' 1
wacrc Ma ljairy UoneT
Me tarry bo'i eaysartwl mol I'm wpln'
urea the dsy ho wlnts ,
He be's itone away oomplpMy an It o wan
kuuvra tlm wa Uo wlut;
I'm but a kuio srass wlddy now; mehiippinou
bo's done sway . ...
Widl Lurry he's lUycwrtod ma, the mum, no-
Mvin ruuaway I
Ho Ink 'Is w(ron an'
Is mulct an' druv
mitnil the htll bevntlt
TO fetch a load of dynamite
tu at the
An'
. where he's asmo the quarry bye bo'i
He nod so savcnnlr an' sir thejrre thlnkin
uouniin mey win itw ihw,
they will nivor Know. ;
Tbeimilmbo' (ronoj they only found what
luk'd some like the msto av "em, ,
A pace av Larry' trousers, too, rayalmbl.n
av the sate av 'cm; ......
An' these be's all tho larln') found bo d tuk
a load av dart away,
Fur nearly half the hill no's gone: a mighty
nape to cart away.
An' why ho did It I dunno; bedad, 'twui
nothin' civil meant:
Ho lolkelr tuk iho dart away just fur a bit ar
dlvllment. ... , ,
He Irry he's daysnrled mol l a waplu
since the day he wintl
He bo's kouo nwny complau-ly, an It no one
knows tho WHy he wlut t
NANNY'S LOVE STOUY.
Nanny Nixon burst into tears.
Tears with Nanny Nixon meant some
thing. She was not tho typo of girl
that cried at everything a wilted rose'
bud, a pathetic poem, or tho tragic
last chapter of a paper-covered novel.
. Life had been too much sober earnest
for her to indulge in any such senti
mental luxury.
Up to her seventeenth year she had
toiled hard for her daily bread, work-
in? iu the button-factory all day, and
doing Undo Joshua's housework of
nights and mornings.' '
Uncle Joshua took her very much as
a matter of course. trirls were born to
make themselves useful that was his
opinion. He saw no particular hard'
ship in her rising at three o'clock to
get tho Monday's washing out on the
lines before she went to her work; nor
in staying up until eleven o'clock Tues-
.1 ..,..:.-! 1.; ..-.- 1 J
uay nigub lo iruu uis siuns, ami uu up
the two table-clotbes and the four
napkins. Did he not give her a home?
bo would nave taken her in when
sho ' was a lean, sharp-faced little
orphan, if it had not been for him?
But to-dav, when he found moths -in
liia best Sunday suit, tho floodgates of
lus wratli were opened, ami he scolded
Manny until site tools refuge in tears.
"I'd like to know," said Uncle
Joshua, "if this is what you call good
housekeeping I'd like to know what
I keen you here and lodge you for.
if this 'erc's the way my tilings is goin'
to rack aud ruin? Moths in my best
clothes, as I've had for nine years
como next October! In my clothes, as
I told you to beat and bang out in the
sun once a week, till the warm weather
was over!
"I'm very sorry, uncle," said Nanny,
drooping down like a daisy under ' the
mower's scythe. "I did forget it last
week. Oh, uncle, I m so sorry! Please
let me take them now; I'll mend the
place. so it will never be seen, and
air the clothes thoroughly 1 will in
deed!"
But Uncle Joshua shook his head.
I can't trust you,' said he sepill
ch rally. "I hain't no more confidence in
you, Nanny. I guess I'll write to my
cousin, H mow Lcuman, to come down
berc and keep house for me. Her sou's
going to get married, and she'll be glad
of a good home.
IV.tr little Nanny recoiled at this
dreadful hint. Cheerless as the old
Woodburn farmhouse was, it had still
been home to her. '
She was crvinir rerv nitifullv as she
picked over the basket of plantain-
greens by tho well, when Mark Dan
forth came thither for a pail of water.
Ho was the young engineer at
the factory, and the Woodburn
well was the coldest and clearest for
half a mile round.
Hallo! 'said Mark. "What's the
matter, Nanny? Have you hurt your
self?" ,
"No, no," faltered Nanny, half
ashamed of the tears, and quite
ashamed of their occasion. "But
Uncle Joshua isn't pleased with me."
"Been scolding you ch?" said
Mark, poising his pail ou the well
curb, and regarding the pretty droop
ing little creature with compassionate
eyes. . '
"Y yes. Uncle Joshua "
Mark Danforth sat down the pail
"Hang Uncle Joshua!" said he.
"Oh, Mr. Danforth!"
"Well, I mean it," protested Mark.
'He's no business to make you cry."
He'g-going to get the Widow Lea
man to come and keep house for him,"
faltered Nanny. "He hasn't any more
confidence in me."
Mark Danforth took the basket of
plantain-greens out of her hand, and
seated himself besido her.
"Nanny," said he, "I've got confi
dence in you. If Mrs. Leaman comes to
keep house for him. suppose you come
and keep house for me? I've wanted
to ask you to marry me this long time.
..Will you,' Naiuiy? You don't know
what a good husband I'll be to you!"
Nanny looked up with startled face.
She was only seventeen. Her first in
stinct was to run away and hide, her
second to put her hand into Mark
Danforth' and say:
"Yes." '
In the meantime, however, old Mr.
Woodburn had brushed and beaten his
Sunday clothes until it was a marvel
that the seams did not part company,
and started to hang them out of the
south garret-window, muttering cross
ly to himself as he did so. And Mrs,
Uigsbee, jogging down the road with a
" chaise well loaded with butter, eggs,
and dressed poultry chanced to look
up.
