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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-6-27, Page 6Ye4 1110404 U. WOMAN AND HOME. You kissed mei My head had dropped low on your breast, With a feeling of shelter and infinite rest, MYSTERY OF THE ACCORDION SKIRT while a holy emotion my tongue dared not CLEARED UP AT LAST. speak Flushed up 11ke a name from tote' heart W niy ticassible Xtemarka on Droxe-PignIty of ebeelc, Your 481114 held me fast -oh, your arms were Mmuseworit-Womenite isarmere-eintes at etheveet to all Wonmffitind. It bee been tho good airtime 14 a reporter ,to find 4 solution for what has hitherto been voptffitrly regarded as a ilrot elitee mystery ly, the procem nutkiag that inann-er effi garinent so beautiful to tip., eye end eo door to tho feseentable f4'33 3)11Q heart, tho wonderful skirt." E The nestled whoteby the so called moor. ellen plait is Inatle lEtte been 3 relusly a eseret ever since tho introh coitfl of the atovelty. Yen can protium a seirt s prepared Imam any dressmaker, dry goods Shop or eteetiag nutehine pleee; hut the work is not vfone on tho premiees, To begin with, there is a geoil sized iron Ibex without a cover, with parallel wireS otrotelted 1381)1) 13 in two layer..., ono layer of 'wires below tho other. The sniff to be plait- ed is lest wet and tisen passed through the 'wires in and out, over an upper wire, nailer a tower one, then over the next upper wire, under the next lower one, and so on until as ?much of the material is taken up as all the wiers will accommodate. These ups and downs of the cloth form the reae3 0.3 the Plaits, au 1 behind the last of the osZaite in a square hoe bar running parallel !tootle wires, which, being screwed up with retasirfal screw, folds up all the wires corn- ex:Early together like a book, pressing the phalte into the smallest possible compass la only remaius new to dry the material in ErObat eliape, and for this purpose the iron box is taken out of the oven with a perforated top ae,1 permitted to bake there, the inelsture tInst,evaparates from the stutZ going oil ee one:nu. When suilloient tints hos elapsed to xdb.fir for a thorough drying of the eleth, the on -ow is undone, and the cloth is withdrawn tienuolfully plaited accordion fashion and maids 30 30 matte up. One 'lath:sore man moadoces several hundred yards of accordion reataiting doily, autl, inasmuch as the eannun- sir pays fifty cents a yard fur Ms work, there =mist be a reasonable profit in it No won- der it is thought worth while to keep the enetiold a meet. However, it is likely that this monopoly will be wipel out botase lou g by the plat - ea the tnarket of a very simple contriv- ance receatly invented, whie8 any woman icaa.attarci, to buy and will have skill enouo,11 33 3303 It will cost less than El to manufac- ture, will be sold for $3, and wit do to per- Ihmaima not only the according plaiting but plaithig, the machiw consisting of a nee more than two long strips of brass ad- lannble tea 581110 8381 a woodsn railer, Each mbar, after beino, folded by the machine, is 130one,1 separately with a hand iron, and th estuR comes out all ready to put en 30 the belt, &oppose 15 10 iuten led for ei31 ace ealem skirt ;Soto of course, many other things besides *Oilers are made accordion fashion now -a -days, 018311 81) capes, cloaks, lamp shades, etc. It 38513 1313 cheering news tee the tidies that the rite, onto a. yard rate is not likely to be emehttehied very long. It will not be a.toreat while before every Woman wilo =oleos her own dresses will perOorm the emeordion process es 15 roatter of coure,e ancou the material she buys. -Washington Eta?, -Senhible 1303033011lon Dress Reform, Too see we are grown moOest aud fearful (13 0010!) nameless, imaginary moral colt ,W bate become ashamed of the way God mad em, atul w0 cover ourselves up, just as if th Bum= figure were a deformity. 1Vho firs iceeented clothes which make men look like st-OL1, forked, shapeless forms? Tho ancielits 13111838e1 the lines of the female figure and 13310 33 piquancy to its plimiey, its gracetu Sexibility. Today the women put themselves instoys and load themselves with bustles and esti& themselves out with all sorts ofimprove- =eats until they look -still attractive, but faLsely, unhunsattly attractive. I don't 31). 3331131 the Grecian women, those from whose roe -ores goddesses were modeled, had a bit batter forms than the women of today. The race in California is simply wonderful fin as development of anatomical beauty, 1oltedging by the display one sees any day on the street. But it would be a great deal more (oYectiva if the costumes permitted the sup - p30 grace of nature to be shown. Every now and again the female lecturer comes along to bath LOW faits about dress and to air new esems about hygiene. The principle of all health is freedom of action of the body and plenty of exercise, and the 3)1111313)10 03 health o.