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OiD ARM-mEER KKMFt A-ltOCKIN*. K AH AX,A 11. CHUDDOC*. • „ Q choot ke«}>8 a-rockln', a-rotitln' |ll Hrhile, •It* <l«'ptbn a aad, m*t .faoe looks at •ith a uroile, •ye*, full of lovo an* truth as ever they M, n' fur a auaaverln' look or word of love me; TmmWUH bauds, «o restless, are waving eigne •ffaln-- Wlnelier a-floatln' 'n' the brow knit tktlt wiih pain, lit t|le gtaveyard M M - »®oWmj ci;rls a-lyln'all damp on her pale -the* wtiit« lips Rlightly parted, that «cj'le, but _ 4n notapeak; 4 , • iHk Whufc I go to take her t clasp 'ujq empty keeps on a-rockin' a-rocVln', allers there. Hfca«l<! nnn-cheer keeps a-rockin', a-roo*lnl all the day, •Mat i t a bin a-rockfn' ever since oar Tressie went , w*fty, Mtay Ml im (Ob«'B ... on tile hill, "JWtakt iter soul has gone to heaven, an* 'tis His . tioty will; ^•hatsheisfnow a-atandin'where the holy an- .. gels stand, a crown upon her. forehead as' a harp within i-er h>nd; W*H« I'm workin' in the oorn, or inowin' in «he fields, 3Ur? to ink® some interest In what the harvest yields, lM |tt n«ty soon I want a drink, V than I come inhere, -Jtaa' s*» lit* there a-rocUu', a-rockia in that cheer, * "* ^tkaolii aria-cboer keep* a rock n', a-rockin' all • •• • the night; ttta* it at the midnight hour 'n' In the morn- iag light, "Urt ?ook into the parlor here, when first I leave my bed, * , Sh^en" to «ee another sight o' that there golden imadi * • *KT Z'tn new disapp'inted, far all the sad ntgfata through, , Brara {.lie piMow cushions tbere, look firth tho eyes so true; Th»l.1 wTkhi I t ako a furrard step, *n' think to «lnnp her t ght, , Wka fades away 'n' disappears ez mist beforo my eight, •"Vetera I stagger back, 'n' my heart feels rather «. gueer, -Wgtl see her pla n, a-sittin' there a-rockin' in tti*t cheer. 4tftiK old arm-cheer keep* a-rockln', a-roekin' there alway,-- Owai' it in the ovenin'-time 'n' in the morning grav, "•Fte fth© stilly hours of night, when tblnirin' inndars sleep, KMkfftn -a' 1 hear it go with alow and steady _ crwek; 'mW ttwaet i slip up quietly, not distnrbin' any __ one, *MT»*KSfc a Song ben ath the stars untwell the xwglit is done, 4MKbakin% thiukia' alien, till the sight dews wet mr hair, little hands that clang to mine, V the little face so fair; 4Wtfbsn i c mo to the winder, 'n' through the «ae tier a-rockia', *-roekitf in that oheer. „ • i. , '• . "i '• ' r ' "Jlramcid arm-cheer keeps a-roekin', a-rockin' without rest,-- 3Mbady«t*e can t,eeit, 'n° perhaps It's fur the bast. TMaer *ay her spirit's restless, 'n* can't never be __-'V •. «t-«ase, VMBMBO> when the light of our life went oat, we ' MUM* TOLD the bees; Sttls a!) the realms of endless space she's free • tocpuro TI' go, TFsfca comes and stays close by me, because aho loves nie so; •hkmn as how my heart is broke, In' I hain't CPt long to wait, •huH be on b&ad to pilot me a-through the Codecs gate, Tttst'i why she's so constant 'n' never failin' "9T«Ilsrs oets a-rock<u', a-rockin' in that chew. --JBB̂ IH liliuie. 11 DEMON'S DEED. TOW. EL STRSCEg. tee evening, in the yew 1887, I was ungc in & bar-rooua of a village tav- m MissoarL Four men were tad at» small tat>le playiug seven aewtral others were sitting around won talking animatedly and chew- febaoco vigorously, while the fat-, ffoo»i-u;»),ared landlord leaned over the smiled beoiguljr upon the ly the men cease talking and _ is turned toward the door. IMMU^ tramptng of a hone is heard iA^-atDd the next instant the deep, ikMrfQf. voioe of a man sings out. "Wlboa, January!" landlord fixes his gaze <m tte 9*ut, Vhlle the broad smile on his face tatill broader. , do, Jim Sherman?" he says «s a tall and very muscular man «aterd the (room. "Step 9 to ther bar an' take suthin fe me," he continues, placing a iy>t- t and two glasses on the bar. * "Ob. I*m ez peart ez er yearlin' oolt," i young man, helping himself to tmliquor. "How be you, Tom?" •"MwifJ lin'." replies the landlord, as lte hi!v glass. "How erbout that down ter Frog Crick last I" : i' . jr hain't yer hearn?" ""Tea, w're hearn snthia' 'bout it; live down that way, I reck- «an3. j»er «ould give us ther perticn- •I ww thar when it happened, an* I aadhon I ought ter know ez much wfcout it ez anybody." At this announcement, the men who 4Mb playing seven up toss their cards Vpo the table and every face in the wa is turned eagerly toward the ~TeU u» all erbout it, Jim," urges the ^Uwd, "We're all jest dyin' ter 1 be Tfae swung man draws a plug of *ftncco from Iris pocket, takes a gener- .-««s bite from it, puts it back into his ^pocket again, and begins: "Hiram Peters missed one uv his best ^fcoBBes from his stable one mornin', an' W&«Aont twenty men--I wuz one uv number--set out ter look for it. It early in tlier mornin' an' ez ther ;»oad hadn;t been traveled any, we didn't ~ any diifikiltv in trackin' ther an- Tlier trail led us right straight tlar Heary Campbell's ranch; an'when "**a got thar we found Henry leadin' ther fcoaa sre woz lookin' fur out uv ther """flalloT said Hiram Peters. 'How <WOi»eyott with that hoss?"* : "l ̂ found him in my stablea this lB»riiioY (>aid Henry. v "*J«st so,' said Peters. 