Good heavens!" cried she, dropping
her whip in horror and amazement,
"if Joshua Woodburn hain't gone and
1 banged himself! And Nanny at tho
mill! -I'd better go for Squire Notting
right on.
And in half an bom the neighbor
hood was aroused. Squire Notting
lift his dinner half-eaten, and went for
Dr. Hedges at once.
"If any thing's happened," said he,
"the coroner is the person to have on
the premises."
Mrs. Bigsbce tied her horso under
the shadow of (he nearest clm-trco.
"Tain'tin human natur to go on
scllin' . eggs and chickens, when a
man as you've sat next to in mectin'
for thirty-odd years is a hangin' out of
a winder, dead."
, Mrs. Holly sent a boy off to tell the
Widow Leaman, who was Mr. Wood
burn's cousin, once removed, and had
"expectations" from him.
"Much property hey?" said Dr.
Hedges. , . .-'"' .
'Well, pretty cousld'nble," answered
Squire Notting. "He was al'ays
pretty close-listed. Never nut nothin'
of any consequence in the church
plate. Well, well! we must all die.
And so he's hung himself! Last man
In the world I should have 'thought it
of."
The )ittle knot of solicitous neigh
bors advanced, whispering, along tho
sunny stretch of road. Achild, pick
ing blackberries under tho stone wall,
stared at them as they went by; the
mowers in the meadow swung their
gleaming scythe- to and fro iu tho
noon light.
" 'In the midst of life we are in
death,' " sonorously spoko .Squire
Notting, its he drew out his big yellow
lKK'ket-handkcrchiof, and flourished it
like a signal-banner. "We Hoy!
hollo! Bless my soul, if It ain't Neigh
bor Woodburn himself ! And ho ain't
hanged himself, nftor all!"
For iu tho midst of it all, a little
wicket-gate that led into tho vegetable
garden had swung deliberately open,
and Joshua Woodburn, carrying a
bundle of withered poa-vines in his
hand, came leisurely forward, as alive
as possible!
Mrs. Bigsbce uttered a screech; Dr.
Hedges stood still; tho squiro rnbbod
his eyes, and triod in vain to think of
a Scriptural quotation appropriate to
tho occasion.
"Mornin', neighbors morning'!"
Bitid old Joshua. "Pretty ttd'ablo hot,
ain't it, for this timu o' year?''
Tho neighbors slunk by, feeling . as if
they nail uoon uoicctcu in some 1111110.
Not until thev were well past the house
did Dr. Hedges turn reproachfully to
Mrs. Bigsbee.
"You told us he'd committed suicide?"
snarled he.
"Well, look for yourself," pleaded
poor Mrs. Bigsbce. "Ef that ain't a
man hangin outin tho garret winder
then I'm mistook."
"A man. indeed!" savagely uttered
Sou ire Notting. "It's a suit o' black
clothes, that's what it is! And here
you've been and raised the neighbor
hood about nothing! 1 111 nstonisheu
at you. Mi's. Bigsbee!"
"Mrs. Bigsbee went away in groat
wratli aud indignation.
"Any one's liable to be mistook,"
said she. "And Square Notting's no
gentleman to speak that way to
Fadv!"
Nanny was getting supper ready
that evening, and Uncle Joshua was
standing on a chair in tho buttery
putting some particularly lino Cochin
China eggs into an especial basket to
send to market on tho next morning's
carrier-cart, when the door flew open
as if a cannon had exploded ou the
other side of it. and the Widow Lea-
man bounced breathlessly into tho
room, with her rusty crapo vail flying
behind her like a meteor, ami a per
ceptible odor of peppermint accom-
pauvmg her footsteps. .
"Well." said she. "so the mean old
miser's gone at last!"
Nanny looked up from the bowl of
currants sho was stemming. - -"Who
do you mean t" said she.
"Why. Joshua, of course!"
Mrs. Leaman had seated herself on
the nearest chair, untied her bonnet-
strings, and was now fanning herself
with her pocket-handkerchief.
"Gone! Where?" said Nanny.
'He's dead, ain't he?" said Mrs. Lea
man.
"Me!" uttered a bass voice from the
buttery, as Uncle Joshua carefully de
scender irom me ciiair, aim waiketi
into his cousin's presence. "Dead?
Not much, I reckon! What was that
you called me, Luella? A mean old
miser eh? Well,' there's nothin
like speakiu' the plain truth, Cousin
Leaman!"
Mrs. Leanian turned as many colors
as the proverbial dying dolphin.
She gave a little gasp.
'I uever got such a turn in my life,
said sho bluutly. "They told me you'd
been and gone and hung youself,
Cousin Joshua.
"Me!" said the old man; "hung my
self? Be. I a likely subject for that sort
o thing.
Nanny began to laugh a soft
rippling little laugh, that seemed to
bubble out of the very fullness of her
heart
"I heard the same thing," said she,
"at the factory, Uncle Joshua. It seems
old Mrs. Bigsbce saw your best suit
hanging out of the garret-window to
air, aim aim sue mougni mat it was
you."
Uncle josuua ourstouiiaugningioo.
He could not help it
"Not yet, anyhow, sanl ho. "I he
mean old misers too sensible for that.
You ain't going, Cousin Leaman?
Won't ye sit down and take a bite of
supper with us? Da"
But the wuiow seaman excuseu her
self.
"I guess, Nanny, said the old man,
when sho and her crape veil and her
pervading odor of peppermint had
taken themselves off, "I'll change my
mind about having Liiiclla Leaman
here. I guess you'll do very well for
a housekeeper, if you 11 be a utile more
careful about my best suit of clothes
and the moths.
"Thank you. Uncle Joshua," said
Nanny, reddening like a rose; "but
but I've got a situation somewhere else
as housekeeper.
