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THE OREGON SCOUT. JONES & CHANCEY, - Publishers UNION, OREGON. DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA. flow KiirIiiikI In I'orclng n I.nrco Trade Tlio Slnvn Trnlllr. American schemes for the- extension of trado with Africa have not met with that degrco of success which tlio most sanguino lind hoped for. Not many years ago a prominent New York mer chant became quito cnttuisinstio re specting the prospects of Libcrln, winding out sugar mills, encouraging coffee culture, and aiding in tho dopor lation of American negroes, hut tho so-called "republic" now exists scarce ly in name. In like manner a steam ship project which for a timo engaged tho fostering interest of sovoral Now York gentlemen phllanthropically in clined never took a tangible form and passed out of mind. Hut a lino of calling vessels from Now York to Li beria, has been maintained, and Ameri can exports of manufactured cotton to Africa through various channols form a considerable item. Meanwhile En gland is building up a nourishing trade on both sides of tlio continent, on tho west coast and at Zanzibar. Trado with tho colony of Lngos for tho year 1887 nmountcd to 1,500.000, and it is calculated that tho entiro trado of great Britain with tho west coast last year amountod to tho approximate valuo of $25,000,000 of imports and 13,000,000 of exports, comparing well with some portions of India. At Zan zibar, up to tho recent breaking out of hostilities, tho wholo coast was a con tinuous lino of British Indian trading stations, and trading increased rapidly to $10,000,000, the greater part of this being In tlio hands of British subjects. "Unfortunately," as wo aro told by Archbishop Farrar, "this property at tracted tho greed of certain German julventurors," who made "bogus treaties," claimed vast tracts of coun try, and proceeded to lako possession, despite tho romonstrancos of tho Sul tan. Furthermore, according to tho authority just quoted, "tho wholo trado of tho coast is in tho hands of sonio 10,000 Hrltish subjects from In dia, including tho Ivory trado, copra, gum opal, india rubber, hido and grain trades. Theso British Indians havo lent largo sums of monoy to tho Arab ivory caravans. They havo also in invested their profits In mortgages on tho houses and plantations of the Arabs, fooling quite sccuro under tho shadow of English justice Tho Hrlt ish Indians havo .r)00,000 of Heating capital employed at this timo In tho ivory trado in tho far iutorlor, and unless some decisive measures aro un dertaken by tho English Government this largo sum must inevitably bo IobU" England appears to have be come inoxtricably Involved by joining in an agreement with Germany to maintain a blockade "to put down tho slave trado," a feat somewhat dilllcult of accomplishment whoro every Afri can and Arab trader is a slaveholder either in will or deed. Clearly enough, it would now appear tho "development of Africa." whatovor this may mean, hasroeolved a cheek from which thoro will bo tardy recovery. It is surmised, however, that traders in Zanzibar, while postponing iiulellultoly tho real ization of hopes for tho commercial subjugation of tho. interior lako re gions accessible from this point may givo a now impetus to tho Congo Freo State and to efforts to penetrate trop ical Africa through the Soudan. Tho marvelous achievements of Living stone's successor, Henry M. Stanley, of whom full advices havo just coino to hand, invest tho subject with a new interest. Iron Ago. FORMING A CHARACTER. Truu mill I'iiIko MiUichN of Intrllcrliml nail Plural Tmluliijr. Tho procoss of forming tho statue that shall waken tho admiration of the beholder ages after tho hand of tho artist has moldered to duct, Is slow. Suppose tho object ho to reproduce In marblo tho features of a distinguished statesman. A model in clay or gypsum is first formed. Thou, by a slow and toilsome process, requiring the accu rate measurement of lines and angles, tho features of the model aro trans ferred to enduring marble. Such Is tlio course pursued by tho true artist. A novice may pursue a different course lie miiy commence at once on tho block of marble. Hy tho direct Application of tho chisel ho may, In a bliort time, fashion the rude outline, of features bearing sonio resonibluneo to those designed to ho commem orated. Hut he can go hut little further. Ho can never reach tho per fection which tho artist uttnins by obedience to the rules of his art. Processes anahigousto these nmy ho -pursued in the cultivation of the