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IHIlll * - Ar-v mm CHILD AND MOTHER. © Mothcr-My-Love, if you'll give me your hand And go Where I ask you to wander, I will lead yori away to a beautiful land-- The dreamland that's waiting out yon­ der. We'll walk in a sweet-posie garden out " there Where moonlight and starlight are > streaming, And the flowers and the birds are filling the air With the fragrance and music of dream­ ing. • There'll beno little,, tired-out boy to un­ dress No questions or cares to perplex you; There'll be no little bruises or bumps to caress. Nor patching of stockings to vex you. For I'll rock you away on the silver-dew stream And sing you asleep when you're weary, And no one shall know of our beautiful i dream But you and your own little dearie. And when l am tired I'll nestle my head jii the bosom that's soothed mo so often, And the wide-awake stars shall sing in my stead V \ A sotig Which my dreaming shall soften. So. Mother-My-LoVe, let me take your pS" dear-hand •• • And away through, the starlight we'll Wander--' "" • '• • ; , 'Away through the mist to the beautiful X land -- V :> \ V ' A, • "»-• The dreamland that's! waiting out yon- der! . '• ••'. •' --Eugene Field. C " I-m%- y-':U: p<v: mm fp A M ATTER OF INSTINCT Fate was a cat and Leonard Herriek was a mouse. There had been some rare sport, but Herriek was of the opin­ ion that it could not last much longer. He had run this way and that way, and a thousand times he had fancied that lie was going to escape. But al­ ways the velvet i?aws, with the long, sharp claws springing out of them, had caught him just in time. So at last be lay still, panting, not knowing which way to turn. He was in a big city all alone. The people who rushed by him were like the thoughts that whirled through his brain; they were shadows, and the ev-. erlasting train of them had no begin­ ning nor end. He could not distinguish the real men and women whom he saw from those whom he merely remem­ bered. Now and again there appeared in the throng the faces of the dead. He did not mind those, but there were others that he shrank from. He stood with his back against the Iron fence in front of Trinity Church. There was just light enough in the •western sky to give the pile of stone a shadow which fell upon hurrying thou­ sands who did not notice it. Herriek's hands were in his pockets. He crumpled a crackling piece of paper which meant that he could live several days longer if he cared to do so. As t to a more extended future, be could not picture it All the lines of his life seemed to end in a knot, which could by no means be united, but must merely be dropped. He remembered that there were miracles, but he could not think of one to wish for. From 3 o'clock till 4 the crowd in that . part of Broadway is rich and prosper­ ous; from 4 to 5 it boasts of wealthy connections and takes a strong interest in life; after 5 it loses caste rapidly, and by 6 it is a lot of weary people going „ home to supper. Herriek felt the de­ generacy of the throng without really seeing it If a whole street full of peo­ ple could get shabby in an hour, was it any wonder that he had done it in five years? He crossed Broadway and walked down Wall street,.slowly and with hes­ itation, for he had no errand. A voice cried, "Cab, sir!" almost in his ear. He turned and looked up at the man on the box. "Is it possible," he said to himself, ""that I still .look like a gentlemanV" He lelt toward the cabman as toward one who had given him a helping hand. Why not pay the debt? To do so would cost him only a day of his life. He had a $5 bill in his pocket. •, "Yes," he said; "take me up to the Fifth Avenue Hotel." It was the first place that had come into his mind. He £ot into the cab, and • snapped the door. The cushioned seat and the comfortable support for his head were refreshing. A fancy came to him that he would dine decently and then go to a theater. The extravagance would be trifling, for it was really of small importance whether he starved to .death on Sunday or the following Wednesday. He was in a mood to make | a jest of it all, had thrown this money Into his hands, and fate might take it away, but not if he could hold on tightly enough. His fingers trembled as he picked at the elastic bands. Suddenly, and -without his knowing why, the rubber strings vanished with a loud, snap that startled him, and the package sprang open on his knees. He caught a flash of green "color, and then the cab rolled out of light into shadow. It seemed a long time before another light struck in upon him. At the mo­ ment when It did so he saw a face close to the