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He says the f ruits of the controversy will be a strengthening of the sources and foundations of Chris tianity and a rejection of the childish conceptions of the universe as prevailing in the traditional dogma. To be a European in China just now is a pretty thrilling experience. Twenty foreign men-of-war are now lying in the Yang-Tse-Kiang to protect Europeans from the outrages of" the Chinese. Min ister Blair no doubt feels thankful that the Celestial government refused to re ceive him, even if he isn't of Europe. "No accident," writes the editor of the New York Tribune, "occurred to mar the ceremony of unveiling Henry Ward Beecher's statue." There was an acci dent in connection with the undertaking, however, though the editor was too dis creet to reter to.it. It was in the accom plishment of the undertaking, the com pletion of the monument. The pope has sent a beautifully bound copy of his discussion of the labor ques tion to all rulers in Europe. To many of these personages he wrote personal letters also. He has given orders to his secretary to present copies of the work to cabinet ministers and political econo mists in various countries. The pope evidently attaches a good deal more potentiality to the document than will many, if any, of the potentates. The most uncompromising antagonist the high tariff has in the west is un doubtedly the Atchison Champion. For instance, in speaking of the race horse, High Tariff, dropping dead on the course at Chicago the other day the Champion remarked that "It is to be hoped the other high tariff will follow suit some day." Put this, and the Champion's de fense of the Alliance together and it is enough to fire tho Leavenworth Times into a rage of envy. The murder of Sum Wood is tho com pletion of another chapter in tho history of Stevens county. Tho county has alwny been a disgrace to the state. Saliua Re publican. Such wholesale denunciation of a com munity is without warrant and uncalled for. There may be a larger proportion of bad men in Stevens county than other portions of tho state, but it is not true that the community is composed exclusively of bad and vicious people, and it is not right nor expedient to cast aspersions upon all for tho misdeeds of a part, which are no doubt heartily regretted and condemued as by 1 he good citizens of that county as of the state at large. Senator Plumb 6aid in his recent speech beforo tho Kansas editors that he believed Kansas newspapers outranked those of any other state, and ho had crit caliy examined tho newspapers of nearly every state in tho union. Tho selection of uows was, in his opinion, the most im portant thing which now falls upon an editor. Ho would eliminate all tho sen sational features. In conclusion ho said lio regarded the "case" tho real, practi cal educator of tho day, and believed eventually that the great college of tho world would add an experience at the printer's art as tho finishing touches of graduates. The senator's high estimate of tho press as an educator and moral power is not alono a matter of observation, ho learned it in his early manhood, being himself one of tho most zealous of the fraternity. Senator Coke of Texas does not seem to attribute much importance to tho Al liance as a political factor in that state. It is stated that ho 6corns tho idea that the meetings of the People's party now being held in every county of that state will ever amount to anything in either a state or national way. "They may ride," he said, "until their seats are sore, and resolute until their tongues hang out of their mouths, but tiiey can't phazo a Democratic majority of more than 150, 000." That is tho way tho movement was regarded in Kansas last year: no body dreamed that tho 82.000 Republican majority would prove other than a. Gib raltar of strength: and yet it was prac tically swept away in a single campaign. There is this difference between Kansas nud Texas, however, i. o., Kansas is not a southorn state, while Texas is, and this simplo fact may account for tho sena tor's abounding confidence in tho im pregnability of the 100,000 Democratic majority against the make-believe at tacks of tho Alliance, alias People's party. MORE KANSAS POEMS. A delicate little volume of pooras, redolent with tho perfumes of Kansas prairies and brilliant as her sunflower patches, reaches our table from the office of the Topeka Lance, a Sunday literary paper published at the capitol. This volume of about 150 pages was compiled by Hattio Horner and contaius a num ber of the most familiar and bright poetical productions of Kansas, together with many fugitive pieces which we have never seen. We cannot agree with tho prospectus that something of nearly all of the best that Kansas rhyth mical writers h ave produced, is found in the volume but its a collection of the finest things, undoubtedly, viewed from a Topeka or Lawrence standard, if we except the fact thatB. W. Woodward nowhere nppears in the book. Tho above volume is not for salo but was published as a premium to everv BubscnLer to the Lance, $2 per annum, Harry W. Frost, publisher, Topeka, Kansas, PLUMB AND THE PEOPLE. Senator Plumb is nearer in touch with the people today than any other states man, aside from Blaine, says the State Journal. "The time for the west to as sert herself is at hand. If the west does assert herself it plainly must do so through Plumb. The new states give her the power. New York may have to work with us. Kansas may hold the key to the situation. The fact at least is patent, that the whole combination is not held by New York and Indiana." COTTON IN SOUTHERN KANSAS. A delegation from Southern Kansas has been in St. Louis this week to get