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Answers to CORRESPONDENTS.

Jessie wishes to know, imprlulis,
do you answer questions on etiqustte
il the letter box?" No, Jessie; We
don't; it is damp, close place. and We
Should catch our death OF cold there.
"Do you approve Of their writing to
one another, just friendly letters? Or
is there any harm in it? and if SO, where
or what lis the harm?" Jessie. your
question is familiar one. It reminds US
OF that conundrum of cur childhood
Which would you rather do Or go a.
fshing?" But we will answer lucidly
and in fluid manner ); it is right to
write to the right young man write
right away. You have our approval.
BLESS You, our children. bless YOU"
Yes, Alice, fool draperies will be worn
as usual. Dregs Of wine is still a popu-
lar color as every topper nose. Make up
your bed-ticking stripe-dress with the
stripe left out. A wreath Of sun flowers
would be in good taste for your porcu-
pine straw hat.
"Style on Toast cannot tell
you whether subdued mouse" is a
fashionable color or not. "Crushed
strawberries may be worn, but have
never seen any. "Stepped-o on toad" is
q lively green much worn at the present
time. Elephants breath" gave out
some time ago. The color known as
"yaller dog" is very intense and pathet.
ic. "Skim-milk blue" is too well known
to need any description.
Mythology--The names of the three
graces are Terra Alba, Terra Gotta and
Terra Firma. We get our information
from the Congressional Record, and
may be mistaken. Terra is human, etc.
Anxious parent, we sympathize with
you in your affection, and cannot see
any hope for your son. The very fact
that he returned the umbrellas silk
one as you say, with an ivory handle and
no name shows an advanced case of
softening Of the brain. Give him, if
possible, another such an opportunity,
and if he does the same thing returns
the umbrella consider him a hopeless
imbecile. It is, indeed, very sad and
uncommon case-umbrella case-it has
hardly a parasol in history. Detroit
Post.
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q Memory of the War.

When Mrs. Mary A. Livermore
lecturel in Albion, Mich, one Gay, al
the close of the lecture, an elderly,
white haired woman approached her, with
the following INQUIRY
"Do you remember writing letter
for John - of he Twelfth Michig., II
volunteers, when he lay dying at the
Overton Hospital at Memphis, during
the spring Of 1868, and of completing
the letter to his wife and mother after he
had died?''
Mrs. Livermore replied that she wrote
so many letters during the war, under
similar circumstances, that she could
not recall any particular case.
The woman drew q letter from her
pocket that had been torn in pieces in
| the folds of the note and was then
stitched together with fine sewing-co
ton.
"Do you remember this letter p" she
asked.
Mrs. Livermore recognized her pen
| manship and admitted her authorship Of
the letter. The first four pages were
written to his wife and mother, at the
dictation of young soldier who had
been shot through the lungs and was
dying of the wound. Then she had COM
| pleted the letter by the addition of three
pages written by herself, beside the dead
husband and son, in which she sought
! to comfort the bereaved relatives.
81 think my daught er-in-law and !
would have died when we heard that
John was dead, but for this letter." said
the worn and weary-looking woman.
" It comforted US both, and by-and- by,
when we heard of other women similarly
afflicted, we sent them the letter to read,
till it was worn in pieces. Then We
sewed the pieces together and made
copies OF the letter, which we sent to
those Of our acquaintance whom the war
bereft.
"But Annie, my sons wife, never got
over Johns death. She kept about, and
worked and went to church, but the life
had gone out of her. Eight years age
! she died of gastric fever. One day, d
little before her death, she said: sMota-
er, if you ever find Mrs. Livermore, CT
hear of her, I wish you would give her
my wedding ring, which has never been
F., off my finger since John put it there,
and which will not be taken off till am
dead. Ask her to wear it for Johns sake
and mine, and tell her that this was my
dying request.
! 81 live eight miles from here" con-
tinued the woman, "and when I read in
the papers that you were to lecture hers
tonight | decided to drive over and give
you the ring, if you will accept it,
j Deeply affected by this touching
narrative, not a particular Of which is
she able to recall, Mrs. Livermore ex.
tended her hand, and the widowed and
/. childless woman put the ring on her fin
] ger, with a fervently uttered benedic-
| tion.-Yoath's Companion.
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The ZEn;S on Mitchcr2ftx

