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fAJfSLYKE, Editor and Put*. ILLINOIS. ONLY A BABY'S SHOE. KT HKWKT T. OBAT. J#? 4MFR INASFCY'S WOM-ONT SHO* , IF»». LITTLE THING $6KTTMT. NEGIEOTEB; LYING 3 SsvNled when wok* THE Sow loaf IT I'M, all HIDDEN UK v. * ;V"V'JNW*55 BY MIEN SNOW, TLV" ,IR •• ! WHO CMT TILE WAIF AWNY, ONE 491 ' .J-I;•: J*,**. I'M ION I'LL NEVER KNOW. ( _•> J<«T ONCE IT EASED A TINY FOOT. , • §R«'«I ' W&SBABY DARK OR FAIR? >•;.: ?-J..VK'V • FE'V- - WHAT COLOR WERE ITS SPARKLING MM, ' • • AND WHAT ITS SILKEN HAIR? ^JT „ £ s. J)TD MOTHER LOVE IT VERY MNCH, FFEV'?* : OR WAS IT IN THE WAY ? "TTW P^V FVLMT WAS TTEHOME IT OCCUPIES* I . CAN ANYBODY SAY? , *' WAS BABY LIVING WHEN THE SHOE . WAS DROPPEU UPON THE SIREEI1 > W«« IT A USELESS COVERING FOR ONE OF ITS WEE FEET? :;48>r wbb THE BABY LAID SWAY I;'. W ITHIN THO.SWOUC GRAVE, AND WAS THE SHOE BY ACCIDENT " DROPPED THERE UPON THE PAVE1 IFHE MYSTERY IH NEVER SOLVE, V THE SHOE WAS CA»T AWAY. BUT WHO IT WAS WHO WORE IT , MO ONE WILL EVER SAY. & : A STANGE RIDE. during here; addlarfrwb roses in a vase there, and wilting each nook and corner she visiled the sweeter for her presence. The first thing she noticed on en­ tering the apartment occupied bj the i fortable as grocer's wife was her wardrobe door ; mitted, she left ajar. Temptingly in view lay the white bo* within which, Mrs- Bob knew, lay the lovely p.nk bonnet for which her heart yearned. '1 here's no barm in my looking at it* "she whispered, patting down I broom. There it lay, light and fleecy as ft pink aurora, and Kitty, lifting it carefully out, ran to the glass and set it daintily on her pretty little head. Becoming! 1 should say so. My! if Bobiould only just see her. She laughed and nodded to herself in the mirror; then, turning sideways, gave backward coquettish glances at her­ self over her shoulder. All at once an audacious idea oc­ curred to her. Why not go over and make a call on the widow, who had never seen the bonnet, and wear U? Is'o one would meet her. There was not a house on the way; it was a lovely day, and in m jmttif little MNr Bob upinto n depressed heap on tbe Boor of the carriig^ where, hawintf tigjjten off and tarefuliy examined her feath­ ers, he saw her give a sigh or relief, and, having made herself as cotn- the circumstances per- motioned to him to go on. ' 'Shall 1 drive fast or slow, ma'am?" he asked, not feeling sure just what | pace decorum would demand under { such extraordinary circumstances. ' 'Fast." calied Kitty. "Drive me j to the livery stable, tnen you can lend me an umbrella and I'll get home safely." , ! What that drive was to Mrs. But- j terworth no one knows, but when | she sat on her husband's knee that i night and confessed the whole thing i to him, she added pathetically,-- J "I don't feel as if it had paid, ! Boh " I "1 should think not," said he, try- 1 ing to straighten hU face so as jo | show disapproval. . "What possessed I you, anyhow?" " 'The serpent tempted me,"' • quoted Kitty, rubbing her eves and ' looking foolish. If you had ruined that pink rag "I'll just dress myself and see how . tt would have cost me three guineas," it looks, any way," said she. •• I said he, parenthetically. V*. C'-L A:iY \ 57 On the highway between Appleby , and Ambleside, just bordering the roadside green with hawthorn bushes, ; stood the very pretty cottage which Robert ^familiarly known as ••Bob") j Butterworth had earned by faithfully j following the tallow business j Nicely finished without and neatly j furnished within, with a garden of j roses in front and no pigpen in the ; rear, it only needed the smiling face i of its happy little mistress to make it! a very haven of delight to the tired j husband when he came home at night sick of the smell of tullow. | Not a cloud had marred her mar- ! ried life, not a wrin.de had crossed ; Mrs. "Bob's" smooth little forehead. : Ber biscuit always rose ap t were ! light; her hired girls had no "follow- j ers;" her children never had the j mumps nor the measles,and the small j allowance ou which she dressed ber- eelf sufficed to make her the envy of the farmers' wives in the neighbor­ hood, and provided her with that self-sattsfle.1 feeling which does more to tone up the nervous system than a dozen bottles of beef, wine, and iroa It all came about through a pink bonnet, for there are as many ser­ pents connected With fine feathers as with fresh fruit, > Mrs. Bob had a school friend who, having married a rich grocer, could live in the city, owned a real seal­ skin jacket, ana used lump sugar all the year round. One day it occurred to Mrs. But- terwortb's fertile mind that as her friend was not feeling ve y well, a breath of country air would do her a ••world of good." So she persuaded easy-going Bob to call on the grocer, and invite his wife to come out and spend a two. The consequence was that soon afterward, on a lovely July afternoon, the stage stopped at the