THi QUARTETTE ANTHF.M.
. I fceerd tbe aotbam sung by thtt big
hurcb quartette;
- Jfcsbe rared lut butI k(fP' r owa
aonf ," "' "to ,unI bT ny
.i,luT aa' bwd ber talk, m' Dew raised
" rP-
oetoT idea wus drowned Id pleuteoua
I" of TOO.
urtct economy of words, an' extmraganee
Dotae!
.her 'W word ' enerou
, Vers spendthrift! of their lungs an'
M iiersof their brains.
tiry call this mighty amnio; 'taint fer ma to
tf t It's not;
j fctot oualc'a bettor w'ea Ifa slightly mixed
iihliii jef lun ' ' to men a mora la
njlrln' train
if iber W b,re mnie c"DnecUon wittl tba Inglna
of jrer brain.
r- Maria rocked our boy to sleep, ao' sung ber
ui oulct Babbath evenln', with the aliadowa
t muui- - '
.1, hMta rer quartotta anthem out, an' knocka
-8. V. Foaa Ai Omaha World Herald.
TODS' AMENDMENT.
Vnw Tods' mamma was a singularly
diarmlDg woman, and every one Id Simla
kMw Toils. Aiosi men uaa sovea mm
from death on occasions. He was beyond
hiia.vah's control altogether, and perilled
hii life daily to find out what would
kmnen if you pulled a Mountain battery
mule's tail. He was an utterly fearless
Tount; pagan, auuui, u jrara uiu, ami inc
only baby who ever broke t he holy culm of
the supreme legisiame luuucu.
It bappened this way: Tods' pet kid got
loose and fled up the hill, off the Uolleau
gunge road. Tods after It, until it burst
intn the Viceregal lodge lawn, then at
tached to "Peterhoff." The council were
lilting at the time, and the windows were
open because It was warm. The Red Lancer
in the porch told Tods to go away; but
Tods knew the Red Lancer and most of
th members of the council personally.
Moreover, be bad firm bold of the kid's
(ollar, and was being dragged all across
the Bower beds.
"Give my salaam to the long councillor
labib, and ask bim to belp me take Moti
tack!" gasped Tods. The council beard
the noise thtSigh the open windows, and.
titer an interval, was seen the shocking
ipectacle of a legal member and a lieuten
ant eovcrnor helping, under the direct
patronage of a commander-in-chief and a
viceroy, one small and very dirty boy in a
tailor's suit ind a tangle of brown bair, to
eoerces lively and rebellious kid. They
beaded it off down the path to the Mall,
md Tods went home in triumph and told
bis mamma that all the councillor sahibs
bad been helping bim to catch MoL
Whereat his mamma smacked Tods for in
terfering with the administration of the
empire; but Tods met the legal member
the next day, and told him in confidence
that if the legal member ever wanted to
catch a goat, be, Tods, would give him i "
the help in bis power. "Thank you, Tods,
aid the legal member.
Tods was the idol of some eighty jham
panis and half as many anises. He saluted
them all as "0 Brother." It never entered
bis head that any living human being
could disobey his orders; and he was the
buffer between tbe servants and his mam
ma's wrath. Tbe working of that house
bold turned on Tods, who was adored by
erery one from tbe dhoby to the dog boy.
Even Futteh Khan, the villainous loafer
kbit from Mussoorie, shirked risking
Tods' displeasure for fear his co-mates
should look down on him.
So Tods had honor iu the land from
Boileaugunge to Chota Simla, and ruled
Justly according to his lights. Of course
bespoke Urdu, but be had also mastered
many queer side speeches like tbe chotee
bolee of the women, and held grave con
verse with shopkeepers and Hill coolies
alike. He was precocious for his age, and
his mixing with natives had taught him
nmeof the more bitter truths of life; the
meanness and the sordidness of it. He
used, over his bread and milk, to deliver
solemn and serious aphorisms, translated
from the vernacular into the English, that
made his mamma jump and vow that Tods
must go home next hot weather.
Just when Tods was In the bloom of his
power the supreme legislature were hack
lag out a bill for the Sub-Montane tracts,
a revision of the then act, smaller than the
Punjab land bill, but affecting few hun
dred thousand people none the less. The
fsl member had built and bolstered and
embroidered and amended that bill till it
looked beautiful on paper. Then the coun
cil began to settle whnt they called the
"minor details." As if any Englishman
legislating for natives knows enough to
know which are the minor and which are
mnjor points, from the native point of
Hew, of any measure! That bill was a tri
mph of "safe guarding the interests of
the tenant."
One clause provided that land should not
be leased on longer terms than five years
t stretch; because, if the landlord had a
tenant bound down for, say, twenty years,
w would squeeze the very life out of him.
Jh notion was to keep up a stream of In
Mpendentcultivatorsinthe Sub-Moirtant
Jjjcta, and etbuologically and politically
notion was correct. The only draw
wkwaa that it was altogether wrong. A
Mire's life in India implies the life of his
on. Wherefore you cannot legislate for
f generation at a time. You must con
r the next from the native point of
Curiously enough, the native now
then, and in Northern India more par
jdarly, hates being over protected against
'"m"1- There was a N'aga village once
they lived on dead and buried com
ariat mules. But that is another
story.
tu' any re8011 to be explained later,
People concerned objected to the bill.
" DatiVA mamluM la Annnnll knau -
"ochtbout Punjabis as he knew about
ngCroM. He bad said in Calcutta
w the bill was entirely in accord with
"desires of that large and important
r'Jlle cultivators," and so on, and so
The legal member's knowledge of na-
j"? was limited to English speaking Dur
v1 nd his own red chaprassis, the Sub
montane tm. , i . i .
jr, tbe deputy commissioners were a
deal too driven to make represent
rj" Md the measure was one which
Jrth small landholders only. Never
the legal member prayed that it
he correct, for he was a nervously
"cwitious man. He did not know that
"Han can tell what natives think unless
7ca with them with the varnish off.
