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**I <Ion’ know why I huH to tot© Iu wood ’ u' help mu ’ round. A* ther «ate, ’u* «»»nr ther horse, ’ N* ©weep leave© off ther «round. I don’t get any time ter play; I t ’s fcettin« w o»« and wuss; I wouder why I has ter work? I ’u never does! *‘ He jes’ sets ’ round ’ n’ smokes ’ u* reau.s *N* kicks about ther noise. *N’ I don't get ter holler none Like other people's boys. Ma says she’ll make a man of me; Gee! don’t I wisht I wux! 1 guess men don’ t have uiueh ter do; I ' m never does! “ But ma says I ’m her chum ’ n’ when W e get our work ull done She reads ter me, V tells uie tules, *N’ we have lots er fun. Las’ night I hugged ’n’ kissed her good— Nobody knowed but us; then ma cried, ’ a* I bet 'twas cause Pa never does!” —Free Press A V re I 1 1 Uri hJ lii Through the temptation to be co quettish with her lover they had part ed, and it was a question which was the most miserable, Mary Derweur- water. who had trifled with his love, or Ileu ry Ashton, now wandering abroad In search of forgetfulness. Ashton went forth upon the world an altered, almost a misanthropic man. His*»hopes were withered, Ills flrst dream of love hail vanished, he felt as I f there was nothing for him to live fo r in til’s world. Ills mind became almost diseased. He loathed socieiy. then he veered to the other extreme and craved after excitement. He sought relief in travel. Like the fa bled victim in the olden legend, le* spent years in the vain search after that Lethe whose waters are reserved fo r death alone, l i e found It not. And Mary, too, was changed. Sin1 rose from that bed of sickness an al tered being. Never had she known tin* full depth of her affection mini the moment when she found herself des a I ed. The shock almost killed her. ami though she recovered after a long and weary sickness. It was to discard Ml her old habits and to assume a quieter, yet, oh! how far more beautiful de meanor than in her days of unmiti gated Joy. She felt that Henry was lost to her forever, yet she derived a melancholy pleasure In living us if the eye of her absent lover was upon her. She directed her whole conduct so as to meet ids approbation. Alas! lie was far away: she had not heard from him for years; perhaps, too, lie might lx* no more; then why this conataur refer ence of all she did to his standard of excellence? It was her deep abiding love that did it all. Four years had passed when \sh tou found himself again in America, and. sitting, after dinner, with one of his most intimate friends at the table o f the ---- hotel. For some time the bottle passed in silence. At length uis companion spoke. “ You have not seen Mary Derwem- water yet. have you. Harry?” Ashton answered calmly, with a forc ed effort, in the negative. “ You must not positively delay It. Do you know how beautiful she has grown? -fa r more beautiful than when you went away, although you thought her surpassingly lovely.” He paused. “ I have not heard from the family for years.” said Ashton at length, feel ing that his companion expected some reply. “ Then you know nothing o f her - push a* Home o f the almond»—why, dear fellow, she 1» Irresistible. But she Is different from what she used to be; her beauty Is softer, though not «o showy, and whereas she once would flirt a little—mind, only a little, for she la a great favorite o f mine—»he now Itoes by the name o f the cold beauty. A married man, like myself, can speak a little warmly, you know, without fear o f havlntr his heart railed In as the brlle' o f tils bead. Aud do you know that my w ife suspects you of having worked the reformation?"—Ash ton started, and was almoet thrown off his guard—"fo r It began Immediate ly after a long Illness that happened a few weeks after you sailed." Ashton was completely bewildered. I*e had now for the first time heard o f Mary's sickness. Ills eye wander ed from that o f bis companion, and he felt his rbeek flushing in spite of hliuself. He covered his embarrass ment, however, by rising. Ills com panion continued: "And now, Harry, let us stroll down Broadway, for, to tell the truth, I prom ised my w ife to bring you home with me. Besides, Mary Is there, and I've no doubt," he continued, no doubt," he continued. Jocularly, "you are dying to meet her." Ashton could not answer, hut he fol low ed his friend into the street, con scious that Mary and be must meet, and feeling that the sooner It was done the better. Ills companion, during tbelr walk, ran on bis usual gay style, but H arry scarcely heard a word that was said. His thoughts