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RG FFKIADCALER 1. VM tLYKE. E<M»r « it hMWMr. PJPBMKY, ILLINOIS VHtic m cows coins HOHI. AfJNBS H MITCH BIX. . With Mingle, Mangle, kllnffle, 'Way down the dusty dingw^ TneoowaarecomlDg hone; Now rw eel and otear, and faint and low, tteeiry MakUan com© and so. Like cldMilflgB from aome far off tower. Or eshertiige of an ApHl shower " " . That mupa the daisies grow; Ko-kli 'li im Co-kling, ko-klarg, koklingielinglc, Wa# down the darkening dingle lie oows come slowly nome; And old-time frien is, and iwnight plays. And Marry nights, and sunny days Come troop'ng «p the misty ways when the cows come home. 1 1 v' With jingle. jangle, jingle. Soft sounds that sweetly mtngto, • n« oows are coming- heme; Malvtn*. and Pearl, and Fiorimel, ^DeKamp, Rodro-e and Oretotien Sohell, •no Bess, and Sylph, and Spangled 8uc-- p^cro»« the fields I hear her 00-00, s And clang her silver bell; v Go-!ing go-lang, goliuglelingier Witu faint far sounds that mingle; The cows come slow y home; And mother songs of long gone j osrs. And baby joys, and childish tears. Andyouthful hopes, and youthful fears, . w;• When the oows oome n«aw. < - . f'A-\ J in. if With ring)*, nuigle, 1 _ By twos and threes nii<i lhts oows are cominir hom Tteoogh the violet air we see the town, : And the cummer sun a-s ipping down; The maple in the h>zel glade Thiuws down the path a longer shade. And ihe hills nre growing brown; To-rlng. to-ransf. torlngu r ngle, Bytnreea and fours and single The cows come slowiy home; Ibe same sweet sound of wor.il ss psalm, The same sweet June-day rest and calm, >weetsoent of bud and balsa. When the oows oome home. • , **' With a tinkle, tankie, (inkle. Through tern ann periwinkle, 1 The cows are corning home; Afatteridg in the checkered s 1 ream, wkere the sun-ravs ghtnee and g eam, Starine, Peachbloonrand Phoebe Phyllis ' ; • . • Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilks In a drowsy dr<am: To-link, to-lank, tolliiklelinkle. O'or banks with buttercups a-twinkle The cow s come slowly home; Jtat np through Mimorj's deeu ravine Oome the brook'9 oid song and lis old-tima sheen, Aad the orescent of the s'lver Queen, When the cows come home. j.Vfe, •. Withaklingle,klangle,kingle. With air 0-00, andmoo-oo. and jingle, The cows are coming home; And over there on Men n hill Hear the p(a ntive cry of the whip-poo r-wil; The dew-drops 1 e on the (angled vines. And over the poplai s Venus shinepb And over .ho siieti: mi 1; Ko-lirg. !e;>-lang, koHnglclingfe^ • With ting-a-ling and jingle , j The cow- come slowly hntne; Letdown the b8:s; 1 tin the train Uf long-gone songs, and flower- and rain. For dear old times ci.me back again s? v # When the cows come " Ifpft THE LOUIS D'OR. c* When Lucien de Hem saw his last bank-note of a 100 francs raked in by the croupier, and when he rose from the roulette-table where he had just lost the remains of his small fortune, which he had reserved for this supreme and final contest, he was almost over- oome bj a vertigo, and thought for a moment that he should falL , With swimming brain and trembling limbs, |ie threw himself on the large bench covered with leather which was placed all around the sides of the gam- bling-halL For some minutes he sur­ veyed th« secret haunt where he had wastedthe best years of his youth, and recognised the worn faces of the play- era dimly shown by the light of three large glebes. He listened to the chink of the gold falling on the green cloth, reflected that he was rained, lost, and remembered that he had at home, in the drawer of his dressing table, the regulation pistols which his father, Gen. de Hem, then a simple captain, had used BO well at the attack on Zaat- oha; then, overpowered by fatigue, he sank into a profound sleep. When he awoke, with his mouth heated and parched, he perceived by a glance at the clock that he had slept scarcely a half hour, and he felt an ir- resistable desire to breathe the outer air of night. The hands of the clock marked a quarter of an hour to mid­ night As he arose from the bench and •tretched his arms, Lucien remembered that it was Christmas Eve, and by an ironical freak of his memory he sud­ denly saw himself again a little child placing his shoes near the chimney be­ fore going to bed. At this moment the old Drouski, a aort of pillar of the gambling house, the classic Pole, wearing a shabby'sur- tovt, ornamented with frogs and but­ tons, approached Lueien and mur­ mured in his ear these words, which seamed to issue from his grizzly and grimy beard: "Lend me a five-franc piece, mon- aieur. For two days I have not stirred from the circle, and for two days the "seventeen' has not come out. Laugh At me if you will, but I give you leave to cut off my right hand if in a few mo­ ments, when it strikes midnight, that number does not appear." Lucien de Ham shrugged his shoul ders; he had not even enough in his pocket to pay his tax, which the fre­ quenters of the place called "the 100 sous of the Pole." He passed into the Ante-chamber, put on his hat and pel­ isse, and descended the staircase with ihe rapidity of a person in a fever. During the four hours which Lucien had been passing in tht^ gambling- house, the snow had fallen copiously, <uid the street, a street in the center of Paris, rather narrow and built with nigh houses on each side, was perfectly white. In the sky, which was now clear and of a blackish blue, the cold • ptars sparkled and shone. . The ruined gambler shivered under* tteath his furs, and set out to walk rap­ idly, turning over in his mind his de­ spairing reflections, and thinking now toore than ever of the case of pistols which awaited him in the drawer of his pressing-table; but after having gone steps, he suddenly stopped before , 'a heart-rending