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The Heart of Man.

A marvellous loom is the human heart,
As 1t weaves and weaves through sunny days;
1t takes the flower by the mountain stream,
The tint of dawn and the globe of dew,
The forestleaf and the moonlight CLEAN
And It weaves a web of roseate hue;
And man looks down at the fabrics sheen
And says d" o the world is fair, ween-
To live is joy for me-"
marvellous loom is the human heart,
As II weaves and weaves through the dreary days;
1t takes the branch of withered tree
And the pallid gray of the shmmerng rain,
The thunderpall and the frozen lea
And weaves web with many stain.
And man looks down with cry of despair
And says, the world is round of care
To live is for me-"
marvellous loom is the human heart,
As it weaves and weaves, though under the mold;
For out of the moisture and out of the earth
And out of the seedgerms nesting near
1t weaves. in spite of its own fe-dearth,
A web of meaning above its bier:
And the light-winged soul to far dawn flies
While the heart speaks on to unseeing eyes
ITO die is yet to live"
A marvellous loom is the human heart.
For 1t weaves and weaves through the world of
thought;
In joy and sorrow, in life, in death,
An intricate cipher for man TO know;
From his early smile to his latest breath
He holds the key for his use below;
But rarely wise is the one who learns;
What the heart has taken the heart returns,
Till the cycle of God is done.
Kate L. clark.
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LEMON PIE.-To make plain lemon
pie add to boiling water enough of the
pulp and juice of lemons to render il
quite acid. Then sweeten to taste and
thicken just enough with corn-starch
to make it like a thin Jelly. Fill the
baked crusts and bake about fifteen
minutes; then frost them if desired.
CREAM ToAsT.-Toast slices of thin
bread; lay in covered dish and pour
boiling water over them: pour the
water off and let drain. Put one pint
OF rich, sweet cream on the stove in a
quart cup, add three table-spoonfuls of
butter, two beaten eggs and a table
spoonful of corn-starch. Let boil and
pour over the toast.
ORANGE PUDDING. - Crate three
sponge biscuits in enough milk to make
a paste; beat three eggs and stir them
in with the juice of a lemon and half
the peel grated. Put tea-cupful of
orange juice and one of sugar, with
half cup of melted butter, in the
mixture. Stir it well; put it in a dish
with puff paste around it and bake
slow one hour.
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Yokohama.

|. l will not attempt to describe the
city of Yokohama further than to say
that the Bund, or street on the water
front, and one or two inland streets,
called by such names as Main and
Front streets, are thoroughly European
in their architecture and shops and
signs; but leaving these you plunge
into the japanese world, which is en-
tirely satisfactory to the traveller who
longs to become incorporated into the
mazes and mysteries of japanese fan.
Some of the interior cities are perhaps
more purely japanese, but to the
newly arrived American the native
quarter of Yokohama is sufficiently
novel, and ride through those streets
is like a ride in another planet. After
an hours rest at the hotel we hired
jinrikishas for a ride through the town.
These vehicles swarm near the door of
the hotel. The regular fare is ten
cents an hour and seventy-five cents
day if taken in that way. But alas
the hackman's greed has reached these
shores, and if the rider is fresh ar
rival and does not know the tariff of
prices the jinrikisha Jehu demands
double fare, and, forgetting the other
wise universal politeness of the race,
he insists on his unjust dues with a
zeal and profane earnestness worthy of
a New York driver. We paid double
fare once and only once. After the first
ride our eye teeth came through and
eXtortion did not eXtort. We were
proof against that little dodge forever
more, and our runners always took the
regular rates which are, for them in
that country, much more liberal than
hack and cab rates are here. Two or
three of our friends joined us, and
forming a procession of man-drawn
sulkies we went up through the city.
The first Japanese street which we
visited was Honchi Dorey. This is the
Broadway of Yokohama, and the shops
on this street are the high-priced,
richly-appointed and swell shops of the
town, and l believe that our words
chunky dorey" come from the name
of this street. If in Japan you have
bought anything particularly fine you
call it Irregular Honchi Dorey," as you
would say in New York a regular
Broadway, Fifth avenue article. From
Honchi Dorey to hunky dorey is an
easy transition. Thus is the research
of the patient philologist richly re-
warded even in Japan. Here we saw
for the first time the large roofs, the
| gracefully up-curving caves, the open
shop fronts, the story and half houses,
the signs in Chinese characters, the
busy multitudes of queer-looking Jap
anese thronging the streets, and hav-
ing Just come from the steaming and
steam-permeated ship we felt as if we
had been poured out of hot japanese
teapot into a Satsuma vase. We rode
delighted through street after street,
occasionally calling to each other from
one jinrikisha to another: ooh, isn't
this fine? Isn't this fun?" 4" Wouldn't
our friends at home stare to see us
riding in this way, etc., till finally,
surfeited with sightseeing, we went
back to the hotel, most royalty satisfied
with Japan and our first day therein
Cor. Hartford Corant.
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Hints for Home reSS.MAking.