J? always then. But be did tbe best
them' tne nieasure came up to
k 3Erme council for the final touches,
aiie Tod. patroled the Burra Simla Barar
fcmJ Bonun8 rides, and plaved with the
belonging to Ditta Mull, the bun
""tad listened, aa a child listens, to all
U fi.taUt bout tbio new free- of tbe
SahiVa.
j" there was a dinner party at the
r of Tods' mamma, and the legal
7" came. Tods was in bed, but be
ake till he beard the bursts of
?Mr fmm ...
iV MdJed out in his little red flan
took?OR own "d nl nlKht nit "nd
mi hj "dof ni ftttb'r' kD0W"
5 would not be sent back. "Se
' hrils' family! said
lather, giving Tods three prunes,
t" in a gUus that bad been used
ltlcLr"a1 telling him to ait still. Toils
o-Ild K P0 "lowly, knowing that be
" "v to go when they were finished,
Ub1 U nlak water liisaifiaaof
tbe world. k. ii . . . ..
snorj to the head of adenartmnt n,n
men .'tT' H,',mW.ari e
i V. , 's"1llt thf n native word
and hfting up hi. small vol,. '
Uh, I know all about that! Has It lw
mnrramutted yet. councillor salX"
l ow much?" said the leg.a Mmhft
know-male nice to please Ditta Mull!"
The legal member left his place and
moved up next to Tods.
"What do you know about Ryotwarl
little man?" he snld. "yotwsri,
"I'm not a little man, I'm Tods, and I
uS,r.nnnHUaAJ0U,Utv Uui,UMu11 M(ici
when I talk to them."
snyTods?" d' d W,'M do lh"
To.1, tucked bis feet under his red Ann-
nnl dressing gown and suid: "I must fiul; "
The legal meml)er waited patiently.
Vi v j '""ne compassion:
1 ou don't speak my talk, do you. coun
cillor snhib?"
"No; I am sorry to say I do not," said the
legal member.
"Very well," said Tods. "I must fink in
English."
He six-nt a minute putting his ide.-s In
order and began very slowly, trauslai 'ng
In his mind from the vernacular to j)n
glish, as many Anglo-Iudian children o.
You must remember that the legal mem
ber bel)ed him on by questions when be
baited, for Tods was not equal to the sus
tained flight of oratory that follows.
"Ditta Mull says: 'This thing is the talk
of a child, and was made up by fools.'
But I don't think you are a fool, councillor
sahib," said Tods hastily. "You caught
my goat. This is what Ditta Mull cays: 'I
am not a fool, and why should the Sir!:ar
say I am a child? I can see if the land Is
good and If the landlord Is good. If I nin
a fool the sin is upon my own head. For
five years I take my ground for which 1
have saved money, and a wife I take t.jo,
and a little son is born. Ditta Mull has
one daughter now, but be says he will
have a son soon. And ho says: 'At the
end of five years, by this new bundobust, I
must go. If 1 do not go I must get fresh
seals and takkus stamps on the papers,
perhaps in the middle of the harvest, and
to go to tbe law courts once is wisdom,
but to go twice is Jchannuin.' That
la quite true," explaiued Tods gravely.
"All my friends say so. And Ditta
Mull says: 'Always fresh takkus end
paying money to vakils and chaprassis and
law courts every five years, orelse the laud
lord makes me go. Why do I want to ijo?
Am I a fool? If I am a fool and do "ot
know after forty yeurs good land when 1
see It letmediel But if thenew bundob'ist
says for fifteen years, that it is good and
wise. My little son is a man, and 1 am
burnt, and be takes tbe ground or another
ground, paying only once for the takkus
stamps on the papers, nnd his little son is
born, and nt the end of fifteen years is a
man too. But what profits Is there in five
years and fresh papers? Nothing but dikn,
trouble, dikb. We are not young men who
take these lands, but old' ones not jats,
but tradcsir.cn with a little money anil
for fifteen years we shall have peace. Nor
are we children that the slrkar should treat
us so.'"
Here Tods stopped short, for the whole
table were listening. The legal member
said to Tods: "Is that all?"
"All I can remember," said Tods. "But
you should see Ditta Mull's big monkey.
It's just like a councillor sahib."
"Tods! Go to bed," said his father.
Tods gathered up bis dressing gown tail
and departed.
The legal member brought his band
down on the table witli a crash "By
Jove!" said the legal member, "I lielieve
the boy is right. The short tenure is the
weak point."
He left early, thinking over what Tods
had said. Now it was obviously impossi
ble for tbe legal member to play with a
bunnia's monkey, by way of getting un
derstanding; but be did better. He made
inquiries, always bearing in miud the fact
that the rcul native not the hybrid, uni
versity trained mule is as timid as a colt,
and, little by little, be coaxed some of tbe
men whom the measure concerned most in
timately to give in their views, which
squared very closely with Tods' evidence.
So tbe bill was amended in that clause,
and the legal member was tilled with an
uneasy suspicion that native members rep
resent very little except the orders they
carry in their bosoms. But he put the
thought from him as Illiberal, lie was a
liberal man.
After a time the news spread through
the bazars that Tods hud got the bill re
cast in the tenure clause, ami if Tods'
mamma had not interfered Tods would
have made himself sick on the baskets of
fruit and pistachio nuts and Cabuli grauea
and almonds that crowded the verandah.
Till he went home Tods ranked some few
degrees before the viceroy In popular esti
mation. But for tbe little lite oi mm loos
could not understand why.
In the legal member's private paper box
still lies tbe rough draft of the Sub-Mon
tane Tracts Ryotwari Revised Enactment;
and opposite the twenty-second clarse,
penciled in blue chalk and signed ny tne
legal member, are the words "Tods'
Amendment." Rudyard Kippling.
Why Hlue Kia l Inipoulble.
