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Y. by druggists everywhere, or sent by mail. C A R T 3 3 K M S D I C I N K C O .. K e w Y o r k C ity. L;wt spring I suflered greatly from a tTOublesome-luimor on my side. In .spile T h e B o w e l s . ® m . § x ' j E i t ^ Sow , U r o p r itte s . of % C o im tg . $i.so p r r in Y O L I T M E 6 8 . H U D S O l f f , N . Y . , T H X m S D A Y , D E C E M B E R 1 , 1 8 8 7 . N U M B E R 4 8 T H E R E C O M ES A T IM E . mere comes a time when we grow old, And like a sunset down tuo sea Slope gradual, and tne night winds cold 1 and chillingly; i are gray Como whispering sad ant And locks 81 And eyes of saddest blue behi As winter’s day, voary drift aivaj', )d coral There comes a time when joyous 1 Which leaped as leaps the laughing in.aln, Are dead to all save memory, As prisoner in his dungeon chain; Abd dawn oi day Hath passed away. The moon h ath Into darkness rolled, .and by the emoers wan and gray. hlsper ss vhen w e , There comes a time when manhood's p lme Is shrouded In the mist of years, And heauty, fading like a dream. Hath passed ai And thenn h(ow !d away In silent tears; 1 the h dark: oh 1 the spark h to hues ol gold, That kindled youth Still burns with clear and steady raj'. And tond atrcctlons, lingering say. There comes a time when w e grow old. There comes a time when laughing Spring A.nd golden Summer ceases to he. And we put on the Autumn robe, To tread the last declivity; Hut now the slope, with rosy Hope, Beyond the sunset we behold— ^.nother dawn wlih ralrer light. While wateUors whisper through the night, TUere comis a Urns ivhen we grow old. A G R E E A B L E PE O P L E . We all mean to be agreea’ole, but most of us do not get any further than the intention. Some people are nat urally of amiable dispositioD, and it comes very easy for them to be agree able, but the majority have not dispo sitions of this kind, and to these peo ple it is somewhat more difficult. Agreeable people are always very pleasant people to meet. W e always feel at our ease with them. Wa haven’t the least fear of their commenting on every slight mistake we may make. They are always a welcome addition to any assembly, and their company is always in great demand. W e never hesitate to ask a favor of them, for we are confident ihat, if in their power, they will certainly grant it. It may be at a great deal of inconvenience to themselves, but that dosen’t matter, for such people very rarely think of self. Their thoughtfulness for others and their forgetfulness of self are their chief charms. They are always study ing everybody’s comfort, and are ready at any moment to do just what a per so n w a n t s don e . Thei M y friend, the man, mild-eyed specimen o f the human race. W e stood for a moment and looked at each other. I might have said to m y s e lf: “ W e i', if I haven’t just run across a bank-sneak and highway robber then I don’t know a grindstone when I see i t ! W o n d er when he got out of pris on ? Seems to have an innocent look, but that is all put on. N o doubt he got off the train thinking to rob me of my four dollars and return Detroit, but I’ve spotted >11, uui X VC spuLicu his little game and will be prepared for any And he might have mused : “ O h -ho I So here is Billy the K'd the chap who is supposed to have had a hand in abducting Charlie Ross ! never flatterers. We would very soon « R S 3VThe Best and Purest MedicineS EV E R M A D E . 11 I* '(? and BIotclies|JJ IF Y O U A R E GOIKG TG GAllFORHIA, OREGON, WASHINGTON TER. or In fact any point West. Northwest or Southwest, you can obtain better rates in hew York. S{Eiiial Bate m Steer to M a and tne Soutn, alao Paclllo Mali Line, ae meals and accommodations are Included a saving Is 6 0 0 L i n s , 5 0 , 0 0 0 R o u t e s , C x c i m f o n r i c k e t s fa C a t ito r a lm mnd Florida* Baggage checked to destlnatlor Bured. Outward and prepaid AUclaMea All routes, 'write _ ^ mation. GUSTAV G. L a n s ing , ■KewYoriE they were, for an incessant flatterer is of all things the most wearisome. Nor do they tell us disagreeable truth under the guise of being called honest. ‘ Ob,’’ say some of these would be honest people, “I always say what I think ; I am per fectly outspoken; I don’t believe in thinking one thing and saying a n other; I believe in being honest.” It never occurs to them that what they term honesty, may appear, and often is, downright rudeness. They really hav en’t the least intention of being ru d e ; they generally mean well and believe they are honest in saying just what they think. They have not the least idea that they annoy anybody ’ey their seemingly honesty. They are, as a rule, thoughtless people, who believe that if they are not outspoken they may be called deceitful, which, to be sure, they are not. W hatevei else these people may be they are not hypo crites in any sense of the word ; they 0 very good people in their way, nevertheless they are seldom agree able. W hen they attend a gathering at the house of a friend, they are very apt to speak right out whatever is in their minds, and frequently offend some one by their thoughtlelssess. The hostess is seldom at ease while a guest of this kind is in the house. She is always afraid of soraethiag un pleasant happening. Frequently a woman says, “I do like Mrs. B —, she is so outspoken; I shouldn’t have dared to say what she did to M is. K — yet I'm glad somebody told her her own failings; it was the truth any how.” She cultivates Mrs. B—’s ac quaintance, and in a very short time is treated to a dose of the same kind of medicine as that administered to Mrs. K — . S'no very soon comes to the conclusion that Mrs. B — is not as pleasant a companion as she could wish, and it does not take a long time to convince her that outspoken people are not always the m ost agreeable ones. Agreeable people are nob as plentiful as they should be, and the more we have of them the better. They are al ways the right people in the right place. Always ready and willing to help any and everybody that de sires their aid. Thoroughly unselfish, their whole thought appears to bo for the comfort of others. A Remarkable Widow, Only thirty-three, a grandmother and twice a widow isn’t found every day in the week all rates andlhmr- 397 Broadway* XWILL. HXAPS Nam Beads, statements, sosiaes^ ' ** in one parsonage, bn woman on Chestnv ire was a pretty little street, Philadelphia, recently, who enjoys' that rather remarkable distinction. Her name is Mrs. Gertrude Gsd- den, the widow of John P. Gadden, of San Francisco. At the age of fifteen she married a gentleman named Herbert, and a year later became the mother of a girl baby. At the of twenty Mrs. Herbert lost her hnsband donned widow’s weeds, which she wore for twelve years. Her daughter, rather prr. cooions, mentally and physioall her