„, curiously enough, the principle of comfort (and the psi...cline of beauty of tornt. When to the olden times men and women wore se:lathes that looked old and quaint in 003 30 am, if they sacrificed comfort it was to ap- Imre:ice. We sacrifice appearance and get noparticular comfort. -ban Prancisco Chron- icle. so bold; Meart Matt against heart In that passionate coLovy 3-1.3,315151) orsr ny 0 111131011 rttlVA• hold; Veer glatems melted drawing my soul Q1'013'411 minp eyes As the mut draws the mist fsau the mta tO THE BRUSSELS POST; BORNEO PIRATE'S. • — How They Flied Their Murderous Voca- tion in the Fifties, sign's Es'ret01 OD ANY) 3'.3$513'3t1 13318 rly'r T� 133.3131. tr• 513/1.4; Aml ,your ehing to ;Mae, till I prayed in 1,13-5 , They 1/111.11 1103'08 uneletsp front that passion- ate kise, You kiseed mei Oly heart and 3117 breath and my will tiolirions joy for the moment stood still. Life had for mo 1,, ,1 no temptations, no churns, No vista, , pleasure outside el your arms. And were I tLis instant an angel, possessed Of the glory and peace that aro given the blest, I would ding, my white robes unropiningly down, And tear from my forehead its beautiful crown, To nestle onee more iri thnt 11311031 03 rest, With your lips open mine and my head on t4 yottr breaet. You kiesed me! Oly soul in a bliss so divine, t Reeled and swatmod 1130 31 foolish man drunk- 1 en with wine, 1 And I thought 'twere delicious to die then if death Would 001110 when my. mouth was yet moist s with your breath. And these :Ire the questions 3 ask day and " night: ( Mast ony life taste but one such exquisite I delight; Would you care if your breast Were my shol- 0 ter tie then! And if ossu were here would you kiss me again; -Josephine S. Hunt. t CRAZED BY BABY'S DEATH. 1 A. Father and Mother Frantic: at toe Loss or Their Laud. 21 strange and pathetic little procession e 381)0 10 he seen entering,• this place yesterday morning writes Et Livin,gston, Ta, corres- a poodent. It consisted of. a mud -splashed baggy containing, a haggard- disheveled man g and woman, with a little coffin at their feet, . and Constable Smith leading the poor, tired e horse, followed by a crowd of grave -faced • N mem The Man and woman were Dr. Wil- q liamRipperdam. and his wife, from Shady , e j nee a ou eig een es c east of here, and tho coffin contained the body 1 c o of their child. The history of their appear- e '0153133. Front Sim:emir., sane tea at tit1 11 11138' in tutl of the 3133(1(71111(11313111, the 01111,3 Sea ; I/. 1 he math for fear handred flak..., is ,tud- d..,1 With 13311,113, They ometem, great and $1111311; 3)1s1 hundred. Some are not morc 11,311 an acre in extent, and some are Jii teen mites hoLg. A (18113111of these tole:els ase fte 1Ielovo, 111(1 the rentaimisr by Oyalie, The 111,1 0mA .100 ti the 3)e11131411111.end the ,3'''1l11 front Dorm., Them, is bat diticrince beta vett the two 330204, but wind the e,. is favors the Dyak. 11 t. is clout - cm in his habits and lies naive mercy 013 Inc 011(13118.1::) the year 1150 tht,se islands in the l'llinW a Sea ore 1110 81111110E311118 of 111115580The fellews made no seeret of 1(1111' 3111)!,, hut practised it openly and boldly when e - ver opportunity offered_ I t WAS estimated IT -hart, Cairn of the English navy that they numbered 1 5,000 altlediodied mem 1V1t 11 the Women and (7131111011 and slaves 1111111108 could not have beeit less thn a toot el, I once saw a list cif the ships 1113)' 11(3,1 and tlestroyd eby these pirates be• 111.7011 thoyears 1838 and. 1830, and the 1111111. me wao s ver a hundred. ..A.e a rule to ere'. :Holy was put to death, but if except ien 3030mute, the captive was 11(0)111011 to labor as it lave. In 1030 the 1,:tiglish, with some as - bounce from other nations-, opened a ere - tele on the pirates and 11131,11 5330 Wands, l'hose who got away fled to the northern 7113 f 11(10100 and to the 11131110 on the wth, and for seven or eight years remain - d ory quiet, Then, under the leadership f a Doak ('1311311Riker, they made 11111131: 0111(1311 ttArTMIE- 11 olie year. 13133).111l!mut ner lamas pretty ull at the time, awl the single noutof.wa • vitt out te break up the mw whiny asmoni- 'netted malting. There was at 5(318 11115'n oo: internal hued dieput 081,0131 the islands. and John Dull 15313)1(1 elty otenica f npltine matters by opening it wr atin people Who 3(11 betteted that they were pirates, In thisemergency the foretell traders 011 31031111021(1,tt3s sula, isted by others in m Sia lel elms: the China coast, bought the brig '111111)10 ,7f her Seotch owners and 1(110113tted her mit aft it milmnf-war. She was a ;lege, stout, and hand:mine craft, and she vas outfitted et Pithang. She was armed 13111 nine guns on hide, with ''Long Ono -'01t. a swivel, and when she left '1(1313131 she had 130 men aboard. This Imo 8(38138)31 her somewhat, but its she sras n lean, new ship and well 3)108341 3301 therc: ras 110 31103110)33. tree crew had been picked tp tot half tt dozen iliherout ptente, and wet;c: 1,1 letilere and white men. 1111! quite su 3 hat the Captain and Lieutenaut and four- een English sailors aboard. were quietly rafted 60111 :11. S. Kildare, bot the thers were runaway sailors from varioue 'remit, Gorman, aml Russian ships. When he livig went out of Pohang she was n. match or anything of her size ever floated, and to rew were ever under better She trried three, extra boats, and, as I hu 1 ielped to etow her anummition, 1 know that he hail it great plenty. There were men on the peninsula, stile 1re110 cOMMlinication With tlte pirates, nd to befog them We ran off up the Cell otft hen until We sighted Cape Cambodia. The ye headed to tho northeast, and at once be- an the work of disguising the brig, All ld sot of sails were bent ou, the panat poto mought out, and in the course of twenty- eur hours we noule the Relief, as she Ives ailed, look like a tea barge or a trader. It vas no use to hunt pirates with a, man-of- ar. They were altogether too sharp to be aught under her guns. 11 e cruised up and down the China Sea or a week, keeping well over towartl the omen coast, lmt met with no adventuve. 