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Lucknow Sentinel, 1890-11-28, Page 2ti :raudpie as a Masher. • o' ° Herold : a' « �xs'illp s l ooks atoll are white as snow. possewee, imitate of curls of long ago, r .Wraithe'of boyhood's tresses. Wrinkle' o'er his features thin Zigzag without pity. Like the streets and allege in Famous Boston City. Mee has bent his form with years. Antil his loge are thinner illess comely than the shears Used by any sinner, Lusty war he once and gay, $uil of enanuoorPs graces, But of that long vanished day s a .?#Mtty ll;P 'm; ..'k. ;; „ reeto.t filet he in hie youthful pride Pleased the fair sex greatly ; Many lassies for bine sighed, Many ladies stately. Breads once throbbed and ached for him eee Tears wet silken lashes, But those eyes in death are dim And those hearts are ashes. Oran'pa has one sweetheart yet, Daintiestof creatures, Whose two eyes of deepest jet Atilt approve hisefeatures. And if I -remember What her age is, she was three Some time laid December! Oft hothead, so chubby fair, O'er his face she passes Slenderly, and with great care Not to touch his glasses. Oft his form I've seen her scan d I've caught her saying; " Gran'pa's each a handsome man "— Thus her love betraying. "LAST CENTbBJY LOVERS' I does lorgit ter argaty ; flu w'at sez d I 8ori tar ? Man hez got ter live by rein an' de law. Chile, dere ain't a day er hour dat I ain't wstohin' fur de debit." Have you ever Been him, nnole ? " " Honey, I hez 'totohed an' seen him di day, fur et he ain't poseeasin' dat ole bla Charlotte,1 ain't got no right ter ezhor an' preach." A tap on the window called her attention One of the oartaine were lifted and Atm Barbara itppeared, beckoning her to enter She burned toward the hoose, calling out " Goed-night, Uncle Mose." Derive d o! t 1 r ! desoribin 1' he eaeu e o th utitiiirii=fix kind'krisiatYierr`4iitie3ekYirireeee ing his better halt, whether it was th aroh-Send himself or only a wandering insignificant " supe," Uncle Mose mumble something. probable an exoroiem, an ehnffled off disconsolately across the grass As Betty entered the dining -room, Mie Bab threw up her hands. "Goodness graoione, Elizabeth Vaughan!' ehe cried, " the idea of your standing Cher in the nigijtta 1 ugii..wip " Do I look like the victim of an untimely grave 2 " laughed Betty, throwing off he mantle and large hat, and displaying he slender figure, that was graceful even undo the ungraceful negligee, a loose (moque ove a full petticoat. A mase of waving red brown hair was drawn back from the ova face, whioh had irregular, expressive feat urea, and a clear complexion, alightly freckled. Ber greatest beauty was her eyes, large and of a changing gray, fringed with blaok lashes. The red lips were senei- tive and variable, and her emiling, furtive dimples and white teeth belied her grave and dreamy eyes. " Do I look like dying yet ? " ehe Asked. " Meroy 1 child, looko don't count. I'll bring yon a draught of Jeeuit'a bark after you get to bed, and you may escape." Mies Babb's plain face, patient and marked by those lines whioh sickness and sorrow stamp upon the countenances of many middle-aged women,' labored under some unwonted excitement ; so Betty Ifs frained from questions, knowing that the secret would give additional pleaeure to her aunt by being thus ouppressed. The room was cheerful, with a blazing fire of logs in the wide fireplaoe. A branohed candlestick shone on the polished surface of the long mahogany table, which was set for supper, and bright with ohina and silver. A seoretary with braes ;handles, a sofa, and a few straight -banked chairs covered with hair -cloth, stood against the wall, panelled with cedar half -way to the ceiling. t--�,bov�e-the- aineooting--slang tee-pur - traits in gilt frames Captain Robert Vaughan, the first settler, painted by Lely, in peruke ; Betty's .father, a (tont, dark - eyed gentleman in purple -velvet frock and white brocade waiatooat, ostentationely fingering his laoe jabot, thereby dieplaving a diamond ring ; and her mother, who had been an Irish girl—a beautiful, bright face, under the shadow of a large hat. These two had died of yellow fever der - Betty to the guardianship of her auntie Well, did you hear' no news in the town 2" asked Mise•Bab, diplomatically, re- suming the darning of