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,flmp.‘ a...“ L. â€". «on. m YUUNG- FOLKS. THE HILL IN THE FRESHET; 03 1 BOY FOR soars 0? WORK. “ One thing very much wanted in this house, mother, is money." Paul Wilkins said this very positively as he stood before the open fire, his hands in his pe‘:kets, his back to the fire after the fashion to Paul \Vilkins, Sr. “ You are right there,’ replied Mrs. Wilkins, busily sewing at her favorite window. There was a brief space of silence, and the teakettle improved its opportunity and put in a little interlude, singing . “ Ch-ch- cheeror-r-r.” “ Io‘on’t know, mother, but one thing that is wanted more than money.” “ What is that, Paul 2” . “ Why, a place where a fellow can earn some money. Here I am, through school. I don't find a trade that suits inc and wants me, and the stores are all full, andâ€"J am stuck. Why, it seems to me I'd do anything to help you and father.” “ Mother can get along, but I do feel anxious about your father at times. I Wish he could work nearer home, say in Simon Stover’s big grist milL He knows all about milling, and yet to get a chance to work at his trade, he must walk a mile and a half, morning and night. 'It is too much for him at his time of life. ” Again a pause, and again an interlude by the teakettle: “ Ch-ch-cheer-r-r-r up. ” “ 1 am getting desperate, mother, "de - Elared Paul, in spite of the kettle’s very sensible advice, ” and I’m gorng to hunt up something, or I’ll know the reason why.” " Don’t worry too much.” “ l’ve got to do something, and you may call it ‘ worry ' if you want to, but here goes i” “Ch-ch-cheer-r-rsr!” once more advised the teakettle as Paul left the room. He came back in half an hour, panting: “ Well, I'veâ€"I’ve gotâ€"got somethingâ€"a â€"j-job. " . “ You wait, my dear, till you have got your breath. " “ I’llâ€"~go it easyâ€"and tell youâ€"there ! At Stover's mill I foundâ€"a notice saying: ‘ A loy wanted, one to do all sorts of work.’ Soâ€"so I asked about it and the old man says it is to do anything he wanted. Don’t you think he’s sort of gruff?” “Yes, but he will keep his word, and you are sure of your pay.” “ Keep his word, mother? ,Yes and set me to doing all sorts of work. However I â€"-I said I would come. Got to do something -â€"ahem !” He cleared his throat as if to clear out of the way various objections that would arise and assert themselves. “ Paul, I like your spirit, even if I don’t admire your chance, but it is better to do sorrething, which may improve into some- thing better, than to do nothing. I’ll help you, Paul.” “ To do all sorts of work? W'ouldn’t that be funny, but you will cheer me on.” “ So 1 will dear." ' And the teakettle anxious to do what it could, once more chripcd : “ Cli-ch cheer-r- r-up-p-pup ! ” “Dear me,” said Mrs. \V.â€"â€"-, “ if that isn’t bilin’ over 1" \thn Paul came from the mill dav by day, his mother would ask him : “ What did you do today, Paul?” “0, just a laborer, cleaning up round the mill,” was the first reply. The next day, “What new ‘2” “Book keeper.” The next day, “\Vliat now '2" “ Strictly a miller. ” The next day, “What now ?" “A farmerâ€"planting corn all day.” The next day, “What now?” “Hustler-in the stable.” The next day, “What now ‘3" “0, repairing the dam,and lugging stones and fetching boards. Next thing, I shall be lugging Simon. ‘All sorts of work,’ you now.” . A few weeks after the last report, a heavy rain setting in, the millstream was very much swollen. The ruin continued into the second day. The stream kept rising. The water pressed ominously against the foundations of the null. “Whats dismal scene l” exclaimed Paul, watching the freshet from the rear of the mill. “A black sky, rain drip-dripping, wind groaning, ' the water rushing every- where, the millâ€"millâ€"well, it looks bad ! Seems to me as if I could hear it crcak and snap ! Sorry for Simon, and sorry, too, for another reasonâ€"if wo hands have got to stay liere,we shall lose a concert to be given this afternoonâ€"a matinee they call itâ€"in the town hall. We all wanted to go to it, a day when we can‘t do much here.” A petition went in from the men employ- ed by Simon to let them all that after- noon. “You, go if you will 1" Simon snapped 'out tesLily. Ho nddcd something as he turned round. and Paul heard him: “If those people don't see what I wont, let ’cm go 1” “lie is afraid the mill won’t stand the freshct, but the men all thinkitwiil behere when the rain is over. Ifâ€"ifhc is worried-â€" and I guesshe isfastcimughâ€"l’ll stay by him. 1 don’t know what to do, as the mill is not running, but, I will stay by the old man," proposed Paul, " I