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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1891)
THE BABY'S BEAD. Xam only n bit of amber That dazzles the baby's eyes; Hut tho light in my Innermost chamber In tho light of the prlstluo skies. For ages ago nnd ages, ttlieii. far lu the upper nlr, V&fX llrs. like olJ archlmagea. Shed Imkmho everyw hern. And. nil In the wide gray wrather, Which wrapped tho wholo round world, 'Solemnly waved together Aa the. thick warm vapors curled, Zn tho sunshine's Middeu bursting t oozed Irom tt topmost bow, And I drank that splendor thirsting TheYo Is no such sunshine, now I And tho wings that camo round mo flashlng Kono llko thorn nro fluttering here X caught la my heavy plashing And nealcd iu my shining sphere. Oh, llfo that was wild and glorious UTion tho elements wrought for man, Jed waved over flro victorious . Shaped tho earth to her ane! ' "Then tho tides. In tho great world chart Hose. In their mighty turn, Soiled over tho fir tree's ranges And Uiu pluino of, tho giant fern And ages had passed nnd ages. When tho winds scooped tho deep sea floor, And tho seas lu their storm blown rages Tossed ino to light onco mora i &n now, half a Jest It may be. Half a charm, you hang In your mirth Honug tho throat of tho new bora baby, Tho oldest thing on earth I , Harriet Prcscott Spofford In St. Nicholas. Hereditary Taints. 8no result of tho labors of physiolo gists has been tho clearing of tho mental vision, and tho gradual comprehension of the great, pcrvasivo and potential fact of "heredity. "Tho Bins of tho fathers whall bo visited upon tho children," said Moses moro than 8,000 years ugo. Probn Mytfiu comprehended in butu very small SHeasuio the significance of his own utterance. Not only do parents transmit t children their mental peculiarities, 'their moral tendencies, tho features of stLofacc, tho stoop of tho shoulders and ke-trie'k of tho gait, but they pass on to Tfckcm their blood, their brain, their gbjids, their very soul and life. Wo do Kit mean to say tliat heredity is a tyrant ffrwii which thero is no escape, and that as is tho parent in constitution and con duct, so also must bo tho children to tho remotest generation. If that wero ono of tho discoveries of physiology, small thanks would bo duo fctho scionco from overburdened man. But it is not so. Tho parent himself, as Es well known, can modify and make wrso or hotter both his constitution and Lis character. Similarly, tho child's constitution and character may bo changed, until, by tho operation of tho law of heredity itself, a not very rcmoto descendant may bo tho antipodes of his early progenitors. Tho discovery of an existing inherited taint of disease or of -vice in a child is not a causo for regret, but for thankfulness. The disease taint 'itoelf is, of course, to bo deplored, and & is the inherited vice; but its early dis overy i. to be hailed with gratitudo as painting out lines of physical and moral treatment which may lead to tho prac ticed enfeeblcmont of tho taint or even t its eradication.' London Hospital. Her PntHor's Poor Cigars. ' A well known congressman, who loves a cigar, good or bad, had a box in his library which was bad, and his daughter quietly threw them away. That oven-."Sag- a distinguished jiulgo called, and tho 3f. C. during tho evening asked him to smoke, and weut for his cigars. They wcxo gone, of course, audthojudgomudo jjood tho loss by getti;ig n couplo out of Jais own pocket, and tho two friends set tled down for u smoke. Iu tho midst of it tho daughter camo in. "Whowl" shosaid, supposing her father Saul laid iu a now stock. "Wliewl" "What is it?" asked tho M. 0. "Smoking thoso cabbago leaves again aro you? Thoy'ro awful, papa; simpij awful." By that timo tho judgo began to wonder -what ho was getting, tho M. C. went into 4k laughing lit nnd tho girl concluded sho hud made a mistake and flow. Later tho M. C. explained to tho judge, and all was orgi veil. Washington Critic. Tlio Popo it Oieut Chen Player. Tho popo has a weakness for chess. Ho Is a very lino player, nnd in tho . amateur ranks is hitiil to Imvo fow superiors in tho knowledgo of gambits and openings. Thero is ono priest in Homo who has tho especial honor of Jieing tho pope's adversary over tho