mother’s example on tl bert became Mrs. Gadden. A year later a , child was bom to the daughter. Six months lly, followed I day Mrs. Her- before this Mr. Gadden was killed by beiuf thrown from a horse in Los Angeles. H Gadden is arosy-oheeked, pretty little womi and lookfi very little older than her danghl A T W AYNE JUNCTION. ITliciuselvGS a t a D r e a r y SUUiOB. T h e four o f us were put off at W ayne Junction the other day to wait for the train on the Flint and Fere Marquette road— two women and two men. N o n e o f us were acquainted, and we had an hour and a half to wait at a railroad crossing. T h ere was a dreary-looking waiting room, 12X 1 2 , and there was a platform sixty feet long by eight broad. T h e scen ery consisted of— O n e water tank. T e n freight cars. T w o fields. Five telegraph poles. O n e pile o f lumber. A s the train left us I saw the two women closely surveying each other from the hat to shoes. Each seemed ■egard the other with suspicion and distrust T h e y entered the waitii room and sat down, getting as from each other as possible. T h e one dressed in brown seemed to be saying to herself; “ Good lands ! but what taste that woman has ! W h o ever saw any one mix such colors together before '? I f she is going to the lunatic asylum she should have an attendant along. persons are dangerous,” And the one dressed in blue seemed to be saying to h e r s e lf: “ H ave I got to wait here for hour and a half in the company o f that thing ? Such a h a t ! Such a clo a k ! W h at I t big feet ! She mnst be some ;oing out to work in a creamery, doubt if she knows what county fat, aUd Probably out on a expedition, but Fm on his gam will spoil it. M y ! but hasn’t he got a hardened look ! T h a t fellow would tear an innocent babe from a dying mother’s arms and dash its brains out against the family churn without one ray o f pity !” But neither of us thought any such thing. Even before the wom en got ited w e threw our grips down to gether and he said; “ Old boy do you smoke ?” “ Y e s , thanks.” “ W e ll, here’s something I can le- W h ich way are you go- ; there myself. “ Y e s , thanks, ell, commend, ing ?” “ T o T o ledo.’ ‘Good ! I’m going Live in Detroit ?” “ Y e s. D o you ?” “ Y e s , your phiz looks familiar to m e.” “ And I know I have often seen you. L e t’s walk up and down.” And while those women sat tw elve feet apart, each one with her veil down and her body huddled up in an exclusive sort: o f j o f a way, we walked arm in arm up and down and1 joked and told stories and said w e were gjad had passed joked when one o f the each other. Forty minutes women became restive. It struck her and d( that the train bad com e and departed while she was in a reverie. It was an awful thing to do. She might be ad dressing a murderess for all she knew, and she was quite certain that the other woman had at least run away from two husbands, but she finally got up cour age enough to a s k : “ Have you the time ?” T h e other gave a start o f surprise. Did she hear aright f It might be that she was being addressed by the cook o f the scow Mary Ann, hut after taking five minutes to think it all over, she replied: “ N o . H ave you f ” A n d then ’both shrank away from each other again, and turned u noses under their turned up rheir veils, and were sorry that th e y let d o w n o n their dignity. lalled M eanwhile the stran[ “ old boy,” and borrowed some fine- cut, and poked me in the ribs ; and I called him “ old fellow,” and slapped him on the back, and borrowed every match he had. W h e n the train came along w e got into the same car and into the seat. T h e woman came out to give each other a look of disdain and enter separate coaches, andi as each one found a seat she no doubt said to herself: “ W e ll, just catch me in such scrape again if you can! I never passed such an hour and a half in my whole life ! T h e railroad company ought to be sued for letting steera passengers into the first-class ladi waiting room !”— M . in Detroit An Old Timer. T h e oldest tree on record in Eu rope is asserted to be the Cypress o f Somma, in Lombardy, Italy. T h is tree is believed to have been in exis tence at the time o f Julius Caesar, forty-two years B . C ., and is there fore l,Q 11 years old. It is io 6 feet in height and twenty feet in circum ference at one foot from the ground. N a p oleon, when laying down his plan for the great road over the Simplon, diverged from a straight line to avoid s tree. Superior antiquity for the immense tree in y> ^ the number of con- injuring this tree, is cla'mffi Calaveras county, California. T h is centnc circles in the trunk, to be iposed from ____ ic circles 2,565 year* old. DOWIE IN THE HINT O’ HAIRST It’s dowlo In th» hint o’ halrst, At the wa’-gang o’ the swallow, ■When the wind grow* canid, and tha burns gro* And the wuds are hingin’ yellow; But oh, it’s dowier far to see The wa’-gang o’ her the heart gangs wi’. The dead set o' a shinin’ ee— That darkens the weary warld on thee. There was mickle love atween us two— Oh, twa could ne’er he fonder; And the thing on yird was never made,. That could ha’e gart us sunder. But the way of heaven’s aboon a’ ken. And we maun bear wnat it likes to sen’— It’s comfort, though, to weary men, That the worst o’ this world's v waes moan en'. There’s mony things that come and gae, Just kent, and just forgotten; And the flowere that busk a honnle brae. Gin anither year lie rotten. They’re settled like eternitie— Oh, Mary 1 that I were wi’ thee. —HewAlnsUo. WHERE THE CLASSICS JOSTLE. Slonastlo Apartments of a Slodem Col lege Student—Apparel of a Devotee. ^ EducationJducation iss notot a t a]ll i n a t a the bare scholas- struggle that it formerly was. The tim ely morning bell that called him from his hard couch to the h a m like chapel, the bare w alls of his cell like study, the un comfortable chairs and the rude table— everything, indeed, subordinated to the one idea of discipline—m u st have bitter thoughts of w h at he m ight h ave become if he had enjoyed all the aids to develop m ent which the modern student has. And the bevy of girls who are permitted on rare holidays to inspeet the monastic apartments where the young gentlemen study modern Hfe must feel a sin'klng of the heart when they realize how impossi ble i t w ill be for them to make a home at all worthy of the modern highly educated young man. tVh'at a place it is, this Sybaritic bower, for the cultivation of the intellect I Neither \Webster nor Calhoun had any such influ ences about him. \What a stim ulus to the mind it Is, the rug covered and curtained chamber! its tinted walls hung w ith e x quisite etchings and bits of color in oil, and the winning pictures of the m ost heau- ;rewn with aU the literature of the hou- 3ir; rows of book shelves where the grand classics jostle the