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 '-*i^^:-^ m^ â- # ,»"' !• i m li P S.l- h y jj M :«rr 'â- %i S+ ^li' AS GMDOD AS GOLD. W heo my •on Gr^fory manied Mi«j Mor- liKMi, I gave him pece rf my mind, and told him I didn't cmre if I never mw hmi 2«Sn. Why! Oh, well, I didn't like her; 2e u-um't the eort of a girl I'd have chosMi. I had never seen her, but I knew ehe warn t. A flighty young thing, just from boardmg â- chooi, couldn't make a shift, or bake a loaf of bread but there was MiM FUh, a plain (rirl, to be sure, but so good, a splendid housekeeper, and aU that, I always Uked Almira Fish and Gregory to go mar^ Fan- ny Morrison Well, as I said, I told him what I thought of him and her, and the boy showed his temper, and for six months I never saw him. ' • I bore it as long as I could, but a mother mnst be a fool about her- only boy so one day, as he wouldn't come to me, I went up to the ofiBce and walked up to the desk, and I was going to scold him, but something came over me that made me choke to keep the tears back, and before I knew it we had kissed and made friends. „ ., " And now you'll go and see Fanny,' said he " and I'll find you there when I come home at night " and after a little coaxing I said I would goâ€" and more than that, 1 went. ,. 1 The house was a cunmng little place a mile or two out of town, and I must say, it was very neat outside. I rung the bell it shone as it ought to, and before it stopped tinkling some one opened the door. It was a pretty young woman in a blue chintz wrapper, and when I asked her if Mrs. Gregory Bray was at home, she answered " Yes, that is my name. I've been ex- pecting you an age, but better late than never. ' .n t " How did you know I was coming T I asked, puzzled to know how she knew me, for we had never met before. " Oh, I didn't know," said she. "Indeed, I had made up my mind you wouldn't but it is a long way out here, I know. Come right up stairs. Miss Jones was here yes- terday to cut and baste, but we will find as much as we can do to do the trimming be- tween us." " Cool," I thought. Then I said, " I sup- pose you are having a dress ;nade " " A suit," said she " skirt, overskirt, basque and dolman. 1 do hope you make nice button holes." •' I should hope I do," said 1. "I would be ashamed of myself if I couldn't." " So many can't;" said she " but I told Miss Jones to send me an experienced hand, and she said there was no better than Mrs. Switzer." Now, I began to understand. My daughter- in-law took me for a seamstress she expected, and if ever a woman had a chance, I had one now. Not a word did I say, only I wondered if seamstresses gen- erally came to work in grosgrain silk and -a cashmere shawl and I sat down in the rocking-chair she gave me and went to work with a will. I can sew with anyone, and as for button-boles â€" but this is not my story. She was a pretty girl, that daughter-in- law of mine, and very chatty and sociable. I talked of this and I talked of that, but not a word did she say of her mother-in- law. I spoke of people I had known who had quarrelled with their relations, but she did not tell me that her husband's mother had quarrelled with him. At last I spoke right out about mothers- in-law. I said " As a rule, mothers-in-law and daueh- ters-in-law don't agree." She said, " That's a very wrong state of things." " Well," said I, " I suppose it is but how do you account for it " " I suppose young people are selfish when they are Mst in love," said she, •' and for- get old people's feelings." It was an answer I did not expect. •• It is plain you are friendly with your mother-m-law," said I. " I am sure I should be if I had ever seen her." " Oh, then, I have been misinformed," said I. "I was told that Mr. Gregory Bray was the son of Mrs. Bray who lives on street." " That is perfectly true, but still we kept yoB MviM •««*•" B rezpMJtod a Ito. Swlti r. day. •nd I hftve Too M " We've been aU the more lOoWila for that, my dear," I «id " ai^ I'm gjd it happened I've been very fooliah alltiie wlule, and Gregory has chosen a better wife for himaeU