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ii mi it. rois. • • • • MY PATH. ^Theftltna i>t ltteknd *11 tts tew*. <Soo mmp tar e.tlm, "too strong lor i " • * L - > V ' - t V i i - o n i " " ' t •olaco all day Idas"' lonook itw, coM ami doll i±:.' BPDvos, whore none ©an c§p«i;" . _ war t« light tin way, % -.fe*- 4ttiSltt«d foot wouM Any, r friend in* woos ollayod, ';Uj ia arm afield we st rayeJ. for crief, too gravei for song. •» ."1 i j crplexed me d« i> and long ^ ? t M*ht broke 111, and eloarw scojiaJ / '" •fafgetl my views and Ravu liie lioji Then lioth liiy friend ntid M«t r.ro ble: A nameless charm and comfort lent. i , Outlived the grief, outprowu the jnwl lllMBwl theflnrlcnms, cl«nr«l the st hooka, nnd works oS ^raoe,; .Wimi -rtinr1* Mto***.. I'wKl'wewWfel'iieert awl fitiA , ' My «oui to a amines a vesigneu •-"Waverloy Mn&mine. 1 i, \ . IGKORAMCB IS i^S& The splendid steamship Adamant, «f the celebrated Cross Bow Line,Meft New York on her February trip fen­ der favorable auspicca There likd just been a alarm on the ocean, an there was. every chance that sh^ would reacii Liverpool before the next one was due. . Capt. Bice hart a little .social problem to solve at the outset, but he -iHnoothea that out with the tact rWhich is characteristic of him. Two (Washington ladies--official ladies-- •were on board, and the caDtain, old --British sea dog as he was, always bad trouble in the matter of precedence ViWith Washington ladies. Capt. Rice never had any bother with the Brit- *ish aristocracy, because precedence is all set down in the bulky volume of .-"Burke's Peerage," which the captain kept in his cabin, and so there was no difficulty. But a Republican coun- T. '.'•"try Ss s!5ntjosed. not, to meddle with, •^precedence. It wouldn't, either if It weren't for the women. \ : £o it happened that, Mrs. Assist- i ant-AUoruey-to-the-Senate Brownrig <5ame to the Steward and said that, X ranking allothers on board, the must sit at the. right hand of the captain. Afterwards Mrs Second-Ad jutant-to- . the-War-Department I)igl:y came to the same perplexed official and said she must sit at the captain's right hand because in Washington she took pre­ cedence over every one else on board. The bewildered steward confided his woes to the captain, and the captain said he would attend to the matter, fio he put Mrs. War-Department on . tils right hand and then walked down the deck with Mrs. Assistant-Attor-. . sev and said to her: "I want to ask a favor, Mrs. Brownrig. Unfortunately I am a little aeaf in the right ear, caused, 1 presume, bv listening so much with th£t car to the fog-horn year in and year out. Now, 1- always place the lady whose conversation I wish most ^ to enjoy at my left hand at -table. Would you oblige me by taking that seat this voyage? I have heard of you, you see, Mrs. Brownrig, although you have never crossed with me be- * fore." "Why, certainly, captain," replied Sirs. Brownrig; "1 feel especially ;;,vS6*niplimeated." "And I assure you, madam," said tile polite captain, "that 1 would not ft* the world miss a jingle word that," etc. ' And thus it was all amicably ar- ranged between the two ladies. All this has nothing whatever to do with the story. It is merely an incident giVen to show what a born diplomat Capt. Rice was and is to this day. I don't know any captain more popular • with the 'ladies than he, and besides Jie is as good a sailor as crosses the by day went on and the her way toward the were unanimous he WflTddfcp to hta own room, avoiding ..passengers as much as be cout<dL^|iOi&d the stew­ ard bring him «liiwipptf tea. Even a captain cannbtllve" on anxiety. "Steamer off the port brow, sir,w rang out the voice of fche lookout at the prow. The man had sharp eyes, for a landsman could have seen noth­ ing. <4lbiH jlM t*H ' tho ' " rrJofl to tho sailor at Jis' elbow, buTa?K|lie sailor turned the captain's head appeared up the stairway. He seized the glass and looked l.png at a single point in the hori^a.Si 'fit must be the Vulcan.'