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A OO:ul uaxju Mildred Is E lifted by the Echo o ll-tr Own Words. A buggy i',el stopped at tho a much-bespl ashed country buggy. drawn by tho gauritcst, most ill-favored of ani mals. Mildred and Joe, standing side by side in tho dining-room window, had been idly watching its laborious progress up tho street, and freely common ting upon it. "You could study anat*my from that horse, just as ho stands," said .loo, "or walks, if you choose to call it that." "1 think it is meant for it, but It is not a perfect imitation. Do you sup pose this is a pleasure excursion?" "1 don't see what, e 1 so it could be not very pressing business I should say." "I always thought," said Mildrod, with a compassionate shake of her head, "that to bo earned about in just, that stylo of conveyance would bo violent death to every last pram of pomp and vanity that any one had in their com position. Hut I must say that my imagination neve: stretch"-1 far as that horse. It is a degre" »'^md ray worst fear*." "Stretching is a very good word for Its peculiar gait," said Joe,, patronizing ly "and. by tho way. it looks as if it meant to stretch no further than our frontdoor just at present though you havo to steady your eye pretty well to toll the difference between when it's moving and when it isn't." It soon became apparent that Joe was right, and in tho suspense of tho mo ment, all connected talk was allowed to fall through. And first there climbed cautiously down from tho high-swung vehicle, "crab fashion,"as Joe observed in passing—an elderly woman with an atsonishing amount of short hair curled over her forehead, great, owi-liko spec tacles, with "pure gold" rims, Joe said, fat, rosy cheeks, and a cheerful counte nance. A girl of fifteen or thereabouts followed her. and stood waiting at tho gate while the other tied the horse to the post. "Who on earth—" began Mildred, and then stopped with a gasp of horror "Joe, my dear boy. they aro those Perk ins, parishoners of uncle's, and they havo come to spend tho daw a whole long, exhausting, unprofitable day. They will not leave this house till sun down, mark my words. And oh, to think of all I meant to do." "You will have plenty to do as It is, if occupation is all you Wwtit. Making conversation by tho wholesale, question and answer, and every tiling else, and keeping at it for ten hours at a pull does not leave you much leisure. Mean time. I will bid you good-morning yu know I really must sro on that errand for father." "What is the use of getting up early," thought poor Mildred, as sho listened disconsolately to tho front door, then the parlor door open and shut, "and being as brisk and industrious as you know how about all of your every-day chores, in order to clear a spaco to ac complish something in, and then havo your spaco all crowded up with Per kinses." "Mrs. Perkins and hor daughter from Little Run," announced Joo from the doorway, cap In hand. "Mildred, you asked them to como to see you last sum mer. I hoard you. And 1 suppose tfaey thought you meant it." "Very likely," said Mildred, snap pishly. "1 can't account for it in any other way. But things being your own fault does not make them any more welcome." "Well," suggested Joe, who was a good-natured fellow and sorry for bis sister's disappointment, "couldn't you put them down under the head of pri vate charity, and consider them a visit ation from tho Lord? Would not that fatten their welcome a little? And by and by I'll bo back and make them some delightful observations of my own on the state of tho weather and the erops, to help along." Mildred received her guests with what grace she could muster, and in a very short time they bad laid aside their bonnets and wraps, and were es tablished for the day. "I never once thought o' droppin* in on you like this, till I was coverin' up tho kitchen fire last night," said Mrs. Perkins, smiling genia.ly over the top of her spectacles and he* flashing knit ting needles. "Then all .if a sudden it come to me that this