A MISTAKE.
jjtfore he wont away to make hU
fortune Samuel Wadleigh had been verv
mticb i" lve witb Cor:l Batman. It
a boy and girl attachment, mid a
Tfrv romantic ono. The boy was u tall,
blue eved fellow, witl ;'iaH waist
and curly golden hair that lay in thick
ij'tle rinrfrt all over bin head. Ho wag at
once very manly ami very youthful Id
4Ppearaiic-e. and it would have ken
ml for a girl not to fall in love with
jnl if ho had tried to make her. Cora
psj u little brunette with bi? black eyes
and a good color, and he thought her
beautiful.
He longed to offer her bis hand and
heart and get her to t-ngago herself to
jjjuj before he left home; but he reflected
that he had no right to bind her by any
promit until ho was sure of that for
tune he was going to seek, and when he
gave her a littlo forget-me-not ring he
cnly spoke of it as a token of friendship.
However, when they parted she knew
a well as he did that he loved her, and
looked forward to the usual tinalo of a
wedding.
Time passed on. The young people
urote at tirst once a week, then oneo a
month, then occasionally. "Absence"
jays the modern poet "makes the
heart grow fonder of somebody else."
Young Wadleigh went a good deal
Into society abroad, and Cora had plenty
of admirers. He got into a convivial
R.t, where they drank a good deal of
vine and had liberal views. She be
came very pious, and rather leaned to
prohibition. Their lust letters v.v;
very formal, and when fifteen years had
passed and Samuel Wadleigh found him
ielf coming home with the fortune he
had made after all, he scarcely remem
bered Cora bastman.
Certainly Cora did not know him.
The light haired youth had changed into
t mau of 40. All his curls were gone,
and his head to his ears was as smooth
ind shiny as a billiard ball. His waist
was gone, too. Ho hud the proportions
of an alderman. However, lie was still
what people call a fine looking man. As
for Cora, she had all her black hair and
no wrinkles, and had kept her trim little
fijjure, but she had changed curiously.
He knew her at once, but she was not
the same. What does Time do to ns?
When does he do it? How does he do it?
If we women could but find out!
There was nothing to sigh over in
Miss Eastman's case. She was a tight,
trim little woman of five-and-thirty.
But where were Cora's smiles? the dim
ples that seemed about to appear when
Bbe smiled? the soft brightness of the
eyes? the way of looking and moving'.
All gone vanished 1
It did not occur to Mr. Wadleigh that
he had altered much more it never does
occur to men. Ho told Miss Eastman
that ho was delighted to see her once
moro, and she Btiid polite things to him,
wondering all the time whether this
could be the charming youth who used
to set her heart beating by a touch or a
glanee this very uice person, portly,
well to do, well manuered, but not in
the least interesting. She compared
him unfavorably with Mr. Swcctsmilo,
the charming new clergyman who had
just had a call to their church, and who
had taken both her hands in his only
yesterday and said, "What we should
do without you in the Sabbath school,
Miss Eastman, I cannot imagine!" He
was charming!
The course of events threw Samuel
Wadleigh a great deal into the society
of his old love; the families were con
nected and moved in the same circle.
By degrees he mot small nieces and
nephews who had been children when
he went away, and were now young
ladies and gentlemen among them a
certain littlo Cora, Miss Eastman's
niece, prettier than she had ever been,
and with all her witching ways, her
balf-hidden dimples, her smiles and her
sweet side glances. She sat opposite
him at the dinner table, and he could
fancy all the years rolled away, and he
the boy who gave the girl he loved the
forget-me-not ring. He remembered
her a pudgy little child in white fur
walking with her maid in the park and
kissing her hand to auntie.
"What a charming girl!" he said to
Miss Eastman. "You over agaiu!" And
then Miss Eastman made the younger
Cora come and talk to "her old friend.
Mr. Wadleigh."
Cora had heard of him as the gentle
man who had been her aunt's admirer
and lived single for her sake, and she
was very nice to him. She fait that he
had a romantic history, and that Annt
Cora ought to have been more constant,
and so she was, as we have said, very
nice.
And of all this Mr. Wadleigh never
dreamed, and little thrills went through
him. and he made up his mind that fate
had been very good to him. Here was a
lovely young creature exactly the sort
of girl he admired smiling on him and
listening to all his compliments in a way
that encouraged him to pay more.
"The elder Cora is a very sensible wo
man," he said to himself. "She has quite
forgotten old times; she has none of
those foolish little ways that some wo
men would have of reminding me that we
were lovere. Really, some of those first
letters of mine were tantamount to pro
posals; but it is all over; I am quite free.
I'm a good match. No doubt little Cora
will see that at once," and after solemnly
deliberating the pros and cons for three
days and nights he began to take Cora
out to drive behind a pair of very hand
some horses, to send her bouquets, and
tojnvite her to the opera. As she re
sided with her Aunt Cora he naturally
invited the other lady as chaperon. He
did not say that, but plainly she under
stood it, for she left most of the talk to
the girl and was sometimes grave and
.silent Once or twice she even seemed
to try to excuse herself .
i "So very sensible," thought Mr. Wad
leigh. and at last, when he had. he fan
cied, spent time enough dancing attend
ance on thi fair one, he seated himself
one evening at his desk and wrote an
offer of marriage. "Which," he added,
-surely cannot surprise you-you must
know by my manner how 1 feel.