They had been told of the persecution
of the witches at Salem, and, as witch
craft is capital crime in Zuni, they
heartily commended the work, and said
that it was On account Of the energetic
steps taken in those times that the
.s,brricans were prosperous to-day, and
ril Of the curse of witchery. At the
public reception held for them in Salem,
when told they were in the famous city
of the witches, they fell into an ami.
mated dis ussion of the matter among
themselves there on the platform. HI a.
81. when invited to address the audience,
preached little sermon on witchcraft
which would have pleased old Cotton
Mather himself. He thanked the good
people Of Salem for the service they had
done.the world, and gave them some adj
vice how to deal with witchcratt should
it ever trouble them again. ''Be the
witches or wizards your dearest relatives
or friends, consi"er not your own
hearts," said he, "but remember your
duty and spare them not. put them to
death. "-Ctnta7Y.
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Little Children.

It was one of the secrets of my crai
In the old times, when wanted to We;
iron and steel and make good ak a,
hammer, to begin gently, for I fo,u.
out in time that if / began to sti;>
hard at first I might make bal j..
where ought to make good one. S
found it was the first condition O
good work to begin gently. then by ana
by l could come down with ~
forcible stroke. And I used TO not,.q
this trouble in the great iron mills, anc
found that the reason why the grea
hammers could come down so gentlr ~
not to crack an egg and then come dow,
like an earthquake was that there must
be IN the machinery combination o.
force and gentleness to be effective. Mr..
Collyer argued that machinery in the
hands of the mechanic was his child in
a certain sense. Ii there was a screw
loose he got a little purchase to turn it tC
the right, and so at length it worked
well and there was no trouble. Gentle.
ness was master of the situation.
Children are tender; you must lead
them tenderly on. Soomon's doctrine,
"Spare the rod and spoil the child,'' is
an abhorrent doctrine to me-a doctrine
that will not have about my house. ]
took 1t out of my eldest son when he was
little fellow, thinking be had told me
lie, and 1 felt as if some one would
take 1t out of me, and found a. the end
OF the week that the child had told me
the exact and simple truth. Weehould
cultivate the virtue of the wisdom of in.
finite love with little children. Children
are not things, but human beings, pos
sessing power we cannot guess al. We
bend over these little ones and seek our
image in them. IF we detect o fault We
probably say, ooh, he has taken that
from his mother" We always walk
softly when we don't know our way, and
particularly when we walk in shadows.
The child is tender; we should lead on
softly. Hold your hand: If you must
whip somebody turn the lash to your
own shoulder. Don't sap the fi,wer in
their lives by trying to pluck out
the weeds. A great many fathers and
mothers lay heavy burdens upon the
backs Of their children. 1 remember
when 1 was child How glad I used tc
be to get half day to go into the woods
to cut hazel rods for our master. We
knew what they were for, but we didn't
care. Children will sometimes get into
little mischief. Now, l have known
children when they d,d wrong to go and
tell their father and mother. Well, |
was never addicted to that. Children,
no more than grown people, lik. to be
caught in naughty act. Sometimes
parents are inhuman when they detect
teeir children in wrong doing. I said tc
Lucretia Mott once, How do you man.
age your children ?" "Wel," the old
lady said, 81 never touch them with my
hand, but tell them to go into the room,
and after reflection tell me what they
think about it. In all our dealings
with little children We must be gentle,
patient and forsiving; win them with
our love aud not terrify and repel them
with harshness or severity.-Robegt
ColIyer.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-01
Tall Stories Of Old Age.

From Brazil comes story OF mul
to woman having died at the age of
years. just as the Goth was "but,
cred to make Roman holiday" so t!
unfortunate old colored lady seems
have been killed to furnish forth new
paper paragraph. This is pity, |,
cause she would have answered the l.r
pose just as we'll in a couple of hunl..
years time, if the newspaper telling II
tale could have had patience 10
She is said to have lost her sight at IL
age of 100, but to have recovered
somewhat later. Her death was brougl.
about by fall from bench, so tia
there is really 10 knowing how long sh
might have lived if the Brazil paper l,;,,
not arranged that fatal fall. The sub.
ject of longevity is always being dis
puted, some persons being crednlOus ci
all sorts Of wonders and others being a.
skeptical as the late Sir G. Cornewaiiii
Lewis. The case Of the Brazilian mu-
iatto is put in the shade by that of Js-
names de Temporibus, who, according
to Stow, died in the year 1O14, at the
age of 361. Unfortunately, that wa
not an age Of statistics;and marvellous
statements were supplied. A native Of
Bengal is said to have died in 1856 at the
age OF 300; but here again distance OF
place is as important an element as dis.
lance of time in the other instance. In
1888 native of Evercreech, Somerset,
is reported to have died aged 200. In
the latter end of the last century death
at the age OF IT'S or thereabout seems
not to have been uncommon, but rs We
come nearer to our own times the
records are fewer, until now we are
obliged to go to Brazil for striking in.
stance Of extreme age. The moral would
appear to be that, if in time OF regis.
tration and research this class of won.
ders had become extinct, the forme,
statements with regard to them were
myths. Perhaps life was so dull in those
slow times that a man put his sensations
into figures, and thought he had livec
200 years instead Of 70.-Liveypoos Post.
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Distance of the SIM and Noon.