cab door afid he dodged back, covering the bills with hisi hands. But the "Chance passenger on the street sa w- nothing; he was thinking' of his own affairs, no doubt, and had no inkling of the strange thing that passed so close to his eyes. '< Herriek was himself again in a mo­ ment, and he bent forward, eagerly scanning the bills in his hands; and counting them feverishly. There were forty of them, and each was of the de­ nomination of $1,000. Throughout the later period of the young map's misfortunes he had had substantially but one wish--to rest. Best has many forms, suited to a vast variety of Individual tastes. To Her­ riek in his day .dreams it had always taken the forgx q^Jravel without car^. All paths lie open to a man who has $40,000, and there is no reason why care should sit t^toifcd him as he rides! Herriek had only the most shadowy thought for the perton who had lost this'money. He!did not even speculate upon the manner x>f its loss. It had passed into the control of one who needed it, and that was enough. He disposed the notes in, his pockets in the best interests of comfort and safety. Then be folded up the brown paper and pocketed that also, with a dim consciousness that, if it were left in the cab, it might get the driver into trouble. The fellow was honest, no doubt, and Herriek did not wish that he should suffer a wrong. He preferred to keep the wrapper himself, and take the risk of it until he could find some means of disposing of it that would be safer than throwing it out of the cab window. How to leave the cab was a question that concerned him nearly. He did not wish to confront the driver again, for there might be an. investigation, and arise, in which case it would-be well to have the man know as little as possible of Herrick's personal appearance. He reflected with satisfaction that the spot on Wall street where he had entered the carriage had been rather dark. The cab stopped suddenly, Its path being blocked by1 a tangle of vehicles. Herriek put his hand upon the latch of the door. It yielded noiselessly; the door swung open. Herriek stepped out. Turning back •for an instant he perceived the cabman sitting upon his box in entire uncon­ sciousness of the fraud that was being practiced upon him. He was a poor man, and doubtless worked hard for all detection had^quite left him. Of all stolen goods money is the hardest to recover. „ Presently he found himself riding down town in an elevated railroad train, v He was going to a steamship office to arrange for his journey; then to a banker's for a traveler's check book. '• . His pockets were btllglng with money, but there was something in one of them that he couldn't remember to have put there. He pujjed it out, and found it to be the brojvn paper wrapper that had contained the money. As he held It in his hand It was concealed by his newspaper.- No fellow passenger "X HAVJS FOUND THE MONEY THAT YOU - ' lost." . • ABOCSED BY A KNOCKING AT THE DOOR. could see it; and it was doubly fortu­ nate, because, In plain sight upon the paper, were the name and address: "Herbert L. Graham, 40 Wall street." The train was just stopping at Rec­ tor street. That was the station near­ est the steamship office. Thrusting the brown paper back in his pocket, he left the car and went with the throng down to the street. He was thinking about the accommodations he would choose on the steamer. He continued to think of that and kindred subjects, yet he turned north on Broadway Instead of south. Presently he found himself ask­ ing an elevator boy in a big building if he knew where Mr. Graham's office was. Mr. Graham happened to be in his outer office when Herriek entered. He was pouring a story into a gray-haired Wall street man, and Herriek heard a few words of it--something about cabs, and cash, and carelessness. I have found the money that you lost," said Herriek. "Here it is." "Zion!" cried the banker, clutching the bills in his fingers. "My dear fel­ low, tell me all about It." There's nothing to tejl," replied the young man. "I merely found it in the cab." Mr. Graham eyed him a moment, in surprise. "You take it coolly," he said. "I couldn't take it at all," responded Herriek, with a feeble smile. "I don't know why. It was instinct, I suppose. My ancestors must have been honest men." "Upon my word, you must take one of these notes," said the banker.- "I've offered it in an ad and " "I can't do it," said Herriek. "I don't feel it to be right." "But, my dear boy," exclaimed the old man, kindly, "I must do something for you. I want to; believe me. At least come back and take "lunch with me. Shall we say 1 o'clock?" "It will give me great pleasure," said Herriek; and, bowing, he turned away, and walked, out of the office.