i' with v Oil J mine ejos toft elhtM.jun la ) ttml nmlor. M, "'! I ('- t it nil thedny lM,w r oiut .v t.')tlo shirrs titW o 1 n viry rtiinv, m mid mo broosa am-" on thy : fey! t art near bio, though bidden from Like a 1 ctutifut bee on the breast of flower; But INyrho shall lend tne her lamp J the nijttht, '! rt'ixiver tweet love in tnmmrr'i men bower. The trtars thst adorn with vwer of flame 1 hp crystalline atop of tho heiurenly niter, Be witness that though 1 but guess at the Ita liiuaioal sound I feelingly falter. Then (om(. little Rover, (mine to thr wst What 1 the need that thou further abouldst trnlrrf Fold thy i!t wins o'er ray heart's rosy neat. And thou and 1, lovts, shall only grow fonder. Henrietta Gardner. A BAG WITIIIIOLES. Aunt Fratt sat In the south window of the kitchen, knitting:. She had a right to sit there, for she paid her ........ board punctually, having "means," as the neighbors said. What the Potters would have tloue without her board to help them they could not think now they had it. Yet before Mrs. Potter's Uncle Ebenener died they had lived jtiat as many other poor people lire. Uncle Ebenezer had never helped his niece at all since he eave her a modest outfit and a hun dred dollars in cash when sho married Rowley Totter, a young fellow who was fretting good wages lit the great rifle factory at H. Lonts-a was a pretty, capable, bright girl then; but that was twenty years ago. Kow she was a thin, sallow, fretful woman. Potter still worked in the "rifle shop," as they called it. but he had only $1 a day more wages than when he was married, and there were four children. Lottv, 18 years old. pretty, pert ana Tain, worked in hosiery. Tom. 16, was in a nut and bolt "shop;" Idalla, a girl of 14. was "cash giiT' in Holmes & Harper'i crrsst. riti'-Of-w.la ctfwA T .,.l 1 .. f - - - - ' ...... . V , i t II 1.111 paid their board, "Idy" clothed her self, sue coma get bargains ana renv nants so cheap; when she should be promoted into a "sales lady," she. too would rav like the others. The fourth child, little Davy, was only JO; he went vo a puouc senooi. When Aunt Pratt was left a widow she made up her mind to sell the farm a i a , . . . ami ooara somewnere; sne naa no children, but she did have rheumatism enough to tire her with its aches and stiffness more than a family of tho noisiest boys and girls could have tired her. The farm was a good one, well improved, the house and barns i inoroagn repair, ana mere were six cows and two horses, as well as plenty w Lumnii; implements, one got f 4 AGO for the whole. The neighbors sai it was worth more; the buyer said it was worth less; so shrewd Aunt Pratt considered the price fair. Then there was $1,500 in the Dalton Bank, the slow aecnmulatiou of butter , money, egg monev, the sale of poultry and calves; $6,000 in all, ami everv cent of it her own. Squire Hart, of lialtoa, who was executor of the will invested the money in safe ways, at 6 per cent, and Mrs. Pratt began to look about her for a home. She knew that Louisa Potter had felt hurt about her Uncle Pratt's will; he only left to hei her grand mo tiler's mahogany furniture and the savings bank book in which he had deposited the profits made out of the i riesland hens and the white heifer calf she had left in his hands when she married a sum amounting i , o w now. But Louisa and her husband had ex pected more, and Mrs. Pratt was just woman, capable of understanding ouier people s feelings; so she did not wonder. After much thought, and without any suggestion from them, me proposed to come into II. and board with Louisa. So they gave up to her Lotty 's front bed room, and put . Lotty in with Ida; and as thercooked and ate in the same room where they sat at evening. Aunt Pratts rocker, her foot-stool, her Email round table and her work-basket were established in the sunny south window, where she eould look down into the street and up into the sky; for this tenement was on a corner, and the Potters had the third Story Sat, It was a great change for Aunt Pratt, but she was a woman brought .yp tlie old .New England fashion, to to'fcat she perceived to be- a duty, however nn pleasant and painful, with out shrinking or complaint; and she had made up her mind that it was her duty to Help the letters. She missed the fresh air of the farm, the quiet of her own house, the new milk, the sweet butter, the good bread: uufc one sum uuuung as. sne sat, day mwr uaj, in ner window Knitting or mending, her big bible open on the stand, and her thoughts very busy with the things around her, as well as with me itungs inai are aoove. Jr or Aunt ITatt nad made a resolution to leave her money in the wav it would do her relatives the most good, and she must stuay tnera and tneir customs before . she could discover what that way was. ue soon found out that they were al ways in debt. Potter had good wages. Lotty and Tom were off his hands, Ida - - j - - . v. tn i, 1 1 hi. i , a iiia S fit i rvnlTr Iv.- hAQKl l. .1 lavy was inheritor to Tom's old clothes aud his father's, too. It seemed to Aunt Pratt that there must be a leak somewhere that she did not discover at once. 7 - She was reading her bible of conrs and one day came upon a verse in the phophecy of Haggai that seemed to ex plain the situation to her, and open! her eyes. The nest day Lotty carae- in shivering; she had eanght a severe cold - ana muuuea over the cook-stove wramjed in an old shawl nmio-hrut sighed and scolded all day till she was iia nAn Ti3r m Bumiw . "flave you got on yot winter flan- oels.'" asked Aunt Piatt, for it was now November. 