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A young lawyer of Ellaville, Gm, banter eda, young woman at a social gathering to marry him. To his evident surprise she told himto get the license. He wouldn’t be blufl'ed, and got the license at once, while others of the party sent for a. clergyman. He knew nothing of the joke, end when the pair entered the parlor arm in arm he thought it strange that the spectators laughed. But he began solemnly, while the party wondered which of the two would weaken first, and the contracting parties each wished that the other would ask the minister tnstop. When the first question was asked the young men concluded that the affair had gone far enough, and he broke ranks and fled, much to the young woman's relief. James A. Garfield, who is studying law in Cleveland, in said to resemble his father in size, complexion, eyes, and manner. He grammes wellr The Indiana. VMethodist Conference has condemned the use of tobacco as uncleanly and unhealthful, and the delegates promised to preach against itonce each year. The use of the Suez Canal in moving the tea. are from China to America. is rapidly being a andoned for the swifter means af- forded by our transcontinental railways. In 1884 the bulk of the shipments were via the Suez Canal: In 1885 the shipments by that route to Americawere but 9,254,197 pounds, while San Francisco received 12,496,187 unds. This year the imports by way of an Francisco have reached 20,525,280 Bounds, while these via the Suez Canal ave fallen ofi‘ to 7,592,049 pounds. From Yokohama to New York by the canal takes sixty days, by San Francisco 49 days. In- surence and freight charges are diminished, and the tea being fresher, is said to be bet- ter when brought by the letter route. LordRmndo‘lph Chm‘chfll has little hair (1: the top of his head, and much on his upper lip. His hands are next at all .up to the alâ€" leged aristocratic stimvfim'd, being as large as any ploughman’s. The full] name of the owner of Jay-Eye- See, the trotting horse, is Jerome Increthse Case. Haebegan busineus ms a blacksmith forty years ago, and in now the owner of a large threshing machine mannimtory in II- linois and is worth $5,638,900. After the murder of the Rev. Mr. Had- dock of Sioux City, 1a., the Tm‘bune of that city started a fund for the benefit; of his fam- ily. \Vhen the money was sent to Mrs. Haddock the other day she declined to re- ceive it, on the ground that the Tribune was 0 posed to the temperance cause, to which many think her husband was a, martyr. A neligions enthusiasm of Los Angeles, 03]., thought he heard a 1mice commanding him to sell what he had Mid give to the poor. So he sent $31,000 each to two benevolent societies of the place, leaving his family des~ titute. The money was sent to the crank’s wife and children. A reckless 10-year-old in Belle Plain playing round the great arbesian well there, which is still flowinghxriously, fell into it ; but the great force of the water threw him out again in short order. There is a good deal of practical common sense in tho‘answer of the old cook in New Orleans when her young mistress told her of VVigg‘m’s coming earthquake. “ Go ’long, chile,” she said “go ’long, Wid yer némsense! God-a-mitry don' go and tell anybody what He’s gwine ter do; He jes’ go ’long and do it’) A Kentucky planter was so pleased with the acting of a little girl in a. play at Louisâ€" ville, that the next day he sent her five large dolls to “ amuse her when not at the theatre.” This is the reply he received : “ Kind friend, have just received your note and package containing the doll ; thanks Very much. The doll is very handsome. I showed it to my husband, and we think it Will be great amusement for me.” A drunken man lay on the sidewalk in Norwich, Conn, guarded by his dog, who wouldn’t permit a. person to touch his man- ter. Two policemen tried to club him off, but he dodged and remained. Finally they took a horse blanket, and, after several lit- temps, threw it over him, caught him and dragged him away, and then took his mas- ter to the police station. followed. When Long John \Ventworth, renowned for an appetite commensurate with his size, returned home to Chicago the other day, he was congratulated on his improved personal appearance. “ That’s because I hadn’t had any licker for some time,” he ex lained. “ You see I’ve been visiting my rothcr, Col. Joseph VVentworth, at Concord. He’s the Prohibition candidate for Governor; been a. Prohibitiouist all his life ; so there was nothing to drink. Guess that": why I look so good.” The women’s Christian Temperance Un- ion of Burlington, N. J., are doing the same sort of work as did the Crusaders of Ohio some years ago, and last Sunday they made personal viite to the open saloons. At one the wife of the roprieter told them what she thought of t em in most emphatic lan- guage. At another the proprietor listened patiently, accepted their tracts, and asked them to prey for him; and the temperance women went away much encouraged. George ‘W. Cable, the novelist, was born left-handed, but has learned to use his right, and so is ambidextrous. He writes with either hand, usually makin the first draft of a. novel with his left 'hnn r and copying it for the printer with his right hand. Gen. Booth of the Salvation Army gave a Toronto reporter this account of the naming of the Army : “ One of my secretaries was Writing a little tract, describing the move- Christian is a volunteer army; 1 leaned over his shoulder, took his pen out of his hand, crossed out the word ‘ volunteer,’ and wrote ‘Selvation.’ We liked the sound of it, seeing that it really described What the organization wasâ€"a. body formed and united after the fashion of an army, with the pur- pose of delivering men from sin and the de- vil. So we adopted the name Salvation Army nine or ten years ago. The terms General, Ceptains, Lieutenants, 5m, soon The Lutheran Observer joins with other American newspapers in advocating chang- ing the time for the national Thanksgiving Day from “bleak November to golden Oc- tober.” It says that November was chosen by the Puritans to bring the (lay near the Christmas time that it might take the place of that festival. to which they were opposed. But now that all Christians observe Christ- mas there is no reason for appointing Thanksgiving Day so late in the year. ment, and he wrote 611 the titlevpafie, ‘ The Christian is a volunteer army.’ leaned THE WORWS NEWS. drilms, flags, binned, and fibellilmwmre adopted gradually, in carrying mn‘the plmpose of attracting the people.” Russia. is peculiarly rich in surprising sects andxassociations, but the most aston- ishing is the one lately brought to light bearing :the ominous title of “ The Red Death." Its members effect to believe that he who consciously permits another to sufl” er prolonged pain commits a mortal sin. In order to abbreviate the summing of human- ity it is .n matter of conscience with them to kill thevsick, that they may be put out of their pain quickly. The association takes its name from the fact that its executioners, dressed in red for the occasion, strangle their victim with a red cord, placing them for the fpurpose upon a red cntztfalque, be- neath the dull reddish light of an oil lamp. This strange and horrible association was brought to light by the energetic opposition interposed by a man in Suretoi when his mother wnd sister endeavoured to strangle his sick wife. He called in the authorities, who have already arrested some forty mem- hers of the murderous sect. Their orgenize- tion seems to be a. transference from India to Mnscovite soil of the worship of Bohwumee, the religion of the Thugs. The composition of the philosopher’s stone was the prime problem of alchemy ; and al- though many practitioners of the ” holy art” declared that they had discovered the in e- dients necessary to its production, t iey unkindly omitted to leave the prescription behind them. From the first there was a hot controversy as to Whether the stone had a corporal or merely an etheral existence; and the discussion was conducted in language strong enough for for a theological disputa- tion. Ono adept declared that the stone consisted of common mercury “ animated by the sulphur of gold and iron ;” another maintained that it was not a stone at all, but was at one and the same time mineral, Vegetable and animal ; another that it was a “ mineral fire,” continual, equal and never evaporating. The gibberish of the hermetic philosophy is somewhat vague reading, and when the writer does not know his own meaning the curious student may be pardon- ed for occasional lack of comprehension. As to the color of the “ philosophical matter,” there was the usual diversity of opinion. Florus, in “ La Tourhe des Philosophes, says that it was black ; to Zenon it was red, to Rosinus white on the surface and red inside. Another hilosopher found that it had a red head. w lte feet, and black eyes. Others were not wanting to declare that it took