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CHILDREN'S EYES.
Did you ever look
In a child'H clear eyes.
And feel the heaven that lay
In the innocent depth
Of the open soul.
As yet unsoiled by clay?
Oh! a holy thins
In a child's cle ar eyes.
And tender the hand should be
That touches the flower
Still wet with the dew
Of Heaven's own mystery.
It was said "Of Old"
That the demons that strove '
For the doom of the race that fell.
If meeting the look
Of a child's pure eyes
Sank down to their native hell.
And the truth that hides
In the myth "Of Old"
Breaks as a star doth rise; ,
For the inmost heaven
' )f Innocence dwells
In the trust of a child's sweet eyes.
And this Is the look
That the God-man loved.
When He gathered them close to HI
breast.
And, laying His hands
On their shining heads.
Pronounced them forever blest.
And the angels sent
From His kingdom above.
To watch, and to guard, and to stay,
ro always I w hold
"1 he face divine
Of Him who spoke that day.
Are we worthy to share
The holy charge?
Ix-t us fold our hands and pray;
lest we merit the doom
Of those who cast
" Offense" in the little one's way.
Emily R. Dickenson, in N. T. Home
Journal.
CAPTAIN NAIJB.
IIT JAMES IICCKHAIW.
Great was the seafaring' fame of
Capt. Xabb, irt the. little village Iwtok
tmorif' the Connecticut hills, from
which he had first pone forth with his
bundle slung- on astick. Since that day,
."0 years jwist, when he had set forth
to seek his fortune, the captain had
leen four times around the world,
1 tvioe in his ovvn ship, and had visited al
most every known port in civilized arxl
uncivilized countries; had command
ed the. largest merchantman in the
West India trade, and had won the repu
tation of first rank among1 expert and
daring navigators.
What- wonder, then, that all Top
sliam was agog when the captain, one
fine evening in June, lurched out of the
rocking old stage and announced in
hearty tones to his former townsfolk
the majority of whom were assem
bled at "the store" that he had come
home for a two months vacation. It
i t rtainly seenicd like an act of unpar
ft lei led condescension on the part of
the great navigator, and Tojshain felt
duly honored.
It did not take the boys of the village
long to discover that Capt. Nabb was a
jolly soul, and particularly oj'n to ad
vances from them; and soon, in spite
of the great man's awful fame, they
proceeded to take ossetruon of him,
t'.ll it was rarely that flie old man's
sturdy figure cruised aliout the village
without lieing attended by a fleet of
his lioyifch admirers, hanging to him as
closely as native canoes under the bows
of a South sea trader.
Thus it naturally- came to pass that,
when Penny Honrtlman and his younger
brolher, Carl, liecame the owners of
a small sailboat on Duck pond, the
first thing that occurred to them was
to ask Capt. Xabb to accompany them
on their maiden cruise. The old sea
man consented, after a glance at the
four points of the compass, and an in
quiring sniff of the fresh inland air.
I'ut first, he said, he must go for his
sou'wester, and his oilcloth suit, and
certain other things. There was no
telling what sort of weather might
blow tip Ijefore night.
.t the upHintel time Capt. Nabb
cr.me down to the little wharf at the
head of the pond. lie carried in his
arms his waterproof garments, a large,
iite-jo'nted spy -glass, a compass as tig
as the palms of your two hands, aspeak-ing-trtiiiiict
and a sextant. "I never go
to sea without my tools, boys." he said,
"even though it lie in a washtub." He.
stepped down into the little cut boat,
deposited his burden and himself in the
stern, and proceeded to instruct the
ltys in the art of making sail. After
considerable bungling, lien and Carl
got up their mainsail, the capta'n cast
off. and away they skimmed before a
fresh breeze down the bay.
It wasn't much of a sheet of water
they were cruising on. to lie sure. The
pond was aliout a mile long and half
as wide, perhaps; very irregular in
ihajie, with many little bays and
sloughs, where the water set Iwvck
nmong wild oats ami swamp-grass. Near
one end a large brook entered, after
devious windings through the marsh,
and at the other end a brook, as like
the feeder as tire next pea in a
f-ol, formed the outlet of the pond. It
would le hard to say which was which
(for neither brook had any perceptible
current), unless you observed the sur
rounding shore;. On the whole. Duck
1'ond was not pretty; but it was use
ful, for it was full of pickerel and bass,
and in the shooting season the marshes
teemed with w ild fowl and plover.
