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ILLINOIS THK SHIP OF DBEAM| silent Me# tti« sleeping towfc In its profound test, >t . There is • ship comes sailing dowa Upon the river's breast. WMn-winged as that enchanted siMa, 8hf> sailetb through the night, And purple grows the gloom Upon The magic of her tight. > Ik* bark she bears no mortal nanMt v lh> crew of mortal mold, ,v v .. * 171mtics' ship of song and ilBI, » Of cedar-wood and gold I f: i " . ' 8h« Is tbe ship that Turner knew On the enchanted seas, - - 8be floats fair isle* of music through, And isles of memories. ' *' f '# And she is mystically fraught •>"<: With dreams remembered long, fi* That drift on all the tides of thoo£ft And on all the seas of soAg, : • » She has Ulysses by her heltt; ' •• As in the olden time; ' ' This is a Bhip of diviner realm, And of a fairer clime. ' Longman's Maamine. HER FIRST LOVE. BT SABA B. BOSS. \Wr 'I#- '• Ontnnlli, the well-known countiy-seat Jesse McLane, wan enjoying a miniature «Varnivai upon its own spacious grounds. „ It had its elaborately-built and prepared about her engagement jnst yet. C^oboggan slide tipon the steep hill-side vfcack of the great stone mansion, whose •tall was well-stored with Bionx and Chip- *-*'|>ewa snewshoes, and all the implements .^vjbecessary for a successful carrying oat of <he plans which Minnie McLane wrote i»at in full to her city cousin lua. ( 5 The pleasant, girlish letter closed with a sing invitation to come to Ontravalla amediately, for a number of the nicest of lie guests had already arrived, a gentle­ man by the name of Leigh Ellis among He tan along lightly nnd almost noise­ lessly and lifted the curtain which hang over the alcove. Leigh Ellis and Ina McLane were stand­ ing within it, and Ina's soft voioe was say­ ing, "Leigh, dear Leigh." A heavy wreath which Mr. Ellis was holding shielded Ben from their observa­ tion, and he was certain he heard the sound of a kiss through the evergreen circlet. He dropped the curtain as noiselessly as he had lifted it, and with silent footsteps he walked out into the darkness of the winter's night. It was honrs before he returned, chilled and half frozen, for he had gone out hat- less and nncoated, but the chill of the winter's night seemed as nothing to the dreadful cold which seemed to benumb his feelings with its frozen chains. The house was silent, for it was long past ifiidnight, and with a bitter smile Ben hnng the star to its place and retired to his room, where he walked the floor until the unmistakable sound of the breakfast bell recalled him to himself. He made some changes in his toilet and went down to the dining-room, where he found Minnie McLane alone, and greatly elated with a secret which had been con­ fided to her. She put her arm inside Ben's as he neared her side and exclaimed, gleefully: "Oh, Ben, you never can guess the news. Ina and Leigh Ellis are engaged. Will they not be a handsome couple? Ina is th<) most beautiful girl here, and Leigh admires beauty more than anything else. He told me he fell in love with Ina's face the first time he saw it." Ben, who had been expecting this, bowed silently in reply, and Minnie continued: "Ina does not wish to have anything said I only ;£ * • : •f | "He is the most fascinating young man |>f the dozen or more that are expected, and ijpe turns the heads of all the girls of his ^acquaintance,* wrote Minnie. Ina kept this part of her letter to herself. It was bnt the postscript which she read to Ser father. "All the preparations are going on rapidly; there will be a tiny ice built upon the river where the best iff is; papa thinks it will be an lense success." "That sounds just like Jess," langhed V Mr. McLane. "Anything that hegoes into is *• ' #nre to be 'immense.' Do you remember, ; ""Ina, the flaming sword which fell from the Jikies into that very river a few years ago? ~« drew hundreds* of visitors to the old Jlace, but I know I have seen that old relic f barbarism in the garret there years ago, X' Tjfcnd I have an idea that it did not fall from V i Vjfcny very great elevation. You'll find your "Carnival something of the same sort when ^ ^ Jrou get there. *. And Mr. McLane laughed heartily at his ^Jbrother's exaggerated views of his own im- ;~$>ortance, while Ina exclaimed delightedly: ^ "So I am to go, then?" "Oh, yes, if you like. Ben can go with y°a for escort, for I can't possibly think of V S°big down there to be frozen up fOr the f take of seeing an ice palace which will vJ> , have evaporated before I get there." % ' "Leigh Ellis will not have evaporated," I .• thought pretty Ina, arching her brows as «he ran to her room to begin her packing, |v/N ji?i»eYer thinking of plain, good-humored, . Ben Boss, who was to be her escort. Why * : „ should she? Well, for one reason, he 4 " loved her devotedly, and she knew it, bat i||ben he was only the confidential clerk in f; 1 her father's store--almost her brother--as \ r ..,r-£he told him upon a well-remembered oo- !« Ben BOM was known to be strictly honor- • > Able. "His honor had been the making of \ trim," Mr. McLane, who would have liked ^nothing better than that Ina should take a liking to him, often said. ' Ina knew her father's wishes, too, and H. perhaps these expressed wishes were the | j 'very reason she did not take the fancy. 4>he knew Ben's honorable record, too, and ' .was rather inclined to laugh at it when her father grew loquacious upon the point, ti . "Nonsense," she would exclaim. "Other u Xnen are just as honorable as Ben Ross. I f' •• know plenty of them that are more agree- h a b l e . " And Mr. McLane would hang his head - And stroke his beard and say no more upon J*. |he, to him, agreeable subject. Leigh Ellis occupied a considerable por- lion of Ina's thoughts during her hurried |i,: preparation, and when at length she was J *>u board the train with Ben by her side, f»«phe could keep them to herself no longer. "There's the loveliest fellow at Uncle ^Jesse's, so Minnie writes. Leigh Ellis is his :J#tame; all the girls think he is just splen- •, , adid." pi ^ ®en ™ used to Minnie's gushing style, •Kf,/. but the words brought their sting -a ith . j^them, and he felt rather bitter as he replied: * "And you, I suppose, will be influenced , |>j the rest, and soon beoome one of the . nucleus which surrounds this brilliant / « Alsnet." £ "Of all the comparisons--as if ladies L ; i, ^would stoop to such things as that! Ben * *• iBoss, I am ashamed of you.