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THE ADVERTISER. m VOL. V. NO. 24. K' A Lore Song Dearest dear, if thou wotildst measure What to me Is measureless. Half the pain or half the pleasure Of my love's great tenderness, I will touch my heart’s-strings for thee— Since to thee It doth belong— And the echo shall adore thee Tn a song within a song. As th<* sun ks~to the flowers, Aj the “tars—tu midnight sklrs; As tbs rainbow—to the showers, A# the light—to sightless eyes; As the flame is—to the fire, As the breeze Is—to the sea; As the gain—to the desire, So, dear heart, art thou to me! —On re a Week. A WEDDING PRESENT 1 HV IfKI.KN KOHIIKHT ORAVKS. “Carpet*, you,ig man, if you please!” ••id Mrs. Cackle. “What sort of carpets, ma’am? Mo quette? Wilton? Wc have soma very de¬ sirable importations of royal' velvet—’’ “No. brussels! The cheapest thing you base in bnuacl* that is nny way de¬ cent.” Mr*. Cackle sat up on the eighth floor of Meddle A Mint urn's great store, her •ilken flounces rippling aroun I her am¬ ple form, th’ bird-o f-pa rad iso plume on her hat nodding, ns if to give extra sig¬ nificance to every word she spoke, ller tan kid gloves, glntoning with many buttons, were distended with rings; her late scarf was fastened with a gaudy diamond-ict bar, nml her plump visage boro the trac.s of pearl powder and cream of roses, laid on with no sparing hand. Beside her sat her dear particular friend, Mhs U»slna Rufford, who al¬ ways played the part of D.unoa to her Pythias, and invariably wont shopping with her. “You sec, Uosinn,” said Mrs. Cackle, who was one of the kind that'talk very loulin public places, and indulge in all sorts of details, “it's for a wedding present. Lemuel gave me a cheek tor a hundroi dollars, and told me to buy a nice parlor carpet for his cousin, who is to be marital next month—’’, “Mr. Cackle is always so generuu*,’’ smiled M »s R ifford, whose now set of false teeth made her smiles very smiling indeed. “A hundred dollar.* did you say, dear? That will buy a very nice one, Indeed ! ’ “It would,” said Mr*. Cacklo, “if 1 was goose enough to buy it. But I don't mean to. Cackle's only a man, and men never do understand things. What do these out.in -tho- wilderness people under*tan l about carpets? And what do they want of tlie best grade? No, young man, I don'^^^mt any of the dolUr-and -a-quarter 1 Tries. Tliat’s too high. Haven’t you anything for about a dollar, or ninety cents. It needn’t be the wry finest quality, I toll you. If I spe id fifty dollars on it,” turning oaca more to Miss Rufford, “it'll be all that is nccossiir, , 1 and the extra sum I'll invest in a new satin gown for myself. 11a, lm, ha! Cackle is so very close with hi* check book that now aud then 1 have to circumvent him.” 4 « You aro so witty, dear,” tittered Miss Rufford. “Nothing under a dollar and twelve cent*?” shrilly repeated Mi** Cackle, a* the salesman came back again, “I couldn’t think of paying that. 11 ivc you do unsa'ablo patterns—nothing that nobody else will buy? The people that 1 want this caip-t for are dread¬ fully old-fashioned, and never will know the d Here nee.” ‘ Oh, my dear, you are too funny! said Mis* Rufford, behind her fan. “We have one,” hesitated the young clerk—“a scarlet ground, with inr monte olive-green pineapples all over it. We haven’t sold a yard off it. Everyl* dy teems afraid of it, and I ion t Nltl) think ‘ Let mo see it," said Mrs. Cacklo, promptly. The porter presently wheeled up a mammoth roll on a hand-barrow; the elerk unfolded its hideous, glaring pro portions where, against a scarlet ground, lomr monster vegetable en twined itself amon-* impossible scrolls. « * You see, ma'am, it is quite unsala Me, said thc clerk, “Mr. Meddle was talking of donating it to tho recop tion room of the B ink and Doddle Orphan Asylum, at-” “It is a little pecu.iar,” said Mrs. Cackle, eying it through her lorgnette. “Quito—ahem!—what I should call an art carpet.” “Oh, my dear Louisa!” giggled Miss Rufford. 4 * But very striking,” said Mrs. Cackle. ‘ Quite *o, ma'am.’’ said the clerk, coughing spasmodically behind his pocket- handkeiclief. “What miii you let uie take it for!” said Mrs. Cackle, in ui buaiae»x-!ike way; ‘ Eighty cent*, ma’am,” said the e'fuk. “Say ft vent jr« five,” * puke the cast o- “Wo conldn’t, indeed, ma’am. It coat u* more than that to import it.” “I’ll tako thirty yards,” said Mis. Cacklo. “Let me see” (calculating on the fat tan-colored finger* where the rings bulged out so obtrusively), “naught’s a naught, eight times nnught’s —that will come to twenty-four dollars, won’t it, young man?” ‘‘Twenty-four dollars, ma’am?