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#=V THE VIRGINIA ENTERPRISE VIRGINIA, MINN. W. E. HANNAFORD, PtiMitMf. eSSSSSS* —The Duke of York has the right to wear fifty uniforms. —Secretary Wilson personally superin tends the gardens of his Iowa home. —liosa Bonheur earned her first money ly copying paintiugs of the old masters. —Vice-President Hobart is fond of walking and never rides when he can avoid it. —Senator Baker of Kansas is a con tinual smoker, artd is rarely seen without a cigar or pipe. —Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt is a woman in her early thirties, of medium heignt, fair complexion and dark eyes and hair. —Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is regarded as one of the best whist play ers in Boston, but his favorite game is chess. —Teach stones find a ready market in New York city, where perfume, flavoring extracts and prussic acid are distilled from the kernels. —John E. Searles, who has signified his intention to retire from active part in the Sugar trust, ascribes his failing health to excessive use of tobacco. —lien. Wneeler carries a handsome gold watch which he picked up at San Juan. It evidently belonged to a Span iard, but the owner could never be dis covered. —Lord Kitchener is engaged to be mar ried to Miss Marie Evelyn Moreton, whose father was private secretary to the Marquis of Lorue during his stay in Canada. —The political term "dark horse" orig inated from the habit of jockeys paint ing some fast racer in dark colors and entering him in a race under a fictitious name and thus winning. —Andrew Carnegie is to give a $3000 organ to the Presbyterian church in Boulder. Col. The pastor of the church. Rev. lr. Xotnian, was boru near Mr. Carnegie's old home in Scotlaud. —"I suffer a great deal from cold." said Senator Chandler of New Hampshire re cently, "but I don't know whether it's because I really feel it more or just be cause I make more fuss about it. —The Duchess of Westminster still wears the largest flawless turquoise owned by any private individual: and the Duchess of Sutherland possesses the only complete necklace of black pearls. —Emperor William has donated to the "Protestation church" at Speyer, Palatin ate. 10,000 kilograms of the metal from the captured French cannon for the pur IHjse of casting an immense imperial bell. —Mrs. Fairbanks, wife of the senator from Indiana, gave a novel entertainment the other day to several of her Washing ton friends. A troop of Virginia negroes were engaged to give a minstrel perform ance. —Rev. Dr. John Snyder has resigned the pastorate of the Church of the Mes siah. St. Louis, after having held it for twenty-six years. He is ranked as oue of the most scholarly and progressive clergymen in the West. —-M. Francois Millet, a son of Jean Francois Millet, the famous French art isr, is visiting in Baltimore with his wife. In type, he is truly French, and he speaks very little English, his wife doing nios: of the interpreting for him. —Adolphus Busch, the St. Louis brewer, recently gave some inonev to a Congregational college in Oklahoma and now the Woman's Christian Temperance union threatens to boycott the college un less the trustees decline to take the money. —Sir Martin Conway has succeeded iu climbing Illimani iu Bolivia and Aconca gua in Chili, and at last accounts was on his way to Tierr.i del Fuego for the pur pose of ascending Sariniento. the loftiest summit (6900 feet) south of the straits of Magellan. —M. A erncn, the French engraver, has received au order from the King of Den mark for a medallion of Queen Louise, to be prepared from the best of the family photographs. Small reproductions of the memorial are to be prepared for distribu tion in Denmark. —Admiral Schley is a grand nephew, -on his father's side, of the famous Ad miral Parkhurst of the English navy, and on his mothers side is descended from Francis Scott Key. who wrote the "Star Spangled Banner." in Baltimore harbor, September 12, 1814. —Edward S. Hosmer, chief of the fire department of Lowell, has recently come into possession of a small door 18x20 inches. The door was once in the house of Jonathan Hosmer, father of Abner Hosmer. who was killed at the North bridge. Concord. April 19. 1775. —The late William Black, the novelist, liked to attend the Scotch dinners in Lon don. If it happened that he was asked to reply to the toast of "Literature" the blood rushed to his face, and no one a dozen seats behind where he sat could hear a word he said. He rarely went be yond half a dozen sentences. —Col. Charles Marshall, the eminent lawyer of Baltimore, is writing a life of (Jen. R. E. Lee, uon whose staff he served during the whole Civil war. Col. Marshall wrote all the official reports of the army of Northern Virginia, and with Gen. Horace Porter arranged the terms of surrender at Appomattox. —The young Chinese Emperor, having outlived the reports that he had commit ted suicide or been assassinted, is now described by Dr. Dethere, a Frenchman, who is one of his physicians, as merelv a sufferer from fits of depression and las situde, his real ailment so far as there is any being abnormal melancholia. —The Grand Old Man of the Roman church is not the Pope, as most people suppose, but Cardinal Mertel, who is in his 95th year, and so active and energetic that he bids fair to see the Nineteenth century out, and the Twentieth in. Ht has just returned to Rome from a holiday visit to his native town of Allumiere. —It is suggested that when the English people sot un a memorial to Gordon at Khartoum they should not forget the Frenchman. M. Herbin. who, holding some ill-defined diplomatic position, was shut up in the beleaguered city from early in 1884 to October in that disas trous year, and shared the fate of the other Europeans who stood by their gal lant chief. —Timothy B. Blaekstone of Chicago, who gave the Blaekstone Memorial li brary, two or three years ago, to his native town of Brandford, Conn., has now- added $10,000 to its endowment. It is one of the finest public libraries in th» United States, and cost more than $400, KH). Mr. Blackstone's first endowment gift was $100,000, so that the aggregate of his benefactions is more than $600,000. —"It is s-id," writes Secretary Long, in the Youth's Companion, "that to Ful ton is due the credit of inventing the tor pedo. As early as 1810 he proposed one on a spar 9(5 feet long but its practical use dates from our Civil war. It was first tried by the Confederates in the ac tion between the ram Atlanta and the monitors Wehawken and Nahant, June 17, 1863." —Sir Richard Webster, the English at torney-general, is as proud of his resonant baritone voice as of his forensic success. I'or many years he sang regularly in a church choir and has donned a surplice more than once since he has been attor ney-general. Sir Edward Clarke, too. is an agreeable singer and Lord Herschell is wedded to the violoncello, which he plays with uncommon skill. —Mrs. Solomon Gossoon, the managing partner of a well-known Hebrew firm in Bombay and president of several compa nies in which the firm takes an interest, has been proposed for a place in the gov ernor-general's council. The proposal comes from a leading Indian paper, and is probably due to two reasons—Mrs, Gos soon's great business ability and the fact that she has made great efforts to draw together the women of Bombay. Morality of Perfumes. A well-known Columbia college profes sor asserts-that he can tell the true char acter of a person by his or her taste in perfumery, basing his knowledge on years of observation and experiment, says a writer in the Ladies' World. This seems a queer theory, yet when we stop to think and recall people of our acquaintance who are brought to remem brance by a waft of white violets, jockey club, heliotrope or other distinctive odor, we can readily believe that there may be some truth in the morality of perfumes. Have you ever passed through a hall way when an odor of perfumery has told who has been there before you? H&ve you ever picked up a stray handkerchief or a pair-of gloves, received a letter or bandied a bpok, about each of which there is an odorous or nialodorous POr* tonality Indisputable?