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HOUSET3OLD,
My Baby.
loly halt' meet have goon away 1
Ilore, In my arras but. 1.001011411y,
1IT P101111110. , 101110 afro,
111'4 t.u,dou head upon my brOaJ,
Jits weary 111 le limba at rest,
1 reeled Inial 10111111 fro.
Tho 111 flu darling's rogololi eyes
Are height and Idem its summer shiers,
fir Scottish 11,•11..11 114111,
111.11.Hlr'rp (1004 yr 1 with lids Iite -mew,
Awl like the sucuuer', snn.bme giuw
ills leaves of golden heir.
And x11 its• 1/411:r. .100101, and i
Ann gnnrilhtor o'er with watrbftll eve
fly rout °i' irbin ,end ,lay,
• lett eatin4'ei,'ntent teed baby' go 1'w
HO fust and strong, 1 hat o'er 1 Ititoty
My llnby vac n boy.
A eltild, In boyish blouse mideltit't,
Who rides a brown,muI laves In dirt,
Whose rlmoke oro Burl: whIt Otto,
tames: romping In with noloy ahotet,
To see what. ,tttttttllmt Is 'ahem,
My sturdy tittle man.
11atoh, with lend upon toy broait,
No baby nestles close to rust ;
1 have hint still, I know,
101v boy elle all my heal'(, but 1
oft how joy heed. ami nn0t•nitu•blg t igh
I elss my baby soP
Don't he 111•natured•
An i11•nntured word spoken without re.
ileotton fastens the charge of impropriety on
a prot-y woman guilty of nothing worse
tluut high spirits of youth, and that want
of caution which so often accompanies
theme high spirits mated with Mum:mule.
Want of reflection is the undoing on iter
side, as well as on that of the ill -nature
which destroys her for watoti of thought rath-
er than for overplus of malice. Because she
is brisk and bright, she is, therefore, assum-
ed to Ito light and fast. IIor frankness is
made to look like impudence, her gayety
like immodesty. When the isgood tompered
she is cotorse; end ler very courage is insensi-
tive rather that brave. As for her manners
to met, they aro shameless, and no other
word is to be said, I't•omalt which the poor
young woman, whose worse crime is a cer-
tain heedlessness—a certain 0001:0 of previa-
sbon as to where appearances ere against her
and leave her reputation vnlueable—ds eon'
vieted by general gossip set afoot by one
thoughtlessly ill-natured chatterer and for
ever after goes through I1fo with a mildewed
name and a rusted character.
All small souio0,em nee Infested by tide
kind of plague. Hutnan mature has its
imperative instincts, whatever the theatre
ou which they are enacted. The stage may
be as wide as the world's greatest tragedies,
or as narrow as the enmities in the old
woman's ward of a workhouse, but the in-
etinets are the same; and this of unfriendly
interpretation is Oise of theta. It is a kind
of inverted form of the dramatic instinct as
well as that curious combativeness which
seeks to destroy for' tine mere pleasure of
destroying --even as a man will shoot guile
on the sea, for no good to anyone but
the Idshee which feed on flesh, and the
gratiheatitn of his own pride as 0 'nuke -
man. The moral world is an analogue of
the material ; and in this eareiess bllai:aura
we the rho tho,ightloss marksman who
shootsoagnlls, rltiuh he can neither bag 110!
eat, for the more pleasure of Oho sport.
And in restrtettnl societies, where big events
are rare and heroic tragedies almost imps.
slide, the dramatic inetinet gets its gratin.
dation Out of meat and petty quarrels,
10eau and petty sunders, and the wildfire
liung about by substantially good-natured,
but also mentally blind anti thonehtles8
chatterers.
A death, with the will to follow, is fertile
ground for thio kind of thoughtlexv 111 -
nature; and subordination, perjury, undue
influences, a later will destroyed, frustrated
intentions, and alt the 0050 of it, wander
about the tall( of the place like so many
aunty little imps wvtuudering tltrtugl at en-
chanted wood wherein they use set fast,
and *hence they mutest get loose into the
open day. These naps of speech and foul
surmise never t'eaoh the light of open accuses
tion, They wander hither and thither, and
are handed on in whispers from ono to an-
other, and tae 0110 pauses to take heed of
the words wide!' imply so much more than
is kumvn, and accuse of crimes 110 000 culla[
certify under pain of his life. Even relatives
will say these terrible things of nue another
and as h,obah, irre-lousible chatterer of this
itdnd did not hesitate to charge leer sisters
and brothers tchit the elute 10 undue in.
fluener, immense she was dissatisfied with
the f ether's will, w•hielt was simply .lust iu
its impartiality, attdeihl tint make specializ-
ed
provision for her, ITere, her charges were
thnnghtlesss only'newels:1i as, being foul,
she did not realize the magnitude of the
offense she assumed had been committed.
