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$Tats.
Once in awhile let your husband have the
last word ; it will gratify him and be no par -
'Ocular loos to you.
The noweet oelor for table docorationed
only out about a week or two, le a vivid
crimson. All kinds of flowers are produce,
be this dolor to be , The or used ,to ether m•
g i..
son to relieved only with green, and the
white tablecloth forme tbo ground, It
should only be ventured upon in a dining -
room furniehed in a soft 'and neutral tint,
and the Dolor with whioh the lights aro
shaded has to be considered. Trails of naiv-
ete
aw-eta laid with() tablecloth are still a favorite
form of deooration.
It ammo, says the Lepoet, that the little
toy bailoono cr Indla-rubber pjadders which
children inflate with the breath may be
readily reversed by inepiration and even
drawn Int() the air passages. In two in•
etanoes; oontly death has occurred by suf-
aoatio a b lloon of the o
t a h sort being n arawn
r n
g
into h opening
F
t ai of the glottis. e, Thier a
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matt of danger whioh ought to be reoog•
nizedr, Parents and names should be on titek
guard.
The craze of table -turning hag absolutely
gone out of fashion, end h is quite a long
etime einem we heard of our old friend plan•
ohette, A new thing—much more wonder-
ful than planohette—is now coming into
vogue. It ooneiets of a reotangular board,
two feet long by eighteen Inohee wide, on
whioh are plaood alt the letters of the alpha-
bet. A miniature throe -logged table on
! small rollers is planed en the top, of the
board, Two perdue sit down with their
® finger-tips on the table in the old faehion
suitable for table -turning, A question is
asked and the table forthwith mrlvee about,
and with its legs pointing to successive let-
ters of the alphabet epelin out the anewer.
There is something novel abeut'thie, though
it is not likely to ane: end in reviving the ex-
citement whioh ono, gathered about moving
tablas and revolving hats, W
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Choice Recipe,
Craokere.—Rub four ounces of butter in
one quart of flour, make it into a paste
with rich milk, knead it well, and roll as
thin ae paper ; mut ''them out by a small
mincer, and bake quickly to look white when
done. ,
Maple Cream.—One pound of maple
sugar to half a oup think Dream; boil till
sufficiently hard to make into cakes ; turn
into email cake pane to cool. An addition
of one oup nut meats makes an excellent
nut- candy.
Dried -Apple Cake,—Soak two onpa of
dried apples over night, chop and simmer in
two cups of molaeeee two hours, one oup of
milk, half a cup of butter, half a oup ot su-
gar, half teaspoonful of each kind of spine,
sift two, teaspoonfuls of baking powder In
flour and mix pretty stiff ° Is splendid and
will keep three months. Good with Dream
er sem, padding mauee in the spring instead
of pie.
Mo`c+x1emon PIs,—Two teacups of sour
cream' or buttermilk, two-thirds cup of
auger, yolks of two eggs, one tablespoonful
flour, a pinch of salt ; beat well together,
then add two teaspoonfuls of lemon extract,
Line the ple tin with crust as for custard,
pour in the mixture, and bake until firm.
Whit the pie ie baking beat to a stiff froth
the white of two eggs, add two tablespoon-
fuls of white sugar, one-half teaspoonful
lemon extract. When pie is baked spread
frosting on top and alightly brown.
Tough Meat Made Tender.—Take a thiok
slice beef from the round, nuoh as you can
buy at the market for 10 cents per pcund,
with - one and little fat Gatthe but-
wi oiLb
cher to split it almost open for yon, so you
have one large thin steak. No matter how
•tough, it will be 'tender as porter -house
steak when ready for the table and quitenaa
toothsome. Lay the meat out smoothly and
wipe it dry, but do not wet it. Take a cof-
fee -cupful of fine bread crumbs, a little salt
and pepper, a little powdered thyme or
other sweet herb, and just enough milk to
moisten to a stiff dressing. Mix well and
spread over the meat, Roll it up oaroiully
and tie up with twine, wound to secure it
well, especially the ends. Now, in the bot-
tom of your kettle fry some fat salt pork till
orisp and brown, one quarter pound out in
thin slices (Dost three cents.) Into the fat
that has fried out from this pork pat the
rolled meat, brown it on all sides, turning
it till it is a rich color all over, then put in
half a pint of water and sprinkle over a lite
tie salt. Keep closely covered, adding a
little water if it oodka away too much. If
ene Iikee the never of onion. add the half of
a small one chopped fine, When ready to
serve, unwind the string carefully to pre-
serve the shape. Lay it on a plater with
the gravy poured over it. Cut the meat in
Dikes, through the roll as jelly -roll is cut
by the bakers. The toughest meat Is made
tender and nutritious cooked in this way,
and iso equally nine warmed over next
day.