Capt. Nabb showed the loys how to
tack and jile, how to come up into th
wind, luiw to reef and cast anchor, how
to handle the helm and stow rojie.s, tie
a sailor's knot. Iall-st the boat, and
steer when meeting, parsing or cross
ing the bows of another craft. He had
v, , tnl nnutienl code at his tonirue's
: end, and the practice of seamanship in
his finrrer-tins: and if the bovs did not
learn all he hail to teach them, it was
ltecausc- the limitations of a catlioat
made it imjHissible.
"Why! hlews my eyes!" exclaimed
the captain, suddenly, as lie finished an
exciting tale about a walrus hunt among
the ieelK-rgs of the North sea. "What's
Ix-come of the sun?
"It's set,' replied Ttenny Boardman.
l saw it go down behind the pine hill,
half an hour ago."
"Are yon sure?" cried. Capt. Nabb.
leveling his five-jointed telescope to
ward the pine hill. "It can't le more
than four o'clock."
"But I heard the whistle blow for six,
long ago," ventured little Carl.
"Bless mc! the loys are right!" ex
claimed the old navigator, as he pulled
out a huge silver watch, almost as large
as a saucepan. "We must be getting
under way for home at once. Now then
all ready to go about!"
'BR 18 A r HERMAN WHOM THE TBSTH MAKKB FRKK AKD ALL ABB BLATK8 BKEIDB.'
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16,
The captain threw over his helm,
and the little loat caqie slowly up into
the light breeze, which had leen stead
ily falling for an. hour. It was almost
a minute liefore the lazily-filling sail
drew on the opposite tack. Capt. Nabb
looked anxiously to windward. "Con
found your land breezes!" he said,
somewhat testily. "I believe, we are
going to have a desul calm."
And so it proved. In ten minutes
more the little sailboat lay liecalmed
in the center of the ond. Slowly the
twilight gathered, veiling the distant
hills, and obscuring the outlines of the
marshy shores. The old seaman fumed
and fretted. He placed his big com
pass on the thwart in front of him. and
fixed the homeward course by the needle
as well as he could, after studying vari
ous fading landmarks with his glass.
I! is lips were shut very tightly, lest
any strong nautical language should
eseaiie them in the presence of Benny
and Carl. But finally, as darkness closed
around, the necessity for utterance so
grew ujion the old man that he seized
his Seaking-trumiet, and, in tones that
made the shores reverberate, roared
out: .
"Topsham, ahoy! a-h-o-y!"
The lioysj listened in awed silence,
but there was no reply to the stentorian
hail, though thrice ami four times re
peated. But as if the echoes, circling the
pond, had stirred some sluggish cur
rent of air and set it flowing again, a
slight breeze In-gan to stir the sail of
the Mermaid, and she moved slowly for
ward in the darkness.
Capt. Nabb's face bcaicd with de
light, and, tiller in hand, he leaned over
the big compiles and sailed away on
starboard tack. "Give us a song, my
hearties!" he cried, gayly. to Benny and
Carl. Then, straightening himself up.
he roared a stanza of a rollicking sea
luillad, beginning:
Oh. Nancy was a sailor's lass.
As fair a lass as e'er I knew!
The captain was alout to start up
the chorus, when there came a swish
ing sound across the bow of the Mer
maid. "Look out, captain! We are running
nshore!" cried Benny. "See! we are
in the. swamp-grass."
"Shiver my timliers!" shouted Capt.
Nabb, in amazement. lie jilied the
Mermaid, anil she rushed through the
shallow water and the liending marsh
grass till filial lj- she brought up on a
muddy spit and stuck fast, while all
the ballast, including the captain, the
two deck hands, and the nautical in
struments, pitched forward and brought
tip in a heap in the Imjw.
"Well, well!" panted Captain Nabb,
as he finally struggled upon athwart.
"That's the first time I ever lost my
reckoning."
"And it's the first time I ever lost
a tooth!" sputtered Benny, as he leaned
over the side of the boat.
"Dear me! That's too bad!" said the
captain. "I don't see how it'happened.
According to the compass we should lie
in clear water, steering a st raight course
for the wharf."
"But, captain, you must remember
that the pond is crooked," suggested
Bcnnv.
"Bless me! that's a fact!" cried the
old tar. "I never thought of it."
