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TWO. Silently, swiftly, riding with me, Stirrup to stirrup, and stride for stride, If I stretch out my hand in the night, b/my s|de, I touch him, steadily, sullenly, With his withered face and his misery, By the firmest and bitterest bond allied, That never a love nor a hate can divide, Riding with mo. Across the land, and from sea to sea. Plashing and plunging through many rivers, Recklessly, wearily, desperately, Ban nor blessing, nor thing that severs, Can sever the tie 'twist him and me. Out of the ulglit and into the day, From season to season, from year to year, What does it matter where leads the way? There is nothing further to heed nor fear; There is nothing to hope in the timo to be; As I gallop in silence to-night, by my side, Stirrup to stirrup, and stride for stride, lie rides with me. II. As I ride with thee, shall I rido with thee, With my withered face, and my misery, StirrUp to stirrup, and stride for stride, The cross, and the book and the priest defied. Through time, and death, and eternity, No days that breed, nor years that kill. Nor prayer, nor tear of souls that bo Past the swift river of good or ill, Shall sever the bonds that hold me, tied ’ By deed and by will of thy own to thy side, Stirrup to stirrup, and stride for stride, Steadily, sternly, silently, I shall ride with thee. —P. Y. Black in Overland Monthly. Good Hornes in I)ud llundn. A Boston writer tells a nice story about how he found among the wretched, bedraggled horses of the fish peddlers a faultless saddle mare. It is ixwsiblu for the most excellent and most lovable ani mals to fall into the bands of brutal masters, and die “unhonored and un sung.” But good care and skillful hand ling would restore many such. If llio story puts hundreds of kindly people on the watch to rescue possible from tlio crowds of animals that drudge i.'out our city streets, with all the spirit of a noble horse beaten out by beetle headed owners, it will fulfill tho evident object of the writer.—Globe-Democrat. Hallway .Station fit Itu.ln. The tracksof ull the roads leading from tho country palaces to the capital, over which the czar may travel, are pat: oled by soldiers, and one can see ten; I all along tho line at intervals of a few hun dred yards. This precaution is mado necessary by tho many attempts that have been mado to wreck trains on which members of the imperial family have been or have been supposed to bo passen gers. There was one terrible danger from this source which will never he for gotten, ns well ns several escapes from lesser peril.—William Eleroy Curtis in Chicago Nows. Tho Strength of Wood. In a paper on the strength of different kinds of wo<xl for building purposes, Professor Johnson calls attention to tho fact, ns now demonstrated, that many clteapot' kinds of timber may prove moro valuable for structures than more ex pensive varieties, which have been sup posed to bo stronger, and, therefore, moro desirable. Thus, pine supports or pillars have been found stronger than oak on r.. vlten tested in largo samples. —New York Sun. KUul to Contributors, v Tito Century is very nice in its methods with its contributors, both active and would ho. It notifies them immediately of the receipt of their manuscript, giving it a number to be used in future com munications pertaining thereto. This is done nowhere else in this country. Then, in about six weeks a decision is reached, and if accepted the article is paid for. All tho monthlies and weeklies of stand ing pay for their matter on acceptance. New York Graphic. A Hail llrrnin. “What can be more depressing than a terriblo dream?" “I will tell you what is more dopn ing; it is to have a pleasant, delightful dream and wake up to find that it is nothing but n dream.” “Have you over lieeti there?" “Just tho other night. I'll never for. get tho anguish I felt when I woke." “What did you dream?” “That my room rent was paid a month in advance.—Nebraska State Journal. Cleared Money on It. A' Missouri farmer recently learned that tho grand jury was about to indict him for working on Sunday. lie didn’t try to evade ti e charge, hut, on the con trary, had his four sons summoned as witnesses against him. He was fined $ 1 and costs, a total of $5. But as the mile age and witness fees of his sons amounted to $10.40, the family cleared $5.40 on tho transaction.—New York Tribune. Scorpion, ns food. 1 An English traveler told a Belize (Honduras) nowspaper man that he had eaten a “scorpion pie” whilo in Mexico, and that ho liked it. The natives told him that young scorpions were frequent ly utilized for food for the lower classes, who dig them from their nests in hun dreds, remove the sting and malm ome lets of them.