latest dialect and reahstio outcome of otir civilization; an elegant chandelier on whose branching arms hang a hundred souvenirs of the german; bats, balls, rackets—all the tools of the higher education; a deep window seat of blue plush, where the young an chorite lies and ponders perhaps an epic, perhaps an oration In the senate, perhaps a great argument at the bar, more proha- ween capital and labor. Do we lor£ ) piano, the rack of carved pipes? The are for relaxation, for relief In the hard ships of the stern collegiate life, for the hours of sentiment that come alike to pitcher and stroke oar, when he sings. Such an ed-u-ca-tion has my Mary Asm. the devotees of learning. B u t the striped caps and striped jackets that mark the student are not imposed by the state and not adopted in the hnmUlty of penance for sins, but are noble signs of the fra ternity of learning, taken from the tennis court and the boat house and the race course, aud show that aU education is one, an aesthetic democracy, a fellowship between the construer of Greek and the flying rider o f the thoroughbred. It is a note of the higher education of the period. There was a good deal said some time ago about what was called the luxurious life of some of the students a t one of our uni versities. Aud an impression was spread abroad that this must necessarily inter fere w ith the pursuit of learning, and con sequently w ith success in Hfe. “I don’t see how you can study In such a bower,” said an old fashioned person ’(vho saw for the first time one of these silken scholastic dens. The reply was only a pitying smile. Study? Why, did this ignorant questioner know that in this sehall nine than was ever made to any of its ^aduates for filling a ny professor’o chair in this country?—Charles Dudley Warner in Harper’s Magazine. “Women are almost invariably good com pany, but you should remember never to waste a good dinner on a woman. They have absolutely no idea of the delicacies and beau ties of a thoroughly balanced dinner, and the younger they are the less able are they to ap- rather put on a new gown and eat a wretched dinner amid the splendor of Del- monico’s or the Brunswick than eat a capital dinner at a lowly restaurant. A man, on the other hand, had rather eat a good dinner in a hovel than a bad one in a palace. What the like is lots of tinsel, gold, cut gla I things and they don’t care a rap for the It you take a stupid friend to dinner itand a v ery fair chance of having your meal spoiled, unless he is a very old friend. If you know him very well, you may indulge In long periods of silence—the privilege of old friendships—and devote your entire attention to the dinner. In this case a stupid friend is often a blessing in disguise, for it is very an noying at times to be obliged to keep up a running fire of small talk when there is more important business at hand.”—New York Indian Traileri After Kohberg. Tiio plan of rising \Yuma Indian trailers to catch the robbers who stopped the train at Papago is a very sensible one. Of all the Arizona Indians the Yumas are pre-eminent for their ability to follow a trail. Give them the starting point, and they will run down a fugitive with the certainty aud almo.st with the speed of a trained bloodhound. So well is this known throughout Arizona that it forms one of the chief checks to escapes from the territorial prison at Yuma. There has rarely been an escape known of a prisoner who was followed by those tireless sleuth- hounds.—San Prancisco Chronicle. Statistics of Infant Mortality. Professor Albert B. Leeds, of Hoboken, told the chemistry section of the Associated American Science advancers that out of every 100 infants fed on mothers’ milk statis tics showed that about 8 die a t the end of the first year; out of 100 wet nursed, 18 die, and out of 100 fed on “infant food” SI die. He advocated the use of cow’s milk, diluted to the standard of human milk,—Cleveland Leader. The Boar’s Tenacity of Life. W e examined that bear carefully; he was a s m all one, not weighing more than two hundred pounds, and was shot all to I, tha lower J; shot in the n shoulder. It is never safe to fool w ith a grizzly; he m ay run away as fast as an elk, or he m ay not. He m ay drop to the first w ell planted bullet, or h e m a y stand up till blown almost to pieces.— “ Camping and Hunting in the Shoshone,” in Scrib ner’s Magazine. Jars of Stored Blectriclty. The time is not far distant when w e w ill have wagons driving around w ith casks and jars of stored electricity, Just as ivo have m ilk and bread wagons at present. The house of the future w ill be construct ed w ith the view of containing electric ap paratus for lighting, power and cooking purposes. The arrangements w ill he of such a character that houses can ho sup plied with enough stored electricity to last twenty-four hours. A ll that the man w ith the cask w ill have to do wlU he to drive u p to the back door, detach the cask left the day before, replace it w ith a new one, and then go to the next bouse and do likewise. This very thing w ill bo soon taking place in Bt. Zioals.—-Globe-Demo. A CEIESTIAl SIGN. THE NATURE OF CHINESE MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATIONS. Results ot an Inquiring Reporter’s I n vestigations — A Chinaman’s Explana tion—The Detectives’ Account by No Means Complimentary. Patrons of the Clay street cable Une, which passes through Chinatown, have marveled much at the possible meaning of a good En glish sign swung boldly to the sight of all men from the third story of a building on the south side of Clay street, a short distance east of Stockton. It is respjendent with gilt lettering and gracefully draped with red cloth. It appears bold and businesslike. It reads: “Jog Lum Sen Fong, Chinese Mutual Aid Association.” These words have a ring to them that is eupecially pleasing to the > of an American. They sound modem. Tl elation, the most recent and as institution of our democratic freedom. But, above all, it is gratifying to om- race pride to think that the belated son of the Orient has observed in our keeping something else that he must perforce copy. A reporter entered the hallways of tho customary Chinatown rookery, climbed three flights of narrow, dirty and dark stairs, and making his way through an unpainted, un- planed redwood door, found himself in a Chinese business office. The Joss was them squatted in ‘ punk smoke: gged Chinai iiig their tobacco through long tin with water. “What you want!” said one of them. The object of the visit was stated. “Me no sabee. No talkee English,” was the quick, suspicious response; and the three Celestials became as mute as the little mus- taclied gods in front of them. They smoked on, totally oblivious of the stranger’s pres ence, and after a glance at the semi-barbar ism about him, he left the