"i,h? saul uncle Joshua, peering
over the rims of his spectacles.
"1 111 going to marry Mark Dan
forth," said the little maid with down
cast eyes. . ....-.
Uncle Joshua was silent lor a second
or two. . ......
Than he took his niece a face Detween
his two hands and kisssed it.
'I'm glad on't," said he, "even
though' I shall miss you. It's a grand
thing for a girl to get a good husband,
and you may go to Millville and pick
out a wedding-gown, an' hev it charged
to my account. And don't spare no
expense, because you've deserved it"
And of all the girls in Millville little
Nanny was the happiest that night
, Her Feet and liair.
Miss Helen Dauvray possesses two
beauties her feet, which are of the
highest regulation American pattern,
and her hair, which is actually of inky
blackness. In these days of mixed
types, such hair stands out iu bold re
lief or rather. Miss Daurray's tresses
lie down iu unfashionable slickness
aud that is a relief; but these pleasing
features have not succeeded in turning
her out a good actress. I would go a
long way to see the Duuvray feet,
dressed as their little owner knows
how to dress them. And, like others
at the Hollis Street Theater recently, I
was not averse to the little dance at
the end of the second act, because it
ahowed them and the lace petticoat to
such advantage. All tho same, I hope
these impromptu steps are not to be
introduced into every society play.
Girls, even "birlwiud" girls in so
ciety are not in the habit of prancing
solus around a drawing-room when
their partners claim them for a waltz,
and why Polly Fargus should do such
a thing, unless she lias Carmencita and
Otero on the brain, passes comprehen
sion." The "skirt dance" fad will be
come uu absolute nuisance if it is to
bring down the curia in on alt and
every occasion, and I hope the charm
ing gymnastics may be copyrighted or
"protected" somehow before Mrs. Ken
dal breaks into tho present folly.
MISSING LINKS.
Thoroughbred'St. Bernard dogs sell
at from f 200 to f 1.W0 each.
Arlxonn has 701 miles of irrigating
canals that furnish water to 300,000
acres.
A. It. llemlrv. II venrs old. Isnrlucl
pal of the public schools at Autioch,
nlonatco county, tin.
Miss Mary Garrott of Baltimore has
a bath in her homo linotl with Mexican
ouyx that cost $0,000.
A Mexican millionaire named Terry
now owns the fastest trotting) horses
in l aris,' and promouades them daily
Mr. C. P. lluntlngtou begau life as a
tiu-peddler, aud while ho still has a
large quautity of tiu ho does not peddle
it.
Iu Unssia, which is tho great horso
country of Europe, - they uever put
blinders ou a horso, and a shying horse
is almost uu hoard of.
Mrs. Stanley has revived tho long
disused fashion among ladies of wear
lug tho hair in a simple roll at tho
back, and many, following her example,
. ... . , .... 1 !.
iiiivo atinpiuu ii.
Ciipt. William Farrlsh, who was pilot
of the Confederate ironclad Morrimuo
at tho time of the baltlo with-the
Monitor and tho frigates Cumberland
and Congress iu Hampton Koails, moil
the other day 111 Kiciiinoiui, v a. .
Geu. Merrltt declares that Sitting
Bull is tho rankest coward that ever
bedaubed his ugly face Willi paint. He
is a villainous old rascal, but as a war
rior ho is no good at all. Ho is ktiovrn
at home as the "squaw mau with much
talk."
Mr. Elliott of the Smitlisouian In
stitution thinks that seven years' in
activity in sea fishing is tho ouly tiling
that will save the seal irom extermina
tion. If the seal sactine could be run
out of fashion for awhile the same
end would be nttaiued.
Representative Laiiham. reelected
from the Eleventh Congressional Dis
trict of Texas probably tho largest in
the oouutry represents ninuty-seven
counties that iiro said to exceed iu area
ten Suites. Oue of the counties iu his
district is 1,000 miles by rail from his
home.
Gen. John XL Brooke, in command
of the Pine Bidge Agency, South Da
kota, is a native of l'oiutowu. Pa. He
is over six feet in height and robust
proportions, and during the late He
uclliou won distinction on the battle
field ' and was several times badly
wounded.
Mr. and Mrs. It 11 f 11s Moses of Cape
Elizabeth. Me., celebrated recently the
70th anniversary of their wedding.
Mr. Moses is the last of eleven child
ren. is 95 vcars of nge. and is hale and
hearty. His wife is 88 years old aud is
also remarkably well and active for
one of her years.
Gen. Lord Wolselcy, who shares
with Gen. Sir Frederick Kobcrts the
honor of being England's greatest liv
ing General, was on Longstreet's slaf
in the Kebel army, jut as tho Conite
tie Fans was on MoClcllan s. 10m
Ochiltree is the authority fortius story,
aud of courso it is true.
The latst fad of girls is a friendship
cane. It Is bung in the parlor, and is
ornamented with half yard strips of
ribbon or various colors, each piece
contributed by a friend. The girl who
practices this fad is under obligations
to remember the particular piece of
ribbon contributed by each friend.
Senator Evans said to a reporter the
other day: "I think now that, if 1
were standing where I was lifty-threo
years ago and journalism was what it
now is. I should choose ns the bus!-
ucss of my life that of a journalist.
can see in it greater possibilities than
are embraced 111 oilier professions."
A PERFECT CLIMATE.