—New York Evening World. , An Able Pulpit Kffort. Country fillister (to draeon)—So you think, Brother Jones, that niv sermon this morning was ait abler effort than that of last Sabbath? * Deacon—Yes, 1 do, dominie. Ye sec, I timed ’em both. an’ today’s was nigh on to fifteen minutes shorter.—Philip li. Welch in The Epoch. ri.jr.ur.rs* V a:.". An ongrav. r on - i ras-s usually gets a salary of $:),(•;;:) a y. nr id ... .tg raver on steel about the >ul. , . .ordit:;; to an expert SAFEGUARDS AGAINST THIEVES. A New Presjrratlvo Art. M. Truy, the French consul at this A Deformed Burglar TcID Householders ! P° rt > has in his parlor a httgo decorative How to Protect Their Property. , piece, seemingly of roses, rosebuds, vio- First of all, I may say that the house holder, especially if his house is situated in the suburbs, should - count as next to nothing the protection afforded by the night policeman on ' his beat. I don’t mean to" insinuate that the night police man neglects his duty. I believe that, as a rule, ho performs it ns well as he is able to, and ic may be pretty safely relied on that at each time he passes a row of vil- lets, smilax and other flowers and foliage, apparently carved with rnoet exquisite delicacy in bronze. Tho most minute curves and veiningsof the smallest petals and leaves are preserved with infinito exactitude, so that it would seem as if the piece represented years of patient ap plication of the highest skill in this diffi cult branch of art. In point of fact, however, the whole thing was produced SOME CURIOUS TABLE MANNERS. The Good Old Day. When Knives and Fork. Were Scarce—The Saltcellar. It was late in the Fourteenth century when the first evidences of art in the shape of bilver cups were noticeable on the buffet. The dishes were mado of pewter or wood and spoons of bone, Vt. las he will cast the light of his bull’s eye * ^ a few hours, and at small expense, by over tho front garden, if there is one, I new process of (dating, the invention and over the house front, and tho lower 3 Frenchman. Each bronze flower windows and street door. If there is no . nnc ^ incloses the real original, upon front garden, he will see that all is right and tight in the area as well. But his beat is a long one, and it is probable he will not pass that way again for an hour, or perhaps longer. So that if there is a job afoot ail that those engaged in it havo to do is to hido and seo the policeman off, and they then know exactly how much time they have to get through their work before he can make his appearance again, which the metal has been deposited by electric action, and it is affirmed that the roses so encased retain indefinitely their perfume, and, even in their deepest interiors, their natural colors. Tho same process is applied in tho making of silver flies, beetles and other insects, and even in tho coating of lizards and small snakes for tho ornamentation of parasol handles and cano heads. Tho dead insect or reptile is hermetically sealed up in its Speaking from my experience, and ■ metal coat, and, it is said, will never de- from that of others with whom I have ! ca . v > at least until * tho m . ctal is worn been acquainted, I should say that at least a fourth part of tho number of pri vate house burglaries that are success fully committed are assisted by servants. But speaking of ordinary work it is tho fcmalo servants who aro made useful, and that quite innocently on their part. Masters and mistresses have no idea what easy simpletons many girls in service are, or how easily they aro induced to betray the secrets of the house. And not only girls, but women, cooks and house maids, who aro old enough to know bet ter. A smart chap, with plenty to say and with money to spend, has but to scrape acquaintance with the kind of servants I am alluding to when they are out for church on Sunday and meet them a few times afterward, and lie can learn all ho wants to know respecting the val uable stuff in tho house and where it is kept, and tho ways and habits of their employers and when they aro at homo nail when away. It is not often tho burglar himself who in thi3 way goes a-fishing for useful in formation. Generally speaking, ho is not what may lie called a “ladies’ man. ” Ho is very well in his own line, hut ho hasn't got tho good looks or tho insinuat ing ways that go down with tho fair sex. That part of the programme is intrusted to tho “sweetstuff man.” lie is an affa ble, well spoken young fellow, very re spectably dressed, and no respectable in his