*’ said the clerk, scarcely able to repress his amazement that any one in their semes should buy so ugly a carpet. “And that will leave seventy-six out of tho check,” s&id Mrs. C'ack'c, glee¬ fully. “I tell you what, Rosmn—I can trim tho black satin with the very nicest Escurial lace. I i-uppose ihese back-country barbarian* will invito me to the wedding, and I’d like to wear something that will just paralyze them! And my husband will never bo any the wiser. Da look, Rosina! * nudging her companion. 4 ‘What a beautiful mo quette that tall young lady in tho black ailk suit is choosing! I've got to have something new in my reception-room next year. I wish I coil'd atlord—’’ “The address, ma'am, please?” said tho clerk, pencil and pad in hand. Mrs. Cacklo hesitated. “Well, I don’t know, ” said she, “I suppose it had batter In sent at once, with cur card, to tho brile. Give me the paper, young man, if you please. I’ll write it down, so that there can't possibly be any mistake. “I tell you, Roiiiia,” she ndde l, as she sat in the elevator, being lowered down to the level of the surface world, “i wish I knew who that elegant young lady was who was looking at the white* aud-pearl moquette carpet! I’d like to »9k her for the pattern of that shoulder cape, I’m sure it must have come di rect from Paris. ” “Well, my dear,” said Mr. Cackle, as he sat down to the soup and roast beef of the plentiful table at homo, “what sort of a parlor carpet did you bu/ for cousin Erminic?” “Oh, a beauty!” said Mrs. Cackle, spreading out her nipkin to protect her dress. 4 * Did you use all my check? ’ “Yes, every dollar of it,” auswered Mrs. Cackle, salving her conscience with tlte recollection of the black satin nud the Escurial laec, which were al¬ ready in the dressmaker’s han Is. “I hojie th&y’ll be p en*oJ,” sa d Mr. Cackle. “It's very essential to make a favorable impression, I beg you to re¬ member, my dear, on these relations, for tho young man Erminic is to marry is a relative of the head of our firm, and could, I’ve no doubt, recommend me for advancement.” “Why didn’t you tod mo all this be fore?” said Mrs. Cackle, with a pang of tardy remorse. “But how on earth did your country cousin come across such a good match?’ “Oh, I don't know! I believe lie came out to G'assybrook fishing or gun¬ ning or something. M nnie is very pretty, they tell me.” ‘'Humpht*' said Mr*. Cacklo. “Red cheeks and black eyes, and hair cut in a pointed bang right down fo the top of the nose—I know what these rustic beau tie* arc!" The time for thi welding arrived. The Cackles, in their holiday attire, traveled down to G assy brook —and there, on the drawing-room floor of an elegant icmi-Italian v.lla, Mrs. Cackle recognized the very white-and-pearl moquette carpet that she had so coveted at Meddlo & Minturu’s. Au 1 the bride —already in her white silk and floating reil> to whom shc Wl9 illtroducei a9 Miss Erminie Brooks, soon to become | Mr9 )IoW9ri Cretpiguy—was none | olhe r than the elegant young lady in j t he Paris wrap and the perfectly-fitting gloves and boots, an l who had heard every detail of the bargain for the un | salable carpet. ' If the cracks in the fl >or underneath the moqu , tto C3 i ors cou i d but have I openci anJ 9Wallowed Mrs Cackle . up ^ lhat raoinont< what a „ indescribable relief it WO uld have been! “I have to thank you. Mr. Cackle, for rrosent ,” sa id Erminic, in her gloWf ^ecidy way; and her smile was a r jjd e .q hope you liieJ it » saiJ honest Mr . C acklc. looking down at the rose an d. pC arUhades of the soft pile, that c , osed P arot , a d his foot Kkc forest mass. 4 * It certainly . , . , is a pretty pattern. Mrs. Cackle shot . imploring ... glance , an ' at the , ... bride—i ” g , ance that said, ... plainer * . than . words. . “Don , t . betrav me!’ —and , .h. ..... Irndt .o fib .... w„h .omAod, . . else abtut something else. She did not enjoy ..... the back satin dress . with the L.curmi trimmings __® so much , u she ... h*d expected. r , The Paris costumes of tae “back country J cousins . left her far in the shade. “I'll never go to that dowdy dress¬ maker again, ’ *-aid *ho in a rug;. But she did, for Mia Biggs was cheap. and Mrs. Cackle was economic*!. On the nrj first pall the uwd« thfie after . FORT GAINES. GA„ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1890. her trip to GUssybrook, however, she gave a great start and stared around her like one who beholds a ghost. “My goodness me!’’ cxclaimad she. “Wuere did you get that carpet?” “Isn’t it nice!’’ said Miss Biggs, beaming through her eyeglasses. “It was a present from Mrs. Howard Crcs. pigny. Her mother was onco a cus tomer of mine. Wasn’t it thoughtful of her? ’ Mrs. Cackle made a little noise as if she was swallowing something, and said ve*, she thought it was. Mrs. Howard Crespigny was the bride. The carpet was her own wed* ding gift—the identical “unsalable pattern.” And Mr. Cacklo never re¬ ceived promotion in the linn of Harrl man & Cresp : gny on the recommenda¬ tion of his new reiation-in-law. Mr. Cackle thought it very strange; Mrs. Cackle didn’t .—Saturday Night. The Beginning of a Bottle. Tho process begins with the gatherer. Hi* blowpipe is a tube of wrought iron, five or six feet long, and of lighter weight than the pipe used in blowing window glass, lie dips the end of his pipe into tho molton contents of the boot, and brings out a mass of red-hot plastic glass. If the bottle* to be blown are small, one gathering suffices, but, for larger ware*, two or even three gatherings may be necessary to get the requisite supply of material on thaend of the blowpipe. When tho gathering is done properly, this lump of red-hot glass is a perfectly hom igoneous mass. Its subsequent fortuie* rest with the blower, lie takas tho blowpipe from the gatherer, an l resting the plastic glass against a mirveriug table of stone <>r cast iron, lie gives the pipe a few adroit rotations, thus fashioning the glass into an even cylindrical shapo. By further rolling it along the edge of the tabic he forms the smaller prolonga¬ tion of glass which is afterward to be¬ come the neck of the bottle. Lifting the still red-hot glass from tho table, he blows t trough the pipe, forming a small bubble of air in the interior ol the mass of glass. This is afterward extended until it becomes the inward¬ ness of the bottle. Tho partly fashioned bit of glassware is now introduced into the mold which one of the “shop” boys has already opened to receive it. For convenience in working the mold is placed on a somewhat lower level than that on which the blower stands. It is made of cast iron and commonly formed in two pieces. One of these is stationary, while the other opens outward, its ino tion being controlled by a foot-lever. When the blower places his incomplete j bottle, still attached to the blowpipe, 1 into the mold, he closes the mold with j his foot and blows through the pipe until the plastic gins* is everywhere forced against the side* of the mold, and has impressed upo n it the form of its prison .—Popular Sc once Monthly. A Death Test. If most people are afraid of anything it is of being buried alive. That cases do happen where it is very difficult even for the most experienced phys c an to determine whether a person is really or only apparently dead without having recourse to means which, while they would at once settle the dispute, would P lrc8 life . if rcali y rtill existed, in jeopardy, may be judged from the fact tbtU tho French Academy of Science, tcu or fifteeQ ago, offered a prize equal to f>SOOO, for the discovery of some mean* by which even the inex¬ perienced might at once determine whether in a given case death had en¬ sued or not. A phys : cinn obtained the prize. He had discovered the follow in S ^11-known phenomenon: If the hand of the suspected dead person is ; toward a candlo or other artificial ^S^t, with the fingers extended and ‘ touching the other, and one one looks through the spaces between the fingers toward the light, there appears a scarlet I teX color whcrc the touch each othcr ’ dae to thc bIood stiH circulating, 1 sllows it8el f through the tissue* which have not yet congested. When I lifc is cat5rel 7 extinct the Phenomenon of scarlet space between the fingers at • once ceascs ‘ The most extensive and thorough trials established thc truth of thU -»• W* Farming in Spain. In Spain farming is conducted in * Grain _ . . with ... very pr.mitive wav. is cut small ,, . . hook , anl , .. thrashel , , a reaping as m the , . of , the Cff*us, _ that . . . , by tramp time is, mg . aboui . . with asses hitched to a stone . bo>t The . crookcJ sllV £ pointed . . . with ... iron. . Iiihe _ . towns are to be seen . heavy woolen , ca ts . drawn , by oxen. M , r »->t * of r the u carrying, trans ferrtsg, , . etc., . . done , . by donkeys, . is ,, 5*md, , , brie*, . . . lumber—m . . fact , . almost , everything ... that , , has to , be moved—is . , carried on their back*. Taeso animals are u*ei all