a fine white (cooking belonging *ober sister, Mise Clementina,who was much too absorbed in the charge of the plantation and slaves- to attend to more homely and feminine pursuits. Betty leaned against the mantel, sharing the rug with Cassius, ' who sat on his haunches blinking at the fire. " Little Johnny Atkins walked half -way home with me, and was sorry that I was not his school-teaoher. I wish you could have heard him talk, for he is' the drollest creature. He said, ''O'b, we had a splendid time lath night 1' ' What could you do,' I asked,•' Sunday night ? } ' Why, thtending on our headth and turning themerthets and thnth like.' ' Who took part in the gayeties ?' ' Oh, me and ma and pa, and all the other children.' Mr. Tilghman's donkey brayed ae he started to leave me, and it frightened him so I had to go pert o! the way beck with bine.' Betty's manner, daring this recital, was fall of quiet humor, oharaotterizing the drawling lisp of the village innocent, and at its close she threw back her head and laughed at the recollection of the doughty yogngeter's error ; but Mies Bab's interest wee not up to the usual, mark. She'drew the needle with an impatient movement out of the etooking, nervously nodding her head, with its cushion of sandy hair sur- mounted by a mob -cap. " Something has happened," she said, in a mysterious whisper. " Guess what it is." "'Let me, gee. You have received a secret cargo of tea, and are in danger of be- ing tarred and Leathered 2- No ? Well, the speokled 'hen has begun to lay. No 2 Well, Aunt Clem has become very modish and is going to give a rout?, She has latched up a trace with ' that trumpery Bob Rozier,' and concluded to allow hie cows to pasture in our meadow ? No ? Why, •Aunt Bab, you are as mysterious as Mr. Rozier when anyone asks him whether he is a Whig or Tory : ' Neither, neither,. my dear sir ; a mere cipher ; only a simple country gentle. man, absorbed in my pastoral pursuits and my literary avocations."' • " Well, my dear, Tom Rozier, has come home from Oxford on the brig Peggy'Stew= art, that reached Annapolis on the 14th of October. Will Ringgold Dame on the same veeeel, and Tom got to Lord's Gift. yeeter• day. " I' faith, we knew that all along i didn't we, Gees ? They told me at Mr. Atkins's store. Blow did yon know?" There was a sound of eappreseedgiggling from behind the door. " That snicker betrarye the culprit. Come forth, Mies Anastasia Anderton." She hurried to the door, standing ajar, and throw it open, revealing a ahort� middle-aged woman squeezed against the wall Her agaat figure wee clothed in haneepnn, a white'handkerohief wets folded. ighly' over her exuberant charm(, and her hair was piled high and powered. " I wanted to see if yon would faint s ith oy at the news," said Mies Antestaeie, wreathing her round, grotesque faoe into a smile, where the thin lips spread upward ndefinitely, seemingly to meet the wrinkles. tinder the twinkling green eyes. _She was a daughter of the former phy-� ieian at Kingston, who had left her cottage' n the village, whore ehe lived with a dog and a small negro maid, retailing preserves nd oonntry gossip among the quality. " But that isn't all," she "laid, coming.,, orth from her retreat ; " I've seen him 1 I A Tale of the American Revolution. MANDL, That portion of the State of Maryland embraced in the peninsula wbioh separates the tr`attez of i''tl'iabapeaku and Delaware Bays, and whioh is. known as the Eastern ,�?.r.ism;:Liu:,r.e3���^w;�„u.•„�,-�...,,�a,, holding "communities einoe the emancipa- tion. Many parte of the low, flat oonntry lie • notified in the present labor difficulties for lank of farm hands, the negroee, as in many parte of the South, having flocked' to the neighboring cities. Numbers of the pro- prietors; the old families, have left their impoverished plantations to be cultivated on, shares by tenants of the overseer or oetteeeteeetee Stately homeeteade, dating from colonial tinea, are found here and there, deserted and dismantled, sad reminders of day° of past prosperity, when these isolated and now obemire oountiee were noted for an elegant and hospitable eooiety. In Queen Anne County, at the month of the Chester River, stands an old, square briok home. high above the shelving shore, down to whioh slopes what was once a ter- raced garden. From here, looking west- ward, past two oapea of meadow -land, jut- ting on either 'side where the welt water' tide curls over the placid °hallows, the vomer stretches out and meets the blank herr" n, relieved sometimes by a far-off sail o ts faint cloud of smoke from a pasei steamer. Deserted by its present owner , untenanted, • its bricks discolored with time, the honee overlooks the monotonous fields, to whioh it has become merely a useless appendage. 