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Show ME COUNTY REGISTER. Hegrsler Publishing Company. EI'HRAIM, : : : UTAH. A noAiSTKR Is valuable according to his secies. In horseflesh a road-ster often brings a fabulous price, but when we get (mm horse down to man, who would give ten cent--i for a tramp? former what chemists call the pro. tein compounds or that which con. tains one of the forms of nitrogen, one I of the most costly elements in agrieul- - . I ture. I i Let us now examine whr.t the fat of j I nnimals is composed of; Simply forms of carbon starch, oil. sugar, gum. etc. The oil seems identical in all. The solhl portions differ. In man. In the goose, in butter and in olive oil, it la called margarine. In tho solid portions of the fat of the horso, 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 the chlorides and phosphates. These also hold alwut 5 per cent of sulphur in tho form of soluble and in-soluble sulphates. Feeding f r Milk ami Flesh. Feeding for milk is of especial im-portance to dairymen, for on tho in-tegrity of food rests not only tho flow of milk, but its power as containing the integral quality to make the out-co-profitable: but that tho same general rule will hold good, however, with the breeder and feeder for work or flesh. For instance, in feeding for milk, in proportion any hick of any one or moro of the' constituents necessary to form milk, in tho same proportion will bo tho diminished flow for the axiom is as true in feeding is in the cultiva-tion of the soil, that to insure nn ex-traordinary crop all of the constituents of tho crop must b 5 held in excess by the soil, and that in a condition of solubility, and one essential being ab-sent or even low, the crop is deficient and often a failure. Ileueo the noces- - sity of so formulating the food that it will conserve tho particular require- - ment sought. j It is a general rulo in feeding for i growth, that tho food given shall hold j what chemists call ono part of flesh formorj to throe or four parts of fat formers starch, sugar, gum. oil, etc. I The flesh formers furnish nourishment i to the muscles, and the fat formers ! heat producing and lubricating ole- - i ments to the animal system. In win-- j ter feeding tho fat formers should bo in a pi cater ratio than the flesh form- - ors and this as a rule in proportion to i how much cold tho animals must be j exposed to. But here, again, the rel-- ! lalive food as between those must de-po-also upon the amount of labor the animal is expected to perform. In other words, the greater tho muscular exertion ti e jjror.tor amount of flesh bods and where a colony of Northern "Nitrate Kings" have accumulated their millions. A high, chilly upland, about twenty miles across, separate the outer Sierra of Iluatacondo from tho higher rango of the Cordillera; aud then the Andes slope sharply down, to the plateau of Bolivia, 12.000 feet above the sea. The surface of tho 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 plaiu. Wherever wells have been sunk, alternate layers of gravel, sand and mud are disclosed, each series of layers representing tho 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 be found almost anywhere, at the depth of from 50 to 150 feet; but no place has yet been discovered where the conditions necessary for artesian wells are fulfilled. IN QUEEREST IQUIQUE. THE SCENE OF A SAVAGE AND BLOODY BATTLE. Ven I'oints from the Most Interesting ltegion of ( hlle "Nitrate Kings" and the HouiHlless Houree of Their Health. When we first saw Iquiqne, (pro-nounced little more than half a year ago, it was one of the most peaceful and prosperous cities of Chile a eaiort second only to Valparaiso in population and commercial import-ance, in wido contrast to the burned and battered ruin the rebels made of it on their recent raid, says Fannie B. Ward in the Philadelphia Record. As most of my 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 tho 19th and 20th ult. every building in the six principal squares was completely destroyed. The insurgents seized the custom house, pillaged private resi-dences, and finally set fire to the busi-ness quarter and reduced it to ashes. Tho terrified women and children, who were hidden in the inner rooms of their lhouses to escape bomb 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 hole. Low-clas- s Chileans are proverbially cruel, and the soldiers, having once had a ta.ste of blood, are worse than so many savages. This was many times proved in tho war with Peru. After j one or two disastrous battles the Poru-- i vians, knowing what to expect if they j fell into tho hands of tho merciless en-- 1 cmy, when defeat was certain, leaped ink) the sea or killed themselves with j their own bayonets. Tl, lonn i...,f-V,w,!i- iiiiiill., UT.11 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 nitrate people have been doing little profitable business, principally on account of the government troubles and consequent strikes among the la-borers, and also because the English market is overstocked with the com-modity, and therefore its p'rice is cor-respondingly low. From this nitrate industry alone the Chilean government has been collecting a revenue of about f 20. 