A florist makes the assertion that a
nine rose ia auions: the impossibilities,
but, while an explanation of this curi
ous fact may be equally impossible, he
fails to meution a very interesting law
which governs the coloring of all
flowers. A knowledge of this Inw wonld
onvp nmnv (lower irrowers hours of un
availing and foolish hope. The law is
simply this: The three colors red. nine
and yellow never all appear in the same
species of flowers; any two may exist,
.i . mi U... tha
but never tne tnird. inus we uc u
i unH rillnw roses, but no blue; red
and blue verbenas, but no yellow; yel
low and blue in the various members of
the viola family (as paiisies. for in
stance), but no red; red and yellow
gladolii. bnt no blue, and so on.-St
Louis Republic.
The Pimpernel.
oti . ruir-.i .ii ',uvtr man's
inecouiuiwu puiiy"'.. i
k.. tl.a ilimul vantage
weatner giw, u. -
of being a native plant and has been al
most completely expelled from our
, : atntifl WMl-fl
nower garuens iu ui
i ... i i. ,.,n..h nf hfini? as
are rarer uui uc
pretty. Tbe pimpernel is a charming
!.... .lji. nhnnl H in the
little nower, wnicu vi -.
morning and closes late iu the afternoon,
but has the remarkable peculiarity of
l.v shnttintf
indicating cuuimg n..v.. w -----
up ito petals For this reason, if for no
other, it deserves encouragement, and
would appropriately take the place of
some of tbe ngly tulips and other im
ported flowers now so popular. -bt
UOU1S IJIHIWUCINIH-'I"-
ltenllo oi
Toward the clore of the Seventeenth
in Prnnf. HPTT
. . I' I r..ln.
pentnrv
M- UUlWTMici m
In German? and Mr. Kewsham
. . 1 mnl.
Leupold in uermany u -r -.
in England introduced almost annul-1
toneously fire engines having an air.
chamber, which rendered the stream ,
water continuons and uniform- in ad-,
dition to this 'these engin ,wm
eouii-ped with flexible leather hose in
31 7 Jan Van der Heide and h.
botherand which was first put into
practical use in Aflisterdam in tbe year
lfl73.-Detroit Free Preaa-
LACKS TIUTiril ONLY.
COLD FC19 DCSTfJOY AN ENTER
TAKING GHOST STORY.
rrmliilMTiiira nl l...r. l.uhin whlrh Are
Mm. tiiliiiiltla lu ItrUtlini Than la
Triilliriilnr.a - Ao Alleged tUuntad
Kin. in Willi h Hid Nu r.il-l.
K'Himiitii! Lord Lyttnn wus. but nut
ni'iNtitupiis. His dfutti. however, bus
revived the story of the yellow boy's
i''iu. tne gnoxi cimiulur said to exist at
Miebwortli luiuse. the U-uutiful ances
tral home of the Lyttons for more than
W years. At Mr. W. l Friths door
must the cliur'o lie laid of having put
the interesting bile in circulation, for we
hud it first in his winging volume of
"KoiniiiiKci'iurs." After relating West-
wotsi s exiK ru nces with tho weird worn
an of the .Maison Ulub. the painter sup
plements the story by another anecdote
or more tragical significance.
"At Kiivtiworth," he says, "the seat
of Lord Lytton. there is a tiedchamU'r
called the yellow boy's room." He then
proceeds to relate that during a visit to
Knebworth, Lord t'uatlureiigh, while the
guest of tlie gnindfather of the lute
British emliussudor to I'uris. wus as
signed without a word of warning to the
mysterious and haunted room. Fueling
very tired lie soon dropped into sleet),
but bis uneasy slumber were troubled
and it was not long before he awoke.
W hat it wus which startled him his lord
ship never knew, but the sight which
met lus eyes as he gazed at the still burn
ing lire in his room wus startling enough.
The ligure of a boy. with long, yellowish
hair streaming down, sat in front of the
fireplace with Ins buck toward the Irish
nobleman. As the latter looked, the lad
arose, turtiej toward him, and drawing
back the curtain at the bottom of tbe
bed with one hand, with the other be
drew Ins fingcrstwoorthree times ucross
his throat. Of course the impression
produced on Custlereugh wus decidedly
disturbing. Bulwer insisted that be
must have been dreuiiiing. but his lord
ship declared with emphusis that he saw
the figure as distinctly us be saw his host
at that moment, and that, fur from being
asleep, ne wus wide awake.
A TKHHIUI.K KXmtlKNCE.
Mr. Frith then adds that Mr. Bulwer
did not tell Lord Cast loreugh Byron's
"viimtid cutting Custlereagh" that the
yellow boy always uppenrud to anyone
who wus destined to die a violent death
and always indicated the uiunucr of it
to his victim.
A mora niiiusing nnd less unpleasant
incident is told or the same chamber at
Knebworth by our artist author, the
subject being a timid, nervous brother
painter whostx'iit a night at the poet's
lovely and stately retrrut in Hertford
shire. The father of the author of "Lu
etic," Mr. Frith says, confided the de
tails or the Custlereugh story to bis
guest on allotting the yellow boy's room
to him. remnrkitig on bidding him good
nigbt, "You will not bo frightened, will
yon?' "No o o," said the painter, with
an ashy face. "Well, it is getting luto;
wnat do you any to retiring? Yes, thut
is your candle. Too wann for a fire iu
yonr room. on don t mind.' Uood
night. "The rust of the story shall be
told," says Frith, "in my old friend's
words us nearly us I can rcmemlMr them.
I bad shcii." he went on, "the infernal
room before dinner, and I thought it
looked a ghostly sort of place, and when
I reached it that night what would I not
have given to be back in my own room
at home! I looked under the lied, up the
great, wide chimney, and hud a shock
from the sight of my own face in the
looking glass. No ghost could be whiter
than I wus. 1 don't believe in ghosts,
you know, but still it was really too bad
of Lytton to tell mo such things just as
1 was going to ImhI. and then to put me
in the very place! There was au awful
old cabinet. I mnnagud to pnll ojien the
door und wus tugging at thoother, when
my candle went out how, 1 don't know
somebody seemed to blow it out 1
ran t tell yon what became of it; all 1
know is I jumped into bed with my
boots on. and lay trembling there for
hours, Frith-literally for hours till
sleep took me at lust; and never was 1
iiiorethankrul than when I awoke and
saw the sun shining into the yellow boy's
room."
