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' ; < *l'ho order of N ttture .?>i foth this way tend; Tiatever was began <" >, \*? ^ ill surely hi*.ve an end. 'L' k a . ' S H E L E F T T H E S l I G E . "Well?" said the manager of the tbeater, sharply, in auswer to the rap at his do.»r. He was hot a pleasant man at his best, this manager, and when be was interrupted during a j il? business transaction--especially if that transaction was unprofitable to him--he was apt to be very impolite. The other occupant of the room, a tall, gray-haired old gentleman with the kindliest face imaginable, laid a paper he had in his hand upon the manager's desk, and went to the long window to wait untii he had finished with his new caller. A very small girl came quietly In-- a very small girl with large gray eyes, f * • " ' " ' - ; - • i>y • j i |^v sr -sM; • • Ptefc*.' Ut\ and the yellowest of yellow hair tumbling about her round face. She was such a prefltv and attractive child indeed, that the gray-hairei man stopped loosing out the window and turned his gaze upon her. She seemed not to mind it in the least, for she went straight up to the man­ ager's desk and bowed very prettily to him. "What do you want, Dot'?" asked can lust Keep nor down. Hut sne can't be allowed one inch, or she takfes the whole thing." "What was her mother's name?" asked the other man slowly. "Let me see--I forgot,--no, it was Harcourt, I believe, Parian Har- court, on the stage. She married Montaign, the comedian/' p ^she was beautiful?" " "Yes, and Dot inherits some of It along with her independent ways." 1 lHo^ often does the child g«t> cut- in the country?" ' The manager laughed shortly. "I^n the country," he replied. "Never." "She hardly knows what grass and trees and cows and dogs and horses are like, I suppose?" "Very likely; but see here, Bracely, this isn't any class in catechism, is it? Let's get back to this business," tapping the paper upon his desk. •'Phillips," said the other, leaning forward and speaking very slowly, "you are as near a brute as any man I know. Can't you see that child is hungry for God's own green country, --for flowers and birds and fresh air and blue sky? Can't you understand what she needs? or are you so blind, so wilfully blind that yon won't see- She knows what she needs, and she comes and asks you to give it to her. And you are! * * * But it is no use trying to get at you on the ground of common humanity; you haven't even that Look at it from a business standpoint; think how much benefited she would be for a month, even, where she could take a breath of fresh air and see some­ thing beifaes filthy streets. Can't you manace to send her away for a j while and give her a chance to get Then the ^ray eyed old geatleiiian and the gray eyed little girl went tnrough the door and down the stairs, leaving Mr. Phillips alone with his own satisfaction at his unlocked for Release from the debt which had so long hung over him. The next morning Dorothy woke to find herself in that paradise of which she had dreamed so many times, with Mrs. Barcely's smiling race looking down on her, as she told her it was time to &et up and "play like other children;" and so long did the day seem, and so full of happiness never "before tasted, that the love-stai ved child wondered if she were not still in one of those dreams, atth^ setting of the sun. But the manager, as they closed the door behind them, ran his hand through his thick hair in a perplexed way, and frowned down at the floor. "They looked alike, by Jove they do!" he exclaimed, "and--I' wonder whatever became of Bracely's way­ ward daughter anyway?"--Yankee Blade j some color into her white cheeks?" i "What are you talking about? I'm j not m4de of money! Of course I can't. She's doing well enough where stie is, I tell you, and you are wasting your sentiment on her." Bracely got up and took a turn about the little office, followed by the curious eyes of the manage". At last lie stopped before the desk and looked down at the humane Mr. Phillips, the manager, frowning down at ^er | and there was something in his Kindly mz :/$E j' -- < -e '®R 7?T' i £Vr waft Yv: ,, , P^... * ' from behind the pile of papers and tetters on his desk. The little girl took a deep breath. ••Mr. Phillips," she said, planting herself firmly before him much as she was wont to do when she played Fauntleroy, ' *1 am going to leave the company. I'm tired of acting, and i acting and acting, and never having any good times like other children does--do--I mean. And I came to tell you that I am not going to play to-night." • "Well. I--what do you mean, you impudent little wretch?" demanded the manager, bringing his large hand down with a thnmp. while he fairly glared at his small "star." Not go­ ing to act to-night? I'd like to know what's gone wrong, in the nursery to-day. Out with it now; what's irone wrong?" "Nothing's gone wrong, 'cepting what always going wrong" declared the child, not in the least disturbed by his roughness. "It's always the same. I just act and act, forev'r and fbrev'r,seems to me, and sometimes," she looked wistfully