,'• Mitchell Capital.
MITCHELL, DAK.
REALM OF FASHION.
The Latest New York, Paris,
,v and London Styles for
•,'v* Women.
JtEIGN OF PLUSH AND VELVET.
a W a is a a
jor General Use—Carriage
Costumes.
Tho newest round lints, says the New
York Evening Post,, axe in English
styles, with brims tapering short at tho
back, projecting over tho forehead in
front, and rolling close to tho hoad on
each side. The crowns are high and
soft, being made over net foundations.
Stylish half turbans, which were found
so becoming to oval faces last year, are
again in vogue, and are trimmed with
fur or Persian lambs' wool, facings and
searf of liom'an ribbons of striped
satin and plush, tho full, bristling loops
hold witli buckles of bronze or Bom an
gold.
Pi ill and pale blue plushes and vel
vets are to be in high favor this winter
lor ball and reception toilets. Worth
lias just sent over a number of magni
ficent gowns mado of theso fabrics,
among them a toilet of pale blue vel
vet, tho court train looped Lack at each
Mdotoshow a skirt beneath made of
palest pink satin covered wilh an em
broidery of round and seed pearls
wrought in elaborate aud exquisitely
beautiful designs of fiowors, fern
fronds, and trailing vines. The corsage
opens in a shape over a pale pink
satin vest, also pearl-embroidered, and
beyond tho vest are bretelles of the
same, covered wilh a massive network
of pearls, opal-tinted pendants, and
glittering cut-crystal beads, which re
lloct pale blue and silver lights.
BASQUES—SATINS—STRKKT COSTUMKS
Basques with crenelated edges are
still in favor. Tho tabs are decorated
many different ways with braidwork
cordmgs of silk blocks of astrakhan, or
beaded ornaments placed at tho center
of each block. Pointed bodices with
crenoiatod edges are also worn under
Itussian jackets, these bodices joined
to full skirts for home wear, the skirts
pleated or gaged as is most becoming.
Tho .Russian jacket lias a short pos
tilion back, with the center seam open
ing over a shell pleating, or a double
pleat inserted in each seam.
AVide striped satins in colors of pink
ish mauve, ciel blue, eglantine pink, al
mond or sea-green, alternatively with
a broad one of gold or silver, brocaded
•with tiny garlands or large single
flowers and fcliaee, are favorite ma
terials for dancing toilets and brides
maids' dresses. These satins aro mado
up without tho admixture of any other
fabrics, the skirts draped across the
fronts and made plain and full in tho
bock. The .sleeves aro half long, and
the pointed corsages cut out in the
neck both front and back, and filled in
with a satin "guimpo of one plain color
matching exactly in shade ono of the
colors of the stripe. Instead of the
satin, however, a chemisot russe of
cream white crepe lisso may bo used.
In street costumes the jacket or En
glish walking coat matched to the
gown is far more generally seen than
the plush or velvet jacket, which last
winter was worn above cloth suits
trimmed with rich materials. Utility,
an fact, is tho distinguishing feature
this year of a lady's co3tume, from her
bonnet to her shoes.
1 JiDEHWKAl:—ftAIXSBOltOUGH HATS.
Ladies of fastidious tastes have long
regarded finest white fabrics as the
only suitable and sanitary materials
for underwear, aud held to prejudices
against colored fabrics however rich.
Most
houses in this city liavo for sev
er 3 ears imported surah undorwear.
both white and colored, in sets and
single pieces. Theso lace-trimmed
garments are elegantly mado and ex
quisito to look at, us aro most speci
mens of Freuch handiwork, but ono
•visit to the laundry would forever ruin
their look of pristine beauty, although
•warranted to "wash." An improve
ment upon those is now shown in the
pale blue and paie cambric undergar
ments trimmed with linen lace, strong
bul exceedingly line in texture. Nov
elty is their only recommendation. It
may bo well to stato that en suite
"with the cambric night-dresses are
dainty night-caps—copies greatly im
|i oved upon of the caps of other davs
dear to our grandmothers.
Humor from authentic sources
reaches America that tho picturesque
Gainsborough hats, with soft rounding
crowns and extremely wide brims, aro
again bronght out by leading French
milliners, and these'beconiing cliapeaux
ono already gracing the dainty heads of
joung Parisian leaders of fashion, who
•will have none of the close, high, tow
ering styles now popular with the mil
lion.
ft WAISTCOATS.
