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PRAISE OF DEATH.
Thanatoa, thy praise I sini;.
Thon immortal, youthful kingl
Glorious offerings I will bring;
For, men say, thou hast no shrine.
And I find thou art divine
As no other god; thy rage
Doth preserve the Golden Ago.
What we blame is thy delay;
Cut the flowers ere they decay!
Come, 'we would not derogate.
Age and nipping pains we hate:
Take us at our best estate;
While the head burns with the crown.
In the battle, strike us down!
At the bride feast do not think
From thy summons wo would shrink;
We would give our latest kiss
To a life still warm with bliss.
Come, and take us to the train .
Of dead maidens on the plain
Where white lilies have no stain:
Take us to the youths that thou
Lov'st to choose, of fervid brow.
Unto whom thy dreaded name
Hath been simply known as Fame: .
With these unpolluted things
Be our endless revelings!
Michael Field in Academy.
The Misuse of the Fail.
"Talk about the early martyrs,' said a
lady, aa she came out of a crowded con
cert room the other evening. "They are
absolutely nothing to me. Here I am
just rip from an attack of influenza, and
ril warrant myself to have another at
tack, and all for the selfish stupidity of
one old woman with a fan. I wish peo
ple had more consideration or sense or
something," and the speaker stopped to
sneeze and pall her wraps closer about
her throat.
"And she sat there by your side and
waved one of those great, strong, gusty
fans, creating a breeze like a young
whirlwind, until you are. all of a chill, 1
suppose," said her friend.
4 'Indeed, yes, and the more I pulled up
my scarf the harder she fanned. There
wasn't a vacant seat in the house or 1
-would have taken it. I didn't like to
ask her to stop, tor she hadn't a specially
inviting countenance. And I have taken
a severe cold, for every bone in my body
aches. I think there should be a rule
'against fans in crowds, just as there is
against canes and umbrellas in art gal
leries. You can mend statues or build
more, but there isn't any remedy that 1
know of, when once we. are dead from
somebody's carelessness or indifference.'
"But it is easy enough to use a fan so
as to disturb no one; wave it gently
forward and back, never from side to
side. . I see no reason why people should
make their neighbors uncomfortable by
such acts when a little sense and con
sideration would make every one com'
fortable. ' I think there are very few
delicate persons who ' have not at some
time in their lives suffered from the too
vigorous waving of a fan in the vicinity.
Indeed any one, however well, is serious
ly exposed to colds if on coming into an
assembly often -quite heated from hur
ried walking, a current of air from a fan
is directed across the neck and 'shoul
tiers. 1 have made up my mind that
one who is careless or - inconsiderate
enough to use a fan to my discomfort is
a suitable subjeq for a reprimand, and
that, then and there, she will get it."
New York Ledger.-
Religion Depends on Physiology.
Before and since my fasts of forty
days, in Minneapolis in 1877 and New
York in 1880, 1 have given much time to
the investigation of the physiological
and psychological effects of food, and as
a result of my study and experiments 1
unqualifiedly assert that the prevailing
skepticism as to the superior claims of a
vegetarian diet for. the best development
of man in his entirety is only compatible
with the most incorrigible indifference
and mournful destitution of knowledge.
scriptural and otherwise, on a subject of
vital importance.
It is not often that the claim is set up
that the question of food just as properly
belongs to the domain of theology as to
physiology, yet 1 champion the claim
and considering how much the happi
ness and welfare of humanity depends
upon the soundness and precision of its
moral and religious views, and not for
getting the ever increasing control which
scientific proof exerts over the masses of
men, I will endeavor to prove, to the
philosophic mind at least, that the ad
vancement of the absolute or perfect re
ligion as taught and lived by the Man of
.Nazareth which was a religion of prac
tice ana not or theory depends-upon
proper understanding of physiology,
especially the physiology of the digestive
apparatus. Dr. Tanner in Kansas City
rimes.
'Reprimanding His Own Son.
'A story is told of Dr. Clark Kendrick.
On one occasion, in a high pew in the
.gallery . of one -of the old fashioned
churches, some boys, during the time of
worship, got to cracking and eating
nuts. His keen eye perceived it,' and
that one of his own ons was with them.
