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young folks the sunbeams now what ehalll send to the birth to day said the great round golden sun oh 1 let ds go down there to work and play said the sunbeams every one so down to the earth in a shining crowd went the merry busy crew they painted with splendor each bating cloud and the sky as they passed through shine on little stars if yon liko they cried we will weave a golden screen that soon all your twinkling and light shall hide though the moon may peep between the sunbeams then in through the windocs crept i to the children in their beds they poked at the eyelids of those who slept gilded all the little heads wake up little ohlldren they oried la and from dreamland oome away 1 long nose im sure it was three ells long so np got the bride and made a courtesy aud said good day auntie that auntie to my bride i said the prince yea she was well then shed better sit down with us to the feast m the prince bub to tell you the truth both he and the rest thought she was a loathsome woman to have next you but just then in came another ugly old hag she had a back so humped and broad that she had hard work to get through the door up j umped the bride inatriooand greeted her with goodday auntie 1 and the prince asked again if that were his brides aunt they both said yes so the prince said if that wero to she too had better sib down with them to the feast but they had scares taken their teats before another ngly old hag came in with eyes as large as saucers and so red and bleared twas gruesome to look ab her but up junped the bride again with her good day auntie and her too the prince asked to sit down bub i cant say he was very glad for- he thought to himself heaven shield me from such aunties as my bride has so when he had sat awhile he could nob keep his thoughts to himself any longer bub asked how in all the world oan my bride who is such a lovely lassie have such loathsome misshapen annts i flo soon tell you how it isvsaid the first weve brought you a present wake up and i was juab osgood looklngwhenl washer seel f t jk bat the reason why i have got this long we have brought a sunny day nose is because i was always kept sitting sunny day killlie poulssojf j the three awitsp once on a time there was a poor man who lived in a hut far away in a wood anil got his living by shooting ho had an only daughter who was very pretcyyand aa she bad lost her mother when she was a child and was nowhalf grown up she said she would go into the world and earn her bread well lassie said the father ftrje enough yon have learnt nothing here bub how to pluokbirda and roass them but still you nmyas well tryftoejni so the girl went off to seek aplaee and when she had gone n little while she came to a palace there she stayed and gob a place and the queen liked her so well that all the other maids got envious of her so they made np their minds to tell the queen how the lassie said she was good to spin a pound of flax in four and twenty hours foryon know the qdeon was a great housewife and thought much of good work have you said this then yon shall do it said the queen bntyou may have a little longer time if yon ohoee now the poor lassie dared not say she j had neve spun in j all her life bun she only begged for a room to herself thiti ahe got- andtbe wheel and the fiix were brought op to her there she sao sad and weeping and knew nob how to help herself she pulled the whael this way and that and twisted and turned it about but she made a poor hand of it for she had never even seen a spinuingwhoel in all her lifo bub all at onoo as she sat there in came an old woman to her what ails you child ahe said ah i slid the lassie with a deep sigh if s no good to tell you lor youll never be sle to help me who knows said the old wife maybe i know how to help you after all well thought the lassie to her self i may as well tell her and so sho told her how her fellowservants bad given out that she was good to spin a pound oi hut in four and twenty hours and hero 1 am wretch that i am shut up to spin all that heap in a day and a night when i have never ovon seen a spinningwheel la all my born days well never mind ehild said the old woman if youll call me aunt on the happiest day of your life ill spin this flax for you and so you may just go away and ho down to sleep yes the lassie was willing enough and off she wont and lay down to sleep next morning when sho awoke there lay all the fiix spun on the table and that so clean and fine no one had ewer seen such oven and pretty yarn the qaoen was very glad to see suoh nice yarn and sho set greater store by the lassie than ever bub the rest were still more envious and agreed to tell the queen how the lassie