room. A MOKE PRETENTIOUS SIGN. On his way down Clay street a still more pretentious sign attracted his attention. It was swung from the top of a building on Waverly idace, and bore the words, “Chinese and American Mutual Protective Associa tion.” Again the stairway was threaded, and an apartment similar to the one just de scribed was found on the top floor. But there appeared to be no one present. The little god sitting on his heels and peering out through a cloud of incense smoke was alone. Presently, however, a confused hobbling was heard in one of the dingy passageways that led from the room, and a Celestial madejjhis appearance. Guiding himself by the wall, he neared the altar, and then, turning to tho vistor, revealed the fact that ha was stone after explaining that he saw nothing but oi heal'd, explained in very fair English the purposes of the society. He said, in effect, that it was closely modeled after the Amer ican pattern, Tho members pay so much per month. In this case $1, and in return get all the benefits that co-operation can afford. If they becomo sick they are sent to a Chinese doctor’s medical establisliment and their ex penses paid; if, through advancing age or loss of health, they are no longer able to earn their living in this country, their fare back to China is paid; if found poor on the streets, they ai'e taken to the home of the association and fed and clothed; if out of work, they seek it through the aid of the society. The blind informant stated that every -week the Office receives letters from the counti-y call ing for laborers; and then, when a member breathes his last, the society sees to it that hia bones are in due time shipped to the lands ot bis fathei’s, ASTONISHING INVOBMATION, Further inquiry among the denizens ol; Chinatown elicited further astonishing infor mation. A well to do merchant said that during a few years past these societies had sprung up like mushrooms hi a warm cellar. Fifteen j’ears ago there were but two or three; now there are between twenty-five nud thirty, and almost the entire population of Chinatown is numbered on their rolls. Some contain as many as a thousand mem bers', the “Chinese and American,” above spoken of, enrolls over 600. The dues are in some coses light, in others heavy, according to tho benefits conferred. Some of the socie ties had oven gone so far as to set up a simple system of mutual life insurance, the amount Of the insurance payable to any one whom tha insured should designate. Upon careful questioning several Chinamen were found to admit that a number of these societies went further still—that they guarantee to shield their members against encroachments of American justice. Bail is furnished for offiendei-s under arrest, and counsel fees are paid. The merchants questioned were c f ul to insist that the merchant class as a did not belong to the societies; that they i particularly popular among country l i ' and those subjected to the viol ‘In unio porter. from a land where co-operation and i help is totally unknown beyond the narrow limits of the family relation, and yet in this country they place their dependence upon one another in health as in sickness, in misfor tune, in crime, and in death. They have done more tfaaii borrow—they have per fected.” A little further on the reporter met De tectives Cox and Gleunon, the well known Ch natown detectives. In conversation with these gentlemen the fine spun stories of tho Chinamen, one after another, collapsed and disappeared. According to the account of tie detectives, these societies are nothing than clubs of highbinders, who make r by extorting blaoknmil from the la laborers iissitudesof for- majority of Chinamen, but it is only bet^ause they find it cheaper to pay tho fees demanded of them than to suffer the continual incur- I^aucisco Buile ler fraternity.—Sail rtty I s Eloquent, idies are talkin avenue street car. “I“I haveave justust reeceived h j r a letter from my brother in Texas, and he says they had a cy clone thereon the 18th.” “Yes.\ It blew down fences and .unroofed houses.” “He says he’ll be home In the fall.” “Doesi” “Ho’s named their new baby after mq.” “Has!” “Where do you get out!” “Herel” le and see n 3 oo !L”— Del Railroad H o n e s In England, railroads do the major j own cart’ English if their oi th e major portion collecting and de- One o f the largest companies, the Mid land, have in constant employment no \ an 8,200 horses; and of these located in London. : these horses are, h owever, em- vitching cars, at w h ich busi- in c th a n 8,2( itol a heavy horse w eighing about idsds canan doo goodood poun c d g service. They soon become veiY expert, and start the car by standing w ith thehe tracerace chain slack,lack, andnd S tanding with t t chain s a without mo'ving their feet, throw shoulders forward, when their weight starts the car. _ They also learn to judge w h e n the car has acquired suffi cient speed, and step aside without a word of command, letting the cars ( gently together.—Scientific America: Must Find a Better Way. A Kentuckian with a large jug made a bar gain with a countryman to take him four miles over the hill. “How much’ll you charge?” “Oh, a couple of swigs of the stuff in that jug’U make it about square, I reckon.” After the journey had been made and the countryman had taken a swig, he said: “Stranger, I’m a i>eaceable man, but —Madison DemocniL TESTDfS A GREAT LESS. VISIT TO THE WORKSHOP OF THE LATE ALVAN CLARK. Finisliing the Object Glass of a Great Telesooiie—Hollshing w ith tho Palm ol the Hand—A Peep at a Star—A has just died. I found him at his home in Cambi’idgepoi’t, Mass. His sous were busy putting the finishing touches to the great telescope object glass then being made for the Russian Astronomical observatory at Pulkovo. The Pulkova objective was to be placed in a temporary mounting that very evening to be tested for tho first time on celestial objects. It is in the aft ide Alva famous. The large objectives, such as the Pulkova and Lick glasses, are ground and polished by machinery. Two levers work in opposite directions, and are so arranged that any part of the glass surface may be reached, doing the work. The final polish, which is of the most delicate nature iiimginable, is done with the surface of the hand. Mr. Clai-k went so far as to say that one revolution of the hand in excess would change the correction. On a table was the finished Pulkova lens, which weighed 450 pomids, and consiste 1 of two lenses each thirty inches in diameter. Bara, but in such large glasses as the Pulkovc and the Lick, they are fitted in a metal frame with an adjustment so that they can be made to approach each other, or otherwise. When the evening wasufflcieutly s advanced the great Pulkova glass was placed in its tem porary fitting ill the garden. There was no moon and