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Of truth and right. O Lord, weitaji
•Tb by our follies that ao long
We bold the earth from baareo awer. ’
•Tbeee clamejr feet, (till in the mire,
Oo crushing blossom* without end;
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Among the heart strings or a friend.
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Who known bow grandly It bad rung?
“Our faulte no tenderness ebould ask.
The chastening stripee must cleanse them all;
Rut for our blunders—O. in shame
Before the eyes of heaven wo toll.
“Earth bears no balsam for mistakes;
lien crown the knave and scourge tbs tool
That did hb will; but thou, 0 Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool I"
The room was hushed; In silence roeo
The King, and nought the gardens cool.
And walked apart, and murmured low,
“Bo merciful to mo, a fool I”
-Edward Rowland BID.
A Veil's Flight.
Mrs. M. M. Hall, of Clinton, la.,
who has recently been here visiting
her sister, Mrs. W. H. Wilder, met
with a remarkable experience at Roch
ester last week. She was the guest of
a friend, Mrs. Pago, of thatcitv. whose
husband conducts a harness business
there. Among other places the ladies
visited was Powers’ art gallery and
the tower. While at the latter place
Mrs. Hall’s veil became detached from
her hat and a slight breeze quickly
wafted it over the railing and out <![
reach. Down it went toward the M:.:n
street walk, 100 feet below. The ladies
stood and watched its slow and waver
ing descent until it had nearly reached
the pavement. Suddenly it struck un-
other current of air and was borne
upward again. The ladies watched its
graceful movements curiously and be
came more and more interested as the
airy fabric slowly traveled back in al
most the same route it had taken in its
descont, and their surprise knew no
bounds when the veil actually re
turned to the tower and settled down
fairly and squai-ely on the owner’s
head. Mrs. Hall cfdcluros this to be
the fact, and those who met tho lady
here certainly have no reason to doubt
her word.—Caledonia Advertiser.
At Rover’* Grave.
Tho pet dog of Mrs. Samuel Wilmot
died Monday, plunging the household
into deep sorrow. Some heartless in
dividual had administered a dose of
poison. Tho funeral occurred this
morning and was attended by the fam
ily and a few friends.
The casket was lined with whito
satin and covered outside with purple
velvet. Tho remains looked perfectly
natural and peaceful. Tho interment
was in tho family’s private lot.
Tho members of the family stood
weeping around the grave, whilo what
remained of Rover was laid at rest.
Some of the floral oll'erings were
expensive and unique, one being a dog
kennel of roses tipped with sprays of
dog fennel.—Bridgeport (Conn.) Cor.
New York Evening World.
A Check tb Civilization.
Sexual selection, which has doubtless
greatly influenced tho development
and advancement of certain races, has
been inoperative in China during
many centuries, bceauso, under the
prevailing usages, tho contracting par
ties have, before espousal, no oppor
tunity to judge of tho strength, beauty
or intelligence of their consorts. Ro
mantic love has no part in marriage
or its issue. This may bo one of tno
causes of China’s arrested civilization,
and of tlip astonishing fact that her
astute people have invented nothing
and discovered nothing during hun
dreds of years.—Adelo M. Ficldo in
Popular Science Monthly.
A Novel Device.
A device has been invented which
enables the engineer when in his cab,
to turn a switch, which can ho closed
again from tho rear of the train. It is
operated in connection with tho “cen
tral throw” switch, and consists in a
“shoe,” which is dropped from the
forward and rear trucks. This strikes
a crank, which is overthrown, and tho
ewitch closed or opened, cs tho case
may be. A switch left open carelessly
may thus bo closed, by the locomotive
while at high speed, ora train side
tracked quickly in case of danger.—
Houston Post
Tbs Climate ml Mriiro.