They all got out into the shallow
water, and after much pushing and
hauling, floated the Mermaid again.
Then Capt. Nabb took an observation
of the stars, replaced his compass on
the thwart, and ventured upon a new
course. This at length brought them
into one of the two large brooks, but
which one they could not tell, as the
water was dead, anil it was impossible
in the darkness to tell anything of the
surrounding country.
Then the great navigator, who had
lcn around the world, scratched his
head, and made another calculation;
the result of which was that, after sail
ing, as it seemed, for hours, these night
explorers found themselves in the slug
gish mouth of the other brook, quite
as uncertain as before which end of
the iond they had arrived at.
Thereupon Capt. Nabb seized his
speaking trumpet and lelIowed again,
and this time he sent forth a less defi
nite and confident hail:
"On shore! Ahoy!"
"Ahoy yourself! Don't deef-en a fel
low. What ilo you want?" eameagruff
reply out of the darkness, not 50 yards
away.
Capt. Nabb lowered his trumpet rather
sheepishly. "We have lost our reckon
ing, friend," he said, addressing his re
marks to the unknown in the darkness.
"Will you kindly give us our bear
ings?" "You're just ten rods up Dead creek,"
replied the hoarse voice of the unknown,
"and I wisht you'd back' out and quit
sewing the pouts."
"Dead creek! Why. that's 'way at
the further end of the pond!" ex
claimed Benny. "It's a mile from here
to the wharf, apd I don't believe you can
ever sail us there in the world, cap
tain." "Right you are, youngster!" cried
the navigator, heartily, though it was
a sore blow to his nautieal pride.
"Can't ye find your way honae?" 4?ame
the voice out of the darkness.
"No!" replied the globe-girdler and
the two boys, in mournful chorus.
"I'll come aboard and sail ye there
for 75 cents." The projiosition was
mercenary but practical, and had a
. welcome, ring of assurance in it.
Capt. Nabb hesitated, looked up at
the stars, then at the shivering boys.
"Iay aloard!" be said. shortly.
Half an hour later Benny ami Carl
were crawling gratefully into led, and
Capt. Nabb was pocking1 his big black
chest, moved by a sudden, inextinguish
able longing for the open sea. Outlook.
Camels In RpaJn.
Camels have domesticated themselves
in southern Spain the only spot in Ku
rojie where they may lie seen in a wild
stale. Some 40 years ago a herd wa
brought over from Africa, and as no use
could lie mcde of. the creatures they
were turned loose to shift for them
selves. The camels flourished and in
creased, and now seem quite at home iu
the district lieitween Seville and Cor
dova. The Field of Lie.
The Field of Lies was the battle
fought by Louis . the Uood-Natured
against his three sons. The unfortunate
monarch was deserted by his own army;
he was t wice shut up in a cloister, twic?
compelled .to do public jienance, and
twice released to pacify the guar re Is of
his family. . ' .
Tlfrlt'S COMPENSATION.
The Fellow That Flayed the Mouth Organ
Triumphed mt Lauit.
"Some fellow tells us in poetry," said
the judge while they were enjoying
themselves in the tent after a hard day's
fishing, "how fortune plies her Sjiort-S
when she liegins to practice them."
This trip recalls an illustration from
real life.
"I fished in this same lake 33 years
ago. I'd tell you something about my
luck that summer, but all men are put
down as liars w hen they venture on fish
ing exjierienees. A party of us put up
at an old farmhouse, and in the iuhuIht
were half a dozen girls, full of life and
mischief. We kept the fun going with
a rush, and one of our chief sources of
amusement was a shock-headed young
fellow living in this ncighliorhood.
"I can see that chap yet playing n
mouth organ. He threw his IhxIv
around promiscuously, tosseil his head
in every direction anil blew till his face
looked as would that of the man in the
moon if painted red. He also performed
on the accordion and made as much
work of it as pitching hay. When he
sung 'of the bonnie lasses of Scotland
he was innocently persistent in calling
tlu-ui the Mioney" lasses. lie roared
alMiut the days of 'Old Long Sime, and
knocked harmony into smithereens as
he rendered 'Off on a Still at Night."
"The girls made a fool of him. They
praised his singing and playing until he
imagined himself a musical prodigy,
and his hat was sizes too small for him.
When he took them out rowing they
would talk so admiringly of his st rengt h
that he almost pulled himself in two.