'hen we loot the TAM END or A 11171111ICANE, • , t About fifteen months ago this child 3880 11030 , to the couple, who had reached middle age t without children, tual the baby beeanle the ' t idol of its parent's hearte. It was touching ' d to witness their devotion to the little erenture, „ which they attended constantly, and when, about two weeks ago, death robbed them of t it the warmest sympathy was felt for them f throughout the connnunity. Preparations for its buriel wore made, but e, on the morning appointed Dr. Ripperdem and 1 his wife, together with the coffin containing e the body, were found to have disappeared. Their house was left open and only the doc- tor's buggy and horse were gone. _A.s they a O had no relatives to interfere, they were not s 6 sought for, and the general supposition was 1 6 that they 1131)1 1811381) the chikl elsewhere for g buriaL But news came in a few days that a buggy containing a man and a woman_ with 1 a coffin was being driven aimlessly about the f country. All who met thou declared that 1 one or the other of them prayed aloud all the I time, Sometimes they mare run across seated 1,1, by a runnizig stream partaking of a meal of , crackers, potted moat, etc., with the horse i cropping grass near by and the casketbeside f them. When accosted they answered that 10 they feared the body would be taken frOM 1 them, and that they hoped by Drayer to pre- I teflon the Deity to restore 15 50 life, quoting Nc The Dignity of nousoworlt. Clerks in the great banking houses start there as young boys, getting their instruc- tion, of course, from seniors. Something of this kind prevailed in. old times, when zeteeng girls were taken "to bring up," and "were taught by the mistress of the house wad her daughters. 30 30 not convenient now sec always to linve these apprentices, jut as tae changes in other business have done seaway with other forms of apprenticeships and Mdenttuas. Toe orphanao,e and industrial homes are tfortalehing a small measure of pupils for lotch occupation. There ought to be many ozore. When WO can make housework as reesputable as sliopworle is considered to be, 'then there will he a change. Many ladies mow kuow better uow cooking should be done and can do it better than their hired Ecooks. Tho enthusiasm for eodking lessons is ihelping to put that branch of housekeeping 'en a more dignified plane. The more the mistress, now, will know how to do about the ifrouse the more elevated will that employ. mient become in tho eyes of the woman who 'wants a service pima. We are really on the odgo of change in that respect, but we must take care that it Ea Iota shelving edge and that we don't fall otil. A Wire and mother of moderate means Es better employed ht supervising hor house- lhold and hor children than In wearing her- AtvElf -out and into at early grave by running the sewing nmehine to tnake their fine clothes, and in letting them grow up with an igno- meat young servant, ovhile Me is sowing and ore/coping and scrubbing.-Philadelph's Led- ger. There are in North Ara -erica about 300,000 persons keeping bees, Tho annual honey oiroduct is about 100,000,000 pounds, and its esalue nearly $10,000,000. The annual waz mooduet is about 000,000 pounds, and Its Value driers than 1100,000. A Mr. A. LI, Walker has invented an oil loartridge for use at 204 in making rough ovater slnooth. The cartridge is fired from lutty form of firearm, and is so constructed ethat, on touching the water, the oil )v1fl GO' rind spread over the surface, the miracle of the svidow's son. They were seen near here the day before , yesterday and wore taken charge of by Con- A stable Smith and a posse, who brought the buggy and its occupants with their melan- oholy treasure to town, when the romaine of tha child were buried. The poor father and ac mother were frantic, raving and praying all 11 through the ceremony. They were given a • room at the Mayberry Rouse and locked 30, 33 e being hoped that as tho baby was really buried they might resign themselves to their ti loss ; but during the night the pair escaped by nt • a window and were found in the cemetery, ' I where they had nearly succeeded in exhum- ing the coffin, When taken away they be- To canto so violent that it was necessary to se. ,ta hich we rode out safely, and after it sub - tied we limped along to tho north with oretopinnsts down and sails too and