Tlia Procession of the Seasons In South
ern California
There aro no sudden changes of sea
son here. Spring comes gradually
day by day, a perceptible hourly wak
ing to life and color; and. this glides
into a summer which never ceases, but
only becomes tired and fades into the
repose of a short autumn, when the
sere and brown and red and yellow
hills and the purple mountains are
waiting for the rain clouds. This is
according to tiie process of nature; but
wherever irrigation brings, moisture to
the fertile soil, the green and bloom
urn narnetunl the Year round, only the
green is powdered with dust and the
cultivated flowers have their periods
of exhaustion. .
I should think it well worth while to
watch the procession of nature hero
from late November or December to
April. It is a land of delicate and
brilliant wild flowers, of blooming
shrubs, strange in form and wonderful
iu color. Before tho annual rains the
land lies in a sort of swoon in a golden
haze; the slopes and plains are bare,
the hills yellow with ripe wild-oats or
ashy gray with sage, the sea-breeze Is
weak, the air grows drier, the sun hot
the shade cool. Then one day light
clouds stream up from the southwest.
and there is a gentle rain. When tne
sua conies out again its rays are
milder, the land is refreshed and
brightened, and almost immediately
a greenish tinge appears on plain and
hiu-sidc. At intervals tho rain con
tinues, daily the landscape Is greener
in infinite variety of shades, which
seem to sweep over the hills iu waves
of color. Upon this carpet of green
by February nature begins to weave
an embroidery of wild flowers, white,
lavender, golden, pink, indigo, scar
let, changing day hv day and every
day more brilliant, and spreading from
patches into great fields, until dalo
and bll and table-land are overspread
with a refinement and glory of color
that would be the despair of the carpet-weavers
of Dahestan. Chqrletl
vutuey narner, in narper$ Magazine.
mwi iuiiuium; u nation.
Forty millions of people on three
millions of square miles of territory do
not constitute the United Stales of
America. A million or so of people
occupying twenty-one thousand square
miles did not constitute Greece. It
was the Greeks who constituted Greece:
it is Americans who constitute Amer
ica. 8b many people thrown together
ou one territory no nioro make a na
tion than so many blocks of stone
thrown together in a pile make a tem
ple, or so many types in pi a book, or
so many threads iu a tangle a fabric.
Jt,vcry nation has Its own distinguish
ing features, its own type of character,
its own consciousness, its own life. To
constitute a nation there must be not
only peoplo and land and law, but
laws that are self-evolved, literature
that is the expression of national life,
language fitted to express that life.
and thureforo a life to lie omrcn.-il
Lymm Ablmtl in Tie Vaitury.
OiMi SHOT WAS ENO&GII
SUCCESSFUL BUT DANGEROUS PUR
SUIT OF A TICER.
How a Itnyal npsalmsn Was Traisil la
Ills Lair and Vnllawsd tu Ills
Heath,
Wo that is, tho major, doolor and
myself had been pottering about the
outskirts of tho Toral for sonic days,
hniilug to got news of a tiger, says a
writer in 'Harper's Weekly. Wo hud
just pitched our camp whim our slil
kurri, All by name, camo, hurriedly
to our tent, Baying that tho headman
of a neighboring vitiligo wished lo sneak
with us. With him were sonio of tho
villagers, who camo as a dvputatiou,
praying us to rid them of a tiger that
was playing sad havoo with their cat
tlo. Tho proposition was jumped at,
aud with All and two of his assistants
I returned to tho village with tho
headman. A wretched specimen of a
bullock was bought for a few rupees,
and was led out into the jutiglu,
A good spot was found iu an open
space that at some time or another had
been cleared for cultivation. A dead
treo stood conveniently near the dense
forest, aud to this tho bullock was
tied, and we left tho poor brute to iu
fate, while- two men climbed luto a
troo to watch. Dinuor was ready by
the time 1 returned to camp; aud the
major told us of his previous expe
riences with tigers. The doctor had
been on ninny a tiger hunt, but hud
novor yet bagged one of the royal
quarry. The fact of tho matter was he
was mad ou ornithology, and ho con
fessed that on more thau ouo occasion
lie had been watching some rare speci
men of the feathered tribe and lost
the golden opportunity for a good
shot.
Wo turned in early, aud soon the
camp was hushed iu silouco, but the
forest was alive with animal and in
sect life. Thousands of stimulating
cicada seemed to make tho very air
vibrate, while hero and there among
bushes the tire-flics flashed to and fro.
Afcovo all, the insect chorus, however,
could bo heard the howl of tho hyoua
or tho bark of tho prowliug jackal.
Daylight saw us astir, and with it
camo the welcome uews that the tiger
had killed our bait timing tho night.
Cliuulalnizri, consisting of coffee aud
eggs, was soou disposed of aud we
climbed into the howdah, strapped to
our elenhunt, end started for the vil
lage. Hero all was uxcltoniout when
wo arrived. The headman hud al
ready mustered all available hands for
beaters. Tom-toms, tiu cans, aud
short cudgels formed their armament,
nnd it was a motley crow that marched
out of the village that morning.
As we walked silently along the
juuglo path, fur we had left the ele
phant at tho edge of tho forest, getting
more aud nioro wet every step from
the dewdrops we shook from the tall
grass and overhanging boughs, the
wholo lino was suddenly brought to a
standstill.
In front was tho village shikarrl,
then followed the doctor. The latter
was the cause of tho halt As tho
major and myself pushed to tho front
we saw him cautiously pointing to a
treo nboro him with ouo hand, while
the other was stretched out for his
shot-guu.
"What the deuce is it?" asked the
major.
"Don't you see it?" answered the
doctor, excitedly. "Where's that fool
witli my gun?"
"Do you mean that infernal little
bird?" ijuestioucd the major.
"My dear major, that's 0110 of the
rarest of finches. Where's niyguu?"
continued the doctor in Himlostauoo.
