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IS IT WORTH WHILE I
Hearing bi load on the rmiKb road of life!
In it worth while tliat we Jeer t rjwh otiwr,
In blackness of heart that wo war to the
v kuifef
God pit u all in our pitiful itrife.
Ood pity us all ai we Jostle earb other;
" (fed pardon u all for the triimitiha we f.
When a fellow eow down 'neath bis load i
Pierced to the heart; wordi are keener than
steel,
And mightier far for woe than weal
Wers It not well In thi brief life's Journey,
On over the Uthmiu, down into the tide.
We gave hlrn a Hah instead of a Mreiit,
'Ere folding the band to be and abide
Forever, and aye, In duiit at bis sidel
T.nnfc thm nan miliitln? each other:
- isMkitthahi-rrlialllnDrace on the plain.
Man, and man only, uiakei war on bis
brother,
And laugh in bii heart at hli peril and
nam.
Bhanied by the beasts that go down on the
plain.
Is It worth while that we battle to humble
Hnnia imnr fallow down into the dilrtf
Ood pity u all! Time too toon will tumble
All of UI tojrntner, use leave in a kuw,
Humbled, Indeed, down into the dust .
AN EPISODE OF LIFE.
How Laaclnsa for the Infinite Are
Evolved Oat of lb t'haoa or th
loaiaooplarc.
Yesterday forenoon a man doing busi-
nasi on Michigan avonno nut a quart of
kerosene in a jug. walked out to the1
crossing of first stroot, and deliberately
let the jug full to the pavement. It
wan. of course, broken into many
pieces, and, of course, tlio oil splashed
over tho stone sidewalk. When this
had been accomplished the man waited.
In two or three minuted along camo a
citizou'who halted all of a sudden, stured
hard at the sjiot and called out :
"Ah I somebody broke a jug 1"
kYcs.
Oil in it, wisn't there?"
Probably lot the jug full?"
Probably."
"And the oil was wasted ?"
"It was."
"Well, I declare!" he gasped, as he
passed on. lie had been gone only a
minute when a lawyer camo along. Ue,
.too, brought up with a Biulden jerk,
and asked :
"Something happened ?" .
"Yes."
"Homebody broko a jug?"
"Yes.1 ,
"Had something in It, eh?"
"Yea.".
"Might bavo boon turpontino, but it
Hindis liko kerosene."
"Ah I then I was correct."
Ho Ungored until the third man came
lip. The new arrival picked up the
hundlo of tho brokou jug and re
marked: liless rao ! but this must Lavo been
wns."
"And it had kerosene In it," he con
tinued, ad he rublied hid linger on tho
walk and sniil'od at it.
"It did.".
"Well, by Oeorgo, but that's queer?"
Ho also waited, and a fourth man
came up aud wont through about the
same performance. Then a fifth, sixth,
and seventh came, and by-and-by there
were thirty men in tho group and more
coming every moment. Karh one picked
up a pioce of tho jug, looked it all over,
nulled at it, and put on an expression
of interest, and one man had asked if
the coroner had been notified, when
a policemad pushed his way in and
asked : .
' "What's this all about?"
" Whv," answered tho man who hud
started the atluir, "I put some kerosene
into a jug and let tho jug full on to tho
walk. '
Homo of the crowd tried to laugh us
it suddenly broko up, and some said
they would pound him if they lml to
wait a hole year, whilo tho olllcor
wont away muttering:
"This will bear looking into. Whore
wns ho going with that jug? How raino
it to break r What was ho doing with
kerosene? Whv didn't the jug contain
molasses? I'll liavo un eye on him."
l;
MN'.aken Charily.
"Do charity of Detroit has bi o I a race
of beggar-who will nebl or leave us. It
has added to do louforism an' enroll r
HKed do idleness an' ginoiul shii'tlcss
tiers. It ha said to do heads of fami
lies: idle do Mitninrr away an' you
shall bo supported durin' do winter!'
Qo ask ltt !)' superintendent if do
sumo person douu' return y'ar after
y'ar? Ask him if men an' women havo
not eonio to look upon a
poo' fund us deir right, mi' if dey
douu' demand deir allowance, insteud
of asking for it? Charity filled do
kentrv wid tramps. When charity
tried to undo its work do tramps began
to buru burns an' murder women an'
ehiU'en. I'harity has encouraged a
drove of 501) lxggar ehiUVn to march
up an' down ebery resident street. It
has waited its tours upon brutes of
men an' it prayer upon hardened
women, iui' its money li us gono to feod
people so vilo an' wicked dut do state's
prison ached to receive 'om."
