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CHILDREN'S COLUMN Tli»nk«uiC"K. o: children, little child ran, In happy homes today, lili-Hsed with kind friends and parents, With love and cure tilwity, Remember those who suffer, Remember tlioe* in need. And on tills day,shed some bright ray Of light upon the way. 0! children, little children, Who sit at feasts today, At. tiibb-B spread with plenty, A bountiful array; 'Think of the poor and starving, Think of the lono and sad, And on thi: lay, for such as they, Do some kind act, I pray. (iiitiig SkiitDH it N»*w Invention, Cinderella’s glass slipper bids fair to become something more than a my h, though the modern ( inderella will need no fairy godmother to fur nisb her with a coach in which to ’.................. Hoi ulijipen, will answer the purpose The modern Cinderella s glass elipper is a skate, of winch the upper part resembles a slipper open be land, with a split “lace-up heel-cap. The Age of Steel describes this new skate as a skate of glass, hardened by consistency . . of , a new I"".....* steel. I, very part of the skate is of g uss rom the slippev-Uko upper to the glittering blade. It is said that the glass blades are i.m.d. more slippery than steel ones and that they will run almost as well over rough, snow-covered ice as on a smooth ice-sbeet, and will also go eas.ly over inequalities, twigs and other obstructions. They are made very sharp, and are so hard that it is almost impossible to blunt them. They are unlike steel skates, in that they never need grind¬ ing, and never rust. The new skates are ns pretty as they are efficient. They are very neavly transparent, and in some cases the glass, while in the liquid state, is variously colored. Several notable skaters are said to have tested them, in every case with satisfactory results. Ho tho pretty skates, with their sharp blades, will, in all probability, Boon he seen skimming over lakes and streams, and youths and maidens who long ago relegated the Cinderella story to tho legion of their childhood, will take u renewed interest iu glass slippers. The Largest Pie mill 1’iiilillng. Thanksgiving for blessings received or national rejoicings of any kind, have been for more than a century celebrated in Yorkshire, England, by the making and euting of immense public pies or puddings. Probably the largest plum pudding ever made was thnt of Ptidsey, iu the \Ve§t Riding, made in 184<i to celebrate the repeal of tho corn laws—a Free Trade Pudding it was called. The flour alone weighed 280 pounds, and suet, fruit, etc., wore added in proportion. The ingredients were divided among twenty housewives of the village, who each mixed her share into the requisite consistency tor the tinal bloiuling* The pudding was boiled in an immense i ye pan a one o le noa at ones, ainl was lowered into tho pan ma large suck made for the purpose and by means of a windlass and chain. It nights and , i was K then ( ° r t hoisted irUe t ' ayS on V to a truck, decorated with flags,and drawn through the village by four horses, ft was taken to a large field aud cut up f x t ; ..... i:k s fi * ado. y l t Each ( l guest „ 1 paid 1 n ? v ° shilling 1 u ir " 1 for . a a it, and provided his own plate and spoon. One of tlni biggest pies . on record was luade at Derby Dale, near Hud derstiecd, a place noted since 1788 for its -national pies, to celebrate the re coverv of (leorge III from an illness. A second one. to celebrate the peace Winch tallowed the battle of Waterloo, was made iu 1815; but the largest of all was made last year iu eommemova tion of the Jubilee of Free Trade. Tho dish in which it was baked was teii loot long and six and one-half feet wide, and was made of steel boiler piate neatly half au inch thick. Ihe entire contents of the pie weighed oi'20 pounds; one thousand pounds of beef, 150 pounds of mutton aud 200 pounds of veiil and lamb being put in to it. Ihe crust took 1000 pounds of flour and lo2 pounds of lard. It was baked iu an oven built for tlie pur pose, and