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isanur. A BONO OP OLD TIMES. Ltn to tblnk of oW-tlme dar«--brightest aad the bent! Inibt up at break o' day an'beamed from §aat Hoon wax ruin* right on tins, with letao' •tars, • Aa' tweet girl* done the ml kin' whete tbstcat- , tie crossed lb* btfi! ' lore to think oJ1 old-time *ajr»-tb« glory in the dells-- Dm Dl!k-«bitr dairies bloisomin'--the chime ofiling® bell*! The bird* tt>a< sting heap sweeter than these nPYMime birds kinsing-- JIh n>«i<ten «lib the rail lip* an' the lover with theripgl Ion to th'nk of old-time days--goto' all too J"»t; Love *«« lots more «weiter then an mora in­ clined t o a«t: AU the world w*s biighter-don t matter what Hlgy ggv ^ ^ 'Every heart wa* lighter aa'ifciat hippy (ML the : way! ' they bn»H noose, 'o' be 'n' his pardner moved it. Then Fete sed the. church had to be properly orgatiftMf hed to _ev deacons'n* church wardens 'n' ILLINOIS flexions 'n' things; so old Bill Jones SHS52SBS*!'n' Alabam 'n' me wuz made deacons, ! 'n' Pete 'n' Five, Ace wardens. "In a month every last man in camp wu •worryin' 'bout his future state. Old Bill Jones came into meetin' one night with his face 'n' bands washed 'n' an old black suit on, sot down on the anxious bench and ast to be prayed tet. Tire parson Knelt down 'n' put his arm round hi in, 'n' how he did pray; bctore he got through Lu ky Barnes, .viabam 'n' me wui on the bench too, 'n' Pete shoved his Chinaman uptbe aisle by the collar 'n' sot him down 'longside o' me. Pete said he was a hightoned Christian gentleman himself, bed been born 'n' raised a Christian, 'n' was a senior churchwarden to boot, and that he'd make a Christian of Ah £ . Love to think bt old-time day#--ikies wasal- ' irays lilue; > y- Violet - Dloasumed ever wherei, jest twinklln' with tliedew! i# But wiiHt'e t be use o' thinkin' an' draamiu' day p*". an'nteht? ., • _ U the o (1 , lines was the brightfat we kin make 'AJ the now times btiglnl i t ' ' i ! ' • ' : HOW ANGELS ' -f ^ Vv .*/. GOT BKIJG10N. ^ • *»%evcr heard how we pot religion fto A ngels, stranger? Yer see'twas afore A nee is got to be sech a big camp as 'twas later on, but it was a rich cautp and a mighty wicked one. Ihere were lots uv chaps there 1^4'. whe'd jest as soon die in their boots ~ - as eat; and every other bouse was a -}ji ,t dance-house or a saloon or a gam- bling-hell. Pretty Pete and hisjpard- >«' ner, Five Ace Hon, was reckoned 1 *' • the wickedest men in tbe State: and J"1-* "A MEETIK OT THE DEACOXS; V CHCBCH WABDEX8." Foo or spoil a Chinaman. That par­ son prayed most powerful that night. As a oir-band, rough-'n'-.iumble, free- 'n'-easy prayer, I never see his besyt; he hed tbe whole au ience in tears, 'n* you might have heard Pete's aniens 'n' glory hallaiuyers off to Buller's Flat Old Jones wu7. a roll- Old Bill J mes. what kept the Golden ! ing around on the floor 'n' hollering "West Hotel, bad a national reputa­ tion for cussin'. The idea of a par- son striking tbe camp never was thought uv; but one day L was play­ ing bank iuto Pete's game when Five Ace came runnin* in 'n' sez: 'Boys. I'll be ---, but therms an ornery euss of a parson jest rid up to .1 ones'. He's got a pardner with him, and he lows he's going to convert the camp.' Sfiliil if w AS TBB BKF, I'M A HQTISXSB OT THE GOSPEL." J"!*? -r-r-- 1 fThe ---- he is,' says Pete. 'IH1 fin­ ish the deal and go down and see . about that.' So we all walked down to Jones', and thar, sure 'nutt, in tbe bar, talking with Old Bill, wuz the parson, black coat and white tie 'n' alL He was a big, squar'-shouldered chap with a olack beard and keen gray eyes that looked right through yer. His pardner was onl^ a boy of £0 Or so, with a yeller, curly ha'r. pink and white gal's face, and big Mueeyes. We all walked in, 'n' Pete he stands to the bar 'n' shouts fer all hands ter drink; 'n' to our surprise the parson 'n' the kid both stepped up, and called for red licker 'n' drank it Alter the drink toas fin­ ished tbe parson se/: *Gent$, as yer see, I'm a minister of the Gospel; hut I see no barm in any man drink­ ing ez long e.: he ain't no drunkard. I drank just now because 1 want you fer to be saved from the devil before the parson was half finished, 'n* be made so much noise that Pete bed to fire a bucket uv water over him to quiet bim down. That meetin' wuz so plum full uv the spirit <ez tbe par­ son called it> that it never broke up till 12 o'clock, 'n' wouldn't er broke up then only Pete said he'd hev to quit ez his shift to deal faro begun at 12. "There wuz over twenty perfesses that night not countin'Pete's China­ man, 'n' next Sunday we hed a tbig t>aptizm in the preek, 'n' forty uv us was put through. Pete sed he reck­ oned Ah Foo had better be put through every da/ for a week or so, sence he'd always been a dod gasted heathen, but the parson 'lowed onct wuz enuff, but be give him an extra dip jest for luck: 'n' I never see a more ornery lookin' cuss in my liie than that Chinese were when he Came out "Waal, stranger, things run along nice an' smooth fer a couple uv months er so till Chris'mus come nigh. The boys hed been a keepin' mighty straight: there wasn't a man in camp that drunked more'n wuz hullsome fer him: there hed n't bin a shootin' scrape fer weeks. Nary a mau packed a gun, 'n' when a gent 'ud forgit'n'drop a cuss word he'd beg parding. The parson was thick with all the boys. He writ letters for us. advised us about all our biz- ness, 'n' knew all about everybody's affairs. Lots uv 'em gave him their dust sack to keep fer 'em, 'n' he knowed where every man hed his cached. "Along lest afore Chris'mus cum, Pete called a meetin' uv the deacons 'n' churchwardens down to his place, i 'n' after the sexton (Ah Foo; had brought in a round of drinks he said: 'Gents, ez chairman ex-officer in this yer layout, I move that we give the parson a little present fer Chris'mus. on*t wartr a word out w yer,* be sed. 'Yer see my game now, don't yer? Thar aint a gun In th« houM *cei>t the ones you see, 'n' if any gent makes any row in this yer meetin' Pll till his hide so plum full «' holes't won't bold his bones. Tbe was church- j kid wilt now take up the collection, J 'n' ez it's the first oue we ever hev I taken up yer must make It a liber'l ] one, see:-' The kid started out with ; a gunnysack, !n5 went through every j last man in the crowd. He took ! everything, even to tbe rings on our | fingers. The parson hed the drop, ! 'n' we knew it 'n' never kicked, but | jest giv' up our stuff like lambs. "After the kid hed finished he j took the sack outside, 'n thets the j last we ever seed o' him. Then the i parson he sez: »'!?' now, gents, 1 I must say adoo, ez I must be atravel- j in', for I bev another meetin' to at- I tend this eve', l want to say tho', afore I go, thet you're the orneriest gang of fools I ever played for suckers. A few friends uv mine hev taken the liberty, while you've been to meetin' this blessed Chris'mas day, uv goin' through yer cabins 'n' dig- gin' up yer little caches uv dust *n' uther valables. Yer stock hez all been stampeded, 'n' yer guns yer'll find some whar at the bottom uv the crick My friend at tbe door will hold yer level while I walk out we will then keep yer quiet fer a few minutes longer through the winder jest so's we can git a nice cumf'table start; 'n' so tbey did. What c ;d we do? The parson walked out, grin­ ning all over himself,'n' he 'n' his pals they nailed up the door 'n' win­ ders, (thar wui only two,) 'n' very soon after they had finished we heard tbe clatter o' huffs 'n' knowed they wuz gone I must draw a vail over the rest uv thet day's purceedings, stranger. The langwidge used by tber boys wuz too awful to repeat, butt'was jest as this parson sed, when we got out o' thet meetin' house we found every animal on the lo­ cation gone, 'n' the only arms left wuz knives 'n' clubs yet we'd hev gone after 'em with nothin' but our hands, but we couldn't follow afoot. How much did tbey get? i don't rightly know, but not fur from $50, - 000. The hull camp wuz stone-broke, all excep' Ah Foo, 'n' he wuz the only one uv us had sense enuff not t:> tell thet durned parson whar he cached his stuff." RULER OF THE NAVY. 16 see that I am not ashamed to do ! Yer know he won't take a durn cent fc^ore yer face what Pd do behind yer t from us, *n' hever has. Uv course he has taken a few thou-and from time to time to send to orfins 'n' things uv that kind, but not a red for his- hacs£.* 'liight yer are, parson,' sez Pete, put it tbar, 'n' they shook hands, and then Pete be up and called off the hull gang, Five Ace 'n' Lucky Barnes 'n' Dirty Smith 'n' one •n' all tbe rest uv 'em. Tbe parson shook hands with all uv us and sed be was going to have a meetin' in Shifty Sai's dance-house that night, ez 'twas the biggest room in camp'n' •at us all to come, we sed we would. "When we got outside Pete sez. 'Boys, you mind me that devil flodger'11 capture the camp;' 'n' he did. That night we all went along down to Shilty's and found the per­ son and the kid on the platform where the fiddlers ustj to sit; and everv man in camp wuz in the au­ dience. The pa;son spoke first - He sed: *Gents, 1 want to tell yer first off I don't want any uv yer dust. I've got enuff fer myself and my young friend, 'n' there won't be no rake-off in this yer meetin'-house, 'n' I'm not here to preach against any •Ban's way o' makin' a livin'. 