♦--wit.._
Thought Marriage - Might Sober him Up.
Dooaenberry was no full when he went to
get married that he wanted to whip the
minister, and offered to bet that he could
pull one of the pillars from under the churoh
roof and bring the whole structure tumbling
in en them, a la Samson.
Minister to weeping bride—"Did yon
know this man drank when you accepted
him i"
Weeping bride—" Y-y•yea, air."
Minister—" Did you ever see him full
v eping bride—" Y -y -yes, sir "
7-iinieter—" Then wby do you want to
marry him?"
Weeping bride—" I thought may be that
marriage might sober him up."
Minister—" Well, marriage does usually
sober et man up. But in this case it seems very well, and than whom he had rather
to have made him all the drunker, What I have seen Daniel Pratt himself walking Into
is he worth V' I his chamber.
Weeping bride (with alacrity)—" Forty e, Well, Brother Lightweight, what can I
thouaud dollars."n do for you this morning ?" asked Judge
Minister—" Oh, that makes a differenoe. IF, hoping to get rid of the fellow.
"Nothing," ho replied; "I only came
in to make you a call."
Alter a disagreeable silence the judge
looked up again and asked :
"Brother Lightweight, why don't you
Remarkable Trees.
InMadegesoar ie to be found a tree oalied
the travefer'e tree, yielding a copious imp -
ply of fresh water frpm its leaves, AN it'
will thrive in any arid country where plant-
ed, its bonefita to the traveller are great.
In Venezuela theirs ie a oow tree, whioh
grows on otherwise barren rooks, Ito leaves
are feathery and crisp, but by making inci-
sions in the truuk peculiar grayish milk
comes out, whioh is tolerably thiok and of
an agreeable balmy ;linen, The natives
gather around these trees at ouorise and
bring large bowie with themto reoeive the
milk, for towards mid-day the heat of the
eun turns the milk sour, The sight of a oow
tree puzzles the innocent traveller, who can-
not aocount for the trunk being plugged up
all over with bungs and ahort obioks, The
natives Ohonee the milk as a gum,'
The butter tree was first dieoovered by
Sure icon travel•lere inthe centre of Africa ;
from the kernel of the fruit is produced a
nice butter, whioh, says Livingstone, "will
keep a year," On a par with this is the
manntree,found in Calabria and Sicily.In
i
August, hen it is the custom to tathe
tree, a sap fiowe out, It le then left to hard,
en by evaporation, after which the mann, of
a sweet but somewhat elokly taste to any
but those asoustomod to it, may be gather.
ed. In Malabar there is the tallow tree,
From the seeds of this, when boiled, is pro-
duced a firm tallow, which makes exoollent
candles, The guava tree of the Indies bears
e fruit giving large quantities of a rich and
delicious jelly.
But; the moat remarkable treeevet dlsoov-
ered flourishes on the island of Fierro, one
of the largest of the canary group. The
'island is so dry that not even a rivulet le to
be found, yet there is a epodes of tree the
leaves ot whioh are narrow and long and
centime green throughout the year. There
is also a constant cloud 'burrounding the
tree, whioh is condensed and falling in drops
keeps the cistern placed under them con-
stantly full- In this manner the natives of
Fierro obtain water, and ae the supply ie
limited the population must of necessity be
limited too, •
In Japan and some islands in the Pacific
there la the camphor tree, The camphor
forma in the trunk of the tree in concrete
lumps, and some pieces have been fouud as
thick as a man's arm,
The sorrowful tree le found only In the
island of Goa, near Bombay, and is eo oall-
ed because from morning until the time of
sunset no flvwere are to be seen, but soon
after it is covered with them. As the sun
rises the petals close and fall off'. Stranger.
still, the flowers bloseom at night -all. the
year round and give out a moot fragrant
oder.
There is another curious tree in Jamaica
known at the life tree, on account of its
leaves growing even after severed from the
plant. Only by fire can yon entirely destroy
it.
Pride Comes Before a Fall.
A lump of olio, and the end ef a wax
candle found themselves, by some strange
chance, side by side one summer day, on a
duet -heap, " I wonder you have the as-
surance to Ile so close to me 1" said the
dainty wax, sneeringly : " a great, common
lump of olasel and I have been on a fine
lady's dreading -table " " Ah 1" said the
cley, humbly ; " we are fellow -sufferers in
adveratty ; we must make the best we can
of it. I ought properly to have been in
yonder brink field," " What a Dome -down
for me 1" moaned the candle. " It does
not signify what beoomea of you," Tho
°Iap wisely held his tongue. And the
strangely -assorted companions in misfortune
dropped into silence. " I wish it was a
little warmer," said the play, to himself.
