AIDS TO EDUCATION.
An OliloMrhnol-.Hnster'sMaMind of Tench-Iiir-
English Grammar.
Whtlo the leading educators of Dis
triut No. 42, Sedgwick County, Knn..
arc engngea in an earnest effort to
bring tholr school to a higher point of
emciency oy the use of the slow mntch
and shotgun, some other parts of tho
country aro not idle. Jackson town
ship, Hnncock County, O., has been
hoard from. Thn nrnhl
)hio instructor of youth located there
was ooen at work on Is that of com
ilulsory education. This subject is
fno which, as wo nil know, is far from
being settled satisfactorily. Laws aro
passed that all children must nttend
school, but even if thoy can be en
forced, it does not follow that all chil
dren will study their lessons diligent
ly and bo ablo to make a showing sat
isfactory to tho conscientious and
painstaking teacher. To accomplish
this end has been left for the Ohio in
structor referred to. Tho advanced
grammar class was on tho floor nnd ho
called on ono of tho boys to explain
the exact relation which tho participlo
sustained to tho various parts of
speech. Tho slothful but unsuspect
ing youth was freo to admit that ho
could not do so. On hearing this ln
mentablo confession tho Jackson town
ship educator drew a slung-shot from
his sleovo and struck tho misguided
young man a couple of light blows.
With the slow Stitch, tha shotgun and
tho slung-shot well established among
our educational appliances America
may well make a now boast of her
gTeat public school system.
What measure of popularity tho
common leather and lead slung-shot
may obtain as a means for impressing
English grammar upon tho ficklo mind
of youth it is too early yet to say. It
certainly does not look encouraging
for it. when wo learn in tho course of
tho dispatch bringing tho intelligence
of tho wholo affair that its iirst user
has had his license to teach revoked
by an unsympathetic board of examin
ers to whom tho beauties of tho slung
shot aro a a sealed book. Hut its
promoter, Mr. John Walters, has many
things to console him as ho sees an or
dinary teacher installed in his place.
Galileo heard as good men as reside in
Jackson township ridicule his tele
scope. John Walters may yet livo to
conduct a gramm ir publishing house
and announce prominently in his ad
vertisements a line slung-shot with
every volume.
Mr. Walters' ideas on educational
subjects aro what may properly bo
called advanced. He thinks that tho
teacher should not only bo ablo to
offer tho pupil instruction, but also bo
prepared to see that ho takes it. It is
all very woll, he argues, to assign a
pupil a lesson on the subject of partici
ples, but it is bettor to see that tho
lesson is impressed on him so that
lie will not forget it, even if it takes
a now slung-shot every dny. Our Ohio
friend's idoal teacher is ono who.whilo
the scholars are at their books, throws
his feet up on his desk, draws on a
pair of brass knuckles and calmly
uses a largo jack-knife in tho guiso of
a toothpick till recitation timo. Then
ho calls tho class to tho floor, gets out
his text-book and other weapons and
proceeds to drivo tho children in
trusted to his care along tho flowory
paths of learning on a fast run. Give
Prof. John W. Walters a common
school grammar and a good slung
shot nnd ho will ngroo to carry tho
rulos of syntax to tho dullest pupil.
All is novelty, all is excitement with
tho Walters' Method of Teaching En
glish Grammar. Tho ordinary instruct
or approaches tho weary student with
tho dry and uninteresting facts con
corning participles and their relation
to other words; it is true that Prof.
Walters comes up to him with tho
same facts in ono hand, but ho is
reaching into his boot for a six-ounco
slung-shot with tho other. Tho effect
of tho Jackson township idea of com
pulsory education on our school sys
tem will bo watched with interest.
Ered. H. Carruth, in Texas Siftings.
Romantic Heligoland's Doom.
