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2 " - : n. : : e W AT IEAST 1, § }/ 7| e, 4 S 4 A\ TS " N ¢ g ot o@z Bonaid c@}@% . 9 2> CoPVRIHT Ish =¥ CHAPTER IL—CONTINUED The young man drew his chair to the ecasement, and sat gazing upon the anorama cf. beauty that lay before Eim. thoughtfully watching the sun go down behind the hill and the shadows of the trees lengthen as the orb of day sank slowly out of view. e Suddenly, in. the dusk, his attention was attracted to a figure that stood prominent in:well-defined outline on the top of one of the hills—the form of a stout man, who for some time stood peering with his face turned in the direction of the Whitford house. Presently the fir trees at his back were parted, and another person joined the first comer. The manner of these two was - peculiar., Thoy were apparently engaged in earnest conversation, and what struck Grey as most singular was that ' the stout man again and agaln pointed at the window of his chamber, though, of course, at that distance it was absurd to suppose they could eveh be aware of his presence there. : : This continued gesticulation aroused in the breast of the young schoolmaster an anxiety he could not dispel—a sort of coming-event-casts-its-shadow-before-it feeling he could not express. “‘Please, Mr. Grey, mother says,” called a pleasant voice, as the door of the room gently opened, ‘‘are youready for supper now?” *‘Come here, Elsic,” eagerly requested the young man. “Can your bright eyes make out who are those persons on yonder b 2 . ~ The girl stood by him, with his hand resting on her shoulder, pecring out into the gloom. Yes, her eyes were very bright, and her face was like the chiseled sweetness of some beautiful statue, as she stood motionless beside him. ““One of them,” she said at last, ‘“‘is Wixon—Capt. Wixon.” “‘And the other?” | “Idomnotknow. A stranger.” ¢ The round face of Mrs. Whitford now appeared ‘in the doorway, and, as she noticed the familiar attitude, there was aring of unwonted harshness in her voice: ‘‘Elsie, coom t’ supper direc’ly. Dunna stan’ gawpin’ into th’ gloamin’ i’ that feckless fashion.” » The girlstarted like a wounded fawn, a deep blush spreading itsclf over her cheeks and neck, for probably the woman's rough tone woke a chord in the breast of the maiden, and for the first time she felt the innocent shame of shocked womanly modesty. ~ But, if Elsie’'s cheeks were deeply dycd in blushes, the imperturbable schoolmaster showed no discomposure as he followed them into the diningroom. It was a most uncomfortable meal. John Whitford was out of sorts and more than half-repentant of his confidential disclosures to his wife; Elsie was in a state of uncomfortable nervousmness; Mrs. Whitfield was cross and disagreeable, and Grey was wrapt in conJectures as to what that man ‘Wizon and the stranger could have meant by their peculiar conduct, and why they should have made such constant gestural allusion to himself. What did it mean? Ie was confidedt that he had formed the topic of their conversation. o . “Be ye goin’ to the schule-house tonight?” Mrs. Whitford asked, unable to retain her morose demeanor any longer. **Yes,” said the schoolmaster, decisively; “that night school for the miners must not be neglected. Itisthe best

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work I am doing, though I fear itis not appreciated in some quarters.” It was now John Whitford’s turn to be disagreeable. , *No, sir,” he interrupted, ‘‘an’, if you'll excuse me for saying so, you are on a fool’s errand that is likely to end with more kicks thau ha’pence. What do a passel o’ rough miiners want wi’ readin’ an’ writin’? You don’t educate a cow or it would be discontented with a clover field. I call it flyin’ ©’ th’ face of Providence to teach sichlike to set at defiance their pastors an’ masters. Besides, the bosses won'’t stand it. There’s a bitter feelin’ against you already, an’, mark my words, if you go foolin’ around much more with your night schools an’ liberary clubs an’ fal-lats, you'll find Oretown too hot a place to hold you.” ‘‘Perhaps so; but meanwhile I will do -~ 'my duty.” - This word duty gpea.led to the old soldier’s best instiffcts, and in a more modified manuer he continued: i “Yes, duty’s duty, an’ England expects every man to do his duty, which also I suppose this United States of America likewise demands; but, sir, there’s an overdoin’ of even one’s duty. A ship captain asked my captain to send a royal marine to holystome a deck. ‘No, sir,’ sayshe. ‘The sailors ‘have their duty, an’ the royal marines \ have their duty; an’ the duty of the ma- | pines isn’t to do the duty of the sailors.’ He was tried by a court-martial and they did their duty an’ acquitted him.” “Verygoqd. .whvy : i “Your duty is to teach the boys an’ gals. There’s nothin’ in your commission about drillin’ a squad of adnlts in letters ’Gﬁa‘:ggen, an‘!uc p‘:bhooks an’ ‘hangers. 8o you just stick to your orAT SRR QENETRE P R SRR IR W, SRR