'Mftannets 1 guess not. 1 haven got any," Why, Lotty!" "Well, poor folks can't have everv- niing. i a got to have a winter suit, ana mere was such a Jovelv one at the v Koston store; a satin petticoat,, with drapery of camel s hair imitation I roei, out awfully pretty and a real yiidid basque, with satin vest aut buttons; only $20. I tell you, Aut i-ratis it was a swell and no mistake .. but I couldn't afford soft flanujels. af tei that." t "Is it a thick dress?" queried Aunl Pratt. "No, not so very; aots,thick as-this pop dress; but I don't mind that. ' in't cold-blooded," ,"And your shoes,, are they thick?" "Oh, they're just cheap boots; thick .les do cost so. My best ones are ench kid with lovely high heels. . ley can't have thick soles." And. have you got a warm petti . af P - "Mercy! I don't want to be all nped up with things. I've got an felt skirt and a striped cambric for y day, and four white ones, med with edging." ' nt Pratt shook her head. --v "he bag! A hole in the ,id sadly. . hat upon" but a fit of - popped the words and left &t so sore she did not finish - " 'on. She w:U so ill that nigtit a uocior w sont f..r ,t ynung man round the corner, j;iit beginning practice, there fore cheaper than a man of experience. He at once proceeded to blister his pa tient and giv her antimony. Low de lirium set in, and for i weeks Lotty wax miiiuie 10 leave ner oea, ana for a month more she could not go to work, iJuis came in to twieo the amount of the blue dress a price, and could not be paid. "Oh. what a hole In the bag!" sijilunl Aunt Pratt. V hen Ijotty was a little better, her xatner came in one noon with a band bill given to him in the street a Haul ing advertisement of the "Black Lrook performance "Say, Lou, don't you want lo go to his to-night? It's a month o' Sundays since we ve had a lark; let's po," he into his said, tossing the play bill wiie s lap. "Oh, pa." screamed Idalla. "take me. Oh, do! Now won't youP" 'N'tne too," screamed Davy, who had a hoarse cold. "Oh, shut up!" snapped Potter. "I don't want two babies taggin at my heels. Somebodv's got to stav with Lott." " ' "Why; there's Aunt Pratt," said Ida. 'Maybe she'd like to go; would you Aunty?' asked Potter, blandly. He had a mind to keep the right side of a woman with "means." "Me!" said the old lady, with astern reproof in her voice and face. "Me go to such a place? No, Indeed!" "Well, well! everybody to their mind. 1 like a bit of fun first rate, now and then. We go quite consider able, first and last; a body must be amused." "O. father!' put in Mrs. Potter, urged by the whispered teasing and cross faces of Ida and Datv, "do take them children aloug! Ida hasn't been nowhere since Lott was took sick; and Davy's only a boy. Let him have a godu time while lie can; his troubles will come fast enough before long. Now, do let 'em jro," " " "Well, I guess they can. Itt won't want em if Aunt Pratt s here." So at night he came home with four tickets to the performance, a bag of peanuts and a paper of candv, and they set out to enjoy themselves. Tom had announced at 'noon that he was "goiu to take his girl." Aunt Pratt groaned in spirit, "An other hole in the bag, and a big one!" she said to herself. When would the doctor's bill and Ihe debts at the drug store and the grocer's ever be paid? Aunt Pratt had alwavs lived in the country and l en hom-M. She had no experience ot the class who crowd our theaters, minstrel shost halts and cir cuses, who buy cheap finer and ex pensive, poor beer and bad butter, but never pay their rent or lay np one penny in all their lives. As spring came on Aunt Pratt no ticed one day that Potter looked dis gusted with his dinner, and Lotty left hers untasted. No wonder! Aunt Pratt could not cat it herself. The po tatoes were poor and boiled to a wat ery, insipid mass; the calves liver fried to a black, leathery substance; the bread old and dry, and the turnips rank and unsavory. "I say. pa!" exclaimed Tom. "we're an gemn spring poor, i don t care a hang for my "vittles. Let's have a dozen of larer, that'll set us all ui." So the lager came, was used up, and anomer uozen oiiierea, ana then an other; but the appetites did not ira prove nor the cooking. At last the beer seller refused to fetch more, un i i . , . .. es wdh ne naa brought them was paid for. "Oh, dear! Ob, dear!" sighed Aunt Pratt. "What a hole in the bag!" Next day she said to her niece: Lowisy, will you let .me buy and cook the dinner to morrow? I'll make you a present of all the Tittles I get, if you will." Louisa consented, much astonished. and Annt Pratt came back from mar ket with two pounds of solid beef a coarse piece, it is true, but cheap and fresh. She bought a few onions, a carrot and one small stalk of celery, the whole cost 36 cents. Then she pre pared a stew, and paring the potatoes put them in cold water till it was time to add them; the celery, two onions, half a carrot sliced thin, was cut in with the beef, which she had cut into pieces of perhaps two inches square. Salt and pepper were sprinkled in lib erally, and as she- put her stew on be fore breakfast and let it simmer all morning, adding the sliced potato at 11 o'clock, it was well done bv noon. Kjeorsre! how (rood the dinner smells!" ejaculated Tom. "Oot roast turkey, Lou?" inquired Potter, sniffling and smelling. Even listless Lou wanted some din ner that day; the rest recovered their appetites without any more lager! "I wish the land you learn cookin of Aunt Pratt!" said Potter. I wonder if I've sewed ud that hole?" thousht Aunt Pratt. But she had not, Louisa was too old to learn new tricks, as we say about dogs; she continued to buy the best meat and cook in the worst way, and still the money leaked from that hole in the bar. Hullo, Tona!" said