Kttmily Knneral Time.
Tho Luinpteii family is in one respect
ouo of tho iuwt unfortunate in Austin.
They Urn lost by death live or six
children, hut the births arc pretty much
iu tho ntio of tho deaths, no tli'ut the
family is fur from being childless. A
few week ago tiicro was another death
.j tho family, and tho undertaker's as
sistant hilled at tho house. A biniill
boy met him at the door.
"Is your pu in?"
"What do you wnut to ecu him
uhout?'-
"I want to ask him when tho funeral
will take place."
"You needn't seo him then
that is all you want. I ran
that, Pa alw ay Ion u j pa ut
in tho afternoon."
at all, if
tell you
1 o'clock
Sir W. Templo: To mako others'
wit upiH.ur moro than ouo'a ow u, is a
good rule in conversation ; a necessary
one, to let others Uvko uotieo of your
wit, and uevor do it yourself.
HE HAD SEEN IT ALL.
The Loft)-. Traveled Youth, an4 the
l.art, Who Took lllm Down.
There h a vouth on board who naked
himi-elf a hero with his lofty uln. He
w ears a rosc-colo ed suit, and car'ies a
smooth alpenstock w ith a chamois horn
mounted atop; and over his fftxen
hair, which is beautifully parted beiiud,
he weara a red Turkish fez. Hi (ear
lessly made everlnxly's acquaintance
the first day out, and then at ono be
nan to bodirer them about thefr travels,
"Hml rio you went np the li.gr and
over to the Scheideck, of course," he
Raid to dome Indies.
"Yes, np the Rigi, but only to the
Kulm. they answered.
"Oh 1 You should have gone over to the
Scheideek! I wouldn't give a cent to
co up the Riki and not go to the schei'
deck, Why, it's a great deal finer than
the Kulm ten timed better view
didn't veknow that?"
To a clergyman who was shaking of
Heidelwrg ho saul : "I suppose you
went around to the Bench, didn't ye?"
"Bench? What bench?"
"The Bench the Bench the rocky
shelf dome 200 feet beyond the castle.
No? You didn't? You came away
without going to the Bench? Why,
the Bench gives you the best view of
the castle there is all the view there
is, about; I wouldn't give a cent to go to
Heidelberg at all unless I went to the
Bench I"
"What? Didn't go to Valmaar?" he
said, with an incredulous inflection, to
a young professor from a western col
lege. "J it possible? That lovely
church that unique camposanto that
wonderful history that stupendous
palace I If 1 had missed Valmaar I
shouldn't feel as if I had beon to Eu
rope at all."
And tho professor wus actually too
much ashamed of himself, and too
deeply grieved at his loss, to tell the
vouth that ho never before heard of
Valmaar. But this young man, who
was having sucli fun letting the sawdust
out of tho tourist's cherished dolls, was
laying np for himself wrath against a
day of wrath.
"Of course you weut out to tho Fag
giola, when you were in Venice?" in
quired one of the ladies of him.
"O yes ye the Faggiola yes, of
course; I hud almost forgotten it."
"Forgotten such a strange island as
that?" she pursued, "were tho old
Roman city of Minovia sunk hundreds
of years ago, and they can still see
down through tho water the marble
palaces? Did you go down in the
dumb-hell T
"No, I didn't; I wasn't feeling very
woll that day ; but I saw the roofs and
spires down through tho water they
are mostly tumbled down now."
"How far are they bolow tho surface
of the water? I should think well
fifty or sixty feot, or may lie more," he
said vivaciously.
"How did the old castle look ?" she
inquired, with earnest interest; "did it
seem utterly forsukeu down there, or
as if it w ere still inhabited ?"
"Still inhabited!" he exclaimed,
"after all these why.it looked just like
you know yourself what it looked
liko; you was out thero, wasn't you?"
"Me? O, no; I didn't go out to the
Faggiola when I was in Venice. It was
was awfully hot; and then I didn't
know whero tho Faggiola was, ond
noliody else seemed to know, either."