mind. Thoro is a process of patient culture, a toilsome formation of habits which do not admit of direct application to practical life, which, though slow, aro necessary to tho development of the higher forms of intellectual life and of intellectual power. Thoro is a procoss which rejects a large portion of this disciplinary toll, and alms at Immediate results. Thu pupil at first seems to make rapid pro grots; hut his progress is soon arrest ed. It is showy and limited. It can never ho carried far. Tho educator should take as much pains in forming u mind as tho artist takes in forming a statue. If time and toll aro nocossary to tho perfection of a stutuo which Is to onduro for ages, then timo and toll may bo nccossary to tho perfection of tho soul which is to diro forovGiN, Y, Led go r. EASTERN ITEMS. CANADIANS DON'T LIKE IMPORTED LABOK. A Monument Erocted A Printing Office to Cost $l,COO.OOO-The Crontn Murder Smallpox Increas ing Land-Tax Party Smallpox is increasing at Minneapolis. Pittsburg is filing and filtering its drinking water. Foreign capitalists arc buying New York real estate. Tho Miller's National Association is in session at Milwaukee. California sent 3,500,000 pounds of honey to Euroini last year. The Canadians aro beginning- to pro test against imported lalxir. Unlicensed Baloons and breweries have to close up in Philadelphia. Over fifteen inches of rain have fallon in Baltimore in two months. South Dakota will bring into the Union an organized Land-tax party. The Scnnto Committee on our relations witli Canida, isatMinncajoliB. Developments in tlio Cronin murdor are slowly coming to the surface. A Kansas bride received a barrel of salt as one of her wedding presents. A recent cold snap injured tho cran berry crop in Plymouth county, Mass. J. B. Wellington was shot by Dr. Stewart at Clay Center, Kan., last week. Members of lioth parties are interested in tho high-license movement in Balti more. At Helenwood, Tenn., the 11th.. two murderers were takcu from tho jail ami lynched. Tho Grand army men will not obtain tho rates hoped for to their annual en campment. S. E. Fields, a Georgia Senator, was killed by hiB stepson, at Dalton, Ga., on tho 11th inst. Tho Connecticut legislature has passed a bill forbidding the issue of free passes to legislators. The tournament of tho American Shooting Association, opened at Cincin nati on the 11th. Thero has been a little breo.o in New York over the cutting down of trees in the Central Park. Miss Emma Bond of Taylorvillo, III., notoriety, lias been married to a Mr. Justus of Helper, Kan. General Meado suggests that the old battle flags bo hung around the pension building at Washington. Two men guilty of murder, robbery and arson aro reiiorted to havo been lynched near Knoxville, Tenn. AtTopeka, Kan., recently, Karl Hoha mann, a wealty farmer, strangled his wife and then hanged himself. Friends of tho late President Arthur havo erected a handsome monument over his gravo in Albany, N. Y. A new underground light, operated by compressed air, is to bo introduced in tho zinc mines at Friedensville, Pa. The merchants of Johnstown Pa., on tho 12th, opened their places of business for the first time since the great flood. "Another Pig in Clover" is tlio way a Mississippi Democratic paper put it when a nogro was appointed postmaster of tho town. Boone, Iowa, after an unsatisfactory experience with electricity for street lighting, now talks of establishing gas works. Tlie Interstate Railroad Association has reduced bulion froiglits from Utah pointsto the Missouri river from $15 to $i;i per ton. Hatfield, Mass., is to have a big time on September lllth, that day being tho 212th anniversary of the Indians attack on that town. A numbor of tho steel and iron manu facturing companies ot New Jersy aro said to bo considering a removal to Chat tanooga, Tenn. Tho reported death of Colo Younger, the notorious outlaw, who is now in tho Stillwater, Minn., penitentiary, is with out foundation. Tho temperance people of Maryland havo doterinincd to make a vigorous movement to procure tho enactment of a High-license law. At Pittsburg, Penn., lightening twisted a liul's head around to one sido on his nccK, and tho doctors havo thus far been unable to get it back again. Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of tlio New York World, last week entered plans at the Bureau of BuiMines for a Ll-story printing otllce, to cost $1 ,000,000. 