--Utica Globe. the money that he received. Still, it was reckless to attract his attention again; especially so, after having left the cab in that strange manner. There was a way to the sidewalk through the press of vehicles. Herriek saw it from the corner of his eye, and was about to take advantage of it. In­ stead, to his surprise, he found himself turned toward the cabman, and im­ mediately he heard his own voice say­ ing: "I have decided to get out here. How much do I owe you?" ; < The cabman named the price, and Herriek paid him with the $5 bill which had been the sum of his wealth, and the'end of it so far as he ctirtlld see, so short a time before. He counted his change carefully, remembering that he would probably have to wait until the next day before be could break one of the thousands. Enough - remained to him from the bill for a supper, a bed and a breakfast. ^ When he had found a restaurant he W. A strong glare from an electric light1 or(^ere(^ a meal\and ate it with a relish, .struck down into the carriage, and It was enchanted food. It was the fare of an Atlantic liner, the delicacies of European hotels, and the fruits of the tropics. ' T . - He cared little for his bed. It would be no more than a place to lie and think of the future.; It Was many a night since he had really slept. "Certainly, with so much upon his mind, he would made visible to him a package in brown paper, that looked as if it might be. a sandwich. The object protruded from under the seat: He thought , it must be the cabman's supper which had been hidden in some small locker and bad fallen upon the floor. The idea that the food should be spoiled was dis- agreeable to Herriek, and so he picked up the little brown bundle. It was smaller than he bad supposed, w- HE DODGED BACK, COVEUING THE mi,L8 WITH* HIS HANDS. and it did not feel like bread. But had it been food and he at the last pang of starvation, the touch of it would not have sent such a thrill through all his frame: He knew that the contents of that package was money. It felt like a mass O'l bills, folded, awkwardly wrapped up and fastened with elastic bands. Through the brown covering Herriek could feel the crlspness of the govern­ ment paper. The amount might be. a poor man's monthly wages or a rich man's profit on a great transaction. As to his own conduct in the matter, Serrick had no doubt whatever. Fate not sleep this night, even if he should try. So when he had beeu shown to his room in the hotel he piled his pillows against the headboard of the bed and reclined against them, fully dressed. He was very happy. No question of right or wrong in what he had done or what he expected to do came to torment him. For a long time he had borne hi; life like a tremendous burden. Thi had suddenly slipped from his slioul ders, leaving, his natural powers' be numbed. Jn the midst of his first vision of new life he was aroused by a knockin at the door. He started up: his leg would hardly support him; he had n voice with which to ask who was then Bfit one explanation was possible; b must ha*e been watched by the polic He tottered to the door and gave u terance to a hoarse inarticulate soun "Eight o'clock, sir." cried a voi< without. "You asked to be called, sir Nje rushed to the window and flui open the shutters. Day streamed i strong and beautiful. The gas flan paled. He knew that he had slept as had not slept before in years: In mysterious depths of his life he felt new strength stirring, but it was onl; nascent as yet. A bath and a breakfast revived hii still more. He felt the exhilaration a busy day upon which he was enter­ ing. He scanned the papers, but so far as he could see they had no news of the money that had been lost. He was not conscious of any excitement in searching for that news. The fear of Speaking to the Deaf. Many people, and I am sorry to say some teachers of the deaf, fail to real­ ize, in practice at least, that speech is not as clearly visible to the eye as it is audible to the ear, and think that by speaking, word by word, and opening their mouth to the widest extent, they will render the task of the speech-read­ er easier. As a matter of fact they render it all the more difficult. A child in school may learn to understand a teacher, who mouths his words in this manner, but this ability is of no value to him when he leaves school. Indeed, perfectly natural, deliberate speech is easier to understand than the exagger­ ated form of articulation which people are apt to use the moment they know they are talking to a totally deaf per­ son. People who depend entirely upon their speech-reading for understanding others have requested me, when intro­ ducing them to strangers, not to say that they were deaf, because they find it easier to read the lips when the per­ son speaking is not aware that he is being understood in that way. I have in my acquaintance a young man edu cated wholly by this method, who trav­ els a great deal, and picks up acquaint­ ances on the steamer or on the train just as people do who possess all their faculties. I have in mind, also, a eon- genitally deaf girl of 14 who is not con sidered unusually bright, yet whose speech is clearly intelligible to stran gers after the first ten minutes, who is intelligent on the topics of the day, and whose conversational repertoire is much larger and more entertaining than that of many young ladies of 20 and over that I have met in metropoli­ tan society.--"Speech and Speech-Read in " ~ NEW CURE,f<pR DYSPEPSIA. By Going WittKTtit Breakfast Some People for Relief. Middletown, tSnn., has probably the "most novel organization In existence. It is called the Go'^Without-Your-Break- fast Club, and\thle) members are all cye- peptlcs. They titffte by abstaining from eating breakfasts' to effect a cure of the malady from whYih they are suffering. The theory that'breakfasts are a fruit­ ful cause for Indigestion had Its origin with a leading ph'^feiclan of Middletown. During sleep, he claims, the muscles of the stomach are testing. -Gastric juice, that indispensable element for diges­ tion, is Hot supplied then, nor is a suf­ ficient quantity Cheated in the stomach to digest a meal' until nearly noon, or, rather, not untilthree or four hours after rising. If breakfast is eaten it is merely rolled ar^iind the stomach. Con­ sequently the stomach ferments and produces material for discomfort in mind and body, .. ̂ Nature supplies only enough pepsinduring twenty-four hours for two pica Is a day, and noon and evening arettire proper times to eat. Accordingly, no breakfast should be eaten. - ' s- Hunger and appetite are two different sensations. Appetite can be indulged, but hunger musf, be satisfied. One should eat vyhgn, hungry and then a good appetite ;fjjf]ll- enjoyed. The good results of tj^ts treatment are claim­ ed to be these;,^j/Your normal weight will be galned^ojerfat people will lose their oppressive founds and the lean, will take on gopi flesh. The brain will be clearer, the qerves steadier, the mus­ cles stronger, ajj'd the spirits brighter. Brain workers ^iid physical toilers will find that they $^"e uniformity of abil­ ity for applicaf|pn. It is a remedy which does not.-peed money or time, only some resolution and courage to break up a habij^. It is not a hardship, except in imagination, for as a usual thing one is not', hungry at breakfast time. If some inconvenience is experi­ enced at first, tlj^ feeling is simply the "dying agonies ojj a bad habit." Before condemning it gj.ye the cure a trial dur­ ing a month, j^fter one week, and sometimes sooner, its followers will feel themselves in better condition for all kinds of work. In towns and( communities which have been struck by the cure whole households haTe abandoned the--old style of breakfi^sl; as soon as the fam­ ily are dressed apd the go-without-your- breakfast cure is declared to be the so­ lution of the die^problem. At any rate, this is what is said by people who have tried the cure.lfl Jn Middletown, where the breakfast cure is followed with en­ thusiasm, the college professor and the theological student greet each other in the morning with the question: "Did you go without your breakfast?" Plowing with Oxen, There can be'fittle doubt that the ox was the beast 'earliest employed for the plow. A white bull and a white cow were yoked together to draw the furrow for making the wralls of Rome. Greeks and RoiriSins employed oxen In plowing; assesJorily for sandy soils. When the plowman had finished his day's labor, he thrued the instrument upside down, atfd, the oxen went homo dragging its tail 'and handle over the surface of the" ground--a scene de­ scribed by Horaqe. The yoking together of ox and ass was expressly forbidden by the law of Moses, and is made the ground of ludi­ crous comparison by Plautus. Ulysses, when he feigneijt madness in order to avoid going oh ,the Trojan expedition, plowed with an ,bx and horse together. In the West of England the custom of yoking oxen to tt& plow went out at the beginning of this century; a very few old men can reniember how, as boys, they were employed with the goad to urge on the ox^n; hardly any recail having held the plow to them. MRS BRADLEY MARTIN. The Hostess of the Notoriotrs $500,- OOO Ball in New York City, Mrs. Bradley Martin, the hostess of the great New: York ball, who has won the distinction of paying out more money for one evening's entertainment than was ever paid out before, was Cornelia Sher­ man before she married Mr. Martin; Her father was Isaac H. Sherman, who amass- Of course, the stage can be elevated, Try dynamite.