JUtt WINDS OF GOD.
Blow, tnft apring wlndl
f,.t f n, ..Lv at when dawn Ilia llfV
Th ihuiowi alowlr ciwn, tod braveo'l lit
lum K
fiMMik of ev'nlng nigh,
Fan wuh thy living breatb the routing artli,
And M Hit voioa toll to all drowar li'artj
Tb wr'i new birth.
B.O" tumiicr wind!
When, tfler Hv f drought end nultcn beat,
Out of tii heaped-up cioudi there coniei a
ouna
T.Hia rholnr fast.
While from the diaunoe, borne on breeiy wing,
The rein descending on tb tbintr plain,
JU beauty lliuga.
Blow, lutumn wind!
Outon Ihe yellow wooili end itubble landi;
Btir tbe brown brake end traiter tbiitle down
With myriad handa,
Rtnnn flr tnhni" aftur toil rttt:
Br atreneth and wcaknoM. yea, by life and
4 a -
death,
Tbe woi Id il bleat.
Blow winter wind,
rinl nVr Lhc tiinibllnir aeaa roll cloud and mint;
lioar through bar branches, atriking wiiard
note
Where'er you liat.
Driving the ihii: and in and out of all
Working Ocd'a will who, from thetroicnae
Came at bia call.
Blow, breath divinol
Beyond the di'pth of tbe unrounted host,
Beyond the inynlin circle of tbe iky,
Come, Holv Oboetl
Lot hatred, b.'uajilioriir and ain aapire
To raiao their tlevil-tnronea amid the gloom;
Come, ijuenidileM fire! -Ycal
and the world la buried at ill in night,
And loud and long thy watchmen warn iu vain;
Come, living lignu
, Argoay.
Kold'i Time Barer.
Tbe other morning as the munaging
editor of the only really first-class adver
tising medium on the Pacific coast
was grinding out an editorial entitled,
"Our Corrupt Legislature," terrible
chattering and scratching was hoard on
the stairs, and a man and and two dogs
entered with noise gonerally suggestive
ol hurricane behind time.
As a usual thing the M. E. of a daily
paper nover answers a preliminary ques
tion inside of fifteen minutes, but in
this case the pnblio instructor turnod
furiously around and demanded to know
what tho dovil the intrudor wanted. The
man was raw-boned, jukey sort of a
customer, in ft red shirt and yellow
pants, and bis dogs, bngo, sorabby look-
lug mongrols of the approvod poorhouse
breed.
"Why, I want this yer paper to go for
that swind'in' bench show up here at
tlier rorvillian, said the intruder, doftly
aiming a squirt of tobacco juice at the
editor's loft too. "It's the durn bluinest
put up job since the Hoenan and Bayers
tight, and I want yon fellers tor jump
right on to it with both foot an' don t
you forgit it."
"You don't say so, now?" 1
"Yas, I do say so, young feller; I've
bin a taking the Post for the past four
years."
"From tho doorstops, I suppose," said
tbe quill driver, grimly regarding ono
of the docs engaged iu swallowing the
dramatio critio's lunuh, basket and all."
"From niy own doorsteps, smarty; so
I think you follors are bound to give me
lift.'
"Oh. we'll give you a lift fast enough,"
said tho journalist, wondering why the
fighting editor was always out wlion
wanted."
"All right, thon; I'll give you the
business. You see, this wbolo d d
Bench Show Committee aro a gang of
old stiffs and duffers, who aro work
ing to got all the prizos for their own
lot of brokon down curs, and nerowding
out all tho fine Mood iu town. Now, just
look at that animal, uniy nrst-ciass
pointer in tho State, and they acterally
wouldn't let bira in. Lie down tlioro,
Bonypartel" and be throw a ruler at the
leanest of the two shodowa, who was just
finishing tho paste pot.
ltestiaining an inclination to blow a
police whistlo. tho moulder of publio
opinion led the way to another room
Extondod. on a lounge in tho corner was
the figure of a man with au exchange
covering bis face,
, "This is tho man you want to too,"
said tho editor. "He is our sporting
editor. lies not asleep the light hurts
bis eyes, you know. Just go ahead and
tell him all you know," and bo slid
out.
"Well, then, as I was asaying," con
tinued tho dog owner, lighting a five-
center and taking a seat, "they wouldn't
let that splendid animal enter their
blamed old show."