pointers on the handling of cotton. They want to make Cherry vale the cotton cen ter for crops from Southern Kansas, Ok lahoma and tho Indian Territory. "What we want," remarked one of the gentlemen of the delegation, "is a cen tral maiket for the Indian Territory, and then things will boom. The putting in of a cotton gin will necessitate the erection of an oil mill. We have lots of seed, flax and beans, and before we are through that section of the country will not l)e excelled in cotton growing." That cotton can be successfully grown in Southern Kansas has been fully dem onstrated, and that as an auxiliary crop in a well-planned system of diversified cropping it can bo made profitable there i3 little doubt; but the idea of making cotton the staple and principal crop is a mistaken one. Some persons ara disposed to ac cept the statement of the aggregate cot ton crop of the south and the aggregate amount of money it brings into that sec tion as prima facie evidence of the profit ableness of its cultivation, but it is a fact, nevertheless, that tho farmers, the producers of tho staple, are as a rule the poorest and hardest run as well as the hardest working portion of the commu nity, almost invariably a year behind, and often drawing on tho crop oven be fore it is planted. Of course tho idea of the amount of work necessary to produce and market a crop will not deter the thrifty, enterpris ing farmer he knows that work, and a good deal of it,is a condition precedent to a profitable crop of any kind, yet he will hesitate when becomes to consider that it takes from eleven to thirteen months of tho year to get through with a cotton crop. The same is true of a tobacco crop, and the same conditions referred to in the cotton districts exist to the same extent in sections that depend upon "the weed" as the staple crop. In 6hort, about all that can bo said in favor of either cotton or tobacco as a principal crop is that it is a ready money crop and may be drawn on in advance of production. In view of all these circumstances and facts and others that might be men tionedthe Eagle would advise its form er friends against the policy of going into cotton cultivation to any extent be yond that of an incident of the season. Diversified fanning is now generally ad mitted to be tho safest and most profita ble, and it is all right for tho farmers of the southern portion of this state to add cotton to the list of crops, but they can not afford to stake the success of the year's labor upon it, or any other single crop as for that. SUNFLOWER SILHOUETTES. A Wichita baby calls crickets "nigger grasshoppers." Tho idea of the board of public works is not to work the public. The Kansas farmer has good gronud for feeling well several acres of it. Kansas has never before had such a large stock of thrifty raiubows, A Sedgwick count y fanner says that too much ruin in Kansas is just enough. The latest is that ex-Senator Iugalls ex pects to succeed Plumb at the next sena torial election. It has been a long while since tho dry goods boxes looked as deserted in Kansas as they do right now. Tho nice thiugs the papers are saying about Sam Wood now would have rattled him during his lifetime. Ho wasn't used to them. Mrs. Sam Wood is said to be a very bright woman. Years ago she lost a daughter and has always since been a spir itualist. Peffer is home again, ne really needs the rest. He has been tagged by the anar chists and managers of niusounis all over the east. Sol Miller recently, on hearing that a great many people were starving in India for the want of bread, wondered why they didn't eat pie. The Alliance may sonio day run tho railroads of the country, but just at pres ent their business in that line only extends to following trains of thought. Our Kansas farmer will soon have a harder puzzle than tho Pigs-in-the-clover scheme. He is going to try to nut a 1591 corn crop in a 1S90 corn crib. Since his return Jerry Simpson is as popular with the people of Medicine Lodge as a man could be who hnd gono east and learn to drink a glass of water without gulping. Ingalls has gone back to Washington again. This makes the third time since his defeat. Morfon has a hard time, evi dently, getting onto tne duties of vice president. Eighty-two thousand majorities make a great difference. Two years ago, this far before the state election, tho next governor of Kansas had been named and the nomin ating speech prepaied. Butler county is almost solid for Bob Moore for governor. There aro xnighty few men in the country who haven't token a "chaw" off the same plug of tobacco with Moore some time or other. The wheat fields all over Kansas .ire hanging their heads. Of course it i tho weight of tho grain thnt docs it, but it looks like the wheat was ashamed of the uuenrthly rumpus tho farmer hasbeeu kickiug up in the couutry, the last year. A Farmers' Alliance man in Sumner county who happened to stumble across tho fact that Jay Gould could buy all the wheat crop of Kansas at $1 n bushel and still have 5150,000,000 left, brooded over it so much that he neglected tocut his wheat, and it is knocked down by the rain and wind and ruined. The other day Jerry Simpsan came into his house from looking over his wheat field. There are G10 acres of it, and it is simply beautiful. He went into the houe, where his wifo was getting dinuer in tho kitchen, with something evidently on his mind. He. wanted to sav something to her, apparently. He looked about nervously. Then he went to the front door and looked out. Seeing nobody near he closed the door and locked it,&Then he went back to the kitchen, shut and turned the key in that door. Then the great calamity howler, edging close up to Mrs. Simpson, cautious ly whimpered: "Kansasis the most glorious state in tho Union." AN ARTICLE ON THE IMMIGRATION MOVEMENT, RAILROAD FARE EXCURSION RATES. (Note by contributor.) (Written by request. Southwestern Kan sas papers please copy; all for the glory of Kansas.) To the Editor of the Eagle. A harmless "luuatical" enthusiast called upon me and directed my atten tion to an article in the Eagle headed "A general immigration movement needed in Kansas right now." He had drawn the conclusion that I did not read the Eagle and knew nothing about the movement He gave me an article to deliver to the Eagle. I gleaned over it and said to him: "Wherefore should I risk my life or endanger my safety in becoming Godfather to an attack on the immigration bureau, the newspapers of Kansas or the railroads. Get thee gone thou Satan I have trouble enough to find a publisher for the 'stuff' I write; but if you desire me to do so, I will hit tho 'immigration movement' several sentences on my own account, and if I die vour conscience, if you have one in your clothes, or a 'pawn-ticket' show ing you have title to one, will not be burdened by ray demise." Tho ministerial prayer movement in our otherwise happy, peaceful and bustling community might direct its at tention to the "immigration movement" and pray for an influx of prohibition emigrants, so that they would have a majority in the "ensooing" city election, lam indifferent as to the politics or re ligion of the man wiio comes to Kansas to go into business or to buy a farm home. The only thing I stipulate for is that he will come and be forehanded enough to push his business and become a thorough Kan&an and add wealth to Kansas: the grand aggregate, making 100,000 people before January 1892, and ten or twenty millions more wealth. We Kansans, "spasm" periodically; wo are given to slopping over in finance, oolitics. relicion and immigration. "Ad astra per aspera," seems to rule us. We are in tho Plutonian shadows, or the seventh heaven, in the valley or on the mountain; at tho bottom of tho ditch or at tho top of the hill: no half-way ground for us. We aro an india rubber commonwealth. We have rebound in us. Yesterday paupers and insolvents the object of eastern people's contempt Ishmailite of the United States. We are today attracting attention through out the United States by reason of our Allliance, "fasting and prayer" and a corn, oats and wheat crop that bewilders a traveler and causes a smile to light tho eye of even believing friends. Forty million bushels wheat. One hundred million bushels corn. Twenty-five million bushels oats. Just contemplate it. The entire cotton crop of the south estimated at $400,000, 000 and Kansas corn, wheat and oats alone, estimated at 60.000,000. or a little over ono-cixth of the southern cotton crop. As Fritz Schnitzler says, we have a "banana" in these prairies, when we get the land sold to farmers from the eastern states. I am not a farmer, land owner, real estate dealer, or farm land speculator, but I am a citizen of Southern Kansas, and my idea is, that while the ministers are holding down the joints, and fasting and praying, tho rest of us ought to go to work and stimulate the "immigra tion movement. The railroads are as much interested in peopling our farms and opening up our prairies as we can possibly be, but there are certain railway rules that prevent our roads granting us an immigration rate. The interstate commercial paraly sis act prevents any one commnnity from "hogging" any tiling, unless the community owns a railroad official or two who will "beat" the act and assist the town; hence, the entire state must be invited to any "immigration feast" any one community gets up. Many places pay no attention to this, and henco any live place that gets "a movo on it" has to emulate the divine ruler who "rains on tho just as well as the unjust." If we get up a largo "immigration" rain all enjoy the shower; therefore tho only thing to do is to agitate the question of a state immigration movement and get the rest of tho state to join in and stake our chances in tho general sweepstakes for immigrants who visit the state. If any large number come and wo fail, or any other county fails to get a just share of the "now home-seekers" then all there is about it wo are not worthy of getting them. The thing for Sedg wick poimty to do is to go to work and get up itb own petition to the "Trans Missouri Passenger association" and send it in to the secretary and have Kurtz at Newton, Bent Murdock and Sheldan at EtDorado, Buck at Winfield, Easely at Hutchinson, Stotler at Wel lington, Maffett at Anthony, Eaton at Kingman and Lute Axilino and Caruth ers at Medicine Lodge observo what we are doing, they will go to pounding their people to get up their petition and send it in, and then some others will"catch on" and we will get a rate by August and commence seeing exclusion trains coming to Kansas as in 1S75 and 1S76. There ain't any royal (baccarat) road to immigration. It takes some "pouud ing," some blowing but if we get down to our "knitting" we can do it, AVe have crops this year and all wo want is to get people to come and see 'em. We don't need anything but to get the man here. No statistics; all the man needs is his eyes he don t need any brains to figure on acres and bushels to the acre. If wo get this thing started in August the threshing machines will deafen the "outfit." All wo need to do is have our ed itors go to pounding, get up our petitions for one rate for excur sionists, send them up to James Smith, secretary of the Trans-Missouri Passenger association at Kansas City, Mo., and when he fixes a date for our coining, send a committee up and "elo cute" to the association for an hour or more and we will then get