'An* you wuz flKuu* to take him erway an' sell him. But) yer see, you didn't git up early ia ther mornin'.' ""Do you mean ter insinuate that I -"•fade yore boss?' said Henry, lookin' ez Utaadea er wet hen, an' er settin' one, inter trouble ef I said anythin* then, while ther men wuz so excited, fur they mout think I wtsz in league with Henrjr. So I ooncluded ter wait erwhile. " r • "I an' Henry had been chums all our livea, yer know, an' I knew he warn't ther sort uv er man ter steal er hoss ur cut up any other mean caper, an' I knew, too, that Peters wanted Alice Campbell, Henry's cousin, ter marry him, an' ez she liked Henry, an' didn't care two straws fur him, he'd be glad ter git Henry out uv ther way. "Jest ez they wuz draggin' Henry )erway, Alice Campbell bounded out uv ther house an' stood before tber men, aimin' er revolver full in their faces. M 'Let him go, ur I'll shute yer,' she said. 'He never stole that hoss.' " 'Take that gal erway 1' shouted Peters. 'She's crazy. Don't let go uv ther prisoner, men.' "But ther men loosed their holt on Henry, an' before they could git over their "astonishment, he had broke erway from ther crowd an' wuz half way ter tlier swamp, which wuz almost er quar­ ter uv a mile erway. When we looked fur Alice she wuz gone, too. 4, • "'Shute him!' yelled Peters., ^on't let him git away!' '- , ! "Sev'ral rifle balls wuz sent atter liim, but ther men wuz so excited that they all went wide uv ther mark. "'Atter him!' screeched Peters, black with rage. 'Scatter, an' scour ther swamp! I'll give er hundred dollars ter whoever captures him, dead or erlive.' "Ther men, led by Peters, hurried ter the swam}), ez eager to capture Henry ez they wuz ter git ther reward; fur yer know how everybody in this country hates er hoss-thief. "Ther swamp is thickly overgrown with trees an' bushes, an' thar is er hill in ther middle uv it, covered with rocks an' cliffs. Under one uv ther cliff* is er Rmall cave, whar I an' Henry once killed er b ar. Er lot uv vines grows over ther entrance an' hides it, so that nobody else ever found it; an' we'd never told whar it wuz. I knew that Henry would be more likely ter go there than anywhar else ter hide; an' so, ez soon ez I found myself erlone, I made fur ther cave. "'Hullo, Henry!' I said, when I got< thur; fur I knew I mout git hurt ef he wuz thar an' I undertuck ter go in with­ out lettin' him know who I wuz. 'Be you here ? I want ter come *in if you be. I don't believe yer stole that hoss.' "'Come in, ole man,' I heard Henry say; an', puttin' erside ther vines, I went in. "Thar wuz two parsons in thar, an' ez soon ez my eyes got used ter ther gloom, I see that ther other person wuz Alice. "'I'm glad that you an' Alice believe me innocent,' said Henry; 'but what be we er-goin' ter do erbout it?' " 'I'll prove yore innercence in er few days,' said I. 'Ther men that air lookin' fur you air too excited ter listen ter reason jest now." " 'Hush!' sa:d Alice. 'I hear some­ body comin.'" "Er heavy footstep approached ther cave, ther vines wuz pushed erway from ther entrance, an' ther ugly face uv Hi Peters looked in. I happened ter stand whar he couldn't sec me, but he could see Henry an' Alice plain ernuff; an' ez he gazed at 'em, I never see such er evil, exultant look on anybody's face before. 'Alice Campbell,' he said, 'my time has come at last. I'll be revenged on yer now fur refusin' ter marry me. Til kill yer lover right before yore face an' eyes, an' then I'll kill you. I ken say I killed you accidentally, you know, while you wuz helpin' yore lover ter escape.' "'You wouldn't dare ter talk that way, you cowardly sneak, el I wuz armed, like you be,' said Heury, not lookin' ther least bit scared. "Alice drew nearer ter Henry an' tuck his arm. "'What er wretch!' she said. didn't know that anybody could sucher villain.' " 'Oh, didn't vou?"' said Peters, laughin' like 'er demon. 'Wal, you'll find that I am. W'y, I put that hoss J in Heary Campbell's stable last night, so folks would think he stole it an' I could git him hung. You didn't know what er villain I woz, did you? Ha, ha, ha!' "I wuz so mad an' disgusted with Pe­ ters that I raised my rifle ter my shoulder ter shute him; but before I could fire ther vine3 dropped back over ther entrance, an' thar wuz ther noise uv er struggle outside. I looked out an' see Peters in ther grasp uv er dozen men. " 'Come out, Henry,' shouted one uv 'em. 'We've got ther right man this time, an' we'll string him up in short order. We happened ter get here jest in time ter hear his confession.' "I stepped out uv ther cave an' Henry an' Alice follered me. "Peters watched us sullenly, but didn't say er word. " 'Fire some guns an' call ther rest uv ther boys,' said Bill Collins. 'They'll want ter see ther fun.' "Sev'ral rifles wuz fired, an' putty soon their rest uv ther gang come strag- glin' up by ones an' twos an' threes; an' when they heard how Hi Peters had fooled 'em, they couldn't hardly wait till ther rest uv ther men come, they wuz so anxious ter see him hung. "In thirty minutes they wuz all thar. "'Who's got er rope?' asked Frank Briggs. " 'I have,' said Kit James, pullin' one out uv his pocket. " 'Take* me erway, Henry," ' said Alice, lookin' frightened, and clingin' ter his arm. 'The wretch deserves hangia' but I don't want ter seeitdone.' "Henry led her erway, an' I we dragged Peters ter ther nearest tree; an' er few minutes later his corpse wuz swit)gin' between heaven an' earth. "Henry an' Alice air goin' ter be mar­ ried day arter to-morrer, an' I've been sent here ter invite everybody in this village ter ther weddin'. We want everybody ter come. Be thar at half jmst ten sure. Tlier weddin' i-» ter be at 'leven; tlier dinner--thare'll be no less 'n three oxen roasted--will be ,at twelve; an' tliarll be a shootin1 match in ther arternoon." Ilions whit* ihe common people think** cannot opQtittue indefinitely. There is no justice in keeping the peltry and In the last number of the "Preussi M>he Jahrbuclier" Proi.Deiuruok, taeu.