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FAITH AND WORKS
No answer to tbow that pray,
Ad-1 Ml jftUaa
And wait for stones to roll away
Ho will not liraak tbe binding cord
Upon at laid
If nc f>r».nt on pleading word*.
And do not aid.
Whin .'lands are idle, vordi are rain
To more the atone:
An aiding angel would disdain
To work alone.
Rail* who prayeth, and natron
In faith and deed,
And tofleib earnestly, ere long
He will succeed.
—J. C. ifcc'wH.
The San Jagnelo Mine.
t
To Joshua Main's widow it had always
seemed & «:mi>le thing for people to sup-
port themselves. Did not girl* and
women do it oftentimes? Was there ever
any difficulty about it?
. Vet, when she herself was left alone at
the age of twenty, she did not know in
which direction to turn.
. rihe was a soft-eyed,'timid little woman,
with absolutely no experience at all in
the ways of the world; and so she went
to her cousin—a brink, bustling widow,
who kep* a wayside hotel on the high
road tojianta Barbara.
“What «ni I to do?’’ said she, looking
v,ry nu'l and pale in htr deep mourn
ing robe*. “Wlist Is to become of me?”
Why don't you go to Joshua's folks?*’
Mr*. ChohburO,. who was frying crabs
foraparty M excursionists who had ar
rived by thnnoon^stage.
f “1 hare no money,” said Alice. “Be
side, 1 wrote tO his father, and he wrote
back that we didn’t ask his* advice about
getting married, and he certainly
shouldn't interfere in my business now.
Such a cro>s, curt, hateful letter!”
“Just like them!” said Mrs. Chcb-
burn, fiercely dredging her pan of crabs
with flour. “Couldn’t you keep miners
to board!”
“I—I don’t think I have courage for
that!” whispered poor Alice. “Beside,
it would require a large house, furniture,
capital.”
f I • sew? - ’ suggested Mrs. Cheb-
burn, who had a quick, abrupt way of
speaking which was very apt to discon
cert a stronger.
"I an. dreadfully slow and awkward
with the needle,” confessed Alice. “You
m*c. Cptisin Chebbtiru, I was brought up
in a boaiding-school. I can play on the
piano, and speak tolerable French,
and—”
“O, my’.”, burst in Mrs. Chebburn.
“And p’raps you could paiut on velvet
and make wax flowers, or any 4uch other
accomplishment which would be so use
ful out in these California mountains.
There, Alice, don’t .cry! I don't want to
hurt your feelings', child, but people's
ideas about educating girls are so queer.
Oct me a platter—two big platters—for
these crabs. You can stay here for a
while. It’s possible you may be able to
Jhelp me with the housework*. But I’ve
no use for your French and your piano-
playing.;’
For Mrs. Chebburn's short, blunt
speech, there was a kindly sparkle in her
iioncst, gray eyes, mid Alice Main ac
cepted her invitation in the spirit in
which it was given.
It was a strange existence for the girl
who had been brought up in the artificial
surfoundiegs of San Francisco life, this
wild home on the plateaus, with monster
redwood trees keeping watch on the
heights above, passion-vines swinging
‘ in purplefringes over the edges of the
dins, am! figs ripening against the sunny
rocks.
With the coming and goiug of the
daily stage, travelers came and went,
also, of aii varieties, and Mrs. Chebburn,
assisted only by a pair of pallid China
men. ami a fat old colored woman in the
kitchen, ruled, au absolute queen, over
the place.
“It’s hard work, to-be-sure,” she would
•ay; “but I am my own mistress here,
and I render an account to no one. If a
miner talks too loud, I can turn him out
of the house. If a traveler finds fault
with the fricasseed chicken, I can bid
him go farther aud suit himself better.
Joshua'*! widow is welcome to a home
here, though I misdoubt me she’ll turn
out a poor 'hiftlcss timid thing.”
But Mr*,. C’heblmrn was favorably dis
appointed. Joshua's widow proved to
be posse?sed of lietter qualities than she
had thought.
She was quick and dainty with the
desserts, Useful in the arrangement of
the roouisi, and affectionately anxious to
spare her cousin all that she could of
work or worry.
“I may make something of the girl
yet.” said Mrs. Chebburn, “Poor dear!
*>hc*s very young to be lelt a widow.
What a selfish scamp that old father-in-
law of hers must lie! Joshua was as
Hue a fellow as ever lived! Guess he
wasn’t like the rest of his folks though.”
It was cue December evening, when
the heavy winter rain was pattering on
the roof of the house and b -ating down
the shuddering boughs of the redwood-
trees. ami the stage was'several hours be
hind time.
< “Supper’ll be clean spoiled,” said Mrs.
Chebburn, with a discontented glance
toward the kitchen, “and then they'll all
Is* grumbling.' Men are so inconsiderate!”
Just then, however. Lino, the tallest
aud yellowest of the Chinamen, came
ahuffiing ;n. with the news that the rain
had washed away part of the steep and
uarrow road that wound through the
gorge, that the stage was overturned and
‘•alloc folk see killed!”
“Linn, you are a fool!” said Mrs. ChefcP
burn.
“Missee look for slieself,” persisted
Linn. • 'A ltee dead! Horace leg broke!”
And presently two or three men came
tip the hill, bearing the ?cnscless body of
hu old man. who represented the “a'llee
folk sic” cf Linn’s terrible tale.
With this exception, the travelers had
1 been more frightened than hurt.