Oklahoma squatters aro complain
in'; that tho new lnnd-olllco is "pulling
tho ground from under their feet," but
the literal meaning of that phrase is
at present Illustrated on the island of
Heligoland, whero a stormy sea re
cently toppled over a largo cliff, to
gothor with its top, stratum of pas
tures and cottnges, ,id at tho samo
time revealed tho existence of a cliff
undermining at least one-third of tho
remaining scant area, which has now
been reduced to a littlo loss than ono
third of an English squaro mile. Year
by year tho sea encroaches upon the
rocks of tho west shore, but tho full
extent of its ravages was only lately
ascertained by tho discovery of an old
map, showing not less than eighteen
Jlfferent villages, with castles, forts
and monasteries, where tho water
now covors tho submarine rocks to a
dopth of half a hundred fathoms.
Llko tho island of St. Holenn, tlteqliffs
of Heligoland rise nbruptly from an
ocean abyss, which more than probably
will swallow up tho last broakwator
beforo tho middle of tho next century.
Albany (X. Y.) Journal.
Light colorod fruits, such as pears,
poaches and applos, should bo dropped
into cold water as thoy aro pared.
Thin will prosorvo tholr color, but
they must not bo kopt thero long, or
tho llavor will bo destroyed. It is not
so important to keep ponchos a light
color as It is poars. In all prosorvos
thero is danger of tho juice of the
fruit reducing tho sirup; it Is woll to
let It romain uncovcrod for twenty
four hour, and then if tho sirup U
found thin, p-vir it off and sgald njuln.
THE GERMAN WAITRESS
he Works Hard. rllrU (Ji-nc roinl.r, nnd It
a Ooud Ileal of (rl.
The German wnitress is not an at
tractive young woman. She is broad
shouldered, thick-set and plain. She
has rough hands, big feet. She is oftener
thnn not pigeon-toed. She wears no
dainty little cap, as does the English
waitress. She has no clean apron or
nor buttonhole bouquet, as have tho
waitresses in tho coffee nnd cake rooms
in America. In her wardrobo is no
tailor-made suit which she can wear to
the theatre on her night off. Her gowns
do not fit her. Her hair is rarely in
order. Her hands aro nevor clean.
Nevertheless, she Is the subject of
more romance than a dozen French,
English and American waitresses.
Lieutenants smilo on her. solid uni
formed government officials make love
to her, and nrtists draw delightfully
pretty misrepresentations of her for tho
comic weeklies. Her nnmo is carved
upon tho desks of the university lec
ture rooms. All sorts of proper and im
proper verses are written nbout her by
gay students in fancy caps and top
boots. Littlo sketches of her face adorn
odd nooks and corners all over the uni
versity buildings.
Tho waitress shows her appreciation
of all this attention by giving all stu
dents most generous measures of beer
and an occasional kiss when the land
lord isn't looking. Every waitress has
her pet student. Ho always gets tho
cosiest corner of tho best table, tho
finest bit of liver sausage, and tho
largest piece of mangled steak. Sho
knows his special beer mug as well
as she knows his face, and tho
moment he appears sho has it filled
well up above the one-pint mark of tho
imperial government. She sweetens
vach mug of beer for him by taking tho
tirst sip from it. She chats with him
about university matters while he eats.
Sho learns in just which duel ho got
the scar over his loft eye. who laid
open his right cheek, what kind of
stroke nipped off tho missing piece of
his nose, and when that big chunk was
cut out of his chin. She knows his in
tention to step on tho toe of the cham
pion swordsman of tho Souvian duel
ling corps or to call the President of
tho Saxon duelling corps a pup. It is a
long day for her when he gives satis
faction for these insults on the students'
field of honor. Whei. he comes back to
her, however, battered, bandaged and
smelling strong of iodoform and bal
sam, sho is just as proud of him as a
woman can be of a man.
Tor eleven months of the year, how
ever, tlie waitress uaiiy me is a nam
and dreary routine. She gets ridicu
lously small wages for working four
teen or fifteen hours each day. Often
enough she receives only the small tips
of tho persons sho serves. Sometimes
she must pay for tho privilege of re
taining these tips. She must remem
ber an infinite number of details. She
must know the owners of every one of
threescore or more beer mugs on tho
shelves at the head of the big room.