Sho laughed a merry peal. "And no
body said anything about tho oastlo of
tho Roman city of Minovia."
And sho laughed again and chipped
her hands; and her hearers laughed,
too nil but one, who looked very
thoughtful and walked away. Ho was
seen laboring over one of tho volumes
of the cyclopedia down in the saloon an
hour later, and since that has been very
quiet, indeed.
The "Leader" Killtor'a Future.
Tho flag has dropped on poudorous
journalism. Tho great, good-imtured
pulilio will put up with much, but it
will not have a dailv niagniuo at the
breakfast table. It w ill read a para
graph between its ham and eggs, but it
hasn't time for a review tho eggs
would get cold. When this old hat
was new, some hundred years ago, tho
public hunkered nnd hungered for long
editorial articles. It doesn't do it now,
It has more sense, nnd, besides, tho
world has moved u poj or two. When
tho publio reads a long article nowa-
lavs it must bo larded with news, not
some man's opinion warmed over a
dozen times. This being the case, the
thought as to tho future of the power
ful "leader" writer is a saddening one.
What ever will become of tho man
with tho brow like Mercury new-lightsd
on a heaven-kissing hill and the throb
bing intellect? There is a grave
chanco that there will not bo enough
wood piles to go around.
Tho MoniiMtitiirr'n ll!t,
The thotiirhtfnl Provision of this
r - i -
moonshiner for his hogs reminds one
tlmt tho boi? Noinctiincs is liimsolf a
guide for tho revenue olliceis. Your
toper is not more loinl or the product
of the still tlniri is this useful animal of
its residuum of slois and refuse. Not
long ago a drove of lino porkers were
driven tii market in a southern city.
Their route led past a registered distil
lery, and with a celerity which rivaled
that of their relatives in bible story
who "ran down a stern nlaco into the
sen," they broko coliuuu for the succu
lent slois. A revenue olliccr nt:indiiir
by asked the driver. "Where did you
, .1 ... I. . .i'l .. ; . . .
imy uu ui iios r mi uivesugtuioii li
was found that tho numnUiuccr in
charge of their early education had
maintained an unregistered distillery in
n trunquil spot, which would no doubt
have escaped tho vigihtneeof the "reve
nues," but for the inconsiderato and un
grateful conduct of his pigs.
A Cool ro ited Head.
Alfonso is described as "an iusipid
littlo fellow, who loves cigarettes, gar
lic, girls, fast horses and brandy," but
it takes something more than a French
mob to "rattle" him. Alfonso's conduct
ia Fan's showed that ho has . cool head,
even if ho is a king.
t'hliiPHO .tledleal Treatment.
The most absurd superstitions are
held in regard to sickuess and disease.
It is always at ributed to the evil spirits
llo.ilii:g in the air, and when a member
of u family is attacked with illness they
send for tho priests. These sacred in
dividuals come attended by a full baud
of mrisii!. that is to say, a huge gong,
several drums, and an instrument like a
Scotch bagpipe. No more hideous or
unearthly noise can be imagined. The
priest kileels before a square table hold
ing lighted caudles and burning incense,
and resds innumerable prayers placed
on a sort of easel, in large, red charac
ters. At ti e end of each one he pros
trates himself to the earth, and the in
struments break out into a most dis
cordant cla:nor while he remains there.
A woman in a village just outside the
gates of our compound has never been
well since her removal into a new
bouse. Of course, the only reason thev
can think of is that the evil spirits took
xssession before they did. Last week
the priests were sent for, and they have
been keeping it up ever since, night
and day. The w onder to us is when
they eat or sleep, for there has been not
the slightest cessation of hostilities.
When ill they pinch themselves around
tho neck till it has the appearance of
being burned or scolded at regular
intervals. Another habit is to take
a copper cash, a rough eoin about the
value of 1-10 of a cent, and scratch a
cross on the back till the blood flows.
Even the most learned have not the
lightest idea of the mechanism of the
human ImhIv, for it is against the law
and punishable by death to dissect a
corpse. It is amusing to see their outs
representing the internal system, for
they resemble that of a sheep or goat
quite as much as our own beautifully
formed and regulated bodies. No won
der that the marvelous cures effected
by the foreign physician seem little less
than miracles.
A Ktruiisc Interruption.
