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Show THE COUNTY REGISTER. Register Publishing Company. EPIIRAIM. : : : UTAH. A roadster Is valuable according to his species. In horseflesh a road-ster often brings a fabulous price, but when we get from horso down to man, who would give ten cents for a tramp? beds and where a colony of Northern ' Nitrate Kings' have accumulated, their millions. A high, chilly upland, about twenty miles across, separates' the outer Sierra of Huataeoude from, the higher range of the Cordillera;, and then the Andes slope sharply down, to the plateau of Bolivia, 12,000 feet above the sea. The surface of the desert is not sharp sand, but dry earth mixed with a certain proportion of sandy particles, and irrigation would turn every rod of it into a fertile plain. Wherever wells have been sunk, alternate layers of gravel, sand and mud are disclosed, each series of layers representing the. sequence of a single flood in former ages; hence it follows that in times long past the pampa must have been subject to periodical inundations. Water may bo found almost anywhere, at the depth of from 50 to 150 feet; but no place has yet been discovered where the conditions necessary foj artesian wells are fulfilled. IN QUEEREST IQUIQUE. THE SCENE OF A SAVAGE AND BLOODY BATTLE. Ten I'olnts from the Most Interesting Region or I'll lie "Nitrate Kings" and the Houudless Source of Their Wealth. When we first saw Iquique, (pro-nounced little more than half a year ago, it was one of the most peaceful and prosperous cities of Chile a teaport second only to Valparaiso in population and commercial import-ance, in wide contrast to the burned and battered ruin the rebels made of it on their recent raid, says Fannie 1i. Ward in the Philadelphia Record. As most of ray readers are aware, it has long been the great shipping point of nitrate of soda a vast business, prac-tically controlled by English capital; and therefore in the eyes of English-men Iquique is of more consequence than all the rest of Chile put together. In the battle here between the gov-ernment troops and the rebels on the 19th and 20th ult every building in the six principal squares whs completely destroyed. Tho insurgents seized the custom house, pillaged private resi-dences, and finally set fire to the busi-ness quarter and reduced it to ashes. The terrified women and children, who were hidden in the inner rooms of their Ihouses to escapo bombs and flying bill-ets, had the walls burned or pulled down over their heads during the sack-ing process, and in this way several hundred defenseless creatures perished like rats in a holo. Low-clas- s Chileans are proverbially cruel, and the soldiers, having once had a taste of blood, are worse than so many savages. This was many times proved in the war with Peru. After ono or two disastrous battles the Peru-vians, knowing what to expect if they fell into tho hands of the merciless en-emy, when defeat was certain, leaped into the sea or killed themselves with their own bayonets. The terra "cut-throa- t" applies well to the Chilean soldier, for every one of them carries a short, curved knife sharpened on tho inner side of the curve that just fits a human neck, and is terribly expert in its use. Not long ago we were entertained in the house of a wealthy citizen of Santiago, when he showed me with great pride and satisfaction a glass case containing upward of 200 gold and silver medals, such as these Southern governments delight to bestow upon their soldiers for distinguished bravery, and related how they were all torn from the breasts of dead or wounded officers on the battle-field- s of Peru. For more than a year past the nitrato people have been doing little profitable business, principally on account of the government troubles and consequent ptrikea funonfr the la-borers, and also because the English market is overstocked with the com-modity, and therefore its price is cor-respondingly low. From this nitrate industry alone the Chilean government has been collecting a revenue of about $20,000,000 per annum in export duties. Some eight months ago, when workmen were striking all over the country, on account of hard tirnos, occasioned by the persistent refusal of congress to pass the appropriation bills, these Iquiqui laborers made a great deal of trouble. The workmen had been receiving from $4 to $10 a day in Chilean paper currency, (worth about one-thir- d the amount in United States or English gold), and when exchange dropped lower and lower they demanded to be paid in silver instead of in paper, as formerly, which would, in reality, about double their wages. This the nitrate companies refused to do, be-cause they were making no money themselves, and the established rate of payment was exceptionally good for Chile. Then the laborers "struck" en masso, and threatened to burn down the works and warehouses unless their demands were acceded to. The man-agers importuned the president to send troops to their assistance. But the government was so distracted with its own troubles and the revolts that were springing up all over the country that aid was not dispatched to Iquiqui in time to do much good. Tho conse-quence was that several of the largest nitrate companies