- >er of the Reichstag; who knew the ate Kaiser Frederick very intimately !rom having been occupied formerly with the education of his sous, ex}>osed i great deal that was misleading, un- rue and unfair in the recent pamphlet 'elative to the Emperor Frederiok, published by Gustav Freytag. Some of Saturday evening's Berlin papers now publish what purports to be the criticism of Ivaiserin Friedrich (Prin­ cess Boyal of Great ^Britain and Ire­ land) on certain passages written by that well-known novelist. A personage from the immediate entourage Qf her Majesty is reported- to have asserted: "What Freytag says of the Kaiser as 'the husband of his wife' must be quite incomprehensible to all those who knew the footing upon which the Kaiser Friedrich stood to his consort. He says: 'He praised her rich stores of knowledge and her intellect, to which he was always obliged to look up'; and in another place, 'His devetion and sub­ jection to his beloved wife was com­ plete. This love was the highest and most sacred thing1 in his life, audit filled him completely. She was the mistress of his youth, the confidante of all his thoughts, his eouftsellor in every­ thing in which she was disposed to give counsel.'" The Empsfess Frederiok is said to have remarked, on reading this, that it was she who looked up to her hiisbpnd, not to her; that she came to Berlin as a retiring, almost ignorant, girl of 17-- what she had become she owed to her husband. "It was he," she continued, "who filled me with enthusiasm for all that was beautiful and noble, who in­ itiated me into all his plans, who in­ stilled into me the desire to extend my intellectual horizon. The intimate in­ terest I took in all his efforts give him pleasure; I was, as he often said, 'his good comrade,' with whom he could discuss everything." Happening to open Freytag's book at the passage, "The education x>i the children, his judgment on men and things, he regulated according to her personal Opinions. When he could not quite follow her, or when his most in­ most being refused to accept her de­ mands, he was sorely unhappy and dis­ contented with himseif," her Majesty exclaimed, with tears in her eyes, " What! the Kaiser could not follow me! Besides this, when and where did I make demand* which were contradictory to his inmost being, and rendered him unhappy and discontented? It was my pride to be able to follow him in the high flights of his mind, to understand' his plans, and share his* desire*. We were one in tliinkiug and feeling? The words, 'he arranged everything in ac­ cordance with his personal character,' are decidedly incorrect. The Kaiser used to listen to my opinion in questions of import--we exchanged views, and he liked to eall me his 'Geheimerathin,' or 'Ladv Privy Councillor,' who was versed in everything; but hewas never unhappy or discontented with himself because I had a different opinion from his." The Empress was then struck by the passage: "She came to him accus­ tomed to a grander style of life, and had, with rich talents, and a mind that rapidly seized upon thin? s and soared high, received her intellectual store, as her father's favorite child, from a far more extensive field of educating ma­ terial. She had worked with zeal, and sometimes with patience, for many happy years to cultivate in the mind of her consort those interests which lay near to her heart, and he felt, in his simple and pure mind, that what was alive in him was her work." "This is not true either," said her Majesty, ex­ citedly. "It was he who inspired me with his high soaring intellect for all those ideals that filled his heart. It was he who patiently worked to olant iu my mind those seeds that had so brilliantly developed into bloom in his. I really do not know what Freytag means when he says, 'It sieems to him us if be had first learned to see, to feel, to appreciate the truth, and enjoy the beautiful through ber. It was easy to understand that such supremacy of a wife threatened to prepare difficulties and combats for the husband, the future King of Prussia.'" The Empress be­ came meditative as she read these lines, and exclaimed, "Such supremacy! I prepared difficulties and disputes for him! When and where ? Did I ever 3trive to subordinate his will to mine ? The Kaiser was not the man who would have bowed to the supremacy of his wife--but enough; must I read every­ thing that is written ?" The same account says that her Ma­ jesty, has placed Freytag's pamphlet among her books, having written on the title page, "The world loves to blackcn that which is radiant, and to drag through the dust that which is sub­ lime. I mourn not; there are still no­ ble hearts that glow for that illustrious and rarely found man."