Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — Page 4

••LOVE THYSELF LAST.’ Love thyself last. Look near, behold thy duty To those who walk beside thee down life’s road; Make glad their days by little acts of beauty, And help them bear the burden of earth’s load. Love thyself last. Look far and find the stranger, Who staggers ’neath his sin and his despair, Go lend a hand, and lead him out of danger, To heights where he may see the world is fair. Love thyself last. The vastnesses above thee Are filled with Spirit Forces, strong and pure, 4.nd fervently, these faithful friends shall love thee, Keep thou thy watch o’er others, and endure. Love thyself last; and oh, such joy shall thrill thee, As never yet to selfish souls was given. Whate'r thy lot, a perfect peace will fill thee, And earth shall seem the anteroom of Heaven. Love thyself last; and thou shalt grow in spirit To see, to hear, to know, and understand. The message of the stars, 10, thou shalt hear it. And all God’s j">ys shall be at thy command. Love thyself last. The world shall be made better By thee, if this brief motto forms thy creed. Go follow it in spirit and in letter, This is the true religion which men need. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Independent.

A BROKEN ENGAGEMENT.

When I first started in life it was as salesman in the very small establishment of Mr. Brusle, stationer. It was not a very remunerative situation, but old Mr. Brusle was a kind old man, Mrs. Brusle a nice, talkative old lady, and Dolly Brusie often came into the store on busy days and stood behind the counter beside me, | and just for this last reason 1 would not have taken double wages with Mr. Throgmorton, the only other stationer of the town. Dear little Dolly! she had brown eyes and a dimple in her chin, and sang like a prima donna. She had lessons from a German Fraulein and from an Italian Signor, and the old man quite forgot Throgmorton and his gilt window when he sat with his handkerchief over his head of an j evening and listened to her. The pi--ano was old and tinkling, but none* of us ever thought of that. Old Mr. Brusle and my father had been I friends, and I was not a clerk only, but a privileged friend as well, and all the excuse I needed for coming every night was given in the words, “I want to hear singing.” Well, any one might have wanted to hear it, for that matter—not merely a boy who was in love. Things went on in this way for three years, when one afternoon old Mr. Brusle, shutting the drawer of his desk with a bang, said : “ It’s no use, Tom, I may as well ; give in. Throgmorton has beaten me, I’m not making a cent, and I j shall break up. The old woman and I can manage on what I have, with only one child, and I can rest and j stop fidgeting. I suppose Dolly can teach a little, too. There’s no other music teacher in Hamilton. But the old shop is a mockery, and I’ve known it a good while.” So that was the end of Arcadia. The stock and fixtures were sold out. Throgmorton bought the stock, and the shop was altered into a parlor; and I wrote to my uncle in New York who had promised to take|me into his business if I wished it, and he telegraphed. “Come next week.” And then one day I asked Dolly to walk down into the meadows and see if the blackberries were ripe. Before we picked one, I drew her to a quiet place under a great maple and put •ny arm about her waist, and said; ‘‘ Dolly, you know just how I feel toward you, don’t you?” She nestled up to me a little closer, and I took both her plump brown hands in mine.

“Will you wait for me a little while, Dolly? Will you think that I am doing my best all the time to bring the day nearer when I can ask your father to give you to me?’’ She said nothing for a while, and in the pause I heard a bird sing a whole song through. Then came her voice: “Yes, Tom, I’ll wait.” And we picked the blackberries, and went home again through the meadows. “We’ll not speak of it yet, Tom,” said Dolly. “At home I mean ; they think me such a child yet. I don’t wunt to break the charm. In time they’ll guess that I’m a woman; and they like you, Tom.”