Any and every sort of waistcoat is
worn, and they are certainly admirable
as means of refreshing and renovating
a half-worn toilet. When the imme
diate fronts with buttons and button
holes, which are most exposed to wear,
begin to look snabbv, tho pieces on
either side may be cut away and a vel
vet vest of somo handsome contrast
may be lot in. A dress of dark green
cloth, dottetl with small red flowers
•was recently renovated as above. A
dark red waistcoat, collar and culls
were added, and^ho h/ilf-worn gown put
on an appearance altogether new and
elegant. When practicable, and tho
old material will bear combination
•with new of the same sort, it is a good
plan to put entirely new fronts on tho
corsage. To make the fashionable
mmrnmmi 1
wing fronts the material should be s»t
in at the sido seams, leaving the old
front to servo as a waistcoat, which
will bo a ready foundation for its new,
smart covering of silk, velvet, or lace,
as may bo. Tho added portion can bo
cut like a zouave or lussian jacket,
closed at the front, then parted consid
erably as the waist is neared. It
would be well to suggest that this
jacket be cut a moderate length, some
what below tho waist, as those which
curve off above the belt lino become
few persons, if any.
BONNETS.
Tho snug and elegant little French
princesso bonnet is pre-eminently pop
ular, above all others, as a dressy and
stylish head-covering this season. No
other models seem to approach it in
favor, and it appears in every variety,
from tho plain natty ono in cloth, sim
ply banded with astrakhan, to tho
rarest and most elaborate imported
duck of a bonnet enriched with gold
lace, fine gold ornaments, and gold
powdered feather-tips. Upon other
expensive shapes aro rosary beads,
pearls, cut garnets, tinsel-wrought An
gora laces, "Oriental" wool, gold gal
loons, heaps of Picot ribbons, mingled
with glittering bonded ornaments, and
soft velvety pompons interwined with
pert-looking bristling nigrets which
glitter and Hash liko diamond sprays.
Some of the princesse shapes have a
corcnot brim of medium height in front
others show a flat brim pressing tho
head closely at tho sides and forming a
coquettish "peek-a-boo" front, liirds,
tips, and f'auey feather ornfiments aro
still preferred to tho long sweeping
plumes of other days, though the
speedy revival of these most graceful
adornin»s is already chroniclod.
Bronze, real gold, hammered silver,
and richly colored enamels aro wrought
in formal designs, resembling ancient
Greek devices, to be fastened among
the loops, velvet chows, aud full knots
which heighten tho front of tho
bonnet. Fanciful French pins of
silver or gold sot with Irish diamonds
are thrust here and there upon
the bonnet, without pretense of util
ity, and with no apparent aim of effect.
Tale-tinted opera bonnets of silk and
satin, lace-trimmod, are looked upon as
a trifle passe this winter—their places
being supplanted by those of velvet
brocade poppy, red velvet veiled, with
a network of fine cut jet, and also
black velvet made rich and effective by
touches of bright orange yellow, scar
let, or eglantine pink a black bonnet
mingled with pink velvet or satiu, with
full tips of thesanie delicatc tint, form
ing one of the chic and becoming even
ing bonnets of the season. Bands of
seal, plucked otter, marabout, trim the
edges of velvet brocade bonnets and
among white bonnets shown thus far
as the "best form," many have been
made wholly of white velvet, edged
with soft becoming bands of white
tufted plush and chenille, powdered
with a thin vitrification made of re
member frost. A writer in the London
Truth, recently describing a visit to
famous Louise establishment, mentions
a show of dress bonnets which con
tained among the array ono of white'
astrakhan, with a brim of brown bea
ver, with loops made of beaver-tails,
and beaver-colored velvet for trimming.
Another, of embroidered white velvet,
showed a coronet front covered with
sealskin, above which curled a group
of short, white ostrich tips.
FAIiltlCS AND
COSTUMES.
Home-pun, bouret., camols'-hair, and
funcy heather-mixed suitings of the
fashionable shaggy texture are tho
frbrics par excellence for general wear
this year. Serge is also very much
used by a largo class of women who do
not care for figured materials in dress.
Fine Ottomans of tlie softest wool, in
supberb fruit shades, and in golden
brown, goldon-fawn very deep shades
of Labrador-blue, are still fashionably
employed in tho formation of stylish
and elegant reception and carriage
costumes, these trimmed with bauds of
astrakhan, fur, or with handsome ap
pliques in silk-cord and chenille. Most
of those costumes are cut with full am
ple overdresses aud short postillion
bodices, and very frequently there is
added a Fronch visiting coat of the
same, trimmed to correspond. This
coat lias a vest front, tho sides lengthen
into panels, which rei'.ch quite to tho
foot of tho dross skirt, and in the back
is a short jacket basque only, fhus dis
playing the full back breadths of wido
sash drapinga of the visiting dres*.
Pale yellow or delicate fawn colored
kid gloves aro worn with theso ladviike
costumes, contrasting colors which har
monize being chosen for both bonnets
and gloves this season, in preference to
those which wholly correspond with
the dress.
