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KISSING AND SWEARING. Sir Edwin Arnold's back again And has a fund of stories Concerning life In far Japan, That land of mellow glories. And ’niongst a thousand other tales Upon the subject bearing, lie says the Japs are little versed In kissing and in swearing. That settles t for meat least; I couldn't bear a people W ho and ask a man to perch himself Or. such a moral steeple. Shades of our Viking sires, renowned For ripping and for tearing: How could a Briton live a year Nor vent himself by swearing? I’m not profane myself: in fact. The habit’s wicked, very; But things sometimes occur that strain A mild vocabulary. And when a!) nature seems to show Perverseness overbearing How easy ‘tis to clear the air With thuaderbursts of swearing! And as for kissing—-girls should be So sweet you can't resist 'em; if tea-chest damsels were like ours Some fellow would have kissed 'em. The rose was made for man's delight, Else would its .-cent be missing, And maidens’ lips would tasteless lie Were they not planned for kissing. Then let Sir Edwin Arnold in His eastern pleasures revel, Our customs better fit the man Whose head and heart, are level. We’ve heard to much of foreign ways, I'm serious when I thus sing, This country's good enough for me Where kissing goes-and cussing. IN WINNIFIIEI>’B WARI>* Eleanor Roosevelt was out of sorts. “Everything it so monotonous,” she said to herself over and over again. It rained, and she could not take her usual afternoon drive on the avenue, but that troubled her j little. The driving was as monotonous as | all the rest of existence. It was some-j thing of a change even to stay indoors at ] that hour of the day, but there was noth- j ing in the bouse to interest her. From | the window she sauntered to toe piano, j and seating herself, struck listlessly a few I chorus. Gradually a less wearied look j came over the young face, and she began | to play in earnest, grand music at first, thrilling through the great room, then the air.s of some old ballads, closing with a cheery song which she ended abruptly in the middle of a ’oar. She rose from the piano and turned to the mantle. “Only four o’clock,” she said, with something like a groan. “I never saw such a day! There’ll never he an end to it!” Suddenly a thought seem ed to strike her. She crossed the room in the rear of the great house. As she ap proached she heard the sound of singing, flow sweet and clear it was. And the word; the words were those of the old ballad he had so suddenly ceased play ing— “ Ali, don’t be sorrowful, darling. And dout’t be sorrowful, pray; For, taking the year together, my dear, There isn't more night than day.' 1 She entered the room as the song ceas'-d. “Why, Ellen, 1 never knew you had such a voice. I never heard you sing before.” “it was your playing started me, MPa Roosevelt. But I'm -o happy to-day.” “Happy!” The young mistress of the great, grand house repeated the word with a strange intonation, as if it were a new one to her. “Happy! ’ she said, for the second time, brushing aside a great fcoip of silk and lace from a broad, low tab'*-, ands Ring her ell oa one end of it. “Well, I’m wretched, miserable! Such a day- pouring from morning till night, and nothing new to read or —1 thought I’d come up and try on some of the diessci again,—anything to kill time, and—what makes you happy!“ she in quired, with u quick change of tone. “My a: ter was taken to tue bespita! this morning,” the young seamstress replied smiling. *, Wh.it!” gasped Miss Roosevelt. “Hospital! Your sister!” “The doctors decided three months ago that there was no help for her, but it was only last week that 1 had any hope of getting her into such a place—a place where she will be so splendidly taken tare of, where’she will have every comfort, and where I can go and ,-ee her every day!” “Tell me all about it.” Miss Roosevelt pushed farthe p away from her the shining pile of silk, bending eagerly toward her companion. It is a simple story and took bat a short time iu the telling. Winnifre 1 Austin was one year younger than her sister. Early orphaned, they had struggled through girl hood and into young womanhood together, by the hardest sort of hard labor at the sewing machine, until a spinal diseas, had developed with the younger one, making her a. cnapple for life. “But the hospital for incurables —do you know anything about the hospital, Miss Roosivelt? Avery ricir woman left the money to build it with,” Miss Roosevelt shook her head. She knew nothing of hospitals, no more than she knew of prisons, and public courts, and other horrors with which she had al ways associated them. “It * such a pleasant place, in Winnie’s ward. The ladies of St. Mary’s Mission, when ve went to Sunday school, arranged so that she could go there They gave her a sunny corner too —such a blessing— and we’re so thankful! Why, we’re happy! Her deft fingers busily plaited narrow folds in the silk as she talked on with an ani mated n; inner and radiant face. Miss Ho sevelt sat still and watched her. This was a revelation. Why had she never before thought of this girl ?s a human be ing? She had realized that she was a tine seamstress; her work was faultless, as was also the work of the sewing machine stand ing near by her. Sae had bar ly s- pirated them in her thogbt, Yet this girl had been com.ng to the great granite mansion ’ every day for weeks to sew for her; always with a placid free and cheery manner and rapiu fingers, and yet with all tin, poverty ! and deprivation, with all the pain and the hopelessness or her hamo'.e home waiting every night after her day’s work was done —tins poor sewing girl happy because her only sister was in a hospital and the -ua shone in her corner of the ward! A pang struck through her heart like the oirththroe of something terribly string and great. “Can you see your sister to-aay?” she asked, suddenly. “Oh. yes, that’s