manner that even if lie was caught in tho kitchen witli the servants at bouses vliero followers aro strictly prohibited his appearance would disarm suspicion. It should not be forgotten that tlio burglar Ita3 no particular desire in tho pursuit of his calling to run his bead into more danger than is necessary, and thero is nothing that is so much to his liking ns parapet work—getting in at. attic windows that are screened bv tlio roof , , ,, - - , , parapet. Not ono householder in a score because they wero good, will show gives a thought as to the security of the | makings closely resembling champagne through, and, as the deposit may bo put on as thick ns is deemed advisable, they may be mado to last as long as people’s liking for them as a novelty endures. Tho fidelity to nature in these reproduc tions is wonderful. Heretofore something has been dono in tho direction of plating non-conducting surfaces by giving them a primary coat ing of plumbago, but that always was a necessary imperfect process. Tho French electrician substitutes for that a bath— the composition of which is a secret— into which tho objects to bo plated aro plunged for a few seconds. When they are withdrawn they dry off almost im mediately and seem to have upon them a faintly discernahlo coating like tho bloom upon a plum. They are then plunged into an electric bath, and any metal de sired is deposited upon them.—New York Sun. Drain Photographic Revelations. A writer in Tlio New York Tribune tells tho story of tho appearanco of a man’s brain under a strong microscope that is both interesting and suggestive. In the brain matter, ho says, wero no ticed curious markings, some geometri cal, somo sinuous, and many others that proved to lie characters in tho Etliiopic, Syriac and Phoenician languages, which tlio possessor of tlio brain, when alive, had mado a special study. Now for tho suggestive part. Perhaps soma day when a man dies wo can tako out his brain, spread it on a microscopic slide, and, in a ]>eep, behold him ns ho really was, not as lie pretended to bo. Every thing his tnind ever took cognizance of and formed an opinion about will ho open before us like the pago of a book. No doubt the traceries will tako pecu liar shapes sometimes. Perhaps tho brains of somo young men, Who died attic window. He wi l havo his street door iron plated, with t patent lock on it, and a chain strong e lough to hold an elephant, but a catch that can be put back with a bradawl is good enough for tho attic window, and all the timo it is quite as easy to enter by ono way as tho other- -if tlio houses stand in a row one ono of them happens to bo empty This bottles, night keys and fast horses. Tho tracings in tlio brain of moro than ono good bald headed deacon may assume tho graceful forms of ballet girls, tlio sight of which made such on impression on him when alivo and in the front rotv of tho theatre. Shapes that closely resemblo beautiful entrain and decolleto dresses may ho expected in tlio,cranimns of so ciety belles called henco in tho midst of of tlio opportunities tho fraternity ' tllcir triu ”P hs ' I" tho brains of re i wv .. . * : Tvirlnrts will nn nntirml mnnv n-hncinv are always on tho looko it for. Notliin_ can lie easier than to (iter nn unoccu pied house at tho bnsi inent, and cr.co within all a man has to i o is to walk up stairs and get out on to lie parapet, and there, well screened fre n view by the coping, he can creep on liis hands and knees, and by means of the attic win dows get into any house lie has a fancy for. It it is win; :• time,and afterdark, lie will have no difficulty in taking stick of the front windows before be makes the ascent, and so nscerfc ining which of the front rooms are oep’pied or if tho family aro at dinner. It the latter ho cau be pretty sure that tRe servants are nil down stairs, and liqoau explore the upper rooms without nitrh fear of inter ruption. This wouldn't lie called in the profes-ion tip top work, tin it is a means by which householders lo»aconsiderahli amount of portable propeoy, and it very rarely happens that tho nLber is caught in the act. As regards houso fnstoibigs there in my opinion, nothing safemor windows titan a long thumb sere win a socket, going right through the frane and deep into the sash on both sides u tho win dow. I don't know if there luivo been tiny wonderful inventions hi that way since I took an interest in strh things, but I never saw a door fasteWr except the thumb screw that slioull give a workman a minute’s trouble. IFor tho street door there is nothing so and ns a flat bar fastened to a pivot to til center, 60 that it will extend across till jambs and drop into slots mado on thtfelau cf a watch and chain swivel. For window shutters tho cheapest and best portion is a lightly hung bell on a coil But bettor than locks, bolts and bah is a wiry little dog that, roaming loosdwill o[ien his pipes and let all the house glow it tho moment ho hears a suspicious at door or window.