than I could have done. And so I think to-day, for I believe there _». Kam-av ,0nina.n than Gresorv 8 never wae a better woman than Gregory i wife, Fanny. -^ â€" ' Glory and the Sight. BT LSD. The nationa In their mwrht Are amung for the flicht. Their battle-cry is wafted high For glory and the right. v_ Wide floating o'er the world The war-fla» is unfurled, Its legend bold hath woids high-souled For glory and the right. Men, cease the mcckery ' 'Fore Heaven bow dare ye slay? How can ye stand with blocd-stained hands And shout, the right, the right Oh rulers at your case Who war what time ye please, â-  God counteth all who fiiht and fall For glory and the right ' â-  Ye kings enthroned on high, On you the sin doth lie Ye spake the word, they drew the sword For Klory and the right. « « « « » • Oh what is glory thisâ€" The burning, fevered kiss Tne tear dewtd lace, the last embrace " When love is pain and bliss 'â- â- :." Ah! Glory, art thou nigh â-  Where unknown heroes lie Wrapped in a shroud ol battle cloud With ne'er a pitying eye Is g?ory in the tomb 'Mid awful calm and gloom Where men in life, who were at strife, â-  Sleep in one c:mmon room Shines it from yonder face That bearei h still the trace ' Of days when grief had no relief Glory where is thy place »♦♦**« Bow down, oh God, let thine e'er listening ear Be quick to hear my faint despairing cry. Long weary year? have passed since earth did bear The Prince of Peace, and still the flag wives high. The blood-stained flag of pillage and rapine. And men still gather underneath its sb ade As if no fairer standard earth had seen No weapon save the cruel gleaming blade. Bow down, oh Gud, and toueh the hearts of Enkindling in them thine own fire of love, Which, burning bright, shall purify. As when The fire purges gold and doth reirove All baser things even so do Thou consume The dross of glory, hate and every wrong. Then Truth her sway in meekness shall assume, And Right love-guarded be forever strong. Mignonette- BY ARCHIE MACK. Thou fragrant plant that lowly blooms. And sweetly scents the cveLing air, And scatters wide thy sweet petfuttes, â€" We love thee, little floweret fairâ€" With meek humility and grace Thou bowest down thy bloom-crowned bead. Thy lowly plot, alone we trace. E'en from the fragrance thou dost shed. Within our garden plot we keep A spot remote alone for thee, Around thee brilliant flowerets sleep, And slumbers every shrub and tree, But thou, throughout the livelong night. Breathe forth thy fragrance o'er the vale. And slumber not when morning light Comes forth, earth's glories to unveil. By day and night thy tale is told, Thj- humble lesson thou dost teach â€" Unwavering we the truth must hold, If e'er we would perfection reach. We must not slumber night or day, Nor flaunt our gain or our regret, U.nwilling from tht truth to stray,â€" Our pattern be the Mignonette. have never met. " How singular " said I. " I've heard she was a very queer old lady." " You haven't heard the truth, then," said my daughter-in-law. " My husband's mother is a very fine woman in every re- spect. But when my husband told her sud- denly that he was going to marry a girl she never saw, she was naturally startled, and said some things about me, knowing I was fresh from boarding-school and no house- keeper, that oflFended Gregory, and so there has been an enstrangement. 1 think my dear husband is a little to blame, and I have urged him a dozen times to go and see her. He is very fond of her and thinks no one like her m many things but his temper is np, and it will take time to cool it meanwhile, 1 feel quite sure if she knew me she would like me better. Perhaps this is a piece of vanity, but I should try to make her, you know, and I won't fall into absurd superstitions that a womam must hate her mother-in-law. I can't remember my own mother, and Gregory's certainly would seem to come next to her. Now you have the story, Mrs. Switzer." " I am sure it does you credit, an'l the old lady ought to be ashamed of herself." I wanted to get up and kiss my daughter- in-law then and there, but