Potter one Sun day morning, as Tom sauntered into the room with a half-smoked cigar in his mouth. "Ain't you tonev? Whv. that cigar smells like a rose! Aunt Pratt wondered what sort of rose had an odor like tobacco. It had ouarht to." sententiouslv re marked Tom. "Them fellers cost me 5 cents apiece by the hundred." "Well, I kin put up with my pipe so fur; but you young fellers have got to have your fling, I reckon. Byvm-by you'U fall back on brier wood and nig ger head." "Another hole in the baar." mur mured Aunt Pratt, who had watientlv darned Tom's threadbare socks and patched his worn shirts for him everv week for months. "Wrell, here I be!" shouted Potter he came in one Monday morning about 10 o clock. "Why, what has fetched rouhome?" inquired his wife. j HJh, or fellows have strut k: we're goin' to. have less work and more pay; them darned capitalists has overrode us long enough; we're bound to have our share of the dollars we make, now I teil you!" for the mercy s sake!" ejaculated Louisa. "Where are von s-oinfi to work bow?'' dryly asked Aunt Pratt. "Why, back arain as soon as the bosses come to terms." "But supposin' they shouldn't," "Oh, they've srot to. can't lose their contracks, no way; we've got 'em where the hair's short." "But supposin' they hold out for a month's time or six weeks?" "Oh, we get a'lowance out of the assessments; we ain't goin to starve." Who's paying them assessments?" "The fellers that have srot monv laid away; they're taxed for the gen-' eral eood; so much a week till the strike's over." "Be you assessed?" "Lord! do you think I've sot a. eent in the bank? Four children and starv ing wages. What's $3 a day with fonr in the family, an' clothes, an rent, an' Tittles, an' light, an' fuel, an' doctors. an' Lord knows what all?" "A bag with holes!" ran throuch Aunt Pratt's mind as she looked back on the past six months. VV eefes passed on; the "bosses" were not only farm but hired other en in the striker's jdAces and went on. Tifh tho contract, roller sulked, and lounged and swore, and m.ido hU pipe and himself a daily nuisance In tho house. Before long Aunt Pratt dis covered that the assessments were de creasing, and alarmed lest Potter should insist on sharing her small property among his brood, on com munistic principles, she quietly with drew herself one day to an Old Ladies Home, whero the payment of a small um Insured lier a peaceful and pleas ant home for life; and from her retreat she gave much aid and comfort to the women of the Potter family, but re fused any to the two men. "I can't waste my pittance on beer and tobacco!" she said shandy, and she meant what she said. When she died, her money was all left to the Home where she lived, to endow two free admissions, the three women of the Potters to have the preference. "I have lived," said the document, after the terms of the bequest." to see what the bible meant where it says in Haggai, i. 6.Ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not tilled with drink, ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put in a -bag with holes;' and I will noHeave behind me any dollars to go into that bag." "Old crank!" said the disappointed Potter, when the lawyer finished read ing. "Who? Haggai P". politely inquired that gentleman. Rose IVrry Cooke. in FEMININE WONDERS IN KANSAS. aohlirmmu of tho Klr 8rx on tha Farm Rlpa for Woman. Safrraga- The young Kansas farmer goes out into tho fields at daylight and by nightfall hai cribbed ISO bushels of corn. The young man's sister can filay the piano, do the housework, aud n fuislest limes goes out with the men and does so much ivork as to astound her best friends. A pretty Dickinson County girl, aged 15, droie a self-binder over 1.200 acres and took care of the four hores hitched to the machine. During the spring she helped to plant 120 acres of corn, did the housework for a family of seven, went to ten dances; tried twice to elope, taught tho most interesting class in the Suuday school. and now talks of going to Africa as a missionary, aud says U the Lord speaks up loud enough she will go among the lepers. A Brown County girl looked after her father's grape patch of tea acres, picked the apples on 1.000 trees, and when her male parent pocketed $5,000 from the sale of the fruit did not ask for any of the money because she knew she wouldn't get a penny. She believes in the Alliance principles, can play tennis, row a boat, or ride the wildest horse iu the country. Another young woman living in Irving Township worked in harvest field as well as a man. herded cattle and sht-ep for several summers, and this winter will teach school. She has three young sisters, who are following in her footsteps. The bright daughter of a "squaw man on the reservation wants a white husband and she is wot thy of one. lier sister married an Indian, and her father gave them a farm aud a curse. lie thinks the unmarried one is too good for an Indian. She has tatisrht 6cliool. driven race-horses and won, has never been beaten la trade, equals any man in me country in tieetness of foot can shoot with the best of them, aud would work her hands off for her parents' sake. A Lincoln County girl got her father 10 give ner a farm and lives on it. looking alter eighty acres without help, and last year cleared $1,000. besides buying clothes, machinery, and stock. Hits year she has a girl friend for companion aud a hired man. A woman. 