"Woll-and then?" said thoS. E. from
under his paper.
"Tho cheek of that crowd is iiiBt aw
ful, and yet they let in Mcares' lot of
snide rabbit dogs, and Colonel Taylor's
mangy, ono-eyod, brokeu-dowu wrook of
ft watch dog.
"Well-audthon?"
"That air dog, Munchor I call him
Muneher. because he's such a bog has
got nioro trainin' than all the rest of 'em
put together. I sold him onco to a man
goin' to Australia. Tho man lost him in
Sydney, and in loss than two weeks he
reach home again. Swum all the way,
Now, what do you thiuk of that?"
."Woll-and thon?"
1 Ohl bo did no end of other things
aavod six men from being drowned,
acts as spociul watchman and Fire Patrol
on the square whore we live. Tumi on
the alarm every time."
"Well-ndthen?"
"Why, ain't that enough? Now,
Bonyparte, here, is the bent duck dog as
walks on logs, lie lioa in the tules and
2uaeks just like a mallard decoys the
ucks right up to him. When they light
he dives under the water, catches 'em
by tho legs, pulls 'em do we and swims
ashore with 'em. Uot ninety-two last
Batnrdoy." .
"Well-and then?"
lions, too. Hunts 'em hisself. Last win
tor be killed two about ten miles from
camp tied their tails together and
polled 'em both "
"Well-and then?"
"What tho infernal blazes do yer
mean by croaking that way every few
minutes. You can't como any nv yer
games on me, young feller. Yer can't
gay me fur ft cent. Get up here and I'll
paste yer one on tber mob fur yer gall."
"Well-ftnd then?"
Tho exasperated dog fancier was about
to fetch the exasperating sporting writer
tremendous kick in the ribs when
gust of ir blow off Iba paper. Instead
of bead, the figure on the lounge,
(which was carefully dressed in thread
bare elothoa to rosemble a newspaper
man) ended in a eigar box. Let into
thin waa tin tube, which led through
the plastering into tho next room. Mncb
amazed, tho dog trainor opened the ad
joining door. At the othor end of the
tube smaii ana ainy pnnwr uevu
tat, sloepily watching the clock ana
working off the familiar aentonce every
two minutes. tie waa rnnnlng tnat
bnautiful and wonderful invention of
Whitolaw llcid'a known as tbe Patent
Intorviowor, or Editor'i Time Baver.
The man with a griovance threw off
bia hat and rolled up bis sleeves with ft
bowl, but before be could annihilate the
entire staff, be was seized with an epi
leptic fit and rollod clear down four
flights before be came to t'ogs and all.
Hut whon the racket bail died out the
sleepy devil calmly pnt bis lips to tbe
pipe ana remarked:
"wen. ana tuonr
For the Time Saver qn ft daily works
day and night hit or miss. Jo. I.
Post.
The Black Death.
Already Europe is becoming alarmed
at the appourance of the plague, or black
death, in the East, and fears are ex
pressed that it may spread westward. It
therefore becomes important to know the
characteristics of the disease, ine lion-
don Standard states, on pathological
grounds, that it is a "very malignant
form of contagious fovcr," which breaks
out suddenly in certain localities and
spreads with frightful rapidity, and that
the present "typo" is as virulont as that
of tlm Middle Ares. It is oharacterJtod
by swollings of tlie lymphatio ghJnds
and by carbuncles, and beyond doubt
one seizure seems to afford no security
against a second attack. This is, how
evor, a point upon which physicians have
not often had a chanoe of studying, since
the pest does not usually louve tue
same individual ft chance of experiencing
its symptoms twico. It has beon con
tended that it is not contagious, but in
almost every case of an outbroak tho (lis
ease has been traced to persons having
como from in foe tea districts, in tue
Astrakhan epidemic of 1879, and in that
of 1771, which cut off lou.wu people in
Mosoow, tho pestilence was known to
havo been brought, in one instance from
Central Asia, and in the other from
Choczin. Again during tho latter out
broak, tho 1400 inmates of the Imperial
foundling Hospital, who were isolated
and in 1813 tho town of Jegla, in Malta,
which was Bbut off from Valotta, where
tho disease was raging, entiroly escaped.