The great advantage of a tropical
country aa a place to live In, day In and
day out, la the freedom from die care*
Incident to a cold climato. Then? Is no
fin to bo tended, oo thick garments to bo
worn, no putting on of overshoes, no
shivering nt night under Insufficient
clothing. The cold Is not cold to a trav
eler fresh from tho north and hi good
health. Tho Invalid will feel the relative
cold of tropical nights In winter just
docs a resident not very healthy, whoso
blood has been thinned by the action of
tho climato enduring over a series of
years. Tho climate, either on the table
lands or in tho lower and warmer coun
try, docs not prevent out of door lifo at
season. In fact, one of necessity
much outdoor air. It Is a rare day
tho coldest weeks of tho short tabfo
land wintor when windows are closed
half a day. At nightfall tho doors and
windows are closed to keep out tho chill,
but tho cold will rarely register below
02 degs. F.
Tho most disagreeable thing about
household lifo in New England during
tho winter Is tho overheating of rooms.
Tho temptation Is to make them over
hot. People oven get to enjoy a dry heat
of 80 degs. But the dabger comes when
you go out of doors into tho keen and
eager air. In Mexican houses thero is
little difference at any timo between the
air in doors and that of out of doors. In
summer the house is cooler than the
street into which tho clear and dazzling
trbpical sun is pouring its rays, but there
is no such contrast of indoor and out
door temperature os ono finds in tho
north in the winter months.
Hero we have to be careful on leaving
a lamp lighted room in tho evening and
going out of doors not to catch cold in
the eyes, for it is a peculiarity of the
tropics that the eyes oro especially sensi
tive to sudden changes from light to
darkness. I knew of a lawyer who one
evening sat in his study at homo writing
with a bright light at his elbow. He
worked a few hours, and suddenly went
out into tho cool darkness of tho corri
dor of tlio patio, or courtyard. He was
struck blind, and hopelessly.
I have heard that similar risks arc
characteristic of tho Cuban climate.
Most Mexicans on wintcrevcnings, when
emerging from tho theatre or a house,
put a handkerchief to their nostrils so as
to take io tho cooler air Glowly, and
many men light a cigar or cigarette to
'warm tho air passing into tho lungs.
Ono learns to respect tneso customs after
having had iiis eyes ache for a week as
tho result of running out of a lighted
room into the courtyard, or after having
got a severe head cold from a similar
imprudence.— City of Mexico Cor. Bos
ton Herald.
AU About Alphabets.
Will my youngest American readers—
my very youngest—please give me their
attention?
Ah, hero you arc! Well, my little
ones, as' you very soon are to begin to
learn your letters, if, indeed, you are not
already learning them, it may interest
you to know that tho babies of other
countries, ns well ns baby Americans,
AN OLD CHURCH.
r the Old Swedish MmUi
Envied la IMS.
Tho most interacting feature of Wil
mington ii the old Bwcdos church,
standing on tho outskirts of the city,
near tbo Christina, just above the rocks
when in old days Minuit planted his
fort I am of opinion that ire have no
are expected to know tlieir alphabets at
a very early ago; and Borne of them, be
cause there are more letters in tlieir
alphabets, liavo even a harder timo than
you do. Somo again have less to learn.
For instance, as a sprightly and learned
correspondent informs this pupil, the
Sandwich Island alphabet has only 13
letters; the Burmese, 19; tho Italian, 20;
the Bengalese, 21; tho Hebrew, Syriac,
Chaldee, Samaritan and Latin, 22 each;
tho French, 20; tho Greek, 24; tho Ger
man and Dutch, 28 each; tho Spanish
and Slavonic, 27 each. But, on the other
hand, the Arabic has 28; tho Persian and
Coptic, 80; tiio Georgian, 83; tho Arme
nian, 88; tho Russian, 41; tho Muscovite,
48; tho Sanskrit and Japanese, 50; the
Etliiopic arid Tartaric, 202.
If this information bewilders you, my
People Who Rat Quinine.
You would be astonished at tho
number of peonlo who liavo acquired
tho quinine liubit, They are far moro
numerous than the opium eaters and
carry tlieir pills in their pocket all tho
time. They imagine the existence, of
somo physical wrong and take quiuino
as regularly as they cat, in tho belief
that it is a euro all Tho facts aro it
stimulates tho stomach, but not to any
pcrccptiblo degree, yet hundreds aro
overy day getting from it tho somo
satisfaction they would from u drink
of whisky.—Interview iu Chicago
Times.
poor little letter learners, don’t mind it.
