1 EUGENE CITY GUARD. EUGENE CITT. OREGON. UNANSWEHED PmaYEHS. I.Ike tome aeboolmaater, kind iu being atcrU, Who hcara the children crying o'er thflr ahitca And calling "ll.'lp me, maater," yet help li. .t, SIik-o in hl alienee and refuanl lira Their aclf -development, ao iod abide rnliie.liiig many prayers. Me Is not deaf Tn any cry sent up from earnest hearts; Jle bear nuil atrengthen. wbeu He mutt deny. lie ill weeping over llfe'a bnrd unit. Hut, should IU dry our tear and give the Wbnt would It profit ua when arbool were done And not una leasou maatered! What a world Were thla if all our prayers were grniite II Not in fumed I'audora'a box were inch mat ilia Aa lie in human benrta. Should our dtr aln-a. Voiced one by one, in prayer ascctid to Hod And come bark aa eventa abaped to our wlnh, What cbaoa would reault! In my fierce youth I sighed out hrenlli enough to move a fleet Voicing wild prayera to heaven for fan cied booiia, Which were ilei.ied. and that denial hernia My knee to prnyera of groiitude each day Of uiy niaturcr life. Yet from those pruyera I roae alway reglrded for the atrlfe And coiiai loua of new strength, l'ray oil, aad henrtl That which Ibou pleadeat for Diny not be given. Hut In the lofty altitude where aoiila Who aupplicatt Uod'a grace are lifted, there Tbon ahatt And help to bear thy future lot Which la not elaewhere found. -Ulla Wheeler WUcvS, In the Coimo- polltan. WEDDING GIFTS. Ww.li! Presents!" anld the Old Mar ried Muu to the bridegroom. "Ilou't think you'll get wbnt you want. I'll tell you my experience. MA the time for our marring drew near I lined to call t the house every available evening anil whisper confi dentially to the curly heart which exact ly lilted my shoulder that I was the luckiest fellow on enrtli. On one oc casion Agnea lghed "' murmured ilrenuilly that that wa Juat what she felt. "Tlint wa on the Mi. "On the l'-MU I M(npied In minute at IlixiU to ace-If alio loved mo aa mucli aa at 11:15 the night before. She replied Hint alio did-that love iinnlter-able-but Hint alio miiKt hurry upstair Uow or the drcaMiunker would get her aklrta flute-.huped luateiid of organ lped. "On tlio 14th the preaent bcgnn to arrive-also the relutlvcs. It became au unsettled problem which of tho two were more uumeroiia. Aggie bud cousin once removed. 1 had several timlea ami aunt a. All were well off; In fact. It waa a curious coincidence thnt we were the only poor branches orl our respective family trees. I wna In nn Insurance otflce-llro UiMurance, not lire Insurance and when 1 had com tnunlcnlcd to her the newa of my re cent promotion ahe bad declared In the face of her family' unaccountable preference for Henry Walker (who wna not o good a fellow a I am by any mntiuer of mean) that to l Mr. Joacpli I.ounabury and live In a ainnll bouae on a very amnll Income and bllsa wna precisely her Ideal of exigence. So we were not mnrrylug na a specula tion; tieverthclcHa. alnce liuirrhige romca ao acblom III oue'a life, wo Imd hopca that our moneyed relative would do the linndaomu tiling. "They did. First dime a complete' act of knives, fork and apnoii in , polished wihhI case. They wero from the cousin Aggie had been limned for. 'Such a sensible preaent!" nld her mollier; 'they will Inat a lifetime.' ' " 'Yea,' aald I, 'It will take us a gid while to wear nil thoae out two at time.' ' 'Don't you suppose w e'rc ever go ing to entertiilii any company, Joe?' asked the girl of my affection, tapping Uie on the cheek with ono of the fork. "The Mine night I hud a note from her saying, 'Pearest Joe, you ought to see the lovely aMer dinner coff. e i oone Second Cousin Mllly haa sent no two alike. Orange plush, cnae. Isn't It ex citing? Pon't tell, dear, but I almoat wlali they'd been aouiethlng elae, for I think tome the girls are going to glre me poena.' The real of thla letter waa not Interesting to you. 'Thla waa the beginning of an ava lanche of apoona (.'barter Oak apoona, nutmeg apoona, oldler' monument poona, witch apoona, buat apoona, por trait apoona (1 railed these Inst our picture gallery, and auggcatod that tliey aliould be framed In ribbon and hung In the parlor). One of our friend ent a pair of wilted almond apoona, ihoplng t lint we would exchange them If they wore duplicated, but It turned out that those were the only one wo had. The aiigr apoona were nil marked. There were five of them. "It I a time honored custom In our pCIc'o when one of ua It married for the real to 'combine' and buy a picture; and you could generally tell what year a mnu'a wedding enme off by a glance at lila parlor wall. Williams, vho wna married In '84, had 'Far Away;' Ilrown's, a few year Inter, wa Tho Three Fatea.' Our wna, of courao, the latent thing out. It bnd a ailver