away as she spoke, and her voice was full of child­ ish longing, "sometimes Iget so tired, atld want to play so much. To-day, just a little while ago I sawed,--saw, --two childrens playing in the alley, out of my window, and I asked Mrs. Mintet to let me go out, just this one time, and plav with them. But she {said i ought to be ashamed and know better: that it wasn't nice, to make mud-pies. She don't know, though; I think it would be When she said that I cried, 'n then I got mad and when she took her nap, I came here to tell you I want," drawing herself up in a quaint, unchildlike way, "I want you to cancel all our 'gage- tnents, Mr. Phillips, 'cause I am not going to act any more. I want to play like other childrens, and go 'way off in the country where they send the little sick ones, and pick flowers ana sit on the grass, all day long." The manager, with eyes and mouth wide open in speechless astonish­ ment, stared at the little girl, and she waited calmly for him to answer I 'her. j /•Well, I never di<E" declared the astounded Mr. Phillips at last. Then j he turned to his visitor who was < smiling gently at the little actress. "What do you think of that for a de­ mand, Bracely?" he inquired. "I tell you, the American child is getting •so very fresh and so very independent that it is a wonder we older folks are •allowed to live." Mr. Bracely said nothing, and the manager turned back to the little friirL "Miss Dorotny," he began with mock politeness for all politeness was gray eyes which the other had seen there bat once or twice before--a look that boded no good for the man­ ager. "She has an understudy,of course?" he asked. "Yes," said the manager promptly. "Who could go on with her work without any trouble or inconveni­ ence?" " b, ' • Ye--es," said the manager more doubtfully. "Then," said the gray eyed man, "bend for Dorothy at once." "What in creation are you going to do?" demanded the manager, "You are getting daft on this subject, aren't you?" "Perhaps; but send for the child." '•What for?" "Mr. Phillipj," said the older man. "How much do you owe me?" "Eh? Oh?" returned the manager, coloring and coughing nervously, "you are getting back to business, are you? I'm glad you are. * * * Why, you have the whole thing here, and " "It is enough to rather seriously embarrass you, I believe you said, if I were to press its payment just now?" "Yes," returned the manager, color­ ing still more. "But see here, Bracely, I am going to do the best 1 can for you. Don't push me; I'll make it all right in the end. I swear if you will only give me a little longer, you shall have it all. I " '•That will do, Mr. Phillips," said Mr. Bracely, looking steadily at him, "send for the little girl." "1 don't understand--Do you mean this?" he exclaimed suddenly as the light came to him. "Is it a con­ dition?" "It is. Let me take the child to my home in the country where she can live, and where she will have the love she so much needs, or " He stopped, and the manager frowned in thoughtful silence for a minute. "You've got me," he said at last, ••but it's a pretty mean trick, my friend." Then he touched an elec­ tric-button beside the desk. "Go to the hotel, Jim, " he said to | the boy who promptly appeared, ! ••and bring Miss Dot here at once." I The boy disappeared as promptly as he had come, and returned in a few minutes with the little actress "My dear," said the manager, out- ting on his very p.easantest manner, and what his employes were wont to to call his 1,box-office smile."--"my dear, this is Mr. Bracely, and he hes ! taken quite a fancy to you. He i thinks a month or so in the country on his place would help you a good I aeal, and he is going to take you j there. 1 have consented to have you I go, as he says he knows you will be l*reaclier and Trapper, ••The queerest character I eve^ met Is old Chris Holgrave, a Mormon Mis­ sionary, who lives in the Elk Mount­ ains, north of Laramie," said Maj. Tom Breckenriace to a St Louis Globe-Democrat man. "Old Chris is well known throughout the entire West. He formerly lived in Salt Lake City and was a power in the church, but when the split came on the question of polygamy he cast his fortunes with the Joe Smith saints and moved up into the Elk Mountains, where he has acquired world-wide fame as a trapper and a rifle shot Every spring, vhen the trapping is over, he takes his staff and sets forth to preach the gospel of one-wife Mormonism, tramping over Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, and Utah. He is a splendid, specimen of physical man­ hood, 6 feet 1 Inch, straight as an Indian, tough as spring steel, with long white hair and beard sweeping down belpw his belt " He enjoys the reputation of hav- iincr killed more bears th^in any other American, living or dead. A ysar ago last spring he brought into Lara­ mie and sold 500 bear skins, there- suit of one winter's trapping. He was assitsed, however, by his three grown sons. Many of the skins were those of enormous grizzlies, that •varmint' being extremely plentiful in the Elk Mountains. Ho ismarked all over with the teeth and claws of i