the darkness was intense. The glass was brought out on a four wheel hand truck and lifted into the tube by five men aud fixed by revolving it in the screw fitting. The tube was forty-five feet long and weighed with the attending fittings about seven tons. Two piles of brickwork supported the whole. There was no clockwork movement and the rough- of an equatorial movement tated by using a common windlass. As the motion of the earth caused the object to pass across the field of the telescope, the observer gave the oriler “follow,” when a slight turn of tha windia-ss kept the object in view. Such were the rough appliances used to test this $00,000 lens. ■VIEW «F A FIXED STAB. excellent object for testing the optical prop® ties of a lens, but very uninteresting other wise, ns the largest telescope can make little impression on a fixed star; no disk can be a pale, minute object. On looking at it w this nmgmliceiit instrument its wonder acy of ail electric light. It was an object .. jich brought out all tho imperfections of the glass, and to the eyes of Mr. Clark and his sons many were evident, and, it was said, two months’ work was necessary to correct them. During the trial the lens were lowered and five men revolved the glass in its fitting. On its being placed in position again one of the sons was about to make another test when the old man shouted: “'Wait, boys, let her I was curious to know what this could mean, and Alva Clark explained that the cor rection was so delicate that the heat from the hands of the five men holding the metal case of the objective would change the correction, so it had to “cool.” In a conversation with Mr. Clark on the advantages of immense telescopes snob as this one, he admitted that the telescopes of mod erate aperture, say from ten to fifteen inches, were preferable for general use even for the highest purposes. He spoke -with such an instrument he had ma scopes. Only one dh covery has been made with the 'Washington telescope of twenty-six inches diameter during its many years of use. The Russian Pulkova instrument, delivered by the Clarks in 1883, never been heard from, and those who ect immediate and extraordinary results from the Lick thirty^ix inch objective will probably be disappoinifcd. These huge tele scopes are great light gatherera and useful work, but the moon the gi-eat Ross telescope. When asked what he would like to see be called for the planet Saturn, which was then in good position. On looking through the telescope and finding the wretched definition of the object he said: “You tell me I have looked at the planet Saturn, so I must believe I have done so; but I was not aware of the fact.”—John Michels in New York Sun. Eurcliasors of Dalntiags. lateui’s of painting.\! that is purchasers, may be divided into three classes, namely: those who pay more for pictures than t! >rth; those who get them at their proper value and those who have a knack of belong •ough the first two, and there are m ___ Who spend their last dollar before reaching it. Real connoisseurs ai-e very rare; there are very, very few experts who can be implicitly relied on. Some amateur speculators are very sly and at times make bold strokes. Here is a noted example; Mr. W. happened to buy ail unknown Rembrandt at THotel Drouot for a mere song. The painting was genuine, but, not being known, it was not quoted. To launch it into renown, the owner conceived the idea of putting it up again for sale a t l’Hotel Drouot and of having one of his friends, who was im the secret, to push it up to $9,000. This was a sham sale, for Mr. W. reflinded the money to his friend and kept the picture. But after that day the Rembrandt was consecrated and classed, for in the ai'tistic circles the newly found picture became the topic of conversation. Then when Mr. W . was certain that desire was ripe in the heai-ts of rich amateurs ho again put up the picture at auction and this time it brought the round sum of $80,000.—Pari* Cor. Brooklyn Eagle. ___________ Gypsy’s Lack o f Keliglons Feeling. In the gypsy mind a complete vacuum exists where with us is instinctive relig ions reverence, as we comprehend it. Therefore, lore, legend, superstition take Its place. Possessing no conception of deity the gypsy is never disturbed by the consciousness of a dread antithesis. His life is blameless towards and among his own and his kind, first, because of the natural protective instinct, and second, be cause of immediate m a W ial rewards. \With such people, a'Bsoltitely passive as to spiritual reward or punishment and u tter ly, stolidly indifferetit to, and repeUant of, your isms or mine, it can easily be seen how Jit is natural and inevitable that their everyday life and belongings are replete- w ith trifles of fancy, thought, fact and necessity magnified by time and associa tion into loved and cherished significance and importance.—^Edgar L. \Wakeman’s about, if at a ll, not b y v a in efforts to pre vent the production or the disseminating of newspapers and novels, but by raising the average o f those that are produced. Men and -women o f culture and of high .-aims m u st be brought into the business. Students in oitr c olleges w h o are looking to book m aking or to journalism as a profession, m u st be m g ed to keep con stantly in m ind that -whatever they write should, always and under all conditions, be their best; and that fay best is meant, not m erely English that w ill hear matical a nd rhetorical tests, but I ___ to finish it.—^Professor Adams Sherman Hill in Scribner’s Magazine. Justice Field, of the United States su- ae court, thinks the division of CWifomu two states is sure to occur, \ON THE ROAD.” Experiences of Mon Who Are Forced to Travel Every Day. ■er er large group who are Then there is anoth large group wh< “on the road” nearly every day. These the men whose business, trades or calling in town and -whose dwelling houses or family places of abode for the time being are out of town, at the shore or in the counti-y. On this class observations may be made. Some of them make a dreai-y and tiresome job of their daily journey to and fro, especially if the ride takes an hour or two. They bury themselves in silence, or they make futile ef forts to read profitless and trashy “light liter ature,” or they resort to the smoking car, ;o kill time,” aud so mo or feverish fret of the trip. And, in fact, it is a monotonous, dull and very tedious busi ness with them as they work it—a profitless expenditure of time, most of them getting very tired of it before the summer is over. tired and who don’t try to “kill time” in any of the ways already mentioned. One of this group we have in mind at this moment. Dur ing sevei-al months of the year it happens that he is obliged to be on the road twice every day, his worlishop and his dwelling place being in