SO TKl'TH IN TUB STORY.
Tbe circumstantiality with which Mr.
Frith tells these short titles must con
vince his readers thut he ia thoroughly
satisfied in his own mind thut the inci
dents which he carefully describes all
bupiened at Knebworth. And yet. in
that respect, he is altogether out in his
reckoning. There is no yellow boy's
room in that grand old house of the Lyt
tons at Knebworth. Lord Castlereagh
never spent a night there, noria it known
that he ever visited the place in his life.
In the autumn of 18f4 I Rieut two or
three very agreeable days ut Knebworth,
thegnestol Lord Lytton.who very kindly
showed me everything of interest about
his home and it charming surroundings.
I tlumght it strange that the yellow
boy s nsmi-if there really was such a
room hud not been open to me, and that
the very story associated with it in tho
Frith reminiscences hud been kept back.
So sent off a hurried note to Owen
Meredith, then performing his embassy
doriHl functions in the gnyest capital in
Europe, and an early mail brought ma
these lines:
Paris. 8th Feb'y. 1888.
'My Dkar Mr. Stkwart-I answer
your letter of the K'th nlto. In desperate
and unavoidable haste. Mr. Fnth's
sntobiography is all wrong about tbe
story of the 'Yellow Boy.- That story
was told by Sir Walter Scott of Lord
Castlereagh. who is said to have seen
tbe Yellow Hoy" in some house ia Ire
land at the time when he was secretary
for Ireland, just before the nnion, and
the story went that the apparition then
predicted to him the mode of his death.
lint the incident certainly did not occur
at Knebworth, nor do I think Lord
l aatlereagb was ever there. Yours very
f.titnfnlly, Lytton."
Tbe Castlereagh story is quite familiar
to tbe readers of Scott and Loclchart's
noble biography. - liidejwndent
Ail I rum Cuufuclua.
Tbat thf nuMiif tea was universal Terr
early in Chinese history U borne out by j
oue or the maxtms oi ixmruciua, mo
wisest man of China, when he said: "Be
good and courteous to all, even to the
stranger from other lands. If he say
unto thee that he thirsteth give nnto him
a cup of warm tea without money and
without price." Philadelphia Times.
The amonnt of temperance drinks
consumed in England or exported an
nually reaches the enormous total of
SAO.000.000 dozens.
DIDN'T MISS MUCH.
Intcrcttlng C'inumnt nn tha Sews of a
lajr by a Wmnan vllh o CUihi,
The man on the seat aheud of her was
reading a newspaper, ami after getting
settled in the midst of her lmrcels and
bundles and regaling herself with a
pinch of Scotch snuff, she leaned for
ward and said:
"1 don't git much time to read the pa
pers nowadays, but 1 alius like to hear
what s goin on. Is thero any news in
perticklcrr
"Nothing very exciting," lie replied,
as he sized her up out of the corner of
his eye. "Here's an item about a wife
killing her husband."
"Shoo! How'd she do itT
"With an ax."
"Law tne! Wall, she probably stood
it mid stood it until she couldn't stand
it no more. It's awful how some hus
bands do curry on. Anything else?"
"Here's an item about a woman iu this
state who drove her husband to suicide
by nagging bim."
"Shoo! Jest kept juwiu and complain
in from moniin till night, 1 supose, and
ho finally got so tired that he took
pizen?
"No, ho hung himself."
"Wull, 1 don't blame her a mite, no
was probably shiftless and lazy, and it
spilt her temper to see things goin down
hill. She'll have a chance now to git
married to a better man.
"And hero's a case," be continued, as
be protended to read, "of a wife and
mother who run away from home with a
tin peddler, leaving a husband and sev
eral children behind."
"Shoo! Does it give the purticklersT
"It suys she is supposod to be a little
flighty in her head.
"Wall, she ain't a bit flighty. She
done jest right. 1 know purty nigh how
it was. She hud all her housework to do
and them young 'uns to take keerof, and
the husband was probably liiulin fault
all the time on top o' that. Slio just
slaved and slaved till she couldn't slave
no more. Some folks think a woman cun
bear everything, but they cuu't I 'spose
the youngest child was purty stnull?
"Only Beven months old."
"Wall, she probably hated to leave it,
but it would have been weaned in a
couplo of months anyhow, and the futher
kiu bring it up on a bottle. It'll serve
him right if it squalls half the timo.
Anything else?'
"Why, 1 notice that a woman has just
married her fifth husband, and isu't
fifty years old yet Her neighbors are
so indignant thut they talk of driving
her away."
"Lai Got her fifth, eh? Wall, if 1
was that woman the nayburs might talk
and blow and be hanged to 'em. 1 ain't
fifty yeurs old, uither, and I'm a-livin
with my fourth, and don't keer how soon
ho goes. 1 was powerfully doceived in
bim."
"Do you say that you'd marry again if
he should die?'
"Surtin, und I wouldn't wait over six
months, either. Some folks think a wo
man has no rights, but she has, and she's
a fool if she don't assert 'em."
"This may interest you," said the
man, as he turned tho paper over. "A
St Louis doctor declares that the feet of
women are gradually but surely grow
ing lurger, and that in the next fifty
years to como every one of thorn will
want a No. 7 shoe.
"Shoo! He says thut, does bo?"
"Yes'm."
"And he's a doctor?"
"Yes'm."
"Wall, ho hain't told no startlin news.
I've been weuriu No. 7's ever since 1 wus
a gal sixteen yeurs old, and I've got the
smallest foot of any woman in our town
as it is. I did feci kindor sorry whon 1
diskivered that I'd left my spectacles on
the kitchen clock shelf at home, but if
that's all the news the papers kin rake
np I guess I lintn t missed nothing!
New Yoi k World.
Car for Muilral Inatruments.