bruin. I bought an especially tine bearskin of him and he told me that the original owner came very near getting the best of the scrimmage. He said he was tramping along a narrow mountain path, en route to his traps, and in making asharpturn he met bruin face to face. He had w'ith him a savage wolf dog and a muzzle-loading rifle. To the left the mountain rose abruptly and to the right was a chasm 300 feet deep. The foot-path was but a yard wide. The dog sprang forward and attacked the bear, but bruin cuffed him over into the chasm as though he were a rabbit Then he advanced on the apostle of the silver-plate revelation. Old Chris threw down on him, but his rifle hung fire and he only suc­ ceeded in wounding his assailant The bear rushed forward, and he threw it his fur cap. It snuffed at it tore it into fragments and cuffed them over the ledge. That gave Chris time to reload, and when buin again advanced he got a bullet in the brain." Ri'NTED OUT :feY THE DAY. & Wtaaom* B-Vaar-Old Who Karri* »IA*- Itlt tor Self aud Mother. "Yes, I'm the little girl that gets rented out Do you want me by the hour or by the day? ' Thus piped the j a man's life pursuit does not satisfy fln VAkt .Ui'i tttiyl/lt, ytltA/tU ! * him when gained, because and he *uttk under the blow? $1 he won the highest station in the King­ dom--was First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer- did he not obtain the object of his wishes albeit he died of a broken heart? Because, again, the object of flaxen-haired, ruddy-cheeked young person, whose age could not have ex­ ceeded 5 years, yet in whose eyes there tested all the seriousness of 60. Her description of herself as "the little pirl that gets rented, out," though very odd, happened to be quite ac­ curate. The child was little more than a human chattel. In one of the New York papers the following advertisement appeared: 'To rent, by the hour or day, for the entertainment of wealthy but childless ladies, a bright, beautiful, golden-haired little girl baby; neatly dressed; 5 years old." The address appended to this strange notice was followed by a Jour­ nal man and little Miss Goldenliair was found at home. She appeared with a somewhat dissipated-looking doll, and also with unmistakable traces of a recent raid upon the jam closet. The advertisement had de­ scribed her faithfully, for she proved to be exceedingly pretty and possessed of that precocious brightness which belongs solely to New York ladies of her age. Her deep black eyes con­ trasted quaintly with the wheat-col­ ored curies which tumbled about them,and her face mighthave smiled out of one of Gai nsborough's "The lovely toy, so fiercely sought, , Bath lost Its ctittrm on being caught," is his success less positive? Is not success one thing, and happiness another?--Harper's Young People. 'Kfr ppM.' jC ^ tyJr * j &*>... mockery with the manager, "you'll j quite hanpv with Mrs Bracely to look have to excuse me for not complying with your request. It is quite im- spossible for me to do so, I am sorry ito say, but owing to--You get back *to your room, young woman," he •broke out suddenly, dropping his po­ liteness and returning once more to Ills natural manner, "and don't let me hear any mere of this nonsense. Understand? Then skip!" and he ac- tjompanied the order with a compre­ hensive snap oi his lingers The child moved slowly toward the h idjoor, and the visitor saw that she Was making a brave effort to keep Jhack tne tears which welled into her after you, and all the pretty flowers ar d birdies and--er, so on. We will let Katie play the rest of the season in your place, and you can get nice and rested up till next fall." The girl looked from one to another in childish astonishment and then she went to Mr. Bracely's side, and put her small hand on his wrinkled one. "You are a good man," she said, looking earnestly into his face, "and 1 love you. * * * Why," she went on curiously, "you look like my mamma j did when she was sick. She had a picture of you, didn't she? The one A Strange Wooing. That queer Norwegian dramatist, Henrik Ibsen, had a strange wooing, if the story told of him is true. An Australian correspondent of a Lon­ don paper says that when he fell in love with the beautiful daughter of Pastor Thoresen, how to make known the fact to her troubled him for weeks. At last he resolved to write to her. He would come and fetch his answer the same afternoon at 5. Did the lady accept bim she would be at home, otherwise not. At 5 o'clock he presented himself, and the maid asked him to go into the best room. He was very hopeful, and glad to have time to collect himself before he met the lady. But when he Jiad watched half an hour awful doubts began to assail him. After an hour had passed he imagined the letter had not reached the young lady. Some fatal mistake was making a fool of him. St.ill be waited on. After two hours he began to be ashamed of himself. She would learn that he had sat two hours in that de­ serted house and would laugh at him. At last he jumped up in a rage and ran to the door. He was opeping iti when a loud peal of laughter arrested him. He turned and saw the fair head of bis adored emerge from under the sofa Her mouth was laughing, but her eves were filled with tears. "Oh, you dear, good fellow, to wait all this while," she said. "I wanted to see how many minutes a lover's patience lasts. How bard the floor is. Now, help me to get out and then we will talk." In less , than a week the marriage was arranged.