frame. "Aa the day a went by and piece of allvcr piled up on ua 1 wna more than once reminded of the couple win mo courtship waa conducted lu II row u togeae, and who were fitted out by their admiring frleml with a Itrowu lng tea act, with quotation, around the dge, "Oh, the little more, and how much It lT The Ford a had a run on china, but a good deal of It got broken the nrat year. The Smith' apeolalty waa etchlnga; they had enough for ev ery room lu th houae ouly. they uever had a bouae; they Boarded ever Inoe they were married. Finally the climax came, when my old I'ucle John eut u olid tea aet. I hadn't txpectej any UilBf from him, tutleaa perhap lilbl of a Webater' Unabridged, for he did n't enjoy giving anything away. Aggie waa getting too tired to bo very en thiiHlnxtlc, but her mother wna delight ed, ami It wna no iiho thinking thnt I would Juat a moou have bud tho money. "Thl nmkea KM, dear-nine more" tliuli Niudo Flah lnul,' an Id her alxtcr. " 'One hundred and two,' anld Aggie. " -No, dear, Ka-101 enme thl morn ln.' " 'Oh, I know I alinll never get thla llat right !' excliilmeil Aggie, diving for her blank book. " 'Look out, or you'll be hnndlng thnt lHok to tho pnraou for a prayer-book, ald I. "Wouhln't be a bit aurprlHed,' alio anawereil, amlllng; Aggie could ainlle when alio wna tired. "Well, we were mnrrled. A man brenthe enaler when It' over with. 'Itut, Aggie,' I wild, na the carriage door alummed on ua, 'if It ever happen to un ngnin, let' leave out t lie lieu then au pe million.' "'I know It,' aald Aggie, i bepgeir them not, but they would NinugglL aome In. See iiny In my hiilr?' " 'Some In your lint brim.' I brushed her off, and alio aelzeil the newapaper I bud ftirefully brought along to look like mi old married mini, mid i-onjured with It a minute, holding It out by nil Improvise I bundle. 'Here,' ahe aalil, the very i hllden in kindergarten know how to make paper iliiMlpaiiH-now bniMli tho turrlnge aeat.' When we got out I gave the hiickiiiuil a dustpan of rice with a bill on top. There, bum It,' aahl I. '"Hid you hoc him chortle In hi Joyr aiild Agu'le. giggling; 'Joe, do you feel like a married couple?' " 'IitM,' anld I. "Our ten dny In Wnidilngton had only one boglethe blank Iniok. Aggie Mild ahe miiHt IIiiIhIi her notes. All I could do waa to alt by mid fret, ami' put on the HtnmpN; nml ahe told mo I hindered her more thnu I helped, nml aim wna nwfully glad to have me around, It made her feel better. "We began housekeeping lu a cheer ful way In a little house on a uef atreet. It waa aouiethlng like to come home to oue'a own dinner table. We hnd ao much allver that It looked funny with our pin In chlimnobody hnd given ua a lot of Ice-crenm acta nml thing. I tell you, marriage la a lottery when It cornea to wedding present a. I liked seeing Aggie' face In the sugar bowl.' though. I '.very night the llttlo mnlif (lniMrted, to live up to the apoona) brought t In-lit and nil 0e rest upatalra on a tray and we packed them away In the chest we had made and a pretty penny It coat, with Ita combination lock, which went lulo the end of the cloaet where nobody could get at It. One night we cftine home at V2 from a reception, and na we stole upatalra not to wake the sleeping handmaid, Aggie ao sleepy herself thnt alio tripped on her wedding gown nml I had to hold her, we enme upon the whole nrrny on tlie floor outside our door. "Isn't It Imposing'; ao safe!' aald I, but Aggie said, desperately, '1 ahan"t cure auythlng about going out even Inga any more If I've got to put that allver away after I get home.' " 'I.et It atay there,' "'Oh, I can't. Mamma thinks we're ancnrelcas. We don't npprcciutc things enough. She says. If anyone hnd given her auch elegant thing when alio wna mnrrled ahe wouldn't have dared to cloao her eyea!" "Toko more than thnt to keep my eyea open.' Hut I helped Agnei above the tray tinder a chair, ami drape the train of her wedding dresa over It. "'What on earth are you doing, Ag gie? I naked, on coming In for dinner one day: All I could sec wna ono foot nml n skirt rutlle In the closet. . "Aggie Kcrninbled up enough to catch me round my knee. 'Oh, Joe, I'm ao glad you've come!' " 'What I It? You're ready to cry.' "That' what I like about you; you don't have to be explained to. Henry Walker wouldn't have known I felt like crying If I'd screamed it nt him!' "That uiilde me feel pretty goo(f (though dinner wasn't ready). 'Itut what? ' " 'It's the allver! I came up to change the forks and shioiis ao they should get worn alike, nml I've abut the paper with the combination In the cheat, nml 1 can't remember wbnt It wna.' "I got down beside her. It wna hot ter than Mexico In that closet. 1 turn ed and tried the lock. 