Right here in this northern peni=nsula of Michigan, liere crude English thought is dominant, we are behind the %imes. Where would the United States have been if such men as Wixon and the other members of our school‘board had been at the head of its affairs?” : : “Well, I'd mind my own business, if I was you an’ let—" “Set me the example, Mr. Whitford. Mind your own affairs and yon will not get beyond the depth of your understanding.” * With this dignified rebuke the young man left the room, and Mrs. Whitford solaced her spouse with the suggestion that those who played with edged teols often cut their fingers. : ' - This night school was a sore bcne of eontention in Oretown. . A little more than a year ago the bosses ruled like feudal barons, and now their sway was threatened by a whippersnapper of a boy who had come among them, nobody knew whence nor cared, and by this and other such base means had aliendated the allegiance of their vassels, who were actually beginning to dare’ to think for themselves. - . And taus it came about. ' There was a barn-like building which had been used as a saloon and dancehouse, but had attained such evil reputation that the by no means fastidious morals of Oretown were shocked at its gross orgies, and by popular consent it had been closed. , The process of ejectment had been in accordance with the custom of the locality. A mob of infuriated women and mischievous boyshad gathered one evening and ‘“cleaned out” the proprietor, smashing his furniture and fixtures and pouring his liquid pcison into the gutter. o On this ruin of vice and squulor Frank Grey built his great work of social reformation. With his own hands he tidied up the place, mended the windows, put in rough tables and chairs, and boldly announced that le would, without remuneration, teach adulfs reading, writing and arithmetic three evenings a week.

The local journal gave the powerful aid of the press to the enterprise in this bright paragraph: ‘“The young man who slings the ruler at the Ward schoolhouse is opening a night school for adults. Guess he’ll have his hands full before he’s got through.” The minister refused to cooperate with him, the storekeepers laughed at him, the bosses treated him with open ridicule. : 2 :

But the class grew—from five to five-and-twenty; to forty, to a hwndred—till at last he had to close his doors against the crowd of applicants. It was a mutual aid association, those who could read and write a little helping those who could not. ‘‘No swearing” and ‘“No tobacco” were the only written rules; while the class kept its own order, and absolute order, too, as, for instance, when Mike Donovan, the rough of the place, made a wager that he would break up the s¢hool one evening and proceeded to use insulting language to the teacher, a dozen strong hands sent him crashing through the window into the street below, and forever put a stop to his further pursuits in the fields of literatmure. ;

Then another grievance. Out of the night school grew a club—a harmless affair, where tobacco was allowed, and coffee and numerous newspapers, and out of this c¢lub sprouted a branch which bore the deadly poison of rank socialism—at least, so said Capt. Pettigrub Wixon. This was the Talking club, as Grey had christened it, at whose meetings were discussed simple questions of social or political interest. From bad they got to worse, until one Saturday morning—for the Talking club held its meetings on Saturday evenings—it was whbispered abroad that the delicate questions as to whether it was right for the miners to pay the bosses’ store one dollar for a fortycent article, whether the capitalists could lawfully compel them to take their remuneration in store pay. and whether they were obliged to give a month’s eredit for their labor, would be discussed.