was n perfect success: Visitors from every part of England flocked to Derby Dale, and the monster thanksgiviug without pie was entirely oaten up. any waste or disorderli ness. New York Tribune. , A Novel Game. A popular device for n drawing room game is the sliced animal game, Frow four to ten can engage in the game. Players should be seated at a table; if four play, a card table will answer ; if ten, it is better sport to gather around a dining table. Conn ters must be provided for each person taking part in the game, a color for each; thane are readily made of thin cardboard, yellow, red, bine, pink, green, violet and their shades, to gether with black and white, will fill the necessary number. Each chooses his or her color and retain* one at the left hand for proof. A file is required to check a point, so it will be neces¬ sary to have n hole punched in the Centre of the counter*. For sociability alternate in seating a girl and a boy. The box of sliced animals is turned out on the table, w ith face downward. Knelt person in turn takes four slices. The one at the left, of the person who draws lust plays first. lie (or she) j lays one of her sections out face up; the witty player w ill try to puzzle the next player by a blind* lead; that is, he will lay out a bind leg, part of or whole trunk of the creature, but never give away the animal by a lead. For instance, one leads a tail; the next player scans bis sections to see if he has part of the trunk which goes with that tail—it may be a lion’s tail—if he can add (or build) to this, the hind part of the body, he does so; if not, he can and anything which suggests to him a completion of the aninml he takes it to be I he has not the right section, he draws one from the pile in the centre of the table, and if this does not match the next person tries. II 1„ ........ aajrtblM lbs. he deposits a counter on the tile, There must be no suggestions as to what the animal may be Silence must be strictly observed Grave and grotesque errors amid shouts of laughter is the life of the game. When the animal is completed the one who has , contributed the most . members , of , the body wins one point. Ibis[is shown by the counters on the hie. The completed animal is left aside and another is begun after the same fashion. Perhaps this time with an eye or an ear. Whoever wins the most points is presented with a prize, A child « book of animals would be suggestive of animal study for first prize, Noah’s ark fqr second. A Busy Kxecut.ioner, Frauces Courtenay Baylor tells an old fashioned fairy tale in the Ht. Nicholas, under the title of an “End less Story. It begins in this prom lsing way: There was once an Oriental king _ whoso chief delight and recreation bom the cares and burdens of his royal condition was to listen to stories, Reading was by no means a universal accomplishment iu the kingdom of Kaziwar, and its sovereign cn ed noth¬ ing for parchment records or pictorial representations of the ancient history of his own people or those of any other country. It was the delight of his leisure hours to stretch himself on a divan in the beautiful courtyard of , his . palace, , and, , amnl the plashing ... of , lts fountains and the odor of its flowers, to have the cleverest ana most imnginnfive and traveled of his subjects tell him tales of every kind, while his courtiers, grouped about him, shared his pleasure, and were punished withnothiug less than death if they yawned three times in succes¬ sion, or were guilty of the least in¬ terruption. The king’s passionate fondness for this form of diversion, and the great rewards that he heaped upon the men who had tbe good for¬ tune to keep him amused, naturally resulted in his court becoming the rendezvous of all the most brilliant talkprs (th t kiud in that , t of the ™ven y SCiV the 8mftU t piece of paper in the way of a memorandum wnsstfletly * ; aJcovdiug ,, to'the , .1 ,1 versatility of their minds and the fluency with which thev .