'CI... W'om.ilnir 'IW r'x tnriul Kimrriimt court has decided that tho owners of land may fenco the same, even if so doing thoy inclose government or public land. This decision will be appealed. Itnuifiicln Martinez, one of tho most imlnrimiu ilinmnlclo that OVCr infested tho frontier counties of Texas and Now Mexico, was arresL'd at Bio (.ramie City, Texas, on tlio i;un. Hv.millinniiirit Nathan Corwith. of Chicago, tiled In iKivorly in that city on Mitv 2.Sth. He made Ins money in Chi cago real estate and lost it all in a lump in an attempt to corner inu icau inarKci. Tlio new journal for colored people, printed and culled by coioiouincji, which has just made Its appearance in Charles ton, S. 0., starts oil' well. '1 ho editor projxjscs that social questions bc kept entirely out of politics. Tho International Typographical Union which closed its session at Denver, Col., last week, selected Colorado Springs, Col., as the place for the establishment of the Printer's Home, eighty acres of land huvlng lieon donated hy Mr. Sessions, of that city, for tho purpose. Much indignation has 1hoh excited at Fort Dodge, Iowa, liecauso cows havo lceii given the lllierty of tho streets. Ktcry Alderman who voted, for tho ordi nance litis Im?i ostracised, lwth Bochilly and in u business way, and they haw been aenmndod with cowbells. VOItKIU.V KIiAMHI;M. English Ironmasters Rejoicing A Rlso of 30 Per Cent in Hotel Rates In Paris A Secret Treaty. The Shah is in Berlin. The average rise in hotel rates in Paris is 30 per cent. Two-fifths of tho House of Commons are bimctallists. Gladstone spoke at a Liberal meeting at Weymouth, last week. Mrs. Mackay and her daughter, the Princess of Colonna, are in Paris. The president of Paraguay now want to spend $50,000 to encourage European emigration. An interesting long-distance telephono experiment is aliout to be tried between lvondon and Paris. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has requested tho Shah of Persia to K)stpone his visit to Vienna. Tho Duko of Portland was married in London last week to Miss Delias Yorke, a Lincolnshire beauty. A confirmation dress was recently de scribed by a French fashion paper as ex tremely ''coquettish." A new agricultural machine distributes manures and insecticides, and sows grain hy means of an air blast. Tho death of the author of "Don Quixote" is still religiously commemo rated by his countrymen. Advices from Japan report the burn ing of 1000 houses and the loss of many lives on May 3d, at Yokoto. It is pioposed to keep the Paris cxpo sition open for a year with the exception of tho tlireo winter months. The deepest artesian well in Kussia open witli a depth of 20!)0 feet. The sinking operations took two years. In 1888 the Italians residing in France numbered almost half a million, having increased 76,000 from tlio previous year. The Russian vemment proposes to take slops for rendering the rivers of Si beria navigable and connecting them by canals. Tho Vatican has decided that the as tronomical observatory is to bo begun at once, at an estimateil cost of 1,000,000 francs. Tho prospects of the Icelanders aro so bright this season that it is thought tho flow of emigrants from the island will be stopped General Boulnnger's second daughter is to bo married to a son of tho Countess of Barl, sister-in-law of the ex-King of Naples. Tlio American Methodist Mission has arrived, it is stilted, at Tschomubiri, on the Upper Congo, where it is forming a station. , English ironmasters are rejoicing over tho discovery of new sources of supply for Bessemer ores in Spain and Swedish Lapland. Tho German Crown Prince the other day received a little roan pony as a birth day gift from his great-grandmother, tho Empress AugusU' Tho Queen does not approve of Princo Edward's courtship of his cousin, the Princess Victoria, but she has not yet vetoed the match. It is estimated that -100 natives were killed in a recent tight in Zaadani. The bulk of the party destroyed belonged to the British Indies. Miss Jane Cohdcn, the first woman elected County Councillor in England, is barely thirty-live years old, hut her hair is snowy white. A circular has been issued to French prefects instructing them to use their in fluence to prevent skilled laborers from leaving the country. Several tribes in Morocco havo rebelled against the Sultan. The rebels have made prisoners of a number of officers and threaten to kill them. Tho riding habit and hat of the Gor man Empress at the grand review in honor of King Humbert were white and Gainesborough, respectively. Andrew Carnegie has forwarded 25 as his subscription for tlio flags which are to be unfurled from the field of Ban