Ht JIM. B. D. BLA1BDELL.
Mrs. R" glanced ooiuplaoontly ovor
her tea table, and well she might, for it
... uretty ami wholesome enough to
the most fastidious. "Riehar.
will be ur 10 suy suuiriuiutj jJiuaitttui,
. 1U. 1 L
5ie thoaght. She felt that it had been
!),.t he had a wile dependent on him for
She Uail Lurried her toa that she migh
.iv io the sate to meet him, but he dh
to appreciate her effort, and
2b might as well have rested her aching
feet.
"How cool and easy you women seera
. tan life." he said. "I wish I could
ure as easy a time of it." From his tono
0 might have thought thut it was he
iho had not rested five minutes all day,
.n1 had been up with a sick child half
the night. His wife took his arm, but he
ji.i not notice it.
I Jo wish you would not weir thoso
knrrihle old calicoes, Nell! They look
,o out landish. There is Harry crying
uain. Soemi to me he keops it up day
JnJ night. I like a little peace when I
Aime home. Lucky lor you that 1 dou
go to the saloons like some men !"
"Well, it is jus"; as lucky for you that
I do not get drunk like some women,
Mid Mrs. Rolf, as she took the crying
liild.
"He fell and bumped his head on tho
.nf." said young Nora. She had been
..living with the little follow, who wus
' . i.;.. LI I. i. i. i
not nrm on " "-c" uuuuugu uo ui
been crowded out of his place as "tho
baby, by wee Jessto. "As one whom
lis mothor comforteth, ho was soon
reuly for supper, and as cheerful as if
lotting had happened.
Mr. Kolf looked at tho tea table with
diuatisdi'd air.
"Why don't you have dried beef any
more? lie said.
"I thought you were tired of that und
would like a change, bo I got a tongue.
I im sure you will like it, if you only
trr it: but I will get you tho beef.
"Oh. don't take the trouble," he said,
u she went to the pantry. "It does not
natter what I eat.
The wife, who was also cook and
waiter, bronght a plate of nicely shaved
beef, but he did not taste it, while he
tte heartily of the tongue.
"I saw Mid. Baldwin to-day," he said,
u he took a third slice and his wife
handed him a second cup of tea. "It is
wonderful how slie keeps her good looks!
She does not look a day older than she
did ten years ago!
"They say Mr. Baldwin is very careful
other," said Mrs. Kolf, who looked at
least two years older than whon she met
ber husband at the gato a few minutes
before. "He never lets her have any
care of tho children nights, but gets np
Himself if they need anything, and he
does all the marketing and saves her iu
rery way. lie is very proud of her,
tbey say, and tries to proserve her good
look.
"Well, sho is a w6man to be proud
of, said the thoughtless husband, in
tone which implied that he knew of no
ither woman half so deserving.
He buttered his excellent homemade
bread in silence, evidently thinking of
tue handsome, well-dressed woman who
bad left her children of three and five
rears old with the girl, and who dressed
and went out shopping as leisurely as if
we nad not a care in the world. Jler
delicate silk "was very becoming. The
white hut.with its costly lace and plumes
wt off her pretty face to advantage, and
we dainty accessories of her toilet in
toted a well-filled purse as well as
good taste.
"I do wish, Nell, that you would take
more pains to fix up. I am fairly
ashamed to have you come into the
utore."
"I will try and not shanio you again,"
we said, as her face flushed hotly, "but
ou know, Richard, that there is a great
difference between the Baldwin's circum
stances and ours. She keeps a girl to do
oer work, and hires most of her sowing
done, and has only two children, while I
have four, aud these littleoneswho have
to he taken up so often are pretty bard
o my fixing up much, for they do spoil
we's clothes dreadfully. I do my own
work and see to the children. I do not
know when I should wear nice clothes,
! I had ever so many, especially as I
"ever go on fashionable shoppings, to
uwdle around whole afternoons pricing
wingathat I never think of buying,
"ben I must have something from the
tore, I slip into my duster and go alter
it, and then come home and go to work
gain. I am always tidy, at least, and
lor s woman who does all her own work,
tuat is considerable."
. 'Well, you did not seem so very muoh
fatigued when you came humming down
'otlie gate. Bat I suppose you're just
hont gone," and there was a positive
neer in his tones now. "I wish you
could manage as mother does. It seems
to me that when I have to work so hard
l0' jou and the children, you need not
Srnmhle about your little work."