As soon as he comes inside of tho door
sho must call to mind whether ho
drinks lion brew, or court brew, or
Culmbacher, or Wurzburgor, or local
beer, in which corner his favorite placo
is, and how much froth below tho four
tonths liter mark he will take without
complaint. Of course, all German wait
resses do not always remember all
these details, but a typical German
waitress rarely forgets one of them.
The German waitress is a pitfall for
foreigners. Within limits an increase
of tips secures an increase of servility
from a German waiter. A German
waitress, however, pockets an Ameri
can's ton-cent gratuity without turning
a hair, although sho may have expected
only a cent or two from him. A tip of
twolvo or thirteen cents sho regards
as evidence that tho young man who
gives it is very evil-minded or a fool.
In short, sho accepts all kindnesses and
consideration in much the samo way as
a Third avenue shop girl accepts tho
seat a man offers her in an elevated
railway car. Men who know the Ger
mnn waitress well aro very fond of her.
Foreigners who do not know her at all
are still fonder of her. Every one else
fights shy of her. X. Y. Sun.
m 1 -
Where Salt is Taxed.
In every country whero thero has
been a tax on salt cruelty and oppres
sion have followed in its train. In
France, under the government monop
oly known as tho gubelles, tho law was
most severe. In tho fifteenth century
French history shows that hundreds of
men were executed for salt smuggling.
In tho time of Louis XIV. almost ev
ery year some three hundred smugglers
were sent to tho galleys for life. In
China, whero salt is ono of tho most
important sources of imperial revenue,
a breach of tho salt laws i ivolvos fear
ful penalties. Tho offenders aro soma
times Hayed alive, their smuggling
junks aro confiscated and sawn asun
der, while a crucified or impaled boat
man is lashed to tho mast as a warning
to others. Tho Chinoso jails aro full
of men lingering on undor trial, or in
vain hope of being brought to trial, for!
offences against tho Stato salt monopo
lies. Hluckwood's Magazine.
Too Much of This Nonsense.
Sink (of tho firm of Sink & Swim)
Well Mr. Gilhooly, wo don't neod a
man just now: but II you will work for
the salary we havo spoken about I will
hire you on ono condition.
Gilhooly I accept. Name it.
Sink That you will not havo tho
dally papers announce that you have
accepted a very advantageous offer
from Sink it Swim." Judge.
' am.
Does n horso cease to bo hcrvlbor
out whan it is anting itt na head off?
-X. Y. llomld.
OMENS. 1
Superstition PrTIIInc In Various
Qt the Old World.
rarU
Of all superstitions, medical ones are
perhaps those endowed with most
vitality. People of all times and all
ages, including even thoso of the
nineteenth century, of which wo nr
all so proud, have always attached too
much importance to the opinions of
their medicine men. Hut the middle
ages was the time for tho currency of
puro and unadulterated medical super
stitions. tThe- media'val doctor must
have added another terror to death as
his advice certainly increased its
probability in illness. To wear a dead
man's bones was thought an excellent
specific. To eat the first Easter dalsv
that could be found, and receive the
QUEER MEDICAL
benediction in three different parishes ; Ho once swallowed a lump of arsenic
on the same Sunday, was still a more , large enough to have done the business
potent remedy. To steal a cabbage of ten Kalmucks, but In him It pro
from a neighbor's garden and hang it duced only a trilling indisposition, anil
on a hook to dry was another cure, in a short while he was nuito well ai?aln.