*' he said at Jast. , J- think so, sir." ';*/• *Turn your wheel a f&m joints to port and bear down oh her.M Johnson gave the necessary order and the great ship veered around. "Hello!" cried Spinner, on deck. "Here's a steamer. I founa her. She's mine." Then'there-was a rush to the side of the ship. "A steamer in sight," was the cry, and all liooks and maga­ zines at once lost iuyterest. Even the placid, dignified fEnglishman who was so uncoramunicntive rose from his chair and sent his servant fo# his binoculars. Children were hem up and told to be careful while they tried to see the dim line of smoke so far ahead. "Talk about lane routes at sea," \crfcd young Spinner, the knowing. \"Bosh, I say. See: we're going di­ rectly for her. Think what it* mte*»t/ be in a fog! Lane routosf Pure lucV, I call it." "tfill we signal to her, Mr. Spin­ ner?" gentlv asked the*youtiig lady from Boston. V? . / "Ofc, certainly,' answered young Spinner. "Sec, there's our signal flying fvom the masthead now. That shows tliem what line we belong to." "Dear me, how interesting," said the young lady. "You have crossed matiy times, I cuppbse, Mr. Spinner." "ph, I know my Way about,",an­ swered the modest Kjjinner The captain kept the glasses gluetT to his eyes. Suddetfly he almost les them drop. _ "My God! Johnson," he cried. «*What is it, sir?" "She's flying a signal of distress, too!" . , The twosteamer^stowjv approached each other and when nearly along­ side and about a mile ajfort the b&llof the Adamant rang to stop. "There, you see," said yoiin& Spin­ ner to the Boston Girt, ^'she is flying the same flag at her mast head that we are." , "Then she belongs to tfaesame line as this boat?" > "Oh, certainly,'" ' ansWMCd Cock-Sure Spinner. -"pi "Oh, look! look! look?" criet enthusia§tii| Indianapolis girl was going to take music in Germany. Everyone looked.aloft and saw run­ ning up to the niaHhead a long line of fluttering, inanv-colored flags. They remained in place for a few mo-; ments and then fluttered down again, only to give place to a different string. The same thing was going on on the other steamer. , "How just too interesting for any­ thing," said Mrs. Assistant. "I am just dying to know what it all means. * I have read of it so often but never saw it before. I wonder when the captain will come down. What does it all mean? she asked the deck steward. "They are signaling to each other madam." i "Oh, I know that. But what are they signaling?" "I don't know, madam." "Oh, sec! see!" cried the Indianapo­ lis girl, clapping her hands with de­ light. "The other steamer is turning around." It was indeed so. The great ship was thrashing the water with her screw, and gradually the masts came in line and then her prow faced the I east again. When this had been i slowly accomplished the bell on the Adamant rang full speed ahead, ^nd captain came slowly do*n that led from the bridge: what does it all Noth- Mr. the who mm echoed the captain blank* "Yos, With the Adamant? What has heen amiss for the last two or three days? I'm not a talker, nor am I afraid any more than you are, but I want to know." '•Certainly^' said the captain. "Please shut the door, Sir John.1' * *. * * • • # !!H3 tl _ rX\r^.T board the Vulcite. Ia the saiol/tt Captain Flint was standing at bay with his knuckles on the table. "Now what the devil's the jttcau* ins of all this?" cried Adam Su Vin­ cent, member of Congress. A crowd of frightened women were standing around, many on the verge of hysterics. Children cling wit** pale faces to their mother's fearing they knew hot what, ®*cn were grouped with anxious fa/51* the bluff old captain fronted Metu all. "The meaning of all wlia^ sir.-"! "You know very well ^ the meaning of our turnip rounur-- "It means, sir, that Adamant has eighty-live saloon passengers and nearly 500 intermediate and steerage passengers who are iiythc most deadly danger. The cottoD^n the hold is on fire, and they hav^ been fighting it nightandday. break out at any moment. It me*Ps' then, sir, the Vulcan Is gol^g to stand by the Adament. A wail of *nguish burst from the frightened women at the awful fate t^tt aiipvTt be in store for so nvnny human beings so near them, and tttev clung closer to their children and thanfced God that no such danger threatened them and those dear, to them. • "And dammit, sir." cried the Con­ gressman, "do you mean to tell us that we have to go agaldst our will- without even being* Consulted--hack to Queenstown?" , "1 mean to tell you so, sir." "Well, by the gods, that's an out­ rage, and I won't stand it, sir."