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THE PUTOEALERf^SUb „«* VAN SLYKE, Editor tod Puh. MfjHENRY, II/LINOIf-. HEATHER SONG*™, All the heather bells A»e ring ng on the moor « ' ; \ All %h* rtjr« w»M Cl»stor up to tlio door, ig<,£ v • Cl!iet«r rouud tllo door. ' Though tho world ir -wide,.. • To welcome heme my br^dt lair and poor! IMiling rose and bine Make th* pathway sweet, Nodding through the summer tlmi fcummer friends to greet; /< But my Heather blooms apart,; ..... ; In herpelf complete. r Heather has a necklace tatt Beaded in a row; Heather ubs a honeyed heHr^ • ,YV As the wild bees know: • S He wt o stoops to gather Heatber <>- Striilts to stiop so low. ; j AU the heather l>e'ls * Are ringing on the mO'Tii;;: . And the ripe wild utrawbeftle* Creep up to thedoi .r, V ^ Ihoi gb our cot be poor, And the world is wide. We are side by side Evermore? •-Pall Mall Budget. a peculiar resonance, j belong* to-^to--my husband, but I pain---the think Goa has made me bit almoner. Mess or her hospital j As long as be believes tbe money to the ear^f^HKgrlng. J be mice, I can control htm and com­ pel him to live like a gentleman, and perhaps help him morally. If he has it he will go to Instant ruin. Will you help me keep tho secret? He shall have every comfort* but he must* take all at AY hands. Can YOU do this legally?" ^ No, lie could not, bufc for lovo of her, coueluded to keep silent mm A COMPLICATED %'r® pg;. #•: I •'1 She was a little dreSistiSafcer who everybody respected, ifhe had ambi­ tions and ideas, after u^hich she w;is perpetually striving in the tread-mill methods of a struggle for daily "exis­ tence. She had possi bly some dreams of love, but there was always a dis­ mal awakening until she had come to look upon her circumscribed area of life as the only camping-ground fate was willing she should have. So she made herself comfortable with the material at hand, and tried to think herself happy when her four walls were the boundries of her world. Contentment earner if not happiness, and then the disturbing element of love entered into hei domain and took possession. She was continually meeting a man upon the stairs of the boarding house. He was a lonely siugle man of gentlemanly appear­ ance. but to the eye of the initiated he bore the unmisva able signs of dis­ sipation. Miss Lonsdale, the little dressmaker, was not initiated. She believed him to be suffering from ill- health, the result of despondency, and, woman-like, first pitied, then loved him. His name was Maurice Dunbar, and he told ber that his family had disowned him because he was poor. This seemed perfectly nat­ ural to Miss Lonsdale, for she herself looked on poverty as a disease or ciime, and shunned contact with the more fortunate of her fellow-beings. They were married, and she soon found that with a conjugal comple­ ment she wan a complete failure. She had used ber burial fund as a mar­ riage dowry, and while it lasted they lived on the fat of the land' She found her husband bad extravagant tastes, ana she gratified him with all she had, and when it was gone, went back to her dressmaking. She no longer chatted and beguiled the time of her fashionable people with quaint reminders of other customers. They grew tired of her and took their cus­ tom elsewhere. When she could no longer maintain him, ber husband abused her. "I made you a lady when I married you," be said; "my family ifrfar above yours," and he would pose dramati­ cally like an injured lord. "1 have no family," she would an­ swer in a tear-choked voice. •'except j you. Be good tome, Maurice, and I j will do anything for you. You need j not lift a finger; only be good to me." j The disposition of a man to whom j such'an appeal is necessary is already brutalized beyond redemption. He | went from bad to worse, gambled, . drank., and ended by beating his wife i and turning her out of doors. Mrs. j Dunbar went to the house of one ! whom she had befriended to ask j shelter for the night. It was de-! clined on the ground that there was j no vacant room. She would have taken her friend in and eat up all | night, that she might rest well, i There was one other family, but on 1 iv' .. the steps of their bouse her heart ^ failed her, and she turned away and went back to Ijer own rooms, where she could not C] a make any impression on the man in ^ a drunken sleep within. Then she walked the streets until daylight, pf- when she fell senseless and was car- V ried off in an ambulance to one of the hospitals where she remained unknown and unclaimed. She was ill a long time After that there was a tedious season of convalescence. She sent a note to ber„ husband toy a messenger, who brought back word that tbe house was empty. Whenever intendtd to go back to him, but wanted the few possessions she owned to make her com lor table. One day she was read­ ing a newspaper, when she saw ber husband's name among the killed in a marine disaster There could be no mistaking it, for it was peculiar and the description justified her fears--or shall I say hopes? For she had suffered so much that she could shed no tears tor him, nor canonize them as some