*. "You manner of speaking suggested the •! comparison," said Ben. meekly. ^ "Worse and worse," cried Ina, indig- p* • aantly, "but then 1 can pity you. Jealousy . £ . ihas been called aa infuriating flame." *•'*. "As if I could be jealous of a man I ' \ >Thave never seen," said Ben, his color \ V'jrising. "Of course I am not so ' atupid as not to know that I am considered t,i ' .hut a necessary evil." "For the sake of sweet peace let us ... change the subject," cried Ina, with a little * 'jprovoking laugh. "Your face is as long as *•_ , •""•^the train we are trying to pass, and I do | > 'believe the conductor thinks you are insane I' , from the way he is looking at you." " "I agree with you, Ina," replied Ben, ' gravely. "What shall we talk about, the i entertainment at jour uncle's?" Upon their arrival they found that for • ; once Uncle Jesse had not exaggerated. The snowshoes and toboggans were of great .interest to Ina and her companion, who . were not* posted in such matters; the ice ; palace too, which was in the course of erec- : .; tion, was beginning to get above the tree- f ,4,-tops, and when with Minnie they walked a oat to the river side, prominent among the "> Pacefal figures which were skating about > •; "V upon the ice, bringing and laying tn place the glittering blocks of ice, was Mr. Leish t Ellis. * Minnie McLane, who felt in no more awe «„ P* of Mr. Ross than did her cousin, said to her vr ^ companions in a low tone: j$T. "There is Mr. Ellis. Isn't he handsome? I think him the finest looking of all the company, ladies and gentlemen included, unless it may be mv sweet cousin Ina." This compliment was accented by a rapturous hug and a kiss, while Ben said humbly, "He is a fine skater." He did not wish to be charged with jeal­ ousy again. The introductions to the company were given just before dinner, and, as if to con­ firm the fears in Ben's breast, Mr.. Ellis offered his arm to Ina and conducted her to the dinner table. After this there was a week of rare doings in the great stone house at Ontra- valla, and in all the merry-makings Ina bore a prominent part with Leigh WH« M her constant attendant. Ben bore all this patiently, and com forted himself as well as he was able by bringing to mind numerous flirtationo which lnah&d indulged in ere this, and which more than once she had been only too glad to drop, but one evening some­ thing occurred which prepared him for the blow which, was to be dealt to his fondest hopes. The band of yonng people wen busily •t work trimming the house with ever­ greens, and Bon, who Was very clever in arrangement of the various devices whioh baft bean prepared by the young ladies, vjMraltolpSig » live- told you, Ben, because you at« one of the family." At this moment others of the guests came trooping into the room, among them Ina McLane and Leigh Ellis. There was nothing in the bearing of either to indicate the new relations between them, l)ut during the day it was whispered around among the gaests that there was something between Miss McLane and Mr. Ellis, and before the ball, which took place that evening, was over, there was a full- fledged report that the something was an engagement of marriage, and that there would be a wedding the coming spring. Those who suspected Ben's secret watched him secretly and narrowly, but they did not discover any indications of feeling. It was a wonder even to himself that he bore it so calmly, yet he knew that his benumbed feelings but preceded the keenest pain. The morning after the ball, Ben was sit­ ting alone in the library, when suddenly the door opened and Ina entered the room and seated herself coquettishly upon. & stool just at his feet. "Oh Ben you cannot think how perfectly happy I am." "I suppose that 1 should say that the happiness of the woman I love is the great­ est boon I could desire." "Bnt you do not say it," replied Ina, smiling mischievously up at him. Ben was silent. He was repenting that first unwise speech, but Ina soon broke the silence. "Ben, I want you to write to papa this morning and tell him." "Ina!" he exclaimed, in a voioe so sharp with pain that the young girl's heart was touched with pity. "Oh Ben, you will make me cry," she said, thickly, with real tears hi her eyes. "You know I always told you that I loved you only as a brother, and you must have expected that sometime I would see some one that I would care for more, and Leigh is 6o handsome, Ben." Another long pause during whioh Ben's head was bowed upon his hands. "I thought, Ben, you would surety write to papa for me," she pleaded. "What shall I say to him?" replied Ben, raising his sorrowful face and drawing near to the writine desk. "Nothing very much, Ben. I would like to have him see Leigh first. I think you had better tell him that I have found the man calculated to make me happy, and that we will bring him home with iMMh week from to-day." j "And is that all?" ! "That is all." t "And shall I not mention Mr. Ellis' name?" "No, that will keep until I introduce him." x Ben's hand flew obediently over the paper. Ina. glanced at the finished letter, and then it was sealed and directed and sent away with the day's mail, Ben feel­ ing as the young girl left him as if he had Grformed the hardest task which could ever set for him to do. Mr. Ellis did not attempt to make him­ self agreeable to Mr. Boss, and the two had very little to say to each other during