But there was none of the carelessness we
have spoken of alive ; and what the meld,
she meant, and the arrows Sin lot Ily she
wished and ittte.ntbed should stink,
In some houses gossip of this kind
abountld. The talk is all of ponpbt, newer
of thins ; and when you get into the habit
of talking about people, you ncoessarily slip
into that of ill -nature and slenderons in-
sinuation, it is so much easier to dispraise
than to praise.; and ill-natured criticism nen
be made amttsdu7, while encomiums are apt
to be heavy when not cloying. Besides, ill.
native reacts in a kind of relleoted light on
one's own person, When we condemn our
dear island for this fault and that,natuv'ally
the corollary is that wo ourselves are free of
that special sin, and look at the world so far
with clear eyes, The pot calling the kettle
black is 0 very silly performance ; and when
Satan and Sin fall out, the little demons
laugh fur joy. So that, unless we think to
hide our own ill -doing by exaggerating that
of atother, um are supposed to stand free
from those moral troubles by which we say
our neighbours havebeenscorod audscratch-
ed. And oven the careless and good-natttr.
od, who give themselves up to the fatal
habit of slarletoustnsinuattou and ill-natur•
eel commentary, aro not quite without a
conception of self in their [dues, aro nob
quite ignorant Of that inner glow whiolt to-
centpnndes tho sharp speoch against another
—de not dtsdaht the thank hiltless of the
cleanly.li vi ng Pharisee that he wee no Cas that
sinful Publican yonder, whose living was
madnloutof the sufferings of others and whose
soul was therefore spotted with guilt, even
as as Leopard's skill is spotted with stains 00.
changeable.
What the Lips Te11
The rosy lips of lovely 00011001 have been
sung about by pools of all ages, Tho Cu'
pidts bow in dainty curves hes always been
symbolical of a perfect unotttlt, an't lips most
Ittssablo have 00001 been represented as
other that pink ctrl perfect.
No other portion of the fano, however, so
quickly responds to symptoms of ill health
in the body as do the lips. Fever blisters
are the disfiguring reminders cf a
cold ; dry; broken, or blsodloes lips allow
that one to atilt of sorts, oven 01nro certainly
Gem heavy Oyes or drjt°ted price, mud it is
a wnmatt'tt duty 10 endeavor to restore 0110000
to their soft, rich redness, Which is the
ontward and visible sign of good health;
To do this l.ile general System 01111st be
toned up, diet regulated, trod a regttlttr
hnnse.el„an1ug gone Into ; but there are um'
Lain del'eets of the lips that nali bo ovarroutt
Without all Otis trouble, because they arise
f00111 11 tvoat'+n'x own fault. Many of us,
front nervousness 1'r habil, hare a way of
biting ear lips tvhieli will surely 01'5010 ill
swelling, bruise or dryiemo that is both uu•
camfortttble and nupbaasaut to look at,
Therefore, the Oral step is, to brook off so
pel'niuinnn it timeline by wntclniutt oneself
very raiefully. Next, meant the poor,
Lammed members with swine Ittm'tllilo i3/401,0 of
a pini make,
Do not, howo er, thtuk to mare eba?peel
lips by anointing them after helms out 111
the air, '190 time fur treatment iv before
the mischief is Clone, putting on a little cold
01100(10 every time you start out fora walk
which you will find highly beneficial and
will keep your lips itt winter jllet a,, eweet
and rosy as when the milder zephyrs of
summer rule the ale.
A writer whose knowledge of snail sub-
! jecte to 1010nd gnetbou says that glye'eriue
and. rose wane' should neves' be used to
anften the lips, tae Chia remedy has ono great
drawback, namely, tint it, induces the
growth of suporlinons heir, a teaming
which all women '111 gladlyq hone, for no!
0110 desires to purees a boarded lady. When
cold sures appear M1,111ont'vfth cults Ct'oant,
being careful not to break them, and they
'
will 5oo81011 di0uppear. The reason that they
usually cling so long is, that they are tam-
pered with by rubbing or luting, and there-
fore oannot have a chance to heal properly,
a5 they would if left 'lone. The sane
writer who warns us against glycerine and
rose water is n won g advocate of hot water,
and allirins that there is scarcely any nil-
mont that will not succumb to its stealing
virtues. J'borefore, with cold cream and
hot water one should be able to present to
the world a pair of rosy lips free from any
unsightly blenishee.
Men and Their Ideals.
The notion that men have of their own
worth, nays George \IuDouald, and of claims
founded thereon, is amazing ; most amazing
of all is what 0 man will set up to himself
as the ttoudard of the woman he will marry
\\'hat the woman may have o right to olafot
never enters his thought. He never doubt
the right or righteousness of aspiring towed
a woman between whose nature and his lies a
gulf, wido as between an angel praising God
and a devil taking refuge from him to a
swine. Neter a shadow of compunction
crosses the leprous soul as he stretnhos forth
Inc arms to enfold the clean woman. Ah,
white dove, thou must lie for a while among
the pots ! If only thy mother be not more
to blame than the wretch that but nut
after his kind. Tie floes not die of cel
loathing ! how, then, could ho imagine the
horror of disgust with which a glimpse of
hits such as he is would blast the soul of
the woman? Yet has ho—what is it, the
virtue, the pride, or the cruel insolence?—
to shrink with rudest abhorrence from one
who is, to nature and history and rain, his
fitting and proper mate ! To see only hos'
a man will be content to be himself what
he scorns another for being, might well be
enough to send anyone crying to the (hid
there may lie to come between him .Luc[
himself. Lord, what to turning of things
upside down there will be one day ! What
a setting of lasts first ±and firsts lest.
Tested Recipes.