hired to do all sorts of Work.” He walked about the mill,then went back of it and watched the freshct, and finally came inside. “Haven't you gone to that screechin’ thin -â€"that concert 2" asked Simon. “ i o, I thought you might need me, sir." He walked, up the stream a short distance and saw the water foaming, swelling, rec. ing, rushing down the valley furiously. “ It looks real scary," thought Paul. Hastening back to the mill, he saw~in alarm that the water was foaming angrily round one corner of the building, and then as if torn by savage, white teeth, the tim- bers were parting 1 He rushed into the mill. There in his old armchair, as if it were a cradle and the jarring waters had rocked him to sleep,was old Simon Stover. Paul was very muscular for his years, and it has been said that the miller was small. “Hired to do all sorts of work,” mur- mured Paul, lifting both chair and miller in his strong arms, and carrying his load out of the mill. Setting it downin asafe place Paul rushed back for the miller’s hooks and money-drawer. These prizes he deposited by the miller’s side, and then was going back for another load. “Jimâ€"Jimâ€"” said the miller, detaining Paul. “ hold on l.“ " He thinks it is his boy that died,” thought Paul. “Jim, let the old thing go l I can’t spare you, but I can spare it and I can put up a better millâ€"I can afford itâ€"seeâ€" see i" The mill was yielding everywhere to the bombardment of the waters, and with a sound like the crash of guns everything soon collapsed. In about half an hour Paul was at home. His mother looked up, and there he stood soaked by the rain, his face wearing a bat- tered, tired took, but he was very happy and triumphant. "0, mother, I’ve been up to all sorts of work, and lugged Simon Stover out of the mill which has just. been ruined, by the freshet.” “What, what, Paul? The mill gone and Simon lost so much, and you your place and â€"â€"‘2 “0, hold on, mother ! Simon says he has been wanting a new mill a long time, and he is going to build one with all the im- provements and going to give me a fine chance, he saysâ€"for I am like his Jim, he saysâ€"and as he has sampled the family, he’ll give father a chanceâ€"a good one-â€" hurrah, hurrah for the boy hired to do all sorts of work 1" She did not hurrah, but was she not a happy mother ‘Zâ€"[N. Y. 0b- server. V When We May Fly. What is now required is that the field of research and eXperiment should no longer be left to impractical enthusiasts, as for the most part it has been of yore. It is high time that really competentand well inform- ed mechanical engineers should follow the example of Mr. Maxim and Prof. Langley by turning their attention to the subject. Once let this be done and I am satisfied that the problem will be in a fair way of solution and cannot fail lintiinatcly of a satisfactory issue. Nevertheless, after some Considerable stu- dy of the question, 1 have 'a persuasion commuting to a conviction that whatever partial or temporary success may attend all such machines as Mr. Maxim’s, which de- pend upon locomotion through the air for sustaining power in it, the ultimate solution of the problem will be something different. That is, I believe that a really safe, work- able, end reliable flying machine must be based upon the principle of disenciating the stable vertical suspension in the air, if requ- ired, from horizontal locomotion through it. Such a machine must be capable of rising vertically in the air in a dead calm, and remaining suspended in it, as apart from, or in addition to, any question of horizontal locomotion through the air. Moreover, it must be so constructed that no possible breakdown or failure in any en- gine, or in any part of the gcar,will endanger the lives ‘of the passengers. But these conditions will no doubt involve a considerable further reduction in the ratio of weight carried to power devel- oped in the motor and for this we must be content to await the furthur progress of science. Once let this vital issue of stable suspen- tion in the air be satisfactorily achieved in a really sound, safe, and reliable way, and the consequences which will follow from the new departure are enormous and incalcul- ableâ€"[The Contemporary Review. Paul left him and went out of doors to see how the freshet might be getting along. How the French Make a Living. According to recent statistics about half the population of France lives by agricul- ture;a tenth by trade; a twenty-fifth by the liberal professions, and tlii‘ce-fiflietlis on private incomes. Of the ngriculturists 9,176,000 are owners who form their own land. The others are tenants farmers, graziers, labourers, or