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..oh. flies and bugs, believe" said

..Oh, flies and bugs, believe" said
grandmother.
.Well, gra'm'ther," said Johnny,
won't you please to catch some
flies for himP' =,
..Oh, 1 don't think could. DEAR
grandmother said. And she went back
to her knitting. Then Johnny called
again:
"Gra'm Their! Ora m ther."
.'Well, gra' Their, if you'll sit here
and hold him, I'll catch the flies. just
take him by the leg-so.
ooh, my dear, couldn't do it, IN
deed" said grandmother. And she
went back to her knitting again.
So Johnny had to go himself and LOOK
for flies. Mr.. Frog began hopping
about the yard. Soon he jumped right
up ON the porch where the ladies were
sieting.
They screamed and jumped almost as
high as the frog. Bill, the stable boy,
caught the frog and gave him filne
over the fence into the pond.
Johnny got there just in time to SEQ
him go splash into the water. de came
and sat on step, looking very mourn
fui.
II don't think very much of gra'.
m theirs that can't catch flies or hoid
Frogs he said.
Grandmother smiled and gave John
ny kiss and quarter Then she
went on knitting the red mittens with
blue tops for Johnny when he makes
snow-balls next winter.
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TOO LATE.

The Remorse Which Is Sure to Follow
Disrespectful Behavior Toward Par
ents.
A story is told as authentic of young
man in the Highlands of Scotland who
became drunkard, gambler, and in
the expressive Scotch phrase, "a ne'er-
do-well." His father owned small
farm which had been in the family for
two hundred years. But to save Jock
from the consequences of his misdoing.
he was obliged to mortgage it, far be-
yond the possibility of redemption. The
old man sank under the disgrace and
misery, and died, leaving his wife, two
or three children and worthless Jock.
But the shock of his death brought the
boy TO his senses. He foreswore cards
and whisky. came home and turned in
to hard work. He toiled steadily for
years. AT last his mother was '.struck
with DEATH
Jock, now a middle-aged, grizzled
in haste. He stood in silence by her
death bed a moment and then broke
forth:
'.Mither! mither! gin We see feyther
there, tell him the FARMS our own agen
An it's a recht wi me!'
The story reminds us of DR. Johnson,
who came when he was an old man OF
seventy to stand in the market-place OF
Uttoxeter, his gray head bare in the
pelting rain, III bitter remembrance of
some act of disobedience to his father
on that spot when he was a boy.
But of what avail are these tears or
acts of atonement when the old father
or mother whom we have hurt and
sighted SO cruelty is dead? Do they
see? Do they forgiven Who can sayP
ut is only" said mother lately,
..since my own children speak to me
with rudeness and contempt that I'M
derstand how great the debt was which
l owed to my own mother and hCw
poorly 1 paid TT
Many gay girl who reads these
words, who treats her mother as
member of the family who does the
work of a servant without servants
wages, or a lad who filings about the
money which his old father is fast
spending his feeble life to earn, will
waken some day to utter their remorse
in an exceeding bitter cry, to which.
alas! there can come no answer!--
Youths Companion.
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mark. and it was easy to perceive that
single shell of this description strlk-
ing the side of the most solid iron-clad
| in existence near the water-line would
be likely to send her to the bottom.
! Thus far no accident is reported in
| the experiments. which are to be if
| they are not by this time. repeated with
| guns of much heavier caliber. But the
| caliber of the gun is of secondary inn
| portance; its range and the capacity OF
| the shell for carrying dynamite are the
chief elements to calculate on, and if a
shell carrying one hundred pounds of
the explosive can be fired from one of
| the heavy guns now in use, the first hit
| decides any conflict as between single
ships, and one of our steel unarmored
cruisers will yield no quicker than the
Inhexible to the shock of such an ex-
ploSion.
The prospect of such a change in the
condition of warfare is appalling. and
the only consolat on VIII CHI civilizat on
can draw from it is that it is always
the defence that profits most. 1t il
true that comparatively small gun
boats carrying one large gun might
approach by night, or even by day,
| near enough to a seaport to throw sew
CI ul uy SAClio lIlo in
city, and with a devastating effect
which recent events can suggest, and
the boats themselves being small and
swift may be very difficult to hit while
| the city can hardly be missed; but the
land defenses have not only the faculty
of employing heavier artillery and of
| longer range, but of working with
much greater accuracy and safety and
much less expense, as an accident with
dynamite, such as premature explosion
| of shell, VIII sink ship. but would
| be attended with but slight damage to
| works or men in an open battery, and
such acc dents will always be more
| likely to happen at sea than on shore.
A tiotilla of small unarmored boats,
each carrying one heavy gun, will,
thus armed and aided by shore de-
lenses. defy in defence any ironclad
| fleet that can be formed to-day, and as
the boats and guns are already in ex-
istence, any rified gun be ng available,
as the entire novelty is in the shot. it is
| possible that we may see ironclads out
of fashion. and the navies of the whole
civilized world running to the opposite
extreme from that lately resorted to,
and building the smallest gunboats
| that can safely carry a gun. 1t is rash
| to conclude anyth ng on Such mover
conditions, but one thing is clear-that
if from a gun of moderate caliber
shot can be fired which shall crush in
the side of any ironclad in existence
the work of a shot will be wisely ex.
pended in getting range with accuracy
alone. and it may be necessary to make
new calculations for the construction OF
the most efficient type of gun, while
ironclads W II be considered as fan
more speculative investments. A long
gun OF relatively small calibre and
carrying long shot would Sc m ir
such circumstances to be the gun o.
the future. -LOndO7s Times
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ON PIXIES PEAK.
Hard to Climb-Sickness on the Mountain