the best part of it. 1 can see her ev ry day after work is over.” Miss Roosevelt rose suddenly and pulled the bell rope. “Put a wax all this stuff.” she said impulsively, taking the workout of Miss Austin's bands. “Get your hat on. I want to see your sister. Tell James to have the coupe at the door “just as quick a* he possibly can,” she said to the maid who appeared in answer to her sum mons. Miss Austin hesitated. “But such a storm. Miss Roosevelt! ou never go out in such a rain as thi>! “It’s high time 1 did then.” Miss K ose velt responded with another pang, us she became conscious of the fact that the young sewing girl had come and gone, unheeded, many times in just nch pouring rain and not in a carriage either. The drive was not a long one, the hos pital which sheltered so much helplessness and suffering being but a few blocks from the R >osevelt house, which for generations bad been the abode of elegance and abundance. Wiunifred’s ward was not sunny to day, unless one could designate as “sunshine in a shady place” the smile which lighted the sick girl’s face at sight of her sister. Sue had heard much of the beautiful and wealthy Miss Roosevelt, and showed gratitude, but no surpise, at the unexpected visit. “Will you piea-e play something for my slater and the rest of tchm?” Miss Austin pleaded in a low tone. “They would all enjoy it so.” An upright piano stood in the ball just outside the ward, and Miss Roosevelt went to it at once, glancing, as sue passed at the rows of beds on either side of h *r, and feeling as if she was walking in a strange, new world. It grew dark as she played on and on, forgetful of everything hut the quiet, suff-ring souls by whom she was surrounded; uod then she sarg— sang as she had never rune before —eweet, old familiar hymns at first, and ending with the lit le ballad: “ Tis wintry weather, my doling Time’s waves they heavUy run, But, taking the year together, my dear. There isn't more cloud than san. And God is God, my darling, Of the night as weJl as the day; And we teel and know that we can go Wherever He leads the way.” The music died away in soft, caressing chords: As she rose from her seat sh* found that she was surrounded by a group of women and children —such women and children! She had never in all her life seon such thin, drawn races, faces so old in youth, so stamp 'd wdh traces of human pain, i-c full of pathetic patience! Broken words, murmurs of gratitude greeted her. The little children all tried to grasp her bands. Women kissed the folds of her garments. She stood stunned, overwhelm ed among ihem. One of the nurses, smil ing, though her eyes were full of tears, g.-ntly moved them aside and laid her hands on Miss Roosewelt’s shoulder. “It’s so new for the patients,” she said, her voice trembling. “If they could hear you sing once in a while J’m sure it would do them more good than medicine. Just look at them!” The two passed down the ward together. Many of the women had strug gled into a sitting position upon their nar row cots, a smile upon their pallid faces, a look of gratitude in their hollow eyes. They gazed upon her as she passed by with a look which was a prayer and a benedic tion. This was not Miss Roosave't’s last visit to the hospital; it was the beginning of a long series of visits, and at regular inter vals, that the patients might know when to look forward to t he pleasure which her coming gave them. It was a question whether she or they deserved th<= most pleasure. She told the story to other idle women, —women, like herself, with great talents, great fortunes, and unlimited leisure, ".last to go and play for those poor crea tures? Just to sing a few songs for them? Why, of course, that’s a very little thing to do. I’d like to do it, but I should never have thought of such a thing”— such was {lie sort of answer invariably re turned to Miss Roosevelt’s appeal. Many, for tiie first time in their lives, learned why it is more bless and to give than re ceive; bow a man fin Is his life by losing it, and that one’s strongest hope for heaven is based upon one’s willingness to lend a hand on earth. —Salem Gazette. THE USE OF A C OUGiT. A French Marshal Conveyed an Order Under Its Cover iti 1851 The prevalence of coughs and Jcolds at the present moment reminds me of the fact that it was a cough which was main Ir responsible for the immense amount of bloodshed that attended the coup d’etat whereby Napoleon 111 obtained his throne. That unscrupulous but brilliant adven tu-er General, and afterward Field M irsbal a- St. Arnaud. had charge of the military operations. But be was unwilling to as sume the direct responsibility of ordering the troops to tire upon the people, being not altogether certain as to the result of Napoleon’s m m -ramie en'erjrise. When the moment tor action arrived and the mob began to show signs of sweeping aside the troop?, the Brigadier Generals under his orders sent an officer to him at headquarters to ask him what they were to do, whether they were to tire on the populace or give way. Strangely enough, St. Arnaud was seized at Dat moment with a violent fit of coughing, which lasted for several minutes. Finally when it ceased the general just managed to ga-p the words, “Ma sacree toux!” (my cursed cough). The officer having waited until the gen eral had recovered his breath rept a'ed the question. Again St. Arnaud was seized with a violent fit of coughing, which ter minated, as on the previous occasion, with the parting exclamation of “Ma sacree teux!” The officer was no fool; he could take a hint as well as anyone else, and saluting ho left St. Arnaud’s presence. On return ing to the brigadiers and colonels who bad sent him for instructions he was asked what reply St. Arnaud had made. “The general’s only words and com mands were massacrez tous! (massacre everybody).” These commands were obeyed to the letter, and many thousand people were shot down and bayoneted in