With these revolutionary projects confronting them, the uppertendom of Oretown united in one common determination to crush the viper they had nourished in their bosoms, the young ‘anarchist who had brought tkis evil state to pass. : CHAPTER lIL . THE GREAT NIGHT SCHOOL OF ORETOWN. Mr. Commissioner Eaton, in his elaborate reports from the Washington burean of education, condescended not to notice the night school of Oretown. Yet here was a greatand curious factor in the educational elements of the country. - Inside the gaunt building were gathered some hundred miners, chiefly English and Sweges, with here and there a native American. They were formed into classes, some spelling in ponderous earnestness easy words, some wrestling manfully with the mysteries of arithmetic, some laboriously poring over the page of a primer, and some compelling their unpliant fingers to guide a pen over the mazy page of a child’s copybook, but all strangely and sternly in earnest. Eight or ten teachers were scattered around the room. They were miners, who had little learning, or who Had themselves been pupils of the school. One was exceptional. ' He was a broad-shouidered, strong, athletic fellow, better dressed than the rest, but rough and uncouth in his manuer. This man, Jack Wilders, was Frank Grey’s mainstay, or, as he himself styled it, ‘“‘the professor’s right bower.” - v Jack was by profession a ‘‘prospector,” who had traveled in the service of the companies every acre of that wild region in search of ore, and having invested his hard-won wages most advantageously, now found himself at thirty- | five years of age in an independent position. : e Jack was no sybarite. He was a hard drinker and a rough liver, but down in the depths of his heart was a refining spot that leavened his whole nature—an intense love for his little brighteyed wife and his curly-headed boy of five years. It was through an accident that befell this latter idol of his affection that, to use his own words, he “epughtion” tothe schoolmaster. - } “g:a day litt-ile Willie Wﬂdem' atacked by a big angry cur belonging to Wixon, when Grey, who happened to ~saved the child from apything worse Than o wound in the log. While the save when, gun in ha ilé @ff}&ﬁ,ﬁ

Wixon's house and shot the dog deuc on his master’s doorstep. From that day Wilders was Grey’s friend. That was how he came to be vice-principal of the Oretown night school. ' Usnally when the exercises were over the men departed quietly, but this night they remained in their seats, and when Grey looked inquiringly, and old greybeard rose and said. © “Mr. Grey an’ mates: Me and Tom Bingham has got the sack, an’ for no other reason than because we told Capt. Wixon we warn’t goin’ to leave off ’tending this here school, an’ wa wor azoin’ to vote the republican or the demycratic tickbt, just as we set our fancies, on%em.” | *There must be some mistake,” Grey said, rising hurriedly .and speaking nervously. ‘‘Capt. Wixon cannot have understood our efforts, and as for attempting to restrain in this free and enlightened country tle liberty of a man’s conscience, his political birthright, his—" : But a roar of bantecing laughter stayed the speaker’s eloquence. “Boys, listen to me.” It was Wiiders who spoke now. ‘‘l've been watching the run of things for some time, and I’ve come to the conclusion that we’ve got to have a change. It was bound to come. They don’t want no light of education let into this region. They don’t want no brains.: They want strong arms an’ stout loins as will. toil an’ get raoney for them. They’ll doall the thinking for you. They appoint their own township and county officers, they own the newspapers, they send one of themselves to congress, and if some poor devil of a minister, as sometimes happens, dares to open his lips against the system, he quickly finds-his supplies cut off. Now, what are you going to do about it?” Just at this moment a knock came to the door, and a boy handed a letter to Grey, who, casting his eyes over it, seemed for the moment lost in thought. “My friends,” he said, after a moment’s reverie, “I hold in my hand

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here a letti:r from the proprictor of this building giving me notice to quit possession on Wednesday next, though our agreement stipulated for three months’ notice—and saying that, if he had known we were going to teach communism, he would never have let it to us. What does it mean? If we have taught communism, it has been from the text books these very men have placed in the hands of your little ones.” ‘lt means,” roared the prospector, as he smote with mighty hand the desk before him, ‘‘that you shall grovel in your ignorance all the days of your lives, and that the bosses of Oretown won’t have nothing that interferes with their runaning things their way and doing all your thinking for you.” A growl of discontent rang round the room, and more than ome rough orator vose in clamorous protest, but the schoolmastergwith a wave of his hand, stilled them. and said sternly: “My friends, let us malke haste slowly. Let usdeliberate before we express ourselves.” “That’s so!” cried the prospector. “Then to put things into shipshape, I move that we meet again on Monday night to discuss the question.” . A unanimous ‘‘Ayel aye!” settled the matter, and the meeting dispersed. ~ “Before you go,” said Wilders to Grey, “I have a word to say. Have yon counted the cost? Sitting square down on a hornets’ nest won't be a circumstance to the fix you’ll find yourself in, if you go ahead in this business.” : “I shall do my duty.” ° “Well, I'm with you.” : “But, Jack, I am assured that you exaggerate the state of affairs. Itis incredible that such tyranny can exist in this free land.” ‘ *“‘Why, bless your innocent heart, this free and independent country is full of spots as unwholesome as this cesspool of an Oretown. When capital gets labor by the throat, justice squeals.” “What a grand lot would be his‘who had the power of tongue and pen to r>deem this mass of corruption,” Grey said, with a hungry look in his eyes. Wilders grinned. “Not a bad move, I see. Start a paper, go on ‘the stump, give the monopolies an all-fired raking out, and you'll end in a trip to Washington and a hatful of greenbacks.” “You mistake me.” ~“Not I—you’re green now, but if you hang on to politics, you’ll soon get your eyes skinned.”, o “I will study this great problem ot social life, and balance my actions by reading the experiences of the great leaders of modern thought.” “And you’ve made up your mind to raise Cain in Oretown?” 1 have counted the cost. Dear friend, good night.” ' s [TO BE CONTINUED.]