" Dear me, how hot it is getting ?" grumbled
the wax candle. Presently the sun grew
hotter and better, and the piece of wax
oandle gradually melted away. But the
clay only became harder and firmer than
ever. Thus It is, the hopeful and self re-
lient,,when tried by the heat of adversity,
Dome cut of the fire the stronger and firmer
But the weak and worthless pass into ob-
scurity, and are no more heard of.
Drawing the Line.
Raatus : Mistah Smif I wan's ter ox yo'
or question.
Mr, Smith : All right, Reduce
Rastas : Ise gwine ter git married nes'
week an' I wan's ter know what am de ken
rect thing 'bout payin' de minister. Yo'
nee, Mistah Smif, de lady 'pon whom Ise
'bout to confer de honah eb my han' am
werry high toned in her'depo'tment, eah, an'
I wuddent wan' ter do nufiin' what wuzzent
in de lates' style, What ]: wan's ter know
is, should I han' de minister de money my-
self, sah, or diepute a fr'en' ter do hit fo'
me?
Mr. Smith : I see ; anybody going to
stand ap with you, Roatus ?
Rastna : Yee, eah. Sam Johnsing am ter
be any ben' man,
Mr, Smith : Well, put the money in an
envelop and let Sam hand it to the minister.
Rastas : What 1 let Sam Johnsing handle
dat money ? No, sah. •
Mr. Smith : Why not ?
Rastas : Cos I wuddent da' reek It. I
has de utmoe' oonfidenoe in Sam as a gem.
men, eah. Sam am a good fr'en' of mine,
an' he am a great ladies' man, an' werry
popier In sasaeiety an' wif de fair sex, an'
ebbery thing ob dat oo't, sah, but ef I should
let him handle dat dellah hill do minister
would nebber see it, 'deed he wuddent. I
has de utmos' confidence in Sam, Mistah,
Smif,''oept when it comes for wealth, Sam
ain't yuae ter wealth.
.• A Judge's Opinion.
While Judge Walton was at work in his
chamber one day, many years ago, drawing
up an opinion Sn a knotty case, a certain
lawyer came in. This lawyer, who has
eine died, was a thin, toothpickish, dudish
mart of man, whom the judge did not like
Here, Daimon Williams, hold the groom up
until I got through with this ceremony,"
i—,cases,
An Essay on Anarchists.
The ood (Meerut in Many
respects. They aid lrishisto areargely id the mapped : get
,married I
Because emit afford it, How much do
of several industries—notably the liquor oo su ode it coats me to liven°,?"
bneinoae, They are practical prohibition. y np
lets and destroy liquor -a glaaefal et a time,
The don't like the police and seldom give
them a chance to enjoy their society at short
range. They are not very dangerous to any
one wile has land enough aground his house
to pasture a deg,
Beingmostly of forego origin, they are
not, naturally, attaohod to the toil of their
adopted country --although it is, as a rune,
attaohod to thein, They neveradomean them-
selves by agrioultural Iebor.
The maligners of the anarohists say they
are not; workingmen. 'They are, They
work the growler,
The judge said he wouldn't guess,
"Well, it orate me $6000 a year forjust
my own living."
An expression of surprise Dame on the
judge's face.
"Lightweight," said he, "iT wouldn't
pay it, It isn't worth it."
Wife,—"iDo you know why you prefer a
game of base ball to the t h'titre ? Husband,
(juot from the game.)—"Shertainiy m' dear,
(nip,) it's more exciting," Wife,—" Exact.'
)y,
You oango cut nine tines between the
meta.
Otilt YOUTNG FOLE $.
" One Geed Turn Deserves Another.
It was only a little cottage standing it'o.>
hind a olump of bushes and shrubbery, and
surrounded by a low stone well, that stood
basking in the sunshine on a beautiful num-
mor's day in the host of August. The way
leading to "Peach Blossom Cottage," ops it
vitas called, was through a long arbor, hose
whioh bung de?ioioua grapes as if ready to
belucked, Oa this dayof which I`speak
astranger entered the little
ttle villa e, and
after brushing away the sweat from hie
brow, he proceeded to seek a place to tont
himself from the long and tiresome journey.