“Is he dead?” said frightened Alice,
with a glance at the yellow pallor of the
face, temporarily pillowed on a folded
shawl.
“No,” said Mrs. Chebburn, who had
no contemptible knowledge of simple
surgery, “he isn’t dead. Bat there are
some ugly bruises on his head, and I
think there’s a rib or two broken. Get
the little comer room ready, Alice, as
quick as you can. Light a fire and see
that the bedclothes are well aired and
that there is plenty of hot water.”
.When Mrs. Chebburn came down stairs
again, to superintend Linn and Chce Sun
as they served the sapper and to keep
old Aunty Felicia from braining those
brisk Celestials with her pewter spoons
—for there' was always an internecine
warfare between the Mongolian and
African races in the kitchen—the stage-
driver was wanning his chilled
before the fire.
“He ain't dead, eh I” said he, nodding
nt the stair?.
“Ot, bktsyoo, no!” Slid Mrs.. Chet-
burn. v
“Well, its:<ra»kindo' wicked to is »
observed George Geith, the drive
“but I wouldn’t *a ccca sorry to hear 1 a
art* dead r
“Come, comer said Mrs. Chebbun ;
“don’t talk like that, Geith I”
“He aat on the box-seat along o’ me ”
said George. “He’d come out here o
look arter the Pan Jaguelo mine. So ic
told me. He’d a powerful gift of t le
gab, sad a many questions to ask, for he
hadn’t never been this a-wav before. It
seemed he’d a son come out ’ here a spell
ago, and they bought a claim together.
And the son he got married all of a sud-
den-like, and then he up and died.
“And so this old sinner, mind you,
Mrs. Chebburn, he mistrusts that the
son’s wife don’t understand business; so
he has come on to pocket the whole con
cern, profits and all—for the San Jaguelo
mine, don't ye know, is trebled and
quadrupled in value since they first - be
gan to work it.
“ ‘Ain’t you goin’ shares with the
woman V says I.
“ ‘Ain’t the papers all in my name?’
says he, with a leer. ‘I’ve al’ays heerd,’
pays he, ‘that you Western people was
sharp on business.’
Not that kind o’business,’says I.
’ar,’ says L ‘ef I hain’t the biggest
mind I ever had in hiy life to pitch you
off the box into the bed of the creek be
low!’
“And, sure as you live,it wasn’t fifteen
minutes afore the lurch came, and over
all went together! Most like a jedg-
raent, now ain’t it? And I declare I’m
’most sorry he wasn’t killed outright!’’
Mrs. Chebburn
PLAYIMJ FOE LIFE.
Making Believe Deaf and Bnmb Un<
der. Trying Circninstances—
Three Attempts to Catch
Him Napping Fall.
isde hit great
When General Early 0
raid on Washington, writes an cx-Con- . . - .. ^-
federate in the Detroit Free Prc, I me 1 hun 8 r ?' People are keptnwelce by hun-
ecoutinn between hi. advance and the
■ 'ts mnawBoeroit.
Powdered Rosin for Cats.
Thefcds nothing better for a cut than
powdered rosin. Pound it until fine, end
put it in nn empty, clean paper box with
perforated top, then you can easily sift it
on the cut, put a soft cloth around the
injured member, and wet it with cold
water once in n while. It will prevent
inflammation and soreness.
Food and Conscience.
Never go to bed in any danger of being
rily, and was captured within the city
limiits twenty-four hours before his bat
tle-dags appeared in sight. I was dressed
in citizen's clothes, pretended to be deaf
and dumb, and claimed to have been
driven out of Richmond, because I had
written threatening letters to Jefferson
Davis. -
I bad been inside the fortifications for
half a day, and was slowly working out.
when a couple of young men, both of
whom were considerably the worse for
liquor, halted me and wanted to fight.
I had a pencil and a block of paper with
me, and I wrote:
“I am deaf and dumb.”
That made no difference with them.
Indeed, they declared that it would be a
novel idea to lick a deaf and dumb man,
and one of them gave me a cull on the
ear.
In those days I weighed 100 pounds
and had the muscle of a prize fighter. I
tried to get away from them without
luscious cream menngue , determine! to Imre a row I gave
a pineapple pnddmg-for the ilcsacrts | tb wwlted and wasn't £, n y
served by the lady of the Redwood , a £,, lt ft A crowd of soldiers and
house have ncqutrcd quite a local celeb- : civiliang coveted, the provost guard
nt Y 1°°^*** quickly up. , (>an j e U p an a the result was as 1 had an-
‘;Didnt say what his uamc was, did j tici t ^j. lwa8 arrested and carried o!I
ye ’^ a, „ .; f. ... . T - 1 to rf guard house. One of the young
“No,” said Geith; “becau-e I don t | s wU o afterward turned out to lx- re?