60 years old. has farmed nearNotawaka with continuous sue cess. Her place is small, yet she makes money and gives liberally to the ueedy. She never leaves her farm except to at tend the meetings of a woman's suffrage society. A Hiawatha woman who has a hus band helpless from rheumatism has kept him and a large family of child ren by directing work on an eighty acre farm. She is a zealous worker in church aud Sunday-school, and says sue owes no one a cent. lier farm and buildings are iu better shape than those of her more fortunate neighbors. There are huudreds of bright women and girls who have taken up claims in the western part Of the State and lived on them until they got a deed for the land. There are "huudreds of w omen in the State who mauage to keep men depending on them from goinghungry; there are hundreds of women who j-au do anything a man can do, or has ever done, and there are hundreds of women in Kansas who want equal rights with men. The signs are that what they ask will be conceded them. They have taken charge of the public schools. and no State in the Union has better. I hey are members of school boards. county and citv Superintendents, and teachers. They lead ia the educa tional and prohibition movement. They are making no noisy or threat ening clamor tor equal rights. They are simply showing bi- what ihev do that they are the equal of man aud that the ballot in their haud would not only be safe, but wisely used for the betterment of the people and de velopment of a stale that is coming to the front with greater strides than aiiy . i . i . otner in tne union. Bonbons of Courlahlp. It is a popular liction that a girl can marry a man without, as the saving is. marrving his family. It is not true. oomeiimes a grape uoes spring irom a thorn, and a pure, temperate son descends from a vile, sinful father. His mother's blood, perhaps, has saved him. Still, in marrying this man you marry the soiled family record, and must, to some extent, share in tho suf fering caused by his father's sins. Heredity we may or may not believe in, but we have all seen characteristics pass one generation by, to appear in greater strength in the second. You run the risk then, even if your luiHband is all that he should be. of beiusr an unhappy, anxious mother. . In respect to disease aud insanity the same law obtains. I am uot speaking in favor of the selfish, mercenary marriage, but I am advocating the intelligent counting of the cost before the con tract is signed. Parents who would be sliocked at their daughter's choosiug. as an intimate friend, a giti of whose antecedents they knew nothing, do not always refuse to allow that same daughter to marry a man whose fam ily they meet for the first time at the wedding. It is one thing to entertain an im maculately attired caller who briugs bonbons in one hand and roses in the other, and quite another to see him off-guard with his brothers and sisters in his environment, not the one your parents' culture and success have given you. He docs not seem like a stranger in your home, and yet you might never be anything but an alien in his. Helen Jay, in Ladies' Home Journal. A colored man made a reputation as a steeplechaser on the farm of Captain F. W. Green, on White's Creek, says tho Nashville American. A fox that had been captured in a trap was turned loose iu the face of a pack of hounds and a body of horsemen for a chase. The negro joined in the chase and actually outstripped both horses and dogs and captured the fa aliy with bis hands. THE WORLD OF SCIENCE. Siani is to have a $100,000 elt ctrio railway thirty miles long. Mr. Vlllard will spend tl.600,0C0 in transforming the street-car linos in Milwaukee so they can run by elec tricity. A Hoosier inventiva genius has re cently patented a votlug-booth that can be folded up into the smallest ponslble space tor transportation. Statistics show that about 13 per cent, of all railway accidents ia the Uulted States arising from derailments are caused by defective frogs and witches. The manufacture of ftlumlunai is lowly coming down to a practical com mercial basis. The Pittsburg Reduc tion Company turns out 3.000 pounds a week, and sells it for $2 a pound. Tha Company is behind its orders, and is Increasing Its plant. A lasting machine that enables one operator to last 8,000 pairs of shoes a week is one of the latest things in labor-saying machinery. It tackles anything from light feminine foot-gear to the heaviest brogans, and the pro duct is superior to baud work. 6" Ship railway projectors have been figuring on a route from Lake Huron to Lake Ontario, which if operated would cut out 428 miles of lake navi gation and 28 miles of canal between Chifiigo and Montreal. The railway would be 69 miles long and the esti mated cost $12,000,000. If cloth can be made out of fine spun glass, it would seem a simple matter to make ik out of wood, and this is done by boiling strips of fine grained timber, crushing them between rolls, raring the filameuts into parallel lines, as with ordinary textile material, and rpinulng them into threads from which cloth can be woven in the usual way. Electricity has not been practically applied in the art of muslo heretofore, except, perhaps, in the operating mechanism of church organs. George Breed, of the United States Navy, has devised a method by which the passage of a broken current over a conductor in a magnetic field produces tones of varying pitch and volume. Modern methods are changing con tinually towards simplicity and rapid ity in the smallest things. The Penn sylvania Railroad has introduced the measurement of oil by weight ia its supply department. An odd number of quarts can be run off more quickly by weight than by ladling. Oil aver ages about seven pouuds to the gallon. Fireproof construction of buildings is slowly growing more and more of an exact science. Species of porous terra cotta tilling is rapidly coming into use. Sixty thousand dollars' worth ot it was recently put into one building in Chi cago. Experts say. however, ttiat as far as tire-proof floors are concerned al ternate layers of plank and cemeot form the most impenetrable of con structions. Systems for distributing power in cities from a central station are com ing more Into use every day. Steam, electricity and compressed air are the common agents, but Paris has a system which is the reverse of that employing compressed air. Tho motors operate by a vacuum created by immense air pumps at the central staliou. The cost per horse power per hour Is 23 cents. about the same as with the ordinary gas engine w hen illuminating gas is used. The track mileage of street railways In the five leading cities of the United States is: New York. UGH. Chicago. 