000,000 per annum in export duties. Some eight months ago, when workmen were striking all over the country, on account of hard times, 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 masse, 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. The 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-- ity on the Southern Continent is this inexhaustible deposit of nitrate of soda-Bod-s 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 Atncama desert for $20 the arroba, or about $2.50 per gallon, and a drink for a mule cost 15 English shillings. Finally, at a place in the desert called Carmen Alto, a sun condenser with 50. 000 square feet of glass was em-ployed i to distill fresh water from that of the sea. This was afterward wrecked by a whirlwind, but a smaller apparatus on the same principle is now being worked at Sierra Gordo, and rcaSzes a handsome profit, though the water sells for only 30 cents tho arroba. The portion of the pampa in which F.nglish-speakiu- g people nro most in-terested is that lying between Iquiqui nud Pisagua tho celebrated "Tamaru-ga- i Pampa" where lie tho Tarapaca A whiter in the Arena says that the land belongs not to tho individual, but to the race. Yes; but tho race belongs, as a rule, to the swift, and the swift is the individual, and bo we get back to where we were before paying taxes. A 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. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. ! DEEP PLOWING AND COOD CUL-TIVATION PAYS. A Man Khonld (io at Farming as a Mer- - ehant VM4 ,t Business Stay Where You Art Hint for fr'arm ami Household. Good Cultivation Pays. That men who go at farming as a merchnnt that goes at his business, who arc not content to roost for hours every day on a dry goods box nt 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 yearn since I planted a Held of eighty acres of common ground broken the previous year. I plowed ten inches deep, planted in check rows. When plowing this field my neighbor camo 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 one inch deeper than the urst 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 the failure ho predicted. When my corn was up bo that tho rows could be seen I put in tho culti-vator. At this stage my neighbor enme by again, and again warned me 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 1 should cultivate it at once. 1 replied, "I shall work my corn thoroughly three times, rain or no rain." "Well," lu? says as ho rode on, "you will I'co when I harvest my corn that yon have dono wrong, and that I tth. ill get a good crop while yours will full." 1 did not get a largo yield, for t'io ground was too new. Hut hero is the result of my cultivation: My iirst field lumened 2,500 bushels of corn. Mv neii'libm' hnd loll neres !tm! har- - ve.-te- 150 busho's. Don't you think this difcrenco of yield (over 'J.ono bu.heU) paid mo well for my labor? I think it did. This past year has been very dry u:.d the whole country around mo has fail.td, and yet, I have raised 1,000 bushels of coi n, eighty-eig- ht of wheat, 300 of barley and 200 of oats. Tho corn on our homo mar-- 1 wold for sixty cents per bushel, bar-ley for fifty cents and outs for fifty cents. I am a farmer and belong to the 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 the Alliance or out of it, seeking for the remedy in tho right direction. When they begin to plow deeper and think and act more like business men of every other occu-pation, then and not before will they begin to prosper. Cincinnati Times. THE INTELLIGENT COMPOSITOR Hit Occasional Blunders and Faults Over-balanced by Ills Good Deeds. There are some things that theaver-ag- e 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 tho San Francisco Chronicle, cannot be persuaded that there is such a word as ingenuous." He is certain to make 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 "insiduous," possibly misled by "de-ciduous,", which he uniformly gets right. His pons asinorum, however, is "consensus," which he will set up "coDcensus" 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 ho lives and dies in the belief that the longer word is "census," with tho "con" prefixed. Every printing oflleo has what are called "style rules," which are intend-ed to be 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 tho old hymn so that it read, 10,000,000" (ten thousand thousand) ' are their tongues, but all their joys are 1," or for spoiling tho editor's quotation from the s:mg. "Meet Mo in the Lnno at Half Fast Nine," by set-ting it up. "Meet Mo in tho Lane at 9:30." One more illustration completes the category of his ordinary misdeeds. Whenever an attempt is made to quote the celebrated chapter, "On the Snakes of Iceland," which is comprised in tho words, i.Tl,.,,,., are no snakes :in Ice-- land," tho compositor, no matter how j legible his copy, will convert "Ice- - land" into "Ireland." the St. Patrick legend being apparently more familiar to him than tho history of Iceland. But now let us see what the compos-itor can do and does every day of his life. He takes a manuscript, the chi- - j rography of which would make the lid j of a Chinese tea chest blush with envy, translates it into the vernacular as ho goes along, corrects the spelling and j grammar, and oftentimes the rhetoric, and turns it out, not as the author j wrote it, but as he intended to write it. He sets