rent. sailor looking, at us from a distance of all a mile would have said that eve had oiled through by the skin of our teeth. A end calm usually follows a storm in that a, and as IVO 31015)1131100130 Opoltenoko, or te westernmost island of the Phillipine roup, 385. were not surprised to find our - Ives within five or six miles of the green oast and without steerage way. This was te state of affairs at sunrise on a very sultry °ening, and as the tide set shoreward we rifted in for a couple of miles and then lot o our anchor in forty foot of water. The '11130 1303 1 1 1 1 marino 'Iasseo any ship carried, but they had erected cure them. They have been adjudged insane Id ansi will be sonS to tbos e 50713130to-mor- row. Tho 33110 1150 excited ranch sympathy throughout the county, as the doctor has quite a reputation for learning and skill iu his profueion and his wife being noted for her benevolence and piety. atforms in the tops of tall tines, and could see as far out over the ocean ao amen at 0118 masthead could see inlancl. Wo know that they infested that island, end had no doubt we should soon be an object. of sero - tiny. Fol' 11310 0031001) allbut dozen men were sent below, and those remaining on deck were mased as merchant sailors. There wits ram or two in the rigging, apparently Ca- ged. 1.11 malting 101131100, but really to watch e coamt, and at obout noon it 38310 003)0150(1 131 15 sampan was apprnaching, The eraft a sort of Indian canoe made of bark, and this Oleo there was but one 000013)1015. He as 31011311000 oonfing as a 018)311 50 BOO 11031' nOters stood. He tame straight on until thin half EL 111110 of us, and then halted awl olt longeurvey. Our ports wore up, yards kew, a lot of raffle hauging over the stern, 1111 did not take lffin long to determine 131 380 wore a merchantman in distress. 're ether this idea we waved a white cloth at na as if inviting him to emu on board. e came no nearer, although he stood and Reed Hs arms, ELS if swim; 311113 ho would turn to the shore and bring its help. Back went, paddling with all his might, and en we felt quite sure that the game was in r hands. The arm woe galled to querters 01, elle% and grape passed, 113), and when tlasses and pistolo ilad been served out we Night GOIV119. I L11 a 1 i The term night gowns is used in very old ga cloonnients, As for instance, 101143, Pilchard th Redman of Englaud leaves to his brother th "One night gowne of Moolcoado, ono pair of e, howso of the same." curious fashion of the 131 public wearing of night gowns ho England is ' reeounted in Walker's "Historical Memoirs (1081) of the Irish 13ar." "Among many otlur lot ridieulous 10031 1050 that prevail in thie coon trY hinee tho reign of Queen .3511110 10 that of the ladies wearing boa gowns in the streets about or, forty years ago." "Camellia of Dublin were tit so disgruntled with this fashion, or perhaps fn I being so prejudicial to trade' that they tried every expedient to abolish itThey insulted te in the streets and publics place i those ladies se who complied with it, and ridiculed 11 30 bal- re ' lads, but the only expedient that proved he effectual was to prevail on au 0010013)01115 111- 51, , male who had been condemned for a murder 011 I to appear at the place of execution in a bed sh gown," -Dry _Tula Clirouiele, 013 We keast-Writing Reporters, The English newspapers are discuesing with gravity the feat of a reporter tor the London Times who turned out on the typewriter in two home 0,000 words of "copy," says the London correspondent of the Cincinnati COM. morcial Gnat& It is hold up as a rare journalistic feat, and the English press is making much of it, Hero in Cincinnati it has boon frequently done, and it was thought so 31100)505 matter of course that it received no mention in the press, There are reporters 00 tho staff of the Commercial Gazette who have frequently done that tvhich tho London papers describe as a, Thero arei 2,203 words in 4 column of solid nonpareil type in this paper. Gov, Foram' 13)31310 31 speech in this 1.003111 one night and tho reporter for the Commercial Goma° Who re., ported it tranecribed his shorthand nate of the spoech in oixty-flve minutes, There wore Just 4,000 words of the speech. - • • . . re ready. As the tido was setting inehore, the brig' stern was toward the Island. Wo quietly toiled 011 to the spring which bad boon set and brought her starbonrd to bear. This 1111(11- 300110 might have AltOMULD TILE 0811'IC/01`04 01(110 Dyalo had WO not taken so Much pains to diagniso the brig. As it was, they doubt. ess argued that it svas for the purpnee of assisting, us in our repair& At any rate, at abont three o'elock 111 tho afternoon, NVO eaught, eight of their fleet wetting out. The see, 131(8 smooth and glassy, and We 3:011111 Bee the croft almost as son 50 33,3')' left shere, There 317000 live of (bo native craft called praline. These are ohimsydooking affairs to a European, but as a:natter of fact, am light, buoyant, end quite safe in a heavy sea, None of those approaching us had maste or ettile, 1/111 311;00 0801/0110(1.1.1y rowers. Hoch hall a small iron cannon mounted on the bows, and the rowing and steering WaS from behin,1 a sereen 00 partition, whielt :messed the heat Menu a thir,l of ite length from the bow. As eaine 11015800 We 0001E1 01111113 41/0111 loventy :nen in front, 4 0101 HOreell. 