was fylvy's birth day. and it give mo such a irn to think 1 had so nigh forgot, th«.t i said 1 must think out some special nue treat for her." And this timo she smiled fondly over at her daughter, 'that limpish, in animato object," as Mildred called her in her much-tried mind. "You see," Mrs. Perkins went on, while Sylvy watched the people In the street with an air of utter disconnection with tho inject in hand. "1 couldn't t"i* Vavo left :t to her to think any thing at all aliout it. She's so took up with looking after other people's wants and notions that sho hasn't got any time to remember her own. That's tho sort she Is." "Is she, indeed?" said Mildred. "It's a very comfortable 6ort for the other people." "You are right," said Mrs. Perkins, heartily "And so I thought turn about was fair play, and though I had a good bit of work laid out for this morning'—" "So had I." moaned Mildred inward ly, with a further pang of regret over •her dear, vanished plans. "Sylvy, cer tainly, ought not to equal both of us, even if her own mother does think her a paragon." Meantime Mrs. Perkins was finishing her sentence. "'1 bough I had a good bit laid out to do, I saw right off that there wasn't any of it so good as to pleasure Sylvy on her birthdav. You see she took a great no tion to you when you wero to our place last summer, and 1 knew I couldn't suit ber better than to bring her right along bore for a nice sociable day of it. Sho needed a rest anyway, after sitlin' up so many nights wiih Granny Uuntwhon she w is so bad "The grandmother that I saw?" asked **Oh, dear. no. child' All th* n'-igh* i tjors call her so. but she ain anybody i grandma in particular. That wtieio the trouble was, you see.. Hut its lucky for all idem stray ones of tho Lords family in our town that they've Sylvy ss the fields from ttier-. She ad i the whole of 'em, and does for 'em till vou'd think sue was clean tired out with it. Hut Sylvv thinks that seek in' and savin' go toget her, she's got about tho patientest go-pel I ever came ac.rost. And sties thought every- •. thing of what you told them at Sund ly school that day sho has been wantin to make you a visit ever since, haven't you. Sylvy?" At this direct appeal. unprepos- I sessing girl at the window t'.rned with such a sweet, surprising smile, that Mildred found herself saying with ah tho notiesty in the world. "I am so glad you did." **Ttiere cnui''- vur ma up the walk," Mrs Perkins ai-ih ua "I guess I'll take my work and go talk to her awh'le. and leave you girls together till be more sociablo for you. and p'raps you'll lind more to say "Tell mo about Grar.nv Hunt and your other friends." said Mi.dred. "I Should love to hear about then "There isn't much to tell," S v aa swered, and the rich, deep w.cii was as unoxp"cted as her smile, "You mustn't believe all that mother says, you know mothers always think that every thing their own folks do is some thing very fine It wouldn't seem nat^ ural if they didn't, but strangers hav to count quite a good deal off ot v hat they tell. 1 used to worry and worry that I didn't have time to do more of the good work, but since you taugnt our class last summer I've tell more rested and content about it." Mildred did not like to confess that she had forgotten all about the lesson, andsoshe tried to murmur something, sho did not quite know what. "It was along in that wet spell," Sylvy went oil, "w hen the field work w as so hindered, and tho hands sat around in tho kitchen, and nearly drove mother and mo out of our minds with all their fuss and bother. The work didn't ever seem to get done, and I was just about crazy for a chance to help Dean tone some at his reading. Dean is a bound boy, on tho next farm to us, and as proud as if he owned a million, he declared he wouldn't go to Sunday-school a step till he could read so that tho other boys wouldn't laugh at him, and if ever a boy needed Minday-scbool n was Dean. So I undertook to help him. but, dear me. there was one rainy clay after another, the men would go out for an hour