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What Do Yon Eat? Electric Liglt Flour Has Long Been a Favorite. The mill has Jest been '.remodeled, and the Flour la better than ever. IF YOTJ UKE GOOD BREAD GIVE IT A TRIAL. Electrie Light Floor is made by WORK Sc CO. only, but 80LD BT ALL GROCERS. lion Boiler lis; EMOCR P. O. WOOD. ... Proprietor, " SATISFACTION" FLQUB! Every Mack Warranted. Am) j . , ALL KINDS of MILL FEED AT LOWEST PRICES. Vol. 25, No. 52. RAVENNA, O., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1893. Whole No. 1299. MT1 ? ATE PKESSo Capital, $ioo,ooo. Surplus, $20,000. IKST mTIONAX ANK OF SA VENNA. OHIO, Chas. Merts President. H. L. Hine, Vice Pres't. R. B. Carnahan, Cashier DIRECTORS , f'" Chas. Merts, H. Ii. Hine, H. W. Riddle, CVS. Leonard, Orrin Stevens. YOURUSINES IS SOLICITED. Second Rational Hank, or RAVENNA, OHIO. Capital Paid Up, $150,000 In U.S. Bonds. U. S. Bomsof all kinds bought and sold, and exchanged at cur rent market rates. U. S. Coupon Four per Cent Bonds on hand for immediate delivery. " G. F. Robinson, President. C. A. Reed, Vice Pres't. " Wm. H. Beebe, Cashier. F. H. Carnahan, Teller. Business Cards. JOHN PORTER, Attorney and Counsellor at Li ' 1LACKSTONI BLOCK. BAVBHKA, O. TO I.OAN. Money to loan on Farm Prop erty JOHN PORTER, ISTi-ly "' Rayenna.O. C. H. GRI FIN, E-N T I S T.- Odice over .First National Bank. Office hours from 8 a. m. to S p. m. D H. H. BPIER8, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office In Blacketone block. Office open at all hours. J. H. DU88EL, t A TTOBBEV AT I.A W, and NOTABT Public. Counsel in English and German, pension business and toreign correspondence solicited. Agency for reliable Steamship lines Office over Flath's Clothing Store. Ravenna. O J. H. NICHOLS. Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Office in Phenlx Block.over Second National Bank, Kavenna, Ohio. S. F, HANSELMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, Office in the Court House. (1068) Kavenna. O. I. T. SIDDALL, Attorney a.t taw. Office in PhenU Block, Ravbnba, 0 T TXT ' TTnT.f10"M"R ATTORNEY AT LAW- . Telephone No. 58. Room 13.Riddle Block Ravenna. Ohio. UlS-ly I. H. PHELPS, ATTORNEY AT LAW (1271) Office in Swift Block, Ravenna, O. HARRY L. BEATTY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. NOTARY PUBLIC. Office, Boom IP, Riddle Block, lUS-ly Ravenna, Ohio. EOR SALE -OB- Exchange. GOODRESIDENCE PROPERTY in Ravenna for Bale, or will exchange for small Farm. B. F.BOOSINGER. Will continue to pay the highest market price for WHEAT AND OATS, and will have for sale a full line of Mill Feed. Also, Baled Hay and 8traw. Goods delivered free of. charge in Corporation. Telephone No. S, Tex American cbrbal Co. . Wejare Headquarters;for Best Hard Coal! See us.berore.buyinK. MORGAN ft SON. MOETCE You mav not know the mm, the results. Everybody wants money just when nobody seems to have any. We found this true with manufacturers of Buggiesthe past month. They had the work and desired an offer. WHO Was the cry. can be found, Prices Unheard of in Northern Ohio. We are not talking . , . - aSSlgnea. QGOCK SLOreU 1H one who can use anything Surries. Folding or Stationary Seat. Buggies, Road Wagons, Express Wagons, Carts, Farm Implements, Etc. Will make extremely low prices on Fly Nets and Summer Goods. Great'S urprisel ! . To Everybody! 555 Pairs of the Celebrated Champion Overalls Come Ml B. HESKINS Manager. Risdon & GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, Everything within bounds, and everything trim Clean Goods. JVeatness. Promptness. Prices AT THE BOTTOM. full meaning of a tight money market, but you know HAS MONEY? We made offers and now have our warerooms full of as fine work as During August Will Make to "blow," but we, too, must turn the work for reasons. ' j ,i nrr ,i : i j . l : OUI Wtueiuuma uuco Liu gwu. in our line, such as converted and are any shop and wholesale trade Come find the interesting. Yours for Business, T. F. ill Get a Pi. Taylor, Table Delicacies ON THE SIDE. FAMILY SUPPLIES Kavenna, O TIGHTS d ucbud uu luuoioou au.y You may not know it, but we have the second floor of our store building into A Young Harness Factory employing more men than in the county, making Fine Hand Work a Specialty, tor both retai in and see us and you wil second chapter decidedly more THOMPSON The Baker and Undertaker. Within a