Neither a piano nor an organ should
be left ojien at night, or habitually when
not in use. The changes of temperature
are very hurtful to the tone of any in
strument, and especially the gathering
of dampness, which not only interferes
with the tone and quality of tho strings
and reeds, but is very likely seriously to
affect tbe works. Pianos in particular
should be kept in as even a temperature
as possible, since they are much affected
by alternations of beat and cold, dryness
and moisture; if thus exposed they re
quire very frequeut tuning, and are not
satisfactory in action or tone. Care is
also equally desirable in regard to other
stringed instruments the violin family,
banjos, guitars and like. In all of these
the strings are much affected by expo
sure to dampness and great changes of
temperature. All fine instruments should
be habitually kept in cases lined with
baize or flannel. Uood Housekeeping.
A Murder Explained.
" Jule," remarked Brutus as he strolled
into the great Co?sur's tent, "did 1 ever
tell yon of the fight I once had among
the Allobroges?' Oofs off a long, windy
tiila involving the single handed slaugh
ter of eleven ferocious barbarians.
"Brute, my boy," remarked Cresar
solemnly when ho had finished, "1 ad
mire Oaul, especially Transalpine Oaul,
but still 1 must say that you remind me
of a harp shattered by the lightning of
great Jove."
"How so?" inquired Brutus, unwarily.
"Because you're a blasted lyre." an
swered Ca3sur. And from that day forth
Brutus began to moditate on the Ides of
March. Yale Rocprd.
Boars of Sleep for Children and Adnlta.
A German specialist Dr. Cold, pleads for
giving young people more sleep. A healthy
infant sleeps most of the time during the
first weeks, and in the early years people
an disposed to let children sleep as much
as they will But from six or seven, when
school beglna, there la a complete change.
At the age of ten or eleven tbe child sleeps
only eight or nine hours, when ha ueeds at
least ten or eleven, and as be grows older
the time of rest is shortened. Br. Cold be
lieves that up to twenty a youth needs
nine hours' sleep and an adult should bavs
eight or nine. With Insufficient sleep tbe
nervous system, and brain rwjirciHll, not
routing enough and ceasing to work nor
nially, ws find exhaustion, excitability ami
intellectual disorders gradually taking the
'place of love of work, general well beiug
and tbe spirit of initiative. l-ondoo Tit
Bit
Atbeetna Cloth.
Asbestos rolled cloth packing Is made
both with and without India rubber core.
Asbestos block packing consist of an In
dia rubber back upon which there are bnllt
up edgewise a number of layers of asbestos
cloth.
Sufficient elasticity is thus Imparted by
the rubber back, while great durability
and protection to tbs robber Is Insured by
Ue use of asbestos. India Rubbtr World.
i FLORENCE JUMjIIJ
THE MEDICVAL CITY OF ROMANTIC
ITALY MODERNIZED.
Tha "Hume r I he Arts" Onre Ismoua
for lie Artletle Htilliliiiirt, In lll.lnrlo
falaeea. Its Hrturriiie Towers and
Hough (Mil Willi, la HeMrnjrri.
1-ooked at from an artistic point of view
iKlorenceis untliing If not uieillairnl, and
ker recent atieiupls to modernize herself
Lire ua only pilialily coniiiionplace, but
,TilttrrlydisHixiintiiiglo lovers of romance.
l)uring the last three years a great part of
old Florence, iiicluillng the tibelto and the
tall. dark, mysterious houses with laby
rinthine cellar hi that net work of alleys
which once (ortne.l the old market, ha
hwu lorn down, ami meilheval Florence, or
that part of it where theiiiarresoniu Flor
entine lived and loved ami 'ought their
UelKhliors. hii Urn destroyed.
A the iliy-ii mI him I moral health of pres
ent and fill lire Florentine is of far greater
iiiiHrtutice than Hiiylhimj artistic, and as
fresh air and Iklit should lie shared by all
men HIlKe, we would not. even if we could,
olwiruet the work of demolition, lint one
cannot help asking why Florence rebuilt
should Is so niediiKra.
The new tiiare of Victor Knimanue
cood out of the very heart of the old
market, is siiiare as itqiuirvcan lw. lirnad
street are cut from it at right angles In
the most Improved Nineteenth century
lUNhlou. I hey drew red Hues up and dowu
and across the old ipinrter and cut plumb
through the lilies, barkinu olT the face of
one house, the rear of another and the cor
tier ciiplswrd of a third They cut through
massive walls, which had withstood the
storms of centuries, lopping olf heraldic
Is-arlng and mural decorations, which we
should Is glad of an excuse to put up some
Where, anil demolishing historic land
marks, plctnresiiue arches, quaint lull
come, winding stairs, dim recesses and
hallowed association with the ruthless
baud of modern utility.
miKAliV sgt'Al:s.
Flat faced, expressionless houses rise on
all sides of the dusty I'la.r.a and just In
the center stands the equestrian statue of
let or Kmnisnuel.
This statue may be good, I am too Igno
rant on such mutters toexpressun opinion.
The horse Is very, very big and carries his
tall rampant. Victor's mustache is very,
very fierce and evidently lust waxed. If
the short, clumsy man looks too small for
the big. clumsy horse you are reminded
that the soldier king always rode a big
Horse.
The hronr.r of the entire structure Is pol
lulled slid shining quite unlike the bronse
of Cellini's Perseus, though perhaps that,
too, shone defiantly when it was fresh from
the mold.
But the stiiiarel Surely we inartistic.
blundering. sctiiihurlNiroua Americans
might have peretraled nothing worse In
a mushroom city. People say there is
nothing (risjcctionahle alsmt it," and to
any tbat of a public square is quite as bad
as to say of an acquaintance that he is
well meaning." I here Is, indeed, nothing
objectionable alraut It except its unob
jectinnability. r rom the old walls of historic rlorence
rose frequent towers of stone, rough but
picturesque, built for purposes of defense
In times when it was a part of each day's
routine for men to kill each other. Kven
now, reaching kigh alove the surrounding
roofs and commanding wide views over the
outlying country, they lend a rugged air
of protection to the fair flower city.