nockhurn on the 22d of June. Guidon is declared more crowded than Paris. It is dilllcult to get a bed any where. American visitors overrun the hotels waiting for the Derby. Bellini's piano, o i which he composed his earliest operas, h is just been toiiiid in the possession of a lady at Catania, whose husband bought it forXl 10s. Font teen thousand uiris are attending tho London School Board Cookcrv cen ters. Still further facilities for increas ing this number aic now being made. Consumption in the German Army is greatly dreaded by tho authorities, since tho recent Parisian Medical Congress pro nounced that the diseaso was contagious. Tho agitation in connection with the scheme for improving tho condition of the pcoplo of the West Highlands and islands of Scotland continue and inten sifies. The Berlin Conference met last week for the last time, it has been settled Mm llin iiliu'linn nf tlin natives will be held soon after Malietoa has lecn rein stated. The agrarian agitation, which Is a re- unit of tin. niilrwiiri.ml miunrv III till' agri cultural districts of ltaly.'has now spread to several provinces, ami parucuian.v u Iomlmrdy. A rciH)rt from Sumatra states that tho volcanic crater on the west coast of tho island, which has been quiet for several centuries, was active during tho middle of February. iiii-v In KtH'liiiiil milks next to a high caiine. If a member of Parlia ment loses Ills property and bo adjudi cated a bankrupt, ho at onco loses his seat In that august uotiy. IV.,, Inin 'nrrlll. called lllO Spanish Victor Hugo, is to lie crowned Poet Iau roato of Spain at his approaching six tieth hirthdav. Tho ceremony is to take placo at tho Alhtinibru Palace. Mrs. Thomas Tennant, eowhlded Miss 1I., U ..I U.iW 1 uL-it mi tln nth. Mrs. Tennant had just returned troin Europe ami loiind lie.r unsimnu nan iniuau-uvu his aU'ectioiiH during her absence. THE PACIFIC COAST. A CONCERT AT THE MORMON TAB ERNACLE, SALT LAKE. Experimenting In Mines Mold on Grapn Vines Fire-Damp Exploslon-A Ferry Boat Sunk A Mur derer Arrested Notes. Anaheim complains of many burg laries. Merced's popular drink is buttermilk on ice. Travel over the Oregon road is very heavy. The Tehama Board of Trado lias chosen officers for tho ensuing year. George Ilahn suicided at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, last week. A new postoflice has been established at Vallo Vista, San Diego county. T. D. Featherly, a cigarmaker at Butte, M. T., committed suicide on tlio 9th. Mold has appeared on tho grape vines in some parts of Sonoma county. The jury in the Hildreth stage-robbery case at Fresno has failed to agree. John Fitzmaurice, a native of Vallejo, was drowned at Portland last week. C. G. Harrel, 00 years of ago, was drowned at Vancouver, W. T., last week. William A. Martin was drowned in San Francisco, last week, whilo bathing. Henry's stable and six horses at Fresno were burned on tho 8th by an incendiary. The jewelry store of T. It. Iledfield, at North Yakima, was burglarized on tho 12th. Irrigated alfalfa land in Tehama county turned off sixteen tons of hay to tho acre last year. The annual encampment of the Sons of Veterans began at Sacramento the 10th inst. O'Connor defeated Lee in a race on Salt Lako, on the 0th inst. The water was rough. Tho amount raised in San Francisco for the Johnstown and Seattle suli'erers is $80,000. John Pillot, an official of the South Pa cific Coast Road, died at San Jose last week of apoplexy. Seven horses and mules and a calf were burned in tlio qurtermaster's corral at Fort Seldon, N. M., the 9th. Bob Campbell, or "Three-fingered Jack," killed Hugh Boyd, near Acton, Los Angeles county, on the 8th. The ferry boat plying across tlio upper Cohunbia river at Vonatehee, drifted on some rocks on the 9th and whs sunk. C. E. Jones, the proprietor of a shoot ing gallery on Catalina Island, ac cidentally billed Miss Eva Bock, recently. William Lubreck, who killed Thomas Jones at Needles, recently, has been ac quitted, lie having acte I in self-defense. George Uhorcr, of Pomona, Cal., in tends to dry his prunes this year and ship them to St. Louis in white cloth bags. Ono of the bunco men who robbed ox CongresHiiian Haskins in lx)B Angeles, has jumped his bonds, which arc worth less. Pasadena, Cal. lias asked for some ar rangement by which she can connect her sowers with" the Los Angeles outfall sewer. A monster concert took place in tho Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake last wesk, for the benefit of the Johnstown sufferers. Mary Ann Loup, aged fivo years, while