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— j u t v i m . Sore Eyes The eyes are always In sympathy with, the body, and afford an excellent index of its condition. When the eyes become weak, and the lids Inflamed and sore. It is tn evidence that the system has become disordered by Scrofula, for which Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is the best known remedy. Scrofula, which produced a painful in flammation in my eyes, caused me much suffering for a number of yeai — Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. After using this medicine a short time I was completely C u r e d using Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. This medicine has effected a complete cure, and I believe It to be the best of blood purifiers* — C. E. Upton, ITashua, H. From childhood, and until within a few months, I have been afflicted with iVeak and Sore Eyes. I have used for these complaints, with beneficial results, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and consider it a great l>lood purifier.—Sirs. C. Phillips, Glover, Vt. I suffered for a year with inflamma tion in my left eye. ‘Three ulcers formed on the ball* depriving me of sight, and causing great pain. After trying many Other remedies, to no purpose, I was finally Induced to use Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and. B y T a k i n g three bottles of this medicine, have been entirely cured. My sight has been re stored, and there is no sign of inflamma tion, sore, or ulcer in my eye.—Kendal T. Bowen, Sugar Tree Bidge, Ohio. My daughter, ten years old, was afilicted with Scrofulous Sore Eves. During the last two years she never saw light of any inu. rnysicians ot tue nignest standin . xerted their skill, but with no permanen. success. On the recommendation of a friend I purchased a bottle of Ayer’s Sar saparilla, which my daughter commenced taking. Before she had used the third bottle her sight was restored, and she can now look steadily at a brilliant light with out pain. Her cure Is complete. — W. E. Sutherland, Evangelist, Shelby City, Ky. 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Bely o n lil SULPHUR B itters ,M and health will fol-M Ill Operatives who are ■Hclosely coufiued iu Q the nulls and worR- m shops; cler&s,whodo III exercise, and all who llliure confined indoors, III should use S u IPHU i r IUB ittebs . They will Q bB wes^ and S ulphur B itters | | | will cure Xiiver Corn-Ill plaint. Don’t he dis-| | couraged; ItwillcureM III It you do not -wish III to suffer from Khemn- lllatlsm, use a Lottie of | |Sm.PHUB B ittebs ; III it never falls to cure. S ulphur B itters W will build you up and 1 1 make^you strong aud 11 S ulphur B itters |l | will make your blood m pure, rich and strong, m and your flesh hard. | } | rn Pon*t be without a •“ bottle. Try it; you in will not regret it. Ill Badies in delicate III health, who are all III run down, should use 111 S ulphur B itters . 0?ry S ulphur B it - | | | TERS to-night, andI I you will sleep weU| | and feel better for It. Ill CURE Blok. Headache and relieve all the trouble* Inel- deut to a biltoas state of the system, lacb u DiB> ziness, Naaiea, Drowsincas, Distrew after eating, Pain in the Side, Ac. While their most remarS- .tble luccen has been ihown in coring SICK ACHE C A K T E B M E D IC rST E CO New Y o rk C H. R. BRYAN, 179 W a r r e n S t . \ (EEPUBLIOAN OFFICE.) A g e n t for the Eon IffiBO Co. ABSOLUT* FHOT*CnOIT, PAIR DBAXJNG MUX A PKOHIT ADdUSTXSNT OP:LOSSJtS QUABAHTXXD. it The Patronage-of th e Pub Jlo Is Sollolted. ^ - ««* f f l m . i!^ S o n , ^ m p r i f t o r s . f f f % C f f t m t g . C f r m s : $ i . s o i t t V O I .T I M E e s . ONE OE THE HEROES. AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST'S TRIP ACROSS THE DESERT TO KHIVA. A Journey of 600 Miles Through Silent Desolation—300 Miles of Desert—Ke- porting the Massacres of Bulgaria, The Grave. And now we come to another American wlio should be enshrined as cue of the heroes of the century. Ilis name is J. A. MacGahan. Like many other great men he was from Ohio. He went to Europe to complete his coUegiate studies. Tho Franco-Prussian war broke out. He en tered the field as a correspondent. Ho did good work, and when the war closed he was in journalism for life. He visited Siberia and described its life. Informa tion reached him that Gen. Kaufman and the Grand Duke Nicolas were about to make an assault on Khiva. It was Ens- sia’s boldest move toward India. He de termined to witness it. He hurried south, but missed the moving column. Then ho prepared for what proved to be cue t f the most daring rides ever made by man. It was a journey of 600 miles through silent desolation, with 300 miles of desert. Many times he lost his way. Several times he and his men vrere prostrated by the heat and thrown upon the s ands, only to he revived by the coming of the night. But despite the loss of horses, despite the daily rebellion of his attendants, despite frequent exhaustion and semi-starvation for nearly two months, he pushed through the arid wastes. All through that region was called “Molod; through that r lyety”—a brav( After he had started, the Russians wanted him hack. Twenty-live Cossacks, 5 dispatched to chased him across that terrible country, but when they arrived at a halting place they always found that MacGahan had left It a few hours before. Tho ow as the young American. Nay, more, they went so far iGahan’s pm-si as to put Mac( track; and in tl iuers off the 1 which they great that a celebra tion. was arranged to welcome him should he be overtaken and brought back. But ■ e was not overtaken. He had started for Khiva, and to Khiva e would go. He entered the Russian amp a specter of himself. Officers tonned in the midst of battle to express ation. He had one chance in ____ it getting through that desert He accepted it, and he not only but he eluded the Cossacks. Ho Khiva taken. He was one of the first to enter its aortals, and his descrip tion of it and the fight stands on record as a masterpiece of its kind. Why did he risk his life in this way? Every stop he took, every pound of flesh he lost—and he lost nearly all of it—was for one purpose, and one only to get the news, to reach Khiva, to lay before tho world the story of Russia’s first step tow ard India. AKOTHEB ACHIEVEMENT. their admi a^hnndred of _ up a paper, he read _____ patch telling of the Turkish massacre in Bulgaria. He saw the tremendous im portance of the item. In an hour he had arranged to go to Bulgaria. He hurried to the scene of the crimes. He painted them in master strokes. He pictured the dead girls in the pillaged towns. He went everywhere, cheering the people, assisting them, pleading their cause with his pen, telling them that the czar would avenge the outrage, and bidding them take cour age. In thirty days he changed the whole complexion of European politics. His let ters were the sensation of the world. Beaconsfleld, the friend of the Thirk, ai in the house of commons and denoun them as false; he had official denials b landing officer, he went through the 1 id smoke, writing his splendid descrip- iions in the midst of battle; fighting and laughing and writing, and electrifying the world by the words he placed on the tele graph wires. He saw Plevna fall; he was wounded in Schipka Pass; he saw all the big events of the war. When Ignatief drew the famous treaty a t San Stefano, he said that it would not stand, and ha lived to see it torn up and laughed at. Ho never made a prediction that was not ful filled. No charge, except the futile de nial by Disraeli, was ever made against his veracity. No man in Europe enjoyed a higher esteem and respect than did he. And when, nine years ago last Thurs day, a swift fever carried him beyond all earthly wars, the Russian, Gen. Skobe- loff, closed his eyes and shed tears a t his grave. The Ohio legislature had his re mains removed to his native state. When the Grand Duke Nicholas heard of his death, he said: “Too bad I He would have been governor of Bulgaria.