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” It is not our intention or desire to be exciting, my dear,” Miss Belinda replied, with mild dignity. “And on improving conversation is frequently most beneficial to the parties engaged in it.” She was really no fonder of masculine society than the generality of girls, but she could not help wondering if there would be any young men present, and if, indeed, there were any young men in Slowbridge who might possibly be produced upon festive occasions, even though ordinarily kept in the background. She had not “ I should think it wasn‘t V;er exciting,” said Octavia. “ I don’t fancy I ever went to an entertainment where they did noth- ing but drink tea and talk.” “1'11? afraid,”v05tavia observed, “that I never heard much lmpgowpg oopversatiqn.” "What do they do at such places?” asked Octavia. “Halprast 5 is pretty early_.” “We spend some time at the tea-table, my dear,” explained Miss Belinda. “ And afterwards, weâ€"we converse. A few of us play whist. I do not. I feel as if I were not clever enough, and I get flurried too easily byâ€"by differences of opinion.” “ May I ask,” inquired Lady Theobald, in fell tones, “ how old you are 7 ” “ I was nineteen inâ€"in December.” “ Miss Octavia Bassett," said her lady- ship, “ was nineteen last October, and it is now June. I have not yet found it neces- sary to apologize for you on the score of youth." ' But it was her ladyehip who took the initiative and set an evening for entertain- ing Miss Belinda and her nieca, in company with several other ladies, with the best bohes, thin bread and butter, plum-cake and various other delicacies. “Perhaps, dear érandmamma,” the girl ventured, " it is because Miss Octavia Busgqtt i5 aquupg thnt_â€"_â€"-" In secret, Lucie felt much soft-hearted sympathy for both Miss Bassett and her guest. She could not help wondering how Miss Belinda became responsible for the calamity which had fallen upon her. It reslly did not seem probable that she had been previously consulted as to to the kind of niece she desired, or that she had in a distant manner, evinced a. preference for a. niece of this description. “It is only to be regretted," said her ladyahip, “ that Belinda. Baesett has not arranged things better. Relatives of such an order are certainly to be deplored.” It the elder Miss Bassett, her parents and grandparents, had not been so thoroughly well known and so universally respected; if their social position had not been so firmly established, and their quiet lives not quite so highly respectable, there is an awful possibility that Slowbridge might even have gone so far as not to ask Octavia out to tea at all. But even Lady Theobald felt that it would not do to slight Belinda Bassett‘s niece and guest. To omit the customary state teas would have been to crush innocent Miss Belinda at a blow, and place herâ€"through the medium of this young lady who, alone, deserved condemnationâ€"beyond the pale of all social law. viwvvhéelafii’vmvnwwu' V 7. H " {‘Now Llnu’t go in there, glrls; lets go see the “ I don't suppose it’s cheap,” Octavia. re- plied. “but it saves time and worry. I should have had to wait twelve days for a letter." “ Very true,” said Miss Belinda,“ butâ€"â€"" She broke off with tether a distressed shake of the head. Her simple ideas of economy and quiet living were frequently upset in these times. She had begun to re- gard her niece with a slight feeling of awe, Ind yet Octavia had not been doing any- thing at all remarkable in her own eyes, and considered her life pretty dull. "Coffin? (1311, now, good people! This way to the an- " " Thoy'rg fresh sfqd they're juicy, they‘re ripe and tlfey‘re rare! " ’ " Chuwhgt Me those things with the big whirrmg ' “19515.” 7 “ 01), Isn’tfihajp sweet!" “Here‘s your pink ‘EE'ca§6dT"'â€""' ' ‘_ “0);, just see her face and the light on 1215 an“ It’s won’derfully painted.” “Jane, git me a chair; Land sakgs! I'm most deadl’ “Here you are 'Téuibimde 1'" ’ ’ "que bagknthut bananer; the darn thing‘s now, this way ; A half dime! a. nickel! just five cents to-day!” “ She's the only lady with two distinct heads! Don’t miss it!” “Oh, um, what's that under them sheds!” “ Here's 13.11 you can eat now for thirty-five “Well, I don’t see why,” said Octavia. “It seems to me it is pretty much like any other message." Miss Belinda regarded her timidiy. “ Does your papa often send them ‘2 ” she inquired. “ Surely it must be expensive.” On his hrrival in New York, Martin Bassett telegraphed to his daughter and sister, per Atlantic cable, informing them that he might be detained a couple of months, and bidding them to be of good cheer. The arrival of the message, in its oflicial envelope, so alarmed Miss Belinda that she was supported by Mary Anne while it was read to her by Octavia, who received it without any surprise whatever. For some time after its completion, Slow- bridge had privately disbelieved in the Atlantic cable, and, until this cccasion,had certainly disbelieved in the existence of people who received messages through it. In fact, on first finding that she was the recipient of such a message, Miss Belinda had made immediate preparations for fainting quietly away, being fully convinced that a shipwreck had occurred. which had resulted in brother’s death and that his executors had chosen this delicate method at breaking the news. “MARTIN BASSJI'l'T." “ Thank heaven ! ” sighed Miss Belinda. “Thank heaven! ” " Why ‘2 ” said Octavia. “Why?” echoed Miss Belinda. ‘ Ah, my dear, if you knew how temflud I was; I felt sure that something had happened. A cable message, my dear! I never re- ceived a telegram in my life before, and to receigeg cgble message was really a shark.” u ’ while mine â€"â€" “Come here for your pictures; I'll make you look fine!” on, my, ain‘t it crowded; 1 wisht I was homu!” ‘Plense give me a big cup of clear tan with foam." "Ohf,11(i?k’! 