widows do their de­ parted tyrants She was sorry for his wasted life, his desperate death, but would have felt herself insincere and hypocritical to mourn for his taking- o She went out into the world the next day and began life over again, queen of two bands. . - „ Eichard Lester, lawyer and poli- ' tlcian, and a rising young man, al clear, low sw< tones attum There was nbthjtasnppl iatfC Uftheni, no al m* taking1 quality, bW% a w<»* manliness that touted the tough heart of the lawyer into a sympa­ thetic vibration. He lool§ed« at her with Interest, and exi*used'<l)imself for asking her to throw«%ldc her ^ Jkmg crape • Re round liiuiself Spstariug atapald, delicate face, around wbich masses ofe red-<grown hair were heavily crimped. Her eyes looked into his with the truthfulness of a ;jchild. ^ "Pardon me," he stammered, then resuming his fcobiest exterior de­ manded her credentials. Sl?c showed an aptitude for business in the promptness with which she pioduced her identification, the account of her husband's death and other data of importance. No point was ^ft un­ covered. She had come prepared to lay immediate claim to a fortune left Jto Maurice lipupar by his uncle, tlaurice Dunbar, who had lived for be past twenty years in an inland lown of British North America, He -was not on good terms with any member of his family Excepting Maurice, who had* visited him some years previous, and in whose favor the will had been made at that time. I "Had you ever heard youfijtte hus­ band speak of this uncle?" the law­ yer asked among other questions. "I have beard him speak of a reten­ tive from whom he had expections." and he once said that he would be benefited by his death, and that he bad tbe same name." "The name is a common one, but I shall probably have other appli­ cants who will see the advertisement, and must not make any mistake. The conditions of the bequest are unusual. Have you any children?" "No thank God/' answered the widow quickly. ' In tbe case of there bein^ chil' dren the money would belong right­ fully to them. The will makes this provision, but adds further if there are no children the widow shall be the next heir, in the event of death or remarriage, the whole sum reverts to charity, one particular institution being named as beneficiary." "1 snail not marry again," asserted the widow. "Don't be too certain of that," re­ sponded the lawyer, "you are still young, and at--" attractive, he was going to say, but Anally concluded, "at your age it is not an impossibil­ ity. I will see you again to-morrow. Good-bye, madam," and he escorted her to the door, which he closed after her. THE MAN AND THE ELEPHANT. A Story Which lUoitntN the Tain* or * Mastery of Syntax. ••Oh, bother this old syntax!" Ned exploded the words, striking his hand on the table. "If you mean syntax is a bother, I'm with you there," said Bert, look­ ing up from his grammar. 9 Julia looked tip quickly, too. with and ' an twinkle in her eye;=. Bo- let her believe it was right. So he iD V" "Normal," such agdnie* as pays the annuity regularly and asks-l ^bese °' ̂ e(i'8 and Bert's were in tbe God to forgive him if he does evil ^nse with her. Within a month the money bad been paid to her, and the widow of Maurke Dunbar, who had put on her first black in order to appear decorous at the lawyer's office, moved into a handsome.new bouse, and be­ gan climbing to ber new ideals upon the fateful fragments of her dead past She hardly recognised herself in her new role of a successful woman who nad money enough and to spare. There was no frivolity in her outlay. Her home was a picture of comfort She looked up a poor woman who had once assisted her in her dressmaking enterprises, and gave her an elabor­ ate order for modified mourning. She made glad the waste places of many a life with her compassionate help, and in making others happy, found her own greatest happiuess. One man came to ber for help and comfort, who needed the sunshine of life and could find itonly in ber pres­ ence This was Richard Lester, the successful lawyer. He had met his fate when he first saw Myra Dunbar, and heard the tones of her womanly voice, and now he was'pleading with her to marry him, to cast her fortune into th > lap of eharity, and receive tenfold from him. She was afraid to tempt, fate again, and put him off, but he bad compelled ber to acknowl­ edge that tbislovewas no imposture, but the genuine $rand. She was lonely, so was he, and they were so congenial, and-^ooked at everything with tbe same eyes. What she did not know he could easily?. fo&ive' And he would teach her--sweet em­ ployment! . o And at last she consented, to a very quiet wedding, and a long journey to foreign lands wher heaven theirjfeddei gin, then-- "A sonieone to ma'am," announced th housemaid of the widow a few weeks before the w "Some one on business, r a new vmplld be- that, good may come. A strange sequel to this was a call on one occasion from Maurice Dun­ bar him elf, who, well dressed ana cared for, presented the appearance of a gentleman, a moral phase of de­ velopment which was the effect of his faithful labors. "1 have come," he said as he