For the moment wo were iccchlcss,
but the sight of the Imlf-frighlened
servant coming up with the gnu loos
ened ut least the major's lougue. Ho
seized the gun himself, and turning to
the doctor said: "Do you mean to
say vou are thiuking of shooting that
hirur
"Of course I am," answered the as
tonished doctor..
"And give the tiger notice of our ap
proach? I've a good mind to shoot
you first," nngrily retorted tho major.
liv Jove! 1 forgot all about the
tiger."
There was no doubt he had.
As we entered the open space signs
were not wanting that tho bullock had
been killed, for sitting on the boughs
of trees were vultures, while others
were circling abovo in tho air. As
we came lu sight of tho carcass two
jackals wcro seen running for tho
shelter of the neighboring jungle, while
some of tho carrion were gorging them
selves on the corpse. The tiger had
niado a meal of the hindquarters nnd
we could easily trace its spoor down
toward the nullah, or water courso.
The doctor, who had won first
choice of stations, determined to take
up his position in the fork of a treo
that commanded the open patch aud
also a short stretch of the nullah. The
major and myself had to mako a de
tour to tako up our posts lower down
the water course, ns in all probability
"stripes" would conclude to cross it
and seek fur shelter in tho dense jungle
beyond.
Half an hour saw us in position. The
major ensconced himself behind a rock,
with a capital view of tho now nearly
ury river heu nun a friendly treo 111
bis rear, while 1 commanded a long
stretch of the same, which just at tho
foot of the rock on which I lay took a
sharp turn to tho left. I also had a
partial view of the patch that the doe
tor was supposed to guard. Word was
sent to tho beaters, and I, at least.
waited anxiously for coming events.
It was not long before the silcneo of
the jungle was broken by tho noise of
the villagers.
Thero ure few things more exciting
than waiting to get your first sight of
a tiger. Despite the knowledge that
0110 must keep cool, the nerve got tho
upper hand, and it seemed as though
the holding of the-rillu steady hud be
come an impossibility. ,
Now and again tho long grass that
bordered tho nullah stirred, as some
deer, hog or jackal, fearful of the din,
would dash across tho yellow Hi ream
and vanish in the junglo that stretcheil
for miles behind me.
I was peering into tho thick under
growth when suddenly All touched
me and whispered, "Bnglil bugh!"
(tiger, tiger') pointing toward the plot.
. Yes, standing out in the open, with
its head turned in the direction of the
din and hubbub, angrily twilulilng Its
tail, stood a iinignilieuiit tiger, ful
some seconds they seemed nn hour
that tiger stood there somo 200 yards
from me and then turned back into
the woods. The noise of the beaters
grew louder and louder, and I was be
ginning to fear that tho boast Intended
to break through their line, wheu ul-
moat exactly opposite ino, tho tH
grass was gently unshod asldo aiiu out
hi to tho full gluro of day stepped the
tiger. It started to pass down tho
nullah, but for n second haltud on a
slab of rock to listen to tho uolso of it
enemies. '
It was a hplmidld shot. A sharp
crack of a rlllu ami lliuu to my Joy I
saw tho quarry lying 011 Its stomach,
tearing up tho ground around In H
Impotent rago aud growling as only a
tiger can. Thero wus no necessity for
a second shot, for as wo seruniblud to
tho top of tho rock that had coneoahm
us tho royal bruto rolled over 011 Its
side while a stream of blood from Iu
mouth niado assurance doubly sure.
FOOtINC THE CASRA.
Skllirully I'nliiteil Ku-i:ly linoalra the
I.usrs of tho riiotitgrauhSTS.
Somo of our girls are learning hew
lo be photographed beautifully and
trickily. "Have you observed and
wondered," said ono of tho most cele
brated of the camera men, "how well
tho actresses manage to look when the
evo of tho camera is focused on tliemP
Well. 1 can tell you how to do as well
us they do. First, choose an nrtistlo
photographer. No matter how lunch
you know about what you want and
what to wear, there aro matters of
view, and light and shade, tor which
you must depeud absolutely upon him.
llut he will uot bo nblo to advise you
how to mako up your face aud will
probably object swoopiugly to any such
dovlce. That Is whore lie is mlstakon.
If he wore wiso he would know how to
poao a girl, and thnu with a bit of
white and a bit of black chalk make
her lovely for that viow. Several of
tho Now York photographers do this
now. Tho stock pose, Into which
photographers, on general principles,
put victims over whom they don't In
tend to bother, is throe-quarters, which
Is an abomluation to most faces. There
is small chance for expresslou; tho eye
gets no show at all, aud tho coutour of
the check, which is seldom beautiful,
except in children, Is betrayed. You
will liud they have a rooted objuctlon
to full-face positions. I have never
been nblo lo discover why. Thero Is a
tondeucy to raise ono eyubiow higher
than the other, or look cross-eyed; but
it is his business to look out for that
and stop yon If your features begin to
wander around your face.
"Now, iu painting a face for pho
tography the eyes can safely bo made
up a great deal. Put black under the
eye, ouly don't let it bo just ouo heavy
black line. Shadow it out softly.
Blacken the lashes as much ns they
will stand, only don't let them be
lumpy. Increase tho apparent length
and sweep of tho upper lid, by which
tho size of the eye is judged, with a
line continuing (he line of 'the lashes,
and a parallel one continuing tho Hue
of the crease that shows just above
when the eye is open. Draw these
ouly as long as can be done without
their showing as lines. An actress ob
tained a clever picture, in which the
effect of very long lushes Is given by
lines, presumably shadows thrown by
said lashes, painted above tho eye, just
under the eyebrows. Uso red very
carefully. Your lips probably need
painting Into an improvement upon
their own shape. Do it softly, and
with very faint red. Itod takes black.