A Hunter’s Perilous Position. While hunting in the Big Horn mountains two men found a narrow path, little more than a deer trail, leading up to the summit. They dismounted and led their horses, moving very cautiously, for on one side the mountainrose up like a wall, and on thke other sloped down a thousand fect t¢ the canyon below. Suddenly both havses pricked up their ears as if scenting a wild beast. Then there came a shot from the hunter in advance, and the hunter in the rear found himself hanging over the cliff. IHe had been leading the horse by the reins, and when the horse shied and upset him, he held on with a death grip. It was nearly five minutes that he thus hing on to the slender strap, while the horse held back with all his strength. DBut he could not climb up, and his companion had to haul him up to o place of satetv, and then he natur ally fainted.—Golden Days. gt That's Enough. “Does this roof leak always?” Agent—Oh, no, mna'am; only when | rains.— Chicago Inter Oossa. *© =

~ SOLIDLY DEMCCRATIC, The South Stcill Stands Firmly fo‘rlpemocratic Principles. ok | - Talk of the breaking up of the solid south is premature and unwarranted. The south has never btzen solid in support of democracy as a narty name. The solidity of the south against republicanism has not been a solidity of s%pport of democratic candidates, but of democratic pringiples. The south never stood as 4 unit in support of Tilden or Hancock or Cleveland, because these men were the nominees of the democratic party, but because the democratic party itself stood for ideas in government which appealed to the ruling mijority in the southern states as against {;mtag—onistic ideas of government toiwhich the republican party was commijtted. In giving force and potency tojdemocratic principles the south has tlected solid democratic delegations to congress, not only because the men ¢lected were democrats, but because,f being democrats, they could be relied upon to maintain democratic principles the success qf_ which the south con%idered_ vital to her material prosperity and social order. : . That solidity continued during all the years when the democrati¢ party was without schism or faction|in the assertion of the cardinal dem}o’cratic principle of local self-govei‘nment wgainst the threatened destruction of such government by concentrafged federal authority. It continued /during all the yeaf's when the party was opposing the unconstitutional exercise of the government’s tai"ing power toﬁ_enrich great consolidated private indj}]st‘ries. Such opposition to republicarn party principle and practice was the very essence of the spirit of democracy‘; and in the south, as in the north, there wasno difference of opinion among democrats as to party or publicduty. In the south, particularly, there was no line of argument among democrats as to the danger and the necessity of meetinglit with concerted action. No man claimed the right to deny his support to opposition of force bills and protective tarifis whiie still asserting himself a democrat. The party faith was known of all meen, and in politics as in creed there is such a thing as heresy. b It is the privilege of every democrat to propose a new tenet of party faith. More, it is the duty of any de%mocrat feeling that the declaration of a new principle is demanded by existing conditions to insist that his party shail give voice to what he concéives to be a righteous expression. But no member of a party, and no faction of a party, can cxercise the powers-of an ecumenical council. The party itself must speak before any partisanin it can be charged with abandonment of party faith. Nowhere in the south hasany st:itn;iz parted company with the democratic party on any democratic doctrine. In Kentucky the issue was one of ratio and in Maryland it was one of bossism. | A vital democratic principle was not involved. in either contest. {