This be addressed to Mim Cora bast
man and carried to the houe with hit
cwn hands.
"For Miss Cora." be sail to lb"
ant "Don't make any rwtuke."
"Xot 1, sor," said d 1 William.
know right well which lady if for."
Now old W illiam had bw in the fam
ily man v year He well
those old days wh. n thi g.-ct rman
tpoken of m Mr. raiuurl.
wn-thwt. ia the kit-Vn. h
duM whi.t-vrr that th. h ttrr in M
tnl was LK-ar.t fr b
YU-l.it of. ri!.-t-r fct.
tttstnmns own room, rapped cn the
door opened it and entered on tiptoj.
Iiss Cora," said he in un awful whit
P"r. "Master S.-wmwell-l mean Mr.
W adleiuh ton! 1 it... .. .i..
quite private, and to be particular about
"Thank Von Willi,.., i h:,.p...
man. mid when he was gone she sat
looking at the envelope rather dUmallv.
At hist she o;encd uU read it.
"I thought so," she commented, with
a little groan.
On the evening he had appointed inhii
letter Mr. Wadleigh rang the doorbell
8 little UlWehensivelv IT .
carnation in his buttonhole and a big
bouquet in his hand.
V illiam op-.-neJ the door. Ilis smile
was confidential.
"Miss Cora said if you would tako
sate iu the library she'd resave you in a
few minutes." he whispered, aud Mr.
Wadleigh entered the library. Hero all
was very quiet and no callers would
intrude. Hero he would learn his fate,
"Aud Whv should I fear it?' li hL-...1
surveying himself in the glass over the
mantelpiece. Yet all tko same he was
conscious of a certain tremor, rather
Inward than outward, and bis eiini
burned.
Tell minutes at le.i.t
--- . w fl'CU MUM
itl Which titnnvt liin.tMf TKi A.
... -j - "-- smvii is uwi
opened at the eud of tho library and a
C . . r, . V .
ui;uiB ruicreu cora. uo started up
Slid udvUIU'Oil toW:ll-i1 it- It inn (,.
certainly, but not tho oue he cxiiocted
i.i . , .... .i
nut uis new love, out uis old. lit
stopped stood still. Slio advanced; she
held liU li.tti.r ill li.T Imn.l I. t,l,lW
dawned upon him that William had
made a mistake.
"Prav ha wjitpi1.H Miuj Fiwtni'in
and he was very glad to sit down.
"I beg," said tho lady, "that you will
give mo a little time. I can not formu
late, my ideas as I desiro to. I"
"Oh, take timo, take time!" said ho,
and walked away to the window.
It was all up with him, he felt. She
would shortly exclaim, "Samuel, I am
yours!" and perhaps fall into his arms.
All tho mistaken spinstersand widows in
the nlavs did that, and he must make nn
his mind to it. There had been a tacit
engagement between them. It had never
been broken off. He had written to
Cora Eastman. She was Cora Eastman.
Nothing could alter that, and ho could
not injure and insult her. After all,
she was a nice little woman, and of the
proper age for his wife.
She was pretty still, she was good.
He had not the strength of mind to got
out of this fix, unless it had been bad
enough to warrant him in cutting his
throat. And at this moment she spoke.
"Samuel." she said she had not called
him Samuel siuce his return "Samuel,
I have found words at last Come
here."
He came and sat down in a great chair
opposite her.
"You cau't tell how I feel," said she.
"You tell mo I must have expected this
letter, but I did not. I thought you bad
forgotten. If you had said a word one
word. I was very constant for years,
but time h:is an influence. Tve altered;
io have yon. I did not know you when
1 first saw you, but still had I guessed
I should kavo thought it my duty to try
I I it must come out somehow. 1
am engaged to be married to our pastor.
Mr. Sweetsmile, and I feel that I have
chosen for my happiness. Don't feel too
bad, Samuel. I will always be a sister
to you."
Ten minutes before this Mr. Wadleigh
would have fancied that he must rejoice
at this termination of their meeting.
Here he was out of his dilemma, free
nm.in All ha had to do was to bow,
look grave, accept the position of friend
.ml lrnt her. and retire irraceruiiy uui,
after all, Jie had boen refused, and he felt
angry. Ho had been informed uiai ub
was no longer an Adonis, anu new as
hurt; and somehow Cora, in her excite
nu.n under the influence of emotion,
aud in the shadows of tho library, looked
so charming that some portion or his old
Uv annimr tn lift) nimiu. Now that he
knew he could not get her, and that
some one else wanted her, slio Decame
desirable.
"I am an idiot," he said aloud, and
Cora answered:
"Oh, dear, no! I shall always remem
ber your truth and constancy very ten
derly." He bowed and took nis hat. ue
bowed again and retired io me uoor. as
he went along the passage to the central
ball of the large bouse he heard the
front door open.
"William, where lsnunue: sum cum.
V"ln' the library," said William. "But
don't you go there. Mr. Samuel is in
there offering of hissclf. Poor gentle
man, I'm afraid it's the day after the
fair; but such is life."
Then Cora giggled and ran upstairs.
Mr Wadleigh never proposed to the
youngest Miss Eastman. Later he mar
ried a showy wiuow wuu .
intensely. She had no young Samuel
Wadleigh with hyacinthine locks and
slender waist to compare him with, and
still Mrs. Sweetsmile keeps a little forget-me-not
ring in a little Russia leather
box and looks at it sometimes.