WINTEIt
WUAJ'S.
"The most fashionable cloaks worn
this winter aro mado of seal skin," said
a farrier. "The shapes of winter wraps
are variod. Caps aro no longer cut
with high shoulder pieces. There are
several deep plain shapes fitting per
fectly to the nock, shoulders and back,
finished ofl' wilh fur tails. Mantlettes,
Colmanettes and visites aro more pop
ular than tho ordinary cape. Sable,
seal, lynx, mink, marten, raccoon,
skunk, oppossum, wolverine, bear, fox,
squirrel, beaver, otter, astrachan and
chinchilla are all in favor. Natural
and undyed furs are more used than
they were last winter. Prices this
year are lower than usual and there is
a fair demand. Tho growing scarcity
of buffalo robes makes them very ex
pensive. Coon aud skunk are scarce
and consequently high priced. Beaver
ism great demand."—New York Mail
and Express.
JCidcts of J-'ttshiuu.
TjIat colored jewels aro to bo more
popular than diamonds.
T.iat trains for reception dresses
will bo quite indispeusable.
I hat tho waltz is to be superseded
by the schottisclie and gallop.
That carrying big bouquets at balle
is a nuisance and must bo abolished.
TRACKS OF CHIME.
All Criminal* Violate Law Accord hi to
Certain Hale#,
"The study o£ crime brings forth
somo curious facts," observed an old
detective the other day. "While you
may know just how a certain Bliot in
billiards ought to be made, it may not
be possible to mako it successfully.
So with our business. We may be nblo
to pick up all the clews in a murder
case, but the next thing is to catch tho
murderer."
"What aro your curious facts?"
"One of them is that all criminals
commit crime after certain rules. It is
rarely, indeed, that you find a crook
working on an original idea. The
burglar works after the stylo of 100
years ago. The thief lias no now ideas.
All our murders are committed aftor
what might bo called tho old-fashioned
way. I sometimes wish some oflender
would develop something new in law
breaking. For instance, I can point
you to a case where as many as thir
teen attempts have been mado to enter
a certain residence within the last two
years, and eaoli attempt at tho same
window with the aamo tools. Isn't that
monotonous?
"Another of tho curious facts is that
crime averages up with as much cer
tainty as the weather or the crops. If
it gains one month it will lose the next.
If it falls oil' in ono season it will pick
up at another, so that your figures for
one year will not vary greatly from an
other, except there are special reasons
for it. We send about as many crim
inals to prison each year about so
many give us tho slip about so many
commit their first offonse, hare a close
shave from State prison, and aro fright
ened into leading honest lives.
"A third curious fact is the short
sightedness of criminals, even when
crime is deliberately planned. In a
murder case in the interior of the
State last year you remember the mur
dorer claimed that some ono reached
into the bed-room window and hit his
wife with a club, the blow causing hor
doath. In his confession, mado in four
or five days, he acknowledged that ho
had been planning the crime for weeks/
Now see how blind he was. The win
dow-sash was nailed down at each cor
ner. Ho broke ono nail and left she
other! He wa3 made to see that no
man, no matter what his height, eould
have reached into the window far
enough to strike anyone on the bed,
oven with a ^hoe-handle In planning
his perfect safety, he committed half a
dozen of the stupidest blunders ever
read of.
"Take the case of the average bur
glar. It comes to be known around his
usual haunts that he is broke for cash.
Indeed, he volunteers the information
hilnself, makes a haul, and returns to
give himself dead away by his reckless
extravagance.
"It is the same with tho common thief.
If he would steal and hide his plunder
for awhile he would give us more hard
work, but the idea with him seoms to
be that if he is not nabbed in tho very
act he has nothing to fear. He can't
wait to dispose of his plunder, and his
manner of offering it for sale is a give
away in itself. The old thief learns
caution, of course, but the oldest of
them drop foot-prints here and there.
"See how easy it is to draw a war
map of crime! Tho bold robber will
sooner or later seek to negotiate with
bankers or brokers. The store robber
will work his silks and velvets off at
auction. He may not personally, but
his 'fence' will. Tho clerk or cashier,
who is embezzling from $1,000 to
$5,000 per year, will spend it in wine,
cards, horses, and with evil company.
When he makes a grab of $10,000 you
can depend upon liis going to Canada
or Mexico. Tlie thief who steals a
harness, silver pitcher, garden hose, or
other article, wants tlie cash for it
right away, and you may figure on turn
ing him up at some second-hand store
or the pawnbroker's.