The Primitive Baptist camp-meeting
at Silvor Creek, Ga., had a strange in
terruption. A matronly woman began
to scream and cry in a violent manner
during prayer time. The preacher
thought it was a ease of spiritual anx
iety, ond put ou more religious fervor,
which had a magnetic effect on the
prayerful worshipers and caused them
to do likewise. This stimulated the
matronly woman to renewed exertions
and increased uoiso. Presently she de
clared that she was not praying, but
that she was mad about her slaughter.
A voting man had been paying atten
tion to her daughter, and the mother
had told the girl to have nothing to do
with him. In order to muke sure of
this the old lady hud held the girl by
the arm while engoged in prayer. Very
silently and slyly the young lllliU oamo
and knelt by tho girl. The old lady,
who was devoutly praying, did not see
him, nor did sho see tho other man that
knolt with him. Nor did she at first
know that the whispered words which
fell from the lips of the three, consti
tuted the marriago service. It was when
she found out that her daughter had
thus beon married on the sly that she
began to scream. For awhile she was
uncontrollable. But at last sho yielded
to wise counsel, and decided to mako
tho best of what she considered a bad
bargain. The brethren present thought
the wedding one of the most extraord
inary ever known in cump-meeting his
tory. A Wicked Joke.
Charley Willard wns a practical
joker; he was what tho many victim
ized darkies called "a ba nd man."
One day Charley hired a darkey to let
him nail him up in a packing case, and
ho instructed tho thus imprisoned
African that at a certain time he should
groan dismally. 'Then the joker called
a dray and said to the driver:
"Here, Jack, take this box to the do
pot. I don't like the looks of that box
around here. I wonder who left it
hero."
The box w as placed upon tho dray,
and tho careless drayman mounted
upon it and started for thb station.
Ho had driven about half the leugth of
liay street when a hidlow groan of
deep agony camo up from tho box
beneath him. The driver was not
quite certain that ho rightly caught
tho direction of tho noise, but ho
lightened up on the box, tho perspira
tion oozed out upon his forehead, and
tho furze upon his hands rose up in
creeping horror at the sound.
"What dut?" ho softly asked himself,
ond his voice squeaked and wabbled as
he spoke.
" i'liirh-h-iih-oh-ee-umrh-h-oh !" c.inio
from the box, and the captive tloun
dered in his cage.
Thero was a yell of awful terror a
big urgro man leaprd high in the air
from tho dray and landed full fifteen
feet away, and with a huge, w hite, dis
torted eye out over each shoulder ho
tied dow n the street praying and snort
ing as bo ran :
"Oh, Lordv! O.nvy Henveuly Father!
Bo with mo, 1 pray! Oo, wah-uh-uh!
Do debill liko to cotch me! My Lord
in glory I save your snftorin' child !"
Ho stopped at lust, but it took half
an hour to get tho thing explained,
and tho coon in tho box inquired very
particularly as to whether tho drayuiuii
was near nt hand before he would con
sent to being released.
SlUMKiiluian Funeral.
As soon as the grave is filled up each
friend plants a sprig of cypress, one on
the right and another on the left of tho
deoviwHl. If those on tho light grow
the deceased w ill live forever, enjoy the
delights ami bliss promised to all truo
followers of Mohummed. If those ou
tho left, be would forever bo excluded
from enjoying bliss in tho arms of tho
ravishing llouris, whose eyes aro big ns
tho tea saucers, and forms as of Parian
marble. If both grew ho would bo
greatly favored in tho next world; if
neither, be would ln haunted by black
angels uutd Mohammed interfered.
Inter Ocean: Fashionable young
ladies should not forget that Goliath
died from the effect of a bang on his
forehead.
SUN-BURN IN ARCTIC REGIONS.
One f the Hcors;eef ArMle Travel
-An Old Whaler'a Kxperlence.
y '
"The worst trouble that I had in my
first voyage north was from sun-burn.
Yes, sir sun-burn. I could stand the
cold when she was forty degrees below
zero; I could stand frozen noses and
years; but bust my top-rails if I didn't
suffer the torments of hell the first time
I got sunburnt in the Arctic regions.
You see it is this way : We was laid up
a few days before the close of summer
making repairs, in about seventy-fo lr
degrees north latitude, and right early
one morning a party of us weut ashore
to look around. It was pretty cold aud
the consequence was we were bundled
up in half a dozen thicknesses of under
clothes, with fur hoods over our heads,
and looked like fleas in a buffalo robe.