** I must be in New York by the 27th. I won't stand it, sir." "I am very sorry, sir, tffairanyb6dy should be delayed." "Delayed? Hang it all, why don't 70U take the people on board and take 'em to New York? I protest against this. I'll bring a lawsuit against the cempany, sir." "Mr. Vincent," said the captain sternly, "permit me to remind you that I am captain of this ship. Grbod afternoon, sir." The Congressman departed from the saloon exceeding wroth, breathing dire threats of >i«gal proceedings against the line and against the cap­ tain personally, but most of the pas­ sengers agreed that it would be an inhuman thing to leave the Adamant alone in midocean ia such terrible straits. "Why didn't they turn back, Capt. Flint?" asked Mrs. Gen. Weller. "Because, madame, every moment is of value in such a case, and we are nearer Queenstown than we are New York." And so the two'steamships, side by side, worried their way toward the East, always within sight of each other and with the rows of lights of each visible at night to the sympa­ thetic souls on the other. The sweltering men poured water into the hold of the one and the pounding pumps poured water out of the hold of the other and thus they reached Queenstown. * * 1-i • On - board that twrte* 'the passengers ashore at Queenstown from both steamers two astonished women met each other. "Why! Mrs.--Gen.--WELLER!!! You don't-mean to say that you were on board that unfortunate Vulcan." "For the lands sake, Mrs. Assistant Brownrig. Is that really you? Will wonders never cease? Unfortunate, did you say? Mighty fortunate for you, I think. Why! weren't you just frightened to death?" "I was, but I had no idea any one I knew was on boaro." "Well, you were on board yourself That would have been enough to have killed me." , "On board myself ? Why, what do you mean? ,1 wasn't on board the Vulcan. Did you get any sleep at all aftcttyou knew you might go down at any moment?" 'My sakes, Jane, what are you ing about? Down at any mo- urna UAII fKoV Ttis #Uf»CTio»f OF Oil* Way in » Met* * C*n Male* Money In the I*t»ujr Una. It is for the public interest that a newspaper should be founded and conducted as a business enterprise and for the purpose of pecuniae* protlt as its prime objcct. NoJ(r»Ta'g J2ur.nal ^principal liSLi'y IV Vila in motive ot u. h«S0CrnV^ published prl- , The capital "raSoveJTlc5 19 lnvC5ted ,or tllat „n(i r iSie ability expended in its '.$n, whether business or llt- and purely editorial and intcl- v^'tuul, is exorcised for a pecuniary reward;'ami without such remunera­ tion it could r.ot be obtained any more than a picture of a great artist or the book of a great author oan he had for nothing. Instead of debasing the newspaper, this purpose of securing, material profit is essential to its elevation and to the proper performance of its func­ tion; a conservative, restraining, and broadening influence. By reason of it the public themselves are made partners in the enterprise, and the newspaper is made more sensitive to its obligations to them. Its interests and the public interests become es­ sentially the samfe, for its prosperity depends on <its fidelity to the public welfare and the consequent popular support it receives. It must earn the popular confidence and respect by meriting them. Its own interests are involved in its enlightened com­ prehension of the needs and the senti­ ments of society. It is not for itself alone, but for all m&nkind; not its own critic, merely, but an object, for the criticism of all the people. Ilence, by the very necessity of its existence as a prosperous business enterprise, a newspaper is forced to adopt principles and method which partake of the .character of the high­ est and purest statesmanship, and have a distinctly altruistic quality. It cannot take a narrow and a selfish "view, il/iuUsi' survey uii suciei/j, «tuu subordinate personal considerations to the general welfare. It is a statute carvcd out by man, but which takes on life and individuality of its own, and eventually dominates its author. It is an institution which may never die, while he is a mortal whose span of life iss^ort. He be­ comes insignificant as compared with the construction of his own hands. All society, and not he alone, has builded it up. Without the sus­ tenance of the popular confidence and favor it languishes and dies. It is for the