--Berlin letter to the London Telegraph. artisans of the world in poverty, in order that a highly pystematized, scien­ tific warfare may be carried on, on a gigantic scale. In this matter of war, are we better than the root eaters - Yankee Blade. * UoHsemaids In Livery, t custom of putting housfimaMs into livery, which is common enough in England, is'beginning to be adopted in New York. The costume or uniform consists of a skirt of dark livery cloth-- bine, green or brown--with plain front and broad plaits at back; a waistcoat of the same cloth, with fine crosswise lines of red braid, and a coat cut away in frout and covering the hips. Metal livery buttons are used on the coat aud waistcoat. A small white cap, stiff white collar and cuffs and a white cra­ vat complete the attire. A good look­ ing maid, with a good figure, makes a natty appearftace in audi1 a livery, and is particularly useful in households whore only Women servants are em­ ployed to attend the door and serve the meals. Where there is a butler, she is well equipped to take the place of "sec­ ond man." As a small minority . makes tip the .wealthy class everywhere, the cfiatoms and fashions that obtain in that class are an endless source of curiosity, speculation and interest. To a certain extent there is no good reason why this curiosity should not be gratified. Tha rich art collector loses nothing of the jealously guarded privacy of his home life by some times throwing open his gallery to the public--that is nothing which ought to cause him any pain or regret. No one need apologize for letting a little light in upon the do­ mestic life of those who are known as society people. Let the doors of the closets where skeletons lurk remain locked; leave the dust in the haunted chamber unstirred; the rest may be re­ vealed without offense.-- New Orleans Ficayun*. Buiiiuu? Away. A lady who does not believe in the present "high pressure" system of work and amusemeut says that she owes her placidity of disposition and her capacity for endurance, to an old habit of run­ ning away. "When I was a child she says I had a notoriously hot temper. As soon as my mother saw ose of the 'fits' coming on, she used to say gently, 'Perhaps you had better run away a little while, dear.' Then I would take my sled, or my garden hoe, according to the sea­ son, dash out of doors, and stay there until the evil spirit had passed by. "We kept up that little habit, my mother and I. I entered the Young Ladies' Seminary qf our town, and there I worked very hard, but, unlike many Of the girls, I did not break down. Whenever my mother noticed that my forehead was beginning to tie itself up in a knot over my books, she would say: " 'Bun away for an hour, daughter. The sunshine' is very bright, and I want you to go out and soak yourself in it.' "Of course, I didn't always want to go. but mother could be firm as well as indulgent, and the result was that I did a great deal of running away, either in bed or in the open air. The other girls kept themselves awake on coffee, in or­ der to study late at night, and some of them did outstrip me in book knowl­ edge. Still, I came to believe so fully in my mother's prescription, that i made it one of my rules of life, and I am consequently One of the people who have 'Lived to fight another day.'" --Youth's Companion. No Time for Home Duties. 'Mary, your dress is torn again this morning. Now step up here and I will fix it for you." A pin was placed in the offensive dress, and the child stepped back into a row of scholars who, books in hand, stood in a semi-circle around the kind teacher who had fixed the dress. 'Now, Mary," said the latter, as tbe dupil took her place in the class, "I told you yesterday to ask your mother to mend your dress. Why didn't you do as I told you ?" The child hesitated a moment, then meekly said: "Please, teacher, mother goes to church every evening, and says that she has got no time to fix things fpr me." The teacher blushed; yes, blushed for the mother who parades her re­ ligion and neglects her home, but said not a word. This story is an actual fact. The in­ cident occurred in one of the public schools in this city during the present week. Are there many mothers like this in this city that boasts of her scholarly preachers, her churches and schools ?-- Minneavolis Tribune.* V ,?'?v "1 -don't see how else you come ter wa.iV said Peters. "Then, turnin' ter ther men t.h^t •e with bim, he continued: "Hoys, I don't see ez we need ter •da any time in ho]din' er court on Lcoaae. We've found ther hoss in MEy Campbell's posession, an' that's mst eruuff that he's guilty. Let'B _ hiui up on ther nearest tree.' "Now, Hi Peters warn't greatly liked Awrlte wuz known, but, ez he wuz ter riches' man at Frog Crick, thar mm plenty uv men thai* that would do boost anythin' that he axed 'em ter; wt so, almost before he wuz done seven ur eight men had seized • an' wuz holdin' him. Fal, it did look ruther black fur Henry, an' I couldn't blame ther men : MNeh fur doin' -ez they did; but I knew ; jfca «K iuercent, and I meant ten, help '"liaait uv ther serai e ef I could; an' meant ter die fightin' fer Heeding Him Off. v "Yes, Miss Jenkenoir," said Gus Suffly. "I've had a great many disap­ pointments." "Indeed," said the young lady, "they don't seem to have materially affected you." "No; I realize the force of the pro­ verb, 'map proposes,' you know." "Yes, and woman very frequently re­ jects him."