011, my gracious, suppose he should a , SHARES LOOKING UP. There were others who echoed her ladyship‘e words afterward, though they echoed them privately and with more caution than my lady felt necessary. It is certain that Miss Octavia Bassett did not improve, as time progressed, and she had enlarged opportunities for studying the noble example set before her by Slowbridge. “A message by Atlantic cable?”ahe had gasped. “Don’t-don’t rendit, my love. Lâ€"let some one else do that. Poor â€"-poor child 1 Trust in Providence, my love, andâ€"and bear. up. Ah, how I wish I had a stronger mind, and could be of more service fao you.” “It is 3 message from father,” said Octavia. “ Nothing is the matter. He’s all ri-ghy.” He got in en‘sgugdayi’ I “ Auh I ” panted Miss Belinda. “ Are you quite sure, my dearâ€"are you quite sure ? " “ That’s what he says. Listen.” “Got in Saturday. Piper met me. Shares looking up. May be kept here two months. Will write. Keep up your Isllzi'ribs‘ coflee and ma ! ” " I really suppose he’s as scared M can be.“ " That car‘s just chuck full ; I must stand up ; oh, dear, I vow I won't kill myself comin' next year." AN AMERICAN GIRL. 77 cents! “ I see the balloon over there by the fence! ” I tell you there's no pork in those; not a bit ! ‘ Don'lt eat them. good people ; you‘ll all have it fit n Why'yourg are 111.} cinders ; they're half raw, Just see him go up! Oh, my, isn’t he small ‘9 " Just__look, powi e's jtlmpcdl” "Here‘s hot Voices of the Fair. CHAPTER VIII. WHITE MUSLIN. As the good little spinster was arraying herself on this particular evening, having laid upon the bed the greater portion of her modest splendor, she went to her ward- robe, and took therefrom the sacred band- box containing her best cap. All the ladies of Slowbridge wore caps, and all being respectfully plagiarized from Lady Theobald, without any reference to age, size, complextion or demeanor, the result was sometimes a little trying. Lady Theobald’s headâ€"dresses were of a. severe and bristling order. The of lace which they were composed was induced by some ingenious device to form itself into aggressive quillings, the bows seemed lined with buckram, the strings niether floated nor fluttered. “ To a majestic person, the style is very appropriate,” Miss Belinda. had said to Octavia, that very day; “but to one who is not so, it is rather trying. Sometimes, indeed, I have almost wished that Miss Chickie would vary a. little more in her designs." Perhaps the sight of the various articles “I am sure she has a good heart,” Miss Belinda said to herself, as the days went by. “She is like Martin in that. I dare say she finds me very ignorant and silly. I often see in her face that she is unable to understand my feeling about things; but she never seems to laugh at me, not think of me unkindly. And she is very, very pretty, though, perhaps, I ought not to think of that at all." CHAPTER IX. “Ah, well.” she said, “I can give her some money, and she can buy some things for herself.” Which she proceeded to do ; and when, under her mistrees’ direction, Mary Anne purchased a stout brown merino, she took quite an interest in her in making it. “ I wouldn’t make it so short in the waist and so full in the skirt, if I were you," she said. “ There’s no reason Why it shouldn’t fit, you know," thereby winning the house- maiden’s undying adoration, and adding much to the shapeliness of the garment. It must be admitted, however, that by this time, notwithstanding the various shocks she had received, Miss Belinda had begun to discover in her young guest divers good qualities which appealed to her affec- tionate and susceptible old heart. In the first place, the girl had no small affections ; indeed, if she had been less unaffected she ‘might have been less subject to severe comment. She was good-natured, and generous to extravagance. Her manner w towards Mary Anne never ceased to arouse Miss Belinda to interest. There was not any condescension whatever in it, and yet it could not be called a vulgarly familiar manner, it was rather an astonishingly simple manner, somehow suggestive of a subtile recognition of Mary Anne’s youth, and ill-luck in not having before her more lively prospects. She gave Mary Anne presents in shape of articles of clothing at which Slowbridge would have exclaimed in horror, if the recipient had dared to wear them; but when Miss Belinda expressed her regret at these indiscretions, Octavia was quite willing to rectify her mistakes. heard Miss Belinda. mention any masculine name, so far, but that of the curate of St. James’, and, when she had seen him pass the house, she had not found his slim black figure and faint ecclesiastic whiskers especially interesting. To Miss Bassett, who felt all this in the very air she breathed, the girl’s innocence of the condition of affairs was even a little touching. With all her splendor, she was not at all hard to please. and had quite awakened to an interest in the impending social event. She seemed in good spirits, and talked more than was her custom, giving Miss Belinda graphic descriptions of various festal gatherings she had attended in New York, when she seemed to have been very gay indeed, and to have worn very beautiful dresses, and also to have had rather more than her share of partners. The phrases she used and the dances she described were all strange to Miss Belinda, and tended to reducing her to a bewildered condition, in which she felt much timid amazement at the intrepidity of the New York young ladies, and no slight suspicion of the ” German ”â€"â€"as a threatrical kind of dance, involving extraordinary figures, and an extraordinary amount of attention from partners of_the stronger sex. It must he confessed that Miss Belinda suffered many pangs of anxiety in looking forward to her young kinswoman’s first. appearance in society. A tea. at Lady 'I‘heobald’s house constituted formal pre- sentation to the Slowbridge world. Esch young Indy, within the pale ot genteel society, having arrived at years of discre- tion, on returning home from boarding- school, was invited to tea at Oldclough Hall. During an entire evening, she was the subject of watchful criticism. Her de- portment was remarked. her accomplish- ments displayed, she performed her new “pieces” upon the piano, she was drawn into conversation by her hostess, and upon the timid modesty of her replies, and the reverence of her listening attitudes, de- pended her future social status. So it was very natural indeed that Miss Belinda should be anxious. What precise line of conduct it With generally anticipated that this goldâ€"digging and silver-mining young person would adopt, it; would be difficult to say; it is sufficient that the general sentiments regarding her were of a distrustful, if not