the days which followed. The afternoon of the last day but one of their intended stay the young people de­ cided to spend tobogganing. The skating and snowshoeing, the ice palace and the evening parades, as well as the ball and other indoor sports had justi­ fied Uncle Jesse's favorite expression of "immense." The storming of the ice palace was reserved for the last evening, and the toboggans were relied upon for this day's sport. The slide, which ?u built upon a rocky hillside, was as slippery as ice could nn^o it, and for a time the amusement went on merrily. Mr. Ellis, who had made several highly- successful trips with his betrothed for a companion, started forth once more in his accustomed jaunty and rather reckless manner. There was some fnult with the steering, for suddenly the light toboggan veered from its course and struck the icy side, and, turn­ ing completely over, slid with its fair bur­ den beneath it rapidly down the slide. Mr. Ellis was thrown from his place, and was picked up but a trifle the worse for the accident, but when they approached the dismantled toboggan there was a terror- stricken pause, the frosty slide was stained with blood n» more than half of its length. Ben Ross lifted the blood-stained and seemingly lifeless form of the girl he loved, and bore it, regardless of comment or lookers-on, to the house which had been the scene of such gay doings, and which were ended from that moment. A physician was summoned by Mr. Mc­ Lane, and then the frightened company gathered ;nthe parlor, and, with pale faces, awaited his verdict. It came at last, cold and business-like. "Miss McLane is not fatally injured, but she will probably be disfigpred for life." It seemed that her head and face had suffered the most. Her beautiful features were but a shapeless mass. Her eyes were closed and there was a deep ice-cut among her heavy masses of hair. One shoulder, too, was broken, and it seemed impossible thnt she could be moved in several week*, There was a departure from Ontravalla that evening of most of the guests who had borne their parts so gaily, and at 10 o'clock Minnie whispered to Ben: "Every one has gone except Leigh Ellis. He is so agitated that he has not said single word. How he must love her." "I hope you may be right," said Ben, bluntly. "To me hi« silence seems cowardice or indifference." It was a man, coated, and with a valise in his hand, which an hour later attempted to pass Ben without speaking in the hall. "What, Ellis? Surely you a» not going at this hour?" "I fear I must. I have had a telegram from home." Ben looked at him fixedly, his form bar­ ring. the passage from the hall completelv. "I---that is," exclaimed Ellis, excitedly, "it is a disagreeable thing to say, but I bear that Miss McLane will be disfigured for life.* I oannot abide a homely person. There was a slight flirtation, 1 may call it, between us. I hope you will explain it to her. I meant nothing beyond the amuse­ ment of the hour." • For an answer a sturdy fist mads the ac­ quaintance of Mr. Ellis' perfumed head, Iand for a seoond time that 4«r Jesse Me-Lane's household was startled by a sensa­ tion which oaused a doctor to ho cum* moned. Before his arrival, however, this last time, the patient had arisen from his re­ cumbent position and left Ontravalla never to return. It was a week before the swelling went out of Ina McLane's bruised faoe, and then the physician was able to say confi­ dently that in six months' time there would be no trace of the accident which had at one time seemed so threatening to her beauty. ^ Her shoulder, too, was doing finely, and the cut upon her head was nearly healed, and for the first time, the day after this favorable report, her fatLer, who had been summoned, rat that he might converse with her freely. Her lover, whom Ben had written to him about--where was he? "I am glad that you have escaped as you have, my daughter,"he said. "Andnow tell me about this prospective son-in-law, which formed the subject of one ot Ben's letters." Tho darkly-bruised face flushed a deeper red, but Ben, from his place behind Mr. McLane's chair, anticipated her reply. "It is mv unworthy self," he said. « "Mr. McLane sprang joyously to his foot and grasped the young man's hand. "It. is a most joyous surprise. 1 thought that it must be a stranger who had won my daughter from me." No further explanation was made, but the night before Ina's wedding, a few months later, she whispered softly to Ben: "I believe that I loved you all the time. That day that you Wrote to papa for me, I felt that your misery was my own, and Ben, I have a secret to tell yon. I met Leigh Ellis a month ago, and he begged me to resume our old relations, but I knew that when I thought 1 loved him I made a mistake, lou have my first and only love." Where German Pipes Are ladet Ruhla, a mountain village of Thurin- gia, is the center of the pipe manufac­ ture of Germany. Like our own Shef­ field, it was famous in the middle ages for its arms and armour, and at a sub­ sequent period for its knives. When tlie use of tobacco became common in Europe it turned its attention to the fabrication of iron smoking-pipes. Gradually, however, beginning in the seventeenth century, meerschaum and wood were adopted as more suitable materials to work upon. The first meerschaum pipe was carved in the early part of the thirty years' war, and Wallenstein is said to have bought it. The true clay is only to be procured at Eski-Scher, in Asia Minor, where there are large deposits, and whence it is sent direct to the manufactories in Ruhla, of which there are at present forty, em­ ploying almost the whole population of the district. The number of pipes and other articles dear to smokers turned out is enormous, the yearly average be­ ing 540,000 real meerschaums, varying in price from 3 pence to £12 apiece; 500,000 imitation meerschaums at from 1 shilling to £1 the dozen; 9,600,000 porcelain