through Spain, and fir <*Tery purpo-e in the same wav in which we use th:m in th* nlxaoet impassably <^aon% of the Rocky Meuntam*, ONLY A FEW LEFT. Great Scarcity of Whales in the Arctic Ocean. Steamers and Natives Reduce a Once Profitable Business. “The Arctic whaling fleet,” said Captain Kelly, a whaler, to a San Fran¬ cisco Chronicle reporter, “is now re¬ turning to port, and tho news from the whaling ground is very discounting, tho catch, at latest reports, not exceed¬ ing sixty-four whales, This number will not be increased a great deal, ou account, of the lateness of the season when the last report was made, This is certainly not an encouraging pros¬ pect for the owners or crews of these vessels. The amount of capital invested in the business sailing out of San Fran¬ cisco is considerable, There are ten steamers, twenty barks, five schooners and two brigs. Two vessels have been wrecked this season—one bark and one steamer. The decline in whale oil lias been so great within the last eight years that, com¬ paratively speaking, little has been brought into the market, whalebone being the great inducement in tho pur¬ suit of the business. The high price paid for whalebone, for which there is no proper substitute, lias gradually wrought this great change in the yearly catch; particularly during last season. To show how this has been brought about and to give a fair understanding to all those interested in the business let us go back to 1871, when the first rifllcs were u cd in killing the walrus. From that timo until 1883, when the price of oil aud ivory began to decline, the slaughter of the walrus was so great that they were nearly exterminated, and the few left were so wild that the report of a rifle was the signal for the whole herd to plunge into the sea ancl disappear among the vast fields of ice. Like all game the constant pursuit drove them back to safer retreats until now very few are met. When walrus were plentiful whales were plentiful; the walrus ground was also good whale ground, for the whales, walru* and seals arc at times very sociable in their habits. With the decline of tho walrus business steamers were introduced to pursue tho whales among the great ice fields where it ha9 been consilercd dangerous for sailing vessels to go. Before tho advent of the steamers tho whales, on being disturbed, would re¬ treat into the ice pack, but would re¬ turn frequently to the open sea, when the hunters would get a chance at them. This would continue at inter¬ vals uutil early m tho full, when the whales would come out in large num¬ bers and were easily taken, Now they take alarm at the noise of the steamer’s propeller and retire farther into the ice. The steamers can follow them where the sailing vessels dare not go.” Another and perhaps more serious cause of the failure of late yeari is that the demand for and increasing price* of whalebone has brought into compe¬ tition a force hitherto despised. This consists of tho Indians living along the coast of the Arctic seas. A few years ago the Indiau was catching a few whales in his primitive way. What he took in no way interfered with the whaling industry— the blubber ho ate and the bone he traded with the ships— but it was not long belore be discovered that whalebone was highly prized by tho white man, and that the Indian cfbuld get anything he asked for in ex¬ change. A great con pjtition arose for the trade among the ship* and traders, •nd the Indian soon learned to ask for mort than the bone was actually worth in the market, and unlawful means had to be resorted to to obtain the bone. Consequently the natives were soon sup p ied with everything their hearts could' desire. They became insolent, and seeing that bone could buy any¬ thing, and that they were at a disad¬ vantage with the white man in whal¬ ing, they began to ask for b)mbs, guns, bomb lances and haipoons. These were readily given them in exchange for their whalebone by the thoughtless whalemen. Then they wanted whale¬ boat* and complete equipments. Soon the native* were supplied all a'ong the coast from Cape Bshrmg to Point Bar row with the whalemen's equipments, which they were not slow in learning to use. This year there wen over 300 bomb* fired from along thc shore and only eight whales were caught by the native*. If this thing continues it will soon result in the total extermination of the whale* in the north.” Captain Kelly also spoke cf the in¬ famous traffic in ri.ru which had been introduced in the Arctic by renegade white men and unscrupu'ous whalers to