Glancing at him one would certainly term
him a tramp, so dusty and travel -worn woe
he, As he passed one after another, tied
found nothing in the way of wooden stools
and rueti4 benohee, he almost despaired,
when pearly dropping with fatigue he name
in eight of`" P iioh 'Blossom Cottage" ; he
could not ref!ayn from stepping over the
wit1lr and seating himself upon an inviting
bench under the arbor, Serenely had he
seated himself when a little child, of per
haps ten yearn, approached him with tears
of sympathy in her soft blue eyes, As noon
as she naught sight of him she ran into the
oottage, and immediately reappea-ed with
a soft white pillow, which ohe laid under
his head. As the ohild prepared to go, his
sad face beamed with a smile that spoke
volumes of thanks, Preeently he fell into a
long and refreshing,alumber that lasted un-
til midnight, 'when he was awakened by the
load ringing of•fire •belle, whioh clanged out
an the sent night air. He rubbed his eyes
and looked around him ; then grasping the,
situation, he ran around to the aide wing of
the house, whioh was enveloped in flames.
Already a large orowd had ooileoted to note
the progress of the flames. And after Far-
mer Brown, the owner of the cottage, look.
ed around him to se that Owes safe, a ter-
rible thought occurred to him. His face grew
pale as ashes, as his trembling words reaoh-
ed the heart of -the multitude en My daugh-
ter 1 my daughter 1 Oh, where is my daug`:-
ter?" as his eyes sough' the burning build-
ing. A ladder was quickly placed againetit,
Then, as Farmer Brown effered all his pos-
resaions for the recovery of fila ohild, the
traveller of the afternoon stepped forward
amid the wonder ot the people. As he
placed his foot firmly upon., the ladder, a
shout rent the air ; the multitued watched
with eager eyes as he ascended the ladder
and gained the top. All was still as the un-
known mandieappeared through the window.
Once more a shoat was raised, twine an
noisy as the first, as the man appeared on
the top bearing the almost suffocated child
in hie arms; just as he reached the ground,
and everybody was rejoclOg, the ladder
naught fire and burned to the ground. Then
Farmer Brown offered the hero what he had
promised to give ; but the good stranger an-
swered, am he pursued hie way, "Sarely
one good turn deserves another,"
A Burmese Fairy Story.
Fairy talus are popular among the Bur-
mese, and there is one whioh comes from over
the border in Siam, which was told us by a
Siemese. The exaggerations all hang to-
gether artistically, and are in the same key
as It were : " There was once a king who
heard that there was an enormous giant in a
far country, and he declared that he should
never rest until he had a hair of the giant's
head. So he sent his fleet, and they sailed
and they bailed and they sailed for weeks
and weeks and weeks, and at last one day
in the afternoon it became suddenly dark,
and they stuck fast and could get neither
forward nor backward. Now, the fact was
that they got inside of a hole in a sort of
carrot, the smallest vegetable in the giant's
kingdom. And behold, the next mernieg
the giant's children went out to fish, and as
they went they picked up two or three ele-
phants on their way for bait, but they were
only able to catch a few of the very smallest
fishes in the country—' something equivalent
to your minnows, said the narrator. And
as they wore going back they saw a carrot
growing by the water's edge, and polled it
up to put it into the curry, and inside it was
the whole fleet. After they got home the
giant threw the fish and the carrot into the
pot in order to boil them, when the fleet
rose out of the root to the top of the water
with all the men In it. ' What are those
curious Insecta Y said tho giant `peering
down into the pot. Then Dame a good deal
more which the narrator had forgotten. The
man tried to shout to the ghat and tell him
what it was they wanted, but their voices
were too weak, and he could not hear a word
they said. At length he lifted them up to
his ear in his hand and a whole boat's crew
marched int at the hole, and went ever saoh
a long way up inside, and then they all
shouted together and told him they had come
from their king to ask him for a hair of his
head. So at last he was able to hear what
even then seemed to him only a whisper.
Unlike his kind, the giant was apparently
as good-natured as he wag big—ne gave
the hair, lifted them back to the sea, where
the hair, when put on board the fleet, near-
ly sank it,after whioh be puffed out his
oheeks and gave a tremendous blow, whioh
carried the fleet etraight home hundreds of
miles at one go."
It may be cn'y a coincidence without any
significance, but those; towns taking the
greatest interest in base ball have suffered
moat from labor troubles.