were full of hla cousin. Had she. Indeed, become cold to all other men from love of him self? Strange aud yet delicious thoughts whirled through his mind, and he woke only from hla abstraction on finding himself In the presence of his cousin. In Beacourt's drawing room. Mary was on a visit to Mrs. 8ea- , and dill not kuow o f Ashton s : - • p tended coming u n tiM few minutes be fore he made hla appearance. De votedly as she loved her cousin, she C e l l u l o s e K a t n c s O u r C r u i s e r s A b o v e T h e i r l i a s * as B a t t l e s h i p s . would have given worlds to escape the The Society o f Naval Architects and Interview; but retreat was Impossible without exposing the lung-treasured se- Murine Kugiueera held its fourth gen eret of her heart. She nerved herself eral meeting at New York. There was iiceordlugly for the meeting, aud suc a good representation of the member ceeded in assuming a sufficiently ruin ship of more than odd present, and ap posed demeanor to greet her ruusiu plications from forty persous who de wituuut betraying her agitation, lie sire to become members were received. exchanged the commonplace compli Henry \V. Cramp's paper on Am eri ments of the occasion with her. and can corn-pith cellulose, aside from the then took a seat by Mrs. Scaeourt, technical information, with which the who had been one of his old friends. architects and engineers were chiefly Mary felt the neglect; she saw he did concerned, had the popular interest not love her. That night she wept that attaches to any additional method bitter tears o f utiguiah. for the protection of human life at sea. Ashton did come dally, and although lie explained the origin and the man his conversation was chiefly devoted ufacture of the uew product, as well to Mrs. Seucourt, be seemed neither to as tlie invention of its application to seek nor avoid his cousin. Now and warships, and recited the rapid ad then he found himself lu a conversa vancement made by Americans in the tion with her, and he thought of old last year over the French discoverers times. But the memory of their last o f the uiuterlul and Its uses, aud show interview came across him at such ed how the American product Is bound momenta like a blight. to supersede the foreign. “ How wonderfully Ashton has Im "American corn-pith cellulose Is an proved since his travels," said Mrs. entirely uew product,” he said, "manu Scaeourt one morning as she and Mary factured from the pith of the cornstalk, sat tete-a-tete, sewing; "and do you or Indian maize, into a granular form, know,” continued she, looking urehly and packed under pressure Into the cof at her companion, “ that l deem myself ferdams of a vessel, where it acts as a indebted to you for his charmiug vis perfect water excluder and is non-com Its?” bustible." When a shot pierces the ves Mary felt the blood mounting to her sel's side at or near the water line t ow. aud she stooped to pick up a where the cellulose belt is laid the cel stitch. lulose expands as it is wet by tile in "Ob! you are always jesting, Auue; flowing water and completely chokes you know it is uot so.” the hole. Our Navy Department was “ W e shall see. I prophesy that this quick to take tip the device. afternoon, when we go to the exhibi "Thus In the Columbia, the New York tion. he will escort you and leave Miss and the Olympia.” Mr. Cramp said, Thorn bury to Seacourt’s nephew.” Mary's heart beat so she could scarce "there are protective decks o f ample strength to keep out the shells of any ly answer, but she managed to reply: “ Don't, my dear Mrs. Scaeourt! don't vessel they are likely to engage, while tease one this way! You know. In their stability Is protected by belts of deed you know, Ashton cares nothing cellulose several feet thick along tlie for me," and she felt how great a re edges of these decks. The English ar lief would have been a flood of tears mored cruiser Blake, for example, has no such protection to her stability, ami could she have Indulged lu them. Mrs. Scaeourt smiled archly and said would not have the same chances us the above-named vessels of our navy no more. The afternoon came. The little com iu a sustained engagement. For pro pany were assembled lu the drawing tection in the comprehensive sense, the room. Ashton entered Just as the last cellulose belt o f three feet may be said moment had come, aud when the la to be about as efficient as n six-inch dles were rising to go. Mary was al belt of steel, so that we can protect our most hidden In one corner, so fearful stability, when we have a good protec was she o f attracting