that would have spoiled my fun, so after that I sewed hard and didn't say much, and to?ether we â-  finished the pretty silk drees, and had just finished it when a key in the door eaught both our ears. " That is my husband," said my daugh- ter-in-law -% and I knew it was Gregory. Up stairs he came, two steps at a time, opened the door and looked at us with a bright smile on his face. " This is as it should be," said he, ♦• Fanny, I shall kiss mother first, this time." And he put his arms around us both, but Fanny gave a little scream. " Oh Gregory, what are you about This is Mrs. Switzer, who is making my dress. At least, 1 have thought so all day." .. For you see I had burst out laughing, and had kissed Gregory back, and then kissed ' her. " My dear, said I, " I"ve played a little trIflK pa yon, or rather, let you play hm ut -yonrsfSf hdt you've turned oat aa good aa 8 coold not get yon to say a word aoHMt the oU htdT. am Giwgaitf*^ iS^tar, B^ dear, and yonr'B loo, if yoall y lodeed-I^wfli*" aaid tiie d«ir«M «^t The Influence of Luxury. The tendency of luxury is toward de- moralization. Rome never became dissipat- ed and corrupt until her citizens became wealthy, and adopted luxurious modes of living. Nothing is more conducive to sound morals than full occupation of the mind with useful labor. Fashionable idleness is a foe to virtue. The young man or the young woman who wastes the precious hours of life in listless dreaming, or in that sort of senseless twaddle which forms the bulk of the conversation in some circles, is in very great danger of demoralization. Many of the usages and customs of fashion- able society seem to open the door to vice, and to insidiously, and at first unconsciously, lead the young aud inexperienced away from the paths of purity and virtue. There is good evidence that the amount of immor- ality among what are known^as the higher classes, is every year .increasing. Every now and then a scandal in high life comes to the surface but the great mass of cor- ruption is effectually hidden from the general public. Open profligacy is, of course, frown- ed upon in all respectable circles and yet wealth and accomplishments will cover a multitude of sins. ini£ijxHii A mass cm. â- â€¢â- â- ellT^ â- â- Â«â- â€¢'•*• Mr. Irank H. CuahmaD rfZ«^**~J^ onearthed the mine of a P"*Jf *?!« "^," the Salt River valley, aboat eu^ty mUea north weet of rac8on.Pitrf. Codimani- at nresent in soathem Gahforma, lying ex- ttemely iU, bat the force he put »t work daring the rommer exhuming the bnned dty are still encamped on the apot contin- uing their explorations. J «4.V. The camp U located on the edge of the unearthed Sty, and about ,300 yards from what was its citadel, or fortified temple. This is beUeved to have been a budding of considerable size and 8te«»8!*. P'^^Plj several stories high, and had its foundation laid deep in the earth. The niatenal used in its construction was san-dned clay, tne same as that used by/fche MexicwM of the lower and middle^.^(88e8, and before Mr Cnshman began hU exploration there was nothing to mark its whereabouts except a sort of oblong hillock or mound. Little oj the walls above the foundation were found intact, but the ground plan could be traced in every detail, as well as the linw of the outer waU. The rooms were of different 8 zes. and seemed to have been constructed with much architectural skUL A number of the smaller apartments had undoubtedly been constructed for burial vaults, for when they were opened up skeletons were found in them, the heads beins invariably to the cMt In one of these vaults was the skele- ton of a chad. Mr. Cushman was of the opinion that the building had been a sort of combined citadel and sacred temple, and that the remains of those found there were those of priests and their families. The city extended out in all directions from the palace or temple, and the foundations of numerous dwellings had been exposed, many of them consisting of but a smgle room but now and then there is one of larger and more ample proportions, and in mott of these larger ones there had been