\ And as reg ularly as the 9th of June comes, every up prayers for the repose of one of tho noblest souls that God ever made.—Lynn R. Meekins’ address. 1 Kew Severage- KafEee-thee or coffee tea, is the name of a new beverage prepared from the roasted leaves of the coffee tree. According to a rt of Gehe, the Malays prefer tain more of the bitter principle and to be more nutritious. The decoction looks like coffee, smells like tea, and tastes like a mixture of both. As the leaves contain 0.5 to 0.7 per cent, of cafieine, this new product may become Important as an article of food as well as the source of caffeine.—New York Market Journ “Browning” Oranges for Market. “Browning” oranges grown in the West Indies and Mexico, so that thay shall pass muster as real Florida fruit, is the device of an enterprising Yankee. The process consists of putting the fruit into a large sieve and passing it over a hot fire nntU the oranges contained therein are suffi ciently scorched, technically “ browned,” to give them the trne Florida tinge, which and west.—-Bostoi is mosl >n B n d j Band Leader Gilmore’s Baton. P. S. Gilmore’s baton is made of a light, dry wood, that will give a distinct, sharp sound when rapped against the stand. With it ho gives the most minute instruc tions to the musicians before him. A rap slightest movement of the magic wane for its every motion is an order to thei to begin, to cease, to play soft and low or loud and strong; every note and expres sion is the result of some deft movement of the twig like baton. Gilmore has them made to order and buys them by the dozen, for he wears out one in two or three concerts. By the constant rapping the end of the stick becomes battered and frayed, and then it is tossed aside; its magic power Is gone. This season Gilmore took with him to Manhattan Beach 5,000 separate pieces of music. The day ^before the opening three solid tons of sheet music were packed in twenty-eight dry goods boxes for shipment to the beach. To make this library of music of any value It has to be properly assorted, arranged and indexed, which alone requires the services of two compe tent men. New mtisic is constantly being added to the collection, and to copy and arrange this for the tise of the band re quires the < 000 from England. Of the native 1 inhabitants 184^000 are from Illinois. FEE GINGERBREAD FAIR. INTERESTING SIGHTS TO BE SEEN AT THE FRENCH CAPITAL. One of Paris’ Popular Sliow»—An Imi* monse Bohemian Camp — Bxhibitions of All Sorts—Jugglers, Wrestlers and Other Performers—Other Pairs. Easter in Paris is not only a day when grand religious services are held, when horse racing takes placo in the Bois do Boulogne, and when our English friends in thousands cross tho channel on a two days’ visit to tho capital, but it is also the day when tho Gia- gerbred fair opens in the Place du Trone, or Place de la Nation, as it is now officially called. A curious part of Paris is this great circular square, reached from the Place de la Bastille by tho Rue du Faubom-g St. Antoine, a street appai-ently given up to the furniture trade, but which for centuries has been the thoroughfare through ‘ which every revolu tion has made its entrance into Paris. Very soon after I turn into the Faubourg Bt. Antoine the crowd becomes so great that the cabman is forced to walk his home. The crowd is largely composed of workmen, who, accompanied by their entire families, are on their way to seek amusement at the fair. Presently the air is filled with a smell of fiY- which comes from dozens of pancake ithes, old iron, rubbish of all sorts, their ires piled up on the sidewalks, lottery mes and open air shooting galleries, and presently I find myself in the center of the Place de la Nation, which has been converted into an immense bohemian camp. There ai'e tents of ail sizes and shapes, exhibitions of man and animal monstrosities, aquariums, ixwork shows, anatomical and pathological usenms, panoramas and photograph gal- taken for fi The di-anramatic profession is very brilliantly represented on the place. There are not less than half a dozen theatres, where a little ot everything in the show line is given all through the day and evening—comedies, melodramas, vaudevilles, comic operas, oper ettas. I read on the bills the title of such works as the “Chimes of Normandy,” “Les Noces de Jeannette” and “La Fille de Mme. Angot.” and the Cocherie theatre, which is lighted by electricity, announces a spectacu- lar ballet entitled “The Fairy of the Golden Apples.” The artists are in many cases men and women who have failed at minor thea tres of tile capital or in the provinces, but it not infrequently occurs that those who begin their professional career on the boards of one of these theatres forains become celebrated. Next door to Cocheries is Corvis’ exhibition of trained dogs, monkeys and ponies—by no means a bad show—and alongside of his tent is one where I find some “Chinese shadows,?’ showing Gen. Boulanger reviewing tho troops at Longchamps and other scenes of military life quite as ingenious and amusing as a simi lar performance I saw the other night at the Chat Noir. There are several tents in which wrestling matches are taking place, and this year Marseilles has a formidable rival in this line in the person of Bertrand, who announces himself as the “most celebrated toreador of Spain.” SS! I clawi fair, and nly the his heavy whip. His principal rival, PegoM, is also here. He is a trainer rather than a tamer, and it is astonishing the number of things he has taught his lions to do. Nouma Hawa’s performance is perhaps the most pleasant to look at, for she is a pretty and a shapely woman, and her fierce pets really seem to have a warm affection for their mis- Gingerbread one,” and of coui-se there are no end of merry go rounds, wooden horses, miniature railroads, games of all kinds, including the traditional rabbit game. The plant for this means of drawing tho pennies from a crowd consists of a live abbit, a table, a peg and a ball hung by a String from two uprights. The rabbit is the prize, and to win it all that is necessaiy to do is to knock over the peg with the ball, something that looks