For a while I was bewildered in the city, then very busy, then flushed with the prospect of being rapidly advanced, and of being able to ask Dolly to be my wife sooner than I expected. I wrote her joyous letters. She wrote pleasant ones back to me. We did not make them open love letters, but both understood the love at the bottom of them . And so the months glided by. For six I had no holiday. Then a grudgingly given week was given me, and I hurried down to Hamilton. I visited my old friends, and had a glorious time. Dolly was lovelier than ever She walked over to the depot with me when I left, leaning on my arm. The train had not come in yet—the one for New York; but the other had set down some passengers from the city.. One, a stout gentleman of 115, dressed in fine style, having given his portmanteau to a porter, advanced to Dolly. “How do you do, Mis 3 Brusle?” said he. She held out her hand shyly. “How do you do Mr. Holly? Tom, Otis is Mr. Holly. Mr. Holly, Mr. Hearn. ’ ’ He bowed; so did I. But the fellow had such an air with him that I

hated him. How did she know him? I had never seen him before. ‘‘Who is he?” asked I, in a whisper, as the porter called Mr % Holly back for directions. “He has something to do with the opera, I think,” said Dolly. Then came the shriek of the whistle. “All aboard!” yelled a voice. “Good-by, Tom,’ said Dolly. “Good-by,” said I, and hurried away. I thrust my head out of the window. Dolly was walking away on Mr. Holly’s arm. I made a fool of myself next day I wrote Dolly an indignant letter. She wrote me a spirited answer. I demanded an explanation as to how she came to know Holly, in the next; and before any answer came to this old Mrs. Brusle walked into our place with her shopping bag in her hand one morning.

“I want you to take me to some nice store, Tom,” she said, “if you can spare an hour or so.. I’m going to buy a silk dress for Dolly, and she told me to tell you all about it, as you seemed to be upset.” I asked the permission necessary and called a carriage. Once within it the old lady began ; “You see, Dolly will need to be dressed handsomely. She starts next month.” “Starts for where?” said I. “All over, mostly.” said the old lady. “It's all settled, you know, between her and Mr. Holly.” “Settled!” cried I. “Yes,” said the old lady. “I knew you’d be pleased with the good news. She was singing in the choir, and he happened to go to church, and he asked an introduction and got it, and called next day. It’s very sudden, very; but she wouldn’t engage herself to him without our consent; and it’s such a fine thing, that we can’t refuse; so we’ve consented. She’ll feel homesick, no doubt, away from us; but we mustn’t think of that. I try not to,” and then the old lady put her handkerchief to her eyes. “She told you tell me?” I said. “Oh, yes,” said the old lady. My heart was on fire, my blood was boiling, but I made no sign. *• You stay in the city all night, don’t you?” I asked. She said she would, and gave me the number of her stopping place. After'the shopping was over I went home and took from my trunk a little parcel of letters, a lock of hair, a ribbon—Heaven knows what trashy bits of treasure —put them in a large business envelope, and walked over to the old lady's boarding house with them. . “ Tell Dolly that I sent her that, and wish her all the happiness that she deserves,” said I.

The old lady heard no sarcasm in my voice. "I will, Tom,” she said; “ and do come to see us soon. We’ll be lonely without Dolly.” So it was over; and the thing that was most terrible to dream of had fallen on me, and I lived. Of course I made no confidence, and I worked as hard as ever. The work of a wholesale woolen house does not slacken because a clerk is crossed in love. Bales and boxes and bundles went out and came in all the same; and what did it matter if I looked pale and lost my appetite, so4hat I did my figuring and all the resfe of it correctly? But one day, as I looked up from a box I had been marking, I saw a sight that made me sick with rage. Holly, and no one else, with his side whiskers and his glossy hat and marvelously square shoulders. He was talking to my uncle, and appeared to be on intimate terms with him. I stood still and stared at him. In a few moments he saw me, and putting up his eyeglasses, bowed. I made no bow in return. Then he came across the room. “ I don’t think it’s a mistake,” said he. “I met you at the depot at Hamilton, with Miss Brusle.” “I remember,” I said.

“She’s very well, and in a little flutter, of course,” said he. “I suppose you’ve had letters?” “Excuse me, I’m needed elsewhere,” I said, and dashed away . An hour after, my uncle coming across me, said: "So you know Holly, Tom? He’s not a bad fellow, though a bit of a puppy. He’s made a good deal of money in the theatrical line; manager and all that, you know. Married a sort of cousin of my wife’s two years ago.” “Is he a married man?”