found burial vaults and skeletons. Two thousand of these have been exhumed already according to the letter in the Post, but it is thought by the officials of the geological survey that this is a misprint for two hundred. A great deal of pottery has been taken out, of course. No iron, copper, or metal instruments of of any kind have been found, but great quantities of stone axes, stone pestles, and mortars, bone needles and knives and other such materials as belong to the stone age. The skill with which these articles were made was far superior, however, to that shown by the Indians found in America by the whites. These prehistoric dwellers of southern Arizona were a people of very su- perior intelligence. Mr. Cushman has found a good deal of wheat and barley and other grain, all of it, of course, in a charred, blackened condition, and he has also traced several canals and found the ruins of a large reservoir, so that he has no doubt that extensive irrigation had been carried on, and that all the valley had been under cultivation. He thinks there must have been a population of at least 25,000 in the ruined city, and that most of the inhabitants lived by cultivating the soil of the surrounding country. Mr. Cushman was questioned as to his theory about the complete disappearance of the people who occupied this city. " I think," said he, " they suffered from some great calamity like the inhabitants of Herculanseum and Pompeii. It was proba ble it was an earthquake. I have found skeletons under'the walls of houses lying as if the walls had suddenly fallen upon the person and crushed him to death. Yes, I think there came a terrible earthquake which killed many and frightened the remainder away. They were, no doubt, a religious people and strongly superstitious, so that they saw in the calamity that befel them a warning to seek some other abode. They probably moved south, and it may have been their descendants that the Spaniards found in Mexico. They were certainly equal in- intelligence and advancement to the Aztecs, " A emifSS AT JAPAI. A Mexican Tailor. ' Here I bring you a piece of cloth and A Good Memory. " I'm surprised that you should remembei me, Mr. Dumley," said Mrs. Hobson, " since it is so long ago that we met." •• Oh," replied Damley, with profuse gal- lantry, " there is nothing remarkable about it, I assure you, my dear madam, I can re^ member anybody." How Oould Ke See in the Dark? Ethel and Egbert were bidding each other a proper good-bye the other evening when the draft from the open front door blew the hall light out and left the two young people in sudden darkness. " Weren't you awfully afraid," asked Ethel's dearest friend next day when Ethel was tellimr the story, "to be left alone in the dark like that "Yes, dear, I was," confessed Ethel frankly.. "Egbert is quite bashfuL yon know, and I was afraid he wouldp't seVhow perfect helpless I was." for a pair of pantaloons," says a customer, The tailor measures it. "It is not enough." The customer gathers up the cloth carries it to another tailor. " Is there enouch of this piece to make me a pair of pantaloons " " Yes, sir day after to-morrow I will send them to you by my son." Tne boy comes with the pantaloons two days later. The customer notes that the youth is wearing a jacket made of the same piece of cloth. " Boy, how is this that the other tailor said there was not enough cloth for a pair of pantaloons, and your father has not only made my pantaloons but also a jacket for you out of the piece " " Sir, the son of the other tailor is a much bigger boy than I am." Them are very few readon, «*»*»!