pipe bowls, either plain white or gaylv painted, rising in price from 4 pence to 10 shillings the dozen; 5,000,000 wooden pipes, of infinite va­ riety in size, form, ornamentation, and price, the common kinds being ex­ tremely cheap, and those artistically carved fetching a comparatively high price; 3,000,000 bowls of clay or lava, plain, at about 3 pence, of better kinds at 3 shillings the dozen; 15,000,000 pipes composed of separate parts (bowl, stick, cover, etc.), from 5 pence to £25 the dozen. There are five qualities of meerschaum used in the making of pipes; the best is known by its facile absorption of the nicotine juice of to­ bacco, which gradually develops into a rich brown blush upon the surface, and when this process is well advanced the pipe becomes almost invulnerable with­ out being hard. A specimen of this kind sold at Vienna for £50, although it was not very highly carved.--London Times. Does Gold Grow J Years ago I wrote and published ia a London magazine an article in which I undertook to prove that gold grows-- grows the same as grain and potatoes or anything else. I reckon I did my work crudely, not knowing anything about chemistry or even the ordinary terms of expression about such matters, and so my earnest'and entirely correct sketch was torn all to pieces and laughed to scorn. Well, I have at last found positive proof of my general statement right here in these mountains by the Pacific Sea. Briefly and simply, I have found a piece of petrified wood with a little vein or thread of gold in it. How did that, gold get into this piece of wood ? Was it placed there by the finger of God on the morning of creation, as men have claimed was the case with the gold found in the veins of the moun­ tains? Nonsense! , , Gold grows. Cenain conditions of the air, or certain combinations of earth and air and water, and whatever chem­ icals may be required, and then a rock, a piece of quartz, or petrified tree, for the gold to grow it, and there is your gold crop. Of course, gold grows slowly. Centuries upon centuries, it may be, are required to make the least sign of growth. But it grows just as I asserted years ago; and here at last I hold in my hand such testimony as no man in this world will be rash enough to question--a portion of a petrified tre.e with a thread of gold in it.-«-Jba- ruin Miller, in Chicago Timet. An Outrage. First Dude--Ha! What's the matter Cholly, me boy? You're looking awfully pale this morning. Second Dude--That beastly tailor. F. D.--Ha! what about him! 8. D.--Sent me a dun. F. D.--The scoundrel! 8. D.--Said lie had his bills to pay-- F. D.--He did? What had that to do with you? S. D.--There yon have me. What have I to do with his beastly bills? Am 1 a millionaire ? F. D.--You are not, me boy; you are not. I swear it. S. Df--But then that wasn't all, yon know. F.D.--No? S. D.--No. The servant girl heard all that passed. F.D.--Yes? S. D.--And she put her finger in my buttonhole and whispered to me this-- F. D.--That she would go out and take supper with you? S. D.--No, this: "You idiot, you'd better go out and carry the hod and make a decent living and pay for the clothes that-you wear," F. D.--She did? h f * S. D.--She did. ̂ F. D.--Then, me l>ey, «f! I've got to say is that it is a horrible outrage. S. D.--It is. And, by the way, lend me a tenner. What would you advise ? F. D.--I oannot lend you a tenner, and I would advise you as the servan t girl advised. Go out and earn a do* cent living.--Boston Courier. -- A OOOD wife is a good thing, but • bad husband beats even a good wile. DOMESTICS belong to 4ke kw$ oUss of sooiety. - * BUI My* Settlna a Gastronomic Fotat liaised by Four Drummer*. Ma. WnxUM NTK:--Knowing that you are a friend of the traveling man, we do not hesitate to ask yWBf opinion or advice as to what course we should pursue in a matter of vital im­ portance to us. The proprietor of the Halli- bert House, Bed Cfoua, Neb.( the lesdii)g hoatlerv there, insists upon cutting one pie in sixteen pieees, which only gives one-sixteenth of a pie to the commercial man. We have re­ monstrated with him about this, bnt without av^L What shall we do about it? Please sdvise US. lours amitatively, WIIX RECD, • HABBY HICKS, S.. .* : JL * GBOBGE THOMPSON, * E. G. LINDSAY. • ' ' '•? " • * "VW- REPLY. Messrs. Reed,felcks, Thompson, and Lindsay, at large: GENTLEMEN :--Your favor is now in front of me as I write. I hate to come in between tho commercial man and the hotels in case of tliiB kind, es­ pecially in order to monkey with re­ lations that are already stained; and yet something ought to be said at this time or we may easily foresee that the overworked American pie will at length be compelled, by reason of brain fag, to abandon the proud position it now holds relative to our inter-state com­ merce. I would like to treat this matter in a way to insure harmony between the traveling man and the hotel, if possible; and yet I must confess that I cannot refer to pie in a purely unpartisan spirit. Pie, I may truthfully say, seems to lie nearer my heart at times than anything else within the great realm of groceries. ' < I know .that commercial men are prone tc ask too much of the hotels at times, and thus they inflame the pro­ prietors. I have known of many such instances in which the tourist was clearly in the wrong; but the outrages were all perpetrated by traveling men whose early lives had been passed in, obscurity. They were men who knew how to catch a* train or tell in rich union-depot tone of voice how many goods they had sold in that town, but they do not adorn society very much, These are the exception, however. They are the men who represent small houses, and sleep on four seats in the day-coach, with their feet on the velvet collar of the unassuming capitalist who sits in the adjoining pew. But I was a traveling man once for two weeks, and I have always sympa­ thized with those who follow this busi­ ness for