consequence. N Y. Recorder. UKLIA B LiE 1N FORMATION. Mrs. Simpson Satisfied tbe Inquisitive Young Women, Two refined looking young ladies sat in the members’ gallery of the house of re presentatives picking out the various statesmen of the floor with the aid of the chart in the Congressional Directory. A ! rather vociferously attired young lady j sauntered in and took a seat beside them, says a correspondent of the Washington Post. “Do tell me where Jeiry Simpson is!” exclaimed the newcomer; “1 have heard so much about him.” One of the ladies pointed out the Alli ance Kansan in the arena beneath. “Oh, no. that isn’t Jerry S mpson,” protested the loud young lady confidently. “I would know him because 1 have seen his pictures.” “And I nave known Mr. Simpson fur some time myself,’ replied the lady, “Well, he does not seem to be such a : j ad-looking man after all,” the vociferous ' young lady commented after a careful | scrutiny. “I wonder if he brought his wire with him.” “I believe she is in the city,” the quiet lady asserted. “1 would like to see her. too. They do say she isn’t so very awful. How do you suppose she likes all tbe things tbe papers say about him?” And the fashionable maiden rattled away in regard to Mrs. Simpson. “Sie doesn’t mind it;” responded the 1 itr. “Do you know Mrs. Simpson, too?” in quired the young sightseer. “k ->ry we!l,” remarked the other serene ly. “1 am Mrs. Simpson.” Good Advice. If you find yourself irritated and un haopy—and with fairly good reasons for being so—take hold of yourself by the c filar, and sc-t yourself down hard, and say to ycurself: “Well, what of it? Sup posing that is so, how long will it be so? What difference will it maxe at a short time from now? A good night’s sleep will dissipate the most of it. If nothing else will remedy it deat i will—and that is not far a way. \Vny should I allow the i briet time I have to be happy in this life to : bo turn- and into misery? I will no TJwill not permit myself to b a fretted and chafed aad imbittered.” Taen go and dash co'd water over your head, and take hold of some kind of work.—The in terior. Wfcen Columbus discovered America he found that tne Indians possessed dogs. They were the direct descendants of the wild cayotes of the plains. IOWA COUNTY DEMOCRAT: MINERAL POINT. WISCONSIN, JANUARY 29, 1892. FARM m HOME. TO-MORROW. harper’s weekly. “There is an island full of pleasant faces, For which men hunger ere tne day grows old, And thitherward they turn with uplifted faces. Longing to rest them in its blessed fold. “No grief, they say, may steal within its bor der, Their hurl wounds heal them swif.ly of their smart; While sweet forgetfulness doth stand as warder To still the aching tumult of the heart. •‘There, too, to-day’s brief joys shall have great increase, And all its longings shall find blessed gain, While to the toiierThere shall come sweet sur cease. For, lo! This island knoweth naught of pain.” Thee one whose life felt the fevered throb bings Of great wounds gotten in the day's swift tide. Turned, and gave eager question, touched with sobbings, Unto the mighty chorus at his side. “Where is the land for which with strong per sistence The men of every age and clime do long? And swift in answer, full ot sweet insistence, Uprose the strident echo of a song. “Behold, the island that is voidof sorrow, And for whose shelter men have long made quest, We have not seen, but it is called To-morrow— The land within whose border there is rest.” FARM NOTES. Feeding Horses. M ,ny large establishments that own ana work ; great numbers of horses now divide the day’s ration into four feeds, in stead of three. They claim that by dim inishing the pe: iod of fasting the animals never become ravenous, but merely ap iizeu. They get a sufficiency at each meal, but not so much that it cannot be proper!y masticated, digested and assimil ated. The plan might be followed to good advantage by some farmers who m ike long Lours in seeding and harvest time. The Sheep Dip. In miking or using a sheep dip care should be taken to avoid such as contain lime. If the dip is ued immediately after shearing the caustic properties of the lime will liatden the skin and prevent the growth of wool for some considerable time. It u ; ed some time after shearing and when the fleece has made a good growth again, the lime will injure the fiber of the woo 1 . Tats.* facts should be made widely known, us we see certain formulas are recommended to farmers to prepare dips which contain lime largely. Clover as a Fertilizer. The farmer who grows clover never wants manure. If ha feeds it his cattle return to him not less than 80 per cent, of its money value in the form of manure, and this is equivalent to the constant and abundant fertilizing of the soil and the in suring of perennial fertility. If he turns it under, it decays with so much rapidity that the next crop is able to consume it aud make a satisfactory growth. If he makes the first growth into hay, the after math wid supply an abundant manure foi the wheat or corn folio wing It is thus an invaluable plant for the farmer in whatever way he may use it. Cost of Milk. The co.it of a pound of milk is one of the things iba every dairy trim should know; that is, the cost to him. not to some body else working uaderj/lifferent conditions. The New fersey experiment station has jud figured it out at three-fourths of one cent for them; but the cost depends upon so many considerations that no man can safely take the figures made by some on ; cTe. The cost depends upon the cow, the feed, the season and the man. The first and the la-t are the greatest considera t oils. Tne iosrer the cow the nice the milk will cost; aud if the man lacks the right sort of ability for the dairy business ti e best cows In the world cannot produce milk cheaply enough to enable him to get a profit from it. A Fertilizer for Potatoes. For the benefit of farmers who desire to prepare