THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Proof Tlint They Wero Not Whnt They
AroNiilil to IlHvo llcfti.
Men ninety vonrs old remember
whou there wero no steamboats, but
nil travel on tlio water was done bv
tho slow uncertain means of sailing
vossels, when If one started for New
York It was ilouhtf ul if ho would
reach thero In a dav or a week. Now
w.o know how nianv hours and minutes
it requires to make thu trip.
Men now sixty years old remember
when there wero no railroads, but nil
travel on land was dono by stages, by
wagons, by ox teams, on horseback
and on foot. Now a network of rail
roads covers tho whole country, ami
several lines run from tho Atlantic to
the Pacific Ocean. Now it requires
only six or seven days to cross the con
tinent. Formerly that trip required
three mouths.
Men tifty years old roiiieinlwr when
there wore no photographs, but only
paintings and drawings, made at great
prices, of objects now dono bettor in
an instant at trilling cost.
Men of that age also remember when
no steamboat crossed tho ocean, and it
was believed that they never could,
but now hundreds of steamships are
plowing every ocean, reducing t ho
time of crossing thu Atlantic from
weeks to days.
Men forty-live years old remember
when there was no electric-plating, but
every thing in that lino was done in
the old-fashioned, slow way.
Men of that age also remember when
there were no telegraphs, but all mes
sages had to bo sent by thu slow-going
mails.
Men twenty-live years old remember
when there wore no telephones, but all
tho messages now spoken through
them had to be sent by note or special
messenger.
All these grand and useful invention
have been made within the memory of
men now living. Tho younger gene
ration can never appreciate them as
those do who remember the want of
tlicin ami therefore tho great conveni
ence they are to the world.
We often hear of "the good old days
of ore." Why deprive our children
of the enjoyment of those old days?
Why not pass n law forbidding steam
boats from plowing the waters, rail
roads from running on land, telegraphs
from sending messages, telephone
from being used, all furnaces, steam
heaters, etc., to be taken out of the
houses and other buildings, all grates
for burning coal to be taken out, all
stoves to Ih melted "for old iron, all
water-works in cities to be left empty,
tfie uc of all gas and other illumina
tors, except itipped tallow candles to
be discontinued, and really to go Ixiek
to the "good old times," say for live
years. Then, if at midnight on a cold,
stormy night a doctor is wanted, be
must Ik sent for instead of telephoning
for hint. If one wishes to send a mes
sage to a distune, instead of telegraph
ing be must write a letter ami send it
by stago to a distant place and wait
patiently for days or weeks for tho
answer.
When one goes home on a freezing
night he can sit by a wood tire, roast
ing on one side while fronting on the
other, and reading by the dim light of
tt tallow dip instead of the blase of a
gaslight or the mow agreeable light of
kerosene. If he undertakes a journey,
instead of getting into curs and going
whore he wishes, the bast tiling lie can
do is to tuke a St.! at four times the
cost and ten I'm- s the discomfort of
the ears. let to. o ami other tnodem
improvements 1 forbidden and the
"good old days" bo brought back, how
long would it U- before an extra ses
sion o' tho Legislature would be de
manded to knock the "good old days"
Into splinters, and to restore the much
ltotlor modern days which we now eu
joy, ami tor which we ought to be most
devoutly thankful? Bridjlori Stnmi
urd. CARELESS FARMERS.
Iicuttilo lcUkhco Whlrh Wouttt
llntikrupt Any Oilier llusliicss.
Capital iu tools w ith w hich success
fully to work a farm i no iusiguiticaut
sum, and if they U well eared for, well
housed and intelligently haudkl it
wtli prove a pnnuble investment, a joy
nud a satisfaction. ltut to the dWretl
it of many of us as farmers (honor!
with tho name at, lea.i) a tlx seasou
approaches wheu the implements are
needed they are fodud where used the
your previous. Farm tools of all des
criptions ran be thus seen iu many por
tious of tho country. t)n pjMco of
les than one huudrcd acres, which 1
passed last winter, the tools mentioned
below wore notice! exposed to the
elements and will be brought into use
the present season: Reaper, mower,
wheel drag (new), wheel rake, plow
(new), roller, petaut ooverer awl
hiller combined, potato digger, com
cultivator, forty-tooth square drag
nnd hay rack.