In the Peeehawur cemetery in India is the
following amusing epitaph . c, S pared to the
memory of Rev. --, missionary, aged--,
murdered by his chowkidar, ' Well done,
thou good and faithful servant,'"
A DANGEROUS MAN,
script. John Didier, whose Maeda are Stain.
ed 'with rho Riood'ot TOMO Bion,
Capt, John Miller, of Jlmtewn, Clalokaeaw
Nation, was recently on trial at Tort Smith,
Ark., charged with murder, This was not
a novel oxperlenoe to Capt. John, for, he
hue, according to his ower account, killed
thirty men during his life, not counting
those he may haveelain in the war. Though.
often tried fpr murder, he always soaped,,
conviction, and in this lent case was releas
ed on theground that the court had no j oris,
diction in the case,
Capt. Miller was born In Choctaw county,
Mies„ in 1816, and is now 70 years of age,"
though no one would take hint for more
than 50 years. The first man he ever killed
was named Jones, and the killing took
place at Columbus, Miss. He was tried
for the crime and came clear, Thie was
when he was r site young,
In 1848, at a Orleans Millerand two
� w
Maley brothers, Henry and John, killed the
three Turkb rothers Miller was a member
of Jenkin's oompeny in the tillburt:ring ex.
pedition to Cabo, when Lap( z was guillotin-
ed and Capt. John J. Qaittlugton and fifty-
two men shot. The diflieulty with theTurk
brothers occurred just after his return from
Cuba. He was tried at New Orleans for the
Turk killing and again Dame clear.
In 1849, in it dlffisulty near Shreveport,
Li,, he killed three men—Murphy, Myelok,
and one Carroll. He was tried at Shreve-
port and acquitted on the ground of self-
defence. He out the next two notohes in
his gun at Lickakillot. La„ in 1859, when he
and Alex, Rudes followed two horse thieves
from Texas,' and Miller killed them both in
a fight they made while resisting arrest.
In 1867 he killed a man named Taylor at
Gatesvtlle, Tex„ with a knife. Taylor
struck him in the head with a rook, He
was also tried for this murder and came
clear.
In 1866 while,en route from Chocke.saw
Notice. to M:exloo, he, with six oompaninne,
was Damped near Spiveo's Ferry, on' Red
River, when a general row took plane not
far from his Damp between five white men
and a orowd of negreea. Miller and his men
appeared on the scene after the five whites
were wounded, and opened fire on the ne-
groes, killing'twelve of them. For this he
was tried before Gen. Renolde at Austin,
Texas, and released.
In 1871 he punned three horse thieves
from the Indian Territory into Texas, and
all three of them were killed. For this he
stood trial at Granberry and was turned
loose.
In 1579 he killed or was charged with
killing Mathew Fletcher on his (Miller's)
own fare. near Jimtowni For this he was
arrested and lodged in the United States
jail at this plane, where he remained eight
months, and in 1580 was tried and acquitted.
This he says, was the hardest trial he ever
had during all his experience.
He has killed three other men in the In•
dian country, whose names he declined to
mention, for the reason, he says, that they
now have grown-up children in that country,
and he doesn't care to have tho matter
resurrected.
The killing for which he was arrested
thia loot time occurred in his own house in
January last, where he killed a prominent
young Choctaw named Israel Fulsom. This
killing, he claims, was an accident ; that
Folsom was drunk and drew a pistol for
the purpose of killing him ; that in trying
to wrench the pistol out of Fulsom's hands,
it was discharged, the bullet entering Ful-
som's side, killing him. No one saw the
killing except Millers wife.
Miller served throughout the Mexican
war in Capt, B. H. Cooper's company, Jeff
Davie's' regiment, and participated in the
battles of Orizaba, Monterey, and the city
of Mexico. At the close he returned to the
Choctaw Nation, and, living on the ont-
ekirts of olvilizetion, engaged to some ex-
tent in fighting the Indians.
Daring the war between the States he
was a Captain in Gen. B. H. Cooper's com-
mand (same Cooper mentioned above as
being a Captain In the Mexican war), dur-
ing whioh time he took a hand in the bet-
ties of Wilson's Oreek, Elk Horn, Prairie
Grove, Gibson, Cabin Oreek, and numerous
email skirmishes, being most of the time in
command of scouts, and saw much rough
eervioe, In fact, his company was meg
nized as " Independent," going where add
when they pleased. He was quite notorious
as a raider, and was constantly on the go.
At the close of the war he surrendered
with Cooper at Fort Washita, Chickasaw
Nation, but had made such a reoord that
for a long time after the surrender he re-
mained on the scout, living in Mexico for
quite a while.
During all his adventurous life he was
never shot but onoe, and that was at
Weatherford, Texas, in 1872, when he was
shot in the knee by a man named Denton.