"Poor fellow!" she sighs. "How true
and faithful he was to me. and how little
I deserved it!"-Mary Kyle Dallas ia
Fireside Companion.
Two Kpltaphfc
Remarkable are two epitaphs, the first
of which is said to be npon tomtatoM
iu the city of Sacramento: "Here is laid
Daniel Borrow, who was born in Sorrow,
and Borrowed little from Nature excep
his name and his love to mankind and
hatred to redskins: who was Bwerthe
less a gentleman and a dead sho ; who.
nrougb a long life, never killed b
man except in self defense or by acci
dent, and who, when he at las went
nnder. beneath the ballet, of hU cow
ardly enemies in the saloon of Jeff Mor
ns did so in the sure and certain hope
of a glorious and everlasting Morrow.
The other, which belongs to a Nevada
burying place, to noteworthy ach,eve.
ment in this line. "Sacred to the
Memoi of Hank Monk-the Whitest,
k-et-bearted. and 13, st-knowx .Stage
dnverof the West; who was kind to All
,d Thought 111 of None. He Lived I in
Strange Era. and was a Hero, and the
Wheels of his Coach are now Ringing (.0
Golden Streeto."-ChamW Journal.
A Kan City par' "J" "V1""!!
, ". -n. in thOrarks which will
attract jackknife dr.'pia Bine wi
war and tht l'r,j the line of the
fifth t'nn. ni-ridua. in -''
of Carter 1-yix.l'U. Iron and W.hlnif
V,n the hi" t 1
tr d. f. ted f r.rfu t). trtte cur
,) d- iir... tU Mdle UlUt affucUd
lJ lie dVf b-ktvus.
CHOOSING A CAREER.
A TINGMITH DISCUSSES THE OPPOR
TUNITIES OF HIS TRADE.
A Prarliral Talk Tliitt Should InUmt
Thoughtful I'arvnl Wktl Hay May
C i pert la Work and Wagaa Dalalls of
tha Apreullrtil)i.
Matthew Rurr is the walking dele
late of the Tin and Sheet Iron Workers
Billon, and worked for many years as a
tinsmith in a shop and in business for
himself. "The tinsmith trade," said
Mr. Uarrto a reporter, "is split into sev
eral bratieh.'s, and to be able to do all
kinds of work in tin and sheet iron re
quires considerable time sjieut iu each
department. Sheet irou work, as it is
understood iu tliis city, is carried on in
what are known as 'furnace shops,'
while the manufacture of tiu goods it
restricted to what are called 'assortment
shop.' Apart from these there are the
cornice uialers and slate and metal
roofers, which are included amoug the
branches tint tiiiMiiiths must know t
round out their knowledge.
"The best age for a boy to begiu the
tinsmith trade is about sixteeu. He
ought to lisve picked up sufficient edu
cation from the common schools at this
age to give hiin a fair start iu life. Nt
boy is bound out as an apprentice to
tinsmith iu this country, but beginner
are not locked ujkiu as full fledged
journeymen until they reach the age of
manhood, no mutter how proflcient they
may Ik). l some shops a boy has very
little show, liecause there is a system of
employment which practically excludes
him.
"This U the result of a surplus of labor
in other countries. Tinsmiths laud here
from other lands with but little knowl
edge of what the trade requires here,
but with a general knowledge of the
business and the use of tools. They ap
ply for work in shops and they are taken
on in preference to the native born boys
who desire to learn the trade. These
foreign mechanics can learn quicker
than a boy generally, and while they are
hired for low wages, they in a short
time are able to do almost as much work
as an exjiert tinsmith. This system is
against the American boy, but so long
as there is money in it for the bosses it
will be kept up.
"This trade is not such a laborious
one that it require an uuusual amount
of strength. A tinsmith need not be as
strong as a carpenter, blacksmith or
bricklayer, but he must have plenty of
endurance. He ought to be versatile
intellectually, because he is uot mere
machine, but is often required to make
entirely new things, which can only be
done with a fair degree of inventive
skill, besides an expert knowledge pf
the nse of tools.
"A boy will never become a good tin
smith if he is not obedient and patient
lie will have to do some simple thing
over so many times that life will be
come very weary in the shop before he
is set to work upon something that ap
pears to be important to him. In the
assortment shops a boy will first be
taught how to use the shears. He will
be given a lot of old scraps to cut np,
and before his muscles get used to the
movement he will think that his arm
will drop off. He will receive about
three dollars a week on the start
"The foreman watches the boy care
fully, and if be does not take hold of the
shears aud other tools handily in a
few days, he will probably remind
him that lie has made a mistake in his
calling. Some boys are put at this and
other trades by their parents who would
make good clerks and salesmen, but
never will be good mechanics. To ao-
ustom the boy to the use of the mullet
and hammer, he is kept straightening
old pipe. When he knows a little about
tools and shows the proper spirit in
doing his work, he is sent to the jour
neyman s bench to hold things ror mm,
aud in this w ay gets an idea of the prac
tical use of tools. He may be kept at
this for a long time, and this u lue
period that will test his patience.