There sre several methods OF eietn
mining the SUBS di;tanre from the cart
some of which it would be diff ..,'
explain satisfactorily to the ress .sr a..
already familiar with the subj CT or -.
terms used. The refined Investigate, ~
OF modern science, says Prof. New,D,n':
have brought to light several meth,ad
by at least two of viii h We may 10 v
ultimately, to attain a greater d.'4r.'.. -
accuracy than We can by mea "a IL
parallaxes. Of these two, one dep, nd
on the gravitating force of the sun up..:,
the moon, and the other upon the vtloc
ity of light. And the same author says,
In regard to measuring the distance u;
the sun by the velocity of light: "There
is al extraordinary beauty in this meth
Cd of measuring the suns distance,
arising from the contrast between the
simplicity of the principle and the pro-
foundness Of the methods by which
alone the principle can be applied
Suppose we had messenger whom we
could send to and fro between the sun
and the earth, and who could tell Oh lis
return exactly how long it took him to
perform his journey suppose, also, VT
knew the exact rate Of speed at which nc
Travelled. Then, If we multiply hi,speed
by the time it took him to 60 to
the sun, we shall at once have the suns
distance, inst as we could determine the
distance of Two cities, when we know
that train running thirty miles an hour
required seven hours to pass between
them. Such messenger is light. It
has been found practicable to determine,
experimentally, about how fast light
travels, and to find from astronomical
phenomena how long it takes to come
from the sun to the earth. In 1852 Fou-
cault found by experiment that Light
travelled about 298,000 kilometers, or
1876, 200 miles per second. In 1874 Cor
nu found by different series Of expert
ments a velocity of 800, 40 kilometers
per second. In 1879 Ensign A. A.
Nicholson, U. S. Navy, found the velcc-
ity to be 900, $40 kilometers per second.
The result OF Michelson's is far more re-
liable than either Of the preceding ones.
Combining them all, Prof. ID. P. Todd,
III 1880, concluded the most probable
value of the velocity to be 299, 500 kilo.
meters, or 186,360 miles per secoad.
Now. we know from the phenomena OF
alteration that light passes from the sun
to the earth in about 49S seconds. Tie
product OF these two numbers gives til,
distance OF the sun in miles. * Il
These two methods of determining the
distance OF the sun nav fairly be regard
Gu us equal in accuracy t. tia t b = tgai,,,lts
OF Venus when they are employed in the
best manner"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-01
Arctic MOSQUITOES.