a livelihood. For some years I had yearned to be a commercial man with a sorrel traveling-bag and a bold signature. I intimated to several large concerns that my services could be Secured at a nominal figure, but there is nothing so puffed up or so egotistical as a prosperous business house, and so they continued to struggle on without me. Finally, I went on the road in the interest of Warner's White Wine and Tar Syrup--a preparation that would take an old pair of second-hand lungs and brighten them up so that a man needn't be ashamed to dress up in them and wear them in the best society. People say that the traveling men are too forward and too-bold, and ought to do a little more of the blush-unseen business, but I found when I was on the road that I had to be bold, espe­ cially at the hotels, for the clerks were bold, the porters were bold, and the dining-room girls were also in several instances extremely so. If I did not demand the bridal chamber I generally got the tea chest No. 6f, with no knob on the door, and when I would punch the button on the denunciator it would fall off with a low, tremulous sound and roll under the bed. Speaking of door-knobs reminds me of a hotel man in Washington Territory who has a novel way of keeping these handles clean at a slight expense. He has knobs on all doors, and they are so arranged that they may be easily re­ moved. He has two sets for the house --one set being white and the other a dappled bay. When one set gets soiled he removes the knobs, placing them in the soap dishes of the various rooms, where the guests rinse them off thoroughly in a vain attempt to get a lather out of them. After they are dried the proprietor replaces them on the doors and the soiled set go into the soap dishes. The hotel is now called the door-knob chop-house, and with the slippery-elm towel adopted there a polish is given to the guest which he might otherwise never secure. Gentlemen, in conclusion, I hardly know what to say, unless it be to add that whatever you may decide to do toward the purification of this great pie evil, provided you do not actually en­ danger human life, you may safely rely upon me and count me in. Pie enters into the life of every true American, and an unfair division of pie will cer­ tainly lead to open hostility and pos­ sibly intestine war. Do not trust the man who robs you of your pie in order that he may thrust it into his own cor­ rupt system. The tendency of the age seems to be' toward the centralization of pie. This is bound to make the thin man thinner and the fat man fatter. From statistics now in my hands I have ascertained that we have enough pie in America, if properly distributed, to give to each adult, exclusive of Indians not taxed, one-eighth of a full-grown pie and still leave one-sixteenth pie for each child of school age. Gentlemen, this letter is already too long. I can add nothing more unless it be yours truly, BILL NYE. Wild Weather Out West. The command to which I belonged In our Mormon campaign was conveying live-stock sufficient for the army en route to Salt Lake. We had 30,000 head of sheep, 2,000 cattle, and 500 mules. Near Denver we came upon a natural soda fountain bursting out of the side of a mountain. The place was a great resort for game of all kinds, es­ pecially elk. It was the 11th day of May, 1857. That night our cavalry portion of the escort was osdered up the mountain to camp for the night. Not knowing the climate we grumbled and laid down under our rubber pon­ chos. When we waked in the morning it was bitter cold, and we were unable at first to move. We were buried un­ der six feet of snow, which had fallen during the night. The tents of the in­ fantry, whom we had left below, were all blown down, 'and the stream of water by which they had camped was frozen solid. All our stock had stam peded and we were in a great strait fot tliree days. The sheep, of course, could not get far, and the cattle were soon got together, but most of the wagon stock had got away, and the 500 mules with their two herders had dis­ appeared entirely. Four days after they joined us with one of the men frozen in the saddle. He had to have both legs amputated, and afterward got a big pension. The army sutler had a lot of whisky along, and the command­ ing officer offered mm $8 a gallon for it, bnt the rasoal wanted $7, and had tho impudeae* when he oould nei get it to a«k for arales to IUMI it, as his own were lost in the stonh. Well, he left the twenty-five barrels of whisky cached iu the mountain, and as we came back by another ronte I suppose they are there still.--St Louis Globe-Dem­ ocrat • . •ra. Kackay's BrauuMfc Years ago, comfortably situated in a modest home at Northport, L.'I., lived a cosy little family of three--father, mother, and little daughter. For a ; time all went happily along, until the husband and father was taken ill; then came dark days in the cottage, and a sharp struggle for life was each day and hour enacted. There came a lull, kind friends walked gently about with sad faces and a solemn hush, and that indefinable something which always ac­ companies death seemed to say that all was over, all suffering had passed away, and the mortal remnins of the father lay calm and quiet. Mother and daughter were soon to begin a long, bitter strug­ gle for bread in a great world alone. Across the country whirled the flying train. On, on it rushed, panting, puffing, snorting for days till the journey ended and California was reached. Among those who left the train was a black-robed woman and a fair little girl. Alone in a strange land. Then followed weary days passed in fruitless searching for work Life is not so easy after all to ta%in anew in a strange place and without friends. Steadily the small stock of money grows smaller and smaller until, with all its ghastlines6, starvation stares one in the face and there is no alternative but to beg. So this mother and daughter