"Tho ruts of crime are as plain as
tho iron tracks of a railroad. You can
figure to a, moral certainty what a
criminal should do and will do, but
that isn't catching him. There hasn't
been a murder committed in Michigan
for twenty years without my feeling
morally eert.iin as to the murderer, but
what
I
feel and proofs to convict are
two different matters.
"And one of tho curious facts is that
so many criminal's give themselves
aivay. Not one man in thirty can com
mit murder without eventually sharing
his secret with some one. The burden
of guilt seems too great for ono pair of
shoulders. Some criminals will over
do the thing, and by the vehemence of
their protestations excite suspicion*.
Others show guilt by timidity, and yet
others by their show of indifference or
cheek. I have picked up an offender
on the street with no other clew than
his manner of glancing at his fellow
pedestrians. I have arrested others
who looked everybody in tho face as
frankly as if they felt it a crime to
steal a strawberry. They were overdo
ing tho thing by too much frankness.
"Tell me to-day the name of a man
in any business whom you have reason
to believe is hard up and canuot pull
through his financial straits, and I can
tell you pretty closely as to what will
result. If ho belongs to a certain class
there will be an honest assignment, If
another certain class there will be a
bogus chattlo mortgage, or somo of the
stock will bo smuggled away. If to a
third, there will be an incendiary fire
to secure tho insurance. You can
count on these ruts in crime as cer
tainly us upon the seasons, but the
criminal who follows them very often
gels to tho end of tho furrow and
takes a new departure before he can
bo overtaken.—Detroit Free Press.
Thrke aro" about 12 (-00 000 cattle on
farms in this country and 10,000,000 on
ranches and ranges. The increase has
been more than three fold in tho last
ten years.
The Shamrock is growing scarce ia
Ireland.
,i surnnsxrnous COCKATOO.
"Our Joe" is a fine specimen of the
species known as tho sulphur-crosted
cockatoo.
Ho always showed a great dread of
dolls or manikins, and this led us to
tease him by placing our pot Punchi
nello at tho foot of liis perch. Fear of
tho uncanny thing kept him a close
prisoner for some time but ono day he
came cautiously down the upright pole,
and backed judiciously away from the
rear of the hated manstrosity. This
provoked a ne^' device another grin
ning figure was placed back of the
stand. After long contemplation of
the situation, "Joe" now maftagsd to
escape, with much trepidatian—from
one side but gradually tho entire col
lection of manikins was placed around
liis perch, so that they laid siego to
him. At this "Joe" became greatly in
censod. His crest rose and fell every
minute of tho day. fit is a curious
fact that it never seemed to occur to
him that ho might f'v from tho perch.
Ho lias never attempted to reach it, or
leave it in that way, but invariably
climbs up and down by means of his
feet and beak.)
And now "Joe's" life began to have
a shado of anxiotv in it, until, at last,
ho became quito unhappy. One mem
orablo day, stealthily descending from
aloft, he dashed suddenly into the
charmed circle, and seized Mrs. Punch
by hor wonderful frilled cap. Then,
with crest erect, and eves flushing,—
his form trembling with rage and ex
citement,—ho rushed up the polo, and,
once more safely aloft, ho tore the of
fending .Tudv into pieces, with an en
ergy bordering on insanity. This tre
mendous effort sufficed for the remain
der of the day, during which he sat
upon liis perch with, his feathers ruf
fled and trembling.
So, ono by one, the members of that
unfortunate family fell victims to his
hatred. For a long time, he did not
dare to attack Punch himself but ho
fiually mustered courage sullicient to
attempt the capture of his arch-enomy,
and, a few minutes later, tho terriblo
toy, stripped of his gilt and tinseled
bravery, lay, hopolesslv broken and
disfigured, upon tho floor.—L. II. Ste
phens, in St. Nicholas.
II SII7.SS UAltD.
The Pope has his own soldiers, who
are not very many, and who generally
act as guards to the various parts of
tho Vatican Behind the bronze doors,
which are enormous barred gates, wo
saw some of theso soldiers, one of
whom will ask us for our permossos,
or permits. I am sure you never
beheld military gentlemen like them
before. They are called tho Swiss
Guard, and are dressed in a uniform of
flowing tunic and breeches, formed of
broad perpendicular stripes of black,
red, und yellow, long stockings Btriped
in black and yellow and on stato occa
sions they wear brass helmets with
heavy white plumes, and carry hal
berds, or pikes with ax-heads at tho
ends. The officer's dress, of the same
design, is of bright silk, and they make
a dazzling appearance. These men
appear ub if they belonged to tho
Middle Ages and had nothing to do
with our modern times and tliey very
properly seem so, for their uniform
was designed by Michael Augelo, not
long after tho discovery of America,
and their costume has never been
.changed. It used to bo the custom of
many of the potentates of Europe to
have personal guards composed of
Swiss soldiers, as they were consid
ered more houost and trustworthy than
any others. In Walter Scott's "Quentin
Durward" you will learn a great deal
about the Swiss guards of France. In
Paris the porter at the door of great
houses is still often called "Tho
Swiss," although he is almost always a
Frenchman. And these guards of the
Pope are now Italians, but they still
retain the old name.—Frank K. Stock
ton, in the St. Xicholas.