He stopped, and with a countenance
both grieved and rexed said, "D ,
come and sit on the pulpit stairs and eat
your nuts." St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr. Preston, in a letter to Dr. Hertz,
the famous discoverer of electrical
'waves, points out that if the lines of
force remain stationary while the mag
net rotates, the magnet,-' being a con
ductor rotating in 'the field of its own
lines, will become electrified and : show
positive electricity at one end and nega
tive at the other. If, on the other hand,
the lines move with the magnet, no such
effect will take place. Dr. Hertz admit
the force of this reasoning. " ,
France is probably pbe only European
country enlightened enough to allow the
poet of stenographers to the - chamber of
deputies to be open to women. For their
services in the chamber they are paid
8,500. to; 6,000 francs a. year. Stenog
raphers who i report i lectures, congresses
or. conferences: are paid sixty francs an
hour, each hour implying1- eight 'bourn of;
transcribing. ','''
The tomato is u Dative of South Amer ica.
It was known fV England as early
asl590, but its introduction into North
America is credited to the French . fami
lies who were exiled j. by the: revolutiou
of San. Domingo and settletl.in the ,ra
-era part of the United States. ' " '
A HAUNTED CONSCIENCE.
The Terrible Sensation That Follows the
Taking of Human Life.
It is a dreadful thing that human
life must be sacrificed," said Major C. O.
Bates in the rotunda of the Lincoln hotel
the other evening. There was an omi
nous look between him and Colonel Bob
McBeynolds as the latter spoke. Some
how it just- leaked ont that there
was some unwritten history as to the
Nebraska militia upon the frontier. A
word or two of kindly condolence elicited
the following from Colonel McBeynolds.
who has kept very silent heretofore.
It was very nearly S o clock when
Major Bates and myself left Pine Ridge
agency. All day Indians had been
swarming about the agency like so many
bees around a . hive. Each one was
armed with a Winchester, and had on
his person no less than 100 pounds of
ammunition. The wildest excitement
had prevailed all day, so that when we
left the agency at that late hour en route
to Rushville you can believe we were on
the alert.
From Pine Ridge the road led over a
plain for nearly five miles. Then began
the range of mountains known as Pine
Ridge. The manor and I had spurred
our horses for a couple of miles out of
the agency, then drew up into a walk.
We were following a circuitous road that
led over these Pine Ridge mountains,
when suddenly from behind the rocks
ahead there confronted us two Brule
Sioux, with Winchesters ready for ac
tion. Major Bates instantly uttered an
alarm. This caused one of the enemy
to skulk behind the other, both with
Winchesters leveled upon us.
"I was fairly panicstricken myself, and
scarcely knew what I was doing, but
Major Bates, with his cool headedness,
drew his Winchester to his shoulder and
fired. The report echoed up and down
the valley, and when the smoke cleared
away, there were two forms motionless
upon the brow of the little hill ahead.
My horse, frightened at the report of the
gun, was struggling in a frightful man
ner, and it was all I could do to restrain
him. Finally, when I got him quieted,
I rode to Major Bates' side. He was
pale as a sheet of paper, yet firm and
composed as a soldier should be. His
first remark was. 'Oh. God. this is aw
ful!1 . .
'The single shot from bis Winchester
had killed them both. They fell upon
their faces, their hands tightly clenched
about the weapons they bore. We looked
for others, but none were in sight. Then
I rode within jt few feet of the bodies
and picked up a war club. - Their blan
kets and ghost shirts were swarming with
vermin or I would have taken them
along. The major divested one of the
dead 'Indians of his 'war bonnet, placed
his scalping knife in his belt and re
mounted. - "As if by some strange fascination 1
lingered on the spot for a few moments.
Those bronze forms, motionless, lay with
face to the earth. Human life had per
ished there. The cold, snow covered
hills, resplendent with their wintry
beauty, brought naught but chill to the
bouL Two forms, clad" in their red
blankets, lay. silent in death. They
meant harm to us who would not have
harmed them. The winter's sun was
fading beyond the chill blue hills.