fol­ lowed his card into the presence of the lawyer, ' to consult you on a mat­ ter of importance upon which I re­ quire legal advice." "He has heard of the bequest" thought Lester with a sudden fear, but aloud he said calmly: "Please state the circumstances as briefly as possible." s And ho HtitanAri onnthfli- T*h»«o in tbe complicated life of the woman beloved. "I wish to inquire," proceeded Maurice Dunbar, "whether a man who marries under an assumed name is legally married or not':"' "Yes," he said after a moment's thought; "yes, by the law of this State a man who marries under any name is legally married. I assume, then," continued the lawyer, "that you are interested in such a case?" "I am personally interested. The name by which I am known, Maurice Dunbar, is not my own name. I have been troubled with some doubts. My wife is a lovely Christian woman.and 1 feared i had done her a wrong in marrying her under a name that wa» assumed as a matter of convenieuce. There is no disgrace attached to it, but when I renounced my family 1 left off the old name. I shall keep the one I have until I dia" He paid a liberal lee and left tbe stunned and dazed man of law with another complexity to combat It only remains now for tbe real Maurice Dunbar to appear and claim in» her,tan e.--Utica Globe. FORTUNE FROM A ROSE. * - r ' though no longer young, sat alone lc bis private ottice one afternoon, when the door opened to his confidential clerk, who said: "A lady to see you sir," and at the same ffliue he laid a cheap looking ! card upon tbe lawyer's desk. It read: ! "Mrs Maurice Dunbar, fashionable | dressmaking, l ose Terrace." • . I ilIJV. .. J. it . » . _ _ I ~ tt ijj, viduiic," e\claimed Mr. • JLester, 'this is the party for whom ! we advertised." •'.Same party, sir," responded the Clerk, with commendable brevity. "Well, this is remarkable. But by the way, Claude, it was a man, not a woman, we wanted. What does she look like?" I, "Widow, sir." *'Show her til0!r The next moment a slight figure, fitessed in new, cheap black, was ush- £j$d into tbp room. The lawyer ro e i^fBeet her. He asked brusquely: ' "Are you the widow of Maurice IHlobar:'? I •Yes.air." ee you, osy-faced orning ing day ulia?" asked Mrs. Dunbar, looking upNrrom the morning paper. \ "Y-e-s'm. I expert he wants hdlpi He looks kind of shabby." "He is not a gentleman??' "I should say nQ% ma'styi and he isn't a tramp exactly--kind of be­ twixt and betw&bn." "I will see jbim," said Mrs. Dun­ bar, and she laid aside her paper and left the bright lire burning in the i grate a little reluctantly.- She had j laid aside her mourning ndw that she ! was engaged to another man, and j wore a pretty jbreakfast, gown that! was suitable to her petite stature, { and most becoming. ! When she entered the littlfe recep- i tion room where the caller waited, | she saw a thin, emaciated man sbarv. bily dressed and bearing many marks of privation--and she saw, something else, a likeness in his profile that set her heart to beating with an" awful fear. When he rose and confronted ber she fell back, and with whitening lips gasped out tbe name: •'Maurice Dunbar!" "Yes! Maurice Dunbar returned from tbe dead," was tbe answer. Then she fainted, and iuercifuily knew no more. * *• * • * « . * | Again, Richard Lester, a bowed I and miserable man, was seated in his ! , oilice alone in tbe gloom and depres­ sion of approaching night, and of his own unhappy thought?. Before, him was the oue letter he had re eivea from her since the cruel necessity of ! parting had come upon them. It contained the ring , with which they had plighted their troth. He had written a n^xd and hasty reply, in wbich he had urged her to fly with him, and offered ber tbe devotion of a lifetime, and she had come to him and rebuked him with broken heart 4!®° uot make it harder for me," she said in that brief tlnal interview. "You can do one thing to help me, if it Is not wrong. This money really How the I Famous American Beantr Was Discovered by a Gardener. Here is a pretty and interesting story about tbe origin of that most beautiful of flowers, the American beauty rose, says the Boston Post The late George Bancroft besides be­ ing a historian and scholar, was one of the first amateur rose growers in America. Every year he imported cuttings from the leading flower grow­ ers of Europe. The King of Prussia --when old Kaiser William was king --allowed tbe American historian to have a slip of whatever he might fancy in the royal conservatories. Mr. Bancroft's gardener used to cultivate? some of his roses in an old house away out on F, or perhaps it was G, street, above Twenty-second street, in the west end of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Grant had a florist named Field in charge of the White House con­ servatory. He was a rose grower of rare merit and skill in bis artistic w.»rk. One day he happened into tbe old building where Mr. Bancroft's gar­ dener potted his plants. Over in a corner he observed a rose of a variety utterly unknown to him, and of won­ derful size and perfection in form and color. "Where did this come from?" he carelessly inquired of his rose- growing.confrere. "Jh, it is an off­ shoot from some cuttings we imported from Germany," tbe man replied. It was evident to Mr. Field that tbe other did not in the least comprehend the value bf the new plant After some talk Mr. Field bought the cut ting he bad seen for $5. A year thereafter, when be had propagated his new purchase and become con­ vinced that he had a new and very valuable variety of rose, which he named the American beauty, he sold his find for $5,000, the most wonder­ ful result of the investment of $5 on record. To follow his luck a little further, Mr. Field invested his easily earned $5,000 in lauds near Washing­ ton, which in a little less than three years he sold for $50,000. .Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. THE LION GOT HIM. A British Moldter Wanted to Meet Leo and • Old Mo. 1 often used to warn Billy against going out so far by himself and sleep­ ing by himself all night, as he often did. But he didn't give a curRe tor lions, and never could be brought to believe that lions were capable of at­ tacking a white man. "I wish the brutes ha 1 the p'.uck," he often said. One of Theta Is Galled Harvard*! MBloodr ' Monday" Night., "No," said a sophomore to the Bos­ ton Transcript, "1 don't believe in rushes on 'Bloody Monday' night: they are tqo likely to bring a bad name on tbe college. But then," he added, as his class loyalty began to assert itself, "if there is a rush, ^of course, I shall be in it!" And his Re­ mark seems to express pretty fairly the general attitude of the two lower classes ou the subject. Some of the freshmen, it is true--possibly a ma ority of them--really hope that there may be a rush, for with their superior strength in numbers and the hilarity so characteristic to freshmen, they are eager to let loose their pent- up spirits in a trial of strength with their natural rival?, the sophomores. The latter, on the other band, have bad a year to bring themselves into the true Harvard spirit and as a ?lass they probably look with dis­ favor on any disturbance Heverthe-for he had promised his girl in Cape- ed into one corner, the captain of van asked where the rest of the was to be found. hat's all," said the youna man. 11! That's not enough for ballast, ly didn't you get a wheelborrow?" I didn't know they had any wagons big," stammered the humiliated ng man. His property did ma ^showing. When he jrf found Bii:^!313^fe't^,^y,t7ards away frofT the tire, with an exploded car­ tridge in the breech. I felt somehow that something had gone wrdng with my ola chum, and we all scattered with tbe idea of finding or following up bis spoor. In half a minute Byrne cried out "Ouch," just as if he had stepped upon a snake, and when 1 got up to where he was standing 1 saw him glaring at one of Billy's boots "Man," he whispered, "there's the foot in it still!" And sure enough, the poor fellow's foot was there. There was blood all over the place, and the spoor of a big lion could easily be seen on the soft ground. We followed up tbe spoor and found half of Billy's bead near a tree The tall, green grass all round was crushed down, showing that the lion had been lying there. It was tbe top of Billy's bead that was left and both the eyes were open and seemed to be look­ ing at something on tbe ground fifty yards away, We buriea the poor remnants uuderabig wild plum tree, and spent a week in tracking that lion, bu'tf we never came up with it --Ashton Keporter. Ho," struck in Tom, "what's the use of bothering, any way? Let 'em i mark you forty in grammar, and keep the average up with something else . arithmetic, or natural h.story, or j something. You can talk so's to be understood without Knowing syntax." "Not always, Tom-" *'I'd like to know why not, Julia If a fellow knows what he wants* to say, I guess he can say it all right enough. I believe in having a little fun evenInggF Here's a rattling ̂ ood story I'vo^it, huppose yo.i fellows take in that, and let the syntax go" "What is it?" a*k€d Ned. "Why, it's about a man that had a picture of himself painted on an ele­ phant" "na, ha:" laughei J^ed. *Tbat must have been a funny looking ele­ phant! Did the man have his pic­ ture painted on the elephant's back, or on his sides?" "No, I don't mean that 1 mean tbe man had himself painted sitting on an elephant" "Had himself painted!" Every­ body laughed but Tom. "Sitting on an elephant! Did they stand, on a stepladder to paint him, Tom?" "Aw! you know well enough, Eerti what I mean." "Well, what?" "1 mean the man s&t 6n an ele­ phant to have himself painted." "Mr. and Mrs Perkins, from across the room, were laughing, too, by this time. "Well," retorted Bert, "Idon'tsee but what that's tbe same as you said last, only turned around." "I can put it right," chimed in Ned, confidently. "You mean" to say, the man who had an elephant painted, sitting on his back. JNo, that wouldn't --" 1 'I should think it wouldn't! That's tbe worst yet," cried Bert "If the elephant was sitting on his back; where was the roan? Or was the ele­ phant sitting on the man's back?" "It was a relief to Tom's temper and general feelings to join the laugh