Look carefully and you will trace a
hard lino about the lips of many
actresses' photographs. Sometime
you dou't need to look carefully. If
you waut a dimple to show specially,
yon can heighten Us light and shade a
little; but unless your photographer
poses you so that the device doe not
betray itself the effect will bo a fail
ure Having thus accentuated your
face, don't disturb its arrangement by
a smile, or smirk, or any other grimace
of expression when the lens is opened
on you. Otherwise, art and nature
will mako a hopeless mess of your
features. But if you have planned an
expression in harmony with the make
up, lave it till tho last moment. The
operator Is bound to grip the back of
your neck with his monkey wrench,
and if you hang ou lo your joyful
smile nil through that ordeal you will
get something demoniac ami wild to
send to vour Friends." AT. Y. Sun.
A Kentucky Minister of the Olden
Time.
A tall, thiunish mau, wittl silky pale
brown hair, worn long and put back
behind his ears, the high tops of which
bent forward a little under the weight.
and thus took on the most remnrkablo
air of paylug incessant attention to
everybody nnd everything; set far out
iu front of these oars, as I hough it did
not wish to 1)0 disturbed by what was
heard, a white, wind-splitting face,
calm, beardless, nnd scorning novor to
have been cold, or to hnve dropped tho
kindly dow of perspiration; under the
serono peak of litis forehead a pair of
large gray eyes, patient and dream)',
being habitually turned inward upon a
mini! toiling with hiird abstractions;
having within him a conscience burn
ing always like a planet; a bachelor
being a logician; therefore sweet-tempered,
sever having sipped tho sour
cup of experience; gazing covertly at
womankind from behind the delicate
veil of unfamiliarity that lends en
chantment; being a bachelor and a
bookworm, therefore nlready old at
forty, and a little run down in hi
toilets, a little frayed out ut the elbows
and the knees, a littlo seamy along tho
back, a little deficient at the heels; In
pocket poor always, and always the
poorer because of a spendthrift habit
in the matter 01 secret charities; kneol
iug down by his small hard- bed ovcry
morning and praying that during the
day his logical faculty might discharge
its function morally, and that his moral
faculty might discharge its function
logically, aud that over all tho opera
tions of all his other faculties ho might
lind heavenly grace to exercise both a
logical and a moral control; at night
kneeling down again to nsk forgiveness
tliat.dospite his prayer of tho morning,
ono or mora of these same faculties
he knew and called them all familiarly
by namo, being a metaphysician had
gene wrong in a man nor tho most ab
normal, shameless, and unforeseen; thus
on tho whole, a man shy and dry.goutlo,
lovable, timid, resolute, forgetful, re
morseful, eccentric, impiilsive.thinking
too well of every human creature but
himself; au Illogical logician, an erring
moralist.u wool-gathering philosopher,
but humanly speaking, almost a per
fect mnu. James ham Allen, in liar
per's Magazine.
, Gethsemane's Garden.
It Is said that a wealthy gentleman
of Liverpool has purchased the Garden
of (ii'thseninne, near Jerusalem, la
which tho Savior pnssed tho night be
fore his criielllxion. Tho purcluno
was fiiude In order to prevent specu
lalors from carrying out their schemes
of building on tho sacred grounds ft
liolel for Ihn necniimw,,..ii,i f .,:.,!,...
aud tourists In thu Holy Luud.
WIT AND HUMOR-
Lovo Is ft spot'lei of Intoxication that
wells tho heart uisionu 01 m ..
Uo&ton Courier.
A saloon Is llko n Imi lmi'-most ot
tho wrecks tiro to bo found (Ultimo tho
bur. itirrs Hauls tigress.
Resolutions am llko moMnngcr bov.
Thoy nro tho easiest thlnjf Imaglnablii
to pass. llMlon Transcript.
Contributor "How much ought I to
get for that poem?" Editor "You
might to get about flftooa year."
"When I drink much I can't work,
and bo I lot It ftlnno." "The drink
lug?" "No, tho working." Fliegemls
Hhiellcr.
Mi's. Faiiglo "This Uusslan lufiunn
Kit Is very contagious, is it nut?" Faii
glo "S'os, eveu a duteetlvo could
catch L" .jb.
Tho lawyer In tho caso are llko a
pair of shears. They nnvor cut them
selves, but wliatlsbetwoou. Lauirsnat
American.
Brown "Does your wlfo keep her
temper very wellP" Joiio "Urn or
somo; but I get tho molt of IU"
Boston llatcUe. '
Tho reason why It hurt to havo
tooth nulled Is supposed to be that you
can't bite your lip at the tluio.
t'tkgcmls JlUulter.
When wo see a young father wheel
ing his first baby in the street wo ob
tain a realizing sen so of the joy of a
carriage nnd pure. Vuck.
Irate Hotwewlfu "You're always
breaking stunnthlng." Servant "Sure
but I ain't tried it on your record for
fault liiiding." limn Sentinel.
Bronson "See hore, Cadlny, did
you tell Siultlior I was tho meanest
white man that over lived?" Cad ley
"No, I dltlu't draw the color Hue."
It. X. Hun.
Tho poet lay that "TIs love which
makes the world go round." It also
makes thu young man "go around"
quite frequently Sunday nights, 21
ledo Commercial,
"What Is your Idea of a gentleman,
YollowlyP" "A true guutlmniui al
ways laughs at the joko of a story aud
never says that ho heard it before."
lioston Courier.
Ho "What did your father lay
when you told him that wo wore en
gaged?" She "Oh, Augntu,yoil must
uot ask me lo repeat such language!"