“Oh, yes; why not? ” “Uncle Harold,” said I, “you must let me run up to Hampton tonight. I must go.” "What is the matter, Tom? ” said my uncle. “I can’t tell you,” said I, “but I must go.” “Then you must,” said my uncle; “but if it wasn’t you, you’d never come back. Don’t be longer than you can help, as it is.”

I traveled on the night train, and reached the dear little brown cottage when its windows were golden in the sunrise. The old lady was getting breakfast. Dolly was milk--ing; her father at work in the garden. It was a sweet picture, and 1 had come to turn its joy into sorrow; but better that than to let worse sorrow come. “You, Tom?” cried Mrs. Brusle. “Why, Tom!” cried the old lady; “so you thought you’d see our girl off after all? You know she starts to-morrow? ' Dolly did not look at me, but I saw her face flush crimson. “I’m sorry to say that I have come down to bring bad news,” said I. “Bad news!” said Mr. Brusle. “I’m sorry for that, my boy. What is it?” "It affects you, sir,” said I; “not me. I come only because worse would happen if I were silent, and I beg you to believe that I am actuated by no spirit of revenge. You may not credit me, but I wish that any other man had this to do. Mr. Holly is, and has been for two years, a married man.” I turned my face away from Dolly as I uttered these words, and dropped it upon the hand that rested on tjje vine trellis. I expected to hear.her scream, but my news did not seem to produce Jas great an effect as I expected. Tlooked up again; all eyes were fixed upon me.

“Ah!” said the old man. “Well?” said the old lady. “Go on, Tom,” said Dolly. “His wife is a cousin of the lady my uncle married,” said I. “If you don’t believe me, I can offer proof of the fact. He is married.” “Of course I knew that,” said Dolly. “His wife is quite a celebrated contralto.” “Knew that he was married?” said I. “I don’t understand you.” “It’s a great deal nicer for Dolly,” said Mrs. Brusle. “Mrs. Holly and she will travel together. But, O, dear! perhaps Mrs. Holly isn’t nice. Is that it?” I stared from one to the other. “Mrs. Brusle,” said I, “what did you tell me when you came down to New York? As I understood you, that Dolly was engaged to Mr. Holly and that you were buying the wedding dresses.” “Gracious me!”cried the old lady. “Nothing of the sort.” “Did you think that, Tom?” cried Dolly. I asked her to explain. "Oh,dear me! Why,Tom, I have engaged to travel with him as one of a quartet he has just formed. A foreign gentleman and our tenor at church, Mr. Motley, and Mrs Holly and I; and I shall make a great deal of money, and—Oh, Tom, that’s why you sent back my letters.” I opened my arms, and Dolly ran into them without thinking of the old folks. “You see how it is sir,” I said to Mr. Brusle. "I’m not rich, but I love Dolly; and if she’ll take me as I am I shall be the happiest fellow under the sun. And for Heavens sake, Dolly, don’t mind breaking your engagement with that fellow. I don’t want you running about the country, no matter how much money you make by it.” So the engagement was broken; and though my uncle said it was most imprudent, Dolly and I wore married that winter.

LIGHTNING’S WORK.