--Florida Times-Union. . „i ro!fu led a fortune of something like $10,000 in the American filibusters it she only could rf°tMs' monCT "a'e "V"?".! h" «f' coatre. the reporter,.-Ba«imore Martin expended on the recent grand af- The New York Legislature has begun a fair were earned years" and years ago in crusade for pure beer. ,,A New York poli- j the big concern of which her father was ticlanis always after a drinkof some sort. the hea)j. Miss Sherman met Mr. Martin Atlanta Journal.'^, I at the wedding of Elliott F. Shepard Senator Vilas seems to think that the twenty-five years ago. Mr. Martin was Nicaragua canal will not amount to any- | Mr. Shepard's best man; and Miss Sher- thing more than a drain on the treasury. --Detroit Free Press. - Mr. Havemeyer is once more required to devote himself to the monotony of as­ suring an incredulous public that a trust is a public blessing.--Washington Star. , Alaska's boundary line is to be investi­ gated by a commission. Commissions are very popular these days. They don't have to pay the freight;--Baltimore American. It is believed that Mr. Cullom would be willing to quit looking like Lincoln long enough to feel like Lyman J. Gage or John Sherman a day or so.--Chicago Dis­ patch. Butler, the Australian who is charged with having killed fourteen men, is un­ duly encouraging the Holmes brand of sensational journalism.---Chicago Times- Herald. .. Indiana may have three times as many poets as Ohio, but Ohio has more politi­ cians than Indiana has, and there is more money in politics than in poetry.--Chicago Tribune. ?': o-- Those women who want to enter the diplomatic service evidently don't know that ambassadors sometimes' know things that they are not allowed to tell.--Cleve­ land Leader. " After all, there is reason in Chicago's agitation against the Sunday church bells. A man can't talk up against a bar near so well when such noise is going on.--New York Press. It does seem as if Gen. Weyler and the insurgents would get together before many moons. If they were ocean liners they would have collided long ago.--Cleve­ land Plain Dealer. A man who hangs about legislative halls is not necessarily a lobbyist, but if he is engaged in legitimate business he is mak­ ing an awful waste of time,--New York Evening Journal. Azcarraga is the name of the fierce gen­ tleman who will come to Cuba and let Mr. Weyler go home to supper. That name sounds like a crosq-cut saw in a hurry.-- Baltimore Life. Many people are surprised to learn that any liquor gets into the Senate, but they mustn't think the Senators are always dry because their speeches are.--Bing- hamton Leader. The project to open in Paris a theater at which only moral plays will be produc­ ed seems to be an effort to stop the ex­ portation of Parisian plays to the United States.--Chicago Tribune. & a? MRS. BRADLEY MARTIN IN BALL COS­ TUME. man took a fancy to him. Two months later they were married and the great house of Bradley Martin was founded. Her social qualities--hitherto potential only--did not begin to grow until after the death of her father and her inherit­ ance of his millions. Then she took her family to Europe and was received in good society. After her record in Europe, which was brilliant, New York opened its arms to her and she began to be an impor­ tant part of that peculiarly wrought mo­ saic called New York society. This grand affair of the ball places her at the head The history of modern naval operations | ^-'ork.s society life. ^^rs* shows that our giant fighting machines are " A "" a + much more deadly for their own men In times of peace than for the enemy in times of war.--Chicago Times-Herald. If the friends of the Nicaragua canal had been as active in building the canal as they have been in trying to get Gov­ ernment aid the canal might be open for business to-day.--Buffalo Express. Men who have been cured of consump­ tion--and numerous cures are announced --are thought to be men who never had the disease, although they may have thought so.--New Orleans Picayune. It is noted that the number of countesses who are getting divorced these days is only exceeded by the number who are eloping. Court circles have not been §p gay in a long time.