- 't c'fi -vV z. Is let odors as well as appearances are sometimes deceitful. A refined and al most fastidious Brooklyn woman was sprayed as she passed through oue of the big department stores by a "demon strator" of a new and self-advertising perfume, which no amount of subsequent airing would remove from her clothes. It. was a mixture of musk and citronella, and had the afore-mentioned professor es sayed to tell her character, he would have classed her among the lowest order of humanity, instead of in her true sphere of "an augel among men." "And the moral of this is," as Alice in Wonderland would say, shun the atom isers of perfumery and demonstrators, lest you may be judged by an odoriferous scale. MEMORIAL WINDOWS. George Vanderbilt's Tribute to HI Mother and Two Friends. Three memorial windows have just been placet! by George Yanrterbilt iu All-Souls' church, built by him on the borders of his great estate at Biltmore. These win dows are in memory of his mother of Rich aril M. Hunt, the architect of Bilt more, and of Clarence Barker, Mr. Van derbilt's friend. They were designed by Maitland Armstrong and his daughter, long associated with him in work. They form a group in the south transept of the church. The one to Mrs. Vanderbilt rep resents Charity protecting three children cliuging to her robe, thus typifying the character of the woman whose life was made up of beautiful deeds of kindness. "The love of God lives through eternity" the text beneath it. Solomon is seen in the window to Mr. Hunt, with Hiram of Tyre beside him. looking down at a parch ment scroll which Solomon holds on his knees. They are consulting about the temple, seen in the distance, aud the text beneath reads, "For glory and for beau ty." In the window to Mr. Barker, who was a skilled musucian. David is playing on his harp before Saul, and the inscrip tion runs, "I will sing uuto the Lord mv King." In these windows designs embodying a religious inspiration have been followed, but it is not altogether unusual, though now and then surprising, to see one in which the secular life of the individual himself has been suggested. A notable example of this is to be found in a me morial window to a great actor in one of our metropolitan churches. The impres sion first produced upon some observers requires no little effort to overcome, since ecclesiastical symbols iu churches have been the invariable habit among us on this side of the water. We have almost al ways an angel about our tombs, especially when these tombs are placed within the walls of the churches. But the tombs in Old World cathedrals suggest only the earth life of the individual who has gone, animals, even monkeys, when they belong to his coat of arms, being carved about his feet. A striking example of this is to be found in the cathedral at Salisbury. Yet the impressiveness and the solemnity of these tombs are never to be denied, and they seem to belong as much to the sacred edifices which hold them as any decorated today with symbols more strict ly ecclesiastical in character. Mr. Vanderbilt's church is under the Episcopal missionary jurisdiction of Ashe ville, and though designed, perhaps, for the special nse of his household, is des tined to play an important part in the life of the community about it.—Harper's Ba zar. Daily Life of Pope Leo XIII. Summer and winter the Pope is awake at o'clock iu the morning, and rather before than after that hour and he may have, in tokeu of a sleepless night, a piece of Italian or Latin poetry to dic tate to one of the secretaries before mass. Or maybe there is some more practical affair that has kept him awake while he outlined the essential points in an argu ment, an appeal, a letter of instructions (in this case he dictates from the notes, which are afterwards scrupulously de stroyed). To begin the day .he says early mass in the chapel in his private apart ments, but on Sundays and feast days in a room that is large enough to accom modate the visitors who have received permission to be present. Dressed in a cassock of pure white, a circle of snow white hair showing beneath the white skull-cap, or beretta, the Pope is seen holding a silver aspersory, sprinkling holy water on the assembled worship ers: and so much in harmony with his surroundings in this figure that Rev. Bernard O'Reilly is led to say. "It is as if one of Fra Angelico's glorified saints had walked out of the canvas, or.come down from the frescoes on the wait, and shone on us." Immediately after saying mass himself he hears a second one, said by a private chaplain. The second mass of thanksgiving being finished, au arm chair is brought and placed on the Epis tle side, and the Pope is seated. All present go forward iu turn, to kneel at his feet, kiss his hand, and receive com munion. Then a frugal breakfast fol lows of coffee and a bit of bread and goafs milk. At 10 o'clock the secretary of state is consultation with the holy father, and this conference lasts until about 11 but on Tuesdays and Fridays the under-sec retary confers with the Pope, while the diplomatic corps assembles in the apart ments of the secretary of state and there is also the duty of receiving am bassadors and distinguished Italians and foreigners. The congregations of cardi nals report regularly, and we barely inti mate the importance of the snbject-mat ter thus reported when we state that all things connected with the administration of a church numbering perhaps two hun dred millions are divided among these standing committees. In some cases the sessions are actually held in the Pope's presence, and even when that additional tax upon his attention and his strength is avoided. it still remains true, as the au thor last quoted asserts, that his "solici tude extends to every diocese and mis sion on the surface of the globe." And besides these, many other congregations and commissions charged with special work must satisfy Leo's demands for the utmost regularity, punctuality, and ex actness in their reports.—Harper's Week ly. Role of the Best Man. Under the title "When a Maid's Mar ried" Frederick Boyd Stevenson, in the Woman's Home Companion, traces the origin of some of our marriage customs back to the days of primitive man. "While Ave smile at the wife-stealing propensity of the savage or half-savage nations, we cherish as our dearest form -i custom that had its direct origin in this very self-same practice. The 'best man,' who plays so important a part in weil regulated marriages that nowadays have any pretense at all to the fashionable, once on a time in Sweden occupied a posi tion that was useful as well as orna mental. In the old days the Swedish groom found it desirable, in fact, to have several 'best men,' to defend him from the assaults of rivals and prevent them from carrying away his bride. The Scandinavian warrior of ancient times was far too lofty in his ideas to con descend to plead for a maiden's hand. So he patiently waited until some other man who was more gallant had obtained th« fair one's consent. Then when all the de tails had been nicely arranged, the proud warrior, with a body of well-trained re tainers, dashed down on the wedding par ty, and if strong enough, carried away the bride. The 'best men' (and it was very essential that they should be the best men in those days), therefore, be came necessary fixtures to the marriage ceremony, and they were so well es teemed and their popularity became so permanent that when the reason for their existence was removed they were still re tained. Hence, the custom is preserved in the 'best man' of today." A Change of Thought and Labor. Life for the most part is too much a matter of routine. There is too much delv ing in one line, the following along in a beaten path, the staying in one rut. It is this more than any other thing that causes the premature breaking down and wearing out of the human machine. Had there been a change of occupation and thought, many might have been kept in use aud repair for years longer. The contact with others brings about a fresli train of thought and ideas, suggests new varia tions of life and action. In an assem blage of people there exists a human mag netism which passes from one to another, acting upon them for their quickening and benefit. Who has not felt this in audi ences, whether at church, at lecture, or at the theater. It comes as an actual phys ical stimulus. It is a great human orches tra, led, guided and played upon by the preacher, the orator or the actor. AH are occupied by the same theme, by the same key, but giving out from the strings of their being a different note or tune, which, interwoven, produce a symphonv of feel ing which appeals to all, each experiencing not only his own. impression, but that of those who are about him. If the thought is high and noble it tends, to the better ment