block of houses, our town's pride. That fronts upon a growing business street. Are stores well fitted up, ornate and neat. With signs outside desiring buyers to guide. One store was filled and honored by a baker. With a fine show of cake and bread baked brown ; Next door to hlm.the fanciest front in town. Was the fine outfit of an undertaker. For want of trade, and seeking better clover. They moved their business both to other quartern. For the convenience of sons and daughters. People who eat, or those whose eating is over. On being questioned why they moved away. The baker said: "Few persons now lived there." The undertaker said with looks of care: "That not a death bad he in many a'dny." Edward S. Creamer in N. Y. Sun. JUST IN TIME. She followed him all day long like a little dog. If he ran, she'ran, fell and scrubbed her knees, cried and was lifted up again. Thus it went on from the week's beginning to its end. He grew tired of her, and would have liked to run away from her. But he did not dare, for she was his mas ter's daughter.and he was well, there was the rub he did not know who he was. Be woke up one day and found him self born. The sky was above him, and there would have been earth be neath his feet if he had not pointed them in the wrong direction. He was christened in a random way Ola, and was put on the parish, as they say. ' Jeus Oestruo took him as his share of the parish burdens. When he was 6 years old he could be made useful enough .to earn his food and shelter. Jeus Oestruo then wanted to send him away, but his little daughter Birgit was so fond of him that he decided to keep him. When Ola was 12 years old he could kick a cap from a nail high above his head. Birgit was so fond of Ola that everything he did seemed admirable. Once she said a bad word and Ola was whipped for it. So Ola was sent to the mountains; he roamed with his alpine horn over the wide mountain plains, ate berries, caught fish, set traps, and was happy. He hardly thought once of the little girl down in the valley. One day late in the summer she came up to the dairy with her mother. She was carried up on horseback sin a basket. When she saw him she flung herself down upon the grass and 6creamed with delight. But when her mother had reached the hut she ran up to him and hugged l, : ix7i,:i i. iTT milked he went to look after his things. She followed him, proud in the thought that he tolerated her. "Look here," he cried, lifting up a brownhare, "isn't that a big fellow?" "WHat is it?" she asked. "It is a hare." "No, it isn't a hare. A hare is It changes white." "It is brown in summer. its skin." "Has he two skins, one inside the other?" Instead of answering; he took his knife and cut the hare's skin. No," he said, "he hasn't got more'n one. The time came when he had to go to the parson to prepare for confirmation. It so happened that she went the same year. But, though he had a coat now, it was a cast-off one of Jeus Oestruo's, which was much too big for him. His boots, too, and his trousers had seen better days before they had made his acquaintance. He walked aside from the rest; his ears burned when any one looked at him. But if any one dared to mock him he Hsed a pair of fists which in- pired respect. He was a handsome enough lad, and finely made, but his clothes and his frowsy hair made him look ugly. Heavy thoughts came to him, and a fierce, defiant spirit was kindled with in him. It was at such a time that Birgit sought him and spoke kindly to him. "You mustn't mind the girls," sue said; ?thoy laugh at everything. They don't mean anything by it. It s just a way they have." "somebody will come to harm it you ever do it," he answered fiercely. "That is foolish talk, she gently re monstrated. "I know you too well, Ola. You wouldn't harm me." Ah, you don't .understand me," he aid. "It is no use talking." "Oh, yes, I do understand you.Ola," she replied, with a smile, "and I wish you would let me say one thing to you before 1 go. "Say it." "I wish I wish," " she stammered, while a quick blush sprang to her cheeks. "No, I think I won't say it, after all," she finished, and turned to go. Yes, say it," ho entreated, seizing her hand. "Well, I I wish you could do as the hare, change your skin hue drew her band away from his and ran down the hillside, so that the stones and dry leaves flew about her. I hat night he picked a quarret with Thorger