865; Boston. 829; Brooklyn. S2f ; Phila delphia. 824. The mileage of different motive powers is: For horses. 2.351; electric, city. 260; 'cable. 255; steam, elevated. 51; surface. 221. Three cities have elevated roads New York, 82 miles; Brooklyn. 24 miles, and Kansas City, A miles. Baltimore uses nothing but horse power motors, aud Scranton has uone but electric roads. A CANADIAN MISSIONARY. Father Ltcoatb and Hla Vuaalllna Flaa to tha Hlarkroot Indiana. " The history of the conquest of the wilderness contains no more pathetic story than that of how the kind old priest. Father Lacombe, warned the Blackfoot Indians against the coming of the pale-faces. He went to the reservation and assembled the leaders before him in council. He told them that the white men were building a great railroad, and in a month their workmen would be in that virgin country. He told the wouderiug red men that among these laborers would be found many bad tileu seeking to sell whisky, offering money for the ruin of the squaws. Reaching the greatest eloquence possible for him, because he loved thelndians and doubted their strengtb.'he assured them that contact with these white men would result in death, in the destruction of the In dians, and by the most horrible pro cesses of disease and misery. He thun dered and he pleaded. The Indians smoked and reflected. Then they spoke through old Crowfoot: "We nave listened. We will keep upon our reservation. We will not go to see the railroad." But Father Lacombe doubted still, and yet more profoundly was he con vinced of the ruin of the tribe should the "children." as he sagely calls all Indians, disobey him. So once again he went to the reserve, and gathered the chief and the headmen, and warned them of the soulless, diabolical, self ish instincts of the white men. Again the grave warriors promised to obey him. The railroad laborers came with camps and money and liquors aud numbers, and the prairie thundered the echoes of their sledge-hammer strokes. And one morning the old Criest looked out of the window of his are bedroom and saw curling wisps of gray smoke asceuding from a score of tepees on the hill beside Calgary. Angry, amazed, he went to his door way and opened it. and there upon the ground sat some of the headmen and the old men, with bowed heads, ashamed. Fancy the priest's wrath and his questions! Note how wisely he chose the name of children for them. when I tell you that their spokesman at last answered with the excuse that the buffaloes were gone, and food was hard to get. and the white men brought money which the squaws could eret. And what is the end? There are al ways tepees on the hills now beside every settlement near the Blackfoot reservation. And one old missionary lifted his trembling forefinger toward the sky, when I was there,, and said: Mark me. In fifteen years there will not be a full-blooded Indian alive on the Canadian prairie not one." .through all that revolutionary rail road building and the rush of new settlers. Father Lacombe and Crow foot kept the Indians from war, and even from depredations and from mur der. When the half-breeds arose under Riel, and every Indian looked to his riflo and his knife, and when the mut terings that preface the war-cry sound ed in every lodge. Father Lacombe made Crowfoot pledge his word that the Indians should not rise. The priest represented the government on these occasions. The Canadian states men recognise the value of his services. He is the great authority on Indian matters beyond our border; the am bassador to and spokesman for the Indians. Julian Ralph, in Harper" Weekly. . , , WIT AND HUMOR. The man w ho is always i licking a quarrel rarely complains of a short crop. .sr. top Acu'S. The fish that has felt a hook kn ows the danger or taklug snap judgment. A'ew QiUun IHeaynnt. Marrying rich widows, like drink ing liquor. Is often done solely" for tho etrecis." Texas Sijlinys. A woman has been known to beml a man's will during life ami break It after his death. liinghamlon LeivU r. It takes a good deal of money to keep rich men's sons going: but it doesn't tuko them long to get there. hick. There's a time for every thing. Tak ing off your boots after you get in bed Indicates a high old lime. .Utwjh imlon Lender. ' Hello, old spring from? man! Where did you pleasure bent. 1 siiiiioe." "No. my bov. on pleasure broke." Sf. Joseph News. "Your habits will be tho death of me." said Mrs. Illrsltley. "Well, your costumes are ruining me," retorted Mr. II. A, y. Herald? Keep your troubles to jourself; when you tell them you are taking up the lime of the man who is waiting to tell his. Atchison Globe. You don't catch me ever getting drunk again." "Why nol?" "Be cause while on my last spree I paid all my debts." Fiiegende Blatter. When a wlso man said: "Discre tion is the better part of valor," all the