those months two hours’ travel apart. He makes the trip to the city early in the morning and back in the evening, and while he is by no means a youth he never suf- fers ennui on the train, never seems to bo tii'ed and, in fact, nevei* is tired on the road. When asked how that comes about his an swer is: “Tired? No. The most absolute rest I get, except when I am in bed asleep, is during the two hours of the railroad ride home in the afternoon and evening. When I settle down in the car chair I throw off everything that has any strain of thought in it. I look at the fields and trees, the corn and the clover, the peach orchards and the potato patches, the berry fields aud the vineyards, the gardens, the barnyards and the cattle postures, the snug farm homes and the cozy cottage homes along the village roads, the wild flowers and the wild birds, the pretty railway stations, their parterres, and the varied and curious gi'oups of people of all descriptions congregated at the stations. I have a ‘pass ing acquaintance’ with everything on that —imate and inanimate, aud every day lem under some fresh aspect Some there’s a gi-eat expense of time. I could not afford to spend four hom-s out of the working day that way, so I divide them, devoting the two hours to the shore after the day’s work is over to perfect rest, and putting the two hours coming up in tho morning to work, and I can do three hom-s’ work easily in those two when fresh in the morning. It is won derful to find how letters and papers and memoranda about business affairs that were puzzles and difficulties to know what to do with during the busy hours of the day before clear themselves u:> and almost dispose of themselves when tiie mind is fresh and free and active in the early morning on the road.’' —Chicago Times. inducted on the old ntry is divided into Farming in Chi feudal system. The country is dividei great estates, owned by people who liv e : cities and seUU.m v i..it their hacieudt they are called. The tenants are permanent, and have retainers in tlie form of little cot tages and gai-ilens, for uhich they pay no rent. If the landlord requires their service.s they are always suiijeet to his call, and are paid by the day or montii for whatever labor they perform, generally in orders upon tho supply store or commissary of the estate, where they can obtain food, clothing and other articles, and rum—especially rum. They are given small credits at these stores, and as the law prohibits a tenant from leaving a landlord to whom he is in debt, the former is never permitted to settle his account. The peons never get ahead. They live and die on the same estates and in the same cabins where their fathers and grandfathers lived and died, and know nothing of the -world or the condi tions of men around them. Although they are badly treated in most cases, they are al ways loyal to their masters and take their peonage as a matter of course. The war with Peru had a demoralizing ef fect upon the agricultural pobulation, from which the army of Chili was recruited, and it will require many years to recover from it. ■When they returned from the war it was found almost impossible to get the men back to the estancias. They were enamored of mil- itai-y life, and had got a taste of city dissipa tion , and a large proportion of the army, when it was mustered out, became thieves, beggars and highwaymen. There is not enough labor in the country to work the farms, and the lack has not only caused higher wages to be paid, but has done much to break up the old system. Im-t igration is encouraged, labor saving raachinery is being introduced from the United States, and new conditions are promised. But the estancieros who adopt la bor saving machinery have to get some im migrant to operate it, as the native can sel dom be induced to do so, and when he does, usually smashes the implement at the first trial.—Harper’s Magazine. Exercise During Hot Weather. A wheelman remarked recently that he did not believe the people who abstained alto- aotive exertior their regular habits of exercise. “My leisure,” said he, “comes in almost the hottest part of the day, but I take a spin of eight miles or SO almost every day and p t up a glorious pei-spiration. When one is dressed for it, a few degrees of additional beat don’t make much difference, and on a wheel one nearly always gets a breeze. After a bath in water just from the hydrant, a rab down and the assumption of dry clothing, I come down stairs feeling like one of the neighbors, 50 per cent, better than if I had been sitting in the shade farming myself all of that ,time. It seems to me my plan is better than that of tbe fellows who choose the cool of the evening for tbeii- exercises, and tben, \vvitlioufc a. change of clothing, sit upon a piazza until they get chilled. Moreover, tbe plunge ii cold water is as much fun as the spin, never too hot to take one’s daily exeixcise, this climate, at any rate^”—Buffalo Cc mslbility. iuneapolis, 1 . It is i- in luoted as sayii “One of the 1 For a t least eight hours the night cl exclusive control of the hotel. He has no one to in case of an emergency. If upon any one. ' can happen, of c ........ . ost serious thing 1 ie, is fire. The safety of house is dependent upon invaluable as a night clerk Dorn Pedro and H]* Liver. His liver is ailing terribly. As a result he has no appetite, and his digestion is faulty. He has had his blood analyzed by Dr. Henoques, the specialist, who tells him frankly that h e is in a bad way. Not only is his liver out of order, but his kid neys also, and at his age there is not much chance of curing him, though tho maladies may be-held in check. Dom Pedro is only 62 years old, although he has been emperor fifty-six years, and is in length of reign the senior soverdgn o f ' the world. B u t he w as born fCnd has al ways lived in a part of the world where people gxow old quickly. really older than a n Englishman a t 73. Dr. Henoques asked him what was his favorite drink. Dom Pedro replied that it was the juice o f oranges and lemons. Iced, and flavored ■with Jamaica rum. “Better give it up,” said Dr. Henoques. “I can’t,” said Dom Pedro, “and you wouldn’t advise me to if you knew how ” The emperor thinks he: eases that run riot there. He has : had yellow fever or cholera, though many inmates o f his palace have been stricken down by them. Indeed, he has not had any serious ffiness in his life, and his present complaints axe only the natural, and inevitable accompaniments of old age in his native cHiaate,—Paris Cor. Chicago TIMES BAVE CHAMEB. BOYS OF THE PAST AND SPORTS OF THE OLDEN TIME. The “Professional Nines” of Today—Lawn Tennis—Yachts for Money Makers—The Solid Ways of Bygone Years—How Changed Are Onx Ideas. say there are some localities where sports of th'e olden time are in vogue, but it is