and then back in the kitchen again, and all that extra cooking and dishwashing go mg on all the time, with them in the way of every thing, until there was another Sunday come, and Dean off at the creek fishing Well. I pretty near cried that morning, and when I went to Sunday school there you wero to teach us Tho Lord sent mo a teacher that day knew it right off. for you began, first thing, on tho weather, and how it was keeping every thir.g back, how the farm ers were all complaining, and the con tractor on a building near you was los ing money every day on account of so much slack work. You said we'd all fini it just so. on and off always, no matter who we wero or where wo lived There were Interruptions tor everybody, times when we'd set our heart on a certain thing, and tnere'd be another that would havo to bo done. Hut you said there was Just one thing that nothing need ever hinder or put back, and that was religion, whatever happened that could keep right on Any Interruptions to it we made ourselves. God didnt send any and tho more we got of it, if it was real and true, the more we gave to other people, even if it didn't seem so. It's very comforting I've remem bered it right, haven't 1?" "Yes. quito right." "And so when work piles up and there's a good deal of work on a farm, and I can get down to Granny Hunt's as often as I'd like to read the Hible to her. and get her to set her mind on somethinc be yond the rheumatism, why. I just think of that, and I think of it when Dean's lessons run short, owing to a big churn ing, and when the fire won't burn, and when we can't get supper till the hands say it's too late to dress for prayer-meet ing and wiien 1 havo to darn the tioys' jackets instead of making cakes for the fresh air fund children at the neigh bors' It makes things a great deal easier and quieter to look at them so. 1 havo always wanted to thank you for teaching me that lesson." "And I must thank you for teaching it to me," said Mildred. Sylvy looKed at her uncertainly for a moment, then, evidently putting the speech aside as something not to lie un derstood. sho said. "Then, besides. I'd like to ask you what you think would be a nice hook to get for Dean lies studied real hard and I guess it would encourage him quito a good deal to have a fresh, new history, or something of ois own to read out of. and Granny Hunt didn't get any present Christmas, so don't you think a shawl would be good for her?" In the course of the day Joe waylaid Mildred in the hall and said, severe.y "Sis. your progress in the wiles ot the hypocrite is alarming He warned in timo "I am being warned Miss Perkins Is doing it. Joe, my dear boy. snako hands with yourself, for. for once in your life, you said a wise thing. This is a visitation from the Lord. If I don't learn some practical reiigion from it, it will not bo Sylvy's fault.'" Tho visit came to an end rather earlier in the afternoon than was ex pected, because, as Mrs Perkins said. Sylvy wanted to spend the money her father had given her tor her birthday After the cordial good byes were spoken. Milfred stood at tho gate and wau tied the muddy, loose-jointed buggy siow.y jolt and strain down the street and 'round the corner, "as if." Joe said, "she saw the prophet Elijah disappearing n a chariot of tire."—Sally Campbell, In N. Y Examiner. "You don't keep bad cigars, I gup pose"*** said Cumso to a tobacconist. "Na indeed'" was tbe indignant reply "Then that is tho reason you corBwd aome of them off on me yesterday." I E "FAIR A E S 1 -mill I' Mt I. in There .••••.• r- nd a i i o v ngly quoted by our proU th'-tv. r, the i i» t'roi 1 ns wt i Traders." 1 1 •r" ist.s. but an at mo-) out-worn supers'.' i -1 t"!' 1 by the Torv I."- '. *».:!-• v ui.d 1 jiheral Jladston The "Fair Traders'" have only come the. surface within the P:ist' *ow an I are total v without influence to yxftrs, I upon the policy they have start determined to maie themselves be.i: i I Th s little paper is never heard o i i thi-sid«-of the water except when ('''1 organ, the "American Kcononi st. show, forsooth, that Kng'.an I i* it'" to adopt the irroat protect onist sv.