Miller'e mother was one-eighth Choctaw,
and his father an Irishman, and his right in
the nation ootnoe from hie mother. He has
a wife and three children, and is very well
fixed, having a large farm near Jimtown,
well stocked with horses, mulea, cattle, and
hogs. Notwithstanding his age, he le as
strong and vigorous as of old, and is still
considered a very, dangerous man, being
very quick with a pistol and an expert shot,
It is said that thousands of tons of leather
scraps are ground np and sold for fertilizers.
Gentlemen who have been raised on the toe
of a bo,ot will readily see how effi.lacious
leather must be as a fertilizer.
" I am glad this coffee d000n;t ewe me
anything," said a boarder, at the break-
fast. " I don't believe it would over settle,"
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CONSCIENCE.
Unprepossessing old Bachelor : AND WHY D0 YOU TIIINK 10tH 10T TO 'GET MAR-
itiED, MISS MABEL?
Mies Mabel (aged twelve,).:: OII, YOU LOOK As THOUGH YOU NBradtto SOMEBODY TO
TAKE GAB,IE OF YOU --- GOODNESS, YOU didn't 7H1Nx 1 S41D,LTI AT,TO ti[AD YOU
ODID YOU ?
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By TitE REY:, E A, STA1rsoB,D► A. AE a t4fere
01 1'IIE lUETR^yOLITA OuuXto11, TORi10 O,
A youth of more than average, self oon-
oBit was opening a milk bottle, and net
knowing j est how to manage it, he pinched
his flagon in the wire epilog, 13e burst
out with the refreshing ejeoalation, 4' Why
oan't those idiete make firings so that One.
can use them whiteout lasing hurt. But
aptually the aprfng wits right. ,A. dull
ohild could easily get through the danger
of using It after being onalle aho;en. The
real idiot in the ogee, if that word meet be
reed at all, was the clumsy operator, He
laughing
was not height enough to take 11 in the
right way, but instead of good naturedly
at hie own expense, ho stood ap
and began to fling around the abusive word
"idiot,,,
Thereupon arooe certain refleotions. A
large class of persons accuse others of folly
because they do not understand them. The
maker of books whioh the readers cannot,
comprehend with one reading must be a
fool. The inventor of a maohine whioh
needs some natural intelligence, and a little
oerefal study of it to run it eflioiently, is'a
fool. Few persons can pinobtheir own fla-
gon without calling some one else a fool
for being the innocent pause of it. Many
neem as if they would like to live on without
having to think about anything, or, in
other words, they would like to live in a
world planned to be the home of fools, in-
etead of a world where each person must
exercise some intelligence in adapting him-
eelf to his conditions and surroundinge. It
does take so muoh trouble to understand
things in their true lights and relations 1
How much effort would be saved if every-
thing Dame oat so that it would be ander•
,toed at a glance, without any thought from
us 1 But'if that were the case then this
would be a world for tools, and not for wise
men. " The earth was not made for the
Indolent, the active rule," Eternal vigi-
lance ie the prion of liberty. Ceaseless
change and activity of both body and mind
le the first law of enocees. The youth, or
man who contends against these principles
would finds his appropriate abode in a world
made for fools.
Many persons illustrate this in the man-
agement of their own bodies. I have heard
an intelligent and trusted old phyeician say
that at forty a man is either a dootor or a
fool. That is, he has observed and studied
the wonderful machine „wbioh was given
him to de his work Wath in this world,
until he understands its ways, and can draw
out its strength and bamo4 and Dover up its
weaknesses, and so get every day the very
best peesible service from it, and he knowe
much more about his physical constitution
than his regular physician does, Except in
rare and extreme cases, he knows what to
do with himeelf without consulting any
one, If this be not true at forty, then,
according to the saying above quoted, the
man is a fool. But how much thinking and
observing aro necessary before a person can
know himself so thoroughly. How much
attention to the effects of certain things,
how much self-denial in other things, what
comparison of one time and condition with
another. A weak person becomes eo wear-
ied and discouraged by the proceae that he
soya, in effect, " Why was I not born in a
world fitted up for fools, and then I would
escape ail this bother." There is reason to
anapeot that so far as the body is concerned
most people had rather live in a world for
fools than in one designed for wise men.
Then their intemperance In eating and
drinking; their indolence in neglecting pro
per exercise, and the art of breathing ; their
senseless tax, beyond endurance, laid upon
their complaining bodies, in both work and
amusement, would never stand ae an indiot-
mont againet them.' The world made for
fools would pity its fools, and they would
never be required to reflact upon what they
might have been had they been wise. Oh,
it is dreadfully inconvenient to live where
one is expected to aot wisely, and must him-
self pay the account if he does not.