people to say whether it shall be vigorous and enduring or feeble and ephemeral; and their decison taf rendered in accordance with the vigor and persistency, the wisdom, honesty, sincerity, and ability with which it defends their interests and maintains the principles that command their respect. It is a representative elected by popular suffrage; and >t must serve all the people, antj not its individual owners alone, if it? is to prosper as a commercial undertaking. This makes the newspaper peculiar among business enterprises. It is as necessary for it to have intrinsic merit as it is requisite that a work of art should have beauty, or be a true revelation of nature, in order to com­ mand critical approval and enduring eminence. To secure parallel con­ sideration, a newspaper must be con­ ducted "on the principles which under­ lie all real art; it must get its reward from the singleness of its effort to at­ tain a purely ideal end. Art for art's sake is a motto applicable to journal­ ism. As a business -enterprise estab­ lished for money making, it cannot succeed otherwise in full measure and permanently. To the great honor of our important and successful news­ papers, it can be said that generally they are conducted with a sagacious and conscientious regard fojf their public obligations. They do not for­ get their representative character, but hold themselves as servants of the people, accountable for the use of their stewardship. The conductors are under no oath of office and no formal bonds for the faithful per­ formance of their public duties; Dyife they are bound by a sense of 6lega­ tion which is oftentimes religious in its elevation. Their functjori lias a sacerdotal character, find their vows of fidelity must be mattfe to God and jiot to man.--Nep? 'York Sun. exposition heifmtBlria- l» at pr^m*.at «1^0^ d it is eitlmita® »hat, power plant willJ#» ' 22,000 horse;ii£L June J'no*. ':.Wl ^i^min, the Gascon poet wtiioMi'tttSo a barber, had many a strange advent­ ure arising from the incongruity of his two professions. >' „ ' At one vim---, when lie visiting the Mayor of a French town, and had promised t-ogive an informal recitation to the towns-people, the hour arrived, and his host did not appear. Several important personages assembled to accompany them to the hall, but the Mayor remained invisible, busied wit^ his toilet. $ Finally, fearing the impatience of his guests, ho opened the door of his chamber to apologize, and showed his face covered with lather. / > "Just a moment," s^ld ho, "I am finishing my shaving." "Oh," said* Jasmin, "lot me help you!" He at once doffed his coat, gave a finishing touch to the razor, and shaved the Mayor in a twinkling, with what he called his "hand of vel­ vet " In a few minutes, he was in the hall receiving tumultuous ap­ plause for his splendid recitations. At another time, however, he treated a rich snob to the snubbing he deserved. Jasmin had been re­ citing his poems for the benefit of the poor, and had been afterward escorted ill Uiuiilpinii pFOCGSSiOu lO iii3 liOtc!. Next morning, while he wa^ still in bed, some oiw knocked at the door, a vulgar naboly entered, and installed himself, without invitation in a chair. ' 'My dear Jasmin," said he,patroniz­ ingly, "I am a banker, a millionaire, as you know; I wish you to shave me with your own hand. Please set to work at onee, for I am pressed for time. You can ask what you like for your trouble." "Pardon me, sir," said Jasmin, with pride. "I-shave for pay at home, VMilj." ' "" "What do you say?" "It is true, sir. I shave for pa? o n l y a t h o m e . " • - . . . "Come, come! You are jesting. I cannot be put off. Make your charge what you like, but shave met*' "Again I say, sir, it is impossible!" "How impossible? Isn't it your trade?" *; "It is, but at this moment I *m not disposed tft exercise it." In spite ol renewed bribes and en­ treaties Jasmin remained 41rm, and, the millionaire went away unshiwed. --Youth's Companion. said was a es, it is now. I ty sensi- both sometimes in It was the cpended on iptain said a barn door ps were go- quent Mrs. As- to dawn on ngines, n, but the •Oh, ied,* and 1 0oo I know Erimami Kean'* Acting. g.. * Edmund Kean got his great effects in the scene of the cardinal's humili­ ation and fall. Specially fine was his speaking of the