He danced all over the girls feet anil
wrenched them unmercifully in hust
ling them through the figures; but I hey
were always talking of how divinely he
danced. I joined making game of him.
but I can recall now that he and I did
a good deal of 'swapping, for w hich he
Ecemed to have a mania, and that in re
turn for my watch, a diamond scarf pin
and a fancy fishing tackle 1 had a lot of
old traps and calamities that were not
worth carrying back to civilization.
"The young fellow proposed to the
gayest girl in the crowd, and w hen she
laughed him from her presence without
one word of regret or sympathy he
seemed to realize the situation, and left
with a look that years of his old life
would never have produced. lie's now
the multi-millionaire speculator that
holds a big mortgage on the magnifi
cent home of the Widow Dainty. She is
the woman that made sport of his love
30 years ago." N. Y. Telegram.
IN GOOD FORM.
Points Pertaining; to Fhyslra.1 Perfec
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conventional sense of doing the right
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terrupts free motion of the chest, and
enfeebles the functions of various or
gans, and, in fact, unlialanees t he cutire
muscular system. Many iersns are
made round shouldered or humpbacked
by sleeping ujKin very high pillow..
When anyone finds it much easier tc
sit, stand or sleep in a crooked ositior
instead of a straight one, rest assured
that the muscular system has been
abused, and at once take steps toward
rectifying the damage already done."
(iood Housekeeping.
News of Fatatiion.
Many of the autuuin silks have a
faint mottled ground figured with small
brilliant Persian designs.
The silk wai&t, as a set-ofT and com
plement of a separate skirt of some
handsome description, has taken an
other lease of life.
Most of the new tucked evening
gowns of gauzy material have rows f
handsome lace insertion between, and
this forms an exceedingly pretty addi
tion.
With many of the new velvet. Iioleros
and jacket-bodices will lie worn loveiy
broad collars of Venice jioint. point ap
plique, or of very sheer batiste em
broidered in quaint and beautiful Flem
ish or renaissance jintterns.
Fawn colors, silver grays, nnd soft
nun's grays, with a touch of cream In
them, apjiear among the fall sample
lists of some of the most lieautiful taf
fetas, lilierty satins, lustrous corthd
silks, mohairs, alpacas and sheer silk
warp wools. Chicago Record.
Antnmn Millinery.
White and black combinations in.mil
linery for dressy wear will lie very prv
clent this "autumn; black and white
la:es, aigrettes, ostrich tips, black vel
vet riblion overkiid with whit? lace in
sertion, black and white satip-strified
' ribbon, black velvet loops lined with
white satin, and tiny evening toques
of soft velvety white French j'elt gar
nished with black and white tube,
doves wings, white birds with black
wing-tips, and breast plumage, white
satin liows, and white velvet poppies
with block hearts. N. Y. Post
Two Kinds of Light.
What kind of light do we receive
from the sun?" asked the teacher.
"Solar light." replied the bright pupil.
"Right. And what kind of light do we
get from the moon?"
"Satellite." Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.', Onions for Children.
A prominent phpysician claims that
there will lie no diphtheria, scarlet
fever nor worms for children if they
tat plentifully of onions every day, es
jiecially when there is a scarcity of
fresh fruit. He buys onions for his
young folks, and they are served in
every imaginable form. St. Louis Re
public j ,
8I.50 and
1896.
AGAINST HIS WILL.
The editor was disgusted and no won
der! It was the dull season and the Scru
tator was coniM'llcd to resort to much
padding in order to fill the daily measure,
expected by its 6ubseriliers; it was
even obliged to print copious extracts
from other publications a thing only
to le done as a last resource by any
pajier of spirit! Yet at this particular
time a celebrity, a real celebrity, came
for a few days stay to Oakhampton, and
refused to lie interviewed!
- Why he came was a mystery, but that
he had come was a fact, though from the
editor's point of view 1m- might just as
well liave stayed away. The celebrity's
unobliging disjxvsition on t lie subject of
interviewing had preceded him; he was
jierhaps the only i.mn of note in two
continents who had not rubmitted to
the ordeal. In moments of self-depreciation
he was won to say that that was
his greatest claim to distinction; but
even this reputation had not daunteil
the hoics of our editor, who felt con
vinced that the surliest disinclination
must give way liefore thechnrm and tact
rf the most valuable niemluT of the
Scrutator's staff. But the tact, the
charm, had no opportunity of producing
their usual effect ; they might as well
have Im'cii nonexistent. CVlcbrit v. f rom
1 he privacy of a hotel sitting-room, sent
down a curt message of alicolute re
fusal. No wonder, then, as we said liefore,
the editor was disgusted.