Did you ever hear me complain of
fJ ork ? I think I ought to do it, and
Mi glaj that I can; but it does not
em right for you to expect me to dress
j"ell af) those who have nothing to do.
'cannot get my work all done np in the
niing. for I have to see to the chil-
all the time, and there is tea to get,
the dishes to wash, and after that the
MMren are to be bathed and put to bed.
o sure that ray dress is suitable for
tch work."
lIK8hoalJ think Mrs. Stonar had as
i Work as you have, yet I never see
,J!et? Plainly."
v.- 6 -desr. ho, the poor thing would
? nt if she ever had to wear a plain
w' 1 M thor8 yesterday at their
nd she looked like a ghost.and
..J "wdly breathe for the awful pain
. - c. uui sue uaa maue lures
rZ ck". two pies, and a gallon of
obi!! if' ' weP' ber house from
".bottom. Her bair was curled and
'nd V&&, and she had on ber
.le dress. all ruffled and fluted.which
i:1
nil u """a "e aay ueiore
"uo was ready to drop. Her face
powdered, and her rings sparkled,
she ha. I not groaned so with the
7on raiirlit !, .
C; Bpt if I did as she does you'd call
Well. nrk; . " xt.
uoar went irts a .,:Sa,i
aontiU 'V1? cd e tbe children
j 2..'? ,n preserves to make them
d i cornier tnev are peevisu it
iv 11 tbe Toen he went ! p
doctar erho said she was tired h
out, and very dolioate, anJ aeedod rest;
ouo nas oeen niukiug Iir oraco a
dress to-dsy, and the tucks and pnffs and
ruffles are a sight to behold. I saj she
ought to dress loss, and live more
plainly, and then she would not have to
work so hard. Thoy owe tbe doctor over
a hundred dollars now, and I guess you
wouldn't like that very wcll.would you?"
"Well, who cares what Mrs. Stonar
does, anywuy? Doesn't that txtra tart
belong tome?"
"They are excellent, are they not?"
said Mrs. llolf, as she passed the plate.
"Oh, they'll do.but they don't amount
to much. I should think you could uso
your time bettor than in making such
foolories. Jelly costs something, tao,
whon fruit is so high, and my mother
never made any such nonsense."
He had eaten the last crumb of the
dclicite morsel, ond looked ut the plate
as if he wished there were another.
"Well, don't let the extrovaganco
worry you," said his wife. "The paste
was a bit left from the pio I made for
dinner, and tho parings of the apples
that I cooked for sauce niado the jelly.
Your mother would have thrown the
parings to the pins, and spoiled the chil
dren's appetites for supper with the
paste. 1 ui ado them into a pretty dish
for the tablo, and I guess they found a
ready market,
"l'lcaso make somo more; they are so
good, nmmnui,".8aid Ncra. But do vou
wonder that Mrs. Kolf did not feel, mst
then, as if sho would?
"Well, I boie you will have some
thing more interesting than your neigh
bors to talk about, when I come again,"
was the parting salute of the husband.
as ho put on his hat and left for busi
ness.
Mrs. Rolf went about her work, real
izing fully how tired sho was. She had
been working hard all day, and, tired
and weak, had so longed for some token
of her husband's affection that wheu he
departed without a single tendor word
she was disappointed and cast down.
Perhaps he did love her, but he had been
thoughtless, rude, even cruel to her
She washod up her supper dishes, set
i I i .. i . t.i.:
nor urrau lur lu-iuurruw n uuiuuk. uuv
erod her jar of sauce carefully and car
ried it down cellar, and brought up her
potatoes and pared them for breakfast
It seemed as if a baud of iron com
pressed hor head, it Relied so; and her
heart throbbed so painfully that many
times her hand pressed her side as if to
still its boating. "A good cry" might
have relieved her somewhat, but she was
too considerate for her children to in
dulge hersblf in that way. There is
nothing more depressing to the spirits of
the little ones than to see mother cry
They were all bathed and prepared for
bed, when observing, thoughtful little
Nora said, "Wo do not need anv song
to-night, mamma." But Robbio.two years
younger, declared that ho could not
sleep at all unless his mamma sang
soug. So she sang the accustomed songs,
Hobbie s favorites, and Harry s liuby
land, while sympathetic Nora stood by
her sido with arm around her neck, that
warm little arm, was far more comforting
to the lonely mother than the finest luces
could have been. Ihun tue children, all
sweet and clean and good natured, were
put into their airy-beds, aud Mrs. Rolf
sat in a room near them to sew until her
husband came home. Now she could
think; but her thoughts were not pleas
ant. She did not four that her husband
would come home drunk to abuse her
with blowsand curses; but it seemed as
if his cold unloving ways were almost as
hard to bear. She understood now why
Mrs. Lonsr loved and lived with her hus
band, notwithstanding his drunken ill
usafje. A few days before, he bad beat
en her dreadfully, but she said to her
sympathizing friends, "It was not John
that did it: it was whiskey, ile never
says a cross word when not in drink, bm
savs I am the one woman in all the world
for him. So I'll never leavo him, for
perhaps he will roform. If there wore
no saloons he would bring me fewer
blows and more money."