had said she was good to weave the yarn she had spun in fourandtwenty hours iso the queen said again as she has said it she must do lb bub if she couldnt quite finish in f oar andtwenty hours she wouldnt be too hard upon her she might have a little more time this time too the lassie dared not sty no bub bogged for a room to honelf and thero she would try there she sat again sobbing and crying and notkhowing whhh way to turn when another old woman corns in and asked what aits you ohild at first the lassie wouldnt say hut at last me told her the whole story of her srief woll well 1 said the old wife never mind if yonll call mo annt on the happiest day of y ocr life ill weavo tbii yarn for you and yoa may just bo off andlie down to sleep yet the lassie was willing enough eo ace vent away and lay down to sleep wico she awake there lay tbo pieco of linen on the table woven so neat and close no woof could be bettor so the lassie took the piece and ran dorra to tbo qieen who was very glad to get such beautuul linen and set greater tore than ever by the lassie bab as for the others they grew still more bitter against hr and thought of nothing bub how to find ont sooethiop to tell about ner at last thry told the queen the lassie had said she was good tomih up tho piece ot linoa into shut in four and twenty hours well all happened u before s the laasio dared not say abecooldne sew so she was shut up again re room by herself and there she sac in tsars and grief bab then another old rife tame who said shs would sow he shirts for her if she would o ill her ant co tho happiest day of her life the was only too glad to do this and then she did as tho old wife told her kni wooi and lay down to sleep next morning wnaa she woko she found the picca of linen made npinto shirts whi h lay on the table and such beautiful- wot k no one ever set cwsa co and more thin that the shirts were n roarked and ready for wear so when n qaeen saw the work she was so glad at tbeway in which it was sawed that she clapped her hands and said sewing i ptrar had nor even saw in all my born days so after that she was as fond of the lam as of her own children and she said to h now if yon like to havo tho prince for yenr husband you shall have him for yen will never need to hire workwomen yon coo sew aud spin and woavo all your self si asthojaasle was pretty aod tha rvmcs- ro glad to havo her the wedding aoon came on but jasb as the prince was ras to sit down with tho bride to the bilj feast in came an nvly old hag with a and poking and nodding over my spinning and eo my nose got as long as you now see it and said the second ever since i was young i havo sat and scuttled baokward and forward n my loom and thatsbow my baokjkasgot so broad and humped as you now see it and i said thejthir was libble lhave sat ana staredand sowed and sewed and stared night and day and thats why my eyes have got sougly and red and now theres no help for them so so said theprinoetwas luoklylcame to know this for if folk can get so ugly and loathsome by all this then my bride shall neither spin nor- weave nor new all her life long -u- t ft iii overhhesonp- mrs da saobsbyo i have an uuole you know who oantaikifreribhttihd german and latin and greek and and why all these modern foreimjangnages just as well aa he can englialv dont yon know j tiling da s giving ir away why not hes deaf and dumb -v- ft0d vfanted by hw mother v tommyjcome outh play johnny f jehnnyicevt j tommyywhatyer cotter stay home far ijohnnyrthestovellils broke and ma wants me to sib on the btove and keep the smoke in w g p a slight difference- donsby a candidate well jonaby i ani in the hands of my friends jonaby a bankrupt i am slightly dif ferent donaby i am fa the hands of my loredltora i f r h 7 h a work of supererogation- proofbeader in writing your biography i see you do not chronicle your failures publio man no there are plenty of other people to do that a chicago industry clergyman its very odd but i have aotu- ally had three cases of matrimony on hand this week where i have married a oonple who have been divorced and have made up again bingley you ought to make that a spe cialty clergyman i believe i will bingley then you can hang out the sign bearing the legend reparing done with promptness and dispatch i he knew teacher to class in arithmetic john goes marketing he bnya two and a quarter pounds of sugar at ii cents a pound two dozen eggs at 16 cents a dizan and a gallon and a half of milk at 20 cents a gallon what doea it all make smallest boy hugging himself ecstatical ly custard t not altogether bootless mutual friend did you ask her fathers consent last night yonng felunlove gloomily yes i did m f well yourquest was nob altogeth er bootless was