As he meditated on the provoking
ness of things in general anil of the cel
ebrity in particular, he found his
thoughts running into such eloquent
dnd well-rounded periods that he in-f-tinctivcly
drew en ami paper toward
him and wrote an editorial, which, if the
celebrity had read it, would have made
him feel very small indeed.
The article clearly- proved that what
t lie Public demanded it must have (for
the public sielt with a capital P was as
sacred to the editor as Humanity (spelt
with a capital II) is to the followers of
Angnste Comte. The individual as such
exists not for his ow n sake, but for the
sake tif the Public, in one case, or of
Humanity in the other. The article
further demonstrated that celebrities
would not exist wit hout a Public. (How
could anyone liecome celebrated on a
desert island, for instance?) If. then.
it is to the Public that the celebrity owes
his licing. anil the Public manifests a cu
riosity as to the opinions fin things in
general of any celebrity in particular,
the Public has a right to know thoe
opinions, and how could it know them
lrf-tter than through the columns of the
Scrutator?
But our editor was not always in this
displeased frame of mind. As a rule he
was the most genial of men, and such
he looked tlmt same evening as he sat
smoking his cigar on the gallery of a
handsame house in Clarence avenue.
Bis companion was his niece, a young
girl w ith a pretty fae and figure, and
a mischievous look in her dark eyes
which was particularly fascinating.
She was discoursing aliont the dearest
wish of her heart that she should lie
come a regular writer for the Scru
tator. But her uncle pooh-poohed the idea;
she was too yoflng, too inexjieriericed,
too pretty, and at any rate it was impos
sible to liecome a writer by simply talk
ing alxiut it. "Why," continued he, "do
you not write something and show me
w hat you can do?"
"I have written several Ftories. as you
1-now. but you won't look at them," re
plied t he girl.
"Oh. no. the Scrutator does not want
stories. Write me an article on some
subject which will interest the public."
"But, what subjects do interest the
t ublic, uncle, dear? You only laugh at
nie if I suggest one."
"Oh, come now vou can't expect a
ioor editor to suggest subjects for you
as well as read your art icles. Make your
own'elioice. The world is all before you
. here to choose."
""That's just, what liewilders me; it is
so hard to choose. If only I hail some
thing definite to go upon or if (coax
ingly) you would just look at one of
my stories."
But the editor vouchsafed no reply to
this, so his niece went on: "My firm
conviction is that I should make a splen
oid interviewer. I should enjoy it. too.
At college I could always get the girls
to tell me anything I wanted to know."
The editor laughed.
"Why not liecome a detective at
ence?" said he.
"I wish 1 could," sighed thegirl. But
her uucle was not attending; he was
looking at a cyclist who was spinning
rapidly ast the house.
"That's the man!" he exclaimed,
"that's Camlierton!"
"Oh, that man!" for Kittie knew all
aliout the editor's grievance with the
celebrity "he passes here every day.
I have met him several times lately
when I have lieen out on my morning
I ide. I wondered who he was."
"Well, I must go now," faid her uncle,
as he glanced at his watch. "Good
night, child," and then, as an after
thought: "Tell you what. Kittie, if you
can manage to interview Camlierton 111
do anything you like," and with a laugh
as though he had made a tremendous
joke, the editor departed, leaving Kittie
to lier thoughts, which, as the jioet says
of" the thoughts of youth, were "long,
long thoughts."
II.
Early next morning two cyclist!? might
. have lieen seen wheeling up Clarence
avenue. The one in front was a man,
big and distinguished-look'ng a man
whom to see was to rememlier. The
second cyclist was a young girl, who
kept always at aliout the same distance
from the man in front.
After awhile the man turned from
the main avenue into a road which led
into the country. The girl followed,
and when the few houses in the road
were iassed she began to scorch and
was soon ahead of the man, who noticed
with admiration the erect way in which
she sat in spite of the sjieetl at which
she was going. She wore a dark skirt
and pale pink blouse, which made a
pretty bit of color in the landscape, the
man thought, as his eyes traveled from
her to the far blue distance.
