Stewart, the dead NIBS i - lionaird, asked for the girl he wished to marry, her father said Stewart wanted to marry her for her money, whereupon ' the ardent swain replied: "No, sir; you needn't leave her^ifc ^ cent. I will soon be rioher than anyhow." ^ Then did this singular parent s^r: f "Go ahead and take her, then, aitif ^ Heaven bless you both." This story was told years ago, and is recalled by the experience of a young man, who, being familiar with the in­ cident, tried it recently on the father ofthegirlhe loved. When the other aecusea him of being after his money the youth replied: . - "Keep your money. I have started a . newspaper, and will soon be worth more money than you ever saw." And then the girl's father, instead of saying, "Take her, and Heaven bless you both," kicked him out of the house and a healthy dog bit a peice out of hia leg SS he went down the steps. It would seem that all lathers are not constituted alike. One is more credu­ lous than the' other.--Norristown Herald. ' » •... *. Haw to Baise a Horse* 7 #. A tall, black horse, lean and witfcp* "'- ered, one .wrinkled hide nineteen weary, wintry suns, and an equal number of blistering summers, had tanned and ahrunken, slipped on an ice hillock out- aide of the Origgs House on Friday, and fell dow1* innis harness. In an in­ stant a dosen draymen who occupy the opposite oorner as a stand, were on the spot, and advice was hurfed gratis and wholesale at the unluoky owner. "Stand back and give him air," oried one. "It's oats he wants," oried another* - "Give him a taste of the whip," marked a third. "Always howld a horse down by the hid," chimed in a stout drayman, as he approached that portion of the pros­ trate animal. r "Stand back, will yees," roared a tall Irishman, "an' I'll show ye how to tackle a horse. We used always take thim by the ligs where I kem from i|L the ould dart," and suiting the action to the word, he got in between the horse's hind legs, grasping a hoof in each hand, and handling the animal in a manner similar to the way a farmer would handle a plow. "Ye see, byes, I can do as I ploise with him. There's nothing wrong with' the baste; he just wanted to rowl," and amid the laughter of the crowd, the old horse, assisted by the County Ker­ ry man, oQce again regained his feet, and shook tho snow and mud from his venerable sides.--London Advertiser. >x jy V. ' N Tom Ochiltree Paints a Sign. Old Judge Ochiltree, soon after 1^1 j « illustrious son had got' his license to practice law, went off on a few days' trip; "and Thomas," said he, "you may as well have a neat sign of the new firm paiilted and hung up over the of­ fice door." When the old gentleman returned he did indeed see a neat sign over the offioe door. He examined it through his gold-rimmed spectacles, •and then took off hia binoculars and ex­ amined it again. The neat sign read thus: "Thomas F- Ochjltrseaad Father,. Attorneys at Law.---flew Yo^k Sun. Poor fellow. A n Austin Sooiety youth was stand­ ing in front of a saloon, when his little brother came running up oAt or jlu t̂h and exclaimed: , , >• "Come home quick, Gus.* "What's the matter?" ̂ "Mother haagot a fit" "la that all? Merciful Moses, hoir you sosred me. When yon first spoke I thought something had happened to that *75 pointer of mine."--Texas Sifting*. "CAW your wife drive?" one Somer- ville man asked of another. "Driv* what?"' "Drive a horse, of course.1* "Drive a horse! Why, man, she can not drive a nail." A® an academy bal masque, the oth night, a jolly French girl said to b partner: "You like to "I adore it" "Then why did; learn?" ̂ /v • 1. idie p «, « „ , . M