very easy and which you never fail to do when you accept the owner’s offer to try it “for nothing, just to get your hand in.” Of coui-se you have to pay to get into the theatres, wild beast shows, wrestling matches and other principal exhibitions of the fair, but there ai-e also a great many jugglers, conjureis and other performers who have no tents and who are obliged to trust to the gen erosity of the crowd. Here is a fellow in tights and spangles who proposes to give i ceedsto stand a half dozen chairs one on top of the other. Then he passes round a plate and announces that he will begin as soon as it head if the crowd will contribute five more SOUS. Neai' by is a strong man juggling witb hollow cannon balls and fictitious 100 pound weights on his brawny shoulders. “Three more sous, gentlemen and ladles, and I’ll add him make as I turn aside to look at an amaz ingly thin woman in pink cotton tights, who is beating a drum, while in front of her an in describable creature—a veritable living skelei- ton—^is turning somersaults. As for the gingerbread from which the fair gets its name, there is no lack of booths and stands at which you can buy what goes by that name in this countiy, but if you will be advised by one who has been there you will do nothing of the kind. You can get it in any shape you want—in squares, ovals, rounds and cubes, or you can flind it made up in “artistic” designs, one of the novelties this year being a model of the Eiffel tower, and another a caricature of Gen. Boulanger. Some of the pain d’epice is very dear, but there are stands where it is sold as low as two cents a pound. I am afraid you will think it dear even at that price when I tell you that it is made out of stale bread, rehaked until It is brown and then ground up, mixed with molasses and molded into the desired shapes. A great many fairs are held in Paris and its environs between April I and the end of October, but none of them are as popular with the masses as this Faire aux Paris d’Epice, which, with the Ham fair and Old Iron fair that Immediately precede it, opens the annual series of fetes populaires. Origin- certain parts of Russia, periodical gatherings of merchants for purposes of trade. Their origin is doubtless as old as commerce itself, but as far as France is concerned, they were first established in 629, when King Dagobert ordered an annual fair to be held at St. Denis. This fair is still held every fall, and it is there the first roast chestnuts of the season make Francisco Chronicle. Uses tor Thieves’ Slang. kinds. There is fear and desire of secrecy that m ay produce an esoteric language, a kind of verbal cipher, iptelUgible only to the initiated. This kind of speech is very useful to thieves as long as the police are much, composed of Romany, “Yiddish” (that very curious pigeoa Hebrew), French, Italian mispronounced, and words merely hit out in a kind of unconscious poetry, figurative and sensual. Nobody knows what Leland lately •wrote about Three Hen Hurt at Hudson. H udsoh , N. Y., July 09.—^By tho prema ture explorion of a blast at the Burden fur nace yesterday three men were seriously in jured. They are still alive today, but their condition is so critical that there is little hope of their recovery. Of the 1,650,000 people in Kansas 173,- is a good deal of Arcadian or Proto-Medic in Yiddish. By reason, however, of the never ceasing need of new names for old things, the thief’s slang is a very fugitive and evanescent speech. Travelers talk of families of savages which get separated me Dusn, , _ passed, tho descendants of each set speak a different tongue. In the same way alters tho talk of thieves.—London Tlaily News. Hertlllow B. Clapp Dead. Hupsow, N. Y., July 29.—MortUlow R. Clapp, president of Clapp & Jones. manu< fncturlng company, of this city, died loaf night of Bright’s disease, aged 60 years. Mr. Clapp invented the steam fire engine bearing the name of hi* firm. He was a native F a n o ir Seneca counij. H U D S O N , IT. Y . , T H U R S D A Y , A U G U S T 1 1 , 1887 . N U M B E R 3 2 ROMANCE OE THE PRESS. NOVEL USES OE PAPER. THE WONDERFUL GROWTH OF NEWS PAPERS IN THIS COUNTRY. Extracts from the Address of a Journal- . ist—A Look at the liecords of News- ■ paperdom—Illustrations of the Spirit of the Times. * Lynn R. Meekins delivered the alumni ad dress before Western Maryland college on “The Romance of Jom-nalism.” Aftersaying that criticism of newspapers was always a good proof of their vigor’ and usefulness, ho continued: No newspaper has ever reached— or will ever reach—perfection. A thousand years from now people will grumble at it just as much as they do today. It is—and always will be—a human institution, with human sins, dealing with human affairs, and reflecting the vice of humanity, as well as the virtue. Its office is to print the news, to give the history ' roniele the of yesterday, to ro'ws,^s, thee blesslessings th b and the crimes. The :as editor who declared that “newspaper’s bad, because so many bad things happen,” svtmmed up tho philosophy of the situation. The only 'way to make newspapers good is to take the wickedness out of the world, or to stop people from talking about it. As it now is, nine people will read an account of a great bat tle, where only one will wade through the pro ceedings of a peace congress. The strength of the press consists, in part, of the very fact that it gives us a picture of human life, -with the shadow as well as tho light. Bat if we examine tho newspaper more irefully we will find that crime takes up a ;ry small part of its pages, and that the parts ■where there is the re-enforcement of one or two extra strips. The process of making them is simple. The cost is something above that of wood. Not only is traveling by water indebted to paper, but traveling by land. A paper car wheel seems even^more a contra diction of terms than a papflp boat, yet it is now generally acknowledged to be better. metal. It len, a locomotive ments of news and business effort, the press an inseparable part of our national existence, an indispensable adjunct to our liberty. It is the people’s university, the na tion’s storehouse of facts. It has given brains a market value and has enlightened and modernized every siihere of labor. Thomas Jeffei’son said he would rather live in a coun try with newspapers and without a govern ment than in a country with a government, but without newspapei-s. “Once architecture was the press,” said Dean Stanley, “and told great thoughts to the -world in stone; but now tlie press is architecture and is buildf grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, tutor of nations. Pour hostile newspapers are more to be dreaded than 100,000 bayonets.”