-- Housekeepers' Weekly. Orumblern. W g eyes. As she put her small hand j she was always kissing ^n the knob, she turned to the man-} "There, there, dear," said Mr. ager again. j Bracely hurriedly, taking her into his "I am not going to act aijy more," arms and holding her there, "we will fAV «he said gravely, "I don't want to. I want to play outdoors, in the coun­ try, sometimes." Then she went Quietly out with a very determined |bok upon her innocent face. "Well, that gets me!" exclaimed the non-plussed manager, as the door «lo>ed. "Did you ever hear of any­ thing like it, Bracely? That little %ixen will be running the whole show jjretty soon." \% Mr. Bracely came back to his chair and looked .man. 4 'Whose is she?" he asked. "Dot? Why, nobody's, especially. Her mother played small parts in one <e»f my road comuanies, but she died «oon after her husband was killed hr the wreck, and the child was dumped on me. I'm not rich enough to sup- , , , ix)rt paupers, as you know," with a ' rueful face, 4 'and so I put her to work, t>\. and she's a success. She does child . J * parte to perfection, it 1 do say it mv- «elt and there's a fortune in her, if 1 go now. Phillips, have her tfrtink sent to my hotel; we leave to-night. * * * You have the papers, I believe? Then accept that note of yours as a. present from--Miss Dorothy." The manager stared incredulously at his creditor, and then recovered himself as the two moved toward the door. "Bracely," he murmured, "you are a gentleman, and you won't regret j (this. I thank you." Then headdeil j curiously at the other : aloud, endeavoring to pat the small j actress' hand, "Take good care.of our little girl, my dear sir." Dorothy drew away from bim and put her arms lovingly about her new friends' neck. "You need have no fear of that," said the latter gravely, holding her still more tightly in his arms. "And by the way," he added, "You bad best not count on her for next season, Mr. Phillips. As she told you her­ self, I believe, she is going to leave the v Heaven defend us from your chronic grumbler; your man or woman, who began perhaps by considering it a proof of superior acumen to be al­ ways on the dissenting side till the habit has grown into an incurable disease; who uses God's best gifts with a churl's thanklessness, and claps an extinguisher on everybody's sunshine! Heaven keep their acid out of our sweeft cup of pleasure! Do you ad­ mire a fine prospect? Bah! it is too level or too hilly. Is it a charming face? the forehead is too low, or the nose too long. Is it a picture? they talk to you disdainfully about • high art." Is it a good, natural, racy book? They dislike the style Is it a dish? Well, really, you must have a good appetite. Out on them all! We had as lief a serpent were always wriggling in the path where i we go for buds and blossoms. We had as lief a skull grinned ings. And yet she was hired out to customers at so much per hour. "If you wait a minute, mamma will be down," continued the child. "She is fixing her hair, you know, be­ fore she go?s to the office. Mamma works as a typewriter, and that's just the reason why she rents me out. She can't stay with me herself, and so she Jets me spend the day with nice la­ dies, who give me candy and flowers. The ladies haven't any little girls of their own, and they pay mamma to let me visit them." At this point the enterprising mother entered. She was a5 widow, of youthful appearance and quiet manners. "1 suppose," she began, "that you think it very heartless of me to rent out my little daughter in this manner. But it really isn't so. Kitty and I are alone in the world, and I have to work for her support. While I am at the office every day the child would have to be left alone had not this plan been suggested to me by friends. At first I began by letting Kitty go to one lady for a day each week. Then another lady asked to hire the child, and before long we had quite a number of patrons on our list. Seeing the chance to make money, and at the same time keep Kitty constantly amused. I decided to advertise. I only permit Kitty to remain out during the daylight hours. My charges are $2 a day, or a quarter an hour. The ladies tell me that Kitty is the greatest pleasure to them. She is very clever, and hardly ever cries." Here Kitty took the floor again. "My name," she said, "is Kitty, but. at nearly all the houses I visit the ladies give me different names. At one place I am called Vera. That is the name of the lady's own little girl, who is dead. At another place I am Marguerite. I like that name, be­ cause it sounds so grown-up. My other names are Blanche, Dorothy, Moliie, Mabel, Lillie, and Freda."