lines: Go, get then from mo. Cromwell; I am a poor fallen man, unworthy now To bo thy lord nnd master, Afid his rendering of the last words, "Had I but served my God," etc. Kean, however, did not play Wolsey until 1822, when he was past his zenith, and never made it one .of his great characters. Charles Mayne Young was a good if not a very in­ spired cardinal. and Macready, who first played the part in 1823, made a considerable success in the character. He, like Kean, found the greatest ef­ fects in the more emotional and pas­ sionate passages. One of the most amusing anecdotes of Macready's petulance of teuircr relates to a revival of "Henry VIII," under the management of Maddox, at the Princess'. The part of Cardinal Campeius was assigned to a brother of George Augustus Sala, whose stage name was Wynn, for whom Macready had an inveterate dislike. The trage­ dian^ had implored the manager to see that Campeius was furnished with a costume which should not seem en­ tirely ridiculious teside the splendid robes he himself wore as Wolsey; but Maddox, of course, disregarded the injunction. "At the dress rehearsal," says Edmund Yates, "Macready, en­ throned in a chair .of state, had the various characters to pass before him; he bore all calmly until, clad in scarlet robes bordered by silver tissue paper and wearing an enor­ mous red hat, Wynn approached. Then, clutching both arms of his chair and closing his eyes, the great tragedian gasped out, 'Mother Ship- ton, by God!'"--Longman's Magazine. row* old st debil- ow, too, [1 yet as craving w Solder, e ottfers, the lodge t, was of- he fire by at the be»t ng himselr d he would king, when it was an too, Vhile to the Are suit him.-- fools §r» Hiiisin. lobster," said a iogton Star, re- le is very rarely white, you will fere are very few animals, which albinism does not appear. It is very infre- llshes, although common enough in the exceptional case of the gold fish, which is «o often whol'y or partly white. "Albinism is a freak of nature. Under ordinary conditions the phe­ nomenon is to be regarded as merely an accident. Nevertheless it can be propagated. White rabbits are albi- nijcs. They have been bred for white so long that they reproduce that characteristic, including pink eyes. In breeding any animal there is al­ ways a greater Or less tendency to •revert,' as we say, to a previous type. That is to say, the offspring is more or less likely to resemble its great- grandparentfi instead of* its parents. Howiever, that inclination is finally overcome by careful selection, and in this way towls are madfl to breed 'true to feather' and a distinct stock is established. "Albinocs have pink eyes for lack of coloring matter. For the purpose of absorbing the light the eye is ljncd with a coating of black pigment. When that? is absent, as occurs in the case of the albino, the • red blood shows through the veins, ,;^nd makes the eye look pink. Ilui^^n ^beings who arc albinoes. always suffer from weak eyes, simply beeause; there is no coating or coloring matter inside of those organs to absorb »ihe light, Which accordingly dazzles them. Al­ binism in human beings is happilv rars. But if human albinoes were to keep on marrying albinoes for many generations it would be witli them as with other animalf and a f^ce of al- bino it.en and women woul<^ be de­ veloped. '4 * Co*t of Li|Htint tn« World's Fait. The cost of lighting the World's Fair at Chicago will be about times the cost for the lighting of the AFRICAN AlKNt Everything Vaed for Jtoaoy la One of the greatest difficulties that the British and German colonization societies, as well as all travelers in Africa, have to contend with, says the Chicago Herald, is to be always provided with money for the trans­ action of business with the natives. Tin; uiiltooKy' more cape-daily refeircd to means the right kind of money. There is not oneobjecton earth w#iich would pass as a mediuip of exchange throughout the length and bredth of Africa; and, as in matters of money, the black skinned sons of Africa are just as particular as people of >other climes, one of the first things neces­ sary to make Africa a good field for civilization, and for mercantile en­ terprise, is to creaee and enforce a common monetary standard. Of all coined money the Maria Theresa dol­ lar has by far the