and uplifting of every human unit which goes to make the whole also, If the purpose is not btgb, the effect is equal? ly widespread to arouse the evil jtnd the jMMloav of web,-Harped Bpx&t, ,^-^fmm-? Loving and Loved. List, list! I sing of thee Iu days when I am old, There Is no lasting memory But love's sweet story told. To love aud be beloved I sing, Is purest joy thut life can bring. North, south, east, west, I'm sure Rich, poor, or sick, or well, There Is uo heart that Is secure Prom love's entrancing spell. To love and be beloved I slug, Is sweetest joy that life can nrlug. Our childhood's loves must go Where nature's beauties lead. To hills and vales, to scenes we know Then senses rule, ludeed! To love aud be beloved I sing, A later Joy to youth will bring. Geutly within the waking hearts, A thrill begins to stir This one or that, something imparts That draws to him or her. But love and be beloved I slug, By chosen friend, true joy can bring. Where glory led the way, Where fame's green laurels crowned Where genius made the impulse sway Where honors most abound. Yet love and be beloved 1 sing, Relgued e'er supreme o'er everything. In coldest northern zones. In. warmest southern climes. In east among the rugged stones, Far west I've been sometimes. Yet love and be beloved I sing, Did everywhere the sole joy bring. Through youth to age e'er ruled (With no regret, I own. Not always right when passion cooled) By love, and love aloue! To love and be beloved I sing, Is all the joy that life can bring. —Josephine Hasam in New Orleans Pica yune. Too Much Familiarity Breeds Con* tempt. To apply the above quotation to the eti quette of social life 1 must refer .to the very unnecessary habit some women have of calling all their relatives by their Christian or pet names to everyone, and before everyone, strangers or acquain tances, whom they may encounter. This is a great mark of middle-class breed ing, and should be strictly avoided. A wife should never speak of her hus band to others but members of her fam ily by his Christian name, it is correct, when she has occasion to speak of him, to say "my husband," or "Mr. So-and So," and equally it is correct for her to reserve her own pet name for him until both are in private. Anything like fa miliarity of word or action between Jiius baud or wife, or relatives, in the pres ence of almost strangers, is very embar rassing to the latter, and argues a lack of real delicacy of feeling iu the perpe trators. Into this mistake engaged people are very liable innocently to fall, but they must be reminded, that it is not "good form." A stoical calmness of demeanor in the midst of pleasure or pain used to be considered the acme of good breeding, but fortunately we are growing more natural now, and a moderate expression of our sentiments and feelings is allow able provided only that we do not take outsiders too far into our confidence. Those women who can never keep their private affairs and the foibles of their family to themselves, but must needs babble of them even to mere acquain tances, are verging upon the familiarity that brings upou them the contempt of more properly reserved persons. When in public places, such as the thea ter, or restaurant, or in shopping, it is good taste to refrain from discussing pri vate affairs and common friends and even in speaking to a companion it is then bet ter to withhold the name as far as possi ble. So many ladies are guilty of this error of talking over their private affairs, whereby all in their immediate neighbor hood may become acquainted with them, that I make no apology for reminding them of the foolishness of the proceeding. Young girls should study early in their so cial career to attain the happy mean be tween too great freedom of behavior and too much primness, which is liable to be come a bore. There is great charm to mankind in a woman whose sweetness is veiled by a dainty soupcon. of reserve, while she who, metaphorically speaking, puts all her warts in the window," soon tires him and disgusts. Familiarity of intercourse between a man and woman, unconnected save by ties of ordinary friendship, is also to bfc deprecated, and it is this familiarity, per mitted by the women of today, that has done much to alienate the chivalry of men, and to introduce a general laxity of speech and behavior into society that is much to be deplored. Except when with her nearest and dearest a woman should put a veil of reserve about her, and a lock upon her tongue. The veil may be a filmy one, Just sufficient to lend the charm of mystery to her inmost personality, and the lock need not pre vent her talking well and brightly, but both should be acquired by her who wishes to deserve, in its highest sense, the_ honorable title of "high-bred lady."— Philadelphia Times. Truth in Little Things. They are little things, the perversions of truth in which the average woman indul ges, but how despicable is their very smallness! A girl who owns a thorough bred bull pup has, ever since she got the dog last fall, let it be ltnown among her friends that he was a present from a Western man. The man's affection and pride in the dog were often quoted, his liberality in giving the animal to the girl was made much of, and, in short, she contrived, and so artistically, to pose as the recipient of a handsome present from an admiring and generous mau, that her friends could not fail to be impressed. Last spring the Western man visited New York. He was naturally entertained of ten at the girl's house, and he met many of her friends. To oue of the latter, one day, he began talking nbout the thorough bred pup, when it transpired that his parting with the dog was a purely busi ness transaction, the girl having paid him $55. It was the married sister of two other girls who w*as at pains this spring to let all her friends far and wide know that "the girls were going for June to Narra gansett—such a good time as they'll have, too, for they are to stay with the Blanks of Baltimore—charming people, the Blanks, very old family and awfully smart,.and all that—perfectly dear of them to invite the girls, wasn't it?" At which rhapsody all her friends far and wide who had never heard of the Blanks were visibly impressed. But one day the mar ried sister struck somebody who knew something about Baltimore. "The Blanks, you say," observed this some body, "and in a cottage at Narragansett? Why, that's very queer I didn't know—"' "Oh, it's their first season there," purred the married sister, "and that's one rea son why it's so particularly good of them to invite the dear girls they're such sin old family and "I know all that," blurted out somebody. "I know all about them and their circumstances, and how they can afford cottage at Narragansett and the entertainment of gay young guests is more than I can see. Why, since their father's death, six years ago, those girls have worked like everything and at ev erything. He left nothing but debts, and he had hosts of creditors aud "Yes, yes," the married sister, seeing that the game was up, hastened to say, "but, you see, the truth is the Blanks have opened a boarding house at Narragansett, and my sisters are not going to pay a visit but board with them."—Boston Herald. The Wedding Gift Difficulty. "If persons who give silver articles for wedding present only knew the discom forts frequently caused by having them marked," said a prospective bridesmaid to her friend while discussing the wedding arrangements, "they would always send them without the initials or name being engraved. So many silver articles are generally given that it is rare to find a case where there are not more or less du plicates. If these were unmarked they could always be exchanged for other things, perhaps much more satisfactory, as the dealer's stamp usually shows where they have been purchased. It is positive ly annoying to have a lot of duplicate sil ver gifts all carefully marked. It is easy enough to have this done after the wed ding, and the recipients. I. am sure, would be much more pleased." This little comment on silver gifts, over heard during a bridesmaid's conversation, recalls a funny stow which a friend told the writer about his experience in wed ding gifts. Desiring to give a friend about to be married a neat gift lie determined to give something different from the or dinary routine of presents. Suddenly lie recollected an artist whom he knew apt) At once came tbe thought "I will jcive an oU painting." So up to tbe artiit be wtotr Mi case, and. a few days later received a pre* ty little scene, exquisitely, painted. The price of the painting was $60, and the artist stated that it had been secured from a fellow artist who was In great need of cash, but who gavo promise of some day becoming famous, when the picture should be worth at least $200. The picture wat nicely framed and duly sent. Several days after the wedding the friend called on the newly-married coupfe and carelessly glanced around the room for a sight, of his oil painting. Several engravings, most of a cheap character, adorned the walls, but no oil painting Before departing the visitor wus shown through the cozy little flat, and in a nais row hallway separating two rooms he was horrified to discover the work of art which had been his gift As he walked down to the street ne muttered: "Weir I'll be very careful how I go in for fine art upou future wedding occa sions. A $5 engraving of a football match or a winter sleighing scene would probably have received greater honor."— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Choosing a Haaband. A girl thinking seriously of her future husband does not lay any great stress on good temper. A soldierly form, a pair of fine eyes, a noble profile—any of these might easily outweigh good temper. Yet Mr. Smiles assures us that "After the first year married people rarely think of each other's features, whether they be classically beautiful or otherwise but they never fail to be cognizaut of each oth er's temper." As to the husband's for tune, it is not so important as the quali ties which lead to fortune—ambition, de termination, industry, thrift and posi tion such a man may attain for himself^ In education a man should be at least his wife's equal. Undoubtedly there is some subtle affinity between opposites. Yet there must be likeness as well as uniike ness. The latter will lend piquancy which is pleasant, but the former will give peace which is essential. At first love itself will be all-sufficing, but a little later the in dividual characteristics reassert them selves, and then in the absence of com prehension and sympathy iu one's pet tastes and theories a barrier springs up, slight, unconfessed perhaps, but still im passable, and in one sense at least man and wife are not "one," but distinctly "two."—Carrie E. Garrett in Woman's Home Companion. Key to Successful Domestic Financ ing. "The secret of domestic finance is to make a little money go a long way," writes Frances Evans in an article "About Men," in the Ladies' Home Jour nal. "The old axiom about saving the pennies and letting the pounds take care of themselves is not the natural policy of Americans only the frugal Scotch and French know that rule by heart. But women could learn it better than men, because their minds dwell more naturally upon little things. If they are rarely great financiers they are' frequently suc cessful small financiers. Make a woman responsible for an allowance and she feels the interest of a junior partner pay her bills, and she is put on the footing of an inferior. There is a feeling of ignominy about asking a man for car fare, 50 cents, $5, or even $100, disagreeable beyond ex pression to a woman with any pride or independence. Now that women are thinking more for themselves than in the past, independence is becoming naturally a part of their creed. This independence cannot bo choked out." Walk in the Sunshine. When the work of the busy woman will permit her to travel her two miles in the sunshine she should surely make the most of such a priceless advantage, for beneficial as the breathing of plenty of oxygen and the regular exercise of muscle are at any time, sunshine is a tonic for mind, heart and body, which no woman, sick or well, can afford to despise. The society girl, who has a little more leeway in arranging her time, should walk each morning directly after break fast, and not less than twb miles. The busy woman of household cares can plan to take her morning tramp when she is out marketing for the day. She should never delude herself, moreover, with the idea that shopping, dragging- aboutr from' store to store, carrying parcels and breathing the impure air of the average shop is "getting exercise." It is only the full' free swing out of doors, in the pure air, that will take her home with red cheeks and bright eyes. School girls should walk either before school hours or at noon. An hour each day given to brisk walking will prove far more valuable in after life than the usual assortment of half-learned accomplish ments, "parlor tricks," with which chil dren spare hours are usually filled. Too Much Furniture. There are many girls who, by the way, are exceedingly happy, whose married life is one long study of the science of econo my, with its various branches of "ways and means," and "how to make two ends meet, and "the possibility of $1 doing the duty of $5." There is not, however, the study of economy in money matters alone, but there are also the economy of labor, the econo my of time and the economy of health to be considered. When we start housekeeping and begin to buy the necessary furniture for our fu ture dwelling place, we women, one anil all, have the same intense desire to make our homes as beautiful and pleasant to look upon as it lies in our power to do, says the Philadelphia Press. Unless one can afford to keep plenty of domestics it is well to avoid furniture that has much carving upon it. Simple decora tive designs have a better-"bred" air about them, aud, what is more important, are much easier to make clean and keep so. Nothing looks worse than little gray heaps of dust accumulated in difficult corners of au elaborately-ornnmented piece of wood work, especially if it belongs to the cheap and common order of things. It does not follow by any means that furniture must be costly to be beautiful, but it is well when purchasiug to remem ber that it is not only the amount of money paid that constitutes "saving." Therefore one must exercise the greatest discretion. Crowding rooms with furniture is not only a sign of bad taste, but it is posi tively unhealthy. All the space taken up by the chattels means so much less air for breathing purposes. A. Problem for Mothers. "How can I possibly keep my child sim ple and unworldly, and at the same time give her the necessary stimulus which she undoubtedly needs in her lessons, by put ting her either in a school or a class with the children of my friends?" asked a per plexed mother the other day. "To my surprise and. I must say also, to my con sternation she returned home the other day quite pettish. 'Mamma,' she said, 'where do you get my jackets?" 'Why, sometimes from one place and sometimes from another, Mollie,' I an swered, rather surprised at such a ques tion from a mite of 10. 'I buy them wherever I find one that I think is prettv. Why do you ask?* 'Oh, because Carrie Midas looked at the mark inside and laughed, and Sally Tufthunter said to me afterward that Carrie wears lovely clothes, but that, of course, she only gets them at the best places, and then added that she herself wouldn't wear a jacket that did not bear the mark of a fashionable place.' "Oniy fancy, children of that age car ing where their clothes come from, as long as they are prettily and nicely dressed! But that is not the worst. I found Mol lie that afternoon busily unpicking the stitches that fastened the trademark in her jacket. 'What are you doing, my" dear?' asked her. 'Oh,' she said, frankly, for. so far, Ii am thankful to say, she does not conceal any of her actions, 'I am taking this out, and am going to put in the one from my best jacket, which came from the same place as Carrie's, and which no one sees, as I only wear it on Sundays or when I go out for a walk.' "'But, Mollie!' I exclaimed, quite lior* rifled, 'that is cheating. I am sure my little daughter never would act a lie.' "The child grew red instantly, and her eyes filled with tears. 