-^ A very old lady calls Maude because 1 am like her little sister who died ever £o long ago. Sometimes 1 get mixed in my names and don't answer when they call me. Many ladies send their carriages for me or take me out shopping with them. They always say that 1 am 'a little cousin from Philadelphia.' That is not true, of course, and 1 don't like to be told I come trora Philadelphia; but the ladies are so nice that I let them tell all the stories they want to. How do I like being rented out? Oh, I like it well enough. I was real lonely while mamma was away, but; now we are both out working at the j same time. The gentlemen that visit j houses where I visit give me presents and want to kiss me. I tiink they do that just to please the ladies who i hire me; don't you?" Further description of the life of a rented-out infant was here, inter­ rupted by the arrival of a smartly ap­ pointed brougham, with a crest on the door panel The conveyance was sent for Kitty, who straightway trotted off to make herself neat for a day's outing. SncceM in Life. What is success in life, and who is j the successful.man? Is it not he ! who sets out in life with the deter- j mination to accomplish a certain ob- J ject, concentrates all his energies | upon its attainment, and attains it, j no matter what else befalls him? If, | then, I strive to be rich, like the late ! Jay Gould, and; win riches, am I less ' successful becausc at last, like him, ! I am afflicted with poor health which | cuts short my dAys and presents me from enjoying my riches? Am 1 less ! successful as a lawyer or a banker be- j cause my wife is a vixen, or my children are spendthrifts? Most cer- i tainly not. Yet many persons would j seem to think I am. Why, asks a ; great Roman satirist, do you wish i for wealth, which ruined Seneca; or j for eloquence, which caused Demos-! thenes and Cicero to be assassinated; Queer Attitudes. To sit naturally before a camera to bave a photograph taken is an art which requires considerable assurance or practice. In looking over albums you are constantly coming across the most extraordinary poses, the most astonishing expressions of counte­ nance, the most melancholy grouping. . It is not the fault of the photo­ graphers; the sitters will have it so, and object to artistic arrangements. A fond couple, for instance, imagine that a most picturesque and pleasing effect may be produced by Matilda sitting on a chair looking up to Henry, who leans poetically over her. In real life nothing could be more idyllic than such an attitude; but'in real life a particular subjection of light will not make Matilda look like a West Indian negress, nor will Henry's bowed head lead one to sup­ pose that it is possible for a man's face to consist entirely of the parting paint-! of his hair. A young man who tries to smile in an unembarrassed way fixes upon his paper likeness an agonized grin. One young lady, In the resolution to look uncommonly pleasing, comes out as though she had been just about to sneeze when her picture was taken. An elderly lady of large proportions, quite ignorant of the laws of the photographic perspective, insists upon sitting "so," and is represented like an elephant in a gown. People with turn-up noses, with very long noses, with no noses to speak of, delight in sitting in profile. On the other hand, people decorated with four or five £hins, and a cor­ responding amplitude of cheek, love to present their full taces. A short man insists upon being taken standing. A tall man will cross his legs, desiring to appear in an easy attitude, and by projecting his boot in the sphere of the lens, is de­ picted as the possessor of a foot that should 'make his fortune in a dime museum. . A Morning Bath. Cold water is a narcotic, as alcohol is. It deadens the sensibilities of the skin and hence prevents the sensa­ tion of cold. It relieves the disposi­ tion to chilliness because of this deadened sensibility, and, as colds and catarrhs are due to hyper-sen­ sitiveness of the skin, we readily see that the cold morning bath prevents the cold by reducing the sensitive­ ness. But the cold morning bath does something more. It arouses nervous activity by calling upon the vital sys­ tem for increased animal heat The contraction of the vessels due to the cold is followed by a relaxation of them, explained by the principle of reaction, aqd so through the cold both aclion and reaction are estal* lished, which frequently give delu­ sive excitement to the victims The tepid or warm morning bath it me her little a great improvement over the cold- water bath, but even these are not to be commended. Whoever would en- 1oy the best of health should take his bath two, three, or four times a week, and retire to bed for a rest, thereby allowing nature to secure the best equilibrium of her forces and pro­ mote the best conditions of health. But no bath should be taken while the patient is weary from labor or ex­ citement. Best is then indicated. The bath should never be taken on a full stomach, nor immediately be- | fore a meal, as further power is • needed for other purposes under such j circumstances.