Hard to Climb-SickneSs on the Mountain
Top.
Sliding down bannisters is nothing
compared to riding up Pixies Peak.
You and your steed are very leaning
Tower OF Pisa. and it often happens
that if you look back you can not see
the hinder part of your horse at all.
Coming down from the peak it is ali
the other way. The patient, grooming
horses launches rise like ladder,
nearer Pixies Peak behind your Shout
ders; you dare not let your frightened
eyes traverse the shelving precipice be-
tween the pony's ears, and the beastie
progresses with a motion that makes
you feel you are sitting upon the mouth
of most active volcano. With every
step the sensation is that of being fired
out of the mouth of a short range gun.
At the top of the peak we had va
riety of experiences. One poor man OF
our party looked like collapsed tele,
scope, and sat dismally on stone in
the snow and looked and felt home
sick. Gone was his genial smile, his
CHEEKY Jest, his good natured ibe, his
catching bon homme. ''Oh girls" he
cried, looking about on the assem-
bled womankind, "I'm awfully sick. :"
Pixies Peak sickness must be
tagious. After that the .'Peakers"
dropped like spent shot. First one
would faint away and be laid out, then
another would turn livid green and
creep off to be seasick in isolated ag-
ony. We stretched the sick ones out
flat on their backs, put camphor to
their noseS-cruelly reminded them
that they were only 14,300 above New
Orleans, that it was raining down in
Manitou. looked as if it were hailino
down at the halfway house and that a
driving snow storm was raging on the
peak itself. True enough the Their
mometer was down to thirty-two de-
grees. and the gray winds howled. the
clouds closed in about the desolate yell
low mounta rs head, and "a wild and
furious snow storm set in, covering the
nude and cruel stones, casilg the sig
nal house in garment of snow, and
laying in soft glistening ridges and
burrows on the ladies' wraps and the
mems great coats.
The sensation at the Peak is of being
in vacuum. You look at your neigh
Dor and see him in an etherealizec. sort
of way. You seem and he seems to be
distinctly different from yourself in less
exalted regions. The atmosphere is
like crystal, and you are the center
of it. l defy anybody to tell lie on
top of Pixies Peak. / believe the lone
some. solemn place, where for all the
world you can scarcely get air enough
to breathe, to be a very palace of truth.
Cor. NJ o. Picayune.
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Begin Early.

Education commences at the moth
er's knee, and every word spoken
within hearsay of little children tends
toward the formation of character.
Endeavor always to talk your best be-
fore your children. They hunger per-
petually for new ideas. They will
learn with pleasure from the lips of
parents what thev deem it drudgery to
study in books; and. even if they have
the misfortune to be deprived of many
educational advantages, they will grow
up intelligent if they enjoy in child
hood the privilege of listening daily to
the conversation of intelligent people.
We sometimes see parents, who are the
life of every community which they
enter, dull, silent and undressing at
home among their children. If they
have not mental activity and mental
stores sufficient for both, let them first
use what they have for their own
households. A silent home is a dull
place for young people-a place from
which they will escape if they can.
How much useful information, on the
other hand, is often given in pleasant
family conversation, and what uncon-
scous, but excellent, mental training
in lively, social argument. Cultivate
to the utmost the grace of converse
tion.-Bosto's Budget.
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DYNAMITE GUNS.
Their Introduction EquivaIent to an En-
tire Change of Naval Defense.