knowmyaelf Grasp, I should reckon- utcl| t0 a mt . mhcr o{ the cal) init, fol-
or Gnpe, or Onnd^ or some such thing.’ , lo „, d Inc la tlie office of tllc , lroTOSt
Ami he chuckled at the clumsy joke as ■ marih(1 „ nd charged ffic with icing a
he made haste to obey the summons to j No one seemld to entertain adoSbt
supper. . . , , t .. I that I was deaf and dumb, as I claimed,
It was late m the night be 0 th i an( j m y examination was carried on in
stage was righted and a relay of horses j writin l. t _ a , „ kpd mv name a „ e
supplied, so that the tide of travel could | whcre Wn aud a hiradred other’ qu°esl
once more flow onward; and the clock (i and then searched. They found
struck twelve when Mrs. Chebburn l M ^ Bgvam of , criminating nature,
went up stairs with the caudle in her and l » asolied that y wol ,i d be detained
, .... . ..... , . , ... | until after the excitement had passed and
“WWa that talkin'! sheaaked aaahe thenturned loOBP
stopped on the threshold of the irn- After being detained three Jays an of-
promptuhospita 1 ward. flerrentered my quartern one morning
“It's the sick man ” said Alice. “The wid to 14
doctor said he would be more or less de- j 4 4 Wp n (1
lirious for a day or two. Do you know,
cousin Chebburn, lie keeps talking all the
Remembering that sleep is the essential
force which the whole scheme starts, de
cline tea or coffee within the last six
hours before going to bed. If the women-
kind insist you may have your milk and
water nt the tea-table covered with tea;
but the less the better. Avoid all mathe
matics or -intricate study of nnj sort in
the last six hours. This is the stuff
dreams are made of, and hot heads, and
the nuisance of waking hours. Keep
your conscience clear. Remember that
because the work of life is infinite, you
cannot do the whole of it in any limited
period of time, and that therefore you
may just as well leave off in one place as
another.—Edward Ex*rttt Half. _
Various Cares for the Toothache.
1 find that there are distinct kinds of
toothache, each relieved by distinct
remedies. There is first, neuralgia tooth
ache, which darts from nerve to nerve, be
the teeth sound or decayed; leaps from
” . .. • , run8 juto t h e
, ,)• ! tuc i IV iftrt irtiui wicm «imuuk ... , , . *
busy spreading a ; further troub l e . but when they seemed the temples to the paiut:
B over the top of , determined to have a row I me them a “ d destroys the I
time about ‘Joshua!’ And look at the
color of his eyes, and the way his hair
grows down on his forehead!’’
“Yes,” said 3Irs. Chebburn, glancing
keenly from the restless head that rolled
to and fro on the pillow to the pale,
startled face above it.
“I know who it is,” cried Aliee,
wringing her hands—“it’s Joshua’s
father!”
‘Hush!’’said Mrs. Chebborn. “Ikind
o’ suspicioued it was. Now, don’t cry!
A sick room ain’t uo place to get excited
Keep cool—keep calm, and jest let
Providence workout its own salvation.”
Near-y two weeks elapsed before old
Sewell Main recovered—two weeks of
pain and suffering; two weeks during
which he looked grim death full in the
face.
‘Who are you?” he sharply asked,
when first he became conscious that a gen
tle hand was ministering to him day by
day.
l I am Joshua’s widow,” Alice gently
answered.
II closed his weary'eyes, and asked no
ore. But he thought of many things.
* ‘I should have died if it hadn’t been for
you, ’shouldn’t If’ was his next abrupt
S ucstiou. “But how does it happen?
oshua’s widow here, taking care of me!”
‘ Hush!” soothed Alice. “Don’t try
to talk now. Don’t even try to think!”
But he put out his skeleton hand to
find hers.
“Forgive me!” said he, in a choked
voice. “Only say that you forgive me!”
“For what?” she asked, in amazement.
“For all that'was in my heart!” said
he. “For all that I might have done, if
God had not stayed my sinful hand!
Alice—they called you Alice, didn’t
they?” _
“You have beeu like an angel to me.
Henceforward, nothing shall ever part
us. Will you go back to the East with
me, Alice?”
And Alice went, only too happy that
Joshua's father had learned to love her.
She never knew aught of the darker
side of his character. Stage-driver
Geith never came that way nowadays,
and Mrs. Cliebburu was one of the few
woraeu who can keep their own counsel.
. “He’s good to the child now,” said
she. “They’re as liappy together i
they were own father and daughter. Why
should I interfere?”
And so the San Jaguelo mine made lit
tle Alice rich in her Eastern home, and
old Sewell Blain treasured her as if she
were a rare tropical flower. While every
year there came some loving token of re-
membrancc across the Sierras to Mrs.
Chebburn, who still presided over the
Redwood House, and kept the peace,
with ever-increasing difficulty, between
Aunty Felicia and the two sons of the
“The child doesn’t forget me,”'said
Mrs. Chebburn, with a smile and a tear.
—Helen Forrcft Grace*.
Well, dummy, you cau pack up and
get out.”
The minute I heard his step outside I
was on my guard, but he spoke in such a
natural tone that I came near giving my
self away. On three different occasions
during the war -1 played the part of a
deaf and dumb man, aud I tell you it
takes all the nerve aud presence of mind
a man cau call up. I sat facing the door,
and, while I heard his words, I made no
movement. He came closer to me and
said:
“Come, pack up your traps; you are
to be turned loose. ^”
I looked him straight in the eyes with
out winking, and after a bit a look of
chagrin stole over his face and he mo
tioned for me to follow him.
He took mo to the provost marshal*!
office, and I was ushered into a private
room, where the marshal and three or
four other officials were seated. On the
way to the office, as we crossed a wide
street, the officer suddenly exclaimed:
“There’s a runaway horse—lookout!”
If I hadn't been expecting some such
thing on his part I might hnve betrayed
myself. As I gave no si«
ou with my head down,
growling:
“They think they’ve got a sucker, but
they’ll find out their mistake.”