Voaton lhuljcL
A clever man has invented system
of reading iniisio for the blind. How
delightful I Now lliey can feel (he elo
quence of Wagner' inuslo without
having to hear it. ..
Wlckwlro "What Is tho reason
Mudge does not speak to you any
more? Have vou offended him In any
way?" Yalisley "Yes. I claimed
that he hud nothing but a common
cold." Terr Haute tixpres.
Jones "I never saw anything go
llko tho sugar In this house. Four
pounds in tlx weeksl It's awful! How
do you account for it?" Mrs. Junes
'I don't know unless the grocer puis
quicksand Iu it." Jliwjkamton header.
Severe Adorer (about to enter tho
ministry) "I trust you find a great
deal of comfort lu thinking of Script
ure verses." Interesting Invalid
"Yes, indeed! That text, Grin anil
lioar it ' doe 1110 a heap of good."
Life.
"By thunder, old follow, what has
happened to vou that you smile so all
thu time? What la it so good?" "O.
nothing at all, hut you sou ouo never
knows nowadays but somolxxly may
bo photographing him." t'ltegemi
UlaeUcr.
"I observe with regret, George," laid
George' father, "that you are still at
the foot of your class. Is there no pros
pect of your lining better?" "O, yes,
father; 1 expect lo lie second or third
In tho uo.vt class below net term."
A-', i'. Sun.
"Ynu know what a fashton Miss
Gnnwledge has of quoting proverbs at
all times?" "Yes." "Well, last night
as I remarked aUut midnight that I
must go, alio looked at the clock and
murmured, Better lato thau nover.'"
N. Y. Herald.
Primus "How did Forgo do at the
leaking?" Secundus "Well, sir,
when Fergus' tlmo came thoro was
round after round of applause." Pri
mus "Good! I must congratulate him
on his success." Sccnndii "And
when ha finished you could hsvo board
a piu drop." Harper's JJasar.
Young Wlfo (who has Just caught
sight of hor husband's face in tho mir
ror) "Why, dear, what's the matter?"
Husband (sarsgnlv) "I can't got tho
combination of this blanked four-ln-hnnd
tio." Wife (sweetly) "Well, be
careful not to look 'rouud this way,
dear; I'm feeding tho baby its milk."
After tho railroad accident. Hus
band (extricating himself from the
wreck) "Kmily, thank God you are
safel Heavens! Isn't this awful?"
Wlfo "Dreadful! Hear tho poor peo
plo groan I Dearest?" Husband
"What Is It, lovo?" Wlfo-"I my
hat on straight?" Burlington Frt
Press.
Smith "That was a Tory Inlerostlng
lecture of yours on tho Cnlaoombs. Did
you write it whilo yon wore in Home,
or nftor you returned home? Spoutor
"O. no, I wroto it boforo I went.
Wan tod to petit off my ml ml you
know, so that when I got nbrondTd
havo nothing to do but enjoy niysolf."
Boston Transcript.
The parties who undertook to show
the Faii-Amm-ican delegates the indus
tries of thu United Slates don't seem to
havo understood their business. The
greatest of all American Industries was
overlooked. The visitors were not
taken to tea a liase-balt match, A'ur
ristown Herald.
Mrs. Fnnglo "Did you see Dr. Big
pill last night, dear?" Fangln (absent
mindedly) "Yes, I saw him and went
him several hot tor, 1 mean, I saw liim
for a moment only, ami I forgot to tell
liim to call and prescribe for you. I'll
telephone to him us soou as 1 get to tho
ollico." Epoch.
From 11 Philosopher's Nolo Books
"Ono should never marry, because,
first. If the woman is plain sho will
form too disagreeable an object of daily
contemplation for nno's self: while.
second, if sho Is good looking sho will
provo top irresistiiiui nn ntlraetlon to
other peoplo." Judge. f
Now Plying Dress.
A now diving dress has boon adopted
by the Iiem h navy. It contains but
thrno Piei'ifs-helnict, collarette, nnd
body, i ho helmet Is llttud with on In
candescent himp.liiclinud forward at an
imglo which enables tho diver to derive
uiu iiiiiesi nuvaiitiigo from It, aud fitted
with protector and mirror.
INVENTIONS 0FBR00KLYN MEN.
Now Trps.Kotlliis Manilla anil an Kla
(rival Hmih-Miiii.lili PMMn,
I met a Brooklyn man limu in New
York tho other tiny who hii Inyoiitvd
clover arrangciiiunt for suiting typo,
which, he thinks, will rovoliiiluitlmulu?
whole huslnni lays a writer In tho
Brooklyn Kayh. It's a very simple,
looking lltllo iiiaeliliio, lommhliig lika
n typewriter, or at least tho keyboard
Is 'llio sniuo. When lint, compositor
i likes 11 liilieiod key It throws up Into
lino u matrix which remains In place,
the next key struck plum' the next
slung side, aud whun n lino of typo In
formed limited typo Is tliim cast and sot
up at the miuiii moment. This to re
moved mid the second lino formed mid
so on, tho work requiring about ono.
half the ordinary liuia consumed in
such inaUers, and tho result being that
tho type I always fresh nnd can nut ha
plod, n each lino Is a solid block. A
soon n lliosti'ivolyiMi I umdo tho lyj
goes back Into thu molting pot 11 ml I
ready for ui again. Thu N, Y. Trib
une and thu London Times havo for t
year or nioro boon employing typo-ant.
tiug machines with gru it deal of suc
cess, but tho inachliii! Is tt htlHirlou)
and clumsy nlluir, and tho Brooklyn
man thinks ho ha Improved 011 It s
much ns 1I10 second order of sowing.
machines Improved oil the old "corn
hellers" that llowo llr-t put upon tho
market when It was llrst Invented to
savn woman stitches, but which re
quired uhtrnt tvvo-homi power to work,
i'ho invuntor claims ho can make these
machines and soil l hem fur t:iW, and
that they will do tho work of threw
num. lie Is as milliinlaMlo 11 most
of these Inventors nro, aud think hi
much I no will cicala dismay iu Ihtf
typographical unions. After a while
tliiiro wilt bo uothlng iiiurti for mull lo
do; machinery will do It oil.