IX T1IJS3I Ol'T.
A gentleman having missed a lot of
new potatoes from his garden, sus
pected that an old negro had dug them
up, and determined to watch for the
culprit. i-:o ono evening, loading an
old rifle with ripe currants and a blank
cartridge, ho stalioned himself in a
clump of bushes, whence he could have
a full view of the potato bed. About
10 o'clock a figure stealthily approached
and began quietly to dig up the
potatoes. As soon as tlie bag was full,
the owner look aim and fired the charge
of currants at the thief's head. Hear
ing the report and fee'ing tho currant
juice trickling down his face, the cul
prit screamed out, "Help! Help! I'se
don: killd O somebody come and help
mo 'fore I die." He then began to
groan and finally fell to the ground.
.The gentleman, seeing the distress his
shot had occasioned, dropped his gun
aud walked to the old man, whom he
found almost demented from fright.
"Well, Jo you seem in trouble."
"Trubile? Yas, yas, ye'd call it trub
ble ef ye had a grut hole in your hoad,
and a pint of blood a-coming out."
"Bnt, Jo, what arc you doing with that
bag of potatoes?" "Pears liko yer
taters grows too thick, so I thought I'd
jest thin 'em out for ye in do cool ob
do ebeniug, and dis year's what I done
got ior't. I shall die 'lore mawnin." "I
fancy it's only a scratch I'll bind it up
and takB you home." So wiping the
old man's face he bound it up and took
him homo. There were no more de
predations committed, and to this day
old Jo thinks his benefactor performed
a wonderful surgical operation.
A xi:\r VOLITIVS.
"Therewill be a good deal of bustle
about the coming election in Massa
chusetts," remarked Squildig to his
wife.
"There always is, isn't there?" quer
ied tho lady.
"But this will bo bustle of a now
kind," persisted Squildig.
"How so?"
"Why, several thousand ladies will
vote for sehooi directors."
"O, you horrid brute!"—Pittsburgh
Chronicle.
GOOD THINGS,
Tho fool ask?. "With what flo-h? in joy or rain
Ildped or unbelted? or lonely? or again
Surrounded l»y our esirthly frionila
I know not ami I plorv that I do
Not know that for otoriii-y's great ends,
God counted nio as worthy oi auch trust
That I nco«l not bo told.
•."•.. I hold
That if it bo
Lprr than onougU for my f.ou! to know
Its: if immortal, immortality
In nil its bomuUeH3 space will not find
A Fpacr. designed
Bo email, fo low,
That- too fitting homo finch souls can go.
Out to Mki earthward brink
Of that great tidoless sea,
Light from Christ's garmoutfl stream*.
I joy, not that I ask or choose,
But simply that 1 jnu»:t.
I lovo and /ear not. and I cannot loso
One instant thifl great certainty oi pence.
Long as ?d csa^on not, I cannot ccaso
must arise.
—.Hcllcn Hunt Jtirksnu.
SrciarianisiH in Stciizwfantl*
Switzerland, in itself alone, presents
a fair ssmple of tho divisions of Chris
tendom. The sects are almost count
ies'. Still, however, they prow in
numbers. Theso divisions aro most
numerous in Geneva. It appears that
the Adventists and tho Healers are
about to establish themselves in that
city. The distinctive foaturcs of the
creod of the latter are that disease is
tho work of the devil, and that it can be
cured by prayer and anointing. The
Healers liavo of late been exceedingly
active, and their numbers aro on the
An Advocafr of .Stanley.
rave changes have been brought
against Mr. Stanley's government by
Americans, who, in the search of for
tune, liavo followed their adventurous
countryman to the Congo Valley. He
and his subordinates are represented as
tyrannical to tho last degree. Tnat the
heroic explorer may have made some
blunders in statecraft is not unlikely
that he is either weak or wicked, tlie
civilized world will be slow to believe.
But whatever of truth there may bo in
the accusations, ono fact is certain
the morning of Africa's redemption has
already dawned. Neither the malarial
coasts nor inferior jungles, neither
native despotisms nor foreign jeal
ousies, can much longer defer tho glori
ous day when a Christian civilization
shall spread from l'.enguela to Zanzi
bar.
—Christian Advocate.