I entered the office, knowing that
eve y trick would be resorted to to break
me down, and my nerves were braced
as if to charge a battery of artillery. I
was left standing by the door for a
moment, when one of the officials looked
up quietly and said:
* —a —e’li attend to
temper—does it
not? It generally has special hours for
tormenting one, and d *uotes'weakness of
the system. Medical adyicc should be
taken as to the restoration of strength,
and, for temporary relief, a warm wrap
round the head, as much rest as possible,
or as little worry—good food, and when
the pain comes on a cup of strong beef
tea; sometimes ordinary tea, strong, but
not infused too long, cuts short au at
tack. I. myself, who have to risp early
to my house-work, have often neuralgic
toothache until breakfast is ready, when
a cup of tea aud warm food sends it
away aud restores smiles to my counte
nance.
Akin to neuralgia is nervous tooth
ache, which is agonizing pain in one
tooth, coming on instantly and vanish
ing as quickly. Fatigue, worry or
excitement produces it. Lie down in
stantly and have a piece of flannel
wrung out of bailiug water and
sprinkled with laudanum applied
to your cheek. Drink a little sal-vola-
tilo in water and rest until relieved.
Next we have the toothache arising from
a chill; the jaw is here rheumatic, the
gums are probably swelled and inflamed.
If possible, go to. bed at once. If you
have a warm room bathe your feet in
mustard and water, and roll up your head
in flannel. Hot fomentations applied to
your jaws will also be very useful and
soothing.
Fourthly, we have the sad toothache,
which arises from an impure state of the
blood and is accompanied by gumboils,
yoilent inflammation, and throbbing pain
in the decayed teeth. In this case medi
cal advice must betaken, but the home
treatment should be hot fomentations or
poultices to relieve the gumboils, the
mouth frequently rinsed with carbonate
of soda (baking' soda) and a dose of
Epsom salts taken. This reduces the in
flammation, I may mention that in
toothace caused by cold I have often put
ou a mustard blister on the part affected
and found it very efficacious, but it
reddens the cheek for a few days. To
ut nnve Detrayeu aVoid toothache attend assidiously to
S!gn, continuing your general health and you will not be
m, I beam hint 4 conscious you have teeth. —Jtry Goffe, in
WOMAN’S
Only Once.
You ask me, love, how many
I think of you a day,
I frankly answer, “Only once,”
And mean just what I say.
You seem displeased and somewhat hurt,
But wait and hear the rhyme.
Pray, how can one do more than onee
What one does all the time?
Washington “Tens.
“A tea” and a “high tea” in Washing
ton have a significance according to the
loft in society to which either is. applied.
“A tea” simply is in the afternoon and is
generally attended by married ladies and
young maidens, with* a slight sprinkling
of society voung men decorated with their
first perceptible moustache. The refresh
ments of au ordinary “tea” consist of - tea,
coffee, gossip,- ices,' cake, more tea and
more gossip. The hours are usually
from S to 5 o'clock. “A high tea” is a
much mote extensive entertainment than a
simple “tea,” and is attended by society
people generally. *
• The Newest Limp.
The fashionable woman this season
goes with a limp. Iler gate is a cross
between that of the gay and festive
dromedary aud a horse with the string-
halt. This picturesque evidence of blue
blood and cightecn-carat breeding is aw
fully English, you know, and a direct
lineal Lawrence-Townlev descendant of . . *
royalty itself. In the sweet erstwhile j ‘“mgs °* ‘he past,
some time ago the Princess of Wales! Amber is much used for neckluces,
sprained her ankle, and before the lini- j combs aud hairpins.
More artificial hair is worn than has
been the case for some time.
Blouse dresses are still the most popu
lar style for young children.
During the summer hair will continue
to be worn high on the head.
Many dresses are made with long
waists pointed front and back.
Garnet hair ornaments and jewelry in
many new devices are again in high
vogue.
The brims of spring hats -are neither
wide nor eccentric. They are narrower
in the back than in front.
Borders for entire skirts for side and
with Miss Ridley, and 4 the young' man
modestly requested her to again under
take the rebuttoning of his vest. She
did so, and used the same spool of cotton
which had done dnty before, the young
man producing it from the left breast
pocket of his coat.
When he went away he said he had
still another vest to be furnished with
new buttons, would she do it for him the
next evening?
“Certainly, with pleasure.” "
From that time on it was- as goou as
settled, for the young man fell deeper
and deeper in love. Miss Ridley recipro
cated his affection, and three days ago
he told her of his position and prospects,
proposed and was accepted.—Philadel
phia Record.
Fashion Notes.
Bonnets are small and hats high.
Red everywhere and in everything.
Cats’ eyes figure largely in new fringes.
All the new cotton dress goods are
thin.
Black crape is used to cover crimson
satin.
Plush continues the favorite fabric for
mantles.
Homespun comes in great variety aud
is popular.
Now is the time to buy aud make up
wash goods.
Gold and silver tinsel is seen in all the
new niching*.
Skirts are cither plain or laid in per
pendicular pleats.
Puffs aud pads around the armholes are
WRITES A LITTLE SCREED OJC
FINANCIAL MATTERS,;
Tbe Currency Question and tile Sib.
ver Dollar—Unhappy Dot of a
Luckless Editor—Making ' *
an Aggressive Paper.
»bouse, o
Going to Certain Death.