and one certainly within the means of i
the poorest patient. The efficacy of
this remedy was possibly to be found I
in the theft. People who hung up'
horseshoes for luck may perhaps be '
tempted to try it on their friends
when quinine and bark have been
found useless. A toad choked to
death on the eve of St. John's day
was possessed of even still moroi
virtue. When wo recall the ingre-
clients of the witches' caldron in "Mac-1
heth" we are afforded, as it were, a '
bird's-eye view of the pharmacopoeia
of tho contemporaries of the conqueror. '
The water in a toad's brain was deemed
a most efficient remedy in illness abom
tho same period. There were cures
for mental failings as well as bodily
afflictions.- To stick pins in a dead
man's shoes, or to carry about in the
pocket a wolf's tooth or eye, or, If it
were handy, to ride upon a boar, were
all especially tho latter cures for
cowardice. We sometimes consult
doctors about our nerves now. Per-!
haps it is the name and not disease
that is changed. Tho modern prac
titioner who should advise a nervous1
patient to take equestrian exercise on'
a bare-backed boar would possibly ob-:
tain notoriety, if not patients, to-day. '
A sovereign cure for toothache was tc
apply a dead man's tooth to the suffer-'
ing jaw of tho living. For epilepsy j
the remedies were many and peculiar.
Ono was to wear a medal bearing, tU
names of Caspar, Melchior and Hal-;
thasar. M. Challamel informs us
that some faith is still attached in
rural France to tho extraordinary
remedies we have mentioned, and even '
in Loudon and Paris, in educated clr- j
cles, a good many medical superstitions j
are still extant. Journal of American
Folk-Lore.
ILLICIT TRADERS.
Individuals Wlui Arc
Truiililt tn I'uidv
it Source o( Great
Ml in 'n Soldiers.
One of the purposes for which troops,
under express provisions of tho Re
vised Statutes, may bo employed in the
Indian Territory is the arrest of illicit
traders. In that Territory, and in all
reservation set apart for the uso of
the red men, the Government guaran
tees that whites shall be kept away.
Exceptions aro made, of course, undor
tho permits of the Indian Bureau,
through its agents, and soldiers aro
also authorized to perform certain du
ties there. Hut the chances of profit
carry into the Indian country traders
who have no authority to enter it. The
tribes themselves in some instances en
courage their presence, especially
when they have alcoholicliquor among !
thoir goods, tho selling of which to In-
dians is forbidden anyway, and thoy:
are the more tempted to risk arrest
and punishment from tho good' prices J
they can get. When their presence be
comes known, troops aro sometimes
summoned by tho agents to scout
for j
I
and arrest tho ollenders.
Kathcr a striking instance of the
trouble occasionally caused by illicit
traders occurred among the Xavajos of
Now Mexico a year or two ago. A
squad of soldiers, starting from Fort
Wingato to arrest whisky peddlers, was
confronted by a largo force of Xavajos,
who declared that tho men should not
be taken away. The sergeant in charge
of tho squad, finding his party greatiy
outnumbered, was compelled to pro
ceed to Fort Defiance, where the Indian
agent communicated with Fort Win
gate, and a troop of cavalry was sent
out. For a time an outbreak of
powerful tribo was feared from
this
the i
mischief thus stirred up by tho whisky
sellers. More recent testimony to tho
connection between tho suppression of
illicit traders and the well-being of tho
Indians is given in this extract from
the last annual report of Mr. Carroll
II. Potter, acting agent for tho Osages
in tho Indian Territory: "There has
been no improvement in tho condition
of tho Osage Indians during the last
year. These people are not sufficiently
industrious to control in the right direc
tion tho amount of money they got. In
consequence a large share is spent for
contraband articles, which it seems
very easy for them to procure along
the State line and from peddlers on the
reservation.
Tho latter class tho In
dians will protect in ovory possible
way. 'Hie trafUc in whiaky by pod
dler on the reservation is, In my
opinion, alarmingly on the increase."
Harper' Hazur.
Cherry Jelly: Common wild bird
cherries make a nice and handsome
jelly: Pick tho cherries, put In an
earthen dish, add a spoonfull or two
water and steam them half an hour;
mash thorn well with a wooden spoon,
place in a jelly bag to drip, measure
your sirup, pluut it in a kwtUo and
bull it Hficmi minutes, add a pint of
hasted sugar to each pint of gillie and
boll fifteen minutes longnr, Inuu four
ti fellv ''lue. The Homo.