timorous nature. "I would prefer, my dear," said more than one discreet matron to her daughter, as they attired themaelves,â€"“I would much perfer that you would remain near me during the earlier part of the evening â€"-belore we know how this young lady may turn out. Let your manner toward her: be kind, but not familiar. It is well to be on the safe side." When the eventful evening arrived, there was excitement in more than one establishment upon High street, and the streets in its vicinity. The stories of the diamonds, the gold-diggers, and the silver- mines had been added to, and embellished, in the most ornate and startling manner. It was well known that only Lady Theobald’s fine appreciation of Miss Belinda Bassett’e feelings had induced her to extend her hospitalities to that lady’s niece. “I would wear something rather quiet andgand simple, my dear Octavia,” she said. “A white muslin, perhaps, with blue ribbons.” “The first was made for Miss Lucia Gaston, who is Lady Theobald's niece,” replied Miss Belinda, milflly. “And there are few young ladies in Slow- bridge who would not desire to emulate her example." “ Would you ? ” answered Octavia. Then, after appearing to reflect upon the matter I; few seconds, “ I’ve got one that would do if it’s warm enough to wear it. Ibought it in New York,but it came from Paris. I’ve never worn it; yet.” “ It would be nicer than anything else, my love,” said Miss Belinda, delighted to find her difficulty so easily disposed of. Nothing is so charming in the dress of a young girl as pure simplicity. Our: Slow- bridge young ladies rarely wear anything but White for evening. Miss Chickie assured me, a few weeks ago, that she had made fifteen white muslin dresses all after one simple design of her own.” “I should think that was particularly nice myself,” remarked Octavia, im- partially. “I should be glad one of the fifteen didn’t belong to me. I should feel as if people might say, when I came into a room, ‘ Goofi gracious, there’s another.’ ” But she said it Without any ill-nature, and sensitive as Miss Belinda. was upon the subject of her cherished ideas, she could not take ofi‘ence. “ Oh,” said Octavia. “I dare say she is very nice, and all that, but I don’t believe I should care to copy her dresses. I think I should draw the line there." Mr. B. M. Donaldson has accomplished the remarkable feat of riding his bicycle from Edinburgh to London, 394 miles, in 2 days, 6 hours and 50 minutesâ€"less than 55 hoursâ€"over roads unfavorable from wet- ness. This is little more than 7 miles an hour, nclusive of time necessarily taken for rest and refreshment. Many a towering ambition has been crushed, many a. cupful of happiness has been converted into drege of bitterness, from the neglect of a young man to become thoroughly acquaintei with a. girl before marriage. Mr. L. (juinping for hci’é Howâ€"Say, you mind the baby and I’ll go get a. tooth pulled, you know. Visitor (in Chicago)-l should think you would be dreadfully afraid of burglars in a plgge like this. Mrs. Lumkinsâ€"Joshua, I am going to a dentist’s to have a tooth pulled out. You mind tile bgby whhile_I’m» gope. â€" Hoetessâ€"Burglars? Mercy, no. We don’t mind the burglars. It’s the police we’re afraid of. The world has outrun the courts and 1 legal technicalities have outlived their use- ‘fulness. The progress of the people has been toward common-sense methods in all things, and the lawyer’s “whereases,” “ atoresaids," and “ parties of the first part” must be relegated to oblivion. There is a demand springing up for plain, direct English. There is really no sound reason why, to a man of ordinary intelligence, legal documents should be unintelligible. The technical verbiage employed is a relict of the age when that which was mysterious and could not be understood was esteemed to be beyond the comprehension of the common herd. The use of uncommon English in purely business circles would not be enduredi Why, then, should the transfer of a piece of property be a process so labyrinthine and so mysterious that a man of sound sense cannot fathom it ‘2 It has been estimated that the dropping of the letter u in such words as honour, labour and the like has added to the world each year what is equivalent to the pro- ductive capacity of 500 able-bodied men. What would we not gain it from every legal paper and from every legal suit there should be removed that vast mass of super- 1 fiuity, that antique \erbiage, that bulk of ; repetition and solemn senselessness that now enwraps them as its shell enwraps the clam ? Anthon-y J. Drexel, who is worth more than twehty-five millions of dollars, was the son of a poor portrait painter and thought himsle lucky when he got a. trifling stipend as a clerk in his father‘s ittle brokerage office. George W. Ohilds worked for a. long time in this city at such a salary that he only paid twenty-five cents for his noonday maple by practicing rigid economy. _ John B. Great, Vice-President of the Fidelity Trust Gompany, used to wait 1501: law cases in a little oflice, generally in vam. contained in two of the five trunks had inspired these doubts in the dear old lady’s breast; it is certain, at least, as she took the best cap up, a. faint sigh fluttered upon her lips. ” It is very largoâ€"for a small person,” she said. “ And I am not at all sure that number is becoming to me." And just at that moment there came a tap at the door, which she knew was from Octavia. She laid the cap back in some confusion at being surprised in a. moment of weakness. “ Come in, my love,” she said. Octavia pushed the door open, and came in. She had not dressed yet, and had on her wrapper and slippers, which were both of quilted gray silk, gs.ny embroidered Kwith carnations. But Miss Belinda. had seen both wrapper and slippers before, and had become used to their sumptuousness; what she had not seen was the trifle the girl held in her hand. Frank Siddsll, the great soap manufac- turer, and the owner of some of the choicest property on the Jersey coast, to say nothing of mineral interests in Georgia, for years kept a rather insignificant gro- cery store near Eighth and Gallowhill streets. From Penury to Afiluence. B. K. Jamison, the banker, whose wealth nobody exactly knows, went to Philadel- phia. in his boyhood without money enough in his pocket to pay a week’s