- LOOK AT THEIE RECOBDl In a land whex-e the national growth has bordered on the marvelous the increase in newspapers has been over nine times as great ns the increase in population. Their value has multiplied six times as rapidly as the country’s -wealth. In the dec^e between 1870 and 1880, when the United States went ahead at steam engine speed, the progress was ' ‘ - inrnnl- lement co engineer, afterward master ie of tho Cleveland and Toledo rail- paper. The material is a calendered rye straw “board” or thick paper made at the Allen company’s mills. This is sent to the works in circular sheets of twenty-one to forty inches in diameter. Two men standing .by a pile of these rapidly brush over each sheet an even coating of flour paste until a dozen are pasted in a layer. A third man transfers ‘hese layers to a hydraulic press, where a ressure of 500 tons or more is applied to a pile Of them, the layers being kept distinct by the absence of paste between the outer sheets. After solidifying under this pressm-e for two hom-s the twelve sheet layei-s are kept for a week in a drying room at 120 degs. Fahren heit; several of these layers are in turn pasted together, pressed and dried for a second week, and still again these disks are pasted, pressed and given a third di-ying of a whole month. The result is a circular block, containing from 120 to ICO sheets of the original paper com pressed to five and a half or four and a half inches thickness, and a solidity, density and Tlio “paper ivlieel” is made up of this disk of compressed pai>er, surrounded by a steel fcii ’0 aud fitted with a cast hm hub, which Is bored for the axle; wrought iron plates pro tect the paper disk on either side, and all are bolted together by two circles of bolts, on© set passing through a flange of the tire, tho other through a flange of the hub, and both )r throug through the paper center and its protect plates. The real service that did not feel the influence of the press. Wherever a new settlement was opened the the printing press preceded the iron rails and locomotives. Where a prosperous city in Dakota now stands a newspaper was printed on a dry goods box before a building had been erected and before the infant tow old enough to know its own name. The newspaper did not wait for the era of Bivift transportation or the telegraph or the telephone. It pushed out on its otvn behalf. land to secure government its first ican war; it had ne-ws schoonei-s intercepting boats from Europe. When Daniel Webster made a famous speech in Boston, Henry J. Raymond put a printing press and type on a steamer, got his report, huiTied to the boat, wrote it out and by the time New York was reached the edition of the paper was ready for distribution. The same thing was done for other cities. A result of all this enter prise is seen today in our magnificent postal system, which is indirectly a product of news paper competition, and to which the news papers contribute over $1,000,000 a year. Fortunes are spent every day for matter which costs the reader two cents. When Emperor William made his famous speech after the battle of Sadowa, $7,000 in gold was paid for its transmission to an American paper. When Stanley brought Livingstone’s letters from the interior of Africa, $10,000 When the ne-*r signed itrywas s _ ___ [adrid an American journal got it aU by cable at an outlay of $18,000. These are the larger instances, but they illustrate the news paper spirit. No matter what news costs, the papers will have it. They cover this country with a throughness that allows no guilty item to escape. They have sent expe ditions to the Arctic regions and to the hey have ex- Ivertising, 7T4 di on almost every subject imaginable. Adding the distances that the different dispatches had traveled, the result was a total of over 200,000 miles. What work all this entailed in the short space of a dozen hours will have to be left to the imaginat but a daily incident of joi )f the revolution there were in this country forty-three papers, whose aggre gate circulation -tvas v ^ y low in the thou sands. Now there are 12,000 newspaper pub lications, -which print and distribute every year 3,000,000,000 copies, or over two copies for evei-y man, woman and child in the world. If you want to carry out the figures, you will find that the newspapers of this country print every year the rather comfortable total of nearly 200,000,000 -words of matter. If one pei-son were to read twelve hours a day, he would be a good many thousand yeeirs old before he got through this mass. If Mr. Rider Haggard’s “She,” the wonderful woman who waited 2,000 years for a yoimg man without becoming an old maid, had set out to read as many newspapers as are published in this country in twelve months, she would not have been half way through her task -when the young man arrived, and, probably, not that far, ns she might have advertised for- him, with the usual result. From presses that made 203 impressions an hour, less than a century ago, we have won derful pieces of mechanism that from a con tinuous roll Ot paper cut, print and fold 60,000 complete copies of a newspaper e v e^ sixty minutes. Presses are now being built that will run a mile a minute, and the day is not far distant when -we -will have machines that will run that mile and turn out 2,000 newspapers in less than sixty seconds. Contrast the newspaper past with the news papers pre.sent; compare its yesterday and its today; placo its performances alongside the itest feats of invention and progress, and it comes from the machine, but a single de: terous flap with the hand opens it into a absolutely square cornered bag which will stand upright on the grocer’s counter to be *208 impressions an ^ctffiar of^the la-w,jvhich permits more American. Bnsiia In Central Asia. been estab- tliem , i f possible, profitable K huge cotton plantation has lishedj near Merv and is said cellent promise. Mills are also to be erected for turning the cotton into cloth for the Persian market, -where the Rus sians -will have, by reason of proximity and ease of access, enormous ^ v a n tage over a ll competitors. A m arket has b e m found in Persia for Russian petroleum, and a dozen caravans of 500 camels each other no-w fields of enterprise Russia a m o n o p oly.of and w ill keep it. ] mission to start another cotton field near Merv has just been refused to an Ameri can compiany, and foreigners of all na tions are given to understand that there is no opening for them in that p art of the world. It may bo that the Tartar wastes can be rehabilitated in theproductivenpss and wealth that were once theirs. liqso, the Russian conquerers and civilizers -will deserve another Firdusi and a new Shah Nameh.