the raillery o f tive deck bock o f it to defend the vitals Mrs. Seucourt, by placing herself near of the ship, with 100 tons of cellulose to the entrance anil In Ashton's way. an extent equivalent to that derived Her very sensitiveness produced the from, say, l.tXX) tons (jf armor." effect she wished to avoid. The gentle Philadelphia manufactured the flrst men naturally sought partners near cellulose used in the American navy, them, and for a moment she was left making it out of the husks of eocoanut, almost alone. She thought she would and furnished an article superior to the have fainted when she saw her cousin French, hut during the last year the de cross the room ami offer to be her es partment directed its attention to the cort. corn-pith product, which has been They proceeded to the exhibition. found to possess superior qualities. The For the tlrst time for years Ashton's department tested the two product* by arm upheld that of Mary. At tlrst both building and tiring into two steel cof were embarrassed; but each made an ferdams tilled respectively, one with effort, and they soon glided into con 8112Va pounds of cocoa cellulose, corre versation on different subjects. Wlmt sponding to a density of 7.T pounds to a relief It was to Mary that night to the cubic foot, and one with 702 pounds think site had been alone, ns it were, o f corn-pith cellulose, corresponding to with her cousin without being treated n density of l!..r> pounds to the cubic with neglect. foot. The flrst drop of water appeared From that day the visits o f Ashton nt the far end of the shot hole through to Mrs. Seacourt's Increased In fre tlie cocoa dam lu ten minutes, aud pret quency. yet there was nothing marked ty soon the water flowed through at tin- In ids attentions to Mary. Indeed, lie rate of half a gallon a minute. Through still continued to converse chiefly with the hole lu tile other dam no water laid ills friend's wife, though he did not come at tlie end of half an hour, nor openly avoid her guest. Mary grew was the cellulose nt the mouth of the more and more tremblingly alive to hole in the rear damp. The teste led to Ills presence, and at times, when she would detect his eye bent on her, half the provision in the contracts for the sadly, half abstractedly, her heart Kentucky and the Kearsarge, and Nos. would flutter wildly and a delicious 7, 8 and I*, that tlielr cofferdams lie hope would momentarily shoot across packed with corn-pith cellulose. It Is her mind; but soon to fade as quickly. about JUKI a ton cheaper than the cocoa One morning Ashton entered the cellulose, and that fact, with the differ drawing-room and found her alone. ence lu density, makes It cost about Site was untangling a skein of silk. two-thirds the amount per cubic foot She arose and said, with some embar packed. Mr. Cramp said: "Our cruisers of the rassment : "Mrs. Seucourt Is upstairs; I will Baltimore type, if they are provided with a cellulose licit, would be war ring for her." “ Not for the world. If she Is In any ranted in engaging many of the second- way engaged. I can await her pleas class Ironclads o f other powers; with out It they are liable to he sunk by a ure.” There was silence o f some minutes. well-directed machine guu tire. This Mary could scarcely breathe, and product of American farms affords a knew not what to say. Her fingers cheap and ready means of vastly in refused to perform their duty, and the creased efficiency of our cruisers, and skein o f her silk became more and tlie unarmored sides of all our vessels should have these belts without delay. more entangled. “ Shall I help you?” said Ashton, ap This discovery and application of cellu proaching her. “ My patience used to lose Is of as vital importance to our navy as the development of the Harvey- be a proverb with you.” Mary could not trust herself to an Ized armor and smokeless powder. This swer. for her fingers were actually follows from the fact that, without add trembling with agitation. She felt ing very much to the cost of our ves she could have sunk Into the floor. She sels, we can greatly increase the ertl- proffered the silk without looking up. cleucy of them all by making their sides Ashton took hold o f one end while she automatically resist the inflow o f wat retained the other. Neither spoke; but er; and as our cruisers carry heavier .Mary's bosom heaved tumultuously, batteries than similar vessels of other while Ashton felt bis heart In hla nations, they would, when so protected, throat. be able to give battle to ships far heav "M ary!” he said. ier than