It will keep. Ono of tlieso days you will
he big and aide to play tag, and, later on,
baseball in these languages. Then, a few
letters, more or loss, in any ono of them,
will be a matter of small consequence to
you. Even now, 1 dare say, after what
\ have told you, you'd bo able to play
with the letter blocks of any country. In
truth, if I were you, I think I should pre
fer a box of Ethiopic or Tartaric letter
blocks to lx>gin with.—St. Nicholas.
Sunday in Part*.
Every year Parisian tradespeople are
becoming les3 disposed to Sunday shop
keeping, and there aro even fewer arti
sans to bo seen at work than was formerly
tho case, says a correspondent. The in
habitants of tiio proverbially lively city
liavo not, of course, adopted tho strict
Sabbatarianism of their British neigh
bors, and it is oven doubtful if many of
them patronize tho metropolitan churches
on Sunday mornings. Their great ob
ject seems to bo to extract as much ra
tional amusement as possiblo out of tho
ono day in tho week when they aro not
tied down to their eternal desks, ledgers
and counters. . Dissipation there may bo
in somo cases, and there is much un
godly revelry carried on during Sunday
evenings in second class cafes, low danc
ing saloons and absintho recking resorts
of tho “Assommoir” type; but tho re-
spectablo portion of tho community takes
its holiday in a decent fashion, and en
joys itself in a manner at which only the
sourest disciple of Calvin or tho most
melancholy minded follower of Mo-
lancthon could cavil. Serious, steady
and respectable Parisians walk leisurely
in tiio Claimps Elysecson Sundays, when
tho‘weather permits, or attend morning
performances in tho theatres or tiio after
noon concerts. Then they go homo to
dinner and liavo a family reunion, or
wind up by a quiet gamo of cards or
draughts in u favorite cafe.—Boston
Herald.
A Knowing Dog.
A citizen of Lynchburg, Va., has a
Newfoundland dog which is noted for
his intelligence. Ho saw a youth gather
ing apples in his master's orchard, and,
thinking he was an intruder, took him
gently by tiio coat slccvo and led him to
nis mistress, who told him that sho had
hired tho boy to gather tho apples, where
upon tho dog immediately released his
captive.
church quite so interesting, as regards i
ago, origin and architecture. It is i
probably tho oldest which remains ex- j yC n!?, 0 K
Striking • LI it lit.
In tho days before the invention of
friction matches tho difficulty of pro
curing (Ire was so great that all pains
were taken to prevent tho fire on tho
hearth from going out 41) winter
long it was kept by covering tho coal
anabrands with ashes at night This
was ono of tiio domestic cares of our
forefathers, and Uomor alludes to Uio
as common in his day, 3.000
re could not bo kept with com-
Ohsamss
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* bo times iu the winter when the hearth
wideplaoe of graves, a little back from I wou,d bocomo coltL T1,on 8ome ‘• 0 “ 1b
west gable. Tho building stands in s'
Christina creek andla mile west of tho **“ 1
Delaware. The church is bnUt of gray | ? "® w flre must be kindled in tho
stone, sixty feet long, thirty feet wido j n0 mw' , H .
and twenty feet high. The walls are' *“*?. “tier process was usually ac-
six feet thfek at the baso arid three feet *7E““. 1 fl ' nt “ lld a,wl -
at the windows. There ora five of the
latter, lurge, and arched in the stylo of
tho old Norman, os are tho three heavy
doors. Thero aro inscriptions on all
four sides in iron letters set into tho
walls, the main inscription being qn
£ho west gablo.
Within the church is as quaint and
old as when Dutch Peter, the battlo
scarred sexton, hauled live coals from
the old cannon stove upon the brick
floor to warm it The old cedar roof,
fir pews and quaint pulpit, with its
high sounding board, are very inter
esting specimens indeed of early
church furniture.
The inscriptions recall the very in
teresting circumstances under which
the church was built After the cap
ture by tho Dutch (1655). the Swedes
were very much scattered, and found
it extremely difficult to secure pastors.
They were of the Lutheran faith of
the pure Augsburg confession and se
cured now and then a minister from
tho churches at New York, their last
one from this source being the Rev.