spectacle. . "•Under a block of stone, placed ac- eordipg to former usage near the prin- eiflfkl entrance of a hotel, a little girl, 6 or 7 years of age, barely clothed in a KBwn, all in rags, was seated in »e snow. She had fallen asleep in Site of the cruel cold, in a pitiable at-ude of fa igue and exhaustion, and her poor little head and diminutive •boulders were crushed, so to speak, into an angle of the wall, and rested on the icy stone. One of the ehoes which the child wore had become detached from ner foot, which hung down limp and inert, and now lay mournfully be- lare,her. ' With a mechanical gesture Lucien de Hem raised his hand to his waist % ooat pocket, but he remembered that a moment before he had not bten able to find a twenty-sou piece which ho had forgotten, and which he wished to give m a gratuity to the waiter of the gam­ bling house. However, impelled by an I instinctive sentiment of pity, he ap- - aroached the little child, and perhaps would have taken her in his arms and carried her to a shelter for the night, When he perceived a shining object in the shoe, which had fallen on the snow. He stooped and looked. It was a louis d'or! A charitable person, a woman, no doubt, had passed by, had seen on this Christmas Eve the fallen shoe lying be­ fore the slumbering child, and,recalling the touting legend, had dropped in it • -with cautious hand a splenpid gift, so that the little, deserted creature might on awakening, still believe in the pres­ ents made by the child Jesus, and pre­ serve, notwithstanding her misery, some hope and trust in the goodness i>f Providence. A louis! that meant many days of ease and comfort for the little beggar; and Lucien was on the point of arous­ ing and telling her this, when close to his ear. as it were in a dream, he heard |he voice of the Pole with his drawling and slimy accent: "For two whole days I have not stirred from the circle, and for two days the 'seventeen' has not come out. You may cut off my right h$nd if now, in a moment, at the stroke of midnight, that number does not appear." Suddenly this young man of 23, de­ scended from an honorable race which bore a splendid military name without a stain, conceived a frightful thought. He was seized with a mad, hysterical, monstrous desire. By a glance he as­ sured himself that he was alone in the deserted street, and binding down and stretching forward his trembling hand, he stole the louis d'or from the fallen shoe. Then, running at full speed, he returned to the gambling house, bound­ ed up the staircase, burst opeo with a blow of his hand the door of the crowd­ ed and accursed hall, and rushing in at the very moment when the clock sound­ ed the first stroke of midnight, he threw the pieces of gold on the green cloth, and cried: . ^ % , "All on the 'seventeen $&•>*.. - The "seventeen" won. With a sweep of his hand Lucien pushed the thirty-six louis on the red. The red won. He left seventy-two louis on the same color. The red again turned up. He made the same venture twice, three times, and always with the same success. He had soon before him a heap of gold and bank notes with which, in a sort of frenzy, he strewed the cloth. The "dozen," the "column," the "number," every combination suc­ ceeded. It was a supernatural and un­ heard-of-fortune. It seemed as if the little ball of ivory leaping into the com­ partments of the roulette-table was magnetized and fascinated by the look of the player, and obeyed his will. He had re-won in a dozen bets the few pal­ try bank note3 of a thousand francs, his last resource, which he had lost in the beginning of the evening, and now, wagering 200 or 300 louis at a time, and sustained by his fantastic bliss of luck, he was on the way to more than regain the hereditary fortune which he had dissipated in so short a time. In his haste to begin play, he had not taken off his heavy pelisse; already he had filled its large pockets with packages of bank notes and rouleax of gold pieces, and, not knowing where to put his winnings, he stuffed with paper money the inner and outer pockets of his frock-coat, the pockets of his waist- coast and trouses, his cigar case, his handkerchief--in fact, everything which could serve as a receptacle. And he played like a madman, like a drunk­ en man, and still won; and he threw handfuls of gold on the table athasard, without concern, and with a gesture of certainty and disdain. But all the time he felt, as it were, a red-hot iron in his heart, and his thoughts turned to the little beggar asleep in the snow, the child whom he liadrobbed. "She is still in the same placehe said to himself; "certainly, she must be there still. In a moment. Yes! When it strikes one, I Bwear it! I will leave. I will hasten to take her to my arms, fast asleep as she is. I will carry her to my home. I will put her to sleep in my own bed. I will bring her up. I will give her a dowry. I will love her as my own child, and I will protect and cherish her forever--forever." lint the clock struck one, and the quarter, and the half, and the three- quarters, and Lucien was still seated at the infernal table. At last, just before 2 o'clock, the manager rose abruptly and said, with a loud voice: "The bank is broken, gentlemen! It is enough for to-day!" With one bound Lucien sprang to his feet. Pushing aside without cere­ mony the players who surrounded him and who watched him with envious ad­ miration, he left hastily, descended the stairs at full speed and ran to the stone bench. From afar, by the light of a gas lamp, he saw the little child. "God. be praised!" he exclaimed. "She is still there!" He approached and seized her hand. "Oh! how cold she is! Poor little creature!" he murmured. He put his arms around her and raised her to carry her away. The head of the child fell back, but she