1 will preach agin drunkenness, and T shall speak privately with i move that we make self or pard; "*ER BEE lfY OAKS HOW DOIP* TEE?' Chris'mus little. fe .tl want to keep you men in mind , at your homes 'n' yer wives 'n' yer j sweethearts, and get yer to lead ' cleaner lives, so's when yer meet 'em j ag.n yer'll not hev to be 'shamed;' ; and tben he sed we'd bev a song, 'n' , the youngster he started in'n' played I a concertina, and sang, 'Yes, We j ' Will Gather at the Biver,' 'u' there j wuzn't one uv us that it didn't re-! mind uv how our mothers list to j dress us up Sundays 'n' send us to ] Sunday school and stand at the door; to watch us down street, and call us back to ast if we were sure we had | clean pocket bandkerchur; 'n' I , mister, thar wuzn'^ a man ; dry eyes in the crowd when he'd i ihed. That young feller had a I like 'a angel. Pete he said it I *ioz a tenner v'ice, but Five Ace ' •ffered to bei, him 100 to 50 it wuz 1 more like a titteeuer or a twenty. ' "Well, things run along lor about | A week, 'n' one day Pete come to me | "•tod sez: !Look here, Halters, this j ye re camp ain't no jay camp, 'n' we've «®t to hev a church fer the parson, lie's n jim-dandy, and won't ask fer Nothing. He'd est natchedly go on ^fayin' ana preachin', 'n' tryin' ter aave a couple of whisky-soaked souls like your'n, and Bill Jones', which Ain't worih powder to blow them to him a little present on day, 'n' it needn't be so-- either. Gent's in favor'll say so, and gents wot ain't kin keep mtMQ. Car­ ried, 'n' that settles it Five' Ace 'n* me'll take in contributions, 'n' we won't take any ess than 50 cases.' "That wu'. two days afore Chris'­ mus day, 'n' when it come Pete 'nf Five Ace hed about five thousand in I the gamblers: i dust 'n' nuggeos fer the parson's ! present. Pete assessed Ah Koo a month's pay, 'n' be kicked hard ac- cordln', but'twer' n't no use. The day was .bright V clear, 'n' at 11 o'clock every man in camp wuz at Church. Tbe little buildin* looked mighty tasty, all fixed off with pine tassels 'n' red berries we'd got in thewoods, 'n' every man wuz dressed out in bis best duds. At 11 exact tbe parson 'n' the kid, who hed bin standin' at tbe door shaken' hands 'n' wishin' everybody what cum in merry Chris'­ mus, cum in 'n' took their seats on the platform. Pete 'n' Five Ace 'n' Bill Jones 'n' Alabam 'n' me sot on a bench jest in front o' tbe platform. Secretary Herbert Has Power Which Can­ not Be Oainsaid. "There is one man in the United Stales who has more power than the President and all the federal courts combined," said a naval officer re­ cently. "The Secretary of the Navy is the man. His power over officers of the navy is autocratic. He Can, without the aid of a court, fine ao, officer all the way from $400 to $-1,000 a year, according to his rank, and simply to suit tbe whim of theSecit)> tary. Unlike officers of the army, officers in the navy are not paid a uniform and fixed compensation. In the army the salary of an officer is fixed by taw, and no one. not oven the President, can deduct a cent from that pay withuut a court-mar­ tial. In the navy there are three regular grades of pay. In the case of real admiral, wh>ch is the highest rank in the navy, the pay at sea is $6,000. On shore duty this is re- du ed to $5,000, while if the officer is on leave of absence or "waiting orders" this is reduced to $4,000. "Now suppose a rear admiral is ordered to tbe command of the fleet in the North Atlantic. The Secre­ tary of the Navy pmposes to visit the tfeet He is received on board' the fiagsnip with all the honors due his station, and the admiral does his best in the way of entertainment Suppose again, when the Secretary sits down to dine at the admiral's table he fiuds that a chcap b.and of American wine is served instead of his accustomed Chateau Yquem. The Secretary determines to resent this indignity. He goes ashore and de­ cides to relieve an admiral who knows nothing of the first principles of hos­ pitality. He issues an order detach­ ing the admiral and placiug hirn on waiting orders. Then on the follow­ ing day he determines to punish him still further. He calls in tbe Chief of tbe Bureau of Navigation and di­ rects that Admiral Bowline be given an indefinite furlough. That means that instead of drawing $ti,000 a year as he was yesterday, the late admiral of the North Atlantic finds bis in­ come suddenly reduced to $:\000, and all because be has oiTcnded tbe ruler of tbe navy in some slight matter. "Cannot the admiral appeal? Cer­ tainly not. Thye is no oue to whom he can cry out The President bus no £ower to review the decisions of the Secretary of the Navy in matters of this kind. This is an extreme caue, of course, but it would no^ be difficult to point out where lieuten­ ants have had their pay cut from $2,600 to $900 by a Secretary who bad a grudge." LAtl&ED THE *E1~ MM Afro.Americ»n'« Desperate Stnurgle . and Vftlsl Triumph After Being Aided. Among the crowd of spectators watching a Jinot of fishermen on tbe Troy Linethe other morning, says the IfefRtYork Evening World, was an eldfrly Afro-American, who wore an antiquated plug hat a long linen duster and a pensive look. He was waiting for the boat for Haver- straw, ana from his occasional com­ ments on tbe ill-luck of the fisher­ men it was evident that he knew a thing or two about entrapDing the finny tribe, although It subsequently developed that he wasn't an adept at unhooking his catch. Not even a nibble had agitated the lines for half an hour, and the man and brother occasionally vented his disapproval of the piscatorial procedures with a vig rous "Humph." Finally