Loss of Life and Destruction of Property in the United States in 1894. In January no liyes were lost so far as known. In February 2 lives were lost, 2 persons injured and 50,000 feet of lumber destroyed. In March G lives were lost, 3 persons injured, and 2 barns, 2 churches and 5 dwelling houses struck and damaged. In April 14 lives were lost, 15 persons injured, 1 barn and 7 dwelling houses damaged. In May 55 persons were killed by lightning and 34 severly injured ; 12 houses were set on fire with a loss of not less than $35,000; 30 dwellings, 4 churches. 2 school houses struck, and more or less damaged; 58 horses and 22 cows not in stables were killed. In June 96 persons were killed and 102 severely injured ; 69 barns were damaged not less than $49,000; 49 houses. 30 cows, and 15 sheep not stabled were killed; 80 dwellings, 22 churches, railroad depot, 1 oil tank, 1 grain elevator, 6 mills and factories were damaged, the loss in the eight last named being not less than $257,000. In July 60 lives were lost, and 103 persons injured; 46 barns were damaged not less than $50,000; 45 dwellings, 12 churches, 2 academies, 3 mills or factories, and 2 railroad depots were struck ; 24 horses and 13 cows, 5 mules, and 6 sheep, not stabled, were killed. In August 78 lives were lost and 76 persons iujured; 81 barns were burned with a loss of not less than $129,800 ; 41 dwellings were struck, 22 horses and 15 cows, not stabled, were killed; 5 churches, 2 academies (one with loss of $38,000), 2 mills, and 1 oil tank (loss $20,000) were struck. In September 99 persons were killed and 14 severely injured; 53 barns were struck with loss of not. less than $141,500; 42 dwellings, 2 churches were struck, 14 horses, not stabled, were killed. In November 1 dwelling was struck, valued at $3,000. In December 1 barn in Ohio, 2 dwellings (one in San Francisco, Cal., where damage from lightning is almost unknown), were struck. During the year 336 persons were killed and 351 severely injured, 268 barns struck with a damage of $407,500; 55 churches were struck, damage unknown; 261 dwellings and several oil tanks, factories and .elevators, the damage amounting to not less than $351,000.

Dangerous Trees.

A word of warning is necessary as to the proximity of trees to houses. Many old-fashioned rural houses,, as distinguished from the maisons de campagne, are embowered in trees and buried in laburnum. They look delightful in pictures and sound en* chanting in poetry; but there are drawbacks in every mundane sphere, and there are one or two little penalties to pay, even in laburnum land. The nearest tree should be several yards away from the house, and if possible, from every part of the house. We have observed lately, in more than one London suburb, whore an attempt is being made to build dwellings which are at once healthy and picturesque, that houses have been placed within half a yard of old trees, mainly elms. Some of these houses are most certainly built over the roots of trees, and it will require a very liberal supply of good concrete to keep such dwellings dry? A house with trees so near to it must inevitably be dark and damp, for the roots, which are not tlfemselves really damp producers, are damp retainers, for they form an obstacle to the escape of the water which is always moving about in the soil. There is a double danger attaching to the' very close proximity of elms to a house. Altogether, apart from the damp, the elm is a treacherous tree, and, if it bo near enough, is certain sooner or later to drop one of its boughs -through the drawingroom window, or, perhaps, even to break off and knock a hole in the wall. It was only last winter that wo saw an old elm perform this very feat. It was a windy day, and the tree, which was a large one, broke off short at the hole, and was thrown so violently against the house that several windows and the whole of the front portion of the roof was stove in. -

FOR THE KITCHEN MAID.

Simple Rule« in Dishwashing That Are Serviceable. The following simple rules, as taught in the cooking schools, hung in the kitchen, and followed, may prove of vaule to the young housekeeper or the “new girl:” 1. Collect knives, forks and spoons by themselves. 2. Put avray any food that has been left on small, clean dishes, never leaving fragments on dishes in which they were served. t 3. Scrape all fragments sticking to dishes or pans into a refuse pail or in the back of the pshpan and underneath the firebox, where they*may dry out, and then be burned. 4. Arrange all dishes conveniently on the table, putting glasses nearest the dishpan, then silver next the fine china, beginning with cups, saucers and pitchers, and lastly the greasy dishes. 5. Rinse out milk bottles, pitchers and egg cups with cold w ater. Empty and rinse cups. Put any dishes used in baking to soak in cold water. Fill kettles and spiders full of cold water, and set away from the stove to soak. If left on the stove the heat hardens whatever has adhered to the sides in cooking and renders it harder to remove. 6. Have one pan filled with hot,soapy water. For this purpose keep the soap in a shaker made for this object, or improvise one by putting a few holes through the bottom of a small pail Never leave the soap in the dishpan to waste and stick to the dishes. Have a second ready full of hot water for rinsing before draining. 7. Wash glasses first, slipping them one at a time sideways into the hot water, so that the hot water touching them outside and inside at the same time may obviate the danger of breakage from unequal expansion. Dry immediately on a clean glass towel or on squares of old cotton cloth, hemmed and kept for this purpose. 8. Wash the silver and wipe at once from the soapy water, rubbing any piece with silver polish that seems at all discolored. 9. Wash the china, standing the plates and saucers on edge in the rinsing pan, and setting the cups right side up that they may be thoroughly rinsed. Scald the milk pitchers. 10. Wash steel knives and forks in warm, not hot water, scouring the blades, if necessary. Never leave the handles in water, as it tends to loosen them. 11. Rub tins inside and out, using sapolio if discolored, and paying especial attention to the seams of the double boilers. Set on back of range to dry. 12. Wash ironware inside and out with hot, soapy water, rinse thoroughly in clear water and dry. Dripping pans and kettles that have been used with grease may be wiped off first with soft paper, to remove as much of it as possible, and then washed in the suds, with a tablespoonful of soda added to the water. Granite dishes browned by neglect may be cleaned by boiling half an hour in soda water, then rubbing vigorously. Do this several times if necessary. 13. Coffee pots should never be washed inside with suds, but in clear water. Dry thoroughly on back of stove, wiping out with a clean cloth when dry, to remove the brownish sediment that is apt to cling to the pot. 14. Wash dishtowels in lukewarm soapy water, rinse thoroughly and dry after every meal, and they will keep soft and clean.