board, says the News. Postmaster-General Wanamaker began his business life as a clerk in aIuarket street store upon a mighty small salary. He used to pay five cents for his daily dinner, consisting of a piece of pie and a glaje of_ milk. Director William S; Stokley knows What it is to make candy with his own hands and sell it over a. little counter in his own shop. “See here,” she said. “ See what I have been making for you.” She looked quite elated, and laughed triumphantly. “There 1 ” she said. “You must take it from me for a prosent. I’ll go and make the ruffles this minute, and you must Wear those, too, and let people 566 how stylish you can be." And without giving Miss Baesett time to speak, she ran out of the room, and left the dear old lady warmed to the heart, tearful, delighted, frightened. “I did not know I could do it until I tried,” she said. “I had seen some in New York, and I had the lace by me. And I have enough left to make ruffles for your neck and wrists. It’s Mechlin." To Miss Belinda’a astonishment, she drew a step nearer to her, and gave one of the satin loops 3 queer, caressing little touch, which actuslly seemed to mean something. And then suddenly the girl stooped, with a. little laugh, end gave her aunt a light kiss on her cheek. ~ All tfie better,” said Octavia, cheerfully. "I’m glad to hear that. It isn’t one bit too nigg fox: 10113: _ “My dearl” exclaimed Miss Belinda. “ My dear! " Octavia. laughed again. “ Don’t you know what it is ? ” she said. “ It isn’t like a. Slowbridge cap; but it’s a cap, nevertheless. They wear them like this in New York. And I think they are ever so much prettier.” It was true; that it was not like a. Slow- bridge cap, and it was also true that it was prettier. It was a delicate affair of softly quilled lace, adorned here and there with loopg of pale satin ribbon. “ Let .me try it on,” said Octavia, advancing, and in a. minute she had done so, and turned Miss Bassett about to face herself in the glass, “ There 1 " she said. ” Is that better thanâ€"well, than emulat- ing Lady Theobald ‘2 ” It was so very pretty, and so becoming. and Miss Belinda was so touched by the girl’s innocent enjoyment, that the tears came into her eyes. “ Myâ€"my love,” she faltered, “ it is so beautiful and expensive, that â€" though indeed I don’t know how to thank youâ€"I am afraid I should not dare to wear it.” “0h,” answered Octavia, “that’s non- sense, you know. I am sure there’s no reason Why people shouldn’t wear becom- ing things. Besides, I rhould be awfully disappointed. I didn’t think I could make it, and I’m real proud of it. You don‘t know how becoming it is.” Miss Belinda. loolzed at her reflection and falte_r_ed._ It yvag becoming: “ My love," she protestzd, faintly, “ real Mechlin! There is really no such lace in Slmflgfidge >1 " The Unnecessary Verbiagc of Law. Of Two Evils Choose the Lesser. Life in Chicago. (To be Continued) 1W'I‘iny” Quantrell, the English jockey, now riding for a stable in Pennsylvania. He is a. little fellow, not more than four feet in height. He has had a. wide ex- perience in his calling. He has had mounts in hundreds of races in England, including a number of Derbys. He has ridden in the Grand Prix at Paris, has plied the Whip and spurs in South Africa, and has raced on every track in Australia. He has been in the west for sometime, and is making his way back to England, having got as far as the Keystone State. - ' Suitorâ€"Yes, air, but my father is tired supporting me, and I thought I’d better get into another family. Self Preservation. Wealthy Old Gentâ€"What I Marry my daughter? You are being supported by yogr father. Irate Patronâ€"See here, sir, I dropped a. nickle into this machine, and nothing came out. Agent~1f nothing came out, that shows it’s empty. “ But, sir, what do I get for my nickle? " “Information.” The boys have been bright and enterpris- ing anti have serioust impeded the regular channel for news, but they made the mis- take which many older men have made of not knowing where to draw the line.â€" Rochester Democrat. The exposure of Graham’s and of Brodie‘s fraudulent performances at Nia- gara Falls has had the unexpected effect of throwing the light of publicity upon a little syndicate of newspaper reporters in Buffalo, the members of which have been lending themselves to the schemes of im- ‘ posters of the Brodie and Graham stripe. These reporters have acted as the corres- pondents of the papers in nearly all the large cities of the country, and it has been their duty to telegraph “specials” at rates which are considered highly remunerative. Their connection with Buffalo papers give them unusual facilities for news gathering and had they been content with the legitimate business they might have done very well after the manner of their brethern in other cities. But they were too ambitious. They tried to establisha “corner” in news and it must be confessed that they were running matters pretty much as they chose, when they tried to foist upon the wcrld the story of Graham’s adventure in in a barrel. It was aelever enough ” fake” and paid the syndicate well and they equally well with the Brodie story, but then came a reaction. It was soon proved that the reports were absurdly un- truthful and the papers in other cities that had been duped by their Buffalo corre- spondents began to make inquiries. It was not long before the real facts in the case were discovered and now it looks very much as if another syndicate must go down beipre a burst of public indignation. did‘ Audlook again. iWhile these monstrous fortunes are gathering in the hands of stew, one has but to read our daily papers to see how familiar we are becoming with condi- tions that we once thought possible only in effete monarchies of the old world, and could not exist in the free air of our demo- cratic republicâ€"with tramps and paupers and beggars ; with charities that show the need of charity, with destitution and starvation, with crimes and suicides caused by want, or fear of want; with a. struggle for existence on the part of great classes of the people that makes life hard, bitter and ofttlmee ' bruting~a struggle which grows not less, 1: more intense as these great fortunes go rolling up.