'Mamma,' she cried, I never thought of that. Fannie Sly told me to do it, and said she took a mark from her moth er's cloak and sewed it into her jacket, and all the girls .said what a nice one it was, just because it came from A-—-'s.' "Now, what is one to do under such circumstances? I cannot have my child's simplicity and unworldliness spoiled, and yet she is getting on wonderfully with her lessons, and need# young companionship, Of course^ I can send her to another KM tot these aw tb* children of people know, and the girls she will be with later on in society, and they are real nice children, except for their worldliness. I want Mollie to be 'in the World, but not of it,' and how to bring that about Is. a pussle,"—New York Trib une. Even the Little Ones Wear Them. Women are now Informed that they must wear three veils at once. Such is the decree from Paris, Aud who would set her face agaiust any fashion issued from that birthplace of fashion plates? It seems that the French Women who wish to appear very stylish commence by put ting close to the face a fine tulle veil of white, ing to this the pale, pink, cream or blue, accord ing to the tone of the complexion. Over this they wear a black chenille-dotted veil, which should be left a trfle loose at the lower patt. And again over that a filmy dark Brown or blue silk veil, which latter is lifted and thrown back when entering the house. The effect is said to be very pretty, softening the complexion iu a very becoming wanner. Well, it is to be hoped that the oculists will not profit too inUt'h by this perform ance. It is bad enough to be forever gaz ing through meshes, of fine-spun silk placed in oite thickness, whenever one is out of doors, and often when one is not, without putting it on in layers to this ex tent. Opticians have stated that the dotted veil has done much to injure the eyesight of women. And some women re fuse to even wear the plain net, declaring that it makes their eyes ache. But now, my lady, if you will be in style, that is, real French style, please don three veils, and see what you can and be thankful that you are allowed to see at all. A few days ago I saw a little girl about 0 years old wearing a lace veil, black with white dots, tight-fitting kid gloves and earrings. The day was cold, and every body who ever dohned a kid glove knows that they are famous for their lack of warmth. Of course, they are the only dress glove there is, and women must wear them. But is it necessary to squeeze the hand of the tiny girl in them? What has become of the comfortable wool glove so much more appropriate to the little girl on a cold day? Must the child become a woman of fashion before her time? As for the earrings, persons of modern common sense had come to hope that this barbarous practice had gone out forever. But it seems not.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Patriotic aud Sentimental. The prettiest and most poetic of all the patriotic badges has just been issued. It consists of an interlaced triple truelover's knot, in red, white and blue, and is sup posed to be given by a soldier to his be trothed, or vice versa. The cord is of fine uon-coirosive wire wrapped with colored silk thread, and is intended to stand the roughest usage. Regarding Bedclothes. In regard to bede'othing nothing should be used save what can be, when needed, thoroughly cleansed. This will restrict us to blankets and the old-fashioned bed quilt. A comforter may be at hand for the exigency of a zero temperature, to be thrown upon the outside of the bed. but never placed beneath the other coverings. Comforters in constant use should be pro tected at the top by. a neat covering of some fadeless material, as they are easily soiled where they come in contact with the mouth of the sleeper. A Too Truthful Servant. Some persons discharge their servants for not being able to speak the truth. Mrs. Blank dismissed a man the other day for not being able to fib. "He sim ply could not make any sort of an ex cuse without showing that he was ly ing," she said. "When visitors would come whom I didn't want to see, he was sure to look so dreadfully guilty as he said 'Not at home' that anybody could see right through it, and in nine cases out of ten they took offense. Why, I found I was losing half my friends, and all through that simpleton of a servant who didn't know how to fib. So I just dismissed him." TO CURE INTEMPERANCE. Suggestion that Work is a Very Valu able Remedy. Prof. David Starr Jordan of the University of California makes a very use ful contribution to the cause of temperance when he points out that men may be cured of drunkenness by giving them something •to dp that is worth doing, says the Hart '•ford"Times. There is nothing like work in which one can become interested to develop a man and save him from bad habits. The Salvation army has this same idea when it takes its converts and sets them at work on others much like what they used to be. It is said to have dealt pretty successfully with many who were drunkards, or near it, and this is the explanation. Prof. Jordan does well also to call atten tion to the influence exerted by corpora tions. He says: "The soulless corpora tions are doing more today for the cause of temperance, by refusing to employ those who drink, than is being done by all the lecturers and temperance workers." This will hardly pass without dispute by the "temperance workers," which means total abstainers, real temperance being the very last thing most of them teach. Yet con sidering the number of corporations who either refuse to employ drinking men or give the preference to those who do not (Irfnk there is a natural probability that Prof. Jordan's statement is correct, even apart from the presumption that as a scholar and teacher he is reasonably care ful not to make statements that can be dis proved as soon as a large faction under takes the work. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, as wife of the governor of New York, will preside over the executive mansion at Albany for the next two years. She was boru Miss Carew. She was an intimate friend of Mr. Roosevelt's first wife. She is in her early thirties. She is of medium height, with fair complexion, dark eyes and hair, and possesses a remarkable charm of manner. Mrs. Roosevelt is un questionably the greatest spur to her husband in his political career, and is perhaps more ambitious for him {linn lie is for himself. Personally, she shrinks from publicity. By nature she is retiring and sensitive to an extreme degree. In no 8?nse a woman of fashion, Mrs. Roosevelt dresses simply, always in perfect taste. She wears a few jewels, and these remarkably handsome ones. There are six little Roosevelts—the eld est a daughter by Mr. Roosevelt's first wife, who was formerly Miss Alice Lee of Boston. "Teddy" Roosevelt, Jr., 11 year-old son of the governor-elect, rides a pony of his own on Sagamore hill, Oyster bay. Little "Teddy" is big "Teddy" in miniature. His smile is just as expansive, and the iron-rimmed glasses that mark his gray-blue eyes are just as big and business-like. The only difference is that "Teddy," Jr., is older in his ways than "Teddy," Sr. There is a popular impression in Oyster Bay that little "Teddy" was close to 40 years old when he was born. He is the philosopher of the Roosevelt family— calm and dignified always. Weeks ago. just after the distinguished father had been nominated at Saratoga, a reporter visiting the Roosevelt mansion saw little "Teddy" and wrote a complimentary paragraph about him. Days later the same reporter and "Teddy," Jr., met. "My friend," said the surprising young ster, "I had my attention called to your article referring to me. I must ask you not to do this again. Please remember that I am not a candidate for public of fice. I do not seek notoriety." Little "Teddy" is a great reader, a good horse man, aud a wonderfully accomplished youngster all around. Recognition of a Noble Woman. The resolution introduced in the House of Representatives by Gen. Wheeler for the presentation by the President of a medal to Helen Gould is a fitting recog nition of the work of a thoughtful and patriotic woman. The distinction pro posed to be conferred is uuique in its •way. Congress has never thus far ren dered any such honor to any woman. The nearest precedent for this case is that of Capt. Molly, who figures in some of the chronicles as "Moll Pitcher." She -rendered gallant service us a soldier in the Revolution, firing the last shot from her husband's cannon at Fort Clinton, iii October, 1777, just before its capture by the British, after her husband and every other man had evacuated the fort. She took her husband's place at his can non after he was killed at Monmouth on June 28, 1778, and fought through out the battle. For her services Wash ington made her a sergeant, but the hon £r accorded her did not "stop there. On Washington's recommendation the Con tinental Congress put her on the list of half-pay officers, and her compensation' -was continued through her life.