* aiOerthe time, iaoUsatioiiflr opportonil^ for stadving the maaaeis and onstoms tf the Japam "nd equaUy few who ooneeive tjiitrfthe 156,000 f qaaro nalee, or tot as say 100,000,000 acres covered by their re- markable empire, only some 12.000.000 acres are actually under any kind of culttvatton. Yet, from this small space, these indastrjoos aad thrifty people^w ho wear no woolens and eat neither beef, mutton, pork, milk, batter, nor cheeseâ€" manage to obtain, not only all the nutritive and textile plants that proride them with food and clothes, but an unual surplus of 40,000.000 pounds of tea, 25 000,000 bales of silk and enormous quan- tities of rice, tobacco and hemp for export- ation to their foreign neighbors. Of the population of 38.000,000, more than half are agriculturists 4.500,100 being landlords owning and tilling an average of •1% acres. The soil is generally a black, vegetable mold, with occasional patches of sandy and clay loams, and as it never freezes on the lower levels, owing to the mildness of the climate, it is made to bear both winter and rammer crops the same year. Consid- ering the immense areas unoccupied tor tillage, and so admirably adapted for graz- ing, the Japanese possess a relatively smaller number of domestic animals than any other nation they have, therefore, no farm ya; 1 fertiliz3i 3 to assist them in maintaining the soil's f. "undity. To t ne farmers of our own beautiful ooun try this must sound anomaloos, for there is very little doubt that with our prevailing notions our agricultoral operations would, under similar conditions, soon be brought to a deadlock but with the Japanese the mat- ter is altogether different they manage periectly well without this resource, and with no precise knowledge of either botany or chemistry, succeed, oy their intensive system, in raising crops five times heavier than ours. One of their chief manural agents is sea weed, which is thrown up by the tides along their 3,000 miles of coast in great binks, collected when the tide recedes, piled up and allowed to decompose. When rea'ly for use it is carried up to the foot hills in boats, and thence by long lines of pack horses to the fields. It is not at all an unusual thing to meet in the course of half a day's travel, some 1,000 or 1,500 horses or cattle loaded with this material, and as the same animals bring down the farm produce to the sea, river or canal, the cost of carriage is very small. The fiahmg grounds of Japan are probably more extensive in proportion to its size than those of any other cDuntry, and as during certain parts of the year the water swarms with fish that are useless for food, large fleets of boats and junks are employed in catching them for manurial purposes. The untilled and ungrszed lands ou the plains, hills and mountain sides, are covered with a wild and rank vegetation, which is constantly cut down by men, women and children, and carried upon their backs or on the backsof cows, to the farm-houses, where, being burned in great heaps, together with all the ears and straw of the rice, rye, oats, wheat, barley and millet, the ashes are plow- ed into the gr und. Inexhaustible deposits of shells, limestone and £;ypsum are also worked, burned, and employed in the same way. The extent and value of all these sources of fertilizing material are sufcient- ly obvious to need no comment but it must not be supposed that, of themselves, they would be sufficient for the purpose. The great reliance and stand-by of the Japanese farmer is the night-soil of the towns, cities and villages, every particle of which is saved collected and distributed, sometimes ovEr enormous distances, and there can be no doubt that the remarkable fertility of his ' lands and the richness cf his crops are directly traceable to its effects. In our own country it is a standing reproach to chemical science, that no means of practically turn- ing this vast agricultural necessity to any useful or profitable account have yet been devised, and that because of our inability to conveniently store and render it inoffensive, our legislators are compelled to send it through our sewers, where it continually endangers the lives of our citizens by con- taminating our drinking water and breeding diphtheria and other pestilential diseases. At Kioto, the old capital and home of the Mikados, the conquering races have titled the soil for 2,600 years and it is affirmed by many travelers of undoubted authority, that their average summer crops of rice, amount after hulling, to 70 bushels, and that their winter crop of