â€"Hemy George atJ Baltimore. ' How They Are Hatched by Millions in Rude Incubators. The Egyptian chickens are smaller than the American variety and the eggs are only about half as large as those laid by the speckled hens on Uncle Sam’s farm. The Egyptians are, however, far in advance of us in the science of raising chickens, says Frank G. Carpenter, and the incubating es- tablishments of the country hatch out eggs by the millions every year. At a hatching establishment near the pyramids the farmers trade fresh eggs for young chicks, and the rate is two eggs per chick. Another artificial egg hatchery turns out 500.000 little chickens every season, and the oven crop of chickens in Egypt amounts, accord- to figures furnished me by the Consul- General, to more than 20,000,000 of chickens a year. We have about $200,000,- 000 worth of money invested in the fowl in- dustry in the United States, an amount so large that all the money of Jay Gould could not equal it, and still we have to import more than 16,000,000 dozens of eggs every year. If America would adopt the Egyp- tian hatching system we could sell eggs in- stead of buying them, and our farmers might buy little chickens to raise at a price of 20 cents a dozen. More than 20,000,000 of little chickens are sold each year in this way in Egypt, and there is a regular busi- ness in chickens just about old enough to Walk. Earning a Million Dollars. What about the distribution of wealth ‘1 Fortunes such as the world never saw since the days when “great estates ruined Italy” are growing up in the American Republic. We have four or five men who are worth from one hundred millions to two hundred millions apiece, we have sixty or seventy whose fortunes are estimated at from twenty millions to a hundred millions, while as for simple millionaires they are far too numerous to be counted. Consider what the possession of a single million means. Consider how long it would take an American mechanic or American laborerâ€"I will not say such protected American laborers as the coal miners of Illinois or Pennsylvaniaâ€"after support- ing himself and his family, to save a million_dollars. How many lifetimes ? For though he were to live to the age of Methu- salah he could not save a million dollars. If you would get any intelligible idea of what these fortunes of millions, tens of millions, scores of millions and hundreds of millions really mean, figure up how many workingmen’s incomesâ€"deducting of course the necessary subsistence of a man and family. for even t e slave owner had to allow that to the eâ€"it would take to make such incomes as these fortunes re- present. The incubators are rude, one-story build- ings, made of undried bricks, so arranged that the eggs are laid upon out straw in racks in rooms, around the ovens, which are kept fired in during the hatching sea- son. The outside walls are very thick and are built so they retain the heat, and the only thermometer used is the blood of the boy or man who attends the fires. By long practice these men learn just how hot the ovens ought to be kept, and they replenish the fires as the weather demands. A small amount of fuel is needed, and the tempera- ture of the oven is about that of 98 degrees above zero. The fire is built up for eight or ten days before the eggs are put in, to thoroughly warm the hut, and after this time it does not go out during the season, which is from March until May. The eggs are turned four times a day while hatching. The whole outfit of an establishment which hatches over 200,000 chickens a year does not, I am told, cost more than $25, and one man runs the Whole machine, keeping the fires, buying and turning the eggs, and sell- ing the chickens. There are, in this in- cubator, twelve compartments, each 70 feet long, 00 feet wide and 16 feet high, and each of these compartments will hold 7,500 eggs at a time, or 90,000 eggs in all. It produced last year more than 230,000 chickens and did the work of more than 20,000 hens. The Syndicate of Specnlists. Knowledge Costs Monev. EGYPTIAN CHICKENS. Joseph Arch, the English labor leader, is a stout man with a. pack-marked, weather beaten face, covered with stubby beard. His eyes are blue. When roused by excite- ment his chest expands, his voice route and he exhibits the characteristics of an angry lion. Confiding Sonâ€"Mother, What’s the best Wu): 1319 propggg to a. girl ‘7 _ 7 Mothérâ€"ZWhen tlule right girl comes along, my son, you won’t need any advice. First Tramp â€"Some folks is born lucky. Rem’ber Bill Soaks ? Second trampâ€"Yep. First Trampâ€"He got into Sweipier‘s brewery the other night 511‘ was drowned in a beer vat. H ME. H. Arlem Flatteâ€"Then let us go by all means. The play will be charming and the weather delightful. Mrs. E. Arlem Flatteâ€"I wanted to see that new play at the Downtown Theatre to-night, but the critics any the play is a failure, and the weather reports any it is going to rain. “Give me a great double-barreled, centre- fire, back action drink of soda and phos- phate," ordered a jolly customer at a drug store last night. “ Do you know what this favorite of yours is doing for you? ” asked the venerable druggist, as the customer drained his glass. “Killing the nausea in my stomach’,’ waslthe reply. “Yes, and it’s killing your stomach, too. Some of these days you’ll want it copper-plated, and you’ll want in vain. Phosphate is some- thing that no one should take except after a full meal. “Why ? Well, I will explain. You wouldn’t think that the inflammable ends of matches werea proper thing to eat, would you? But phosphate is derived from phosphorus, and if you used it to excess it will burn out your stomach just as alcohol would if used in excess. You feel benefited by it now, but if you keep on the time will come when you will Wish that you had never heard of phosphate. Of course, we sell it because there is a foolish craze for it, but I advise no one to use much of the fiery substance.” “Should no one use it at all? ” ” In moderate quantities just after a full meal it will not hurt anyone; but beware of using it ifi excess or on an empty stomach, for if you do that organ will need half- soling and healing some time.” “ Bohemian ” writes in the St. Thomas Journal: The railway stations are the great kissing marts of the world. It is there you can see kissing in all its styles, and it is interesting to watch the people doing the kissing act. All the different varieties of kissing