{ were able to disguise the c [ act . ,1 U f . ^ W61 ' 6 , bonowl,l • e a11 ,, the .. v - kueW fl WU 8om ? m ° Ve S0Urce .’ °!' abundantly , able to invent situations ( and plots as diverting and characters that interested intensely / theu * im P enal . , ftUl1 , . lord » » who, bored by chronicles, bad a tbous aud pairs of ears and as many pairs of eyes as a fly for all the tragedies and comedies and adventures that eouU\ be recounted with tbe human voice aud presence to give them color aud life. Natives aud strangers vied wi h l)Ue another for years in repeating or inventing all tbe tales that they could imagine or recall for the benefit of their swarthy lord, who, stretched ou his divans, fixed on them his piercing eye, and bade them do their best, it was very nervous work for the poor souls, though; for the king's ex¬ eeutioner, armed with thel^m<e sU^Htver est aud sharpest of simitars, king'w^f'd by their sides,and if the them repeat themselves or one auother, if they turned pale under the straiu, or forgot what they had to say, as like aa no t he would frown fiercely aud ,>lnp his hands—when off would go a head! Whereas, if lie were easilv en tertaiued, he would listen greedily to every detail, aud. the story done, convnand pipes and wine and fruit to be brought for the refreshment of the speaker,clothe him in robes of scarlet, present him with a fortune in tho shape of a single ring, and add to it twenty purses of gold or a dozen vine yards, according to the measure of his satisfaction. -:--- The r«u»e of the T.ouhi,-. Mr. Mnchblest - Yes. doctor, T have a frightful cold. What i you say was votir special method of treaJ ment? Physician—We strike at the cause or origin of the trouble. Mr. Muchldest—That’s odd. Auv bow. you’ll find the baby iu the other room.—Brooklyn Life. NOTED WILD WHITE MEN DERELICTS WHO FELL INTO THE HANDS OF NATIVE AUSTRALIANS. Adventures of William Iiuckley, an 1*:« eaped Convict—He Was Six Feet Seven Inches Tall, and Won the Heart of a t hief’s Widow — JEpicurean Cannibals. The meteoric appearance of a gen tlemau named Louis de Rougemont with a marvellous story of hitherto unheard-of adventures during an al leged residence of some thirty years with the blacks of northern Australia, revives recollections of the “wild white men’’ that from time to time have fallen into the hands of the un¬ civilized Australian aborigines and been restored to white humanity after long years of separation and degrada¬ tion, The first recorded wild white man vva3 WiUiaiu Bnokley , a native of Macclesfield, and at the close of the ,, (st ceutul a 8olclier in the Fourth, Kiue’s Own roeiment 7,- On Dec *L“Sj ; n uith six other tempt £ on the life of the Duke of Kent. He ns sentenced to transportation for ]ife and takeu out in a CO nvict ship to the Antipodes. g During a brief stay t u ' }1 f t j U ow V the U harbor Ua ‘° ur of Melbourne he contrived to escape in company with two other convicts. The ]utte ; perished-how was never aBcert «ined-aml when Buckley was 81lljSeq uently questioned as to their fate he was exceedingly reticent and (ii8Concerte d. That it was a case of calmibalism was the gene ral belief of tho earl 8ett |ers around Melbourne, Auyhow iu tbe !ast 8tages o{ hunger and privatioD) Buckley lav down up on w]lat proved to be 'tbe “grave of a newly-buried chief. Luckily for him the widow came along, and supersti tiously concluded that her dear de parted had returned to life in the shape of a white man. She promptly annexed him as her own, led him to the camp of tlie blacks, explained the circumstances under which she had found him, and secured his admission as a chief of the tribe, a position for which he was physically well quali fled, as he was a man of great stature (<; f ee t 7 inches), strength and en durance. For the next thirty-two years Buck ley led the life of a savage, hunting, fishing and fighting with the tribe that adopted him. He does uot ap¬ pear to have taught the blacks any¬ thing or raised them in any degree iu the scale of civilization. He simply became one