10111e had muskets and 011 had tho 813'or31,111u, weapon ealled 11 km, NVIiile our guns werc loaded and the tomb; 8011117- to 1E0 ‘180111/e11, the moot 3,1 111)1' (T)7W WETE: 0111 4. sigisi 31111111 111' I nil weeks. The 0.1111115 mete en in line until about half a mile away, and then they forkned ill a line 11117 '(1111'!' Way. That is, meth wait now boil' ns, With aii interval L,1 not 11108o than (1.11 feet het )(eon thou. Von Wolthl 1 10 night they w0111,1 play the itypiterite 15 1it1 113,1 try and got ab./11.1',1 01 114 11.11 11On3 ;On, lighting er leo( ;4 life, but that boil 1111; are, 'flay didn't 1111,11 10 03)5134 11 8;101 of us, awl they prolably 11,q0s1 for a little 1.0 111tOke 111111 ter. 111,A; 0X...1111V. Tiler no. it, 01180 0110111.;11. ..1.3 a given signal 0,0011 ..1114 .4 thvir ,,t•itt a 40111 1..11 whiz- zing at us, Et :my man 1,11,11 33 yell, and live pralute diteleel forward t heatel us. \\o let them eente 121113111 10 Tutelar of a utile before we dropped the polls and run out 11111 gnus, loaded With short•fmic s110,11 and gap.. " (tang !" " bang !" " loom 2" went gun after gun, the (nuzzle of eitelt depeessed for 1113: :shorl range, and, 11111108411 'we 131111,1 eve nothing foe the tonoke, we heard enough 10 01111833' 00 that great haw:: 11:51 been wrmight. Vhilo we iv1)ite31 for the smoke to 1135, 1311310 object dashed againet the twig, and next. 1185111111 Wo were being Imes:led by about thirty 1)yake. alley be. let. eed to a 'intim which had eseaptal injury, onel yen eau judge what manner of men they 11e1e. 11'hile they must have realized that they had caught a Tartar, and while one breadside had sunk or disabled the other eraft, this solitam, one hoped to carry us by A &NIL She'd have dene it, too, had o -e been a merchantman, for she rencheil 05 1111 - dor "over of the sumke, and no sooner 11151 NVO felt the ithook of eolitae5 than twenty- five or 111.38 MAMMY 101,1.3)383. Were on the rail. Al's opened on them with talr pistols 13101 111011 sailed in With the 810141, Inn before we had overcome Mem they had .int down three men told 38,011)1141 130' 111080, 0113 f01101V, 31110 seemed to be a leader, kept six .13 us away from ldin 200 2,131 01 (35-3 min- utee, and the seay he handled hie 1111.3 31001111 have thine honor to e, fencing master, 11.1ien these left in the pride) saw how the fight 040 going they lucked ill,r eir, but a eolid shot was clapped into one of the guns, the muzzle depresse1 at the right itenuent, and the sltot sunk the craft its if elle 11101 been 1001101 381111 Ot0110. 7'0.0 Of 11113 prahns very sneaking shoreward, though badly battered, whon Long Tom was turned loose o10 them an .1 finished the job. A. doom: &ono palls had 11311111, 0111 at the opening of the light, some carrying ono Rail 801110 1330 Men, nil these piehed up a few stragglers and took them to shore. .As 31114 alit:mord known, the number of warriors who came mit was 113. Of these only eleven 000010 '1 death at our hands. 1111e had no ;sooner lisle oed tif the proles than fon1 boats vele dropped, eaelt filled with wellotrmed non, and then we ladled for the. beach. The anchor woo lifted, and the bvig drifted in after oilr Eenindings until she brought up in kale fetheins within musket - shot of t he Neel. 'rhea 385 10)' MT for half au luaus while she plied the woods with her eltells and when we landed i t 38E1.0 t oincet t a scene of devastatiou. There had been ogombeizthl village jest opposite the brig. twit such of it as leul not heen knocked to pieces 'by her I shells was now on live. "d'e foun,l oboes thirty dead bodies, men women:Ind ell Llama end in the:moth of a small tever W080 three praline and about 11001(3)' sampano. These NVO deetroyed, and oiler the bog had turned her elicits loose again as agO011-bk0 380 380111011 board. The forest 38110 11038 on fire iu twee ty places, aml the flames were not extinguished until they had burned every tree and bush over a space twenty-tive miles long by fif- teen broad. JUNE 27, 1890, OVVOXIOMMECIONSaSetuvitigStastsisrne011001PDMILUS11111Th.Mr"..AFWEr1ii/POSSOEOMMOlitt=11;10140P01141,1114 A Message for Mainma 111 heaven, "Is this the ergraph office?" A,ked 1101111111331 voice one day, Ae 111,11,7(1 the eliek of my instrument, 11 RS message from fae away 3 As 11eteleted 1 111111011 : at 10 , elbow Stood the memst (301113) 1(1 10.3', Whose childish lam. 31133( all 113)1038 With the light ot It holden joy, The gehlot eurle on his forelicol Slueled eyes of dee3e8., blue, As (1 1,111 ,lf 41110110. Sky 1 lint 104 111 ((30 11.; line; T111'y 0,1111111,1 111V 11(1117' 11.1/111 1.1.11(13) 1:101111 111 T11013 1111,11 to 111. cag-r gdtte, Ite asked the question o'er : "Is this the torgraph offido 0" "It i., 1ny 1itt h. num, suid ; "pray tell me what yea went, And 1'11 help pAl if I van," Theti the blue eyes grew mere sagsy, /311,1 1110 breath mune thiek and last, 4111d. 151133' W1 111111 the 0111114(7 1111.11)10 31. 