—^New Y ork Tribupe. A TOURIST IN JUDEA, BUILDING OF PAPER BOATS AND MAKING OF PAPER CAR WHEELS. An Interesting F^ooess of Manufacture. The Beal Service of a Paper Car Wheel—Straw Lumber and Its Uses. Bags and Boxes. One of the most remarkable uses of paper fs tho building of paper boats, under tho patent, recently expired, of E. Waters. These boats are made of an ordinary manilla pap« Tent Life in Palestine—A Happy Exist- «nc© TVlien It> Doesn't Itain. Jenin is about three days’ ride from Jerusalem. The first day takes one up over Scopus, from whence is obtained the best far off -vieiy of the Holy City, past Gibeali, where David permitted the minder of Saul’s seven sons; past Ramah, whqre Rachel mourned for her children; past the bethel of Jacob and past the somber rock c o u n ty of Judea^ a c o u n ^ for the weird pencil of a Dore; to Sinjil, where the fii-st night is gladly ^ e n t after such a day’s battling with the aggravat ing stony paths. A land flowing -with mUk and honey Pffiestine may have been, but as most tom-ists see.barren Judea first it would seem as if the milk must have become cm-dled and petrified into these present, very present rocks. Honey, too; and Tnn-n thinks indignantly of that imi tation stuff to which they are now re- duced and which they have the assurance to proffer here in this supposed honeyed After this insult added to the already fwtent injury of the stones and rocks, tired mortal hails his tent with joy, hails redm or ^en those iron structures on w h ich w e are spending a third of our tim e, and the bedding of w h ic h is not so hard as a pine ’ ’ leither is it eider dov ’ ’ ' the dragom le is served ir men axe already beginning cording of your tent, so you must arise whether or no. In another half horn- aU ■posedposed -toto bee readyeady too moimtoimt are sup - b r t m and be off, thus taking advantage of the cool and delicious early day. A rest of a urs is made for luncheon been brought on donkey )uple of hours is i (which has been brought ■ back), and, for a lounge for y B tiro, SO that tlio vibrations, which, in some unknown way rearrange the atoms of metal so that it bi'ittles and breaks after long Tvear, are prevented. NaturJ always provides some way of wearing things out, whether it be man, lest ho lag superflu ous on the stage, or “the everlasting hills’ themselves, but in the case of compressed paper, art seems to liavo got ahead of nature, for it seems not to -wear out at all. The steel tires of these wheels do wear down, and are then re-tumed in a lathe to smaller diameter; but] when they are gone and ai-e taken off, the paper block appeai-s again as good as new, and ready for a new tire. The paper wheel has tho one disadvantage of greater cost, but its longer life and gi-eater safety are in its “Straw 1 the rood may 1 also. Arriving at the day’s joir end, one is highly gratified to find every thing set up as marvelously as it disap peared while taking his morning coffee. Dinner is served a t half past 6 and the evening is passed in conversation, carite, or in writing up journal, for early to rise means early to bed. Some one has said that this combination means healthy, wealthy and wise, but I don’t believe it— except for Palestme. For tent life is a happy one—when it doesn’t rain. Even if it do, your canvas house is, it is to be hoped, of double thickness and -well corded do-wn by Arabs who have been doing just that same thing all their lives. Against dampness, sometimes a board flooring is laid, but large rugs are always spread upon which the bed and washstand are always set up, and which makes a pretty harmony -with e inner canvas covering which has been lyly adorned in a sort o f Oriental patch- :es a pretty harmony ’ ts covering -which has been n a sort t of Cai] iting ap by nigl the Irishman’s wliisky, d and hot in winter. With flit—something lik :y, cold in summe and hot in winter. W ith yom- chair in' the doorway, or reclining by the adjust able window, you settle down to Baede ker or Stanley or Ilepworth Dixon, feel ing quite sure that the tent arrangement —for Palestine » if, at this jimcturo, Hassan used, not for posts or beams, but in place of lath and plaster, for sheathing, etc. An ordi nary “straw hoard” paper is made on the cylin der machine—the refuse bedding of stables being very largely utilized as the material— and is run through a vat of resin and other waterproofing material heated to 350 degs. P. A number of sheets are then placed to gether between metal plates, aud subjected like the car wheels to enorffious pressure in a hydraulic press. The result is a very hard and solid blackish board, about three-six teenths of an inch thick, which can be cut with a saw or chisel, and is marketed in slabs twelve feet by thu’ty-two inches, at a price of about $40 per thousand feet. This is now in use also for the interior of railway cars and for perforated chair seats. “Building paper” of the ordinary sort is a coai-se paper straw or waste used for sheeting or lining wooden houses. It was put to good use immediately ter the Chicago fire, when a western paper impany lined the 10,000 houses, 16x20, which were ran up to accomodate the homeless, with this material, at a cost of $5 for each The non-conducting quality of paper has caused a curious development in America of the paper box industi-y, so that tho lover of oystei-s may “take home a fry in a box” to keep it hot, or a brick of ice cream to keep it - The “ ■ PLAYING MESSENGER BOY. London on the day that the Gladstone minis try resigned, a year or two ago, aud I had 8ome odd experiences. I wanted very much to be present at the session of the house of commons, because every one believed there would be extraordinary excitement. I went to Ml-, Waller, the American consul, and secured a letter to Mi-. O’Coimor, the consul, however, assuring me that the chances were tie letter into Mr. O’Connor’s hands I icceed, but he did not believe that I could get the letter to Mr. O’Connor. “I went to the parliament house to find a iwd of prominent and distinguished “bosoms,” sometimes with a backing of cloth, which may be pasted on after making, but which is conjoined with the paper at some mills by reeling the cloth off parallel with the web of paper, aud pressing the two perma nentlyogether t between rollers. The use Of paper baga and paper boxes by shopkeepers has I'oached enormous propor- tions, and the latest product of American in genuity is a “seU opening bag,” completed ing the edges of a flat sheet into a cylinder, c by stamping out the form from the papt pulp, which last was the basis of the papier mache of old days, which was molded soft into the desffed shape, coated with successive layers of asphalt varnish, and polished down. Paper pulp is also used in one process of stereotyping to make a matrix for tho type metal—R. K. Bowker In Harper’s Magazine. A Passenger Agent’s Remarks. It may not be generally known that among those who have been deprived of railroad difficulty I soon discovered was, to have the three or four lines of policemen give any at tention to the letters can-ied by persons who presented them. I noticed, however, that messengers and telegraph boys went through the lines without being questioned or detained. I am not a very large man, and I a t one© de termined to go through the three lines of policemen in the character of a messenger. I buttoned my coat, put my hat on the back of my head, ran around until I got into a fume, then taMng O’Connor’s letter in my hand made a'dash for the door. To the firat police man who attempted to check me I showed the letter addressed to Mr. O’Comior and made vehement and hurried explanation to the effect that the letter must be in Mr. O’Con- noi-’s hands before the session opened, “He hustled mo along to the next line and the next man hustled me to the next, and I went through th§ door pushed forward by the man who stood on guard. Once inside I asked for Mr. O’Connor, presented my letter, explained how I got in, and he, laughing pleasantly over the Incident, gave me a good seat, and I heard the famous debate to great I was one of the few Americ the house of commons, and 1 did it by playing messen ger boy. On adjournment l ”fell back into my old part because I had noticed that each teresting as autographs of the distinguished members. I gathered up a score or more of n, and they make a very cm-ious coUec- t TTiter-neoATi “fJnrbsfcone the privileges which are still extended in the matter of reduced fai-es to orthodox clergyl men. The Mormon elders are not regtdarly ordained ministers, and consequently are not ver which reduced rates 3, the denial of the b< ?hat effect this has i upon Mormon evangelization it would be hard to tell, but that it has materially increased the expenses of that sect may be gathered from the fi-equent reports of its members’ in defatigable labors among the -tmbelievers in this country and in Europe.