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TIMES AND SEASONS.
rhnreVn time the proverb tells ua
For all things under the bud;
Even so may, be proper seasons
For good works to be done.
4nd for good words to be spoken
In the fear either I or You
fcay miss some happy occasions,
Let us here note down a few;
When the trees are in pride of blossom,
Or the leaves crisp underfoot,
When fruit on the board is grateful,
And while there is rind or root;
When the flood-rain pours from the hoavens,
. When the sunshine follows rain,
When the autumn fields are waving
With the weight of golden grain;
When the hills are purple with heather,
When thu fells are black with cold,
When the larch is gay with its tassels red.
When nuts are shriveled and old;
Whenever there's jjrowth in the springtime;
Or June close followeth May,
And so long as the First of January
Happens on New Year's Day;
When mushrooms spring in the meadows,
Or toadstools under the trees,
When the gnats gyrate in the sunbeams,
When the oak boughs strain in the breeze;
In the days of the cuckoo and swallow.
When the white gulls flee the foam,
When the nightjar oroons i' the gloaming
Or the owl goes silently home,
When the rippleless lake is a mirror,
When the mountains melt in a mist,
When the depths of the like arc pillars of
gold
' On a floor of amethyst;
When a rainbow spans the morning,
When thunder rends the night,
When the snow on the mountain-side is red
With the blush of the dawning light;
When the soul is heavy with sadness,
And the tears fall drop by drop;
When the heart is glad as the heart of one
Who climbs to a mountain-top;
When youth unfolds like a bracken frond
When age is grandly gray
As the face of a crag deep-riven and scarred
By thd storms of yesterday
Bo sure that in all of these seasons
Some good may be done or said,
And whenever a loving Thought and Will
Are loving enough to wed.
And well is it with the generous heart
That hath thoroughly understood
How the "time for all things under the sun"
Is always the time for good.
W. J. Linton, in New York Independent.
k B0MAB0E OF KEDBUD.
EX W. J3. T,FWI3.
T was a bright,
sunny afternoon,
but the inhabitant
anta of Little
Dutch did not
waste a though ton
the weather. Sun
ny afternoons are
too common o
spring feature in
Southern Kansat
to excite even
passing comment.
Besides, 'the resi-
1i
r dents were ossein-
of Kansas for a
special and im
portant purpose.
cal topic would have been so for
The introduction ,of a meteorologi
eign as to be an impertinenoe, and iD
consequence loaded with danger.
"AS i was a Baym wueu iuwiiui'w
by the gentleman rvrepresentin'of the
double-O-bar' brand, Little Dutch has
got tp PU itaelt together if it expects
to retain if f standing among f the
raoonicipalities of the once bleedin'
Kansas," said the speaker. Tts goin'
io be a funDy thing in current history
if these spike bucks from Winfteld, or
Arkansas City, or any other town, is
a-goin to come down yere with a
whoop an' a yell an' run off our horses
an we do no thin' but stick our noses
in the mud an let on wa liked it U
we want to, gentlemen, we can rnise
stock for the whole southern tie of
counties. Jest' let the notion, go
abroad once that all us folks settled at
Little Dutch for was to raise homes
fcr other folks to steal an yon can
itring all your money on the proposi
tion that they will be dead wilun to
Ififc us do it."
W'at for is all this war wediein
bein made?" inquired Bill Siddons.
foreman of the "double-O-bar" out
fit, who had entered the gathering
while Burt Francis, a prominent and
pnblic-spiiited citzen cf Littla Dutch,
' was giving his view's.
It's like this, Bill," explained
Colonel Tom North, who, from year
of sitting behind the deal box, had ac
quired the repose of manner and
gravity necessary to a presiding officer?
it's like this: Some unmitigated uii'
felonious cuss lists uu off two broa-.
rhca. the samotbea an' there, bein
laws
known
M 'English
Joek ,M
"An the mAuraudin how. thief
didn't even have the decency to pull
the stakes," interjected Mr. Walls,
who, notwithstanding his name, "Eng
lish Jack," was a native of Oregon
County, Missouri. "He cut the lariats,
the hasty-minded villain, an sp'iled
two as good ropes as ever you saw. "
An' the boys got together to dis
ouss ways an' means," pursued Colonel
Tom North, having suspended his ex
planation to give Mr. Wells an oppor
tnnity to air his complaint, "the ma
jority as law abidin' citizens, strivin'
to promote the material interests ol
Litle Dutch an' as a sort of a much
needed rebuke to hoss thiefs appears
to be in favor of hangin' the critter.