Sletten.who was said to be at tentive to Birgit.and he thrashed him. All the following winter he kept watch of her from afar, and nicked quarrels with everybody whom she seemed to favor. Change my skin," he pondered, "Change my skin, like the hare. How, oh, how can I do it?" This thought followed him day and night. One day, in the spring, emigrant ship bound for Amerioa ap peared at the mouth of the river. Ula packed together his lew traps and went up to Oestruo's to say good bye. He met Birgit in the birch grove behind the barn. It was the time when the buds were bursting and the swal lows had just returned. "Well, where are you goingr sue asked, as she saw him coming with bundle and staff in hand. "To America." "America!" she cried. "America!" The answer seemed to frighten her She turned pale and caught hold of a birch tree for support. He watched her narrowly. "What are you going to do in Atact ica, Ola?" she asked softly. "Change my skin," he replied with a vigor that startled her. "And if come back within five years with changed skin will you promise to wait for nier" "I promise, she whispered, weep- mg quietly upon his shoulder. Five years from that day a young man was seen hastening up the hill side to Oestruo. He had a big slouch hat on his head and he was well dressed. His face was strong, square, and determined, his eyes danced with joy, for in his pocket he had a royal marriage license with which he meant to surprise somebody up at Oestruo's farm. It was five years to-day since he left her, and it was five years she had promised to wait for him. For this hour he had toiled, saved, and suffered for five long, weary years. He had been a silver miner in Lead ville when the place was vet new, and he had sold his claim for $50,000. As he was hurrying along an old woman, who was sitting by the road- side, hailed him. "Gentlefolks out walking to-day? he said, holding out her hand for penny. "Gentlefolks?" he cried, with a hap py laugh. "Why, Uurid, I'm Ola, who used to herd cattle at Oestruo's dairy." "You, Ola! who was on the parish? Then you must have changed your SKin." "That was what I went to America for," he answered, laughing. The church lay half way up the hillside. There Ola sat'down to rest, for he had walked far and was tired. Presenly he heard music up under the ledge of the forest; there was one clarionet and several fiddles. . A bridal party! Yes, there was the bride, with a silver crown upon her head and shining brooches upon her bosom. The procession came nearer. Now the master of the ceremonies opened the church doors wide and went to meet the bride and groom. Ola sat still like a rock, but a strange numbness came over him. As the party drew near to the gate of the churchyard he arose and stood, tall and grave, in the middle of the road. Then came Birgit Oestruo and Thorger Sletten. She looked pale and sad, defiant. "You didn't expect me to yonr wed ding, Birgit Oestruo?" he said, and stared hard at her. She gave a scream; the crown fell from her head; she rusuea forward and flung her arms about his neck. "Now come," he cried, "whoever dares, and I'll make a merry bridal." Jeus Oestruo stepped forward and spoke. His voice shook with wrath and his veins swelled upon his brow. -nere 1 am," he said. "If vou want the girl you shall fight for her." "Not with vou, old man." retorted Ola; "but with Thorger I'll fight. Let him come forward." The bridal guests made a ring on the green and the bridegroom came slowly forward. "Hard luck," he said, "to have to fight for your bride on your wedding aay. i iff ht? Bircit.who in her hanninesa had been blind and deaf, woke up with a start. She unwound her arms from Ola's neck and stepped up between the two men. "Oh, do not fight, do not fight!" she entreated, holding out her hands first to one claimant and then to the other. "You know father, for whom I have waited for these five years. You know whom I have loved since I was a child. But you used force against me and threats. Now he has come back., I am no longer afraid of you." "Whoever will be my wedding guest let him follow," shouted Ola, "for I have in my hand a royal license to be married to Birgit, Jeus Oestruo's daughter." "All that money can buy vou shall have," he added. "I'll make a wed ding the fame of which shall be heard in seven parishes around." He took the bride's arm and marched boldly into the