asleep on the ImiiKs of tlio creek at Alviso, fell into the water and was drowned. The work of clearing away tho debris of tho burnt district in Seattle", preparitory to rebuild the city, is being pushed a's rapidly as possible. A cavc-iu occurred in the Pioclio Con solidated Company's Raymond it Ely mine, at Pioeho, Nov., in which David Davis lost his life. The political guillotine took from the .wt.iit.tfitiiin ill V.. 11 Vi.vlifl tlio llO'lllanf J.... ...... .... . " v i ......v.k. u. eight old employes, on the 8th. Santa Fe people were surpriseu. i V II Mills of Tis Amnifl. CnL. at tempted to build a houso in tlio middle of one of tlie main streets ot tuo city, out was stopped by the police. One ot tlio party of the Oak-Villard com-1 hination while at Tacoma, said that the Union Paeilie roatl is to go to tacoma over the Norther Pacific track. A n nviiliininn nf tin'. (l:iiini did much damage in the Carbonado coal mine, near Tacoma, V. T., on tlie 10th. A miner named David hvans was killed. The annual election of directors and otlicors of the California Central and Southern Railroad Communes, comes oft on the 18th inst., at Ijos Angeles. Lieut. Frank Reeves Heath. U. S. N., one of the survivors of tlio wrecked man-of-war Vandalia, tlied at the Maro Island naval hospital, Sun rrancisco, l-'tli inst. Twenty-two cases of insanity havo been brought bofore tho JudgoatTacoma since last March, and half of the cases are of persons who came from the Last. James Killdutr, a slate roofer, feel from the roof of the big hotel at Portland, last week, a distance of seventy-live feet, and singular to relate, escaped with his lifo. The l)s Angeles Supervisors havo re solved to yty from tho county treasury the oxiK'iiso of introducing more Austra lian Iml v.iitii'n tn fh'ht tlio si-all) on fruit ...... . .o- - n - trees. W. W. Rice, while running a mowing machine on iiio foothills back of Dinuba. Tulare, was arrested last week on a charge ot committing murder in i.tncoin county, 111. At tho closing exercises of St. Helen's Hall Seminary for Young Indies, last week, at Portland, Miss Ella 1 Uracil and Miss May Goldsmith, of that city, gradu ated with' high honors. The ship Hagurstown arrived at San Diego on t ho nth, from Newcastle, 119 days out, witli coal for Spreckela Bros. Thu ship is almost without rigging, hav ing been in two hurricanes. HOMP. A NO KAItlt. Stock Feed Tho Potato Beetle How to Destroy Crab Grass Roots for Fo-ding Roadside Trees. One of the essentials of soiling is a fer tile soil. Everj farm ought to havo its experi mental patch. A rod of barbed wire, in place of a box, protects trees against horses and small boys. Thin out all surplus plants in the hot beds if they are crowded, and those re maining will become more stocky. Tlie hotbed may bo left open during the day at this season. Tho best food for making hens lay is a pound of lean meat, chopped fine, given three times a week to a Hock of twenty hens. But very little grain is required at this season. Corn Pudding: Two cups of canned corn, one pint of milk, two eggs, salt to taste. Beat the eggs until very light; add tho other ingredients j put tho mix ture in a buttered pudding dish, and bako about forty minutes. The fall colt can Ikj turned on tlie pas ture, and will cost but little. A mess of oats at night, with hay, is all it requires. Mares intended for spring work should always foal in tho fall in order that the colt may be weaned in spring. Sorrel thrives at this season and crab grass later on. Keep it down at all costs, in order to lessen the number of plants next season. When crab grass appears it is easily destroyed when young. Con stant cultivation is tlie only remedy for both. If you have any corn fodder the sheep will pick it over and clean the stalks. If the fodder is bright and clean all classes of stock will relish it If tlio fodder is run through tlie cutter and the stalks crushed by the cutter there will bo but little waste. The clover field'is the place for the pigs that havo been weaned. They will need very little oilier food. A mess o skimmed milk, or buttermilk, witli a small quantity of ground oats at night, will cause the pigs to grow rapidly if they havo the run of clover. The potato beetle will attack the egg plant in preference to anything else, and unless some plants are carefully watched and tlie beetles picked oil' they will des troy tho plants in less than a day. To save the plants they should lie examined two or three times a day. When many wanto sell is a good time to buy, and when many want to buy