Bill Hunt, the under sheriff of CowTey
County, has tho inhuman monster
close herded at his house over at Bed
Bud, an' the general sense of this
meetin' seem?, to be that we rides over
this arternoon an hangs the cuss foi
the benefit of his morals."
"I'm agin hangin' him as bein' too
draBtic," Baid Mr. Wells. "As the
owner of them two cayuses which was
stoled, I'm willin' to say that the crime
'carried its own punishment. Though,
he added as an after-thought, "he
shouldn't ort to have cut them lariats.
This feller that run off tho critters is
not what you all might call a red-
handed desperado, neither. 1 see
him pi-ejectin' around yere the day
before he run off the bronchos, an
he's a slim, spindlin oritter, with a
complexion like a drug store clerk. I
lowed mebbe he's been readin' books
an' started out to be a bad man jist for
the fun they is in it. He didn't p'int
out like no hoss thief, neither. Bilt
Hunt finds him as late as six o'clock
this mornin' a sleepin'. He goes into
camp an' builds a fire all as comfort
able an the same as if he was in a
fust-class hotel, instead of ridin' for
the Nation, the way professional hoes
thiefs does."
'That ain't tho pint, none what
evrj," saiu Burt Francis. "I'm
aachally humane man myself. Idon't
take stock much in hangin a man.
It's a poor use to make of even a boss
thief. But it's the principle of the
thing, an' the howlin necessity of
eleva'tin' Little Dutch to the position
among border towns she is entitled to
hold. This corporation received a
distinct setback an has carried a bad
black eye cv'ry sence Jim Marshall
gits away with the jack pot on a two
oe flush. I; was not so much the
hand that would surprise anyone,
but it was the lettin' of him go around
alive a tellin' folks what marks we all
is. Little Dutch has got to win back
her reputation if we hangs ev'ry hoss
thief 'twixt here an' the Canadian."
This seemed to accord with tho
general notion. Civic pride is often a
vast moving power. Mr. Thurston,
who presided over the bar, sat out the
bottle, and the sixteen men who com
prehended the greater part of Little
Dutch's able male population accepted
Mr. Siddon's invitation to irrigate be
fore starting out on their eight-mile
ride to Redbud.
As Tom Thurston locked up tho
Rose of Kansas and prepared to mount
his horse he inquired :
"Suppose Billy don't give up the
hoss thief.. He's jist been made under
sheriff an' he may not think it's law. "
"He'll give him up all right," re
plied the optimistic Francis. "I
never yit hear of a law agin' hangia a
hoss thief."
"But you don't know Bill Hunt,"
ail Thurston, swinging: into hia
saddle.
"I'd be more than glad to help you
out, gents," said Under Sheriff Hunt,
"but you 6ee the boy surrenders to
me, an I'm some sort responsible to
tho State of Kansas for his well bein'.
Wait until I lands him in Wi afield.
No doubt Scott, which is my superior
in office, will turn the boy over to you
all. He's j.ist the man to let a band
of Little Dutch folks come an' tend to
bis business for him. He's got a
reputation for that, and you'll find
him dead easy. "
"The hoss thief isn't at Win field,
Billy," said Francis; "he's yere, an'
they ain't no need of you all gittin gay
an' sarcastic neither. We is a bandof
plain, law-abulin' citizens adoin'.of our
duty to our corporation. So be decenf,
Billy, and turn out the boy. Wi?
don't want to proceed to any extrec
measures, Bill, or take any stops wh: Ah
more familiar
you might subsequently regret, but
we've come for the hoss thief sure.'
A restive horse pitched against an
other and two Winchesters rattled. It
was a nerve straining minute oi two.
"If yott-all git him it'll be through
smoke," replied Under Sheriff Hunt,
"an I'nv figurin' there won't be many
folks left to attend the f un'rals which
is likely to prevail as a fashion around
yere for the next few days."
"Let 'em come in, Bill, why don't
you?" broke in a silvery voioe on the
war talk. Let 'em come in. I didn't
'low to hold a reception, gentlemen,"-'
continued tho bright faced, vivacious
young wonan looking out from the
doorway over Hunt's shoulder. "I
didn't 'low when I came over from
Japan way to visit Cousin Billy that
I'd hold a reception the very fust
day."
If Hunt was surprised he never be
trayed his astonishment, nor did he
wink an eye when his joyous young
relative proceeded. "I turned that
pore little boy loose a half hour ago,
Cousin Eill, when I fust see these vis
itors a comin'. Tho boy said some of
'em might feel constrained in his
presence, as they was a matter of a
couple of bosses onstandin' between
him an them, "an' they might feel as
if they orter settle with him."
Every hat in the party cams off
when the young woman first appeared.