did not awake. "Ah! how one sleeps at that age!" he said. He pressed her to his breast to give her warmth, and then, seized with a vague uneasiness and to arouse her from her heavy slumber, he kissed her on the eyes, and he had many a time kiflsed the woman whom he loved and cherished the most. * But he preceived with terror that the child's eyelids were half open and dis­ closed the eyeballs glassy, dull, and motionless. His brain agitated by a frightful suspicion, Lucien placed his mouth close to that of the child, but not a breath issued from her lips. While with the louis d'or which he had stolen from the beggar Lucien had won a fortune, the child without shel­ ter had perished--perished with the cold. With his throat contracted by a sen­ sation of the most terrible agony, Lu­ cien endeavored to utter a cry, and in the efforts which he made he awoke from his nightmare on the bench of the gambling-house, where a little before midnight he had fallen asleep, and where the Waiter, who usually left the last, at about 5 o'olock in the morning, had allowed him to remain undisturbed,, by a sentiment of commiseration for the ruined gambler. ! -A dull December dawn lit up with a pale hue the glasses of the windows. Lucien left, placed his watch in pawn, took a bath, breakfasted, and went to the recruiting office to sign a voluntary enlistment in the First Begiment of the Chasseurs d'Ajrique. Lucien de Hem is now a lieutenant. He has but his pay on which to live, but he succeeds in doing this, being an officer of exemplary habits, and never touching a card. It would appear even as if he were able to save something, for the other day an Algiers one of his comrades, who happened to follow him at some distance up a precipitous street of Kaaba, saw him give alma to a lit- tie Spanish girl who had fallen asleep under a gate, and he had the curiosity, indiscreet as it was, to see what Lueien had bestowed to alleviate poverty. He was greatly surprised at the generosity of the poor lieutenant. Lucien de Hem hsd plaoed a louiS d'or in the hand of the little child.-- Francois Copper. " The Fightlug Ships of the The London Pout protests strongly against building any more iron-clads. It enumerates the disadvantages en­ tailed on the British navy by the appli­ cation of armor-plates to the sides or batteries of line-of-battle (or fighting) ships as follows: 1. The expense of iroa or steel armor adequate to resist the^ ever-increasing power of artillery is simply monstrous. 2. All fire from shipboard is known to be more or less inaccurate, and the ohances of a ship being struck in a vital part are very small indeed. 3. But if the armor- plating of a ship's battery or turret be Btruck, and if it be not wholly impervi­ ous to the shell striking it, the effect of the blow is enhanced, and the shield actually becomes an instrument for rendering the blow more deadly to the gunners behind it. 4. A ship has -a certain tonnage displacement, accor­ ding to which her weights have to be arranged, hehce every ounce of armor weight decreases the gun weight or coal weight that she can carry. 5. Iron­ clad fighting ships are necessisanly of such a prodigious size that to possess a numerous navy and to conduct a great naval war on the principles that must be followed if we are to maintain a dominant position on the seas--that is, as a war of aggression--is a finan­ cial impossibility. (>. It is almost cer­ tain that the bulk of the educated na­ val opinion of the present day favors the view that the skillful use of the ram will be the guiding objects in future naval engagements. Now, a modern iron-clad is about as handy an instru­ ment for use in ramming manuvers as --well, let us say an old cow at a pump. 7. Next to the ram the torpedo, or tor­ pedo vessel, is probably the most effi­ cient naval-fighting weapon. But an enormous iron-clad is singularly open to attacks from torpedoes, and its size gives it no particular advantage in di­ recting such attacks. 8. The great size, draught, and cost of iron-clads in­ variably tend to reduce the feeling which should be uppermost in any cap­ tain's mind, that he "can go anywhere and do anything" with his ship. In fact, it renders him cautious--a deadly quality for naval minds. What, then, should we substitute for these gigantic armored floating machines? To us it appears that the type of first-class fighting ship which most nearly meets the requirements of the day is as fol­ lows: An unarfnored coverette with­ out sails, of 2,000 to 4,000 tons displace­ ment, possessing good sea qualities, an armament of maximum weight and power, an underwater steel protecting deck, great capacity of coal stowage, handiness, facilities for ramming and torpedoing, and a3 much speed as can be given her. Such vessels would cost comparatively small sums, and we could maintain many squadrons of them. 1 • - s- «< : A Plea for Wooden Shoes. ̂ 1« If the merits of wooden shoes" better known, they would be much more universally used, especially on the farm, says a writer in the Milwau­ kee Wisconsin. At a first glance those having used them would think them clumsy, hard on the feet, and very cold in the winter, but after a fair trial your readers will be well pleased with tliem. At least, that has been my experience. I can highly recommend them to all farmers and dairymen. They are most valuable, and do excellent service along in the winter and spring,when the ground is continually freezing and thawing and it is muddy most of the time. It is then that they are far su­ perior to leather boots and shoes, for the leather will soak up water and make the feet wet, and the boots will be hard to get on and off, while wooden shoes keep the feet dry and warm even in the coldest weather. When the chores are done it is a simple matter to step