evident to the casual obsei-ver that as the boys, bj’ ■which I mean lads, have changed in looks, in strength, in habits, in tastes, so have the sports of tho country materially and signifi cantly altered during the past twenty-five No baseBall then? Certainly, baseball. Every boy played base- ill. We used to go out in the field in the ■ in a vacant lot in the city, or to mild back of the school, set our _)lay our game, and a mighty good country, the playground back of the school, bases and play our game, and a migl time we had of it. But who plays baseball today? The boys! Oh, no. The professional nines. Men who are paid to exhibit their powers, men whom to see sometimes as many as 10,000 or 15,000 people assemble inn vast area-with prepai-ed I’ved chair school boys play it on th ball has become a natioi Oorrespondenoe o f the Republican. E iohmond , Va., Nov. 23^ 1887. One from the Northern States who h w never lived or traveled in Yirginia, upon first coming here, sees and hears much to amuse and interest him. Perhaps tbe first thing that attraots his attention is the manner in ■which the average Virginian expresses hi* ideas. It asked any direct question his answer generally is, “I reckon so.” If he •wishes to show his appreciation of a man’s inteUigenoe, he will sey “He has a heapheap of: sense.\ o has been indisposed and yon inquire about his health, be will say thank yon, I am right smart better.” A poor ill-looking horse or other animal is described by the adjective sorry horse. We hear one say *’a sorry horse” or “a sorry cow.” If yon hearone say o f him self “right pert” yon may take it for a fact that his liver and digestion are all right, and that he is in good humor with himseU and the rest o f mankind. While illiteracy prevails here to a greater extent than at the North according to the population, the better class of white people are, as a rule, well educated and rather more polished and refined than are onr oonntry- in the Northern Stales. Especially is this true of those in and past the prime of T/iey spent their youthful days andw ty spent their yout ment and eultr why BO mony Of Virginia, thing throws down his paper in disgust, a ■wonders if there -was ever such a mania this t'liat seems to have taken possession of the entire country. LA-WIT TENNIS—^VACHTS. When did j'ou fli'st hear of lawn tennis? Ten dollars to a three cent piece that 3 id not hear of it when 3ou f the loyal States. Olassfosl It the University of 'Vir- did not hear of it when y were a boy. 1 haps you don’t know what it is now; but all that there are thousands of m women, uujs anu gu-js, ausuiuiy uressea, grotesquely caparisoned, devoting their ex- cited mentalities to throwing ball here rather than there, and having such nice times all over the country. Have you any idea how many yachts there are in this country, ranging from twei tons to the caliber of a first class :■? I am informed that there represents an ii wenty 111! informed that there are no 20,000. That represents an immeii- ivestinent aud vast outlay and iudi- ealthy love of sea life, which must necessity have its effect upon the growth ai strength of those who indulge in yachting. Old time boys had oatboats, yawls, sa ’ ■ 's; now, sons of millionaires have yachts :h but a few years ago would have been idered imperial, aud their fathers belt boats; which considered imperii the globe in steamers on who's>e ment might easily maneuver, a man’s head looms above the ordinai’y level he purchases a yacht. What foi decks a regi- rareiy pleasure, icularly ti-ue aud particu- rushes of Wall street, ler money centers, ake money at all yeai-s flaunted his private ost of his private*] yacht. te street, and 1 fhoii brol recognii within the past ten _ signal from the m ^ t o f his private Then he fails, somebody else takes the yacht and a different signal flaunts—but it flaunts THE OLD AND SOLID TVAT. I have a book in niy work library called ‘‘Great Fortunes,” printed nearly twenty years ago, which tells of the struggles of the merchants, capitalists, inventors, literary men, who have attained phenomenal good fortune. •d Howe, Gordon Bennett and Rol interest any reader James Harper, jbert Bonner. James Go Not one of them sprang into stupendous triumph, not one of them ate his fruit with out fii-st tilling his ground, not one of them flew his kite until he made it. They were all rich men, substantial men, aud tbeir success, their triumphs, aided the up'Duilding of corn- development of an service in their daj aud not one of them ever failed for $20,000,- Their money was in solid, substantial, get- atable cash, Their property -was built upon the rook of honor and integrity. eh flying ball were transformed into a wand for making money and a golden sphere for which to fight; when sailboats were transformed into swift speeding steamers; when our boys became dudes, and the smoking bean was changed into a cigarette, did everything This is the great secret of our Presidents were natives and I am sorry to add, is or -was reason -why Virginia ' joined the “Confederacy.’’ Washington, Henry and Jefferson -were idol ized, not only in our own country but by tho lovers of Freedom thronghont tbe world, while the great Chief Jostice Marshall had crowned with high honor onr nation’s juris- prndenoe. These constitnied the pride of Vir ginians and oontribnted largely to the glory of our common country. From this standpoint, __ with a little charity we can pardon the over- streefc, weening oonfidenoe, not to say oonoeit, wMoh It base- made the Virginians believe themselves in-rin- cible, and that they alone could overcome the combine forces of the I( education acquired at tl ginia and at 'William and Mary College could make shining lights in the literary world, bnt how fntile were its efforts to divide the Union, the stern reality of experience has conclu sively shown. The average Virginia Farmer is dissatis fied with his calling, and is always ready to sell his farm, and, as people from the North are oonsfantly settling here, a great proportion of the farmers find purchasers for their land. The next move is to take np their residence in Richmond. As the Jews in ancient times loved Jerusalem, so the average Virginian loves Richmond, and really I can hardly blame him for it a beautifnl city. Like the home of the Cmiars it stands upon seven hills. With its public parks, adorned with statues from the hands of the master sculptors of Eu rope, with fountains playing and flowers ever blooming, with song-birds warbling and the beautiful James river skirting her western boundary, it is indeed one of the lovliest places on the Barth’s green bosom. The popnlation of Richmond is shout 90,00 nearly one-half of which is colored. It has a good system of public schools. The white pupils are taught in schools entirely distinct from those