II is always a red letter uay ior me
beuinncr when the foreman gives him a
piece of metal and tells him to make a
drinking cup. He has seen it done many
times, but when ho conies to cutting out
the tin and getting it into shape hw Bn-
irors seem to be all thumbs. He wants
" . . ...I .A til
to make a good cup, uui uis anxiety win
knock it out of shapo. When it is all
brightly polished it Is taken to the fore
man for inspection. Nine times out or
ten the begiuuer is told to take it home
as a memento. He feels very happy,
hnt ha would not think so much of his
work if he knew that the real reason
that it was not taken by the foreman
was that it could not be sold.
"The boy will soon find this out when
the foreman keeps him making cups nn
til he get a perfect one. From a cup
he goes to ot.ier things or minor linpor
tance. which he Is kept at until he grad
nally acquires skill. It depends npon
the bov himself how much time he will
waste before he becomes an expert IX
be is civil and obliging the Journeymen
will teach him pattern drawing, and in
this way the boy will learn how to block
out the models or every kind or won
and cut out natterns for himself.
"During the last thirty years there
have been many changes in me nn
smith's trade. Machinery has taken the
place of bail J labor in the manufacture
of nearly all utensils, but this has made
no change in the tinsmith s condition.
Organized U jor has protected the work
man. The i-.incipal machines in the as
sortment shops are presse giving the
ireneral outlines of manufactured goods,
and lathes, which are used to perfect
tha lines of spinning. An important
fact In the trade is the wheeling ina-
hinn. which eives the bright polish and
nuta on the linishing touches. The poi
ishiag used to lie done by hammers on
an anvil, but the wheeling machine can
do better and more work. During the
vear th.it a boy ought to spend In
learning this trade he ought to )ecome
expert in tee nse oi an me uiacmiu-ry,
if h h hail the nroner instruction. A
boy will lea n the trade better la a ahop
than in a traue scqoo.. ia
conk-r.
I'rtx.l l'uil
Tom I am quite certain Mr. Smyth Is
foreign Dohleiuaa la diguua.
Jrk lliiw do you kuowl
Tom-Us has such a dirUfll wy of ask
log yon to loan hira l(.-Cliiq.;o Journal.
Off Ilia llaada,
"IIow Is It you tun had so few dtlb on
l,.n,1 dor-turf
"That's aT o'-urfh. WUn I And I h
a bad cm I order U uu to Uks a lp
ahr(j4."-JuJ'.
A uaruprlala.
A faniwf of r scj'iainlanr fcs B"n4
of fc U-C. -.ud "-"r?.!J?
I iuM oi hrTt kv . I mm-
EEFOHE HE THOUGHT.
th t'.Mir FrKon Wat trail? Hunfrj aaa
H; ula 111" Mind Too I'rniikly.
7. m IV Witt. Jack Ford and Ed Stllb
i..n bad Ihcu living oii cigars and hope
for two Iuy and were nearly starved to
a'h.
'i Hi' v bad decided to honor some of
heir Vass.tr friends with a visit, at the
time of the commencement, when the
ollege discipline is somewhat relaxed:
ut a short stay In the place had con
inced them that the fare of tho Tough-
keepsio boarding house was inadequate
to satisfy Mm :ay Hill appetites.
So w hou. after a morning drive, the
girls nnnouueed that they intended to
ffectuullv silence the current feeble
sneer at the cooking abilities of fair col-
inns bv giving the party a lunch pro-
pared by theiuaelvee, there was joy in
the hearts of the men. At the word
lunch" Tom looked at Ed and Ed look
ed at Tom, and Jack looked straight
into the face of the prettiest girl and
said most felicitously, Oh, thank you!"
It was to bo served tn oneof the rooms
at 9 o'clock; "iu tho meantime they
would stroll about the grounds aud get
np au appetite."
At lust tho lunch came. It was a
"pink" one. The table w as artistically
and tastefully decorated. Big pink bows
ml bunches of roses covered the cloth,
and elalxirutely painted dinner card
directed tho guests to their seats.
As course succeeded course the men
began to wonder where tho sulistan
tials were coming in, aud to realize that
third disappointment had fallen to
their lot
Tho little tubs of deviled salmon, the
intpaliallo crixjuettes with tender as
paragus tips, tho tiny dubs of shrimp
salad in the center of eool, green lettuce
eaves, the salted almonds, the olives,
tho meringues glace and the strawberry
sherbet were all very dainty and deli
cate, but not particularly satisfying to
earthly mortals whoso thoughts were
running on thick, juicy English chops
ud big pewter mugs the size of an in
fant's bathtub.
And when as a finishing touch cute
little packages of tutti frutti, cunningly
tied up in pink ribbons, were passed
around on a silver plate, tho men felt
unequal to further conversational effort
A few hours after the feast loiuDo
Witt remarked that it was time for
them to be starting, as they expected to
catch the 7:.V) train for New York.
"Oh, you'd better stay over until the
10:10." remonstrated a sweet sophomore;
"you will ist sK)il your evening. What
will you 2) when you get back to the
city?" . .
Here waa the great opportunity or
Jack' life, and unconsciously ho rose
to it
Oh." he said earnestly, "well go
straight to a hotel and get something to
eat, for we haven't had a square meal
since we have lecn in this town!
For a moment three girls stared
blunkly at each other, and then the
young men gainereu ineir nais ami
canes together nnd, saying hurried "good
nights," sped, with horizontal coat tails,
in the direction of the depot. Harry
Romaine in Uomcmnker.