"I could always bear the blows tor the
sake of love." thought Mrs. Rolf; and
now the stitches were lost in a flood of
tears.
God pity the woman and let no temp
tation come to her now. It is in such
times of desolation and bitterness of
spirit that many start on the downward
road, from which it is hard to turn back.
A little praise would be grateful to her,
a tender word wonld bo so encouraging
that she might, accept as genuine the
basest counterfeit of friendship, and
follow some Will o'-the wisp to destrnc
tion.
The Hardship of Kusslau Rule.
If the deadly effect of the Russian sys
tern were not, indeed, a trite subject to
moralize upon, our might well wonder
for what purpose ambition prompts the
Muscovito to extend his empire over
these desolate regions. The result of
hat extension hitherto has been to place
these few straggling tribes of human bo
ngs in a condition more nnserablo than
tho one in which they formerly were.
Whatever freak of nature, or of man's
will, destined these poof Samejedes and
Lanns to wander the dreary tundras of
those ice and snow covered lands, they
led, at any rate, in their earlier state, the
free life of nomads, owners of flocks
of their beloved reindeer, of tbe fish of
the sea, and of tbe wood of the
forest; but now, step by step
the Russian. more enterprising
and crafty, reduces them to boadage,
md while the Russian people thus
wreaks its will upon a weaker race, the
government does nothing to protect the
unhappy victims. The Russian uniform
is indeed seen even in tbe wretched vil-
acs on tbe dreary Lapland coast ; but
only to add to the misery of the people,
whom theie officials must squeeze in or
der to increase the miserable pittance paid
them by their government. It appears
grotesque, upou Ood-forsaken coasts in
theArctio regions, to find officials enforc
ing red-tapeism, in all rigor. Yet it is
so; nay, even in ine aense -gioomy wr
ests which cover tbe northwest coasts of
the White sea, the home of the bear and
wolf, tbe poor peasant is not free to fell
the timber for tbe miserable log but that
is to keep out tbe snow and icy blasts
from tbe Pole.-fPineering in the Far
West, by L. V. Helms.
White raull dresses madd up over rose
and pale blue silesia, and trimmed with
- I ill 1... . 1 '
profusion OI moresquo ic wm iw ur
toilets for evening wear at watering
laces and summer resorts during me
eated term at the height of the arison.
The Substitute EtfltoiV
"Who is that sad-looking n!n whom 1
a aitting in the next room?" said Mr,
Jones to the managing editor.
"That? that is Lawson, our substi
tute edstor."
"What is a what are the functious
of that kind of an editor?"
"Why, you know, we employ Law
son to shoulder disagreeable conse
quences of all kinds. When we 'go for'
anybody until outraged nature can no
longer stand it, the injured man calls
and wo show him in and let him kick
Lawson."
"But I don't exaetly understand
how "
"Why, you see, tiio man comes here,
aud asks to see the managing editor.
The bov at tho door knows from the fire
in his eye, what he wants, aud he turns
him into Lawson's room. There is a
brief scrimmage, and about a quarter of
an hour later Lawson sauutors iu here,
with his handkerchief to his nose, to say
that his salary must be raised. He is a
very useful man. By concentrating all
tho storms on him, the lcgului stuff is al
lowed to liovo perfect peace und secu
rity. Ho is eowLided once or twice a
week and knocked down even orient r.
Wo have the floor iu there padded, on
purpose to make it ns comfortable us
possible. He don't mind an ordinary
Hogging so much, but the man litis is
strange disincliuution to being shot at,
possibly because ho has three bullets in
his legs and a two-ounce slug encysted
somewhere in his interior department.