the rate. A railroad official at Chicago (name of road unknown or forgotteu) wrote a let ter confidential), from w hich I extract the following sentences, which to me are guod reading, viz: "When the rate was granted at Omaha, last year, your prospects were so bad we could not afford to spend money to get out circulars and properly advertise this rate, but the conditions have changed; your crops this year will produce the greatest car famine in the history of the west. "Our people are short on cars and we can not help it as it was impossible to anticipate this crop in time to get car orders filled. However, we now have 1,000 extra cars for Kansas use. If you get your excursion one fare rate I prom ise you that we will have proof of our circulars in the hands of the printer in twenty-four hours from the announce- : uient and spend money to get them i scattered in the east, etc" I This letter will satisfy some people that this "immigration spurt" has incu bated in Chicjco. and Kansas, the olaca of its birth, need cut no figa re. All we want is people, and if n Chicago man who is interested in Kansas land goes at it to get up a scheme to sell his lands in Kansas we can take hold and advantage our selves of the "immigration movement" Now, Mr. Editor, if this movement "falls down" I shall charge it up to you and the rest of the editors in the Arkan sas valley. If you die I'll found your several sepulchers andptherwise deser cate the sarcophagus' of the dead; if, however, I did I'll haunt you. "Isimigrator." It need not co3t tho people of Kansas one cent to place these petitions before the Trans-Missouri Passenger association when the date of the meeting is fixed. All the editors who ara "in it can go up to Kansas City on their passes and have a good time going up and back, and pre sent the matter, and the rest of Kansas will rise up and call " 'em" blessed. OKLAHOMA OUTLINES. The settler in tho new country doesn't want to be too old or he may bo a sooner. The Pottawatomie tribe has two fac tions the prairie band and the citizens' band. The editor of tho Wynnewood Herald had roasting ears off his own place last Sunday. The Democratic papers of Oklahoma will ask the next congress to make Okla homa a state. The most dangerous weapons a band of Indians can be armed with is a couple dozen jugs of whisky. There is getting to be less of "man hero but family in Kansas" in Oklahoma. And there should be less of it. Oklahoma will growas much in taonext year as it did in tho first day of its exis tence and that is saying a good deal. By the time this year's crops are har vested, some ot the Oklahoma farmers will want to move in town and start a bank. An Oklahoma man has a method to kill the wheat nests. He would feed them pumpkin seeds and choke them to death. There will be a big public diuner at Ok lahoma City on the Fourth. A novel fea ture is to be the fact that everything served will be of Oklahoma production. Congressman Harvey thinks that the order for ejecting intruders from the In dian country is folly by the department, injury to whites and complete destruction to the Indians. The opening of tho new country will wipe out many feuds in Oklahoma. Tho fellows who have lost in contests will go and find another piece of land and settle down in contentment. Occasionally McMasters of the Oklaho ma City Gazette will runoff into philoso fhy. He says: "Poverty is the best po iceman, it will keep a man sober when the terrors of a police judge will run him tank full. The taking of testimony in tho Greer county case is now proceeding at Wash ington. Oral testimony is being taken and of course official surveys will be sub mitted. Many think that Greer county belongs to Oklahoma and thatthesupreme court will so decide. Purcell Topic: Tho acreage of cotton planted in this nation this year is esti mated to be twenty per cent, greater than last. Present indications give assurance of a much greater yield. The shipment from Purcell will undoubtedly exceed 10,000 bales. E. Bee Guthrie: A Kansas exchange tells of some corn that is "nine feet high." That may do very well for Kansas, but things uro different here. Payne county farmers have gono through their fields aud pulled out all the stalks no t.ller than that. They thought they were "suckers." In several instances in the Sac and Fox country allotment, the Indians have aban doned their improvements to take allot- ments elsewhere iu the reservation. Tho allotments aro new practically made and there remains several of these improve ments unclaimed y anyone. They gener ally have a few acres broken, a hut or rude log house and on some places there aro bearing orchards. Tho claims including the improvements are good, and the only reason tho places were abandoned was that tho rest of the clau to which the own ers belonged decided to take land in some other portion of the reserve and family ties are too strong among them to remain behind. The white people will soon pick up these abandoned places, and probubly will rejoice if they have escaped their rela- tw That's the diffcrenca between In dians and whites. Purcell Times: Saturday evening as the mail carrier from the east laid down tho pouch he said: "J, witnessod a sight yes terday that I never want to have repeated." I asked him to sit down and tell us all about it. "Wei!." said he. "as I passed through Wewaka yesterday they weie preparing to shoot a murderer. He was a Seminole, and about four weeks ago ho and another Seminole had a quarrel, during which he killed him with a hoo and then chopped him into pieces. lie was tried according to the Seminole law, found guilty and sentenced to be shot. At 9 o'clock in the morning he was brought to tho council room and told that he had