Two Pictures by Itev. Sam Jnnrs,
I am just going to show you two pic
tures, and you can carry them homo
with vc:i. Some of ycu have brought
them with you. I won't call your
name, but you know your number.
Here is a mother thoro is a little girl.
The little girl comes in and says:
"Mamma, please give me somo scraps
for my doll dross." And the mother
says: "I won't doit. You have wasted
more scraps than you are worth: and if
you bother me any more I will whip
you." Little Annie goes out with her
head drooped. In a few minutes she
comes back and says: "Please give
me some thread." "There you aro
again, you little vixen! I wish you
would got your things and go over to
Mrs. Brown, and see if you can't worry
her." And little Annie just goes out
saying: "I just wish that I was dead,
that is all I wish. Mamma has never a
kind word for me." The next day sho
comes back, and says: "Mamma, loan
mo your thimble, please ma'am." "You
took my thimble yesterday, and it took
mo two hours to find it. If I calch you
at it again, I will make you dance."
Little Annie walks out, saving: "I
wish mamma was dead. She is just as
mean as sho can be." After a while
she comes back, and says: "Please,
mamma, lend me your scissors." "1
shau do it. You ust want them to
stick your eyes out." And little Annie
goes awav and by and by sho grows
up, and she is the'terror of that neigh
borhood. O, she is a sight ou wheels!
You go to see her mother and sho
doesn't know what is tho matter with
little Annie—"Lord knows I have done
my best." Thoro is 1
.nt ono trouble
with Annie. Sho is just liko that old
mother. She is a chip of tiie old block.
Many a woman in (his country is rear
ing her children just that way. A good
plan for a young man is, to conrt the
whole family, but don't marry but one.
I want to court my mother-in-law, and
my wife's sister, and find out what sort
of people they are. I want to know
what sort of a family I am marrying
into. There is a heap in that.
Now for the other picture. Here is a
mother sitting by her sewing-machine,
and little Mary comes up and says,
Mamma, please give me some scraps to
dress my doll." And tho mother says:
Yes, my dear, in a moment. I was just
sitting hero thinking about you and
the one desire of my heart is to see you
grow up a Christian girl. Now, you
are just years old. Now, darling, will
you listen to mamma road a verse or
two before slio gives you tho scraps?"
Mamma gets down the Bible, and she
reads. "Kemember now thy Creator
iff the days of thy youth," and so on.
That means that yon ought to give
your heart to God and be a Christian
all your days." In a moment the mother
gives her the scraps, and Mary walks
out, saying: "I know I have just got
the best mother in tho world. She is
so good to me." The next day Mary
comes in and says, "Lend me vour
thimble, mnmma, I have lost mine"
And the mother says, "Do you remem
Der th:#t verse I road to you?" "Yea
mamma and I reccolJect what you said
meait. You said it meant I ought to
begin now to be a Chistmn girl, a"1
mamma. 1 got down on
mo
Suitable for Perusal on the
First Day of the Week.
THE OPENING UP OF AFRICA
Some Shrewd Observations, and a Pretty
Picture by Rev. Sam Jones—Sects
in Switzerland, Etc.
Jtcnuritam*
my
prayed the
knees and
best
1
could for God to help
to bo good just like my mnmma.
The next dav little Mary comes back
and savs, "Mamma, will you please
lend mo" vour scissors?" Aud mamma
says: "Yes, child but I have not
pr'nved
with
you io-dav. Wil /ou go
into the closet and pr .y with mamma
"Yes, mamma, I will go with you.
Mamma takes little Mary by the hand
and leads her into tho closet I can
see the disappointed angelB stand
around. They wanted to get in to soo
what God was going to do with that
mother and littlo Mary. And by and
by the r..other comes out with aglow of
beauty on her cluck and lit.lc .Iary
holding her finger and as littlo M-.iry
walked out, a tear that would not have
stained an angel's cheek ran down her
bright face and an nngel pushed his
ham! under it and caught tho tear, and
winded his
wav
back to God and called
the heavc.nlv host together, and said,
"Here is the tear of a sweet littlo giil
whose mother is training her for this
bright world of ours."
God bless mothers for their good
children!
Hero
is Mary now ll' years
old. and everybody .' avs she is the pride
of the settlement. Slie is a blessing to
the whole community: and they look on
her and sav, "How is it sho is such a
sweet, good girl?" It is because sho is
just liko her good mother. God givo
us good mothers, and then wo will have
good Annies and Marys. Thank God
for a precious mother in Heaven lo
dav! If I ever get to Hoaven, and the
angel3 congratulate me on g"tting
there. I will say: "Hunt r.p my pre
cious mother, who took me by tho hand
and led me along until I waS years
old. and then took me by tho hand and
said, 'lean never come back to you
you can como to mo.' I believe that
every redeemed spirit- in heaven will
liavo a happy mother to join it there.