Tho Vxtra time, labor and expense
involved iu getting those tools ia nw
tdng order for use will detract from
the satisfaction of farm life. And this
is only oae of tho fruitful sources of
hvss and unpleasantness, the rveult of
neglect and mUmanagoHient; others
might lo named, but we are all familiar
wiUi them. No other business 'fo
lowed b mint could long survive the
methods of tho prodigal and slipshod
farnier troving beyottd question that
n oalliug that abundantly anonls the
uecesoithvs of life under ueh adverse
citvutNttutco to so large a class of the
litounn race must bo oae of profit, ami
also one of the bosU IS at let as mend
oar ways, increase otaw again
wWked wa4, ui the end that our form,
may V a pieare Iu oerialve, model
Of h f U..1 B, .tns.4 to th' atVUttd
it, n. i a Uesng u thc who follow
u. 2rnv If. .W. in A. 1 . Tnbuiu.
VALUABLE EXPERIMENTS.
Wlijr Cnlve Should Not bn IJrnconcd Even
If Not l eil n Drop of Milk.
Profs. Henry ami Armsby, of tho
Wisconsin 'Experiment Station, have
boon making a careful and elaborate
series of experiments in stock feeding.
Among others was ono in raising 10
common calves picked up in the dairy
districts, that would have been deaconed
If they had not been reserved for a bet
tor purpose, and a butter making
farmer, by examining tho facts In the
case, can see how he can make mot
money from his calves by raising them,
without interfering with his regular
dairy business. Prof. Henry gives its
the facts covering four periods in thu
your and iho weight of the growth iu
each and thu cost of live inuat during
each.
Tho first period, embracing 11 weeks,
ended with the calves weighing 1.4!) I
pounds. Wo will suppose they cost $2
each, or $82. Thoy wore fed SS3.80
worth of ground oats, corn, wheat and
barley, bran, shorts, hay, corn fodder,
grass and pasture, together with 21,0 1.1
pounds of thoroughly skimmed milk.
If they were thou worth the cents on
foot their value was $22-1.70. Deduct
the cost of them at $2 each, and the
value of th grain and forage, and we
find Slt'fcVJO remaining to pay for the
milk, which would show it to be worth
9 cents per 100 pounds. Take another
view, that of charging the calves 25
cnts per 100 pounds of milk; add that
to other costs, and we find there was
$7.01 not profit in feeding each calf.
Compute the meat at four ccnt, ex
penses the same, and wo find there was
.1 net profit of $1.21 on each calf if 2i
cents per 100 pounds are charged for
the skim milk, and it would make the
milk worth ,'7.f cents pw 100 pounds
if no sum is assigned as profit for oalf.
Calves thus fed, it would seem, could
hardly fail to 1h worth as much as four
cents per pound anywheru, and more
than that in Eastern cities.
Let us take tho calves at the end of
tho second period after 12 more
weeks and wo find thev weighed
0, 139 pounds, which, at four cents per
pound, would be $2-15.50. Deduct the
actual cost, including milk at 25 cents
per 100 pounds, nnd there is a profit of
77.51, or S4.SI per calf, or 05 cents
per 100 pounds for all the skim-milk
fed in 26 weeks if we call for a profit
on no other food. From that time on
no milk was fed, and we find the calves
weighed at the end of 12 weeks more.
7.(.l pounds', and at four cents per
pound they would bo worth SStH.Sl.
Cost up to that time $249.21; net gain.
$55. 03 or $3. 17 per calf. This compu
tation allows 25 cents per 100 pounds
for all the skim-milk eaten.
At the end of six weeks more, the
calves w eighed S.137 pounds; which, at
four cents would make them worth
$335.48; and it had cost $43.10 to feed
them for this period. Adding all the
costs, we find them $292.!7. leiving
83. 11 or $2.07 per calf, not gain for
feeding 30 weeks.