beard. This priest Father Giolla has played chess with Leo Pecci for thirty two years past. When Cardinal Pecci waa raised to tho papal throne, Father 3iella, who was then in Florence, got an invitation to proceed to Komo and take p his quarters in tho Vatican. Oiolla is kot temiK'red, and has been known to look very black indeed at tho vicar of -Christ ucross his chess board. Tho popo takca Glella's temper good naturedly, and often improves tho occasion by a littlo homily on tho virtues of resigna tion and meekness. London Court Journal. The Host lire Ilcslster. Investigations of ilro ruins show that .parous terra colta bricks and blocks best resist ilro, water and frost; next to these in tho. order of flro resisting qualities bo dng tho various concretes, or como of litem, ami burned clay work. In tlx best building work now dono tho iron part is incased in porous terra cotta, tils or brick work iu roof, floor and tilo con btruction; tho hollow tiles are faced with vitreous tilo, slate, or any good weather proof coating, or with a singlo thickness of brick. Incased in flro proof materials, dron and steel framework is claimed to jgivo Uio best results. Chicago Tribune. Ills Heart Wm Uiteulnc. Ono night when ono of Mrs. Hodgson 'Burnett's sons was about flvo years old, && fell asleep in his mother's anus. tWIien sho put him into his bed sho kiss (eiiJiim again and nguin and called him pt names. II o was bo sleepy that ho xuld not kiss her in return, but he mur aural drowsily, as if to comfort her for mo saetulnj; Indifference: "Mamma my heart is llatenlngto-yoa," Tu 1" tUwn Maker, THE NEWLY WED. A Pullman Porter Trlln llmv He Spots Tlirin -KvIN n( tho lllrn llnblt. It is a Pullman jwrter. who is talking to tin attentive scribe. Hardly a wt-k goes by," says tho porter, that I don't we a bridal couplo just starting out on their honeymoon. I don't exactly know how lean tell them, but they are us plainly marked to my eyes as if they had the words 'brido' and 'groom' stamped in big letters on their foreheads. Thero is something about them that gives the whole situation away; 'a kind of a cling-right-next-to-mo-darling air. Of course. I have made a mistake now and then, but it is very sel dom 1 do. and I've often found out, after changing my mind two or threo times, that I was right after all. though certain appearances were against it. We gen erally have a test which never fails, and when a doubtful party comes along wo spring it on them, just to oo sure, you know. "What's tho test? Well. I'll tell you. Not many weeks ago a couplo got into my car and sat down very quietly m their arm chairs as if they had been used to it all their lives. These didn't seem to have tho bride and grooin airabout them at all, and from external appearances they might Imvo been brother and 6istcr or married for years, but still there was a something there that mado mo suspicious, so when 1 saw them together I went to the news company's boy and 1 says: 'Bill, hero's a doubtful party; get out tho sample copies.' "So Hill got his tests and started through tho car. ilo handed books to everybody, and when he camo to the sus pected party he look out of iis pile two little books, unci said, so nearly every body could hear him: 'Very useful liooks. sir; hints on housekeeping and hints to newly married people. Only 25 cents. "That did it. The girl got as red as a roso and the man blushed and said a weak sort of 'K-n-n-no.' Then they looked at each other and sort of snick ered, and I caught him full in tiie eyes nnd smiled n sweet smile, giving him a respectful wink at tho samo timo. It was all settled in n minute, and thero was no doubt about it. Well, ho took it very good naturedly, and asked mo after ward how in the world ho had given himself away ho couldn't imagine. 1 believe wo could always toll, and talked so nicely he gave mo a dollar when 1 got through with him. "Thero are plenty of other giveaways by which I can spotu brideandn groom, and they are safe generally as tho test. Ono day a couple camo in thu car which, by the way was jam full and tho moment they entered it was plain as day that tliey were newly wedded. 1 passed by them once or twice, and then went in my closet and got tho dust pan and brush. 