Quarantine, however, as a preventive
against tho ravagos of the cholera
bos beon proved to be utterly
futilo, and it is vory gpnerally
allowed that it is not much more
potent as barrier against the plague
No othor form of death boa ever enlisted
into its sorvioo historians of such bril
liant tulent. Do Foe could not bavo been
an eyo-witnoss to the horrible soonos of
ldtiO in London, But lie bad doubtless
talked to many who bad survived those
droadful times and were familiar with the
tales of the corpso-earrying wagons go
ing its dreadful rounds, of the living
being unable to carry out the dead, and
London deserted by tue court, and, in
dood, all who could escape into the
country. In "Rionzi" tho late Lord Lyt
ton has given an auoount scarooly less
Pictorial of tho plaguo in 1 lorenco, and
In almost every other European country
"the pest whiou crept liko a foul
miasma ovor Asia, Northern Africa and
Europe, from Naples to Archangol, and
even to distant Oroonland, where it
smote tho Esquimaux by thousands, has
secured such able chroniclers that at the
slightest sign of its reappearance west
ern Europo naturally grew alarmed. In
the years IMS, lUCl, 1303, 15GD, and
1C02 London was visited by the "Bluck
Death," though these early attacks of tho
disease sink into insignificance when
compared with that whioh desolated tho
city in 16T5, tho year which will evor bo
known as "tho year ol the piuguo," in
reality, however, though it caused before
Christmas a mortality of 68,01)0 out of
the 000,000 pooplo whioh the metropolis
thou contained, it did not abate until
ItlOG, while in the thirteen subsequent
years there were many fatal cases recor
ded. Hut after 1079 no death from plague
is known to havo occurred, and 1704 so
entiroly bad it disappeared that the namo
of tho disease was actually omitted from
the bills of mortality
A Womfto'i Tlctory.
Across tho river there lives a woman
who has been twico married but is now a
widow. She has one child of her first
husband and two of ber second husband
to support. When tho latter gentleman
(Ilea no was in ueui oy au emiorseiueui
i , . i . i ... i .
for $1000, aud among bis assets was a
seoond mortgage on ft small farm which
it would not pay to take owing to the
size of the first mortgage, How tho wife
managed to work things whon thrown on
her own resources makes quite a story of
feminine Now England enterprise lake,
for example, tho case of the worthless
second mortgage The owner of the
farm bad abandoned tho property, and
the holder of the first mortgage, real
mnir that somo ilnv he would net it.
thought it wise to Win early, aud so
planted a crop on tho land in the spring.
The plucky widow, however, finding it
would take him several months to (ore-
close, got from tho owner deed of the
land. Then sho went and plowed under
the first mortgage man a crop and set the
fields herself to tobaoeo. The other
party was owerloss until tho machinery
of tho law foreclosed bis bond, and, be
fore that time, tho widow bad cut and
removed bur tobacco and was just so
much in. Bv ulnck and activity, work
ing bard herself, she got along supported
herself aud family, and, little by little,
reduced the face ol the SUWU dobt.wuicu
farm, and was held by ft trustee, and so
oould not morally be compromised by
him. Finally by ber own labors she
cleared the whole farm of debt aud
wiped tho mortgage all off. This per
haps answers the question whether
farms ran be made to pay in Connecti
cut. To finish tho story it may be added
that the husband loft uo will and conse
quently the farm, now that sh has paid
for it, does not belong to ber but his
children, and for all her labor she has
no ownership. The law ia rather queer
bits working sometunts. Springfield
Republican. 1
Ira, General Logan.
A special correspondent of the Cincin-
ton, says of Mrs. Senator Logan: All
my personal knowledge of Mrs. Logan
was gained in three short visits, so it is
not extensive.-Bhe is beautiful woman,
with snow white hair and dusky eyes;
with the merry laugh of girl, and tho
tender kindliness of mother. To the
young ladies who bavo been with ber
during tho winter she has the caressing
manner which so endears mature life to
young hearts, and enters at the same
timo into their frolics and adventures
with the spirit of 10. There is nothing
prosy, precise, or mocking about Mrs.
Logan Yot sho is verr earnest in ber
convictions and conscientious in princi
ple. She is a Methodist and a teeto
taler never touches wine or offers it to
others. That she was an incorrigible
girl, the following aneolote, which she
a1ua1 irk anma vnnn innVPnt CM 11 II "
is proof:
"1 wont to Catholio school; the dear
old sisters, what trouble I made them!