--Merchant Traveled. PRAISE never gives us much pi unless it concurs with onr own opinion and extols us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. JACK FROST is a contractor by trade. Heat expands and cold contracts, you Are We Better Thau the Boot Eaters! We look back with a feeling of civilized pity upon our root-eating an cestors, who dwelt in caves, and divided their time between procuring their food and fighting their fellows. It is said that warfare is the natural state of all savage tribes, It is their business, their recreation, their second nature. Peace, with nearly all primitive races of Men, is only an accident, an in­ frequent episode, while war is their natural and perpetual condition. But though we look back upon our early progenitors as inhuman savages, still, we cannot deuy that to-day, throughout a great portion of the civil ized world, war seems to be the chief object of government and men. In the most civilized nations of Europe, vast armies are quartered on the people--im­ mense hordes of military paupers, who never plant a grain of corn or wield at stroke of the sickle, but simply live from the hard-wrung taxes of a dis­ couraged; peasantry. How supremely absurd it is, when looked at from an un­ prejudiced view, that the most humane, the most civilized, the most advanced nations of the earth should strain the machinery of their government to the utmost, to simply raise revenue to hire highly trained and professional mur­ derers for tbe sole object of killing and slaughtering, by the most improved de­ vices, thousands of their fellow-men. How does this differ from the slaughter of the early root eater, unless it is a more artistic method of murder, a^d on a larger scale. Europe is kept in a state of perpetual defence. Of course all these nations recognize the mediaeval barbarity of war. They all desire peace; but no one of the great powers would dare dis­ band its armies, for fear of being over­ run and conquered by sottieiival nation. #f course this i&na- Longfellow's Weird Story. To Wilkie Collins, from New York, date of January 12, 1868, Mr. Dickens writes: "Being at Boston last Sunday, I took it into my head to go over the medical school and survey the holes and corners in which that extraordinary murder was done by Webster. There was the furnace, and all the grain spouts and sinks and chemical appli­ ances and what not. At dinner, after­ ward, Longfellow told me a terrific story. He dined with Webster' within a year of the murder, one of a party of ten or twelve. As they sat at their wine Webster suddenly ordered the lights turned out and a bowl of some burning material to be placed on the table, that the guests might see how ghostly i* made them look. As each man stared at the rest in the weird light all were borrow stricken to see Webster with a rope around his neck, holding it over the bowl, with his head jerked on one side and his tongue lolled out rep­ resenting a man being hanged*" --Bos­ ton Herald. How They Dance on Tip-Toe. There is a popular impression that ballet dancers have the soles of their shoes made stiff so as to enable them to dance about on their toes. "That is nonsense," and Miss Qualtz (a p remiere danseuse) exhibited a pair of her dancing shoes to illustrate. "You can't stand up this way with your ordinary shoes on," and the pre­ miere gracefuily mounted her toes and viewed the reporter's $3 foot-wear with extreme disgust. "A stiff sole in the shoe would not help, but absolutely prevent dancing. And, besides the strain is not on the toes, but it comes on the rear .of the ankle. 1 believe that's what you Americans call it. But by keeping tbe body in the proper position, much of the strain is relieved, and tbe dancer appears much mor» graceful to those who understand what correct ballet . - "St •• • - , Klckel for the World. In the Copper Cliff mine, near Sud­ bury, Canada, it is said more nickel is being produced than the entire market of the world calls for at current prices. A little branch railway off the main line of the Canadian Pacific Bail way, four miles in length, leads out to the mine, which opens into the face of a crag of the brown, oxidized Lauren- tian rock characteristic of this region. The miners are now at work at a depth of about 300 fee' below the surface, As fast as the nickel and copper-bear­ ing rock is hoisted out it is broken up and piled upon long beds or ricks of pine wood, to be calcined, or roasted, for the pursose of driving out the sul­ phur which it contains. The roasting process is of the nature of lime-lulni^g or charcoal-burning. Each great bed of ore requires from one to two months to roast. When roastfed the rock goes to the principal smelter, a powerful blast furnace, "jacketed"--in mining phrase--with running water to enable it to sustain the great beat requisite to re­ duce the crude, obdurate mineral to- fluidity. The dross of the molten mass is first allowed to flow off, and afterward the nearly pure nickel and copper, blended together in an alloy called tbe "mat," or mattee, is drawn off at the base of the furnace vat into barrow pots and wheeled away, still liquid and fiery hot, to cool in the yard of the smelter. The yard contains about 70 per cent, of nickel, the remaining 80 per cent, being mainly copper. When cool the conical pot loaves of mat can easily be cracked in pieces by means of heavy hammers. The fragments are then packed in bar­ rels and shipped to Swansea in Wales and to Germany, where the. two con­ stituent metals are separated aud refined by secret processes which are very jealously guarded by the manufactur­ ers. So jealously is the secret kept that no one in America has yet been able to learn the process, although one young metallurgist spent three years at Swan­ sea, working as a common laborer in tbe factories, in order to procure it. At present there are produced daily at the Copper Cliff mine about ninety pot loaves of mat, each weighing near 450 pounds, an output which yields an ag­ gregate of more than 4,000 tons of uickel a year.