wheat grown in the same ground, never yields less than 40 bushels per acre. Every farmer is alive to the necessity of putting back into the soil, after each crop, all the elements of fertility which that crop has taken away, and spares no effort in order to accomplish that end. What a salntory lesson is contaiur ed in that briefly stated factl How well our own agriculturists might profit by laying it to heart I IN FESIL AT meVertamate ««sewec«»^ William Olassbrook, »C^ is employed on the littu**« Maidof theMUt,theoE number of ducks m the eS L American and Horseshoe Fa^ ed his gun, and, jumpuuT^^ «« started across the river fwtii ' are familiar with the river onSf" stood at Terrapin Point 'win """v member a small patch of rooV^, above water just beneath thr,!,* '•'J here that Glassbrook effectef**^ with the intention of waitingf to come arouod the eddy \^ landed when his little Wt^** a wave, which runs from ten to Jidupeet and carried onk^' WM • "*» â- SEl iU«^ y. pRBSOcrr- 'was \f at last. going to th« It was a so Si* •*hin«olBeforher S.-lS think of offe, poor, »1« '^»»«'*°^r"^lmo8thel had on her days »^, her U8« other he high, and upeet stream, and there m wai a n^,^ fired his gun repeatedly in the u!*" tracting the attention of some on^l is so frequent in the gorge at th' • the year tiiat very little, if any „J paid to it. Then he began to Veil i though with little hope of makLk' heard amid the roar of the cattoJ" tunatelyhis cries were heard by n Davis, who at once notified his fatbtt Davis. Procuring a horse and bi^' drove to the park on the American ^j, notified the officials of Glassbrook'g situation. Jack McCloy, the guide, who hs â-  the lives of several people at thePlu" sent for, and the party hurrip.d to Gc«' land and went down the Cave of the fl stairway, where they met a Mr. Barlow was engs«ed in collecting geological I mens, andhad also heard Glassbrook'i Obtaining some ropes and a steel drilliJI the supply shed beneath the bank Q, clambered over the rocks asnear aspori^ to Glassbrook. McCloy then faitejedi rope about his waist, and with the lid J the drill waded across to where Glaaw' was imprisoned. Barlow andUcCloyldl the rope fast while Glassbrook croadiil hand over hand and waded throngk^ water. McCloy, cutting a piece from off ' end of the roxe, strune; the gun over Igl shoulder and crossed to where Barlow mil Glassbrook were waiting. From hig q. posure Glassbrook had suffered conBidenliiT and was in quite an exhausted condiiiiii,1 His boat wis picked up opposite the olil ferry landing by James L^ Bland, vholi a time thought that (iKu^brook bid drowned. Fortunately for Glassbrook, thew'mdjijl not change while he was there, for vheiit' blows up the river it is impossible to seethi rocks upon which he had landed, and U such been the case he would in all proW ity have died from suffocation by theepny, â- S^J^wamorefortuna t«Blh»P"».r .. there's a va fc'^tw Home.' wid the h I^^dies tt^ • left m« S.»«wffi"tlastlo. f""'?^ von know, and I t»W S mv regnlarmeah 5*^f SeSis as thol ,tfd«9fSimylife;«^" taton-witn "t„„ that the ri r^ jjow that •'«*rttt^ofme,8othatI r**"*fh« and the doctor 5S«f*^!!'rsothatIcan x^ » 'Z^«_«o no so w""" ' it doesn this world bu " ' f or "SSS had had other when young Lai fh^^^wQTher basket th««*^Sd her down arm icb rsaag 5^_^n Sunday morni to (he ir«™« »' helpl tier dark, "rheumatism had 1 her more or less rk. velvety eyes lookl ^rs aid the ghost of a i^^rr^eS^' mL^' l-alhe^^^ct^schoo off days of her gir •tSjw her ^Bimple lore J^t it was Larry Bog« music, .hour after they h buti ht her Bchoolhonse A Gonnndmm. «v. y seet h( Something Pleasant. "Cant you say somethmg pleasant to mel" said a husband to hb mfe as he was about to start for his office. They had had a quarrel, and he was will- ing to "makeup." "Ah, John," responded the penitent lady, throwing her arms aronnd his neck, ** for- give my foolishness. We were both in ijie wrong. And don't forget the baby's shoes, dear, and the ton of coal, and. we ace out (^ potatoes and Joh^, loye^ yQatnnatleave me some money for tiie gasman." Mrs. Flnmsy