The lesson in this is, that the time
to have sold tho calves was at the end
of the second period, ending December
2lst, or probably a little earlier in the
fall; for it seems that absence of milk,
and presence of cold weather, made
the growth of tho last 18 weeks cost
$41.43 more than the gain would sell
for. Keeping them IS weeks in winter
gnawed that much into the profit of
keeping theln 20 weeks during the
first and second periods. The butter
making farmers w ill see that the time
to make money at ealf-feediug is wheu
the calves an young, when they have
milk, and when the weather is warm.
The warmth they can give in winter at
small cot, if they have tho young
calves and the milk. The "boss" les
son is, "Don't deacon' the calves,
cveu if they are not fed n drop of
milk." I have no doubt that feeding
sweet whey instead of the sweet skim
milk, would have made it show up ful
ly half a valuable as the milk. -J. A.
Simla, in Knrti AVu Fortvr.
How Long Is a Woman Young?
When does h woman cease to be
young, or rather to bo entitled to that
epithet? This is the delicate question
which a Freuch Prefect has undertaken
to anewer. Some years ago a certaiu
will left the sum of 10,000 fraucs. the
interest of which was to be given
anunally to a young, unmarried woman
of the working classes, who, by her
capacity ami god conduct, should be
in n position to marry with the help of
a little money. In carrying out the
will, it became necessary for the Pre
fect of the Seine to determine the ex
act significance of the words "young
woman," and he has decided that they
include the period between twenty-one
and thirty. At thirty, then, an un
married woman may bid adieu to youth
ami resign herself to be an old maid.
'l"his extremely e.-cathedra pronounce
ment way w in a feigned or forced as
sent from the candidate for the llar-tvrl-Hatifol
prise, as this kind of pox
Monthyon is called, but it will meet
w ith only conioiuptiKMis rejection from
the sex at large, at least that portion
t it which has passed the fatal limit.
A woman is a young she looks, just
as a man Is as yuwng as he feel, and a
realh capable woman is never thirty
until she is forty or mat tied. Otye
Make, all ywr hires and frames
from one hire At eenratty Into an
other, ami yoa will Ums W able. In
future management, to get si bac4t
from the movable comb nrueeJwle.-
(Mm JttoJt.
--"1 say, aty tuna, are tfeose grnpes
fresh -Oh. yah; cht pkket"
"Well, now. how about the chickens?"
Ik hi i M.,iut picked.toos"' -2&xrjor'i
THE WOMEN OF TURKEY.
Thcjr Are ltliPrSentlmcntil Nor Corrupt
Hut Orrrty l'oml of Sirrrt.
Tho dress of tho women at home is
not very elegant, nor docs it Jit then
very well. It is usually a loose gar.
ineiit made of glossy calico in gaudy
colors, tied around tho waist with n
cloth belt, and wadded and paddfd iu
winter liko a mattress. Underneath
they wear a kind of wide pantaloon,
fastened at tho anklos. On their feet
they wear low shoes without heoN or
soles, made of yellow morocco. Their
hoadgoar consists of a kind of ombroi
dercd cnloltc. around which is wound a
ritrip of very lino muslin, allowing one
to see the embroider' and the color of
the cap. When women belong to
wealthy Turks, their ears, necks and
fingers are loaded with gold jewelrv or
precious stones. If their owners are
not very well oil', their vanity does not
give tip its right, but it has to content
itsVlf with similar jewclrr and paste
diamonds. All of them stain their ee-
brows, powder their face with rice
powder and coat their nails with a red
dish substance, henne, making their
hands look liko those of childivn that
have stuck their fingers into a can of
preserves.
iSe'ther the rich nor the poor among
Turkish women own watehe-; thev do
i.ot know how to use them. Neverthe
less since commerce has boon able to
extend its intluence to the harems oven
clockmakcrs have' succeeded within re
cent vents in getting their goods into
the haremliks of a few wealthy Pashas.
It is hardly necessary to say. howevnr.
that the beautiful inmates do not Dsn
them except as playthings.