out of the shoes and into a pair of slippers. It seemed strange to me, when I first saw them, that they could be used at all in the winter, for the back part of the shoe was open, as thev all are, and I thought this would let the cold air in all around the foot; but by using them a short time I was de­ lighted with the way they kept toy feet warm and comfortable. Of course, we all know that wood is a very poor conductor of heat and cold, and for this reasou wooden shoes are much warmer than leather ones. I had an idea, however, at first, that the heel would almost freeze in cold weath­ er, but two pairs of socks kept them warm during the coldest weather we have had. It would be a good plan to take a pair of old boots and cut off the feet, and then tack the tops around the opening on a pair of wooden shoes, as this would keep the ankles warmer and more comfortable. Besides this they are very econom­ ical, being much cheaper and lasting longer than leather boots and shoes. Escape ol Marshal Bazaine. The escape of the fat man of Metz from liiB prison on the isle of St Mar­ guerite was arranged entirely by the marshal, his wife, and nephew, Alvarez de BuelL Mme. Bazaine had hired a steamer for a pretended pleasure trip at Genoa, and, leaving her at anchor in Jouan Bay, she had started for the island of St. Marguerite, with her de­ voted nephew, in an open boat, across the stormy sea. Meanwhile the mar­ shal, who had been forewarned of his wife's designs, had managed to elude his jailers and to secure a rope, one end of which he secured to two iron bars placed crosswise in an old gutter which carriod off the rain water from the rock; the other hung down into the darkness. He then began the descent, some eighty feet down the face of the precipice, with the danger of being dashed against projecting cliffs or of falling into the sea. Half-wav down he rested, by means of a hook which was attached to his belt, and lit a match, which signal was answered by a f eble light beneath him. Arrived at the end of the rope, the marshal, all bleeding and exhausted as he was, threw himself into the sea and swam to the boat, into which he was lifted with great difficulty. They reached the steamer about 1 in the morning, and the marshal was forth­ with introduced to the captain as a valet whom madame had en gaged, landed In at Genoa, and proceeded thence' to Ger­ many,--Illustrated History of Eng­ land. ' THE proportion of those who attend public worship to the bulk of the pop­ ulation in the following four European cities is: Berlin 20,000, population 1,000,000; Hamburg 5,000, population 400,000; London 500,000, population 4,000,000; Glassgow 300,000, popula­ tion 700,000 Philadelphia Prua, HOW TO MAKE DYNAMITE. Directions tot Making |he Moit Powerful Explosive Known to the Chemists. The fact is that dj rnamite enough to do a great deal of damage may be turned out with the simplest applian­ ces at a very moderate cost, from ma­ terials most readily obtained, and in the smallest possible bit of a workshop. The recipe for the making of the great explosive may be told in half-dozen lines of print, and told so plainly that anyone who can read ought to be able to follow the instructions and produce the finished material. Ordinarily it is not made of the maximum strength, and in place of the 75 per cent, by weight of nitro-glycerine, mixed with 25 per cent, of absorbent material, that in general use would have about 40 per cent, of nitro glycerine. In this shape it can be sold at thirty cents per pound, and just now there is' some cut­ ting going on between the rival makers, and even lower rates can be had. At the ordinary strength it is about four and one-half times as powerful as gun­ powder applied in a drill hole. Its sharp detonating qualities make it ap­ plicable in places where gunpowder would be useless. If a quantity of gun­ powder were ignited upon the ground it Would burn ap, making much smoke but doing no special damage. Dyna­ mite, under the same conditions, .would leave a great hole in the pavement. It has many curious properties, and as yet the chemistry of explosives is in a growing state, and every year sees new chapters written in this department of science. Dynamite freezes at 45 de­ grees Fahrenheit, and is then compara­ tively safe to handle, yet a sharp quick blow has been known to set off a solid block of it. At 120 degrees Fahrenheit it is at its best for real work. At 250 degrees it becomes very unstable and above 300 is liable to start itself off. To make it, the first step is to get nitric acid and sulphuric acid of great purity and strength and to make a mix­ ture of the two in the proportion of one pound of nitric to two pounds of sul­ phuric acid. This mixture may be purchased at any chemical works, and should cost at current market rates about 31 cents per pound. Seven pounds of this mixture are placed in an earthen jar or pitcher, and into it are poured, drop by drop, a pound of or­ dinary crude glycerine, costing 12 cents per pound. A glass rod should be used :in stirring the compound, and it should be kept in ice, or in a vat or box sur- lounded by ice-water; or, better still, salt and ice. The object of the ice is to keep down the temperature, for the strong chemical action evolves great heat. The sulpuric acid does not go into the final compound, and seems to exert no usefulness beyond an absorb of the water which is one product the chemical changes. When the mi: ture is complete, two pounds of nitr< glycerine will be found at the bottoi of the earthenware vessel, while t' water, or rather dilute sulphuric ac: generally known by the name of oil vitrol, will be floating on top. This poured off, and the nitro-glycerine su jeotsd to a very thorough washing, u: til it is entirely freed of free acid, not