Said Colonel Tom North, as he reBek
tied his sombrero:
"I don't aim to be critical, Bill, but
it looks like you all had better givo
youv youug wimen relatives a hint or
two ;n your duties as to the safe
keepin' of hoss thiefs. Us Little Dutch
people would never have let him git
away, Billy," and the delegation rode
home.
It was a few months later that Burt
Francis remarked to Tom Nort&t "J
hear Bill Hunt has married that cousin
of his'n wo met up with that time we
rides over to lynch the boy that -.tola
English Jack's hoses."
"Yes," said North, "I hears of it.
I've seen the girl two ov three times.
Do yon know, Burt, she favors that
how thief mightily. I saw the kid n
loafin around yere the day before he
runs off the bronchos, and he looks
enough like that, girl to be her twiu.
An' Bart, I rides 'round Billy Hunt's
house that day an' they wa'n't nary
moccasin nor hoor track Ieadin' from
it. An' that dross the young woman
had on was Bill's sister', which
she was up in Win field visitin' when
we was thar. I recognized it at once.
An' I'm keepin' up a lot of thinkin',
Burt." '
Adobe is Unbrunt Bric'x.
Adobe is unburn t brick made from
earth of a loamy character, containing
about two-thirds fino sand, mixed
thoroughly with clay. The loamy
substance under the action of the sue.
becomes a bard, compact mass, with
out a crack, and is not washed or worn
away by the action of rain. It is said
that the houses built with these brickn
are warmer in winter and cooler in
summer than those constructed of the
ordinary kind, and their durability is
extraordinary, as evidenced by ancient
ruins found in Arizona, New Mexico.
In Santa Fe there are hundreds of
houses built of this material. Now
York Dispatch.
Tree Mines.
One of tho most curious industries
in the world is the busiues3 of mining
for coffin planks which is carried on
in Upper Tonquin, a portion of the
French possessions in Southeastern
Asia. In a certain district in this
province there exists a great under
ground deposit of logs, which were
probably the trunks of trees engulfed
by an earthquake or some other con
vulston of nature at a comparatively
recent period. The trees are often a
yard in diameter. They are buried
in sandy earth at a depth of from two
to eight yards and are dug up by na
tive labor f-s demand ii mde for them.
0
Long Bridges of the World.
The longest bridge in the world is
six miles in length, and has three hun
dred arches of stone. It crosses an
arm of the China Sea at Logang. The
famous iron bridge over the Firth oi
Tay. in Scotland, is eighteen thousand
six hundred and twelve feet long.
Thero is a trestle-work twenty-one
miles in length over Lake Ponchar
train, near New Orleans. Fraak Los
lie's Weekly.
LADIES' COLUMN
jieb husband's assistant.
Rev. Lila Frost Sprague is probably
the first woman who, - has ever been
called to act as her ministerial hus
band's assistant, and she, in that capac
ity, recently preached her first ser
mon. The trustees of the Second Uni
tarian Church of San Francisco, of
which Mr. Sprague is pastor, elected
his wife as his official assistant about
two weeks ago.
Mrs. Sprague is a regularly ordained
minister and a graduate of the same
theological school as her husband. In
deed, they were ordained at the same
time shortly after their marriage. -
Washington Star.
THE ART OF BEADING.
The reading clerk of the Colorado
State Senate, Mrs. Hibbert, is proba
bly the most popular employe of that
body and the members are well satis
fied with the innovation. For the first
time in the history of legislative pro
ceedings in this State, due attention
has been paid to the work of the read
ing clerk. Instead of a senseless jum
ble of words delivered in monotone
after the general manner of reading
clerks,. Mrs. Hibbert gives to the
most dry and perfunctory State docu
ment an intonation pleasing to the
ears of the distinguished members
from the backwoods and the mining
camps. Not once in this session has
the reading of the journal been dis
pensed with. The Senators listen with
as much attention to this morning
duty of Mrs. Hibbert's as a small boy
would to the narration of a story of
shipwreck and adventure in strauge
lands. If there appears an error in
the journal, the Senator interested
rises and in the most apologetic Btyle
begs to interrupt the reading to have
a correction made. Philadelphia
Ledger.
THE CORRECT HANDKERCHIEF
The really and only refined handker
chief is the colorless one. "Bordered
handkerchiefs, with the exception of
those lightly embroidered in black
for mourning use, are no longer
looked upon with favor. As for silk
handkerchiefs, these, likewise, are de
clared out of date, both for men and
women. To be quite correct, the
former should carry good-sized
squares of the best linen, hemstitched
to the depth of an inch. Women are
permitted greater variety, and the
dainty squares of sheer linen or
batiste offerd for them may be em
broidered in wreath designs, edged
with narrow, real Valenoiennes, or,
hemstitched and embroidered in one
corner, the owner's initials or mono
gram. It is a "fad," and an expen
sive one at that, to have your hand
kerchiefs made to order first, choos
ing the linen, then having your ex
clusive design drawn and finally
engaging an expert needlewoman to
do the work. Initials the fac-simile
of one's handwriting embroidered iD
the handkerchief corner is a unique
idea. Philadelphia Times.