known to civilized and unoivilized men can be seen, and to witness the exhibition takes all the sentiment out of a kiss for the spectator. People in every walk of life go to the railway station to meet friends and relatives, and the styles of kissing to be found there are about as plentiful as the leaves that strew the brooks of Vallombrosa. Some come together with a quick movement, a short, sharp report and break away again, the osculatory exercise being over before it had hardly begun. This is the ordinary kiss of greet- ing between friends and relatives. The kiss that occupies about the medium duration of time is that between husband and wife. The husband for some weeks past has put in just a ” miserable ” time whilst his wife has been rusticating with friends. The poor fellow has been out with the boys every night, playing whist, billiards, taking in everything in the shape of fun, and taken altogether has been having a very ruddy time. To tell the truth be is not sorry to see his “ pardner ” back, but he cannot for- get what a “ miserable ” time he has been having, and he has to make out he is more pleased that she is back than he really is, and he makes a desperate attempt to kiss her as he used to in the old days before and just after marriage. But he has not the staying power and the kiss is only a counter- feitâ€"there is not the cling to it there was when the couple were only lovers. The true lover's kiss is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. As soon as they get their eyes upon each other, these two souls with but a single thought fall upon each other's necks, wind their arms around each other with a lock hitch at the back, their lips come to- gether with a loud report, which gradually dies away like a distant echo, the lips are slowly drawn apart, the arms unwound and the clinging kiss is over. There is no per- sons in the wide world so oblivrous to what is passing around them as a couple engaged in a clinging kissing bee, and they will , stand right there and cling no matter if 300 persons are taking it in. A case of this kind was witnessed at the station the other day. A young dude waited around for several trains, and when no familiar face showed up in the crowd he would retire looking disconsolate. At last the party he was looking for appeared. She was a young girl of the dudine order. He could barely 1 restrain himself until she came within reach. As soon as he dared he made a dash and grabbed the object of his affection. “ Oh, me dawlin l ” he exclaimed, and their lips met in a clinging kiss. The brim of her big hat came down over the dude’s little head and completely hid it from view. Those behind them stopped to enjoy the sight, and a small boy fired a volley into them like this: “Break away there! ” “Come off the roost! ” “Ain’t we all in it? ” But they paid no attention to the gags, and did not break away till they were good and ready. Touching Scene Brought to Light in the Ancient Italian City. In May last the workmen who were digging the foundation for the new law courts in Rome discovered a sarcophagus buried thirty feet belowthe surface. Imme mediately the telephone called to the spot the members of the Archaeological Com- mission ; scientific and literary men who watch with jealous care all the excavations made in the Eternal City. Under their direction it was carefully raised and opened. Within lay the skeleton of a young girl, with the remains of the linen in which she had been wrapped. some brown leaves from the myrtle wreath with which, emblematic of her youth, she had been crowned in death. On her hands were four rings, of which one was the double betrothal ring of plain gold, and another with Filetus, the name of her betrothed, engraved uponit. A large and most exqui- site amethyst brooch, in Etruscan setting of the finest work, carved amber pins, and a gold necklet with white small pen- dants were lying about. But what is most strange, as being almost unique, was a doll of oak wood, beautifully carved, the joints articulated so that the legs and arms and hands move on sockets, the hands and feet daintily cut, with small and delicate nails. The features and the hair were carved out in the most minute and careful way, the hair waving low on the forehead, and being bound with a fillet. On the outside of the sarcophagus was sculptured her name, ‘l ry- pbsena Creperia, and a touching scene, doubtless faithfully representing her part- ing with her parents. She is lying on a low bed and striving to raise herself on her left arm to speak to her heartbroken father, who stands leaning on her bedstead, his head bowed with grief, while her mother sits on the bed, her head covered, weeping. It seems but yesterday, so natural is the scene, and yet it was nearly 18 centuries ago that these stricken parents laid so ten- derly away their dearly beloved daughter with her ornaments and her doll.â€" Youths’ Companion. Patient Waiting No Loss. ROMAN GIRL AND DOLL. Kissing on the Platform. Demoralizlng Drinks. Knowledge is Bliss. Luck. A humaneNeW York undertaker delayed afuneml the other day. The dead man had not paid for his first wife's burial, and once the undertaker got him in his grip he did not propose to give him tipâ€"dead or aliveâ€"until the bills were all paid. The matter was settled by the pull-bearers con- tributing enough to appease the under- taker, who allowed the corpse to proceed to the grave. Undertakere' rings am all 0! the same metal. â€"Eotel guest (sitting up in bed, watch in hand)â€"Six o’clock and nobody comes to wake me. I shall be sure to miss the train. Don‘t leave it swinging while we sneeze, And christen you a bore; Unless you want to see us freeze, Why, hang it. shut the door 1 Don‘t make us shiver ‘till we’re blue, And banker for your gore; Look here, we’ve said all we‘re going to on this subject, and the next thing you know We‘ll be over there Wiping the floor up with you Unless you shut that door. Summer resort extremities. Mattie Bond (on the verandah of the Mountain House)â€" Here comes a man across the fields. Chorus of feminine shrieksâ€"Ohl Oh! 1 Oh I ! l 0111! l! A man! a man! Where?" Mat- tie Bondâ€"No, it’s nothing but a. scarecrow after all. Chorusâ€"The mean thing ! Mat- tie Bondâ€"Well, you needn’t get mad about it. That’s more than any of you have discovered so fanâ€"Time. Fond Fatherâ€"Sit, my daughter is the apple of my eye. She shall continue under her father‘s wings. Van Gallâ€"Thanks. I was just going to speak about that. Can you give us the northwest wing ? A TIMELY WAIL. The season grows colder apnea, The winds begin to roar; So, when you come into this place, l’lease,mieter, shut the door. “No, indeed. We’ve found young trout in his milk.” ' De Poleâ€"I am going to our milkman’a dairy farm. There is the finest kind of fishing in tlggtfieighborlgood. “Hub! “You don’t take his word for it, do Y?