-» n.. It niav be said in passing that it a mo-t -ingular hmg to sec the h« •!'." st. expressing pleasure over wha: fane es to be the g-owth of pro* -u n Kir.riand. The Economist, ougl.: now that more than hair of our ports go to K n-/land, ant ." tion of protection there won i i harmful t.o us—especially to *rs who j'-,a! .* ur expo-' The tu.. -ad .:.- •.-••n-eb-r .,• nt policy of Kng and in trad ng it her nations without any cu-to n-l restricti" ns to be un ust and un: I'he goods of all countries ar" adn i free into Kngland. except, a few re\. i. ,• tides but, nearly every thing-m't factured and expor ed by Kng'aii'l :,,i to meet heavy duties upon pa*stnir n'" iher nations. This -he "fair tr:id'-i-, say is unfa r. and thev pro|iov u m.i.v" it, fair, and henco the.r nam-. iiivenience that we paid it in flour. ducing capacity of the N The position of th" English "fair trader'" then won he this "We have ,-ent Americans.-'.: 1.00 i.OJO worth of n-piate. but the American buyers were enmpelled by the rGovernmentto pay 7,HO(t.OOO for the privilege of trading with us—and that is unfair. Hut we will get even with them: when they send over S'M. o 10.000 worth of Hour to pay for that n-plate. we will nialre the Engl sh bread-eaters pav ST.OOO.O)'* extra for the pr.vilego of buy ng bread. Th it will max© tilings even. Let us have fait tiade." The absolute ^'tio'-ance an 1 -'up. 1 'v of such a proposition makes it almost impossible to believe that there is any one man on tin earth who is such folly. "The American Govern ment makes it difficult for the American people to can their fruit, and vegetables in our tin-plate there'ore we will make it ditlieult for English workers to buy American flour. 'I he man who talks thai way is ready for a board expert physicians to examine into I mental condition. Hut it is talk of that kind that de lights the "American Economist.'' for it is noth ng other than the great "American system,'" otuerw ,-o known as "protection." Tho absurd position of the Lnglish "fair trader' is precisely the same as that of the American protectioni-t and a fellow-feeling of stupidity makes them wondrous kind to each other. til,' (irow.-r* ln-iit hikJ lloini v i mil on. WKit if u men Hut d••• ind In. a.i'i oii-grou .vharvef i produced oy U niton -prak Out MrKmley VlakiH \v k Dele ot lii« Ity ii Vlislit Oiiol.ition I Once the Government starts out. to giv ng bounties there will be no point co that India and Lgy w n hout a boil v md cotton grow \m rican citizens .•mploymcni to England. tlowewi I a little paper and are if the 1 cheap-la •pfen i 1 -uuient rnvuTS _• rowers .'' "r elled '. ,-,-ith he usud to same ar- ir b.»u,. apply equal.J heat and co ,..r i-.in whet American la' When Mr. M. Kink IT bill into the llou ,t with a renort in w Seld' •!, i Hut how do they propose to make it fair? Let ir' ike an illustrat on from oui treasury reports for the I iw-al year ended June 30, ISN't. During that year we bought, in Kngland in round mini- existed long enough hers, 1.000.00 worth of t, n-plate, and essarv skill: and it our Government made the American buyers pay the further sum of ,t7.^4O,w00 as duty oil it. Now we paid for our t, n ate. not in monev, but in American products of some kind. Let ua my for accompanied e attempt'd to bolster up S sugar oour, ,ng Alexander Hamilton, that "th it.V in A:..' ri .. tnvoKeu qliot- .avnig i uthor- san tion of no hi. Then ii" Hamilton in the quota tioli black and wh vocal n _• hold appliec. useful ton's b' '. pense." a ever qnoted us Mci\:niey ir-growsng is ier th( liam the an au did in not "a lilieral words lion" of it is the Engl'.-h i' ton s])i'Hks o: i for th' i .id -hiit industi rpreta: :o s'io the bounty will have slightest ef fect in developing a greater degree of kill in our su rar-making process, or that this greater skill Will be added 'is a permanent, factor to 1 h• •, i,': io- As the matter stands McKmiey gived the sugar men S7.0 10.000 a year out of the people's taxes: but how much that will grow to in tiiiecn years nobody knows. It may be twice as much or it may be ten times as tnnch. Hut if the sum should even remain the sairio, that would mean ¥1»,'.0 )0 uoo for the fifteen years—which is certainly an enormous sum to pay people f..r d..i»„' •.