1 walked right up to where the brido was sitting nnd dusted up u panful of rico that lay on tho floor around her in a complete circle. Well, if the people in that car didn't laugh, I'm unothcr. "Tho custom of throwing rico after a bridal eouploalways makes it unpleasant for thu party, as lots of rico is almost sure to stick to their clothes, hats and in their hair. About tho funniest rico thing I ever saw was that which hap pened in my car just two or three weeks ago. A couple camo in, nnd tho test re vealed to me that they wero brido and groom. They didn't seem to tako kindly to it, however, and wo couldnlt get any satisfaction out of them at all. By and by tho man 6aid to his wifo: "Seems to mo this umbrella is not rolled up very nico." "Then ho carefully unrolled it, and, bezingl out camo threo or four pockot fuls of rico all over tho seats and floor. Their friends had rolled up a lot insido thu folds of tho umbrella, and, next to tho young man I heard tell about who, when ho went to sign his namo in a hotel register, dropped a lot of rico 'on tho book when he took off his hat, it was tho uiost binding thing 1 over know." Philadelphia Record. Correct Pi'omitirlutlon. I heard tho other day that a prominent clergyman recently lost a call to a lead ing church because when preaching a sermon na a candidate ho pronounced a single word incorrectly. "Oh, doctor, that was n lovely sermon you preached this morning," said a lady recently to her pastor in a largo New Ungland town, "Jpit if you will pardon mo for men tioning it, its eflect was very much im paired by n little slip iu pronunciation; you placed the accent on tho second syl lable of tho word 'obligatory' instead of on the flrst," Tho lady in question was one of thoso daugerously intelligent women to bo found every where in Now England, and was a member of a' ladies' orthoepy society winch inudo life a bur den to ovcrybody in the town. Know ing this, tho clergyman tried to keep up with all tho recondite pronunciations iu voguo, but onco in a while ho made a slp, as iu the above instance, and at onco heard from some of tho good ladies. Corroct pronunciation is of course desir able, but it is a littlo absurd fb make a fetich of it. Now York Tribune, Kilt Iuqulsltlvo. Thero was dust on his back nnd grimo of two weeks' btaudlng behind his ears, and as ho siootl on a corner, yesterday, ho was heard to remark that ho was from Lansing. "What is tho faro from Lansing to Dotrolt'r" queried a dudish looking by stander, looking waggishly uu uu ac quaintance. "I dunuo," was tho reply. "Don't know!" echoed his questioner, Incredulously. "Youug man," returned tho tramp, Impressively, "when 1 want to go too place by rail I get quietly on tho train, and wheu it gets thero I step oil again, without askiug any blooming fool ques tions." Detroit Freo Press. Method lu Uls Bllvnce. "Bolton told mo ho had borrowed eomo money from you. 1 was surprised, bo causo I nover heard you eay anything about it." 'No; I etiU bono to tjet It back." PHOTOGRAPHED L BITS. DISMEMBERED PHOTOGRAPHY HAS BECOME QUITE A CRAZE. Pretty IluiuK Ni'cUn, Shoulder. Elbows nnd I'eet Copied for IVIpikU A Detroit Artlt Talks of tho Pud Proud of Ills Wife' Pretty Poot. "She is a. crank on dismembered pho tography, and has herself taken in pieces," one lady remarked to another. "Taken in pieces?" "Yes, her hands, her arms of course they are nice and plump and her feet, too. Why, she has even had tho back of her neck taken!" All this, the speaker said, was-dono "in theeast." But wealso have our "cranks" and our "dismembered photography" in the west. "Yes," said a Woodward avenuo artist, "wo havo for some time taken hands or feet, nnd even backs of necks, right here in this gallery. It is a fad. popular with symmetrically shaped ladies. It pays us well and wo have no fault to And." Some negatives of dismembered photo graphs wero brought out. NBAKL.Y ALWAYS SATISFIED. Tho background in all cases was of dark plush, laid in heavy lustrous folds. Against this rich curtain a handsomo hand, plump, slender, nnd with delicate n?iils. is really an object of admiration. No jewels nro worn, as this detracts from tho beauty of the inemlwr in itself. Somo hands aro laid carelessly against tho plush, some show study in tho seem ingly idle way in which they aro held up. A cute row of dimples add beauty to a few of the photographs. Ono or two belligerent ladies have had their lists taken, "to show how formidable they would be on tho defensive racket. I suppose," said thu potographer. Thero were photos of hands, fists, feet, arms, shoulders and tho backs of necks with bewitching little curls. Somo amus ing stories are told by the photographers in connection with dismembered pho tographs. "A lady will como in and want a pho tograph of this sort. Sho has money, but not many classic lines that would bear reproducing by themselves. 