"But Lawson don't miud his ordinary
duties as much as you would think. Wo
turn in all the bores upon him. Ho com
niands a largo salary becunse ho is deaf
as a post, and a bore who would set me
crazy, leaves him in a condition of uu
milled calmness. All the poets who
come hero are sont to his room. One of
theui'll sit thero and read to Law sou a
poem of forty-two stanzas, and Lawson
will sit there smiling blandly, just ns
if he heard it all, aud then he'll compli
ment tho writer, and bow him aud. his
uiauuscript out with charmiug grace
and ease. Ho makes mistakes some
times, to be sure. Tho other day a uiuu
read him a speech, which tho man wanted
to pay for inserting in the paper. Law
son thought it was a poem, an. I he told
the man he was sorry our advertising was
pressing us so just now that he couldn t
obligo him, aud tho man wont up street
and published it in the Herald. A dead
loss to uso( about forty-dollars.
v nenever there a an excursion on a
dangerous part of a new railroad, or a
trial trip of a steamboat that we are
doubtful about, we always send Lawson
to represent the stuff. He has been
blown up twice on tho rivor, aud has
beon dropped eight times through do
fective trestle bridge, besides partiei
puting iu a couple of boiler explosions.
He receives all the champion cabbages,
gigantic turnips and remarkublo eggs
that are sont here by subscribers for no
tice, and he tests all tho giant cucumbers
and early watermelons that come in. We
could hardly run this office safely if we
didn't have Lawson."
"He struck me as looking rather low-
spirited."
"So be is. lie has naturally a strong
constitution, but he is gradually break
ing down tinder the strain, I urn afraid,
and is going to die early. It weighs on
his mind. He had a terrific light with
an indignant politician last summer, just
after he had tested a basket of rather un
ripe cantaloupes, and I have noticod that
he is somewhat gloomy since."
Just then tho subdued noise of an al
tercation was heard iu an adjoining room;
there was a pistol shot, and tbe bullet
came whizzing through the partition,
passing close to Mr. Jones head.
"What's that V" askod Jones.
"Lawson's having a tussle with McII
vaiue, the Democratic candidute for com
mon council. We cut Mollvaine np in
to-day's issue. I thought he'd call.
Boy!" exclaimed the editor, "run for a
policeman!"
I bun the sound dia l away, and ton
minutes later, when Mr. Jonos went out,
he saw the policeman and two other men
carrying Lawson to the hospital on a
atrotchor, whereupon the managing ed
itor said :
'We'll have to lot up on Mcllvuino for
a day or two, or till Lawson has timo to
recuperate. .
Hand In Hand to the Short.
Years ago a man and a woman joined
hands, as their hearts were joined, for
the life race. The man had thus far
come out of the days of an honest, use
ful boyhood. He had come out thus far
unscathed - and full of good plans and
strong resolves for the future. He
found a fair, sweet, sensible , soul-growing
young woman, whoso path run in the
good direction, and they were nnited in
tuurriuge. Then began the great work
of homo building and of life building.
Their destination was the strong, the
useful, the beautiful future, and bruvoly
they set their lives in that direction. They
learned each other's good traits and
built up to thorn. Tbey learned each
other's weaknesses, and each shielded
the other in all thut was weak. It is
said of them by their neighbors that
in all their years of busy, earnest,
useful
life, neither have ever ben
to utter a word against the
There have been no continual
at correction, no frayed out
heard
other,
efforts
fault finding, no throwing of blame
one upon the other. To-night we have
for hours listened to their talk; to the
relating of pleasant experit-nces along
the way; to their telling of the fun they
have bad; of tbe dear, good fiiends they
so like to speak of ; of the comforU and
pleasures they have found and enjoyed.
Twelve years ago the god old man lost
a leg in a railroad accident, but he did
not lose bis manhaod or good nature.
He has had to be waited on more and
more a he grows older, but he never
complains, nor does tbe good woman
bis wife whose tender, loving solicitude
is so marked that all see and admire the
heart that put out such tendrils, and
the sweet lifetbat bears such 'ruit. They
are careful not to aot or to speak, and it
jeems to ns they are careful not to think
anything, to hurt each other's feelings.