but two hours to live. Ho walked around the council grounds as cool as if he had come to a council, shook hands and chatted freely with his friends until tho council bell tolled the hour of doom. Tho captain of the light horse then came forward and told him to prepare for death. He pointed to a flat rock about 100 yards away and told him to sit on it and face tho crowd. He walked with a steady step, .sat on the rock and folded his arms across his breast. The captain then took his own handker chief from his pocket and bandaged his eyes. Then he beckoned to two of his light horse to advance. He took their Winchesters, threw out all the cartridges and refilled them from his own belt. "Now," said he, "when I give the word, fire at the top button of his coat." After stepping back a few feet, ho gave the word, two sharp reports following each other other within a second's difference were heard. The condemned man did not fall, but drew up his arms and twitched nervously. Two of the light horses ran forward, took him by the arms nnd laid him on his back on the grass, where he died iu two minutes. All on tho ground wore then allowed to look at the dead man. Then a coffin was taken from the wagon, the corpse was placed in it, the lid screwed down and he wn buried a short distance from the council house with the greatest respect. Senator Plumb says that the Wall street idea of contnicted currency must co, and the western people all agree with him that it is a "go." EXCHANGE 5EOT5. The Stand and Deltyer Policy. Sraator PeSer at Cooper Cnfoa- "There ia need of several things. One is more money, another i- cheaper money. I don't mean money that is not good for anything. We want good money. I don't care what kind, but an abundance of it. We want it at lower rates of inter est than we are now paying. Bondhold ers can get money at 2 per cent, but the farmer can not get it for less than 10. We are going to equalize that thing if we have to revolutionize the whole coun try." Logically Stated, Whatever the Result. Frutniht JtcPSersoKFre&Aa. The Republicans of Ohio will run Mc Kinley for governor and he will be elected for the reason that the campaign will be made upon high protection, ami of the industrial classes in that state about one-third the entire population is engaged in industries that reap a direct benefit from good wages and prices, due to tariff. Of the third engaged in agri culture many are truck farmers whose Dro5teritv is due larrelv to tariff tsrioes. Hence on a tariff issue Ohio will vote for j high tariff. When it comes to the de cree of tho tariff it is a local issue" and Ohio is in it. Now You're Shoutin. From the Atchison Champion. Some Kansas newspapers have fallen into the habit of assuming that, because certain of their cotemporaries are too in dependent to submit to the party lash, their political utterances attract no at tention and are not influential. This is sheer uonsenfe, a sample of highly at tenuated and very puerile hog-wash. The most influential journals, political and otherwise, in this country today, papers that have a large following and whose influence is most potent in-shaping and guiding public opinion, are not the hireling partisan organs but the inde pendents whose untrammeled utter ances are stamped with both sense and sincerity. THE DOT ON THE 1. A Point In the Art of Deciphering Char acter from Handwriting. Do you put the dot high above the letter 1? Do you put it Close to the letter? Do you send it flying before? Is it fat, round, irregular? In each case your peculiarity is the outward and visible sign of some idio syncrasy, says a master in the art of graph ology. "Look at the dots of your i; try to make them different smaller, larger, rounder, more oblong you cannot do it. The dot above the i only changes with your character." Here are some conclusions which tho authority quoted says the ladies may draw from the telltale dot: If you often forget to dot your i you will also forget other things which seem unim portant to you, but which for the comfort of everyday life are as necessary as the dot is to the i. If you have often to look invain for the dot you will also look often in vain for other things, because you have not put them in their proper place. For instance, yon put the fifth knitting needle Into your book because you were suddenly called away and no better book mark was at hand. You were anxious to finish vour Bock where is the fifth needle? Tho serv ant girl must have' mislaid it while dust ing. Servants are such a trouble. In or der to practice patience and self control you knit on with four needles, "gently pardon ing," and presently turn back to your in teresting novel. The book opens imme diately, and there and then tho glittering needle preaches a silent sermon to you. If the dot flies high above and far away from the letter to which it belongs, your hopes, thoughts, wishes and aspirations are apt to fly about in far off regions, and in stead of making practical use of the pres ent day you dream of the ideals of the future. If this "high flown" dot is of an oblong shape; and if, in conjunction with it, the loops of your 1, h, g, f, eta, are loose and long, then goodby symmetry and calm, for you have very little self control. If your husband's dots are heavy, shape less and blotchy you will have a hard timo of it where food is concerned. He will not be satisfied with a cold supper, an aesthetic tea or a meal of beef and vegetables. On the other hand, you have in his favorite dishes a means to pacify the grumbler, and to incline him to listen to your wishes. Your request for a new gown, for theater tickets, which was peremptorily refused before dinner, is listened to with much more interest after the man of