one of the anglers wandered across West street to pilot a schooner across a bar to a capacious haven, relinquish­ ing bis line to the disgusted gentle­ man of color. Instantly a smile overspread his features. He quickly set down his bag and umbrella, pulled his plug hat over his ears and slowly drew one of the lines out of the water. Then he stripped the hook, took a fresh worm from tbe bait can* slapped it three times be­ tween his hands, slipped it on the hook, spat on it three times and tossed it overboard, exclaiming three times: "Cudgy, cudgy, oudgy.M "What's that?" asked a fat fisher* man sitting near by. "That's medicine," answered the son of Ham, adding contemptuously: "You just wait" The crowd waited expectantly. The medicine was good, for in less than five minutes the colored man yanked a big blue eel to the surface and flung him with a flop on the pier behind him. "What did I tell you?" whooped he black man excitedly. "Seems to me you people doc^t know nothin' bout catch In' ells." "You ain't got him yet. He's getting away," yelled the c:owd. The eel, which seemed all muscle and resolution, was not accepting cap­ ture passively. He twisted and wrig­ gled about like a snake, a?d was rap­ idly near^ng the edge of the pier when the darky jumped up and clutched him. It was a good attempt as the polo grounds cranks say, but resulted in a clean muff, and the crowd promptly gave the player an error while it applauded tbe eel tor a pos­ sible home run or a slide. Tben the Afro-American buckled in for an up- hi 1 game. With a mighty bound he leaped into the air and swooped down upon the writhiug form of Mr. An- guilla Vulgaris, with determination shooting from his eye and perspira­ tion dripping from his forehead. For a minute o.* two eel stock took a tumble, but went up again, when the vicinity became filled with eel, Afro-American, fish-line, pole, plutt hat, duster, and bait box in a hope­ lessly tonl'uftgd mass that resembled nothing so <j»uch as an animated Thompson ^treat Laocoon for one. The colored man's eyes bulged until they seemed likely to fall out as he saw the eel slowly but surely slipping from bis grasp. A dockmancame to his rescue and cut o f the eel's head with a knife This ended the strug­ gle, and as t he colored man walked over to his boat his pensive look re­ turned and he sagely remarked: "It's easy enough to catch eels, but it takes more'n medicine to hang on to 'em." MOTHER'S MII& tamed the wild young chicks so tnaa tbey are willing to foed among do­ mestic fowl and do not try to escape to the wood 4 and fields. She has four pheasant hens in captivity, and puts their eggs under a domestic fowl. It is tho opinion of experts that the chicks hatched from eggs laid in the pheasant's native nest in the fields and batched by a domestic fowl will never be tamed. Charging a Cactus. Gen. Maury says that when h% In Texas he heard a (treat deal about tbe fierceness and activity of the wild cattle, and determined to flud out the truth (if the reports. So, one morning at daybreak, he set forth with Juan, the guide, and two other men. with pack mules to bring in tbe meat they expected to kilL After two hours' pursu t he came in sight of a huge, white bu 1, which bioke away from them at a rapia gait al­ though he was severely wounded. Tbe writer continues: Again, after an hour's pursuit we came upon our bull, and as before, I dismounted, and ran up toi ? make a sure shot, and running closer to h m than before, delivered it Old Juan was too wise to dismount, though I had not observed this. Asmyiifle cracked, I heard tho bushes rattling, and the men cried out: "licok out, Lieutenant! he is charging you!" I wheeled, and ran for my horse, but the bull was too close to me to stop to mount, so as 1 heard nim close at my heels, I turned suddenly to­ ward a huge cactus I was passing, and sprang into it, struggling through it and tumbling flat upon the ground on the other side. In all my life, 1 had never been so terrified, and I was so tormented by the great cactus spikes, which had pierced my body, that for an instant 1 would have welcomed the bull or anything else that would have re­ lieved me of my misery. After some m ments, I ventured to rise and look for the animal, an ac­ tion which I immediately regretted; for he instantly saw me and made another dash for me. tbe men crying, as he did so: "He's charging again!" I whirled through another cactus, the twin of the one I had just left, and lay as flat and still as a dead man, and I almost wished 1 was dead, for in my flight, I had acquired a second supply of cactus spikes. They are of the size of a large darn­ ing needle, with barbed points, and when one is pulled out, it leaves the barb in, to mark tbe place. * Tbe bull was gone, but alas! the cactus spikes remained. Later in the day, we had better su cess w th our game, and went home driving the mules packed wit.h meat Not Alwaya the Bert Diet for the Little Ones. It seems reasonable to assume, says the Youth's