"Well, sir, along about noon time,
what with the heat of the sun, and the
hard exercise that we was taking ia
getting over the snow and ice-hummocks,
I was hot as tarnation, and just
slipped the hood off my head and w ent
along for awhile with nothing on it.
" 'Put on that hood, you fool,' hol
lered one of the men. 'Do you w ant to
get sunburnt?' 'A' few freckles won't
hurt me,' says I. 'I never was much of
a beauty. But you're the fool to tulk
about sun-burn in such a country as
this.
"I thought that settled the whole
business; so I kept right along with a
bare head, while the other boys, w ho
were old bands at travel iu the north,
kept covered np. The side of my fact
that was next the sun was hot as tire,
while the side that was in the shade was
froze pretty stiff, but as we kept tacking
around in going from place to place, I
showed first one side and then the
other to the sun, and the freezing and
the oooking was pretty evenly divided.
"You take and stick your head clear
down to the chin in a bucket of scalding
water, and keep it there for five min
utes, and you'll know what I felt like
when I got back to the ship that night.
My face was swelled up so that I
couldn't see out of my eyes, and one of
the boys had to lead me around for
three days. My head under the hair
was so tender that I couldn't touch it
to a piller, and I took my sleep like I
took my whisky, standing. The boys
used to come around me and laugh and
holler, Itecause they said my head
looked like a hog fattened up for
Christmas; but it wasn't no joke for
me, und I couldn't understand the
laughing nntil I got w ell enough to see
out of my eyos into a looking-glass, and
then I laughed, too, at the picture.
"You don't believe me, eh? Don't
lie about it; I can seo in your eyes that
you don't; but it's true all the same,
and any man who has been well up
north in summer will tell you the same.
The cap'n he told me the cause of it
was that the sun shines so straight up
and down there that his rays, burn like
lire. I don't know nothing about that,
but I do know that sunburn is the
painfullest danger in northern travel.
"Freezing ain't a patching to it.
Many and many a time havo I had my
nose and years froze without suffering.
The time I got these years froze off I
didn't tend to them in time, or they'd
a-been all right. In fact, I was by my
self for twenty-four hours at the timo
it happened, and I did not know they
were froze untd sonio of the boys told
me when I got back to the ship;' but it
was too late to Bave them.
Old Virginia's Molld otloan.
And with all this material progress
let us put it upon record that tho Vir
ginian is still the old Virginian. And
let us be thankful for that. He, with
his solid notions of honor, truth, piety,
hospitality, is a good anchor to tho na
tion. This old Virginian, undor whoso
solid mahogany I have had my legs, is
building a barn. Every timber of this
barn I have had to approve aud praise for
its solidity and pormanence. His bead
is blossoming near the seventies, but he
stumps about and thumps everything
with his big oak stick to seo that it is
''solid ! solid ! solid ! sah 1" Ho is build
ing a stono wall about his thousands of
mountain acres, and, although ho well
knows ho will never livo to seo it
completed, ho lays tho foundation deep
in tho earth; solid! solid! And his'
character, ns well os those of his neigh
bors, seems to bo quite ns substantial.
At breakfast one morning, a bottlo of
honey, so-called, w as brought npon tho
table to bo spread on the crisp aud
smoking ', corn cakes. Well, 1 I his
"honey" proved to bo glucose, lhis
glucoso 5jd been poured in upon a
"honeycomb" which somo Yankee bad
mado by nmrhinc'fy. Tho good nnd
gray old man had just finished saying
grace. But ho got up. He struck his
list in tho nir, nnd I toll yon ho fairly
turned tho atmosphere, blue. "In
France, sah, that grocer's storo would
be shut up, confiscated, iu ten minutes,"
sah! Ho would ba tried for adultery,
sah! Y'es, sah; tho law of Moses means
just that, sah. .It means that tort shall
not adulterate sugar, or coffee, or tea,
or honey, or any of God's gifts to man,
sah! Honey? honey? That's not tho work
of honest bees, sah. Its glucose, glu
cosesticky, stinking glucose, sah I"
F.roiioniy of Coquetry.