'In the large oaks before the eastern front, crows have nested, rising in flocks above the gable roof, mingling their harsh caws'withthe scream of an errant sea:gull., The 'woodwork of the porob has rotted into gaps, where toads and ensile abide. ; the shutters have fallen, and blank windows yawn like eyeless sockets. The upper terrane is stiff with un- trimmed and straggling box -bushes bor- dering the walks, grown up with weeds, and blurred into an indietinguiehable mass of deoay. Above the tops of the other trees, a tall Lombardy poplar reaches its dead branches upward, standing sentinel thro h all the changing eeasone. Spring G' rains eat upon the yellow weed -stalks, Bummer suns urns the roses that bloom unseen in the rank greenness, and ripen the apples in the orchard, and in winter 'the winde wail around the dead home. To the left, shut in by a crumbling brick wall • overgrown with the periwinkle, is the family burying . ground, in whioh no one now is inter- ested save an old woman, who comes once a year to visit the grave o! a aby buried -fifty Years ago. The graves are hidden by a network of vines ; but in one corner, side by side, are portions of two marble slabs, each broken, and connected by'a cross -piece, running from one to the other. On this ores -piece, with some difficulty, the following' inscrip- tions are. deciphered : Faces and Faces. Chicago Poet : What a study are the faces One may see in busy places, Mage are like a gleam of sunshine, others like a cloud of care. Soma are filled with joy and gladness, Othsm wear a shade of sadness: PrettypDhotographe of pleasure, ragged etchings of despair. This is sweet as budding roses. That a withered hope disoloees, Who can guess why some are sunny while the others are forlorn? Who can tell if an expression Sad and deep is a oonteseion 01 a broken heart, or piety, or just a painful Dorn? The Political Procesh. Washington Post : . A long and oft -repeated yell, • Some torches all in line ; Some speakers who have paused to tell Of prospects wondrous fine. Some red lire making things look gay— The glee olub's glad refrain, And. then we may take breath and eay " The oonntry s safe again" A Very Odd Girt, ?.n-school-ehe ranke-abovn'he.r-mat And wine the highest prises; She bounds correctly all the States, And tells what each one's size is ; Iii class she will not prompt a friend, For she doesn't believe in telling ; She heeds the rules from end to end, And never fails in spelling, " She's lust as odd ae add can be!' Say all the school of Esther Lee. She keeps her room as neat as wax, And lapghe at Peter's mookinge; She mends Prisoillq's gloves and saogiee, And darns the family stockings; ._._-She.dusta-the-dtting-room-for-Kato, She cares for 'baby brother; She fashions balls and kites for Nate, And rues for tired mother. "She's just as odd as odd can be!" Say all at home of Esther Lee. Fdr little orippled Mary Betts ' She saves her brightest pennies; She never, never sulks or frets If she doesn't win at tennis; With happy words sheds sure to greet Obildren in lowly byways ; She guides unsteady aged feet Aoross the bustling highways. "She's just as odd as odd can be!" Say all the town of Esther Lee. Chicago Inter -Ocean. A Game and Irish Commission. Ii7 pursuenoe of the recommendation of t► Select Cordmittee of the Legislature ap- pointed last eeaeion for the purpose of considering pertain proposed amendments k the game laws, and in d'eferenoe to Bug. stations from various quarters calling for a more effectual protection of flab, the On- tario Goviernmont has jnetiesaed a royal aommiesion to inquire into and report upon *he whole subject in so far ae this Province ale concerned. The commission is direoted to Riohard Allan Luoae, merchant, Hamil- ton ; Robert G. Harvey, railway manager, Brookville; John H. Willmott, Beanmaris, in the distriot of