MARCH OF THE TROLLEY.

Electric Railway Making Headway All Over the Country. Withing the past five years the trolley electric cars have covered so many localities that they are getting a great deal of the passenger traffic in the suburbs of cities and between populous country towns a short distance apart. In Pennsylvania and Connecticut the courts have recently held that the trolley lines are not authorized to use public roadways for their tracks under the permission of the authorities until they secure the consent of every proprietor whose land fronts the roadway. This ruling checks the progress of the trolley in these two States, and yet they are making headway there and in other States, especially in the thickly settled North. In Pennsylvania the Legislature lias passed an act authorizing street railways to carry freight, and the Lehigh Valley road will equip all its charter branches as trolley roads for freight and passengers. In Vermillion County, Illinois, a trolley line has been granted' for twenty years the free use of public highways for freight and passenger service for a distance of thirty miles, paralleling the Chicago and Eastern Illinois road, on condition that passengers shall not be charged more than a cent and a half a mile. In Michigan an electric road forty miles long is being constructed from Port Huron. It is laid with heavy T rails and will be equipped with standard freight and passenger cars. It will cost less than $7,000 a mile to build and equip, whereas the cost for a steam railway would be between $40,000 and $60,000. What it will cost to operate and renew the trolley lines the future will determine, but there is good reason to believe that this cheap, rapid and satisfactory system of transportation will be greatly extended in the next few years. The electric lines will be very useful in the farming districts, connecting them with their country towns and the markets and acting as feeders to the steam railways. It is not likely that there will be any serious discrimination against them attempted by the State Legislatures. Such measures would be very unpopular, and the steam railways will in the end find the electric lines such valuable auxiliaries that they will not oppose them.

This Cat Craves Approval.

“Mrs. Muggins” is a very good mouser, and occasionally she will catch a great big rat.out in the barn, Bays the Cincinnati Tribune. Of this feat she is always very proud and in-

variably brings the rat alter It is dead to the house,where every member of the family must see it and praise and pet her for being such a good, brave cat. The first time this occurred one of the members of the family took the rat up on a shovel and threw it over the back fence, but in a few moments “ Mrs. Muggins M had it back again ; again and again was it thrown away, but every time it was brought back. At last the two compromised matters by allowing the rat to remain just outside the back door by the side of the step. Ihere it stayed all day until evening, when it was found out why “Mrs. Muggins’’ objected to having it thrown away. The father had been home only a few minutes when “ Mrs. Muggins” walked proudly into the sitting room with her head aloft and a big rat dangling from her mouth. She went up to the man and laid the rat at his feet, looked up in his face and waited to be caressed and praised. After she received the desired attention she allowed the rat to "be carried away and cared nothing more about it. Now the rats that are caught are always allowed to remain near the house until all the family have seeD them.

Matches.