largest circulation HI AHIUU. itoiciiiwij cawuuu j.rum Fez in Morocco down that "London "Reallatle." The fashion in literature which consists in imparting vividness to a narrative by writing in very short sentences occasionally produces amus­ ing results. - In a "realistic story," which is as yet in manuscript,! the following thrilling passage occurs: "Perkins entered the railroad sta­ tion. In a corner of the room sat four persons. "They were engaged in low conver­ sation. Three of them were men. One was a woman." After a somewhat long and min­ ute account of the appearance of these people, the narrative goes on: "Suddenly the door opened. A peddler entered. He was a Jew. He carried a basket. "He approached the persons in the corner. The woman bought of him three red cotton handkerchief^. One of thom was white.",. lOit On* Condi i toa. The* Harrisburg Telegraph tells a new story of the shrewdness of Presi­ dent Lincoln in dealing with trouble­ some questions of uiilitarj discipline. A private soldier had knocked down his Captain, and a court-mar­ tial had sentenced him to the Dry Tortugas. His friends stirred them­ selves in his belief, and prevailed upon Judge Schofield, a personal friend of the President, to intercede in his behalf. Lincoln paid close attention to all that Schoileld had to offer, and then said: "I tell you, Judge, you go right down to the Capitol, aind get Con­ gress to piiss an act authorizing a private soldier to knock down his Cap­ tain. Then come back here,and I will pardon your man." The Judge saw the point, and with­ drew with a broad smile on his face. WICKEDNESS majr while, but eventually knaves at work shall How TO catch a hu: by the hair. ' prosper •v of the Soudan," the great trade em­ porium, Kano, and • Uius comprises more thaiuonc-third of the whole ot Africa, about 4,000,000 square mil^s, with a population of 70,000,000. Bun even in this coin there are difference*. In Kassala, for instance, no Maris Theresa dollar is taken at its ful: value unless it bears the date 1780. the bust portrait of the empress, th? crown adorned with seven well-de­ fined apples, the decorations on hei breast, and the letters p. F, near the rim. Of other metals which are used in coinage in ci vilized lands copper is used to quite an extent in Africa; the cannibalistic Niam-Niaiu especially, like the English bar copper of one inch diameter. Expeditions to the territory of the Niam-Niam, there­ fore, have generally been forced to in­ clude several coppersmiths, and these men, as soon as the Niam-Niam land was reached, industriously 'applied themselves to transforming the bars of copper into rings of sizes varying from that of a bracelet to that of a tiny S'ager-rhig. And so great is the love of the Niam-Niam for these baubles that even one of the small copper finger-r'ngs (value less than a cent) would purchase >a fat chicken of them. Iron, too. is made use of in this way among the Afri­ cans. As it goes into trade in stick form, there were up to recently such expressions as "stick of rum"--mean­ ing the equivalent of a stick of iron >in rum--generally about a gallon; "a stick of tobacco," equivalent to twenty rglls of the weed, quite com­ mon in central parts of Africa. At the mouth of the Niger, for instance, in Bomey, the iron is wrought into horseshoe-like form and then called igbi or manilla. Another form is given to this iron money in the ter­ ritory watered by the tributaries of the White#Nile. The Bongo people have an" iron ^currency having the shape of a spade, with a handle and an anchor-like end to it. This they call loggo colluti. The largest iron coins circulating here are of the size and shape of a large plate, being one foot in diameter. These treasures are piled up in the ware- rooms of native merchants just as silver or gold &ars in other lands. Fjjr ten iron plates of two pounds weight each the love-lorn Bongo swain buys his inamorata of her papa. When he can't get ten of such iron plates he has to be satisfied with an elderly beauty.! Besidbs nietals, salt is a medium of exchange in Africa This is especially the case in Abyssinia and in certain districts in Northern Africa. The blocks of salt called amote.come from the East of the Abyssinian 'Alps. They have the shape.of A grindstone, with one end pointed, and Weigh originally