--Youth's Companion. . Mourning in the Orient. White is Ahe mourning garb through­ out the far East. The Hindoo son whose father dies must not shave or wear shoes or shirts or anything ex­ cept a piece of white cloth during the period of mourning. You see China­ men dressed in white, moving among the gayly dressed throngs of every Chinese city. And when a Chiqaman is in mourning 'he braids white silk into his hair and has even «the soles of his feet painted white. He entirely dis­ cards for the time all things of red color, and he takes the red coloring off the furniture of his hpuse. Bed is the color of prosperity in China. It means lucky, and the ordinary Chinese visit­ ing card is a strip of red paper as long as a government envelope. While in mourning he prints his name on white visiting cards, and he does this for three years. At the end of that time he puts on garments of a modified color and writes on his visiting cards the word "tam," which means, "My grief is not so bitter as before." Chi­ nese, and in fact all nations of tbe Orient, are more rigid as to their terms of mourning than we are. The China­ man who would not put on mourning for his father would be arrested, and in Corea a man is expected to clothe him-' self in yellow sackcloth and trot around the country under a hat as big as a dish pan, holding a fan before his face for three years after the death of any near ralative. During this time he can do no business, cannot engage in marriage or attend any festivities. Chinamen do not go to theaters during their mourping period and the law to a certain extent regulates the mourning customs of Japan. During mourning the leading officials of many of the countries have the right to resign, and not long ago Li Hung Chang, the great viceroy, asked to be excused from his duties as Premier of the Chinese Em­ pire in order that he might go off and mourn for his mother. Hottest Spot on Earth. The hottest region on earth, says the Boston Herald, is on the southwestern coast of Persia, where Persia borders the gulf of the same name. For forty consecutive days iu the months of July and August the thermometer has been known not to fall lower than 100 de­ grees night or day, and'to run up as high as 129 degrees in the afternoon. At Bahrin, in the center of the hottest part of the torrid belt, as though it was nature's intention to make the region as unbearable as possible, no water can be obtained from digging wells 100, 200, or even 500 leet deep, yet a com­ paratively numerous population contrive to Hve there, thanks to copious springs which break forth from the bottom of the gulf more than a mile from shore. The water from these spring is ob­ tained by divers, who dive to the bot­ tom and fill goatskin bags with the cooling liquid and sell it for a living. The source of these submarine fount­ ains is thought to be in the green hill of Osman some 500 or 600 miles away. A Question of Time, A story is going the rounds about a Irishman, who judge, and that local juryman, an cleverly outwitted a without lying. He came breathlessly into court, say­ ing: "Oh, my lord, if yon can exouse me, pray do!--I do not "know which will die first, my wife or my daughter." "Dear me! that's sad," said the inno­ cent judge; "certainly you are excused." The next day the juryman was met by a friend, who in a sympathetic voice asked: " How's your wife ?" "She's all right, thank you." "And your daughter?" "She's all right, too. Why do you ask ?" "Why yesterday you said you did not know which would die first!" "Nor do I. That is the problem which time alone can solve." |e Went Her One Better. ' Mr. Jackman II at tan--Oh, yes. It's a pretty good-sized picture; but then, you know, paintings don't dell by the yard. Miss Packer (of Chicago)--I know that; but just think, it's all done with those tiny little brushes, and Mr., Broomley uses only the very best of oil. "As to -,liat. I have a friend who paints water colors, and he use exclusively im­ ported Apollinaris." "Oh! Jb&'tlhat lovelyP--F«*efc. Real Ktfitorlal Happiness Found Only ta the Wests We extract the following items from the last issue of the Arizona Kicker: APOLOGETICAL.--We must apologize to our readers this week for any lack of interesting matter in the Kicker. Monday morning, as we were busy at the editorial table, that personage known as "Kansas Joe" entered the of­ fice and fired both barrels of a shot-gun at us from a distance of eighteen feet. One of the shot raked our scalp, while the rest passed above our head into the wall. In another thirty seconds Joseph I was dead. We pulled on him with a revolver under the smoke and dropped him with a single bullet. Scores of ouy leading citizens pronounce it the finestn shot they have ever known. i There was the usual inquest, burial, | etc., occupying so much of our time) that we could not give the paper the at­ tention it deserved. Next week, unless i we have to kill Tennessee Bill, the Kicker will again be fully up to the' mark. I SEE HIS AD.--We call attention to the two-column advertisement of the White Elephant Drug Store, which ie to be found on our third page. This I advertisement was not given the Kicker because we had ascertained that Mr. Drew, the druggist, was an abscondei from New Jersey, and was here living under a false name and with a woman not his wife, but because he is a be liever in printer's ink and has faith that the Kicker will increase his already large and profitable retail trade. HAPPENS THAT WAY.