taken up in combination by t glycerihe. A little nitrate of soda, Chili saltpeter, may be added as a ^ alkali to take upany of the free acicl . i The explosive is now made, and in the form of the yellowish, oily nitro-glycer­ ine would be the most effective for de­ structive purposes, but it is a very fiekle substance, and the least jar is apt to bring on the explosion. In this form it is largely used in "shooting" oil wells, and is sent about the country very carefully packed in felt lined cases. Even then, when transported in wagons over the rough roads of the oil regions, it has not unfrequently left only a rough place in the road to tell the story of a horse, man, and wagon passing that way. The mixture with the inert substance is purely a mechan­ ical one. Anything will do as an ab­ sorbent; sawdust, if well dried, old tanbark, powdered, and black gun­ powder, any vegetable fibre or cellulose will answer, and thus in twenty-four hours or less the,en tire process of man­ ufacture will have been completed from the simple materials of aquafortis, oil of vitriol, glycerine, and sawdust The mixing and cooling may be gone through with and the rash manufactur­ er is ready with the strongest explosive known to modern science. Experimenters of ability have spent years on the problem of supplanting it with an explosive of higher power, and under scores of names as many such substances are claimed. Others have experimented to discover some way of making the compound more stable and less liable to those freaks of action which appear to be inseparable from dynamite. ^ Success has been very lim­ ited, however, in either direction, and the bulk of the 8,000,000 pounds, of dynamite made each year in this coun­ try is of the simple ligneous or wood- dynamite variety. ThiB great produc­ tion does not interfere with an immense output of black powder, of which the production runs up to an average of 100 tons per dav even in these times of peace.--Newville World. The Roland of the French Army. Marshal Lannes, afterwards made Due de Montebello, was the man. He was the son of a poor mechanic of Gui- enne, and was apprenticed by his father to a dyei, but ran away and enlisted in the army.' On the breaking out of the revolution his corps was sent to the frontier, where his fearless courage won him rapid promotion. On his return to Paris he attracted the attention of Napoleon, whom he accompanied to Italy. At the bridge of Lodi he was the first to reach the opposite side, Napoleon himself being the second. For desperate deeds of courage he was made General of division; accompanied Napoleon to Egypt, where he was over foremost in danger, and was seriously wounded in the battle of Acre. He re­ turned to France with his commander, aided him in overthrowing the Direc­ tory, and accompanied him in his journey across the Alps. In Junfe, 1800, he won the victory at Montebe lo, whence he afterward received his title. He was at Wertingen, at Braunau, at Austerlitz, at Jena, and the bloody struggle of Pultusk, and Friedland. It was said of .him that "he waB the Em­ peror's right hand, ready for any enterprise and. as prodigal' of the blood of others as of his own." ; He took part in the Peninsular war,,fouglit grandly at Tudela and Sartfgossa, and returning to take part in the Austrian war, was mortally wounded at the bat­ tle of Esling. Lannes was a man of a remarkably noble, generous nature, and had the courage of a lion on tiie field. Mme. Junot, the wife of another of Na- Napoleon and this one of his officers. Lannes had full opportunity to win comparison to the great hero of medie­ val romanee, for he took part in fifty- four pitched battles and in abont 300 combats of various kinds. He was cool in the midst of fire, and ever ready to take full advantage of the enemy's movements. Napoleon, when at St. Helona, in speaking of him, said that at first his courage predominated over his military genius, but the latter quality gained ground in every test "I found him a dwarf," said the exiled ruler of men, "and lost him a giant,"--Inter Ocean. Mexican Sacrifices. The Mexioan sacrifice) were, in truth, of the most frightful description. It was an axiom among the Aztecs that none but human sacrifices were truly efficacious. They were continually making war in order to get a supply of victims. They regarded the victim, when once seleoted, as a kind of incar­ nation of the deity who was ultimately to consume his flesh, or at any rate his heart. They retain the practice of can­ nibalism as a religious rite, and, as though they had some of the redskins' blood in their veins, they refined upon the tortures to which they forced those victims, whom they had almost adored the moment before, to undergo at last. To celebrate the close of the annual rule of Tezeatlpoca, which fell at the beginning of May, they set apart a year beforehand the handsomest of the pris­ oners of war captured during the pre­ ceding year. They clothed him in a costume resembling that of the image of the god. He might go and some in freedom, but he was always followed by eight pages, who served at once as an escort and a guard. As he passed, I will not say that the. people either knelt or did not kneel before him, for in Mexico the attitude expressive of re­ ligious adoration was that of squatting down upon the haunches. As he passed, then, the people squatted all along the street as soon as they heard the sound of the bells that he carried on his hands and feet. . Twenty days before the festival they redoubled their care and attention. They bathed him, anointed him with perfume, and gave him four beautiful damsels as companions, each one bear­ ing the name of a goddess, and all of them instructed to leave nothing un­ done to make their divine spouse as happy as possible. He then