'Will I havo my hand and arm, or only the hand taken?' she asks. Well, wo must manage to find out what sho thinks of tho member as a whole, and advi.so her accordingly. Sho is nearly always satis fled with the photo, and somo of them nro freaks of naftire, 1 tell you; but 'So and So lias one, and so must I,' is thu principle on which society moves." "What do ladies do with such pic tures?" was asked, "Well, now, when a young lady be comes engaged the first thing sho does, if sho has a good hand, is to givo a photo graph of it to her fiance. Then wrists or shoulders are taken for tho oddity of tho all"air. Some coquettish misses sometimes not over young ones, cither will havo tho I aeks of their necks taken to give to an admirer Indies have their own and their children's feet taken as souvenirs for their husbands. Somo of them aro plump and handsome. DKTUOIT'S "KATISHAS." "Thoy make a pretty picture, too. when resting on a pluvh cushion. A lady from an interior town hud a very pretty foot. She was in the city on a shopping tour, and was impressed with tho dis membered photograph idea. Sho had ono taken for her husband, who had often complimented her ou tho beauty of her feet She sent it homo, with strict orders to gaze on it as often as ho was inclined, hut to show it to uo ono else. "A day or two after wo received a note ordering a dozen of tho photos. Tho order was filled, and when tho lady got homo and went visiting sho was invited by her friends to inspect tho family al bums, in each of which that awful hus band had inserted a photo of his wifo's foot. Sho will havo no moro pictures taken for exclusive contemplation here after. "Somo ladies como in with another person whose hand or arm is taken and sent to tho distant friends of tho sup nosed owner. This is often tho caso with tadies who expect to inherit property from relatives they aro never likely to meet, nnd whom i they wish to impress with their good points." Katisha had a left elbow that pcoplo "had como miles to seo." Thero nro evi dently Katishas in Detroit who havo elbows worthy of admiration. A fow photos of elbows dimpled and pink tinted havo lioon taken in this city. It cannot bo said that an elbow has any particular beauty when transferred to a photograph, but "everything goes" as long as tho "fad" lasts. A lady artist in tho Whitney block has a "run" on plump hands nud dainty feet. Sho trausfers them to canvas, and very lifelike they look, with somo rich 6hndo of plush for a background. It is said that this artist has an ubundancoof work of this character from tho best families of tho city. These paintings uro not in tended for tho parlor, moro's tho pity, but ornament milady's boudoir. Dis membered photographs cost tho f'.Jl price, S3 to $5 per dozen. Minucttes at 1.S0 and $1.25 mako a convenient sizo for carrying one's hand or foot in one's pocket. Detroit Freo Press. ItuttW'MiuIio nil Coir. Uorscs and cattle, it is frequently said, rarely, if over, sutler death from tho bite of n "rattlesnake. But it hunter In tho Potomao valley camo upon tho evidences of u double tragedy which goes to dis prove this opinion. Whilo hunting tho othor day I found tho dead body of a cow, Sho had not been long dead. I was speculating as to tho causo of her death when I noticed a iargo rattlesnake dangliug from ono of her orumplod horns. Tho indications were that tho cow had seen tho tmako colled mid in tho act of uprlughig upon her, and had accordingly , booked thu reptile, tho horn penetrating tho suuku'd body so thut tho rattler was unablo to freo himself. Tho cow's born ' bad pierced uud killed tho rattler, but tho suake'a fangs and killed tho cow, I Youth's Companion. Let Dorrn a Notch. The