Well, into our brand new square has
been built a new tower, massive and
rugged, grim and warlike at least it was
meant to look so, Is-iug hii exact copy of
tbe ancient ones. It was built to gratify
the hearts of the antiquarians, who only
laugh when they look at it Ah, but thry
laugh sadlyl
HOIIKItN VANDALISM.
With all their artistic and architectural
past, with imperishable monuments slur
ring their city; with the grand gothlo of
the Diiomoand the lily bloom of the bell
tower; with the stately magnificence of
scores of palaces, with the spring of arch,
the point of spire, the infinite delicacy of
Handiwork lu wood and iron and stone; In
short, with the profusenessof the beautiful
which lies all alsmt them, florcntines
ought to know better.
The vandalism of f lorence Is but a copy
Of the vandalism of Home, which baa gone
ou until now old Koine is dismantled and
t rapidly becoming the most modern city
of Italy
Here are commonplace, dreary squares,
rows and streets of blank, hideous houses;
tndows and doors cut off by the yard, and
such interiors! Here In Italy, borne of tbe
Arts! Verily, the Arts are slumbering.
Out of It all I have evolved for myself a
comforting reflection. From the shadows
of her misty bygone yeans having shaken
off tbe shackles of oppression and super
atltlcu, young Italy la reaching out eagerly
toward all that is fresh and clean and mod-
u.
Iet ns have patleuce; ws art modern
ourselves.
But just as we discriminate between
Rood got hie and bad gothlc, the genera
tion to come wilt discriminate between
good modern and bad modern. Hitherto
have asked myself why should America
be siieered st ami despised for crudities of
art or mauiiersf She has bad mightier
work to do than erect campaniles, round
cupolas, chip out statues or polish her
speech. These things are tbe flower of a
healthy, deep rooted civilisation, and our
America is planted so deep that the flower
must one day bloom. Jeanle P. Kudel in
Kate Fields' Washington.
A Uuiy for ttverjr City Woman.
The physician who attended the re
cent fatal outbreak of diphtheria in
prominent New York family in his pub
lished interview opens up serious possi
bilities. He is a stwciulist in the dis
ease, and be is quoted as saying that he
Often sees a siphon of seltzer standing in
s room where he is visiting a patient
prostrated with tbe malady. Such si
phon, he declares in substance, nnloss
most carefully and antiscptically
cleansed, will convey infection to sub
sequent users. And everybody knows
What the cleansing of public bottles is
apt to be. The same objection has been
nrged against our present system of
traveling milk vessels. So accepted is
this tbat. when typhoid fever specially
prevails, physicians frequently urge
persons to boil all milk used as well as
water.
It would be a wise thing if the women
of our cities should co-operate to at
tempt to reduce the evil. If inspectors
visited bottle washing places it is sus
pected some valuably unpleasant infor
mation might be gained. In the mean
time, every houMkuetx.'r can make it her
conscientious duty to see thut the bot
tles which daily leave hor domain are
untainted and wholly clean. This rill
need inspection, as tbe best of maids
get careless in a duty oft performed.
If there is Illness in the bouse redouble
your vigilance and be rewarded with
tbe reflection tbat in this respect at least
tbe sin of contributing to your neigh
bor's menace does not heat yonr door.
Her Point of View In New York Times.
Kip and Tack.
Cierarton Do voa trereiDect to bacons
engaged to Miaa Summit?
Daahaway (doubtfully) If my dress suit
olds out. Clothier and romiabar.
QUARRELED TO THE LAST.
A llrilnr' I'l-iid Tlisl Ws Continued
Inr Vein- will) Never a Truro.
" Ymi ill l.ikelliH nun I to the right, over
the hill, nl Hiiithers' Feud," said the llv-
i-i-y iniiii The hrlilne on the lower road
Ha wii-hed away in the storm."
IliotliciV I'ciidr" said I "Where Is
that'"
"Aren't you iii iiiiiiiiieil In this country?
No Well, ymi cau l be I'.very one within
a hiimliisl miles, siiiiikim-, know nlxuit
Urol hers' Feud. The wav nl It was, when
old man I'llacol died he gave hi farm un
divided to his two sons. They had no other
relative llviiii; Hut they couldn't gel
along together, and one of them brought
auit for partition The place I very hilly
and isn t worth much in the first iilacu.
And the lawyer fees didn't make it any
more valuable. But Ihey finally got the
mutter through court and the surveyor
came out In survey the place. They asked
him w ho wa in pay him, mnl he said they
would each pay half the exK'iie of parll
lion. They agreed and he went ahead.
"One of llieni paid and the other didn't.
That was nobody's loss but the surveyor's.
but it made I he paying brother so mad to
think his brother had done less than hi ill
self that he look up the dividing line stakes
ami set them over two nl in h ia brother's
land. That made hi brother mad and he
took up the slake ami set them two rods
beyond I he line. So they liegun quarreling
over that four roil of hill laud that wasn't
worth ten dollar an acre. Hut thetlmls-r
wa fine, and w hen the buyer came along
and offered twenty dollars a thousand for
stave timlH-r.Iiin and Joe iH'gau quarreling
lu earnest.
"Ivu h one hired a gang of choppers, nnd
tbe choppers took up the light, tor It did
seem the likeliest timlier grew In the (II
puled strip. Why. those chopMrs hud
regular battles there, nnd the sheriff had to
go oiA with a hmku. Three men were killed
Just cliopKsl to death with axes. We
have had more criminal case from that
four rods of sand ami gravel than from all
the rest of thecounty. We finally bad togel
out a company of mitilia, when the buyers
run up the price to twenty-two dollars a
thousand It was worth something then.
But each fellow spent all he mada from his
trees defending his suits, mid when the
timlHT was finally gone and the price fell
there stood alsmt the only goml walnut In
tbe county. That is worth a good deal of
money now. All the rest of the walnut
was sold years ago, and it is worth near Its
weight in silver.