Muskoka ; G. A. MoOal- tam, M. D., Dunnville; Walter I. Pulford, marriage manufacturer,, Leamington ; John Mitchell, a000untant, Guelph; Alex. H. Taylor, Ottawa, and A. D. Stewart, agent, Hamilton. Dr. McCalium has; been ap. pointed obeirman and Mr. Stewart seore- e Lary of the commission. Tbeyare instructed to ooneider the advisallility of dividing the -----Province into dietriote for fish and game protection purposes, and to report what, in their opinion, would in such use be the groper close season for enoh dietriot. In *he event of a district system not being thought advisable, the oommissioners are to suggest such changes, if any, in the present close eeasone as are necessary. or advisable, making special reference to the 'spring shooting of game or any ohne or dame thereof. They are also to ascertain how far deer are In danger of extermination under existing laws, and to report the approximate number still remaining and where found in the ,Province, with suoh aaggeetions ofa practical nature as may be thought advisable, having regard to the more effective protection of that game. in their report reference will be made to snob game leve of the neighboring States as have a bearing on the interests of game or fieh protection in this Province.' THE New York World offered a twenty !lar gold piece for the beet answer to the. cation how much older a husband should than hie wife. Out of many hundreds, following won the prize: there can be no definite answer. Some men quicker than some women, and vice versa. one and popular prejudice say the wife Id be the younger, but the majority of mar - show that custom and popular prejudice or guides. 'cerement, intellect and character are ng factors of wedded Life ; compatibility e make marriage a sucrose, the want a Extremes avoided, similarity or differ - age, ba& little to do with a successful 1). of respect and a kindly heart, In a marriage of heart, intelloet a actor, a dozen years either way is hil- 1 always ignore a moderate difference W.B.M. cry S. Abell, the richest wotean Pore, is going to renounce the he said that ehe will emulate the Masa 1ia.,, Drexel end vivo all to the It •tnan Uatholio church. "THOMAS WHITENHALL,.RoZIEn, Died, aged 24 .. 177—. " ELIZABETH VAIIO'HAN, Died. aged 19 ; 17—. "In their death they were not divided." A 'hundred years ago,, *hen, two lovers walked through this garden. The roses bloomed then as now ; the same sun shone on them over a hundred years ago as it shines on us now, and will eliJd) God help nal when we in our turn shall have be - dome mere oonjeotures—names half effaced from broken slabs. Let ns pick up that slide' 'of' Time's magic lantern whioh goes by the name of the eighteen eentary, and live for a while in the days of cooked hate, powdered hair, and sedan ohaire, kayo of,. incipient re- volution, pregnant with Deolaration of Independence, when the oeloniste, pro- testing against the unjaet texe3 imposed by a good, stupid German King and a body of °hors -sighed legielatort in kneebreeohee, were in the throes of impending conflict. CHAPTER I. Late one evening in the early part of November, 1774, the road between the corner ot the Vanghtin meadow and the lights of he little village of Kingston stretobed oat bare and lonely amid the dusky "setting of the fields, before the swift steps of a girl hurrying through the cool twilight, and facing the west. The curtain of gray clouds, torn just above the horizon, showed the crimson afterglow of sunset, against •whioh stood in silhouette the root and chimney(' of a large mansion. A chill wind blew from the marshes, flapping her mantle about her and tangling her hair aorods her .faoe.e To Elizabeth Vaughan, walking rapidly toward the lonely home, it seemed eome old, haunted eagle, of romance, to whioh her dog, an evil, dark familiar, disappearing now and then in the !melees, was luring her. Entering the gate, the night deepened ander two rows of mulberry trees arching above the carriage -way. 