it 3 y f who was assisted down the steps by the stern parent well no nob altogether wjseot bockje0 him to slbep pathetic story of a utue year01d boys innocence a few years ago a swedish family named olson left tho fatherland and sought a home and fortune in canada the promlse1 land they were poor but their hearts were stout and they feared not for the future so long as they bad health and strength from the confusion and strangeness of the emigrant sheds in toronto they st their faces to the west the golden northwest others might stay and starve in the crowded cities they said but they would go where they could claim a bib of land as their own and find health and happiness the broad prairies of manitoba beckoned them onward and at last they rested en unbroken soil near lens lake the olsons were amazed at the wealth of the land that spread- out befcre them with the virgin soil waiting for the touch of the husbandman and they set to work with a will a year or cwo pasfed away the olsons had not become rioh but they had a home that however humble was theirs and they were bappy harvest time came the golden grain stood ripe and heavy in the fields the mother and the eldest children went to help the father with the harvest lest the rain might come and catch them napping so it happened one morning little ween aged 7 was jeft oil alone to care for his little broth er who was just able to toddle about the house for an hour or two they amused themselves with their toys and then the little ouo in childish rioe ran about tho room playing horse the floor was built of rough nndried boards and in some places had become sprung careless of danger little ole ran abouuntil h stepped intp a crack and fell the merciless boards closed fast about his foot andheld him prisoner- sarieking with pin he called to his brother for help ween tugged away at the boards but trey refused to release their prey little oles appeals became more and more frantic ween wont to the door and shouted for help but no one heard hiim at last frantic with fear he seized a dull ax that stood in tho shed and rushod to the little sufferer saul he could not pryupthe boards there was but qne way now he must cat off the little ones foot 1 so he raised the dull ax and brought it down a raggelgash was made and the shrieks grew louder dont cry ole i will soquhave you free and down came the oi uel ax again again and again it fell until at laatthe prisoner was tree the bood frightened ween and he took the littleone in his arms and sought to soothe lb with o song he heard his mother sing i kockaby rockibybabjy to alt op little oles ories became fainter and faint er his head fell lower on bis brothers arm and his eyes closed j ween thought the baby was very white but still he sat there qroonlng tho cradle song and waiting for the rotorn of his father and mother high noon came and the mother returned to- prepare the frugal noonday meal no little voices came to greet her with ahonta of joy and her mothers heart stood still with a name less terror into tho house she rushed shi shl whispered ween ole got hurted hut i rocked him to bleep yes ole was asleep his eyes would never open again npon earthly scenes and little ween rocked to and fro sluging softly bocksbr rockaby babj to sleep to a blaoir ye cimmerian optic i how thou hast possess ed thy little worlds attent when thou wert ir andlike thy fellow void of yioioua air none with thy charaoder seemed much im pressed now in thy purple and fine linen dress ed een modest maidens passing at thee stare although they never met thee otherwhere in former days unstained wert thou eo blest ah i virtues even coure runs on for aye and no one marks it good is reckoned ntf so runs tho world said any yesterday ihy dexter optio i lo how free from ullj yet now meseems the very asses bray and oer thy- blackened woe jieehaw their fill j j i fill l business principle- mist penelope peachblow you do not really believe that marrisge is a failure mr jouathantrump i do if yoa have a preferred creditor arid she returns your love a provesb well indorsed remember my boy that time u money and you must use it to the best advantage raid old parrot to hisnephew at tho con- cluiion of an hours harangue will try to ropliadi the scapegrace and as he lookel at the kind old mans fifty dollar check in the hallway he murmured eightythrocnrsa afnafc that hoars teon woll employed i i confession of a famous freebooter tantia bheol the bold robin hood of the central provinoes india has made a full confession fifteenyeara ago he lefthis vil lage and took up the occupation of oultiva- tor of land he oommittea some minor police offence and was sentenced to a years imprisonment in the nagporo gaol ho was dubaequcnly