"Well, If you go by there today you will
most likely see two gray haired old men,
sitting one ou each side of that strip of
timls-r, each one with a rille Is-side him.
and wailing to kill the oilier If he steps on
the strip. They Isith swear they will slay
night then' till they die. I suppose they
will, but if either of tliem gets reckless
and ventures on the strip hi brother will
shoot him sure. You sis- the ground is
worth a gtxxl deal now The men were so
busy lighting in the timls-r time that they
didn't have time to cut. (loodby. 'Pake
the right baud nee I w'i, ,i you come to the
bill. The liride i- i..nio on the other one."
1 found the Brothers' Feud without
any trouble, ami lisiked with great inter
est for I he I wo insane lirot hers. They hud
been so devoted to their quarrel that they
had never married, anil they lived all
alone, each lu a little ruhin their father
bad given them. As I drove along I saw a
group of neighlKirsabout one of the houses.
At the door of the other sat a trembling,
palsied old man, w ith a rifle across his un
steady knees. I went up to tho crowd and
found that .llm was dead.
"Been dead two or three days when w
found him," said the nelghlsir.
"What more does his brother want f" I
asked. "lie still seems to be on guard,"
"Well, he Is so deaf he can't hear when
we boiler over nnd tell him, and he is so
blind he couldn't sec when his brother fell
down by the log nnd died Besides, he has
lost bis season, lis will never know that
the brothers' feud la ended." Chicago
Herald.
rixlllnn During Sleep.
Man Is when standing erect the only aul
mal that das the thigh in line with the
axis of the vertebral column, ami among
bis nennM congeners in the animal world
the flexed stale of I he femoral articulation
is natural and constant. As we go down
the scale the angle Is'tween the thighs
and trunk diminishes until it reaches the
right angle characteristic of most quad
mpeds.
I speak here of the attitude adopted
when the animal is at rest upon Its legs,
for during sleep there is In many cases a
curious reversion to the position occupied
In embryonic lira. Thus we ee that a bird
roosting with Its head "under Its wing"
and the legs drawn unclose to the body
offers a decided resemblance to the chick
In the egg.
I have noticed that young children, when
old enough to shift their limits, very scl
dom sleep lu any hut the curled up posl
tion, and that as often as not, when un
hampered by clothing or other artificial
restraints, they sleep In the same attitude
aado many (iiiailniiwds viz., with the ab
domen downward and tha limbs flexed
beneath them. I am told thut negro moth
ers and nurses In tbe West Indies invari
ably lay their charges down to sleep on
their stomachs, and that this custom is
also common In various parts of the world.
-Nineteenth Century.
Hardly Complimentary.
A certain author, having explained the
natnre of his occupation to an old Manx
woman, was hardly prepared for the com
ment, "Well, well, what does it matter so
long as a body makes his llvln honestly V
the words lielng evidently meant to put hlin
on better terms with himself. But worse'
still fared an Kngllsh clergyman, for some
time vicar of a Manx parish, and from Ig
norance of the people and their ways not a
very popular one. Having received prefer
ment elsewhere, be started on a round of
farewell visits, but without hearing a sin
gle regret. At last oue old woman told
Llm she was "mortal sorry." In blsde
light tlie vicar let curiosity outrun discre
tion, and be asked for her reason. "Well,"
said she, with touching candor, "we've bad
a lot o' pass'ns over here from England,
and each one bas been worse than the lust,
and after you're gone I'm afeard they'll be
sen'in us the devil himself." The vicar
left hurriedly. tondon Saturday Review.
Showar Roquets.
Tbs "shower boqucts" are still popular,
though they seem to be relegated chiefly
to brides. lxng stemmed flowers, flowing
loops of ribbon, and drooping tendrils art
tbe features of these poties. which cover a
wide surface. One carried by a bride of
tbe past week had to be held alsiut at cor
sags level to let Its showering ends escape
tbe floor. The notion Is an Kngllsh Im
portation -New York Time
They Ho u need Him.
Tbe agent of an American soap company
weut to Uruguay and began to extensively
advertise bis goods, but In less than a week
be was called in and advised to leave tbe
country. He was giving away samples, aud
such a course, he was told, waa calculated
to make the people wasteful and extrava
gant. Detroit Free Preaa.
Meat Invoice, Perhaps.
It was Horatio who, alluding to his
(Hamlet's) father, first observed to Ham
let, "Can you match this ahadef"
Not invoice, certainly," replied tbe
Dane uneasily, aa the ghost's hollowed
tones came gurgling up through the sod
It la not what a thins Is. bnt what we
think It la, that frightens ns. A man walks
within an Inch of death without knowing
It anil therefor without tremhllnir. and
then his hair Hands on rod at some empty
noise as harmless as us nuaiiog ox a ny.
CURIOUS SUICIDES.
HISTORICAL DEATHS THAT HAVE
BEEN SELF AFFLICTED.
Rrimirknlde Ii IIiimI t inlo)r,l by Peo
ple Seeking In KuIIiiiiii the Myiterlet
ft Ihe t iikniiwit Uurld-Niagara Falls
l I'lipiiliir I'hii'e fur DfajMniilrntt.
Ill a liilk I had a few days ago with a
:eiitlcinaii w ho I "well lip" on the subject
of suicide, who ha miidt- it a life study al
most, lie imparled lo me some facts that
were slur! ling. There are many who say
that none but couards commit suicide,
while oi hers iusi-t that it ritiulrcs nerve
and bravery lo suddenly terminate one's
own existence and etiterlnto a future state
that is paradovieal a to Its lieing, Some
men u ho commit suicide lire brave, others
arc conurd ami do not dare to face mis
fortune I think they are alsiut evenly
divided. It I a disease iu many instances.
work devoted for the most part to
statistii on suicide was at hand, and it
showed niaiiy Interesting facts concerning
the subject under consiilerat Ion. From it
the fact wa gleaned that I lie United States
I considered an Al country in which to
shulllooff the mortal coil. Here the ratio
i I to every l,.VKi inhabitants, while In gay
ran It Is to each '.'.Tiio, and In smoky
loudon and chilly St. Petersburg I to each
21,H0O or population. In till ltussia, how
ever, the ralio Is a I toIH.'.MH; In Sweden,
I to lr.Vi;.)-, In Saxony, I to 8, 4-10.
lu the winter of our discontent" there
are decidedly moro suicides than In the
summer time, and a majority of them oc
cur In the morning. omen appear to
love lite more than men, tor four men com
mit suicide where one woman takes her
own life, and the ratio is much smaller in
married life than In widowerliood. The
early part nf the week claims more sui
cides than the latter part, and the early
part or the month more than tho waning.