"I rode from the spot and joined the
major on the crest of a hill. His voice
was husky in tone when lie said, 'Let us
get away from here.' The road led over
a mountainous country for the next
seven miles, then we came to the out
posts of the Nebraska militia at Jar
chow's ranch, where, .after admission
within the picket lines, we met General
I. W. Colby, Colonel J. P. Bratt, of the
First regiment, and Colonel J. C. Bills,
of the Second. Major Bates here, true
to his soldierly qualities, told of the fate
of the two Brules. General Colby's face
wore a vexed look when the affair was
recounted. He seemed to think we
should have waited until we were fired
upon. Observing this, the "major an
swered, I have done so. and this is my
explanation.
' "I wish the affair was effaced from
memory," continued Colonel McBey
nolds. "The picture of those Indians
lying there so still, the snow covered
hills and silence of the hour, will long
dwell in my memory, and I know that
with all justifiable action of Major
Bates, it must forever remain to him a
nightmare which can never be forgot
ten." Chicago News.
The Parrot's Laucli-
Some years ago I possessed a parrot
which, among its other accomplishments,
could mimic perfectly the cook's call for
Kitty, the household cat.
Polly's cage hung usually in the kit
chen, and Kitty's favorite mode of -exit
in the summer was through the . adjoin
ing window and along the wooden parti
tion fence which rah up to it.
No sooner would Polly observe Kitty
sunning herself at the end of the fence
or in the yard than up would go the cry:
"Here, Kitty, Kitty! Here, Kitty, Kitty r
and the deluded quadruped hardly ever
failed to respond by dashing rapidly to
ward the window.
- Then that - mischievous parrot would
chuckle and flap 'its wings and yell, "Ho,
ho, hoi" thereby clearly demonstrating
its intense enjoyment of the practical
joke played upon the credulous cat. .
' Do yon think that Polly did not laugh?
If so, I don t know what a laugh is.
New York Telegram.
- A Heap of Money. -
- If a billion dollars "were1 placed on the
groan d ege to edge they-would extend
to a distance of 23,674 miles, nearly all
the way around the equator. Broken
into three parts the line would form
both a solar and an equatorial axis for
the globe, with a spare one left over in
case of accident, Divided into. "seven
parts the line would stretch from Wash
ington to - Algiers, Berlin,, fcxlinburgh,
Lima, .Venice. Paris and Liverpool.
Exchange, s ' f
- j- - i, n i i r. .
Among French dairymen the use of
hot water for milch cows is growing in
.'favor.' - It is alleged that one-third more
milk is yielded than When jc'old water is
given. '
THE CONVERSION OF LONDON.
Effect on England's History of the Teach
ing of the Early Cburch. "
London was converted in A. D. 604.
The citizens relapsed, it is true, but they !
were again converted, and then, in sober :
earnest, put away their old gods, keep
ing only a few of the more favorite su
perstitions. Some of these remain still
with us. They were so thoroughlcon
Terted that the city of London became a
veritable mother of saints.
There was the venerable Erkenwald
saint and bishop he who built Bishops
gate on the site of the old Roman gate;
there was St. Ethelburga, the wife of
Sebert, the first Christian king her
church still stands, close beside the site
of the old gate; there was St. Osyth
queen and martyr -the mother of King
Offa her name also survives in Size, or
St. Osyth's ' lane, but the church of St.
Osyth was rededicated to St. Ben'et
Sherehog Benedict Skin-the-Pig you
may see the 'little old churchyard still,
black and grimy, surrounded . on three
sides by tall houses.
English piety loved to. dedicate
churches to English saints more likely
these than Italian or French to look
after the national interests. Thus there
were in London churches dedicated to
St. Dunstan, St. Swithin, St. Botolph
(whose affection for the citizens was so
well known that it was recognized by
four churches), St. Edmund the Martyr,
and later on, when the Danes got their
turn, churches to St. Olaf and St. Mag
nus. '
The Englishman, thus converted, was
received into the company of civilized
nations. Scholars came across the Chan
nel to teach him Latin, monks came to
teach him the rife of self sacrifice, obedi
ence, submission and abstinence. The
monastery reared its humble walls every
where the first foundation of the first
Bishop of London was a monastery. In
time of war the monasteries were spared;
Therefore the people settled around them
and enjoyed their protection. -The mon
astery towns grew rapidly and prospered.