at Ned. Then he spoke up, with dig­ nified emphasis: "1 mean exactly thi9. I meati the man that bad an elephant painted with him on its back." "Well, Tom," said Mr. Perkins, roguishly, "if that's what you mean, I wouldn't have liked to be in the man's place, sitting up there while the elephat was being painted--not if it was a very large elephant!" "Then I'll say, if you like it bet­ ter," persisted Tom, just a little net- Lied again, "the man who had a pic­ ture of an elephant, with him on«his bacK, painted." "With him on his back, painted, 6h?" mocked Bert • -What color wa* be painted, Tom, black or blue?" "Pejihaps I can help you out Tom," suggested Julia, gently; "though I £on't feel very sure. How would this Ho? The man who had a picture paint­ ed--of himself, sitting on an ele­ phant's back. Everybody paused-to think a mo- ment in silence. "There doesn't seem to be any­ thing the matter with that," ven­ tured Bert, slowly. "No; I'm inclined to think that's what you wanted to say, Tom," said bis father. "Probably it was, then," assented Tom, smiling $ood-naturedly once more. "Go ahead with your syntax, boys, for all me, and I'll finish the story to myself about the man and the elephant. "--Youth's Companion. COLLEGE IDIOCIES. oung man quoted, mean to be in it H Anything founded on tradition, ike this rush on "Bloody Monday" Sis always difficult to uproot or toj^out- Jjrow. For years it has been the cus- f/om at Harvard for the two lower ^•lasses to gather in the yard ou the g^irst Monday after the opening of col­ lege, there to bluster about, shouting ridiculous epithets at one another, until a favorable opportunity offers, and tben to rush at one another pell- mell, the two bodies of students mingling in a scrimmage that only ends with the inglorious retreat of one class or tbe other. in the old days, tradition has it that many good honest blows were given and received, that heads were broken and faces bruised in tbe good old-fashioned way; but now the rivalry is generally of the good-natured sort; many men in tbe two lower c!assea hold them­ selves aioof from tbe rush altogether, and those who do not enter the arena confine themselves to pushing and shjving their rivals about the yard, if they are able, now and then knocking a man's bat over bis eves, or as they ;^y, "swiping" a particu­ larly noticeable cap Naturally the faculty are against this sort of thing. vine rows and large sections of solid­ ified petroleum were fired at various iriaces in the vineyard. From t&e«e combustibles large clouds of smoke arose and thoroughly protected the particular vineyard in which the ex­ periment was being tested, although vines in the immediate neighborhood #ero tadiy inured by toe frostf^t1 Showed He ('onlrt Run. First in is the winner always, sure enough. That the best man in pluck or brains doesn't always get first place in the competitions of the world is a generally accepted fact while tbe merits per se or wind or muscle in reaching the front rank cannot be disputed. One little boy forgot this distinc­ tion the other day and remained blissfully happy in consequence. It was at a traveling circus at Pat- cbogue, L. I., one of those one night stands where they fill out a sbow by an act or two made up of local effort, running, bowling or sparring forsome members of the audience, and where, before tbe scats have time to be cleared after the performance, they begin to haul the poles from under the tents. A race for small boys for a twenty- flve cent pii e was to be run, and a" cb.ubby, well groomed little lad of (i pleaded with liis father and mother to allow him to run. Tlje other boys were bigger ind shabbier boys, and the father only conseuted after long pleading and he-itition. He ran like a little man, and "Two to one on the little chap!" shouted from all sides spurred him on to ex­ cited effort He throw his little curly head up and stuffed his chubby fists into bis trouser's pockets, just to show that he felt 'twas all as easy as fun, and if he won the twenty-five cents it wouldn't be after any. tre­ mendous exertion. But few years and short legs, as was natural, fell behind, and whe i a raw-boned lad of about eight gripped the post and claimed the quarter, the little cbap was three rounds b hind. He wasn't thrown down about it His bead kept up and his eyes gleamed, and he stepped back to bis seat, bis fists still thrust independ­ ently in his pockets and with an air of actual conquest. "I to d you I could run," he said. "You see 1 did run the best. Every­ body says I did, only--the first boy won." Chinese and Japanese Art. A gentleman of Boston, who has been a great traveler, and a keen observer and thinker, says in the New York World: x It is natural that we should sympa­ thize with our friends the Japanese in their quarrel with China, but that sympathy does not justify those who assume that tbe Japanese are in every way the superior people. The ditler- ence between the two peoples is rather one . of condititions than of character. Wide as the difference seems to be between the Chinaman and tbe Jap, great as is the superi­ ority of the Jap in many directions, the