Rt110x CAKE.—Cream one cup bmtter,add
gradually two cups of 800100 and beat well,
then add four eggs well beaten ; mix be
1;etlter three and ono -half cops (lour And
three teaspoonfuls baking powder, add this
to elle first mixture alternately with one
rep nob1k, 'fo half of the batter add one cup
raisins stored, cttt and floured, one half
pound figs chopped very flue Ancl floured,
one tablespoonful of molasses, ate-htalf tea-
spoon of cinnamon and ene•bnlf teaspoon of
clove, mace and allspice mixed equally,
one-quarter of It grated nutmeg, the spices
to be mixed with onetablespoonfnl of flour.
Bake in battered pans 10 a moderate oven
about thirty minutes and put together with
at thin layer of jelly. This is a good recipe
for geneul use, and the rush makes two
cakes each of dark and white cake.
Spared the jelly au while the cake
be yob warm, It may he put together
with frosting if liked lintthis nukes
it ton sweet for soma tastes. Apple
jolly is it gond kind to 000 as it
bias lose devou0 Mid d°tuatts les;
from the lino ;levee"' of the calte.
In raking this cake about eight spoon•
fele of the batter will make one of
the layers, Frost with no boiled icing,
Roil tegetL•ot• until it threads one cup
sugar sand one-third nap water ; heat the
white of one ogg to a froth, peer on the hot
syrup and heat live Iltittinia of 117111 t•eol
enough to spread. Flavor with one-half
teaspoonful of vanilla. Stir the sugar and
water together until they are mixed then
do not stir again. After a few minutes try
the syrup to see if it will thread ; use 0
oold epoott and do not leave 14 in the hot
sugar and then expect to make an accurate
test, Do not boat the white of the ogg too
much for this kind of frosting.
OttASttlO Irian,—To the grated rind of
one orange add two tablespoonfuls of orange
juice and ono teaspoonful of lemon juice, let
stood one hour, strain and add to the un-
beaten yolk of one egg. To this Add con-
feetiotiet'8' sugar t0 make it stiff enough to
spread. Be careful to grate the yellow out-
side rind without taking any of the white
peel The flavor of the orange lies in the
rind and not in the juice, and the rind also
gives color, This is ono of the easiest kind
of frostings to make. Witter or cream any
be need in54eed of the orange juice and ntty
flavor preferred, But bo sure to use xxxx
oonfeotioners'sugar. This frosting may be
thinned if it is too think to aproad easily,
but these gntohly made frostings are to be
spread, not pound on a cake like a boiled
icing. Another frosting is made with the
white of an egg and confectioners' sugar or
with the white of an egg, to tablespoonful of
water and the sugar.
APUsm0 C.uas,-1n marking this kind of
cake always sumer with the yolks of the
eggs ; heat them until light, add the pow.
deroel sugar gradually and continue boating,
-low acid the flavoring, after that the whits.)
of tho eggs Lenten stilt. .Add a part of the
eggs Ata auto cutting and folding thorn in
as in making at omelet. Now add a part of
the [loo' bn the sane way and then the rest
of rho egg and finally the last of the flour,
Remember not to stir but to fold it over.
Ballo in a moderato oven. rive oggs, one
onp of powdered sugar, 0110 cup of flora' is
o good rule, Paper the pan and butter it
very slightly; to remove the woke turn the
pan 000 ;010 altle then on the other and lot
the weight of the cake assist in its removal.
Turn out 011 to a nopltbn or it wia 000ler bot
its a delicate mitre sometimes takes the bm-
premien of the wires the napkin is to be
proferred.
The Whole Story.
Hind Lady r' Why is it that boys like to
steno eats ? '
lltul Bay --"'Cantu cats can't 110,80
bacit.''
APPALLING DEPTHS 31' SPAUS. I OATS ARE MALIGNED. Ito cr ole into tho kitchen every' morning to PYARLS 01' TRUTH.
he fid waning The cat wan usually tiring far It
t4irllarltistattres That 01 ort the 110114 and and alter 11 hod eaten and i1. Logon to coo
%nate 0l"1`lttvu, Ila waver, Air Net so Irrr
Rattle A'0plpren•nxlen• - end strut about the ,'tai. would sii,fc it 111 its �trieiug to hotter, oft we near what's well. •
Sir }tolie y
had.
i rt Rell, 1st the Ian, +d institution 1 [eery, roil over and over with it,, and kick , When flattery is uumuieoxnful, it be but the
en Saturday attornnon, dm leered the last '['here is not in all zoology a nun'cnmltun• ,1 gently With his 100,801 f;113 0, Thu [tigeun , fano of tho flatterer,
of his lectures on a00t•0umuy, 110 took for '‘11111111111111 than tin cath 11 hos ev,ro been oubmb tett good •naturedly, le vet 01.4011i0g : Oen cannot nt ive to he u hero, but tate ct •
bissnbj,• •t "'lotto Mars," tbit,s' aeh, ,,,,h, 'itwed that the nupb•es'utt. traits attributed lu rvaLlize that ha wamliterntb., in ih,. clot•' )h t n 1 , t an
lu 1.11„ t'ai11 pile 1,AL at'u who]] ueytl,;ral, o• ! niWaynt bt, a Y,lap.