cowards in the world found a motto for their caps. Alehism (Jlobe. There never was a mau's prayer that did not have himself in it. nor a woman's that did not refer to either a man or a child. Atchison Ulobe. Mr. N. Peck "In all the jenrs we have been man and wife " Mrs. N. Peck "Husband and wife. Nathan husband aud wife." Atchison Globe. It has been hinted that the touching ballad. "Here Lies nu Air," was dedicated to the man who is const ant y bilking about his salary. IVasiinjtun New York is being treated to a Ger man play called '-Die Wilde Jagd." An adaptation of "Ten Nights iu a Barroom," probably. lndiantio!is Journal. "Do you not feel the eloquence of nature here on this glorious crag?'' she murmured. "Yes," he answered. ! lo. The mountain's peak." Philadel phia Times. Suooks "There were very few peo ple nt the funeral of Dr. Soonover.' Skaggs "No wonuer; hardly auy of his patients have survived him." Txts Silin'js. Most people seem to think a rumof Is like a subscription list. Every time it comes to them they add something to it and pass it along to the next Boston Traveller. Daughter "Why is it. ma. that a honey moon is supposed to last ouly three months?" Ma "At the end of three months the quarterly bills come in. i. l . neeKiy. Husband (gloomily) "I lost $50 last night playing poker." Wife And vet you can't afford to buy me a bonnet?" Husband "Well. I should say oot," Racket. You can't peel the bark off the hon est watch-dog that bays deep-mouthed welcome as you draw near home at S a. in. however much you may- desire to. Washington Star. "I love to sit before a blazing fire and watch the figures In the flame." "Vhell," said Isaacs, "Dher bleasure ohf dot dependts larchly on dher in surance." JV. y. Bun. Giles "How Is it you didn't send that borrowed money you promised when you knew 1 was sick?" De Jinks "You see. I heard yon were likely to die., Jlunse'ys Weekly. Teacher "Now. children, which state produces the most corn? Pupil Kentucky." Teacher "Wrong. Why do you say Kentucky?" Pupil Keu tucky produces the' most kernels." Proud Mamma "Look. Uncle John; isn't baby the perfect linage of his papa?" Uncle John "Yes. yes, my dear, but never miud. He may out grow it as he gels older." Journal of Education. First Band Leader Tm going to give a series of sacred concerts Suu daya" Second B. L. "What will be the special sacred feature of them?" First B. L. "O. I'll omit the usual in termission for beer." H'est Shore. Wanderer "Kind dame, can you give me a place to lay m dowu to die?" The Kind Dame Certainly. Just go up to the burn. My husband is the county coroner an' he hain't had a case for a month." Brooklyn Life. Mrs. Nutgall "What are you writ ing. John?'' Nutgall "A purely busi ness letter, my dear. By the w ay, how do you spell inamorata?" Mrs. N. (rising) With a . I'll show you, you wretch!" Boston Traveller. One Matrou "No: I do not nllow my husband to address mo by my Christian nam-." Auother Matron "I shouldu't miud that at all. It is the unchristian names he breaks out with every once in a while that I object to." Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Jinks (meaningly) "I asked Dr. Aquapura if whisky was good for colds and' he said 'No.'" Mr. Jinks "Well. I don't believe I've got a cold anyhow. It's something else. Did the doctor mention what disease wliis- lfi u? trnml forP" X V UWrhi Watts "Now, if I understand cor rectly, the first principle of socialism is to divide with your brother mau." Potts "Then you dou't understand it correctly. The first principle of so cialism is to make your brother divide wilh you." Indianapolis Journal. P. T. Barunm says that the press, pulpit and circus have worked to gether to civili.o. enlightea and raise the moral standard of the world. The toss, however, doesn't wait until the kes are foriv years old before it springs them upon the public. A"or- rt.slown Herald. "Now. children, I tell you, you must never steal. When you want new clothes the way to do is'to buy them on credit. Then you will always be well clothed; you won't have paid out auy money for them, and you will always be looked on as honest, respectable people." Fliegende Blatter. Dashaway "Cigar?" Cleverton Thanks (puff, puff) that's a good weed. Aren't (puff) you going to smoke too?'" Dashaway (examining the remainiug one closely) "No; 1 think not." Cleverton ""You must (pull) have given (puff) me (puff, puff) the wrong oue." Harper's Bazar. Young Husband (meeting his wife ou the street) "Horrors! is tho baby dead?" Youug Wife "What noi sense! Of course not. I just this mo meut left him as well as ever. Why did you think anything had happened?" Young Husband (with a gasp of relief) "Why. here I am ouly two blocks from home and I dou't hear him." Good News. Foreigners In the Itusaian Army. The military authorities of St. Peters burg have decreed that in future for eigners shall not be allowed to serve in the army unless they are willing to be come Russian citizens. HUMAN' .S0AJV COUHDS. PECULIAR SP-'J'M ! r-J'JMD IN THE FLATW V) 3 ; ) : fLOtlOh. Tholr Pnml n 1 IM-i.iti ..mt nm to Htnka Soap I'.in ..i ,.i r i-lr S'omtrlK Tilth-1 fi'll ti t,f IVhlaU. Ho was a tall, hint: individual, with homespun ahirt, opi-n at tho throat, jean troupers. Muffed in his bouts, a broadbrim tiliiiieii hut, n gun iietoss his arm and tlnj queerest complexion of any mortal I ever saw. Ho was the color of a froM-bliteii pumpkin, and his skin was us w riukled and wretched looking a a side of rtissi t leather that had lain iu the ruiu for many week. 1 met Um down In the natwoods of Moritla, on the road between Tallahas see ami Crawfordvlllc. I afterwards saw others with the same