church. The wedding guests looked at Jeus Oestruo, who was venting his wrath upon the groom. "ion coward," he yelled; "you let the girl be snatched away before your very nose. I am glad enough to be rid ol such a son-in-law. Come, folks; we'll I have our wedding yet. A girl belongs to him who can catch her." With a wrathful snort he stalked in through the open church door, and the wedding guests slowly followed. Boston Globe. SECRETARY HERBERTS WAR STORY. One Toanft Hero Who Wore the Bio and Another Who Wore the Gray. I never saw more glorious conduct than that displayed in these two in stances, by two youths in their teens, one wearing the blue and the other the ray. The first was in the second ay's fight. My regiment had charged right up among the guns of a Union battery, whose men and horses had nearly all been killed. There was one gun to which four horses had been at tached. The two rear horses had been shot down in harness. The two lead ers were apparently unhurt and on one of them sat a lad, head erect, vigorously plying his whip on the other horse and striving to save his gun. He was devoting his whole soul to that purpose, utterly unmindful of our men. who were surging about him. He was literally like the Casabianca of the flaming deck. 1 could have touched him with my sword, and was just about to beg him to surrender when shots rang out from behind me and he dropped from his horse, dead as he fell. He might have saved himself, but he seemed determined to save that gun or die. It was sublime, but I ca never think of it without a shudder at the horrors of the sacrifices of that war. The other instance was on the third day, in the height of a terrific artillery duel that was preliminary to the great charge. Our men were in line await insr the word to advance. In front of us, riding deliberately up and down the line, was a handsome youth in gray, mounted on a fleet-looking iron gray horse and bearing a bright, new battle flag, whose stars and bars shimmered in the sunlight. The boy sat erect, looking as proud as any Rupert and his horse as spirited as an Arabian. Th.e flying bullets and shrieking shells never fazed his superb bearing as he rode to and fro up and down the long line. Now and then he would dis appear in thick clouds'of powder smoke, but he would be seen again riding back, his face actually beaming with what O'Hare calls "the ardor of the fi?ht." Before the word came to move he had gone again down the line and had not returned. I never knew whether he was killed or not, but I thought in voluntarily of how that .Yankee boy had died the day before. These were indelible pictures caught in the gleam of light in shifting battle smoke, and have always been to me anything but counterfeit presentments of Northern and Southern courage. Washington Post. Bald Heads. It is maintained by a physician who has studied the subject that plenty of hair on the head means plenty . of brains: that the hair is a sure index of one's mental staving power. "I al ways look on a bald-headed man," he says, "as dencient.not oniy in nair dui in actual brain power. You know each hair is connected with the brain bv a tiny nerve and the loss of all these nerves means loss of powers. Iu deed, though the effects may not be at first so apparent, a man may as well lose his hand or his foot as his hair. you doubt this, the next time you hear of a man who has all his life been clear-headed and practical suddenly doing some foolish and inexplicable thing or breaking down in a crisis which demands all his energies, ust look at his head. In nine times out of ten he is bald. Half the men who drop dead suddenly are bald. In al most every case, however, there is hope of cure for baldness if the head be reffularlv submitted to a gentle 'scratching' and occasionally to thorough dosing of a suitable stimulat ing soap." Gamine in Rome. A correspondent of the N. Y. Trib une says that the street boys of Some have all the curiosity, shrewdness and m pud e nee of street bovs in general. together with some traits peculiar to themselves. They have a sharp eye for foreigners and have developed no little skill in extracting coins from them. The Tribune's letter-writer says: "I got "into a dispute with a cabman because he demanded atip in addition to his regular fare. While we were talking a little fellow of 6 or 7 years stepped up and said, in a