Tho life of a belle is ono of continu
ous hard labor, with little or no com
pensation, aud still, unlike tho telo
grophers, they do not strike. After a
late breakfast, sho begins her series cf
engagements, divided by tho hours, nnd
iuTho press of business into tno half
hours. At 11 a. in. she give A an hour
on tho lawn; at l'J sho has B for half
the morning german and C for tho
other half; at 1 p. ni. 1 has his hour
for a promenade in the great parlor; E
taken her to dinner, F has dessert with
her; after dinner G has his chanco at
tenpins; It then takes her to rido. Fol
lowing tho rido sho takes tea, then
comes tho gernian again ; then a supper
and thou to boa at 2 a. u. .So, from 10
iu tho morning until 2 next morning,
sho is on a continual strain, and a girl
will havo engagements filling her wholo
timo ui this way for two weeks ahead
Of course only a few reach thispinnuelo
of success, but somo do. During a day
a girl who is a success will dauco tou
miles and talk ten hours.
WHEN WIXD8 WERE LOW.
When w lii.ls were low and bright the sum
mer hours,
Some minstrel, wandering through my
gardcu fair, ,
Forsook 1)1 harp, aud left it funding there
With silent Hiring among the wondering
flowers.
With gentle touch to wake iu luurmuriugs,
In vuln the lily and the rose essayed:
But once the summer wind acrosi It
strayed,
An 1 with sweet music throbbed the golden
! (itrings; ,
' Whilom my heart had learned no melody,
But in life'i garden hung with tilent chord;
Ai;d all the days sang no sweet long to me,
Or answered every touch with care's discord;
Until ou dancing feet love strolled along
And all my heart wa mimic al with song.
Illonde and Brunett Beauties.
In New York, for the past two- sea
sens, there has been great rivalry exist
ing between the lovely blonde and dar
ling brunette beauties. The war still
rages furiously, aud it is hard to tell at
the present moment which is to come
out victorious, and whether the blonde
beauties or their darker sisters will lead
fashions this winter, and whioh will be
the more popular. We do not often
see in one metropolis as many real
blondes and as many true brunettes as
we have'iu New York. A real blonde
has light hair with streaks of gold
through it, eyes that look like wild
violets, complexion rare ond white,
with a delicate flush on the cheek, and
light evebrows the color of the hair.
True blondes never have dark eye
brows. ;
If a woman 1ms all the above require
mpnt that iro to make nu a blonde, and
dark or black eyebrows., her beauty
comes under another type Known as tne
"Van Dyke blonde," of which Lady
Afun, Willi- in one of the most stunninir
examples we liavo ever seen. Her hair
is a wonderful yellow, lier complexion
fair as a lily, and her eyes black as
sloes, with' eyebrows to match. The
"Van Dyke bloudo" is a type of lauty
not often seen. It is considered by far
the more distingue type.
Although abuotit everybody knows
what is requisite to lie a true brunette,
there are still a few who are not even
educated up to it, and w hocoll a woman
who has a dark clear skin, "cheeks like
roses and lips like the cherry," hair
purplish black, and dork gray eyes, a
brunette. No woman is a true brunette
who has not very brown or very black
eves.
" What is known os the "Irish type" of
beauty in one of the loveliest. No eye
is so blue, so large, so expressive, or so
heavily fringed as that of the possessor
of this type; no hair is so glossy and
dark and heavy ; no complexion so rosy
and healthfuCand to people in general
this type is the most bewitching and
fascinating.
A typo of beauty that bus had its day,
but of which we see representatives oc
casionally, is what is known as the
"strawberry blondes." Brick red hair,
blue eyes and fair, pink complexions, are
the accompaniments of this type.
The "yellow blonde" is another typo
which is rapidly going out of fashion,
ond "yollow blondes" aro seldom seen
now except on the stage. Fanny Daven
port is an example of this typo.
The daughters of Spain and Italy ore
the best examples of the brunette type
of beauty; those of England and Ger
many of tho blonde type, nnd those of
Greece of the Van Dyke type.
Here in America we have a mixture
of all kinds of types, as we have a mix
ture of all nations. The true American
type of lieauty, howevor, is neither of
the blondo nor brunette, Van Dyke nor
Irish, Duniel Gabriel Hossetti, straw
berry or yellow blondo types. The
true American beautv has hair soft aud
brown, eyes of gray or blue, complex
ion rather white, clear ond devoid of
rich color, and features not by ony
means as regular as those of the other
types of beauty, but possessing far
uioro expression.