small - proprietors. Who in their spare time work for others, The mincs,quarries, and manufactures om- ploy 1,300.000 persons, while 6,093,000 are engaged in various petty industries, Among traders there are 700,000 bankers, commission agents, and wholesale mer- chants, 1,803,000shopkeepers, and 1,164,000 kecpcrs of hotels, cafes, and public-houses. Railways and the other transport agencies by sea or land employ 800,000 persons. There are $05,000 State servants in the various departments and parishes of France. With regard lo the professions there are 112,000 preachers of various denominations, and 115,000 members of different religious orders; 156,000 members of the legal pro- fcssion, 130,000 medical men, 110,.l00 teach. crs in schools other than those of the State, 121,000 artists and artistes of eVery descrip- tion, while 23,000 are recognized as savanrs. men of letters.journalists, etc. The number of persons living entirely on income derived from land or other investments reaches 1 “I’m sure you're real go hi. I'm dreadful 1.849’000’whne were “chm tired out. a-worryiu’ about this mill. The not of 'cm are all gone,that’s the way they do. I want some one to stay with me, When my boy J iin--" the old man's faded eyes were shining with tears. “When my boy Jim died I was dreadful disappointed. I had some one, I'd thought, who would stay by me. He'd 'a' been with me this afternoon. You make me think of my Jim. I'm dreadful tired.” “ Well new, air," said Paul, soothingly, “ you sit right here by your desk and have a nod rest. I'll look after things." he old man seated himself in his leather- bottomed, red-armed chair, and shot his eyes wearilv. He was dressed in s grayish- white suit, and his whiskers were white, and sinking down lulu the chairâ€"he was a little musâ€"he looked something Slflrs -i â€",000 pensioners, public and private. A 'Vallfable Pate-tit. The man with a patent lock saluted the president of the bank, and the president did not manifest great pleasure in his caller's presencet " I would like to show you, sir, a patent lock which 1â€"" he began. “ Don't want to see it,” interrupted the resident. " We have all the burglar-pron lockswe want.” * . " I beg your pardon,” said the caller “ but this isn’ta burglar-pr lock ; it’s a cashier~proof lock." " Ohâ€"ahâ€"um." replied the president apologetically, “ let me look at it." like a tired tabby curling up in the chair,going tel There are over seventy miles of tunnels cut in the solid rock of Gibraltar. PRINCESS MADD- Ko hulk In lie Report that She Is to nun- lard Roaches-y. An ex-attache of the British Government writes the following to the New York Tribune :â€" Not the slightest credence need be attach- ed to the reports cabled from Europe with PRINCES MAUD. regard toa matrimonial alliance between Lord Rosebery and Princess Maud of Wales â€"â€"reports which are probably due to the imaginative mind of some enterprising London correspondent of an English pro- 'vincial paper in search of copy. These rumors are so frequently and so recurrent that it may possibly be of interest to point out once and for all to the readers of the Tribune why a marriage between the Earl and a British princess of the blood is not only improbable, but also impossible and entirely out of the question. Lord Rosebery has been announced as engaged to the 'widow of the late prince Leopold, Duke of Albany; to the daughter of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, ot Princess Victoria of \Vales and, in fact, to every unmarried princessof the reigning family of England. For what reason it- is diil'icult to imagine, since even were there not certain insupcrable obstacles, Lord Rosebery would be about the lust noble- man in Greathritain to perpetrate so gross a blunder, it being nothing else when an English peer marries apriucess of the blood.‘ An alliance of that kind would involve‘ his political extinction, destroy the great popularity he now possesse alike with the classes and the masses wouldrenderhimanobjectofsuspicionandof jealousy to the sristogracy, and expose him to the resentment of most of his wife’s royal relatives, who would look upon him as an intruder, and be forever in a state of! apprehension lest he should presume'on the strength of his marriage, to forget the 'de- ference due by him as a mere nobleman to i royalty, or to usurp privileges and pre- rogatives that belong by right of birth to his wife, but could never be his. Until the date of his marriage with Princess Louise of Wales, Lord Fife was probably one of the most popular and uni- versally liked peers of the realm, a favorite alike with the aristocracy, with