pa- ternal, assuring tone: 'Sixty centimes is enough, sir. The rascal is very impudent. Don't srive him any more." in tne same breath he asked me for a syldo for the service rendered. I handed him a coin, laughing at his grand airs, and he received it with a condescending gesture. Then, as the driver reached for his whip, the boy made off, saying, "I'll see you later." I walked on and presently another urchin was at my side. "les, signor, you are ouite rieht: this is the road to the Vatican. Give me a soldo." I drove him off but in a few minutes another came bounding up. mt iora; my lord! you are losing your handkerchief." That was another soldo. Next a bootblack, hardly more than years old, caught sight of the for eigner. "Your boots, sir! your boots!" he shouted. I tried to ignore him. He appealed to my self-respect. "But, my lord, such boots!" he ex claimed, as he trotted along at my side. "O Dio mio! What nasty boots! O Santo Madre di Dio! What boots! I really pity you, sir. Indeed! such boots! In fato! I am sorry for vou." All this was uttered in a tone of pro found moral conviction, as if he cher ished for me the most disinterested feeling of regret and sympathy. But when the appeal failed "he dropped be hind me a few steps and changed his tune. Just look at that American! One can always tell an American bv his dirty boots!" - That was too much for me. Rather than bring disgrace on my native land I gave the little imp the iob he was after. A Moral to This. A woman's chauce to marrv at from 15 to 20 years of age is said to be 14 1-2 per cent. From 20 to 25. the chance s increased to 52 per cent. : from 25 to 30 it diminishes to 18: from 80 to 85, to 15 1-2 per cent From 85 to 40, the chances of an unmarried woman sink to 8 3-4 per cent.: from 40 to 45. a still further diminution is seen, her chance being but 2 1-2. From 45 to 60, the old maid's chance of getting a husband is but 3-8 of 1 per cent., while from 50 to 55 she is supposed to have but 1-4 of 1 per cent, of a chance. It should, however, be added that the table of averages does not apply to widows. Accurate statisticians affirm that a widow of any age has at least 76-spinster drawing power, and some place her figure up to 82. The wid ow's chances at any age are, therefore, 76 to 82 times better than those of a spinster. GOOD APPEARANCE IN PHOTOCRAPHS Tricks by Which Plain People. Can Be Mad to Appear Beautiful. Some of our girls are learning how to be photographed beautifully and trickily, says the Boston Herald. Have you observed -and wondered. said a camera man, "how well actresses manage to look when the eye of the camera is focused upon them? Well, can tell you how to do as well as they do. First, choose an artistic photog rapher. No matter how much you know about what you want and what to wear, there are matters ot view.and ight and shade, for which you must depend absolutely upon him, but he will not advise you how to make up yonr face and will probably object sweepmgly to any such device, mat is where he is mistaken. If he were wise he would know how to pose a girl, and then, with a bit of white and a bit of black chalk, make her lovely for that view. Several photographers do this now. "The stock pose into which photog raphers on general principles put vic tims over whom they don't intend to bother is three-quarters, which is an abomination to most faces. There is small chance of expression. The eye gets no show at all, and the contour of the cheek, which is seldom beautiful except in children, is betrayed, ion will hnd they have a rooted objection to full-face positions. 1 have never been able to discover whv. There is a tendency to raise one eyebrow higher than the other, or to look cross-eyed. but it is his business to look out for that and stop you if your features be gin to wander round your face. "flow, in painting a lace ior puotog- raphy the eyes can safely be made up great deal, .rut black unaer tne eye, only don't let it oe just one neavy black line. Shadow it out soitiy. Blacken the lashes as much as they will stand, only don't let them be lumpy, increase the apparent length and sweep ot tne upper nci, oy wnicn the size of the eye is judged, with a line continuing the line of the lashes and a parallel one continuing the line of the crease that shows just above when the eye is open. Draw these only as long as can be done without their showing as