Ladles Who Shave.
"I'm in about ns big a hurry as your
self to-day," said a Trenton, N. J.J bar
ber to a reporter ; "this is my Chambers
burg day." "What do you mean by
your Chambersburg day?" asked tho
reporter. "That's the day I go out to
the borough to shavo a certain lady
w ho lives there.- Oh, you noedn't bo
surprised. I shavo her every two
w eeks. If sho let her mustacho grow
it would beat yours. I have ono other
Judy customer, w ho would, but for me,
have a growth of fine, soft hair on both
sides of her foce. I shave her
every three weeks. The first
lady is married. The other is
not. No one outside of their own fam
ilies knows that they shave. There aro
other ladies, I suppose, who could cul
tivate a beard, but I don't know them.'
Once when I w orked hi Philadelphia,
I had half a dozen to shave every fort
night." "Doesn't the shaving mako tho
hair on their faces grow worse than
ever? ',; "I think not. I use water in
stead of lnthcr, by their request, nnd
while shaving makes the hair Stiller,
I don't think it causes it to grow any
heavier. One reason that thoy shavo
is that they can not properly powder
their faces when growing a beard."
"How murh do you chargo them?"
"Twenty cents a shave."
, An Editor'M lnraparlty. .
5 , "
. Besides, in mr editorial ollices there
is too often nn absolute incapacity to
deal with the people nud the physical
facts of the day. The man engaced in
writing bis daily yard-stiok of editorial
becomes a closet character. Ho loses
the hardihood to drink through his eyes
the true influences of tho time. Ho
squares his world by some Utopia in
bis library. Tho greatest revolution of
modern times, tlict which arrested true
liberty and tho truo happiness of man,
was fomented by Rousseau from his
closet, whero ho apparently depicted
tho world as ho saw it in some lcanti
ful camera olwivo tho roof; and when
he camo out into the world, beennso it
was not all ns noiseless and exquisite as
that reflection, hu indicated oil tho reg
ular influences of his time as tyrants of
tho globe. Nervous, so constituted
that he could, not mix with men, ho
wanted human government adapted to
bis delicato tympanum and retina. The
madman's vision inflamed France, and
sclf-goverument became a hideous incendiarism.
A STREET SCENE.
The Man Who Wrai,i Kn'll vm
With l'nexefu Hrvei.e.
At the intersect , two m.towa
business streets, yefl .rjav afternoon, a
large niuiWr of vehj ;ei seemed to col
lect from all directi Oun coal cart
had for a driver r.n (.'centric individual,
who by his shouts jvl wild gesticula
tions made himself I .e cynosure of in
quiring eyes. He Jh a most enthusi
astic character, and irectly oppoxed t
his horse in thisresj ct.fofthe animal's
ears hung down like he private pocket
of a bonk cashier, ai 1 he exhibited n
more activity or des e to progress than
tho politician who his friends ore
"forcing into nomim ion, you know."
This peculiar tur ut was remarka
ble from the fact tin tho driver, like
the colored race, w a incessantly clam
oring for recognitioi and his well di
rected efforts in th respect t'pped
tho street cars t d entung'.ed the
w heels of his cart with t lose of a
heavy express wage It s lemed that
the cart man was i ing for just such
a ct n. He cried ut to his horse, to
the driver of the iress wagon, and
finally dropped i reins and ex
claimed : .
"Gimmie road! g imie road, there!"
A low tigerish gt 1 1 from the ex
pressman was the o t response. .
"Dou't make me 1 1 down out o' here,
I tell you," contin d the irate coal
man. "Well, get your i nfonnded cart out
of the way," wplieijhe other. .
This was almost jo much.
"Get out of the vJv, did you say?"
he almost yelled, wile the veins began
to stand out onthelonng coal mine on
bis forehead, f Yoniir man, don't vou
provoke me Tin u dangerous charac
ter!" "I d n t carlvhot you are," snlkilv
replied t ie e:
essman.
"Gr. at
headed lightning!"
driver ns he jumped
roared the d
over the tail!
d of his wagon. "Step .
dou u here ui
1 show you w hy John
goin.f to California.
L. Sullivan
Come nlong
1 give me a little exer-
else, he co:
nned, spitting on his
hands and
Lipping theni together
with a force
fit mado the lookers-on
grow pale.