peculiar com piexion. but that fellow a image haunts me sin:, (seeing how intently l Mas gar-ing at this queer character, my traveling companion asKea: "Well, what do you think of him?"' w hat is her "Why, my friend, that is nothin more nor less man au animated soap gouru. . x- . .. .. .. . . . mil nn i mean to say that lie is a soap eater? ' Not exactly that, but he eats the in gredients and the soap is made itj bis stomach." You don't say! Explain." "Hell, you see, this section is under laid by a wonderful strata of lirneroek As a matter of course the well water is thoroughly impregnated with rotten lime, aud it is t lie. ouly tliiuking water tue people hereabouts have iiuite dif ferent from the pure water among the clay hills cose around J allaltassee." What lots that to do with It?" "Hold ou; I haven't made the con ned ion yeL These people eat very fat nog meni, ineir bread is made to rise by usitig great quantities of carbonate of so. I a, and when lliev get ail this mess in their atomachs the work of soap - making begins. Lime water, alkali of the soda, grens of the hog meat, heat of the stomach. See?" "Ugh! I dou't wonder at their hav Ing such yellow, parch meut like skin.' Un our way back we stopped at Jvim s house for diuner.so that I might 8-e that spread of soap-making ingre dients. As w e rode up to the door of the log cabin a pack of some dozen or more curs, of every conceivable size and color, came rushing.snarling and snap ping at our horses' heels. A tow- headed girl, of about fourteen summers. peeped around the corner of the but ami felled: -What yer want?" -van oujrour aogs, o.iuic, we are going to stay for dinner," said my com patiion. "Wall why don't yer 'light. Yer know them purps won't bite. Yer've bin here before, Dick. Who's that chau? lie's all right. Sallie. he wants your oan to ten mm about me hunting in thene parts." We hitched our horses to pine-saplings and had almost reached the door when a swarm of halt-naked, tallow faced, frowsly - beaded urchins sur- rouuuea us. .miss bailie Had come from the corner and was waiting to receive us, cordially inviting us to en ter. "Where are the old folks?" asked my nienci. "Main, she's a sotlin' out 'later viues. and dad, lie s a huutiu'. They'll be here arter while. Sot down." Sadie then went to the backdoor and placing a cow-horu to ber lips blew several iouu masts. "That'll fetch 'em," she said, as 6he came back into the room. In a few minutes the old lady, with her homespun skirts gathered up and tied around her waist with a string: came in. her rough hands full of mud and a tired look on her careworn face. Howdy, Dick, and you too, strang le, er? We returued her salutation, and she began to scrub the dirt from her hands, talking of the weather.of crops aud va vious other subjects the while. Sallie was spreading the bare table with tiu plates aud getting ready for the noonday meat. While these pre parations were goiug on the man of the hause came in and cordially greet ed us. He brought with him four or live wild turkeys which he had shot during the moruing and turned them over lo Sallie. with instructions to dress them ami mako ready for him to carry to the Tallahassee market next day. The diuner! I tried hard to eat, but wild visions ot human soap factories flitted before my agonized mental eyes aud I could uot swallow to save me. However, the other all ate wilh seem ing relish. The spread consisted of great gobs of fat pork, roasted sweet potatoes, boiled long-leaf collards. syrup black coffee without sugar and cor u bread. "You had good luck with your gun this morning." I said to the host. "No. notion' extra. I snap-icd a twig aud they jerked the'r heads up so snddiut thet 'l only got them four fel lers. I often picks up six or seven at a shot." "You don't mean to say that you brought down these f?ur turkevs at one shot?' Oh.-es; the way I shoots it's ea"y," "How is that?" Wa'II, yer see. I finds wharthe tur keys use; ihen I digs a straight trench 'bout four or five inches deep) and twenty or thirty paces long, nud right at tlicr end of it 1 piles a brush heap to bide behind; then I bails ther trench with coru and keeps bailin' it fresh ev'ry mornin' till I gets ther turkeys to com in' thar iu droves; then I goes' out soon in ther mornin' and hides belli ud ther brush heap; they turkeys dips ther heads to eat ther corn; they's all iu a line; tlieu I takes aim and pop she goes, and over conies a hull buuch of 'em my meal!" "That's a novel way to kill turkeys. Keeps your table well supplied, doesn't it?" 1 asked, tliiuking of the dinner before us. "Hog and hom'ny's good 'nougli for us." was bis reply. "I alius takes what game I shoots to Tallahassee and sells it. Wild turkeys bring too good a price for poor folks to eat 'em." I wondered what he did with the money from the sale of so much game, as I saw no signs of even the ordinary comforts of life about tho place, and iny friend, .reading the thought in my cyo, laughed, and. slapping Tom on the shoulder, said iu yvay of reply to my thoughts: "Tom, it would be better for you if you nte your game at home, instead of spending the proceeds in a big drunk, never saviug nioro than enough to buy a fresh supply of ammunition." As we rode back through the woods to Tallahassee, my friend told me that little Sallie and her mother did all the work about the place, raising what crops they could, and that Tom never did anything but huut and drink coru juice w hisky. N. Y. World. Clarence Phillips, a boy residing in Tampa. Fla., has been presented with a handsome medal of gold and silver by Mrs. J. C. Williams, from bravery in pulling out in a leaky boat to the rescue