lines. An actress oo tained a clever picture, in which the effect of verv long lasues is given oy lines, presumably shadows thrown by said lashes, painted above the eye.just under the eyebrows. Use red very carefully. Your lips probably need painting into an improvement on their own shape. Do it somv. and witn very faint red. Red takes black. Look carefully and you will trace a hard line above the lips of many actresses' photographs. Sometimes you don't need to look carefully. If you want a dimole to show specially you can heighten its light aud shade a little, but unless your photographer poses you so that the device does not betray itself the effect will be a failure. Hav ing accentuated your face, don't dis turb its arrangement by a smile, or smirk, or any other grimace of expres sion when the lens is opened on you. Otherwise art and nature will make a hopeless mass of your features, but ii you have planned an expression in harmony with the make-up save it till the last moment. The operator is bound to grip the back of your neck with his monkey wrench, and if you hantr on to vour iovful smile all through that ordeal you will get some thing demoniac and wild to send to your friends." Careful. Physician (at wounded fireman's bedside) He is not seriously injured a few contusions on the scalp. It seems to me that the heavy helmet Jae wore ought to have given better pro tection. Doolev (not long over) Oi tuk th nilmit aff me hid" whin Oi saw th bhricks comin' down, fur Oi fought it 'ud be a cryin' shame t' shpoil a noice new hot loike that. Judge. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report TALE OF THE POPHAMS. In Which Mr. Pophaua Takes a Day OS to Fix Things Up. Mr. Popham How didyour shop ping expedition to the city work, Dolly? I've been improving the time while you were gone just as I said I should when I could take a day off. .Mrs. Popham Yes,I have seen what you have been doing. ; Mr. Popham The place looks a good deal better. I weeded your flower bed for you. Mrs. Popham I have been looking at it. Thank you, dear. Don't think me ungrateful, but I can't help wish ing you had pulled up the weeds in stead of the flowers. Mr. Popham What flowers did I pull up? Mrs. Popham All the seedlings I put out yesterday. Mr. Popham Did you notice that I transplanted those great honeysuckle and trumpet vines? I want them, to grow over the fronA piazza. We need the shade there. Mrs. Pophanf But you dug them up while the sun was -on them. And you didn't water them'. They will die, Percy. Mr. Popham Die? I'd like to see 'em die. Didn't 1 break my back in two getting them up? They had miles and miles of roots. I guess they'd bet ter grow. It's preposterous to talk like that, Dolly. My coat's split from tugging at them, and just look at my knuckles; they're everyone swollen as big as watermelons. Mrs. Popham I am sorry about that coat, Percy. Mr. Popham You noticed, I sup- fose, how beautifully I wet down the awn with the garden hose? There's a terrible lot of force to the thing. Sometimes it almost got away from me. Mrs. Popham I know it did. I've been in the drawing-room. Mr. Popham Oh, yes, I forgot. It flew in one of those windows for about half a minute. No damage done, I hope. Mr3. Popham You should see the remains. Mr. Popham That is a shame; but, anyway, the lawn's sprinkled. And I want to tell you what fun I had with the cow There's no place like the country for quiet, homelike enjoy ment, is there, nowP Why Dolly.cows will at and eat as long as you feed them. I just tried to see how much ours would make way with to-day. Mrs. Popham Michael says you did. She baa colic, now. He doesn't think she'll live the night. Mr. Popham Not live the ni"ht out? Why, that cow's an Alderney. She cost $90. Mrs. Popham I wish you hadn't fed her so many kinds of things. Mr. fopliam L declare, I call it pretty rough; when a fellow's taken a day off from business to have a little fun, and make himself useful about the place, to have his wife find fault this way with every single thing he's done. Mrs. Popham Is it any rougher than when a woman has had to go to the city for a day's tiresome shopping, and comes home fagged out, to find that every single thing you've done deserves to be found fault with? N. Y. Recorder. Entering Russia. I left Stockholm on February 24. In Berlin I was informed that the Slavophil press in Russia had