though appearing so small to us, Lrcaasn of [ , Y , of has nant',il .0"',811, 'TLey j,iay,d in• ;
lh0jr iannense ehatan e, are, in reality, W.,'" Yet uo one has mason to vindicate the eat, nether ill Ibis way for man}' nmol les, 1110., If Cod bears with the worst of un, W0120•11
and xhuiing sous, If, he 001,1, we were to [here are still rural ununnanittes--tteseton eat neves attempting to harm Ins feathered • surely ruihuo each othn,
esrapo filet the earth late epee', the moon, Yet lesetrate'l by tho railroad and Ihu "'ie.' i110 1111, 00111 the poor 11ige00 ba,l a bosent I (live what you hive, Tomono. eueilimy
,1upine', sateen, and conntuall,y Oho snit graph--•0011,1ce 1lley,A0l'y llltlntege f,o't'Itetr. awn) hessian of a very disagreeable and: be bet ter than you dare to think,
would bernme invisible ; bat, for an wit 10 01111.6101, and phun their g' 011 ltH II (be light hnpelese Inuit it bad of roosting 011 the I Many ,t smiling fan. hide. a tuuarning'
tram the hors, they still shine brightly' 111,1,1 the Illaeil, 1)11'1" the oar is caretnlly Put Miele and 11041.1101111g 1,110 slumbers of tie 1 ]tear(; but grief /1,111110 teaches what we are.
mi. 1l any oI these stays (110 heavier than
nut of ,inco'c (Ivory night lest lie should muck family moan, ('Hto that. have been beret''• , \\'hrrn there is ntuein pretension, mach .
our aur. Foe oxiunple, Meets, the middle tho b tby's breath. An authenticated ex• eel of their kittens semot.imes adopt enaug(e' f .tenet• n, ew d
elite ill the Safi of the Greet Pear, is forty ample nl tide terrible habit on the pat 1 of fester children, One /01, suckled n dying
brie Grein horrwtvrd ; nater 1 [ t s
oat' nlHx hex Hurn • , n u• , ce,l 'Phe feathered arrow of satire has often
tint,,,, as heAty as um sal, 'Pn the inked i t I met [ o is , It le squirrel, caressing it with great affection,
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heavenly bodies visible, 111 all probability somebody's seem e[ cnnst,i, whc told his ',meek home a family of tonne, tate to ' 11 a are our own worst and meet dagger- '
eye there are five or six tlhmatulds of I.bryo .die %enug ghost. 11 ehvays upprars to Aottber,.. turd morn remonkabl0 still, l been wet, "jib flu, huart'x bland of its cictfm.
then aro worlds revolving round them. greltt-aunt, who linseed the legend down is take the piece of the nnrs[u;go which had i ons society when we are in trouble.
Sixty-intot (' •ygut ie the nearest, eat' o its the su•cue lm • ' r R l , ,
1'ielan' a 1 ,011 drowned, Sit, laid the, urloptsrl A kind hunrC is a fnnutait, of gladnosa
In thio part of the sky. Alpha Centauri, in A ma's kelt of atttebmenl to its bel efac- young once very ountingly until they 00•00 0 i makiu • eve• thin = in its victoit freshen
1110 c°n,,W11allott t4n1t1mr, to the southern ter is uun1her ,'time cltargod ageiuxt the - ,ret( well town, When they wer0 toil R Y 6 Y
Poor animal. Colo ore .tet Oho nal 80000' -pretty
)+ ;lei into audit..
hemisphere, is the nearest of all t he eters. P Y e„ for slaughter she evinced the greatest i The nb:ain%nf 1151»4 are generally 100 Oman
The sun i5 u long luny elf, 11:11,004,0110 miles,
lures who do not, like their benefactors : so row. One escaped and mouths after- 6 Y
Now, multiply 01100 by St14,000, turd the re- N'alr,1 a int caught in n wire trap was taro- to he until they are too strong to be
stilt bx roughly s toaking,:0 O11n,IIPi,44O 000, 1 ed over 111 her to be killed. Site sprang at. I broken,
01,81 Olio is the di5Latt,'o we are from Alplta 1 I I j 1 IY it, then suddenly showed signs of reroa,u[- Our grand business is not to see what !,
'nutuied. 'fake the speed o' uta electric 1 I 11 If 1 1 i Y 1 tient and refused to touch it, It mai with' ]fes dimly at a distance, btttto 080 what lies .
current, which is nearly the eat e t that ant doubt oar, of Itte htmily that she had clearly at 6,8,8(1.
of light, [80,0011 miles per second- .suppose l taken to her heart when her kittens were ' Those who pay their ainpinyos good wages
e message to be Hunt eat tots speed front n I 1 fi I i• y 1'111 YP f rlrowumr[, I are more truly philanthropists than thous
who out wages and give largely to chapels I
for the poor.
Unlimited good humor is one of the chief
requisites of all good government, whether' I
of one's self, a nursery, or a (011111 try.
there are hundreds of folks who hale 'em.
AH for pilfering, another fault, what man or
woman is there tV I° les not attrle tt ttnn9
helped hi to some coveted dainty, am
said nothing aab(u0 it? Popple who have
studtel tate was% of the cat species are sur-
prise, to tier mw (nal different. erent t es' o
point on the earth's aorta,', it wnnld gn citareetr0 there are among them 1 the dull
seven times :trowel the earth in o00 neeond.