Their Introduction EqufvaIent to an En-
tire Change of Naval Defense.
The fearful ravages wrought by the
explosions of dynamite leave no one
unable to conjecture what might be
the consequence of bombardment in
which missiles charged with dynamite
should be employed. The difficulty has
also been easy to anticipate. The
shock of explosion of the gun-charge
would, under the old system, in all
probability, fire the shell-charge, dyna-
mite being easily exploded by mechan-
zeal shock, and the gun and shell
might naturally be expected to destroy
the gunners rather than the enemy.
The Americans, who seem rather fond
of trying the supposed impossible.
first began to experiment on dynamite
missiles, and an officer of the Ameri-
can navy contrived what NAV be called
a colossal air gun, in which the shell
charged w tn dynamite might be
started on its flight with an easy but
accelerating motion, avoiding the
shock so certainly productive of
premature explosion, and obtaining
by a high air pressure through a
long bore the velocity requisite
The idea had been foreshadowed by the
Lyman accelerating gun. which, start
ing the shot with small charge, fol-
lowed it up by successive explosions
of accelerating charges placed along
the bore, and giving it the highest
initial velocity ever attained by any
gun. The Lyman gun failed. as might
have been anticipated, through the
int, inf no
tenn by the mechanical arrangements
for securing the accelerating charges
from exploding prematurely or not
exploding at all, and the great re-
lief given to the gun by the modifica-
ton of the explosive qualities of the
powder has probably put an end to
the experiments in accelerating charges.
The success of the experimental air
gun in throwing to effective distances
Shells filled with dynamite or even
n tro-glycerine was such that a gun of
eight-lnch caliber and calculated to
throw a shell three miles was planned.
1t was perfectly correct in my theory,
and was made apparently on the only
safe method, but while the scientific
officer who conceived it was follow
ing out the development of his sys-
tenn by mathematical calculations, one
of the more characteristic practical
inventors had attacked the problem
from the other side. Instead of max
ing his propelling force more elastic
he gave the elasticity to his missile.
and by wad or cushion of caoutchouc
OF the requisite quality so took up the
first impulse given by the explosion
that a shell filled with dynamite
was fired with complete safety,
and an effect which can be
imagined more easily than calculated.
A shell fired from an ordinary battery
gun and carrying eleven pounds of dy-
Mantle striking ledge of gneiss which
formed the target blew out a cavity
twenty feet in diameter and six feet
deep. No fuse is required as the shell
explodes by conclusion as it hits its
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JOHNNY'S FROG.

What He Gave for It, and the Kind OF
"Gra'm'thers" He Don't Think Much of
johnny looked over fence and saw
boy by pond. The boy was getting
something out of the pond, and Johnny
wondered what it was.
1t wasn't chicken, or duck, or a
goose, or dog, or a cat. Johnny said
to the boy:
"What's thatp' And the boy said:
"Don't you know bull frog when
you see him? Amt he rouser, though?
He's as big as dog"
YES" said Johnny, elf the dogs a
very little dog. L wish you'd let me
have him.
"What will you give for him?" said
the boy.
Johnny took everything out of his
pockets. There was a top and five
marbles and some shiny stones and a
slate pencil and broken bubble pipe
and pocket-book and sleeve button
and piece of gingerbread and a Sun
day-school paper. The pocket-book
had thirty-two cents in it The boy
said:
III take that money II you IL give
me the pocket-book, too"
So Johnny gave it to him, and he
threw the frog over the fence. 1t gave
a Jump, and almost went over Johnny's
head. Johnny was afraid it would get
away, SO he sat down by it and took
hold of its hind leg. Then he called:
"Gra' m Their! Ora m therr'
Grandmother was sitting on the front
porch. She came around to see what
Johnny wanted. He said:
ezra m Their, see my frog. Amt he
a beauty?''
ugh! Yes, dear, suppose So"
He keeps opening his mouth, " said
Johnny. s'What's that forp''
Perhaps he's hungry" said grand
mother.
"What do frogs cat?" said Johnny.
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fact that succulent food is necessary to
the production of superior mutton. In
the districts of England that have be-
come famous for the production of very
fine mutton the sheep are provided with
succulent food during most of the year
They have rich pastures that produce
sweet grasses and clovers. During the
fall and winter they are supplied with
turnlps. beets, carrots, cabbage and
kalo- These kinds of food cause the
breeding ewes to yield large amount
of milk. which is essential to the growth
of lambs. Succulent food produces
juicy and tender mutton. The Lest
mutton in this country is produced
where the most clover and roots are
raised and fed to sheep. The poorest
mutton comes from districts where the
climate is quite dry, where clover is not
generally grown, and where but few
roots are raised Corn, small grain,
and o;l-cake are desirable for producing
fat but for the production of fine flesh
succulent food should be fed in con-
nection with the fiesh-forming sub.
stances. Chicago Times.
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Silk-Culture In the South.