New arts were introduced and taught by
the monks; new ideas sprang up among
the people; new wants were created.
Moreover, intercourse began with other
nations; the ecclesiastic who journeyed
to Rome took with him a goodly troop
of priests, monks and laymen; they saw
strange lands and observed strange cus
toms. Walter Besant in Harper s.
The Orange Industry in Faragsay.
The orange tree is generally under
stood te have been introduced into Para
guay by the Jesuits and the seeds . dis
tributed by the birds. - However, this
may be, the orange has spread all over
the country, from the river banks to the
tops of tho hills, and from the cottages
even to the deepest solitudes of the vir
gin forest. Paraguay is the land of
orange trees more truly than the coun
try of Mignon. ' And : what oranges!
Juicy; perfumed and of a delicacy that
Spam and Italy have never : attained.
The chief industry consists -in the ex
portation of the fruit.
The great orange season is from May
to August, when the ports of the Para
guay river, from Humaita to Asuncion,
dispatch enormous quantities by steam
ers and schooners. Villeta, San Lorenzo
and San' Antonio are the principal ports,
and there best may be seen the pictur
esque processions of ' laughing and
screaming girls and women, who carry
basket after basket of fruit on their
heads from the shore to the ship, like
swarm of busy ants. Up to the present
no industrial use has been made of the
orange. - some sixty millions are ex
ported annually, the same quantity is
consumed by the natives, and perhaps
treble that quantity is devoured ' by
monkeys and birds, or left to rot on the
yronnd. Theodore Child in Harper's.
Where Horse Meat Soup la Popular,
Every day, at early morning, noon
and evening, in Paris, you will see poor
people gathering at certain shabby cook
shops in the quarters of Belleville, Mont-
martre, the Batignolles and others of the
sections outside the boulevards, where
poverty houses are thickest, each armed
with a tin pail, a pitcher or something
else calculated to carry liquid. -
These receptacles are duly filled with
thin but savory broth, ladeled from huge,
steaming caldrons, and which costs only
a cent or two a quart. I have drunk this
-bouillon and found it nourishing and
good, tt is made of the bones and scraps
of horse meat after the choicer pieces are
sold to the cheap restaurants, and the
very essence and marrow of the meat are
in it, for the boiling is kept up until the
bones are fairly honeycombed and the
meat reduced to shreds like bits of twine.
This broth provides the principal ani
mal nourishment for the average laborer
in the gay citv. He adds to it a few
vegetables, thickens it with bread, and
it having, as the cook book might say,
been "seasoned to taste," makes a palat
able and hearty meal. Alfred Trumble
in New York Epoch.
Manuscripts Ahead.
Some of the . larger magazines keep
MSS. for years unpublished, their stock
on hand is so great. This is not so hard
upon the young author , when they pay
upon acceptance, but sometimes it in
flicts great hardship upon the struggling
author when he has to wait for his pay
until his story is published. - One - of
the editorial staff of The Youth's Com
panion told me not long since that they
had over $100,000 worth of MSS. in their
safe, all accepted and - paid for, and it
was a question if - some of it could ever
be published. Emily 1 A. Thackray
New York Epoch. "
.:. While the Jury Was Out.
Prisoner thinking of . the date) This
is the 13th. That means bad lack for
me.- ' .'; -,- -.- .-. .. - . -
His Attorney (thinking of the jury)-T-My
friend, the unlucky number for yon,
I am afraid, is twelve:1 Chicago Tribune.
. -'Her Appearance,' .
Bingo-'-Thirjes'-'have gone so with me
lately that I have bad to compel my wife
to make her own ftresRes.. .-.
Kjngley, Too -br.d. How 'does ' she
Bingo Daggers. Cloak Review. '
ODDS AND ENDS.
- The United States has 1,000,009 miles of
telegraph wires. , . .. . , ,
It has been discovered that almanacs
date back to the year 100 A. D.
Unbound palm leaf fans are effectively
used in decoration of summer houses.
Woman's love of admiration is ' apt to
vary inversely with her power of exciting it.
The caterpillar is making fearful ; havoc
with the fruit trees in southern New Eng
land. The hardest thing to do la to set people
to think of the things that concern them
most.