The south isstilldemocratic. Support of centralized government is a part of the inheritance of republicanism. Insistance upon the right to exercise the power of the government to tax the many for the benefit of the few is another and equal part of thatinheritance. These questions will remain paramount in the polities of this country. The time will not come when, in one or-another of many varying phases, they will not mark the lines of party division. If the democratic party is to stand as the negative force against them, the south cannot cease to be solidly democratic.—St. Louis Republic. | PROSPECT OF THE DEMOCRATS. 'The Party Will Be Better for the Defeat - of Bossism, - Democracy has shown itself courageous enough this ‘year to reprove its own leaders who have gone wrohg:. In Kentucky it has refused to elect a silver-craze candidate, even on a sound money platform. ] : In Ohio it has aided in the condemnation of Briceism by 200,000 majority. It has refused to sanction carpet-bag representation in the senate by a man who professes democracy but opposes its administration, its measures and its principles. : In Maryland democracy has repudiated Gorman because Gorman represents antagonism to all that true democracy stands for. i In New Jersey the democrats have refused to elect even the best of candidates because they desired to rebuke their own party management for its late affiliation with gamblers and ‘thieves. ‘ . L - In New York the democrats htwe for the third time stayed away from the polls in order to emphasize their demand that the brains and the in]tegrity of the party shall be called again into its councils. 1 All this is not a bad preparation for next year if the lessoms taug#xt are ‘heeded. On a square issue between the parties and what they represeit, and with genuine democratic con!’irql n democratic councils, Maryland, New York, New Jersey and Kentucky should be securely democratic states, and even Ohio should be debatable territory. - Two powerful forces will wc;n'k‘for democracy during the year. ‘A con‘gress republican in both branches must cither confess itself incapable of legislating or it must legislate upon lincs that the people have twice repudiated with emphasis. A New York legislature, overwhelmingly republican in Dboth houses, can hardly fail so tg offen:l the public sentiment of a demlocratic state as to bring to the polls next year the 155,000 democrats' who ref{:sed. to vote at the elections. AL Next year’s election will noti be decided till next year comes,—N.Y.,World. ——lf the republicans in congress shall adopt an’ obstructive, ‘,nigging‘, exasperating and vicious partisan policy, merely to embarrass Cleveland and a suppositious third-term candidate, they will deserve and will receive the condemnation of voters., Republicans should .understand .that the presidential campaign of 1896 has not been decided yet; it has not even opened. Revolutions that have changed (he fate of nations in the past have oevurred within the space of 1 few months.—Chicago Bliromiele, o gl . ——The repubf¢ans are making arrangements to fuse with the populists in Alabama. The republican| party seems to be & sound-money party where there is a chance to get offices by adsoeating sound money, and o frepilver.

REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME.. | Forecast of Their Plan for Increasing % tko Revenue. ' A New York newspaper has been quizzing eminent republicans of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and lowa concerning what they purpose doing in the event ithat their control of the house and the senate already won shall be followed by their capture of the presidency. It asks if in such event they will reestablish McKinleyism or by refraining from interference with the existing tariff malke *tacit confession of the disingenuousness of their attacks on. democratic legislation. It is to be noted that the states covered by this symposium are those in which “presidential possibilities” abide. : - Generally speaking, the response of the republicans to whom the query was put .was that there would be no recurrence to MecKinleyism. In the main they applied to the question of tariff taxation that same skill jn martialing meaningless phrases and statements sc complicated by qualifying clauses as to convey no exact idea which republicans have for years successfully employed to befog the minds of tiic people concerning that party’s attitude on the money question. Yet, saving MeKinley himself and a devoted adherent who manufactures glass down in Pittsburgh, the general tenor of republican opinion appears to be that the McKinley bill shall forever stand as the high tide of protectionism and that whatever legislation republicans may now urge will not rise much above the lowwater mark. As for any suggestion that needed revenue may be raised by addition to the list of objects of internal revenue taxation or by, the increase in the tax on beer it is not to be found in this republican symposium. Nor does there come any declaration of a purpose to reduce national expenditures. As before, republicans will put their main reliance upon the foreign trade of'the ‘country to furnish revenue and protective plunder. Less from what the republicans now say than from the past history of their party may be drawn a fair forecast of their policy when, if ever, they shall again control all three branches of the national government. They will not go before the people with a promise or a threat of reimposing the extortionate duties which made the McKinley bill a miracle of special legislation, but will tallkk fair and softly of moderate tarift increase—of a tariff just large enough to furnish revenue, but so imposed as at the same time to encourage American industries and enable the American laborer to enrn better wages. Then, being installed in power, they would send out invitations, not to the people who pay the taxes, but to the few who profit by tliem, to come to Washington and 1 S . : lend their advice in the formulation of a new tarifl bill. The march of the millionaires upon Washington—the very antithesis.of Coxey’s commonweal army —would begin. The country would be once again treated to the spectacle of the consolidated pottery makers pledging their congressmen to vote for a ten per cent. advance cn wood pulp in exchange for the kindly-aid of the wood pulp men's sodality in securing a 15 per cent. advance in the schedule relating to pottery. Itisin thisway that tariff bills are made, and it is forgthis reason that seldom can one be made without transcendingin some places the just and proper limit of taxation. Accepting the protection principle, moderation is praclically impossible. Democrats ‘themselves recall with mortification how far in some few sections the tariff bill enacted by their own party, though in the main moderate and in all parts an improvement upon republican tariff legislation, exceeded in the burden of taxation imposed legitimate bounds. It will be the part of republicans in the coming presidential campaign ‘to deceive the people with fair promises of moderate tariff revision. The reciprocity humbug will be trotted out and all the piatitudes by which shrewd and conscienceless politicians throw # veil of rhetoric about iheir true purposes will be employed. If the people perwit themselves to be hoodwinked they will find very speedily after republican accession to complete power a new tariff law in cffect by the side of which, inall probability, McKinley’s celebrated measure would seem moderate and just. —Chicago Chronicle. i