The Montgomery (Ala.) Aduertiser
saws that Rev. Samuel r. Lowry, col
ored clergyman living at Huntsville,
Ala, has between 1880 and 800 null
berry trees planted. and is planning to
build cocoonery that will protect a
million worms. and to teach Young
colored people to raise the cocoons and
weave the silk. He raised 200, 900 CO.
coons this year. and has a quarter of a
million eggs for next years crop. MIR.
Lowry received a gold medal at the
New Orleans Exposition for the best
display of cocoons. raw silk, silk
worms and mulberry leaves. The Id
vertiser says that 1.-The man who just
now does the most good for Alabama
is he who leads her people into new
ways of turning honest pennies,
whether he be white or colored.
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PITH AND POINT.

Some men are born with big heads
some acquire big heads and others
have big heads thrust upon them. :
Bill Nye.
Pens are weapons of defense thai
stab and cut like a rapier. 1t is easier
to assassinate with pen than to slay
with the sword N. Y. Independent.
The bones of the average man only
weigh about twenty-four pounds. ano
yet some people put on airs and steI
around as though they weighed a ton
Chicago Ledger.
A smallson of a Raleigh man, when
asked if he was not very much frigh.
ened when the lightning struck hi;
fathers house, replied: mo, de Lawo
wasn't gwine to hurt me; it was daddy
he was after. "-Raleigh IN c. 90
serCer.
There have been various answers
to the conundrum: WHY'S a ship called
she? We think the proper answer is
Because she is handsomest when she
is well-rigged. Wives should cut thi;
out and show it to their husbands. -
Boston Courier.
Baby cries. and is sent to a side
table. Papa says: when you have 6
beard you can sit with papa The
house cat Jumps up Familiarity beside
him. Baby (furiously): Jump down
You have beard Go eat with papa!'
Chicago Journal.
How is it, writes correspond,
emit ''that the yachts always sail faster
in newspaper account of race thar
they do on the water?" That's an easy
one to answer, friend. You see, it's the
extra pulling the boat gets that does
the business. Yonkers Statesman.
You may say what you like,
mother, George no longer loves me. y
But. child. how did you get that silly
notion into yonr head?' .sOh. very
simply and only too quickly. When
he takes me home nowadays he always
chooses the shortest roadn'-C Chicago
Inter- Ocean.
"A st. LOUIS boy who was twelve
years old last year, but has recently
scored another birthday. complains be-
cause he is not permitted to eat at the
table by reason of thirteen being an
unlucky number. And it is unlucky for
the rest of the table when boy of thir-
teen is allowed to get in his work.
THE average American eats fifty
SIX pounds OF sugar year, against the
Englishman's sixty-seven. Despite
this fact, however, the average Ameri-
can girl is much sweeter than the En-
glish lasses. Probably because she is
given more ''taffy'' than the English
girl receives. -NOrristoUn Herald.
"A Japanese woman dresses her hair
once in every four days. The luxury
of hearing ones wife, with the ends of
her hair in her teeth and her mouth
full of hairpins, talking about the
kitchen boiler in the morning before
the mirror is never enjoyed by the
Japanese husband more than twice a
week. CHICAGO Tribune.
How much will your new school
books cost, Johnny?" asked his father.
Johnny calculates to himself, soto
voce: ''Lemme see; sixty-two cents for
the singing books, seventy-five cents
for a new 'rithmetic, one dollar and
twenty-five cents for new geography.
twenty-five cents for new hockey,
half dollar for a new bat, and a
quarter for candy" Then out aloud
says: "'Bout four ollarsr'-B0st0n
poef
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THE THIBETANS.
Men and Women Who Do Not Believe In
the Free Use of Water.