When his gaze sought the fair cyclist
again he found that she was seated on
the road, her wheel lying beside her.
The man wondered how she had man
postage per ear In advance.
NUMBER 41.
aged to fall, for the road was good, and
she hat! senied to lie perfect mUtress
of her bicycle. No one else w as in sight,
so he must jierforce dismount aud go to
her assistance. "I hope you are not
much hurt," ho said, with grave solici
tude. "Oh, I hojie not." said the girl, with a
smile, which she managed to make pa
thetic. "I feel very much shaken, aud
I think I have strained my ankle a lit
tle, but if I rest for a few minutes 1
shall lie all right,"
So with the man's assistance she got
up and seated herself on a tree trunk
lying near.
"May I," he askexl, courteously, "go
to your home and Kend you sortie a
feistance?" "Oh. dear no," in a tone of alarm, "it
would frighten them to death. I am
not much hurt. If you could kindly
wait a few minutes and then help me
to mount I don't think I could mount
alone. I feel nervous."
"I am at your service," replied her
companion; "your wheel, at any rae,
is none the worse."
For, ardent cyclist that he was. if his
first look hail lieen for the rider, his sec
ond had lieen for the wheel.
"So much the better, lint see bow t
have torn my skirt, I must mend it, or
perhaps it would catch and throw me
again."
So saying, she drew from her jiocket
a dainty little case, from which she pro
duced thimble, needle and thread, and
then liegan sewing her torn skirt. The
man watched her nimble fingers with
admiration. She was a graceful little
person and looked very demure as she
sat with lient head, her mischievous
eyes fixed on her work.
"I love cycling!" ehe exclair.M-l
"don't your
The man confessed that he did. and
she displayed such interest in what he
said "that he told her the story of a
cycling trip he hail token last s-umnier.
and from that, encouraged by her gentle
questioning-, he sjioke of many things,
and the girl listened intently. But at
last she felt that she could rememlx-r
no more, ami that made her realize
that she was equal to her return trip,
so she prettily ex-plained that she felt
quit recovered from her fall and asked
her companion to lie good enough to
help her to mount. He aejueseHl air
most reluctantly, for it had been a
pleasant half hour to him.
She paused a minute. "I don't know
how to thank you for what you have
done for me." She cast her eye lo ii.
for they were full of laughter. She
was wondering what the editor wouid
say.
"You make too much of it." he saiiT,
for how could he know what was in her
mind? "I am glad I was able to lie of
my assistance to you. It was a for
tunate thing that I happened to lie so
close liehind."
She did not think it. necessary to tell
him that but for that she would not have
fallen!
"I am wrry to say that I am leaving
the city this evening." the man went on,
"or I would venture to ask permission it
call on you."
"You are leaving this evening? I am
sorry, too."
But the dimples in her face liclied her
words.
A courtly liow. a word of adieu an 1
she was off like a bird. He watebed her
out of sight, and as he mounted his own
wheel it vapuely oi-eurred to him that
from a strained ankle, however slight,
she had recovered very completely.
Her little feet did swift work with
the liedals, it is true, but when she
reached home her pen traveled iilmnsi
more swiftly over sheet after sheet ot
paper, as she wrote with marvelous cor
rectness the opinions and remarks of
the man who had never lieen inter
viewed. Afler all. he found himself unable to
leave the city that evening, but the first
train next morning carried him away.
The lioys were calling the papers on the
station platform, and so a copy of the
Scrutator found its way into his valise.
When he looked at it his own name
caught his. eye. In lettering so big that
it is usually reserved for a presidential
eloetion or for the chances of a war with
Great Britain, to his own vast amaze
ment he saw:
"INTKHVIETVED AT LAST.
Mr. Chambcrton's Opinions on Cycling.
What He Thinks of Our City.
As he read, his look of exasrieration
gave place to a smile, for he was one of
those fortunate ones who can enjoy s
joke at their own expense, till finally he
burst- into a laugh so hearty that his
fellow passengers wished tliey could en
joy the joke with him.
"The little jade." he muttered; "if
ever I trust a woman again. I'll lie "
But the expression was so utterly un
like what one would expect from a
cf-lebrity that it had better remain un
recorded. N. O. Times-Democrat.
Caar Donn't Pay for Coronation.