Thus they are journeying oc toward tbe
beautiful shore, hand in hand. Their
eyes are not so full, round and bright as
in the years agone. Tbey walk with
slower, feebler steps than when we were
. . U .' Lnn Uant .MM inn
'i J " 70"-
meir puysicsi Domes mow mny signs
01 enng oui, um meir piri iiwrw are
fuller, fresher, riper, stronger and more
of that which is ripening gladness than it
was then.
They toll us that spring Hmfl Is bwrnli-
ful. P0 it IS that eh Idlinml la b.milUfnl
So it is that youth is beautiful. So it is
that ripe manhood and womanhood lined
with love and building up into bettor,
mote intelligent conditions, are beauti
ful. So they are. Hut o-night we have
seen a more iauiiiiii sight old ago that
is kind, cousiderate, lovable. Have seeu
the gates of death aja,-, so that the
beautiful beyond can be seen through
them, and iu the gatcuy, almost reach
ing to step out from the wrinkled, pain
tilled habiliments earthly, two good
souls whoso uim Mas been all through
life to live for each other, and to set
good example. How we do wish thtt
every united couple were thus united in
love and tenderness. That every home
was thus blcssnd by the sweet uugel of
peace, good will and considerate regard.
That every full, ripe life were so beuilti
ful. That every homo in which are old
people or those who are growing old
wore thus able to look this way back
along flowers, and their way ahead along
glories.
"Yon are not weary of each oilier?"
"Weary of each other? When ho has
been so good to me. When sho lias Ix'en
so kind to mo. Each h ive had our w ly.
Each have recognizod individuality iu
the other. Each have realized how muoh
better our wife or our husband have beeu
than are many others, and each have con
sidered how often wo have beeu imper
fect, no matter though we try to bo per
fect. So it is that though wo may ut
times censure ourselves as wc pass our
lives in review, yet we never censure
each other, never chide and say that you
might have done lietter, or that it is your
fault."
Thus in brief said the good old 0011 pie
to-night, as each was anxious to tell us
how much of this work and of that work
the othor had done, and how impossible
it seemed to them that it would be for
each to get aloug without tho other.
I Great West.
The Salt Lakes of I tali.
There are numbers of people iu this
city who ure not apprised of tho exist
ence of inexhaustible lakes of Salt in El
Puso county. Mr. Barlow, the agent or
owner of thoso lakes, was interviewed
about them with the following result:
"How far are these spriugs from
hero ?"
" Ono huudred and twenty-five miles
northeast."
" What is the area of lund covered bv
thorn ?"
" About 21HX) acres. There are a
countless number of springs from three
to eighteen inches deep, and tho valley
is crystalizod by tho air, aud immense
sheets of salt are formed of a thickness
ranging from twelve to twouty inches
deep. As Boon as the crust is removed
tho water underneath quickly crystalizos
again, and this process continues indefi
nitely, producing such quantities of salt
that oue train of ours loaded daily for
forty years would be inadequate to re
move it. These lakes of salt have ex
isted from time immemorial, and
tho product has supplied towns in north
ern Mexico and on the Rio Grande
for an indefinite period. I have two men
there, und intend to sond enough more
to get out a car loud daily, whioh will be
hauled to Sierra Blanco jurisdiction and
shipped wherever purchasers desire. Tho
salt is iu granulated crystals, but we in
tend soon to erect a crusher and make
the finest quality of table salt. It will
be furnished at about $1.50 per suck of
two hundrod pounds, and is much su
perior to Liverpool salt. Texas can get
all her salt here henceforth, as Mexico
has been doing for four years. A beau
tiful pastoral country surrounds it, but
there are no inhabitants in that section
nearer than tho railroud, as it has always
been tho Bcene of Indian visits. The
property belongs to Major Georgo B.
Zimpolman, of Austin, father-in-law of
the lute Judge Howard, who, in asserting
tho ownership of these salt springs, fell
a victim to his enomies." E1 Paso
Herald.
Diamond in Hairpin.