took part in splendid banquets, surrounded by the great Mexican nobles. But the day before the great festival they placed him and his four wives on board a roy­ al canoe and carried them to the other side of the lake. In the evening the four goddesses quitted their unhappy * r •:-!.» minrflinnficnndiictfifl ie§, at priee* that distance alEr ER30LB," IS HIS MOTTO. Boys. Also a full line of ats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, etc. Soleon's marshals, in her "Memoirs of 'apoleon, his Court, and his Family," refers to the fact that the great Gen­ eral called Lannes "the Boland of the French army," and it is also mentioned by others. Nearly every contempora­ neous writer bears full testimony to the attachment that existed between AIM ot Fashionable Spring Mill 1 mmm 111 JTllZ E lUpUl'li. fit,'-- ieligion* of Mexico and Peru. % The Boy and the JBag. There are few sights more suggestive of hopeful patience than that of a hoy sitting on a bag of wheat that has fallen from his horse. He starts to mill joy­ ously. The great event in the life of a young country boy is to be entrusted with a milling expedition. He sleeps very little the night before the journey, so active is his mind concerning the prospective trip. His father helps him on the horse, and he sits on the bag, as proud of his position as a king is of his throne. Every object along the lovely road interests him. He plucks the blooms from the dog-wood, and al­ most falls off when the horse reaches around to bite himself. He rides into the creek to let the horse drink, and spits at the minnows that swim around. After he goes up the bank, on the op­ posite side of the stream, and pursues his course along the road, he notices with alarm than the bag is slipping to one side. He sits still further over to make the bag balance, but yet he is not satisfied, for it keeps on sliding to one side, and at last it falls off. He cannot restrain his tears, and though he knows that he cannot lift one en>l, yet he tugs at the bag. The old horse snorts, nib­ bles the grass and lashes the boy across the eyes with his tail. "Whoa, you old fool! and the disconsolate little fellow weeps afresh. He cannot leave the bag, fearful that some one will steal it He must wait the tardy coming of a passer­ by. He hears the sound of hoofs and he listens intently, while the swelling buds of his hope burst into full bloom. He is doomed to disappointment, for the horse has no rider. Thunder ram­ bles in the distance and he will get wet. At last he sees an old negro coming along. His heart beats high with hope. The old negro steps aside and takes a by-path. The boy shouts. The old negro does not hear him. Another h(H<r, that seems an age, draws itself He hears a wagon. He is al- t wild with joy. The driver, OBgh a surly fellow, lifts the bag up, and the boy, happy and thankful, is rescued just at a time when he does not think that he cculd stand it a moment longer.--Arkansaw Traveler. Scourged Into Paradhe. True, my son, I do not like to drive a man into heaven by terror of hell fire. It is not a manly or dignified way to come into heaven on a run and a jump, with a face distorted by fright, like a man banging into his house just ahead of a thunder-storm. But still, isn't it better to scare him into heaven on a run, like a scared dog, rather than leave him out altogether ? If a man can't be got. to turn his face heaven­ ward any other way, I say shake him over the pit till he smells brimstones. I am not so good a man, my boy, that I am liable to be translated. My good­ ness is not excessively great that it hurts me to carry it round. But I want to better every day, I want to go to heaven some day. I hope I will. And if £ome (rood, big-souled, strong-lunged, loud-singing old Baptist revivalist, like Elder Swan--God bless him--or Knapp or Raymond, should get after me and chase me into heaven with a firebrand, after I got in I would turn around and thank him and bless him for 1,000 years. Ah! my son, after we got to heaven thousands and millions of us will show each other our backs to show how we were scourged into Para­ dise.--Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle. A NEW HAMPSHIRE shoemaker makes squeaky shoes to order, and has all the work he can do. They are ordered by men who have pews near the pulpit and plan to come in late. JAMES K. Polk laid the corner-stone of the Washihgton monument. MILLIONS ASP M1LLI0S8 OF PEHS. The Proccss by Which the Little Steel Writing Implements Are Made. Abont* a million gross of steel pens are worn out every year in the United States. What becomes of,them? Twen­ ty years ago most of the steel pens used in this country were imported. Now comparatively few are imported, and there are several factories in the country in which they are made in large quantities. One factory is in Connecticut, another is in Pennsylva­ nia, and a large one is in Camden. The manufacturers say that Ihe industry has been fostered by the protective tar­ iff, and that if the tariff were to be taken off the market would be flooded with cheap steel pens at lower prices than ours and of inferior quality. At present the importation of foreign pens is mainly confined to high-priced arti­ cles. It was first doubted that steel pens could be made in this country, but it was softn learned that the requisite skilled labor could be obtained at high wages, and the success of the pioneers led one manufacturer after another into the business, until now the field is pretty well supplied. Most of the work on this little instrument is done With the aid of very nice machinery worked by women and girls. The steel used is imported, because it is believed that the quality is more uni­ form than American steel This uni­ formity of quality is necessary because of the very delicate