their own artificial fertilizers, the Connecticut, experiment station has pub lished certain formulas that it recom mends, together with,itemized statements of their cost. For potatoes the follow ing would doubtless be found very valu able: 300 pounds tankage, cost sl4 40 400 pounds bone...! 6 40 ocO pounds dissolved bone black 7 15 50 pounds sulphate of ammonia 1 80 100 pounds nitrate of soda 2 50 50 pounds double sulphate potash 75 60 pounds muriate of potash 1 07 Total $34 07 The foregoing would be a special fer tilizer for this crop, and by obtaining the materials and compounding at home, a large percentage of the cost could be saved. If farmers would join together and buy the materials in quantity, they could still furth; Y economize. Raspberry Antracnose. A disease has made its appearance upon j the raspberry and blackberry which seems to be related to the antracnose of the grape, bulletin 6of the Ohio experiment station finds that it is a fungus. It first appears early in May, when the young shoots are about a foot high. At or near j the surface of the ground, small purple 1 spots appear. These increase rapidly in ! number and size, and develop a whitish center and with the raised purple border marking the line of separation between the ; ht-aithj and diseased tissues. The leaves are also similarly affected. It does not seem seriou-ly affect growth the first season, but when these canes come to bear ing, the damage is manifested. The ber ries do not attain full size, but shrivel and finally dry up. the leaves are small and un healthy looking, and finally the canes turn black and die. Spores from diseased por tions are washed down by rains to healthy parts, where they immediately begin to grow. Thus the disease spreads. No ef fective remedy has yet been found for this disease. An Early Start. Proper preparation of the soil not only gives the young plautlet something to feed on at the start, out enables it to make such a quick and hardy growth that it is the better able to resist disastrous influences, such droutu, cold, disease, insect ene mies, etc. With the majority of crops an a -riy start means an assurance of success, but ihe early start should never be male at _ tbe espen-e of complete preparation before the :-eed is committed to the ground. A good farmer never gets in a hurry about rVs matter. He makes up his mind in the beginning as to how the laud must be pre pared tor a certain crop, and he doe- it that walf storms or untoward weather interfere he waits; then, when he can, he resumes his operations just where he left oft. He knows that it is belter to be a [week late in getting hi' seed into the ground than to be two weeks la f e in hav- I mg it c'meup f r want ot a proper seed i bed. Beside this, sow sprouting usually : means an imperfect stand. The Corn Crop There is no staple crop in the world, of j large production, which is so wholly con- I smned in the country where grown as the corn crop of the United St.Btes. We have never sent more than five per cent, of it abroad in one year, notwithstanding the fact that various efforts have been made to introduce it in Europe, aid that it would afford a cheaper ad more vholesome food than the rye br-ad now so generally used by the European peasantry. Secretary Rusk hopes, by a more persistent effor than has before been made, to show the people ot other countries that cornmeal is an excellent article of food, and to this end now has a special agent abroad whose sole mission is to endeavor to open a mar ket for American corn. Twealy years ago an effort was made to procure an appropri at on fi om cong; ess for this work, but the farmer was not then receiving much con sideration at legislative hands, and the measure failed. If the work that is now commencing had been done then we should doubtless now have a foreign mar ket for our corn that would greatly en Lance its value and make its cultivation much mere profitable, than it now is; but. meantime, we appear able to take care, at home, of all that we are producing. Feeding Bees lu Winter We are asked how to feed bees in win ter. Some, it appears, nave not taken time to attend to their bees until corn was out of the way, and now they fin i them without enough stores to last them until spring. Feeding at this time of the year is a very difficult thing to do. it >ou had hoey in combs, you could teed it by simp ly taking out one one or two empty combs and inserting combs of honey in their place, but as it is not probable that many have combs of honey on hand, the | next best thing to do is to make a perpar- i ation of bee caudy. This is made of' granulated sugar and honey, mixed or j boiled until it is a thick paste, and fed by j pouring in the combs, or in a brood frame i with thin boards nailed on the sides and j left open at the top for the bees to get at! it. However unless you know just how to make this, you will be more than likely to make a failure with it, as it must be just about right. But the most practi cal way by far will be to feed them syrup 1 or granulated sugar. If it is warm j enough, set them outside and take out the ' brood frames and pour them full of syrup \ on both sides until you think you have I enough store to last them until spring. I Have a pan large enough to put the; frames in so there will be no more syrup wasted. It it is too cold to set them out, and they have not enough store to last until a warm day comes, carry them into the kitchen or some room that is warm enough to work with them, and lake tbe frames out and fill them there. At tbe best it is not a pleasant job and y’u cannot always depend on getting them through. Bees, in order to winter well, must have sealed stoics, and syrup fed this time of year will not be sealed. It would be best to look through your colonies and if you find any that have frames of honey that they can spar*', give the weak colony one of these, which will perhaps keep them until they