The dress that the Turkish women
wear when they go out is simple, uni
form and absolutely free from caprices
of fashion. Moreover, it is, with very
little change, the same to-day that it
was a hundred years ago. It consists
of a kind of simple cloak, without
tucks, folds or ornaments, and almost
without any other seams than the
hems. This cloak, or f'ertitje. which is
almost always of a light color, falls
like a sack from the shoulders to the
ankles, anil conceals entirely the
clothing under it. It is impossible to'
recognize a woman in this ungraceful
sheath, which effaces every line.
Their veil, or ytichmak, is made of
two muslin bands more or loss thick,
one of which covers the forehead, and
tho other the lower and upper part of
the face as far as the eyes. Therefore,
tho only part of a Turkish woman's
Inee that can be seen is tho pupils of
ho eyes, which roll between the two
veils, and which, on this account, ex
hibit a wonderful sweetness or a won
derful brilliancy. It is noticeable that
tho young and pretty inmates of
harems usually wear veils much more
transjwrent than the ugly and old. 1
have myself often admired but very
discreetly the marvelous beauty of
these terrestrial houris. The veil,
flouting like a thin vapor before their
face, gave them a new charm, efl'acing
ali tho imperfections of feature and
Alor. They smiled behind their whit
cloud, with little provoking air. ai if
to thank me for my admiration.
The head-dress that tho young in-nrt-5
of the harems wear when they
g-s oh: tv.::sl,sts uf a small light ami
graceful cap, whim ucl-is the edges vi
the ve 1, and varies but little in torui
and color. Hero again fashion, which
has not been able to give a month's
spito to the hats of our Christian
companions, im been as powerless a
flsowhere. The oniy victory that it
has gained over the toilet of the
Turkish women, pertains to footwear.
There atj but few women of the lower
classes that wear yellow Turkish slip
pers on the street. Most of ther.t im
prison their little feet in graceful and
piite civilised slippers, and even in
higlr Parisian shoes with pointed toe
and high heels.
The Turkish womau is neither seati
i octal nor corrupt, neither passionate
nor cold, neither good uor wicked; but
-he is a gourmand. She is foud of
sugar-plums, romthures, sherbet and
especially tobacco, which she rolls into
sieader cigarettes, and the smoke of
which she swallow with delight. She
is inquisitive, indiscreet, greedy for
things that glitter rings, necklaces,
bracelets and beads. She is rain, but
not coquettish. Indeed, of what use
would coquetry be to her? Front the
ago of thirteen or fourteeu ahe belongs
to a husband, who is her master, ur
rather her owner, whom she obeys
passively, whom she fears but does not
love, CvsMopUua.
The Young Man Waited.
A West Virginia farmer and father,
who was asked for hb damjhter in mar
Hugo by a young man in Wheeling,
thought it over for awhile beore roply-
ng:
George, vou'd better wait a few
davs."
"For why?"
"Wall, as it is now I kin oniy give
Sarah a oow and a feather bed. Some
fellers from New York are Laking at
my hill to see if there's coal there;
some chaps from "Cincinnati are srotn"
to bore in the tnedder for uataral ras.
and a parly from Pittsburgh are eAplor
in' Mother hill arter iron. Goose 111
wait and see if 1 can't also bay her a
kahker drvs and a pair of eal&kiu
shoos." KoI Strnri .Yomv.
A groat marble deposit has boon
fonad in Inyo County, CfeL Tho mar-
He te of superior quality, naro. soua
and free from dint. A recent test re-o';.-d
Ui i-1 whing an inch cube of the
ln, uiariiU- t ;".9V p.ua,(s pniSsi.i-
while Vermont marble wtvs enhed at
mx thousand jsuutl and ludtan niar
'de at ten thousand poun.ls. The
aril-ties are tf almost ery color
luoua in marUe. A. Y Suu.
BAPTISM OF A BELL.
A Curious Ceremony Jtecrntly Performed
in nn Old French City.