'lo you keep your drease out of my way. they tickle the Iwck of my neck.' Xo good. "Well I guea we'll use the old forks to-day,' aald I; '1 don't believe they'll fade away yet awhile,' " "Oh, I'm ao aorry-hut they're ev ery one abut up In that cheat.' So we laughed. Wint else waa there to do? It wn funny when Homing cime home with me to tea we'd asked him aome day before. It wouldn't have been funny with aoine glrla. The table look ed principally white china, ami the kitchen knlvea and forks didn't go round. Kver out omelet with a pew ter aponn? It la great. "It wasn't quite ao funny when thre hot dny had gone by and we hnd near ly smothered sojourning lu the closet, and no newa of the combination, 'lbiu't tell mamma!" plended my wife. I be gan to think I should hare to call lu a locksmith, when one evening Aggie tartlcd me by Jumping out of bed crying, 'I've got It! I've got It!' " 'tiot whnt-a nightmare? " 'I've got the combination! I've been working ou It all the time, and It Just came to me In my sleep, (let right up, Joe. and hold the light, and mind you don't act anything on tire.' In another two mlnutea the front of the cheat fell down, and behold our houahold gods! 'If auyliody wanta to ateal them be tween now and daylight, . they ran, thal'a all,' said Aggie; 'but I'm not go ing to shut that lock again to-night for anybody!' , "In the fall there was burglar cnre about town, and Agues' mother came over and gave her a lecture tion lock ing the window. She said we really ought to have a burglar alarm. To please her, I had one put In. Klectlou night I went down to town tolling Ag gie not to alt np for me. for I should wait for the return. It wa 1 o'clock when I pMiel the front door Tery softly, not to dlaturb Agues. M-r-rbr-keplunkT I forgotten the alarm. "ltefore I had time to say a won! or eTen turn down my coat eollnr, my wife appeared at the head of the stair. She pointed a pistol at me. Her hair bung looee, and ahe waa In ntr-welt, never mind; but the looked distracting ly pretty. " 'if you come one tep further I'll Ore! ahe cried. - "'It' Joe, Agne,' anld I, meekly. ""I don't believe It! Take off you lint!' "I took It off, and ninde her a low bow. 'Don't shoot your huabiind; he doing tlie beat he can.' "Ague Inuglied byaterlcuily. 'Oh. Joe, I wu ao frightened. "I rushed upatnira nml caught her. I took nwny the pistol, nml wrapped her up lu her dressing-gown. 'I'o you think ynu ought to appear before burg lar lu thla coHtumi;?' I Inquired. Hhe blushed. 'I never thought of that.' "And to think yon should point n pistol at your own huabnnd.' "'It wasn't loaded, Joe.' "Agnes I-onnabury, wild 1,,'do you menu to any you were ao rush na' to aim nt me with a pistol that wasn't loaded V " 'Itut I shouldn't have llred It, any way; It wasn't cocked.' "Well, this ends the watchman burg lar nliirm business,' said I. 'We've had about as much of It na we wnnt. To morrow we'll decide what allver we want to use every day, and tlie rest shall go down to the bank.' "We're able to brenthe now. The sil ver stands ou the sideboard, and a yet nobody has curried It off; If they do Agnes' mother will say she expected It, for we nreu't the careful people they used to be In her generation. Once In a while Aggie quarrels with me be cause some dish or other thnt would make a show for company Is at the bank, and I don't see my way elenr to bring It home under my arm. 'You can have them all home and trust to luck If you'd rather,' I any. . " 'I'd rather they were at the bank, hecniiNo then I should have them, you know.' " Hon't aee It,' anld I; 'but It' juat a you any.' "When our anniversary enme around we had a present and a note from one of Agnes' elderly frleul. The note ran this way: "My denr Mrs. I-ounsbury: We end you our beat congratulations on your anniversary. My husband will hnve his little Joke, you know; and, as some one told him that the Lounsburys had hnd ao much allver given them on their wedding thnt It was a positive embar rassment to them, be any you ought to be ashamed of being auch plutocrats at your nge, while the older generation haa not even accumulated souvenir aHMiiiM, and send you thl little gift to remind you of the fact ' '"Oh, Joe! It' allver!' for I hail punched a hole In the paper. 'No, It Isn't. It' a pudding dish, or for oys ters, you know. How kind. And plat ed, too. It didn't cost much, Joe, did It?' " 'A few dollar, I should think.' "'How good! I'erhup 'even leaa, Joe? "Perhaps so; It' rather light weight.' "'Isn't It delightful? We'll have aome oysters In It to-morrow night, and ask them over to ten.' 1 'I should feel dreadfully to have thnt taken,' I heard her murmur that even ing. " "What forr " 'Because It' auch a comfort to have one thing thnt you don't care whether It'a atolen or not.' "You're getting leepy, Aggie. But I. know ono thing that 'goes on, goes ou forever.' 