--New York Advertiser. There will be no serious regret that Idaho has sent a man to the Senate who cannot speak the English language fluent­ ly. The fluency of the present Senate is one of its worst faults.--Providence Jour­ nal. tin's dress was as fine as anything at the ball. It was made of black velvet over red brocade, after a fashion plate of the time of Queen Mary of Scotland. A gown just like Mrs. Martin's had been once worn by the beautiful, unhappy Mary. SUGAR MAGNATE SEARLES. Had a Very Pad Memory When Ex­ amined by the Lexow Committee. John F. Searles, the secretary and treas­ urer of the sugar combine, who was be­ fore the Lexow committee, knows more about the trust's affairs than all of its other officers combined. Mr. Searles' memory in his examination was very bad. 'Knol/ing" as he is about the trust's af- Tornado F reaks.. announcement that President-elect ,, T; , McKmley has taken out $o0,000 life m- Near my o 1 surance shows that the man realizes what ty, Kansas, sa$)Mr. G. A. A. Deane, serious time he must expect at the of Little Rock, ^.rk., at the Hotel Page, bands of the office seekers.--Evening there occurred a cyclone the other day Journal. that performed^;queer feat It struck j Legislatures whlch impose a fine 0f $2 the house of a ffirmer neighbor of mine -'or ^3 for wearing a high hat to the theater and scattered .tbings in various direc- ma'y, after all, have accomplished nothing tions. A few days later he got a letter more than to increase the expense of the that had been carried by the wind and occasion for the lady's escort.--Washing- dropped in a small town in Nebraska, ton Star. sixty-five miles $0 the northeast, and not long afterward some considerate stranger malledr-ihlm his check book that had been found away down in Mis­ souri, 100 milesrtO the southwest. •Now, the truth.of these statements I will vouch for.'.Jls they are made by one of the most reliable men I ever knew. Why the two articles should have been carried;in opposite directions ^ Eastern hushands who have lost a quar­ relsome half of themselves have chipped til $50 000 to test the Dakota and Okla­ homa divorce laws. Some men never know when they are well off.--Minneapo­ lis Journal. Mr. and Mrs. Cronwright-Sehrelner are on their way to England, where they will remain during the year. Two volumes of Dr. David Masson's edition of De Quincey are ready for the press. There are to be six alto­ gether. „ - A monument to the brothers Grimm,' the popularity of whose fairy tales has eclipsed their philological work*,*1 has just been erected at Hanau. The inhabitants^ Saeckingen, in tha Grand Duchy of Baden, intend erect­ ing a monument In honor of Vict:;- Scheffel, who made their town famous. William Watson's powerful poems on the Armenian situation have been pub­ lished under the title, "The Year o£ Shame," with a strong introduction by the Bishop of Hereford. The Rev, Charles Cuthbert Hall, D. [>., who has just been called to the Presidency of Union Theological Semi­ nary, New York, is to edit the Ameri­ can edition the Expositor. J. B„ Lippincott Compapny are the American publishers of Wilson Bar­ rett's novel, founded on his popular piay, "The Sign of the Cross." The Bishop of Truro has written an Intro- . duetion to the book. Dr. Nansen is giving all his time to the preparation of his book, intending e' to finish it before going to London to deliver his promised series of lectures on arctic exploration. It is certain to be the paramount book of the year.' Prof. Georg Ebers has written a his­ torical romance called "Barbara Blom- berg." Charles V. plays a prominent part In the story, and the heroine is the mother of Don John of Austria. An English translation will appear. According to the St. James' Gazette, Queen Victoria will personally dictate and revise a biography of herself, which will appear In 1S97. The story of the longest reign In the history of England from the Queen's own stand- poit cannot fail to be of great interest. The stamp duty--on newspapers^- which in Austria has greatly impeded the development of the press, is to be abolished at the beginning of next year. Those papers which are not published more frequently than thrice a week will be exempt from stamp duty next March. The Critie boasts that it reviewed 1,685 books during 189G. The best of it is that the reviews were good ones none better anywhere. The new en­ terprise of the editors, called the Month, is a monthly magazine, on the same lines as the Critic, and certainly deserves success. The newest accession to the Acade- mie Francaise Is Anatole France, and his official reception as the successor of Ferdinand de Lesseps was the chief literary event of recent