'At home here, she 'relaxed her pane with • a feeling of security. Dry leaves rustled ander foot. Above,' the blear sky shone through .a lattice -work of naked branohee, 'to whioh a few sear leaves ehiveringly clang Before her was the front of a square brink house, from whioh a glow of warmth was diffuesed through, red curtains in two windows on the ground floor. Here she paused and drew a long breath, with faoe uplifted to the Mare, drinking in the peaoefpl darkness and silence, unbroken save by the irregular tinkle of a cow -bels and the twitter of birds in the ivy covering the front of the house. The garden gate ciliated' behind her, and a flgnre Dame slowly morose the lawn toward the right, where the barn and negro quarters wore massed in shadow. Soddenly the figure. paused. and oho heard a low, agitated whisper : " Who's dat ? " "'Well, Uncle Mose, is that you ? " •"'Oh, Mies Betty, yor gimme a big scare. Leastwise, fur a minute I 'Bpioloned it might be a (perrit, far the Soriptur' is dat Satan goes about like a rewrite' lion, seeking far tor devour." " But yon didn't bear any roar," " Dat'e de trot, dat'e de trnf, honey. I didn't hear de roar, lint a man stn's argyin' wad biose'! when he's ekeered. 'Tain't often e n a ° t 1 • e e d e e .,..:. • r r r r 1 • t a i a 1 went over to Lord's Gift to. take Mistretta Rozier the receipt for orange marmalade, and they made me ?any for dinner; and I saw. Tom, Snob an engaging and hand, some beats, my. dear ; not like the °thin whipper -snapper he was when he went away. And hie manners—so inainneting:— in an elegant laoed goat, and lovely, straight limbs obtain eilk hose 1 Not that I admire those portions of the male sex, or set any store by his protestations ot friendly intereet. . Why, Mise Stacey,' he said, you haven't changed ane bit since the titres we heed to chase your white oat over the , „ satethe Courier. .e and a I ea 8 Buffalo ao tsar. Y' rid stand it r wa a l r e r� •y..n �.,. •p b a � 3' �,'tl1t'1i1�'idvei IIs) n(`1`FrG'; loner; •bK'ld-i. 2tow i t1fC'e�`i�iyFy`rixlfb``�ur'�tir�y 1bLi;--wur,ra--Zira=csr3bu.Y r my pretty little playmate, Betty Vaughan ?' grate fire, its Queen Anne furniture and says he, smiling. Egad 4'. she mus, be a its many lounges and eau -ohaire. He young lady now, and a beauty, I'll warrant.' stirred the fire lazily, lighted & fresh cigar. ' That she ie --.' " and went on." " Ob, Staoy, Staoy 1" murmured Mies " Take the prescriptions laid down iii Bab, trying to check the torrent of words, the books and what do you find 2 Poisons- •' don't, set so. much store on nlohritude mainly,,and .nauseating stuffs that would and flatter the ohild'e vanity..1 She's well makes healthy man an invalid. Why iIs • enough, but ' beauty is as beautteeteatemy does.' the world science should go to poisons for eleDOOTOW8 oONPId88ION. He Doren'b Take Miioh, Modieihe• awe Advisee Vie -Reporter Not, To. " Humbug ? Of oonree it. is, The • R0- called science of medicine is a humbug_ and has been from the time of Hippoorates to the present. Why the biggest Drank in the Indian tribes is the medicine man." " Very frank was the admission, eapeoi- ally so when it came from one of the big- gest young phyeicians of the city, one whose practice re among the thousands, though he has been graduated bat a few ' rte rem�ds�'ea: I._oannat toll; AY niton yon" vei'L' tiiiy , " Ob, Bab, you're suoh a dear old goose," oried Batty. " Proceed, dear Anastasia, with your interesting narrative, and I'll give you my green ribbons for being the most absolute (*metier in the province." " Well, my dear,. he talked so elegantly and engagingly ; said he had Been very little of Will Ringgold at college, as they had gone with different sets, and Will hue been to France. I'm afraid Tom's a rattling blade, and Will always was that sneaky and womanieh that they didn't get on to- gether. He asked after all the neighbor- hood, and said he would have a ohanoe to meet it soon, as they are going to give a rout Thursday night ; and as. I was Doming over here, Mistress Rozier asked me to de- liver the invitation,'' 'e Really ?" asked Betty, opening her eyes and finehing with interest. ." Will I go, Bab ? Did yon. ask Aunt Clem ? " "'Tie going to be truly grand ; besides Jake and Sam, the negro fiddlers, there are two men Doming from Annapolis to piety the horn, and a real hairdresser will be over Mr. Fiddleman's store to dress ladies' and gentlemen's hair in the latest mode " " Of ooaree Aunt Clem will let me go ;, won't she, Bab ? What will 1 wear ? "'And what do. yon think the bride was dressed in ? Aha And what do you think the bride was dressed in ? A grass -green frock arida new gold breastpin, Aha!"' she sang, lifting her frock And dancing along the floor. 