When we went into chapel I would nover
go through all that bowing, and I was
taken to task. I said I was a Protestant,
and I would not do it. I was very fond
of the Mother Superior, and she pnt it
on the ground of our affection that I
should conform to this. It was a small
thing for me, and it would please bor
very inucb; it was very mortifying to
have me bold my bead stiff, when all the
others, whether Protestant or Catholic,
made tho gonulloxion.
"I said: 'Now Mother, you don't want
me, just bocause I love you, to do a
thing which I don't behove in? It would
1)0 mockery, hypocrisy. You would not
teach ine that, would you? You are so
honest snd so pure and so sweet?'
Nothing more waa ever said on the sub
joct; but I was put at the head of the
prooossion of girls, and oonsoquently
whon we entered the church my failure
to bend was not so noticeable as it would
have beon in the middle of the line."
"But what was such a trivial thing,"
snggosted ft young hearer; "I should
thiuk you would have done that, as all
the rest did. It was nothing wrong."
"My dear," returned the lady, "there
are no trifles in life. It would have
boon mockery in me to have followed
the slightest custom to which my heart
did not assent. If I believe thing, I
do it; if I do not believe, I do not do
it simply because others do.
"Don't you see? It is vory much
easlor to fiva happy if you follow this
rulo." Tho gentlo pat on the girl's lit
tle hands, and the bending of the
protty white head ovor tho blonde
bangs impressed tho lesson as argu
ment could not have done.
"But I was an awful girl," continued
Mrs. Logan. "I often wonder bow
thoso dear old sisters put np with me,
There was a cometory near
bv our school. One of our girls
married ft Protestant, who died during
tbe honeymoon. It niado groat ira
pression on our romantio minds. He
was buriod just the othor side the fence
in nnconseorated ground. His wife was
a Catholic, but he was not a professing
believer. It looked so hard-hearted to
put that poor follow out of the palo,
One night 1 got a lot of girls and we
went down to the gravoyard, took down
the fence it was an old-fashionod stake
and rider and built it up so it took in
tho grave. In a few days it was discov
ered, and the rails roplaood. So our
band workod all winter; first we would
bring that poor man's body within con
socrated limits; then the authorities
would Bet the fence straight again. At
last I was discovered, aud threatened
with expulsion if I ever did if again. 1
ill i.-l it T 1
nover mu uuiu tun iiikiii utuuio x kiou
uated. The next day it had not boon
discovered I bado good by to school,
and sisters, and priosts. I said to Father
, 'I want to make ono last reqnost of
you. Floose don't tear that fence down
again. I built it strong tins time; pleaso
let poor Mr. Smith etay in your yard.'
"I novor will forget bow horrified
Fathor looked. Just as I was lcav
ing for good, I pooped in to see if he was
in a good humor, lie laughed in spite
of himself, and shook his long finger at
me as I drove away.
'I did not see that place again tor
ovor twenty-five ycors. A fow years ago
I wont back on a viBit. no one know
wus coming, vt hen x was at scuooi i was
a slondor thing, wore my hair ourlod
down my back, and put back with a
round oomb. I look so unlike now what
I was then that my own mother would
not know mo, but as I was crossing the
stilo over the fence, tho old portress
cnod out: 'lioro is Mary coming liomo,
comiug ovor tho stile, and when I got to
the door the sisters wero gathered there
to welcome mo.'
"For all I am a Trotestant, I had my
daughters educated in a convent the
sisters and tho old convent school are
among tho vory sveotost memorios of my
life."
"Did you find Mr. Smith out in the
cold whon you weut back, after twenty
five years?"
"Yes. poor Mr. Smith's grave was
suukou and almost obliterated. I gave
up trvinff to get him into tho fold, but I
pulled the weeds off and freshened him
up a littlo ono day when 'Sister' and I
wero walking ovor tho old grounds. She
had bunch of wild roses sho had tokeu
from a bush in the pasture, and we put
that on his shabby old grave. All of
his own folks Boomed toliave forgotten
him."
Mrs. Logan's work basket stands by
tho Senator's writing table in their
rooms and ono evening I found bright
silk hexicons scattered over and above
the letters and documents thereon.
'I am making a silk quilt you see; yes
I always sew when I talk, and as I talk
most of the time, I sew a good deal.