weeks in Paris. The real name of the new Immortal is Anatole Francois Tliibault. He was born in Paris in 1844, and made his lit­ erary d^but in 1873 with a volume of verse entitled "Poemes Dorees." His beautifully phrased prose, for which he is chiefly noted, places him on a lev­ el with the French Stevenson, Pierre Loti. Dr. Conan Doyle tells in the London Strand about a seven-months' cruise that he took in the arctic seas in 1880 as the surgeon of a whaler: "As I was only 20 years old when I-started, and as my knowledge of medicine was that of an average third year student, I have often thought that it was as Well that there was no very serious call upon my services." One day a stew­ ard challenged him to bout with the gloves. Later on he heard the stew­ ard saying to the mate, in loud tones of conviction, "So help me, Colin, he's the best surgeon we've had! He's blackened my e'e!" This, says the author, "was the first, and very nearly the last, testimonial that I ever re­ ceived to my professional abilities." JOHN F. SEARLES. When the news spreads that 10,000 sandwiches will be accessible in the pen sion building on the night of the inaugu­ ration another Coxey pilgrimage to Wash- fairs, he could not remember several very important matters about which the com­ mittee sought information, and his pro­ tests about his poor memory were most Mr. Searles ately.--Chicago Record , in the world. His power of organization There ,s something wrong somewhere .g somethi„g to be marveled at. He is thousands of able-bodied, intelligent tfae goQ of a Methodiat preacher and waa American workingmen are unable to keep boru ilfrWestche8ter County, New York. the wolf from the door, ut erapi His earliest recollections of commercial reported in active demand at$<0 a dozen. Hfe date back tQ when he was employed Chicago Times-Herald. as a clerk by a Connecticut firm of sugar The school children of Ciiieago are | importers. After his graduation from n to in ,ia u n ingtou must be guarded against inimedi- amusing to the committee. I am unable tontfxpla n-it s too deep at«IvB_Chk.aco f£cord. is said t0 be one of the ablest business men fpr the unscientific mind, and I coin- mend it to sometofcUncle SamVtoruado experts in Washington.--Washington Post. • O h - . . She CaiJjfjd, but Alas! '1 never was '^disgusted and angry in my life," said Mrs. de Garmo. 'What's the tj^uble?" her husband inquired. T a This afternoon that rich Mrs. Hil­ ton, whom I have been dying to have obliged to bring their drinking water, boiled, from home in bottles. Evidently the purity of the water supply of the Windy City is a perfect match for the purity of its politics.--Baltimore Ameri­ can. A Massachusetts minister has declined a call on me, canqe^ust as I was getting ready to take a bath." , "Too bad. Wo.uldu t she stay until ^ qqq rai8e in his salary on account of for the Deaf," by John Dutton i'ou could get ready to see her. the hard times, and now they're talking "That's just itj I rushed around and aboUf gr;Qg him for lack of sense. With VARNISHES, WALL PAPER. that house he went into business for him­ self and succeeded admirably. He be came associated with'the Havemeyers and his fortune was made. Like many other great American millionaire business men, Mr. Searles is exceedingly simple in his tastes, is a man of exemplary life, loves his church and his country, and is a gen­ erous friend of education and a patron of charity. He is an officer in several much interested in is also a director, in How Muskrats Breathe Under Ice. W. Spoon, the naturalist, asserts that the muskrat when obliged to go be­ neath the ice from one side to the other of a pond has a curious mode of taking along his air supply. Instinct teaches him to take in a deep breath before starting, but even this he knows will be insufficient for the trip. According­ ly he halts occasionally and exhales the exhausted air from his lungs. This air, being confined by the Ice in the shape of a bubble, and in full contact with the Icy water, becomes almost instantly re- oxygenated. When the transformation is completed the wise rat again takes in his old breath, which Is now a fresh Inspiration. Thus rejuvenated he again dives out of sight and begins swim­ ming for/the other side, only coming up against the ice as often as it is nec­ essary for him to refreshen that valu­ able little breath of air. But few, hunt­ ers and trappers are aware of the muskrat's odd plans of-- clanging his poisonous breath into (tt'treshr inspira­ tion, but those who are tft|te & niean ad­ vantage. By striking afiheav^ b|pw on the ice the air is dispersed*arid fne lit­ tle animal dies