of themselves aud adapt ed flflyggif f 0 flj s uew environment in every redpect—perhaps his best and wisest course under the circum¬ stances. It was on July 12, 1835, that he saw a white face for the first time after a lapse of more than thirty years. On that' day the pioneers of the city of Melbourne landed from their little schooner, aud Buckley ad¬ vanced to meet them. He had by this time become but little superior to the savages around him, but the new¬ comers noticed the comparatively light color of his «kin. He tried to summon up some English words from the depths of his memory, and at last succeeded iu articulating the word “bread.” He made himself very useful as an interpreter between the new white settlers and the blacks, and when his reached Loudon the imperial authorities magnanimous¬ ly drew the sponge over his offence and sent him a free pardon. He en¬ joyed a small pension in his Inter years, and lived until Feb. 2, 1856, when he was thrown out of a cart and killed iu his 76th yeait- The site of Geelong, about forty miles from Mel¬ bourne, was the headquarters of the tribe to which Buckley was attached during his three decades of savage life. Three miles from Geelong there is still shown a cave in a river gorge where he is said to have resided, aud the Wm ^iacent rapids continue to per peti his uame as Buckley’s Falls. James Morrill, a native of Maldon, Essex, was tbe sole survivor of the shipwreck of the bark Peruvian, that struck ou a reef off the northeastern coast of Queensland on March 8, 1846. He lived with the Queensland blacks for an even longer penod twenty years. The story of a little cabin boy named Narcis§e Pierre Pellatier ought to have attracted the at teutiou fore of the He boys’ engaged novelists cabin loug.be- boy now. as on the St. Paul, bound from China to Australia with 350 Chinese emigrants, She a' s ° struck on a reef off the north eastern coast of Queensland. Officers and crew got away in tbe boats, not troubling themselves about the ( bin ese passengers; and in their hurry forgetting the little cabin boy, who "'as subsequently dying found by tbe blacks in a condition in a cranny among the rocks. They nursed him back to life, fed him. treated him well and, iu fact, made him tbe pet of the tribe. Nearly all the Chinese passen were captured by the blacks ami eaten up two at a time. The flesh of the Chinaman is esteemed a great delicacy by the cannibal blacks of Queensland. From the point of view of a cann bal, a vegetarian is far su perior to a nreat-eater. Little Pella tfer lived with the blacks for seveu teen year®*, and v as rescued by a Uiiiak ship, the John Bell, on April 13, 1H75. lie immediately returned to France, where he may be still liv iflg. He wuukl cow be it man of be tween titty and sixty. -- rr - 1 j n » MR. DOOLEY ON THE ELECTION. After Attending a Political Meeting He Tells l(«mi«kHy !(U Views. “ ’Tis as much as a man’s life is worth these dsvs,' saiil Mr. Dooley, “to have a vote. Loo here," he con tinned, diving under the hat- and pro during a roll of paper; “here’s th v pitchers iv candidates I pulled down fr’m th’windy,an’jus’kuowin’they’re here makes me that narvous f’r th’ contents iv th’ cash dhrawer I’m afraid to tur-ru me back f’r a ininyit, , . . “All heroes, too, Hiunissy. , . . r-veady to sarve their countkry to th’ bitther eud, an’ to r-rusk, voucher in har.d, to th’ city threeasurev’s office at a miuyit’s notice. “I wiut to a hero meeting th’ other night, Hinnissy, an’ that’s sthrange f’r me. Whin a man gets to be my age he laves th’ shoutin’ f’r th’ youth iv’ th’ laud, ouless he has a pol-itical job “Well,sir, there was O’Toole an’ all th’ r-rest on th’ platform in uuyform, with flags over thim an’ th’ bauds playin’ ‘They’ll be a hot nw® ; u t k ’ ol’ town tonight again,’ and \ tb chair¬ man was Plunkett. . . . Whin th’ battle r.-raged,’ he says, ‘au’ the bullets fr’m th’ haughty Spauyaids’ raypeatin’ Mouser rifles,’ he says, ‘r-roared,’ he says, ‘in the air,’he says, ‘where was Cassidy?’ he says. ‘In his saloon.’ says I, ‘in Itn-rald avnoo,’ says I. Thrue f’r ye,’ says Plunkett. ‘An’ where,’ he says, ‘was our candy date?’ he says. ‘In somebody else-’a saloon,’says I. ‘No,’ says he. ‘Whin the Prisidint,’ he says, ‘called th’ na¬ tion to ar-rms,’ he says, ‘an’ Congress voted 50,000,000 good bucks f’r th’ naytional definse,’ he says, ‘Thomas Fracis Dorgan,’ he says, ‘in that min yit iv’naytional pearl,’ says he, ‘left his good job in th’ pipe-yard,’he says, ‘an’ wiut down to th’ raycruitin’ office an’ says: “How many calls f’r volun¬ teers is out?” he says. “Wan,” says th’ officer. “Put me down,” says Dorgan, “f’r th’ tenth call,” lie says. ‘This, gentlemen iv the foorth pre end,’ he says, ‘is Thomas Francis Dorgan, a man who, if dieted,’ lie says, ‘upon ‘vietkry will perch,’ he says, our banners,’ he says, ‘an’, he says,‘the naytional honor will be main¬ tained,’ he says, ‘in th’ county boord, ’ he says. . . . th’ “Mighty few iv th’ rale heroes iv war is r-runnin’ f’r office. Most iv thim put ou their blue overalls whin they was mnsthered out an’wint up an’ ast f’r their ol’ jobs back—and some¬ times got thim. Ye can see as manny as ten iv them at th’ rollin’ mills de¬ fendin’ th’ nation’s honor with wheel bakr’s an’ a slag shovel.”—Peter Dunn, in Chicago Journal. A Ciiinauian’g Memory. “The intellectual capacity of the Chinese may rank with the best in Western countries. Their own liter¬ ary studies, in which memory plays the important part, prove the nation to be capable of prodigious achieve¬ ments in that direction. It is slated in Macaulay’s Life that had “Para¬ dise Lost” been destroyed he could have reproduced it from memory. But even such a power of memory as he possessed is small as compared with that of many Chinese, who can repeift by heart all the thirteen classics; and it is as nothing to that of some Chi¬ nese, who, in addition to being able to repeat the classics, can memorize a large part of the general literature of their country. “A Chinese acquaintance of mine was able at the age of sixty-five to re¬ produce, verbatim, letters received by him in his youth from some of his litJrary friends famous as stylists. When pitted against European stu¬ dents in school or college the China¬ man is in no respect inferior to his Western contemporaries, and,whether in mathematics and applied science, or in metaphysics and speculative thought, he is able to hold his own against all competitors.”—“China in Transformation,” by A.R. Colquhoun. The Sikhs. Sir Le el Griffin has placed on re¬ C0V( j k j s conviction that the Sikhs form the back < one of the Indian army, tor thqjollov igieasons: Ghnrkas, though at least equally valuable -as in fantiy, ai by no means so plentiful, aud are an independent race. Patbans are apt to become homesick and dis like to be stationed at any great dis tance from their native land. Diffi cutty is experienced in enlisting pure Rajputs in any number. But the Sikh is always ready to enlist and to nndev take duty across the “Black Water,” even should that duty be to fight an epedeiuic in Hong Kong or to chase Arab slave dealers in Central Africa, if ouly he be well paid, (for the Sikh has several Scottish qualities).. He is equally good as horse or foot, at de feuse or iu attack; he appreciates the value of discipline aud is devoted to his duty. — Gentleman’s Magazine. Non-committal. Alderman's Wife—I see that the members of the Spanish Cortes don’t get any salary at all. I wonder how they live, Alderman—Maria, I never divulge professional secrets, especially * women.