upon occasions all the colors of the rain- bow. Searchers who pretended to have found the stone said, some that it was light, others that it was heavy ; it was also aerial, spongy, and mutable equally by fire, water, or even the wind. Morienus said that to touch it, waszsoft, but two such distin- ished alchemists as Geber and Raymond ulli opined that it was hard. Morienus, moreover, was able graphically to describe the odor of the philosopher's stone ; it was sickly and like unto the stench of a charnel- house. Most of the other writers said that it had a pleasant perfume. Several of the ads ts had tasted it, but they were quite una 1e to agree whether its taste was sweet or bitter. ’ “ Not long ago the cities of Rostow and Taganrog were annexed to (1. military dis- trict in which Jews were forbidden to dwell. As usual, at Senatorial Commission was ap- pointed to consider the contingency, and this body has rendered its decision to the effect that the Jews should not or could not be permitted to remain in the newly created district, with the exception of merchants of the first guild and those who have secured real estate. This will enable some 4,000 wealthy Jews to remain in possession of their homes, while about 16,000 poor, help- less J ewe will have to go forth upon the olden well~worn road of exile. There may, however, yet remain a. ho e that that direful act may he aVerted if t e voice of civilized humanity may be heard in reprobation of the dastardly act. In the long and terrible annals of political persecu- tion and racial oppressiOns, there is not an- other instance of so cold-blooded and wil- fully atrocious an outrage as this. There is not .any pretence of an accusation against these 16,000 outcasts ; not any intimation of a popular desire for their expulsion ; not any semblance of an uprising among the rabble against the Jew; not a whisper (7f charges or complaints against them ; simply and solely for the topographical reason that the two cities are to be classed into a cer- tain military district, where Jews are for- bidden, and those 16,000 are toibe driven forth to seek homes whithersoever they Paris is trying an experiment which has long ago been found to answer in Italy. 011 one of the boulevards a new establishment has been opened for the ersonal comfort of Parisians. You can was your hands, have our clothes brushed, your boots cleaned. {’ou can write your letters. Paper, pens, ink, etc., are at your disposal. In one room are all the newspapers, not merely of Paris and the Provinces, but of all the great Con- tinental capitals. A third room is devoted to works of reference, encyclopedias, dic- tionaries and directories. There is a tele- phone and a post ofiice, and all this is open to any passer-b who pays half-a-franc ad- mission. The talian idea did not go quite so far, but in some respects it was more use- ful. I was not a private speculation, but a Government concern. In fact, it was part of the working of the postal system of the country. You paid a penny entrance fee and found all the means of Writing materials gratuitously. The French institution is a speculation, and if the building just opened on the Boulevard Montmartre succeeds, no doubt we shall see others established all over the capital. The American IIebreu‘, a. Jewish paper publiihledjn New Ygrk, §a_ys :â€"_-_ We appeal, therefore, to the journalists of America to utter a brave word in behalf of these 16,000 who are threatened with expu- triation. We appeal, therefore, to the ministers of America, who preach with word and act the gospel of peace and brotherly love and universal charity, to lift up their voices in eloquent and persuasive protest against this threatened desecration of all that religion teaches. Press, pulpit, and platform should speak the heart of America in reprobation of this heartless, godless deed. A 1011 delayed monument to Berlioz 'will be',unvei ed on October 17th in Place Vinti- illem, Paris. For Their Personal Comfort. Persecuting the Jews. The Secret of Secrets. “ I'gave it to him, and said, ‘ I want you to promise me one thing, that you will al- ways carry this with you, and that, when 'I about to take a glass of liquor, you will i take this out, read it, sign it and mail it to ' me before you drink.’ He promised solemn- { 1y that he would. He stayed in my employ E for years and was never drunk again.” I Admiral Shestakofl", the Russian Minister of Marine, is expected to arrive at San Fran- cisco, en route to Europe, some time during the month. He is traveling unoffically, but ’ the U. S. Navy Department will tender him » the customary courtesies during his visit in I this country. . SUNDAY.