tallow-manu­ facturer's cottage and a very fash­ ionably dressed woman got out, and, embracing Mrs. Butterworch, de­ clared she was "delighted to see ber dear Kitty again." Everything went beautifully for a while. The grocer's wife stuffed her­ self with country dainties, and in re- torn played a song so sweetlv for them every evening, that Mr. But­ terworth wished to send tor a music teacher at once for his daughter, aged 4 years. If there was any cloud in the hor­ izon, it was only that Mra Bob felt a twinge of jealousy every Sunday when she saw her friend's face sur­ rounded by the noddiug pink feath­ ers that trimmed a terry velvet bon­ net. as she said to ber husband,-- "I'm perfectly happy, Bob, and I would u't change places with Celia for the world, but,--" "Bi|t what?" echoed Mr. Butter- worth, putting down his paper and looking at her. "Oh, nothing," said Kitty, won­ dering the while how much such a bonnet would cost without the feath­ ers, .. • «• • Without the feathers! Yes, but that woukl be "Hamlet" without the ghost. Fretty little Mrs. Bob sighed. That sigh was an era in her life, and she and the "serpent" made each other's acquaintance for the tlrst time. About a mile and a half from the Butterworth's lived in great seclus (Here the serpent got bis own way entirely, you see ) j After an hour or two spent in eat- i inn a hasty luuch. putting on her 1 best white dressing, doing up her j hair in four different ways, and pull- j ing it down as often, she again, and j with less hesitation, took out the j bonnet Alas! what woman conld have with­ stood that smilling face with its halo of pink, nodding plumes, its bows of pink satin ribbon tied so coquettishly ! under the'ebin? Mrs. Bob could not. ! So much in love was she, in fact, with herself under this new aspect! that she could hardly tear herself away trom her images Gliding cau- | tiously down stairs to avoid meeting ! any one, she tripped along the lane, glancing coquettishly at herself in the little pools she came to. The widow was delighted to see her--or she appeared to be. So 'The loveliest •^ag." cried Kittys thing you ever--" "Just think how it would be to have the Sunday school get hold of the story!" criei Bob, unfeelingly. "Celia would never have spoken to me again," meditatively. ••And tbo servant," added Mr. But­ terworth. "Whenever you chose to leprimand herfsbe would look at you and ask, 'Do ye mind the time ye rode in the hearse?'" "Oh!" exclaimed Kitty, overcome by the suggestion. "Tne moral is--" began Bob. Mrs. Bob 'put her lingers in her ears. "I know the moral," said she. run­ ning upstairs and leaving him laugh­ ing. "oh, you silly woman," said she, pausing once more to look at her bwn reflection in the mirror, which had that morning so flattered ber. "Oh, i charming, in fact, did she make her- j you weak, silly, vain, foolish, absurd, self that Mrs. Bob staved two hours, and noticed not the gathering clouds or toe fast disappearing glory of tbe summer afternoon. Hearing at last the little gilt dock on the mantel strike five, she rose to depart, feeling well pleased with herself, the widow, and he calL / As sfle went gayly down the garden path she noticed for the first time, with alarm, that the sun had hidden himself, and that a black cloud hung over her bead, she hurried on, glanc­ ing uneasily at the sky. What was that on her nose? A drop of rain? Pooh! it couldn't be. Yes, it was, though, and she ga mile trom home and no umbrella. Have you ever seen one of those | sudden storms that come without j warning? They are very common in ! the lake districts in tbe north ot En- I gland. This was one of them. First, week or i two or three drops, then a deluge. Poor, guilty Mrs. Bob! She stood for a moment, horrow-struck, look­ ing vainlv for a place of refuge, and then throwing her skirts frantically over her borrowed plumes, crushed under a big bush that skirted the roadside. This was not very comfortable^ as : you may imagine, and Mrs. Bob had plenty of time to chew the cud of sweet and bitter fancy. Meanwhile the rain came down in torrents* pat­ ter. patter, patter, sop sop, sop, soaking through ber thin shoes, dripping through tbe bushes on her nose, her hands, and on the skirts that covered the bonnet. Had it soaked through?** She dared not look. "Ob, dear!" she thought. "If some carriage would only go by." That day a funeral bad taken place; an old man who had been suff­ ering many years with rheumatism had been taken away, and that very afternoon he had gone to his last resting place--a graveyard two miles beyond the widow'a As if in answer to Kitty's thoughts, she now saw coming down the road at a speedy jog trot the hearse which had conveyed the mortal remains of old Deacon Potter to Appleby, and which was then on its homeward journey. 