Jacobus Fabritius, called in 1677, who
became blind and incapacitated in
1682. They made frequent but vain
appeals to the home cnurch to send
them “two ministers, with Bibles,
catechisms and other goodly books to
protect them from the false teachers
and strange sects, ” by whom they were
surrounded. At last, in 1693, they ap
pealed to Charles XI, of Sweden, an
appeal very interesting to us from a
statement it contains that there were
then 188 Swedish families, comprising
942 persons, living on tho Delaware.
Charles was much interested by tho
letters, but the death of his queen,
Ulrica Klcanora, soon after, arid press
ing affairs of state delayed the Ameri
can matter for some time. In 1696 it
revived. Andrew Rudman,
candidate, was selected as missionary
to America, and he in turn chose two
other godly men, Erie Bjork and Josias
Aurran, ns companions and co-work
ers. The king gave for their outfit
$1,300 “copper mint,” and 500 copies
of Luther's catechism, with Bibles,
pastils and church books, each bearing
tho king’s name in gilt letters. As tho
three were about to depart ho granted
them a personal interview, at which
ho gavo them $100 “silver mynt” addi
tional for their voyage, and informed
them that he had ordered tho Swedish
ambassador, in London to procure pass
ports and scWthcni safely on their way.
“Go now,” ho concluded, “in tho
name of tho Lord to the place to which
I send you. God bo with you and
make you indeed successful!” Fur
nished with a safo conduct from Eng
land they camo safely to Maryland,
thcnco they traveled overland to Wil
mington and Philadelphia, Rudman
taking tho parish at Wicaeoa, near the
latter place, and Bjork that of Crano
Hook, near Wilmington. Tho neoplo
of Wimington thought that a cnurch
should be reared in tlieir village; tlioso
at Crano Hook opposed any change;
at last, ns a eompromi.se, it was agreed
to place it on the banks of the Chris
tina, so that tho pcoplo from tho out
lying districts could come in boats in
summer and sleighs in winter, and
also for the protection afforded by the
fort. John Stalcop, a church wnrdcu,
gavo the land. They began building
on May 28, 1698. Tne edifice was con
secrated us Trinity church, on Trinity
Sunday, 1699. Tho occasion was made
a day of great rejoicing. Governor
Markham was invited, but was unablo
to bo present The feast was spread in
the houso of John Stalcop. All sorts
of meat and drink, wo oro told, were
contributed—wheat malt bread, flour,
hops, wine, butter, sugar, raisins,
ggs, veal, mutton, venison, chickens,
turkeys, turnips, etc. Tho congrega
tion ate the dinner together, “rejoicing
and praising God.” For years after
tho anniversary was observed. Com
munions and baptismal services were
long celebrated with tho chalice and
plate scut over by tho copper work
ers of Sweden to Pastor Bjork, and tho
Bible long used was that given by
Queen Anno in 1712.—Wtimington
(Del.) Cor. Now York Post
Chamois In tho Alp*.
Wonderful talcs aro told of tho
amazing leaps which tho startled
chamois will make. From twenty to
thirty feet are affirmed by tho hunters
to bo not on uncommon jump down
ward^ the animal manning to^break
onally, and striking its feet several
times against tho sido of tho precipice
before landing at tho bottom, often on
a spot a few feet square. Ilcnco, to
kill any number, even in tho best
stocked districts, it is necessary to hunt
tho animal by surrounding an area
where they are known to ha feeding
by a circle of heaters. As tho cor
don gradually tightens, tho alarmed
chamois, seeing danger to windwunl,
fly iu tho opposite direction, whore tiio
sportsmen are posted on tho chnuco of
getting u passing shot—London Blau-
Most readers have no doubt soon
spark of tiro struck out from a horse’s
shoo hitting a stone in tho road, or
from the shoes of a sleigh runnor
grinding over rocks.
To obtain flro by this method a piece
of steel, such as a file or rasp, was
struck with a flint, or a bit of whito
quartz from a granite ledge, and tho
spark was caught in tinder—charred
cotton rags. Tho old flint lock mus
ket, with a few grains of powder and
somo tinder in tho pan, was looked
upon by our grandmothers os a do
mestic utensil. Sometimes, on a clear
day, a burning gloss—n lens for col
lecting at ono point the rays of tho
sun—was used.