That is what Mr. Logan says. I always
keep some little pick-np work around.
My silk quilt is almost fin is hod. Some
pwpia thiuk these preiiy iinie things
waste of time, I do not. I do this when
I would be doing nothing else. The
combination of colors is ft great pleasure
to me. I enjoy work in colored silks or
crewels especially. Mending? Yes;
what woman is exempt from mending?
This is my company work, the socks I
keep for Mr. Logan. When I appear
with an apron fall of socks and sit down
by my husband's side, be realizes that
he is in for it. Socks mean a good family
talk."
Mrs. Logan during this pleasant tete-a-
tete, showed ns the picture of her grand
son, the child of her only daughter. On
one card the little fellow sitting on bis
father's knee, bos beside bim two grand
fathers and two great-grandfathers. In
the other photograph he is surrounded
by two grandmothers and two groat
grandmothers. A very unusual sight
this ia, and gives promise of long lifo to
the beautiful little rogue sitting so un
concernedly amidst three generations of
bis kin,
Tim are bloominflf plants in the win
dows, a fur robe thrown over ft lounge.
placqnes on the walls, tidios on the easy-
chairs, ferns and grasses nodding auove
picture-framos; framed photograph of
the General is on Mrs, Logan's tuble,snd
a pearl encirclod portrait of tho same
face fastens the lace at ber nock.
T am anrrv that I cannot toll the in
quiring friend more about Mrs. Logan,
for I share bor interest iu ber. She has
tho name of brilliant, magnetic wo
man, of irriststible power. 1 can only
give the glimpses I have had of her in
her home, ami surrounded bv ladies.
Thess brief glances have impressed me
with her remarkable magnetic power,
her simplicity of manner, and ber de
votion as ft wife and mother.
Or the feanie Opinion Still.
The renowned "sun" orator.Rev. John
Jasper, preachod from the Book of Exo
dus: "The Lord is a man of war; the
Lord is His name." In a very graphic
manner tho preacher carried bis large
and very attentive audience over tho
times, when Israel was in Egypt, and
across the lied Sea, the Wildorness, the
Jordan, passed Jericho, and down to the
wars of Joshua; and at this point proved
to the satisfaction of a large class of his
bearers that Joshua did command the
sun to stand still." Tho preacher refer
red to many passages referring to the
the rising aud going down of the sun.
Ills logic about the distance of the sun
from the earth was very fine, when with
contempt lie said some wise mon, so
called, stated the distance to be 40,000,
000, others 50,000,000, and one as much
as 104,000.000 miles.
"Whar could you got tape line long
enough to ineasuro such a distance? And
how could a man got up close enough to
the sun to latch it on so as to measure?
The railroads can't got thar. The bal
loons come nearer than anything elso,
but who can go up? ' Now, in August it
is bo hot here that folks want an nm
brella, a fan, and plenty of ice water,
and yet those wise mon say we are 104,
000,000 of miles from the sun. It is too
foolish to believe such stuff."
And, turning around, ho looked into
the faco of ono of tho most accomplished
divines iu Virginia and one of the best
civil engineers in this oountry. Air,
Jasper treated all such figures as the
work of a wicked, foolish mind, who was
not satisfied with the plain word of God
bnt must go outside to teach such things
that no man can learn. To his mind the
idea of the earth being round is so fool
ish that ho would not insult his hearers
with any argument on this subject. Tho
Scriptures say the earth has four corners
and that was proof to him that ii, is not
round.
"How could men be under his feet?
How conld they stick to the earth? Dey
must be like flies, that can walk on the
walls. I don t believe any such stuff.
Mr. Jaspor is a most earnest man, (fully
believes all ho says, wields a powerful
sway over his people, who regard him as
the most powerful preacher of their
color. Richmond Dispatch.
Silk Waste.
It was quite by accident that Lister
conceived the idea of utilizing silk waste.
Going one day into a London ware-bonse
he camo upon a pile of rubbish which
strongly attracted his attention, lie had
never scon anything like it before. He
inquired what it wits, and was told that
it was silk waste. "What do you do
with it," ho asked. "Sell it for rubbish
that is all," was the answer; "it is impos
sible to do nnythingjflse with it. " Mr.