5ow in England the hearses are not like those in this country. There are no glass sides, no transparen­ cies, nothing to show to the outside public the sad contents that they bear, and as Mrs. Bob saw this com­ ing toward her, horrible with its black, nodding plumes, and dreary in its wet gloominess, a strage and aw- ridiculous thing--I'm ashamed of you." And with puckered lip, and one more reproving glance at herself, Mrs. Bob made a final adieu to tbe serpent and went to bed. On his way to town tbe next morn­ ing, Mr. Butterworjth called at the livery stable and spent ten minutes alone with Mr. Knighton. What passed between them no one can tell? I'm sure £ can't, and Bob did not, and maybe Mr. Knighton dare not. Indeed, I should never have known anything about it if 1 had not been Mrs. Bob's sister.--Waverly Maga­ zine.' $ WASHING THE TAILINQa ion a young widow, who had just jidea took possession of her. She settled there, and between whom and • driver; he bad taught side Mrs. Bob there was a slight, formal, catling acquaintance. 'Ibe widow V';'"' was rich, dressed in elegant mourn­ ing. owned a pony carriage and drove up to Kitty's cottage in style, when she came at all: but Mra Butter- worth had returned the visits on foot, tripping along tbe country lanes in stout walking shoes, in the plainest and quietest gowns, had felt no pang of jealousy. now, as she remembered that she owed a call at the Sunset Villa (tbe widow's residence), it occurred to her, with regret, that her best bonnet was but a shadow of last summer at best, and that the Leghorn she had bought for her daughter made it im­ possible for her to dream of a _ pink bounet herself. About this time the grocer's wife, feavitiK: saiisSed herself with four week's fare of cream and fruit, began to grow weary of the monotony of life at the Butter worths' and toyeain tor • change. "I believe," she said languidly, one morning, picking daintily the wing of one of Kitty's pet fowls, cooked especially for her, "I will go and stay over Sunday with Evelyn Thomas. She lives only a few miles from here, .and I have not seen her •lace she was married. I know she will be glad to see me, and 1 can go just as I am, without dressing, and 1 will be back on Monday, to stay one more week with you before I go liome--,s %• Kitty uttered a feeble protest, but fa her heart she cried "Hallelujah:" tihe looked forward with a spasm •t delight to a respite from the so- dety of the friend of her vouth, and saw her drive off on Friday with till expression of polite regret on her but a palpitation of joy in her by side with ber husband in the Sun day school. she now waved ber stiffened and dripping hand to him, calling him by name. "Mr. Knighton! Mr. Knighton!" Now Mr. Knighton's calling did not allow him to be over-sensitive in the matter of nerves and he had and touted upon many a blood curdling But horror unmoved, bnt this woman's hoarse voice calling him so strangely, at such a time and in such a place, made bim considerably agitated. '•By Jupiter! ma'am--who the-- "It Is only I, Mr. Knighton," cried dripping littl J Mrs. jJoh, putting her bead out from under the bush. "I'm J caught in a storm with all my good ; clothes on, and no umbrella--" "You don't say!"1 exclaimed the puzzled esBterrassed driver. "You don't say." "1 shall get drenched!" continued Kitty, looking dubiously at him, while a cold stream trickled down the side of ber face in a dangerous proximity to tbe bonnet. ••Do you think If I -do you think it would be any barm if I--do you suppose I would die of fright if I--" "If you--what?" echoed the man, looking at her in open-mouthed as­ tonishment. JS ow Mra Bob was a healthy wo­ man with no nerves. To her a wet bonnet and ruin to one's best clothes weighed heavy in tbe balance with any unpleasant iciea or false scare. She reached up on ber tiptoes and unfastened the d or of the vehicle ana looked in. She reached up ber band and felt the outside of theskirt that covered tbe pink bonnet Damp--very damp. "if you will help me. Mr. Knight- A* OM Art A<if|||jK$E WOOD EA- • • wr»w>* I L*PI»r. H. m tateftted en. graver, beoome a restaurant keeper on North street, says i 5 Boston writer. "How in the world could you ever give up your art for a mere money- getting enterprise?" 1 asked. "Oh, it wasn't my giving up the art so much as the art giving up me and everybody else in that profes­ sion," replied, .my genial host with a laugh. "Wood engraving, like steel engraving, is destined to become a lost art 1 realized that fact some years ago when mechanical processes Degau to displace my work. A flrst-. ^ , troubles. The other gasped ^ f ® i n P a s t y e a r e e a r n e d 1 a f f i r m a t i v e r e p l y , a n d t b e t w o #2 Mntn l,ftnna price ' tered the rotunda $2,500 to $3,000 a year. Tbe paid for tho engraving was from *3 to 94 per square inch. How do I compare a half-tone with a wood engra ing? Well, of course, the direct product of brain r \ ffOW*terfld Sugar for Hlcconffb*. «tiiy don't you stop that hic­ coughing?" asked a man of a friend, who was convulsed with the annoy­ ing