â€"Sepa.rate the whites and yolks of four eggs. With the yolks make a. boiled custard (with a pint of milk, and sugar to taste.) Dissolve five sheets of gelatine (the red gelatine gives the pudding 9. pretty pink tint) in three-fourths of a cupful of boiling water. When the custard has cooled, add the gelatine water and the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth; flavor with vanilla, stir all together, and put it into a mould, or moulds. It will settle into three layers, and is a very pretty pudding, tasting much like Charlotte-Russo (To be made on Saturday.) TussnAr.â€"â€"Into one pint of milk stir half & teaspoonful of salt, and three table- spoonfuls of flour, adding the milk alittle eta time. Beat well the yolks of three eggs, and stir them into the mass. Lastly add the whites beaten to a stiff froth, and pour the mixture into six or eight hot but tered cups which should be in readiness. Place in a quick oven immediately, and bake twenty-five or thirty minutes. The cups should be about half full. Eat with the following sauce zâ€"Mix half a cupful white sugar with a. tablespoonfulr butter (the latter being in a bowl set in hot water), add three or four tablespoonfuls hot cream, and & tablespoonful of current jelly dis- solved. To be served hot or cold. These puddings will rise like puffs in the oven, then sink and become creamy. They can be cooked while the preceding courses are being eaten, and are a quick addition to dinner on a busy baking-day. \VEDNESDAY.â€"~One cup raisins stoned and pulled in half, one of chopped apples, one and a, half of bread crumbs, three eggs, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, a little nut- meg and cinnamon. Steam or boil in a bowl or mould three hours, and serve with a sweet liquid sauce. A pudding for ironâ€" ing day, when a continuous hot fire is kept up. “ He had terrible sprees, and had them pretty often. He would come raving into the shop, disarming himself and disgusting eve body. Vhen sober he was penitent, and forgave him and took him back again and again. I appealed to him till there seemed to be nothing else to appeal to. One mornin he came in after one of his sprees and mi : “ Mr. Roach, I want you to dis- charge me. You can’t make anything of me. I have broken my promise and abused your trust over and over. You took me up when I had nothin to do, and you learned me your trade an paid me good wages, and have bore with my faults till it ain’t hu- man to ask you to bear any more. Now discharge me.” MONDAY.â€"W&Sh & small cup of rice and put it into three pints of milk. Add a piece of butter half as large as an egg, 8. teacup of sugar, 3, little salt, cinnamon or nutmeg. Bake very slowly two hours and a. half. After it has become hot enough to melt the butter, but not to brown the top, stir it (without moving the dish) from the bottom. If raisins are to be used, put them in now, a. good handful. They add much to the rich- ness of the pudding, which is ver good without, however, and easy to maie for washing day. THURSDAY. â€"TWO ounces flour, two ounces sugar, two ounces butter, one pint milk, six eggs. Mix the flour smoothly in a. little of the milk, make the remainder, with the sugar, hot; add the flour, stirring briskly until the milk boils, remove from the stove and add the butter. When slightly cool add the well-beaten yolks of the eggs, then the whites. Bake in a pudding-dish or bowl set in a pan of boiling-water in the oven, one hour. Serve (with the sauce described for Tuesday,) as expeditiously as possible. The leisure of Thursday will allow the care necessary in the preparation of this pudding. FRIDAY.â€"A cold pudding will be most convenient on sweeping-day, and must be made early. While preparing breakfast, set a pint of milk on the fire to boil. Dis- solve two ounces of soluble chocolate in part of the hot milk, add ittothe remainder, and remove from the fire. Add sugar to taste (more or less according to the sweet- ness of the chocolate), and the Well-beaten yolks of three 6 gs. Bake as a custard. In the meantime eat the whites of the eggs to a. stiff froth with half a cup of sugar; when the pudding is cooked firm, but not watery, remove, and spread meringue over it. Return to the oven and lightly brown the top. To be eaten cold without a. sauce. SATURDAY.