expressed its disapproval or assistance trom tier- many, and my iriencis -ciouuieu it j. would be permitted to visit the famine- stricken villages. Thus with rather loomy prospects I left Berlin on the night train for Warsaw. At the border station of Alexandrovo, next morning, Russian officials searched our luggage. traveled second class. On boarding the Russian train I observed that the passports were returned to my fellow passengers but net to me, which caused me some anxiety, finally a gendarme came in and handed me my passport. After a few minutes the same gendarme came again, accompanied by the conductor, and said to "me in a commanding tone, "Vash passport!" ("Your passport!") I answered as politely as possible that my passport had already been examined and stamped, and asked why he wanted it a second time. Stepping up to me.the irnnHflrmn rnnrfid nut as if he were 3rilling a fresh recruit from the village: "Eto nashe dielo! Vash passport!" That 's our business! Your pass port! ) I produced it without further remark. Mv fellow-passengers looked at me, as it seemed, with suspicion. and mv own feelings reminded me of the words of a Russian nobleman to me on a former visit, "Russia is a trio-antic prison, where honest men must submit to be treated as crim inals." Two years previously I had written a book on the religious move ment in Russia, which had been for bidden by the Russian censor.but I did not think my name could be on the list of suspicious or dangerous for eigners. After about an hour the con ductor handed me my passport. On examining it I could not discover that anything had been done to it beyond writing mv name in Russian on it. An old German eentleman, who had ob served my auxiety.said to me in a low and paternal tone, "In Russia you must never ask questions nor make objections, nor worry yourself, but ouietlv submit, and leave everything to God." Jonas siaaunq, tn me cen tury. Blasts from the "Ram's Horn." A lie in the heart is no whiter than it is in the horse trade. The surest wav to make a bad man is to tell him the truth about himself. When you shake hands with a new convert don't do it with the tips of your fingers. There are men who have a creed rod .loner who do business with a short yardstick. It is doubtful if one man in a hun dred goes to church praying for preaching that will bit him. The reason some people treat God worse than they do their neighbors because they think it is safer. Give some people the power to move mountains and how soon they would ruin the farm's of their neighbors. The man who looks at his wife at though the moon were about to turn to blood whenever sue asks mm ior con nle of dollars is not likely to be come very eloquent in prayer family altar. Hani's Horn. at his The peach trees in the United States cover over ou,uou acres. OF TEXAS. " It a Acre to Kvery Family of Five on Earth. ' Texas, the largest of the United States, has an area of 262,290 square miles, says the Memphis Appeal Avalanche. To the casual reader these figures may seem very little; they show, however.that the'lone a tar' state is more than fifty-four times as large as the State of Connecticut. If it were possible to run a railroad train from Connecticut to Texas and back in a day, and ii the train could take the en tire population of the nutmeg state as given in the last census at every ; trip, and upon its return to Connecticut there should be as many , persons in the state as there were before the train left with its cargo, and if each were E laced upon an acre of ' ground upon is arrival in Texas, the train would be obliged to make 224 trips, or to de populate Connecticut 224 times, before accomplishing its mission, and then there would remain in Texas 703,808 empty acres. If the entire State of . Texas were planted with corn and the hills were two feet apart and the rows were three feet apart, and if every man, woman and child in the State of Connecticut were set to work in the field to hoe the corn and each person were able to and did hoe two' hills in five minutes, it would take this army of laborers seven years 280 days and seven hours to hoe every hill of corn in the state.laboring continuously day and night 365 days each year. The man who fears . that he could not elbow his way around in the crowded west without chafing the nap of his coat sleeves ' may gather some solace from the statement that