--On Friday afternoon we approached Henry Smith, of the dry goods firm of Smith Bros., and suggested that he advertise his business in the Kicker. He courte­ ously replied that he would see us in the ' huckleberry country r- wherever that is--before he would do business with us. One word brought on an­ other, and the result was that he knooked us down, picked up our half-" unconscious body, and mopped it around until he began to sweat his col­ lar, and we were then flung out of the door into the sand. We can't and don't expect to lick everybody we bump up against in this country. We have chawed up seven for every time we have been done up, and everybody says that is a record tc boast of. As for Henry Smith, while we owe him no grudge, we deem it oui duty to find out where he is wanted by the police, and we'll bet a barrel oi sugar he jumps this town inside of twe weeks. LET HIM Howl..--Our bow-backed, lop-shouldered, knee-sprung, green- eyed contemporary down the street is half dead with envy because we were the leading feature at Mrs. O'Hara'f party the other evening, while he re­ ceived the cold cut. While we were receiving a hundred compliments or our late editorial in regard to colonizing Iceland with American Indians, he was sitting among his paste-pots with a cold glare in his eyes. While we were lead­ ing the first quadrille he was kicking cockroaches in the semi-darkness, and while we were declaiming "Sheridan',- Ride" in our own inimitable style the fire of envy was consuming his small, cheap soul, which was doubtless pur­ chased at some second-hand sale in the East. Let him howl, however. We can af­ ford to pass him by with good nature. We are as far above the old vulture as Pike's Peak is above the deepest spo in the sea. EXPLANATORY. -- An explanation* is due our readers that still anothei breach-of-promise suit has been brought against us, making the seventeenth in two years. This time-it is the Widow Cumbers who brings suit, and she lays her damage at $50,000. Society here is peculiar. Lone women seek this local­ ity to catch a husband. Any unmarried man is fair game, and ordinary courtesy is construed to mean love and a pro­ posal. Take the last case for instance. Mrs. Cumbers invited us to dinner. She said it was in acknowledgement of the power of the press. We put on s clean shirt and combed our hair, and she took it to mean that we were gone on her. We spoke kindly of the way she boiled corned beef, and she argued that we loved her. We praised liei prune pie, and she replied that she could be ready in three weeks. The sixteen other suits have all been decided in our favor, and of course this one will be. It is a plan to capture uf or our cash, but we don't surrender. Even when we have had offers to settle a $50,000 suit for $7 and a calico dress, we have sternly held to our course ano let the case go to trial.--Detroit Fret Press. • Force In Silence. In painting the great picture of tli< sacrifice of iphigenia the artist, it if said, exhausted the emotions of griel and horror in the faces of the bystanders. "He has left nothing unsaid. How can he depict her father's sorrow ?" asked anxiously his friends who were watching the development of the picture. He threw a mantle over Aga­ memnon's face. The blank silence was more effective than any pictured wee. One of the most extraordinary effectf produced' by absolute silence is re­ corded in the reports of a convention in which the foremost man of Virginia took part. John Randolph had a meas­ ure to carry in which he looked for the ojgposition of Alexander Campbell, after­ ward founder of a large sect, a man then noted for his scholarship and power of debate. Randolph had never seen the Scotch logician, but he heard enough of him to make him and his partisans uneasy. When, therefore, the gaunt stranger first rose to speak in the conveption, Randolph looked at him with such an air of alar tn as to attract the wliole at­ tention of the convention, and as he glanced around seemed to be asking for sympathy in his coming defeat. He then composed himself to listen in rapt attention. Campbell, aware of this by-play, hesi­ tated and lost the thread of his argu­ ment. Randolph's face by turns as he -listened expressed weariness, indiffer­ ence, and finally unspeakable contempt. He leaned back and yawned. Campbell sat down hastily. He had lost the whole force of his speech. Not a word had been spoken, but he was defeated. --Youth's Companion. , • She Was Safe. A very nervous old lady coming in on the 10:30 train at Des Moines the other night was put by the hotel c'.erk on the very top floor of the hotel. As the chambermaid was hustling out of the room she stopped her and asked in a trembling tone: "Do you know what precaution the proprietor has taken against fire ?" "Yis, mum; yis, mum," said the bright one. "He has the pl&pe inshured for twicet what it's worth, --General ..^anage^W:; ' ' • - 4 y. <• '•* r • ^ ^ J?" BtnraiNo expenses--Childrsau SIGN of a hard iftrsale. A PRETTY how-de-do--A| maiden's courtesy. J IT is the spur OFvthe'^Boment that makes time fly. THE mustard plaster ia always likely to do something smart. BLACK-AND-TAN dogs axe noted for their black-and-tanbark. NOAH'S craft was very heavily laden. There was no arc light in those days. "How DID you come out in your in­ terview with Miss Bullion's father?