An imposing ceremony took place
on a recent Sunday in the Church SL
Ouon, of tho baptism of a bell. Wo
went early to secure good seats, but
wero far too late Every placo iu thu
center of tho building from entrance to
choir was so closely packed that'thoro
was no room for "just oho more." Wo
hail to find our way around by tho sido
entrance, and yet there wore no seats.
As wo could not think of standing for
three hours, wo went across tho
"Place" to the house of an acquaintance
and asked the loan of two chairs.
Armed with these we onco more made
our way through tho crowd to a posi
tion where wo could hoar quite well,
and when the time came for seeing we
followed the example of our devout
neighbors and stood up on our chairs.
The church was elaborately decorated
with tall palms and beautiful tloWcrs,
as well as with rich gold-embroidorcd
silk banners. The tall candles about
the altar were burning with a soft, pure
light, whilo tho glorious sunshine
pouring in through the stained glass
windows diffused over all their bright,
harmonious light. Xothing so expres
sive, so real, as those marvelous pages
of glass in which tho old painters have
boon able to rival in brilliancy, vigor
and originality the canvas of the best
masters. The largo bell was suspended
by stout ropes just without tho en
trance to the choir, and tho top was
concealed by a mass of choice exotics,
and around it was tied a broad pink
ribbon with flowing ends. The godpar
ents were Madamo Lafond and Father
Laurent. Chairs wero placed for
them beside the Archbishop's throne.
The Archbishop officiated and the bell i
received tho name of Marcellc Julie. I
The music was fine, a stronir band aid- j
ing the grand organ, which is ono of J
the finest in Rouen. The cercmonv 1
ended with a lavish distribution of
sweets. Each box contained quite ono
pound. These swcets.callcd "dragees,"
are of divers colors and are what we
call burnt almonds, the nut in ome of
them being replaced by liqueur. The
boxes were pretty pale rose color, tied
with ribbon, and on the cover was the
bell in gold, underneath tho name, and
almvo the Archbishop's hat. Tho
Church of Saint Onen is unques
tionably the finest in Houen as well as
one of the most ancient. Its erection
covered a period of five hundred years.
It is impossible to view it without be
ing impressed by the grandeur of its
proportions, the harmony in the de
tails, the purity of its lines. , You can
admire it from all sides and in full
light. It stands in the middle of a
largo garden. It has su tiered many
vicissitudes. During the revolution it
was successively transformed into a
museum, a hay loft and a manufactory
of arms. It is this that has discolored
the stones, giving it a smoky tint. The
statues that stnxl in niches in the mas
Mve stone columns were taken down at
this time "and have never been replaced
but stand along the walls. Against
one of the columns near tho western
.loor is a large marble basin of holy
water. Looking iuto it you see re
flected the vault of the church in it
whole extent. Noutn Cor. Albany Ar-
AUTHENTIC FIGURES.
-alueorthi,jieinnj'ro.iueuefthe
Prof. Wiley. Chemist of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, in an nddrtvss
(ore the American Association for the I tiwn alon? with othw portentous pho
Advancement of Science, from fieures nomena of our marvelous national de-
..litainwl from the statisticiitn of tW
lepartineut, placed our leading farm
products at $4,014,500,000 annually.
The itemized statement given below
trill show quantities and values
loduut corn C90ftOji obu
Wlet 4SO.fol.oohe
Dairy tXiuk. Butter and Cheesed . ...
Hay 44.ow.oO too ..
Ueet.Vealtdre'd 4.nmxaO lb.
Pork 4r.sse4) . . t.taov.u'O -.
.. 44a.XH.OU
. sru.ov.Ko
. Mft.0O.iii)
. aMsOnoo
. ao,ouoo
. tas.00,0-0
tuMi
(oahrjr Products
.Tat
Potatoes
fntfu
Vegetable
Wool
Mutton
roaco
Barley
Se
sacar
UoIl (tyrap)
BaekwtMM
Rwe
Uoaey
Aeeswax
.isOO.ev)M.
(KstUMWl...
WOA0 bo.
10,0,0,0.0 ba.
HO.UKUOJ
uu.no.cn
aa.oai.iO)
4&.AO.OO
TiXOUflN lbs .
wo,tuvuo lb. .