found the sunny land of the west not so bright as when viewed from afar, and thus it happened that the fragile child stood upon a corner asking for alms.. What was there in the childish beauty and appealing look of this little waif that so touched the heart of a passing rich man ? He stopped and questioned the little one, then followed Jier to her lonely home, and there from her mother learned their sad story. "Pity is akin to love." So says the proverb, and in this case it proved to be a near relation. Now comes the most romantic part of the story, and the part most like a fairy tale. Fortune show­ ered her favors upon the two strangers. The first friend they had found proved to be the wealthy Mr. Mackay, and in a surprisingly short time Jhe little Eva had found a generous, kmd father, and with the mother it was "off with the old love, on with the new." With the widow's weeds were laid away all traces and signs of that part of lier life in' which poverty and trouble formed so large a part. It was but a step from poverty to dazzling wealth, and in all the following years she has ever held the brimming cup of fortune to her lips, gayly, thoughtlessly, and has yet to find the dregs which lie calmly at the bpttom of the crystal liquid. v I wonder if the Princess Colonna will ever relate the story of her early child­ hood to her own wee son: or will it pver remain as a never-to-be-revealed secret --which?--New York World. s Birds That Kill Snakes. The trumpeter-bird is the rag-picker of the woods and swamps of Guiana, where he is always at work at his trade, with his stomach for a pack and his bill for a hook. He performs almost useful but most extraordinary service, de­ vouring a perfect multitude of snakes, frogs, scorpions, spiders, lizzards, a*id all the like creatures. But this terri­ ble bird can be made perfectly tame. On the Guiana plantations he may be seen fraternizing with the chickens,' ducks, and turkeys, accompanying them in their walks, defending them from their enemies, separating quarrelers with Btrokes of his bill, sustaining the young and feeble, and waking th< echoes with his trumpet while he bring*' home his flocks at night. The trumpeter is as handsome as lie is useful. Noble and® haughty in hi» aspect, he raises himself upon his long, yellow-gaitered legs, and seems to say: "I am the trumpeter,, the scourge ol the reptiles, and the protector of thr flocks!" In Southern Afriea there is anotheu great exterminator of reptiles--the snake-eater or secretary-bird, a mag­ nificent creature, who attacks the largest serpents, making a shield of its wings and a sword of its beak. The name "secretary-bird" is derived from the plumes projecting backward from its head, which look like quill-pens car­ ried behind one's ear. In South America, in the very neigh­ borhood of the trumpeter's home, there lives the kamichi, or kamiki, who weare a sharp horn projecting from his fore head and a murderous spur upon eacl of his wings. With these tlireo weapon* the serpents that he attacks are power­ less against him and are easily put to death. The secretary-bird, the Kamichi, and the trumpeter form a valiant and useful trio. The trumpeter has two merits above the others: the ease with which he can be domesticated and his musical talent. The natives have a saying that he has swallowed a cornet. Whether prome­ nading or war-making, he fills the air with his trumpet calls, and at the sound of his voice of brass the reptiles take to flight. Presently the bird arrives, flapping his wings an4 wielding them like a sword. Having killed the serpent, the trumpeter sounds his blast of victory, as he Lad sounded his charge.--Youth's Companion. The Comstock Mine. Sample talk of the old Comstock mine, but they have little idea what it was, or^ what an immense amount of work was done there. Take the Consolidated California and Virginia. Every month for nearly four years 3,000,000 feet of lumber was used there for timbering-- enough to build a large city three times over. The amount of hoisting done was simply wonderful. Eight hundred men were raised and lowered three times in the twenty-four hours, the tools were several times a day brought to the surface for sharpening, 5,000 tons of ice were lowered for daily use, and 2,000 tons of ore raised to the sur­ face. Men coming out of the mine on the hottest day of the summer were chilled on striking the surface air, the change was so great. You can get some idea of the immensity of the works from the flywheel of the Union shaft, it alone weighing 105 tons. There is a great deal of work done on all paying mines, but this one was a great institu­ tion. I am sometimes asked if there ever will be such a mining excitement as there was in those days in San Fran- oisco. I don't see why there shouldn't be, and I think there may be sometime, but another Comstock will have to bo discovered first. This is the only thing necessary.--Judge Goodwin, of Salt Lake City. -T';" v DID you eTer see a doetof Jj| the cemetery looking at the monuin^nts of his skill? way At Zanzibar I forxaed an expedition for the finding and relief of Dr. Liv­ ingstone. I employed two white men, and 300 natives. One of the white men, Shaw, had been mate of an American ihip, and the other, Farquahar, mate* of an English ship. Both had been ac­ customed to hardship, but were fond of liqnor. It was the awful consequences attending their indulgence in it that first aroused my attention to the effect of alcoholic stimulants in Africa. I sent Farquahar forward a few miles to form camp, and when paying up the hotel and other bills, found' that he had drank eighteen bottles before starting. The effect upon him was still visible after we had journeyed 150 miles. He then became dropsical and died. Shaw had been helping him to consume the brandy at Zanzibar. He was morose, and when he oould get no more left me at Unyanyenbe, 500 miles march. His object^was to find an