can be led in the spring. THE HOUSEHOLD. Ciiiirity. MATTHEW PRIOR. Then constant faith anti holy hope shall die, One lost iu certainty, and one in joy; Whilst thou, more happy power, fair charity, Triumphant sister, greatest of the three, Thy office and thy nature still the same, Lasting thy lamp, and unconsumed thy llame, •Shalt still survive— Shalt stand before the host of heaven confessed, Forever blessing, and forever blest. Be always at leisure to do good. Unction is not worth much until it is joined to action. Temper is so good a thing that we should never lose it. The patience of love never wearies. H is provocation pro^f. There are two sides to every question, but every man believes that his side is right. Throwing stones and bad words at people are both prompted by the same spirit. The bast way to learn the road is to trav el it; the best way to know a truth is to live it in your daily life. Piety that never puts on its hat to go out and try to help somebody, does not attract much attention in heaven. “Blessed is the man that truateth in him.’’ If you know that you are that man, what is the use of worrying about tbe size of your bank account? Hospitality consists of something more than making people believe you are glad to see them when you are not. —Indianap- olis News. Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts that work no harm do terrify us more than men iu stetd with tbe bloody ; purposes, —T. B. Aldrich. fi induces. I wonder why it is we are not ail kinder | than we are? How much the world needs 1 it! How easily is it done! How infalli bly it is remembered! How superabund antly it pays itself back! For there is no debtor in the world so honorable, so su perbly honorable, as love. “Love never faileth.” —Prof. Drummond. How to Kaejj Oat Bad Thoughts. The best mode of keeping improper thoughts out of our minds is to keep those min is oO fillei with good thoughts that there be no room for improper thoughts. He who acts upon this rule will generally have not mm n trouble with bad thoughts. Such thoughts will not be his usual com parrous. Little Things. Little words are the sweetest to hea little charities fly farthest and stay longe on the wing, little lakes are the stillest little hearts are the fullest, and little farms are the best titled. Litt'e books are the most read, and little songs are the nearest loved. And when Nature would make anything especially rare and beauti ful she makes it little —little pearls, little [ diamonds, little dews. Agar’s is a*model prayer; bat then it is a little one, and the burden cf the petition is for but litPe. The sermon on the Mount is little, but the last dedication discourse was an hour. Lre is made up of tittles; death is what remains of them all. Day is made up of little beams, and night is glorious with I little stars. —Cricket, in The Baptist. The Flemcuts of Success. Success presupposes conditions and pre- I parations tor it—the energy, self-abnega i tion weight brings brawn and bread and ; dignity, strength, wisdom and skill. We ; cannot safely jump into success; we are i likely to get hurt, and soon fall back dis ! heartened to where we belong. Same try ! to succeed by jumping into their father’s • shoes; but these shoes do not fit, and ! cause the youth to walk as awkwardly : teat he generally makes a fool of himself. Nearly everything of real wor;h has to be ! errned. To be appreciated and judicious ly appropriated, our possessions must have cost their value. The toil and struggle and plodding that brings solid gain, brings a!'® the mature experience, through discipline, and hard knock; that make up stalwart manhood and perma nent success. Father aud Son. While we would not say or do anything to dimini sa the brightness of the glory that gathers about the bead of the mother, we confess it is none the less pleasure to add this tribute to the fa’her; A father was seeing his sou off on the cars tor -orae distant, point. There was a moment of quiet conversation between '.he two. perhaps a few words of such ad vice as a lather should give a son. aud tuen the train came thundering into the station. As the latter, a tali fellow well along in his teens, slepp u on the platform, he ex tended his lips to his tati er. There was a geml“ kiss of far well, and the two separated. There r/as no gush, no non sense, no affection; just the expression of fatherly tenderness that had followed that son since he lay in the cradle. Is there any danger of that boy straying from the path affectionately pointed out by his father? or is there any danger of that father ever having to excuse that son be cause he is “sowing wild oats?’’ We think not. The gentle power of a mother’s kiss Has been sung by poets, but is there not also a wealth of tenderness and a tast ing memory for good in the kiss of a father. SEA WOMEN. How They Phxs Their Time While ou Board Ship. “How do you pass your time?” lo sea women this is a most familiar question. No society, no housework, no shopping, no garden, no entertainments, no lads, se-rthetic, athletic, philantrophic, above ah no newsjwhar can hapless woman do with much of her time save bemoan it? One of these women,, however, always answers, "Walk, read, work—and be sea sick. 1 ’ She creates thus universal sur prise. That such an old salt as she should consciously have a stomach is asjsurprising as that any ship women should ever work or walk at all. Truth is, many of them never set sail again after a stay in port without paying tribute to Neptune. Even in the very heart of a voyage the tyrant not unsel dom rises up to exact his dues, and more too. Some of the toughest old masculine tars are levied upon in the same way. They, however, always pronounce it “bilious ness ,* ’ and accuse the pork or the pud ding. R idiant vistas of foreign travel with brief interludes of lullaby billows, pearly sails, snowy decks, steamer chairs and novels are the shore woman’s picture of seafaring—a