4sa.onttM it..
Ajk.o bw.
Vw,'o so...
4ft.o a
U.an.00 be .
nOO.04 lbs
WOAlM) lite. .
1.KO.OO lb.
ts.iu).rm
4.ui.ao
SLaiueo
i4.ato.oo
Ii.StO.0 0
ll.4M.0tO
T.IHUtU
l,W.OO
4,srtX00
m.ero
tber Ml product-, seed, ute, etc 4TKM4.00
Total .i4.un,aL.io
The Indian corn and half the hay
prodnced mar safely be relegated to
the production of butchers meat and
fowls, other grains eaten being fully
sumcient to cover export corn and that
jsed 's human food. This would leave
he value of the products of the coun-
try, other than butchers' meats, at over
S.?50.00a.tm Comparisons will show
ttme interesting data. Beef. pork,
uution, dairy products and fowls con-
ititute about one-third of the total
raloe of nil products, ami far more
Jbtn all the cereal grains hay. cotton,
rice and tobacco. Again, oar moat
pros os are worth more than all other
igricnltural products, except those
last enumerated. iVrw, t'tM and
Stockmmm.
.
The Dear Little Baby.
"Ma." said the baby at tho sapper
table. "I know why this cake is called
angel cake."
"lh yon." replied the mother with
Mit mach iaMroei.
"Ye; it's hoeau it's made by an
angel That's what pa tohl the aootc"
.V. 1 . StfM.
A laborer te Vermont recently
bought a lot of land which sehceq neat
ly tlt-Kpl into arry rich marble
1,'iaits.. His was a hard loi. but it had
ii ix-anviLsstt.o&i. SaSiona M i'
AMERICAN GYfSIES.
A Startling Statement Made My n Well-
Posted friend of the Itnce.
That there are from 1.000.000 to
2,000.000 Gypsies in America to-day is
an assertion I confidently make, based
iipon a quarter-century's earnest study
of, and more than three years' actual
companionship with, this people iu
their homes and 'tents and upon tho
road; from careful inquiries in all parts
of the country involving much corre
spondence; from actual lists of Gypsy
frmilies and heads of families in my
possession, ami from most moderate
computations mado with these aids
after careful scrutiny by reliable Gypsy
chiefs has lwen secured. This is a start
ling statement to thoughtful men. The
Gypsy has been merely regarded as a
romancer's bugaboo, or as only exist
ing among us us an occasional strag
gler among the pleasant countrysides.
But their presence and marvelous
growth in nuinbers.must bo recognized.
They will shortly comprise an impor
tant factor iu social, economic and
ethic consideration. How the shy fel
lows have come is no special marvel
when known. Before tho revolution
several thousand were here. During
that period many thousands morecAim
as impressed British soldiers, deserted,
and remained, or at the close of the
war mustered themselves out and
merged into tho large nucleus already
formed. These were the pioneers
which swiftly sent secret word to every
part of the habitable globe that Ameri
ca was the Gypsy's heaven, and to
come to it without delay. Meanwhile
every imaginable effort toward their
extermination was going on in
Europe. Personal investigations
assure me that during the
ten years subsequent to the establish
ment of the rural police in Great
Britain, fully one hundred thousand
English. Scottish and Irish Gypsies lied
from the "Move on. you Gypsy dogs!"
of the mounted "bobbies" to America,
it is of the disappearance of these that
Borrow, sorely lamenting the down
fall of tho Gypsyism he loved, but not
realizing that its life and essence had
been merely transferred from the roads
and lanes of Great Britain to innume
rable welcoming conntrv-sidc nooks of
l our own land, plaints in this wise:
aiK irom i-onuon to Carlisle, but
neither road's side, nor on heath or
common, will you see a single Gvpsv
tent."