tho heavy dots has had a good meal. Never ask such a man to grant you a favor when he is waiting for his dinner. Tho larger the dots appear the more critically a dish will be attacked and judged. Oliver Goldsmith as a .Married Man. Pnll Mall RndffBfc fcplls fchnfc rchtln -miiti. mi am tho parochial archives of rMttJi Ar vj,mnrJ n-,, ,-wi, ,, Islington Mr. Edward Davey, clerk of tho guardians, has found an old book which gives somo interesting facts about the fa mous metropolitan district as it existed at the beginning of tho present century. Among other things it contains tho census return for Islington in 1801. The parish is described as "a merry village adjacent to London, and a favorite resort for its citi zens," and the population is given as 10, 121. Now its inhabitants number 358,000. Another entry in the curious volume has raised a startling controversy among local antiquaries. Tho genial Oliver Goldsmith is generally supposed to have lived and died a bachelor. In Islington another tra dition exists. It is to the effect that not only had Oliver a little habitation there, where he spent a good deal of his time, but by his neighbors he was regarded as a re spectable married citizen. In tho recently found book ccurs tho name of Mary Oli via Goldsn and it is stated that this was none other than the poet's daughter. Insect Products. While insect products are not numerous in comparison with the number of insects, of which there are nearly 300,000 species known, there aro several of great commer cial value. The silkworm is the most use ful of insects, furnishing the world an an nual product of immense value. The yearly value of the cochineal produce runs to millions, while many of the gums brought from the east aro produced by the insects piercing the barks of certain trees, and thus causing tho exudation. The quantity of honey annually stored up by bees amounts to many millions of pounds, and the wax is almost equally valuable. Gallnuts, from which a valuable kind of ink is made, are caused by insects, while more than ouo kind is used iu medicine. In some parts of Asia and Africa a large share of the people's food is supplied by tho swarms of locusts, so that the insect world really contributes largely both to the comfort and luxury of mankind. Curloo Uses of Paper. Paper is now made to serve for steel and iron. When strong fiber is used it can be made into a substance so bard that it can scarcely be scratched. Railroad car wheels are made of it more durable than iron. A building is said to have been mado of it, the rafters, weather boards, roof and floor ing being all made of paper boards, im pervious to water. The Breslau fireproof cbimney has demonstrated that cooking and heating stoves, bathtubs and pots, when annealed by a process that makes them fireproof, becomes more lasting than iron and will not burn out. Craoks la floors around the skirting board or other parts of a room may be neatly filled by thoroughly soaking newspapers into a paste as thick as putty, and forced Into the cracks with a paste knife. It will soon harden and can be painted. When th TTcM " Plncfc TT SUn;. Notes and Queries tells that the word pluck affords au Instance of the way ia which slang words in the course of time become adopted into current Eaghsc We now meet with "pluck" and "ptnctr' as the recognized equivalents of "courage" and "courageous." An entry in Sir Walter Scott's journal shows that ia 127 the word had not yet lost its character. He says "want of that article blackguardly called pluck." Its origin is obvious. From early times tne heart bad ben pop ularly regarded as the eat of courage. Now, when a butcher lays opsn a carcavs he divides the great vesefa of the heart, cots through the windpipe, and then plucks out tobr the coiled heart and langs lights he calls them and b terras tha united zaaaa "the pluck." There are 5everal things to Js especialJy avoided m ickcang a 4te for your dwell ings. Da not select them near swamps, xsillpcnd? and stagnant water. A&other thing to be avoidtd ia the prozimity to manufactories which arc lishle to give o2 noxious odor and drainage frcsi whick "A Real lady." We hear the phrase so often, and how hard it is to define its exact meaning. We ill know the lady when we meet her, and j et her charm is as indescribable as the scent of a rose or the tints of the sunset sky. It might be said to lie in her utter lack of positiveness and best painted in negatives. She is not obtrusive in appear ance or dress; she does not claim your at tention by any effort to attract it, nor doe3 Bhe seem conscious of your admiration if you evince it. She ia never known to speak harshly, maliciously or loudly to su perior, equal or inferior. She does not laugh at anything that could by any possibility wound another, nor seek to introduce into tho conversation any topic she has reason to think may prove disagreeable or embarrassing, but, rather, closes her eyes to whatever her keen tact tells her you desire to remain unno ticed. In her judgments she does not seek to impress you with her infallibleness, but is quick to add tho saving clause. She does not envy or scorn another's possessions, and would not point out the crumpled rose leaf for the world. She makes no boast of anything, but does not decry herself in any way, so that her sweet pride is humility, and her sweet humility the truest pride. She is no gossip, though she is not abovo taking an interest in the lowliest that cross her path, and has a womanly sympathy for every sick and suffering thing. She takes up no fad or hobby to the exclusion of other duties, but is consistent in all things, and, without being foolishly conventional, does not neglect to fulfill the least demand of her position. She is not a religious fa natic, and has no htdl of excommunication for those not of her way of thinking, but is in the truest and best sense a noble heart ed. Christian woman, than which there is no better definition of a lady. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Should "Women Cry and Taint? I cannot say I agree with a French phy sician as to the advisability of women sit ting down for "a good cry" when every thing seems to have gono wrong for the time being, says au English lady writer. This worthy doctor, who evidently believes that a woman should be treated as a help less being, declares that we do ourselves a great deal of harm by trying to be bravo and enduring. A woman, says he, should never try to bear pain without fliuchiug. In fact, she should just scream and faint as much as she likes, and then she will surely get bet ter much sooner than if sho silently boro suffering. And what about our dignity, M. lo Medicin? Does it become a British matron to figuratively "fall of a heap" and give way to outbursts of weeping because her gown does not fit or the parlor maid has given notice? And could we ever rec oncile it with our sense of self respect to scream and kick and promptly give way to hysterics directly a neuralgic attack came on or the demon toothacho claimed us for its own? No, no; wo havo our faults, and our nerves may be but "puir things," yet I hope and believe that we are mentally bet ter balanced and physically stronger than to require to havo a good cry on tho slightest provocation. Blessings Upon tho Married Tlirt. Dorothy Maddox has been studying tho ways of mnidens, matrons and bachelors, and informs the girls that "it is no use. You might as well accept the situation and no longer declare war against the mar ried flirt. Sho is a social blessing which monsieur is in no hurry to relinquish. Sho always kuowa just what to say and just what to do, is never on the qui vivo for a proposal, supplies her own little amuse ments and her bachelor friends' as well, and does it at her husband's expense, which is certainly for the bachelor an alto gether jolly hitnation. Society girls, on tho tiptoo of expectancy for a five dollar bunch of violets and a laco kerchief thrown in, aro quite enough to scare off even tho most sentimental youths. "The modern maiden wants too much. The married belle asks for nothing from her carpet knight save his delightful so ciety. What wonder, then, that the bach elor of today has his own particular theo ries respecting life, regardless of the bland ishments of the single Hebes of society?" Philadelphia Inquirer. An Aid to tho Complexion. An infusion of meadowsweet flowers drank freely improves the complexiou and clears tho blood of scrofulous taint. Tho rule for making infusions is ten times as much boiling water as of the herb poured on tho latter ia a tight closed jar, boiled two or three minutes, then allowed to stand where it will keep hot for two hours. Four to eight tablespoonfuls is a dose, which may bo taken three tosix times a day. White willow i3 an old remedy in fevers, long used in Europe and still largely pre scribed by tho hakims or doctors of India and Afghanistan. The juice of tho frsh willow leaves largely diluted is preferred to quinine for intermittent favors, oh it has less irritating effect. The sap of the wil low gathered by slitting the bark when tho tree is in flower it an old cosmetic and good to euro redness of eyes and dim sight. Shirley Daro in New York Herald. Disinfection hy Sulphur. Tho general plan employed in disinfec tion of the atmosphere, together with tbo surroundings in the room. Is by means of sulphurous acid ga., secured by the com bustion of sulphur. The sulphur, in pow der or small fragments, is placed in a shal low iron pan (about threw pounds for oach 1,000 cubic feot of air space), which, after being moistened with alcohol, ia ignited, all measures for thorough closing of every sperature in the room having boen pre viously taken. In order to guard againit firoitls ad vised that the pan fhould be w& upon a couple of bricks in a tub partly filled with water. After the room has been thor oughly fumigated the walls should than bo washed with a disinfecting solution. Koch as that referred to for use in immersing clothes previously to their being boded. Heraid of Health. The IJt DrtM for a Good Woman. The best receipt ever given for a lady' dress may be found tn the work of Trrtl lian. He say: "Lai simplicity bs your white, chastity your verrailbon; dress yor eyebrows with racdeyty, and jour lip wttfc rtservednewj. Ivc Instruction he your ear rings, and a ruby crcts tho f root pta ia your head; rubmlssioa to your huboad your bt ornament Esipij yoar ha&di in bosswife3v dntiea, and kesp yr fest within your own doors. Latjoargarxaest be of the silk of probity, to fln Ifnea ef canctity and the purple of chastity. It appears that Eleanor Kirk, tha wll known Brooklyn wn:r, must haven waste basket of most extraordinary capacity, for the eusrj goes that ne receives a ixttLel f letters a dat. "PRICES pain v &ed in Millions of Homes TWO STRAWBERRIES." A treat of tho eeaaea tko father A fcrset, Of berries, the ch&ioest, tie beat. So thought little mischiai, ear thxe-yc-9H chap. When strawberries ho eesH e'er test. Tore lookinff them ever, and hallis Jwt well, I mentioned, A fine treat for tea. And if yonTi not ask rae for eaa at thoa, iomtt ril tell you Just what It's to her grafting hia promise, I feared, yog say karat He'd tease so, as childtea oft do. Instead, he gazed longiaffly, tie Uszhiagl? said, "I fink I might ask you for twor Fannio L. Fancher ia Housekeepers Weekly A WOMAN'S FOIBLES. She Will 2Cot Adsait tho Tisfcfcaou Dress or of Shoes. There arc