opportunity to drink to his heart's content of the stale beer obtainable there. I heaad that he, in delirium I suppose, put an end to his life. I continued my journey with the natives until I found Livingstone, in a few weeks afterward. He was lodged at a place within 900 miles of Zanzibar, to reach which it took me eight months. In the course of our conversation he said, 'Wine and women have been the curse of the white man in Africa.' By wine he meant every intoxicating bev­ erage of the country." "Was Dr. Livirgstone a teetotaler?" "In Africa he ntve: touched liquor of any kind." "What was the nature of the fare yon were able to proiure on your through the country?" "Goat meat, Indian corn cake, ba­ nanas, and milk." "Your next expedition to Africa was "In 1874k Three Englishmen accom­ panied me. I took the trouble to in­ quire regarding their habits, to make sure that they were temperate, having already had* a sad experience with in­ temperate men. We had in our stores twelve bottles of pure brandy from Zanzibar, on an expedition that might have lasted from three to ten years. One was broken and spilled and six were consumed for medicinal purposes. They were disposed of in this way: One was given to the men suffering from dysentery, two were consumed by the white man, Pocock, who died of typhoid fever; the stimulant kept him up for two weeks; the youngest white man, Barker, got one bottle; he also died. The elder Pocock was then the only white man left to me. In the course of a year he and the colored people consumed two bottles. At the end of two years and nine months five bottles remained. These we buried at Nvangwee, thinking that we might want them on our return, for we then did not know but that, like other travelers, we might be driven back by native hostil­ ities. This, however, was not our fortune, and we continued our voyage down fhe Lualaba until we emerged on the Atlantio. The five bottles of brandy, for aught I know, still remain Vhere we left them." "Did you drink any of the brandy?" "The whole time, three and a half years, I may have, taken ten table- spoonsful of it." "What kind of tood did you use ?" "Mutton, beef, goat meat, game, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, bananas, peannts, tea, coffee, and milk." "Was your appetite always good?" "Yes, save when in fever. I was nine months in the wildest parts of Africa without a symptom of disease. This good fortune I attribute to the increase of knowledge concerning health habits, the indulgence in simple food, the bath, and judicious exercise." v: Domestic Training for CHrlb / Nothing is more significant of the social condition of a people than the training of its girls in domestic life. In Germany the daughter of the nobleman, of the prince, and of the small shop­ keeper learns alike to cook, to sweep, and to keep house. After the training in books is over, Fraulein Lena and her Boyal Highness Princess Sophie both begin this home education. There are establishments where they are taken by the year, as in a boarding school. In one month they wash dishes and polish glass and silver; in another they cook meats; in another bake; in the next "lay down" meat for winter use, or preserve fruit, make jellies and pickles, sweep and dust. Plain sewing, darning, and the care of lpen is also taught, and taught thoroughly. The German "be­ trothed" is thus almost always a thorough housekeeper, and spends the time before marriage in laying in enor­ mous stores of provisions and napery for her future home. In France a girl begins at 12 years of age to take part in the house­ hold interests. Being her mother's constant companion, she learns the sys­ tem of close, rigid economy which pre­ vails in all French families. If there be'but two sticks of wood burning on the hearth, they are pulled apart when the family leave the room, even for half an hour, and the brands are saved. The nourishing soup, the exquisite entrees, and dainty deserts are made out of frag­ ments, which in many an American kitchen would be thrown away. The French girl thus inhales economy and skill with the air she breathes, and the habits she acquires last her through life. English girls of the edueated class seldom equal the German and French in culinary arts, but they are early taught to share in the care of the poor (around them. They teach in the vil­ lage classes, or they have industrial classes; they have some hobby, such as drawing, riding, or animals to occupy their spare time with pleasure or profit. Hence the English girl, though not usually as clever or as well read as her American sister, has that certain poise and aplomb which belongs to women who have engrossing occupation outside #f society, beaux, and flirting.--Youth's Companion. ^ Adjourned the Bear Hunt. "Any bear about this neighborhood,?" he inquired as he leaned m $800 breech-loader carelessly in the hollow of his arm. •* "The woods is full of 'em," said » citizen. "One Of 'em bit my brother's leg off yesterday. Are ye loaded for b'ar, mister?" "No, sir," replied the young man, hastily boarding the train; "I'm loaded for rabbits."--Harper's Boxer. , » A JOLLY-LOOKING Irishman was saluted with the remark, "Tim, your house has blown away." " Deed it's not," said Tim, "for I've the key in my pocket." "BRIDGET, this dust upon the fur­ niture is intolerable. What shall I do?" "Do aa I do, marn--pay no attention to it." - WHKKK are the most expensive suita to be obtained ?