INTELLIGENT MONKEYS.
Cnrlous Anecdotes of a Clilmpaiuce and an
Ornnc Onlanc.
The great physiologist, Hlumonbneh,
had one of tho monkey tribe, whoso
movements and conduct he carefully
watched for more than a year together.
It came to manage tho wood for tho
stovo with great dexterity, and would
put It lu with as much judgment and
economy as a cook-maid or a parsi
monious spinster. This animal was very
partial to the tiro, like all-other apes,
and would occasionally singe himself,
when he would sally forth and roll
round in tho snow with all the ecstasy
of a Russian after taking a warm vapor
bath at 180 degrees of heat. After en
joying this luxury for a timo he would
return to his old qunrtors bv the tire,
A w.-rk on Insects happened to lie
for some time upon the table, and
which our philosopher contemplated
with solemn studionsness for about an
hour. The illustrations particularly
riveted his attention; whether they
awakened reminiscences of his former
haunts is unknown, but when the book
came to bo examined, it was discovered
that with consummate address ho had
pinched out all the beetles of tho largo
plates and actually eaten them it i.
supposed mistaking them for real In
sects in some unknown stato of pre
servation. Somo curious details are given of tho
habits of orang outangs exhibited
many years ago in Loudon. They were
male and female, the former tho Chim
panzee, and the latter tho Horneo. In
some respects thoy presented a marked
'Contrast, and did not show tho least
tenderness or attachment to each other.
Tho social habits of the Chimpanzee
far exceeded those of tho female.
In the morning, on first seeing a person
whom ho knew, ho would utter a loud
cry of recognition, and running to
wards him, would stand perfectly erect,
spreading his arms like a child to bo
taken up. when ho would wind them
around the neck of tho individual in
the manner of the fondest embrace; nor
was it an easy task for thoso to whom
ho was attached to leave tho room ex
cept by stealth.
Tho instinct of providing and plac
ing warm materials for her bed was
most marked in tho female, who would
be for two hours dragging blankets
from various parts of the room, smooth
ing and changing tholr position, anil
beating any raised part down with her
knuckles, assuming at tho samo time a
look of gravity and an appearance of
wisdom.
The hearing of both animals was re
markably acute, and tho knowledge of
sounds was accurately shown. They
also seemed to have a pretty good idea
of time, for as the hour approached at
which thoy were removed to their
nightly quarters, they would of their
own accord get tho blankets, and en
fold themselves in readiness to depart;
and if their removal was protracted be
yond tho usual time, it required force
to prevent them from going to the door.
1 lie unimpauzco Having cauglit n
cold, he had a violent cough that in
sound was remarkably human; and
when a lit of coughing came on ho was
usually given some sweetmeat or cor
dial to stop it. He soon adopted tho
cough as means of obtaining thoso lux
uries. Heally, thoso creatures that
, n -,,., 111,i71-
about ourselves. X. Y. Ledger,
.
HEALTHFUL DIET.
Irult a I'erfect Food In
.Summer ns Well
it Winter.
Somo people are afraid to eat fruit,
thinking that fruit and diarrhu'a aro
always associated, when. If they under
stood the true cause of the diarrhd'a,
they would know that it was caused by
eating meat. In hot weather meat pu
trefies very quickly, and during this
process alkaloids aro formed which are
very poisonous, acting as emetics and
purgatives. "Tis true that fruit eaten
green or between meals will interfere
with digestion and cause bowel troubles;
but use fruit that is perfectly ripe at
meal-time, and only beneficial results
will follow.