"Diamond hairpins? Yes," said a fash
ionable jewolor. "Wehavo them. They
are the fashion now, and, not diamonds,
then some other ornament. You have
observed tho classic style of huir-dress-ing
in vogue. This givos an opportuni
ty for tho display of ornaments in tho
hair, and hairpins are requisite Bands
of ancient coins, gilded or made of gold
to resemble ancient coins, with a hairpin
nt each end of tho bangle, are popular;
but we are busiest resetting jewels iu
hairpins, and as diamonds show best iu
silver, and silver now is made in many
tones of color, we are using it most. It,
is wonderful what progress has beon
made in the coloring of silver. You can
get silver daisies, punsies, violets, fuch
sia, ivy leaves and primroses, with their
natural colors. I have just finished a
hairpin resembling a deep groon holly
leaf, with scarlet berries clinging to it,
and a tiny dewdrop on tho leaf mado of
a diamond. The deep yellow of the sun
flower can 1m shown in silver, as woll as
the brightest red. Thero are Homo good
diamond effects obtained now in the cut
ting of jet, a popular ornament with
blondes, and the hairpins of jet nosh
brightly. In insects we have hairpins
in garuets to represent butterflies, and
our malachite beetles are very realistic.
"But imitation kills off fashicn. rew
York shop girls and many other young
women readily buy clever imitations of
fashionable articles. An Italian or
trench girl saves her money carefully
bo as to get some good ornament such as
a gold ornament for the hair or a string
of coral beads for the nock, but a New
York girl will wear imitation jewelry,
freshly sjppliod every season. The
fashion of gold hairpins was popular
until killed off by gilt " fN. Y. Sun.
Thomas Moran was born in Bolton,
England, and on a recent visit to his na
tive place be gave a fine exhibition of his
paintings. Moran has been paid the
larget sum paid by the government for
a work of art in the capitol at Washing
ton, most of whose art adornments are
by persons born abroad.
Victor Newcomb, the Southern rail
way magnate, or ex-magnate, now living
in New York, is ten-millionaire. On
tbe various fluctuations of Louisville k
Nashville stock he made two millions,
and sold out bis entire stock at fancy
prices before he retired from tbe Presidency.
Wf.it Xtn 8aj ibDiit Women. .
Mr. Ballou harf collected the good say
ings on the endless, suggestive subject,
woman, from hundreds of authors into a
volume. It is not the sort of a book
rood too steadily. As the Scotchman
said of the dictionary, "Tho stories are
vers gnid, bnt they'rj unco short."
Probably we caunot all of us sgne with
everythiugiu it, but we all like to puzzle
over the "unsolved problem," to wor
ship at tho shrine of the "priestesses of
tho tin .now ii." Wo feel thut we have
outgrown such musty old saying as
Shakespeure's "Maids waut nothing but
husbands, and when they have them
they want everything." Wo
cannot tolerate the Italian sayings like
"Ho that loseth his wife and a farthing
hath a great loss of the farthing," uud
tho lute Po)h's exclamation of delight at
the "inscrutable ways of Providence"
when ho heard thut Father Hyacienthe
had married. Something too much of
Ovidiuu metamorphosis lingers round
the Mentimeuts of the land of
his birth. We like a little better the
good Gorman flavor of Schiller's
"With soft, persuasive prayors woman
wields tho sceptre of the life she charm-
eth," or Stendhal's, "Woman is a de
lightful musical instrument, of which
love is tho bow and man tho artist;" but
we feel that we havo got beyond it, per
haps beyond even Necker's "Women do
not often have it iu their power to give
like men, but. they forgive like angels."
The l'rencli ones are nioro amusing, but
very often more irritating, too. What
woman would endure Balzac's "Tho first
thing necessary to win the heart of a
woman is opportunity," or unias' "The
wisdom of womeu comes to them by in
spiration, their folly by premeditation,"
But Hugo's "Ono only needs to see a
smile iu a white crape lionuct to enter a
puluco of dreams," aud SegurVMon suy
of womon what pleases them, bnt womeu
do with men what pleases them," might
havo been writteu on this Hide of the
water. Somo of tho English ones came
nearer home, though they are not wholly
free from exasperation Ut feminine ears.
Jerrold's "Such beautiful lips man's
nsuvl fato ho was lost upou tho coral
reefs," may pass as a flattering slur
npou a longed for fate; but Hali
burton's "Every woman is in the wrong
until sho cries, and then sho is in the
right instantly," is unendurable, and we
need thosoleniner touo of Beaeoustleld'a
"Nothing is of so much importance to a
young man as to be well criticised by a
woman," to reconcile us to our cousin
hood. Our American authors understand
life better. Gail Hamilton's "Man has
subdued the world, bnt woman lias sub
dued man ;" "No monarch has been so
great, no peasant, so lowly,' that be has
not been glad to lay his best at the feet
of a woman;" "The wifo rules every
Now Englaud homo whom there is
not an elder daughter," wo quote tho
last from momory; and Holmes' "They
govern tho world, thoso swooi nppeu
women, bocause beauty is tho index of a
larger faft than wisdom," comes close
home to our souls. Huston Adver
ting.