131331 111(3)1'! grasped. "Nurse told me," lie soi,1, "that the lightm, ing Cana: Elewn on the wires etene day : , .A11.1 my mamma, liao gone to Ifeaven, .EOnd I'm lonely since she lo toway ; P00433' 1)131)0. 10 very busy 13111 Mum% 11111011 time for me, So 1 thoilglii 3,1 Write her a letter, And I've brelight it for you te see. "I've printed it big so the augels Could read out quick the name, And carry it straight to 183• mamma And tell her how it 14111e : Allit 11011' won't you please to hike it, 43181 111)133' it not geed and strums Against the miree in (311)18(308 :Mower, And the lightning will take it telortg.' ! what 1311111 I tell the darling ? Fut, my eyes were filliog fast ; I toneuel amity to hide the tears ilut 1 cheerfully spoke at last ; "I'll do the Mtn; 111V Child," "1'v,s ell that I could. s'ity ; "Thaok you," he said, and then summed the k ; I "Do you think it 1011 fonder to -day ?" I But the blut. sky smiled in answer, I And the sun olunie dazeliug bright, 1114.1 his face, as Ito elowly turned away, Loet 401110 of its gladseine light ; "Ilat, innoe," he oaid, 1131 stay eu long, Wen't 1173 )111 emne any more ; so good.hye, ril oome and eee sem again Eight after a fonder shower." She Said Pshaw ! and So Did He 1 Nat a pretty„word, perhaps, but then she said it so prettily I She NVaS a meet littIt thiug, anti when she 3)03 (151 hyoids on her hips, lifted up her saucy little face, and, looking at you with her half shut eyes, emitted this provoking monosyll- able, it Ilew as straight and swiftly to its mark as any shaft in Cupid's quivets And just because the little minx 38111 perfectly conscious 01 51)0 effect of her " Pshaw 1" she uttered it on all publie occasions. She said " Pelmw 2" to everybody and without any apparent, reason, but theee oets ono to whom she said it move frequently than to anybody else, and for the best of reasons. For he loved her and she pretend- ed that she didn't love him, and so for a long time " Psluov W00 all the mover the poor fellow got to his proyers and protestations. ,ou 2" , " I would give my life for a kiss from your lips." Pshaw " 1 will blow my brains out if you refuse to listen to me 1" Pshaw 1" said she, bringing her laughing face still closer to lois ao that Mr temptiug Yeti lips fairly touched his beard. She wasn't, tt bit afrokl of him, you see, but 110, poor fellow'leas still 5). little afraid of her and she drove him almost crazy with her coquetry. At laet ho low all putieneo, and coming upon her unexpectedly ono evening lie said never a word but took her in his arms and covered her face with kisses. Site strug- gled and screamed like a captured bird, anti as uselessly, for the victorious lover paid 110 ntteution to her remonstrances but kiseed lice hate, brow, cheeks and lips with the concentrated passion of months of desire, And es ho geow bolder, and, drawin31 her on his knee, kiseed her white throat aml elitsped her yet mom passionately, she be- came alarmed. Sho gave up struggling and had recourse to tones and entreatioe. " Let 1310 3)1), oh I Please lot me go !" " Pshaw l' said he. He didn'6 say 15 1(0 prettily as she did, and ho didn't, have soffit a saucy little face, but then ho Wati a,good (lord 83)01138 31) Well, when he did re- lease her, there Were mere tears and some repromehful glances and then a sweet little kiss of forgiveneee, given without the lead compolsion, She novor said " Pshaw 1" to him again -that is not when she had on 1108 boot frock mill wonted to keep her hair in order, anti they are to bo married next week, I bolieve.-[From the French of Caton° Mendes, /low Not to be Taken for a Baal Couple Bride (on honeymoon tour) -"I hope the people in the oar won't take us for a bridal temple and make fun 01 05.'' Bridogrootn-"I've got a plan to make them believe we have boon married a year or two," Ilride-"How delightfrd 3 What is it ?" Dritlegromn -"I'm going to leave you hero by yeursolf while I go into the smoking car and play is low games of whist," -to The Inteet fancy in neeklases is t cord of white silk having a slide of diamonds and ends studded with the stone sparkling jewels, Only a Waif - Robert Collyer, in a sermon to the children of his chnoth in Chicago a few 3.0,144. ago, related the following 'Awny .41', I believen in Edinburgh toe, geotlemen were Mantling at the deor ol 11 hotel One very ('11 (303' Whell a little boy, With a poor, thin, blue face, 1,ie ftmt bare and red 0'411 the cold and with nothing 1,1 1:080. 11/111 but a buielle ot rags, Canal Una mid, 'nurse, str, and 11113' 801110 matches 2' tx,,, don't want any,' the gentleman said, Oho they are ouly a penny a hex,' the little fellow pletell. 'Yes ; but 7.10 bee IVe don't want no InOt/' the OlnaltnIntll 53(1,3 313)35(11. '11101 1 will gie 30 ?we boxes for n penny,' the boy'ettid at hest. 'And so 14 3171 rid of him,' the gentlenion, who tells the story in an English paper, oays, 'I bought a liox. lint then I found I htel no cliange, ' so I said I will buy a box to -morrow.' 0, do huy them the uieth, if yon please,' the I boy pleaded again. 