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I HOW IT. ' it seventeen year of age I was more of n than I have ever been since. I m lopg-Uiled coat and boot (to lLh the appurtonanoe of spurs was Sgene'y added,) a mustache was 1 . viiblo on my nppor l'P and con S.V"m o" ripe maturity never left my I ,m studying for the legal pro fin. but at tho time of which I write .ending n.y wanner vacation at my hihi ' house in the country. Thongl' bo manly (almost soldior-hke .1 fancied.) in my appearance, my wft8 by no means so stern as my 3 man . 'i loved my motbor witf, SdJisU tendorness, and sooner than So ber pious heart 1 unmnrmuringly EwinponieJ ber every Sunday to the !niui?e church to listen to long sermons Zf which I could not bear a word, for the tremiilon scents of tbe very aged mm liter who conducted tbe services were so ' nt gs to be inaudible wbere wo sat. Though incited by lovo and duty to sub it myself to this weekly penance (well deserved by my weekly mm,) my eon i.ience did not preyout me from wbiling the time by such amusement as lay i.L,ithat namely, of observing and uecnlating on the countenance of my neighbors, an occupation of wbioU I was 'Tue physiognomy which interested me more than all others was that of a yonng iri -ho sat not far from us, and who was Accompanied by an aged lady, probably i,er grandmother the object of her ever watchful care. The girl's face from first eliciting my careless admiration, grad ually absorbed my whole attention. It liodiitifnl but anart from that it possessod the greatest possible interest for me. ' Kever had 1 seen a countonauoe wmcn denoted so much sensibility; each emo tion of ner miua was pimuijr wruwu upon it, by its quicK, aoncate cuanges; '.i. wnntml but the kev of a cor- re iponding degree of sensibility in the beholder to read ber tendor, innocent soul like an open book. For hours I gazed and speoulatcd on that fair young face I thought how sad would be the lot of so sensitive a being should fate unite her to ono who would not know to read aright what was so delicately written to whom the varying expression f ,1,-t nrpel countenance would be but a blank who would be able to see in it only its coarser part beauty or feature. There was no end to tbe reveries into which those swift-coming blushes led me. Sometimes, by chance, tue lair onject busv fancies would oatch my eye, or without looking at me, seemed to know or feel that I was gazing at her, and I wickedly delighted in noting the bl'-sh which deepened on ner eneektiii i withdrew my eyes. One Sunday i. Happened, in coming out of church, to be close to my lovely neighbor immediately behind her my hand actually touched her unconscious garments. I felt an irresistible desire to force her in some way to notice me to speak to her to occasion one of those charming blushes anything I knew not what. In short, like an impertinent coxcomb as I was, I stepped forward, and with insufferable idsolenoe, which I now blnsh to remember, I whisperod in her ear: "Yon are very pretty I". Never was I more surprised than when she calmly replied: "I know it.' I was absolutely startled. I had ex pected a silent, conscious blush an in dignant glance anything rather than this cool "I know it." As much as I had heretofore disliked attending the village church, the next week seemed to drag along slowly enough, and when Sunday again came my.niotberandl were early seated in our pew, and I impatiently awaited for the arrival of my lovely enigma. I tried to prepare myself fordisappointment. "I nave been thinking and dreaming about an ideal," I said to myself "doubtless when the young lady herself appears, all my fine imaginations will vanish there can be no doubt my fancy has been play ing tricks with me. investing a mere country maiden with transcendant graces and charms." While thus reasoning with myself, the young lady appeared, leading her old relative with tender care. Worshipping an "ideal." indeed! My most charmiug remembrances did not begin to do justioo to the beautiful reality. A soul full of tenderness and sensibility seemed to have found a fitting borne in a person and face of perfect loveliness aud grace. She blaidied, when, looking round.she chanced to pee me, and again the play of expression on her features which had so interested me formerly, charmed me. The more I studied her face the more I seemed to see into the pnre depths of ber soul. I could have staked my life on her noble purity of thought and doed. As we returned home I described my fair neighbor and asked my mother who she was. "Her name," my mother