â€"So&k e teacupful of tapioca over night in milk. The next day, stir into it the yolks of three eggs well-beaten, and a. cupful of sugar. Place a quart of milk on the fire, let it come to the boiling-point, stir in the ta icon, and let the whole cook until it has is ickened ; then take it off the fire, and stir in the Whites of the eggs beaten to a froth. Flavor to taste. As this pud- ding is cooked on top of the stove, baking will not be interfered with. John 'Roach, the famous ship builder, be- lieves in the laws of kindness, in dealing with erring men. Out of twenty-five thou- sand men employed by him first and last, there were seventy found guilty of criminal conduct. He saved sixty of them. This is his star of the way he reformed a, “ con- firmed runkard.” The man was a “master workman.” " 'Mike,’ said I, ‘I wont discharge you, but I’ll let you resign. I’ll write your res- ignation,’ for an idea struck me, and I went to my desk and “(mtg : “ ‘ John Roachâ€"Sir : You helped me when I was penniless. You gave me work when I was idle. You taught me when I was ignorant. You have always paid me welL You have borne with my infirmities over and over. But I have lost my self- respect, and have not enou%h regard for you or love for my wife and chi dren to behave like a. man, and therefore I hereby Withdraw irom_your employment. ’ . Saved by Kindness. A WEEK 0! PUDDINGS. HOUSEHOLD. Imponslble for Thou tnfulfllled Predic- tions of Dire Pol-lent. Would it surprise our readers to know that the direful predictions of \Vi ginsâ€"â€" W'i gins, the foretellcr of cyclones am? earth- qua es and tidal waves and all sorts of ter- rible events which never come to passâ€"are ractically the work of u. woman? Most like- Fy it would. Yet such is the fact. .A...“ - , , I ,,| a Along about 1870 a, little village school sway down near the backwoods of New Brunswick was presided over by a. modest, unassuming young teacher named Ebenezer \Viggins. Notwithstanding that his appear- ance was by no means strikingly handsome, that he possessed only very mediocre talent, he managed to attract and interest Miss Gunhilda Davies, the pretty daughter of the farmer in whose house he boarded. GUNHILDA “WAS THE BELLE of the settlement, and at the picnic. husking bee, singing school or party there was al- ways great rivalry among the village swains its to which of them should have the honor of being her cavalier. But after the advent of “’iggins she regarded all of these numer- ous admirers with lofty scorn and reserved all her favors for the pole-faced young schoolmaster. Her interest in him repidly ripened into love. and one fine Spring morn- ing, greatly to the disgust of the aforemen- tioned village swains, Gunhilda and VVig- gins Were made one. “'iggins would have been content to continue his career as a schoolmaster, his highest ambition being at that time to get a situation in one of the city schools. But his wife was chuck full of ambition and determined to be a. shining star in the great world of society. To be sure there were what would appear to be insuperable obstacles in the way of such an ambition for the wife of a. poor country schoolmaster ; but Gunhilds was as plucky and persistent as she was clever and pretty and she systematically set to work to attain her object. She determined as a first step in her upward career to obtain for her hus- band a. government situation, and with that end in view applied to Sir Albert Smith, e Cabinet minister and member of Parliament for the district in which she resided. The result was that her husband received an ap- pointment to a. CLERKSHIP IN ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT DE- PARTMENTS at Ottawa, where the young couple at once took up their residence. Immediately after arriving there Gunhilda caused her husband 0 drop the unaristocratic prenomen of Ebe- nezer and to sign himself “ E. Stone VVig- gins,” Stone being his mother’s paternal name. But she was not long in finding out that neither a change in her husband’s name nor in his condition had proved the passport to social recognition which she had expected. Her frequent failures, however, only spurred the indomitable Gunhilda on to fresh exer- tions. Her ready wit told her that before she could be received by “ society ” as she desired she must be something more than the wife of a subordinate government oflicial; she must do something to distinguish her- self. Her opportunity wns 'not long coming. and when it did arrive she lost no time in taking. advantage of it. The bill to