The Confederate* had a l*oat which
could be made to sink below the water
and travel there for some distance, but
they had not been able to overcome the
difficulty, wh’ch has been insuperable
till now, of making her return to the sur
face at will. She was apt to put her nose
downward and make straight for the bot
tom with perfect disregard of the steer-
ing’gear. In experimenting with her,
precautions had l»een taken to counter
act by external means such aberrations on
her part, but in actual war she was use
less, unless men could be found who
would strike one blow in her, and die in
striking it. And men were found who
would do this thing. The Federal fleet
were investing New Orleans, and it was
of the utmost importance to the Confed
erate fdree that'tne hostile flagship or one
of her consorts should be . destroyed.
The boat was there in the harltor which
could go out and strike a fatal blow
that her enemy would be powerless to
evade, but the strikiug of this blow
meaut certain death. Meu can generally
be found to lead or take part in a forlorn
hope. The danger is great, but there is
always a hope of return, and the glory is
in proportion to the danger. But in this
case there was no hope of
return. Who so went out
in this boat must be prepared to give
hi? life absolutely for the good of his
country—to save lier from her dangei
Fuel of the Future.
of the near future, the Bos-
‘ " runerre thinks, will have
m pipes, chimneys or
fluea. oil and other forms
of .fuel are about to'disappear altogether
in places having factories. Gas has be
come so cheap that already it is supplant
ing fuels. A single jet fairly heats a
small room in cold weather.. A New
York artist has produced a simple design
for heating entirely by gas at a mere
nominal expense. It is a wdl-known
fact that gas throws off no smoke, soot
or dirt. The artist filled a brazier with
chunks of colored glass, *nd placed sev
eral jets beneath. The glass soon be
came heated sufficiently to thoroughly
warm a room 10x80 feet in size. This
design docs away with the necessity for
chimney?, since there is no smoke; the
ventilation may be had at the window.
The heat may be raised or lowered by
simply regulating the flow of gas. The
colored glass gives all the appearance of
fire; there are black pieces to represent
coal, red chunks for flames, yellowish
white glass for white heat, blue glass for
blue flames, and hoes for all the remain
ing colors of spectrum. Invention already
is displacing the present fuels for fur
naces and cooking ranges, and glass do
ing away with delay and such disagreea
ble objects as ashes% kindling wood, etc.
The use of paper ruled in square for
diagonal lines has been forbidden in the
Austrian schools, as such ruling has been
found to injure the eyesight of pupils.
Only plain paper, or with ruling straight
across, will boused in future.
Take a seat, sir. aud
you in a moment.”
I made no move, but looked around
the room in a stupid sort of way. I was
looking out of the window on to a roof
when the same official said:
“You may come forward and take this
chair.”
I stood like a stone, and he rose up,
came over to me, and led me to a chair
at the table. When I was seated one of
the othf rs remarked:
“Write your name, age and last place
of residence on a slip of i*aper.”
That was trick number three aud it
failed as the other had done. By and by
the marshal wrote on a slip of paper:
“Who are you. and where from?”
I wrote in reply: #
“I am Charles Jones, of Richmond.*
“But you arc a Union man !” suggested
one of the officers aloud.
I saw his lips move, but he got no sign
from me. The examination continued
in this manner for a full hour, the men
using every artifice to trap me, but they
failed to score a single poiut. I knew
they would reserve the sharpest trick to
the last and was therefore nerved up for
it. At length the marshal pushed back
in his chair, pointed his finger at my ' lts nole - , . . , .
breast and an^ilv MclSimed: Thc ? ' v f. nt « boardl calm y, made tbe.r
“Where did that Confederate button preparations, «n», then steamed out on
come from?’ I t,ieir last voyage, All the populace
It. was snother failure. Then he turned tur “ e< > ou '°“ ‘ he I™*’™* A °res,
to his companions and sold: i a “ ,i S“' e *^ her0 ?L 18UcIi .^
“Gentlemen, it’s no use. The man is "> most have been worth buytng with
certainlv deaf Sod dumb and a blamed never came bach, and the
fool besides!" Federal ship never returned home Both
“We have wsste l oar time,” replied a together, and when after the war
second, “He is not only what he claims was otcr^ it was proposed to raise the
to be, but may be of grrat 'service to ns. I aunkca ! h *P; th % < \l' cr wh “
I'd have the officer take him over to the »° « s ” ln ' '. he m0 . ns ‘ er halt
cpprptqrir nf war ” i “ er bottom blown in, and her little an-
“IgaL I will,” said the officer, aud ‘agonist, who had dealt the blow lying
he rang a bell anti I heard the door open. ; ^ ^ er Sld f* ^ ^ ie ' ^ ear Hourtd.
Then he turned to me, careless a? you j
please, and said: ^ | Elephant Intelligence.
“Go with the officer." .1 The author of “Two Years in tbe J,lu
ll was then- last shot. I never moved gle ," Mr. Hornaday, defends the elc-
a muscle unW the officer approached and plmnt from the cha^i that its sagacity
placed his hand on me. 1 was taken ,, Qf a Ter , mclicn-re description, arid
back to the guard house kept a pnsoner its reasonia ^ facBUie8 a „ f.rbJlow those
for ano ther week, and then the disgusted of tllc d jf nd ot her animals,
marshal turned me loose m the streets. . He decIa * M it tri be thi most intelligent
■ ■ | of all animals. “A horse,” he remarks,
Goo! Food and Battens. • “which will promptly back at the word
„ .... , of command, or» dog that will back or.