imprisoned in jnbbulpore gaol and on his release settled in holkars territory but was forced to take refuge in the jungle to escape arrest conse- oonsequent on a false charge of robbery he carried on petty depredations for a year aod was arrested and imprisoned in khun dwa gaol whence he managed to escape he then formed a dacoity band and com menced robberies on an extensive scale his first i daooity was accompanied by murder and bis men next pillaged and burnt a vil lage in one of his raids a policemans nose was cut off subsequently tantia raided on pokur where he cuo off the noee of a woman who hod helped to betray him and he robbed her daughterinlaw of all her jewels at a robbery in the bebut die trio t he again cut off a policemans noae for tho last two years being much har- apsed by both the central province and holkars polico ho got tired of his jun gle wanderings he was growing old and his eyesight was tailing on first commencing his career he cculd travel 60 miles at a stretch but now not more than 20 the greater portion of his timo was spenc in hol kars terribbry he had never killed any body himself but bad robbed the rich to help the poor i last year he distributed be 6 000 among the poor on tho banks of the nurbudda he had frequently purchased bullocks for poor people he was eventually arrested through the treachery of gumpoot rajpoot to whom he bad frequently given large sums of money with which tho latter had promised to purchase a pardon he had latterly suffered severely from want of food ani malaria through sleeping without shelter in the rain he stated that other bauds are now committing extensive robber ies in his name raj tram a native native magistrate accused o participating in tan- rias robberies has been convicted by the sessions judge and sentenoed to seven years rigorous imprisonment and fined rs6000 a famous actress as a saggar one of the late sir francis doyles sweet- eat and most touching poems was a ballad which i believe he never published having for its subject a tale told to him by a fair descendant of mrs jordan the famous ac tress whose eqsal macready used to say that ho had never teen on the stage this tale related that ore winter day mrs jordan passed in her carriage a poor woman singing with feeble voice in the street whose stony look of hopeless misery touched the success ful actress tender heart stopping her car riage mrs jordan told her footman to invite the poor woman to call at her address in a street close at hand tne two women were soon alone together and the poor street singer told her sympa thizing interlocutor that she was a widow and had just been turned out by her land lord together with her starving children into the frostbound street mrs jordan quickly borrowed the wretched womans shawl and bonnet and the shirt of her worn dress and putting them on told hejr to wait by the fire until she herself returned in a few moments the silence of the street was broken by a heavenly voice issuing clear and sweet from the throat of the most ex quisite ballad singer ever heard on the eng lish boards from beneath a tatteredbonnet from wlth- in a greasy shawl that unebbing tido of mueio filled with life i the souls of all i i and the touch as of a spirit fo their flutter ed pulses clung with a strange rapture as that ragged womanaung arrested by a voles the like of which they had never hear the workmen paused on their homeward journey to thrust pennies into tho singers hand presently the win dowsof the houses that she passed opened spontaneously and a stream of silver fell t at her feet for threequafters bf an hour she continued to gather in the money harvest whioh inoluded several gold pieces contribut ed by carriage folfe then ahe hurried to the starving widows side restored t her tho bonnet shawl and go wn and poured a flood of money into her lap the ballad ends p not in valnfrbmoub kev b6aomhad tnat i rhusio torrent leapt i t i emlmofli j for beyond herjeajrthbckn hearers star- crowned angels smiled and wept and o solemn ntnerands floated from our fathers place of rest lovers of their fellowcreatures are the bg- togs ribvebet- f ro i4 i i ibhehasa little eist alra stateatreefrjewellers hera ive been for two mortal hours trying itb a wedding presentfor gertrude t- with 325 and positively the only things i oan find that i really like are a 10 fan and a s500mlnlatnra h ft ob but havent you seen her list no whatliat- you have evidently nob been to call in her lately why abos adopted a brandnow english fashion and has a list of all the things she wants given her displayed on a small table in the drawing room ao that all her vieitors can examine it for themselves and mark off the artioles they prefor to give itis a strip of satin