The impression that the expenditure
in connection with the coronation at
Moscow was paid by the czar out of his
own jiocket is erroneous. Kvcry rouble
in the ioierial treasury is supposed to
lie at the absolute disposal of the czar
nd he draws Uion the treasury at dis
cretion. In addition, he is the owner of
large estates in different parts of Rus
sia and is well able to pay all the bills
.ncurred during- the coronation cere
monies if he felt so inclined. N. Y.
World.
t uuv Plant.
Tlie cultivation of the cassava plant
has lieen liegun in the United States.
It is a shrub from six to eight feet tall,
and bears large tuliers underground.
These are first heated to drive off ti e
poisonous hydrocyanic acid, and they
are then made into tapioca find dex
trine. It is said that the lat ter can Vie
more evsily manufactured from this
plant than" from corn. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
One million standard gold dollars
weigh 1 9-10 short tons, w hile the stand
ard silver dolkir weighs 2"J 3-7 short ton:
jier $1.0O0,(KO. One million dollars of
the silver ten-cent piece weigh :i9 5-
short tons; of the five-cent nickel,
110 1-5 short tons; of the one-cent
bronze piece, 312 6-7 short tons, ami of.
the "old corppor cent, 1,85 5-7 short
ton.
The general fineness of our silver
coins is from 89 to 90 per cent., except
the three-cent piece, which contained
5 per cent, of alloy.
The rarsre aad re!' iM elrrolatlea of tae
itii Funti e amende It t tae raveraala
oonflderatien of art emer wkeew UfanwlUie
innerted at the folic wing low rateas
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ltnrh,S month
1 lach. a kobUii -
1 Inch.! year ....m.m. J-JJ
X lnrhee, 6 month ..... ...... -
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a inj.v.M a mAnt)i . a.av
lnrhe. I Tear -. I-4
Si, rolnmn, month .
H column. 6 muDtaft
w. rear ,
1 column, month!., i i i zz ZZ
1 rolama.'l Tear hi Ta.a
Baelneef Items, flirt f rl iwa, Po
nbeqoeDt Insertions, ee. pe Use
Admlautrator'iaod ExaonVart JWXaaV.Ti
Auditor'! Notice "
Stray and (tmllar JSoUees -
-KeoiotKra or procaoar&e-s o4 amy fan-para
Uod or society and communloattons designed t
rail attention to any matter of Untied or tadl
Tidual Internet man be paid lor a adrertlFmaata.
bock and Job Pricttn of all kinds neatly aad
exealuiuiy flora tad at the loweoa pztoaa.
don'tyoa lorget It.
ANIMAL WAIFS.
A horse died at North Andover, Mass.,
the oilier day. ia w-boewe stomach, was
found over a jhhjimJ of nails,
Bamum's trick horses are fairly I t
cn by a team of old work horvs in
Wesley, Me., that the driver left maiid
ir.g in the. field for a moment, hitched
to a nunvver. Iu his aliscuoe they cut
two neat swath-, completely around
the. field, witJni:t missing a. sjar of
grass, turning the corners aecurat-eJy.
All efforts to trtw-e the cajiercalzie and
black game inipirtil in Aroostook, Mi-,
from old Sweden iast spring have proved
fruitless. Nw and t hen conies a rumor
that tlu y have luN-n s-een or lM-ard- They
hare; doubtless ret rvut-d to the deep
(.'aiiadi.m pine forests, and the lnne
fits of their iniHrtatiu will lw reajK-d
i.i future yifirs.
Few hunters have returned from the
wmuls with more satisfaction titan that
f It by Miss .lei. nie HIiot, of South Se
lnc. Me., who rccetitjy saw two deer
grazing in her f ai tier's mowing field,
and succeed. -d in getting an excel lent
photographic s-nap Jnt at tlieni. In
the picture one of the d-er is in t lie
Attitude of leapitii. all four of its K-ga
ln-intr off tlie ground.
A swirdfi.h strayed away from home
and friends a few days ago and lost his
life while exploring the old b.iin in
s'ule of the old breakwater at Block
Islaml. R. I. Whu his presence ls-ame
known half a dozen men. oee with a
harpoon, went on the breakwater, and.
w hen the fish f.s near the instrument
was thrown, with the desired result.
It is said that this i the first fish of
the. kind ever known to have been seen
in the liasin.
WRITERS OF VERSE AND PROSE.