OPINIONS AND POINTERS. ——Senator Allison says that he will not scramble after the presidential nomination. 1f he can show the other fellows how to get it without scrambling he will have plenty of dignified company.—Harrisburg Patriot. ——Wages have recently been raised in more than 60 woolen factories. The alleged depression in wool manufacturing exists only -«in the superheated imaginations of the McKinley calamity howlers.—Seymour (Ind.) Democrat. ——The protectionist press unanimously disapprove of Ambassador Bay‘ard’s Edinburgh speech. But the ambassador is applauded by the 5,500,000 who cast their votes for Grover Cleveland in 1892.—Utica (N. Y.) Observer. * —Czar Reed sent out some judicious dispatches when the election news reached him. In’ congratulating the #gpublicans of Maryland heSurged that the state stay changed just as Maine had done. The initiated will see the point,-—Detroit Free Press. ——Now that Wan Johnamaker has settled up that $lO,OOO Indiana claim upon the republican national commit--lee, it may be safely said that ex-Presi--«dent Harrison is actively a candidate for renomination, in his own state at least.—Jlowa State Register (Rep.). ~ ——The alliance of Mormonism and republicanism in Utah does not appear to draw any plaudits from our republican contemporaries. They ought to be dilating on this evidence of the attachment of the republican party for religion of any kind. — Indianapolis Sentinel, : i _ . ——The Texas wool growers are adopting strong resolutions in favor of a protective tariff on wool, and’ the president of the association at its last annual meeting devoted niost of his. speech to a plea for a high protective tariff. These people are hunting for eggs in last year’s nest. They are trying to thresh wheat out of old straw. They are arguing their case on the curbstone after it has been decided by the "o‘l.l’:' %f last resort, They may as well «conclude at once that the people will o ik tud for HGIX ompßt, el inst@ﬁfﬁdéiymimgef&ﬁﬁ%x% to talk and think about making their T b 3 work ind not by v Nem.

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 1 RECIPE FOR A- GOOD LETTER. To write a good letter, take a handfu!l of grit. 5 ; A plenty of time and a little of wit; T Take patience to “'set” it, and stiritall up . With the ladle of energy. Then fill a cap With kind thoughts and helpful thoughts, : ~merry thoughts, too, . With -bright words, and wise words, and words strong anditrue, | : Mix all these together, and then add for. spice , Some good news, some funny news, all news that’s nice, : Then seal with a love kiss, and stamp it with care, : T : Direct to your friend’s heart, and, presto! : it's there. : —Amos R. Wells, in Pansy. TWO FAMOUS CATS. : Scratch Saved a Baby's Life and Felice Was a Great Thief. ~ The well-known cats of pinknown men cannot fail to interest our readers. I bhave met many famous cats at one timie and another. I have studied them, too. Of all animals the catisreally the most affectionate of household pets. Many will dispute this, but I can prove —but that’s another story. The best-known cat of the least known man that I ever heard about was a shrunken bit of fur and bones called Scratch. She belonged to a ragpicker who lived in a Mulberry street cellar. Scratch lost one of her nine lives by be-