The different colors and materials
which make the fashionable costume
cause gay aspect on the streets which
is unusual for this city. Frequently a
hat will require six or seven different
materials to form a complete whole-a
felt embroidered crown faced with vel
vet, beaded trimming around the brim,
feathers, flowers and passementarie or
steel ornament. The dress is often as
composite. Even a street suit will be
composed of dark cloth, red panel
heavily braided and vest of light
colored cloth covered with braid. 1t is
said that French dress-makers prophesy
a growing simplicity in drapery and in
general outline, and it would certainly
seem as if the bouffant fashion had
reached its height, for most dresses have
an appearance of such elaborate dra-
perry as if the "artist" had first ar
ranged the loops at the back of the
dress before the goods is cut off the
piece and used the material left for
the rest of the dress. For home dress
makers few suggestions in making a
dress fashionable may be useful. Make
the underskirt quite plain, without even
the foot trimming" which was form
erly considered necessary. A trimmed
underskrt is entirely out of fashion.
The MORE silks and striped velvets
make rich underskirts to wooden goods.
Sometimes il will be advantageous to
add a pleated panel on one side. The
overskirt should be given long drapery
both in front and behind. Some dress
makers will not permit short drapery
to be produced in their establishments.
A good effect can be given by full
apron laid in pleats facing toward the
front, so that the apron falls in circular
folds to the foot of the skirt. Loopings
are made as graceful as possible with
out any similarity or regular rule. A
pretty motive is that of passementarie
ornament at the side fixing twist of
the material. Large hip pockets are a
French fashion. Basques may be either
short or long, but still preferably short,
and should be furnished with braided
vest or trimmed with passementarie.
For the wrap a contrast is desirable.
Black wraps of velvet or plush will be
much worn with dresses of another
color. Black hats are most fashionable
without bit of bright ribbon or feather
For young women and girls broad
brimmed black felt hats, with ribbon and
ostrich-feathers, are particularly liked,
while walking-hats of sensible shape,
neither too high nor low, are suitable
for any woman to whom they are be-
coming. Any one with dark green
cloth suit which preserves the chief re-
quirements of fashion, a comfortable
braided jacket or wrap and felt bon
net or hat will have the satisfaction of
feeling herself well-dressed.-BoSton
Journal
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years; have had so much to do l
really haven't had time to practice"
1t is too bad for woman who actu-
ally squanders time in unnecessary
work to admit not having time to prac-
tice an Accomplishment that would be
delight TO her family and friends.
Then, women, don't get completely en-
veloped in your housework. Remem-
Der you owe more to your family and
friends than merely clean house.
Find out what is going on about you
outside of your own neighborhood
Take an interest in whatever interests
your families. 1t may be only base
ball game or a yacht race that both
father and little ones are enthusiastic
over. Then learn all you can about it;
find out the names of the rival clubs or
yachts and take a lively part in the
family conversation. To do this will
require but a few minutes each day,
and you will be well repaid by having
pleasant, enjoyable home-a home that
husband and children will prize far
above "spick and span" one
american Cultirdtor.
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flax for white cordage, sugar cane, dish
rag plant, tea plant, indigo, mulberry,
pear-trees, and many other varieties of
food crops side by side in little tiny
fields and in all stages of maturity. In
the large, low-lying river valleys the
rice-iields are apparently of great ex-
tent, but on close observation one secs
that even here few fields are much
over one-eighth TO one-quarter of an
acre in size. In one locality / saw tea
plantations of good many acres the
possessions of single man. But these
are exceptional. l saw rice being har-
vested near Toxic month ago, and
yet even in this locality, where it is
warmer, the bulk of the crop is not yet
ready for the sickle. October is the
regular month for this great staple. 1t
is the great crop of the country For
merly all rents were paid in rice.-C.
II. Harrison, IN Chicago NeUs.
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No Cause for Whining.