Good food is almost as important n stand on its hind legs when told to do so,
factor of human happraesaaa orthodox is considered quite accomplished; hut in
religion. Second we reckon buttons, India anv w ell-traincd elephant, at a
mid here we must be emphatic The word or touch from his driver, who sit.
Frenchman who committed suicide be- astride his neck, will ‘hand-up,’ ‘kneel,
cause he was tired “of thw everlasting . spMk . ( tramp rt) ‘salarnn’ (salute with
buttoning and unbuttoning".might.have his trunk,) stop, back, lie down, pull
hved to commit a worse crime if in his ,- down an obstructing branch, gather
daily and wean some task he had found a fodder and ‘hand-up’ to hia attendant,
button wanting. * turn or lift a log, or • drag it by taking
Jhe man who las well-cooked food it, drag-rope between bii teeth. He wifi
and well-fastened buttons has a great also protect his attendants or attack a
deal to be thankful for.—lfn> T»ri common enemy with fury.
Uermti. |B Contrast with this the performances of
• our most intelligent breed of dogs, the
There was no gold dollar in 1834. It pointer. Even when young and trained
cas not till after the discovery of gold under the most favorable circumstances,
n (California that the act of March 3, . tfcey are at beat but capable of. being
$49, added to the aerie? of United .taught a few thing?, m to‘go on,’ to
Itafcea gold coin* the doable eagle and . ‘charge,* to go on in-a given direction,
he gold dollar. : and retrieve.”
meat was fairly dry ali fashionable
women in New York and Boston wheu
on the move looked a? though somebody
had struck them with a club. It doesn't
matter, however, which leg is in fashion
as long as something goes with a limp.
—Detroit Journal.
Making a Home.
At a reception in Washington lately, a
woman, famous in the last generation,
fell under the discussion of a coterie of
her old friends, one of whom spoke of
her wit aud power of repartee, another
of her broad, generous charity, a third
of her keen instinct in reading character.
“To me,” said General P—, “she was
most remarkable for her ability to make
a home. Put lier (as I have seen done in
the West) in a log cabin with nothing
but some wooden chairs, a piece of mus
lin, an open fire, and the odds and ends
which she had stored in her trunk, and
she would turn it in a few hours into a
charming dwelling place. OI all her
gifts, that was to me the most attractive
aud womanly.”
An American who saw in his youth an
Englishwoman pre-eminent at that time
for her learning and genius, was ques
tioned as to his impression of her. “She
overwhelmed me with her knowledge;
her broad, liberal views and her philan
thropy opened a new world to me. Yet
the most distinct recollection I have of
the visit is the torn and dirty table cloth,
the greasy carpet, and the ashes strewn
half way across the floor.”
Carlyle, who had been used to coarse
surroundings in bis early home, was
deeply impressed by the refinement, the
pretty “bits of plenishing,” the gentle
hood, in the home of the woman he after
ward married; and the most pathetic
part of his wife’s history is her heroic ef
fort to give this dainty charm to the
rough dwellings in which he placed her.
There is no trait in the Englishman
stronger than his love of home, and hence
he is apt to value in woman the quality
of “making a home” above all others.
The sailor’s wife “makes the hearth
clean,” to show her joy at his return. It
is the “household motions” of Words
worth’s ideal women that are “light and
free,” and all Shakespeare’s lovable hero-
are domestic women.
Let me see your home, and I will tell
you what you are,” the Russian Paulo-
vitch says to his countrywomen. Our
American girls, in their zeal for music,
art, or it may be authorship,
times apt to forget this. They leave the
oversight aud the details of housekeeping
to servants, forgetting that the soilei
tablecloth and greasy carpet tell tales of
character as loudly and emphatically as
do neatness and taste.
They forget, too, that while their pic
ture or song or story may prove a failure,
a dainty, cheerful home is a poem which
any woman may give to the world, and
one which all men can understand and
will certainly take to heart.—Youth's
Companion.
Iiove and Buttons.
Thft maidens who are members of the
New Century Guild are in the full en
joyment of a liitle romance, which has
sprung from the advertisement which the
guild recently inserted in the papers to
inform the great’ army of “bachelors and
other unfortunates” that buttons would
be strongly sewed ou, and the various
garments of the masculine portion of the
community repaired and kept in good
order for a very trifling fee. The charge
for membership in the guild being so low
and the attractions of the homelike es
tablishment so numerous, a great many
women and girls have taken advantage
of the opportunity to enjoy the pleasure
aud instruction to bs found there, and
among the number is Miss Matilda J.
Ridley, of Salem, N. J. About two
weeks ago, as she was leaving to go
home, shortly after 9 o’clock, she met ou
the step a yonng man carrying a small
parcel. He was good looking and well
dressed, and touching his hat, asked with
a blush if it was the place where he could
have some buttons sewed on his vest.
Miss Ridley replied that he had come to
the right address, and that she would be
delighted to serve him, vest buttons be
ing her particular branch of the business.
So they went into the reception room,
and Miss Ridley quickly procured a
work basket, and, seated before the
cheery open fireplace, they chatted as she
dextrously sewed on seven buttons and
repaired a littl? break in the binding.
Once the matron looked in, but judging
them to be old friends, did not intrude.
When the vest was quite itself again and
had been once more tied up in its bcawn
paper wrapper, the young man arose to
go, and enquired the cost of the repairs.