about one and a Quarter pounds. A camel mdy carry 500, a mule 250/ a donkey 200, and a slave sixty of these chunks. For a Maria Theresa dollar the Afar gives 100 of these pieces of salt, the people of Adoas only forty, those of Gaudar but thirty. To prevent the amole from losing its weight by fre­ quent handling it is put on the mar- ket.in a wrapper*of treebark. The Xissama people, of the Koanza in Angola, make use of thei/ salt in a similar way, weaving rattan around it. There is also a kind of paper money in circulation in Africa. On the other hand, in Dikoa, in Adcmouah, in Loggone, and else­ where, small cotton strips as the reg ular currency. In Bagirari these strips are so small that from seventy to 150 of them would have to be placed together to make a shirt. In Darfoor the gray, coarse shirting cir­ culates as money, and in Tiout, in upper Egypt- thfs .material is dyed dark or blue and then cut into pieces of three yards in length. Glass beads are also much in vogue as money, but in them taste differs, and changes so continually among the different tribes that their value as a standard medi­ cine is materially decreased. An extensive field is covered by the kaori currency, those tiny shells of porcelain appearance and of lively hue which are found in enormous quantities in the Maldivian group of islands. A ton of these kaoris costs in Ceylon from $350 to $375. These little shells have been in African trade for many centuries. Tim Anatomy ot the 0>ater. A clam is considered as an emblem of stupidity and callousness. But you will make a great mistake if you put the oyster in the same category as when you class a Chinaman and a Japanese together. The oyster is so strong that no human fingers can open the doors of his house if he wishes to keep them shut. Liver and digestive organs he has, as sensitive as ours; respiratory organs as com­ plicated as the humau lungs; ma­ chinery for getting a water supply and for preventing an oversow, and a wonderful mechanism for trapping his food. And he has a heart whos» pulsations may be seen after his house bas been torn from him. Knowing this, it is easy to com­ prehend how cultivation and care may not only improve it in looks, but also cause the quality of its. meat to surpass that of the uocultivated oys­ ter, as much as grain-fed poultry sur­ passes the product of the barnyard. When your host offers you oysters that are plump, round, thick, deep, light-colored, and fringed quite thick to the very edge, then you may be »ure that they have not onjlfc lived with few disturbances, - but fRider a hlirh state of cultivation. * Its latpoitawt hirt in m* Kaoaosay Paraars. "There is a monstrous lot of Igno­ rance about, forestry in this country," said an old Maine woodsman the other day. "Many even of those who want to see our forests play in the cconomy of nature. There is W. JL H. Murray, for instance, an intelli­ gent aiau Yvi'jy in;ijno A deai about w<k)dcraft, and yet Be falls into the mistake that forests can be thinned out by judicious cutting of the old trees without any evil result?. As a matter of fact, such a practice, at least in Maine, would destroy the lumber industry, as well as the for­ ests, for it would let in the sunlight and that would most effectually drj? up the tluff.' 1 'You don't know what the 4<Juff' is? Of course not; and yet 'dutF Is one of the most wonderful of nature's pro­ visions for the storage of moisture, .ieeessary foi the trues Ihernsei ves ami for the lumbermen. Of course you know that all tree felling takes place in winter. The trees felled arehaullfed on the ice of lakes, ponds, fivers and brooks, or on the banks thereof, where they can be easily ^launched in the sprieg. From the time when the ice disappears until late in June, or into July, the lumberman is busy on the drive, working his logs to market by water. Everything in fact depends on a good supply of water. And if it fails early in the spring beforehis work is .done his ]ozs are 'hung up' for that year, resulting in a serious loss to him. Not only, therefore, must the water be high, but it must continue high for many weeks; and this is Where nature comes in with her 'duff.' "You know how quickly the spring freshets subside in an open and culti­ vated country where the sun has a • chance to melt the ice aod snow. Within