Japanese are indebted to tbe Chinese for their civilization, for th|lr literature, for their art Their deft! to China is as great as ours is to Greece and Home. Before they as­ similated Chinese culture they were as barbarous as tbe Germanic tribes were in the fifth century. The Chinese have done much for civilization. Both Japan and Europe are indebted to them for an art in making pottery that has never been equalled; for silk weaving, and, as the most competent antiquarians have ceased to doubt, both for print­ ing and gunpowder. It will not do to despise the Chinese mind. It lacks breadth, but it has a marvellous capacity for patient labor. !. Persistence of a Fox Terrier. The following peculiar incident is told by a Baltimore man as occurring to his fox terrier: "On last Tuesday while the cellar door was open, the dog descended in search of rats at about » o'clock. At t*: 30 the dog was searched for and thought lost No further notice was taken of the matter until Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, when I was attracted by a dog yelping. After a careful search in the cellar, which revealed only a pile of sand by the wall, I noticed tbe dog's nose pro­ truding through an inch board at the top window of tbe cellar looking into the yard. I went immediately up­ stairs and removed five bricks from the pavement and pulled the dog out. After a careful inspection I discov­ ered be had dug under tbe foundation of the house in the sand, which had caved m on him. Finding no other means of escape be dug up to the surface, a dis tance of six feet* and on arriving at the brick surface, which had been recently paved, dug toward the window, a distance of three feet, and had nearly eaten through the board in his efforts to free himself. He was nearly ex­ hausted when discovered, being twenty-six hours under ground, eye was entirely closed from the other nearly so." Very Conscientious A quiet nice man had opened an undertaker's shop in a western town and about tbe second day after, the bully of the burg called on him and insulted him grossly. An hour later the undertaker called on a friend for advice. "That tough. Bill Slugg,*' he said "came into my place awhile ago HP called me a liar." "Why didn't you shoot him?" was the prompt inquiry. "I didn't like to,** |li said diffi­ dently. ••Why not?" • "Aw, well," be hesitated, Ml kinder thought people might say 1 done it for business purposes only." Lord Breadalbane is credited wit"n®owning the most magnificent residence in Scotland, and his lord­ ship can ride i00 miles west from Teyraouth Park to Armaddy Castle, on tbe" Argyllshire coast without setting hoot off his postessions. One sand, Making Artificial Cloud*. Artificial clouds were recently made for the protection of vines from frost at Oae'.eain, ou the Swedish-Nor­ wegian frontier. in carrying out this novel innovation liquid tar was Ignited in tin boxes placed along the •• -- ': " ^ X&T >Av4- * -- -rn n v T in it , " .*1 Canada has a debt of $300,000,- 090, which is about five times greater per capita of population than the debt of tbe United States. Since 1878 the expenditures have grown three times as rapidly as the popula­ tion. ' • B-iil down almost any man's prayers into five words, and you/will find them to ije: "Jieward me, Jt'tta. i s b m y e n e m y . < REALLY NOTHING NEW. Hi* Aaetanti Bad Telephone* Air Machines. It tias been the custom to belittle tbe ancients by assuming that they knew but little of mechanics, cer­ tainly nnt. irq much £3 we d? »••"< - writer in tbe Path Magazine. The builders or the pyramids have been described by modern guosscrs as ;na«> ing their calculations aud cu.ii.yiug on the most wonderful engineering operations with the aid of pools of water for obtaining levels and star angles; they could not, it was as­ sumed, have Instruments except the most crude., So also the old Chinese were mere rude workmen, although It is well known that tbey discovered the precession of tbe equinoxes over two thousand years ago. Of late evi­ dence has been slowly coming out that tends to show tbe ancients as perhaps having as much, it not more, than we have. So the following from the Kew York Evening Sun, an in­ fluential daily paper, will be of in­ terest It says, on May 31, 1884: "An English officer by the name of Harrington has discovered in India a working telephone between two na­ tive temples which stand over a mile Th» toallmnny of • k ~ j»... which, it is said, is backed up by documentary proof, jshows that tbe system has been iu operation for over two thousand years, scientists en­ gaged in excavating the ruins of ancient Egyptian temples have re­ peatedly found unmistakable evi. dence of wire communication be­ tween seme of the temples of tbe earlier Egyptian dynasties." It will probabiy be found in the course of time that the oft-repeated statements of H. P. Blavatsky that the ancients had all of our arts and mechanical devices were true. She asserted that they had flying ma­ chines. In Bubbhist books is a story of Buddha which refers to a flying mach ne or mechanical' bird used in a former life ofjthe Lo;d, and Indian tradition