Take iron stains from marble with lem
on juice or a mixture of spirits of wine
and oxalic acid.
In Great Britain there is one elector to
about six of the population; in Belgium
only one to about forty-six.
On Irish railways women are much em
ployed as booking clerks, and in Dublin
tickets are given almost entirely by women.
A Sonoma county, CaL, vineyardist has
purchased 10,000 paper bags to cover the
young vines and protect them from grass
hoppers.
All that can be said of very slow people
is that it is their duty to avoid conversa
tion and get through life as inoffensively
as possible.
It has been found after elaborate experi
ments that sewage can be more efficiently
filtered through open sand than through
sand covered with spiL - -
The first dress of embroidered bobbinet
ever woven in France was presented to the
Duchess d'Anguleme, who, it was thought.
would be one day queen of France.
The cheval glass is becoming more and
more a necessary piece or bedroom furni
ture to the modern woman, and with it
come into use the dressing table and high
chest of drawers. '
Good Plot for a Farce. .
The following singular will case cornea
from Hamburg. Some years ago there t
died in Schleswig, G-ermany. a govern
ment official named Nielsen. Some lit
tle time before he died Nielsen be
queathed to his man servant 20,000
crowns and to his cook a like sum, on
the condition that if either of them mar
ried the 20,000 crowns should revert to
the other. As soon as the old gentle
man died, however, the happy possessors
of this fortune went to the altar and
were married. The couple then took up
their residence in Hamburg, where they
have resided for the last six years.
Recently there arrived from Copenha
gen a relative of Herr Nielsen, who by
their marriage considered the spirit of
his relative's last will and testament had
been departed from, and demanded the
restitution of the 40,000 crowns. The
matter is now before a court of law.
London News.
There is no fun in doing nothing when
you have nothing to do. - -
Never a made up tie under any consider
ation with the neeutre shirt.
Bad Blood.
Impure or vitiated blood Is nine
times ont of ten caused by. some
form of constipation or indiges
tion that clogs up the system,
when the ' blood naturally be
comes impregnated with the ef
fete matter. . TheoldSarsaparillas
attempt to reach this condition
by attacking the blood with the
drastic mineral " potash." Tho potash theory is
old and obsolete. Joy 's Vegetable Sarsaparilla Is
modern. It goes to the seat of. the trouble. It
arouses tho liver, kidneys and bowels to health
ful action, and invigorates tho circulation-, and
the impurities are quickly carried off through
the natural channels.
Try it and note its delightfnl
action. Chas. Lee, at Beamish's
Third and Market Streets, S. F.,
. -V V. "1
writes: " I took it for vitiated
blood and whilo on the first bot
tle bettainc convinced ot its iaer
WZLZ TZ- Sm
tied and braced xnc up generally.
and cverythinsf is now working full nuiI rsular.
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A fiecessity.
The consumption
of tea largely In
creases every year in
England, Russia, and
the principal Euro
; pean tea-drinking
' countries. : But . It
' does not ; grow- In
1 America. " And not
.alone that, but thou
sands of Europeans
who leave Europe
ardent lovers of tea,
Upon arriving in the
' United States gradu- -
ally discontinue its use, and finally, cease it
altogether.
This state of things is dne to the fact that
the Americans think so much of business
and so little of their palates that they permit
China and Japan to ship them their cheapest
and most -worthless teas, Between the
wealthy classes of China and Japan and the
exacting and cultivated tea-drinkers of
Europe, the finer teas find a ready market. "
' The balance of the crop comes to America. .
Is there any wonder, then, that our taste for .
tea does not appreciate? .'.",.'
'" In -view of these facta, is there not'an im- ,
mediate demand for the . importation of ft.
brand of tea that is guaranteed to be nn
colored, nnmsnipulated, and . of absolute
purity? We think there'. is, and' present
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every respect. '. It has," therefore, mdreJ In
lierent strength than the cheap teas you have
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cover" the first time" yon make it. Likewise,
the flavor Is delightful, being the natural fla-
Tor of an unadulterated article. It Iiarevela-'
tion to tea-drinkers. Sold only ' ia packages
bearing this inarkij .. ... ', .' "
TEA
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