were compelled to suspend work entirely, to their own ruin and the suffering of hundreds of poor families and the loss to Chile's treasury at a critical time when she can ill afford it Perhaps the greatest natural curios-- lty on tne soutnern Continent is this inexhaustible deposit of nitrate of soda. Beds of it are strewn along the west-ern coast for five hundred miles; and throughout all that distance the physical aspect of the country is the same everywhere an arid range of hills from four to six thousand feet high, rising abruptly out of the Pacific, backed by a desert pampa (plain) from fifty to one hundred miles wide, which gradually ascends to the foot of the snowy Cordillera. No-where else in the world except in this particular pampa are nitrates found in quantities worth mentioning. A few years ago water sold on the Atacama desert for $20 the arroba, or about $2.50 per gallon, and a drink for a mule cost 15 English shillings. Finally, at a plaeo in the desert called Carmen Alto, a sun condenser with 50,000 square feet of glas9 was em-ployed to distill fresh water from that of "the sea. This was afterward wrecked by a whirlwind, but a smaller apparatus on tho same principle is now being worked at Sierra Gordo, and realizes a handsome profit, though the water sells for only 30 cents the arroba. The portion of the pampa in which Kaglish-spcakiu- g people are most in-terested is that lying between Iquiqui and Pisagua the celebrated "Tamarn-g;v- i Pampa" where lie tho Tarapaca A wki'itk in the Arena says that th land belongs not to the individual, but to the race. Yes; but the race belongs, as a rule, to the swift, and the swift is the individual, and so we get back to where we were before paying taxes. A t'HANK lecturer says that it will be a happy time when the world does without money; but, like the stoic that he is, the gentleman will take all he can get until there is a more decided reform movement than he Is able to perceive at present. It is said that recent electrical in. ventions have made everything about dentistry pleasant and painless. It is a pity that some one doesn't invent u device to anestheticizo the lively emo-tions which one experiences on climb-ing the stairs to the dentist's office. As a general thing that part of the experience is as depressing as the sight of the dentist's tools. THE INTELLIGENT COMPOSITOR III) Occasional Wonders and Fault Over-balanced bjr III Good Ueeds. There are some things that the aver-age printer cannot or will not do, and some that he both can do and does. The former are not nearly so numer-ous as the latter, so they may be cata-logued before a schedule is attempted of his virtues. The average compositor says the San Francisco Chronicle, cannot be persuaded that there is such a word as "ingenuous." Ho is certain to mako it into ingenious" at least nine times out of ten; and then, to restore the average between the u and the i, he is very likely to make "insidious" into possibly misled by "de-ciduous," which he uniformly gets right. His pons asinorum, however, is 'consensus," which he will set up 'concensus" in spite of the united ef-forts of writer, proof-read- er and the whole staff of editors. The word "census" seems to carry him off his feet, and he lives and dies in the belief that the longer word is "census," with the "con" prefixed. Every printing office has what are called "stylo rules," which are intend-ed to bo followed as closely as possible A common, though not universal, rule is that figures are to be used instead of printing the numbers out at length, but this rule could hardly excuse the compositor for setting up the familiar line of the old hymn so that it read, "10,0110,000" (ten thousand thousand) "are their tongues, hut all their joys are 1," or for spoiling the editor's quotation from the song. "Meet Me in the Lano at Half Past Nine," by set-ting it up. "Meet Me in the Lane at y ::." One more illustration completes the category of his ordinary misdeeds. Whenever an attempt is made to quoto the celebrated chapter, "On the Snakes of Iceland," which is comprised in the words, "There are no snakes in Ice-land," the compositor, no matter how legible his copy, will convert "Ice-land'' into "Ireland," the St. Patrick legend being apparently more familiar to him than the history of Iceland. lint now let us see what the compos-itor can do and doos every day of his life. He takes a manuscript, the chi- - rography of which would make the lid of a Chinese tea chest blush with envy, translates it into the vernacular as ho goes along, corrects the spelling and grammar, and oftentimes the rhetoric, and turns it out, not as the author wrote it, but as he intended to write it He sets up better English than most men can write; he can detect errors rjt fact as well as of style; he can give the horse editor points on sporting luatters, and the religious editor on theology; he can appreciate even the merits of a discussion on the tariff, and detect the fallacies In a profound leader on economics; and he can do more hard and Intelligent work in a given time, if he has to, than any other sort of handicraftsman. Setting off, then, his eccentricities and idiosyncrasies against his fund of general information, his