convulsions in the street near the Astor House the other day. "Stop them," gulped the other. "I--1--wish I could. Held my breath fifteen minutes--drank nine j swallows water: nine times. Tried | to scare myself; made believe- lost j my watch. No good. They won'tgu" "Will you buy, if I cure them for I you?" asked the first speaker, laugh- ! ing at the frequent interruptions in I his friend's description of bis an an- I "Give this man a heaping bar- j spoonful of powdered sugar,"said the friend to the barkeeper. Tbe man j did so. "Now, swallow it," con- j tinued the sneaker to the victim of and hand is superior to mechanical j hiccoughs. The latter essayed to do process. The half-tone only tells ob­ scurely how a thing looks; it gives no •color,' as the term is used in eugrav- j ing, nor any texture. It does rot al- I low the direct impact of thtf mind of • tbe observer that makes tbe charm j of art, and it is really only the! •chromo' ot black and white art. j "The half-tone, too. will doubtless | be superseded by something better. 1 The photogravure is really preferable, but is more expe: sive." What has become cf all the wood engravers who have thus lost their vocation?" 1 asked. "Well," answered Mr. Sylvester, "many have taken op drawing or pen- and-ink work, as have George Moul- ton and McKeon; some, like Bartle, have turned painters; others, Hk<» Tenney aud Philip Brown, are work? ing on half-tones; Closson is decorat­ ing a house for a wealthy man in tbe suburbs; Kingsley and Cleaves are making artist proofs for a limited number of special buyers; Cole has been abroad for a series of vears en­ graving the works of old masters, a special arrangement, but I don't know how much longer tbe arrange­ ment is to last; Negrie or New York," concluded Mr. Sylvester with a laugh, "is the only one who, like me, so, and succeeded after some little effort, for it Is not an easy matter to swallow a mouthful of powdered su- 1 gar. When he mastered it he looked ; inquiringly at his friend. J "Well, wHfere are jour hiccoughs I now?" remarked the other with a j smile j "They seem to have gone," be re- J piled, but they'll come back again, I | suppose, after a little while." I "if they do," said the friend, *'it will be the first case 1 know of I where powdered sugar ha9 failed to I give relief for hiccoughs. If one | spoonful of sugar won't do it, two i certainly will. So far as 1 know, it's a positive remedy."--New York Her­ ald. Utfercd a HnbHltnte. * One of the funniest I nstanoesl ever knew to occur in court," says a veteran official of Penobscot County, " happened years ago when Judge Perham presided in the courtof com­ mon pleas, An old Irishman, a resi­ dent of Bangor, was an important witness in a case, and both he and the lawyer, who were trying to ex­ amine him, were having a hard time of it The witness was very slack and . , frowsy in his personal appearance, has gone into the restaurant j an(j t^jg heightened t&e effect of his business. He was estab isbel tn i blarney immensely/ He perspired seventeenth street at last accounts. | freely under the crdeal ot examlna- A TM-Strike MADE in the Mint Where Mo Gold Was Expected. The Denver mint has furnished the public many mild surprises during the past eighteen months, says the Denver Republican. It has shown, partially, the increased production of gold in ihe State and has grown, in a comparative short time, from an ob­ scure branch ot the general business of the Government to a place of gen­ eral importance to the entire country. From a few thousand dollars monthly the purchase of gold at the mint has grown to a half million a month. With this vast increase of business has grown a demand for a coinage mint, and so strong is this demand that it can scarcely be denied by the Government. in the quiet routine work of the mint there has been gradually ac­ cumulating an item of wealth that even the employes failed to realize until a short time ago. It has been the custom to make quarterly house cleanings uf tbe as^ saying and retlning departments. At such times tbe operating rooms were carefully swept and all of the machin­ ery dusted. The dirt and dus. thus collected has been washed and the tailings thrown into a bin back of I the mint building where for years j they have been accumulating. At each quarterly cleaning a snug j sum, generally about $100 in gold dust, would be washed out and saved. I Only a few pounds or tailings would j be left in the pans to he dumped into | the open bin, but during tbe years j this stuff gradually accumulated, un- i til it now amounts to about four tons, j A few weeks ago Assayer Puckett I went out to the bin of "tailings" ! with a pan, which he filled and began j "washing." The result was a sur- | prise, so large was the quantity of i gold be washed out Without fur­ ther ado Mr. Puckett hired an expert and started bim to work washing out the tailings. Mr. Puckett also had had some old melting