'I will Hu and et, yeti , 1 the change for I 4111 Vella hungry. tio I I gave lihn the shilling and lie started away, mid I waiteb for him, but 110 110 • came. Then I thought 3 hail loet my stilling, but still there was that in the boy's face 1 trnst• ed and I did not like to think bad of him. Well, late inthe evening, a sc.:vomit came and said ti, little boy -wanted to see me, 11' lieu he was brought is I found 15 3800 a small brother of the boy that got llly011illhlg, but, if possible, still more ragged and poor and thin. "He stooda moment diving into his rags, as if he 11163 seeking something ; and then mid, 'Are you the gentleman that bought the matches fetus Sandie ?' 'Yes.Wool, then, here's four -pence mot o' yer ehillin.' Sandie canna come ; he's no woel. A. cart, run over him and knocked him doom and he lost his bonnet, and his matches, and yens sixpence ; and both his legs aro broken, and he's no weel 0, 515' and the doctor says he'l dee, And that',' a' he can gio ye the noo' ' putting four. pence awn ea the table ; andthen the poor child broke down Into great sobs. So I fed the little man and then I wan with him to see Sandie. I found that the two little things lived \vita ts wretched, drunken stepmother. Their Own father and mother Ware both dead. I found poor Sandie lying on a bundle of slowing& Ho knew me as soon as I came in, and said: 'I got the change, sir, and 38155 coming bock, 0.1111 313011 the horse knookod me down and both my logs 311080 broken. Ancl 0, Rani's', little Renby I I tonsure Ian! dee'ih, and who will take car 0' ye, Renhy, when 11)31) gam ? What will ye do. 1' Then I told him I would always tako care of Renby. He understood me and had just strength to look alma, as if he would thank 111 c I:heath° light wont out of 1110 1)11111 oyes, and in a mement 'He lay within the light of God Like a babe upon the breast ; Where the wicked cease from troubling And the weary are tut rot,' Building% eight end ten storieo, and some even twelve and fourteen stories high, 0.15 110 unoonunon eight in ottr largo cities, And ammo( these mammoth structures is ono ovhich Li noW being emoted in Chicago by Rand, :),le gaily & Co,, the well.known pub- lishers of that eity. It is (0 110 ten stories in height above the basement, and the frame is to be entirely of steel -a novelty in the way of bending. [3 31111 contain fifteen miles of steel railway ; twelve miles of steam pipe ; seven acres of floors, the boords of 11111011, if 10111 01111 to enti, would roach from Albany to Buten, sonlo 200101105, If the comentused Ito the building oyere in barrels ono upon all - ahoy, the pile would be two miles high, mid 5135 3)350101' need in the building would cover an ordintwy street for more them 1 nine. In the whole structure there 3111( 1)0 some 3,100 tons of :stout The building, when finished, will probably be unequaled in tho West, Why He Wail Kind, " Why 310153 7031 whip 51583 303' ?" a while man asked of 411 old negro whose son good itt the road, throwing stones et tho cattle, "2 would do ite soh," the old fellow aoswered, " but he is only my stepson. Itlf 110 WItti my own boy I'd wimp him in or mita," "This beats anything I ever saw," said the white num, " 2 never saw a man beforo that was kinder to his stepchild than he Wait its his own." " Well, of 2 waster hit dot boy his mum. my, who is my wife, would kick the life out of me,"-LChicitgo Herald. TRAMIL1(8 ANA ZXFLOZERB. mengo raw, Insvovarles 133 Arrion- 33a3e0 111010s'B Advent.: vex in The letir East, 1V1331,, 1130,13,31) 5 3 avellers and ,1 ievorerers 1111• 831133113) ereat gates .4 feme, .411.4 :Mould not three.. :emu, .4 the oltler Ales, 11110, "Shinto, 1',11.1and Mateo Polo, Were phi - neer,: it, espae•dt 113141 so far as 1111111 i11111 01•!;1, iota little 1.111 their lither their peins. Olt es,. 14 1, wee a so etelimun been in , I oginiee. ef tilt; venters-, appmutierel ' lenleest 3,4 N111'1'011, anti tired for .1.11.1. eon travel by ti tetvio' 10 811111a110, 111 111E4 138031(3503)' 3 oars ,mi 131,01, 1341Ver1.i..., ,r1e,1 hyt110.1 110S0011111011 fol.' lite es pleat. fen .4 the 1:i t et. Niger. At - ter hie err:1.11. While ill in A11 hely:1111Ni 1111• :11;11111ilio.; toliglle ill 11312 months, and then eel; out en hotsedetelt, with 1,3 weer:moo meeting 11(3!, all oerio of ditlieultiee on hie tome In 011,4 phom it wild bear 111(0 131 loose meat hinobut it refused to attaek 11101, 3(11- 11)31 meat ems' to its 2! king in others. After enduring 15 keg euspehoe here ‚31 1)110 his cap. oro debuted whether they shouhl tako his lifediie eyes or his right inuel he Man- aged to wane and tonna tho Niger again /L11,1, nothing daunted, voutitnuel 1110 tvash But the Iiing of the country Inc hail now reaehed ferbode him to cross, anti tt negro seeman admitted him te her hut and took ear,. Ithn and oang a soug about. him - imenory of which has sinee bons hunonse- lett 01 the "Poor 111tite .11an," At last the 131113) 814(1 hitn 15 guide und (311113)0 gift ineltey in eowricooliells, ilot rtfLer motne prOgroso the trepical rains, protracted 1313' 18308 and Lilo hostility of the ..)1111101notan inhabitants of that pertion of the et:tithe:a made it inomeoilde 1,04 hint to proceed, and ,111,t1Teiroa 1ly a, ‘ 701)1' returning to the :.1111,8..eall 1'00001 1.001.7. 