knowledge of a wide range of subjects, and his ability to discriminate between good and bad literary work, it is surely no misnomer to call him the "intelligent coimosi-- i tor." FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. ! DEEP PLOWING AND COOD CUL- -j TIVATION PAYS. A Mn Mionlri .o at Farming a Mer- - rhant tioe at Bulnrss stay Where You Are IllnU for Farm asd Household. Good Cultivation Pays. ' That men who go at farming as a I merchant that goes at his business, who arc not content to roost for hours every dtty on a dry goods box at the country store, but who throw their energy into their business as a successful lawyer or physician does into his profession, suc-ceed, is tested by such a letter as the following, written from Colorado: Three years since I planted a Held of eighty acres of common ground broken the previous year. fl plowed ten inches deep, planted in cheek rows. When plowing this field my neighbor came by. and as he stopped looked at my plowing and exclaimed: "Friend, you are ruining your land and will get no corn." "What is the matter?" I re-plied. "Why," he says "you must not back-se- t more than ono inch deeper than the first breaking. If you do it will t rn up tho rough undersoil and the crop will dry out." I told him I was going to plow deep and run the risk of tho failure he predicted. When my corn was up so that tho rows could be seen I put in tho culti-vator. At this stage my neighbor came by again, and again warned mo that I would ruin my corn by cultivat-ing it said I should let it be until It was ten inches high, and then if tho rain came I should cultivate it at once. 1 replied, "I shall work my corn thoroughly three times, rain or no rain." "Well," he says as he rode on, "you will se when I harvest my corn that you have done wr.mr. and that I (shall get a good crop whi'o yours will fail." I did not get a large yield, for t'.e ground was too new. Hut hero is the result of my cultivation: My lirst field hnrvctted '.'..lOO bushels of corn. My neighbor had 1 X acres and har-vested 1.10 bushu'.s. Don't you think this difcrenco of yield (over 2,000 bushels) paid me veil for my labor? I think it did. This past year has been very dry ;.:.d the whole country around me has failed, and yut, I ha ve raised 1,000 bushel ! of corn, eighty-eig- ht of wheat, U00 of barley and 200 of oats. Tho corn on our homo mar-- 1 sold for sixty cents per bushel, bar-ley for fifty cents and oati for fifty cents. I am a farmer and belong to tho Alliance, but I must say that while I do believe the farmer has a hard time and many grievances, yet I do not think they are, either in tho Alliance or out of it, seeking for the remedy in tho right direction. When they begin to plow deeper and think and net more like business men of overy other occu-pation, then nnd iut before will they begin to prosper. Cincinnati Times. Anchor Yourself. Tho old saw, "tho shoemaker to his last," Is as Important to the farmer as to any other business in life. If there is any business that ought to anchor a man to one locality, it is that of a farmer, and yet of all men farmers are apt to be tho most nomadic. The tramp always thinks some other place Is a little better than the ono he is in, ind so moves on. In that respect there are thousands of farmers just lilce htm. They are forever moving on. A writer on tho Now York Wit-ness recently wrote: "I had a talk with a farmer who had shifted his abode four times in nino years. I asked him what was the best timo of his farm life, and m reply he said: The first farm I occupied.' 'What was the second best success of your farm life?' The second farm I owned.' 'And what was the worst speculation you ever got into?' 'My present furm.' Ho had been rolling all about, and the result was he gathered no moss." The Ohio or Indiana farmer can not do hotter than stick to his farm. He may occasionally hear of some man who has gone west and made a fortune. Let him reflect that there are thous-ands he never hears of who went wost and made dismal failures. Tho suc-cessful men only we hear of. formers what chemists call the pro--1 tein compounds or that which eon. i tains one of the forms of nitrogen, one I of tho most costly elements In agricul- - ture. Let us now examine whr.t the fat of animals Is composed of; Simply forms of carbon starch, oil. sugar, gum, etc. The oil seems identical in all. The solid jortiona differ. In man. in the goose. In butter nnd in olive oil, it is called margarine. In the solid portions of the fat of the horse, the ox, the pig and the sheep it is called stearlne. The hair, horns, hoofs and wool of animals are largely made up of nitrogen in connection with tho. chlorides and phosphates. These also hold about .1 per cent of sulphur in tho form of soluble and in-soluble sulphates. Farm Notes. Keep the collars and shoulders clean, in order to avoid galled shoulders. Sheep are good animals to aid in building up the fertility of the soil. Good grades are desirable but for breeding they should always be fe-males. Keeping the fences in good repair aids materially tp keep the stock from getting breoehy. It is impossible to get a fast horse on the road and a good draft animal in tho same individual. Artificial stimulants are of as