Again, let it he ,•opposed that t ate.=signs
01800 01,00 orf 10 tb^ dtIferent heavenly bod-
ies, 1'o reach the Moot, at this rale it
would take about one second, 111 eight
minutes a :nessage tennld get to the son,
and, allowing for a couple of rolot.teY delay,
our could send et message to the sen and
get an answer all within Wont). ntinutns.
]tut to reach Alpha ('' t Tauri it would take
three years;moles this is the neatest of the
stars, wheat time tentin take to get to the
othersif, whet Wellington Ot the battle
of Waterloo to 1111 1, the nears had been
telegraphed o1'imnediately, there are some
stars so remote that it would tool yet have
melted then:, To go a stip further, if its
10(18 the result of the Conquest had been
wired to some of those stare, the nes5tge
would still be on its way. If the tidings of
the first Christmastide it: Bethlehem hall
been sent to the stars, there are some orbs,
situated in the furthermost depths of space,
which could not receive the message fur a
long time yet.
QUEER THEORY OONOERNING LEP-
ROSY.
It is Believed to Ite Propagated by Cita
n Ibit IlSM 1a Oeven t ea.
Mr. Boyle visited Burwell, the Malay
native States, Sinatra, hfatn, Borneo,•Iava,
Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, the Sand-
wich Islands, and America. Of all the
facts noted by hien Its a sanitarian the most
remarkable are thee° relating to leprosy, a
disease which he believes to bespreadingto
an alarming extent all over the world.
He wee partiedarly struck by the gigan-
tio prnpertsons tho evil lute assumed in
Burmah. The 50eps of the great Shwedagon
pagoda at Itengoon, the Moen, of the Indo
Chinese Buddhist, he fount to bo "closely
lined from top t0 bottom with lepers, suf-
fering from that loathsome disease in its
worst forms and most advanced stages." A
number of the victims examined by Ale.
Boyle "presented a most sickening and
av11111 spectacle." Yet no provision worthy
of tie name appears to bo made for the
maintenance o: treatment of these poor
lepers, who a'c thus compelled to resort to
begging to keep themselves in existence.
At. Mandalay ale. lioyle came in contact
with horrors of a similar nature, Daring
times of high festival the entrances of the
great Aral:on pagoda in that city are crowd-
ed by hundreds of lepers, so that the visitor
has to peek his way carefully among them.
In the Sandwich Islands, also, Iter. Boyle
was strongly impressed by the terrible ef-
fects of tate curse of leprosy, which, he
says, has nearly decimated the native pop.
elation.
He has a curious theory to the effect that
the prnpagmtiou of leprosy has been
to a large extent connected with cannibal.
ism , the disease "being spread wholesale
through the eating of infected bodies." lie
has ircqueuly seen in New Caledonia and
the South Sea islands limnan bodies "hams
dug up do he native hats, intended for eeverrd it, experimented gingerly, and thea Great Brita�u at the Fair•
future reacts, thong,, then in un a lo'aneed 1 rail' ,,ted. While the flood was still at its 1 1 1 1. hrit-
P The total Spat n impied 1 tire• •
010,.0 of decomposition turd exhaling' m;g
iekeuing odor."
and Lite intelligent: the lazy and the Indus-
trious 1 the affectionate and the indifferent ;
the sober and the dignified, and the seri.
table harlequin.
A family who have always had a large
collection tell many stories of the idiosyn-
crasies of their pets,
.t m..tt'li AND 00 tt17•li.
Among them probably the queerest of all
WAS a black and white female who had been
denied the joys of motherhood. Never WAS
Lits longing for ot1'epring more strongly
8husvn 111 0 human being. Site had a pas-
sionate interest i0 the kittens of all other
cats more highly favored than herself. Not
only would site watch their frisking and
playing with wistful interest, hitt, she was
a htardonerl and persistent kidnapper, She
W10 00 incorrigible kitten.stealor that no
ppunishment could cure. She would watch
her opportunity when the real parent bad
slipped away for a breath of air, make a
descent in the box or basket where her
family had heen left, and carry then( away,
one by one, until the whole litter had been
abducted. She had all sorts of hiding places
far the stolen babies—in the elothes•nress,
on the shelves ofthe store -room anelbetween
the blankets of the children's trundle -bed,
and when the defrauded mother returned
she witnessed her grief and lamentations
with the utmost oomplaoeney, seeming to
cherish her guilty secret;
Another cat was nmighty hunter—also a
female with six kittens. Her master's house
adjoined a wood, and before her k litots' oyes
were opened she began to sally forth in
search of prey which she considered adapt-
ed to Choir tender stomachs, Small molds,
wood -mice, ohipnputks, and flying squirrels
were ruthlessly slaughtered, the family box
being surrounded by their mangled re-
mains. No mimetic of beating or other
11lean0 of discipline could curb her blood-
thirsty propeuoities.
.t 1:0100 CIAwe.
Auotlter cat was a born clown. It could
rust and leap and turn sonlersaulls like a
trained poodle, and. learned of its self a
clever Crick of opening floors. The hoose
was an old-fashioned one, and many of the
doors worn supplied with ancient latches.
Tho cat would spring up, thrust one paw
through the curved ptece of metal and tap
the finger of 1 he latch with Chu other until
the door would fly open, Then she would
walls in with pronnuncrtl pride in the
achievement. The cellar of the house would
occasionally get flooded with water. Tho
50tean00 was through a pantry, upon the
shelves of which kitchen supplies were kept.