for the colored race. The Church (St. John’s) in which Patrick Henry delivered his immortal Oration upon the War with Eng land, stands on Church Hill at tbe corner of Twenty-Fifth and Broad streets. Tourists from all quarters visit this spot in great num bers. Here rests the remains of Presidents Monroe and Tyler. Here also rest the re mains Of the great jurist Chief Justice Mar shall. Likewise those of Edgar A. Poe and ise. A few weeks since Rich- : may say all Virginia was pro- ily stirred by the ceremonials attendant upon the laying of the foundation stone to receive the monument to be erected to tha ry of Robert E. Lee, Confederate army. The grave of the famous Indian Chief Pow- hattan is situated about half a mile below the oity of Richmond on the east bank of the James. A little way from the grave is pointed out the stone where itis claimed “John Smith,” was forced to lay his head preparatory to being brained by an Indian War Club, when that peerless heroine, the Princess Pocahontas immortalized herself and made it very pleas ant for “John.\ The spot where the bones of old Powhattan are supposed to Ue moulder- ' is now owned by a non-resident, a Mr. ince of New York Oity. Tne place is daily We think nothing paper that by deftt now of reading in the manipulation Mr. Gould to his tremendousmendous pilei] of p ippaney v ■which we speak of monument money shows bow completely chanj_ our ideas from the time when $100,000 seemed an adequate competency.—Joe How ard iu Boston Globe. Tho Future of Burmah. There can be no reasonable doubt that there is a prosperous future awaiting .that rich and beautiful country. The marvelous cl^uge that has come over Mandala 3 i, even in the few months since annexation, indicates what may be looked for over the whole land. Pegu, -ndth a surface of about 27,000 square miles, bad in 1858, or five years after its an nexation, a population of only about 750,000; in 1881 this had increased to 3.250,000. Aboi ' the jungle and brought un< and this province is ■producing country in increased to 3.250,000. 1 acres are reclaimed, everyvery yiear e y from inder cultivation, the greatest rice aah and the rea of nearly as France—have a- at only 3,000,000. Upper Burmah is not, like Lower Burmah, a great rice field; but there are largo tracts under rice cultivation, and there is hardly a product of a tropical or even a temperate climate for which some part of the country or other may not be suitable.— London Times. The English cavalry have never been armed with x-evolvers, although it is conceded that a saber has no chance ageinst,a revolver. Shopping In Paris. The most important point to get tbe value of your money is not to be induced to enter the small stores; to lim it yonr buying to tbe dry goods stores of the Louvre aud Bon Marche, for they keep al m ost everything that a woman can think of. The price is marked on each article and always put at the low est rate. A l m ost everything lies on counters and tables, so you dp not have the worry oi asking for th ir ^ . You are n o t bothered ■with officious clerks \who try to persuadt you to get one thing -when you -n'ant an other. When you have received the goods at home, and after ha-ving examined them, no matter after wnat length of time you change yotir m ind you can return tha goods, and -without the asking of one ques tion those stores refund you tho money. N o matter if the goods have been cut in the store, so it has not been touched oi cut b y you or been worn, the money is im mediately handed back to you, while ip to be imposed moad. from the :or RtNioh* id by people from tha North, 1 and from Europe. No visito afford to leave that oity witbont ing a pilgrimage to Fowhattan’s grave.* bby Prison, so mnoh talked abont in tha Libl ar time, is, in outward appearance, jaat the same as when the Union prisoners were con fined there. The sign “Libby Prison” is still attached to the west side of tha building. ;reat many of tbe business men of Bioh- y come here from the North. The outlook for improvement and prosperity here is now more enoonraging than at any time before or since the war. Unusually good crops thronghont the State is partially the cause of this. Indeed this year the Virginia farmers, crops have been all tl A great ughont the State is partial lis. Indeed this year t e Virginia farmers, crops have been all that oenld be desired. The Wheat, Corn, Tobacco andand Sweetweet Potatoes,otatoes, wereere allll excellentxcellent andnd S P w a e a brought satisfactory prices. A majority of the farmers in the vioini^ of Biohmond are Northern men. There are I think more emigrants here from Miohig than from any other State. Perhaps t severe winters np there are the cause of this. Last summer was exceptionally war of5T> .La w.o,.,jiry showed a lower r New York during the i still the mercury si in the oity of New During the snmmer n here' y e t te same ti During the summe heats sunstrokes are rate,-- and tbe nights are as cool as in the Catskills, that if a ' - - - - Ducb better be in Eiobmond ither places that I know of. ^ocahomi out some nay. bit. Tell them tiuth Pocahontas never rescued — —iger of death, hecausehe waa sides She wasn’t there. TMre iohisiffl; there —.— ---------- — ------------ 1 and - _____ ____ hot Without there! A long rope, a high gallows and a short shrift! Hurry up! Don’tstopfortheshrlft! ' Spend Wisely. L o o k most to your spehtfing. N o matter -what comes in, if more goes out you will always be poor. T h e art is not m making m oney, but in keeping i t ; little expenses, like m ice in a barn, when they are many, make ;reat waste. Hair by hair, heads get >ald. Straw by straw, the thatch g o es ofl the cottage, and drop by drop, the rain comes into the chamber. A bar rel is soon empty, i f the tap leaks buc ipp a minute.inute W h e n you mean to begin with your mouth ; there dro a m your mouth ; there thieves down the red lane. are m anj T h e ale jug is a great waste, other things keep within compass. In choose SI * ' 'le foreignei imagine in their pock- lelng cheated, so go to Bon Marche for all you they can rob from the ets. Beware of helni the Louvre or Bon Marche f ■vraut.—Paris Cor. Brooklyn Eagle. d.JI not that man -wretched who, -whatever child tolpye,—^utbey. save, begin s dow n th e red lane, great waste. In all withi clothes, choose suitab and 1-astinj Stuff and not tawdry fineries- T o be warm is the main thing ; never mind the looks. N e v e r stretch your legs further than the blanket will reach, or you will soon be cold. A fool may \make m oney, but it needs a wise man to spend it. Remember, it is easier to build tw o chimneys than to keep one going. If you give all to b\kck and board, there is nothing left for the savings bank. Fare hard, and work while you are y oung, and you have n chance o f rest when y o u are old* - '