0
Bat there are men who want a world for
fools who stand on a much higher plane than
the general one above indicated, Politicians,
for example, who want the world to accom-
modate itself to their old, effete, and ex-
ploded notions of government and clvilza-
tion, instead of climbing to their housetop,
and from thence noting the masses of men
swaying to and fro in constant ferment and
change," " E pur si muove,"—" and yet it
does move," Bard the much persecuted Gali-
leo, and since then it'has been many times
proved that the world moves. The masses
of men are never quite satisfied, and they
never ought to be. They are true prophete,
realizing in their thoughts the posalbility of
a better day about to dawn. But their up-
ward movement has always been hindered
by the slowness of their mighty rulers, even
in countries where the people are supposed
to govern themselves. The ruling class
have alway s been afraid to trust the people,
and so the typical politician, as he is made
up from the facts of the past history, Is a
manager of government who never moves
one step In advance until he ie literally push-
ed forward by the orewding multitude
around him. Politica lifts up before man-
kind few men like William the Silent, and
Vlotor Emanuel, who were willing to ad-
vanoe before their people, leading them up
to a right appreciation of liberties and bleu.
Inge for which they did not themselves re-
alize that they were fully prepared. The
rule ham been that the politician has stood,
holding the people back as long as possible,
fearing their influence, and wishing that he
could ropress them, and only stepping for=
ward under oompnlaion, In behalf of saoh
politicians why was not this world fitted
up to be a world for fools? It would be an
innocent recreation to many of ne to know
if some Canadian politioians, before five
years, do not wish that their let had been
oast in a world made for fools, when they
beard what the deep and mighty convictions
lying under the movement for prohibition of
the liquor traria means. It would be so
much more easy for politicians to keep their
place, and have a nice, good time, it this
world had been made for fools 1 Indeed
some of them seem to think, and openly
say, that as far as politics are concerned it
is a world of fools,
There are alto many eooleefaatioa who
want a world made for fools, They have
become familiar with their own routine
work, and the scales have grown ever their
eyes, and they do not perceive that the
thought of mankind is ceaselessly active on
religious questions. Ideas of political liberty
are germinated in religious convictions. The
people feel that whoever, or whatever else
may be dead, God is not dead, end that
ander the direction of a never -wearying
Providence, Ile is leading the human raoo
through the wilderness, into the Promised
Land, Men know inatinotively, that God is
on their side, and that violent changes and
disruptions are necessary before Ile can do
for them all the good He will. 'Therefore
the multitude is not at all disturbed by
variations from old methods in religions
teaching, and in the 'manifestation%f roll -
gloms life, Bat it would be much more
comfortable for the dignified eoolesiaetfo, if
the people would not think, Then be
would not need to think himself and !ors
adjust hlinaelf, whioz is so disquieting ars
operation, In other words, in ,his present.
oohed, he had rather be In a world deeignt
for the abode of foole, Bat thfe is not Nuoix
a world, and all who've incapable of read-
jestment will find themselves coming o
far in the roar, r
Whatof thine who neglect all the oppor-
tunities this world affords for disciplia er
and the cultivation of virtue, and the form-
atlon of grand and noblecharactera? Sural*
no condition of human life could be better
adapted for saoh a purpces, 11 we admit
whet seems to be a seif'evident truth, that,°
tests of virtue, ready at hand, are nooeesaryr
to ip men Pawts perfect development. Yet
through thin life in negleot of the privilege
It gives to make the beat of their character,
and then indulge the hope that in some
future state they will have a chance of do-
ing what this world given them so favor-
rtble an opportunity of doing. Such 0015) -
duet looks very muoh as if those who pur-
world made
live in a
prefer to e
sae it would F
for fools.
MURDERED Y HTf2ONEo
Swain Anderson Shet liowu in Coidlliiood--
The Murderers Confess.
On Sunday morning, May 23, Swain An
derson, a well•to-do farmer ot Mountain
Grove,lbo., was found murdered within 'a
mile and a half of the village. Daspatohee
from Mountain Grove ray that he attendetf.
the Masonic lodge Saturday night, leaving
the hall about J 1 A, M., and started:
for his home afoot, two and a half mile
north of town. He was found lying, en his
back, with a terrible wound in hie throat
and cheat, canned by a shotgun. All day
Monday and Tuesday tthe inquest went one
'and on Wednesday the two sons of therdeael
man, Ed, end Henry Anderson, and a com-
panion named Ewing Sanders confessed to
the horrible crime. The confessions of the
three were voluntary, and brought out at
Coroner's inquest, One of the boys partiallyv
gave the thtug away k his testimony, ane?h,
the other contradicted it, and they tnrnaal,
againet each other until the whole mystery+
was unravelled. They finally concluded° It:>•,
was boat to confess all,
Ewing Sanders made a full confession,•.