The enetn
moments th
i'scended, and for a few
was a terrifying scene
of kicking Jl
biting and striking.
hen the
subsided tl
temcnt bad somewhat
xpresxmon .was coolly
climbing int
s wagon, while the man
who scared lllivan out of tho eustern
states was i
an Italian .
closed, two;
and his left I
of the housv
lelightful trim to grace
bag. One eye was
nt teeth were missing,
had called for a division
To tho policeman who
endeavoredrea:h tho scene iu time
to take somady's ante-mortom state
ment ho ex 8nod:
"Well, fl see, I was the roaring
lion of tho M cart, but if I can get a
raw ovster a a yard of sticking plas-
term res
my position or go on a
seems that there was
flicer, but it was over so
vacation.
some troubj
quick that
tiou of it."
ave but a faint recollec-
Knives
Hrlniiori at Sheltleld.
First, Wcflre taken into the show
rooms, whera he glass cases are an end-' '
less numlie in) 1 variety of razors, carv-t
ing knives A forks, ond case knives of
of most exdkite finish, a few plated ;
these for thuerican market, English
not likiuff tuto them, our countrymen,
however, dsaiding them in wholesale
- . 1 .'1 .' if. r. 1 1 oinna f.nmnn
quantities.
ssors of nil sizes, from an
almost infii
on ounce) t
tailors; of
fully flnishi
speck (1,400 of them to
e largest shears used by
e are some most beauti-
Vith polished and Herni
polished coi
ated faces, produced bv
skillful grin
(L. Pen-knives are in end-
less variety
o under a bell glass has
1,883 bltti
added e;
new ono being
w lears Uav.
Stilettoes, (Tiers,
et boo genus" of
pretty westiitoys;
some were tootli-
picks" with ales J foot long. Carved
ivory pniier ilterstu profusion. The
art of carvinivory
. - i i .
icuig necessary to
produce the
aboilto enso and pen-
kuifo linndli' t
ried still further,
and many i
aments uro mado.
There are ids
lieautiful hip. I
ladies' aid iu
Pearl work, i
profusion ft!s
) shell cases w ith
shed tools for the
ring and sewing.
.1 to knives, is in
litter nnd gleam
lrom inrse v.:
fantastic frue
id ono of fairy or
Littlo do tho re-
suits show hi
irty lingers linvo
nigh how ninny
had the doint.
seething fire
pieces have
stamp of fini:
upon them, a
forth into tho
htfnl saws the
-ied before the
crfection is put
o allowed to go
joys forever.
The riiennUena
loud-Durata. '
iu tho Smith
these phouom-
Hon. W. 1
sonian rcpor
ena graphic
says : ."Clo
occurrence ii
Harril
deseri;
ly an.
I -burst
these
r.s, iu
accnrately. He
re oi frequent
nntains llum
oda. Star City,
was nearly de-
boldt mount
in tho Humhotlt mi. H
stroved bv otll.
Iu 2
several
sous lost tliek-
liv.
in
tho Wa:
mountains, Ixjmg oS helmed
flood coming Hidden
rom tho moun-
tains. I witi
have been in t
icssedf veral of them,
ie ode If one, and once
stood ou thot
of tl mountain nnd
saw tho torr
seen i an immense
volume of wht
r rolJa down tho cun-
ou beneath
' The first
gathering c
hi of t
i is the sudden
use black cloud
he top, rod gen-,
a canon. ' Soon
pon tho monn
ry motion. It
el drawing ini-
small
on the moui
ii. no'
erally at tb'
the cloud da
mad 1
s itst
a irv
tum side whh
looks like ahtao f
meiisa quantises c
ater from the
clouds nud poipim; J a cascade upon
tliesido ot tue tiiount;
These waters
uioot trees, lud 1 1
known rocks
weighing tons! carrii
Ian eighth of ,
inilo by the tofrent.
water in tho rnon
ono coso tho
ling from the
cloud-burst was thirt-flet deep. Those
phenomena urn differ, from anytliing
1 ever heard ocurrin other parts of
the w orld. Theyooc: when the sky is
elsewhere cleir snd ndless. From
tho first gatlicring t the cloud to a
cloudless sky agali Idora exceeds
rer-
"V i
J
forty minutes.
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