'Wbnt?' " 'Our storage rent. I reckon In a few years we'll hnve paid for the whole out lit, aud then we'll fetch It omeand keep open house for burglar with a clean conscience.' " 'Don't be ridiculous, Joe,' said my wife." New York Tribune. A Question of Chlnta. Sim Beeves, the English tenor, hns Just been rivalled to the public mind In singular fashion; for, at the age of 74, he has emerged from his retirement, and gone again upon the stage. In tho entire history of musical art there Is no other ruse of so long aud so successful a career a his. Neverthe less the kindliest critics agreo thnt he should not have Invited comparison of tlie voice he hns with the voice he bnd. Iteeve wns alway the most eccen tric and perverse of singers. Innumera ble stories are told of his audacity In breaking engagements, lu l.siKl Col. MapleMon hnd announced blm to slug In London, ami on the first day of the engagement received a telegram from Beeves, who wns on his way to town, expressing his -surprise thnt he had been advertised for thnt evening when the engagement was for tho following one. The manager at once hurried to Iteeve's house, ami learned that dinner had been ordered for half-past 7. He told the butler that the time hnd been changed, and that the meal must be served at midnight Instead. He then went to meet tho tenor, who was ac companied by hi wife, at the Euaton railway statlou. While Mrs. Reeve bualed herself about the luggage Col. Mnplcsou got the tenor to himself, and explained his dltllculty. "lrut It 1 quite Impossi ble for me to slug this eveulng,n was the answer. "I have ordered my dinner at home." Col Mapleson explained that he had postpone! dinner for a few hours, and that a light meal was being prepared for him lu the dressing-room of the theater. The suddenness of the propo sition accmed to amuse the tenor. Ho laughed, and actually gave a half prom ise thnt If his wife consented, he would sing. At that moment his wife ap peared, aud the matter waa explained to her. "It'a all nonsense, she exclaimed; "Mapleson Is willing to ruin you by forcing you to sing." She then went on to ask how any .one could possibly think of such a thing, when the chlnti and crumb cloth of his dressing-room had not been arranged,. It hnd alway been her custom to hang the' walls with new chlnti, and place a fresh damask cloth on the floor, on the night when her husband sang, and on this occasion the snortM hang ings had gone to the wash. That set tled the matter, and Ileeve did not slog that night. About all the people you used to kuow have lota of children, and are poor. The trouble seems to be that when a man has good scheme. It Is not his mova, iff " I rVKV?Tr7.r7r"T rYV ImprOTln tbe Telescope. Trof. C. B. Hasting, of Yule, hns do Vised method of shaping and combin ing two leuse of ordinary optical glnss In ucu a mnnncr na to do away with the outstanding color due to chromatic aberration, which ha alway been a source of more or less trouble, even In the best of modern telescopes. It Is es timated thnt the Improvement will In crease the effective power of telescopes about 10 per cent. Odora and fbotoffrophy. Every photographer know that sin gular difference exist lu the actinic ac tion of light on succeeding duys w hich, so far as general appearances go, seem to bo equally favorable for photograph ic purposes. This may be purtly ex plained by the recent discovery by Monsieur Declnux of Paris, thnt the odors arising from vegetation mid dis seminated through the olr diminish tho actinic power of the solar radiation which reach tbe surface of the ground. Texas bulphnr. The best known sulphur deposits In the world are those of Sicily, but ac cording to Mr. Eugene A. Smith, of the University of Alabama, Texas may pos sibly enter the field as a producer of commorciol sulphur. The deposits ex amined In Texas are situated lu a large basin somo forty miles northwest of Pecos, but others are said to exist Isdh to the west and north of this locality. The nearest railroad Is twenty mlb from the sulphur Basin, and the sur rounding country contains no fuel and very little surface water. A Hiding 1'lanf. Many Insects and other members of the animal kingdom mimic the forms and color of Dlants and other natural objects, for the supposed purpose of I i ........ I. , l,,,t it u I'UiilL'Uiiiu-ui iruuj riii-iuivoi rare to find a slmllnr peculiarity lu plants. An Instance of this, however, hns been noticed at the Capo of Oood Hope, where a species of mesembrynu themum, or fjg-mnrlgold, so closely re sembles the stones amid which It grows, both In color and form, that It frequent ly escapes the attention of cattle nml other browsing animals. South Africa presents other lnstnnces of what Is called protective mimicry lu plnuts. Inuenlous Chimpanzee. A recent report by Prof. O. F. Cook on colonization In Liberia gives somo Interesting fncts about tbo chlmpau sees living In thnt country. It appear thnt these animals, which bear such curious reseniblnnces to men thnt tlie natives call them "old-time people," are very fond of the flesh of luud crabs, which they dig out of the burrows. To crack open the shell of the crab they dash them against rocks. They also crack tints with stone In the regu'ur human fashion; and most curlor- of all, perhnps, they kill pythons by grasp lug the huge serpents uliout the neot aud beating their heads with stones. Going Aatruy at Fen, The dltllculty of keeping a modern steamship on a straight course Is point ed out In the Scientific American. The helmsman steers by the compass, itud while a single degree of deviation ap pears very small on the compass card, It would, If continued, enrry a fust steamship four miles out of her course In a single day's run. Yet the compass gives tho course more accurately than the sh'p oan be steered. Owing to the deflecting power of the waves aud tbe rolling of the ship, which causes lirst one of her propellers and then tho other, If she be of the twin-screw type, to exert the greater effect, the course Is continually shifted a llttlo this way and thnt, despite the lujlm. The only safety Is In correcting the compass course by frequent observations of the sun, moon and stars. History In a Tree. In the British Museum of Natural History there Is a section of the trunk of a large tlr-tree from British Colum bia, the growth rings of which Indi cate that Is wns more thnn 500 years old when It wns cut down In lSSI. A correspondent of Nature culls atten tion to the fact that about twenty of the annual rings of grow th, mnklug the latter part of the tlrst hundred year of the tree's existence, are crowded to gether In a 'remarkable manner, Indi cating that during those twenty year soniecniiso was In wperatlon greatly re tarding the grow th of the tree. Ou look ing Into history the correspondent found that, nearly at the time when the tree In question wns evidently suffer ing from very adverse conditions, Asia and Europe were undergoing extraor dinary dlsturlmnees from enrthquukes, atmospheric convulsions, the failure of crop, pestilential diseases, etc. China, In particular, suffered even more thnn Europe. He therefore suggests that possibly the crowded rings In the trunk of the tree may lie a record of the ex istence of the same unusual conditions affecting animal and vegetable life at that time In North America also; and he shows thnt If the tree had reached Its full growth, and ceased to form new rings a few years before It was felled In 1SS the correspondence In time would be complete. Colorado Cloudburst. A writer In Trarel describes a cloud burst which came without warning, one hot, stifling dny, upon tlie dwel lers at Magnetic Springs, lu Southern Colorado. The clouds gathered In the hill be hind the turn, and came drlf'liu like frightened sheep before the breath of a strong west wind. No thought of danger occurred to ua until. In an aw ful bush, with no llghtulng-flash, uo thunderpeal, they broke, and death came down. The flood seized the ranoi like a channel; flume-wise It bore to the val ley the cloud-eut torrent of the hills. The hotel stood full In tbe path of th. flood. If the builder had not wrought better than any man knew, not one of na would have lived through the stress ful time of boiling, foaming, bluing. sinlnat tho wa is. mi omdatlctis. caught every movnU thing, ns In the kH of a Bl " whirled and ground It to utter .! '""rm. doud! The cloud lia-J came th, cry ou every hm l ' ; one impulse, everybody rush -d ,. . ,orr.dor. there to " ' , ythlng steady. ImK-med with " .. i I i..rll.ilU fcllO'-K. SUUUI II III'" I , . i Then some one shouted Mr I - . ,,. and children t" rim of!!.,. Wchad hardly glii'"l : ,l. bnek door gave way: i f.M.. rushed thron-'li I"'" : ,,.,. d whirled their f..ru!' i about iik 'ift -n-'k- ' stream. We crouched there, wntrh'i., ; them to fear nml trembling. i The oltl' e had thick stone walls 'I H . but one door. Therein lay our hope o. , safety. Thought of succor wiis ih. No oiitct v w e might make could i.i.. ..i tl.mi.L'h that eleiuetil.il j clamor, and summon the iiolchbois our rescue. Earth nml sky seemed to call and answer, one to another; c.iim In deep sinister rumbling, as thoii.'l. nil Its fountains were broken np, n:d the sky In an overtone of singing wa,e. murderously swishing and thundcrm,' about our refuge. It was over at last; the roars and hissing died down to the plash ami