said, '.'is Grace Denny, and she is the loveliest, the most snperior young woman I have ever in my whole life met with. It is too soon to think of such things yet," she continued, smiling, "but some 'years hence it wonbl make me happy to see my son married to just such a woman." "Not vuite so fast, mother," said I, laughing, a good deal to hide a little boyish embarrassment which I was most anxious to conceal. - I found that Grace had become a con stant visitor at my mother's, and I did not fail to improve the opportunity of lecoming better acquainted with her. Grace sweet, noble Grace, with her childlike simplicity and sensitive woman's heart who could resist her ? I could cot; my whole soul was hers. In vain had I struggled in vain bad I called upon my vanity (of which I had plenty to invoke) to save me from the mortification of loving without return. I could not stem nor control tbe passion which, strong as a mighty whirlwind, hail seized me. One evening I sit by tbe piano while Grace sang to me. The cousin was Dot there, and dear Grace's varying cold and glistening eves suggested sweet hopes to my vanity. I fancied I saw love in those bright dewy sjca and on those soft music breathing lips. It wat tbe last evening of my vacation, and rarely I read a gentle farewell thought in Grace's eye. I was beside myself with joy at the idea I waa aa if in a blisefnl dream a sweet delirium rapture of leva. As Grace rose to leave the piano I Caught her hand, and unable longer to repress tbe one thought that filled my heart I exclaimed fervently: "Grace deur Grace with all my soul I love you." She lifted her soft eyes and said slowly, with a miscbievons smile stole over her fsoe: "I know it." She was gone before I had time to pre vent it, or recover from my surprise. Tbe next day I returned to college, ex pecting tocomphite mv studies wibtin a year. A year! llow long to 1 absent from the beloved who was to me, I felt, henceforth and forever, whether she re turned mv love or not, tbo nucleus around which all my thoughts would revolve. ' I need not ray how often her Btrange and unsatisfactory answer tor mented me. I perceived in her repeti tion of the same words her remembrance of the time she bad used thorn before ;and this, then, was tbe jiunishmont for my insolence. I tortured myself by bring ing tbe wbolo scene again and again to memory passionate declaration of love, and her provoking reply, "I know it." "The denoe yon do, thought J, some times. "I would that I boil possessed the wit to have left you a little more un certain." I often wonder that I was able to study at all at this time, for Grace, beautiful, graceful Grace, was never absent from my thoughts; she had become tbe dream of my lifo, the object of all tbe sonnets which bad until now been scattered on various rival beauties. I did study, however, and studied hard, and at the end of tbe term passed tbe examinatiou with honor much to my mother's pride and joy. I determined to be wiser when I saw Grace again to discover beyond a doubt if I were indeed beloved bofore I com mitted myself as I had done by foolish speeches. In order to satisfy myself on this point and also perhaps to gratify a little pique, when I returned home I did not go at once to see Grace, as my feelings dictat ed, but waited until at my mother's sum mons she spent an evening with us. Even then, though my heart was full of tenderness for her, I affected coolness. I had made up my mind to play part, Buf fer as I might, I would act it out. There was a young lady staying with my mother at the time who dearly loved to flirt, and I was qnito ready to contribute to her amusement. I devoted myself exclu sively to her the whole evening, and felt the sweetest pain I ever experienced when I saw by Grace's dear, changing, sensitive foce that she was deeply pained and wounded. When this foolery had been carried to its height, I perceived Oraoe suddenly rise and step through tbe open window out on the piazza. In a few minutes I followed her; she had tetired to a little distance from the window and was weep ing, with bead leaning against the rail ing. Stealing softly behind her, I passed my arm around her ana wnisperea. "Ah, dearest Grace, do not deny it! You love me!" "There was a littlo pause; then laugh ing, yet still half crying, Grace tnrned aside her head and said: "Alas! I know it!" 1 Spider I)ran Bp House by I He Tall. A vnr Aiirlmm unit interesting soecta- cle was to be seen one afternoon in tbe offloe of Mr. P. C. Clever a livery staple in Tjilmnntl k'v. Affainst the Wall Of the room stands a tolerably