} e!'r o-.\a private business. Mc-Kinlev. how^v- r. a ch,i-i:i ,-n when it comes to knocking Hut he sees that the poop i object to giving awav tn sum of money: and so he fixes the.dona tion for a period of fifteen years, hoping Of course they could bring forward buyers are not of that silly cla s of peo- very st ong arguments. "Why make a discrimination against our maple sugar? Is not sugar, too. just as well as cane or beet-n ot sugar'.' Does it not grow If McKinley and his t.ir ff-makers were asked why it is nee-— i-\ to ve a bounty on sugar they would tal about, our sugar-growers not be ng able to compote with the cheap labor of the West Indies. South America and Ger many: and they would give you care fully construct'd tables showing tho wages of farm latorers in those c.oun- CVIRLS* NAMES CHANGt. urpius. oin» to lornious ipable of that thereby future t'onirresses e.m cot o h,s iniquitous bounty givm M'KINLEY'S HAND FELT. Efffd of tho Hl?! larnl' Bill Already Felt in the New York Ory ('""1' Mailt "t. The pre ten-e is sometimes made by prot'c ionists that the tariff does not increase the cost, of goods. How false that claim is may be judged from the follow ng fact. The New York Coin* meioial Hulletin in a recent market re port has these words on the conditions now prevailing in that city among the importers of foreign dry goo is "Im porters confident of tho passage of the McKmley Tarn! bill, are ', firm -in the.r insistan-e for advanced pcices, I Stivers, on the other hand refuse to do business i HUNGRY FOR BOUNTIES. llu Su( ir nminty I xtrnilnl to tin* V!»pl Mi»ar mill O lit-r Ap ihoniN K»r I'ulilu' I'ti' 1 "t ill I licir Claims N \v l.,'t save at old prices, tariff change or no tariff change, and there the matter I stands to-day as for some weeks past. I Importers are mass n-.' large -uptdie- in vvarehouse in ant. .'.f oi of the .:-o i posed tar. ff." Th :s is a clear case of cause and effect, i If a Tariff bill ts to pass putting in creased duties on goods, these duties w.ll raise the price by precisely so much roin i to the American sugar. Not only so, at which it can stop without leaving i but, as this market report shows,, tho many unhappy bounty-hunters grumb- pr.ee of the gotxls already oil hand will ling because they were left out in the be rai-ed: for in order tu rep ace them ld. it will be necessary to ini|M»rt others at No sooner was it. known that McKin- a cost enhanced by the amount of '.ho ley gave a bounty of two cents a pound i new duties. on sugar than the Verm- nt people, who Huyers. however, have become ac io* produce a -mall quantity of maple sugar, toni'-d to the old prices the new McKin beset the Senate Finace Comm ttee and I ley prices frighten them, and so they pleaded to be included in the bounty Vd off in the vain hope that, the clause of the bill. Kinley bid vvill not become a law. The pie who pretend that the tariff does not increase prices. Tiiey know that when the importer has paid the high duty at i he custom house he is compelled to add out of the ground—-and American that duty to the price of the goods: and ground at that? Does it not require i they know, too, that when they them labor—American labor? Why not put selves buy these goods and take them 1 Amor can sugar on the same footing?"' home to their stores, tiev will have to Well, the Senate committee said that charge up the duty so that, the consumer the maple suga'- men had the better of i will pay it finally. They know further the argument, and so maple sugar go»s that w hen tho co-t. of tfie.se goods has into the bill for tho two-cent bounty on i boon increased by McKinley. some peo every pou- j) oduced. Thus the makers pie.will do without them ra her than of maple sugar, as well as the growers