The one bitter drop in our cup of JOY
was the monstrous but inseparable curse
of Arctic summer life-the mosquito.
He abounded, hourished, luxuriated,
surpassed himself, out-mosGui,oed him
self On the Kuloi river We were at his
mercy; our wells, gauntiets, han2ker-
chiefs, flapper, all were vanity and vext-
ton. TO kill was wanton, for to destroy
sufficient was impossible. We had fore
seen all. this, and had even thought 6f
taking, among other t',:nss, y woo :
pecker from home with us to protect our
faces while We slept; but one wood
pecker would have been a solemn
mockery; we should have wanted a
fresh woodpeckec every five minutes. I
suppose these were the historical flies
sent to punish the disobedient, obstinate
Egyptians they came fourth in orier,
anu after three grieyous pla9ues-the
corruption of the waters, the multitude
OF frogs and the swarms of lice-had
entirely failed.
We are becoming cvnnoisseurs in mos
qultoes we watch them traverse our
wells like figures en- slides in Il. agic lan-
tern. There is the yellow striped mos
quito, with triple fang to his proboscis;
there IS the brown humpbacked or camel
mosquito, with legs OF gossamer, who
appears to our vindictive eyes to be from
two to three inches in length finally,
aGere Is the scorpion mosquito, very
searching and business like. We dislike
him greatly, for he wastes no time. We
know that leather is hollow delusion,
and srnlor-platad gauntlets are alone OF
avail. r.
sometimes mosquito comes and kills
himself by squeezing between our finger
and thumb, sometimes by flying against
my fapper. There are moments, but so
rare and delicious that almost tremble
TO describe them, when we find a mos
quito who has anchored himself by the
Iroboscis in our gloves we watch
the expression of baffled hatred in his
countenance with which he watches the
approach of the avenging finger. On
the peaceful. blis-ful enjoyment of that
uloment Sometimes we watch him in
i.,s urried efforts to pierce the glove
: Air'ws that time is all he needs
standing upon his fore-legs with his
( hht-:egs fourishing in the air while he
hores away diligently through the thick
iriiEher i'll his wicked thirst for blood.
Sometimes in orr frenzy we insnare a
mosquito and get up and trample on his
head. We ask ourselves in hours past
endurance why the law Of nature should
be reversed, and man, the lord of crea
ton, become the prey of savage Great
ures. We have formed grave, if
impious resolution; we will take O
MOSQUITO by stratagem, pinion him, and,
with the help Of burning glass, offer
him in sacrifice to the Midnight Sum-
Land Of the North Wind.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-01
The Noble Warriors i'm Our National
Arena.

Little do we reck, as we proceed with
the humdrum of our uneventful lives al
home, how our Congressman, several
hours each day, are calling up the pre-
vious question and rising to point OF
privilege, in order that we may enjoy
the priceless boon of liberty.
Day after day, while you, gentle reader,
are dawdling the precious hours away
selling goods or saving wood, th,;ss
patiiots, far from home and loved ones
With aching heads and fearful eyes, arc
making motions to reconsider, and with
C ar'on voice demanding the floor AM
i'etiiiEg Oh over the vita, question Of
mileage.
Aud yet, while these men have their
shoulders under the national fabric, and
are fearlessly referring things to CON-
mittees, or with warlike front and de-
FAINT tone moving to lay them on the
table, there are croakers at home, with
nothing to do but support their families,
who speak jeeringly Of the iabors per-
formed by these noble warriors in the
national arena. It is not right.
boomerang.
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Nearer, Ely God, to Thee -

1t hundred persons, nOted 50 80
IRE and religious feeling. we're ~
to mention their six fdvorite t:H.
all OF them, probably, would in.
Nearer. my God, to Thee" ~,
the number. No hymn is SO f,eq''
~ sung at funerals as this lyrlct! 49,, ?
ration after fellowship with the L -.
It's author IS scarcely known to ,
thousands who sing it, and, the'ef..t,
we publish this account of her ;i,y
given by correspondent of the Gu; "a }
Tribune:
Sarah Flower was born in Cambridge,
England, Feb. %, 1906. She was til ,
younger Of two daughters. Her fati,a.,
Benjamin Flower, was the editor sb;,L
proprietor of the Cambridge Ln-
teIliQencer.
"By the death of her mother, which
occurred when she was very young, tn /,
care Of her education was devolved upon
him. She early displayed taste toy
literature. Her elder sister, Eliza, w..4
ais IN author.
'In 1884 she was married to William
Bridges Adams, a distinguished eng,-
neer, who was q contributor to some Of
the leading newspapers and reviews,
She died in 1849.
"She is described as a. person OF
strong sense and great religious earnest
ness, and as one who produced deep
impression on those who met her, Her
contributions to periodicals were numer-
GUS, both in prose and poetry.
'She prepared a catechism for chill
dren, which was entitled The Flock at
the Fountain She was also a COM
poser of music.
"Some of her works were collected
and published under the title of 'Adora-
ton, Aspiration and Belief In 1871
she published a dramatic poem in five
acts, on the martyrdom of VIVA Per-
petua, and which she dedicated to her
sister.
"No account is given of the cjrcum-
stances under which she compoEd the
hymn by which she is best known. Her
health, it is said, failed gradually,
almost her last breath bursting into
unconscious song The place Of her
burial is near Harlow, Essex. - Youths
Companion.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-01
Can't Recover.