“ Young ladyâ€"You have some of your own, have you not ? Mr. R.â€"Oh, no; I'm a bachelor. Young lady (innocently) â€"- You don‘t mean it ? How long have you been a bachelor 7 De Poleâ€"Where do you ihtend to spend yo_ur vgcptiog? WILKIE COLLINS, the novelist and drama- tist, died Monday. Some weeks ago it was cabled here that Mr. Collins was dying, but he afterwards rallied and tore. time seemed to improve. Death, however, has over- taken him at last, and with his life disapv pears one of the familiar literary figures of the 19th century. William Wilkie Collins was the eldest son of William Collins, the well-known painter of rustic scenes, and was born in London in January, 1824. After being educated at a private school and ‘spending two years with his parents in Italy he was articled for four years to a firm in the tea trade, but he soon quit to study law. His first literary production was a biography of his father, published in 1848. From this time he dev0ted himself entirely to literature, and published suc- oessively "Antonina," 1851; “Basil,” 1852; “Mr. Ray’s Cash Book,” 1852; “ Hide and Seek,” 1854, etc. Soon after- wards he became a contributor to the Household Word, and his “After Dark” and “The Dead Secret ” are reprints of the tales which originally appeared in that, periodical. In 1859 he published the “ Queen of Hearts ” and in 1860 his masterpiece, “The Woman in White.” In 1862 “No Name ” appeared, followed in 1863 by “My Miseellanies ” and in 1866 by “ Armadale.” “ The Moonstone,” “ Man to Wife" and many other works followed in rapid succession. Of late years he has contributed largely to Harper’s Magazine. Mr. Collins‘ works have been translated into almost every modern language and have run through several editions. He was a member of the Guild of Literature and Art. “ He wrote “ The Light House,” first played in private at Tavistook House ‘ and afterward produced at the Olympic Theatre. “The Frozen Deep” was pro- duced at Tavistcck House by a company of amateurs, among whom was Charles Dickens. Mr. Collins dramatized " The Moonstone ” in 1877. Mr. R.â€"Yes. indeed; passionately fond of them. Young lady (to middle-aged gentleman at Saratoga)â€"Mr. Rivington, I suppose you arg yer)! {01351 of Vlitfile _ohildren ? 0N Saturday the city of London eleotada Lord Mayor and two Sheriffs. As an evi- dence that the day of disabilities is over, it is only necessary to state that the new Lord Mayor is a Hebrew and a Jew, one Sheriff :1 Catholic and the other an Atheist. IT is said that a vast army of tramps is abroad along the entire length of the Penn- sylvania Railway, and like a swarm of locusts is devouring everything edible in its track. Decent, peaceable people are alarmed at the invasion. Farmers are at “the mercy of these tramps, railway cars are pillaged and train hands assaulted. The queer thing about the matter is that these tramps came from the mines, factories and foun- dries of Pennsylvania, the most highly protected State in the Union, and the men are the offspring of the over protected trades. THE motto of the British Volunteers is ” Defence, not defiance.” They are wholly for home protection and cannot be sent abroad. The War Office has just elaborated a scheme of defence and now every volun- teer knows exactly Where he is to be placed in a time of invasion, what is required of him and how he is to get to his destina- tion. It is noticeable that in the arrange- ment Scotland has more volunteers than will be required in her defence. Having made herself all serene she will send to the assistance of England the two High- land and South of Scotland Brigades, with the guns of the Fife, Ayr, Galloway, Aber- deen and Inverness Artillery Corps. be- sides movable batteries of garrison gunners from the seven brigades, and garrison gunners of the second class from the Banff, Argyll, Caithness and Orkney brigades. Four days after the order for mobilization every volunteer Willbe at his destination. ONTARIO does not lack lawyers. Some- times we are inclined to think there are too many of them, but we cannot sympathize with the measures that are spoken of to reduce the supply. One plan is to compel the students to attend the Law School both morning and afternoon, thus discriminating against those who depend for support upon the salaries they earn in the offices. An- other plan is to raise the fees for becoming solicitor and barrister from $90 and $100 to $400 and $500. These changes would simply leave the door open to rich men’s sons, and close it against the poor. A far better scheme would be to raise the standard of qualification â€" to make the examinations harder. A head test is better than a pocket test. By the way, is it just the thing to let a company of lawyers decide the terms upon which other men shall be allowed to practice law, or to let the doctors’ guild fix the barriers surrounding the medical profession ? The merchants have no such close corporation, nor have the editors, nor the carpenters, nor many other classes of workers, who, to put it mildly, require more brains than the lawyers to make a living. If the law- yers over-do the fencingout business, the public will be apt to help the law students to re-arrange the whole system. It’s most too warm [orfires as yet. They'd open every pore; But frost has come, mankind to fret, So, mister, shut the door. CURRENT TOPICS. Many Years a Bachelor. Indisputable Evidence. £1. with us. Sand 206. for terms. Acolored rug pattern and 50 colored designs. W. & B‘ BUSH. St. Thomas. 