There was a pane of glass broken in the col-
lar and this \Ltdame Puss discovered, using
nitof ingress and egress. She
it as a mea g
was usually put out at night, having been pro-
vided with a snug box in the barn. But she
very much preferred the rug in front of the
grate, nr butter still, to curl up in bed with
the children. (ono spring the rains wore an•
usually heavy and the cellar WAS flooded,
The ca' went down the cellar steps and dis-
The Rnvsica Approach to India,
If we look at the immense territory line•
sit has °vermin tool conquered in the haet
twenty yearn from the Caspian sea to the I Philanthropy, like roliginn, wants, first of
Afghan frontier, olvauemg oven into At- all, the gift of the heart,and mut ofthose who
ghel east, itself, it what bernme, really
aiming
parent to would do good to others. Pubes, you give
the lunar observant what uho ix really oiming yourself you can not help others.
at. 1'o -day' Lord Salisbury would not give
any longer the Mame eonnsel he formerly
gave laughingly to the ens:aibel alarmists,
namely, that they allntlld " buy Leone large
unapt, in order to Dee haw far rho ezar'5 em-
pire 15 still from the confinoe of India." Nor
How notch trouble he avoids who does not
look to %1'0 0011011 ilia neighbor sap or does or
thmks, but only to what he tines himself that
it (nay i e jnet and pure.
Luxury 10 m0L0rialistic and seifiob ; it re -
world Lord Beaconsfield look to -day with Lards the mental and spiritual ricvelopinent
egnauitnttyupon the nitwit ion which has of a people andteltlbo 0intpoverish0nation.
been emoted since he thought it was " still Luxury breeds luxury as sin begets sin,
A long way from the Russian so the Indian
frontier."
Almost immediately after the last war
against Turkey it camp out that aseoreten.
voy of the czar had plied the late sneer of
Afghanistan with a proposal of an alliance,
in view of a war to be waged swine day by
Russia against 1snglish rule in India, The
documentary ev,douoe is printed in a blue
book. Nevertheless the l:nglieh govern-
ntont has allowed itself year by year to be
deceived or appeased in outward semblance
by the diplomatic assurances of the czar's
government, " Kltiva teas not to he an-
nexed. Sarokhs was not to be touched.
Mery was not to be incorporated. Afghan.
beton was completely outside the sphere in
which ftusnia intended exercising any he
fluence.'• All those promises are recorded
in so many worm% All wore suoeessivoly
broken without compunction.
I have often dismissed these tntttters and
the question of the future of Luba with
prominent and intelligent Indians in Lon-
dou-1{indoos, Mohammedans, Parsecs,
i'udtlbivts—some of thein holding high
office in native governments of their coml.
try, 1there put:vttingvarious stttdieo in Eng-
lund, or exercising their calling as lawyers.
Most of them—the Hithlons uepecially—
wer'e free -minded men in religious 11 at terS,
having fallen away from tht. creed they Imre
been brought up in. All of then acknowl-
edged that English rule, whatever may
have been its origin nr the error of its
statesmen in the past, has latterly effected
a groat ileal of good. It bras done away by
logislatton with some of the worst abuses
which were the ottglow1tt of native super-
stition. it has conferred upon tnultitudea
the boon of better instruction. It hoe re-
cently made even some notable couceseions
in the direction of gradually admitting
natives to n altar, in administrative affairs
and in a kind of repreaeutative government,
however restricted. The difficulties lying
in that way through the existence of so
many different races with different lane.
uages, creeds, and historietal traditions, and
of castes, some of which will not allow their
path to be crossed by the shadow of a
member of another caste, aro ton well
known to need here to speeiel 1100/01 p1ion.
height she was t nzuxl out 10 a to her own I sin and tb:• ('otoII th ,.1: t sur,_" will in all
qunrtera, es usual. 'abort She alto 1e t dr -
.;notability lie tints. thin 0n4,eal 0gn,re
tided,nwit11n,oe.uto do. fret, ,suet ling the temmmt arct:par,t lu
Sir Rioharl Owen's Ghost Story. In to little wattle there wan heard a tap. 1',81.10 in 15; m, viz., ;4i�1,lnt c�lnnr° L.rt, the
The late Sir 11ich'u•d Owen tired! to 00. tap on the Latch torsi in walked the sat, not larged apse,' befuie filled by the I111'1.1i
late n remarkable ghost eta nye ht Ilia ; only dripptu•,L, but eovererl with lino,. She 1 Section at any 0shibitiou. It Vienna 1;11,.
early days when [t1' held the pest of 0110.1 heti braved tht waurr,,crawled 00r'sigh the: ono square feet were oestipicd, at Phila.
goon to the pLbsuu at Liiiraster,1 00g00 111001 bele in the window, swam the flood, and delphia 1p,i,00lt, at. Paris, in 1000, 13,Oen.