wrc*t from the Indian by lawless means his bone and ivory, and ts aim ulate him in the daughter of whales. The native*, he i&id, have manufacture rum, or, as they call it, nooebenoo, from flour and molasses, until now nearly every other Indian has his private still. A Japanese Funeral. The eldest daughter of Otani Kahei, a rich rice merchant of Yokohama, died four days ago, 15 years of age, and to¬ day, says Frederick Stearns in a letter to the Detroit Free Press, I witnessed the fuucral procession as it passed along one of .the main streets of the city. It was nearly a mile in length aiul con¬ tained probabl/ a thousand persons, in¬ cluding mourners, friends, priests and flower-beams. First came six great bouquets or stands of flower* arranged in a conical form, each about eight feet high, two feet in diameter at the but tom, tapering to the top. These con sisted of alternate circles of flowers and evergreens, and were strikingly effec¬ tive in character. The stem or. liaudlo of each was a green bamboo about five inches in diamoter tfXe 1 at the bottom in a somewhat ornamental wooden base. They were carried braced to shoulder poles by coolies, with relays of men to relieve them occasionally. Following these were six stands of artificial flow, ers, gilded and silvered; after those the young female relatives and friends of the dead girl, richly dro*sol, each in a jin-riki-slia. Then came no less than fifty-two enormous stands of flowers and evergreen!—such a* first described borne in pair*, followed by a large number of tsukuri-bann (artificial fl iwers). Then came a sol¬ emn-looking “Shin-kwaa” (Shinto priest), who tapped upon a sacred drum; after him a number of sacred musicians in full dross and hats, play¬ ing upon small bamboo fifes. After these, in jin-riki-shas, a number of Buddhist priests, with shaven head*, dressed in rich-colored robos, holding in their laps some symbolic vessels con¬ taining rico and other, to me, un¬ known substances. Over these wore held enormous crimson paper umbrellas, carried by bearer* dressed in white. After these came a man holding “Ihai,*' a wooden tablet on which the name ol the dead girl was written; then two -men followed with incense burners; then many more stands of flowers, both natural and artificial. Tncn came khe body in a plain coffin covered with white, borne high upon a platform, over which was r. canopy. Then fol¬ lowed tho relatives on foot, and friends of tho deceased’s parents, and after them the public. At the cemetery hun¬ dreds of boxes containing sweetmeats were givin away to tho friends, and tea was served to all who wished. Much of the ceremonywa* unintelligible to me, but as a public spectacle it was remarkable. 1’ulpit to Gambling House. “Speaking of mysterious disappear ance=,” said Captain Nelson, at tho Girard house last night, “a case of that kind tore up Savannah society a few years ago. One of the most popular clergymen in the city ki$3el his wife and children after supper one evening, and loft his house to go to a service at his church. Ho never appeared at the church, and was never seen in Savannah again. Detective* were employed to search for him, and a large amount ol money was expended on the investigi tion, but all to no avail; and within six month* the conclusion was reached that he had either committed suicide or had been murdered. A year or so later a young physician from Savannah, who had betn an attendant upon this clergy¬ man’s ministration, was in Pari*, and was making the round* of the city with some friends. They went into one of the swell gambling homes, and had not been there many minutes before a man enterei whom the Savannah doctor im¬ mediately recognize l as the fugitive preacher. The physician accosted him by name, whereupon the ex-clergyman drew him into a corner and him to be siient and discreet. ‘I am, ’ he said, ‘one of the proprietors of this house, and I am making money here. The profession of the minister/ grew utterly cbhorrent to me, and the desire for an adventurous life took complete possession of me. I could do nothing but abscond from the town in which you knew me. I rely upon you not to expose me.’ “The facts,” continued Captain Nel¬ son, “were told me by the physician, who is now one of the most eminent and successful members of his profes¬ sion in Savannah.”— Philadelphia In¬ quirer. The Origin of Dogs. Tiie question of the origin of the dog has recently been discussed by Professor Xehring, who believe* that it has de scended from various *tiilsurvivingspe¬ cie* of wolvss and jackals. The latter anim&’s can be tamed, and many at* tempts to domesticate wolves have been successfully made in recent times. Ileyr Rouge has so eomplotely tamed a young w<^Kot it follows hhu exactly as a dog Opmio.