up better English than most men can write; he can detect errors of fact as well as of stylo; he can give the horse editor points on sporting matters, and the religious editor on theology; he can appreciate even the merits of a discussion on the tariff, and detect the fallacies in ft 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 eccentricitios and idiosyncrasies against his fund of general information, his knowledge of j a wide range of subjects, and his ability j to discriminate between good and bad literary work, it is surely no misnomer to call him the "intelligent coimosi. tor." It is said that recent electrical have made everything about dentistry pleasant and painless. It is a pity that some one doesn't invent a device to anesthetioize the lively emo-tions which one experience on climb-ing the stairs to the dentist's oflleo. As a general thing that part of the experience is as depressing as the sight of the dentist's tools. Farm Motel. Keep the collars and shoulders clean, in order to avoid galled shoulders. Sheep are good animals to aid in building up tho 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 to keep the stock from getting breochy. It is impossible to get a fast horse on tho road and a good draft animal in the same-- individual, Artificial stimulants are of as little use to stock as men; the reaction leaves them weaker than before. If tho fence corners are allowed to grow up in weeds and briars, the fence will rot down much faster. The 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, tho gait of tho horse is largely influenced by the driver, so that a slow man often implies a slow horse. Tho objection to sowing grass or clover wnn oats is mat niter mo oats are 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 be necessary to diet an animal before a cure can be affected. A good quality of butter cannot bo 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 and that class of bulky foods. Good grass is almost a positive ne-cessity in making good butter during the summer. No.., matter how well' "hred the cuttle may bo good grass will be found of material benefit. Stock-growin- g and grass-growin- g should go together. A better price can bo 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 tho 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. SNAKES FOR DINNER. A Solid Reptile Meal With Frlcascep Crow for an Kntree. A St. Louis newspaper man tolls some rather surprising stories about experiences he has had during the Kimberley gold excitement in Austra-lia in 1X80. Disembarking at Cam-bridge Gulf, he says, their parly made their way for 300 miles to where the miners were washing out the dirt. "We were not much encouraged on tho way," says he. "Tho route was strown with the dead bodies of horses, and tho 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. Tho horso had died a natural death, and so we preferred the crow. What did it taste like? Well, if crow possesses any merit as an article of diet, it lies in tho individuality of tho flavor. 1 have never eaten anything that resembled, it exactly. Hut I must own that cock-atoo is worse. We tried both and found that of the two the ei-j- was tenderer. "Snakes are very plentiful in North-er- a Australia. The negroes devour them greedily, in preference to beef. They cut off the heads of tho 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 native ne-groes are pitiable specimens of the human race. They subsist solely on game, which is not always plentiful, and live without shelter of any kind, j save in the rainy season. Then they prop uti pieces of bark a few feet from the ground, and lie close together, their heads in the center and their feet stretched towards the edge of the rude hut." The Somerville Journal says that a philosopher is a man who earns if'J 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 $'.) a week. What the Journal should have said is that a phi-losopher is a man whoso sole resources are If!) a week, and who does not la-ment if he fails to collect it. Foif a 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. Tho chances for success in life for the person who does not belong to that class will be slim anywhere. Tho collars 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 ta.tea. In the Wert partieu-'- t 'X tarty they have about monopolized the the field of the savings banks, and also for small real estate loans. - Anchor Yourself. The old saw. mUms shoumrtker 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 the most nomadic. The trainp always thinks some other place is a little bettor than the ono ho is in, and so moves on. In that respect there are thousands of farmers just like him. They are forever moving on. A writer on tho New York Wit-oe- ss recently wrote: "I had a talk with a farmer who h;id shifted his abode four timos in nino years. I asked him what was tho best time of his farm life, and in reply ho said: The first farm I occupied.1 What was the second best success of your farm life?' 