“Twenty-five cents, if you please,”
was Miss Ridley’s smiling reply.
Theee ten-cent pieces were produced,
but the young lady had no change.
“Wait a moment and I will get it for
you,” she said, starting toward the door.
“Oh, please don’t bother; let me have
this for change,” remarked the young
man, picking up the spool of cotton
which had been used in sewing on the
buttons.
Miss Ridley laughingly agreed, and he
went away.
The verv next evening the same young
man returned with another vest, on
which there was not the vestige of a but
ton, and enquired for the young lady
who had so skillfully served him on the
previous night. After a moment's in
quiry in the library, where a group of
girl* were reading, the matron reappeared
It would seem at this time, that white*
so little is being said on the currency-
question, and especially by the men who* -
really control the currency, that a word,
from me would not be out of place.
Too much talking has been done by
those only who have a theoretical knowl
edge of money and its eccentric habits:
People with a mere smattering of knowl
edge regarding national currency have
been loquacious, while those who ha vs
made the matter a study have been kept
in the background.
At this period in tlie history of our
country there seems to be a general strin
gency, and many are in the stringency
business who were never that way before.
Everything seems to be demonetized.
The demonetization of groceries is doing
as much toward the general wiggly palsy
of trade as anything I know of.
But I may say, in alluding briefly to
the silver dollar, that there are worsq
calamities than the silver dollar. Other
things may occur in our lives winch, ixa
the way of sadness aud three-cornered
gloom, make the large, robust, dollar
look like an old-fashioned half-dime.
I met a mau the other day, who twa
years ago was mailing a paper at Larra-
bie’s Slough. He was then in his meri
dian as a journalist, and his paper was
frequently quoted by such widely-read
publications as the Knights of Labor at
Work, a humorous semi-mouthly journal.;
He boldly assailed the silver dollar, andt
with his trenchant pen he wrote such
burning words of denunciation that th«
printer had to set them on ice before h*
j could use the copy.
I Last week I met him on a. Milwaukee
and St. Paul train. He was very thin in
flesh, and the tire of defiance was no
longer in his eye. I asked him how ho
came on with the paper at Larrabie’*
Slough. He said it was no more.
“It started out,” said he, “in a fear-
! less way, but it was not sustained.”
| He then paused in a low tone of voice,
i gulped, ana proceeded:
' ‘Folks told me when I began that I
back panels and for parts of frocks arc
the feature in spring styles.
The onlv article of wearing apparel j „ -™™TT ‘ uV
which “knows no shadow of ti.iSug' | ought to attack almost everything. Mak.
this season is black hoiscry,
the paper non-partisan but aggressive,
_ A . a , , , , , that was their idea. Sail into every
Hats in two shades of brown are be- j thing, and the paper would soon be a
power in the land. So I aggressed.
"Friends came in very kindly and they
comingly trimmed with gold beads iu
beads in* pale and deep tones.
Smoked pearl ornaments are seen,
mixed with aull .lead and steel beads,
making a novel arrangement.
Brown is the most used of any color,
and “studies in brown” are occupying
the attention of even the tailors.
Caps for elderly ladies covering the
top of the head, and without strings
Black bonnets are most favored for
evening wear, and jet is the faoorite gar
niture, lighted up by a bit of color, red,
yellow or blue.
Some of the new buttons which arc be
ing used as garniture for costuAes make
so much noise one would suppose the
“Campbells are coming.”
The original jerseys have gone out, and
the present ones are so fine, with their
fancy collars, cuffs, epaulettes, beading,
etc., that a new name is now in order.
Tawny bonnets are worn with yellcw.
If the overdress be of yellow it>ihould be.
in plush, and if the brown is used for
the overdress the yellow petticoat should
be in satin.
Jerseys are now made in a variety of
ways. Some of them have plaited chem
isettes of velvet with cuffs to correspond,
others are laced over full plastrons of
contrasting or harmonizing surah, and
still others are covered with braid so
that but little of the original material is
seen.
would neglect their owu business in order
to tell me of conniption in somebody else.
II went on that way for some time in *
defiant mood, attacking anything that
happened to suggest itself.
“Finally I tnought I would attack the
silver dollar. I did so. I thought that
friends would come to me and praise me
for my manly words, and that I could af
ford to lose the friendship of the dollar
provided I could win friends.
“In six months I took an unexpired
annual pass over our Larrabic Slough.
Narrow Gague, or Orphan road, and wittt-
nothing else but the clothes I wore, I told,
the plaintiff how to jerk the old ■Wash
ington press and went away. The dear
old Washington press that had more
than once squatted mv words into Hie
pure white page. - The dear old towel on
which I had wiped my soiled
hands for years until it had almost
become a part of myself, the dark blue
Gordon press with its large fly wheel and
intermittent' chattel mortgage, a press, tp _
which 1 had contributed the first joint of
my front finger; the editor's chair; the
sample? of large business cards printed in
green with on inflamed red border, which
showed that wc could do colored work at
Larrabie’s Slough just a? well as they
could in the large cities; the files of our
paper; the large wilted potato that Mr.
Alonzo G. Pinkham, of Erin Croners,
kindly laid on our table—all, alll had
to go.