^. ■ WILL B. GRAHAM, Editor and Manager. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Fortune can take away riches, but not courage. A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reasou. Everywhere in life the truo question is not what wc gain, but what we do. Duty frowns only when you fleo from it; follow it, and it smiles upon you. Strong thoughts arc iron nails driven in tho mind that nothing can draw out. The weakest spot in overy man is where ho thinks himself to be tho wisest. The most completely lost of all days is the one on which wo have not laughed. Wo deceive ourselves in mon much more frequently through suspicion thau through confidence. Our grand busiuess is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do wliat lies clearly at hand. If thou wouldst attain to thy highest, fjo look upon a flower; what that does witlessly, do thou willingly. The Great Wall of China. The great wall of China was measured in many places by Mr. Uuthank, an American engineer, lately engaged in a survey of a Chinese railway, llis measurements give it an average height of eighteen feet, and a width on the top of fifteen foot. Every few hundred yards tho wall is widened and sur¬ mounted by a tower twenty-four feet square, and from twenty to twenty-five feet high. The foundation of tho wall is of solid granite, Mr. Un thank brought with him a brick from the wall, which is supposed to have been made 200 years before tho time of Christ. In building this immense stone and brick fence to keep out the Tartars, the builders never a* tempted to avoid mountains or chasms to save expense. For 18J0 miles the wall goes over plains and mountains, regardless of nature’s greatest obstructions. The foundation is everywhere the same gray granite, as solid as it was 2000 yeais ago, and the remainder of tho structure of bricks, as good as tho average that arc made today. In some places the wall is built smooth up against the banks of canyons or precipices where there is a sheer descent of 1000 feet, Small streams are arched over, but on the larger streams the wall runs to tho water’s edge and a tower is built on each side. On the lop of the wall there are breastworks, or defenses, fac¬ ing in and out, so that defending forces could pass from one tower to another without being exposed to an enemy from either side. To calcu'ato tho timo taken to build, or tho cost of this monstrous work, is beyond human skil 1 . So far as the magnitude of the work i* concerne’d, it surpasses every¬ thing in aucient or modern times ©/ which we have any. knowledge. Tho Sanitary Soldier. The sanitary soldier learns to dis. tingui*h the various kind* of bleeding, and that hemorrhage proceeding from the arteries is the most dangerous. Here his previous anatomical knowl¬ edge comes into play, for, knowing where the arteries run. he easily recog¬ nizes the paints where ho can comprcas them to check bleeding. He extempo¬ rizes contrivance* for maintaining this pressure by various molification* of bandage*, by certain manipulations of a pair of short rod* and by bending a joint upon a hard body. He becomes expert in the application of modern surgical dressing* to shot-gun wounds, in avoiding wound-poisoning and in the treatment of other more common varieties of poisoning, whether the agent be applied externally or taken in¬ ternally. If a comrade fall unconscious by the wayside, the sanitary soldier is ready w.th the proper treatment for his re¬ suscitation, for the discrimination be¬ tween the varieties of insensibility and a familiarity with the methods of treat¬ ing each has been a prominent factor in his instruction. Drowning is naturally a subject that falls under consideration, and the work upon this accident be¬ gins with a study of the best methods of rescuing a person in danger of it, and then extends to the treatment of the patient when safely landed, The sheet-anchor in treating many other kinds of insensibility as well as this is ar'ificial respiration, and frequent drill in thi* procedure renders the sanitary soldier expert in it* application.