FASHION XOTES.
Pipings of fur and heads of small
animals, like the seal, the mink and
sable, obtain on spring wraps.
The clear bright blue called mistra!
and royal is becoming to the womar
with red hair and a clear skin.
Fancy strips on taffeta grounds
either plain or changeable are one oi
the favorite combinations in silk.
Arrayed for the eye of the shoppei
tre umbrella-shaped cambric skirt
trimmed with embroidery or lace.
Perforated taffeta ribbons are one
of the novelties. They are pretty
ami come in all the attractive new
colors.
Silk and wool moire is a modish
fabric for walking dresses. It is woyen
in changeable effects and is very
stylish.
Hats will no longer be worn on the
very cask of the head, but will go to
the other extreme and be worn well
over the face.
The ornamenting of the front Beams
jf the skirt for evening wear is a
pleasing relief from the monotony of
the godet style.
""Chambray is once more in favor.
For trimming frocks of this pretty
stuff are flouncinge of batiste with
etillettocd embroidery.
Box-plaited, kilted, gathered and
godet ekirt backs aro all popular, tvad
the fashion of .trimming each of the
gored seams is still popular.
The new moire sash ribbon come in
all colors, daintily figured in Dresden
patterns, or with vines of delicate
flowers through the centre.
Among the novelties in dress trim
mings is a jet Dana snapea to eage a
yoke, and from this in front falls a
chenille fringe, tipped two or three
inches with jet, which reaches the
bottom of the waist.
If you are making flower rosettes
(which you must do) to go on your
little cape, don't forget that the buds
must be bunched very closely ana
wholly devoid of foliage.
For elegant dress garnitures are
shown expensive passementeries,
buckles and buttons to match, tha
buttons, in varying sizes, to be used
on different portions of the costume.
Silk ruches are worn inside tho
skirts instead of ruffles, as they serve
better to make the skirt utand out.
Fine wire or light cane is sometimes
run in at the bottom of the skirt to
give the desired eflect.
The very large loose reddish-pur-
nle violets are in as great favor as ever,
and the liking for these blossoms will
probable continue for two seasons, as
thev are in highest favor just, now in
Paris, and are likewise finding special
favor in the eyes of English women of
rank, including the Princess of Wales,
her daughter and the Duchess oi loriw
Electricity's New Startiug Point.
It must not be supposed that the
now electricity represented by Nikola
Tesla is iconoclastic. In the minds ol
a great many people of culture the
idea prevails that invention is as large
ly a prooess of pulling down as of
building up ; and electricity, in spread
ing from one branch of industry to
another, encounters the prejudice thai
always rebuffs the innovator. The as
sumption is false. It may be true that
I in the gladitorial arena where the
principles of science contend, one
party or the other always succumbs
and drags out its dead ; bat in the
arts long survival is the law for all the
.nnliariAAa llfl f lintTA Vtttn fnilTnl fl '
any notable utility. It simply becomes
a question of the contracting sphere
,within which the old apparatus is
hedged by the advent of the new; and
that relation ooce established bv
processes complex and long continued,
capable even of mathematical determ
ination, the two go on together, com
plimentary in their adjustment to
specific human needs. In its latest
outgrowths, electrical application ex
emplifies this. After many years' nee
of dynamo-electric machinery giving
what is known as the "continuous cur
rent," the art has reached the conclu
sion that only with the "alternating
current" can it fulfill the later duties
laid upon it, and accomplish the
earlier tasks that remain untouched.
With the continuous curreni we have
learned the rudiments of lighting and
power distribution. With tha alter
nating current, manipulated and
coaxed to yield its highest efficiency,
we may solve the problems of aerial
and marine navigation by electricity,
operate large railway Bysteme, trans
mit the energy of Niagara hundreds ol
miles, and, in Mr. Tesla's own phrase,
"hook our machinery directly to thai
of nature." Century.
Englishwomen at the Forge.