pots that had been thrown out ground up and washed, aud the result was that from the scrap pile over *3,900 in gold has been panned by one man in thirty- eight days. These tailings, after second wash­ ing, have also been saved, and Mr. Puckett says he has refused an offer of #1,000 from one of tbe smelters for them. He expects to receive at least $2,000 for tbem. In arranging for the improvements to be made at the mint, Mr. Puckett concluded to have tbe chimney of the furnace swept In doing this fifty-seven pounds of soot was se­ cured. This soot was sold at $5 per pound to one of the smelters, and the smelter authorities claim to have made a good profit on their pur­ chase. The gold purchases at the mint for the>past twelve days of th:s month have amounted to over 8400,00U. The largest purchase of any previous month in the history of the mint was a little less than $500,000. As­ sayer Puckett says that at the least reasonable calculation tbe purchases for this month w.ll exceed $600.000. "Many engravers have no work and nothing to do, but there is still op­ portunity for making cuts for adver­ tisements, tbe details of which can only be brought out by hand. Thi«, of course, is a great fall from arti tic work, but they have tc take anything they cau get" HE KNEW ENOUGH. tVho Could Do Something In UM Doctor Line Himself. "I heard an awful good story il­ lustrative of the system pursued by medical quacks while in Baltimore the other day," said E. W. Creecy of i Washington. "It was new to me, j so I'll give it to you. A man named j Mike Dooley bad been employed for a { number of years as driver by a well- j known physician, who fell ill and died. Mike was disconsolate ovGr! his employer's death. He was out of ! a job and was unfitted for any other i employment save driving a doctor's ! buggy from patient to patient and ' napping during the visits. He sat : around the house in a morose and | mournful sort of way until his ener- j getic wife grew weary. " 'Phy dod't yez shtir yez se'f an' do sumthiK'^ she inquired with in­ dignation. " 'Shure. an' phwat kin Oi do?' he returned. " 'Do," she repeated, 'avOi'd a bill wid a dochtdr foorteen years an' sax munths Oi'd know enuff tf oe a doch- ter moise'f.' "Mike brightened op. He knew nothing, of course, about medicine except a few grandiloquent phrases he had heard his master use in its praises. However, he hung out his sign and next day a woman called. 'Is the doctor in?' she asked. "Oi'm the d chter, mom,' re­ sponded Mike. " 'Then, I wish you would tell me what is the matter with me." she re­ marked in tbe plaintive tone of a chronic invalid. ' Twinty dollars, mom, av you pla/e,' said Mike, sententiously. "The woman demured. " 'Scoince, mom, an' a knowledge av tarrespootics air on'y acqui dthe axpindivoor av grate toime an' nmnny; so, mom, u air inw iriably in advance.' "When Mike fired that at gave up the twenty without a word. " 'Lit- me sav yure tung, demanded Mike. The m obeed. "Lit me fale yure poolz,' h tinued, and extended her hand "Lit me beer dthe b'atin' av, hairt.' and Mike, with an air of < us study, laid his shock head a the patie nt's bosom After a ment he drew it away with a j " The worst tears air realolz mom:' he exclaimed; 'yezhave a wart on yure hairt!'" tion and was evidently wishing it well over, when the door at the rear of the courtroom opened and in came a little sharp-eyed old Irish woman. Tbe witness saw her and a look of intense relief spread over his features &s he blurted out: 'There: There is me o!e woman, come in. Ax her some of your dum foolish questions. She kin take care o' ye.";--Lewlston Journal • Cancer and Tom a toon. As the season of the tomato is upon ps and as they constitute a cheap and very palatable food it. is perti­ nent to inquire what if any relation, ship exists between cancer and the eating of tomatoes. There is a widespread suspicion, if not convic­ tion, that the rapid increase of can- car is dependent largely upon the very general use of this vegetable, and many because of such uncer­ tainty forego the pleasure of eating them. A great many inquiries have been made of fie officers ot tbe cel­ ebrated Brompton Cancer Hospital, England. After an investigation covering two years, Dr. A. Marsden, Chairman of the Medical Committee, | eays: "Tomatoes neither predispose i to nor excite, cancer formation, and j they are not injurious to those suffer- I ing trom the disease, but on the con- { trary are a very wholesome diet, par | ticularly so if cooked." This is good authority and w« I hope the lover of che "love apple," as it used to be called will eat it de-* void of fear. The Mighty Dollar. There are several theories, each plausible enough, of the origin of the American dollar mark. Some claim that it is a comb.nation of "(J. t>." the initial of the United States; others that 'it is a modification of the figure 8, -the dollar being' form­ erly called a "piece of eight;" again we