speaks also of air-walking machines. Heading this item in the newspaper reminds me, too, of a con­ versation I had with H, P. Blavatsky in New York before tho phonograph came out, in which she said that some Indian friends of hers had a machine by which they spoke with each other over distances or miles with great ease. Perhaps when the great West is couvinced that the old Aryans had mechanical contrivances equaling our own it will lend a readier ear than now to tbe philoso­ phies the East has so long held in keeping. . Tea-Houses In China. The restaurant or tea-house ill China takes tbe place of the western club-room, write Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben, in the Century, describ­ ing their bicycle tour in Asia. Ail the current news and gossip is here circulated and discussed over their eating or gambling. One of their games of chance, wbich we have fre­ quently noticed, seems to consist in throwing their fingers at one anothqf and shouting at tbe top of their voices. It is really a matching of numbers, for which the Chinamen make signs on their fingers, Up to tbe numeral ten. Tbe Chinese of all nations seem to live to e it, and from this race of epi­ cures has developed a nation of excel­ lent cooks. Our fare in China, out­ side the Gobi district was far better than in Turkey or Persia, and, for this reason, we are better able to en­ dure tbe increased hardships. A plate of sliced meat stewed with veg­ etables, and served with a piquant sauce, sliced radishes and onions with vinegar, two loaves of Chinese mo- mo, or steamed bread, and a pot of tea. would usually cost us about three and one-quarter cents apiece. Every­ thing in China is sliced so that it can be eaten with tbe chop-sticks. These we at length learned to minipulate with sufficient dexterity to pick up a dove's egg--the highest attainment in tbe chop-stick art The Chinese have rather a tour than a sweet tooth. Sugar is rarely used in any­ thing, and never in tea The steeped tea-flowers, which tbe higher cesses use, are really more Tasty withoutjnt Why lie Could Not 8rll the Dog. A gentleman was walking with hi9 little boy at the close of tbe day, and in passing the cottage of a German laborer the b$|'s attention was at­ tracted to a dog. It was not a King Charles nor a black and tan, but a common cur. Still, the boy took a fancy to him. and wanted "pa" to buy him. Just tben tbe owner of the dog came home from his labors and was met by the dog with every demonstration of dogl joy. The gen­ tleman said to the owmer:-- "My little boy has taken a fancy to your dog and I will biV him. What do you ask for him?" "I can't sell dajiXdng," said the German. "Look here,"'said tbe gentleman, "that is a poor dog arty way, but as my boy wants him I will give you* a sovereign for him." "Yaas," said the German, %tI know he is a werry poor dog and be ain't wort almost nothin'; but dere Is von lectle ding mid that dog vot I can't sell--1 can't sell the vag of his dall ven l comes home at night" What Whitens WhistaiW. | A farmer from Buck? County, with black hair and mustache and a three days' growth of snow-white whiskers, dropped into a Ninth street- barber shop recently and in tbe course of conversation with the loquacious art­ ist it appeared that the farmer had for years shavea himself with a jack- knife. He thought that perhaps that had something to do with the peculiar hirsute cont ast, and the barber promptly confirmed his oplnion.- "The pulling of a dull razor on tbe roots of tbe whisker-)," said the bar- k w l i n u c V *Ai»t. fimA oil iKa uvwvt v^vr 1» wjixut V wurw uu VUO oil and pigment that gives the color. Most men have too much regard for their nerves to keep it up long enough to turn the board entirely Ignite, but many partially gray ones are due to tbat cause. A keen blade, improperly handled, is equally harmful, as a closo scrape of tbe skin results in number­ less seed .warts, which can only be re­ moved by a surgical operation.*'-- Philadelphia Becord The bust of Miss Frances E. Will- ard has been ordered for the library of the South-West College, at Win- fleld, Kansas, the college having named its ladies' ball in ber honoc. SPIDER IN A DIVING BELL, f >4: •1 A Corlans Inwct Which Spends to TOm* tJnder Water. There is, It appears, a smaUanidef,! such as may be called the diving, spider, although rather rare, accord- - i-l -K- *• J4J* w vuo muuai/u xuaj|J9» JL#IK6 &U its Kin, it is an air breathing creature, and dives below the surface of tbe pond a ad 8£ruhJh a large part of its lite under water, it manages to do this much in tbe same manner that a man in a diving bell is able to live and work for a considerable time at tbe bottom of the sea. It surrounds tbe whole under part of its body,1 where its breathing organs are, with a bubble of air, and, incased in this crystalline bell, it keeps; the water out and is able to breathe freely. Ex­ posed to the attacks of many ene­ mies above water, it seeks to escape from them by making a hiding place for itself at the bottom of the pond. This it does by drawing together the tops of some of the weeds growing there with a few threads