IIKATIIS AT MAGAItA.
Ill any one particular part of the United
States Niagara Falls bnstbecall, and there
is no doubt that many "disappearances"
Hud a last resting plaeo nt this suicide
suggesting resort. Suicides are so com
mon nowadays that the subject would not
Is? worthy of extended comment were it
not for the fact that tho means used to as
sure the desired result have In a number
of eases liccti so remarkable.
The pistol, poison nnd tbe nine are gen
erally used In solving the great problem,
and these are ao frequently used by the
man or woman tired of life that unless
there is some romance connected with the
suicide or unless he or she may have been a
distinguished person very little space is
vouchsafed the story in tbe daily newspa
pers. Here area rew or the remarkable
ones which have caused excitement during
the past wore or years or so nnd which are
remarkable for the exceptional reasons
above referred to.
TWO WKl.t IlEMKMnKIIKI) DEATnS.
Twenty years ago there wus probably no
mnn Is-tter known among "gentleman
drivers" than Moil Tunlson, whose famed
Bostlery wus on the old Coney island road.
Mart was known from Coney Island to
Canada as a jolly host nnd good fellow.
Ills hotel was the stopping place, and Mort
grew wealthy. Suddenly the park com
missioners determined to construct a new
210 foot boulevard about a quarter of a
mile west of Coney island road. Mort
kicked. Tho commissioners urged him to
move his hotel to a new sito on tbe pro
posed lioulevard, but hewouldu't have it.
lie said that his place would draw the
crowds, Isiiiluvard or no boulc-vurtl. The
new parkway soou became u tact, and new
hotels sprang up all along its line. The
old Coney Island road liccame deserted.
One by one Moil's old customers left him,
as the new road was a beauty and wus just
built for trotters.
Mort had plenty of opportunity to get In
the swim, but be wascontrnry and wouldn't
take advantage of IL One Hue morulng
Mort didn t appear at breakfast as bad
been his wont. Investigation proved tbat
bo would never appear at breakfast In this
world again. During the night or in the
early morning hours ho biu committed
sulcido. His old friends had left bim, bis
fumed bostlery had become desolate and
life had become a burden to him.
The suicide of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt
wus an exception to the rule Iwcuuseof
the fact that his name was world known.
He was a son of Commodore Vanderbilt.
He had become a spendthrift and In March.
1883, be shot himself through the head In
his room in the Gtenham hotel In this city.
Financial troubles wero said to have been
tbe cause of the deed. Several times Com
modore Vanderbilt hail la-en called iix .i to
pay his son's debts and he finally becuriie
tiled of so doing. When the commodore
died he left young Cornell the Interest of
moo.OUO. Cornell also received a large sum
to withdraw from the contest of the com
modore's will These amounts be soon
squandered and he died almost penniless.
AN UNCASSY SUICIDE.
Another case of Interest at the time ot
Its occurrence waa that of Mine. Hestell, a
malpractioner, who wus one of the
wealthiest women in the country, hor
wealth having been accumulated in her
practice. She owned and occupied a pala
tini mansion on Fifth avenue. One morn
ing she was found dead in her bathtub,
and few sorrowed, as she wus said to bold
many secret concerning scandals in high
life which died with her.
Probably the most uncanny suicide that
the newmM'rs were called upon to report
the facts or waa that of Philip Truschel,
which occurred In Claj'kson street. Flat
bush, I I., In the summer of I WO. Truschel
Was employed by hlsuncle, Ix)ulsScbmutz,
who wus a florist in the village named.
Truschel became despondent and frequent
ly threatened to take his own life.
One morning aa the other employees en
tered the greenhouse they smelted an odor
as if of something burning. Usin investi
gating tbey found Truschel with his body
wedged half way through thefurnacedoor
way. His bead and part of his body wero
completely burned away. He left a letter
Inviting those of his friends who were as
unhappy as he had been to do as ha had
done.
In 1880 Paul lllnes committed suicide In
Lake Michigan in a novel way, which
showed that be was a determined fellow.
In order to guard against rescue he tied a
life preserver to his feet so tbat he would
be sure to float bead downward and thus
drown before assistance could reach bim.
He succeeded. New York Herald
Draping for a Front Door.
A new form of draping the glass panel
In tbe front door ia a deviation from the
simple muslin sash curtains. Presume
tbat tbs glass panel is fifteen inches wide.
Down the center, for a ace of about sit
inches wide, is s silk network In a mesh aa
big as a quarter of a dollar. On each aide
of this Is a length of ailk drapery four or
Are Inches wide. This schema is varied
by arranging tbe network In other forms,
In cross stripes or disgonala, Philadelphia
Upholsterer.
How Did Da Take It?
A nobleman who was sitting on the hill
side with his shepherd observed the sheep
reposing in the coldest situation, and said
to him, "John, if I were a sheep I wonld
lie on the other side of tbr bill." "Aye,
my lord," answered John, "but if ye had
been a sheep, ye won Id hue had malrsense."
Ban Francisco Argonaut.
Somewhat Particular.
City Niece (reprovingly) Why do you
pnt your own knife In the butter, Uncle
Waybackf
Uncle Wayback-Why, Eldora, I doo'l
wanter use that there publio knifs what
everybody uses. -Good News.