Companion, that the natural food which is offered to the child in the earlier months of its in­ fancy could haidly be improved upon; and, indeed, the milk of a healthy mother is always held up as the standard by which all artificial sub­ stances are to be judged. Neverthele-s, the conditions which enable the motner's milk to meet the requirements of a pertect food are not invariably present, and tbe sub­ ject is deserving of all the attention which has of late been given it. There are many disorders of in­ fancy, certainly of the digestive tract, which can be traced directly to a de­ fect in the milk of the mother. The most serious evil is by no means an insufficiency in the nutri­ tive properties. Trouble in this di­ rection is at once apparent from the crBJH»ral ffin(Lit,inn nf the tl Campaign Literature. The Democrats are having a great deal b Williams College, Professor >S . Ass aulteri by a Drunken Man. Here is an original way of dealing with a drunken man, adopted with great success by Thomas Jefferson Hogg, the biographer of Shelley. "I was about to enter Covent Garden," he says, "when an Irish laborer, bearing an empty hod, accosted me somewhat roughly, and asked why I had run against him. I told him briefly that he was mistaken. Whether somebody had actually pushed the man, or he only sought a quarrel, 1 know not; but be dis­ coursed lor some time as if he con­ sidered himself injured or iusulted, and being emboldened by my long silence, concluded with a cordial in* vitation just to push him again. "Several persons not very unlike him in costume bad gathered round, and appeared to regard him with sympathy. "When he paused, I addressed to him slowly and quietly, and with great gravity, these words, as nearly as I can recollect them: "'1 have put my hand into the hamper; I have looked upon the sacred barley; I have eaten out of the drum! I have drunk and was well pleased; 1 have said Jvnox om- pax, and it is finished.' " 'Have you, sir?' inquired the as­ tonished Irishman, and his ragged friends pre sed round him with. •Where is the hamper, Paddy?' 'What barleyr' and the like. And ladies from his own country, that is to say, the basket-women, suddenly began to interrogate him: ••'Now, I say, Pat, where have you been drinking? What have you had?' "I turned, therefore, tj the right leaving the astounded neophyte, whom I had thus planted, to ex­ pound the mystic words of initiation as he could to his inquisitive com- pan.ona." ' Bluffing. In the mathematics class one day, THI A CALP. A "Uaitanff," According to the dictionaries a mustang is one ot the wiid horses of the American prairies, small and hardy. The word comes from the Spanish me6tengo, "pertaining to mesta or graziers," and me&ta means "a body ot proprietors of black cat­ tle or sheep. From this came the meaning of mustang, something be- ; to. ging to a grazier, so that a mus- | tang horse was such as a grazier might be expected to ride in herding , his sheep. In time the word horse you'd let him go on doln' it a% old shack of Sal's 'n\ never e a move. Now, I'm goin' to ,le round 'n* dig up dust enuff ttoe boys, and we'll jest build a meetin' bouse as '11 be a credit lo the camp; 'n' in a few days tbe fey* hed a good log meetin' house ^pilt, lloored, 'n' benches in it 'n^ *wythln\ The parson was tickled . . . . , _ , w a s d r o p p e d a n d t h e a d j e c t i v e m u s - We wuz all togged out in our bert fix- j wa8 UBed aione ^ a noun. There in s, n Pete n i^ive Ace they sported i j8 a mustang grape, a hardy variety, dimons till ver couldn't rest Waal, | 8Qian berries. e-. usual, the perceedln's opened up; " with er prayer from the puson: 'n' then we hed singin', 'n' it seemed ter me as If I hever bed singln' in my life afore ez thet kid let out o' him thet day. Then the! parson he started in ter jaw, 'n' I inustcllow he giv us a great dis- • course. I never see him so long- 1 ; winded afore, tho'. 'n' Fete was be- : i ginnin' to get mighty restless 'n' on- ; i easy, when all uv a suddint we beerd • i the door open 'n' shet quick 'n' sharp, j 1 'n' every one turned around to find a j ! great big black-bearded cuss at tbe j j door a coverin' tbe hull gang uv us i with a double-barreled shotgun, 'n' | jest m standin' thar cool 'n' silent •Face round here, yer ----- fools,' yelled somelody in a sharp, quick, biznus-u;eanin' v'ice 'n' all hands faced round to find the parson hold­ ing 'em up with another shotgun- own brother to the one the other cuss Tbe Bloodteat Battle firn Fought. 