tempering reqiured in the manufacture of the pens. That mysterious quality of steel which gives different grades of elasticity and brit- tleness to different colors of steel is a quality that requires expert manipula­ tion on the part of the workman who does the tempering. He must know the nature of the material with which he works, and with that knowledge must exercise a celerity and skill that seizes upon the proper instant to fast­ en the steel at a heat which insures the requisite quality. First the steel is rolled into big sheets. This is cut into strips about three inches wide. These strips are annealed; ttoat is, they are heated to a red heat, and permitted to cool very gradually, so that the brittleness is all removed and the steel is soft enough to be easily worked. Then the strips are again rolled to the required thickness, or, rather, thinness, for the average pen is not thicker than a sheet of thin letter paper. Next, the blank pen is cut out of the flat strip. On this the name of the maker or the brand is stamped. The last is a very important factor. There are numbers that have come to be valuable property to manu­ facturers. Many clerks say they can not work to advantage unless they have particular styles of pens. The result is that by passing the word from one writer to another a market is soon cre­ ated for a favorite style. Each steel pen has therefore to be stamped with enough reading matter to identify it thoroughly. The stamping is done with very nicely cut sharp dies, that cut deep and clean, so that the reading matter will not be obliterated by the finishing process. Next the pen is moulded in a form which combines gracefulness with strength. The rounding enables the pen to hold the Requisite ink, and to distribute it more gradually than could be done wfEh a flat blade. The little hole which is cut at the end of the slit, serves to regulate the elasticity,' and also facilitates the run­ ning of the ink. Then comes the pro­ cess of hardening and tempering. The steel is heated to a cherry red, and then plunged suddenly into some cool substance. This at once changes the quality of the metal from that of a soft, lead-like substance to that of a brittle, springy one. Then the temper of the steel must be drawn, for without this process it would be too brittle. The drawing consists of heating the pen until it reaches a certain color. The quality of the temper varies according to the color to which the steel is per­ mitted to run. It is the quick eye for color and the quick hftnd to fasten it that constitutes the skill of the temper- erof steel. - When the steel is heated for tempering it is bright. The first color that appears is a straw color. This changes rapidly to blue. The elasticity of the meial varies with the color, and is fastened at any point by instant plunging into cold water. The processes of siting, polishing, pointing, and finishing the pens are op­ erations requiring dexterity, but by long practice the workmen and work­ women become very expert. There have been few changes of late years, and tUe process of manufacture is much the same that it was twenty years ago, and the prices are rather uniform, rang­ ing from 75 cents to $4 a gross, accord­ ing to the quality of the finish. The boxes sold almost universally contain a gross. Fancies come and go in the styles of pens as in other fashions. One Ameri­ can maker alone turns out about 350 different patterns. Some are very odd, such as the stub-pens, the draughts­ man's pen, which makes two parallel lines at once; the mammoth pen, suit­ ed to write on rough paper, and the pen with a turned-up point, that writes a thick mark yet runs smoothly over the paper. Then there are delicate pens for ladies, pens that make a fine hair-line and yet can spring out to a heavy shading. Already the American steel pens have become famous abroad, and many are exported. Many pens are made of other material besides steel. One is the German-silver, non- corosive pen for red ink. Another is an imitation gold pen, made of some non-corrosive metal. There are pens of all colors and sizes for all trades and professions.--New York Sun. It Made a Good Car-Spring. Produce Dealer--Ah, glad to 0e you, Mr. Blank. Can't I serve you with a turkey for Sunday? Mr. Blank (coldly)--No, thank yon. "But you remember I furnished your turkey last Sunday?" >: "Yes, I remember." * m~ "x "It was satisfactory* I hope?-* •• _ "Yes, the superintendent says it M very'eatisfadtory." - "The superintendent?" _ ' "Yes, of the*Fast Line Railroad Com­ pany." •' ' "I--I don't understand. Oh, per­ haps you m'ade him a present of it?'-' "No; I sold it to him for a car- spring."--Philadelphia Evening Gall. . • j A Miner's Inch. ̂ A "miner's inch," legal measure­ ment, is a quantity of water which will flow through an opening one inch square in the bottom or side of a ves­ sel under a pressure or head of four inches, and this inch has 14.56 cubic inches flow per second--538.6 gallons per hour--12,298.3 gallons per twenty- four hours. ' HOPE is the only good which is com mon to all men; those who have noth- I ing more, possess hope still.--Thate*. ers as £F » i t * PIT* AgfP P0I5T. LITTLE BESSY--"O mamma, Fve 1 such an awful headache in my atom* ach!" TH*KE is one thing about a hous* which seldom falls, but never hurts th» ooeupant when i! does. That is thi rent. "Yes, sir, said Jinkins, "Smithers ip. a man who keep* his word ; but he has to." *How is that?" askc Jones. "Because no one will take: AH old maid in Nashville keeps apar- rot which swears, and a monkey wnioli chews tobaoca She says, between the •vo, she doesn't min a hwbiiij vwjih' much. * t LADY to haokman.--"How muoh dift you say I have to pay ?" "One dollar!* "What's your number?" "Fifty cents, you mean, stingy old fraud."