little use to stock as men; tho reaction leaves them weaker than before. If the fence corners are allowed to grow up in weeds and briars, the fence will rot down much faster. Tho market in which it is intended to sell should, in some measure at least, determine the kind of a horse to breed. Many failures of tho seed to germ-inate in the spring are due more to the unfavorable conditions of growth than the quality of seed. In very many cases at least, the gait of the horse is largely influenced' by the driver, so that a slow man often implies a slow horse. The objectio-- i to sowing grass or clover with oats is that after the oats arc harvested the plants are killed out by hot, dry weather. Scouring In an animal is an indica-tion of indigestion, and in many cases it will bo necessary to diet an animal beforo a cure can be affected. A good quality of butter cannot be secured with milk from a half starved, Illy sheltered cow. A thrifty condi-tion is necessary to secure the best results. A loamy sandy soil, if reasonably rich and prepared in a good tilth, is the best in which to grow root crops' and In many cases enormous crops can be grown. Animals that are fed on concentrated foods will give a much more valuable fertilizer, than when they are feed upon straw, oats nnd that class of bulky foods. Good grass is almost a positive no- - cessity in making good butter duringj the summer. No matter how well bred the cattle may be good grass will be found of material benefit. Stock-growin- g and grass-growi-should go together. ( A better price can be secured for the grass or hay by converting into beef, while the manure is left to increase the fertility of tho soil. When quick returns are wanted the hog and the hen can be made very profitable, more so in fact in propor-tion to the capital invested than with almost any other class of stock, pro-vided of course that good management is given. Hints to Housekeepers. Use tepid water for washing white silk handkerchiefs. "Olive slaw" is something new. It is olives pitted and then chopped fine and saturated with a sharp French dressing. Bathing the face daily in hot water removes the pimples by softening the oil in the tiny tubes, and is said to pre-vent wrinkles. It is noeessary to the health of the feet to bathe them daily and change tho stockings very frequently. Be always careful to hang the stockings which have been worn whore thev will be thoroughly aired at night if they are to be worn again. A good cement for mending broken china: Dissolve a little gum-arabi- c In a little water so that it is rather thick; put enough plaster of Taris into this to make a thick paste. Cement brok-en pieces of china together, and in half an hour they cannot be broken in tho samo place. Hot water seems to mako it more firm. In judging as to tho odor of meat pass a clean knife, which has been dipped in hot water, through it and examine subsequently as to the odor of tho knife. Tainted meat often givo3 off a plainly perceptible and disagree-able odor while being cooked. Good meat is clastic to the touch. Meat that is wet and flabby should bo dis-carded. Black walnut furniture is quickly cleaned by rubbing with a flannel cloth moistened with kerosene. Hub dry, then apply tho following preparation: j Mix together equal parts of linseed oil, i vinegar and turpentine Shako well, npply with flannel cloth and rub in well. Let the furniture stand a short timo, then rub vigorously with dry flannel. Unless bodily stained and marred, furniture will look better treated in this way, than when coated with heavier dressings. Thick slices of cod. halibut and sal-- ! mon are nieo broiled. Sprinkle with J salt and cook twenty minutes, spread-- I ing with butter when done. Shad and j mackerel can be broiled whole. Lay tho skin side down first and turn sev-eral times, seeing that it does not scorch; place on a hot platter and but-- j ter welL Bluetish are very fino If broiled until half done, then laid in a buttered dripping pan, with shavings of butter put thickly over them, and set into a hot oven until finished. Feeding fir Milk nnd lli-sh- . Feeding for milk is of especial im-portance to dairymen, for on tho in-tegrity of food not only tho flow of milk, but its power us containing the integral quality to make the out-come profitable; but that tho samo general rule will hold good, however, with tho breeder and feeder for work or flesh. For instance, in feeding for milk, in proportion any lack of any ono or rnoro of the constituents necessary to form milk, in tho same proportion will bo the diminished flow for tho axiom is as true in feeding is in the cultiva-tion of the soil, that to insure an ex-traordinary crop a'lof the constituents of tho crop mustbi held In excess by the soil, and that in a condition of solubility, and one essential being low, the crop Is deficient and often a failure. Hemic the neces-sity of so formulating tho food that it will conserve tho particular require-ment sought. It is a general rule in feeding for growth, that tho food given shall hold what chemists cull ono part of llesh formors to three or four parts of fat formers starch, sugar, gum. oil, etc. The flesh formers furnish nourishment to the muscles, and the fat fennel's heat