—Leslie's Weekly. —The .art of styrcbinj wrought into England in woman. linen was byaFlem- *V Att Unfortunate Caller. Alice Bawling Went a-cttlllng On some friends Both tried and true. But she couldn't Reuch the door-bell And her kind friends Never knew. Then she visited 8omo neighbors Iiut she took theiu Unawares. They looked at her From the window, But they wouldn't ('ouie down stairs. Mary Van Derburgb in St. Nicholas. How Phil Got His Overcoat. "Uncle Allan, I wish yon would put me on to a scheme to make some money." Uncle Allan looked up from the news paper ho was reading, and said: "Well, Frank, what is the extremity?" "It isn't for myself, uncle, but it is to help another boy." "Oh, I see. It is easy enough to get up schemes, Prank, but the thing is to have them work as you wish to have them. It must be a straight, honest scheme, of course." "Oh, certainly, uncle. You know I would not go into a dishonest, crooked transaction for anything, aud the cause would not warrant it." Uncle Allan put his newspaper down aud leaned his head back against the high-backed rocking-chair. "Now, Frank," he said, "I am ready to hear the reason for getting up a money scheme." Frank sat down in a chair at the other side of the library table. His face showed that his heart was almost bursting with the enthusiastic desire to fiud out a good way to help somebody. "You know how cold it was last Sun day, uncle, and that mother told me to wear my new overcoat. Every other boy in our Sunday-school class had on a new overcoat, too, all but Phil Downes. He did not have on any at all, and when he turned the corner by the church where the wind sweeps through at such a rate of speed, he must have shivered and shaken with the cold. Phil's father went to war and caught the fever and died in camp. He was a very kind father. I used to go in the house with Phil sometimes, and he always was so pleasant to the boys who were Phil's chums. I don't know how Phil lives without him. I am sure it would kill me to have my father die. None of the fathers of the other boys in our set went to war, but Phil's. He went as a private soldier, but he was a hero just as much as the big generals, for he died in defense of his couutry." "That is true, my boy. Phil's father was a hero, and he, and others as well whose names are not known to the world, deserve honor from their country." "Phil and I are great chums, and he tells me things he does not tell the other boys. He said he could not do as he used to when his father was alive and had a good salary that his mother had only a small income—they had to move into a cheaper place for that reason. Phil ie a fine scholar, beats us all in arithmetic and grammar—the two studies I am ashamed to say I have not much affinity for. His mother says he must keep on in school, though Phil told me he tried to have her let him go to work. It makes me feel so sorry to have a dead soldier's boy going around in the cold weather without an overcoat, because his father went to war and never came home again." Frank's eyes really had big tears in them. "If Phil has an overcoat at all he needs it right off," Uncle Allan said. "While you have been talking. I've been think ing aud scheming. I know you would like to give him that overcoat yourself, and you have not a cent to your credit. Is that the way of it?" "The very way," replied Frank. It has always been against my prin ciples to advance money for work. It is strange, but nevertheless true, that if you pay for work before the money is earned, the work is a long time getting done and quite likely not to be satisfactory. But this is an emergency. I might break my rule for once and advance the. money for Phil's overcoat, and you might give me your work of honor to pay for it in work. As I understand you, you WisIi to 'prrr for it yourself." "Yes, uncle, and I will promise you faithfully to do whatever you wish me to." "We will say that Phil's overcoat costs $8 or $10, Frank. I will give you $1 every Saturday for helping me in "my of fice—that will take just as many weeks as the dollars that are put into Phil's overcoat. Is that satisfactory?" For a moment Frank hesitated. There was to be no more fun Saturdays with the boys. Uncle Allan was a strict busi ness man, and his and Frank's agreement would be a regular business transaction. But it was only for a moment. His face lighted with joy as he exclaimed: "I will do it. Uncle Allan, and 1 will be just as faithful in doing my work as if you did not pay me in advance." A couple of hours later a package war handed to Phil's mother addressed to him. It was a new overcoat. A little paper was pinned on it with these words: "For Phil, whose father was a hero, and died for his country. Frank." That was all. Phil and Frank were the same size, so the overcoat was a per fect fit. Frank goes with his Uncle Allan every Saturday to work in his office, and the experience aud discipline he is get ting are going to be worth as much to him in the future as the kind deed which he will always like to remember. Uncle Allan says: "There is no doubt but Frank will stick to his bargain." Phil does not know, however, why Frank goes to his uncle's office now every Satur day to work. But as he is working Sat urdays, too, to help his mother, they do not miss each other in the games the other boys have.—S. T. P. in New York Evangelist Civil Service Here and in England The British monarchy Is restrained and directed, it is true, by the law-making power, but it is not hampered by it—at least it is nq£ hampered as is our own executive by Congress. It cannot exer cise a will independent of and above the law, but it is not forced to accept its im portant administrative officers at the dic tation of either house of the legislative branch, ns our President is often com pelled to do by the Senate, and it pos sesses in a large measure the discretion which is essential to sound administra tion. Undoubtedly the finest administra tive body in the world is the civil service of Great Britain—trained, permanent, resting on merit alone, its members bound to no duty but to that of administering the laws faithfully and impartially, and protected from punishment or degradation for their political opinions, or for com pelling "great men" as wrell as little men to obey. We also have begun to build up a trained and permanent civil service, but for inferior officers only, and we will not have such an efficient executive as Hamilton hoped for and expected from the Constitution until we recognize the fact that the legislative branch of the government must be checked that our fathers went too far in their crusade against the executive power that, how ever excusable may have been their fear of Kings in the Eighteenth century, there are strong reasons now why the consti tutional consequences of that fear should be modified, and why there should be a readjustment of the relations between the executive and legislative branches of the government. The fact that the revolt against executive power in the Eighteenth century went too far for the comfort of the Nineteenth in this country is not yet generally or even widely recognized, but that there is now a revolt against undue legislative power Tfe evident from the growing length and complexity of the state constitutions, and in the efforts of the people, expressed in their own funda mental laws, to limit and restrain the power of their legislatures.—Henry Loo mis Nelson in Harper's Magazine. Poison in Clothing. Many cases of poisoning have been re ported iu England, the trouble being caused by the presence of zinc chloride in the cloth overcoats of the victims. The poison was absorbed on wet days, and caused pain of a severe description. One hesitates somewhat to refer to this new trouble, for it has sometimes seemed as though the number of things to be afraid of multiplied daily. .The agitation of some minds over possible microbes is not easily described. Milk is regarded with suspicion, water without- a label is shunned, pins are scrubbed and money disinfected. No one ha9 thought before of looking after uncut cloth. One com fort arises from tbe contemplation of thin new source of danger. The manu facture^ threatened with ruin, will find qprae way of substituting another chem ical for the one which has proved itself to dftQferouft. H* did this With tbe red s* **. 