--Dr. Robert Walter, ; in Laws of Health. at us from our pillow. We had as liel take our meals in a charnel bouse with a sexton for master of cere monies. Heads bowed (causelessly) like bulrush are vot to our taste, Every little blade of grass is wiser, struggling upward to the sunshine Do *ou believe in fate, Pat? Sure and pwbat would we stand oh w^ out 'tap? W- Miss AVUlard In England. Not so very many years ago a brisk j and breezy little girl in a Western I home, studying the same books, romp- | ing in the same games, tired bv ! the same ambition as her brother, | ind resenting the limitations of hei j sphere, wondered if she would see anything of the world any way. And the brother, confident and friend, re assured her with the optimistic prophecy that it she was good prob­ ably she would come out all right. A little later they braided up the little girl's tresses, lengthened her gowns, despite her bitterness and rebellion, and told her that she was a woman. Last week there was a great meeting in Jjeeds, when 3,000 people sat spellbound while this woman talked to them of temperance. All through England she has been traveling with Lady Henry Somerset, ^peaking to great audiences, organizing temper­ ance movements, and meeting every­ where with most enthusiastic wel­ come. An English editor has called this woman the Queen of America, but to us she is known through her pen and by her gifts of oratory, as well as by her work in philanthropy, as Frances E. Willard, President ol the Temperance Union of the World. Kipht umi i.«mi Handed. The despised left hand makes good its ciaiiu in m«iny cases to being the defter of the two. Tne fingers that touch and adjust with such nicetv the strings of the violin are surely as cunning as those that move the bow. The.hand that guides the reins and steers with exactness the horse through the crowded streets is quite as running as--one might say much moie than--the nand that wields the whip. It would jippear to Chambers' Journal that as life becomes more and more complex Wo are becoming more specialized, 1 and the differ­ ence between our limbs is encouraged rather than hindered by every pair of scissors turned off at Sheffield, by every screw made in Birmingham, and by every slap administered to the young offending fingers that would dare to shake hands incorrectly. It is curious to notice the vagaries of humanity in cases where no hard and fast line has already been drawn. Although most right-handed persons put on their coats left arm first, a considerable percentage thrust in the right first Soldiers fire from the right shoulder, but sportsmen are found who prefer the left In work­ ing with the spade a proportion of right-handed men grasp the spade with the left and push with the left foot and right hand; though, when using an ax, the same individuals would grasp furthest down with the right The Persians mount their horses from the right sdie, which is the opposite side from that mounted by Europeans. The buttons on coats, etc,, are placed on the right side and the shed of the hair in boys to the left, evidently to suit maninulation by the right hand. The great phil­ osopher, Newton, records that at first he confined his astronomical observa­ tions to the right eye, but afterwards he managed to train his left But there are persons who could not do this, owing to the unequal strength of their eyes. Strange to say, the Chinese assign the place of honor to the left At Kunyenye, in Africa, Cameron relates being introduced to the heir presumptive to the throne, the nails of whose left hand had been allowed to grow to an enormous length as a sign of high rank, pro­ viding him with the means of tearing the meat which formed his usual diet. ' Early Use of Petroleum^ In a diary kept by one of the sur­ veyors engaged in the survey of the Holland Land Company's purchase at the very beginning of this country an entry occurs to the effect that near the headwaters of the Allegheny River, in this State, was a spring of water from which, when conducted into shallow pools would collect quan­ tities of oil. This the Indians col­ lected and used. For unknown gen­ erations the Indians had held this spring in high veneiation, believing it was a direct gift from the Great Spirit They dried the oil by exposure to the sun, and made an ointment that they used in mixing their war paint, as well as for medical purposes. This ointment was the vaseline for the present day in its crude state, for the oil skimmed from the spring was crude petroleum. The oil spring and a plot of ground one mile square were given to the Indians as a reservation, and is so held at the present time, being known as the Oil Spring Reser­ vation. In after years enterprising whites collected the oil, and it was bottled and sold. It had a wide reputation and was eagerly sought by many, who extolled its merits in the most ex­ travagant terms. Had it nut been for the fact the inquisitive whites found out away to get petroleum from the earth by sending the drill through the rocks, this oil woulcl doubtless now be a popular medicine worth $1 a bottle.