—St. Ia>uisGlobe- imocrat ^ Two Ingenious Instruments. The melograph and melotrope are two ttle instruments invented by an in- ALMOST CREMATED. A N e w Y o r k l.a d y ’s N a r r o w E s c a p e F-roin Uie Incinerating Furnace. Cincinnati Enquirer. A living woman for whom the cre m a tory f u r n a c e w a s at i t s fiercest heat o f 2700 F a h r e n h e it , and for w h o m th e alum sh e e t w a s already prepared, is. w ith her ■ h u s b a n d and children, a lt h o u g h on T h u r s d a y la s t sh e la y in her coffin in a room a d j o in in g th e vault w h e r e in c in e r a tion is don e . I t w a s a ease horrible to contem p late, and w ill m a k e ev id e n t the n e e d o f s t ill m o re s t iin g e n t law s to go v e r n this n e w feature in san itary w e lfare. E x - C o r o n e r H u g h e s i,s presid e n t o f the M o u n t O livet C rem a tory association, w h ich, in th e form o f a G r e c ian tem p le, is lo c a ted in/-a lo v e ly g a r d e n - s p o t a t F r e s h P o n d , L o n g I s la n d . D r . Hughes ■ vou c h e s fo r . th e co r r e c tn e s s o f the story, bu t w ith h o ld s b o t h th e nam-e o f th e p h y s ician w h o sig n e d th e death certificate and that of the lad y . In th e form er case h e g a v e h i s prom ise on ly after th e m o s t u r g e n t app e a ls and th e n h e o n ly c o n s e n t e d t.o keep th e sto r y u n t il t h e ann u a l rep o r t is p u b lish e d in O c tob e r , w h e n h is o b lig a t io n s as p r e s id e n t o f t h e crem a tory m a k e s it necessary for him to prin t th e facts, and ev e n th e n , o u t o f m o tiv e s o f con sid e r a t ion th a t prevails in every m a n ’s breast, h e w ill su p p r e s s the nam e of th e un fortun a te, y e t, a t th e sam e tim e , hap p y f a m ily, t h a t had th e d e a d re sto r e d to life. O n t h e day m e n tion e d a ca s k e t con ta in in g th e b o d y o f a w o m a n arrived at the crematory. It came from Fifth avenue, not far from the Hotel W in d s o r . A c c o m p a n y ing i t w a s th e w idow e r , ch ild r e n an d a half-dozen relatives. The casket was carried into the reception room, and by its side w a s pla c e d a c o s t l y silver urn, in w h ich th e a s h e s w e r e to be su b s e q u e n tly placed for final keeping. After simple service the lid of the coffin was removed and th e m o u r n e r s, o n e b y one, too k a la s t t e a r fu l look . T h e lid w a s r e p laced and th e floral em b lem s w e r e a g a in p laced on th e coffin. T h e w idow e r an d w e e p in g child r e n w e r e led aw a y to th e carriages, and th e d e a d w a s le f t to th e crem a tory a s sista n t s for in c in e r a t ion. W h e n th e y w e r e g o n e P r e s id e n t H u g h e s and h is m e n rem o v e d th e en t ire lid and then sen t t h e m to prepare t h e alum sh e e t for en v e lop in g th e b o d y an d t o sw in g t h e ch illed stee l crad le in t o p o s it i o n before th e g lo w in g furnace doors. W h ile th e y w e r e a b s e n t P r e s id e n t H u g h e s turned to a sm a ll m irror, and w h ile arran g ing h is tie h e w a s sta r t led b y a fa in t vo ice a t h is back s a y i n g ; “W h e r e T u r n in g qu ickly, h e saw th e w o m a n sittin g bo lt u p r ig h t in her casket, star in g d irectly a t him . W h e n he g a t h e r e d h is scattered w its h e rea lized th a t SAND WICH ISLANDS. A Travolor’s Notes VVIiilo in t lie H a - vvatian Group. The H aw aiian islands are the most ocean isolated portion of the inhabited globe. They constitute a group of eight- inhabited and four uninhabited islands. They are situated in the Pacific ocean in latitude 19 degs. to 20 degs. north, and longitude 155 degs. to 160 degs. west. From Honolulu, the capital and principal city of the group, located on the island of Oahu, the distance to San Francisco (in round numbers) is 2,100 miles ; to Yokohoma, Japan, 3,4000 ; to Hong Kong, China, 4,900, and to Sydney, Australia, 4,500. The names and area of the inhabited islands are Hawaii, 4,200 square miles ; Mail, 760 ; Ouhu, 600; Kauai, 690; Mo^kai, 270 ; Lauai, 150; Kahoolawe^ 63 and Hihau, 97—^Hawaiibeingnearfy double the area of all the other islands combined. They are clearly volcanic in their origin, the most western is land, in the opinion of geologists, hav ing been first thrown up, then the one next east of it, and, following in order, to Hawaii, the most eastern, which is to-day in an unfinished state, power ful volcanic forces being still actively at work there. Though within the torrid zone, the climate is temperate rather than tropi cal. I am told there is no word in the native language expressive of the idea of weather, evidence that extremes of heat and cold are unknown. During ten years a t H o n o lulu the highest and low e st tem p e ratures in the shade, ac- coi’ding to published official record, were 90 degs. and 53 degs., the great est changqi within tvventy-four hours being 12 dege. As the islands mountainous, rising in Ihe interior to an elevation of 6,000, 8,000, 12,000, and M a u n a K ea in H aw aii to 14,000 feet, every kind of clim ate may be found, from that of perpetual summer to that of eternal winter. The trade- winds blow nine months of the year tempering tho heat and imparting freshness and salubrity to the atmos phere of the lowlands along the coast. The ■ climate is claimed to be very healthful. There are heavy rainfalls duiing certain moutiis of the year— much heavier on the windward than on the leeward side of Uie islands. At Hilo on the east coast of Hawaii, it is said eighteen fevL of rain have falh in a single year. The soil is decomposed lava and sand, and is generally thin and poor. In the valleys and plains along the base of the mountains, whose disin tegration and accumulation of vegeta ble mold have gone on for ages, there are tracts of great fertility. Here the sugar cane flourishes, and extensive ilantations are devoted exclusively to fts growth. The sugar industry is prompt action was needed, and step- the principal agricultural interest of i.. n ----- .