are told that it is derived from a representation of the Pillars of Her­ cules}, consisting of two needle-llkc towers or pillars connected with a scroll The old Spanish coins marked wUh the pillar device were frequently eferred to as "piliar dollars " Ac- rding to one writer the symbol of e dollar is a monogram of the let- rs, "V," ••>," and "J," the dollar ing originally a "thaler" coined in e valley of Saint Joachim,Bohemia, d known as a "Joachin thaler," d tbe monogram Initials of the rds "Valley Saint Joachim." then, A Gentleman. What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and, possessing all these qualities, to ex­ ercise them in the most graceful out­ ward manner? Ought a gentleman to be a loyal son, a true husband, and honest father? Ought his life to be decent--his bills to be paid--his tastes to toe high and elegant--bis on," said she turning red to hereaK, j aims in life lofty and noble?--Thack- •«| believe 1 wttl-^ • ^ ^ 4w f \ |/ •-V-- . . vj? / ; Webster's Great Dfnappolnti Webster's'last speech in Washing­ ton was made from the portico of his mansion in response to a serenade/ sfcje appeared giveu by some of his admirers, who were more zeaicus than considerate. The news of Gen. Scott's nomination for President had just been received. Webster had failed of the nomination, and the failure had broken his heart It was a beautiful, starlit evening, and Webster, appearing before his friends, said a few words compli­ mentary to Gen. Scott, for whom, in fact, he had great contempt turning away from the s politics and the nomination "i.entlemen. this is a in night" Then he apostro stars and the planets re their orbits in one of those flights of oratory of which was capable. Then, sm scending from the skief aid: ' I now bid you shall retire to my cou troubled sleep, and on |] lark will not rise more the rising sun than 1 the speech of a piaised Scott, whom he sought to convey that he did not failure to receive ! when, iu fapt^Jt w j OPDolntmeqfcixjrf Divorce. n consequence of mental malady, Georgia lady conceived it her dutt live apart rrom her husband, and, rder that he might apply for a orce forged documents which! Id give him cause. Tbe husband wing they, were not true, but thinking that to humor his wife would cure her malady, presented the papers to the legal authorities and a divorce was granted. The ex-hus- band immediately began tomake love to his former wife again and proposed marriage in due form, but, although happy In his company and would go with him to the thea­ ter and like places, she absolutely re- fulied his proffer ot marriege and ex­ pressed a wish that he Would wed a girl whom she named. Now the man it .seeking to have the deere* vdrce set aside. j&ii. Vii, <•'. * J- 1J* 1 5 ..*5 CzAcA.i'JitJh.-ia."tis : ssian ! ation Marine. It is a remarkable fact that the deepest parts of the sea are in all cases very near the land. The deep­ est sounding known, fathoms, or 27,s»M0 feet was obtained 110 miles from the Kurile Islands; the next deepest, 4,5»i fathoms, was seventy miles n >rth of Porto Rico. With a few exceptions like these the depth of the oceans, as far as now known, does not reach 4,00 > fathoms, or four sea miles. The North Pacific has a mean depth of 2,500 fathoms, theSouth Pacific of 2,400, the Indian ( cean of 2,000, and the Atlantic, by far the best investigated ocean, has a mean depth of 2,00o uthoma THE only time some men make a stand is when thejr cannot run- THE summer has so far ADVJ^ED that we long for sour thing* Qvlekneea of Ho the most exciting moment of staging for ac­ tion is to realise ther*fcitte of diiot- pline In its most perfeotdevelopment --the result of the constant practice that gives faultless precision. It is the habit of capable captains to as­ semble theircreiis at general quarters many times during the peace manne- vers, in order that they may grow accustomed to their duties, and go- about them without confusion, whether the alarm comes in broad daylight or in the darkness of n ght Such, indeed, is tbe ordinary rou­ tine of a battleship and on it her safety may at any moment depend if things should go jwrong, in steam tactics as in action. Whenever bugles sound the call and the boat­ swain's mate's pipe shrill echoes, the men, wherever they may be, whether on watch or asleep in hammocks, as­ semble at theii* alloted posts with marvelous celerity. There is a mo­ mentary trampling of feet between decks, a rattle of arms, and then si­ lence so profound that any word of command can be distinctly heard fore and aft along the deck oven of such a ship as the liepulsa At the words "Clear for action" there is a commotion which a lands­ man might mistake for a panic as men rush from point to point A blue acket never walks when an order is given, but does everything at the double. Everyone knows his station, and goes to it by the quickest and shortest way. With a rapidity that seems wonderful, companion