producing und lubricating ele-ments to tho animal system. In win-t- or feeding the fat formers should bo in a prcater ratio than tho flesh form-ers and this as a rule in proportion to how much cold tho animals must bo exposed to. But here, again, the rol-lati-food as between these must de-pend also upon the amount of labor tho animal Is expected to perform. In other words, tho greater the muscular exertion tl e creator amount of flesh Tiik Soinervillo Journal says that a philosopher is a man who earns $y a week and is contented with his income. This is misleading. A man may have an income of $100,000 a year and not earn more than $11 a week. What the Journal should have said is that a phi-losopher is a man whoso sole resources are $1) a week, and who does not la-ment if he fails to collect it. SNAKES FOR DINNER. A Solid Kept lie Meal With Fricaseep. ('row for an Kntree. A St. Louis newspaper man tells some rather surprising stories about experiences he has had during the Kimberley gold excitement in Austra-lia in lMMt). Disembarking at Cam-bridge Gulf, he says, their party made their way for 800 miles to where the. miners were washing out the dirt. "We were not much encouraged on the way," says he. "The route lens' strewn with the dead bodies of horses, and the miners evidently carried about their persons what nuggets they had obtained. Fortunately there were no tenderfeet in our party. On our re-turn wo saw men eating li.ards and snakes: and it was at this time that I first tasted crow. One of my compan-ions sighted the bird feasting off tho remains of a dead horse. The horse had died a natural death, und so wo preferred the crow. What did it tasto like? Well, if ercw possesses any merit as an article of diet, it lies in the individuality of the flavor. 1 have never eaten anything that, resembled it exactly. Hut I must own that cock-atoo is worse. Wo tried both and found that of-th- two the crow was tenderer. "Snakes are very plentiful in North-ern Australia. The negroes devour them greedily, in preference to beef. They cut off the heads of the reptiles, and, as there is no poison in the body, the flesh is harmless. But the native negroes of Australia are not fastidious. Some of them are cannibals, and it, went hard with the Chinamen for a time. The snake family will survive them, however, for there are only about 20,000 blacks surviving in Aus-tralia, and they are rapidly dying out with the kangaroo. These nativo ne-groes are pitiable specimens of the human race. They subsist solely on game, which ie not always plentiful, and live without shelter of any kind, in the rainy season. Then they prop uo pieces of bark a few feet from the ground, and lie close together, , their heads in the center and their feet stretched towards tho edge of the rude hut" Foua certain class of young men there always seems to bo room no matter what their business or pro-fession may be. Their characteristics are industry, patience, thoroughness, honesty and economy. The chances for success in lifo for tho person who does not belong to that class will be slim anywhere. Tho cellars are crowded in mercantile, commercial and banking circles as well as in the professions. There Is room above. One of tho most notable features of our financial fabric has been the re-markable growth of building and loan associations. It is only a few years since this plan of saving money and for providing funds for . home building was first tried in Phila-delphia. To-da- y building and loan as-sociations are numbered by thousands in many states. In the West particu-larly they have about monopolized tho the field of the savings banks, and also for small real estate loans. Americans are fond of sugar and of v all things sweetened with it, and our ; country consumes a greater quantity any other on the globe the per consumption being about 45 Qan or 225 pounds to the farrj)ft-- . insures a practically unlimited liome market and with the bounty of two cents a pound paid by the govern-raen- t, ought at least to encourage ex-haustive experiments in beet culture In those states where the soil and cli-mate promise the best results. Corroborative Testimony. Dan MeGary, editor of the Houston Age, goes out hunting occasionally,1 and lie tells wonderful yarns about what marvelous shooting he does. Whenever he tells a particular tough, story, he proves it by a colored man named Sara Johnsing, who is more ex-pert, if possible than Dan. himself. One day not long since he was telling-hi- s yarns to a select coterie in a beer-saloo- Ho said: "As I was sayi, gentlemen, I knocked over two rabbits at one shot, or was i three?" "It. was free, boss; I was dar, and I kin sw'ar to it, "said Sam Johnsing. "That wasn't much," continued Dan., "be-cause I used shot. But one day I was. out shooting quail; two birds tlew up. and I knocked them both over with one bullet. I am not sure that I didn't, kill three." "Whew! That's com-ing it pretty strong, " said Andy Faulk-ner, one of the hearers. "Sam., you were there. Now tell these gentlemen the facts," retorted Dan. "I was dar, and seed you shoot, and you drapped all. free of dem quails. I picked 'era up. and dar heads were all shot off." "I heard that you missed the quail and shot one of the