The method of producing flro by
rubbing together two dry sticks is
known to most boys, but it has not
been often adopted by civilized people.
It belongs to tho ruder conditions of
life.
In Thibet Capt. William Gill found
practiced a moro scientific method
than.any of these. Tho natives strike
a light by compressed air. Tho ap
paratus used consists of a wooden
cylinder, two and a half inches long
by three-quarters of an inch diameter.
This is closed at oiie end, tho boso be
ing about tho sizo of a quill pen; on
airtight piston fits into this with a
large, flat knob at tho top. Tho other
end of tho piston is slightly hollowed
out and a very small piece of tinder is
placed in tho cup thus formed.
To uso this tho 'cylinder is held in
ono bond, tho piston inserted and
pushed about half way down. A very
sharp blow is then given with the palm
of tho hand on tho top of the knob.
The hand must at tho samo timo close
on tho knob and instantly withdraw
the piston, when tho tinder will bo
found alight. It requires skill to uso
tho apparatus ns well as science to in
vent it.—Youth’s Companion.
An Improved Flro Escapo*
A portablo flro escapo, constructed
with three systems of lazy tones con
nected together and arranged to bo
elovated and lowered by a screw
mounted in the platform of a truck,
hasebeen patented by Mr. Louis P.
Santy, of Clements, Kan. Tho plat
form on which tho tongs oro mounted
has screws at its corners, whereby tho
escapo may bo held upright or tipped
against tho walls of a building. The
tongs are united by a series of trian
gles, a set of lazy tongs beingarranged
at each corner of tho triangle, each set
bracing the others. A screw for ele
vating the system is mounted in the
center of tho platform, a triangular
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-Clara D llauleao In Tha Oonnotacur.
The Old Ox Team.
An ox team on the streets of St.
Paul is said to be quite an unusual
sight, but th* resident of Minneapolis
who cares to bo reminded of his old
Now England farm days with the
sight of a yoke of oxen doing yeoman
service in front of a wagon needs but
to go down in the vicinity of tho citjr
market or over to the city hay yar! on
Lyndalo avenue and he will bo pi*tty
sure to find one thereon almost nay
pleasant day. Tho farmers who drive
norned steers into the metropolis are
usually of the regulation down east
pattern, typical Yankees, who are
slow in abandoning the customs of
their early days. Many of the
farmers and gardeners about tho shores
of Minnetonka ore old settlers from
way back. For years after their ad
vent in tho territory of Minnesota the
ox team was tho old stand by in all
the various details of farm labor, and
for many a year was even tho favorite
mode of locomotion. Those old farm-
era in Inter days have become gar
deners as well, and cither out of defer- -
encotoold traditions or because they-
find him profitable, they still continue
to make uso of the patient ox, and are
not to be deterred by any metropolitan
customs or hifaluun notions from
hauling their produce into the city be
hind their faithful ox teams.—St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
Elghty-tiro and Still Bu Every Tooth.
Mr. Alfred Daniel, of Douglas coun
ty, father of Mrs. J. C. Nelms, of
Newton county, is 82 years old, was
never sick a day in his life, was never
in bed at sun up, never lost a tooth,
has been to six log rollings this year,
lifts moro than most men, often in
dulges in coon and 'possum hunting,
has been a deacon in tho Primitive
Baptist church for fifty-eight y ears,
was never drunk in his life, and an
oath has never escaped his lips. He is
the father of twenty-six children, fif
teen now living, has seventy grand
children and a number of great-grand
children. Mrs. Nelms, his daughter,
has officiated at over 1,000 births, and
has never lost mother or child in a
singlo case.—Covington (Go.) Enter
prise. ■ . • «■ -
First Cine Ever Known.