tall desk, and under this a smau spiuor.not larger muu a common pea, had constructed an exten sive web reaching to the floor. In the morning it was observed mat me spiuer ).o,l ananara.l a rnnnff mouae bv Passing filaments of her web around its tail. When first seen the mouse bad its uina feat off the floor and could barely touch the floor with its fore feet. The spider was full of business, running up ana Anton fhn 1in nnnaaionally biting the mouse 8 tail, making it struggle desper ately. Its etiorts 10 escape weru uu availing, as tbe slender filaments around its tail were too strong for it to break. In a shert time it was seen that the spider was slowly hoisting its victim into tbe air. In the afternooa the mouse could barely touch the floor with its forefoot; by dark the point of its noso was an inoh above the floor. In the evening the mouse was still alive, but had made no sign except when the spider descended and bit its tail. At this time it was an inch and a half from the floor. The next morning the mouse was dead, and hung three inches from the floor. Tbo news of the novel sight soon became cir culated, and hundreds of poople visited the stable to witness it. The mouse wss a small one, probably less than half grown, measuring about one inoh and half from the point of its nose to the root of its tail. How the spider succeeded in ensnaring it is not known. The meohani cal ingenuity of the spider, which en ables her to raise a body which must weigh forty or fifty times as much as herself, has been the subject of good deal of comment and speculation, and no satisfactory solution of the difficulty has been found. All agree that it is a most remarkable case, and one that would be received with utter incredulity were it not so amply attested. The Shark and the Patriarch. rtna nf tiia Miinf ilofpots of American UUU V WMW - ' - i.nmnr in that it id so frenuentlv leavened with a strong dash of prafanity. From i n nr. T) .a! Tnt a AAmnartHvA kill lO AU U A V a ly free, and even a rigid Scotch Presby terian could bardiy gruage a iuuBu ucr the following: During the deluge as a shark was con ducting a thanksgiving service for an abundant harvest, a prudent patriarch looked out and addressed him thus: "My friend I am struck with your open countenance; pray come into the ark and make one oi us. xue juuu..,.. :;c . a fillinrr liarnmcter and heavy rains throughout the region of the lower universe during the next forty days. .TV. ia inut ttin mrt of a hair-pin I . ..,lrl l,a sliark vhn hail Cut SeV eralrowsof wisdom teeth; "fetch ou About six weeks subsequently the patriarch encountered him on the sum mit of Mount Ararat in very straightened AiMtimafanaa Moral. Ydu can't pretty much most always tell now tuings are gumg u- ont sometimes. A miier it a man who may be truth f ally described as criminally poor. Parsoi Pome roj' Preaehln'. My almost exasperated stbotics: Permit your beloved parson to thank you. faithful contributors of your profits to the rejuvenation of tbe heathon and the varnishing of our mooting honse so it will thine brighter than tho rival con cern across the way, for the fine donation made to your parson the past week, con sisting of live lost years' almanaos two pairs of darned old socks, five pans full of dough-nuts, Beveral loaves of bread, three cans of oysters and all of such stuff devoured by the liberal givers before they left the parsonage, except the alma nacs aud socks. It will take the old woman and I about five days to put tbe house in order after tbe visit so that next Sunday I may have to bounce it in to you off hand like, as does a tin-ware peddler, but I'll try to write my sermon as usual so there w ill be no mistakes, it is only tho off hand sermons that carry mistakes. Do yon tumble? My text to-day will be found that is, ii can be found in tbe utterances of Solomon. Tbe wisdom of Solomon was of high grade. lie know more than does a seven-dollar a week reporter for oue of tbo Denver daily papers, whoo ears are so large that they gather in all the lies told thorn by gaggers and thus feed the brains of their readers. He knew moro than to live in those days, and his wisdom was thick all over bim. tie was rather lively in his admiration of tbe Indies, but this is what ails all of the preachers who are popular. He sort of raked in tbe root of all evil, like a captain of tbe Star Route gang; but then - V A . .lWl wuen a man is wise enougu i nave wives on the regular family police, and fifteen hundred for sptnial sorviee, when they were neoded in his business but you who are visitors hero to-day