the entire population of the globe, 1,400,000,000 souls, divided into fami lies of five persons each, could be locat ed in Texas, each family with a house on a half-acre lot, t and there would still remain 50.000.000 vacant faruilv lots. An "Office Cat" Worth Having. A parsonage cat, whose favorite seat is on the study table, has found a new : use for himself. He - watches - his master's pen, and occasionally, when ' the writer is tired, takes the holder in his mouth. But his real usefulness is to act as a paper-weight When a sheet is finished and laid aside the cat walks gravely to it and takes his seat on the paper. As soon as another is laid aside he leaves the first and sits " down on the second. Sometimes, to try him, his master lays down, on dif ferent parts of the table, sheets in rapid succession. But Powhatan the eat remains seated, shrewdly suppos ing that to be fun, not business. When work begins anew the cat seats him. self on the last paper laid down and waits for another. J. bus he shows -that he watches his master's work and perhaps thinks it his duty to keep' the paper from blowing away. SL Nicholas. Color Arrangements. It is desirable in fitting ud a room for showing light colors to arrange it so that six backgrounds are available according to the requirements of the case, for example: Light yellows, the mutual opposite is dark purple maroon. Light red, pinks, the mutual oppo site is dark green olive. Light blue, the mutual opposite is dark orange brown. Light oranges, the mutual opposite is dark blue slate. Light purple, the mutual opposite is dark yellow citrine. Light greens, the mutual opposite is dark red russet Decorator and JFur nislier. A Puzzle Indeed. Mathematical puzzles are generally very far from interesting but there is one which would puzzle old "Algebra" Davie s to explain. It is this: Open a book at random and select a word within the first ten lines and less than the tenth word trom the end oi the line. Now double the number of the page and multiply the number by five; - then add twenty; then add the num ber of the line selected; then add five, then multiply the sum by ten and add the number of the word in the line. When this has been done, substract 250 and the remainder in the unit column will indicate the number of the word in the tenth column the num ber of the line and remaining figures the number of the page. The result is infallible but that is not strange. The curious thing about it is, how is the result obtained? An Argument for . College Sports. There is a story of a party contain ing two ministers crossing a lake in a storm. When matters became mosj critical, some one cried out, "Xhe two ministers must prayr "Na, na," said the boatman: "the little ane can pray if he like.but the big ane maun tak an oar." Outside of emergencies there is much to be said in favor of brawn, and fortunately it is no longer necessary to argue that brains are better wnen there is brawn behind them, while, on the other hand, the time has already come wucu must, n uu ocicit uicim have little use for brawn without brains. So they supplement each other more and more. The college man, caricatured for years as a con sumptive.then as a big brute.ls to-day neither. The type is approaching more nearly to that of soundness ot body and mind. Twenty years ago a father ex horted his son to 6tudy hard and stand high; now the anxiety is that the student should not fail to take plenty of exercise. The strongest argument in favor of school and college sports is the one ad vanced by Nature herself. She develops the body before the mind. A man reaches the prime of physical power years before the maximum of his mental strength is attained. The best, systems, backed by the best ex ponent of the times, have failed to make physical development popular among nien whose college days and days of youth were over, who were in the struggle of their life's work. It then takes too much out of the man to build up his physique. He has not the time. If he h:is done the building years before, i-xercise will prevent re trogression. Youth is the time for physical development, the time to ex pand the chest and increase the biceps, to take the larger proportion of bodily exercise; then iu maturity the propor tion should change to a mental exer cise with the other for relaxation. Walter Camp, in the Century. VAST t EXTENT Could Give Half