street car wit is named legion. Ilo delights to stand on the platform and mako remarks which he believes aro funny. Tho other day one of them stood among the smokers on tho front end of an Indiana avenue ear and waited for an opportunity to bo comical. It soon pre sented itself At tho corner of Twenty second street stood an old organ grinder who was grinding away on Ids aged In strument, Tho funny man saw him and his face lighted up. Ilo was about to be .funny "Is it not wonderful." ho said, "how that old man there can play thoso tunes wholly by ear and without the uso of notes? He must bo a trained mu sician." And then ho looked around at I) is fellow passengers for thu expected laugh. No one even smiled, and tho driver looked around at him as if won dering whether or not he was clothed in his right mind. This awful silence pained the street car Touchstone, and the iron was ground deeper into his soul by a young man who stood next to him and who turned and said: "Yon are mistaken, sir. about that musical Instrument. It is a mechanical dovice, nnd one who is not a musician can play it." Then ho went on to give the funny man a description of the hand organ, and wound up by saying: "Your mistake is perhaps natural, but when you have lived here in the city longer you will learn all about theso things." The funny man alighted at tho next corner, and the smokers till shook hands with the young fellow who had picked him up so ueatly. Chicago Uerald. Wi'ilillng Pres. Said a well known clergyman tho other day: "I think tho clergy havo too much to say about tho smallness of some of their wedding fees Thero is no earthly reason, in tho flrst place, why a clergyman should receive any fee for his services on such an occasion. If fees aro to bo given at all, they would be much more appropriate when a clergy man is asked to officiate at a funeral, which in some cases may consumo sev eral hours of his time. But, granting that a wedding fee is allowablo, my ex perience is that such fees are as a rulo too largo rather than too small. 1 havo olliciated at tho weddings of a great many mechanics nnd workingmen, and and in a large majority of instances tho grooms havo given mo $10. Somo of them have given 15 and even $20. Now. the lowest of these sums Is out of all proportion to the average income of a mechanic. It is much more than thoy can nfTord for a service which a Christian minister should bo glad to ren der for nothing. And in my own prac tico I havo always returned tho feo in such ciises, unless the groom was so fool ishly proud as to refuse it. But in doing so I admit that I am running counter to tho almost universal custom of tho clergy. My own personal opinion is that in an ago liko this, when tho world is so ready to find fault witli tho clergy, it would be wise to abolish wedding fees entirely. At the same time I do not as sume to decide tho matter for any ono but myself." New York Tribune, Umi Sotli Ilumls. Recently, from my close attention in many years' capacity at tho circuit court, I havo been suffering from partial or in cipient paralysis of the right hand, or what is otherwise known us pen paraly sis, tho resiilt, of course, of constant writing with that hand. With so little uso of that member. I am beginning to mako my left hand very useful, and 1 And it is n much more important feature than we usually imagine. 1 think tho habit of cultivating the sorvico of tho left hand should bo more general and taught from early childhood; in that way tho flexibility would bo established and the right hand saved from tho great strain upon it. It is not at all necessary to bo what is termed "left handed" to bo enabled to use that hand. I know ono young lady artist who Is not at all so, yet who can use the left hand as well ns tho right perfectly by cultivation. Sho can draw with tho left hand as easily as sho can with tho right ono, turned to ward tho right. My caso should bo a warning to writers especially, not to leave all strain to ono hand, but to cul tivate tho service of tho other, or at least its assistance. I now havo to do much of my writing with my left, and accom plish it quite as well as with tho right, and I am by no means "left handed." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. GliiiUtoiin'H Predictions. Tho most reiuarkablo man of our timo is tho lion. W. Ef Gladstone great in statesmanship, great iu ilnanco (ho won his spurs of political knighthood ns chancellor of exchequer), great iu ora tory, greatest of all iu literature, flow this octogenarian finds timo to do so much, and to do everything so well, is a mystery. Uo has recently published an nrticlo on "Tho Future of the English Speaking Races." It reads liko a chapter ui tho "Arabian Nights." . Ono hundred years ago tho English speaking peoples of tho world numbered 15,000.000. These wero distributed thus; In Great Britain, 12.000.000; iu American and other foreign lauds, il.000,000. Today tho number has multiplied soven fold nndBtandsat I0.i.000.000. Mr. Gladstone quotes tho eminent statistician, Barham Zincko, as authority for tho statement that a century hence the English speakers of the globo will number 1,000,000,000, distributed as follows, viz.: In tho Brit ish Islands, 70.000.000; in Canada, 140, 000,000; in tho United States, 800,000, 000. St, Louis Republic. Juuiif Oiitngu. Japaneso orangw aro different from our ideal of uu unuigo as thoy can well be, beparating from tho peel almost ua easily as a grapo, dividing Into sections at tho slighu-nt pull, each suction llko a teparato fruit, dihnolviug its piece iuto your mouth with flavor of cherries, leaving no pulp behind. Very good, ex cellently good, tiwy are, Thoy, tho latest of her fruits, mid tho crowu of ex cellency to the already overflowing cor nucopia of this Beautiful Land of tho Suuruo." True ting. UUSBAiYDS, STAND UP! AMBER THINKS IT IS TIME SOME ONE TOOK YOU IN HAND. Two Way of Acting When Ton Come Homo Tiling You Should Uo anil Ttioe Yon Should Not Do Of Courvo Thlt Don't Mruti You, but It Pit Your Neighbor. There is so much excellentadvico given to wives, suppose, for a change, we turn around and read the husbands a nice little manual of correct behavior. It is high time some one took them in hand; but, although I have had my eye upon them for a good while, I have been both ered to find a ripe ojKrtunity. In the first place, to plunge right into the nfidst of things without further wait ing, how do you go homo to your wifent night? Chapters have been written as to how she ought to receive you; now let me say a word about the other sido of the question When you find a tired little woman who has been so hard at work all day with live babies and an in contpetentgirl, cullers. and miscellaneous jobs of mending, pastry making and pickling, that she has fuuid uo time to curl her hair and put on her best gown to meet you, what do you do? WHICH IS YOL'It WAY? Do you, like a dear old sympathizing fellow, take her worn face into a warm embrace and whisper in her ear: "Never mind, dearie; 1 have got homo, and we'll share the cares for the rest of the day. You go and rest yourself whilo I put Johnnie and Trot and baby to bed?" Do you see that she sits in the easiest chair whilo you skip around and minister to her wants? Do you keep silent while sho reads tho evening paper (to herself), and aro you mindful of draughts and slam ming doors while she takes her ease in slippered content? Do the stars dance the Newport, and docs tho moon sing psalm tunes? Just about as much as you do all this. You expect the hushed home, and the siesta with the paper, and tho slippers for yourself, to be sure, and if you don't get them you think you're ter ribly abused, and ten to one flounce off to tho club to escape the noise and con fusion, but you never take it into your head to consider that the day has been just as long, and just as busy, and a thousand limes moro full of petty cares for her as for you. You bolt into the house, and the first thing you say is: "Why isn't supper ready? I'm as hungry as a hound!" 