and not members of our regular regulars, know how it is yourself. One time when Solomon wus lecturing before tho Lotus club, as we find in the Bible, be said something that ought to be crocheted in red worsted and pasted to the door, as von will find in cbuoter ono and verse eleven of the "Wisdom of Solomon:" "Therefore, beware of murmuring, which is unprofitable; and refrain your l.tMFIIA tit ll lilt I l IT And don t you lorgei ii. Tn Mvim venrs no man in Congress has made so good a speech. No minis ter of religion lias preacueu so goou a sermon as the one quoted as a text. Please stand up, all of you, and repeat: Therefore, boware of murmuring, whinh ia unprofitable: and refrain your tongne from backbiting." t rame it; emoroiuer u in xne puyiac frifia of vour "robes de nnit." which is the Choldaic for night shirts. Fresco it on the golden peaks oi memory, ami lei it stay there. Your parson begun life early, ne has had the itch, the mumps, tho measles, the chicuenpox, tue uives an.l liAnntinj tlio whoooing cough, the Bmallpox; been turned out of school for making a pin-cnstuon oi rue douoih oi a Uw tins luun Imntixad. had two libs I nmv vwv J T - broken, been shot twice, has lost all his teeth and iiine-tenths ox bib xiair, out lm run throcah the mill again than to hear tbe gontle murmur, mur- a f 1 1 I mar, murmur oi a uingie-uaugeu mur- IUUIVK w tnrers of splint-bottomed bereavements. One or those folk wno are always pump ing their calamities into you. Three full terms in hell, dear hearers, is preferablo to one term with a mur mnmr Dna nf th nn men who are al ways telling of his aohes.pains and fears. Who drizzles uis naru iuckbii oer you. nhniit Hka the tail end of an O.i.f.al.inriAl fnrmrftl trvinff to make out the jig is up. Or the female woman who is always in a stew. Always murmur ing. Always aure tnat; me uouom wiu fall out of tbe mush pot, the spont will fall into tne me tea-newie uib iub won't hatch; or who tells you of all the sore toes and other trouoies inai are past and gone, as though you liked such l....nl.o. IUUUUVOi Murmuring is unprofitable, dear bear ers. It disgusts good workers, ii proven that a nerson lives in hia coat tail pockets instead of up in front. The murmnrer is a person who is always loomng vo iuo i-AtW than to the front. Tbe man fit for nothing else. D you fall down, get up and push ahead. If ni,i now trnniwrfl rin. or VOUr boots (lo not fit. or the worm medicine failed to prorogue the convention; ii you umui n nr.Mn nr wnnliln't! in the name of the God of Jacob, David, Adam, Abra ham, Absalom and ail tne resi oi us, uo not murmur. And, dear hearers, terrain your tongne inir The lowest, meanest. sneakingest, dirtiest and most dishonest if all vhn ara tinman is the backbiter. Tbe one who delights to invent lies and relate them to other unois, who wnu in water closets: who sneaks under windows, whose happiness m w i ; I .1. is in sowing laiBenooas who i ubuh biter. who is eternally trying that he or - ' . 1 it. - 1 A she has been set down on oy weir vev XTni-w. n rJn or nr hfW-k bitinff are both high crimes. They mark you as weak aUuiwuiAwn u in the bead, even as some onuureu ro iu niiiar mrti Anil if von are weak, don't criva vonraelf awav "please, dou'tl Do not dnmp your ruouisu into auuuwn AnnT.vurA If von are in bard luck if --! ' .", . . . . .1 you htve been to Jericho, do not try to make jour menus ieei nbl unr-PH. Brace ui! Pitch inl Strike out! Stand firm! Look ahead! Move on! Be alivel Don't whine! Snap , flnnara in thn 1tiop of rare! Keep your feet warm, your head cool, year bowels open, your tongue in buujbchou and you can bet your last dollar that you anil mnVn friamla and keen them. Murmuring is of no more use than were prayers for Uanieid. ah oh me same piece of cheap goods. Weak, weak, weak! Yes, the murmnrer is as weak as the nine-spot high against four of a kind. An.l dip tmrk-hiter. He is a Ilea, a l.n.l.l mo- a lnnse among his betters. A vermin it were mercy to have strangled . i,;t'h Tin in nxnallv a liar, always a ii,;of ofornullv a fliftcrace to humanity Therefore, dear orewrcn anu isiur, please do not murmur, nor uacs-iuie on l . wiaii tn ha thrown over the bat i.nii on.i havA nn tilaca in our per fected church. Crying for spilled milk only puts more water in tne miia, aear brethren, ana tne cream i mm ready. J Te do good to our enemies is to re semble the incense whose aroma pre- . il Y.m wlinh it ia COMBmed. lUlUC UM UIV "J mMmm mm Ball natter. The Washington correspondence of tbe New York Tribune says that considera ble interest is shown bv Congressmen in efforts to secure tbo enactment of somo laws to prevent the sale aud expor tation of oleomargarine except under its nwu troner name. Members who rep resent districts which havo large daily interests are Fsjiccially active and they declare that the exportation of imitation butter with no marks to distinguish it from the genuine urticlo nas already worked vast injury to American dairy products in European markets. ii. i t . .. j Several uius nave aireoxiy .oueu iuiro- . ii.. i. i . 