No emigrant vessel has landed in our
ports during the last hundred years
without having brought us bands, fam
ilies or individuals of this trans-Atlantic
hunted race. So that from Siberia to
Ceylon, from Achil Head to Shanghai,
those tawny sons of the Orient sly
and cunning as foxes, secret and still
as embodied silence, saturated to the
soul's core with memories of persecu
tion and dread, inconceivably different
than all other humans iu motive.
thought and life, retaining a secret
tongue as pure as when the eighteen
Puranes w ere made by the mystic Vy
asa have quietly come among us, all
unnoticed in the vast inllux of foreign
peoples, until, as Moorish and Arabian
Charami, Transylvanian Cyganis.
Turkish Tschiugenes. Hungarian Tzl
ganys, Italian Zingaris, German Zi-
geuners, trench Bohemians, Spanish
J Gitanos. Portuguese Siganos, Holland
i Dutch Hevdeiis, English, Scottish and
I Irish Gvosies. thev now comnrise a r-
I united, reblended" people among ii-,
a nose reinarRanle tecunuitv and mate
rial gainiug- must arrest serious atten-
j velopment. A. L. Wattman. tn it.
0vio' (j lobe-Democrat.
COURT ETIQUETTE.
The Queen-
lticlil K.;ul:itli)n (n Iteciril
to Divorced Women.
Oueof the papers recently announced
that the Queen had sent a lues-ne to a
ladv who was divorced from her hns-
. . .
baud a tew years ago. but who was per
fectly blameless, and whose position
excited general s mpathy. that her Mai-
is,J" Wf4 prepared to receive her at
(court. There is no truth in this state-
Imut. The rule that divorced ladies
, . ,it , ... .
j can noi euuer auena or oe presented at
i court is rigorously enforced. The Queen
! was exctsedingly anxious to relax this
j regulation in ca-es where tho lady's
'conduct had been unexceptionable, but
i after the advice of the highest legal au-
thorities had been taken (including the
i late Lord Cairns and Lord Selborne), it
i was decided that it would be injudicious
to make any exceptions. A few years
ago the msi desperate eflorts were
made in the highest quarters to pass a
well-known lady who hod divorced her
drt husband under somewhat sensa
tional circumstances, but they failed, to
the great discomfiture of the ladv, who.
being badly instructed in such matters.
had deemed herself so certain to re
cve the masical cards that she had not
foolv ordered" her dress, but had exhib-
ited it to many of her intimate friends.
On the other hand, a lady who is judi
cially separate! from her husband is at
tiberty to go to court if the separation
were brought about by his misconduct.
IjOi4o Truth.
A Mighty Bright Joke.
"Eiht dollar and seeatr4rre cents
for gs." exclaimed Jenkins, angrily.
Was think of it. Mrs. J. Eight seven tr
ice." "Oh. well. I woaldn't raise a fags
h."
Not mis a fa&s aboat it! Yoa
't expect a man to make ligbioia
Ss ail Dfce tnat. yon.'
-Yoa might as well. I bar nerer
vet ami aatxetie ia making light of the
Ss." Jlerdkam Tmntier.
The ntodkru wla ig called the
f thMuaUe hjjithte y a
INFLUENCING A RULER.
now Orlrntnl Nntlnn Jtnko Their Dtclres
Known to Tlirlr SmcrclRin.