8UPP°ae t^e battle at ,^5 l which Marius conquered the Teutons and Cimbri was the bloodiest in his­ tory, but that was really a massacre afttr a fight More than ^LOO.OOO men, women, and children were slaughtered by tbe Komans The bloodiest battle of civilized times was that of Leipsic, (D Octobcr 16, 18, and 10, 1*13. It was fought between the French on one side and the Au- strians, Prussians, and Russians on the other. Tbe French had ifiO,000 men in the field, the allies 240,000. More than 80.000 men perished--that is, <we in every five, a very heavy I proportion. The French were de­ feated. I THE law of precedent should not be allowed to supplant that of pria>» cipta ' of trouble in the preparation of their campaign handbook. The question of what to put in and what to leave out is causing a great deal of perplexity, so vul- lerable is the record of the party on all public issues. The Washington corres­ pondent of the Philadelphia Press says that the book contains "every blunder of President Cleveland and the Democratic yfadministration, including the criminal M\ interference with Hawaiian affairs and lUlf ' pelfirtitA' dnr »iair u ».«•- ^rrhura, which becomes more crouble- s<y«u2 as it becomes more persistent, and Which speedily undermines his' health. Nor can any medicine be found that will restore tbe bowels to their normal condition. For tho fault is entirely In the quality and quantity of tbe food. There is too much lat in it--it is too rich. The digestive apparatus of an in­ fant is as incapable or being safely overworked as an adult's. The cbild grows weaker and weaker, and finally succumbs to the ravages of the in­ cessant diarrhea, and the cause of tbe difficulty is seldom understood. It is safe, if there are digestive dis­ turbances present in infancy, after the possibility of the presence of ac tual disease of tbe organs has < ^ $_• f'S*?}- v5 carefully excluded, to consider that the trouble lies .n tbe milk of the mother, and to seek early medical ad­ vice. It is generally suffic ient in these cases to regulate the time of feeding; but the mother should never hesitate to give uirifcurslng the child, if su h a course is! deemed wise by the phy- siciao. An Oregon {Jin's Feat. A young woman of Oregon has ac* complisbed what the most experi­ enced fanciers have been unable to do; that Is the domestic propagation of the Denny pheasant She has Bm Waa Bed. (leaded Mid Vlfonuly ftp* fended HU Rights, On top of a load of hay which came Into the western haymarket the other dav, was a man of 60 and a young man of about 23--father and son. Tbe vehicle bad no sooner come to a halt than both scrambled down, and it was then seen that, the young man's nose was about twice its nor­ mal size and his eyes were blackened and puffed until he could scarcely see daylight There wad blood on his face and shirt-front and of course there was a natural curiosity among the men lounging around to know what had happened. "No, William didn't run agin' a bridge or have a tree fall on him," said the father, as he wet his hand­ kerchief at tbe drinking trough and wiped away the blood. "The fact is that he met with a disappoint­ ment on the road as he was com in' in." "What sort of a disappointment!'"', oueried a policeman who intended to recommend raw beef and perfect quiet for three or tour days. "Wall, you see. WMiam was drivin' when we left home. We had come along about three miles when we meets a red-beaded man lead in' a calf. A feller with a calf orter turn out and give the road to a load of hay, but this one wouldn't He jist turned out hair way and stood still and yelled that he'd be durned if he moved another inch. Then I says to Bill, says I, 'Bi.l, he's a peppery cuss, and you'd better turn out.' " "Yes; you ought to have tarned out for a red-headed man," so* the officer. ^ "I says that to Bill, but Bill be says to me, says he: "I'll be hanged if 1 do! If he don't turn out I'll get down and make him wi»h he'd never bin born into this sinful world.' Then he hollerB at the man and warns him of what is to come, but the red-head don't skeer wuthacent He ties the calf to a bush and Jspits en his hands and screams for both of us to come down to once." "Then you gave th<a road?" asked the officer. "Noap. 1 wanted to, but Bill he says to me, says he: Dad, you hold tbe lines and-I'll git down and uin that cus oue bat on the nose and put him to sleep fur two hours.' 1 didn't want Bill to do it, but he was sot; and down he went He off with bis hat and gin a yell and bore,d^pr^...^ the man with the calf." "And put him to sleep" 4 'Noap He never closed an eye to sleep. When Bill lighted on him suthin' happened--suthin' happened to Bill. He stopped all of a sudden and laid down, and when he got up again he was as you see him now. The red-headed man invited me to come down and light on him also, but 1 didn't accept He had been gone about ten minutes when Bill woke up" "What did Bill say?" asked the officer. "Nawthin' that I heard. Bill, did you say anythin' when you come to-"' "Num," replied Bill with a solemn shake of the head. "And you didn't say anythin' fur the next two miles, did you?" "Num." "And tben all you said was to "ask me if you'd been struck by lightnin'?" "Yum." "That's all, as fur as I kin remem-' ber," continued the father, "and now if jou'll sorter look out fur my hay, I'll lead Bill to a doctor and see whether he's mortally injured or only crippled fur life. Come on, Bill. You hain't bin say in' a word since you was stru -k, and all you've got to do now is to step high and lean on daddy's arm."