in the jail, and tt nlstuh,rteot as well us an I wound the torfornlanon b knoekio I.n Ss0 Pcl� kilt occupied 1''10 000
] 1 up1 Y g. At Paris i 1 _ ,
inquest were necessary, After' the inquest down n paint of [lour front the shelf, with 1 the United States I1;1,0011, Square fret. No
' young oltogonn 0000 the body -pat nt the i • wet fur was coated from the earn e • 11211100 Of
Chu. } u b, P 1 whish he v other country hal mere than
coffin and 1110 hd serowod down, to be ready, to the tip of the test The family laughed
for the funeral next day. Ower had at the I immoderately nal if ever thorn was a grin
time been already attracted to the study of of sympathy depicted upon ea animal's face
comparative anatomy end Degreesheads
were not plentiful ; so he made up his wind
that this ono should not be lost to the cause
of science. In the evening he returned to
the prison with a black hag containing a
brick—from his official position he had no
difficulty in getting admittance to the mol'tn-
ery, where the coffin lid was unscrewed
and screwed down again, During Otto
process the brick and the negro'a dead
changed places. The ground outside the
principal entrance to the jail has a emtsid.
arable descent, and the time being winter,
with thew and frost, Owen had scarcely
passed out when he slip[ ed and fell all his
longth—rho hag w'eet from his hand, and
the [lead tntnh[od out and rolled down the
paved way. He jumped up, caught the bag,
and following the heart clutched it just as it,
finished its rareor in a small shop where
tobacco was sold. Nailing it into the bag
again, he vanished out of the shop with all
tho speed he tens capable of.
Next morning when Owen was going to his
usual duties 01, the prison, ho 1o110 called in
by the woman at the shop where Olio acci-
dent had cowered on the previous evening,
She wished hint to 500 [COC husband, who
was very ill. He had had, she said, a
fright the night before that caused hien to
loo[( wilt( ttnd dazed like. The man it
turned out, wit a retired sea captain, who
had boon in ninny maven tures (among the west,
India Islands, when many diode were doito
that did not at that time require to bo
accounted far. Among these had leen
the trilling, of a negro in which ho had a
hand, and tho transaction had left is touch
of trouble 011 ilia conscience, After goring
the details, the old captain told of the
horrible event that, tools place the night
before. He was sitting in hie shop, all was
quiet, and it so chattood that he had been
thinking of the nrgro, when suddenly ho saw
his very hoed roll into the slop in trent of
the counter, and it was followed by the
devil, all in Much, with It Meek ling in his
hand. 1 hu devil 'matched up the bead, and
both ,llaappeererl 0. rough tate ough Ibko
a flash of lighltiug. That d,•er•riptiolt 00'004
perhaps not quote compliinotta;y to the
yenng mint midst, blit it WAS satisfactory so
far butt It slloWed that bis identity tool not
11 •on recogniicl.
it appeared upon that oat's, Sho stented
perfectly ennsoiousof her rbdioolonsappear-
anco and of what she had done.
A Lady had a very booutiful Maltese ton,
au animal of great size and sagaoity, While
lie was yet is young kitten a spaniel puppy
was added to tho collection of family pets.
Between the dog, which had the ineolgru-
ons name of Phantom, and the oat, which
was christened Timothy, there sprang up
an immediate friendship, They had many
a stirring rotup and ate out of the sane dish
with the utmost amiability. When their
mistress wont to the (neat market Phantom
and Piinothy both accompanied her, walk-
ing sedately by her aide. It was only a
short distance and when the place was
reached Phantom wont inside for his accros-
toned bone and Timothy ran up a tree by
the door and parched on one of the lower
branches, out of reach of alien doge whom
17e had not converted to peace and good
will, When his mistress and Phantom re-
appeared he gravely descended and trotters
home again, sire of a choice rid -bid, w[tich
was never forgotten.
And the Maltose Tom and a small k yo
terrier were also great chums, and played
together constantly. They retied. through
std throng)) the house over chairs and
sofas, and even across the piano, but the
eat had the advantage. The terrier was
never permitted to go op 001110s. When the
play began a little too fast and tto•bous the
oat would dart up the steps and lie down
nu rho upper landing, panting with exhaus-
tion, while tho dog squatted in the hall bo.
low waiting for hor to descend, Ho woo
geucrally quiet, patient, watchdog his play
trate eagerly, but. politely refraining from
any barking 00 yelping that might Initiate
iter unv0m0nta. �Witei the eat hal rested
sufficiently alio would rise, steal down tho
attirs with elm utmost caution, and when
within four or five stops from the bottom
would leap upon rho dog's back and away
they would gn again, racing through the
t•nn+nt until the cat grow tired, when she
would again take refuge on the 50nttre, This
was the regular programme for the even-
0hng'5 entertainment.
CAT AND 141180N,
Tho pigeon 000.0 is pot And was no 1'r st need
the total area allotted to Great Britain and
the Colones at the Chicago Exhibition it t5
probable that (ireat Britain alone will o0.
Dopy about 1100,000 square feet. While the
remaining 200,000 will be occupied by con-
trihntious from the British Colonies, the
great countries which, practically independ-
ent and self-govoruiug, lend; on such an
occasion as the present, so mach strength
to the Empire, and enable it to hold a posi-
tion that without such aid it could never
pretend to occupy. This is an advantage
which no other ono poseess00, turd one of
which we Britons may surely with some
justice be proud. It is not very easy to
ascertain accurately the way in which space
was divided between the mother country
end the Colonies in previous exhibitions. At
Paris in 1880 the Colonies and India only
took up 38,000 square feet of tho total area
of 2,00,000, At 1 hiladelplt to the proportion
WAS very much larger, and the Colonies
seem to have occupied mote than a third of
the whole space. ---[Henry Trueman Wood,
in North Anteritiat Review.