1 . dUCCu in iuu uoiiBU, uesiKuuti w jro- vent the sale of oleomargarine as genu ine butter. Two of them provulo for inspectors of dairy products, and the stumping of oleomargariuo with conspic- HUH II.... - M.w U..U.'....J 1 marks, nut tne uimcu:iy aooui ine article. Anoiucr mil, now oeiore the Ways and Means Committee, seeks to im'poso a stamp act of ton conU a tinnnil nn evcrv nackago of oleomargar . . A ll 1 t 1 . ine, or other compound made in imita tion of butter, ami also a tax ou every manufacture thereof. Several days ago tbe committee give a lwmrintr to Congressmen Jacobs and Thomas, who made arguments in sup port of this measure. Colonel Jacobs presented some interesting statistics, - .Wx A drawn from the report oi w. r enner 10 the New York Legislature, and which, it 'a nn.lurutnn.1 iirihliiiv.il an evident iin- 1 II i. ui.v vw.., J' - - - - pression upon tho members of tho com mittee, lie caiieu attention vo ino isei that the money value of tbo annual dairy product exceods that of the wheat crop or tbe coin crop, and is greater than that of tue cotton ana wooi com bined, and is Itetwecn $41)0,000,000 and etWO.000,000. From $5,000,000 to K,- 000,000 of the American people aro in terested in this industry, and the capital invested in it aggregate from $4,000,- 000,000 to $t5,000,000,000. Colonel Ja cobs described the process by whioh oleomargarine, bnttorine, etc., are made. He said that until 1878 the manufacture of oleomargarine tuade but little head nav Vint aiilliln tlio hutt three veurs it n j a uuv n". ' tt has increased with wonderful rapidity, and Mr. Jacous estimates tuai tne an- nnal manufacture in New lork city and State alone amounts to '20,000,000 pounds one fifth as much as the entire annnal dairy product of the State. He estimates the vearlv loss of tbe dairy interest at $50,000 to $200,000. The possibilities of development lor oloomargariuo manu facture are very great, and Mr. Jacobs nnmimtaa that in the citv and State of New York alone, 110,000,000 pounds of bogus butter can te niaue in a Bineio vear. Tbe entire butter prodnct of the State for the year 1875 was 111,018,418 pounds. "So that the dairy business," said Mr. Jacobs, "seems to be in danger of extinction, unless relief is afforded by legislation." All the powers of the State Legislature have been exnansted in in effectual legislation. The very great dif ficulty in diHtingmsuing me imitation from the gannine bus enabled the retail dealer to sell an imitation whioh costs about nine cents a pound for twonty-five to forty cocts, Mr. Jacobs conciuaea as iouows: "T.iat winkri bill nasaed the New York LfltHslatnre. prohibiting the use of col- nnnir matter in tne manniacture oi .o . .. . . ., - , . . imiiuKnn Imtlnr- thi would have been effectual, but the Governor vetoed the bill npon the ground that it was in violation of the privileges granted under tlia nntnnt la a nf the United States. So that the taxing power of Congress is in voked to protect this great dairy interest. w w w A uovernmeui biauiii ujjuh nf imitation butter which leaves Uie factory wouia answer m wo- a, VII i;viiv --j- bring the spurious article into fair com petition with the genuine, and second, fl,l nnrnnw flrat.tufl tax WOnlil tend 10 the Government stamp upon every pack age offered for sale would more effectu ally dotor the dealer from attempting to palm off the spurious for tbe genuine. (in wnniii no more aiiemut to tuiuiier with or remove it than he would to rifle a TTnitail States mail-bog or counterfeit the coin of tbe uovernment. Life AmOBg tne Sioux. Sebastian Beck is a name which no nnlint wnnbl aeloot for the hero, but a man bearing it is now in Chicago, and is liArnin ennngb to De tne skeleton oi a most entertaining frontier romance. Mr. iiai.tr iu flftv-snvan vears of acre, sun browned and considerably shattered in health, but be is intelligent, ana nis storv is vouched for iu several letters be carries from well known army oflloers, who have had means of determining its truth. 1S',7 tn 1870 the subject of this article was a soldier in me regular army, 1 I uaLmn.! mil mram a ttIvutA in . . 