a lew days, may be, the earth dries up and the swollen rivers and brofrk&subside to their ordinary sum­ mer condition. But in the primeval forest it is not so. Here l'or genera- tw' after generation trews have sprouted, grown and died, and each succeeding year the great bulk of buds and leaves which have been fed by the sap and the atmosphere Wither and fall to the grounds In this way, in process of time, is formed a mass often covered with beautiful moss, sometimes two or three feet deep, known to lumbermen as tluff.' It is simply a huge sponge, which absortfe millions of gallons of water from the fall rains, which is later most efTectu- ally sealed up by the frost, and is then covered bv the winter snows. If the sunlight should be let in on it by thinning the trees it would disappear in one season. But if nature is not interfered with a most wonderful pro­ cess takes place. "When th6 spring thaw occurs the ice, snow and fiozen moisture in the open country are quickly released and help to swell the running streams." While this lasts the lumberman gets more water than he needs, but it doesn't last long. Then the 'duff' ap­ pears as his good angel. On the water-shed of the waters through which his drive passes, there lies this husre sponge, two or three feet thick and hundreds of square miles in ex­ tent, saturated to the brim with water. And, as the heat increases, Dame Nature proceeds gradually to squeeze and wring out this sponge, not in one day or oue week, but all through the spring and well into July. As a result of this invisible compression water slowly oozes from under every root, leaf and twig, and flows in driblets to swell the rivers and brooks. Long after the ponds which are fed from the cultivated fields have fallen to the low-water mark, the streams fed by the forest 'duff* are flowing full and steady. There are no snows in the woods; out the 'duff' which might be called a mighty lake held in solution, keeps up the high-water mark for many weeks, thus enabling the lumberman to get his logs to market and in other ways serving the highest interests of man.* For what could we do without rivers, aside from the lumber question? And how are we going to have rivers if we allow Nature's reservoir, known as •duff,' to be destroyed'-' "There is a good deal of interest in forest preservation nowadays and I am glad to see it. But I would like to see it expressed in some concrete form by the organization of a 'Society for the Defense cf Duff.' That would get people from vague generalities down to actual facts. What is *duff'? would be the first question of the members, and in getting the answer to that question they would come in possossion of a heap of knowledge about forestry that would very much increase their love for trees and their desire to protect them."--New York Tribune. * _ / . ii M lit iff '•S-r": Mm. Wlekaraham'a Katarti Some ten Or a dozen years when Maj. Wickersham lived in Pittsburgh, Mrs. Wickersham, then among the most successful entertain­ ers in the city, gave a small dinner on his birthday. The Major was called away without warning, so the ' ? ; wedding had to be celebrated with­ out the bride. Either some one was asked to fill the vacant place, or the chair was tilted forward as a delicate compliment, meaning that none could occupy it even in |the absence of its owner. I think 'Mrs. Wicker­ sham was noted for her repartee in those days, as well as her great, good common sense. Somebody made a , reproachful sort of remark about the absence of the person the affair was , , jjjr. neant to honor, and seemed to $hink --/ ?•' that there was a sort of absurdity in _ /.^ the situation. "Well," said Mrs. ^ 1 Wickersham, "we have been cele- brating the birthday of the Father of ^ * his Country for nearly a century and I have never yet heard aspersions cast upon George Washington for not being present." -- Pittsburgh Dis- patl^L • ,, What Nowr Won't lt«y Money is a powerful factor nowa­ days-- , It will buy a position in the world --but it can't buy the breeding neces* Bary to the upholding of that poSTtlon. It will buy the good things of. life --but it can't buy the appetite to en­ joy them. H? 4 It will buy superb clothes--but it;/ TtiL-jrm in wearing them • It will buy a wife--but it can't buy R a woman's love.--Music and Drama. -