pouring of ralu. But still the h u's" stood; we hnd n roof between us nml the angry sky. Comfort Is large! .1 mutter of comparison. Now we ie Jolced. though the place was full of wreck and ruin, and though the mud lay a foot thick wherever the Hood had rolled. By dint of hard labor one room win made habitable, ami there, that night, we huddled about the stove thnt had somehow lieen groped for and dug out of the mud nml then set up to w.irm ua through the bitter chill that had come In the wnkeof the storm. NEW AND CURIOUS MIRROR. Invention of oOerman Chemist Which la More MI Oiun Ireful. An Ingenious Ormnn chemist lias patented a process for milking the most curious mirror In the world. Looking Into It from one side you see your re flection. Looking Into It from the other side It seems transparent. Its uses are likely to be manifold. It may be put up In front of the prescript Ion coun ter of a drug store, for Instance, m.d the outsider cnntiot see behind the ense. but the pharmacist cnu see out Into the store readily. The magician Hermann Is said to have ordered the Importation of several for use In some uew Illusions he Is pre paring for the astonishment of the puli lie. Holding It up lu front of him ho will be hid from the view of the audi ence, but he en il see them through It readily. The process of manufacture, as remarked, Is patented nml has been given out us follows: Dissolve one part by weight of silver nitrate In ten mrt weight of water uud label "No. 1." Prepare another 10 per cent, solution of silver nitrate, but lu larger quantity. To this add ammonia water, drop by drop, stirring carefully until the precipi tate formed at llrst Is completely dis solved, and label "No. 2." Now add solution No. 1 to solution No. until the odor of nmmouln I no longer rccogulznble and the liquid b.u again become very turbid. Next add 100 parts by weight of dis tilled water for every' part of silver nitrate originally used In solution No. .', and tiller until It U dear. Luhcl this "No. 3.". Prepare a reducing solution by dis solving eight part weight of roehellu salts In !i$4 parts by weight of distilled water; boil and to the boiling solution adil gradually a solution of three pnns of silver nitrate lu ten parts by weight of distilled water, aud Ulter when cool mid label "No. 4." Clean tho glass to be coated thorough ly, lay It ou a perfectly level sutfaco In a room of the temperature of about J3 degrees C. (77 degrees F.). Mix equal parts of No. 3 (the deposit ing fluid) and No. 4 (the reducing fluid) and pour over the glass. Tho glas may. If preferred, be dipped lu tin) solution. The tlmo required for tho deposition of the layer of Just the correct thick ness hns to be determined by the Judg ment of the operator In eneh case. This may be aided somewhat by uhscirlng a ptf-ee of white paper laid below the glass. When a sutllclent deposit of silver has been made (and much less Is re quired thnu for an ordinary mlrrori, pour off the silvering liquid aud rinse tluiToughly with the distilled water nud stand the mirror on edge to dry. Coat the silvered side with a solution of shellac, colorless. In alcohol, and liual ly frame the mirror with n backing of clear glass to protect the mirror surface from belug scratched. Mlntral Fertilizers for the Cherry. In no one of our frnlta u in ... .... diuuc yr seed so large in proportion to the whole as it is in tne ciierry. For this reason, and also because It perfects Its fruit In very short time, mineral fertilizers In available form are always needed for the cherry tree. Some of the most productive and largest kinds of cher ries are very apt to rot before they ripen. This Is almost always nu Indi cation that mineral fertility, especially potash, Is needed. It Is the potash lu the soil that not only perfects the seed, but Is necessary also In giving the color to the fruit thnt makes it attractive The most hlghly-colorcd fruits require therefore, IIIktuI supplies of the potash fertilizers. Woman'. Kiporiciice on Jury Mrs. Wnrren, who recently served as foreman on a Jury lu Denver, snvs "As a matter of Interest to the 'public and particularly to ladles who In tbe future may be railed upon to serve upon Juries. I will say that In my own experience there has Von tiotu'ug which should deter any lady from serv ing on a Jury." Boston's Hndly Planned I.lbrarv Tlie groat new Boston public library has already been found to have lee!i 111 planned and Inadequate. It eo. li.r.ou.0,,, and now $a.otj I, be expended to oonatruet a "suitable reading-room." uouio wcn you think of the worthless of some people you cannot wonder at their poverty. 1 11 ie taat makes a man look old' In a woman's case. It la -trouble.