1t is neither pleasant nor instructive
reading to 90 through newspaper col
umns filled with social scandals con-
corning wills and testaments, nor suits
of law involving the moral wreck of a
church, nor trials in an excited town
for alleged libel, making a regular
Little Pedlington row that no others
but the participants care about. But
the year 1887 ended with this dreary
and disgusting stuff. AS the pessimist
persues this record of the folly and
shame in and about boosted center of
enlightenment and then shivers over
the details of cyclones and the ice
wave in the West, and shudders as he
reads the account of starvation and
suffering in a land of harvests, he is
all ready to eXclaim, "This is sad
and bitter world, and there is in it more
sorrow than joyl" But his cutlery
would be unjust if made. Could our
ears in the waning days of 1887 have
heard related all the acts of kindness,
all the generous sacrifices made for the
good of others, all the helping hands
smitten by cold and want, we would
not hastily revile our lot, Could we
look upon all the happy homes and hear
the prattle and glee of children every
where, and be impressed for one mo-
ment with all the heroism of everyday
life and all the happiness hourly enjoyed
in this life, while plying the weakness
and wretchedness that exists, we should
gladly acknowledge that the goodness
and purity of the world outweighs its
miseries and its evil.-Irareller.
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EmersOns' Peculiarities.

Emerson had some strange tastes and
some equally strange dstastes in re-
gard to poets. Usually his criticism
was wonderfully acute and accurate.
COMPRISING into a few significant
words what other critics would fail to
convey in an elaborate analysis. He
darted, by combination of insight and
instinct, to the exact point in poets
writings where the poetry in him was
best embodied and expressed, and his
reading of the passages which had most
impressed him eXcelled that of the
most accomplished professional elocu-
ZIONIST | ever listened to. But he never
could endure Shelley, and declared
that if the objections of practical men
to poetry rested on such poets as Shelley,
he should cordially agree with them.
He admitted, of course, the beauty of
" The Skylark" and 1.-THE Cloud, :" but
as the apostle of hope and health and
cheer he could not pardon the note of
lamentation which runs through Shell
ley's poetry, and thought that his gifts
of imagination and melody, remarkable
as they were, were no atonement for
his unmanly wailing and sobbing over
the ills of existence. ga poet" he said,
" should invigorate, not depress, the
soul" 1t was in vain to tell him that
such ethereal powers of Imagination
and sentiment as Shelley possessed
should be considered apart from the
direction they happened to take, owing
to the unfortunate circumstances of his
life. No, he would discard such sick
souls from his sympathy as he would
discard all sick bodies.-Ed,Cin p.
Winnie
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Mistcll
The Funny Man.