of 1 ay the hiirher pr ce. The merchants ane and et-root sugar, are to be pa i prefer large sales at low profits rather to do their own business—paid out of than smi.ll sales at. gh profits but thn taxes codec ted rom the people. i McK nlev bill means precisely the lat- As the Senate committee showed itself tor of these alternatives. Merchants to be generous to the maple sugar men other bounty-hunters have co will sell fewer foreign goods, and for this very reason they wih have to mako a higher profit on wnat. they do sell. e forward to ask an extension of Gove, ii ment charity. This time it is the makers of grape sugar and glucose, which are largely used to adulterate other products. They have also an American article, employ Atner can la bor, and mako sugar too. Why should they be left out? They are just as thirsty for Government aid as any of the other sugar makers. Now let ns see whether the Senate comm-ttee can give any good reason for not taking the grape sugar and glucose men in e it of the cod? This state of affairs leaves the mer chants in uncertainty and hence th y hold off in the hope that, McK nicy's barbarous measure wi 1 not become law. This market report is simply a thing that has been published in the ordinary course of business but it should throw a flood of light, on the effeot of tariffs among people who have been beguiled w itn the tal.se teachingof the politicians that the tariff is not a tax. The treasury receives annually about »'W0,0lO.(H)i) from tariff taxation. The protected pets, of Congress, many of whom are in both Houses voting the people s money into their own pockets, are rec -lving at least Ssso.ooo.ooo. 1 his is exc usive of all bounties on ar tic es on which there is a high-tariff tax i which prohibits importation, or which 1 tries Of course, they will say. our sugar-growers can not compete with the i tax is in' fact~nrohib~torv! ii.-, tl-.i refo.-e WV 111 ...st lit'.p home producers sell here for le«s than the foreign price with the tax added. In all that arge class of products the I'ho (Inv^rn r. o IJ'.KK. i„.«iii.« -f Alt the l«' K«vorit«* roll of honor in the public school •i us an excellent op!orlunity to stud v the present fash.on in giris' nam. S- The names competition of lltissia erican cot tiie o toll or of io this wheat orth v i ow can Are not good i Do the- of our mothers and grand mothers. largely Hibl.cal an 1 univers ally in uso at the Ite i i i i i i n tury, are out of favor to-da In nearly a thousand ua 1 nette^ r. There is one Kmilv, ,,„e Catherine, but two Kates, ami uinumerable Katies, which seem- to lie the latest form tha' fu erine has taken -fatherine. Kate is i' i Sarah, popular prai-ti- a v disapp i-- Sailie .u "-adit*. i' of fa.- -upers--:.• Lena. -in doe- '. i re pre e, but of Susies and hiuabel from sorvice in favor of are bui Marg K! lei, -till u- three Margare i Shakespeare's names are ing in a* fashionable, even at, t:,:- iite day. There were more Violas on the roll of honor of the public school than Janes, Kate-. Emiiys, Ellens. Nancys. Marga rets, far-dmes, Marthas, Marias. usans and Sarahs together. Tho name is fashionable just now. but we are afraid its popularity will not la-t lunu. for our colored fellow citizens havo taken to it, and have doomed it to the same fate as Violet and Pinki". Stella is a good -ec. ond, and Mabel, Ethel, Alma, Daisy, Luella. Loretta. Edna and liita follow as in most favor ju-t at present. Any one of them will discount Susan, Sarah •or Jane uianv tunes over, and even lead Marv U ijui'i- -i fa\'C- :•.''•••!! ve:i»- ,igo is gt litaiUcr .. 1 t.o .fan- •ifu! names of the last century as Italian. She o!T An.amla and Malvina arealso truing out. Ha/e'. i.vMi-ii came in with Ha/e! K -ke some i ."'ii years ago. did no: •k" and i, it increasing. IS11 -I: ia been laughed out and is less common han ten years ago: indeed, a number of Hirdies have converted it into Her'ie. Gladys is apparently forcing its way to the front, and promises to be well re ceived. Pearl, Pearlio und Porle are also coming in, and nearly any form of Rose will do but l'oso itself, for tliero are Kosellas, Kosettas. Hose lias and Rosamonds. Shakespi a-o. as we have -a IS a i e a v u j- o e u .