ladders, with their ponderous gangways, are unshipped and stowed away; rail­ ings around the low decks fore and aft are lowered; the ventilating cowles and chimney stacks disapDear, to be replaced 'by covers flush with the deck; hatches are battened down, water-tight doors closed, and tackle rigged for hoisting ammunition from tbe magadne. Between decks every­ where something of the same kind is being done as quickly and quietly, and then|the men stand to their guns. When the bugles sound for firing to commence the great barbette turn­ tables revolve slowly, trained by un­ seen power, and the quick-firing guns in maindeck batteries are worked with surprising celerity by detach­ ments of itoyal Marine artillery/ At a prize shooting recently a de­ tachment fired sixteen shots in three minutes from one of the repulse guns, scoring nine direct h.ts and planting all the other seven shots so close to the target that thev would have rid­ dled the huli of a very small ship. The seventeenth round was in this gun when tbe "cease fire" sounded, so that one gunner, who was loading, mast have lifted 1,700 pounds in three minutes. This incident gives a vivid idea of the work that would have to be done in action by crews of these quick-firing guns, as well as of the smartness with which the "Blue Marines" set about their task. Fire discipline will be a potent factor in future battle at &a, and there can be no better means ot acquiring it than by such exercise as one has seen at general quarters during the maneu­ vers.--London Daily News. Fashions in Dolls' Eyes. "Who would think of such a thing as a queen deciding the color ot tbe dolls' eyes within her kftigdom? Such a thing has been done, not by royal edict, however, but simply by having Her Majesty's own eyes set the fash­ ion. When Victoria became Queen ot England more than fifty years ago, she was fair and young, with very blue eyes, whereupon blue eyes be­ came all the fashion, and all the loyal doll makers of her kingdom began sending blue-eyed dolls from their factories. In Italy and Spain, where all the great beauties have olive skins, and dark, handsome eyes, a blond doll is not a common sight. Japanese dolls have twinkling, beady black eyes set in their heads aslant while the gaylv dressed dolly from Singapore looks from hei copper-coloied face with a pair of narrow, coquettish black eyes, quite ditterent in expression from, either the Spanish or Chinese beau­ ties. • • --: Mormon Wealth, ~ The great wealth, either ot the Mormon church or of the individuals at it* head, has been demonstrated by tbe recent investment of $10,000,- 000 by the "first presidency" in a new corporation called tbe Utah Company. This new company is to operate coal mines, a railroad, a bath­ ing beach, and pleasure resort at the Great Salt lake, and build, equip and operate telegraph and telephone liues. This is purely a church scheme, in which Gentiles have no part and is like the Zion Co-operative Company, to be managed to add to the wealth of the church.--Springfield Bepubll. can, _____________ , Duty. There is no evil that we cannot either face or flee from but the con­ sciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent Duty performed or duty violated is ever with us, for our happiness or ouo misery. •NTS ARE IN Germany, where thejr quitted ways of w stefulness long ago, in a silo was found a little of everything --turnip tops, carrot tops, green corn, green mustard, grass, and au­ tumn-sown clover. The cattle relish this, and there is no ill flavor in the milk. WHEN a man gives up a marriage engagement because the woman is not a member of his church, the real facts are that he is in love with an­ other woman. : • AT eighteen a nan is afraid bis mustache will never grow, but at twenty-eight he is afraid it will never stop growing. WE never see a citron without thinking it should be arrested fur trying to look like a watermelon. A MAK'S right band is stronger than his left because he uses it so much in tipping his hat to women. THAT woman never lived who was satisfied with a man. and the men are equally cranky about women. ;A- • urn A MAN .spends loses &. - 4 money; WWW KB AMOTMTI OF FM^r-Pin or «?« Tk*y iio Anywhere is This Country. There is one story so utterly ridicu­ lous that it seems Incredibiethatit should over have been printed, wbich in one form or another makes the rounds of various newspapers of the, country annually. Look for it audi you will sooner or later see It ctop up again. This tale is always based opon tbe unpopularity of the one cent pieces 1n the extreme West and Southwest In its most common form, it tells of some Eastern »traveler who attempts to dispose of a hundred or so one cent pieces in San Francisco^ El Baso or some other place The tradesman is always represented as looking at them curiously and declin­ ing them. The writers of these senseless tales may have been in the West or the? may not It matters little--their