which it spins, so as to make a little bower. It then ascends to tbe surface and brings down a bubble of air with it. part of which it squeezes out and leaves in the inside of the bower, •iliuow oLoujj, ixjutiiiiuK over it, pre­ vent it fjem getting out of its place and rising to the top as air bubbles always do when disturbed or released. The spider then, with its part of the bubble which it has kept to itself, ascends to the surface a second time and fetches down another bubble ot air, part of wbich it secures in the same fashion, and with tbe remain­ ing part ascends to the top to bring down some more air. It repeats this curious proceeding until within the bower it has succeeded in forming a bubble of air as big as a plum, con­ cealed and kept in its place by tbe silken meshes of the weeds, like tbe network of a small balloon. Thbs tbe spider In the same yjray that a mason carries stones and lime to bis building, carries down bells of Alt from the surface to build for %epa crystal palace, whose clear, transpar­ ent dome and walls, thin as the finest film, arc yet sufficiently strong to keep out the great body of water a.nd to enable tbe creature to live |be bottom of tbe pond as easily as iSit were on dry land, in thift luuaibwis nest it lays eggs and rear# its yoiihg in perfect security, and when theair within threatens to be exhausted it is renewed from time to ,tithe by tbe visits of the creature to the surface of the pond. Obeying Orders. Ay oung sub-lieutenant in India left his regiment on sick leave, and put up at the best hotel not a hun­ dred miles from Poona, where he was immediately smitten by the attrac­ tions of a lovely maiden who was staying there. He proposed, was ac­ cepted, and the happy day fixed. The Colonel, however, disapproved of sub­ lieutenants getting married, and par­ ticularly of the "sub" in question.v As he happened to be a friend of the young mac's father, he thought to prevent the marriage of the fond couple by sending a peremptory tele? gram couched ih the following wordii, ••Join at once!" i ' The son of Mars was in despair. He presented himself before bis in­ tended with the fatal missive in his band, and anything but a look ot pleasure on his countenance; but the lady was equal to the occasion. With a blush of maiden simplicity and virgin innocence, she cast her eyes upon the groupd and said:-- "Dear me, 1 am glad your Colonel approves of the match! But what a hurry be,is in! I don't think I can get ready sd soon; but I'll do my best; because, ot course, love, tbe com­ mand of your Colonel ipust be obeyed." The young warrior looked puzzled. "Don't you see, my darling," be 9aid, "that this confounded message puts a stopper on our plans? Yofi don't seem to understand the telw gram. He says peremptorily, 'Join at once.'" Tbe lady's blushes redoubled; but, with a look of arch simplicity, she raised her lovely eyes to her fiance and replied, "It is you my darling, who don't seem to undrstand it Your Colonel says plainly, 'Join at once!'--by which, of course, he means get married immediately. What else can he possibly mean?" A look of intelligence replaced tbe air of bewilderment on the young hero's classic features; he accepted tbe explanation, and was enabled to answer the Colonel's telegram forty- eight hours afterwards in these words: "Your orders obeyed. We were joined at once." ^r, , m The British ISmplre.vL> The British Empire i^ a political creation unparalleled in the world's history, not only by its extent and population, in both which respects it ' is slightly surpassed by China, but because, with an area of more than 10,000,000 square miles and with • 352,000,000 inhabitants, it is scatr % tered over the whole globe. It em- ^ braces all zones from the icy wilder­ ness of Hudson Bay to the tropical jungles of India acd tbe mahogany forests of Honduras; there is scarcely ; a product wbich a British provinCd does not bring lorth in excellent ^ quality, and not,less various are the ^degrees of civilization of its inbabi- ^ tants, from the Ka iirs of the Cape to the highly cultivated citizens of Toronto or Sydney. We find, with ^ Christians of all confessions, 200,- 1 000,000 Hindoos, about 70,000,000 Mohammedans, and H. 000,000 Budd- hists: and the Bible is printed in 130 F languages and dialects represented in the empire, yet, notwithstanding such promiscuous elements, the gov- i ernmen'u, with rare exceptions, main-^ ? tains order, and no sign, of dissolo* tion is visible.--Dr. F. Heinrlch , Geffckeu, in October Forum. } Cooling by Magnetism. It Is reported as an observed faet- tbat tbe beat usually produced by friction is absent whenever tbe bodies brought in contact are mag- nett ed. A striking example is de­ scribed in a scientific periodical. A workman fastened two powerful mag­ nets to his la»he, to hold more se­ curely a piece cf metal which he wished to drill and turn. The pres­ ence of the magnets kept the metal so cold tbat no water was needed to cool the drill " ^ A will do mere from motive* ^ ^ -i of stubbornness than frotn motives ' * patriotism or religion. . 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