of a party of ladies in a dis abled yacht, ami succeeding iu gelling the imperiled craft into a safe harbor. Engraved upon the medal is a view oi Tampa bay. ALLISON, 55 AND 57 FIRST ST. Bcad-carte, BiigjfieR, Spring Waj ons, Blowers, Dinders, Feed Cutters, Pumps, Etc. WE CARRI A LARGE VAElEf ( Birlm. Carrtawa and Rprinf ITt'iu4 uiannriwtnrril KXPKKSSLf fur tba Paclfta Coatt Trade Write for Special Catalogue. We liar a mad. i band Soulli Fend We bare mada arranireuienta to handle tne illed Plows. ai d vilf dwpoao of our stock of GALE PLOWS at reduced prices II till ll'ij )o It Write fur PRICES. ALLISON, NEFF It CO, 5.1 t 57 FIRST Sr., SAX FRAXCHCt) BOOKKEEPING, SHORTHAND,! LLEGRAPII KXGLISH BBAftXHKS, C-5 LIFE SCHOLARSHIPS, - S75 o vacatione. Day and Erenlnc Seaalona. LADIES ADMITTED INTO ALL DEPARTMENT For further parUcalrra address T. A. ROBINSON. M. A, PrealdeoU Dance of His Satanle Blajeaty. A fantastic orgy was witnessed at the town of Loougi, the capital of liul lom, west coast of Africa, by a party of officers from the West I n'dia regi ment quartered at Sierre Leone. The Deoule of Lrftonsri ant Mnlnmnwilnn but the dancing devil himself is a relic of not long departed paganism, and so aiJMJ pruuauij ta me uauce nseu. It takes place in the courtrard of the chiefs premises, which is entered through a circular hut. The scene which presents itself to any one com ing suddenly out of the darkness into the noise aud glare is decidedly un canny. In the center of a circle whjch fills the courtrard the devil with an orthodox tail, a great crocodile's head. aud long grass, looking like hair, de pending from his body and legs and swaying as he moves, leaps, beating time with his feet to the ,b.-at of the drums; while the women, two deep. wail a chant and strike their palms togemer in slow, rhythmical measure. t nose in tne iront row bowing down between each beat. The young men in long robes and caps wait wun me women. IJoth are under vows, the danee being one of their rites. They look dazed to begin with, .but gradually work themselves into afrenzv; and the black faces, the monotonous, wailing cry. the thrum ming of the drums, the rattle of the c lackers, and the beat of the devil's feet as he springs up, crouches down. and swings about, make a scene to shock the quiet moon and stars and gladden GeheuDa. North of Sierra Leone Africa ia Mohammedan, south pagan, and the southern people have this devil. When peace is declared between two native tribes, the peace devil, who is fetish, comes leaping into the town: but if he stumbles or falls it is consid ered a bad omen and he is put to death for his pains. His dress is sacred, but nis person is of no consequence. ANovel Method of Taxation. Almost the first difficulty that besets a peopie trying 10 govern for them selves is the question of revenue W here IS tll llinnor In r n v .vrillz 1 1 W 1 1 1 I Tajes, the bugbear of all nations, also puzzle the Swiss. His method of raising them iu some of the cantons is alike interesting and novel: No of- hcial assessment is made of property. Blanks are distrihutml tn nrr to be filled in by iu ocenpauts. Th system is known as the 'progressive" tax scale. A. Whft OWna ft 1 flfVl nMl, .1 - . . wr " - . . ,4 v 1 j- erty. pays taxes only on half of it; B. who owns $25,000 worth, pavs taxes on eight-tenths of it. while C'with his $100,000 worth of property, pays taxes mi mo wuuie. Aue result, is that U Pats Dot tho nrnnnrtini.il hruni. ..-. j . . ...... u , ..iv.Liij-iitcr times the amount of A's taxes, but fifty nines as uiucii. a ne incume-tax is managed after a similar fashion. The rich pay out of all proportion to the poorer classes. They probably would not change places with the poor how ever, even to save what thev decry as unjust taxation. . The plan "is uot al ways a popular one. Leaviug every man to assess himself has the disad vantage that the rich, wilh stocks and bonds, sometimes do not m.-tkereturu of them. When a rich Swiss dies, however, the government control of his estate quickly makes amends for all his past misdeeds in the wav of as sessments, and every penny of taxes held back is now deducted", together with compound interest and tines. S. H. M. Byers, in Harper's Maya tine. Gough's Temptations. Speaking of Gough, Mr. Bosworlb said: -Ho was a great orator and a grand, noble man. but he was not a master of himself. I remember one time when a man put some whisky in a glass of soda water he was aliout tc drink. Just that taste was enough to set the appetite alire within him, and he went off on a protracted spree. "Very few people ever knew of this, bnl the fact is related iu one of his biogra phies. When he came out of it J never saw a man feel so in all my life. He cried like a baby aud vowed that he would never speak before an audience again, and, if I remember rightly, he canceled his engagements for the rest of that year. He has told me - man v times when passing saloons mounted on a horse he had dug the spurs into the beast's flanks and ridden for mile at breakneck speed to get out of reach of the temptation." Cleveland Leader. According to medical protest against damp or cold beds, warming pans should come into fashion again. One medical writer says: "Not only the guests, but the family, often suffer the penully of sleeping in cold rooms and chilling their bodies at a time when they need all their bodily heat, by get ting between cool sheets. Even ia warm, summer weather a cold, damp bed will get in its deadly work. It is a needless peril and the ueglect to provide dry rooms and beds has in it J:i5&"",ueuls of murder aud suicide." 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