themselves." She looked half-doubtingly, balf-tlm- Idl.v. up. D r u g g is ts t’ p to Date. “ Mary, we love each other—do we Druggists keep about as close watch not ?” of the season as any people in the world. There was no answer, but as ha When the spring days appear and la pressed the Angers lying passively In dies are thinking o f putting away their his grasp, the pressure was gently re fur* the drug store windows suddenly turned, and, bursting into tears, hla fill with moth balls, powders and pre- cousin fell upon his bosom. ;>arations warranted to knock the spots off a moth at forty rods. When the sun The Sure Cure. gets np a little higher the moth halls Dear boy. 1 will give you a tip disappear and tan and freckle lotions About a sure way to cure grippe! and preventives for mosquito ami fly Buy some green* at a dollar apiece, annoyances take the public eye. When And thou bury your nose in the gveaae: the blazing heat o f summer is with us. Melt some butter in streaming hot rum; cool soda with pure fruit syrup signs And drink till yon hear your ears hum; nestle up against corn remedies and Mix aorar mustard and aait piping hot. root beer packages. The fall comes And ait with yonr feet in the pot; on and then the cough lozenge Is hatch Snugly under three coverleta creep. And indulge in a long, dreamless sleep! ed. Alongside It are litre eurea for la I f all this the grippe's grip doesn't shake. grippe, cold*, influenza and toothache, Then for Florida's brakes make a break! while hot soda steams and sizalt-s at —The Doctor. your asking, T r u e to H la V o w . She—Come, dear, here are some nice fresh biscuits I cooked myself. Put on your slippers and come to the table. H e— Excuse me, dear; 1 don't think I'll put on my slippers. I'v e always made the boast that I'd dl* with my bool* oat—Yonkers Statesman. i other six In study aud Intellectual con versation. aud the scheme proved im possible. Practically, they could not make both ends meet; and they were men o f a sufficiently delicate organiza tion to require the rettnemeutH rather than the hardships of life. They hail many visitors at the Hive, who reported the workers as not al ways In a cheerful frame o f mind. One looked sunburned and very Thin, sml owned that milking cows on a frosiy morning was a chilling sort of busi ness. But the only persistently cheerful re mark came from George Klph-y, one of the flues* scholars and best-equipped writers of the time, who, J uki before going there, bad published certain es say* on Descartes' philosophy. Iu the autumn o f 1841, a clergyman, went to make a «-all at Brook farm, where lie found only a few of the mem bers present. Mr. Ulpley, however, was discovered in the turnip-field with tw o or throe others, throwing vege tables into tlie cart. A * his friends approached, he went forward to meet them. "D octor Francis," said he, “ It is re ally kind of you to come such a dis tance to s iv an old fellow. You |>er- celve 1 um occupied with tlie philos ophy of de cart!” (Descartes.J A London paper says the shilling edi tion of William Watson's Armenian sonnets “ has gone like wildfire." W ith in a week of publication, ten thousand copies were sold. Stephen Crane’s “ Red Badge of Cour age" has at last caught the attention of the American public, and during the flrst week In February tlie publishers were umi hie to supply the demand. Its English success is still unabated. The young |ioets of Paris have elected as successor to Paul Verlaine in poetical sovereignty Stéphane Mallarmé, trans lator of poems of Poe and author of “ L ’ Apres-Midl d'un Fauue.” whose por trait by Whistler is a masterpiece. Since Alfred Austin was appointed poet laureate several thousand copies o f his works have been sold; but the curious fact is noted that many more copies o f his pros** works than of his books of verse have had purchasers. Mrs. Emily Crawford, the well-known Paris correspondent, contributes to one of the March magazine« a biographical sketch o f Alexandre Dumas the elder. The article is a succession of anecdotes of the novelist, presenting him In a very picturesque light. An account of the Bohemians ami “sponges" who took advantage of his prodigality is in cluded. “ Perhaps,” says the London Book man, “ it is not generally known—cer tainly It cannot lie known to the writer of an article in the January Blackwood —that Mr. Thomas Hardy endeavored to withdraw ids novel o f ‘Jude the Oh- scuree’ from Harper's Magazine, actu ally requesting that firm of publishers to cancel the contract. But It was found to I k - impracticable to do this.” Paul