Tho oldest way probably Is to mob
the ruler in a respectful way. A vast
crowd appears before the sovereign or
satrap on his day of audience, tears Wis
clothes, casts ashes on its head, and
cries aloud as one man for mercy or
justice, specifying nfterward the par
ticular cause of its great grief. Tho
sovereign, who oven when bad is usu
ally conscious of some responsibility to
(Sod, as a rule listens patiently, and,
unless his own interests are directly af
fected, grants the prayer of the peti
tioners, more especially if they are only
asking for a lifo or two. To execute
somebody in a public way, and there
by at once to strike terror and. concil
iate the populace, is an exercise of
power which, to men who are at onco
i'ltensely willful and desirous of pro
ducing great effects, is exceedingly
pleasant. When Constantinople was
in its glory, a request for the head of
the Grand Vizier properly made by a
great crowd was very rarely re
fused. A city in petition in Asia
usually obtains its petition; and
this method of demonstrating
might deserve praise but that is seldom
or never applicable to a whole country,
and that is of little use if the sovereign
or his satrap is less than absolute, it
would not move a Home Secretary
much more than n deputation. Next,
there if the expedient of (juitling the
city and canming outsiib- for tho time,
which is highly impressive olid dra
matic. One of tlie Muscovite (Jrand
Dukes was, if wo icmembcr aright,
replaced in that way on his throne by
the people of Tver, his rival, moment
arily successful, be ng overawed by
the "ilciico which suddenly fell around
his throne. Tho deserted city, yester
day sn full of life, strikes awe by its
de&olutcncss, and the ruler, beside
'feeling boycotted, is put to exceeding
inconvenience. The demonstration, of
course, can not be mistaken, and,
moreover, must be sincere, decent
Asiatics liking a "camp-out" quite as
decent Londoners would. They aro
not, it is true, afraid of the cast wind,
or likely to be wetted through; but they
can not ciok. they got water with
much ditliculty, they arc exposed to
the midday sun, anil they dislike ex
ceedingly the contaminations insepara
ble from a cainped-out crowd. The
method, however, would in serious
emergencies be admirable but for one
defect. If the ruler is a patient man,
he its still, and nothing comes of tho
demonstration. The people must re
turn to their dwellings by and by, and.
when thoy return, they are just where
thev were, except, perhaps, a littlo
crestfallen. Finally, there is fire-raisin
r. In Constantinople or Teheran, or,
we believe. Pckin, when oppression or
neglect becomes unbearable, tires be
gin. A dozen buildings are burned every
night, the circle of fire closing in on tho
palace, until the sovereign is at last
arouse.!, and tho grievance, whatever
it be. is, if removable, removed. This
is a very striking method, and has
been known to succeed perfectly; but
it has the drawback of a certain vague
ness. NoIkmIv knows exactly why tho
tires are kindled, or what will put them
out, and unless the dismissal of a Viz
ior stops them, or the hanging of a
few bakers, there is no. reason why
they should ever stop. Still, an Ori
eatal sovereign who honestly wants to
know what is "up" iu his capital when
the tires begin, usually has the means
of knowing: and as the fires imply re
volt in the immediate future, he often
thinks it wise to bo in tructed and
obev the public wish. London Specta
tor.' ROAD CONSTRUCTION.
The OKI Wny of Working ltoaiU Super
oeUett by the Contract System.
The annual gathering of farmers to
work out their r.iad tax with pick and
shovel "as the law directs," to use an
old phrase, is fast giving way evou in
the West to better methods and imple
ments. Even the plow and dump
scraper are now being largely super
seded by machine labor. And the con
tract system, by which township trus
tees form road through tirms owning
maohines, is now not rare. According
to an Eastern paper the old way is no
less objectionable in the East, and iu
relation to the better way there says:
The prevailing arguments against the
contract s stent aro that persons not
owning real estate or personal prop
erty are, of course, exempt from taxa
tion, aud consequently from road-working;
under the old system they are as
sessed one day at least, and must work
or commute. And taxpayers, already
burdened, it may bo, object to the pay
ment in cash for labor which they can
perform themselves without great in
convenience. Here the objection to tho
obi system may b mentioned, viz.: that
labor on the highway is ono thing, on
the farm another. Erery one knows
that, as a rule, the day's" work on tho
road is "cut short at both ends;"
that boy's labor often counts as man's
labor; that the roads are worked
once in the spring for all the yoar, and
at a time 'vhen such work may not bo
most needed; that the d;y is of tea
nothing it ore nor less than a holiday.
If perft-ot roads are the desideratum,
the old iystem fails to furnish' them, or
only ia exceptional eases. The con
tract system is more expensive until
the road-beds are once more put iu
goon crder, then less money need bo
eroeaded upon them. Ami yet. If a
man valjos his time ami labor at the
low price of one dollar per day, the c
pense objection is largely overcome.
Where the coatimet system is adapted
ad once fairly tried it is not c-.ten r-lecu-u.
lam, FustdanJ ayb-'fi. ,