â€" " Did I understand you to aay your husband was a member of nineteen benefit societies " Mrs. Rumsey â€" " Yes, the dear man He's so thoughtful about us, should he die." Mrs. Flnmsyâ€" " Well, I guess he'll die before long. Bless us and save us Think of it How on earth can he stand to be out nineteen iughts in a week " Jost Glanced Thioae;h It- Miss Waldo (of Boston, discussing literary matters)-^Have yon read " Ho no Sum," Mr. Wabash? Mr.. Wabash (of Chicago, who is keeinng np his end of the conversation with diffi- calty)â€" wellâ€" erâ€" yes. Miss Waldo, I have read Homo some, nut not a great d«aL A Gentle Beptei Fatherâ€" Come, Bobby, .you are aU tired oat so hnziy off to bed. Bobby (with a shnr and reioctant move, ment)â€" Pa, voa. onghtat to «dl » boy to bury whsB he's all tired oat; Hot a Howlint; SnccesB. Bobby (to his big sister)â€" I heurd Mr. Featherly talking about the.biscnits yon made for tea last night, Clara. Big Sister (with assomed indifference)â€" Yes and did Mr. Veatherly think they were very liice, Bobby? BoUqrâ€" Ko be said they gave faim in- d^ieatiraL j J ...;;; An .ing^tioiis fellow ja ti»Tdling thron|p)^ Peonayl^iua seDliniK " a Valoable prepara- tion warranted to poliah iilIware^' This Taloialle mpastian;fswaod adiM wliUh he begs nam tite fanven alooff the load, •tfte fwtii^ in aaatlMna, and peOe far a qnaitwabmc. The staple crop of the country is rice, fully half the land being devoted to its two varieties, lowland and upland. Lowland rice is grown in valleys, where irrigation is Sracticable, and where, to facilitate the coding of the plains, the land is subdivided into small plats and leveled up or embanked. In order that these plata may be level, it is customary, in riioping districts, to make the embanked subdivisions very small, generally about the size fA an ordinary room, but seldom larger than an average-sized house. Rice, however, being composed of pure starch, would not of itself suffice for their support, aiid they consequently devote their winter cultivation to wheat, barley and rye, which are either hulled, boiled and eaten like rice, or' ground and mixed with other substances and made .into cakea. The people have no^ knowledge of fx word in th»ir language for what we call bread, and, in addition to their otter ignorance of fer- mentation, do not possess a single floor mill in their, entire empire. They grind their grain in small haod mills, the exact counter- part of those that are pictured on the t^mbs and temples trf the Egyptions, and bolt it by shaking- floor through several devea or screens covered: with cotton doth. Hog-Killingin Chicago. To kill and prepare 1,200 to 1,5C0 twera and 8,000 to 10,000 hogs in one day reqiini a complete system. ' The steers are diira into long pens, and an expert rifleman will- ing upon a platform over them discharga a rifle shot into the brain just behind tht horns. The killing is instantaceom, tin steer, without even a groan falling lie i log. The animal is then drawn fonnri from the pen, the hide quickly rcmovedud the carcass prepared and cut up ready foi storage in the " chiU rooms, " and subsequent shipment. Tnese beef killing processes m speedily performed,' but the science moit throughly developed is the hogkiUing. Tnese animals are driven up an inclined rfiadway into a pen in the upper part of the packing house. Men keep the processioi constantly moving, and when the ho2^ rives at the proper place, a chain is deltly fastened round his hind leg. The stem machinery jerks up the squealing hog, so- that he hangs head downwards upon a slid- ing frame his th-oat is cut, the blood spout- ing carcass slider, along the frame, and, ni a moment, being drained of blood, it p dropped into a vat of boiling water. TbB scalds it, and being quickly lifted ont it rolls over a tabl«; into a revolving maciuM that scrapes it clean cf bristles. Then tte carcass is passed along a sliding table, ff^- ed again, hung up, beheaded, disemliowelieo, split down the middle, and then upon » lengthened inclined railway to be nung ap to cool. An army of men standing sub- side the machinery perform the ^â- *"°"V:°' ties as the carcasses transport tlienby ff», ity through the different pr«=3sse8, JfMw succeed each other with such rapuU^ in a few minutes the porker is finally â„¢ posed of. This is dene by movm?the o^ cass to a broad block, where haU a dMf butchers standing around s«n.""""