* "Through the window." IN milking a cow always sit on the side furthest from the cow and near a soft spot iu the pasture. WHEN a clothes-pin drops from the line, doesn't it become a terrapin the moment it touches the earth? IT is quite pardonable in a dude to get drunk occasionally; That's the only^hance he ever has to let people know that he has any kind of a head on him. AGENT--Suppose you let me write a policy on this building. Owner--Why, it's fireproof. Agent (retreating)--I didn't know that. Pardon me. j| wouldn't take it. ' POLICEMAN (helping young lady over a muddy crossing)--Give me your hand, miss, and Young lady (blushing furiously)-- I'm sorry, sir, but Harry proposed last night. FIANCE (of wealthy but ugly, man)-- Have you shaved? "Yes." "Have yon plenty of perfume on?" "Yes." "No tobacco in your mouth?" "No.** "Well, then, you may kiss my poodle." OLD Sport--You don't want ter shoot at them ~ ducks, young feller; them's decoys. Young Sport--Well, if they're as hard eating as they are shooting, Decoys can keep his ducks and welcome to 'em. RETORT Courteous--I'd have yon to know, said Cholly Van Antwerp, 'tbiat my reputation is as dear to me as any one's can be to him. "I should judge that it cost a great deal to get a reputa­ tion like yours." MCFINGLE---How are you, Smith? I haven't seen you for a long while. How's your son Jack? Where's he been keeping himself for the past year? Smith ' (dolefully)--He hasn't 'been keeping himself! I've been keeping him. YOUNG Lady (confidentially) to guide in foreign art gallery)--Is there any way for the Unitiated to distinguish between nn old master and a modern painting? Guide--Yes, ma'am. If the people in the picture have clothes on it's by an old master. ' * EDITOR'S wife (2 a. m.)--John! John! There's a burglar in the house. I hear -V iiim down stairs. O! do get up. John (half awake)--A burglar? In this vf liouee? Wife-- Ye*. Listen! Doh't r ^ pon heat that"? John (rolling over " ^ igain)--He must be an amateur. """ Two PEOPLE were talking science the H? " Dther evening when the germ theory f " •/ $ ;ame under discussion. "Just to think we are composed of germs!" he ex- claimed. "Why, then, we are Ger- ' mans," said she. "Yes," said he, "ex- ' * i'ept the Irish, and they are Mick- . ,J robes." , POET to Publisher--Dear Sir: Be : jpod enough to read the inclosed and sfive me your opinion upon it while I am ?till in the fire of composition. v£ub- „ ^ S lisher to Poet--Dear Sir: It is quit# "-n unnecessary to put fire into your com- iwsition. The only thing to do is to put _ S: four composition into the fire. SHE--Now, Hiram J. Larkin, don't you never tell me you've been to the lodge. Aren't you ashamed to come ;: : ^ staggering home in this disgraceful Btate ? And here I've been settin' up , . liere for these five hours. He--Thash 1 whare I got ahead of you, Hannah. Where I spent the evenin' the other fel'r did the settin'up. . A ;; " 1 „• ,'5j r A Very Slick Tricky w ,-4 Two repectable looking men enterea V Horace L. Harriman's restaurant, at No. 180 Sixth avenue, yesterday, and . ordered a dinner,,, of which turkey was the principal disli. When they had eateu their fill, they coolly announced that they had no money. Harriman told them they must pay or give secur- | ity for the eighty-five cents due. One st of the pair, who had an oblong card­ board box under bis arm, rather hesi- 5' tatingly proposed to leave the box as security. His companion objected that it was scarcely wise to trust it to Harri­ man, but after some more conversation, ^ calculated to impress Harriman with the value of the parcel, they offered % him the mysterious box. % Harriman wanted to know its con- f ; tents, but the men objected, and when he insisted upon opening it, one of them sidled toward the door and made 3 a successful break for the street. Har- i riman held onto the box and the second ; man, and upon opening the former, V found it contained a general assortment ' of dirty snow. The prisoner was taken to the Jeffer­ son Market Police Court, where tbe man gave the name of John Connors. | He said that he was out of work and had accepted the invitation of the man « who had escaped to dine at his ex­ pense. Judge Gorman fined him $10, and in default of payment Connors will get free meals in jail for ten days.--New York , HeraUk Quite Immaterial.* \0" A mellowed old lawyer wh6 used lo t live on the banks of the Androscoggin ' was given to deep potations, and was famous for his fine distintctions. It is * saiil that in special pleading he could i; iplit a hair even more closely than Mr. ^ Record can himself. But even after the shades of night 1 had fallen the squire might have been „ seen struggling home so boozy that he \ ^ apparently could not split a shingle, to m f * jay nothing of a hair. • ^ "One night, when he was drunker than •"y nsual, he staggered completely out of 3 >^5 his course, and could not lind it Real- izing that he was lost and drifting into anfamiliar regions, he called at a house ' ' to ask for information. "Madam," he gravely said to the lady who came to the door, candle in hand, ,, "'can you tell (hie) me where Squire . * ' rv Blank lives?" ' "Certainly," she said, and gave him > the directions. '* ^ If But she has talked and looked, and *. '113- is her candle gradually brought out the features of the man, before h®r» * puzzled expression came into her face, " I ind she finally asked,-- "But isn't this Squire Blank?" ' "Madam," replied the old lawyer, wsuming his most judicial air; "that ia entirely (~ic) immaterial." v|^ A PLUM-PUDDING on the tab!* f If worth two in the stonflwAu ;; s t 'W *, v,