— Sribner. To Cat an Apple into Quarters. Pa*s. a string by means of a needle acres* the apple, which is divided by pulling the two ends of the string, crossing under thc peel. Operate in the maimer on the opposite side of tly»«pp>*. so m to divide it into a second ha f, »ud it will be perfectly divided into quarters, although enveloped by a»§ m k When the Train Contes in. There are eager faces near, And a half-subdued cheer, As around the curve the cars unsteady spin; While impatient feet await For the opening of the gafe\. At the station when the train comes in. There is handshaking and kissing And inquiries for the missing, And a searching here and there for friends or kin; There are sad and tearful sighs, And a waving of good-bys, At the station when the train comes in. Then from out the baggage car, Oh, so careful, lest to jar, Comes a long and narrow box amid the din. As the mourners gather round, There’s a sobbing, wailing sound, At the station when the train comes in. Then the ringing of the bell, And the whistle, clearly tell, They are ready a new journey to begin. For it brooks not to be late, There are other hearts that wait At the station when the train comes in. —Helen F, O' ye’ll in Family Album. HUMOROUS. When you kill tune it is your own. Ono can nover tip a waiter so that ho loses his balance. It is not unusual to soe a tall mau short of funds, “Never say dyo” is a motto that somo barbers would grow poor on. Woman was made aftor matt, but man has been after woman evor since. “Somo of tho best people in the country put up with me,” said the pawnbroker. The man who is hung may not bo much of a reportor, but ho is successful in getting tho noose, Somo people get mad anil go to law. Others fight, send for a policeman and let tho law como to them. Braggs—This is a little Into Inr you to be out, isn’t it, Peck? Aren’t you afraid your wife will miss you? Mr. N. Peck—I hope she will. She can fling things pretty straight, though. Lady (leaving a store)—I am up to tho tricks of these merchants. I made him como down $2 on tho price. Mer¬ chant (to himself)—I inn up to the tricks of them lady customers. I pu the price up $4. Albert—“Say, George, don’t you think Miss Itoscbui is beautiful? Don’t you think she has fine regular features?” George (who has just proposed and been rejected) — “Well, to toll the truth, Albert, Idou’t like her nocs.” Now chill winter’s surly blasts Are howling cross the wold, And he whose coal is not laid in Will find the world is cold. The “American Beauty.” The exquisite American Beauty, which, sosay3 a florist, is the most popular and best-selling rose in all the market, bas a pleasing little history of its own. In tho first place, it is tho only new variety of rose that America has given to tho world. France and England have pro¬ duced nearly all the cultivated varieties. America but this incomparable one. Curiously onough, too, the flower was not tho result of cultivation. Without waiting to have its advent into the world encouraged by the coaxing proc¬ esses of hybridization, this sturdy floral exponent of American enterprise was found one morning, perfoct in form and color, exquisite in fragrance, on a scrubby little bush in the garden of a Washington gentleman. Its unusual beauty attracted the immediate attention of flower lovers, but when tho classifica¬ tion was attempted no variety was found to include the new specimen. How it 1 produced has never boen ascer¬ was tained. Somo 1 a > ero*s between two especially idieted varieties, and that cross the result of chance, probably originated this marvo'ous and perfect variety of the rose. Lsyat to our Ameri¬ can genius, it is emphatically self-made. -Chicago II raid. A Grand Mexican Volcano. An American railroad contractor named Stephen Heston ha* beeu an eye¬ witness of the late eruption of the vol¬ cano of Colima, which is thirty milqs north of the Mexican city of the same name. This volcano has its crater at »m elevation of 20,000 feet abovo thc in level, and is very active, intermittently throwing up a column of 6moke and red-hot ashes hundreds of feet in the air. These spasmodic eruptions occur about ten or twelve times a day, and are followed by reports similar to the dis¬ charge of artillery. A few days before the earthquake the volcano vcmited a dense black smoke that hung like a pall over the country for miles around, thi* phenomenon lasted for several days, and was accompanied at intervals by •bow¬ ers of red-hot ashe?, which descended upon its side, It is not known whether any lava is being thrown out, as the re 1-hot ashes make investigation impos- * lible. At night tha sudden eruptions present a magnificent appearance, The*« sudden spurts illuminate the country for .. md, aqd the spectacle uA grand one- '~~Pananm Star and A