'Great Scott! Can't you keep that child quiet?" or, "What's the use of burning so much coal? Turn off the damper! You are enough to ruin a Vanderbiltl" That's the keynote of the song you sing, and yet you think it is dreadful if 6ho ever makes a remark harsher than the bleat of a lamb. Suppose you had been a hansom cub driver, a board of trado man. cook in a restaurant, cash boy for a dry goods house, a kindergarten teacher and a hospitaT nurse all combined for tho whole day long, wouldn't you bo moro tired, and wouldn't there be moro excuse for your irritability than when you have simply attended to a single systematized branch of business. A woman is required to bo everything from a reception committee to receive calls in the parlor, to a nurse in tho nur sery, and a chief executive in tho kitchen, while a business man devotes himself to a single trado or profession. uon't di: apuaid op "spooning." And next, how do you entertain your wifo ovenings? If you were invited into a neighbor's house to spend a couplo of hours with his wife and daughter, how would you entertain I hem, I wonder? Why, you would put a posy in your but tonhole, and slick up your hair, and blow a little perfume out of the atomizer nil over yourself, and throughout tho even ing you would overflow with bright anecdotes and be so racy and charming that after you had gone away everybody would say: "What a perfectly delightful man Mr. Perkins is! What good com pany I" Now let us seo, sir, how you entertain your wife. You stand in front of tho lire and pick your teeth with a wooden toothpick until she starts to put tho chil dren to bed, and every now nnd then you make a few cheerful remarks about tho scarcity of money nnd tho general cussedness of children who run through shoes and clothes so fast. When tho timo conies that all is still and every thing nicely adapted for a chat or a game, you draw out your miserable newspaper and begin to read. And you read that paper all to yourself, wort! for word, and line for line, straight through from edi torial to market report, us if it contained tho secret of youth, wealth uud eternal salvation! Iu .tho same way ono might drink soda water by tho pailful, or con sumo caramels by the ton! Newspapers, read by husbands in selfish soWtudo. aro uuswerablo for many wifely heartaches. How many good stories and racy anecdotes do you tell your wifo to mako her laugh? How many roses do you pin on your coat and how careful aro you of your appearanco in tho long eveniugs, when thero is nobody by but her to bo captivated by your cliarmsand bewildered by your manly beauty? Thero is just exactly us much excuse for her (and a littlo more, it may be,) if her dress is Blatternly and her hair ujitii.y as there is for you, and thero is precious littlo for either of you. You excuso your indifferenco and neglect and tho withdrawal of fond and foolish attentions, just as dear to lior at forty us at twenty, with tho thought: "O, well, she knows I lovo her; what's tho uso of 'spooning' ut our age?" By and by there will comoa time when you bhall seo her lying In her coflin, lerhaps, and you would sell your soul thut day to bo able to shino away long years of cold neglect with thu manifestation of tho lovo that was nlwajs in your heart, cer tainly, but carefully kept ou ico. Call it "sixxmlng," if you like, or any other name of contempt, but 1 tell you there is nothing so tad in all life's history aa tho vanished opportunity to manifest a lovo for which some friend weut hungry through 6low yearn of undemonstrative uud stupid reserve Amber in Chicago Tribune, THE FIRST PARTING. "Come. Eva. kiss mamma Rood nlcht. and ro with tiurw to Ix-tl What, twirsr for sham a moment since you would Up Rood, votl nald. You're nuite too big a n'rUu uow to sleep In baby place. , Why noon you will bo tall enough to ro to school with llmce; go fciic-l iH-slde mo. darling, here, and say your prayers, nnd I Will King that llttla hvinn you lore, of guarding angi'Li nigh; And when tho birdhu wako you up. tell Mary you may run To have n romp In mamma's bed; Just think, what lotH of fun1" Tho mother In the morning came, in longing, am Ions mood; With throbbing hpsrt and dowy eyes bcsldo the td xhe Klood. Where Kva htlU slept, soundly, her arms p'mbraclng llC.'lt The gown her mother worn when she had ktsscd her n't good night Iw ribbon wild her bllent tears were stained and limp and wet. Around the white and dimpled neck an empty hleeve was set. Willie Mary slept the stole away, era dawn had Ut the n!iy That something of her Idol near her sinless breast might lie: Unheeded, save by Him who marks each grier en dured utone, Slni'soughl ami found her solace for the first that she had known -Philadelphia Times. Ito Couldn't Kilt the Soup. An elderly