legalize marriage THE PRINCESS LOUISE INVITED HEB. to Rideau Hall and made much of her and all the other leaders of society at the Can. adian capital were not slow to follow suit, so that soon no entertainment was consider- ed a success unless Gunhilda deigned to grace it with her presence. Her triumph was com- plete. By one bold coup she had broken down all the barriers to her success and her position in society was now assured. But still she was not happy. While she was be- ing worshiped, and glorified, and feted, and lionized Wiggins was still a nobody. He was simply regarded as Mrs. Wiggins’ hus- band, although of course people had to in- vite him to their houses with his wife. Now Gunhilda was by no means satisfied with this condition of afl'airs. though her hus- band’s position was by this time much im- proved from a material point of view, for his wife no sooner found herself a woman of in- fluence than she discovered a way of procur- ing his promotion to a lucrative sinecure ; but he still seemed as far as ever from cre- ating a name for himself in the world. Mrs. Wiggins was almost in despair, when sud- denly she was seized with what struck her as a happy inspiration. VENNOR, THE CANADIAN WEATHER PROPHET, was at the zenith of his fame, and it was his success which suggested to Gunhilda an easy plan for causing her husband to gain the notriety she wished him to obtain. He should be a weather prophet. Not one of your ordinary small-fry local prophets, but one whose name would be heralded all over the world. True, neither Wiggins nor his wife knew the first thing about meteorology, but Gunhilda was not a woman to allow a trifle of that sort to stand in her way. She composed for her husband a letter predicting for a certain date which was then before the Canadian House of Commons, was occupying to a larger ex- tent than any other measure the attention of the public, and the Episcopal bishop of Ontarioâ€"one of the most prominent and in- fluential ecclesiastics in the Dominionâ€"had delivered from the pulpit a bitter philippic against the proposed measure, which was printed in pamphlet form and circulated far and Wide by the opponents of the bill. Shortly after this there appeared in the columns of the Ottawa Citizen 3 series of re- markable letters signed “ Gunhilda." and en- titled “ A \Voman's Answer to the Bishop of Ontario.” These letters attracted Wide attention. For felicity offexpression, cogency of reasoning, fierceness of invective, keen~ ness of satire and piquancy of style nothing equal to them had appeared in the Canadian press for years. The poor bishop was, FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING, FLAYED ALIVE and the opponents of the bill were left with- out a leg to stand on. These letters were the sensation of the hour. Everybody read them and everybody talked about them. They were published in pamphlet form. and edition after edition was rapidly exhausted. The secret of their authorshipâ€"as it was in- tended it shouldâ€"rapidly leaked out. The Mrs. Wiggins, who as the wife of an unim- portant government clerk was snubbed by society. as Gunhilda, the dauntless beerder of the Episcopal lion in his den, was exalted to the highest social pinnacle. A TERRIFIO GALE AND TIDAL WAVE which would sweep the Atlantic coast from end to end and the like of which had never WITH A DECEASED WIFE’S germ}: IT IS HRS. WIGGINS. before been seen. Wiggins took the letter to his office, made a number of copies of it, sent them to the leading American and Can- adian journals and lay back to await results. As the date he had set for the storm drew near, the firfl letter was supplemented by others in order to keep up the interest. The fishermen of Gloucester and Marblehead were especially warned that it would be highly dangerous for them to put to sea until the date in question had passed. So earnest did these warnings appear that they were believed in by many and hundreds of fishing vessels which were ready to put to sea y;- mained in port. ‘ WHEN THE GREAT DAY ARRIVED, what did these confiding fishermen see? Clear, calm weather and the water scarcely disturbed by aripple. Had these people who had been put to so much inconvenience and expense by Wiggins been able to lay hands on him just then they would have given the “professor” a bad quarter of an hour. This failure by no means abashed Gunhilda, and she wrote over her husband’s- name a long explanation of how Saturn’s unâ€" expectedly coming into conjunction with Venus, or