-.T. n. jjjq islands, ric6 standing second. Fine pasturage is abundant, and large ping to her side, he said familiarly : “You a composer to record permanently by elec tricity music as it is played on the piano forte. This is a great boon for players ^------- and will trashy improvisations. However, i1 an art side as well, since it -will enable composers of ability to escape the drudg ery of writing. The myograph records ffie music upon a sheet of paper, and this sheet passed through the melotrope pro duces each note and expression. This w as demonstrated m ost successfully b y Saint-Saens.—Boston Transcript. Charity In Paris. I have been trying to calculate how much each of the legitimate sufferer* of the 0 ; ^ a Ciomique fire should get from tho various relief funds which have been started. The task has proved too hard for oven approxi mative accuracy, but I take It every victim ■will be able to buy a cottage and a cow, and at least the indispensable three acres. There •wiU be enough left after that to keep the male victims in cigars for life, and to present each female suffoi-er with a pair of diamond eai'rings. I should explain, however, that this rough estimate makes no allo-wanoe for the cost of “administration.” I dare say half of it may be swallowed up in “ex penses.” Poor -victimsl They wiU have to do -without the cigars and the diamonds. ■ Really, one cannot help indulging in sav age jokes of this kind If one watches the corned; chaidtj. is both the cheapest and the dearest kind in vented, and it will be strange indeed if it “covers a multitude of sins.” Too often the fetes and bolls are pretext* for puffery, vehicles for vanity. Actors and actresses, journalists and generals, duchesses and demi- mondaines; have aU been beating the dram on the back of charity. The newspapers have opened subscription lists to show the public how much more support they have than their rivals. A duchess organizes a theatrical performance because the moment is favorable for inti-oduoing the unknown works of her literary proteges. Miss Sky- who was hooted off the stage matinfio- “-Whv?” are w ith f r ien d s .” S h e ha d al read y sw u n g her l e g s o u t o f t h e c a s k e t, and w a s lo o k in g in a dazed w a y at th e urn and th e n at her satin burial robes. A s s istin g her o u t of t h e d r e a d ful coffin and en c irclin g her w ith on e arm , h e carefu lly kep t her head t u r n e d from her r e s t in g place, and half led, half c a rried her to a cheerful bedroom overhead, occupied by the superintendent and h i s ’Wife. S o f t breezes w e r e co m in g in at th e w ind o w , an d a cheery canary bird in an a lco v e sa n g a so n g o f joy. W h ile th e su p e r in ten d e n t ’s w ife re m o v e d th e g a r m e n t s o f d e a t h and p u t the lady to bed. President Hughes hurried away and returned with some brandy and m ilk. T h e drin k h a d th e effect o f b r in g in g th e flu s h to ih e cheeks o f the patient, succeeded imme d ia tely b y a q u iet doz-3. T h e te le grap h w a s b r o u g h t i n to r e q u isition , and th e hu s b a n d w a s so o n back at t h e cre m a tory w ith a se t o f h is w ife’s apparel. W h ile he w a s y e t on th e w a y , h is w ife aw a k e n e d from her nap and a s k e d : “W h o s e c lo th e s am I w e a r in g ? ” T h e y w e r e o f t h e c r e m a tory, bu t t h a t fact w a s in g e n io u s ly concealed in th e rep ly, w h ich seem e d to sa t is f y her. T h e se v e r e s t ta s k w a s w h e n th e h u s b a n d ar rived , w h e n th e y tried to sch o o l him in t o self-co n t r o l f o r t h e in terview . T h e course o f proced u r e a g r e e d u p o n w a s carried o u t t o t h e letter. T h e h u sb a n d w e n t in to th e room w ith the u s u a l in- juiry as t o ho w sh e f e lt , and sa id that 3ugh som e w h a t m y s ti sh e arose, d r e s s e d h e r s e lf and an nounced that she was ready. The hu s b a n d w a s n o w i n a to r t u r e d fram e the discovery he feared would kill his wife. Happily there was a rear door, and through this he led her to a close carriage, and thence, regardless of the fact that there was no road, he had the arriage driven straight across the.lawn nd field until kindly trees hid th e . crematory from sight. Then he took the smooth pike to the nearest rail road station, and a train thence home. The children had been forewarned of what had occurred, but as an addi lark, the singer -who v --------------------— BO cruelly, gets up a matinee. “Why?” “She -wishes to wrap her appeal for the par- to believe that ti don Of the public in a 500 louis note.” The ' yigit j g New Jerf military fete a t the Opera degenerates into an excuse for shouting “Vive Boulnngerl” Jersey. The lady's death was attributed to —L and the doctor’s certifi- lis effect is on,: file in the health iro^wfulljr. . ......................... , . . - of a barefooted boy w h o was along Kingsbridge road the othe “Stone bruise.” “Stone bruise, eh? I ’ve had m any of ■'em when I used to go barefoot. 'What d o y o u p u t o p it ? ” “Nothin’. ” “You w a n t to get five cents’ worth of gam camphor and a quarter o f a pound of lard. Dissolve them together and tie up your foot in it. H ere’s a quarter. ’’ “ Thank’ee. sir.’’—N e w York Bun, heart disei cate to this effect is on, office. the roadside in front of every farm house. It is placed there to receive the latest quo tations for fruit. These quotations are telegraphed from the leading cities three times a day. and are distributed by mes sengers mounted on bicycles. The fruit grower determines by the quotations whether he will ship his day’s picktPg--~ Chicago XimesL . ^ - _______ , T he Labor party, it is authoratively announced, will certainly put a presi- ti'al candidate in the field year. 0 he will be is not even ftinted at, but the certainty that such a nonfiak- iion is to be made greatly disturbs ofX friends the Democrats. i. well formed, quick in movement, and generally muscular and strong. They are said to be very fond of stimulants, and when opportunity offers often drink to excess ; but they are rarely quarrelsome even under the influence of liquor. They are good natured. light hearted, careless, indolent, pleas ure loving p e o p le; are im p rovident, thoughtless about the future, a n d g e t- erous to a fault. They are very sym pathetic and kind, are capable of warm friendships and strong attachments. They are gregarious, great talkers, and much given to all social pleasures— music, dancing, feasting, etc. Few of them possess wealth, few are poor and none are beggars. They are said formerly to have been extremely licentious, nor are their morals, in this particular, of the best even now. They love gay colors, and are much given to decorating themselves 'with wirMths and gwlsnds of floweri, 3 i u ^ «f 9 women are stout, ioolimog to lency, which is poorly conoMdid lb|£^ the dress universally worn by D n n i/^ the holoka, a garment at one iimamiufe J favored by certain Amerioan wdni«% 'i and known as the “Mother Hubbard,” Leprosy prevaOs, and the gorerimwat ^ has establisheid a settlement du iba ^ Island of MoIokM,~io which all the fortunate class are banished.' The settlement numbers about 1,000 souls. Nearly all Hawaiians can read iad write. There are good gOTamment schools, with free compulsory ediu»* tion. In the common schools mstriio- tion is given In ihe native laugoags, but in the Mgher gM^es Inglish if taught, tinder the teachings and in* fiuence of the missionaries large num bers were early converted to Christian* ity. They are still liberal supporiarf of the gospeL The principal chuxebM are the Congregational, Saptlst and Catholic.