The Ancleut World.
In a recent lecturo on tho world at the
time of man n appearance, Boyd Daw
kins, tho English geologist,,gavo a brief
sketch of some of tho changes which
have preceded the present condition of
the earth's snrfaco. In the eooene and
mioceuo periods, ho said, Europe was
united w ith Iceland and Groonland, aud
and also with tho Unitod States of
Amerioa by a barrier of land, extending
oast tho Faroe Isles, which was covered
by douse forest, composed to a large ex
tent of the same trees, iu Europe aud
America, and which allowed of a com
paratively free migration of animals to
and fro between England and the United
States. In tbe rivers of Europe were
aligators and fish not to bo distinguished
from thoso of America. In the plioceno
airo the barrier of land became do-
pressed, and for tho first timo in the
history of tho world what is cow the At
lautiocccamo oonnoctod with tho Arctia
sea. During all these changes tho
British Isles formed a part of the conti
nent, and the Atlantic soa-board was
marked by the WX) fathom lino. As re
gards the changos iu climate in Europe
in the three periods, the lecturer said
thut during tho first period the climate
was tropicul in Britain, palms and
breadfrnitu and other southern trees
living in the southeast of England. In
the second ponod the climate was ooolcr
and palms were scarce, but magnolias
and tulip trees soquoais abounded. In
tho third period the climate became tem
perate These surroundings of man
were gradually shaped in the throe ear
lier stages of the tertiary period until
they arrived very eurly at that equilib
rium which is found to-day.
The Lire or Bank Notes.
' Paper nionoy is short lived. For tho
first two or three years following the es
tablishment of the national bank system
the number of notes out was not vory
largo, and as thoy wore all now they re
quired but few rer airs. Tho amount of
dilapidated money takon in and de
stroyed previous to November, 1HC5,
was only $175,400. In the following
year over 81,000,000 had to be renowod,
and the next over $3,000 000. In two
more the amount was 88,000,000, and
in the year immediately following that
the total was $H,.'i05,000. In the next
four years the amount in ronnd millions
was respectively twenty-four, thirty,
thirty-six and forty-nine. This lost
figure was for the year ending October
31, 1874. The amonnt for the following
year rose to $1:57,097.700. There
must have been some unusually hard
usage of notes that year. The year fol
lowing these heavy cancellations only
$1)8,672,000 was taken, and tbe amount
has never been so large since. The
total steadily declined to $35,539,000
for tbe year ending October 31, 1881.
Last year it rose to $54,941,000. What
it will be for tbe current year cannot
now be predicted with anything like ac
curacy, but the chances are that the re
demptions this year will exceed those of
any previons year, Up to November 1,
1881, there had been issued $1,092,290,
1G5 in notes to national banks, of which
two-thirds had been redeemed during
tbe same period. In other words, tbe
whole number of notes has had to be re
newed twice during the past twenty
years. There have been no ones or tos
issued to national bank since January
1, 1879.
Hogging ijiccd TTalst.
A London ludy has been writing about
small waists and siys:
"Tho long and short of it is, a small
waist is only pretty whon It is natural.
A wide, over hanging pent-house bust
and a pinched waist are excessively ugly
and unwholesome, too hecanso unnat
ural." This is quite correct, says the
San Francisco Daily Exchange, but how
few of the fair sex can be bronght to
look at the waist mattor in that light. A
really sensible woman will not employ
any steel corsets to Hqnocxo this part of
her anatomy, but will leave that task to
tho muscular arm of the gentleman
whom she favors with her smiles. And
wo are assured bv very competeut per
sons that there is little satisfaction in
compressing thoso steel-lined waists, be
cunso of their lack of elasticity. A bug
to bring u!;sjioukablo joy to the huggor
must be jH'rformod upou a yielding sur
face. Then the amount of pressure
must be carefully gauged, and the lady
herself becomes awaro of tho extent of
her lover's ardor. But with a tightened
np waist, all the squoszing is second
hand, and tho swain is chilled by the
conviction that the corsot has tho best of
tho busiucss, while ho is only a mecuni
cal and unrewarded agent.
Editorial Penmanship.