two things which a Tvoman: cannot endura for a znlnste to fee told, Oa of these is that she laces too tight, an3 th other is that she wears too small a shoe. To the first accusation she. replies by aa is diginant denial, and then she draws la he breath and puts her hands up under he? waist to convince you that you have "bee telling a dreadful lie. Sho thca goes es. to say that sho could wear a corset threa sizes smaller than the one sho has on with, perfect ease. When any one suggests thaS her shoo is too tight sho also gets indig nant at first, then she places her foot upon a hassock, bends over and grasps it to show there aro at least two inches of shoe not occupied at all. Of course it is a trick, but tho ono who looks on is bound to be con vinced. A little story that was told by a boot and shoe salesman the other day illustrates these peculiar caprices of women. A lady entering the store complained that tha shoes sho had on hurt her feet and asked what tho trouble was. "Because your shoos aro too small for you," promptly replied the salesman. "Indeed they aro not; they aro a size larger than 1 usually wear." "Notwithstanding that, they are too small," repeated the practical young man. Upon which the lady turned and walked out of the store without so much as look ing at the unfortunate salesman. "I wonder what is the matter with her?11 he aid. i'ou have no need to ask that," replied his employer. "You will never become a success in tho shoe business until you learn that you must never, under any circum stances, tell a woman that her shoo is too small. Tell her that it is tho wrong shape or that it is badly cut or that it is not her style anything except tho truth. Women never like to bo told tho truth about their shoes." This weakness is not entirely confined to tho feminine portion of humnnity. Tho chiropodists say that quite as many men as women coino to them with corns and bunions and crooked toes. Somo of tho most skillful manipulators of tho feet claim that the so called common sono shoo is not much of an improvement upon tho narrow, high heeled French gaiter, against which ho much has been said; ono goes as far to one extreme as tho other does to an other. Very few feet are perfectly flat and very few toes aro perfectly square, A shoo should bo inado to fit tho foot, and if thcro is the least tendency to enlargement of tho joints of tho great too a narrow shoe should bo worn, always taking care that it is quite long enough. A shoo that fits from spreading, and tho length will allow tho toea to lio perfectly flat. A deformed foot is ono of tho mo.-t hideous things iu nature. Harriet Hosmer, the clover sculp tor, states that she can find plenty of per fect hands, but not once in a hundred times a perfect foot. New YorK. capiat. Wealthy Cirl "Who Can Karn a I.Wltg. Thcro Ls a man abundantly supplied with worldly goods and with daughters who lo lievo that every woman should know how to do at least one thing well. Consequent ly his five daughters know several tilings besides dancing and music and riding. One girl has learned stenography, nnd her fingers aro as export with tho key of a typewriting machine as with the keys of a piano. Another is skillful with tbo needlo and two others could earn their livings as practical school teachers, no instruction in French or Italian, but everyday school teaching. "I hope," Fays this father, "that no ono of my daughters lias over to earn her own living. But I once bad surious financial troubles in my younger days, and who knows thnt I may not have them again. If I were to be punniless I think that all my daughters could take care of thciojlvta. Besides," he added, with a twinkht in hu eye, "think of the gratitude some men will feel toward me whon they find what good wives I havo trained for them." New York Tribune. An Improved Xedl. The improved sowing needle, recently in troduced, secured tho and of thn thread la the eye instead of havingarunningthread, as in tho case of ordinary needle. The eya of the ncodlais round or oval at the bot tom, tapering nwny chlfcel shape at the top or head, in this way causing sufficient elas ticity at the top of the eye to hold th thread perfectly rigid, and there Is done away all cutting of tho thread, which U neoeeary In tbo case of ordinary needle where a running thread Li employed. Tho objct of tbL unique lnvotloa is, of course, to allow tho cotton thread to b easily pnwd through the bol and pulled up toward the head, so as to fix the threat in tha chisel fcbaped nUt, thus preventing the thread slipping out. Now York Sua. Quitter for fyrirlng 2Iachli.es. A very useful addition to th wrarlng mo cbii has appeared in tho tthapo of a qvilting fraro5. Tho dcrio can bo cally bdjfu&ad to hold a quilt In convoieat po sition for bing worked on, and so thnt i can be mtdlly adapted to tha feed of any sewing machine. Ta frax&s supporting the qaiit may be brought in aa instant into any daurad position, th uspcnde4 frams moving freoly nnd tho device p?r rnsUing of aeh arrangement in conneciioa with n wia? xaachm that th feed of th machine wtil draw tho quilt and fraxa through it. The device can b adapted la all nizes of machines tx! for the qulltis g of any desired paUm. -New York Tele gram. The Seoitrx ot U Re. What fear hath chilled to jjJddy tkrm What trrror stills the Kwrry oe? Wi acmes to danccrar flyzc Uxtt What ' hath can to boos U jcree.? T3b i Irotsx banqsot Ubl y with a ptdiiti fefc and glaring eye; tfes laacUcrd gfetum, tho feeble clerk, turns c tha gat, amd 4H L dark. Of hght as4 fore and aalrfli berOt, the kmtly tavern tctiUkMt to hw 1& D-H Faruy radte how "Carfesr Xact 5?M &ng Tonight." BardeU Bakin n i rowaer; 40 Years tie StandanL i. ' "WW tiMffrtfZf&tt''lt'&'i'ti?- i