Meurlce lias undertaken the ed iting of Victor Hugo's correspondence. Victor Hugo was as punctual ns Mr. Gladstone in answering communica tions addressed to him. No subject, from Paris drainage to the Romanic movement and French politics, came amiss to him. His letters will prove an invaluable memorial of Ills time. Among Ills manuscripts has ulso beou found an unpublished melodrama. Mine. Stepniak has announced her in tention to prepare a record of the life and work of her husband. It has been arranged that Prince Krapotkine shall edit and arrange the Russian section of tlie Memoir, and Prof. York Powell, Mr. Edward Garnett and Malatesta, the Italian anarchist, will contribute chap ters. respectively, on "Stepniak ns a Critic,” “ Stepniak as a Political W rit er" aud “ Stepniak in Italy.” Joke by Holmes, At the time of the Peace Jubilee, Dr. C. B. I ’orter, o f Boston, returned to his office one day, and found the slate In the hall covered with Latin words and signed O. W. Holmes. He immediately got down his dictionary, and with much effort discovered that he had been to the Peace Jubilee, bad soiled his boots so thoroughly with dirt that he did not like to go down town in such a plight, and had stopped and asked Mr. Porter’s servant for a foot brush that he might clean up his boots; and he bad dignified this rather menial performance by writing it ail out In Latin aud leaving it on the slate. home to him, he would become a mere walking pin-cushion stuck full of sliaip remarks. I f we would be happy wlcn among gooil men, we should open our ears: when among bad men. shut them. THE M AR R IAG E A B LE AGE. It Is not worth while to hear what onr H E R E Is no rule which should neighbors say about our children, what govern the age at which 1 ‘ girl our rivals say about our business, our may marry and take upon herself dress, or our affair».—American Cidti. the responsibilities that attach to that vator. condition. It may be broadly stated His Opinion o f tlie Mutter. that she should marry when she Is ca Little Ilnrold had been a naughty hoy, llable o f understanding and fnltlllitig and his pupa had sentenced him to an the duties o f n true wife and thorough housekeeper, and never before. No hour's solitary confinement In Id* I* m 1- I'oom a* a punishment. When the hour matter how obi she may I*', if she is was over, and the small prisoner was uot capable o f managing a house iu ev ery department o f It. she Is uot old allowed to return to the sitting-room, lie went to Ids mamma and in a stage enough to get married. When she prem whisper said: “ Mamma. I think yon ises to take the position of w ife and homemaker the man who hold* her might have done a great deal lietter promise Ims every right to suppose that than to marry pupa."— Harper's Razar. T site knows herself competent to fulfil) ru rceee'u l Woman Lawyer, it. I f she proves to la- iucouipeieut or A New York woman lias chang'd the unwilling he l^is good reasons to con current o f thought o f the keenest Indy sider himself cheated. No matter how o f men in the metropolis. She lias made plain the home may lie. if it Is ill ac them believe that a woman can really cordance with the husband's means and he finds It neatly kept aud the meals mo matter how slmplel. s-rved from shining dishes and clean table linen, that husband will leave Ids home with loving words aud thoughts and look ahead with eagerness to the time when lie < a u return. Let a girl play the piano and acquire every accomplishment within her pow er. the more the better; every one will be that inueh more power to lie used in niaktug a happy home. A t the same time, if site euunot go into the kitchen. If necessary, mid cheerfully prepare just ns good a meal ns anyone could with the same material, and serve It neatly after It is prepared, she would hotter defer her marriage until she learns. There would lie few er domestic Jars aud “ewer unhappy households If these considerations were lived up to. F e n c i n s a t A ft e r n o o n T e a » . Among the latest amusements indulg ed in by fashionable girls at dove after noon teas is that of fencing, says a New York paper. On these occasions no pry ing men are admitted, chiefly for the reason that not all the girl* who ex hibit are experts, aud. of course, they do not wish to have their mistakes ob served by rude male eyes. As a general rule the regulation fencing suit is worn. FENCING AT MRI.r.K KA8IUONABI.E especially If tbe occasion be a club a f fair. This consists of an accordion- plaited black «ilk skirt, which descends half way between the knees aud