- TREASURES IN OLD BOOKS. I V.luabl. Document Discovered oy a Uccond Hand I'caler. In reply to a query from a correnpon. dent a London second-hand book-seller -all- "I frequently make finds In book's ! buy. It I extraordinary the m ml e 'of thing, that are slipped be tween the page, of book for a mo ment and afterward entirely forgotten j otters without number I have found, nud flower, lock, of balr. unmount ed photograph, bank note., checks and many other thing, too I bought a volume of a well-known work from a lady some years ago, and whe n ah- hnd gone, while turning oyer the leaves, came across a will which disposed of some thousand of pound worth of property. I put the will cure fully away, uud tho following duy the Idy returned In a frightful tute of ex citement nud wanted to buy the book back ot my own price. I guessed what she reallv wanted, but thought It rather strange that alio should ask to buy the hook Instead of merely asking to be allowed to examine It. which would have been Just a effective. However, I told her I had found the will, and stipMsed thnt that was what she want ed She looked confused, but confessed It was, so I bonded It to her and she went away. I P to this time that will hns uot been Hied, o I have learned, and I have not the slightest doubt that it ha been suppressed for the purpose of depriving ome one of the property which It disponed of. But the most In teresting case lu which I have been con cerned In thl way happened uot long ago. "A well-dressed gentlemanly man brought me three bulky volumes and warned me to purchase them. A they were of n clas of book the value of which vnrlc considerably, acording to the condition and edition, and I was very busy at the time. I asked blm to leave them thnt I might examine them, aud cull the next dny. This be con sented to do. and went away. When I looked nt them I came across a large number of mk note. They wero evidently quite new, and there wa something alxiut them which made mo doubt their authenticity. I compared them with note of my own. but could not discover the faintest dissimilarity. However, to make sure of the matter, I sent them to le paid Into my batik. Naturally when my messenger rnnio back, having passed the notes without the slightest dltllculty, I concluded they were all right. "The next morning I received a mes sage from the mannger of the bank saying he would like me to call upon him. I went round, and waa not very much surprised when he said tlint ev ery one of the note I hud banked the day before were forgeries. I explained the matter, and we wired to Scotland Yard. That afternoon I had a new as sistant In my shop. Toward tho close of the day the owner of tho three vol umes came sauntering Into the shop and asked If I Intended to buy them. At a sign from me my new nsslstunt a detective pounced upon lilin and hurried him off. Scotland Yard had been looking for blm for a long time, It appeared. I have still the book In my library. I keep them a n memento of the occurreucc." CasseU's Maga zine. Tbo Only Way. Mr. William Spark, lu his "Musical Memoirs" tells a story of the fatuous organist Wesley, which was related to him by Mr. Bishop, the London organ builder. Wesley was a great extem poraneous fugue-player, and on the oc cation to which Mr. Bishop referred, had been asked to show off a uew organ by playing a voluntary at the afternoon service, previous to the reading of tho first lesson. Before going to the organ he asked the vicar (who was au ama teur organist) how long the voluntary should hist. "Oh," replied tho vicar, "please your self, Mr. Wesley. Say live or ten min utes; but we should like to hear as much of the different stop na you can oblige us with." When the time enme, after a few pre liminary chords, Wesley started a f ugnl subject, which he worked out In a mas terly way in about a quarter of an hour; and the vicar waa about to commence reading the lesson when the Inexhaust ible organist Btnrtod a second subject, and this he developed lu the same abstruse, elaborate manner n the llrst. The congregation nt the eud of half on hour began to show sign of weari ness. The vlcnr beckoned to Mr. ntaii. np and begged hltn to stop the too prolix organist. 