!S attack it, and in a twinkling it « convert into hams, sides, and shoulderf, aw ^^^ various parts are sent ofi' to \-he^ ^^^ -^ apartments. Every portion of the n^ ntUized for meats, lard, sausages, or f»B»" goods, and the blood and other oiw*' converted into a fertilizer. EnormoM»»j| age-making machines erind and c?i scraps, and acores of women are busuy mged in packins; and labelline These wonderful processes attr_- visitors, and the American rustic wno^ es- the tii» attract in»«y and the American rustic been accustomed to the farmer's the "hog-kiUine," where el»^"'t \Xb- tions are made for the slaughter OV P' j ly half a dozen, looks with anuu^ apon this wholesale summary *»Prr„. the animals in Chicago. Great as tfiu derfol city is in everythmg. It ^^Z.^^ the first place among its strong P°'°;Livfr bo given to the celerity and cofR^^ i,«* neJi of tiie Chicago style of kiUmg «" LoTO Triompliant- Irate fatherâ€"" I suppose yo" „«r you wanted to marry that bookB^r- mine aboot a year age " Daughterâ€" "Yes, Father. V; ' .i^rnttTune. •; Mir*.; Be -Hobaon, (tb« b«etMa)â€" Do^oo dance, Mr. Xillie?" â-  â- Hr. IdHieiâ€" (% deab, iiaw. I ' wwnt .danoe. _.:.â- . 'â- .â- .-'•- M».l)eHolj«m-SballI preient you to Mtav T^t w r a t i T !?' ^5"^^"*»*^ »•"» I »«»ah talk. Mn. De BoIik»â€" I am afraid AriH^gitmiMpdaLtak Pk yon an i) " A pretty sort of a man you P' f^Ltnje." He has decamped with my whole i« ^^ " Yoo remember, father, *?** %trid him he conld not have me until w s don't you?" " Of course the youngâ€" .^m bin' " I have just received a. despaW^ '^i„t j, %t Montreal sayin? he is rich now, Serfectly wiUing to mari^ a P" aughter."â€" [Detroit Free Press. •""â- SSer, while he wrote the ^Aboard But a 1 this hac 'Se her to earn a livel S?tri^lWUttlequarre a»V which circumvented this fhJl But what ma^itud !L,d at the time On hi rSp to a neighboring ^i^ JX' had whispered to Lai riy had been seen driyir gS son Sam behind his 1 ^ust home from coUej iHanm feUow, tiiey said, w riAt and left and gambled a Sry reproached her with It I ried she had simply said If voa choose to listen to gos wtik till yonâ€" ' "But yon didn't tell me, koneaweek." « I had forgotten all abou uaaed me," sud Beckv. " It's such an every day a WfewitiiSam Eustis I"â€" w n itong Becky that she JMomiil to explain that si MBS needlework up to vlndi she had been doing f c ttit •â-  she left to walk hom starling off with his smart 4uple-gravB, and the Sc "Tiie Miss Becky home, hn thdr paces " and ho tthamed to refuse their ki e erring to wadk a thou mice in the chaise Sa liik of courtesy, and hai aii?e over with him to IktM Bules out of her Amiy may see you don'1 •^/asi. For, you see," sai â- at as Uack as he was paii tktd to suppose, " Lucy c ike will without her I Md nobody but they've â-  (twDdthmgs about me â- hs night as well jump â- Hiy such a scapegrace if I aude her a little j ttin's no harm in that Ur in love and, perha] â- H ate driving about w â- T.itock may go op, and hw- the burning,' as Pa AaA Bec^ had consente ivfiMto do a service for 8» tUj^t^a thing, too ftsetsed the same roa hsr d aily roonds of toi "â- lii had married Luc â- â€¢A was the foremost n ^^' Strange how 1 HiBterfered with MU yy^ft e single fact of •â- Ss* needlework shoi Iff me and devoted I St and the OldLadie ^rf trifles 1 Poor â- MMaibared that onoo *ji!y had offered wl "li»it op with Larry rawrre hadloc to know that i Oaoe, wb wedding, wbi OKitard while â- i aadthe go Aofvm, the 1 .1^ aeddent oi ft* gnw I Irt vrvthe H dMveit, ai reni«""*j iked o«t; ^mdrifv mill' A Preference for ""^^^ andSk*' nld** Cnrteinarâ€"Well, I wish you wv 3«lMr-â€" Ym oonderBtaBd »D«f»^ -No. iiS"iJsr^' Customer (to barber)-Do you »1 ^speaks EngU* than one lan^ Barberâ€" Yes, IK.-^,-?^-. ..fc'I-'V' UUtfti