Who is that man who sits and bites
His pen with aspect solemn?
He is the funny man who writes
The weekly comic column.
BY day he scarce can keep awake;
At night he cannot rest.
His meals he hardly dares to take
He iests, he can't digest.
His hair, though not with years, is white,
His cheek is wan and pale;
And all with seeking day and night
For jokes that are not stale.
His Joys are few; the chiefest one
Is when by luck a word
Suggests to him novel pun
His readers haven't heard.
And when Yankee Joke he sees
In some old Rockwell then,
Perhaps he gains a moments ease
And makes it do again,
The thought that chiefly makes him sigh
Is that time must come
when jokes extinct, like mammoths lie,
And iokers must be dumb
When every quip to death is done
And every crank is told;
When men have printed every pun
And every Joke is old;
When naught in heaven or earth or sea
Has not been turned to chaff
And not single oddly
Is left to make us laugh.
-Harper's Magazine for JaHudri
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REMARKABLE SURGERY sci
ence of surgery has made such Won
derful progress in modern times that
the most intricate and delicate opera
tons are now undertaken and carried
to successful issue. There are now
several authenticated cases of what
is known as pneumotony-that is TO
say, the removal of diseased portions
of the lungs in cases of consumption.
While, however, this delicate operation
has sometimes been successfully per-
formed the risks attending it are so
great and the chances of recovery so
slight that it is seldom resorted to. The
safest plan in consumptive cases is to
use DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. This will always cure the dis
ease in its earlier stages, thoroughly ar
resting the ravages of the terrible mall
ady by removing its cause and healing
the lungs.
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OUR BABIEs.-How they are lovedl
Keep them fat, healthy and happy by
using Lactated Food. 1t is easily di-
gested and, when prepared for use, is
identical with healthy mothers milk
1t is both the best and the most eco
nomical food.
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WHENEVER education and refine
ment grow away from the common
people they are growing toward self
ishness, which is the monster evil Of
the world.-H w. Beecher.
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If the liver and kidneys are sluggish
and inactive Hoods Sarsaparilla will
rouse them to prompt and regular
action. Take it now.
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FOR SALE!

small farm Waitsheld Common, one of the
pleasantest locations in Mad River Valley. Also
Blacksmith Shop For particulars apply in person
or by letter to &c PERSONS. waitsheld, VI
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Send to the publisher of the magazine
you want for sample copy, enclosing
trihe in stamps, say five cents, enough to
show you are not a dead-head. lie will
send YOU his terms of course. Compare
them with ours.
These five magazines are published by
d. Lothrop Company, Boston. Made for
families, they actually open a new world to
them.
Ba3yAl"d, full of pictures and songs and stories,
helps the mother amuse little baby, helps him
grow, and directs his growth
O"r LHtF Men and Women takes the sx-year-od
when he begins to read
The Pany comes with the Sunday School age
ChamaHqHa Yong Folks' Jo0nal is for young
scholars.
Hfdf A'oake 49, this is what the publishers say of
it -" library study, playhouse, life at home and
abroad companionshp Of the wise and good 90 de.
signed for the young, bn for all improving people
1--WE have the more satisfaction in club.
bling with such magazines because they en-.
courage civilized life wherever they 60.
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A WORD OF WARNING.

There white each represented to be just good the
Ivory they ARE NOT but like all countee lack the peculiar and remark
able qualities of the genuine Ask for Ivory" Soap and insist getting
Copyright by Proctor Gamhe
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-23
MAY GET THEIR MONEY.
United States Supervisors of Election an
That Crit


Shortly after the last Congressional cleo
ton, held in this State in 1886, there were
loud complaints from the United States
Supervisors Of Elections who had served
during the election, over the fact that the
Government refused to pay them for more
than five days service. although their du-
ties consumed ten days time. Section 203l
of the Revised Statutes provides that each
United States Supervisor in towns having
over 5000 inhabitants shall be paid at the
rate OF So day for his services, the time
not to exceed ten days.
When the Supervisors who served in San
Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento pre-
sented their bills for payment they were
rendered 49, which they accepted under
protest. The officials at Washington said
the work should have been finished in FIVE
days.
Some time later number of the Super
visors brought suit against the United
States for the additional five days pay.
Several other Supervisors refused to Join
with the more aggressive ones, believing
that if the United States lost the suit they
would be able TO recover the amount due
them without the trouble of going to law.
In this they erred, as the judgment only
apples 10 those Supervisors who actually
brought suit.
s. NJ. Shortridge, attorney for the suing
Supervisors, has II ceived stipulation from
AttorIey-General Garland allowing him to
make test case of the suit of Jessie a.
Galland, of San Francisco, it being agreed
that if his case was successful, while it in
terested all parties, yet judgment would
only be given for the other suitors, and not
for Supervisors who did not bring suit and
whose names did not appear in the record
This decision, which is quite important
in view of the forthcoming Presidential
election, applies solely to such Supervisors
as have actually brought suit, and not tc
those who merely claim pay for ten days
! service
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THE FLAG VS.. THE BANDANA.