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ing run over by an ice cart, and was taken to police headquarters by a kindhearted policeman. At police-head-quarters Scratch made friends with exSuperintendent Byrnes,whotooka great fancy .to the skeleton cat and made a sleek pussoutof her. And then Seraten went back to her Mulberry sfreet home and began to exhibit her bones again. In one way and another Scratch got rid of her eight remaining lives, and then came to an untimely elr% in a Chatham Square fire. Everybody was talking about Sefatch for a week after she was burned to death, for she was a true hero. An Italian baby was in the flaming building and Scratch sat on the window ledge and wailed to the firemen below. When they finally paid attention to the cat she leaped back into the burning room, followed by a fircJohnny, who discovered the baby and brought it safely tQ earth. But the cat didn’t come bacl_caln this case. Her charred corpse was found in black ruins next morning. . . " Another noted feline, whose master was among the obscure of earth, was Telice, whose extreme fondness for fish led her to commit burglary and theft. Felice had her home in a cheap restaurant on Sixth avenue, and her chief duties were to keep the eating place free of four-footed vermin. Felice's master was a Frenchman, and he was ihe keeper of the restaurant. .One day Felice wandered over to Fifth avenue, and made her way through a back door into a very swell mansion. Inside the palatial house Felice crept upstairs and cnsconced herself snugly in a fine bed of beautiful lace and linen, after the fashion of Garvey. After a quiet nap Felice made an inspection of her quarters and thought them better than the grimy kitchen of the Sixth avenue shop. Then she espied a bowl in which swam half a dozen gold fish placid in their luxury. Felice knew- fish when she saw it, and promptly ate two of the shiny, finny creatures. Her eagerness caused her to upset the globe, and then chaos reigned in the mansion. Servants chased Felice, and the latter escaped unharmed and died of old age the other day—and in Brooklyn.—N. Y. Recorder. ; ‘ i R , HOW MARBLES ARE MADE:. Pretty Near .as Much Skill Required as in Playing Them. . - Marbles were at first made of marbie, hence the pame. In time alabaster, as being more easily worked, and offering pretiier contrasts and harmonies of color, came into use for the “finger bullet.” Then came the beginning of patents and Dutch marbles—from Coburg stone—French marbles and Chinese marbles came in, the Frenchmen being the blue *‘alleys”’—from: allez (good omnes to go)—the Chinamen being the white porcelain with blue pink stripes. : ; i Common marbles are now made of clay. rolled up into balls and bakedina kiln, each on a tripod stand. - On every marble so made you'will find three little marks where the soft clay has rested on a wire. Clear glass marbles are made by dipping an iron rod into melted glass, and either dropping the bunch taken up on its point into a bullet mold,or elsewhirling itintospherical shape in the hand. In cases where there is a figure in the sphere, \%he figure is stuck on the end of the rod and ihe glass worked around it. Colored glass marbles are made by holding together a bunch of different colored glass fibers, welting them in the blowpipe aud twisting them up into shape. Look at the first glass marble you pickup. On it you will notice a more or less perceptible scar. The scar is on the spot where the marble was chipped off the rod after it was mmde. Agates are shaped on a grindstone, Common marbles are made by placing bits of rough stone in a mill between two millstone. Another plan is teplacea strong barrel in a stream so that it will revolve like a water wheel and fill it with odds dnd ends of stone. The con+ stant grinding of the pieces against ‘each other soon reduces them to roundness just as the sen makes pebbles.— Boys'Own Paper. ' ~ Itisu mystery to many Row the.iron ball "inside of sleigh bells gets there. ke B e put inside a sand core, just the shape 31'tho uside of the bell Thun & sonl «af the bell. The sand "‘ﬁ%’i‘%? i the jinglet inside, is placed n the mold of the outside, and the melted metal is e e

THE DEATH'S-HEAD MOTH, When It At:tempts to Steal Honey 1t - Usually Loses Its Life. . There is a large moth, commonly known as the death’s-head moth, from its having a curious mark on its back like a skull and cross-bones sculptured ¢n an old tombstone, which makes very free with the bees’ honey. Itflies in the dusk:of the evening when the Tees are at rest, and enters the hole in the hive, pokes its long sucker through the wax walls which surround the comb, and draws much honey into its stomach. Very often in the long evening there are many bees lingering round about the hive, but if the death’shead alights and moves towards the door, they do not take much notice; yet one sting would kill it, and it has no means of hurting the bee in return.’ So much troubled are some hives by these curious visitors that the bees erect a flat wall of wax just within the hive door, allowing a small opening to ‘exist on either hand. This, as a rule, puzzles the moth, and it cannot enter. On the other hand, if a moth getsright into the hive the bees do not kill it, but either let it alone or use all their ingenuity to stop its honey stealing propensities: Whilst the moth is gnioying the meal, the bees occasionally pull down some of the honeycomb be‘hind it, and mold the wax quickly so as to form .a dense wall. When the moth has finished its meal, and turns ‘to get out of the hive, it finds itself ‘walled up and imprisoned for life.— World of Wonders. 3