There I another Brooklyn man who
spends tho great part of his days lu
New. York, hu is also an Inventor,
lie Is rich and belongs to well-knowu
society Mopt, but likes to dabble in
electrical matter fur his own amuse,
monk Hi latest device Is an electri
cal nose, which, w lieu It smells smoke,
rings a bell, and If It smells a very
great dual of smoke turns In a fire
alarm. That sounds liko a Joke, but It
Is an acltml electrical fact. The dia
gram of the machine Is m treated that
the action of siuiiko iipnn it causes It to
move and set an ahum Im-I! ringing,
and this I'ffeek Increased, connects
with a lire alarm. U Is curious to sue
tho model, w hich is set 1111 here iu tlm
owner's olllce, when the Inventor puffs
a mouthful of smoke from his cigar
upon it. The bell rins wildly, and II
hu continues to blow tho smoke in it
makes prompt connection with a lire
alarm. In Inventing till nose the
Dnmklyulto stumbled iihiu what Is
probably ono of tho mol remarkable
discoveries shire tho discovery of elco
trleliy Itself. Tills new discovery has
not yet been sullicleully tested for the
discoverer 10 bo willing to Inform the
world of lis nature, but It is likely to
create a great revolution iu the manu
facture of all fabrics of every ilescrli
liou when hu ha niado sulliclcnt ex
periment to io sure of his ground.
These Inventions stumble so closely
upon each other's heels I hat the faculty
of wonder loses its sensibility, but
whom a means of Micnding n great
natural law Is reached ouo limW U lm
Hisible to grasp with tlm imagination
tho possibility 01 man s luturo control
over tho inanimate world.
Iiiiilloroii rlrror.
The method of lending tommy oil
furniture, which has sprung so far and
rapidly Into public favor, U constantly
begetting ludicrous errors In chattel
mortgages, said a clerk In tho record
er's ollli u U 11 Si. Iiuls (Hob Demo
crat reporter. This is duo to tho fact
that so many Illiterate men with small
capital and n passlmi t Increase it like
slily ar indulging. Wo aro compelled
ly law (o copy ct cry instrument put
here for record letter for letter. If
thero Is nil error wo copy tho mistake,
but underscore it lo Indicate that it is
nut the fault of tho olllce. Nut long
since a man presented a mtirlgiigo that
desciilMid "a blue mule with red plush
trimmings." Whether It was nil arliels
of parlor or street car furniture I do
not know, but I suppose ho did.
Another curiosity was tho description
of a "marble top slovo, a bureau wllh
oven baking ulenslls.a lutttico-colored
silk dress, mined with yellowish blue
fringe lnco and flour barrel Ihlu' be
hind, nnd a patent apparatus for stir
ring eggs up lino." "Lusteilcss silk
(V), a frying pan, egg hatcher, cracked
spittoon, sausage miicliiuo and Reub
en's chromo" is an extract I got from an
Incongruous collection ouo dny. "A
bureau with a tonkin' glass an' drawers
to set what's left over lu," was the sen
tence used by one limn to keep track of
a siiiiiiKuird, An a leie-a-teiu was re
corded as a "set I en with both end
WNi'ped Skin ways and Iho back In tho
middle," while uu Invalid chair wus
marked down by nn expressionist as a
"double bicycle chair, liuvlllsh cosy to
set In any shiuio." But ono I remem
ber excelled all. It ipoko of a line
taxidermist,' cabinet ns ft "glass, case
full of dead birds that dou't stink and
a iqulrrul to boot."
But their orthography I grenk Cur
tains often go ns "kii tiiisV center table
a "sent hor Inhil," nud bedstead with
mattress as "begMtld wit ticks," while
"sulii' maslieon," "xlOshuu table" nnd
'sorcotwnr" for escritoire are common,
though "chickens In a pernio'' for a
Chickerliig's piano is not. But those
must bo rendered, 011 our book true to
copy, which led to a very quaint en
grossment 10011 after tho legislature re
ducud thu number of notaries publlo
from 700 or BWJ to 100. Ono of th
ousted notaries, in writing his last
acknowledgment, took occasion to re
mark at the bottom that tho member
of tho lust assembly wero a class ol
moil which ho designated by a hyphen
ated trio of word which few American!
will bo called without trying to whip
somchody.mid the application of which
is popularly considered a Justilicatioo
for trying lo whip anybody. But hi
opinion was recorded and will stand fur
year as 11 concise sizing up of a de
funct legislature.
Footling Chicken Jly Clockwork.'
Fred Loach of Ansonla has aoiuo fine
poultry, and ho .believe In feuding
thorn as regularly as lm eats his owu
meals. Ho Is uniiblo to bo at homo at
night boforo the chickens go to roosk
and in order that they may bo fed
without full ho has rigged up nn ap
paratus which works' like a charm.
Tho usual nu amity of corn is placed in
ft tin can, which is suspended front ft
string nnd wulglik An alarm clock In
the outer coop releases the spring at a
certain hour, tho can turns bottom
lido up, nc I the corn is scattered,
l'liero nro four coops and cunli has its
can, all working ut the sum" time,
cVu Havnn lulludiunu