picture that has lured many a fresh girl to a briny fate. The polished brasses of summer yachts the gay decks of summer steamers, impress the imagination with the picturesqueness of a life on the ocean wave, and common sense is not al ways present to whisper that merchant ships are mere toilers of the sea, and compared with summer crafts as Vul can to Ari and. “Often ” says one salt, “we sbipwotnen do not leave our stived-up little cabins for days. That cabin is our home; the deck is out of doors as much as a windy street or a rain-soaked garden. “We are not perched high above the waves, you must remember, as (he sum mer voyager is, like a wind-buoyed cloud. In our cabins we see only its wails, while on the main deck the bulwarks are higher than our heads. “Thus ready only a lurch of Ihe ship gives us a fall view of tbe water with which we are cheek by jowl all the time.” —Margaret B. Wright, in February Chau tauquao. SM ALL AND DEADLY. Some Sture Snsiltes Eaconuter-jd by J*ro- ; lfBsor Aaron in the West Indies. Professor Eugene M. Aaron, who is in this city superintending tl "■ publication of a work cn Hayti, has one cf the -arest and largest collections of reptiles, insects and plants in the world, says the Phila - delphia Record. Ruling fhe past two years he has been in Central America and the West Indies, and has secured many specimens of snake?, in sec sand orchids peculiar to the climate. One of the most interesting treasures is a rare and unusually large butterfly, scien tifically known as the Papillo Homerus, taken in the island of Jamaica, The in sect has only been found in that island within an area of tea miles, and perfect specimens are valued by collectors in Lon don at S5O each. Owing to its habit of flying at great heights the capture of the Homerus by the usua 1 method, by means of a not, is impossible. If has to be shot with cartridges especially loaded with dust, shot or water. The specimen secur ed by Professor Aaron expands seven inches across the wings, and is of a glossy velvet black color, with a broad band of orange across both wings and an irregular sprinkling of peacock blue beneath. The professor’s collection cf srakes and j other reptiles is probably the most inter-] es’ ! got all. He has several specimens! of Ihe deadly ‘ Fer do Lance,” an oihabi-j t rnt of Martinique, which is credited with j 200 deaths per annum, and to which is ! due the ruin of the beautiful botanical gardens of the country, which are now al mo i deserted. The pest is not more than two and a half feet in length, and is of a brownish-gray co'or. In the island of Jamaica snakes and other reptiles are conspicuous by their ab sence. This is attributed to the fact that about fifteen years ago the government in troduce cl the Egyptian ichneumon into the country for the purpose of ridding the island of the cone rat. which was doing great damage to the sugar crop. The remedy has proved worse than the disease for the prolific animal has multiplied, until now it. is to Jamaica what the rab bit is to Australia and the sparrow to this country. Naturally a carnivorous animal, it has, after exterminating the reptiles, taken to eating banana*, mangoes and fruits of all kinds, and even an occasional pickaninny. J amaica has now an “Ich neumon commission,” and is offering a prizi for the most successful method of ex terminating the pests. Prof ssor Aaron has one specimen of the “torro negrita,” a small and very rare snake found along the San J oan river, Nicaraugua, which is in the habit of dropping from the branches of overhang ing trees into passing boats. Its bite is certain death. A Chance for Young- Men. A gentleman who has been traveling steadily for a year, relates some interesting incidents of the famous Red River valley. Ah hough he all over the south and west, he has nowhere been impressed with the genuine, substantial prosperity of the people as he was in the Red River valley. The only drawback he saw was the lack of help. And he declares it to be a fact that fully twenty-five per tent, of the last wheat crop is still un- and for the reason that it has been impossible to get the help to thresh it. And he reason.-, that a country that will produce more than can be har vested is the place to live in. There is something in this, and here is the oppor tunity for young farmers. Land is still cheap in the Red River val'ey. Work is plenty; so plenty that enough workmen can with difficulty be obtained. Any young man who wants to see that country for himseif, can start out and go th -re and earn good wages all the L'me he is there, und if he likes it he can get a farm of his own. If not, he can come back home. But by and by he cannot get this land so cheaply. Here is certainly a chance for young men tnat wi.l not occur again for a lifetime. Tne tallest trees in the world are the gum trees of Victoria. Australia. In some districts they average 300 feet high. The longest prostrated one measured 450 feet, and 81 feet in girth near the roots. NAVAL STRENGTH. Detailed List of Uncle Sam's Vessels that Could be Used in Case of War. W e Would Easily be Able to Take Care of the Chilians with our Present Means. Character of the Fleet that Might be Cot Together to Fight Us. Chili is little better than insane to pro voke a war with the United States. Its entire country includes an area about as large as that of Texas, and even a large part of that is sterile and practically un inhabited. Chili's population all told is but 2,709,000. This includes some 50,000 Indians, dwelling for the most part in Patagonia. The remainder of the popu lation is composed of the descendents of the Spanish buccaneers and the native in habitants. It is of historical record that Chilian wars have been rendered peculiar ly atrocious by reason of the crude char acter of much of the population. The territory of Chili lies open to easy attack. It is a country with 2,000 miles of sea coast and the