It has been estimated that every man, woman and child in the country uses or destroyes *ix matches daily, so that the aggregate consumption of our population may be set down as 800,000,000 eacli day, or the enormous annual aggregate of 109,000,000,000. These matches retail at about 2 cents a box, 200 in a box, so that the retail value of the product in the United States may be set down at $10,950,000 and the wholesale value at about $6,000,000. I am told that the wood used in the manufacture of matches is principally white and yellow pine. In the United States white pine is used almost exclusively. It burns freely, steadily, slowly, constantly and with a good volume of flame. The wood is soft, straight grain, easily worked, a.nd its light weight is of no small consequence in the matter ol transportation charges, which are unusually, high on combustible articles. For the best grade of matches the choicest quality of cork pine is used, a variety of white pine, the trees being large and well matured. A large match company, about twelve years ago, secured hundreds of millions of feet of choice standing cork pine timber on the waters of the Ontonagon river in the upper peninsula of Michigan. This company now cuts annually upward of 80,000,000 feet of this timber, but this is by no means all that is used in the manufacture of matches in this country. Millions of feet more of choice white pine timber are bought every year and made into matches by a number of factories under control of this corporation.

The Harp in the Ear.

The majority of people'are not aware, perhaps, says the St. Louis Republic, that each of their ears is provided with a many stringed harp, but such is the case. These wonderful little instruments are named after their discoverer, being called the organs of GortU-JEach of these curious ear harps is provided with 8,700 wonderfully minute strings of varying length and thickness. The larger strings are estimated to be about 1-5,000 th of an inch in diameter, and, as shown by actual measu»3ment, are only l-200th of an inch in length. The smaller ones are so infinitesimal ly fine that no estimate of their thickness (thinness) has ever been made. They are, however, estimated to be about 1-I,oooth of an inch in length. Musicians will tell you that when a properly tuned violin is held near a piano, and the E string of that instrument is struck, the corresponding string on the violin will also vibrate; so with all the rest. Now, the 8,700 strings of the human ear harp have such a wide compass that any appreciable sound which can be imagined can find a string of corresponding tone the moment it enters the ear passages. The sounds thus noted on the many stringed harp are instantly conveyed through the connecting filament to the auditory nerve, thence to the sensorium. Thus a knowledge of the sound is conveyed to the brain.

Eyes and Wrinkles.

The wrinkles that come about the eyes have nothing to do with the disposition, as the wrinkles in the cheeks do, but are rather due to lack of care of the eyes. Women, as a rule, pay little attention to the eyes, going from extreme darkness to the brightest light many times a day, a thing which invariably leads to shrinking of the skin about the eye. They wear hats that rarely shade, and they read by the last quiver of daylight. But the two items dwelt upon with most significance are the wearing of cross-barred and dotted vails and the unfortunate dwelling in dark apartments common to city folk, where the eyes are strained in the pursuit of ordinary work. None of these conditions are sufficiently vital to produce serious trouble with the optical nerves, yet strong enough to aggravate the skin into innumerable wrinkles around the corner of the eyelids, or plow furrows between the eyebrows. Regarding the remedies, the first to adopt is the cultivation of repose in talking. No other art is so successful a foe to wrinkles in any portion of the face. The next step is to wear plain vails, and when reading pr writing hurriedly never consider it too troublesome to lift the black film away from the eyes. Then avoid sudden transitions from one degree of light to another. This carefulness, with continual massage, delivered by two fingers on the lids and brows, will abolish or prevent wrinkles.

Hypnotism for Drunkards.

An Englsh paper reports that at the Sussex Asylum eight cases* (six women and two men) were treated for drunkenness by hypnotism. Two otl the women were cured. The other cases seem not to have been successful. Two other case were treated at Birkenhead, apparently with success.

A COLLEGE COURSE.