1 a ll . . 1 Company E of the Ninth Infantry the regiment now stationeuai i on vsmuua. Ttatirinir from thn service, he settled in Chicago, where he worked at his trade, being a shoemaker. Business was good, and himself and three other workmen had all they con Id attend to; but his vpara nf artnv life: during which his reiriment had been frequently trans ferred from one fort to another on tbe frontier, bad rendered him unfit for the nnavi-itinir lifn nf a cobblar. and in 1875 he sold bis business, determining to seek a fortune in the west, rue gou dis coveries in tbe Black Hills about this timn began to excite public interest, and Mr. Bock was among the number who nanorlit. tham'inin'tf favfi'i''. ' lie packed np bis household goods, and wi,h bia wife, two dunchters and a son of 12 years, he left Chicago Match id 1S7.1. nr.il liimlHil in une time at llliarnnnn (Torn lin joined the com nun, nf Opnnral Carimntr.r. of Sodalia. Mo., who led twenty-five families into the hills. They had wagons, camping outfit and provisions for six months. Just about this time tbo President iuanml bin nr.lnr to the armv. command il.n ....! -.f oil iiarunnil U'hn utinlllll lufj fcuo n, , v.,. v. mi. f " attempt to cross the line into the Sioux reservation, which included what is now l,a nrnRnnrnna Itlaf-k Hills gold mining region. However, this party was not detected by the troops, and tney reacueu Deadwood Gulch in safety, and part of them went to work doveling the St. John ent to work dovenng tue at. ,onn Mine. Mine, lieck wasoi tuis numoeranu no erected a log cabin about three quarters, of a mile from th. diggings, which him-' sua.f anA famil v aajrl hnmA. All went well with the daring miners the enforcement of such a law appears I She had been mado coptivo by this band to bo that even experts are unable to' when but oleven years old, and Heck be iliKtincuish the imitation from the genu- came closulv attached to her. Uo soon until July 18, when they were surround ed by Sitting Bull's baud of Sioiu and were made prisoners, llock wss separated from his family, and has never seen or heard of them aioce. He was taken with several men of the company to the Indian villago of ltosebnd, then consisting of four hundred lodges, and expected to be tho victim of an extra scalp dance. Tue fudians, however, offered the white men their choice between dentil and becom ing members of their tribe. Death is not often the choice of tbe Caacaaian, and Hock formed no exception. He doffod his mining ga'b and assumed the blank et, paint aud feathers of a Sioux brave. He was given a young Cheyenne sqiiaw, about einhtoon years of ngo, for his wife, and soon becuiue to all appearances a thorough going Indian. Monoku was the name of his dusky sweetheart and bride. "Moueka," in tho Sioux tonguo is translated "my love. UIUIIA .'IJKV . ' ". . J learned the language of the Sioux, and adapted himself to his surroundings. Five weeks after his capture ho was an unwilling participant in the massacre on tho Little Big Horn. He followed tho fates of bis captors througr. an tue woarj months which followed whilo tbe war continued, and at last with them, crossod tlio loundary into the British possessions. Iliu ainrv nf the anffuriiies of the rod braves anil their wretched families in that wintry olime are enough to excite the hearer's compassion. Their cloth ing wnm nut. tlinir came sumilv scant. and the deep snow and severe cold were bravely borno.and tuey siruggiou aiong, kmminir annl un.l Iwvlv tnffllthcr AS lollg .V, .'... MV... -"" --""J " O ' ' as their pride could endure, but finally were forced tosurrcmior. ueex aim tne other captives rctnrued to civilization with their red comrades at Standing Rock ngeucy, but so bronzed by expos- nro that they could witu aiiuemiy estao lish their identity as white men. Mr. IIai-U bivva be could have escaped almost any titno since they crossod the border, but his attachment lor tue gentle XfnnxkA hail irrnwn nnon him and boon cemented by the birth of two papooses, and ne could not consent to icave wiem in oxiln Aftr the aurrender he joined a wagon train en routo to Fort Laramie, and, with Indian wife and uauies, went to that post, where he left them and atarted east for Chicago. He is now striving to find his whito wife and chil dren, or loam their fate. llow Bottles are Hade. The manufacture of glass bottles is vnrv aimnle in itself. thOUgU lor tUO nrrvlnntinn nf Ann work great skill is re quired. The finest bottles now made are blown, as they were in the earliest days nf linHl.i.tiinbinir without the Use