0111:. The Rev. Dr. Menzies, minister of Aber- nyte, has, on the recommendation of the Secretary for Scotland, been appointed Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criti- ciem of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, in room of the late Professor Crombie. â€"Geese at the north will commence to fly southward when the fall storms break up the watering place society. “Well, he did, bit that was only an in- direct way of leaving it to Groggins.” “I see,” said Smith,laying down his paper, “that old man Skinflint has willed his property tofifroggins, the ga‘lpopzkegpgrz‘f “'Hoh’s ihat? Tvsup'posed that he 13ftr it all tg‘h‘ig gontgagryflfl Poison the fountain and the stream is impure; poison the blood, and its taint is carried through the entire systemâ€"those innumerable veins and arteries carry dis- ease and death instead of life and Vitality. As a. result, you have Headache, Sorofula, Dyspepsia. Kidney Disease, Liver Comi plaint and General Debility. An inactive Liver means poisoned blood; Constipation means poisoned blood; Kidney disorder means poisoned blood. The great antidote for impure blood in Dr. Pieroe’s Golden Medical Discovery. Acting directly upon the affected organs, restores them to their normal condition. “A word to the wise is sufficient.” The “Discovery” is guaran- teed to cure in all cases of disease for which it is recommended, or money paid for it will be promptly refunded. THE COOK’S BEST F RIENB It is not riohesfit is not poverty, it is human nature that; is the trouble. The world is like a. looking-glass. Laugh at it audit laughs buck; frown at it and it frowns back. Try to speak some kind word or do some kind deed each day of your life. You will beNamply repai§._ Sine; we cannot get what we like let us like. vyhat .we_ gnu ggat. _ Angry thoughts canker the mind and dis: pose it to the worst temper in the worldâ€" thut of fixed malice and revenge. It is while in this temper that most men become criminals. . Show your sense by saying much in a few words. Take time ; it is no use to fume 01‘ fret, or do as the angry housekeeper Who has got hold of the wrong key, pushes, shakes and rattles it about the lock until both are broken hand the door is still__unopened. The chief secret in comfort lies {n not suffering trifles to vex us and in cultivating 011,1; undergrowgh of small pleqsures. Try to fiagard present veiations as you wiflregard them a month hencet So extensive is the adulteration of coffee it is not easy to obtain the pure article, even although the highest prices be paid. The substance commonly used in adulteration are chicory, roasted grains, peas or beans. The principal element of roasted chicory in sugar. It is useful in coloring the demo- tion, but adds nothing to its virtues. As for the other substances, although they may be harmless, considering their use from an economic point of view, nothing is made in buying coffee which contains them, even if the price of the mixture be much under that demanded for the pure article. This is evident when it is known that not infrequently what passes for low price coffee contains at least 60 per cent. adul- teration. In buying coffee the pure is actually the cheapest. And in the matter of adulteration of this important article of food there is a weighty consideration beyond that of economy. The more good. pure coffee there is obtainable the less will be the demand for spirituous liquors, for even the verieet toper Will often choose the former in preference to the latter.â€"-Boston Herald. with the foolish idea that Camth cannot be cured ! The world moves, and medical science is progressive. The proprietors of Dr. Sage‘s Catarrh Remedy will pay $500 reward for a case of Nasal Catarth, no matter how bad or of how long standing, which they cannot cure. Remedy sold by druggiets at only 50 cents. Magnificent Specimens of Art; in Textiles. One of the most delicate exhibitors ot long-skilled handicraft, at the present French exhibition, is from the linen looms of Ireland, in the form of damask nap- kins out of a set of two dozen doilies, made for a jubilee gift to Queen Victoria by a Belfast manufacturer. These doilies are woven from the finest linen yarn which has over yet been spun from flax fibre. The napkin is exhibited in its unbleached state, and also in its bleached and finished con- dition. Upon each is a strikingly faithiul delineation of the factory from which it comes. The building is photographed, as it were, in the linen web. One of these damask doiiies, about sixteen inches square, contains 3,080 threads of warp and 4,012 threads of woof, and these threads, joined together, would extend a distance of more than two miles. Yet the napkin seems to be the merest figment of gossamer â€"a fabric of lightest gause, a thing one might blow away with a breath. _ Thousands of women are silently suffer- ing untold misery, simply because they shrink from consulting a. physician in those numerous complaints arising from func- tional irregularities and disorders. Many a. modest girl and woman prefers to bear her heavy burden in silence rather than to go to the family physician for advice. All sufferers from this class of disorders can. however, find prompt and sure relief in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It is a specific in such cases, and has brightened the lives of countless women by restoring them to perfect health. The draughtsman was engaged for seven months in the preparation of the enlarged designAâ€"about twelve feet squareâ€"upon paper. This plan or map, so to speak, of the napkin was divided by fine machine rulings into 12,000,000 squares, each line standing for one thread of the web. On the damask work are represented 44 dif- ferent species of ferns, birds, butterflies and flowers. Irish lace. hand-made, at 100 guineas a yard, handkerchiefs at $250 each, and many other samples of exquisite skill and patient toil, from the north of Ireland looms, are included in the display. In further illustration of this great indus- try, there is a display of flaxseed, the flex plant with its blue flower, flax straw, scutched flax and flax spun into yarn and’ wound upon bobbins ready for weaving. There are also illustrated plans of the dif- ferent processes of making damasks, and the entire exhibit is appropriately sur- mounted by one of the most ancient speci- mens of an Irish flax wheel for spinning nen thread. Set S'o'ur v-vork to songâ€"Washington Past“ GENTS MAKE $100 A MONTH Life 15 Much “’hat We Make it. The Burdens of Womanhood. IRELAND AT PARIS. Don’t be Humbuzgcd Virtue in Good Cofl’ee. DORI- 4189 The Same Thing.