story is pointless. They seek to brand the mythical tradesman as of the same category with themselvea The cent is a legal tender in amounts of twenty-five and less, if an Eastern man in San Francisco or anywhere else owes a debt of twenty- five cents, and tenders, twenty-five One cent p eces in settlement, the courts will sustain birn^ Of course, the coins are not popu­ lar In tbe extreme West and South, but no one need carry a hundred oi them in a cigar box or anywhere else as useless metal. If you are in a city that has not a United States Sub-Treasury, go to the 1 ostotlice, dump in twenty-five cents and see if you will have any difficulty in obtain­ ing stamps or postal cards of like amount. If one is refused, a letter of complaint to Che postal authori­ ties will soon work the removal ojf an employe :who would discredit United States money. It is well to bear this matter oit the legal tender of a cent in mind. No one for spite can make a person take more than twenty-five of them in any single transaction involving tbe settlement of a debt One need have no fear, then, of receiving $100 in cents from some embitcefed debtor. . . It Was No Go. A abort time ago--remarkably sbor% it Wis, too--eight prominent young men of the queer city of Derby. Conn./resolved to foreswear female society forever, so they organized themselves into an "Anti-Marrying Club." They hired a hall and ap­ pointed one of their number presi­ dent who was officially known as "the Mogul." According to the con­ stitution and by-laws of the club the members were forbidden to walk on the street with a young woman or escort a single lady to any place of entertainment; and it ran along beautifully for just thirty-six hours. Then, all of a sudden, it came to pass that its constitution and by-laws disagreed violently with tbe consti­ tution and by-laws of the members. There was a band concert at tbe Ansonia tbe other night, and not less than three prominent members of tbe Anti-Marrying Club sneaked off to it Worse yet on ; the trip home to Derby they engaged in a perfectly desperate flirtation with a whole car load of pretty girls. Their reckless act of treason was revealed publicly almost as soon as the guilty men reached Derby, and the club was dissolved almost as speedily as a quart of "mountain dew" among Nutmeg National Guardsmen at Camp Bradley, Niantlc. The club abandoned its rooms immediately. The Derby folks are having more fun than a goat at the expense'^r tlHi members.--New York Sun. * Dp in a Balloon. An instance of well-merited reward for perseverance and courage was that of a commercial traveler, who was expecting a large order from a country tradesman, but arrivei in the town on a fete day. Finding tbe shop closed, he inquired as to tbe whereabouts of the proprietor, and ascertained that he was attending the fete about a mile out of town, went thither after him.' When he arrived there a balloon was just going to ascend, and, to his dismay, he saw his man stepping into tbe car. Plucking up courage, he stepped forward, and asked fp be al­ lowed to ascend. There was room, and he entered the balloon, and it was not until the little party was well above the tree-tops that the en­ terprising "commercial" turned toward bis customer with the first remark, -- "And now, sir, what cj*n I do for you in calicoes?" Catching the humor of tbe posi­ tion, and not unwilling to <reward such perseverance, the astonished tradesman gave his pursuer as large an order as he could manage, with, the excusable proviso that in future he should be allowed to take his pleasure in peace, and that on no ac­ count was tbe traveler to mention the circumstances to his brethren of, the road. Uncertain tie* of a White Mat*/ As we ai 1 know, horses became very scarce toward tbe end of the war, and as dismounted cavalrymen were sent to tbe infantry, a ramount be­ came a serious question with many troopers. Jim , of the Bock- bridge troop, had lost bis horse, and, unable to get another, possessed him­ self of a white mule named Simon. Jim became very proud of the mule and was loud in his praises. "He ' never gets tired, lives on nuthln', and has got more sense that the Gen­ eral." asserted Jim. But one day a squad was enjoying a dinner with a sympathetic farmer, when a sudden alarm was given. "Bun, boys, run: the Yankees are coming." There was mounting in hot haste and some escaped by the front gate and soma by tbe rear. Jim dashed at the front gate, but Simon, displaying his mule nature for the first time, bklked. Jim wheeled around the drove at the rear gate, but Simon balked again. Poor Jim looked over his shoulder*, threw bis arms around Simon's neck; and called in agonized tones, "Oh. Simon, fpr heaven's sake, go some­ where. "--Baltimore Sun. , T OF late the fortunate people are those who have realized on some dead m a n l i f e ' I n s u r a n c e . • : ' V A W w AS people grow old, they young people are good look!*** 3*^