“I fled out into the great, hollow mock-
Rntelkponin!- Kinka. “g world of people who had requested
. . ^ . . me to aggress. They were people who
Au odd kmk is the keeping secret of , had my al tentiou to various
the number oi the rooms where deaths j things which I ought to attack. I had
have occurred. If the number ouce gets attacked those llimgs. I had also at-
.a - tacked the Larrabee Slough Narrow-
in to the newspapers it is a source of con
stant annoyance for months, every patron
of the hotel through the country having
apparently made a mental note of that
number for future reference. It is as
tonishing how long the thing keeps up,
and hotelkeepers invariably beg reporters
in writing up deaths at their hostelrics to
omit the number of the room. Perhaps
the most notable case of this species of
superstition occurred at the Palmer,
where the room in which Theresa Sturla
Guage railroad, but the manager did not
see the attack, and so my pass was good.
“What cou(d I do!
“I had attacked everything, and more-
especially the silver dollar, and now I
was homeless. For fourteen weeks I
rode up the narrow gauge road one day
and back the next, subsisting solely on
the sample pecan meat that the newsboy
puts in each passenger’s lap.
look incredulous, I see, but it nr
killed Charles Stiles was virtually boy- j true*
cotted by travelers for a long time, and ■ ‘*i feel differently toward the currency
even .yet a guest now and then asks not now an d I wish l could undo what l
to be given that haunted chamber. Where, have done. Were I called upon again to
it is located none but the older habitues ( jerk the Archimedean lever I would not
around the hotel know, for the number- so aggressi vc,'especially regards the
ing has been changed in that hallway and currency. Whether it is inflated or not,
the fatal number dropped. j silver dollars, paper certificates of depos-
The bell-boys could furnish a larger it or silver bullion, it does not matter to
number of kinks about hotels, perhaps, J me>
than any other source. Taken from be- j yearn f or two or three adult dough ‘
ginning to finish, they are a very smart nu tg an d one of tiros? thick, dappled 1
lot—-too smart the clerks sometimes think, slabs of gingerbred or a slat of pie with
A smart bell-bt>y is a _ skeptic. He gooseberries in it. I presume that I could
has wonderful powers of vision, and can write is scathing editorial on the abuses ot
tell more of the guests and their doings C ur currency yet, but I am not so much
than could a half dozen shadow detec- • in the scathe business as I used to be. '
tives. Of this power the bell-boy takes I “I w i s h you would state, if you will,
advantage to turn an honest penny, and through some groat metropolitan journal,
the unfortunate wight who becomes his that my views in relation to the silver
victim can but pay h.a price. His chance coinage and the currency question havo
comes in where some guest oversteps the undergone a radical change, and that any -
rules and regulations of the house and pl an whatever, by which* to make the
has private sociables in his room,and this American dollar less skittish, will meet
will happen despite the most stringent with my heart y approval,
management, the hotel-men say. _ Then “If I ha Ve done anything at all through
it is that the bell-boy .see? and must be mv paper to injure or repress the flow of
“seen,” to use a political term.. Of ©ur currency, and I fear I have, J now
course the offense would result in the take the occasion to chcerfullv regret it.” -
sudden exit of both bell-boy and guest if He then wrung mv hand and nassc l from
.-a » • u-i. * .. my .sight.—Bi'l A$r, U Boston Globe.
it became known,' but the bell-boy
quiet and so ia the guest, and there the
matter generally ends.—Chicago Tribune.
Digestibility of Different Foods.
M. Leube in a German scientific jour-
Wealtb pf Principal Nations.
The subjoined is the estimate givei
MulhiU's “Dictionary of Statistic*.”
H. Leubeu a German scientific jour- i* only an approximation, of course, but
nal says that the practical experiment of probably it i. as near the correct truth a»
examining the stomach with a sound af- Mlph approximations ever arc:
,e L d f C T ltkln . d l? f n f T 1 .v haV !n een -“ : ' Argentina BepnbGc »1,CTJ,0«1,(»J
gested, has established the following Australia.... 4,S5o)nooosc
scale of digestibility for different foods: Austria..’..*.’. i&HDyQtM^aov
The most digestible are beef broth, I-dgium 4,<00,001.00}
““‘.s'"?' ra> lk >. <™ w °. r H 8 h,, y ,
cooked) eggs biscuit free from sugar, FnuK , tojoutooxt.
or English cakes. The lea? digestible, Germany 8l,«H.'>)noo.not
or. second degree, comprises calves* Greece 1.ov>,n0J,ntfc.
brains (boiled), sweetbreads (stewed), GreatBritain an i Ire'and
Holland
... 3,l‘JO.OOO,pCi
orrray 1,410,000,00*
ortusul.... l..ssri,ooo,oo(
pain 'T,«B,O0O,O0l
weden 3,47.',.000,onl
the skia is not eaten), stewed calves Mexico...
feet, tapioca. The third degree com- Norway....’].,
prises beef raw or very slightly cooked, Porta^nl
raw grated ham, mashed ’potatoes,
white bread, not too new. milk coffee
with bread. The fourth degree con
tains roast fowl, roast pigeons, roast
yeniaon ronst partridge roast beef (mo-.t Baroa Um de ,, r xi ha ,
indigestible when cold). Itonat veal, • offered a prixe for the he-t easily carriec
pike, treat and hare are very mdigesti- fo . tU . „ so „ f lho ; lc;lf -
Me- Macaron^nce, broth, spinach, and most be constructed on the principle! oi .
~ the microphone, and must be sent in Le*
fore the end of 1887. -
■wine retard digestive process;
ought to be forbidden.