11 - Just see me take my tope -for -the -minuet." " Child, obild," said Mise Bab, " you've got to get old too. Ask Clementine 1f you oan go when she comes in, ii she is in a pleasing frame of mind." (To be Continued) Home -Returning Chinamen., Forward, between decks, are more than a hundred Chinese steerage pasaen ere,- -mostly reposing in their rade wooden bunks, mace it is too cold and rough upon deck for them. Some chat, some sleep, many smoking opium ;—a few are gamb- ling. At a low table' covered with a bam- boo mat, the gime of fan -tan is being played by the light of three candles. A silent ring of watchers and wagerers presses closely about the table ;—from ear - rounding bunks, others look down ; and the yellow candle glare, coloring all these im- e olive faces, makes their placid race -smile Beam as the smiling -of gilded idols in some myeteriona pagoda. Deep in the hold below, sixty square boxes are,—much, resembling tea oheste,— covered with Chines lettering. Each contains the bones of a dead mart— bones being sent bank to- melt into that Clhineee soil from whenoe, by nature's vital chemistry, they were shapen. And those whose Moiled bones are rolling to and fro in the dark below, as the plunging steamer rooks and shudders, once also passed this ocean on just such a ship—and smoked or dreamed their time away in just Duch berths= -and played the same strange play by each a yellow light in even just snob an atmosphere, heavy with vaporized opium. Very silent the playing is. Seemly a word is uttered despite of losses or gains. From the deck overhead, an odd chant echoes loudly down—the chant' of the Chinese crew. First one utters a snarling sharp cry, like a cat's ory of anger—Vow• yee 1 Then all the others shrill together Yo wo 1—as they pull at the ropes. " Joss paper" has been strewn ahont--• doubtless to propitiate the gods of that most eastern East to whioh we westwardly sail. Perhaps those ancient gods will hearken to the prayers of their patient worshippers, and make smooth the menac- ing face of this turbulent sea.—From " A Winter Journey to Japan," by Latoadio Hearn, in " Harper'e Magazine" • for November. An Awkward Change ot Vowe's. The change of one little letter of the alphabet in even a short word has paused many a Indiorons and awkward mistake. Here is 'a case in point in the shape of a story about a onrate, a rooter, and a tele- graphic clerk. The curate had oomo up to town on a short holiday from a country pariah, when, on the last day of his leave of absence, he was invited by a clerical friend to accompany him to the Church C,oned%ae, whioh was to open on the next d'ey. He telegraphed to hie rector : " I' should like to attend the Congress if you Den spare me a few days longer. Kindly wire whether yon wiab me to return to tittle Peplington to morrow, or to go on to Hull." The rector, who is a man of few words, promptly wired in reply, " Go to Hall." But, whether through the careless• noes or the profanity'of the telegraphist, the " n" was transformed to " e " in the message. • r Justice Daffy to New York saloon -keeper violating the Sunday law : "Every saloon. keeper for the past fifteen years who has been arrested and brought to the Essex Pollee Curt has said that he was only °loaning up. I'm tired of it. Why don't yon invent a new excuse ? Say that you canto down to feed the canary ; that your old tom oat was having a fit behind '.the be, ; that there were rate in your bottles ; Wit the water was leaking ; that the gas was a caping --anything but cleaning up. Now yon are discharged." —Dootore take but little physio, di rt. " How does a doctor know the effect of his - medicine 2" he asked. " He calls, prescriber, and • pee away. The only way to judge would be to stand over the be and watch the patient. This cannot dyne. So, really, I don't know how he i to tell what good or hurt he does. Some time ago, you remember, the . Boston Globe sent out a reporter with a stated set of symptoms. He went to eleven prominent physician* and brought bank eleven different prescrip- tions. This just (bows how much eoienoe there is in medicine."' There are local diseases of various, characters forwhioh nature provides posi- tive remedies. They may not