—Chicago Naurs. During the F.Iopemeut. It’s Cholly—Reassure yourself, dearest. only papa steadying the ladder for us while we are descending. Judge. Th^KnormaiiM Thig■wiinsc dl' <Jol<1 Product of 1808. From 8ruth Africa, 1 jlie Klondike rear in history. tralia and Aus¬ thu preolpus metal Is being shipped in \argt* quauttiies. It is believed that this year’s oitrput will he neRrly double that of any pre¬ vious twelve months. The sales of lloatet ter's Stomaeh Bitters are also Increasing very fast, and this your that famous remedy will cure more people of dyspepsia, indigestion, COMO iit>rvousu"9H add »"»Iukwi than f'ver Wlrote It’s hard t., com . . a thiel that there are any honest mru in th» world. To Cure Constipation Forever. ll TakeCiwcaretscandyl'«tlutfil% C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund lOcor 2Vi. money. It hurts a person less to be lied about than it does to lie about others. Rheumatism Is caused by acid in the blood. Hood’s Sarsaparilla neutralizes this acid and cures the aches and pains. Do not suffer any longer when a remedy Is at hand. Take the great medicine which has cured so many others, and you may confidently expect it will give you the relief you so much desire. Hood’s Sarsa¬ parilla Is America’s Greatest Medicine. Price $1. Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. Hood’s Pills cure sick headache. 25c. A Backslider. A minister’s little girl and her play¬ mate were talking about serious things. “Do you know what a back¬ slider is?” the former questioned. “Yes; it’s a person that used to be a Christian aud isn’t,” said the play¬ mate promptly. “What do you s’pose makes them call them backsliders?” “Oh, that's easy. You see, wlieu people are good, they go to church and sit up iu front. When they get a little tired of being good, they slide back a seat, aud keep on sliding until they get clear back to the door. After awhile they slide clear out and never come to church at all.”—Ram’s Horn. Their Bear Friend. Mabel: “Mrs. Bobbit is a regular after-dinner caller." Nettie: “Indeed! She invariably comes just before dinner.” Mabel: “That’s what I say. Dinner is what she is after.”—Harlem Life. THEY WANT TO TELL These Grateful Women Who Have Been Helped by Mrs. Pinkham. Women xvho have suffered severely and been relieved of their ills by Mrs. Pinkham’s advice and medicine are constantly urging publication of their statements for the benefit of other wo¬ men. Here are two such letters: Mrs. Lizzik Beverly, 258 Merrimac St., Lowell, Mass., writes: “ It affords me great pleasure to tell all suffering women of the benefit I have received from taking Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound. I can hard- • ly find words to express my gratitude for what she has done for me. My trouble was ulceration of the womb. I was un¬ der the doctor’s care. Upon examina¬ tion he found fifteen very large ulcers, but he failed to do me good. I took sev¬ eral bo ttlesof Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege¬ table Compound, also used the Sanative Wash, and am cured. Mrs. Pinkham’s medicine saved my life, and I would recommend it to all suffering women." Mrs. Amos Trombleay, Ellenburgh Ctr., N. Y.. writes: “ I took cold at the time my baby was born, causing me to have milk legs, and was sick in bed for eight weeks. Doctors did me no good, I surely thought I would die. I was al¬ so troubled with falling of the womb. I could not eat, gad faint spells as often as ten times a day. One day a lady came to see me and told me of the benefit she had derived from taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s medicine, and ad¬ vised me to try it I did so, and had taken only half a bottle before I was able to sit in a chair. After taking three bottles I coul *do my own work. I am now in perfect health.” PILES "I suffered tbe torture* of the damned with protruding piles brought on by constipa¬ tion with which I was afflicted for twenty years. I ran across your CASCAKETS in the town of Newell. Ia., and never fonnd anything to piles euosl rhem. like To-day 1 am entirely free from ma leel a new man.” C H. K E 1411 Jones St., Stoux City, la. CANov m catTUrtic TRADE MARK REGISTERED GoodfShiver b 8ieten. Weakern or ... JURE CON8TIPATION. ... SWMfii tn.7/ »^u;. S«»trwl. Sow T« rt. MS NO-TO-BAC Sold and CTKT Riiarantee«S Tobacco Ly all Habit. dlrog gisn to —cufttS WhebPEP Ta Best Cough feyrup. Tastes Good. % In time. Sold by druggists. C Q NSUM PTIQNF-