Acids prevent calcareous degenera
tions, keeping the bones elastic, as well
as preventing tho accumulation of
t-ai tlily matters. This is because of tho
solvent power of the acids: but manufact
ured acids are not harmless, asarothorc
which nature has prepared for us in
the various kinds of fruit. Fruit is a
perfect food when fully ripu, hut if it
were in daily uo from youth to ago
there would be less gout, gall-stones
and stone in the bladder. Stowed ap
plos, pears and plums are favorite ar
ticles of diet. For breakfast or lunch
eon, in tho dining room or in tho nur
sery, thero aro fow table dishes more
wholesome and more delicious than
well-stowed fruit served up with cream
or custard.
Tlioio are many persons, however,
who can not eat it on account either of
acidity of tha fruit or tho excess of
sugar necessary to make it palatable.
Sugar, doe not, of course, counteract
ueidity: It only disguises it, and its uso
in largo quantities is calculated to re
tard digestion. 'Die housewife may,
I therefore, ho grateful for tho reminder
that a pinch, a very small pinch, of
carbonate of soda, sprinkled over tho
fruit previously to cooking, will save
sugar, and will render the dish at once
more palatable and more wholesome.
Moi&'jnl Classics.
Summer boarding. Algernon do
Swollton "Will you please pass mo
thu munuf" hlia Jmio "Wo haven't
wiy this iiioriiiiii'. blr. They're not lu
uvusun tut. "
THE DELICIOUS BANANA.
Few lnteretlnr Facts Concerning Thai
Wholesome Fruit.
A liking for bananas is n tasto that
must bo cultivated In tho majority of
porsons, and ten or twelve years ago
the. averago inhabitant of the northern
part of this country had not been edu
cated up to thlovo for them.
Less than sixty years ago tomatoes,
now considered ono of the most delight
ful of table dishes when properly pre
pared, were looked upon as unfit to eat.
many people claiming that they con
tained poisonous properties. Hut that
belief was soon proven to be unfounded,
and two years after two or three lead
ing sanitary and scientific magazines
came out with positive proof that they
wero not only uninjurlous but health
ful, and contain very nutritive proper
ties. Tho fow gardeners who took the
risk of cultivating them In largo quan
tities could not begin to supply tho Im
mense demand for them.
The experience with bananas, though
they have at no time been considered
as poisonous, is much tho same as with
tomatoes. Xot very many years ago
they wero considered as unfit to oat,
mainly because it was supposed they
contained no nutritive properties anil
wero of about as much benefit to tho
human system as so much cotton or
corncob. Hut that Idea was rapidly
dispelled by scientists and this de
licious fruit of the palm Is now con
sidered not only luscious but healthful
as well.
The banana Is tho most Important of
tropical fruits and requires three or
four months to ripen. After tho fruit
matures the plant withers and drios
up and from its base spring up off
shoots which may be transplanted.
Although most bannua bunches hang
down In maturity, a variety is found on
tho Society islands whoso very large
bunches of deep orange-colored fruit
stand up erect, forming ornamental
rather than useful objects; for their
taste even when cooked is acrid and
disagreeable. Tho Hrazllian banana
is tall, rising to a height of fifteen or
even twenty feet, and tho fruit is yel
low and excellent, rather vinous In
flavor. The Chinoso banana seldom
exceeds live feet in height, tho leaves
being of a silver hue anil tho fruit
aromatic. Tho Tahltlan banana is
similar to tho Hrazillan, but not so
tall, and tho fruit is angular, yellow,
turning black when fully ripe, and tho
llesh is salmon colored, or buff, and
slightly acid. A variety with a red
skin is brought from tho West Indies,
and a very small banana is found In
Africa and tho East Indies.
In nlnoty-nino cases In a hundred
bananas aro eaten raw with no flavor
ing. An excellent dish Is made by
cutting tlio fruit into small slices and
using a drosslng of sugar and cream
or wlno and orango julco. Tho amount
of nourishment is very great, and
IVimboldt tested that tho same land
which produces a thousand pounds of
potatoes will yield -1-1,000 pounds of
bananas; a surface- bearing wheat
enough to feed one man will, when
planted with bananas, feed twenty
five. Albany (X. Y.) Argus.
AN AGE OF PORTRAITS.