How lha Cohra Olret Warning-.
The most dangerous reptiles of India
and Africa are tho cobras. No snakes,
not oven rattlesnakes, are more dreaded,
and with reason. As tho rattlesnake
warns the ear by its significant "rattle,
so the cobras warn tho eye by the mode
in which they expand the upicr part of
tho body when irrituted. i his expan
sion is produced by a sudden movement
of tho ribs of that region of the body.
Usually they incline backward, but the
animal, when irritated, makes them
stand out at right angles to tho body,
and so, of courso, forces outward the
skin which covers them. I hus the neck,
or part just behind the head, becomes
greutly expanded and natteiwi, as it
also dix-s, though in a less degree, in the
Australian blacksnnke. This expansion
is called a hood, and so tho animals are
called hooded snakos. In some of them
thero is on the back of the hood a dark
mark, something like a pair of spec
tacles, nnd they have therefore been
called spectacle snakes. tjuartorly Re
view.
How llawthorna Wrula.
We never think of local color In con
nection with Ilawthomo. Apparently
ho didn't need to put it on. Perhaps he
would not have understood about It
He mMit have thought that the conn-
terpart of the literary term (local color)
applied socially would refer to the
women who naint, the term lias sucn an
artificial sound. One has an idea or a
pi.lnred nhotoirratili: the local color is
not a o.irt of the substance, but is lm
posed. Hawthorne was not conscious of
any necessity of giving local color to hi
creations. lie wrote of that Into which
he was born, and his creations, even
when they were in foreign settings,
glowed with that internal personality
which Is never counterfeited oy veneer
Ing.-Charle Dudley Warner in Uar
per'.
Philadelphia I'ralirli.
Philadelphia pretzels are a thing by
themselves: that is. the genuine Phila
delphia pretzel is, but unscrupulous
manufacturers have been making uui
tations with machinery which have
served to lesseu the high standard raised
br the reputation of the homemade
nretzeL The pretzel came over with
the Dutch, aud it la still found in it
oriirinal purity in Lancaster and Berks
counties, the inhabitant of which have
been so many generation in this coun
try that they are unable to speak their
mother tongue. They have not been
hero long enough to learn English, o
they make their pretzel as they were
taught, and talk the language which
thev have manufactured. New York
Sun.
Hoapauda Ara Valuabla.
Few persons know how very useful
oapsuds prove whep employed as tnv
ure. Applied to me root or vines,
fruit trees, rose, etc., they Impart a
vigor nd rapidity of growth which
perfectly surprising. No one who 1 so
lucky as to have a garden should waste
this valuable form of manure. It is an
excellent Plan to have large tub, and
put the soapsuds and dirty water into it
till required npon the garden. Phila
delphia Ledger.
Mtdlelna Laka,
Medicine lake is a wonder that draw
many visitors annually- body of water
that doe not contain a living ming, ana
at certain hour of th day U full of
gelatinous, aiigelik saUUnc that
t,nks and U-avea th water clar. At
tli lake ar two mountain, on of pur
liau, the ot If r of pamtc iton la
i Ui.rs.-Potur ruux Urw-..
THE COLORS OF WATER.
A Mmlf nhjrrt l.riHin Thai Proved la
torr.tlu u a I hlld.
"Is it not true, grandpa, that water
has no color':"
"Yes, dear child, it is blue, but SO lit
tle so that you cannot see it."
"Can you see that it is blue?"
"No, but still it is blue. Look at
his."
1 took a little ultramarine on the end
of the brush and tuued it with water.
"Does it look blue now?"
"No; 1 see nothing."
"Nor 1. But you saw how I put lit
tle blue odor in it with the brush."
"Yes, but there was uot enough of it
Put more in."
1 silently took the glass aud set it on
a piece of white paper iu tho bright sun
shine. "Now look from above down
into it."
"It is blue," said the littlo one, clap
ping her hands, "but only a very little."
"Look at it from the other side, where
the sun is shining into it. Is it not a lit
tle bit red, like the Ml flowers which
you picked yesterday?"
"That is wonderful," said tho little
one. "It is blue from above, a little bit
red in the sun, aud when we look at it
from this side of the room wo see uoth
ing!" "Think about it a littlo. The glass is
as broad us my linger is long. But it is
at least three times as high us my finger.
When you look at it from the side, you
see only a finger's length of water; but
wbeu you look down into it, you see
through three lingers' length of water
three times as much, Yon see it blue
from the side, and throe times as blue
from above, don't you?"
"Is that really true?" said the littlo
one, as sho measured with her finger.
She nodded that sho was satisfied.
"Now imagine that the water is as
deep as tho height of the church steeple,
and deeper that it reaches from hero
np into Saltan and down to Vernayaz.
Then you would seo the water from
above it all blue."
"Is the lake, then, really so deep?"
"Yes, and deeper."