Its Value to Young Men Discussed By Dr. Depew. How much of practical value is to be got from a college course by a young man about to engage in business or a profession has always been, and will continue to be, a mooted question. It is generally understood that Chauncey M. Depew believes in the modern university, and that he is in about as close sympathy with the college student to-day as when he was himself a student at Yale. But while Mr. Depew believes that the college bred young man has much the better chance in the race of life, still he does not consider the college training of these times altogether faultless. In a recent interview in the New York Herald Mr. Depew says“ln one respect the graduates of 1895 are far behind those of 1855. Few of the boys who will leave college this year will be good talkers. They may be as good thinkers as those who were gradually four decades ago—better, for all I know. They may be able to grasp business and scientific problems as readily, but they will not be nearly so capable of telling what they know or what they think as the older chaps. Why ? Because of the decline of the debate as a means of training. There were debating societies in college when I was a student, and all the brightest men belonged and took part in the discussion. Nowadays few college students would think of stooping so low as to belong to a debating society or of engaging in a set discussion of any problem I regard this as a national calamity, which, however, is mitigated to some extent by the fact that, while the debating club has been practically abandoned by the college boy, it has been taken up by the workingman, who, by its use, as he could by no other means, is clarifying his mental vision as to certain matters. “As to the advantage of a college training in everyday business and professional life,’’ Mr. Depew went on, “there is to say, in the aggregate, indeed, a great many of them, who seem to get through life as well without the knowledge and training acquired at a college as if a full course had been taken. Yet it is my opinion that these men, even those of marked success, would have done better had they been college

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trained. They might not have risen higher, but the riso would probably have been easier, and, on the whole, more satisfactory to them. To the average man the college course is extremely valuable. It teaches him how to use his mental powers; how to reason from cause to effect and back again; how to concentrate his engines; how to adapt himself quickly to suddenly changed conditions. Whoever would succeed in real life must get his training somehow, and in my judgment it is better to get it in college than while ‘sweeping out the office.’ II the ‘ sweeper out' gets ahead of the college boy in business, in his profession, or in public affairs, depend upon it, it is because of superior native ability, harder work or greater endurances. It is in spite of the lack of college training, not because of it. I know that as a rule the great corporations of to-day choose heads of departments mostly from the ranks of college graduates holding subordinate places, not because of the mere possession of diplomas by the graduates, but because the college man so often displays more ability, sounder reasoning, better judgment and quicker decision. But the young man who cannot get to college should not be discouraged by this state of things—he should work and study all the harder. “As a matter of fact,” continued the speaker, “almost any young man who really wishes to do so can go to college. It is as easy to work your way through now as it ever was, “Physical training? Ido not believe it is overdone except in a few cases—so few, indeed, as to be hardly worth considering. There are some in every college class who carry athletics and gymnastics to the extreme. But for the mass, I believe the present system has wrought wonders. When I went to college few students took physical exercise at all, and beyond an occasional farmer’s son, who had developed his bones by pitching hay and walking in the furrow behind the plow, most students were Bible-backed and hol-low-chested. Now, however, it is not so. The average college graduate of to-day has a broad and deep chest and plenty of muscle, and stands up traight. He is physically superior to most men he meets, and his extra bodily strength will be found to be o,f substantial advantage through life. If the young college man of to-day only knew how to talk he would be invincible.”

Made Them All Yawn.

“Facial movements in utter strangers may often be influenced by those who are looking at them,” one of three men who were going up town in a Fourth avenue car the other night was heard to say. “I do not believe it,” rejoined one of his companions. “You do not? Well, I think I can prove it to you,” the first speaker said. “d believe I can make all of those opposite to us yawn quite easily. I will yawn once or twice, and then you both yawn, and see what the effect will be.” He thereupon yawned, making a slight noise to attract attention, and then his yawned. This they repeated, and before the car had gone 200 feet every one opposite them had yawned, although prior to tlio first speaker’s yawning no one had given any indication of being tired or sleepy. |

WITH FINE CHISELS.