--Free Press. George Eliot. The letters of the late Prof. Ed­ ward L. Youmans give an interest icg glimpse of the great novelist George Elliot through the eyes of the equally great biologist, Herbert Spencer, who was one of ber most in­ timate friends. spencer regarded George Eliot as the greatest woman living, if not the greatest female intellect that ever appeared in the world. The novelist lived very quiet'y, re­ ceiving few friends, but Spencer was admitted at all times. He called there one day as she was finishing the "Mill on the Floss/' and Mr. Lewes, who was just leaving the house, met him on the steps. "Ah, Spencer," he exclaimed, "do go in and comfort. Polly. She is cry­ ing her eyes out over the death of her children." meaning Tom and Maggie Tulliver. On another occasion Lewes had ar­ ranged to take a ramble in the country^with Spencer and Youmang, but instead of him appeared tne fol­ lowing note: ukab Philosopher.--Polly is ill. and as husbands are indivisible (and for that reason probably no matter), lam 6oiryt.o say that I shall net have a leg or cerebellum at "your servine. Faithfully yours.--G. H.Lewes.' The quip on the divisibility of mat ter is a lair specimen of the puns and joke s with which Lewes was always bubbling over. Sensible and Practical. Some time ago an appeal was made in England for funds with which to raise a memorial of some kind to Gil­ bert White, tbe naturalist who, by his writings on out-of-door subjects, made his village of Selborne famous, and tounded a school of writers on natural history. The a peal resulted in the raising of the sum of about twelve hundred and fifty dollars. This would not have procured a very magnitlsent monument of marble: and through some one's ingenuity, a hydraulic ram to bring water to Selborne has been substituted for the usual mor­ tuary memorial. This is a strange monument hut it is a very sensible one. By ^ineans of the ram, water will be forced from this spring above tbe village, to which the villagers bav$ had to journey for water from time im­ memorial, into a reservoir, and tben through pipes to the houses or near them it his been well said that this simple and practical memorial is in excellent keeping with Gilbert White's unpretentious character; and the people of Selborne will long have occasion to bless the name of tbe naturalist, who lived in their village a hundred years ago. THE man that Undertakes to be m . law unto himself i& sc once bftt«h a . ? r,^ slave and * despot - j that ot wrong finaL , , HHSS :;v IN ANCIENT DAYS. •DUmlni of That Time Differ*** «*i«i TboM So* l.lriii(.l "Every once in a while «• its something In the press about the prodigality of rich men," said M. Buckstone at the Burnet the other night "Fred Gebhard puts % silver bath-tub in his house, and a great to-do is made about it One of tb« Vanderbilts spends $1,000,000 in tar­ nishing and decorating his mansion* , and there are people who profess to be shocked by what they call •wild extravagance.' The idea conveyed to that large expenditures for personal purposes are peculiar to our age and the product of our civilization. Non­ sense! Compared with the most ex­ travagant millionaires ot the present day tbe rich men of old pagan time* were'out of sight' In this respect they went far ahead of the most free­ handed multi-millionaires of this country or Europe at the present time. You know history tells ua that for an ordinary banquet, when he expected no guests, Lucullus now and then expended 50,000 drachma®, or »4,000. His table cou.bes were purple and his vessels glittered with jewels. Tbe balls of Heliogabalus were hung with cloth ot gold enriched with jewels; his table and plate weie of pure gold, his couches were of silver, 4nd his mattressea, covered with carpet of cloth of gold, were stuifed with down found under the wings of parti idges. His suppers never costjless than 100, 00j sesterces. Croesus paid 100,900 sesterces for a golden cup. His banqueting rooms were strewn with lilies and roses. Apicius, in the time of Trajan, spent 100,000,000 sesterces in debauchery and gluttony, and having only 10,- 00 ,000 left, he ended his life with poison, fearing he might die of hun­ ger. Drusilli s caused a dish to be made of 500 pounds weight of silver. Vitellius had one made of such pro­ digious size that be #as obliged to build a furnace on purpose for it, and at a feast which he gave in honor of this dish it was 11.led with the livers of the scarrus (tish), the brains of peacocks, the tongues of parrots and the roes of lampreys caught in the Carpathian Sea. The nobles squan­ dered money equally on theii ban­ quets, their stables and tbelr dress. Cicero In a comparatively economi­ cal age, paid £6do or $3,250 for hia banqueting table. These pagans lived high. We don't know what prodigality is in our (time."--Cinch!