1 will not coiitiuuo the conversation
any longer. It went on with various
simple experiments, beginning with dif
ferently colored stones, which 1 let drop
into tho water, and theu placed ou tho
white, then with setting tho glass with
its weakly bluish contents on differently
colored papers, and ended with my try
ing to make the children erceive how
the colors changed when they were seen
through tho whole depth of tlu, glass. 1
will not say that tho little 'ones were
brought to a full comprehension of the
matter, but they stuck fast to tho asser
tion that water is blue, of an infinitely
weak blue, and that the blue color can
not be seen till onu looks into a certain
depth of it Carl Vogt In Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
8farrh 1.1 ifli t a rru Torurdo lloi.lv
It is stated that one of the most effect
ive means of protecting a ship in these
davs of tortH'does (the grouping to-
ether of a number of stationary search
lights, each illuminating its own section
so that the ship is surrounded by nn un
broken circle of light), is to lie adopted
in the new American warships. This
has boen suggested by a very pronounced
defect In the usual search light practice.
In order to afford sufficient time for a
careful examination of the water' sur
face at points removed from the ship,
the beam of light must lie revolved very
slowly, and hence during a great por
tion of tho tnno any particular section
of tho water is left in darkness. As it
takes only five minutes for a torpedo
boat to run a distance of two mile, it
ill tie seen that the condition are all
in favor of tho attacking force. Before
tho revolution of tho search light Ihcoiu
Dieted thero is plenty of timo for the tor
tM'do bout to run up and discharge her
deadly weapons. A ew lork lulegram.
An I'.liTlrlral Riuirlaa.
A Twenty-third street theator has
brought out an electrical sunrise. A
curved screen, part of which is made of
iranze. so that tho light may shine
through, extends around the stage, and
behind it is an elaborate system of In
candescent lamps. The controlling ap
paratus is so graduated that fifty differ
ent degrees of light and shade can be
produced, thus causing the sunrise to
grow imperceptibly. Another nse of
the electric current mado at the same
place is in representing the explosion of
a bomb.
A puper shell contains just enough
powder to explode aud make a Hash,
This is fired by electricity, whilo at the
same moment another circuit controlled
bv tho same key sets off a gun behind
the scenes, which furnishes the neces
sary noiso. New Y ork World.
A Tiny Tliuepliwa.
M. Moruuet, a friar of the Florentine
order in Paris, has constructed a perfect
watch only a quarter of an Inch in di
anieter. Besides the two hands seen on
all watches It has third which mark
the seconds, beside a microscopic dial
which indicates the days, weeks, month
and years. It also contains an alarm,
and on its front ltd Is an ingeniously cut
fiirere of St. Francis. On the back cover,
by aid of a powerful glass, you can dis
tinctly road two verse or ine-xe do-
urn." Philadelphia J'reK.
In th Hualnaaa of llolulloa.
TheEnirlishmau imagine that revoln
tion and treason are serious affair and
must be conducted with set teeth and
grave face. Not so the men of the
I.Htin race. To them revolutions are
lika raci meetings, with a certain
amount of danger added. An English
man feel disgraced at the idea of recur-
n-nt revolution. Not so a Frenchman or
a Spaniard. Loudon Bimctator.
Vthr Dcairad a tannoa.
It is related that an Indian chief one
amiroached Ooneral Crook and wanted
to borrow cannon. "Do you expect
me to loan you a cannon with which to
kill mv sold ers?" the old veteran in-
quired. "No," the chief replied; "kill
soldiers with a club; want cannon to kill
cowboys."-Cor. Tojxka Capital.
fka Par of ObaraUo,
The Bank Clerk It's a shame the way
owe men rob their employer by loafing
when they're Mid to work. There' a
bricklayer on that new building acros
the street who hasn't done trok for
an honr-I know it, tcan Tv don
nothing but watch him. London Tit-
Bit. '
Hebrew tradition say that th tablet
of M m wer of sapphire. In Hebrew
th word aappir means th moat beauti
ful. It syuibuluMi loyalty, justka, beauty
and bobility.
RIJYIXG PICTURES.
A REPORTER CHATS WITH SEVERAL
WELL KNOWN ARTISTS.
Tiia I'alnlpra I'reltji .nifralljr Ara
Thai Oua Should lluy lha Paintings
Whlru I'lraaa Illro-JuUfiuant la C'a
pabla uf t'ulllvatlou and Will luiprota.
"How do HHiplo buy pictures?" Colin
Campbell Cooper repeated. "Well, 1
suppose tho majority of collector con
sult tho udvice of a dealer or some ar
tist, and yet thero are those, uot pre
tentions connoisseurs, either, that know
a good thing when they see it, and
evince unusual wisdom in their pur
chases. To some, however, self reliance
iu investing on a largo scale iu paint
ings luis proved rather a disastrous ex
periment. The other day a collection
made by a man thirty or forty year
ago was sold. There was hurdly half a
dozen good things in it, simply because
ho bought aud ho did not know what he
was getting.
"Art in this country is gradually wak
ing up. Perhaps the Centennial might
le called tho American Renaissance.
Wo know infinitely more about urt than
our grandparents did, and with oppor
tunities increasing from year to year it
is fair to suppose our children will show
a still more marked improvement iu
tasto. Greater facilities fur traveling
have done much to bring about a change
iu our littlo world, and tho tendency of
our art is rather toward tho cosmopoli
tan than provincial. Naturally, time is
required to educnto tho public taste
along artistic lines.