— to r . Cincinnati Cotnmer- cial Gazette. A Model o f Indnsti^. W liat a Tbrijlty F a rm e r LaU H a s Ae- com p ll.lied in T w o T e a r a There is a farmer boy over in the town of Phelps who, if the statements of the Lyons (N . Y .) R e p iA U can a n true, is indeed a model of industry, and is bound to make a sterling citizen. He is seventeen years - of age. His father died two years ago, leainog • widow and four children and' a mortr gage of $1,800, on the farm. T h e ^ y was the oldest of the children, and'the funeral was scarcely past before h e s e t resolutely to work to help the faiaily out of &e financial embarritiulment. With the advice of a kindly ne%hbor he has since been the sole tnanagsr of the farm of over ninety acres. He has#-, vT,:ilv .i. tlAAI.. _ __ _____ _ with only, a little assisianee, plowed the fields, sowed, cultivated and reaped ; he has had sole charge of a .J large number of cattle and horses' ’up on the farm; he has managedlaged a retul a m ilk business, and has himself market ed all the farm products. Last sum m er be found time, after bis work in the fields, to paint the bouse twice over and to build five new fences. In the winter be not only attends to y work aboutbout thee farm,m, but the necessary work a th far I teaches a country school three mi away, fells timber in the woods Saturday, wrices excellent letters to the local newspapers, and pursues the course of reading laid dotm in the Ohautau^uan. The farm is n o t only out of debt and in splendid condition, but the lad and bis mother havd - ney on band t o buy t-wenty of land this season. enough monei more acres AT HOMINY HILL. <v «ood s:ainarltan wUo Xoolc. Compu- Kioii on Mr. GarlauiL Arkansas Traveuer, One day Attorney-General Garland was sitting under a tree at his Hominy Hill retreat, when an old fellbw, followed by six or eight dogs, came along, stopped, looked searchingly at him, and seated himself on a log, slap ped a brindled cur and said : “ I’ve been crost here several times, but this is the first time that Pve h you a “ Yes I don’t stay here much o f the time.” “ Dont try to raise a crap, it seems ?” “ N o .” “ Did you ever try ?’’ “ N o .’’’ “ D o you )ut a black-eyei 'Not if the eye were too black.” “E f you wuz to take aisay^-d crickets do you believe a w o o d p ^ i could make his living on it ?” ^ “ Don’t believe he could.” “I reckon you stay here till you get hungry and than go away ' “ Is that yore cow that’s down an’ kain’t git up over yonder ?” “ I haven’t any cow.” “ She’s somebody’s. I reckon she reckon this old dirt would iprout a black-eyed pea ?” herds of cattle, horses, sheep and goats are bred and fattened in the upland valleys. On the higher slopes of Hawaii wild horses, cattle and hogs abound, and here adventurous sports men find occupation and excitement in hunting them. These horses and cat tle are the descendants of those brought here by Europeans, which from time to time have escaped, and have rapidly multiplied; but the hogs are indigenous. There are entensive forests, but the most valuable timber, sands wood, once abundant, has become almost entirely exhausted. Fruits of great variety and excellence grow spontaneonsly. Among these are the banana, plantain, eocoanut, candlenut, bread fruit, guava, pineapple, orange, lemon, lime, mango, papia and many' others. Sweet potatoes, yams, beans, peas and other garden vegetables flourish. Strawberries are plentiful and cheap. We have had them served on our table every morning during the ten weeks we have been here. The most important articles of food for the natives is taro. It is a tuber resembling somewhat in form the beet. It grows in both dry and wet soil, is very prolific, is prepared for table in a variety of ways, and is the staple food for all classes. From it is made the national dish, par excellence, poi, which constitutes fully four-fifths the support of the Hawaiians. It is said th a t forty feet square of land planted with taro will afford subsistence for one person a whole year; and a square aile will feed 17,427 persons the same length of time. The Hawaiians belong to the Malayo- Polynesian race. They are of light brown complexion, have broad faces, prominent lips, fiat noses, full chins, with straight, black hair and light beards. They are of good size, are got on yoro place an’ fell away so fast that she kain’t getet offff no mo’.o’. in the thicket the other day ?” g o no m W u z that yore ole boss that died out yonder “ No.” “Them your sheep starvin, down yonder in the bottom ?” “ No.” “ Is that yonder yore dog that’s tryin’ to jump over the fence ?” “ No.” “ Look-a-hear, what in the duce have you got anyway ?” •' “ T h is farm .” . “That all ?” “ About all, I believe.” “Whar are they going to bury you ?” “ Do I look like a man that’s going to be buried pretty soon ?” lo;o; but e f you ain’t got )u are mighty “W ell, n nothin’ but this 1 po’ place “If it’s so poor, what do you want with it ?” is farm, you drap off a t any m inute. W h s tke for this old po’ plac ?” “ Wall, you see, I ’ve got a spite at i fellow, and I want to turn his cattle in here. I’m sorter hungry. Did you fetch a snack with you P” “ No.” “What air you goin’ to do for somethin ? You’ll starve to death be fore you ken git away from here.” “ I’m expectin’ a friend with a loaf of bread pretty soon.” “ What business are you in ?” “ I m the attorney-general of the United States.” ‘What? Is this Mr. Garland r ' “ W all, Gus, you c use. I’ve got a hui and som e sorghum m e lasses over 1 come over to my hunk o f corn bread e sorghum melasses over there, and I ’ll be dinged if I ’ll see you go hungry. It don’t make no diffunce to me if you air a-turney-general j I’ll treat you like a white man.” How Much Mother Gets- “ My mother gets me up, builds the fire, gets my breakfast And sends me off,” said a bright youth. “ What then ?” said the reporter. “Then she gets my farther up, and gets hi* breakfast and sends him off, then gets the other children their breakfast and sends them to school; and -then she and the baby have their breakHst.” “ How old is the baby ?” Oh, she’s ’most two, but she can talk and as well as any o f us.” “ Are you well paid ?” “ I get two dollars a week { farther gets two dollars a day.” “ How much does your mother get ?” W ith a bewildered look the boy said. “Mother ? W hy, she don’t work for tnybpdy.” “ I tho ught you said she worked for all of you.’ “ Oh, yes,’ for all of us she does; but there ain’t no money in it .”—American Farmtf,^ I