Lister folt it, poked his nose into it, and
pulled it about iu a manner that aston
ished tho London warehousemen. It
was neither agreeable to the feel, tho
smell, nor the touch; but simply a mass
of knotty, dirty, impure stun, full of bits
of stick aud dead mulberry leaves. In
the end Mr. Lister mode the offer of a
half ponny a pound for the "rubbish,"
and tho side was then and there conclud
ed, the vendor boing especially pleased
to get rid of it on such advantageous
terms. Whon Mr. Lister got this "rub
lush" to Munningham, bo spent some
time in analyzing it, and he came to the
conclusion that there was something to
bo done with it. no found silk waste
was treated all the world over as he had
seen it treated in the London warehouse
as "rubbish." Ho built new machinery
and imported skilled workmen, and in
the end conquord his difficulty. But he
spout nearly two millions of dollars in
perfocting machinery for the manufac
ture of silk waste before be ever mode a
shilling by it. Now, thanks to bis per
sovoranoo, everything that enters within
the gates of the Manningham mills is
utilized in some shaio or other, a sur
prising variety ol articles being pro
duced from silk waste. The following
mav be enumerated bv way of example:
Silk velvets, velvets with a silk pile and
a oottou back, silk eartots, plush, velvet
ribbons, imitation seal-skin, corded rib
lous, sewing silks, Japanese silks, pop
lins, silk cleaning-cloths for machinery,
bath towols. floor-cloths, dish-cloths,
etc. And all these from tho once despised
silk waste! The consequence has been
that silks have been greatly cbeaiened,
and that a material which was regarded
as worthless has come to have a value in
the market.
Cuccolatk. For those who wish to
;eep the imagination fresh and vigorous,
'lioenlatu is the beverauo of beverages.
However copiously vou have lunchod. a
cup of chocolate immediately afterward
will produce digestion three hours after,
and prepare the way lor a good dinner.
It is recommended to every one who de
votes to brain-work the hours he should
pass in bed; to every wit who finds he
baa become suddeuly dull; to all who
find the air damp, the time long, and tbe
atmosphere insupportable; and, above
all, to thoso who, tormented with a fixed
idea, have lost their freedom of thongbt.
To make chocolate (it must never be cut
with a knife) an ounce and a half is
requisite for a cup. Dissolve it gradu
ally in hot water, stirring it the while
with ft wooden spoon; let it boil for
quarter of an hour, and serve it hot with
milk or without, according to taste. '
Tbe Fashions In Women.
Tho fashions in womon are varying,
like tho shapes of bonnets, and tbe
colors of thorn, and the coming and
going of flowers and feathers and rib
bons. We nsed to be ooutented with the
simple fashion of dark or of fair women,
each of whom had their particular sea
sons of success,bnt the world has become
more exacting in its tastes and now de
mands that the women in fashion at the
moment shall be not only of the fashion
able oomplexion, but shall also have the
known fashionable features. Just at
this timo the style seems to be of women
with large mouths, a style quite as un
accountable as anything doviBcd by dress
maker or milliner. Who invented this
fashion of big mouths it is impossible to
state officially, but it probably has its
advantages, if anybody oould tell what
they are. The lare mouth is pretty
generally accompanied by a generous ex
panse of lips, and woman's lips are a
thing of actual delight that the inventor
of the fashion of large mouths doubtless
supposed there could not be too much of
them. If they wore delightful and sweet
according to their size this would com
pletely account for t' e fashion, but as
they are not always so and as fashions
are quite often popular because they are
actually bidoous, tbe present style is
not fully accounted for and the confusion
is made still greater by the ever present
probability that in a week or a month
the fashion may demand small mouths.
All tho arguments and reasons in behalf
of large months would then seem ridi
culous. Thero is but ono conclusion:
The mouth is large because it is tbe
fashion, and that is all the reason that
an.vono who follows the fashion wants.