That must have been a wondrously
thrilling dramatic scene in the National
Republican Convention on Thursday,
when the vast audience broke out into the
very ecstasy of enthusiasm and overlooking
with patriotic fervor, Suddenly converted
itself into perfect cloud of waving Amer
lean flags from beneath which billowy
color surged a torrent of sound, as ten
thousand voices modulated their shouts
with the regular beats of the stirring ma
tional song Marching Through Georgia"
1t falls to the lot of very few men to SO
command multitude by the magic Of his
tongue that it is swayed by common i'm
pulse and becomes fairly frenzied with the
enthusiasm of high and noble cause, free
from faint of passion and fever of hot
blood. In fact the flag episode was an
honest outburst of genuine feeling-patri-
otto feeling, protesting against the Stiffness
of the meaningless orifamme the Democ-
racy has adopted. 1t is an eccentricity of
an old man in handkerchiefs the banner
of the Republican delegates is the en-
blem of nationality; the one is the ma
tional standard, the other the convenience
Of snuf-taker whose habit would make
white an offense. Behind the one is the
thought and purpose and ambition of the
American people; behind the other sim
ply the nose of veteran and respected
Democrat. Whatever the outcome of the
campaign, we are confident that the Dem
ocracy will not find the bandana banner to
have much attractive or enthusing power,
and that the leaders will wish that the
red handkerchief had not been dragged
into the campaign.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-23

THE Epoch of New York, the new critical
free lance, is strongly favorable to Mr..
Cleveland, yet that able journal cannot re-
frain from saying that Civil Service Re-
form, which, as the Epoch well knows, the
mass of Democrats treat with scorn and
tolerate with ill-concealed disgust, {" is
worth all the fuss made about it," Itadds:
1t is a deep disgrace to the city and State of
New York to have such revelations made about
the constru, ton of the new aqueduct as are now
coming out before the tassett ommittee. We
have already referred to some of these revela-
TONS and, as the testimony accumulates, the
case becomes very much stronger against the
mixture of party politics with the business af-
fairs of great city. Inspectors who demand
brihes as n matter of right and contractors who
reckon party blackmail as among the legitimate
costs of their work are surely calculated to
awaken the indignation of any citizen who
values the good name of the community of
which he IS a member. The essence of Civil
Service Reform is to secure for the public as
faithful, honest and capable servants as pri.
vate employer could. That involves good deal
more than care in selecting the subordinate Off
GERS of the municipal government, us the pres
ent investigation abundantly proves. But if the
lessons of such an inquiry, no matter for what
purpose it has been instituted, were carefully
studied by every intelligent voter they would
do more to promote the progress of genuine re-
form than any amount of pamphlets, speeches
or leading articles.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-23

SAID Governor Hill, of New York, re-
Gently: We may differ upon the details
off tariff measures, but we are all agreed
upon the main and essential principle of
our platform, which is that unnecessary
taxation shall cease" Precisely; and
every one is opposed to unnecessary " tax
alton. But the question is, what is and
is not necessary taxation That is pre-
cisely where the difference as to details
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ought not to be done the injustice of
debiting it with decline. The Indian
'sorcerer" was but few years in advance
of the modern cabinet and dark closet
mediums and Undertaking. frauds The
very fact that the pale-faced jugglers and
magicians have so little improved upon
the Indian Samans is one of the best evil
dences that they have notthe aid Of super
natural powers. There have been none
of these tricks" done by Indians or their
successors that cannot be accounted for by
natural causes and means.
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own deeds and praising not only his own
administration, but his own personality.
All he has done any other Democrat of
average ability could have done, and may
do again, and with improvement. To ex-
cuse second term nomination, therefore.
will be for Mr.. Cleveland in 1888 to present
President Cleveland as the exception to the
principle announced by Mr.. Cleveland in
1894