seaports are separated by almost impassable mountains, thus rendering the succor of one to another virtually impossible by land. Iquique, which is the seaport to the nitrate region, torn from Peru in 1878, has no fortifica tions worth the mention. Valparaiso, the principal commercial city, with 216,- 000 people, was taken by the small con gressional fleet with little or no resistence. Santiago, the capital, with 358,000 peo ple, lies inland some sixty miles back of Valpariso, and is dependent, as the whole nation is in fact, on the commerce of the sea coast. There are two nations which would especially bo delighted to see Chili become involved in a war with the United States, and it is entirely prob able that, in the event of a rupture, they would seize the opportunity to assert their independent spirit toward the most dom ineering power of South America. T.ioy are Peru and the Argentine Republic. In 1878 Chili picked a quarrel with Peru, beat her and then dismembered her. With Argentine she has a bitter quarrel about boundary lines. Both nations bat abide their time to take revenge. In January, 1890, the Chilian war IPet —and in case of war the operations will chiefly be by sea—included three inn clads, om> deck protected cruiser, ten fi and, class and two sec md class torpedo boats and four gun boats. Oac of the iron-clad- , the Blanco Encalada, was blown up dar ing the late unpleasantness, while two or three of the torpedo boats suffered a simi tar fate. The protected Cruiser E-meralda carries two 25 ton guns, but was not considered a match for the Baltimore when the latter vessel was in pursuit of the Itata. Chili also has a first class battle ship now building in France. The Admiral Prat is understood to be superior to any of our present war vessels and closely resembles the New York, recently launched. It is now being rushed to completion and will be ready for service in two or three weeks. The Chilian torpede fleet is considered somewhat su perior to our own. Yet ten of our crack steam yacbls should be ti ted for this pur pose with little delay and we would then be infinitely stronger from every point of view A New York correspondent thus sum marizes the present condition of our navy: The naval force that can be immediately brought to bear on our side against Chili comprises, to begin with, a dozen modern steel unarmored vessels of the protected cruiser type, mounting more than 100 high-power breech-loading rifles of the six-inch and ten inch caliber. In fact, our only steel cruiser which has not been j made available for this purpose is the j smallest of them, the Petrel, which, 1 with her four guns, has been sent, off to 1 China. Beginning first with the vessels now in the Pacific ready to be concentrated along the Chilian coast, we have: The Baltimore of 4,400 tons, carrying four 8 inch and six 6 inch guns. The Charleston of 3,730 tons, carrying two 8-inch and six 6-inch </un*. The San Francisco of 4,083 tons, carry ing twelve 6 inch guns. The Boston of 3,100 tons, carrying two 8 inch and six C-inch guns. The Yorktown of 1,703 tons, carrying six 6 inch guns. Ail tbese vessels are well supplied with rapid fire and machine guns in their sec ondary batteries, and a!! have good speed, the Charleston being classed an 18 knot ship and the San Francisco and Baltimore as 19 knot ships. Turning from these vessels on the Pacific station to Admiral Walker’s squad ron now at Montevideo, ready to proceed to Chili through the Straits of Magellan, we find it includes the flag ships Chicago, 4,500 tons, with her splendid battery power of four 8 inch and eight 6-inch guns; the Atlanta, of 3,000 tons, with two 8 inch and 6-inch guns. All these are modern steel vessels, and we need not reckon the wooden craft of the station —the E sex, 1,375 tons, and the Y~antic, 900 tons. The third squadron is that of Rear Ad miral Bancroft Gherardi, which is now stationed at the West Indies, ready also to bs sent forward, if needed. It includes the Philadelphia, 4 324 tons, nineteen knots speed and twelve 6 inch rifles, now fitting ou' at Norfolk to join the squadron, and the Concord, 1,703 tons, with 6 inch guns. To this squadron also b-longs the famous old wooden -hip Kearsarge, which sent toe Alabama to the bottom. Besides toes vessels we have on the Pa cific coast the important barbette turret coast defender Monterey, of 4,048 tons. She is the craft largely ielied up)o to tackle the Prat. She has If ss sp<ed than the latter, being designed only for sixteen knots; but she carries a tremendous bat- j tery of two 12-inch and two 10-inch. guns. The former prop 1 an 850-p >uad pr -j -ctile with a charge of 435 pounds of powder. They arc carried in tne forward turret, which is pro tected by steel plates fourteen inches thick, while the ten-inch guns will be in the turret, protected by eleven and a half inch plates. Tne huil armor of this ves sel is sixteen inches at the maximum, a long-distance amidship, covering the en gines and magazines. Forward and aft the thickness is increased. It also tapers amidships from sixteen inches at the top down to six inches. This vessel can be mac e ready, it has been reported, within two months, and in fact she expects to be ready in ample season to meet the Prat, should hostilities come. On the Atlantic coast we have the Mian tonomah, of 8,890 tons, carrying in her turrets four 10 inch breech-loading rifles. She has a less < ffective armor protection than the Prat, her maximum plating, which is on the turrets, being eleven and one halt inches. But something of an offset is furnished by her low free board. She is. first of all, intended for harbor defense. In her harbor defense work she is to be aided by the single turret monitors. Some of these are already getting ready for service, and it is probable that at least half a dozen of them, and perhaps more, will be fitted up. Supplied with some of the surplus 8-inch and 6 inch guns they can