be included in the regular physio; .n'o list, perhaps, be - canon of their simplicity, bat the evidenoe of their curative power is beyond dispute. Kidney disease is cared by Warner's Safe Care, a atrially herbal remedy. Thousands of persons, every year write es does H. J. Gardner, of Pontiac, R. I., August 7th, 1890 " A few years ago I suffered more than probably will ever 'be knob tyle of m3 self,with kidney and liver litIrMaplaint. It is the old story—I visited doctor atter doctor, but to no avail. I was at Newport, and Dr. Blackman recommended Warner's Sate Cure. I commenced the nee of it, and found relief immediately. Altogether I took three bottles, and I truthfully state that it cured me," Curidus. Condensations. The Michigan University has twent aaneea e n ' en ' to year. A Wisconsin packing company has paid oat $26,500 for cucumbers this fall. Over 1,000 men in the United States struck during the month of September -fi There are thirty-one millionaires in Denver, and thirty-five men worth, on the average,•$500,.000 each. The submarine telegraph eyetem of the world-oozesfate-of-1.20;070-nautical-miles-ot cable. A western cowboy committed suicide because a 13 year-old girl refused to marry him. A Georgia man has raised a Mexican cucumber weighing 35 pound(. It resem- bled a green citron. The name of Wayne is the title or part Of the title of more placea in the'United States than any other. At Holly Springs, Ga., .a dog fell into a well and stayed there ,fourteen days before his owner found him. , He was taken out and is doing well. A Michigan country farm, whioh ex- ported 20,000 barrels of apples last year. did not ptodnoe enough l'or home consump- tion this season. The sixteenth child of a Wisconsin couple arrived the other day and prepara- tions were immediately begun for the re. caption of the seventeenth. A Michigan hunter attempted to use his gun for a cane. -He will neither hunt nor walk for some time to come, although the doctors expect to save bis life. Two centenarians have died in Barry county, Michigan, since the census man started on his hound's, but Mise Anne, Demnund, 102 yeara old, and the oldest of the lot, still lives: One of the sights near Nebraska Citylie a massive stone temple built by the mor. mono in honor of Joseph Smith after their expulsion from Nanvoo. It was also used a( a fort. Social Laws for Girls. • Yon think the !awe of society are severe., You do not believe that convention 1' y is le great sword held up, not to atrikeu, but to protect you, and you ehrag ye pretty shoulders and say, " I know I was doing nothing wrong, and I don't care 'what people say." Now, my dear, yon must oars what people say ; the world is a great judg- ment court,and usually the innocent and the ignorant are protected by it, though 000aeionally, someone falling into the mire of scandal and gossip, is brought into the court all bedraggled and disfigured, and the judge, not being able to see the virtue that le underneath, decides against the viotim, and all because she did not care what the world said. I wish yon would think even of the most innocent things. Sometimes I fear you think, I am a little bit severe, but I have known so many girls who were so thoughtless, yet so good, nd who only found protection in the ns of conventionality. It may hang ove ' your head, as did that of Damocles, but it is ass warning. It will protect yon from evil - speaking, from the making of injudicious Mends, and it will insure you muoh more pleasure than if all the world ran helter- skelter and became like a wild Irish fair day. onventionality proteots yon, as does the beet mother, frowning at and forbidding not only that whioh is, but also that whioh looke, wrong. --Ruth Ashmore, in Ladies' Home Journal. Mayer, who took the part of Chrietna in the " Passion Play " at Oberammergau, reoeived $200 for his share in the presen. ation of the religiose drama. The Duchene of File is a fine bettor maker, and it has become the fieh;on of young English ladies whose ,fltthors own farms to learn bettor making and, it possi- ble, obtain a prize at a county fair and (ell the butter at a very high price. The fashion in America differs from this in the import ant partionlar that the butter is sold for the highest possible prioe, regarding of any prize -in the matter,{, -_- xy