PLAYMATE AND FRIEND. A Vermont Farin Horse Who Was Guard- ) NGak ian of a Calf. * On a farm in Vermont there are two horses and a herd of half a dozen cows. The animals run together in the pas‘ture and are on the most friendly terms. One horse named Jack has a special affection for Betsy, a brindled cow, and the two almost always graze together. Last spring Betsy had a calf at her side, and Jack seemmed toregard the youngster as his own special care. Hitherto Jack had been a very demure and dignified Rorse, but the sportive tendencies of the calf developed-a frisky mood on the part of the horse. Jack and the calf used to romp and play together a good part of the time, the former being very careful not to injure his young companion. Frequently Jack jumped over the back of | the calf and then allowed himself to be chased by the little fellow, from whom he fled as though alarmed for his safety. , One day when the herd was in a dis- | tant part of the pasture Jack suddenly | appeared at the farmhouse neighing ! loudly and telling as plainly as he could | that he wanted human assistance. He f would gallop furiously a short distance | in ‘the direction of th& pasture, then | wheel suddenly and gallop back to the | house, throwing his head high in the | air and-necighing with all his might. | The farmer called 'one of his men and the twain started in the direction indicated by the horse. When Jack saw that his meaning was understood he capered | around’ with delight, rubbed his nose} against his master’s cheek and tl{e‘n ! went off at full gallop in the direction | of the herd, that was still out of sight. ’ Evidently he wanted to tell his four-]

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footed companions that help was coming: as he soon returned and for the rest | of the way went along very quietly in ad- | vance of the two men. ‘ When the men reached the scene of | the trouble they found that Betsy and ‘ her calf had somehow got into a bog or | quagmire and were unable to extricate | themselves. - The supposition was that | the inexperienced calf had strayed into | the bog and Betsy, while trying to help t him-out, had become involved. A rope J was needed to help the creatures to | hard ground, and in order to'bring itas | soon as possible the farmer mounted on' | Jack’s bare back and without bridle or, | Lialter rode to the farmhouse to procure, | it. Jack was a high-spirited animal | and when under the saddle used to - prance and show off, but on this occa~ | sion he realized that it was no time for ‘play and went along as demurely as' 5 possible. In due time Betsy and her calf were extricated from their troubic, ‘and the farmer-says that their equine friend danced a jig for joy.—Thomas . 'W. Knox, in Brooklyn Eagle. i ‘. Yankee Peddler’s Clever Ruse. | A Vermont paper recalls the story of a man who started out in the eastern states, just after the war, to sell oilcloth table covers for 50 cents apiece. After tramping all day without selling one, a happy thought struck him, ‘and next day he offered them for one ' dollar, taking half his pay in old shoes. The resuit was magical. People imagined they were getting something for nothing. There was a general ransacking of closets and attics, and the talbsle covers went like hot cakes. Then the peddler chuckled to himself and l threw the old shoes into the first hole he came to. i e , ]

He Stood in Need of Prayers: A Kentucky minister is the father of a bright youngster who has the bicycle fever like most boys of 12. The minister had ocecasion to leave the city recently on a short trip, and the first night after the departure the little fellow was saying his prayers as usual, and wound up without makng any reference to his father., “You are not through, are you?” asked the mother. “Why, yes! What else must I pray for?” “For your father’s safety,” replied the mother. The youngster sprang to ‘his feet in surprise and cried: - “Why, mamma, I dida’t know papa had a safety!” : The Force of Habit. ' - Force of habit impels us to doa great many -ridiculous things, That clever little ecompendium of wit and information, Tit-Bits, well illustrates this fact with a story of a railway porter, living . in ‘“thcaslii!j‘é,gﬂkﬂ was i;;h*ﬁ!’b%ut’ frequently getting up in his sleep, aud from whose actions it was evident that hie daily occupation was ever prygent. in his mind, One night he jumped up | ‘hurriedly, rah down to the kitchen, vigorously” opened %m@m Sy wne doovionen. =