The suddonness with which fashions
of all sorts change must lead to particu
lar embarrassmont in the matter of fash
ions in women. Nobody can make over
a big mout h to suit the caprice of fashion
as bonnets are made ovor into shapes and
sizes. The blue eye in style to-day can
not be made over into a grey eye or a
block to meet the fashionable require
ments of to-morrow. Thedimplo cannot
bo taken from the chin when dimples go
out of style, and the pug nose will re
main a pug in spite of the fact that the
fashion may demand any other sort of a
nose but that. It is going to make it
very troublesome for the man who wants
to get married. If he cares anything
about the slyloB and every man cares
moro for such things than he is willing
to have thought he is likely at any mo
ment to discover that his wife is alto
gether out of fashion. If he had married
her because her big ears were in the
very height of fashion, it would be a
dreadful drawback to happiness to dis
cover that large ears were no longer ao
ceptublo, but that fashion lequires the
very smallest thing in ears. When tbe
girls come to consider dispassionately
the peculiarities of this branch of
fashion they will feel like discouraging
it, and allow tho world to go on as has
been done in other years, when all sizes
of mouths and feet and ears wore in de
mand according to the multifarious
tastes of men. Getting married will be
moro popular when the fashions in
women are less rigid. Philadelphia
Times.
Mother's Boy.
"Is there a vacant place in this bank
which I could fill?" was the inquiry of
a boy, as, with a glowing cheek, he stood
before tho president.
"Thero is none," was the nnswor.
"Were you told that you might obtain
a situation here?. Who recommended
you?"
"No ono rooommendedj me," was the
answer. "I only thongbt I would see."
Thero was a straightforwardness in the
manuer, and honest determination in the
countenance of the lad, which pleased
the man of business, and induced him
to continue the conversation. He said:
"You must havo friends who could
aid you in a situation; have you advised
with them
The quick flash of tho deep bluo eyes
was quenched in tue underlying wave
of sadness as no said, tnougn nan mus
ingly: "My mother said it was useless to try
without friends," then recollecting him
solf he apologized for the interruption
and was about to withdraw, whon the
gentleman detained him by asking him
why he did not stay at school another
year or two, and then enter into business
life.
"I have no time," was the instant re
pip; "but I study at homo and keep np
with the other boys."
"Then you have a placo already?"
said tho interrogator. Why did you
loave it?"
"I have not left it," auswored tho boy
quietly.
"les. bnt tou wish to leave it. hat
is the matter?"
For an instant tiio child hesitated;
then he replied, with a half reluctant
frankness, "I must do more for my
mother.
Brave words! talisman of success any
where, evervwhero. They sank into the
heart of the listener and recalled the for
gotten past. Grasping the hand of the
astonished boy, he said, with a quaver
ing voice:
"My good boy, what is your name?
You shall fill the first vacancy that
occurs in the bank. If in the meantime,
you noed a friend, come to me. But
give me your confidence. 'vVhy do you
wish to do more for your mother.'
Tears filled the boy s eyes as he re
plied:
"My father is dead, and my sisters and
brothers are dead, and mother and I are
left to help each other; but she is not
strong, aud I want to take care of her.
It wjll pleaso her that you have been bo
kind, and I am much obliged to you."
Se saying, the boy left, little dreaming
that his own nobleness of character bad
oeen as m bngnt glance oi sunsnine to
the busy world he had so tremblingly
entered.
The American Builder says the accu
mulation of soot may be prevented by
potting a quantity of salt into the mor
tar with which tbe intercourses of brick
are to be laid. Tben there will never be
any accumulation of soot in that chim
ney. The philosophy of it is thus
stated: The salt in that portion of the
mortar which is exposed absorbs mois
ture from the atmosphere every damp
day. The soot thus becoming damp,
falls into the fireplace.
SHORT BITS.
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Watch for little nnnnv4nt,:t: .
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from day to day, and that l ,
puts off
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hats. We state this in the hope ol ?
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iiiK uuijr aiumi uuis at ine theaters.
"A babe." says ft disoiplo of Tut
ib ft mouiers anchor. And n,:-
the mother is the 'anchor's' spanker '
We don't iuBt see whv a woman .1.
like bor mirror better than a nun
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ends.
tbe man will Hatter her and the mVI the be
won't. loud of
The man who enslaves himself to
money is proclaimed in our very
gnage to be a miiSer, or a miserable BiT
French
a iana speculator, in describing 4y
ou a certain estate, says: "It is an,!
and deep that by looking into it you J
ann tlinm rrnilriniT tt& in China " 1
In pr
Garriok heard a noise in the street
morning. "What's all that?" he al
"A temperance possession," was tueXner t
swer. "What nonsense," he crie4,l,ne, w
don't make such a row whon I got soli It goi"
For Worms- in Hogs. Give JlrtAl
spoonful of copperas to each six mn-llr con
orover; give half the dose to your
auinioiH. uive oy mixing witu n;
Such
mode of chopped gram.