is a good timo to sell ; for many sellers make good prices, followed in due season by small supply and good prices; and niany buyers make nood prices, followed in due season by large supply and low prices. Thero is no color on tiio horse which is so insensible to the heat as the sorrel. There is seldom any coat so silky or re sponds so quickly as the sorrel. But more important still, there is seldom any horse witli such sound feet and limbs, or possessing tlie endurance of the sorrel. When cultivating the ground to destroy the grass only a few inches deep wiil suffice. Ono inch of soil, kept fine, on tlie top, will serve as a mulch, and in pul verizing it the grass and weeds will be killed. Never let the ground become hard and crusty if there is a probability of a dry season. Should cheese puff up during curing it shows that the gas is generating too fast and tho room lias boon too warm. Tho cheese thus pulled up should lie removed to a cooler place, and, as a last resort, should be pricked to allow tho gas to escape. A good cheese may be sjioiled by not receiving good attention while curing. Glaced Beef: Set the beef that has been kept from the soup to glace in a moderate oven for alwut an hour, taking care to baste tlie surface once in a whilo with tlie broth and somo condensed beef buoillon ; drain on a dish, take oh" the fat, strain and reduce the liquid to tlie consistency of a deini-glace sauce with a littlo aioro" broth ami two ladlefuls of tomato sauce. Put some mashed potatoes on a round platter, set the beef in tho middle, iour some of the sauce over, and , serve. Butter or string beans, if cooked and pickled according to theso directions, are delicious. Wasii tneni ami steam ineni until they are tender, but not soft ; put them into a jar and pour hot vinegar over them ; sweeten the vinegar ami season highly with cinnamon. Another way equally excellent hut which gives a dif ferent llavor to the pickles, is to boil tlictu in salted water until tender; then pour over them tlie hot vinegar which has been sweetened, and in addition to tlie cinnamon lias a liberal allowance of pepper; cayenne or black may be used. Every farmer should himself under stand grafting, and be able particularly to do it. Tlio art is simple and easily learned. It mav not always pay tho farmer to tlo all tho largo jobs of grafting that ho has to do, since his own time may ho worth more at something else. But it is the littlo jobs, tho setting of half a dozen grafts not worth sending for a professional grafter to tlo, that thus are neglected'from year to year, simply be cause no ono is at hand to do ho work. Professional grafters make good wages setting grafts at so much apiece. Most of tliein havo an assistant who saws otl tho limb to be grafted, whilo the grafter llts tlio scion to the cleft which ho makes and covers the wound to exclude air. This and connecting the scion with the outer wood ot tho branch is all tho art thero is in grafting. Trees by Roadsides; There is two sides to tlio roadside question. Thoy aro ornamental, but in early spring it-y of ten shado thu rwulso as to keep it muddy after places moro exposed to sun and air havo dried up. Besides, the trees aro often in the way of needed road Improve ments, and it is hard to go around or re move them. Then if grain or root crops aro grown in adjoining fields their roots draw their moisture from so long a dis tance that tho crop near the fence is not wortli cultivating. A row of trees planted close enough to tlio lino to make a tencoof damages a farmer in ono crop moro than enough to build an excellent fence. So whctlier trees should this spring be planted along the roadside must bo com plicated with tho further question wheth er in after years the farmer or his sons can atl'ord the expense of keeping up the ornament. MEN OF INTEGRITY. The Kind of n Itepiilatton Which II!p One Over Manv Hiinl l'lncr. "Why is It that it is the good men who go wrong?" asks an exchange. This question is of muoh of tho sama stamp as ono that was formerly cur rent: "Why is it that ministers' sons aro so often scapegraces?" The latter has been shown to bo grossly unfair in its implication that ministers' sons aro. as a wholo, unworthy of their fa thers and of tholr training. Tlio re verso is tho case. There are excep tions, but theso aro raro in comparison with tho numbor of sons of ministers who are useful and honored citizens, many of them pursuing the noble call ing of their fathers. So when wo are asked: "Why is it that it is the good mon who go wrong?" tho answer