Now, let ail who want to bo better
s:and up.
A.snrrt.iTioxs or xovkltst .iamks.
"Henry Sanies is becoming so sensa
tional that it injures my nerves to read
him," saiil a man to his friend. "Sen
sational?" "Yes." "1. have never seen
anything sensational iu his writings."
"Haven't you? Veil, read this." The
friend road the following: "Lady Snib
snob stood behind the rosebush and
intently watched a strange-looking
man who lurked in (lie garden. 'Why
does he lurk?' she asked herself. 'Why
does lie take off his hat and press his
hand to his brow? Why did ho take
the right-hand path? Why didn't he
take the left Mercy on me, what does
he mean? Now ho pnts his hands into
his pockots. Now ho takes tliem out.
Will he put them in again? No, I
think not. Would that I eouid fathom
his deep motives. He sits down on a
rustic bench. Why? Why does he
not keep on walking? Is ho tired?
No, for he rises and continues his walk.
Ho plucks a rose. What doos he want
with it? Will he send it to a hospital?
No, he has thrown it down. If he mere
ly wanted to throw it down, why did he
pluck it? Wonder what lie ate for
breakfast Mercy on mo, what is he
going to do? Tho girl shrieked. Tho
man had blown his nose." "You are
right," said his friend, ".lames is be
coming too sensational. He aspires to
be the American Dumas."—Ar'iamaiv
Traveller.
A I 'llT'XOM i:\AI. r.ltOTItE11.
I suppose it is something of a phe
nomenon. but I know a man who takes
his sister to all tho lirst nights at the
theater, and who actually gave her a
monopoly of the opera season. I was
praising him aud saving all sorts of
things complimentary over his dutiful
conduct. He said:
No. There's nothing wonderful or
extra about it. She is the only woman
in whom I have the most thorough
confiderce. Sho is always the same,
always pleasant and affectionate, and
to tell tho candid truth, I am afraid
that she will go away and marry .some
of those imitation men around here
and bo unhappy all her life. She has
nobody elso to look to, and I'll take
care sho dora not have to look to any
body else. I suppose some day a gen
uine man will come along. If he's a
genuine man I won't object. Until ho
does come, old boy, she's good enough
forme, and it' 3 ever find as good'a
£*rl 111 marry her."—I''.rrh(imjc.
S I II A S IS AX I
Large objects on the earth's surface
have been seen at a distance of between
'^00 and :-XM) miles. Lmil Motzger
mentions that he once saw, wilh some
diilieultv, Kiezorspick in Sumatra, when
distant lit) Lngli-di miles and he has
also made out Gng Merapi, in Java,
wen 180 mile3 away. Prom tho l'iz
Muraun, near Dissentis, E. Hill has
seen Mont Blanc, the intervening
space measuring about 110 miles. J.
Starkie Gardner states that Mont
Blanc is visible from Piz Langard,
though distant about three ilogveos. Jn
Greenland, Mr. Whymper beheld a
mountain from which he was separated
by lot) miles and from Marseilles
saw
Mount Canigon at a dis-
tance of IDS miles. The whole range
of the Swiss Alps has been looked upon
by J. Hippisley wheu 201) milos awav
wlnle Sir W. Jones has affirmed that
the Himalayas have appeared to view
from the gioat distance of 2-14 miles.
lUntULAUIAI. JUljlTy\J'-ss
Hearing a noise at night. Jones de
scends with a lighted candle and dis
covers a burglar escaping with a full
"Eh, what?" returned the burglar.
Ah, yes—the silver candlestick! Per
mit me." Ho takes it from the hand of
the astonished Jones and puts it into
his bag. "1
en thousand tanks. Have
2'S-li"en
anythius
cl^-"~'-oulon
AB0SX^r^r^r
a costl
building to prevent a theatrical man
board*'01"
aU
ailverlising
11EM1NISCEACES OF PUBLIC
•a-'nm imsy.
11Y BEN 1'EItLEY POOEE.