History Will lie ICn.lly Trnced liy
the
I'reni-nt ItitKii for llluMmt Inn.
There never before was a timo In tho
history of tho world when tho making
of portraits was so much in fashion as
at the present. Tho easo with which,
by tho aid of tho Innumerable photo
graphic processes, a portrait may ho
produced has of course dono much to
foster the custom, and tho foudness of
tho readers or at least of tho publish
ers of tho present generation for biog
raphy has also encouraged tho making
of pictures of tho people written about.
Thero has at tho same time been some
thing that might bo called a revival of
tho ancestral portrait craze, and ovory
body who could compass it has felt
obliged to do what he could to provide
his descendants with a set of portraits
of their ancestors.
Tho Illustrated papers and magazines,
too, have done much to increasu tho
number of portraits. Tho picture of a
prominent man is at once the most obvi
ous and ono of the most easily man
aged illustrations that can be found
and for tho past twenty years thoso
periodicals havo been Increasingly full
of this sort of work. Tho pictures have,
of course, boon of all sorts and kinds,
and from the gray and slovenly pro
cess plato to the finely executed en
graving or etching, and they havo been
full of all degrees of nearness or remote
ness In the matter of likeness, but if
any body has failed to havo a clear
Idea of the personal appearance of any
public character It has not boon from
lack of copies of his counterfeit pre
sentment. Tho collection of portraits has by
this stato of things bucomu one of tho
easiest and most satisfactory of all tho
lnnumorablo varlotlos of collecting that
has yet been invented. Ono Is ablo,
with so little trouble and at so small
an expense, to bring together a col
lection of portraits that are really In
teresting and not wholly unlnstructivo,
that it is a pleasant and not very ardu
ous form of amusement. Thoy may ho
arranged iu so many different ways,
moreover, that one may at any time go
to work and introduce into his collec
tion an entirely fresh system of classi
fication, and nothing adds to tho dig
nity of such a pursuit like reclassifica
tion, with Its sound of real profundity
and acute Investigation. Ho who finds
time hang heavy on his hands and the
illustrated papers and magazines ac
cumulating in his attic, is very foolish
and unmindful of his resources ol
amusement if he does not set himself
to make a collection of portraits. Hus
ton Courier.
HOW TO GROW RICH.
Father CMarkunn Dellren a rotated I.ea
ture on True Kconomj-.
In early llfo wo recollect hearing a
young man inquire of a vonerablo gen
tleman,, who had accumulated a largo
estate, what tho secret of his sncccs3
was. He said It was: "When you
earn seventy-five cents per day, spend
only fifty cents of it nnd keep out of
debt." That information, simple as it
was. has had an important influence
upon life's- transactions. And if it
were lived up to by a largo mass ot
laborers, mechanics and nil classes of
wage-workers tho world would bo a
great blessing. Tho rapidly increas
ing riches and consequent willful anil
wicked extravagance of a large class
of our population is corrupting tho
minds and misleading tho practices ot
the great mass of workers. Whilst
the riches aro Increasing, paupers ara
multiplying much faster. There aro
twice as many, according to nonu-
lation, of those
who ask and re
us did fifty ycara
tho wage-worker
as much now as
ceive aid now
ago. And yet
receives twice
then. Tho articles of food cost no
more, and clothing not half as much as
then. Wage-workers of all classes,
both male and female, aro not prosper
ing as formerly. They are not weekly,
monthly and yearly laying up a por
tion of their wages as then. Thoy live
more extravagantly, spend more reck
lessly, and foolishly ape their neigh
bors In fashionable folllos. Mechanics
appear, at least a largo proportion of
them, not to attempt to make any pro
vision for tho future. When they mako
$1A or $18 per week, instead of per
manently investing at least onc-thlnl
of the amount, they spend It all. Then,
If work fulls, or the man Is taken sick,
or any member of his family, so as to
keep him from work, tho family at
once becomes an object of charity, the
rents are unpaid, tho butcher's bill
neglected. The man becomes discour
aged at the accumulated debts, until ho
begins to debate with himself whether
ho ought to try to pay tho old debts.