'1 think iH'ople will buy more pictures
when they understand painting is not au
accomplishment merely a pleasure to
tho eye, but that it is a part of vduca-
ion, of civilization. It will require
ime to realize this. Exhibitions are
visited uud the majority like to look at
pictures with an admiration rather
ephemeral. When the picture is out of
sight the impression is gone. With a
general diffusion of art paintings will
u iHiught not solely because they ap
ical to the senses, to iiersouality, but
for their artistic qualities; uot simply
because the subject illustrated is rather
pretty idea, but because the work 1
.echnically a good art production."
Stephen Ferris said: "The world is full
of good pictures to lie bought for rea
sonable prices, but unfortunately many
thousands of dollars, many fortunes, are
lent for nonsense, while good work re
mains unsought and utibonghL Com
mon sense is happy capital iu picture
buying as in any oI.i t business. One
au hardly provide a set number of rules
to Im) observed in buying. Many books
havo Imvii written on military science,
yet the world has seen comparatively
few lino generius. Judgment rules the
world, and iu picture buying ono person
is moro successful than another because
a spirit of superior intelligence dictate
ns purchases.
Thomas Eakins would like to have
people buy pictures that please them
and appeal to their taste. "The major
ity are afraid to buy what they like;
they must have some one else' advlco.
W ell, if they start With bud art, per
haps before long they will come to the
good. Let people buy what they want
1 have not thought much about buy
ing pictures," said Mr.Frederick Waugh.
"We artists are more chielly concerned
in trying to sell them. It is the privi
lege of the artist to paint pictures which
apix-al to people; which they understand
and want to havo for their own. But
ho should have a high standard, and he
cannot succeud if ho lower it to cater to
tho popular tuMo. IIo is fortunate if iu
working out Ins Ideas he pleases the
public and yet does not lose his inde
pendence nor forfeit his originality.
His work may be appreciated by large
numbers, but it is always certain that
some few will recognize his endeavor
and will want to buy it
"In tho Old World art is accessible to
all. Tho Luxembourg and the Louvre
are filled iieruiaucutly with the master-
piece of all ages, the licst that have
been done. There, too, the spirit of
union Is strong among artists. They
gather together and talk of everything
pertaining to the art world, consequent
ly they live entirely in a congeuiai ell
mate and they grow aud develop in an
essentially urt atmosphere. Impression'
buii? Yes, this is the great word nowa
days. Many havo uu idea that It is
synonym for vaguely treated and par
tially unfinished pictures. Impression
ism claims to record fact a observed
by the artist. Sincerity to nature is
iu aim. After all, there is nothing
so beautiful as truth, and the nearer
we get to it, aa we find it iu nature, the
better artist we are.
'Many American buy picture," Mr,
F. de B. Richards responded, "because
thev have accumulated money, nnd
pictures are the proper thing to have,
Generally they know very little about
it, aud a dealer does the work for them.
If people purchase pictures to Batter
their vanity, let them spend big sum
and buy high priced picture. If they
buy for pluaaure, let tliein buy what In
terest them. 1 remember meeting Ed
win Forrest after a sale. 'I've bought
picture,' said he. 'They told me not to
do it. because very likely it is not origi
nal. But it pleases me, and 1 should
buy it if it were by somebody 1 never
heard tell of.' A picture pleasing to the
eye is a source of education for the time
being at least. Adverse criticism may
lead a man to scrutinize it aud study it
more closely than If he had bought one
he did uot like half so well."
"1 think 1 should be inclined to bay
what 1 liked personally," was the opin
ion of Edwin Swift Balch, "not forget
ting that tho pictorial qualitie should
not be lost sight of in the desire to get A
pleasing subject Oood handling, the
proper placing of values and meritorious
color, allied to sympaineuo suojeci,
will tend to keep our interest in a paint
ing alive." Philadelphia Tune.
Equal to lha Occaaluo.
A couple of burglars wer trying to effort
their entrance Into a huum. Tb matter of
the ataMUbiiMJut beard them, and, opening
tb window gently, be obaerved: "lou bad
better cum again after a while, a w bavant
all goo to bed yet.
Khj fJInoar Waa Lata.
Mr. Orubbs-Thunderatlon I Hungry a a
hear, and bo stuns of dinner. What's th
millirl
Little Buiv-It's lb girl's day out and
tna bawl got back from cooking school.
Chicago liofald.
Hie Paat KiperWa Bale.
Cent. Ana' Ut tw i-mm an after
dinner sker tb nbal a lee-vluj young
oiao ran an-oniplUfa by long year of eoo
cleutixu talking tank eheo th ampira'sd
ciaivu do aut tuit bun.-t wcatjo ,
FACTS ABOUT THE BANJO.
How It ram In II DfTalnpad frou m
'alalwh Iu lie I'reaniil farm.
The swell negro minstrel wu tuning
up a banjo of the uunt gorgeous descrip
tion, eliciting a plaintive tinkle-tiukla
from the string with the finger and
thumb of one band, while with the other
he manipulated the linger board from
fret to fret, and now aud then screwed
ono of the little ivory keys a trifle
lighter. It was in bis handsomely fur
nished apart mint at (in uptown hotel
that he sat, humming snatches of a new
popular song in an undertone while he
toyed with Ihe instrument caressingly
as well he might, for it was a beauty, pre
sented to biiu, doubtless, as a tribute to
bis skill as a profc-seioiial trouliudour by
some admirer.