is that tho Inquiry is mis leading. Men who aro reputed to bo good do go wrong In many cases, but theso are fow in comparison to tlie number of reputed good mon who do not go wrong. It is no surprise when it is learned that a man who does not bear a good name has done something dishonest or unworthy, because in this case tho ex pected happens, and there is not a "go ing wrong," but a further pursuit of it. Tlie good man by repute and the hot ter he is reputed to he tho moro iiir pnso and shook if ho does not bear out his reputation is the one who is trust ed, and when we hear of one who has proved faithless, it shows that his rep utation was not deserved, or that his moral fiber has not been tested. Tho man who is upright and honest hon est with himself as well as toward othors does not go far wrong in his dealings. A reputation for integrity is one which no man can afford to ho with out. But the reputation is not thu main tiling. This is to desirve it. It is won by right doing, and is kept in tho same way. Onco established it is tho host lotter of credit a young man can have. Without it ho can not hope to succeed. In most cubes men of strict integrity have had it impress'jtl upon them in their youth that honesty can not bo disposed with. Too great stress can not bo laid upon this truth by all who havo dealings with the young. Temp tations to be dishonest should be as far as possible removed from tho path of those whoso characters are not fully formed, and thoe who aro older and wiser should by friendly counsel aid in firmly fixing right ideas in tlio youth ful minds. Parental laxity is to blamu if a young woman begins work with a vague notions of what honesty menu. Too many parents sadly neglect their duties in this particular. They do not oversee their children as they should or hold them to a strict accountability, but faults are glossed over or are not seen. Parents should not be harsh and exacting, but they should train up children in the very way they should go. The honest boy is father to tho honest man. Detroit Free Pros. MOSAIC WINDOWS. Iiitriitloinil I inpnrfVctlnin liitrmliirnil In to tint I'iocos ol 'f'lii'ir Miinitriirt urn. But the glass-worker has only begun his work when ho has the molten "metal" simmering in his crucibles. It must undergo many subsequent manip ulations bofore it is available for tho purpose of art. Some of these, from a technical point of view, some retro gressional. It has been found that the rich color effects in glass of tho middle ages aro largly duo to the imperfec tions in the material. Its lack of ho niogenootisiioss, its unequal thickness and uneven surfaces contribute largely to its beauty. The modern product is too uniform to bo brilliant; it trans mits the light with too groat regulari ty. Intentional imperfections arc, therefore, introduced into the process; and the products, in consequence, aro much more satisfactory to tho artist. This work of individualizing tho prod uct has now been so far systematized that several special brands of art glass are recognized in tho markets. Tho so-called antique glass in both while and colors, is made precisely liko the ordinary sheet window gin-, except that tho surface of the glass is made full of minute blow-holes, which produce almost an aventurine effect, and add greatly to its brilliancy. In the cathedral glass the surfaco is ren dered wavy and iinevon, so that the transmission of light shall be corn spoiidiugly irregular. In thu flash glass ordinary shoots aro covered with a thin plating of colored glass, a process which permits a very dolicate color tone, and materially decreases the expense, where a costly glass, such as ruby, Is needed to give the color. But in mosaic work it is now generally preferred that tho glass shall not bo at all transparent, since the Hl'eet is much richer. Tho most ol the glass is thoroforo cast, the process being a repetition in miniature of thu casting of rough plato. Prof. U. 11. Henderson, in Popular Science Monthly. Summer in the Country. "Whoro shall wo go for tho summer. Henry? Havo you thought any thing about it?" "No. not yet. How would you llku to go Into tho country, again?" "Well, perhaps that would do." "I'll toll you what; let's stay at home. Leave tho sereons out of thu doors and windows so as to havo plenty of mosquitoes, get a poor cook and an impertinent waitress, make tho bod? up as hard as a board, get a spavined old horse and a carry-all with otitl springs, and wo can havo all the ad vnntagoa of country Hlo without guititf cut of town." Chicago Herald.