3** oft Young Folk's Column dyes of flannels, which poisoned so many. And be found some other way of mak ing green wallpaper than by using ar senic in his colors. He has made black stockings possible for the poorest and for the most fastidious of US, and be is not likely to be a delinquent in discover ing another remedy with which to meet the present case,—Harper's Bazar. RICH DIADEMS OF ROYALTY. Gorgeous Crowns Worn by Rulers of Kuropean Countries. The crown that adorned the brow of Holland's youthful Queen ib said to have cost £120,000, and has had a most ro mantic history. In 1829 it wus stolen by burglars and remained in their iwsses sion for nearly two years. Eventually part of the stones composing it were found near Brooklyn, U. S. A., and the remainder were ultimately discovered in Belgium. Strange stories cluster around many other royal diadems. Some time ago Prince Del Drago, grandnephew of the ex-Queen Isabella of Spain, paid a visit to America, the object of which was to sell the crown which hw relative carried off to exile with the rest of her jewels. The crown, which is set with very fine diamonds, emeralds and sapphires, was eventually bought for tbe late Jay Gould's daughter, the Countess Castel lane, for £25,000. At the time Queen Isabella was wearing the bauble Jay Gould was struggling to make a living as a book canvasser. The coronation crown of her gracious majesty weighs 39 ounces aud is worth about 500 times its weight in sovereigns. It is set with 2500 diamonds, 2723 pearls, a famous ruby, an immense sapphire and divers other gems. Its value is esti mated at a sum which would yield, if in vested at 41,4 per cent., the snug income of £15,000 a year. Richard II. could raise only £2000 on his crown aud regalia when, in 183(, he pledged them to the city of London. The King of Portugal's crown is esti mated by different authorities at a fabu lous value, being, according to some, equal to forty and one-half miles of Bn 11k of England "fivers," and, according to others, seven tons sixteen hundredweight of sovereigns, but if we take a happy mean and say a coiuron of sovereigns 1 mile 4S0 yards high, or the sum of £1, 300.000, we shah probably be about right. Whether the Czar's crown is not more valuable than that of Portugal is a moot point. The principal feature of the Russian crown is a magnificent cross, formed of five superb diamonds, resting on an un cut but polished ruby of great size and wonderful luster. The crown worn by the King of Italy is known as "the iron crdwn of the Lom bards," so-called because of the legend that a small circlet of iron forming part of it was originally a nail from the cross on which Christ was crucified. The Hungarian crown, belonging to the bereaved Emperor of Austria, was made tor Stephen II. 800 years ago, and it weighs about fourteen pounds. It is adorned with 53 sapphires, 50 rubies. 1 emerald and 338 parls. bttt no diamonds appear in it. owing to some superstition entertained by Stephen that such gems would bring bad luck to his family. This crown has passed through many vicissi tudes It Was ofice sewn up in a cushion and carried off by a Queen, who eventu ally pawned it for 2800 ducats. After it had been redeemed from the pawn broker it was hidden away and lay buried in a forest for five decades. The crown of the sovereign of Rouma nia is quite unique, in so far as it. forms a genuine badge of the nation's freedom from Turkish tyrauny. It is made from the metal of Turkish c-annon captured at Plevna by the Roumanians in 1877. European monaichs are quite eclipsed by tbe splendor of Eastern crowns and regalia. The Sultan of Johore, when rigged out in his state garments, presents one mass of glittering diamonds and oth er gems, valued at over £2,400.000. or 1 ton 72 pounds and 8 ounces of Bank of England £5 notes—London Mail. A New Way of Getting Cheap Books. "Here," submits a New York woman, "is a question in ethics. For the last year have twen ifltlclf amioyert Hy-wrTTa" from agents for various things—art folios, encyclopaedias, books in single volumes and books iu series, and the rest of the list that everybody knows, almost every one of them stating to me that my name had been given to him as a person who might care to buy. I have often won dered to whom I was indebted for these many calls, and lately my curiosity has been partly satisfied. I was summoned to the parlor the other day in response to a man's card that betrayed nothing of his business, to fiiid a fllall faultlessly dressed, who rose and bowed most defer entially at my entrance. He then told me that he was from a large publishing firm in the city to whom I had applied some months before tor a price list. He said as they had heard nothing from me they had inferred that their price might be higher than I cared to pay. I told him the inference was correct. He bowed again and said that his firm had a plan by means of which persons of lit erary tastes (another bow) could se cure special terms on a business, not philanthropic, basis. He went on to explain the plan, which in brief was as follows: I was to furnish him with a list of any of my friends who I thought might be interested in the class of books published by his firm, and in return I would be entitled to a large reduction in the price of any books I wished to buy. I declined his offer, and since his call 1 have spent some time wondering which of my friends' is being furnished with cheap books at the expense of my time. Now the ethical question remains. Is it right for the sake of personal advantage to subject, others to thef=e calls upon their time and patience? Is it expedient for reputable firms to use these methods to dispose of their goods? Competition is keen and business has been dull, but I wonder if the business promoted by such methods is good for the reputation of the firms in the long run?" These ques tions are certainly relevant even in cases where names are suggested without re ward. Sometimes the motive is sym pathy for the iterson who is trying to make a living in a hard way, and some times it is selfishness that sees in this an easy method of getting rid of an in truder. Franklin's Schooling and Self-Culture Few men have known more than Ben jamin Franklin, yet few have had less education, iu the common sense of the word. For not more than two years (at the age of 8 to 10) he went to a gram mar school and a private school in Bos ton for the other fourscore years and more of his life, he learned. without a teacher. His father's library was small, but the lad himself spent the little money that came into his hands on serious books and pamphlets. Having proved deficient in arithmetic in his early youth, he after wards made a special study of mathe matics, and for some time amused him self by constructing all sorts of magical squares and circles, w'ith rows of figures that would add up alike, whichever way they were counted. Some of these are reproduced in fac simile, while many other odd aud interesting matters, in il lustration of the January installment of Paul L. Ford's serial. "The Many-Sided Franklin," in the Century. In this con nection, Mr. Ford—a self-educated man himself, in that his only school was his father's immense private library—has this to say: "His own experience served to teach Franklin that a strong mind needs no schooling to develop it. and that a poor mind is not strengthened by study. Poor Richard made merry over the 'many wit ty men whose brains cannot fill their bellies,' and of those who. 'would live by their Wits, but break for want of stock.' 'A learned blockhead is a great er blockhead than an ignorant one,' he asserted, and claimed that 'of learned fools I have seen ten times ten of un learned wise men. I have seen a hun dred.' Yet Franklin was far from show ing the usual contempt of the self-taught man for an academic education. On his settling in Philadelphia he found 'two things wnich I regretted,' and one of these was 'there being no provision for the eompleat education of youth. I therefore in 1743 drew up a proposal for establishing an academy.' The academy was duly founded but in time it became a hotbed of politics, and its rector an active opponent of Frank lin himself. Forgiveness. "I do forgive," said one, "I do, but go— 'Tls best we walk apart, but go for given." Ah! what were God's forgiveness did be so Aenro our sins and then deny as heaven? —Charlotte, Whltcoffib to Woman'# Bone Companion, :. CHARLES 8. PABNELL. The Secret of the Great Irish Statesman's Power Over His Pellow Men. From O'Brien's Life of the Irish Leader. Only once was Parnell's plan of riding all horses at once and making them all subservient frustrated. That was when the Phoenix park murders were commit ted. It was a stab in the back for Par nell, and for once in his life he wan un nerved, "He flung himself into a chair in my room," says Davitt, "and declared he would leave public life. 