--Texam Sifting9. . ^ BELVA ASH--Marie, are my crimpit all right? I must hasten to congratii> late Groyer. He and I are old friend* and, besides, he is a bachelor, and--O* how my heart beats. ' ̂ A CORRESPONDENT wants to know II sleeping in the open air is healthy. Of course it is. Where will you find an# healthier set hi men than the Ne# York polioe.--Texas Siftings. THE Empress of Austria makes hep own bread. Now we understand wht the Emperor of Austria has been s|» easily whipped every time he went t# 5 war. Even the Italians mauled him. i" "WHY don't you 'pull' that gambling house?" asked a citizen of a deteotiY<$»?< "It's a hard job, sir. They're no chick- ens, I tell you." "All the more reasofN why you should pullet"--Bos ton Sun­ day Times. AT the recent Woman's Congres| one lady remarked that "it's a nice thing for a man to keep his mouth fit to be kissed." What has that to dfr with suffrage? Is this a forecast <&' ' campaign tactics in the halcyon fature# Miss PRETTYPEKT--"Why don't you come over with your sisters to our place sometimes, Johnnie?" Johnnif (rising 10)--"Well, it's like thii y'know, Miss Prettypert. Whei there's a ripping nice girl like you, if came often people might think I hall intentions, and Pm not a marrying man 1" AN IRISH EPITAPH. Hese '• an epitaph from an Ir'Sta, gtavejrard Here lies tne boiy of Lady O'Looney, Grand-niece to Edmund Jlurke, Commomy called "thoBU®itne." ' She was bland, passionate and religion . Also, She painted in water-colors. ' Also, } She sent several articles • o the Exhibition, 8be was first cousin to Lady .lones, And of such Is the kingdom of heaven. Amen. ENTER Bridget with a 10x12 mirror, from which part of the quicksilver hail been scratched, in her hands, and thfr pallor of mortal fear on her counted nance, "O, if ye plase, mum, the board, fell off the back of this, and I see i|| is all covered with frost, but, whin went to scrape it off, sure, and it showe|| me hand instead of me face. Thii counthry is too cowld for me intoirely. --Ex. IT was during a murder trial. A witness for the 'defence was on tha* stand. "What do you intend to provji by this witnes8?'r asked the Judg4? "That the prisoner is insane," replied the attorney. "Does the witness know anything about insanity? Is he an ex­ pert?" "Expert?" repeated the law* ' yer. "Well, I should say be was. Ha knows all about insanity. Wh&.; your Honor, he has been as crazy as I" loon for the last ten years."--New Form Graphic. Aw, MISS KATE," remarked Mr. d§i Dudier to a pretty young woman aj| the ball, "will you awbserve the how- rid dancing?" "Don't be to sever4 Mr. de Dudier; they are doing the besp they can." "Pawssibly they ah. Yo| know. Miss Kate, that it wequiah| bwains to be a weally fine dawnsah. "Indeed!" she said, looking hard at him, for she had friends on the floor. "Yes, Miss Kate; it is weally twue." "Why, Mr. de Dudier, I'm surprised. Everybody says you are the best dancer. in our set, don't you know."--Merchant Traveler: JUDGE WAKEFIELD, of Waco, has a son of whom the Judge is very proud. He thinks the boy has a judicial mind and will grow up to be a great juris The boy is, however, very lazy, few days ago the Judge said: "Mw dear boy, why don't you study more infr dustriously? I want you to become i| famous jurist. You have not touched your books to-day." "I am not going to study any to-day," responded the indolent boy. "I don't see that i| makes much difference, pa, whether H become a famous jurist a few day* sooner or a few days later."--Texas Siftings. A COLLISION. Only a youth--but he stood out thorrf In spite of the wind and the bittinir air Thut stung like a bee and cut like a knlfe~ And he really appeared a thing of , Onlvawhis'.le--loud and shrill-- Which was executed with a will , Artd seemed to exhaust ihe oxygen Which that gentle youth had stored Wltnla. Only a window--overhead-- Which opened last and exposed ahead That wn< banged before and curlcd belUnd. As if to confine its owner's mind, *•: Onlv a girl--but she slipped below • *": To pass with the youth an hour or j. And list to the words) of a love intenw And some gush, if it so pleased Providence. Only abont--of dimensions far, liut it marie that sweet youth soar in air; And youth, and cane, and a pomade soent Laid there in one sad ru n blent. Convivial Item. Dr. Logan, of Houston, being at thjfc \ house of Judge Cummings, asked thp latter's little boy: "Don't you want to see the elephant' in the circus, that ha* bo much intelli- gence, he can draw the cork out of § bottle, put the neck of it in his moutk and empty it down his throat?" "If that's all he can do, I don't care to see him. My pa can do that Tvi * seen him do it more than a dozen times, when he went Qtsfc fishing." ' It may be remarked incidentally thai i the room was ftill of company, an|[ Judge Cummings himself was present and listened to' the childish .prattle at his little boy.-- Texas Siftings. ^ - The Detth ef a Wdrld. < 4 Prof. Proctor, in his lecttirebtt "The Birth of the Solar System" says: itr the calm 6f the eternal depths of spac|i every star is a sun of mighty power, tfhe earth to other worlds appears as pk star. The solar system is the perfect tion of regular motion. vIh the nistor|f of the stars the lifetime of a planet ig no more than a planet to its. The first stage of a world is intense neat and lustre; then comes the liquid condition* followed by the formation of a crust which in time is prepared to suppoijp life. After millions of years it become® i old, everything alive is destroyed, an|f-! it is then in the last stage--death. THE oriterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false it lessens. There is something, therefor^ in true beauty that corresponds witli righ reason, is not merely the creation 1 of fancy.--.Lord OrevUle.