Jones (a tailor suddenly clapped
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fciiu vuujh vj n vusLuiiioiry j xlullO, r.
you nearly frightened me into at
Customer "Well, I wish I could r
frighten this coat you made me. im
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ni.
'Yon aro a fraud sir! When I bond
tnis norse irom you, you assured
that he hadn t a fault. Why, sir; L
stone blind! Vendor "I know he
bnt I don t consider that a fault. I a
it a misfortune.
"Did that rough fellow that you pas
back yonder oner to take on his hat
you, Tom?" "No; but he made
though he were going , to pull off
coat for me . "What did he met
by that?" "I don't know. I didn't ttopt
DVDI
Fearful iniquity overheard whi
leaving the Fifth Avenue Theater: H
"And now, Miss B., we will finish tl
evening with oysters and ice-cream u
Delmonico s shall wef Miss ii.: "0!
thanks; but you can't expect m t
have much appetite after Ol-i-vette."
Tho Dead Cltb I
In the year of our Lord 79 VesuYit
had an uncommon eruption, which sua
denly and very completely buried out a
sight the cities of JL'ompeii and Uerca
laueum;and they remained so buried fo:
sixteen hundred years until early in tLi
lost century, when their sites wore acci
dentally discovered. After much patici:
labor and at an enormous expense, abec
one-third part of these dead and burit;
cities has been dug up; and the excari
tions are still going on. Vast treasure!
of gold and silver, rare statuary, pain:
ings, and housohold utensils were rccov
ered in good condition, and manjo;
these are now preserved, as I have said
in the National Museum at Naples. Tbt
paved streets have been cleared of rub
bish, and compare favorably with the
of the cities of to-day. The houses art
open to inspection, and ono can casil;
gather from thorn a good idea of tin
manner of life among the peoplo wh;
were buried into eternity with suci
frightful celerity eighteen hundred yes I
There is a large museum just within
the main gate of Pompeii, in which are
stored vast numbers ol articles recov
ered from the unoovered houses. These
are bottles, vases, plates of bread, dried
frvit, glasses, towols, candlesticks, ladles, IHHj
scales, needles, baskets, funnels, etc. fefl
But, among all these familiar things, lto
was most impressed w ith an iron safe
an actual iron safe identical in pattern
with those knobbed articles that only t
few years ago were cousidered the besi
safes in the world for banking houses
and counting rooms. And yet dozens ol
persons have within fifty years taken out
patents for newly invented safes.
I saw also a lot of fish-hooks of the
identical pattern now so eagerly prized
by anglers the veritable Limerick hook.
Is the world progressing? And then.
there are prostrate figures of men and
women, skeletons of liorsos, cats, dogs,
aud rats. And there are many skulls- lis,
one of them still retaining some of IU
hair. All these dreadful trophies,
snatched from the iaws of death, serve
to illustrate the terrors of the dreadful liet
night when fire and brimstone rained Bj,
down upon the devoted cities ami
wrapped them in the dorknoss of death
id desolation.
If I may judge from paintings and
sculptures on the walls of many rooms,
and from the translations of numerous
inscriptions on door posts, the people of
Pompeii were not strictly virtuous in
every respect.for there is everywhere evi
dence they had reachod a remarkably low
degree of licentuonsness, as well as of
luxury. Almost every house bad its
fountain, its hot and cold bath, its sps
oiousyard or garden, its statuary sad
pictures, and excellent culinary arrange
ments. But now it is a silent city. Its
houses are tenantless, and its streets ore
trodden only by the feet of enrious tour
ists. All is desolation still beautiful
and wonderously attractive, but dead,
very dead. Despite its paintings and its
stautes, and its glorious sunshine, it was
to me but a pathetic suggestion of woe
and despair. I would not care to live in
a dood city, and if I did, I could find
one nearer home. Correspondence Bal
timore Americas.
Ground for early peas is best manured
in the fall. If that has not been done,
plow in the manure early, letting the
ground warm a day or two, then harrow
and let it have a day or two more of son
in which to warm np. By this practice
you will get peas earlier than if yon put
the seed into the cold ground as soon as
plowed.
It is a pretty serious thing to break an
old friendship, for, like old china, it can
never be made quite whole again. A
broken friendship may be soldered, bnt
it will always show the crack.
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