Thirty Pounds of Stone Broken Up by One Pound of Wood. At Bangalore, in Southern India, the quarrying of granite slabs by means of wood fire has been brought to such perfection that an account of the method is interesting. The rock forms solid masses uninterrupted by cracks for several hundreds of feet, and when quarried over an area is treated as follows: A narrow line of wood fire, perhaps seven feet long, is gradually elongated, and at the same time moved forward over the tolerably even surface of solid rock. The line of the general splitting of the rock is indicated by piles of light wood, which have been left burning in their position until strokes with a hammer indicate that the rock in front of the fire has become detached from the main mass underneath. The burning wood is then pushed forward a few inches, and left until the hammer again indicates that the slit has extended. Thus the fire is moved on, and at the same time the length of the line of fire is increased and made to be convex on the side of the fresh rock, the maximum length of the arc amounting to about twenty-five feet. It is only on this advancing line of (ire that any heating takes place, the portion which has been traversed being left to itself. This latter portion is covered with the ashes left by the wood, and with thin splinters which have been burst off. These splinters are only about one-eighth of an inch in thickness and a few inches across. They are quite independent of the general splitting.of the rock, which is all the time going on at a depth of about five inches from the surface. The burning lasts eight hoars, and the line of fire advances at the average rate of nearly six feet an hour. The area actually passed over by the line of fire is four hundred and sixty square feet, but as the crack extends about three feet on either sid# beyond the fire the area of the entire slab which is set free measures about seven hundred and forty square feet. All this is done with, may be. about fifteen hundred weight of wood. Taking the average thickness of the stone at five inches, and its specific gravity at 2.62, the result is thirty pounds of stone quarried with one pound of wood.

Origin of the Parasol.

The origin of the parasol is scarcely known, so great is its antiquity. A Chinese legend attributes its invention to the wife of Lou-pan, a celebrated carpenter in China, more than 2,000 years before Christ. Traces of it are found along the Nile, in the frescoes of the tombs at Thebes and bas-reliefs of palaces of Memphis and Ninevah sculptures. It played an important part in ancient Greece, having been carried in sacred and funeral processions as a religious ceremonial as well as a protection from the sun’s rays, and at festivals of Bacchus, who, it seems, of all the gods alone enjoyed the privilege of the sunshade. Toward the close of the eighteenth century great progress was obtained in the manufacture of small sunshades and parasols, they being quite light in weight and beautiful in decoration. In the public gardens of Paris were seen parasols of delicate blue trimmed with silver, light green relieved with gold, flesh tints and scarlet Indian cashmeres with bangles rough or delicately carved. Our grandmother's sunshades, from 1815 to 1880, were covered with colored crape or damasked satin, with checkered silk, streaked, striped or figured. Others had their beauty enhanced by the addition of blonde or lace, embroidered with glass trinkets or garnished with feathers, with gold and silver lace or silk trimmings. The fashionable colors then were very light or very deep, without intermediate tones—white, straw yellow, pink or myrtle green, chestnut and black, red or indigo. In 1834 a full-dress parasol is described as being of “unbleached silk casing mounted on a stick of American bind-weed, with a top of gold and carved coral.’ Another one i 3 “striped wood, similar top, with fluted knob and covered with myrtle - green paduasoy, with satin border.” A dozen years later the fashion was to have them entirely of one color, white, or pink.or green, sometimes edged with lace. This soon changed to borders of figured gar - lands, satin stripes, blue or green, on unbleached silk, or violet on white or sulphur. Carriage parasols came in fashion about 1855 and were called “ Pompadour.” These were made with folding sticks, covering of satin or moire antique and bordered with trimmings and streamers. They were embroidered with gold and silk, and beautified by an edging of Chantilly, point d’lencon and other laces. These folding-sticks were carved pearl, shell and horn.

Napoleon’s Bad Manners.

Napoleon was rude. His manners were coarse, and when at table he ate as fast as he could chew and swallow, shoveling the food into his mputh with his knife and using his fingers whenever they came into more convenient employment. When talking to his officers he often; as a friendly favor, pulled t/heir whiskers or pinched their ears. To women he was almost invariably offensive, sometimes uttering language so coarse as to bring a flush of shame to their cheeks and tears to their eyes.

Trolley Supersedes Steam.

An experimental run on the new electric road built by the Pennsylvania Railroad between Mount Holly, N. J., and Burlington was made Monday, and the results attained were highly satisfactory to President George B. Roberts and other officials of the company. With the machinery new the trial run lacked some of the elements necessary for furnishing reliable data, but sufficient is gleaned to show that the days of steam on railroads are looked upon as numbered.