So soon as ho (iocs that when ho be
gins to study how to forfeit his honor,
repudiate ills obligations, ho is gone.
He no longer has that keen souse of
honor which teaches him to regard as
sacred his debts. Then ho Is no longor a
man. His pride, his ambition, and allot
tho inipuises which nerve and sustain
a man lu life's conflicts, are gono. Ho
has not confidence In himself and
his neighbors havo less. Hut if a man
lives by rule, uses tho plain neces
saries of life, and scorns to npo tho
follies and corrupt practices ot tho
growing cussedness of the world, and
lays up carefully at least ono-thlrd of
what ho earns, soon ho will see thero
aro bettor days for him. A littlo
weekly and annually saved, tho In
creasing accumulation of interest, tho
increasing ambition, and tho renewed
energy will soon build or buy a house.
Then tho oxponso of living decreases,
and tho saving can be more, until Im
perceptibly the man with his family
find themselves In comfortable circum
stances, respected by tho world, his
llnaucjal credit established, and ho Is
enabled to enter other enterprises than
as a day laborer.
Wo havo seen theso things worked
out and demonstrated all about us for
tho last slxty-llvo years. Tho man
who spends as he goes soon has noth
ing to spend, but Is broken down la
spirit, credit and obstructor; but the
man who weekly saves a portion of
his earnings, economizes In his busi
ness, soon places himself among tha
honored and rospoctod, It is as cer
tain as tho revolution of tho spheres.
Hut tho man who saves nothing sinks
lower In spirit, enterprise and charac
ter. Ho soon becomes too indolent to
work and not too proud to beg. And
ho goes down as fast as gravitation will
take him. Trust no man who does not
regularly save and lay up a certain per
wnt. of his wnges. There Is no liopo
for him. Ho will becomo sour, abuse
thoso who prospor by saving and will
livo a miserable llfo, hating tho pros
perous and dying a beggar. "If you
earn soventy-llvo coats per day, spend
only fifty cents of it." Iowa Stato
Keglstor.
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BLACK IS WHITE.
,V SromliiBly Iiicout rovcrtlliln Argiimunt
from Dtjiiiolnt')-.
The word black (Anglo-Saxon Mac,
bltcc. bleak,) is fundamentally the samo
as tho old Gorman blnch, now only to
be found lu two or three compounds,
as Hlaehfeld, a level or plain; Hlaeh
mahl, the scum which floats on tho top
when silver is melted, and Hlachfrost,
and it moantoriginally "level," "bare,"
and was used to dunoto blacknoss. be
cause blackness Is (apparently) bare of
color. Hut tho nasalized form of black.
Is blank, which also meant originally
bare, and was uso to denote whiteness,
because whiteness Is (apparently )baro
of color. Tho samo word was used to
denote tho two opposite things. From
which It would seem that black is white.
To any or. o wlio shall point out a flaw
in tills etymological argument I shall
endeavor to bo grateful, provided ho
dous not disturb tha very satisfactory
conclusion. This I should naturally
rt'sunt. It may heli him to a conclu
sion and servo as a further support to
my contention to point out that llao In
Anglo-Saxon actually means white"
as well as "black," so that it is not in
its nasalized form only that the samu
word is employed to express opposite
things. Why is this, unless that to tho
primitive mind both white and black
appeared to agreo lu being bare or
void of color, and for that reason to
deserve the samo name? And hero L
can not help harboring a suspicion,
suggested by tho Old German Hlach
frost (which appears to bo nearly ob
solete, or only used in some localities)
that our "black frost" moantoriginally
a frost bare of accompaniments, as
hoar, rime, and It Is a coincidence only
that It should bo black lu color and
blacken the vegetation. Hut wu have
long lost hold of the original meaning
und believe It to refer 4to tho color.
Notes and Queries.