—London Telegraph. porters will ho noticed many ghastly family and public oecrets which, out of reportorial goodness of heart, never wero | given out to the world. And so wo luightYontinuo ad infinitum, hut wo re frain. This scientific investigation must i not bo pushed further. A key that opens ; a man’s secrets after lie is dead might | not he such r; hilarious discovery after j all.—Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. Astrologers' Magical Rings* The ring among astrologers was a favor- i ito means of divining the future. It was suspended by a hair in the middle of a ! cup known as the draining cup. Qttes- I tions were asked and the ring tupped tho | sides of tho goblet in answer, hut as the hand of tho astrologer held tho hair to which tlio ring was fastened, perhaps there was not so much divining ill this as tlio credulous supposed. All astrol ogers, however, had at least seven magic rings; one for Uto sun, a diamond set in gold; another for the moon, a crystal in silver; a third for Mercury, a luadstono in silver; a fourth for Venus, an amethyst ia copper; a fifth for Mars, an emerald ip iron; u sixth for Jupiter, a cornelian in tin; a seventh for Saturn, a turquoise in lead. Many astrologers had a zodiac ring, or ring exhibiting ill its setting all tlio signs of the zodiac, tho general effect be ing that of a calendar or old fashioned almanac. Charm rings are also very common oven in later times. Henry VIII Iiad so much confidence in a ring which belonged to Thomas a Becket that he had it set as a thumb ring and wore it all his life.—Globe-Democrat. or silver. Knives were rare, and that account guests invited to feasts carried their own knives. Forks camo in general use still later, and for long years after their introduction they wero con sidered ridiculous affectation and foppery, and not nearly so convenient as one’s own fingers. The lord and his lady dipped their fingers into tlio same plato and sipped their wine from tlio same cup. Even the qupenly Elizabeth, with all her elaborate ideas of etiquette, was content to carry her food to her mouth with her fingers, and at first despised tlio newly invented forks os unseemly and awk ward. Very gradually tho dining hall grow in comfort and splendor. Dishes of gold and silver were made, and so eager word tho nobles for them that they would sac rifice unything to possess them. Tho saltcellar was for a long timo tho article of highest importance on the board. It was a great affair, and it stood directly in tho center of the table; it was tho di viding lino; the nobles wero seated above tho salt, tho commoners below; lienee grew tho proverb, “Below the salt." Tho passing of salt was a ceremon ious custom tlio guest throwing a pinch over his left shoulder and murmuring a blessing, The saltcellars wero of the most curl ous device. Sometimes they represented hugo animals, sometimes a great, full blown flower, or a long, slender stem, and again they were in shapo of a chariot*, mounted on four wheels, on which they were easily run down tho table Tho first glass cups came from Venico during tho Sixteenth century, and from tha: time on society began to loso many of its primitive ways, and became, in a sense, more refined. Henry VIII was bom with luxurious tastC3. II- 1 bad his banquet chairs sup plied with velvet cushions, and about this timo tho parlor or “talking room,’’ as it was called, wa» introduced, and hero it was that tho dames took refuge when tho dinner had advanced beyond prudent limits, a3 it invariably did before tho finish. Tho cook that presided over the kitchen in those days was not tho counterpart of our Nineteenth century Bridget, but ho was nn artist, and generally u man of quality. Tho ladies of tho household, oven those of noblo birth, attended to many domestic ' duties, making tho bread, preserving tho fruits, while to understand tho proper uso of starch was considered a great accomplishment.