emo, this town has never recovered
from the war, said the Virginian, as he
crossed his legs and look ed up and down
the deserted street.
"Was it burned?"
emo"
"Any of its people killed OFF,"
emo"
"Have any great manufacturing es-
adjustments been removed %
GIVE never had any to remove"
''Any epidemic frightened the people
away?''
"Not az know Of"
"Then Why is it that the town ha 5
never recovered from the Warp
"Well, some lay it to this and some
to that, but it's my opinion that what
ails the town is the fact that man will
come here from New York and peek
around and ask questions and want to
know all about everything and every
body, and never even ask a leading citi-
zen if he is dry! I tell you such line
of policy, if pursued for ten or fifteen
years, takes the ambition right out OF
men. Val Street Daily Neacs.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-01
Where Are the Jews to Coz

The Jews world is narrowing down
! rapidly of late. Russia has become so
, unpleasant for them that at least 1000.
600 OF the Hebrew race in that country
are anxious to get out of it, and are
leaving as fast as they can. Many of
them emigrate from the land of their
latest persecution without an idea of
where they will find rest for the soles of
their feet. Any condition anywhere is
better than Russian rapine. Many of
them find their way to England, and
the Mansion House Committee send them
to America, where; it appears, the best
provision possible with the smallest
amount OF funds can be made for the
refugees. There is a late complaint
that too many OF them are coming to the
, United States. This was unlocked for.
as there Is plenty Of room and more
work than hands can be found to do.
Yet the objection from some quarters
mig lit have been expected. too, since
the Jews are driven from Russia for IT, Q
same cause that many want to drive
OUT an exclude the Chinese from
the countrv-their thrift. Human
nature is much the same everywhere.
and a nationality or class has only to
prove itself superior to the ruling ma
Jority In any particular to excite first
envy and then hatred, and then comes
persecution. So there is already cloud
IN the West, threatening the free and
unrestricted immi grafton of the Russian
Jewish refugees. Now there is an OBJ
stacle in the way of their going East.
and Turkey is the rock ahead. It seems
that the Messianic idea took possession
of large number of Russian Jews, and
their teachers encouraged it. It involved
general colonization of Palestine, and
agents were sent ahead to prepare for
the exodus to their ancient heritage and
promised land. In pursuance OF this
plan two hundred of them in a body
started for the land of their fathers, and
reached Constantinopie On their way.
Here they were faced by an edict of the
autocrat of the Ottoman Emnire forbid
ding them to settle in Palestine, and
the further prosecution of tue journey
was abandoned. There is no present
objection to their remaining in Turkey,
but let them go there and prosper be-
You'd the neighboring. Turks and there
Is nothing left to them but to move on
somewhere. But where are the chosen
people to go and be at peace?-SI. Louis
Re71nbf;c0n
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Won the Mayer.

Fred Flasher and Miss Florentia
Flounce were discussing the mental
power of controlling thought. Said
Flasher:
81 will give you a pair of gloves if
you Can think of positively nothing for
five minutes and still be awake"
"Done," she responded.
Five minutes passed.
i've won the gloves |" she ex-
claimed.
"How did you manage to think of
nothing for the whole five minutes ?" he
asked, eagerly.
81 fastened my mind firmly on your
mustache and kept it there" she re-
piled, triumphantly.
The referee awarded her the gloves.
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"ZEPHANIAH, " ashed a country school
master, as he was iuterrogating a sci, .i::1
concerning the names of the soverel.'ns
If the various kingdoms thr ngI,rnt ',l
world, lean You tell Inc ~ 10 j t;..!
IN peror Of Russia 2" "Wieteri;. az
the reply. land who is the D., -
eiers Thunder and Mars" crred
the astonished boy. grinning from ear
to ear, "Pve heard tell of the Day of
Judgment, the Thanksgiving Day and
the Day of Penticost, but I'm darned
ii L ever heard Of the Day of Algiers
ifOre."
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Soldiers Handkerchiefs.

French soldiers are provided with
handkerchiefs on which the following
sanitary instructions are printed:
"Wear the cravat loose. A strip Of
flannel day and night around the body
in order to keep off diarrhea. Quench
thirst with very small doses OF wine,
coffee, vinegar and wafer OF brandy and
water. Take piece OF bread and a lit
tie coffee before the march. Soirituous
liquors do more harm than good. Drink
water neither hastily nor too cold. In
quarters wash face and hands, and when
possible the whole body. Wash the feet
ana rub in a little fat or brandy. Next
cook the soup, and do it at once, even
though feeling quite tired out"