'How can I,' he said, 'carry on a public agitation if I am stabbed in the back in this way7 He was wild. Talk of the calm aud cal lous Parnell. There wa« not much calm ness or callousness about him that morn ing." "On the Sunday after the Phoenix park murders," said Mr. Gladstone, "while I was at lunch, a letter was brought to me from Parnell. I was much touched by it. He wrote evidently nnder strong emotion. He did not ask me if I would advise him to retire from public life or not. That was not how he put k. He asked me what effect I tbougnt the mur der would have on English public opin lon in relation to his leadership of tbe Irish party. Well, I wrote expressing my own opinion, and what I thought would be the opinion of others, that his re tirement from public life would do no on contrary, would do harm. I thought his conduct in the whole matter very praisewrothy." Having described Parnell's central idea, we pass to his tactics. Some of the most interesting of Mr. O'Brien's pages are tbose in which he describe* the state of the game at various times and the moves which Parnell made. Perhaps the most remarkable game was that which preced ed the ultimate adoption of home rule by A'ladstorie- Parnell at tb» period had three strings to his bow—Lord Car narvon and Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Gladstone. Man for man, Parnell would rather have .d8t,ODe hL5 than anyone .Party for party, he pre ferred the Tories to the Liberals. "The Tories, he said, "can carry a home-rule bill through the Lords. Can the Liber als/ Hoping to convert the Tories, he believed .nevertheless that Mr. Gladstone would in the end outstrip all competitors in the race for the Irish vote. The great est parliamentary tactician of the age, tbe chances ^were he would outmaneuver every antagonist. He might even outmaneuver Parnell himself. Still the course of the Irish leader was perfectly clear. He had to fhfeaten Mr. Chamberlain with Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr. Gladstone wrth both, letting the whole world know meanwhile that his weight would ultimate ly be thrown into the scale which went down upon the side of Ireland What was the secret of Parnell's power o\er men. The stamp of mastery, of f,!?? ness was .on him from the first. Ihere was in his eyes," says Mr. O Brien, a faraway look whi.-h those who knew Charles Stewart Parnell will never forget. How often did one feel iu walking with Parnell that he was really unconscious of your presence, and that his thoughts were far. far away." It is re markable that upon men of different na tionalities he produced the same irnpres sion of strangeness. To Irishmen he was an Englishman. "Parnell," said A. M. Sullivan, "is certainly the coolest hand 1 ever shok. He is never put out at auv thing, and he never thinks that you oug&t to be put out. He is a regular English uiaii There is not a bit of the Celt in him. But to Englishmen he was no less an enigma. "He acted," says Sir Charles Dilke, 'like a foreigner. We could not get at him as at any other man in English public life. Dealing with him was like dealing with a foreign power." Parnell's sangfroid on all occasions and his contemptuous toleration of his col leagues was remarkable. Once he was walking along the Strand with his secre tary. An Irish member passed and sa luted the chief. "Who is that?" askeJ Parneil. "Why. dont you know?*' sa,.l his_ companion. "It is one of our party it is Mr. ." "Ah!" said Parnell. :'I did not know we had such an uglv mau in the party." On the occasion of Kilkenny election Parnell asked O'Brien to stand. He subsequently, and at the last moment, selected a local man. Mr. Scully. "Shall we wire and put off O'Brien?" Parnell was asked. "No," was the reply, "he can come and hel ScuLlyJ ferenee erenee of opinion among the Notionalists upon the line to be taken with regard to the second reading of the land bui ill 1881. A party meeting was called and the members attended with the intention of giving their views. Parnell. as usual, arrived late. "Gentlemen." he said. "I don't know what your view on the ques tion is. I am against voting for the bill. If a majority of the party differ from me I shall resign at once. I now move that we do not vote for the second reading." The motion was immediately carried. There is another good story, which Mr. O'Brien does not tell. On one occasion, where there had( been an important and a close division in the Honse. an ardent Nationalist went out exeitedlv to hi* chief, exclaiming: "We've all but licke.I them, Parnell." "Mr. Parnell. if you please," was his only answer. Perhaps the most extraordinary in stance, alike of his power and his hau teur, was his treatment of the Parnell tribute in 1883. It had become known that he was 111 some financial embarrass ment, and the Irish people subscribed £40.000 to relieve him. The lord mayor, a man of culture and au eloquent speaker, was—so rnns the story—deputed, with some other leading citizens, to wait on Parnell at Morrison's hotel and to baud him the check. His lordship naturally prejwred a few suit able observations for the occasion. At the appointed hour the deputation arrived, and were ushered into a private sitting room, where stood the chief. The lord mayor, having been announced, bowed, and began: "Mr. Parnell "I be lieve." said Parnell. "you have got a check for me?" The lord mayor, some what surprised at this interruption, said "Yes." and was a Unit to recommence his speech when Parnell broke in "Is it made payable to order and crossed?" The lord mayor again answered in the affirmative, and was resuming the thread of his dis course when Parnell took the check, fold ed it neatly and put it in his waistcoat pocket. This ended tbe interview. It is a pathetic illustration of the con trast between Parnell's rise and fall that after the split his manner in this respect entirely changed. He clung to his few followers he became chatty and com panionable, and. indeed, could no longer bear to be alone. Pathetic, too, is Mr. O'Brien's account of one of his last in terviews with the chief: I said: "Hold together. There is an end to that for a long time. It will take yon ten years to pull the country together again." "No." he rejoined very quietly. "I will do it in five years—that is what I calcu late." "Well. Gladstone will be dead then." I said. "The whole question to me is. you and Mr. Gladstone. If you both go home rule will go with you for this generation." "But I will not go," he answered an grily. "I am a young mau and I will not go." And there was a fierce flash in his eyes which was not pleasant to look at. A few weeks later he was dead. The Use of Stimulants. What i» the gaiu by the use of stimu lants? What the tired man or horse needs is rest, uot the lash or the spur. So with the weak organ of the body. The man who would naturally fall to sleep at 8 or 9 o'clock and sleep long enough to re store his powers, will under so mild a stimulant as a cup of tea or coffee go on with his work until 10 or 12 o'clock, thus adding to the wear of a body that nor mally would have been at rest. Suppos ing he keeps up this same stimulant and this same work, what will resnlt? He will soon live up the surplus that kind Nature provides for a case of unavoidable or accidental overwork, and then he be gins to live upon his capital, viz., his tis sues, his muscles, his blood and bis nerves. Soon all of these are used up that can be spared, theu he has to resort, if Nature does not bring enforce^ rest by prostrating him, to one of three things. First, he may reform his habit. Second, he may take to drink, and this will pros trate him and by its paralyzing effect rest him. Third, or he goes to the doctor. He is a wise physician who looks behind all this breaking down to the true cause and turns him to rational living. Sup pose he does not fall into such wise hands? He will get bitters, iron and qui nine, arsenic, strychnine, phosphorus^ kola, etc., in an ascending scale of po tency for evil, until the crash of nervous prostration comes with all its helpless ness and hopelessness. The road to arink w6uld have been better for him. personal ly.—Sci *nce. —The Florentine excavations at Fies ole have now uncovered nearly tbe whole of the northern pre-Roman city walls. Valuable flnd» ooisa and other object! bare two nade, ,/- :'T JL