This was a long shed, with eight oi
ten forges in it; a worker and a
blower to each forge. Toil was being
carried on with feverish energy under
the eyes of the master, who promen
aded up and down. There were ae
many women as men. The heat was
great and the smell baddish, and sug
gestive of its extreme badness in mid
summer. At one forge, one woman--age about
twenty-two used the hammer with
her hands and worked the oliver with
her feet. I tried to do as she did
She settled a nail in two or three
blows. It cost me seven. The force
necessary to make the oliver do its
duty is very great. The whole powei
of the body must be concentrated upon
the muscles. At one forge a man and
wife were at work ; both just over
twenty. I wondered what their home
must be after such a day's work. A
more jaded couple one could hardly
imagine. - -All tho Year Round.
A Springfield plass.) woman want3
$20,000 damages or catching cold in
a street oar. ' . :
Labrador Society.
In winter Labrador is simply frozen
out from the rest of the world. One'
"komitick," or dog-sled, mail reaches ,
some of the more southerly settle
ments late in the spring. The
Moravian missionaries at the Eskimo
villages further north' endeavor afr
least once a winter to visit by komi-:
tick the few scattered white settlers
within a hundred miles or so of tho
missions. Sometimes the komitick is"
overtaken by a eeverc snowstorm bo-
fore shelter can be obtained. Theri
the missionary and his Eskimo driver
dig a deep ditch down in the snow,'
and camp in the bottom. The gases .
from the camp-fire prevent the snow
from floating in, and the travelers arcrj
sheltered from the icy blasts. At
Battlo Harbor, Labrador, where there,
is a church (there are only twol
churches, I think, on the Labrador'
coast south of the Moravian missions),
they have a public sewing machine,'
and one long winter, when tho
kerosene oil supply bocamo very low, I
the women gathered at the parsonage
and did their sewing by the parsonage
lamp. As the Battle Harbor mission
is too poor to furnish the wee church
with a bell, the rector signals the call,
to service with a flag. High among:
the rocks at Little Bay, Newfound-"
land, I eaw two little churches. One
of these had a small belfry perched
on a still higher rock. The other' .
bell swung from a tall spar ; and to'
ring it one was obliged to climb " a
ladder much like the shrouds of a
vessel. The dcg-sled is also tba
regular method of winter traveling'
over the frozen bayB of Newfoundland ;
only it is drawn by Newfoundland
dogs instead of by the half-wolfish.'
Eskimo canines upon which the men' '
of Labrador have to rely. The Eskimo
dogs, with the equally savage mos
quitos, make life ashore a burden dur-'
ing summer in Labrador. A stick to
beat off the dogs and a veil ns a pro
tection against the niosquitos are
absolutely necessary. It is a curious
fact that the further north yon go tho'
more pestiferous tho mosquitos be
come. They are worse in Labrador
than in New Jersey, audare still worse '
in Greenland than even in Labridor. .
Cufit.av Kobbe, in St. Nicholas.
Beans In Dig Demand.
' I notico an advance in white beans,
and this is certainly an item of some
importance these hard times. How
strange it seems that with so vast au
area of available land our country doou
not raise enough beans to supply its
own market, and hence a constant im
portation is required. Daring last
year three-quarters of a million
bushels of foreign beans were used in
New York City, and now that tho
supply has diminished the price ad- ;
vances just at the time when con-J t
sumei-s feel it so keenly for beans -are
the best dish in which a poor niau
can indulge. Hence one naturally
suggests the inquiry, Why do not
American farmers raise more beans?
Rochester Democrat-Chronicle.
AFam3U3 Sirinj M.w.
Juan Dias Faes died recently in (he
province of Astnrias, Spain. He wait a
man of Herculean bnild au I hirongth ;
a giant who with his bare fists w
able to fight and snbduo boar in the
mountains. With one blow he once
almost killed a famous English boxor,
and his hunting adventures formed the
basis of novels and melodramas,
Queen Christine, the Duko ol Mont-
pensier, voting Carnot and other great
people were the friends and admirers:
of Faes. He was one of the simplest',
and most good natured fellows in per
sonal intercourse and a great favorite
with all. Chicago Times-Herald..
"3om Paul" is Not a Musician. - '
President Kruger, of the Boern, ev
idently has no music in hia soul if a
story going tho rounds in South Africa
be true. At a social gathering given
in his honor some time ago, one of
Bloemfontein's sweetest lady singers
gave an artistic rendering of a popu
lar song. The lady of the bousfl,
turning to "Oom Paul,"" who .wrs
probable pining for a pipe, asked:
How did your Honor like-that T
The President bluntly replied, "I go
into tho veld whenT want to hear the
she-wolf scream r-7-Vestminster Cft-
ZX't'lllB.
, xuv win uuii pciuuuui prupt'.rfy l:
this' country is a33i3ssioii Rt JlT.iC'?
XU prcycrtr c! JobaBtsabopi Well
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