the ground. With tills Is worn a black vel vet bodice made loosely to render the necessary perfect freedom of the I k h I. v and arms. Low-cut tennis shoes finish the costume. At a recent club tea one strikingly handsome girl wore a dark blue skirt, with waist of white duck buttoned diagonally down the front from shoulder to waist. s t a n i . k y k t t a TITUS. become a good lawyer. Not only lias slit accomplished this feat, but at the situ» time has won tile respect and esteem o f all tlie member» o f her profession with whom she has eonie In contact. TEAS. This modern Fortin 1* Miss M. Btan- leyetta Titus. She tin.. Introduced au- other innovation among the methods o f the legal profession In New York by establishing her office In one of the moNt “ swell" npartment buildings In the city. Miss Titus is no bluestocking. Her face, as the accompanying plefure, drawn from a photograph, indicates. Is that o f a rather pretty and certainly distinguished looking young woman. A n Kvenin sr G o w n . V i r t u e in a n A f t e r n o o n N a p . The divinity that doth hedge a king is as uothing to the sacredness that at tends the afternoon nap of the society woman. Unwary souls in the prosecu tion of various business callings who have had the misfortune to break in upon the slumbers of such are made to keenly feel the enormity of their of fense. but what Is gald to them is as nothing to the lecture that is bestowed upou the servant maid who knew no better than to believe that tbe business / C . world cannot wait until society's nap is over. Most women who indulge in the habit—and a very wise and com mendable one it Is. to be sure give M icrobes D evour Sewage. A novel disposition of sewage is made their maids explicit instructions that at Exeter, England. The method con they are not to lie called between cer sists o f four tanks, a fourth of the sew tain hours for any purpose whatever. age passing into each. Light and air M a k e a H o m e o f a Honaeholq. A p p l e » an n S k i n F c a n t t l i e r , are excluded from the tanks; putrefac The art o f not hearing should be The mischief done by the apple which tion and decomposition are rapidly set learned by all. There are so many Eve shared with her infatuated lord up; the microbes multiply and the solid things which it is painful to hear, verv 1 can never of course be overcome. Wom portion# of the sewage are consumed many which. If heard, will disturb 'he I en. however, should know that the ad and the outflow from the tanks is noth temper, corrupt simplicity nnd modesty, | vantage» o f apple-eating will to some ing but slightly colond water, which, detrac t from contentment ami liappt- i extent console her for the mischief after passing through filters, loses nil miss. I f a man falls into a violent pas-1 made by onr first parents. Doctors say color and taste. No chemical is used, slon aud calls all manner o f name«, at that apples act directly upon the liver, and no attention to the tanks of any the first words we should shut onr ears thus strengthening the digestion, and. sort is needed. Each Alter bed auto and hear no more. I f In a quiet voyage | as a consequence. Improving the tex matically cleanses Itself by being out of o f life we And ourselves canght In ope I ture o f the »kin and the color of the use fo r a short time. of those domestic whirlwinds o f scold- | complexion. Raw apples are the best, ing. we should shut onr ears as a sailor I but baked ones may be substituted for I n d ia In k . would furl his sail, and making all I Turnips o r Philosophy. India Ink is made by some secret pro tight, scud before the gale. I f a hot. a change, or If the fresh fruit should be When the little company o f N ew En cess which Is closely guarded by its in restless man begins to Inflame our feel- I found unpalatable or difficult o f dlge» tlon. gland Transcemlentalists were at I ventors, the- Chinese. lugs, we should consider what mischief I Brook Farm, engaged in their unsuc the fiery sparks may do In onr maga A c c o u n te d fo r. cessful experiment o f living In a com A fte r a man has made a pleasant zine below. where onr temper Is kept, Grace—I never saw any one with munity of mutual helpfulness. they allusion *c tbe .lays when he courted and Instantly close the door. I f all the such a vacant expreaalan aa (’ holly. soou lost heart. They had expected to hi* « i f * , j ihcre isn't anythiug site wiU petty Things said of a man by lieedlesa Lillian—No; he's always thinking of work six hours a day and spend the | refuse l ( J | for him. ■ oaturea Mj „ w «r* jKxmsht I ■