" Tne plan," he said, " was laid about two'
months ago. Ed. came to where I was at;
work in the field and prepesed that I help•
him kill the old man, I said I didn't like to,
but then and afterwards he kept percuad.in,t
me, and I finally yielded. Ed. told me;he-,
had laid a plan to kill h'nr once before: wham,
he went to salt the cattle by knookingialeam
old devil in the head with an axe and then
letting the wagon run over him, but one o£
the little boys was along, I agreed tin hie
plan about two or three weeks ago, ands
since then everything was perfected. Ed,.
begged and begged me until I didn't know
what I was about. It was my gun, a muz•
zle loader. I got the ammunition last Wed-
nesday night. The plan was ° to have Fred
Archer stay all night to keep down suspicion.
"I hid the gun about 300 yards from
where he was shot, and we got It about 12
e'clook at night and waited for him. lie
came along between 1 and 2 walking fast,
all unconscious of danger. lid. lilted the
gun and fired, and he droppedand ut-
tered ' Oh.' and instantly expired. We
didn't go up to the body, but ran away
home to Mr. Cox's and put the gun away,
and went to the kitohen and got semething
to eat and went to bed,"
Here the enormity of his crime seemed to
occur for the first time to the murderer, and
he broke down completely, crying, "0, Gede
what have I dene r Oh, boys, Ed and Hen-
ryayou have got me into this 1 Oh, horrible,
horrible ! They were to pay me $50 and
give me work as long as I wanted it, The
old lady and Jennie didn't know anything
of it. Oh, El, Ed, why did you persuade
mato go into it, and Ohl to think my poor
old mother. raised me better. It will kill
her. 0, Ged 1 0, God," ,
The story of the Anderson boys is as fol-
lows
" We worked it np together how to kiln
father. The first time we failed. The last
time proved sueoessful.,, There were other
parties—W. S. Campbell—who worked fer-
ns
orus who first put it in our minds, and who•
got mad at father about one year ago, and
said to us in the field that it would bee a
blamed thing if the old fool was dead—mean-
ing father. We began to meditate about It
from that time, and others put it also in
our minds, among whom were Joe Lae and
Price Byers. Joe told me if it was him ins
our place that he (father) would be a dead
man in less than twenty-four hours. If it
had not been for them this awful murder
would not have happened. It was worked
on our minds. Ei was to do the shooting,
as Henry said he would net help shoot him,.
About three or four gears ago, on Sunday
morning, father and El had trouble about,
Mr. Archer's horses, which had come to our
house. Father picked ap a rail and made
for E 1, and said he would knock his brains
out, That was the beginning of our bad
trouble, and it has worked on ns since, and
has got worse and worse, until we plannedt
to kill him. He always worked against our
going to church and sohool, and that work
on tea We never really thought about w
would follow after the killing, We .did'
In a worked up passion. We shot him wi
a musket shotgun. We got soared and r
and got separated, but finally got together
and went direct to Mr. Cex'a. Father cam
angrily to ns, and we shot and nearly mis-
sed him,"
Mrs. Anderson, the mother of the boys,'
was oleo arrested. An impression prevails
that she knew ef the crime. It be said that
there has been a continual war between has
band and wife for years, and that the boys.;
took their mother's part
So strong was the lynching sentiment that-,
tho prisoners were removed to Springfield
Mo., for safe keeping. They will be taken:
back in a week or so for the preliminary ex-
amination.
A Frenchman in a Fix.
"Ah," said a recently arrive d Frenchman
to his friend Solffin, "my sweetheart hay
given me de mitten,"
"Indeed, how did that happen?''
" Voll, I thought I must go to make her
von vizit before I.leave town; so I step in
de side of do room and dere I behold her':.
beautiful pairson stretch out on von lazy."
"A lounge, you mean,"
" Ah, yes, von lounge. And den I make.
von polite bow, and I say I was vere sure
she would be rotten, If I did not some 10 see
her before 1—"
" Yon said what?"
"I said she would be rotten if--"
"That'd enough; you have put your boot
in it to be sure,
" No, sore, I put my foot out of it; f
she says she would call hereacre big brotht
and keek me out, begat. I had proprheti
say mortified, hut I could not thing' dot;
vord, and mortify and rot is all de aetmefno.
my dietionaire,"
Wasn grained weeds with cold ton, wipe
dry and rub with linseed oft