Dr. Jameson Ls said to le occupying
his time in prison in compiling an ac
cmntof his connection w ith the Trans
vaal raid.
Another legacy of loO.Ooo francs has
lii-en left to the French academy, the in
come of which must I e awarded to au
tliors of moral w-orks.
Traineleft a lot of manuscript jatry,
now in the poss,--sim of M. lt" lleredia.
of the Frvnrh academy. wh.'ili justice
to the historian, wi!l allow no one to
n-svd it.
The prize of $vxi for tlie liest pirn to
In-, read at the oja-nintrof tlie centennial
eKiit.ioTi. of Tenucsxee. has lieen
awarded to Mrs. Yirginia Fraser Boyle,
of Memphis.
In fear, apparently, that his fame will
son pa sis away, some of Robert Louis
Stevenson's admirers are already tirir
ir.g tliat Lis fctatue lie set up in F-din-burirh.
Ilvnri RochcfortV autobiography hasi
iust Im-i-o completed in five volumes in
French. Tlie author is now at work on
the two-Vfil.ime I Jiglu-Jicdit inu. !.p-cial-Iv
edited by him :uid translated for
Ai;irlvS.ian readers.
The account by Dr. rvmaldson Smith,
the American trawler, of his recent ex
plorations in Africa, will lear the title
"Through Unknown African Co-ju-tries,"
and will U- profusely illustrated
from the author's own photographs.
STYLES IN HATS AND GOWNS.
A new waist has tlie yoke made of
narrow, close pi'fhug. The lower jior
tion of the waist has the effect of the
material Wing wound around the waist,
the end beinrr fastened with rosette
liows on one side of the front.
The sailor hat seeiirs never to go out
of style. It has been remarked, how
ever, that niany sailor hats are used for
bicycle, and yachting purjioses. Sailor
hats are also profusely trimmed with
riblions ami flowers and worn on
dressy occasions.
Poke lionnets arc assuredly coming
into fashion and some of the autumn
styles are extravagantly pretty. They
an made of rotitrh straw in dark colors,
and are trimmed with satin riblion and
plumes after the manner of tlwiseseen
in old picture s.
A novelty collar Ls of satin in two
colors. The out side is dark and elalior
ately braided; the inside is of some
light. In-coming tint. A very full r'iflle
is liox-plaited and stands up alout the
throat, the inside Wing of satin, the
ourtside covered with braiding.
A stylish waist has tlie collar and very
short jacket fronts made of close braid
ing. These fronts extend only to the
sleeves and underarm seams. The
sleeves are close fitting, with row ujMin
row of braiding. Over tlie close sleeves
are deep loops of the material, which is
gathered in at the tojis of the shoulders,
SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS.
, Argon has at last lieen com bind
with water by Prof. Villard, of the
Paris Koole Normale. It requires a
pressure of 20.0 aljiior-pheres to do so.
A method of nickeling wood has
lieen levifel by tlie German cliemist
LangWin, the wood Wing covered by
a thin coating of metal by erither dry or
wet process.
Prof. Norton, of the Massachusetts In
st it ute of Technology, has succeeded in
gvttinfT Roentgen photograpris of the
liver, heart and lungs sufficiently plain
to admit of imilical examination.
A French chemist lias made a blue
soap w hich will render unnecessary the
bluing- in tlie laundry. In ordinary
soap he incorjoratc a solution of anilin
green in strong acetic acid. The alkali
of the 6oap converts the preen into
blue.
FROM GAY PARIS.
Tart of the Boulevard de Yaugimrd
in l'aris has Wen rjecbristened Boule
vard Vasteur.
. Next year is the centennial of the
tore-pipe hat, which first came into
common use in Paris in 1797.
Horseless carriage are admitted to
all the privileges of the ordinary Palis
fiacre by a recent decision of the prefect
of the Seine.
l'aris swells are wearing the Mores
hat this fall. It is a broad -brimmed
gray felt, such as the marquis wore
w hen he wns killed by the Tuarvgs.
Leprosy In Iceland.
There are lepers in Iceland about
200 in all. Now an enthu.Mastic priest
has determined to follow heroic Father
Damien's example to devote himself
wholly to the care of the unfortunates.
Already he has raised 10.000 francs and
is promised enough more to assure
the early erection of a comfortable
hospital. .
--no umKRAT.f.V.
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