of a mold, the operation being performod by Simply gatUOriDg a proper 4ununv; v.i mnllnn Pi ana nnnn tha end of a metallio blow-pipe, and forming it into shape by holding it in various positions, woue ATrtan diner it bv blowing through the tube, and occasionally applying pressure with some tool of very simple form. Generally, howover, bottles ara til (1,1 A villi the llSfl of a mold in which glass ia blown, beoause in this way time and labor are saved. - it may oe said that all the bottles, jars, etc., in common use and made in the United States are blown in molds. Occasionally bottles will show by a seam on the aide wbere the parte of the mold come to gether, The finer glassware bottles are blown. The mold is usually maue oi iron and is in two parts, which are hinrro.1 anil nan Via nnonod and closed instantly. For making the smaller bot tles a boy is required to open anu suut tbe moid aa requirou. f n r larimr nntiiea. lue Dana wuiuu ara hinged at the bottom are closed by means of a lever, whioh is moved by the font nf tha nnnrator. From three to five persons are required in the operation of bottle mailing, in me case wuero vu invar i amnlovatl. three hands are noail All nnn. bov. to gather the molten glass on the end of the blow pipe, one to blow the bottle ana snape 11 vo tue mum, ami a third to finish the neck at month ami correct anv defects in form. After tha mouth Is finished, tne DOtue is waen in tho annealing furnace, where it is tilapa nnnn A nan. which, with several others attached together in th j form of a chain, is drawn siowiy tnrougii mjuB, Imrixnntal nvnn. When the pan arrives at the opposite end of the oven, its load ox bottles is removeu, ana it is reiuruou to the mouth of the oven to receive a ow load. Habits of Russlua Women. fin thn boulevards every ono knows every one else; and owing partly to the free and easy style oi iiussiaa society, thn miHtnm of addressing men and bv thflir Christian names, and ehieflv to the narrow limits of the little nrii in wiiinii aii lira la Here oonnnen. . J "-- m.m . . the scene on the boulevards is rathor that of a huge family party in their own gar den than of the publio promenade of a large town. Every one is smoking, men without exception, and married women for the most part. Tbe astonishment of a foreigner on Boeing a well-dressed woman, annarpntlr a, ladv. and certainly a utrano-nr to him. bowing to him and ask ing to be allowed to light her cigarette from the hot ashes of his, may be imag ined, but there is noining outre in sucu an action here. Iu tbe meantime the equipages of the wealthy Hussiaus are whirling through thn utrnnts. Let us take a glance at the t-iannln nn vbnnla. These are for tbe most part wivos and daughters of officers from the fortress, or the wealthiest of tha merchants. The wheels all roll be- rw.nil. nna i.nlfi.rn nf carri cc. the famil iar droshky, eniargea ana ueauiuieu with psint and fur wrappings beyond thq standard of that of tbe local cab driver, but still to all intents and pur poses the same vehicle. Two ladies can lean back in tbe Victoria-shaped body of the carriage facing tbo horses, and oppo site siU a cavalier, his long legs straight ened and confined beneath the narrowest and most uncomfortable of scuts. On tho box sits the driver in black velvet waistcoat, with a skirt like a t ga. and holes instead of arms through which the full pink sleeves of his shirt appear. Bound his waist is a gaudy sash, and on . . i i 1.:. tl. .nr ,., n nf Poland. His -.- .":ui7a .lriweB three abreast. ui . - ' i.a ahaft horse at a canter, tbe head ol ! tbesba ihoe ooking fMhSiS uenillll my.vi . " 1 -h I iaIIt back ai their lempie ift.j rilAT BY TIIK VUT. He who waits to doa great deal of good at once will never do any. It is possible for a man to lie so very shrewd tbut iu tbe long run he cbeuts himself. Put a .Irnn nf liiinnT on vnnr tnnorue before you speak and see how easy it is to make friends. Wli.it .Inlli ImH.ir tmnnnia wiailom than to discern what is worthy of living. . (Sir Philip Sidney. The chief trouble with tbe ago in which uit 1 i vn ia thut it bidieves too much in varnish and veneer aud too little in solid wood. It ImM.ir in Iia nnnr1 and virtnous than rich mid dishonest, and yet in a popular vote wo know wiucu siuo wouiu win. K.vnrvthinir nillinnt tnllsthe individual that ho is nothing; everything within per- suoiies mm mat ne is evorytuing. .v. Doudan. The poet snvs that when ladios nowa days let ttioir liair uown over meir shoulders you can't toll "which is switch." Trim bruvnrv ia shown bv performing without witness what