'The second farm lownod.' And what was the worst speculation you ever got, inior ;uy present itirin. Ho had been rolling all about, and the rosult was he gathered no moss." The Ohio or Indiana farmer can not do better 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 west and made dismal failures. The suc-cessful men only we hear of. Americans are fond of sugar and of all things sweetened with it, and our country consumes a greater quantity than any other on the globe the per capita consumption being about 45 pounds, or 225 pounds to the farpjfa-- . This insures a practically unlimited home market and with the bounty of two cents a pound paid by the govern-ment, ought at least to encourage ex-haustive experiments in beet culture in those states where the soil and cli-mate promise the best results. Hit Opinion of Men. She was a slight, delicate little wo-man with a determined, fear-nothin- g 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 seises of chivalry, and the nine-teenth century man has as much of it as a mediaeval knight if you only know how to find 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 let 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 ill your life. Hints to House keepers. 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 j dressing. Bathing tho face daily in hot water removes the pimples by softening the oil in tho tiny tubes, and is said to pre-vent wrinkles. It is necessary to the health of the feet to bathe them daily and change tho stockings very frequently. lie always careful to hang the stockings which have been worn where thev will be thoroughly aired at night if they are to bo 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 Paris into this to make a thick paste. Cement brok-en pieces of china together, and in half an hour they cannot bo broken in tho same place. Hot water seems to make it more firm. In judging as to the odor of meat pass a clean knife, which has been dipped in hot water, through it, and examine subsequently as to the odor of the knifo. Tainted meat often gives off a plainly porceptiblo and disagree-able odor while being cooked. Good meat is elastic to tho touch. Meat that Is wet and flabby should be dis-carded. Black walnut furniture . is quickly cleaned by rubbing with a flannel cloth moistened with kerosene. Kub dry, then apply tho following preparation: Mix together equal parts of linseed oil, vinegar and turpentine Shake well, apply with flannel cloth and rub in well. Let the furniture stand a short time, 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 nro nice broiled. Sprinkle with salt and cook twenty minutes, spread-ing with butter when done. Shad and mackerel can be 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-ter welL Bluetish are very fine 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. Corroborative Testimony. Dan McGary, editor of tho Houston, Age, goes out hunting occasionally, and he tells wonderful yarns .about what marvelous shooting he does. Whenever he tells a particular tough story, he proves it by a colored man named Sam Johnsing, who is more ex-pert, if possible than Dan. himself. One day not long since he was telling his yarns to a select coterie in a beer saloon. He said: "As I was sayisnt. gentlemen, I knocked over two rabbits at one shot or was io 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 flew 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 'em 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 McGary. You shot free dogs at one shot I was dar and I'll sw'ar ter hit. All of 'em was shot right fru dar heads." Of 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 tho more stereotyped func-tions of places whore the children of prosperous parents can obtain the polite training which will enable them to scatter the parental wealth In good style when they get hold of it. The monumental error of the ages in the use of drugs has been, at least until within tho last century, that no one has taken any pains to learn by experiment what effects a certain 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 the logic of it has been ignored in the progress of medicine. Here and there one down through the centuries has had tho moral courage to tost drugs on himself or his disciples before using them upon the sick. Papa Got III 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 the respect due a full ' grown citizen. But ho wanted a pair of roller skates, and when he got them spent 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 do." Miss GabrieUe Greeley, daughter of the late Horace Greeley, lives at the old homestead, Chappaqua. Her fam-ily consists of her cousin, Miss Cecilia Cleveland, one maid servant tind three dogs. She lives entirely for others, taking as tho motto of her life, "I shall not pnss this way again; any good, therefore, that I can do, let me do it at once." She ministers to the sick, the poor and the aged in the lit-tle hamlet of Chappaqua and the town of Pleasantville, 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 Lent Ills 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 press me, I know of but one grave fault in your new minister." What is that please?" Ho doesn't know how to sing." Hum! Not a very grave fault, Is it, not to know how to sing?" "No; but you see. ho sings just the same as if he did know. Strictly 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-lege?" asked John of a senior. "Oh," replied the senior, "there are many opportunities for a bright young j man." "Yes!" exclaimed John, somewhat j impatiently; "but what are you goin' j to do?" |