something of that sort, had caus- ed the storm to slew round and expend its force up at the North Pole, or some other out of the way place. Her scheme had worked like a charm. Her ambition was as near being satisfied as it is likely to be. It was impossible to but she succeeded in making him notorious, which was, in her eyes, the next best thing, and she is bound to keep up his notoriety as long as she can make people talk and write about the nonsensical prophecies made in his name. This is the true story, now first told, of Wiggins, the prophet. Discovery of an African Forest Tribe “'hose Huts are in Mid Air. Dr. Louis Wolf, who made the sensational discovery 3 while ago that the Sankuru River afforded a more direct and more easily navi- gated route to Central Africa than the Congo, made another discovery in the course of the same journey which was quite as remarkable if not so important. On the banks of the Lomami River, far toward the centre of the Continent, he says he found whole villages that were built in the trees. The natives, partly to protect themselves from the river when in flood, and partly to make it more difficult for their enemies to surprise them, build their huts on the limbs of the trees where the thick foliage almost completely hides the structures from view. The inmates possess almost the agility of monkeys, and they climb up to or descend from their little houses with astonishing ease. It is believed they are the only Africans yet known who live in trees. Always cheer on the men who go in for improvements, your portion of the cost will; be nothing only what is just. Don't use rubber stamps on your letter heads, that isa dead give away on your business, on the town and newspaper pub- lished in it. Get your letter heads, envev lopes, business cards, etc., printed at the- printing office. Never condemn the local paper until it. has fairly misused you. If it has dealt with you unjustly write to it or go into the office and tell the editor about your case ,- if he is wrong he will lose no time in telling the public about it. Remember that no man does as much for your town as the local newspaper. Every aper sent out is an advertisement of the usiness, the resources and enterprises of the place ; and people get; a. better’ idea. of it from the local paper than from any other- source. Be courteous to strangers that come among you, so that they may go away with good xmpressions. Don’t kick at any proposed improvement becaue it is not at your own door, or for fear that your taxes will be raised fifty cents. In Borneo some of the natives are said to live in trees, and Mr. Chalmers, in his book on New Guinea, tells of a. number of tree houses that he visited on that islaiid. These huts, which are built near the tops of very high trees, are used for look-out purposes, or as a place of refu e for women and children in case of attac . They are perfect little huts with sloping roofs and platforms in front, to which extends the long ladder, by means of which the natives reach the huts. Mr. Gill describes one of these houses which was used as a residence. He says it waswgell built, but that it rocked uncomfortab in the wind. ' To Make Your Town Prosper. Don’t fret. Telk about it. Write about it. Beautify the streets. Patronize the merchants. Be friendly to everybody. Advertize in its newspapers. Elect good men to all the oflices. Don’t grumble about hard times. Keep your sidewalks in good repair. Avoid gossip about your neighbors. Do your trading with your home mer- chants. Sell all you can and buy all you can at} home. If you are rich, invest something ; emâ€" ploy eomebody, be a. " rustler.” If you don’t think of any good word don’t- say anything about it. Remember that every dollar invested in permanent improvement is so much on; interest. A man and his son were fishing oneflday near New York. Suddenly the boat caple- ed, and they were both thrown into the water. The man could not swim well, but he tried at once to save his son, who could not swim at all. By-and-by, as the boy saw his father etting exhausted, he said earâ€" nestly, “léever mind me, father. Save yourself, for mother’s sake.” Such love had the reward which it deserved, and the noble-hearted boy was saved, as well as his father, by some sailors from the shore. New umbrellas made in Paris have a glass lookout in front. The improvement is of doubtful advantage, as the rain-drops will soon blur the glass. HEN WHO LIVE IN TREES. RAKE WIGGINS A GENIUS, A Loving Son.