- n a s i s Viola leads them all in Newlirleans, and even Ophelia is quite common among the girls. no1 withstanding that lady's un happy fate but apparently no mother has had the courage to name her daugh ter Desdemona. The opera has given given us Aida, Norma and Carmen which seem to have crept in of late all rather inappropriate names, taking the lives of these ladies into consideration. Longfellow's i s i a has but a single representative on the roll. Secessia re calls the lute war: bur how is it that Se cessia is attending t.«- public schools at this late day! Hut of pure fancy names, picked up here and there from novels or poems, or possibly "thought on'." there is no end. It will "rie seen that if anv one suggest a good naiuo for a girl, there uro dozens of mothers prepared to adopt it at once. If tho present tendency con- tinuos, Sara,i and Su-an will become ho rare in another generation that they will sound sweet to us again and be hon ored by our grandchildren as they were by our grandfal hers. We feed it, neces sary to warn godmothers that the Viola, Stella and Daisy racket is being ikui.,-11'1L*i.i V Times-lii tiioerat. overwork e.l. N' INVENTOR. Ill* Head- A FAMOUS (•UtnpA#1 !r. au«| liOppiuic Machine. Guillotin himself, ,-n well as his ma chine, was a good deal pictured on a cheap delf. A miniature of him has come down with other flotsam and jet sam of tho revolution. It gives us the idea of a correct, judicious practitioner with the half-closed eye of „no who is mentally thinking out some problem. He was always improving his surgical instruments in order to abridge pain l,y rapidity in operation, and thought to minimize it at capital executions" The pi incipal of equality was to ho demon strated by the guillotine, since king, nobles and sans culottes wore to lose their heals by Dr. Giiillotin's process. His small model of his head-lopping ma chine is near his miniature, and "i« quite equal to cutting off a man's fin ger," a polictnan says, who works it to oblige visitors. Sampson, the public executioner, we find, took snuff. I|j COUh-rESIES TO TRAVEttRS F,(|iiirlnn »f I.it,lie, luff" tli«« Tour of of t, and "a use of i. Hatuil expense industry. an What .- has that at '.li. end o: bounty the sii'/ar-grow ing be any more able to ,-t.irr. fet than it. is to-d lf• •f to assume fifteen years' ir -i ry will ts own i.a.-: already vclop the nec y to hope that 1 id as a i I' •. i otiular Marv has been thought the most fre quent female name, being hot euphoni ous and nleasantl v and honorably a-so .. i that one-third of tie i i France are Marie :t Li', .a New Orleans, wheie :.e uumher of Ma- v nving smaller ev -v •'o I uumbtir of Moil.! \la ,. not a few Maries indeed it looked as if all the Angb i .* would be gallici/.nd into M.n.c, t/..l so many heci-.me converted that it rather overdid the business, and Marie,-became as common as Mary, wduch may account for the number of girl- of French or creolc parentage who hear the Eugiish form of the name "Mary." 'ifipf. party of three laihes reciiul im' abroad met, with thekimin e-y from all. even from 1 e- icicle-like Englishman. 1m country, Oxford profo.-s of the wagonette, an-i. jm-ic bouquets of English cow slips an roses, gave tho youngest inetnl). party a delightful lesson in 1k Kvdal, the homo of Wonlswi" made doubly interesting hy the sat ion of a Welsh clergyman r the coach, who jumped down i pa-sed Grasmere churchyard, poet lies buried, and. not fini: sexton with tho key of the j?i ingly jumped tho low churchyti and helped iiis companion over might have time to pick a yell rose from tho poet's grave l» coach started. In Rouen "i no Nancy (extremely i*pular in the last century i. and but a single Martha and Maria Jane has gone almost o-ut of use. there being but two recorded, and, s a n e to say. both of French a e n age, 1 'be* ('f Jennies and ,lean- Vi lady