— .Tillio May Forney in Woman. Tho Fat Man Trick, Stage tricks and illusions havo an un dying charm even when tho veil of mystery is raised. It was tho celebrated family of Ravels that invented tho fat man trick, nnd now we havo an expos! tion of tho manner in which that seem ing marvel was accomplished. One of tho actors in tho pantomimo sits at a tablo and ravenously eats dish after dish of food that a servant brings on to him. Presently tho man. who like most raven ous eaters was rather thin and scrawny, begins to grow plump, liis clothes tit him snugly. His waistcoat steadily swells out under tho very eyes of tho audience. All tiie while ho is eating liko a sau sage machine. In a few minutes ho grown to lie a giant eight or nino feet tall, and with tlio proportions of nn in flated balloon. Tho food oaten is nil “property food,” mado of tissue paper, that tho actor chows up into little halls and takes out of his mouth when occa sion offers. His clothes aro all i«i rubber and mado to fit air tight around tlio wrists and nock. In sitting down ho puts tho heel of one hoot over n little trap in tho stage. An assistant below immediately couples a tube running from a bellows to a liolo in the hoot heel. Then he blows him up. By the time that the suit has grown so big that tho inhabitant lias to have : lantern to move around in it, tho wind supply is cut off and the I>oot heel is plugged up. Then, by an ingenious arrangement of springs under the actor’s foot tho height is ac quired.—Detroit Frco l’ress. The people taken to ratio' quite a denial rtf To Imr- for i Informed on Each Other. Hero is a story told by a New Jersey justico of the peace; “A man from Pennsylvania was arrested in Gloucester for having a dead deer in his possession. He was fined $50, which ho paid, and went back to Pennsylvania. About the same time another Pennsylvanian was _ caught in the same way and fined the if they were ever uttered, and itisprob- Tlio Legion's Iron Discipline. Many desertions continue to take place from tiie French army in Tonkin. All tho deserters who are recaptured aro shot without compunction. Lately eighteen soldiers of tho Foreign legion ran away from Sottthay with a lot of arms and ac couterments. They wero caught in tho mountain defiles after a chase which lasted a considerable time, and the eight een wero condemned to ho shot at once. It is said that when tho men were drawn up in single file in front of their graves the adjutant who was in charge of tho firing party cried out with an oath, on seeing some of tho doomed men fall slightly out of their alignment, “Can’t you fellows keep your dressing better than that? Eyes right! Dress!" No sooner was tho command given than tho prison ers with parade liko punctuality straight ened themselves up and obeyed ns if they wero on the drill ground or at u review. Then the fated command was given, and the eighteen men went down liefore the terrible volley. The adjutant’s words— 1VI1I ltun for • Year. A new thing out is a clock with ordiV nary works that will run for a year with-' out attention. An electric battery con cealed in the case winds up the clock from day to day. or week to week, as tHo 1100,1 'may be’ Once in a great while tho button must l» renewed, but that is all the care the clock calls for.--Chicago Tiuies. same amount. Ho also paid up. In I nblo that tlicy were—show that an iron both cases tlio whole fine, under the law, discipline still prevails in the French went to the informant against them. I j Foreign legion.—London Telegraph. knew them, anil it always puzzled me — how they came to seem so contented to ociunlists assert that tho newly discov- pay their fines. Well, sir, I have just j e nsl cities of Arizona aro thn same as found out. Do you know that thoso i sought by Cortez and tlio early Spanish ieas\y Pennsylvanians had put up a job j a,tventurers in their expeditions after conic over hero to kill our deer, and j gold. The cities are seven in number ien each inform on the other. S" that all ,i show evidences ■ f former civiliza- fine each paid went right back into lion uml wealth —Chicago llerohl. pocket of the other, and. their oivr ,’t cost them a cent!”—Chicago News) Meaning of tie, Wont "Kongo." It has been generally accepted that the translation of the name “Kongo” Id "tiie country of leopards,” the root ko meaning “the country," and ngo “leop ard.” J. Janko, in Pctermann’s Mittei- lungen, shows that this translation is not satisfactory, os, according to the rules of the Bantu language, these two words cannot be combined into the word "Kongo." He discusses tho various forms of this word as found among the tribes of the Lower Kongo—the Bakongo, who live on the river, from its mouth to Stan ley Pool; the Bateke, who occu^f the regions tietweou the Kuaugo and Kongo, and the Ko' go und Alima; tho Bubtmia, northwest of the last tribe; and the Bay- nnzi, bet v. con Leopold Jake and the Kongo. Tho Bakongo name of the river is ‘‘Kongo." that used by the Bateko is “Songo,” and the Baynnzi say "Rongo.” All tlieso names are dialectio variations of tho same word, the k of ono dialect becoming r and s in the others. The meaning of the word in the Bayonzi dia lect is “spear," and, accordingly, Janko explains the name of Bakongo as “the man with the spear;” the name of tho river, as “fast as a spear." If this trans lation should bo correct, it seems more ►probable that the name of the river was derived from that of tho tribe. Janko remarks incidentally that the root ku infers a motion, and that it is contained in tho names of numerous rivers, such os Kuilu, Kunene, Kuango, Kuanza, which therefore must not bo spelled Kuilu, Kwango, etc. It seems probable that tho samo root may be contained in tho word ‘■Kongo,” and that tho meaning “spear," which is, according to Janko, confined to tho Bayanzi, is also derived from this root.—Science. no Figured on It. « “Got a pencil?" asked a farmer on tho market tlio other day of acitizen. “Now, then, let’s figure a bit.” “What on?” “Well, I como in most every day with something, and generally start for’ home about dusk. Ono boy hi particular up Grand River avenue lias botliei'cd mo a great deal by ‘hitching on.’ Tito other night I thought I’d givo him a lesson. When ho got on I grabbed his cap." “And the boy?” “Ho sat down on some bag3 of oats I hadn’t sold and was taking back home, nnd didn’t seem to care much about it. Ho rode about n mile arid then got off without his cap.” “But wlmt about the figgors?" “I’m coming to them. IIo threw out six empty bags worth thirty-five cents each. He slashed into three bags full of oats witli kis knife and let ’em ran out. IIo threw away anew tea kettle which cost me eighty cents, and lie dropped overboard a horso blanket for which T' paid $1. Add up these sums, subtract n two shilling cap nnd seo how much I come out ahead.—Detroit Free Prcs3. A SIioo Dealer. Tlio western nnd southern shoo trade demands a wider last than is used in the cast. This is not altogether due to dif ferences in tho pedal structure. There nro notions that prevail among dealers os to how a shoe should ho fitted, which ore peculiar to sections. The eastern retailer prevails on a lady to wear a shoo that Is often a full 6ize longer than her foot. Havo plenty of room in that direction, tho foot can then bo fitted with a nar rower shoo, with a slimmer and more Elegant appearance. 'On the other hand, Vcstem and southern dealers rnako the fit snug ns to length, nnd often after the shoo is worn a few days tho great toe protrudes over tho sole. Being crowded longitudinally, tho foot must havo room somo way, and tho wider last is therefore used. Tlio eastern is tho correct method rtf fitting, being less injurious to tho feet, and the shoes will wear better and look better after a fortnight’s wear.—“Dealer” in Globe-Democrat. Tho X«t Census. Already plans aro in outliijo for the collection of tlio eleventh national cen sus. Many of tho shortcomings of the methods of 1880 nro to he remedied. That census was moro com pie to than any previous one, but the work was so much greater than tho sum available to pay for it that its day of greatest uso was over before it was put in a shape to be uvaiia- *ble. Gen. Francis A. Walker, who was superintendent of tho last census, advo cates the collection of the statistics two years hence by tho national bureau of statistics, which has Carroll D. Wright at its head. Ho also suggests that the statistics of population bo taken by ono Bet of enumerators and published as early as possible. Thero is a disposition to make the census of 1890 even moro com plete than that of 1880.—Philadelphia Times. Cemetery In Tangier. Not far from the market place, upon tho hillside, is the public cemetery—a forlorn and dreary place full of sprawl ing cacti and brambles. Some of the graves aro inclosi'd with rude low walls, few havo stones of turban shape, but all look crude und cheerless. AVo saw two or threo women sitting among the graves, enveloped in their white hoiks, and look ing like tho risen ghosts of those who slept below. True to tho tenderness of their sex tho world over, they hod gone to the graves of their friends “to weep there." Near by, and also close to the old citadel, wo saw tombs of former shereofs—low, squaro structures, sur mounted with domes, all of dazzling whiteness from frequent whitewashing.— G. P. Gates in Boston Transcript. Magnifying glasses seem to have neen known in the time of Confucius. the great Chinese phiUvoplt*r. who died B. O., for he wrote: "A- " > •• sss to examine tit • f r oso? • . • we study i v. ■ t" • ■ 1118 present. —Ariuii.'nw ...“ ■