of asphyxia. got tfOE ~ jrr see if I wouldnVlike to buy a 50^?ent President Cleveland has pardoned a citi- ticket to an entertainment that the 2en who was imprisoned for swearing in- Good Samaritans,.Society was getting up for poor se\jUpg girls. I shall cut her dead the nex^lme we meet!" Paper Hanging. HOUSE, SIGN and CARRIAGE PAINTING Done on short notice and satis-f 0 I- ;JJ 5. F- Tslegraphing of Royal Birth. Among the thousands of telegrams received by the, puke and Duchess of York upon the bi^th of the young prince was one fr«m tb^ captain and crew of the Faraday, which was, at that mo­ ment. in the middle of the Atlantic, en­ gaged in laying ̂ new cable to Ameri­ ca. The end of the cable on board was attached to a signalling instrument, and by this way they had received the news of the blrtlr of an heir to the throne. -- News tornthe Min'ster. Minister--You ;§^y you knew that 1 was coming, my Little man? Tommy--'Caus:nia told me If I ast for nary knapsncK. 11 euimnvsf«wau£Liae 1 1 more than one pi<?ce of. cake at the table pensable qualities of simplicity, light- [she'd pound the.blame liver out of me ness, facility and rapidity of Installa-1 to-night.--Cleveland Leader. t5on' /' I The men have gireat admiration for a We should think that a man inde-1 woman who Is not afraid of her preach- pendent of love would be a very happy. I er> side the corporation of Washington, D. C. The President himself, perhaps, knows the temptations in that line which beset a fellow as soon as he reaches Washington. --Chicago Inter Ocean. faction guaranteed. E B. PEKK1N8. McHenry, Feb. 1,1897. O sao'uticn of Partnership. THE Partnership heretofore existing under Ux> -frf. w.JriBty anil Son, dealers nnrv knaps.':cET xl 0UnRm&awiJUiiLWie That State Capitol Fire. The fire in the Pennsylvania State Cap­ itol probably started from a spark of ora­ tory.--Baltimore Life. The Pennsylvania State Capitol has gone up in flames. This means that there will be a big job for somebody later.-- Boston Globe. Some of Pennsylvania's State Senators and Representatives ought to be a little more than half baked by this time.--De­ troit Free Press. There's one thing that's tolerably cer­ tain. The dome of Pennsylvania's Capi­ tol wasn't fired by any Pennsylvania statesman.--Boston Herald. The burning of Pennsylvania's State House unfortunately will not prevent the Legislature from meeting and passing laws.--Chicago Tribune. ^ Pennsylvania must now construct a new State House. New York and Khode Isl- _and show how the contracts should not be made.--Boston Journal. Liabor. Labor Is a more beneficent ministra­ tion than man's ignorance comprehends or his complainings will admit. It Is not mere blind drudgery, even when its end is hidden from him. It is all a training; it is all a discipline, a devel­ opment of energies, a nurse of virtues, a school of improvement. _ From the poor boy who galhffis a few sticks for his mother's hearth to the strong man who fells the forest oak, and everjr human tojler, with ev- ery weary step and every urgent task, Is obeying a wisdom far above his own wisdom, and is fulfilling a design far beyond his owfi Immediate attention. Rat:o of Colored People to Whites. Georgia Is the banner State of the blacks, having a colored population of 858,996 to a white population of 978,- 357; Mississippi Is second, with a color­ ed population of 744,749 and 544,851, whites; South Carolina is third, with 689,141 colored people and 462,608 whites; Alabama, fourth, with a color­ ed population of 679,209 and 933,718 whites, and Virginia fifth, with 635,85? colored people and 1,020,122 whltea. Queer Search for a Brother. While unpacking a sample order of chinaware from Germany the other day Frank C. Young, a Second street Importer, discovered a blue envelope tucked away in a vase. On opening It a letter written in German was dis­ closed. Being an expert German schol­ ar, Mr. Young translated the missive, which read as follows: "TO whom it may concern: My brother, Wllhelm Bletzner, left Carlsbad, Germany, two years ago for America, where he In­ tended to engage In the china busi­ ness. After a short time his corre­ spondence abruptly ended, and after that all our letters were returned un­ claimed. I am a packer In - china house, and have been placing these notes In every order to America, in hopes that they might be seen by my brother or some one that knows him. Trusting that the person who finds this will convey any information which would aid me, I remain, very truly. Cora Bletzner. Carlsbad, German^.-- Philadelphia Record. Compliments may be silly, but that man or woman nevjer lived who did not like them.