gentleman in a restaurant having loen surved .with a plate of soup he had ordered, said to tho waiter: "Look here. I can't eat this soup." "All right; I'll get you another plate." On receiving the second plate tho guest once more remarked: "It's no uso. 1 can't eat this soup." Then the waiter went to tho proprietor and said. "The old gentleman over there is com pkuning nlwut tho soup, ilo says ho can't eat it." "You don't know how to wait on peo ple. I'll attend to him." The proprietor went to the kicking guest and said, blandly: "1 understand you say thero is some thing the matter with the soup?" "1 didn't say anything of tho kind." "You said you couldn't oat it." "Yes, I said 1 couldn't eat it." "Will you tell mo why you can't eat that soup?" "Certainly. I haven't got any spoon." Texas Siftings. A Perfect Man. Several years ago an artist of Dresden persuaded a locksmith thero to givo up his trade and become an artists' model. It was a good thing for tho locksmith, who is now the famous "muscle man of Dresden, whose magnificently developed body makes him probably the most re nowned model in the world. In order to preserve for future artists an exact duplicate of his extraordinary figure, the director of tho Royal Saxon Pwvuell anfabrik at Meissen, recently invited him there that a cast from life might bo taken of the upper part of his body. It is said that "his muscular development is so complete and detailed that even the least anil slightest cord of every muscle stands forth prominently, and his whole body looks as if it wero woven together, or plaited like basket work. His muscles havo such a hardness that they feel to the touch as if they wero carved in wood." Brooklyn liagle. Silver Deuilhruil Ticket. Probably the most unique railroad pass issued this year is that of tho Silverton Railroad company of Colorado. It is a thin silver plate, about thu size and shape of passes in general uso. On tho upper left hand corner of the faco of tho plate is a vignette showing a curve of the road between Silverton and Ouray. Tho pass to rolled from silver bars and stamped, tho vignette and lettering, with tho ex ception of the president's namo, being in relief. Tho name, is intaglio, and is gild ed, as are the vignette and scroll. Tho number of the pass and tho namo of the person to whom it is issued aro engraved by hand. Brooklyn Eaglo. I'loitting Hospitals. A novel idea is the fitting up of a steamer in Kngluud as a "sea going hos pital." This is for the benefit of the deep sea fishermen, who are subject to sickness and accidents, and often havo to endure great suffering before thoy can bo taken ashore for treatment. Ono 6teamer has already been prepared and dispatched on this mission and another will bo sent out us toon as it can bo got ready. San Kraueiseo Chronicle, Tho Iron Crown. The Iron crown of Iombardy consists of a broad circle composed of six equal plates of beaten gold, joined together by close hinges of tho same metal. Within is thu iron band which gives it a name. It is about three-eighths of an inch broad and a tenth of an inch thick, und is said to havo been made out of thu nails used at the Crucifixion, und given to Constan tino by his mother, tho Empress Helena, to protect him in battle. Now York Tel egram, A Cliucher. ' A letter was dropped into the letter box at tho Auburn postotlico recently, bound for Boston, with tho stamp fast ened on with a pin. It was pushed through tho stamp near tho right side, thence through the envelope and its con tents to the back side, and back again to tho frotit- It was stronger than tho com mon lot of pins or it would' nover hare stood tho pressure. Bostou nerald. They Wero Littlo Girls. Master Burrill was un old timo teacher in tho town of Fairfield. A writer iu Tho Somerset Reporter says that Ito used to punish naughty whispering girls by "bearding them" that is rubbing his unshaven chin with a week's stubblo on it down their pretty cheeks. It almost took tho skin oh, Lowistou Journal. Drayton Ives, the well known finan cier and socioty man, is a bibliophile. This may not seem to be an expensive pursuit, but Mr. Ives manages to spend a good deal of money upon It. Qnly the other day ho Bpent some $1,200 upon a raro copy of on early edition of the noly Writ. i