'Oh," replied the orgnn-bullder, "I enn soon stop him If you give me au thority nml will take the conse quences." He nppronehed the organ-blower, and holding up half n crown, he said bur rledly, "Come and take this, 1 am Just going." The blower pumped the bellows full, and made for the half-crown. Bishop detained him until the wind went out with a sin k and a grunt, aud poor Wo, ley was left high and dry lu the mlddlo of his double fugue. Lincoln's Story, Very often when President Lincoln could not or did uot care to give a di rect reply or comment, he would tell i story, sometimes funny, but not al ways so. and these stories were the best rcsHtises possible. In the gloomiest period of the war, In had a call from a large deleg ttlun of bank president. In the talk after business was settled, one of the bank er asked M.. Lincoln If his contbl'MKc In the permanency of the 1'nbur was not beginning to be shaken-wiioiYup. on. says Walt Whitman; tho I n-lv President told a little story. "When I was a young man In IU. iils. said he. "I hoarded for a tlmo with a deacon of the Presbvterbin Church, one night i wna aroused from m.V sleep by a nt tm, ,,Mr n)(, , hennl the deacon's voice exclaiming Arise. Abraham! the day of Judgment lins comer "1 sprang from my bed nnd rushed to he window, nnd saw the stars falling il great showers; but looking back o" "'in l the heavens I saw the grand "'"""Ihnlons. wtth which I wni m vvel acquainted. flte(, ,,, , , their places. 'tjeutlemen, the world did not como b an end then, nor will the fnlon When a flirt has a pain In her lean impose she doe. not kuow ri.ther It U dyapepaia, or a man. In Tun. So Wt. un IViml lng'. ''tlfH, So sweet the daffodil,, ... , So blithe and gay ,le going """I bat From flower to Honor tbe bee. ' 1 So sweet, so awect th thrushes. The calling, cooing, wooIdi.. . The plover's piping oo, B01r J So sweet, so iwect from off UuLx clover ""m. "hTlir WlU1 b,owlD. blowing,. So sweet, 'so sweet with newi0f lover, FIwituuottep" rluglu "w.v So near, so near, now u,t . thrushca; K Now plover, blackbird, ttltllUih bear; " And water, buah your aoni tbro and rushes, That I may kuow wbow lotB. near. r- So loud, ao loud tbe thruiht. callinc! Plover or blnrkhlnl n.... l. .. So loud the mill atream. too.C?i! falling, ,U0-toKhSii O'er bar aud bank. In brawlii, kw All at fflna WV So loud, ao loud; yet blackbird tW plover, ' Nor noisy mill stream In lUfrrtudv Could drowu the voice, tbt low ... W ln.il. "I My lover calling throtijh Uji tin "Come down, come down!" hmj,. iiuikm un- i ii nn iipi From, mate to miii not .n ,, "Pom itiiu i,"' " And while the water U tithed fo Tbe blackbird cbirpod, Untlomt '(n,.,l,...l ' Then down and off, and throojhtWsJ or ciover, I followed, followed at my lonyini Listening no more to blackbird, ttm; plover, The water's laugh, tbe mlllitms'is ami fa II. Nora Perry. . From a Window, The tide ot life goei lurflnrb;, With never ebb, nor lapae; The reatlesa feet, the fi'teredfn, Seeking a vague I'erbaua, All eagerly ou Import bent, Of greed, of Joy, or pain, Aye, hecdleaa save of one kttttt- Tbelr purpose to attain. No quiet nook, no coo! retrtit, No gracloua spring allum; On. ever on, the rublnj trt- The prize his who eudgnu Itut they who fall? Alai for tin Only the struggle Beret The hopes, the fears, botmriM From grief thnt keenliF1 The din thnt rises o'er tbeta! Is deafening, and no iieck Cnn cheer the falterer alont. Though he mny oft beieeA Alone, mid multitude! he mom. Alone, mid crowd! of mm A puppet In a pnpjHJt'i irooi, The W by beyouJ our tern Dally I ee this human itreta Passing, restless, on, And of It destiny I dream It. Import, lost, or won? We know not. Only this I That It shall find, at Int. Repose, beyond the reach of Whither It trendi 10 fait A. river, flow, so must thcyw In ocean, wide nnd deep; Their turbulence be changed topw Their restlessness to ileep So thl. on-sweeping, human tl Shall end. Ita enger quest. And lose Itself in ocenn wide. And from its struggle int. -Oliver W. Rogers, in BoitonT Entraniement So. without overt breach, mtWV Tncitly sunder-neither you no i Lonacioua oi one n.n -- - m And both, from severuuee, m,lrt- , .im! So, with realgned and "lfKtn'; Whene'er your name on loniecuw I scemToTaeee,an alien A spirit wherein I have no lot or P"4 Thus mny a captive. In '"H From casual speech betwixt bli That Juneau her trh.mphal pr! Through nrcneu mm while for him She la a legei! emptied of And Idle Is the rumor of the William Watson. The moon Infold, the .lumbering j Aud floods the perfumed cnam thou art, thss Ah.aleep! Kre morn ,.g J Whnt flowcr-hke drcami aw thy heart? The ...Men .tor. will cros. their Thefe..r.tSr Sleep! W t0 c,,u T" , 7, ,11,01 They bear for thee. tin. "B .until? 1... .-ind. llke.1! 1 lie ui& low. .n,.blo:y Now lean, .bore tne . ,W-.,.U..r.'th00!Z Seep, geuuesi ut ,iinf0 " The Mill of love no sr brnd.nf p -Irene Putnam, m Journal. A deep'nllig vcu h trw A low murmur Vnp. ' , And dead leave, from 'V 'f 1 lance merrily iu the The plaintive cry of tiwM r, As.wiftly bowew?l y Re-echoed from aMr h "i ; Amidst the uoiae of h.ue At last the mlsly cor .i f And o'er then. " J Like haunted visions se V , Leaving earth r-- er! O! Joyous woisl. O- l .bnJl. What bliss to h fe tb r, Thy touch ia magic to t Borne on f.'ry w"1 -New Orle.n. ric."" f