The circular rim inclosing tho bead
itself a disk of sheepskin so fine as to be
almost transart'ut w as of gold overlaid
tipoii wood, with brackets all around of
the same precious metal to hold the drum
taut; the linger board was claborutcly In
laid and ornamented, and nothing seemed
omitted that could possibly add to the
cost of the tintinnubulutory contrivance.
For burnt cork trt in these day Is ex
hibiting a persistent tendency toward tha
decorative. Counterfeit darkies, to grat
ify the sided public taste, must wield the
tamlxiurino und bones in Monte Cristo
dresses of black satin nnd jewels, while
littlo Lord Fauntleroy reclines gracefully
at the front of tho stage, singeing bis
curls of best quality tow iu the footlights,
with other things to correspond.
"Tho banjo is a decidedly better In
strument than It was llfteen years ago,"
said Ihe troubadour, sweeping tiie strings
to tuneful chords whilo he talked with
tho writer, who was making him a visit
" And the reason of it has chielly to do
with tho head and the strings. The
brackets nro lietter mado and more of
them nro used, so that tho sheepskin i
kept tighter stretched. Ill the primitive
banjo as few as four brackets were era
ployed, wbilethisoue,you see, has thirty.
Tap tho drum with your knuckle and
observe how linn and resonant it is.
Now, tm, tho strings are made thinner
aud moro carefully twisted. How are
they manufactured? Why, of sheep'
intestines cut into lino strips and twisted
together. It is a very skilled process.
Poor strings may not be composed of
moro than four or live strands of gut,
whereas llrst rate ones have from llfteen
to eighteen. After they have been
twisted, they are polished off with pumice
stono and other things, so that they are
madequite round and the twisting cannot
be seen, though In the cheap ones it re
mains visible. Banjo strings are all im
ported; they aro manufactured iu Ger
many and Italy. Most people suppose
that the shells attached to fish hooks ara
of the same material, but 1 happen to
know that they are in reality nude of
tho bodies of silk worms taken in an Im
mature state and stretched out Seem
wonderful, doesn't It?"
How about the heads?"
They nro ninde of ordinary sheepskin,
carefully cured, stretched and scrned to
tho procr thinness. Sometime a hide
is split Into two layers for tho purpose,
the part next the Imir being the more
desirable Banjo Ileitis are made in this
country, as, Indeed, the banjo them
selves are also. The best Instrument
come from Philadelphia, though they are
made in great numbers also iu Chicago,
Boston and New York. One other im
portant Improvement ou the banjo in lat
ter years has Is-en the addition to the
fingerboard of raised fret, which do
much butter than the marks that were
meant to serve the same use formerly.
Altogether ti-tuiu-tl-tum-tiddle-ti-tuin
this Is a wonderful case of evolution
from theorglnal African thrumiuer."
"You refer the banjo to an African
origin, then?"
'Without a doubt The original banjo
was a calabash with strings of some sort
acros it If you traveled in Africa you
would find thi sain primitive instru
ment still In use at savage festivities, at
It ha doubtless been for ages. The ne
groes brought to this country as slave
fetched the Idea with them, and cen
tury ago, or even much less, gourd cut
iu half were employed for tne purpose
by the black in the south. Nobody
knows exactly how the first step In th
development of the banjo were taken, but
it U recognized thut it owe It present
form to the application tuiu-U-tum of
the guitar principle to it la all likeli
hood the negroes themselves made the
first Improvement uimju it, taking sug
gestions from the guitar, and white folk
took It up afterward. Anyway, it is as
perfect an Instrument now as it will ever
ho. Musician say thut It isn't really a
musical instrument at all, but only a bar
bar Io thing, to be classed with the tom
tom. However, I don't agree with that
Washington Star.
He'd Had Kiperleaee.
A gentleman well known about town
adopted the bright son of his deceased
brother some time ago, and nas brougni
the nephew up as a member of his own
family. The little fellow I but 8 year
old. He dearly lore his undo and aunt
The former i rather gruff naturally, but
he is kind hearted and he think a great
deal of the boy, who doe not appear to
mind hi gruffnesa. Recently hi aunt
started In to read him "Little Lord
Fauntleroy." He grow deeply interested
In the fascinating story and followed the
trial aud trouble of the little lord very
closely. Hi aunt dwelt upon the chap
ters depicting the cruelty of the crusty
old earl, but the boy did not seem to mind
this at alL lie seemed to know that
Fauntleroy would come out all right in
the end. "Don't you think that the earl
was a mean old fellow?" asked hi aunt
one day as die finished a chapter. "Ob,
I don't know." replied the boy. "I think
I could stand him. I stood Uncle Oeorge."
The story was finished without further
comment Chicago Herald.
A Caaalag Child.
"Oh, Tom, the baby is so tweetl To
day be took off hi shoe aud threw it in
the fire, and when 1 told him that he
was a bad, bad boy he only said 'Nah. "
" 'Nah.' eh? Well, what do you think
Tm made of money? That's the second
pair he' lost in a week."
"Oh, no, dear; it was the mate of the
one he tor to piece."
"Oh, that' different isn't be cun
ning T Harper' Bazar.
A Laving Jmj.
Olive Thorns Miller tell of a jay that
(he once tamed, aud that repaid her
kindnesa with every mark of gentle re
gard. The jay never squawked at h r
a h would at others, but whistled ge e
tly and cooingly. He always got
near her a possible, and did as m r
kissing a a bird can; that it, be kid
leak on her cheek.