Tho Congressional Committee on the
Conduct of the War was a mischiev
ous organization for sheltering Secre
tary Stanton, and for annoying all
thoso who darod to criticise his dicta
torial vagaries. Summoning Generals
before thorn, and having a phono
grnpher to record every word uttered
they would propound very comprehen'
sivo questions. Tho first question put
was generally nearly identical with
that which tho military Captain, who
fell into tho cellar when attempting to
drill his company, asked his wife when
sho rushed forward to express her
sympathy: "Wliat do you know about
war?" If tho General in hand wai a
political Brigadier or Major General,
who had been in the liabit before the
war of saving his country on tho stump,
ho would proceed to discuss the origin
and euro of tho Uebeliion, greatly f0
I the satisfaction of tho Committee, and
they would ascertain at once that so
far as his principles are concerned ho
ought to have commandod the Army of
the Potomac. If the General called
and questioned happened to be one of
tho numerous class who had formed
tho acquaintance of the green-evod
1 monster, lie entertained the Committee
with shocking stories of his superior
ollicors. lie scolded, and carped, and
I criticised, and cavilled, told half-truth?
and solid lies, and tho august and rs
tuto Committee listened with opened
ears, and the plionographer dotted
down every word. So the meanest
gossip and slang of the camp was
raked into a heap and preserved in of
ficial form.
Seven Indian delegations visited
I "Washington in December, 1857. Thev
wero tall nnd savage-looking fellows,
reminding ono of tho sons' of Gadites,
described in tho book of Chronicles, as
"men fit for llie battle, whose faces
were liko those of lions." There wero
thirty-five of them in all, belonging to
a variety of tribes, and although somo
of these tribes were at war with others,
their representatives buried the hatchet
at Jimmy Mailer's tavern, where they
all sojourned. Every night after sup
per they had a "pow-wow," followed
by a howling incantation, which mado
all tho nogroes in the neighborhood
tremble in their brogana. On visiting
Indian Commissioner Mix, each one
insisted on giving him a hug, and when
they called on their "great father," 3Ir.
Buchanan, they had been notified in
advance that ho declined the embrace.
They wanted money instead of goods,
and thoir logical argument was:
"Blanket wear out, gun got rusty, knife
break money wo can keep always
I ugh! ugh!"
The Civil Bights Bill became the
law of the land on tho Oth of April,
18G(i, "tho objection of the President
to the contrary notw ithstanding," as it
was passed over his veto by a two
thirds voto in each House. Many con
eervative Republicans doubted the
wisdom and experience of thus legis
lating for eleven States which were un
represented, and expressed doubts as
to whether the panacea of negro snf
frage promised indemnity for the past
or security for the future. The con
duct of President Johnson strength-'
I ened tho radical Senators and Kepre
sentatives, and they dragooned their
conservative associates into tho dicta
tion of the terms to tho vanquished,
The probable passage of the bill
over the veto attracted thousands of
spectators to the Capitol, and the gal
leries of tho Senate Were crowded.
.Senator Wade opened the discussion ol
the veto in one of his characteristic
speeches, in which he asserted that An
drew Johnson liod jipoved a traitor to
tho party that elected him. He also
I told Senator Lane of Kentucky that
I he woro the President's collar, wliicl)
provoked the accused, who exclaimed
as ho pointed to his rusty neck hand
kerchief: "Thee woar a collar! Jim
Blaine wears a collar!" and denied tlie
charge. A succession of speeches fo'
owed, by Garret Davis, McDougal.
Hendricks, aud Saulsbnry, tho latter
declaring that "if this bill be enacted
anu enforced blood will flow, not ho
tween tho sections of the country, hii
civil war, and the union will stand dis
solved." A vote was at last taken, tho
bill passipg over tho veto by a vote of
tliirty-threo ayes against fifteen nays.
It was then taken to the House, where
an
attempt was made to filibuster,
which lasted for three hours
and
failed.
The vote was then taken, showing 1-
for the bill, notwithstanding the ob
jections, and forty-oue against tho bill
Twentv-one Congressman
were
absent,
or adroitly dodged. Tho hall rang
with applause in tho galleries and ol
the floor, and Congress triumped ovt-r
President Johnson.
The President accepted the situation
good-liumoredly. Instead of following
the program that had boon
chalked
out for him by somo of his now friends,
proclaiming Congress a revolntionarj'
assembly, calling upon the militia of
irginia to disperse it and inauguarats
civil war, Mr. Johnson said that p"r'
haps it was well enough, though
could not conscientiously give it ''is
signature. Ho did not believe that the
bill was constitutional, but the Su
preme Court had that to decide, and id
the meantime the country could ha^e
tho opportunity of witnessing any ben
eficial results that might arise from f
If Senator Wade and
Eepresentativo
Stevens had yielded to the conciliatory
disposition of the war, and adopts11
liberal line of policy, meeting the Pres
ident at least half way, much subse
quent trouble might have been
avoided.
lion- jm uuAXU.
Bibulous printer (to proof-reader?
"How do you spell whisky?
an 'e
Proof-reader—"No. Do you drink
it with an'e?'"
Bibulous printer—"Ycu bet, I
it with 'e's'
"—The Hatchet.
A I'REACiiitit who sh iok hands
w:,'!
Illinois iri brcko Iior arm.