Gave liim'Warning,
Western Tudgo—" Why dbd you kill
Long heli?"
liens Trigger Ike-11He was a had man,
y'r Honor, nn' ib was a case o` drew or be
chewed."
Jndgo---'r 111(1 you give him any warning
before you dant him 'Is
Halt -Trigger Ike- "O, yos, y'r Honor.
1 old him 10 holt[ up his hands,'
In Hard Luok'
Architect's Wife—"Yon look distressed.
What's happened?"
Arnhitent Itlespoulottly)--•' I've just
found out, that ale. Shortoaslt hasn't credit
enough to make his 1:10W house a credit to
me. o
A Small 0ritic•
Little Visitor—" What does y011111'0111111111
have Buell a lot of faded out old t ugs around
for?"
Little Hostess—'t They isn't faded. They
15 antique."
" 1t afloes antique Mean ?"
"It means old, awful old."
That's jay w'at 1 tubi,'
Hope spiritualizes the earth. Hope
snakes it always new, and even in the earth's
best and brightest aspect, hope shotes it to
he only the slmdow of an infinite bliss here-
after.
Science has dote much for us, but it is a
poor science that would hide from tis the
great, deep, sacred infinitude of nesoionce,
whither we can never penetrate, on which
all science swine as a mere anperficiel film.
This world, after all our science and sciences,
is still a miracle ; wonderful, inscrutable
magical and more to whosoever will think
of it.
.A BOY IN TUE ROLE 01' JONAH -
Lowered 1110 an INepltautl'4 Stomach in
Remove A An 11"11110,8+tt eta Ron Iter.
Apropos to the incident related recently
of the death of %ipp, the big elephant at
Barbin, Wis., from having swallower) a
eltaitt weighing 90 pounds, a reminder was
Balled up anri related by Dr. Hume of Den-
ver,
' ,Tust prior to the demise of the much
lamented bhlnetts T, Barnum I was touring.
in Connecticut and called upon the great
showman at Bridgeport, who invited me to
see the circus animals in winter quarters.
On arriving at the great caravansary where
the wonders that tour the o0..ntry year
after year are stored, the illustrious owner
was informed that Meta, the prize trick
elephant, was ailing. All the symptoms of
the poor beast pointed to the fact that site
was suffering from aceto gastralgia and
means had been tried to relieve her without
Avast.
It
was finally discnverod that Beta had
by some means wrenched off an iron bar
from her stall, and as it could not be found
it was surmised that she had swallowed it,
and which accounted for the gastric irrtta-
tbon of the valuable pachyderm.
" Mr. blarmtm saw that poor Beta must
soon succumb to the iinflammatiou oansed
by such -a large foreign body and with ready -
wit resolved on a unique plan to remove 1t -
Attached to his largo whiter hotel was a
entail colored boy who went by the name of
Nigger Joe. B° was but little larger that
a tall -grown pnesunl, and P. T. sent for him
and explained that he must take a rubber
tube 111 his month to ln'rath through, and,
With a rope rnnnd Ola waist, must go down
into the elnhmt's innoli and get out that
haat of iron,
".Ire rolled hs: eye'+ •tn 1 de.norred, but
he knew hie enrol"y ur ton it ell to rehtse.
Aeeer,ltngly J,,o was anointed with a pound
111 vasalinr 101111, lista being safely gagged,
biewas gently pushed down the giant (use-
l1h0:;ns head first, •i smooth stick well oiled
ending him at the button, According to
instructions the boy soon gave 111000 tugs
at the tope to be pulled out again, and sure
enough, tightly clasped in Joe's stands was
the otionding and indigestible iron bar. it
is needless to say that Beta's life was saved
and that Nbgger Joe was handsomely re-
warded for his cure of the valuable ole -
plant's indigestion,"
A Limit to Progress.
Old (loot—" When the little children of
to -day get to be old folks, I don't Bee stow
they're going to got light enough to react
by."
Friend—" What's to hinder ?"
Old Gent—" When I was a boy we used
candles, and they gore light enough for
young eyes like mine ; thon,as I grew older,
we changed to lamps, and later to gas, and
now we have the olootrio light, and I'm all
right yet. 1: win read by that as well as C
used to with candles, i3ut what's to become
of the children Who begin with the electric
light, that's what Pd lute to know."
Delightfully Romantio.
Gwondoline—" And you really love your
husband ?"
Clare—" \Ciklly."
(iwendnlino--" And he loves you?"
Clare—" passionately,"
lwondolino—" Why, it's just lilto to
novel, isn't it?" ---
A Magic Word.
Billans—" That hill is all right, but I
haven't any money about me, and--"
Collector —" You'd better 'look sharp
then, or you'[[ find the sheriff---"
Bilkins—'t And I was (Going to say, I'd
have to give yon a shook,'
Oolleetot'--•"Oh—or—Hover mind it'5'no.
consequence. 1'11 call again,"
Not Attractive
Mrs, De Good—" Why aren't yon going
to church?"
Mr. lie (lend—"Lost Sunday tleroof leak-
ed, curl throe or four drops wont down in
back,"
Mrs. 1)e Oond. -"The roof unit boort ro-
paired sinoe Then, "
Mr. lto (loudI 'Then tltoy'llbo
wanting money to pay ler the repairs."
The tam with icy- manners is very roomers
Iotas juet lnlw.