ono might bo capa ble of doing beforo all tbe world. Uooliefoticauld. i.in.lnrtl iu Ilia rrmat lirnf.iaMilin. Bo- VH'UU ,,,'l I" .UV . - " havior is tho perpetual revealing of us. .... . . ii .. ...i. i. ;.. What a man does tens us wum n m. IF. D. Huntington. Tf mil ImvAfl amall aalurv and Drincclv desires, romembiir the old saw, "Taking out often and novor putting in soon comes to the bottom.' If vtii nnn inlw nnrnnailA vnnraolf tci say, "Mrs. Eve, I never did like apples," rou will live a good 1110 ana uave a largely attended funeral. Giteuu has boughta new suitof clothes in order to "mako a good appearance when reloased. He will bo released from the cares of this sublunary sphere. Roandal whnn it baa truth in it. is like a grease spot on new cloth, but when there is no truth in it it is like a splash of mud, whioh will come off easily when dry. "Don't yon think dear baby tho image of his pa?" Dull but well-meaning fam ily friond: "Well, perhaps he is, -but I dare say be 11 outgrow u in lime. Punch. . . A WaldAlinrn. Ms., man boa lust died after taking 300 bottles of patent medi cine to cleanse his blood. He must have been mighty tough to hold out so well. Tim rral fundamental difference be tween tho rich and poor man is that the . . i . . i . ricu man can eat ail uay u uo wants w, while the poor man is restricted to three meals a day Said the leader of the train robbers as he boarded tbe palaoe car: "Don't dia- turn tne passengers, out boim iuo purwr, he's got all the money in the crowd by this time." The Jamestown Sunday Morning Leader remarks: "Don't think a man a sailor because he can rnn a nchooner of beer in by a narrow neck." Of course not; anybody can do that if he only has sufficient headway. Boston Conner. Henry Ward Beecher, at the dinner of the Stationers' Board of Trade, said, speaking of the Guiteau case: "I think the man who received an inspiration from heaven, will also have a line drop ped to bim from the same direction." TimrA nra nannifl who imagine that life is a miserable farce and not worth the living for. In truth life is wnat we maka it. and we can make it a thing of beauty and value, or we can make it farce. It remains witn ns wuica oi muso we shall make it. Aa Unsljl sh Tile. "Shoot the bat 1" Tt.iatriiA TtranniffAn'a Tolce rang Out loud and clear on the morning air as she stood in tbe vino-covered woodshed in the rear of her fathers residence, and languidly fired some red-flannel shirts into a tub of hot water. He to whom alia annlca lnnncrad in earalosa grace over the low fence that separated the ancestral M . T. . 1 1. - demesne oi tue jprannigans iruiu vuo broad aores of the Mahoneys. Vivian ltfalinnav ani 1 TtAAtrioa Brannigan had grown up together from childhood, and loved eaoh otner witn a wuu, passionate love that not even the fact of his having takon Cleopatra Corcoran to the United Sons of Erin picnic could dispel. "Where did you get it?" she cried. "What Tasked Vivian. . "That dice-box," said the girl, burst ing forth with a merry laugh. "It is my father'! pet hat, Boatrice," he replied, "and ho only lets me wear it on my birthday." "If there was a hat like that in our family," she said, "I would get my name in the papers on account of it." "How ?" asked Vivian, eagerly. "I would," she said, a oold.cruel smile coming over her foaturos, "give it to the Historical Society." From that moment their livei lay in different paths. Murat Halstead ia Chicago Tribue. The Fabl of the Hare ana the Fish The Moral. Tbe Hare and the Fish, having bor rowed tobacco from each other for sev eral months, and agreeing perfectly well on politics, set ont to make a journey togethor and see the sights of the world. Thoy had not proceeded many miles be fore they discovered a wolf VP pursuit. The Hare at once started off at the top of his speed, but the Fish called out: "Do not leave me thus alone I can not run!" n. x inu wuu uuui'i tuu v - noss to make a journey," replied tho Hare, and away he flew to save b'S ba con. The Fish burriod after as f as pos sible and both found themselves on the bank of a rivor, while yet the wolf was a furlong away. The fish at once rolled into tho water and darted away, but the Hare shouted after bim: "Do not leave me I cannot swim!" "A Hare who cannot svim has no bus iness to make a long journey," and be sailod away and left tbe Hare to be eaten on tho half shell. MORAL. An Owl who had overheard the affair from his perch in a persimmon tree drew down bis left eye and softly said: "You don't know a man until yon have. ... If 1 . 1 L 1. ha ltMll. traveled with him."