--American Register. A Hint to Pareutn. Many persons when told never tc Then never punish them at all, if we did not do „ it while we arc angry." Very woll, be it so; a blow of h s career by its last days, as if its ! struck in anger has made more in- haractor depended mainly on its ca- j mates of our prisons than almost any- or to be a great general like Hanm- j . . bal, who was defeated at last, and I punish a child in anger, reply, killed himself in exile? But did not we should each of these men win the very thing he aspired to win? Why, then, judge tastrophe? Why regard a man's life as successful if it end triumphantly, and as a failure if it end disastrously? If a man lives seventy years, does the i seventieth year contain more or less ; than one-seventieth part of his life, | and can it affect the success or failure of that life to more than just that extent? If Hannibal and Napoleon sought to be great generals, and became such, were they less successful be­ cause they finally met with reverses in war and died ingloriously? Was Gen. Grant an unsuccessful man be­ cause he died of a very painful dis­ ease9 Was William Pitt, who as­ pired to be and became the leading statesman and parliamentary orator of Great Britain, unsuccessful be­ cause his efforts to crush the hydra- headed power of Napoleon were de- MM thing else. How many boyish wan dcrers from the parental roof can trace their ultimate ruin from it! How many women, who have lost aW semblance of womanhood, can date their first downward steps from this cruel, maddening, discouraged mo­ ment! Oh, never strike your child in anger! The bitter resentment and heart-burnings which it causes is the seed of that deadly night-6hade-- despair. A little patience (and how much your Heavenly Father has had with you!)--a little love (and hew freely have you received it from Him!) and your child's waywardness will disappear, ynd your old age be blessed, Instead of being remorseful. When you hear of A woman who wants to vote, you can put it down that no man tell« her occasionally how Shu is. .Reflections for tho Horse Breeder. It may be plainly said, and truth­ fully, too, that there is but little oc­ casion for the farmer to be discour­ aged concerning the draft and coach horse business. One can scaicely realize the high prices that are now being paid for good draft and coach horses after comparison with the scrub that really has no market value whatever and ought never to have been foaled or bread. The methods for the future arc plainly mapped out and need no advice as to the course to be pursued in making horse-breed­ ing more profitable. A few extra dollars expended in tho right direc­ tion now simnly represents'the founda­ tion for as many hundreds in the future, especially is this true when comparison is made with the un­ profitable, nondescript and scrubs that have already tiooded the markets and blasted the hope and prospects of tile non-courageous breeder that lacks stiek-to-it-ive-ness, in common with his neighbor whose unsettled con­ victions are as changeable as the weather, and collectively their offer­ ings on the market land on the breakers of unremunerative results, whereas, had they adopted the right course in the beginning, success would have crowned their efforts. As Mr*. William Austin says in his advertise­ ment announcing his future great horse sale, "That the best are none too good for the American market" These words speak volumes. --Kansas Farmer. • Tho Hall and the Battle of Waterloo. The Duke of Wellington told Sir William Napier that he found the Prince of Orange at the Duchess of Richmond's ball the evening of the 15th. He was surprised to see him be­ cause he had placed him at Binche, an important outpost, for the pur­ pose of observing and giving notice of the movements of the enemy. He went up to him and asked him it there w^s any news. "Net nothing but that the French have®ro?sed the Sambre and had a brusa with the Prussians. Have you heard it?" This was news. So ho told him quietly that he had better go back to his post and then by degrees he got the principal officers away from the ball and sent them to their troops. This was done, 1 think he said,about 11 o'clock. He then went to his quarters and found Muffling there, coming from Blucher with the news. He ought to have arrived long be­ fore, but said the Duke to me, "X cannot tell the world that Blucher picked the fattest man in tne army to ride with an express to me, and that ne took thirty horses to ride thirty mile* "--W aterioo Letters. POPULAR Ma«t of the stars are heavier than Our sun. For example, Mlzar, the middle star in the tail of the Gr«at Bear, is forty times as heavy as the sun. To the naked eye there are live Dr six thousands of these heavenly bodies visible. In all probability there Worlds revolving around them. . •' . The popular idea that water Is purified by freezing has been again disproved by -recent careful experi- cueuts, which show that the average amount of impurity retained by the ice is 34.3 per cent, of organic matter, and 21.2 per cent of inorganic mattei*. As organic matter is the more ob­ jectionable of the two. the case is worse than was formaly supposed. THE water spider, which spend* most of its time under water, carries a bubble of air for breathing on the under side of its body; and, when this air is exhausted, it comes to the surface for more. It is enabled to carry the air bubble becavTse the un­ der side of its body is covered with tiny hairs set so clbse together that the surface film of the water does not pass them, although the air does, and thus the air is imprisoned among ttha hairs. ».