--Of the lawyer* A HACK-DBIVEE--A cough drop. A PAIS of d%ptos--Two toboggans, "ball decide when doctors dia* agree ?" Sometimes the undertake*. "Is THE head of the family in, bub?" Johnny. there," replied AN advertiser in Texas calls for "an mdustnous man as a boss hand over 5,000 head of sheep that can speak Spanish fluently." , SMYTH,--I see our doctors are havinsr a great boom now ? De Forest--Is that so? Smyth--Yes; we're going to HAY* two new cemeteries. -- New Have* News. , . • "MEN must work and women must weep." This is incorrect. When men work, women smile and are happy. IT is when men drink that women ween. Try again, Brother Kingsley. "You seem to be in the clouds, Mr. Pegasus," said a friend to an absent- minded verse-writer the day after the class dinner. MI certainly do feel like thunder," was the weary reply. THE success of Sam Jones as preacheir is said to lie in his power of illustration. In this respect Sam stands upon the same plane with the artist who makes pictures for the papers. BARKEEPERS are men who like to see friendly feelings prevailing among their customers, or, in other words, they lik® to see tlieir customers treating each other well--and often.-- Boston Coifr rier. AJT irate female seeks admittance TB the editor's sanctum. "But I tell you, madam" protests the attendant, "that the editor is too ill to talk to any one to-day." "Never mind; you let me in. I'll do the talking." AFTER debating a long time as to the proper inscription to put on the grave­ stone of a man who wad blown to pieces by a powder-mill, his friends decided on the following: "He was a man of exoellent parts." -- Burlington Free Prens. A NEW ORLEANS editor has discov­ ered that fishing is hard work. It was generally supposed that fishing was easy enough, but that it was the lying about the big ones which got away that entailed the hard labor.--Norristown Herald. A NEW YORK judge has decided that "cornering" is a crime. When you re­ turn home a few inches after midnight by the clock, and your wife begins to question and "cross" examine you, and finally begins to "corner" you, call her attention to this decision.---Norristown Herald. WHILE marching the streets at Ban­ gor, Me., some of us had a narrow es-, cape of becoming martyrs for Jesus, for somebody fired at us three times, and when we got to the hall we found three bullets had lodged in the drum; but glory be to God! if they destroy our bodies they cannot destroy our souls. Fire away, Mr. Devil, we shall soon be bullet-proof. Glory to God!-- Salvation Army War Cry. THE old church in Torrington had a pew for "nigger men" and another for "colored ladies." . Also a "high pew for gentlemen visitors," and one for "bach­ elors" and "old maids" respectively. Stranger still, it is claimed that the last-named was occupied on Sunday. This goes ahead of New Hartford's old church, which had one pew set apart for the widows, one for the deacons, and one in the gallery for Indians.-- Torrington {Conn.) Register. OMAHA GIRL--Mercy me! You cer­ tainly don't mean to say that that beau­ tiful Miss Million is going to marry a Chinese laundryman ? JSTew York girl --Oh, you misunderstood*me, dear; he is not a laundryman, he is a member of the Chinese legation at Washington. "But he is a Chinaman, all the same." "Yes, but he is thoroughly Christian­ ized." "Are you sure ?" "Yes, indeed. He is a graduate of an American college and was the best pitcher in the ball club."--Omaha World. DISILLUSION. Bald a silver slim dude, with an emphasis rods Of a damsel ahead whom he swiftly pursued: "Now this rain will I use As a clever excuse To share her umbrella and capture her mood. For the style of her dress and her trimmings ex­ press She's a maiden of taste, and of fashion I guess; If it isn't quite graco In hor motion s I trace, There is strength which is better I'm bound to confess. "Now," he said, "will 1 make a dashing old break; Clear the track! Now, I hope she won't give ma the shake." Then he sprang to her side-- t "Great Heaven!" he oried, ' "Excuse me," he stammered, "I've mads a mis­ take." Cried the maiden, 'Whooroo! Phat'sthe mather wid you V Come av ye loike, there be shelter for two; I am taking a jaunt : . - . To the corner beyant, , . To get,a few murphie's to put in the sthsif.* --Texat Siftings. * • • • The Bear and the MONGOOSE A gallant lieutenant coming on board one day in full dress proved too great a temptation for bruin, who immediately seized him by the coat-tails.' It was found impossible to make him let go until the disconfited officer had reduced himself to his shirt-sleeves, when, de­ lighted with his success, the delinquent shuffled off. He was apparently almost indifferent to pain. A smell of burning being one day discovered forward, one of the crew proceeded to investigate the cause, and found Misky standing up­ right on the top of a nearly red-hot stove, engaged in stealing cabbage -from a shelf above. He was growling in an undertone, and standing first on one leg and then on the other, but he neverthe­ less went on slowly eating, heedless of the fact that the soles of liis feet were burnt entirely raw. Endless were the stories about him and the scrapes he got into, but punishment was apparently in vain, for he got worse as he grew older, and after having devoured por­ tions of the cabin skylight and a man's thumb, and finished by drinking the oil out of the binnacle lamp, he was shipped to England, and found a new home in the bear-pit of the zoological gardens. Miskv's sworn enemy was the mon­ goose, into whom seven devils at least had entered. His sole object in life was mischief, and it muBt be confessed that he never idled for a moment. Whether biting one's toes as one lay asleep in the early morning, capsizing the ink-bottle, or boltering snrrepti-> tiously with some coveted morsel from the dinner-table, he was never still; but his greatest happiness--for it was at­ tended with that spice of danger which gives the true zest to sport--was to "draw" Misky. When that unsuspect­ ing animal was rolling its unwieldy body about the deck the mongoose would approach noiselessly from behind and hit him sharply in the foot. Long .feefo.re the huge paw had desended in a futile effort at revenge, the little rascal was safely under cover, on the lookout for another opportunity, and the bear might just as well hare attempted to catch a mosquito.--Pall' Matl Gazette. i '