aligtiled from the half a mile out of her 1 if iud single number v ,, American girl th* '-w. (Jothic cathedra Paris a most ub i i a n w o s i Frenchman, sto| i"- i i onette with mui sho was ill! ill. r-ei crowdisl boulovu i i door of the Hotel pietl conveyance wait. En a handsome young Von ing she wastravolm rved trie whole I pe for hor without i most,, wondro i i rit ion of a fee \t Verona, t:e- 1! French gentlem in, :. hi- train, stoppe i i tions to tho tit ,,i i-i i her about the custom- mi which is one of the i things ladies traveling a encounter. HOW..M ..ong'hi Lago Maggiore, un igmg F ductor on the of n,w stopped the who.'- i the American gin --d corridors of an iuoiie:.-i American -aedveech. Perhap- *i" funnie kindness was per for .•-! v Holognese conductor. i '-v something of the tig a sau-ago. The expro- i rushing through tunne i v to miss nothing, the u out of the wii I" i como by fatigue, --o head resting on rapid stop in t-oe i denly woke her I i she saw it -mi. started out into the v •i buffet: he comluctir ly ge.-i iculat imr and his head, get li ii _• r• French: no um What eouid i' grew crimson v. more pu/./led tl,.i:i i liant, thought struck hand in his pocket an a idum. but a bir poo' it before her face. I' The whole of one side black as 1 lie ace of sp i i of the little Italian, b lost his dinner, had st.' itiir dehilt at he dime t1 fellow-travelers. All these little acts simply without any a the traveler was nei' goodlooking. show th i! in Europe safely and that the country w h inated has -till en smooth the path for v\ is. like Mrs. Gumtnid." ereatiir." The nn*mo: kindnesses shown to ladies bv perfect st ran." never expect to ni(" world, forms one o' pictures that hangs o-i s snuff box, of plain brass, is on view also. Further on are gruesome relics, such, for instance, as a handkerchief steeped in Mario Antoinette's blood. Instruments of torture, which fell into disuse forever at the revolution, aro grouped around tho guillotine, which, perhaps was used as much as it was by the revolutionists because it was a nov elty. It killed in the twinkling of «\ve. Finishing off the King and y gave it prestige anl made j,. a gra'is sp..,-u:le. An old evil is most dangerous in a new form ar.y Review, Set a small box of lime in the pan i. wi., help to keep it dr» and tr* tue fcir oure. 1 A ory of that European day, even without a n pleasure. --Epoch. SEARCHING FO! HI II• iit Illinois streams At' (.cms of «ir«t»l 1'r 1 Some time during 'i dune a small boy who t..ei in the I'ecalonica riv ton, Lafayette .Count cousin, brought to th' 1 peat ed to be a coi.-i'.e chiin, like those whicdi ahmi shores of the I'pper Mi? and other streams hrough'1' west. Upon prying the -he lad found sticking to the u a large pear-siiapetl sub-tan being detach oil was found lustrous hue when expos'd and was white in color, witl polished surface. It was at to a jeweler, who pronounci of he purest qqalitv ami gem, paying for it. the sum jeweler, to make sun that rect, in his judg.v.t:. took 1 to Chicago, where it was amined by an expert, w" corresjjonded with his ow the nature of the gem, and price upon it double thai paid by the Monroe jewelci The news of the lind sl,rt out that suction and a few began an immediate search both tho Pectatoniea ami and were rewarded by ii'"'" numbers of them, many ing opened, were found 1 of various sizes, from carat to three carats in tune the excitement. b«' and scores of people, old an eluding both sexes. WCl llU legitimate avocations and above-mentioned stream began the search tor sli«' sorts of utensils for l'"' rake being the most. The streams being sliall'-" wero easilv explored, a'1'* baskets and bags of I raked out and taken to tu® tind'-rs, where they opened. Many of thotn coveted gems: some bui"? sorne of less value. The most successful b"' Swedes and S a n i n a v i a n just where to Iook for hi tan prices were gems by uost hunters hundreds of them are of the finders, who r«fu8^ them for any thing lik'J -Con tempo r- detna •s an" still Galena (lit) Cor. Chioajf