dogs," remarked Faulk-ner cynically. "Sam., you were there. Tell these gentlemen if I shot one of the dogs." "Indeed you did, Master MeGary. You shot free dogs at one shot I was dar and I'll sw'ar ter hit, . All of 'em was shot right fru ." Op late years all our American col-leges have progressed in the matter of educational advancement, but at the same time some of them, perhaps the majority of them, have lost a share of their old democratic accessibility to the common people. Most of them have taken the more stereotyped func-tions of places where the children of prosperous parents can obtain the : polite training which will enable them to scatter the parental wealth in good stylo when they get hold of it Her Opinion of iflen. She was a slight delicate little wo-man with a determined, fear-nothi-look on her youthful face. Her jacket was unfastened, her bang tossed back in a careless manner, and altogether there was a brisk, breezy look of the advanced woman about the slim little body. "I've been a business woman for three years," she said, decidedly, "and have invariably found men in every way courteous and polite to me. The great mistake the independent wo-man makes in her relations with men is in letting them see that she is inde-pendent Now, when I am with men I am the most helpless, clinging crea-ture on the footstool, and they are al-ways lovely to me. Men don't like smart, clever women half so well as gentle, timid creatures that appeal to their senses of chivalry, and the nine-teenth century man has as much of it as a mediaeval knight if you only know how to And it Now, when I was first married and my husband asked me if I was afraid to stay at home in the even-ing, I almost laughed, for I really thought nothing at all of going from Staten Island to Yonkers after dinner on business; but I managed to keep my face very serious, while I told him that I was a perfect coward, that the dread-ful shivers ran down my back every time I heard a little noise when I was alone. Result: He always stays in every evening, and there isn't a queen on the globe that has as nice a time as I do after the dinner is over. Don't be too smart is my advice to women, or, if you can't help being clever and capa-ble never lot the man you love know you are able to pick up your own hand-kerchief when you drop it if you want to be treated like a princess royal 11 your life. , The monumental error of tho ages in the use of drugs has been, at least until within the bust century, that no one has taken any pains to learn by experiment what effects a cortain drug would have upon the healthy human system before administering it to a sick person. This simple proposition so simple that a school-bo- y ought to see tho logic of it has been ignored in the, progress of medicine. Here and there one down through the centuries has had the moral courage to test drugs on himself or his disciples before using them upon the sick. ' Papa Got Ilia Answer. A little Washington boy who keeps his eyes and ears open constantly re-cently succeeded in rather embarassing his father. Ho had been amusing himself by pretending to transact business "like papa," and insisted on being shown tho respect due a full grown citizen. But he wanted a pair of roller skates, and when he got them Bpent a good deal of time on tho ' pavement One evening his father came from the office, and for the sake of teasing the little man said: "That's nice, isn't it? The idea of a man playing like that What would you think of papa were he to come home on skates?" "Well," said the 'youngster after a thoughtful silence, "mamma says you fin " 1 Miss GabrieHe Greeley, daughter of L- - the late Horace Greeley, lives at the J2L old homestead, Chappaqua. Her fam- - ,ily consists of, her cousin, Miss Cecilia VI'leveland. ono maid servant and three ; Bogs. She lives entirely for others, f. oing as the motto of her life, "I ' TCiall not pass this way again; any 'V Vbod, therefore, that I can do, let me i W W at once." 8h ministers to the I ' $v, the poor und the aged in the lit-- V Wiamlet of Chappaqua and the town t 'ictl'lcaeantvUle, which is about two miles distant Here is her parish church, which she attends regularly, walking the distance twice every Sun-da- y and several times in the week dur-ing Leht Ilia Fault. "I understand," said Mr. Johnson of the orthodox church to Mr. Jacks on of the Methodist church, according to an exchange, "that you used to know the new minister that's coming to our church when you lived In York State." "I did," said Mr. Jackson. Is he a good man?" "I think he is a very good man." "Well, what are his faults? He must have some faults." "Since you pres9 me, I know of but one crave fault in your new minister." "What is that please?" "He doesn't know how to sing." "Hum! Not a very grave fault. Is it, not to know how to sing?" "No; but. you sec. ho sings just the same as if ho did know. Strlclly Personal. A Harvard graduate sends this about John, the orange man: "Well, my young friend, what are you goin' to do when you leave col- -I lege?" asked John of a senior, j "Oh, " replied the senior, "thero are many opportunities for a bright young man." , j "Yes!" exclaimed John, somowhat impatiently; "but what are you goin'' ; to do?" |