111111 Antier.a, toel he at length reached Eng - /and after an nitnellell 1.2 503',, years tool a 111,11, whelei hie return areused great enthu. sistsm, Eight yoare af tem -tulle, when he had mooted 10111 13)10113)1110(500 01 611I; .1/1.1A11,11 1,1V0.11)11303 sent hint out to Africa aganwith tine brevet rank of eaptitill 111111 3'. 3"3'.0(101)',' ,k8(,1)10 forty 10011, Tile ty 111131151 the st;118Ci'S the Sen. 143)31 etni Gninbitt, 1,8111.1 the inhabitants fiiendly, leo the climate so deadly thee Park was preoently 1,43 with 3)31 four ,..111 - pinion,. 1 1. 1 1/111 1111101 1113 Way, 110WOWLO., 110(1 111 1i110,,l, where the river narrows 1,c• twiten pre•ipitotts walls, the Men 111 the King ot Value attaelnel the little platy Wit 11 a 11111811e1.01U, rain t,1 homes, arrows aud stenes, and M lingo l'ark fouiel his fate in the waters of 111,' river he was explorhig, One .4 hi, jenrnele tra., 048101, the rest re• mained with tho savage king. 111th dire struggle and tin:ed 1,2 maise ho gave 0, Ids life at thirty.five. A very dillideent foto from Olungo Parles was that of Maveo Polo, a Venetian intveller, 81/1111' liVe 11101 a half centhries earlier, and ene 031i'1 1'.' to. seell high motives ne Park. Ilk father wed uncle haying returned from a trading expedition that Mal led 1110111 OVer the Blade Sea, through ilekham and int,: what was celled Cathey, 10011 3IEL8e0, 11 101 not yet twenty, 011 their 11011 trip, the Pope (13331)13) 318511 them lettere and gifts to the JoInto tsf Tartary, '11Itey threaded wilder- nesses, eroosed deserts, great rivers, groat cities, al111 0,01.3 al 11181 1111:1 by all esern.l. 111111 conducted into Pekin, whore tho Khan eon - furred great 1114/11180 On :dare.), gave 11131 a place aboot the throne and in time sent him en endateeis s to. 1:01-111.4. ming powers. I'reb- ahly the Venet etn f,oanntv mole him an at' 1)1)1111 you th, but his prudence noel good tionee and daring 18011 ols way for him teat he saw the most seemed and secret things, was loaded with omalth anti made the 31333. 01,001- of a, eity, (Inc ruler --who was that one of whom Coleridge in his opium dream. wrote In Nenaffit aid mime Khan A stately pleaettre house decree - refusing to let him leave him for his own peo. ple. At length a Persian embassy having won the daughter fthe Khan as a bride fortlicir own King, Marco and his companions were given leave of abseuee, on 13.3) 10)1)150 to re- turn, an11 went with the Persian embassy by sea around Borneo and Sumatra to the Per. shim Gulf, and were entertaiued for nearly a whole yeor ho l'ersie before they left it, again magnificently enriched. They roach. ed 'Venice twenty-four years after they had left it, and no one would at first beliere it was they, loug thought to be dead, bronzed by the sun aged by years ma travel, and speaking their 03311 dialect 331111 EL steange aceent. Giving a great foist, they receive,3 in rich oriental garmouts of red eatin those who ought to have been their friends ; the guest:: being seated, ,these garments were ex - (Mongol atter the forst course for those of heavy 014111100n velvet. Al the clime of the bangnet they seem in tho usual Venetian dress, and then distrib- uted the soperb and curious ganneets that they had taken otr lonong their guests. Then they brought out the Tartar clothes 10111011 they had been weaving, and ripping 513001 here and there, out tumbled treasures of peiceless jewels. This was enough, and they wore soon recognized as tile tmvollers who had left them so mealy yoars before, and they received many honors and 133)3)01131. 1)10)530, Marta living given command of a galley in one of the naval wan, But, al - thong!: Marco was one of the first to make the extstence of Japan known, and the most that lie said and omoto of his explorstions and discoveries was true, he never received any credence, 1101 11 word of his stories was believed. Aphorisms, is as groat a point of wisdom to hide 1g110141100 CB to discover knowledge,--(Tillts. twl' Constant activity in endeavoring to make others happy, /0 one 03 1110 surest ways of making ourselves so.- -IL Al'. Emerson. Beware of doe lit -faith is the subtle chain That binds 05)0 tho 0. smith. He ie a simpleton who imagines thot the chief, power 01 1000.113 is to supply wants, 313 nmetymine owes out of a hundred, it orele4ntotnlove svanto them it supplies,-[Zim- 1rie(lettered abetract truth is the most pro. Oirilla of all blOSSIllga; With011t it a Mall 18 blind, it is 1110 eye of ransom -Monsoonal, no that hath pity on another man's sor- row, shall ho free from it himself; and he that delighteth in, and scornoth the misery of another, shall ono thio or other fall into it hinmelf.-Nir W. Raleiolt, The talent of turning men into ridicule and exposing to loughter those ono ootte Yarns with is tho qualificotion of little minds ond ungenerous tempers. A young man with this cast of mind, cuts himself off from all manner of improvemeo O-[Affilison, A nom ngainet hiswill Is of 1310 015(1)0 001111011 Still. Pin.muol Rater. Ily Ignorance is pride inereasecli Those meet teentille who know tho Lottiseta.y.