* inati Times-Star. \ ' ho wa.4 rarely made the subject of )llege jests, was excessively annoyed v some man "squeaking" a small ibber-bladder. The noise seemed to come from 3ar a certain Jack Mollis, and, after jerying each of his neighbors and :ceiving a negative answer, Pio- ssorS said, sternly -- "Hollis, do you know who is mak- ig that unbearable noise?" Hollis, who had been the guilty art/ all along, assumed an air of stoical bravery aod said, calmly,-- "1 know, sir; but I prefer not to tell M Professor S t's angry face grew calmer, and. with evident pleasure, he replied,^-- "1 respect yeur scruples. Hollis. Thev do you credit and should shame the guilty one." Rig CJame and Small. The surgeon of Stonewall Jackson's brigade tells a story of Gen. Farly < which he says may or may not be true, but at which he heard Gen. Jackson laugh very heartily. Gen. Early, who then had command of the troops on the lower Rappahan­ nock, had some guns on a high em- been ' bankment trained to shcot at the Federal gunboats if they should make their appearai.ee a mile or two down the river Tbe muzzles of the guns were lifted very high in order to carry a bail so far. One day while Early was inspect­ ing the guns he found a soldier sight itier one of them, which pointed to the top of a tree in the neighbcrhood A long time he squinted. Tben he turned to Gen Early. "I say," said the soldier. Via itflfere any squirrel up that tree?*' ^4*- ; Possibilities of Kite-Flying. Have you ever noticed how diffi­ cult it is to estimate the height of & ktte above the earth? It is a very l hard thing to do. indeed. This is on account of the fact that objects float­ ing in the air seem to be farther away than tbey really are. It< may be safely said that .eighteen hundred feet is the greatest altitude to whicb a single kite can soar. . ' ^ t Even to a person not apt to mgke • extravagant estimates, a kite eigh­ teen hundred feet above ground t^ill seem to he fully a half mileabove£he earth. A careful measurement of the 1 string and its angle would, however, prove the error. Urdlnarily a kite will go no higher even if tho v string is paid out. This is because the wind depresses the cord, and j causes the kite to really recede when | it appears to be rising. 1 It is, however, easy to arrange i several kites in such a manner that j they will reach a higher altitude than : it is possible to reach with a single f kite. In this manner, when three i or four, or even a dozen kites have ij been used, remarkable heights have ! been reached. ^ Should you wish to try this experi­ ment you may do so by attaching only the main one to the end of the string. The others must be attached along the main line, in ! a manner similar to tbe arrangeaient j of hooks on a "trot-line," at an aver- j age distance of twelve feet apart This question of bow a kite can as- i cend has been made tbe subject of . j investigation by learned men--the philosopher, Ben amin Franklin, being by no means the only scientist i Who has flown a kite Hinkiernan, who made experiments at Buda-l-esth. and Irson and Wat­ son, whose investigations were pur­ sued under the direction of the Bus- < sian Academy of Sciences, report curious resulta Where single kites f could be made to ascend to a height of 1,500 feet, a pair could be made to i ascend to a height of from :,uoo to 2,100 feet and a tandem easily ; reached the high-water mark of 2,500 feet These three experimenters declare their belief that with proper ar­ rangement of kites, and with a scien- title adjustment of both tbe tail and the string a height ot two niiles will some day be reached. „ • . -- • V . The First Post*. : The first posts are said j^ave ' originated with the regular dourier* established by Cyrus about 550 B. C., who erected post-ho ses throughout the kingdom of Persia. Augustus was the first to introduce this insti­ tution among the Romans, -'tl li G, and he was imitated oy Charlemagne about stO A D. Louis Al. was the • Urs^sovere gn to establish post-houses in France, owing to his eagerness or news and tbey were also the first in­ stitutions of this nature in kurqpe. This was in 1470, or about two thou­ sand years after tbey were first started in Persia. v In England in the reign of Fd- - ward IV. (i4!Sl) rderson post;-horses £ went stages of the distance ot twenty miles from each other in order to procure the King tbe earliest intelli- • gence of tbe events that passed in tbe course of the war that bad arisen ^ with the Scots. A pro Jamatlon was issued by Charles I. in. 1831 that ' whereas to this time there hath been no certain intercourse netween the Kingdoms ot England and Scot­ land, the. King now commands bis Postmaster of England for foreign parts to settle a running post or two between Edinburgh and Londou to » go thither and come back again til . six days " •i"/^ . TIIK Damson plum Is one of the oldest varieties known, and would be : a sure crop every ®e;\r but for the curculio hpraying has lessened the loss of plumbs ot ieceut years, and Damson are now grown where before tbey have been failures. ^DEATH soonest overtakes the fast Sfil 5S&*