| Men and Women Who Do Not Believe In
| the Free Use of Water.
The Thibetans who live in the val
legs are not as rule fine men physi-
cally, but the highlanders, or hill men.
such as the shepherds, ETC., up in tho
| high Thibetan Mountains, are massive
| beaur homnaes, having somewhat the
| appearance of having been hewn out of
solid blocks The people of the valleys
| are more or less idle gossips, disliking
work intensely. The men do not work
in the fields except blowing, and few
for them will do even that much.
When not in repose-i. G., when not abb
solutely doing nothing-the men occu-
ply themselves by sewing. spinning,
looking after the mules. horses and cat
tie, but above all in attending to the
petty business of the family. The
women sow, irrigate, weed, cut the
harvest, thrash, winnow, carry the
grain to the granary and do all the
household work as well. If there are
loads to be carried the women carry
them. If a man be asked to carry a
big case or heavy load he is certain, on
seeing it, to say at ouce: THAT! that's
women's load" and of the baggage
he will select the smallest parcel he can
find as his burden. In the pasturages.
the women milk, make the butter and
look after the focks when these are
grazing near the tents or encampment.
The men herd the flocks when grazing
at distance. The women ride as we'll
as the men, and in the same fashion.
From constantly throwing stones at the
cattle the women are adopts at this.
and can and do make it very unpleas-
ant for any person who may have irri-
tated them into putting their science
into practice. Dirt is the ruling
feature everywhere in Thibetan house.
holds. 1t pervades their houses and
their persons, prevails in their customs.
and gives tone to and bears fruit IN
their speech. A European, an English
official in India, once desiring to see
the real color of the Thibetan skin,
paid the parents of child to have il
washed in hot water, several watera
and with an unlimited supply of soap.
Every effort was made in vain, the skin
could not be reached through such an
armor plating of dirt. 1t is said with
every show of truth that it would be
quite impossible to wash an adult
Thibetan down to the skin. The beau
ty of woman in Thibet consists in her
being stout, broad, thick-set and heavi-
ly membered, and the accomplishments
to be desired are that she should be
above all things audacious, good
hand at bargain and at repartee: in
fact, typical Billingsgate virago, il
massive enough, would pass as a Venus
In Ihibet--Naneteenth Century.
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The late Mr. Thoms would never
lend odd volumes of anything; when a
friend borrowed book he had to take
the whole set II remember saws a
correspondent of the Athen9una. ..onoe
wishing to borrow couple of volumes
OF Nichols Anecdotes but Thoms
would not hear of it. No, my dear
-. he said. you must take them
all; then when you return them. I
shall have the work complete. and
lsmiiing good-naturedly) if Won forget
70 return them, you will have q com.
plete set ~ \. 1aionne.
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READING FOR THE YOUNG,
TWO TO MAKE A QUARREL.


There's a knowing little proverb,
From the sunny land OF Spain;
But in North!and, as In Southland,
In its meaning clear and plain.
Lock it up within your heart:
Neither lose nor lend it
Two it takes to make quarrel:
One can always end it
Try it well in every way,
Still you'll find it true.
In fight without q foe,
Pray, what could you do?
If the wrath is yours alone
soon you will expend it.
Two it takes to make q quarrels
One can always end it.
Let's suppose that both are wroth,
And the strife begun,
If one voice shall cry for Peace,
Soon it will be done;
If but one shall span the breach,
He will quickly mend it,
Two it takes to make quarrel;
One can always end it.
-Nary e. Tdndune. TN Hdfper's Young People
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An eccentric Frenchman at New.
port. r. L., recently startled the resi-
dents of that place by hanging a mirror
on the outside of his house at right
angles to a chamber window, which
enabled the inmates to see all that was
passing in the street without being seen
themselves.
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I'm the eye of the California law
staring at a lady is an offense.