•. •' The least distance determined f&t the fixed stars from the earth runs into billions of miles. Some notion of the reality may be derived from the fact that if our sun were removed about 200,000 times its present dis­ tance from the earth, it would ap- year to us aimply as a star of the first magnitude. The distance in such a case would exceed 19,000,000.000 of miles. It follows that if the nearest fixed star is further off than this, as appears to be the fact, every star of the first magnitude must be larger or brighter than our sun. The orbit of the planet Neptune, thirty times further from the sun than that of the earth, forms the outer boundary of the solar system. The distance is immense, yet shrinks into insignificance when compared with that which lies beyond. So vast is the gulf which intervenes be­ tween our earth and the stellar uni­ verse that, although many of the stars are in all probability larger and brighter than our sun, yet the most powerful telescope is not able to gh*e them any appreciable diameter, a mere point of light being all that Is visible. Wrongs of the Red Meat' ' ' !' A case that should appeal to th© sympathies and indignation of the people is that of the Mojave Indians. They haye been a strong and hardy race, but with the advance of civil­ ization (?) and the influence of flre- watei thev are rapidly being deci­ mated^ A few,days ago three Mojave Indians from the Needles went to San Bernandina to see the United States Marshal in regard to the white men selling liquor to their tribe. They claim that whisky is furnished in plenty, thus ruining their young braves, as well as the squaws and that lately the Indians will not work, only long enough to secure money sufficient for,a debauch, and that the agent residing among them will ftir- riish no relief. : • This is an outrage demanding Im­ mediate attention, for common hu­ manity requires the Government to look after and protect its wards. The audacity and persistent policy of the destructive liquor traffic is such that not only the Indian, but his white brother, will have to take steps to protect themselves against its ravages. The highway robber de­ mands "your money or your life," but this demon of the still calls for "your money, your life, every earthly possession, and your priceless soul" Yet we imprison for a time the one and license and protect by law the other, while he is doing the Irrefittff* able harm.--The Pacific Ensign, x An Odd Job Company. Among the latest things devised to lessen the labor of living and the cares of a housekeeper is a New York corporation known as the Odd Job and Tinkering Company, Limited. It is a charming idea, this Odd Job Company, and the man who orig­ inated the scheme deserves a vote of thanks for his ingenuity. Though limited in its liabilities, its scope of usefulness is not curtailed, but is as limitless as human wants may neces­ sitate. If Mary takes it into her head to visit her cousin on wash day and remains absent for a week, a p;:stal-card to the Odd Job Company at once brings a substitute, who will perform all the multitudinous duties of the "down-stairs girl" with expe­ dition and despatch. And so it goes on through every department of the household. The company promises to do almost everything in anemergancy --house-cleaning, painting, mason afid lock-smithing work, clerical work, and miscellaneous work, and other things too numerous to mention, but all of the greatest importance in the economy of living in a well-appoin|i^i house. m Sentiment Has Flown. It was the great reproach against the English workhouse in old times that husband and wife, even in ad­ vanced age, were separated, and the touching wish embodied in "John Anderson, my Jo," could not be car­ ried out But, as a matter of fact, it now appears that the wish itself is wanting. "I've looked after he fof forty years," says an ancient dame,< "and I've had enough of it;" and "I came in here on purDose to get out of the reach of the old gal's tonguej" re­ torts the husband. Only a few couples still care for one another's society, ive are told. His Prophecy. **Thi8 ehild," said the clergrynitfii who was about to christen Brown's | baby, "may some day make a noise 1 in the world." And the next minute, when Master BfoWn felt .the cold water, the goo- man's prophecy wafc verified raerf speedily than he had expected. Truth. /*• A Promising Voting Naturalist. A teacher asked her class to name five different members of the "cat" family. Nobody answered till at last one little girl raised her hand. "Well," said the teacher, encourag­ ingly, "Father Cat, Mother Cat, and three Uttje - , * • , V ; 'K'