the reign- ing family, and with the people. Having wealth, prestige and much cleverness, he had a brilliant career before him as astates- man. All his prospects, however, were marred by his marriage, and although he has become a duke, his political career is at an end, and he is to-day one of the most unpopular men in the kingdom. Another instance is that of the Marquis of Lorne, who has to contend not alone with the ill- will of the people, but also with the most j princess. all members thereof, and it is manifest, under the circumstances, that it would be out of the question fora son-in-law of the sovereign or even of the Heir Apparent to hold Cabinet ofice as the member of a Liberal or of a Tory Administration. A royal marriage, therefore, would inevitably result in the termination of the political career of Lord Rosebery, than whom there is no man in the Kingdom more coldly amâ€" bitious and more bent on making a great nainlpI for himself in the history of the wor . Then. too, there is another obstacleâ€" Lord Rosebery has four children by his first wife, who was Miss Hannah Roths- child. What would be the ition of a royal Countess of Bosebery toward these children? And were she to give birth to children the latter, although legitimate grandchildren of the sovereign, would inev- itably be obliged to take up an inferior position, both as regards rank and wealth, to that of the progeny of their father's Hebrew wife. Thus the existence of these four children alone is sufficient to consti- tute an insurmountable obstacle to a mar- riage with either of the daughters of the Prince of Wales. lVere Lord Rosebery to marry the widowed Duchess of Albany, matters would become still more compli. cated, as the Duchess has already two children, one of whom is the present Duke of Albany, who ranks as Prince of the Blood. It is difficult to see how he could be brought up on a footing of equality with Lord Rosebery’s children by his first wife, or whatfiposition the issue of a union 8 between the Earl and the Duchess would occupy with regard to their half brothers and sisters, both royal and Jewish. One word more concerning Lord Rose- bery, who has been betrothed by public report to more women on both sides of the Atlantic than any other modern nobleman in Christendom. He is pos- sessed, as Prime Minister, of a power and prestige enjoyed by none of his’pre- decessors in office. For he is known to have at his back the practically in- exhaustible resources of the great bank- ing house of Rothschild, which controls the finances of nearly every nation of the Old World to such an extent as to render the maintenance of the peace of Europe far more dependent upon its will than upon that of many a great monarch. Lord Rosebery is thoroughly identified with the dynasty of Roths- child, so much so that he may be con- sidered in the light of one of its most important members. When his wife, the sole heiress of Baron Meyer Roths~ child died, she bequeathed to him her vast fortune, but it remains in the hands of the Rothschild firm, and hence Lord Rosebery may justly be considered as for- ming part and parcel of this great house of business. Havmg his thumb on the purse- strings not only of the great British Empire, but also, through the House of Rothschild on those of nearly every Government of Europe, and practically controlling the financial markets of the World, he will wield, as long as he can manage to maintain his parliamentary majority, a power which, if properly taken advantage of, is destined to prove greater than that of any statesman or Minister in Europe. Lord Rosebery has absolutely unique and unprecedented oppor- tunities of achieving a. grand name in the history of Great Britain and of the world, | and be is not likely to sacrifice them by so gross a blunder as a. marriage with a royal Electric Vehicles. It is said that all the more serious problems of applying an electrig;motor to ordinar vehicles have been solved, and that an elec- tric parcels van which has been going about the streets of London is not a toy, like former electric carriages, but a practical success. It is said to look like an ordinary two-horse van without shafts, it is worked by accum- ulators which will drive it for fifty miles without a recharge, and it can attain the speed of ten miles an hour. The steerin is easy, and the cost is said to be half, that of a. horse van of the same size and power. If all this be true, avast diminution in the number of horses in the streets at all large incredible snubs and slights to which he has I cities may be expected before very long. been subjected by his wife’s brothers and 1 other