paper about two yards long and a gold pencil lies beside it are all the articles mentioned expen sive oh dear ho some of them are but others are mere trifles its like this a gold tbimhle a stelnway baby grand piano- a writing caso a pair of sleeve links a glove buttoner a pearl necklace a lace handker chief silver folks and spoons a gold pen silver tea service and so on gertrude told me shoa nearly sure her father intends to give her the piano and sh3 examines the list first thing every morning hoping to see a cross against the baby grand but its not there yen theres- always a fashion in wedding e resents last year was a lamp year no ride of 88 will ever need to bny a lamp if she lives to be a hundred and this year why this year its oandlesticks there is a flood of candle sticks of all kinds and sizes and values louis xiv renaissance wedge- wood leeds and sevres they jaat pour in on the brides at least on those who dont follow the new fashion and there are lots of girls who wont they say it seems too much like asking for things and its true one cant help having a little feeling of that aort but ifa foolish chicago news 1 1 art empress who cooks the empress of austria is the best royal housekeeper in europe she is as thoroughly acquainted with the details of the imperial austrian kitchen as her husband is with the details of the imperial austrian govern ment she superintends the household af fairs of the big palace at the austrian capital with the greatest care she receives personal ly reads and acts upon reports from cooks butlers keepers of the plate and keepers of the linen cooking devices which have be oome inconvenient or antiquated are abolish ed only at her command new methods cf preparing or serving food are adopted only at her suggestion changes in the per sonnel of the establishment are made for the moat part only in obedience to her orders consequently r person can eab drink sleep and be served better in her house than in ir other in europe the kiiohen in which the food for the bluest blcod of austria is cooked la a huge room with all the arrangements at each end for preparing fish fowl and beast for the table fifty chickens can be cooked at once on one of the big whirling spits against the side walla from floor to ceiling stand scores upon scores of chafing dishes in these diahes all of whioh are eeli-warm- iig the meats are cnrrled to the oarviug room whasosi they are returned to the kitchon readjr to be served the boiling and taking aind frying and- carrying and catting occupy a small regimont of servants twentyfive male cooks in whiba clothes dress spit season and stuff the meats as many female cotka prepare the vegetables the paddings ondthe salads a dzen or more boys hurry the birds fish and joints from the kitohen to the carving room where long lines of carvers slice and joint everything laid before them a k it invitf wrsvmaokayfb parrot i k london is marvellously empty but enter tainments aro still given at mrs mackays it ia toupthat uie hoateas herself is not yet jji2- 3 v grand green parrot has bat at the opn window since last sunday looking out to buckingham gate and attracting hun dreds by its humorous conduct i have seen and parrotsbubmever onelike tbis i was returning f rem the park on sun day whenirfirsp saw it the pavemontin front of thef window was thronged and everybody was roaring with laughter for the bird itself was jiaughihg eo heartily that ils exarople at last- it said wlthintehoeiejnphasis well ldeblare and then buret into oonvulsiona of laughter again in ainshner realty tooludicrous sj it exchanged remarke with the apeototbrs it hailed passing hansoms and on being ask ed what oclook it was it replied- half- past four was in faob i correot incredible aa it may seem the bird on mon- day dftornbbnwaa asked the same question and replied accurately a quarter to five so greab has beenthe attraction of this gay greeri bird that the police have had to keep moving the people on to prevent obstruction of the traffio c onl ories the bird tsb stephens gfistte its great advantages going back to their own styles- tho ostasiatisihe udyd says that the em press and members of the aristocracy of japan havo given np the idea of adopting the west ern styles of dress for women i the parisian models did not please tbepeople in general and the historic costumes will again be worn exclusively the grea- iady tailoring establishment in tokio wtlch has been under tbo charge of a parisian has closed its doors forlack of work to do the lloyd greets the failure of the pretended reform declaring that a more complete caricature was never seen than a tapanete woman in a bonnet and dress of the boulevards why it bins- miu gmdy why does the bell on yocr