Groeley and Bliss gave the jouruulistio
profession the reputation of being awk
wark chiographists, aud yet thero is
no profession which avoragos letter in
tho bund a riling line. Young journal
ists should study to writo legibly; it is as
much a part of tho business to writo leg
ible Englis'i as it is to write correct
English. Some newspajier neon, in tho
desire to luako neat aud elegant copy, go
to tho extreme of writing exceedingly
small and cramped hands. Col. R. T.
Van Horn, the editor of the Kansas City
Journal, is a notublo example. A page
of his uiauuscript makes ,t column in
type. The most notublo example ia the
eouutry is Parsons of tho Sacramento
Record-Union. It is his daily oustom to
prepare his editorial matter upon scraps
of paper no larger than postal curds.
Each of these scraps afford him ample
spuco for a column of editorial, and his
uhirography is so small that printers un
accustomed to it aro compelled to use a
miorosoopo to deoiper it. The composi
tors around the Record-Unipn office are
all young men with euglo eyes, as long
as Parsons hold the fort, old men with
failing optics will give tho placo a wide
berth. I Denvor Tribune.
Measurement or the tlroat Lakes.
The following measurements of tho
great lakes will bo found interesting and
are absolutely correct, having been taken
by government surveyors:
Tho greatost length of Lako Superior
is 335 miles; its greatest breadth is 100
miles; mean depth, 088 feet; elevation, .
027 feet; area, 82,000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Michigan
is 300 miles; its greatest breadth, 108;
mean depth, 995 foot; elevation, 50(1 feet;
area, 23,000 square miles. .
Tho greatest length of Lake Huron is
300 miles; its greatest breadth is GO
miles; mean depth, COO feet; elevation,
275 feet; area, 20,000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Erie is
250 miles; its greatest breadth is 80
miles; its mean depth is 84 fcot; eleva
tion, 2G1 feet; area, 5,000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Ontario is
180 miles; its greatest breadth is 05
milos; its mean depth, 500 foet; elova
tion, 201 feot; aroa, 0,000 square milos.
The total of all five is 1,205 miles,
covering an aroa of upward of 135,000
square miles.
Misplaced Con fides ce.
' A poor man stood before the Oil City
temperance rooms one night, and lis
tened to the sound of tho pleasure
within for a short time. Then he slowly
asoendod tho stops and apoosted a young
man. '
"Say, mis tor. do you think they'd
give a man suthin' to drink in here?"
"Certuinly; walk right in."
, Ile reached the door and inquired in
whioh part of the room the lunoh counter
was erected.
"This is a temperance mooting, sir,"
said an attondaut.
"Oh! This is where they keep ice
water and sell strawberries and chilled
milk for poor inebriates who don't
drink?"
"Yes, this is fur reformed dtunkards.
Are you oue?"
"No," he said, as he went sadly out,
"I'm a misforniod drunkard." Oil City
Derrick.
Naming tbe Kangaroo.
When Captain Cook first discovered
Australia ho saw some natives on tho
shore, ono of whom held a dead animal
in his hund. The Captain sent a boat's
orew ashore to purchase the animal, and
finding, on receiving it, that it was a
boast quite now to him, he sent the
boatswuiu back to ask the natives its
name.
"What do you call this 'ere animal?"
said tho sailor to the naked suvage.
The latter shook hit head and said
"Kangaroo," whioh means in the Aus
tralian lingo, "I don't understand."
When tho sailor returned to the ship
the Csptain ssid, "Well.what's tho name
of the amniah
The sailor replied, "please sir, the
black party says it's a kangaroo." The
beast has kept that name ever sinco.
Thk Disadvantage or La hob Strikes.
The Philadelphia Press says: "For
more than a month each Saturday night
has seen an increasing number of men
on the strike, and in each case efforts are
making to replace skilled with unskilled
labor. Men are learning to make iron,
to roll steel rails, to mine coal, to make
pottery, and to load and unload freight,
who never tried a like job before; and
thus every day that the strikers are out
they are addiog to the number of
those who can take their places, and not
only that, bnt are willing to do tbe work
for what their employers are willing to
pay. Here capital has ita advantage. If
it can bold out, every day reduces the
chance of its defeat, and at the same
time adds to the competition which la
bor has to meet. The wise wage earner
wonld pause before inviting a contest so
unequal."
Tommy asked bia mother if the school
teacher's ferrule was a piece of the board
of education.