be of excellent service as harbor de fenders, being able with their light draught to izo into waters where a heavy iron vessel cannot follow them. We should also by no means give the Chilians a monopoly of torpedo work, since the Vesuvius, tbe Cushing and the Alarm are being fitted up for that purpose and the supply of ilowe'l and Whitehead torpedoes hurried forward. Of our wooden vessels the Ira, Iroquois, Mohican and others could aid if necessary, and the steel Dolphin would take part as a dispatch vessel. Merchant vessels would also he fitted out both as transports and as armed cruisers. The upshot of the whole matter is that our navy would bo abundantly able to take cart of the Chilians even with the services of the Prat conceded to them. Should a happy and peaceful settlement end the present trouble, as now seems certain, our navy will nevertheless have hud a most valuable experience in the ait of getting ready in a hurry for possi ble hostilities. n 11K v >v KIN KI, KS AIM’EAU. Honorable as Gray Hairs—Thought as Well as Years Represented. Reading all the paragraph wisdom that is uttered now-a-aays on the subject of wrinkles, their avoidance and their cure, a stranger on this planet would certainly think anew and mortal terror had just come among us. Enough is said of the treatment of wrinkles to make us all wise to avoid them, if wisdom were enough. But wrinkles, like love, wiilgtiod out a way, and in spite of massage and oils and balm, wrinkles will sot their delicate seal of thought and perplexity upon the forehead and under the eyes and about the lips. The reason of wrinkles, any one will tell you easily, is years. But why is it that years makes wrinkles? What connection is there between the fliy'ut of time over our head and (ho fine traceryxupon our features? Here is the explanation, as well as a lay man can give it. Underneath the skin in the flesh are im bedded multitude of little muscles that hold the flesh and keep it as we say “solid and firm.” The skin also has a certain muscular power of contracting and stretch ing, as necessity demands, and which de pends upon what is called the tonicity of tip skin. As year-tjereep along the muscles weaken and grow lax, no longer holding the flesh as film and hard as before. All the lines in th ; face droop therefore with age, and the flesh has a tendency to fi ll down in little ridges. Just the same thing happens to the skin. It loses its contracting power, and relaxes. Then come the little wrinkles. It will be seen, then, that wrinkles are due to changes in the constitution of the skin it self. Anything that acts as a stimulant upon the skin, keepin H it active and so keeping up the tone of the muscles, will tend to prevent wrinkles. But even if they do come why should one be unhappy? They are as honorable as gray hairs. They indicate thought as well as years; they give character and dignity to the expression. Freckles and sunburn have had their day of being fashionable. Why not wrinkles? They are beautiful if we only think so. STAYS MUST GO. Also Garters, If Miss Sylvia Gerrirli Is an Authority. “If garters were thrown, physic like, to the dogs, and corsets were used for coal scuttles er something, women would be 50 her cent, more comforlable and 50 per cent, happier. Of course I wear garters —the long ones, yuu know, that go over the shoulders—but 1 never wear corsets if I can help it.” This is the way Sylvia Gerrish expressed herself to a World re porter. “In the play of ‘Uncle Celestin’ I do not wear any thing at all, that is nothing in the way of corsets or garters. Have you seen the play? Yes? Well yon could sea the difference, couldn’t you? Why in the character of Gustave, I am almost as full as man, that Is to say as easy in the figure. You ce it is unnatural for a woman to cave in in the middle of her body as cor sets make her do. You can see that by looking at any good sta u*. Y< u can toll what an absurd thing a corset is as soon as you find out how pretty a woman is when free from it. Of course there are times when I am obliged either to wear corsets or to have my wais's well bored. For instance, when I wear low necked costumes. But that is no excuse for put ting a little child into corsets and teaching her almost ,'.om infancy to believe that a backbone in a woman is a luxury and not a necessity. ’’ From numerous interviwes which the World man his had he concludes that the ; corsest bid fair to be done away with and that Americans may soon hope to see a quantity of Venuses of Milo prancing along Fourteenth street. In the present stage of humanity the garter as draped over the shoulder must probably endure. Women cannot take to socks because her gowns admit the cold air, and, as Miss Gerrish very truly observes, without a garter no self-respecting stocking will keep a stiff upper lip. RIGHT ARM A.VD L'iFT FOOT. Why They Are Always a l.itile Larger Thau Their Opporilles. The right arm is always a little larger than the left, but ti e left foot is almost alv r ays larger than the right, presumably because, while almost every man uses his ’■igh: arm to iifc a weight or str ko a blow, he almost invariably kicks with his left too:, while the lounger stands on his left leg, and lets his right fall easily, because he has earned by experience that this is the best attitude that hecau assume to pre vent lassitude and fatigue. I bis constant bearing of the weight on ■ be left foot makes it wider than the right, <n 1 ;t oft n happens that a man who tries on a shoe on tbe right foot, and gets a close fit. has to discard the shoes altogether be cause ho cannot endure the pain caused by the tightness of the left. It. when riding on a street car, you will take t*-e trouble to notice, you will sea liiat in laced shoes the gap is smaller on the right foot than on the lefr, while with but ton shoes the buttons have to be set back 10 times on the left shoe to one on ther right.—Rehoboth Sunday Herald. 7