typewriter ring operator it rings when people ask me silly questions its going to ring nov put think yond hate to wear them theyre not a bib becoming mrs mackintire thoy may not improve my looks bun then i have this satisfaction they enable me to see other peoples imperfections yon know yon cant begin to thmk bow plainly i can see other peoples crbwafeet and wrinkles miss gabbe indeed you cant r cleaning mens clothing i the process of cleaning- mens and boys clothing is perfectly simple though laborious and unpleasant diagonal cassimore and such materials will stand washing and if a coat vest orpair of trousers is very dirty yr shiny thia is thebeat way to clean and freshen it up it is the way the professional acburef s do ibj first make a strong soapsuds with clean warm water never wash olobh in water that has been uned for other things as it will make it linty souse the garment up- and down in the suda and rub out all dirty places and grease apots if very much toiled it may go through a second snda then rinse well through several waters as warm aa the audb and hangup to dry when almost dry roll it up for an hour or so then press it the secret of pressing without havirg the coods look shiny is to pub a piece of old mus lin between the goods and the iron and to take up the iron without fail before tho steam stops rising from the cloth h there aro bad wrinkles or shiny pfaces put a wet cloth over them arid press with a hot iron not forgetting to lift off tho iron when the full head of steam is rising so that the nap of the cloth will be lifted i an earnest bequest harriet baeoher stowes son the rav charles e stowe of hartford conn mat with an experience recently whioh com pletely nonplussed him one evening quite recently he dined with mrs j w board- man proprietress of the hotel woodruff visiting mrs boardman is a cute little nieeeabont five years of age she is a regular chatterbox and makes many bright miss gabbe to mrs mackintire who has i remarks during a day fearing less the icon glasses for the first time i should child would astonish tbo preacher by some jr- i- s outlandish saying her aunt warned her to the burden of his thoughts an estimable physician who is dabbling in real estate recently forgot to give the necessary instructions along with the pre- sorlption on being aroused from hla sleep to toll the family how the medicine was to be administered- he replied one half- down and the balance in one and two years iwherahadrewitr a lawyer gave a dinnerparty after whioh tho gentlemen retired to smoke and chat all at once co got up took down a sword which formed part of a trophy and bnuid- facing it in theairexouimod ah lent- lemen i ehal never forgeft he day when i drew this bladefortbe firsi time pray where did yon draw it said an enquiring guest ata rhfflj was the lawyers simple re jiinder 3ifrtf7 i distributias his favors j young mrs green henry dear you think so much bread and molasses is gooo lor harry young mr green vgertainiy its good for him dnb you know bread is lie staff oriifer young mrs green yeecs but o much melasics you vnowc yoaog mr greene sveil 9batbf it j he doesnt eat the m oat st he leaves that on the doer knob keep mum during the dinner the admonition was listened towlth awe and at the table tho little one scarcely dared look ac mrsbbwe not wishing to commit a supposed shxi whfle tho servant was abiont from the room the little girl noticed there was no butter on her small pink dish t she didnt mind holding her tongue bub to eat bread willout butter than would never dovshetobk a survey of the table and lo and behold the butter dish was directly id front of the preacher- wistfully she gazad at boh for a few seconds never in her brief existence did sho appear eo pen sive then gathering all her courage and clearing her throat she said dear pastor wont yon please for christs sake pass th butter n the rav mr stowe nevor received such shock he leaned over in bis ohair to piok up his napkin which of coarse bad nob fallen mrs boardman must atthatmo merit arrange a windowcurtain and i the other guests wefre snddenly troubled with a frferidly cougb little mabel selfsatisfied that aha had done the prcper caper was the only one at the table who could positively prove tha she was alive jjootor ncjtawehtodayveh have- you kept him quiet and given him bismedi- cine regnlarly mrs ricbard bevylin buckner dly bocn nobody in de room wid him eepi me an de chidrenso hes ben nice an quiet an i give him de med- cine like yculolo me three spoonfuls every hour doctor- great heavens woman its i wonder hes alive 1 1 said one spoonful every three totuil mrs buckner well ifow doeuh dey aine nodiftrencc between one three an three ones count cm fo y o- jelf an ete- bir