Mr. Charles G. Baker, of Oil City, is
tho name of a pleasant gentleman who
is now making a short visit to this city,
plato being attached at its corners to To sco him walk you would bo led to
tho lowermost set of lazy tongs, and
having nt its center an internally
screw threaded boss in which tho screw
works, being operated by hoveled gears
and crank shafts extending to tho
ends of tho truck. By turning tho
cranks tho threo sets of toy tongs will
bo rapidly elovated and by reversing
tho motion as rapidly lowered. At
the top of tho lazy tongs is a platform
or cago on which persons may stop
from tho window of a building, ana
bo lowered to tho ground by turning
tho cranks, or they may descend by u
rope ladder suspended from an aper
ture in tho center of tho cage.—Scien
tific American.
A Waistcoat with a History.
Baron Minaldi, tho tonsorioi hospo-
dar of tho Astor houso, .created some
thing of a sensation by appearing at
his place of business tho other day
decked out in a camel’s hair waistcoat
of startling and uniquo pattern. This
garment was sent to Baron Minaldi
from Sicily somo fifteen years ago. It
was worn liy ono of his ancestors, tho
fourth Baron Giuseppe Minaldi, of
Palermo, and was constructed more
than eighty years ago. ^Tho fabric
cqmo originally from Kashgar, in
Central Asia, and it is in as good state
today as it was the day it was stitched
together by a bronzed tailor under the
shadow of Mount Etna. At his family
dinner, over which Baron M. presided
in tho evening, tho waistcoat was
braced with ono pound of chicken
fricasseed, two pounds of turkey and
roast pig and three pounds of maca
roni. Not a button gavo way. They
could sew in Sicily in tho early part of
this century.—New York World.
To I'm the Rfaees Plant.
A Belfast machinist has discovered
a process by which tho fibers of tho
plaut rhcea can bo readily separated
think that one of his knees had been
slightly injured, but tho truth of tho
matter is that both of Mr. Baker’s lower
limbs aro artificial. His one limb was
amputated a short distance below tho
kneo and tho other about four inches
bolow tho hip joint Ho can. easily
ascend or descend a pair of stairs.
This is tho first coso over known in
which a man could walk with artificial
limbs when one leg was amputated
above tho kneo joint His appearance
is changed but little and his misfor
tune would nover bo noticed.—Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
An Old aibubock.
Goodo Price camo up from Leesburg
yesterday morning and told The Re
publican about the boss turtle catch
for tho season. A negro living on his
plantation in Leo was fishing for suck
ers in Kinchafooneo creek Friday
ovoning, when all at once ho felt some
thing jicavy tugging away at his hook.
Ho drew his lino in slowly toward tho
bank, and was surprised to seo that an
immenso turtle Had swallowed tho
bait. Ho was drawn slowly to the
bank, when a hoo was thrust under
him and ho was drawn out of the
water and killed His turtleship.was .
as largo as tho top of an ordinary sized ;
trunk and weighed 187 pounds.-Amor-
icus (Go.) Republican.
<V»uU«ra of Woman'* Horn
A woman’s hair may grow to the
length of six feet Mmo. Hess, of
Paris, refused 6,000 francs for her
“cranial covering,” which was about;
that measurement Four hundred hairs,
of average thickness would cover an
inch of space. Tho blondo belle has
about 140.000 filaments to comb and
brush, while tho red haired beauty has
to bo satisfied with 88,000; the brown
haired damsel may liavo 109,000, tha
m „ „ black haired but 102;000. Fow ladies
from tlieir woody and gummy cover-, consider that thoy carry somo forty or
reducing a fiber ut a low fifty miles of hair on their
lUg, thus piuMU^II.M '• M«v. — - H _ . - | ,
prico which will admit of being used j Imp haired tnav
for tho manufacture of rope, cordngo I seventy miles of
and woven goods. Rhcca is a plant! niomiug.
grown very widoly in southern and
eastern Asia, and ono capable of culti*
ration in tho temperate parts of Eu
rope and America. It U tiio strongest
vegetable ll!x»r that lias yet been ais-
covared, nt’.d is. besides, tho smoothest
uud most I ustiuus.—Cincinnati Com
mercial.
ly even have to clren
of threads of gold every
„ A German experimentalist
bus proved tlmt a i
ponu four ounces
stretching aider tbs process soa
contracting again. But uto hair tho*
heavily weighted must be dark brown*
for blondo unir breaks down note
two and a half ounces. —Home JoutS
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