relatives. There is a well authenti- cated story of one of the princes having 1 The London Spectator is enthusiastic at the prospect, and says zâ€"“Notonly will loco- motion and transport be cheaper (we shall sent his equerry to request him to leave the have sixpeny cab-fares), but the block in the royal tent at a. garden party that its ac- streets will be greatly decreased. The horses case was restricted exclusively to royalty. Poor Lord Lorne had fondly imagined vehicles they draw, that he could follow his wife into it, take up no less or even more room than the For a driving tour, I there will be nothing like an electric tra , but found out his mistake just in the for it will never be laid up by a bad stable. same way as when, a little later at the Court of Berlin, he was prevented by the chaiubcrlaius on duty from accom- panying his wife into the salon rc- served for the princess and princesses of the blood at a court ball, and was forced to cool his heels in the outer hall along With the rest of the nobility. Lord Lorne’s tamcness in submitting to all this has earned for him a good deal of contempt, which is perhaps even more difficult to bear than the downright unpopularity of the Duke of Fife. Lord Rosebery is indeed too shrewd and too ambitious a lnan ever to expose himself to such treatment, or to risk the certain {according to the record, they loss of all his immense social prostigekhis political influence and his great popularity. His retention of the Premiership or even Lastly, if,tlie demand for horses is greatly reduced. riding, the'healthicst ofall exer- cises, will once more be possible for the ‘ working gentleman,’ ” . MARRIED ONE HUNDRED YEARS. A w0nderful anniversary, the 100th, of the marriage of Mixand )Irs.Jcaii Szathmary is reported from Hungary. This appears to be a circumstance which is entirely im- possible. But the marriage of this aged pair is duly and officially recorded as having taken place in May, 1793, at which time, were of mar- riageable age. As in Hungary at that time a bridegroom must have reached the age of twenty and a bride that of fifteen, the pair his possession of a minor portfolio in the must now be at least 120 and 115 years old. Cabinet would be out of the question were he to become the husband ofa British l’riu- The l00:h anniversary was celebrated at the town of Zsouibolyi, in the Boost, which has ccss,and he would be relegated into obscurity I for a long time allowed the venerable coup'e as far as the history of his country is con- open-iron in recognition of their great age cerncd. The Royal family of Great Britain is debarrcd by the unwritten laws of the cons' itution from taking anypart in partisan politics. Strict impartiality with regard to A FAKE! VAULT. and fidelity to each other. â€".â€"â€"â€"â€"oâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" Moss grows thickest on the north side of. : hills, and awn-exposed tree has its large", the great political parties is expected from limbs on the south side. 1 ‘ OPTIC SEARCH-LIGHT. no opaum-onem- Throws a lean cl meets-lo uxht Into the Rye and Lo- eates the Trouble. One of the most remarkable inventions which has lately come into practical use in the hospitals of New York it the “ophthal- mometer. It is used for examining the eye when it is in a state of disease, and it illustrates how accurately modern science has come to deal with the ailments to which the flesh is apt to full heir. The invention of this new instrument was found to be a necessity. It is an ac- knowledged fact among specialists in dis- eases of the eye that poor eyesight is on an alarming increase in the United States, especially among children. The number of school children who wear eye-glasses con- tinually in New York cit alone, and es- pecially in Boston, is don 1e or treble of what it was several years ago. The very large increase of work which this has oeâ€" casioned for‘the doctors in the eye hospit- als rendered it extremely diflicult for them to carry on their examinations as they had heretofore done. The old method of examinin the eyewas to station the patient at some istance from a chart on which were printed letters of various sizes. If the person under examin- ation was perfectly cleanmiuded, a more or less accurate result Was obtained; but in the case of a child or a person dull of com- progension the result was not generally so 00 . The ophthalmometer does away with all this uncertainty, and by its use the veriest tyro fresh from the medical college can make the most accurate diagnosis. It is the invention of Profs. Javal and Schiotz, of Paris, and was introduced into the hos- pitals of New York by Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa. It is a combination of a telescope and a large painted disc, on which is projected an intense electric light. In front of the disc is a small wooden mask-like frame in which the patient places his face. 0n the disc are a series of divisions. The doctor looks through the telescope at the patient’s eye. The effect of the intense light is to cause the numbers and divisions on the disc to be reflected and to show out clearly on the cornea or rear wall of the patient’s eye. Connected with the disc is a sliding arrangement by means of which any desired point on the disc may be locat- ed, so that iu the case of astigmatism, for instance, it is only necessary for the physi- cian, after locating the source of the trou-, ble, to make a record of its exact location on the disc. Since the reflection on the eye corresponds exactly with the disc it« self, he has no trouble in doing so. Of course, the different markings are‘ meant to show the different degrees of affliction, and after the record is made it is the easiest thing in the world for the doctor to prescribe the proper pair of glasses to be worn. And the best part of it all is that this point is established be- yond a doubt. People need have no fear hereafter of making a mistake in the selec- tion of their eye-glasses, for that selection is made according to an absolute rule, and not, as in the old method, according to their sensations merely. Having the eyes examined by electricity, which is really what it amounts to by this method, is as vct something of a novelty, even among physicians. Some years ago the celebrated Dr. Helmholz devised an instrument much after the fashion of this one, but it was too complicated to be of I use. What is Egypt ‘1’ \Vhat is Egypt? Is it a great farm? an unrivaled archaeological museum? a delight- ful health resort? a valuable naval strong- hold and place of arms? an important cen- tre of Mcditcrranncan trade? In truth, it is each of these things and all together,eveu to the most casual and cursory glauco of the most irresponsible and indolent holiday maker. But What it is not to himâ€"and herein he takes courage from the thought that neither is it to those ninety-nine out of every hundred Europeans who have long- est aud most carefully studied it, Mr. Wil- fred Blunt being the hundrcthâ€"tlie home of a nation. . If there is one fact which seems to stare him out of countenance whichever way he turnsâ€"one fact with which the present and the past alike confront him ; which meets him in the tomb and the teinple,in the river meadow and bazaar; which looks at him out of the eyes of pictured Pharaohs, and of almost as mute and monumental fellah- een ; which takes voice and motion in the many-colored, chattering crowd of Cairo, and which is almost audible in the very silence of the desert itselfâ€"it is that Egypt is a land without a people. It has an aboriginal race of cultivators as much a part of the soil as its palm trees; it has an infinitely mixed community of settlers,the deposit of successive conquests, permanent in the sense in which the dcsert sands are permanent, but no more to he built upon than they. From time immemo- rial, the beautiful country has been the spoil of every ravisher who was strong enough to seize and hold herâ€"Ethiopian, Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian, ltoman, Arab. Every rising or risen power upon her borders, European, African, or Asiatic, has in turn po sessed her, and, as its strength declined, has in turn been forced, to yield her up to a stronger hand. To the chief States of the world she has been all that her famous Queen was to successive masters or com etitors for the mastery of Romaâ€"[The ational Review. A Musical Gem. “I am sorry to tell you, "said the editor “that we cannot use your poem. ” " Indeed?” “ To be candid with you, it is clums in sentiment and faulty in construction. he rhymes are all wrong, and altogether it is not even decent doggerel. " Here the editor sued for breath, and the poet said, meek y: “ Give it back to me please? ” i “ I don't think you can do anything with it. " ' “Oh, yes, I can. I’ll have it set to mus- ic and make a popular song of it. ” The telephone has lately been arranged for the use of divers. A sheet of copper is used in pleas of one of the glasses to the helmet, and to this a telephone ll fixed, so that the diver. when at the bottom in the sea, has only to slightly turn his head in order to report what he sees, or receive instructions from above. 33% .m- up”... f“. 1- '..‘.‘," gr " -,. V , , .1 . ' a ‘ a"; ‘ueiwzhsumgiu. mam..- W§s~ . azawbnmâ€"ae ‘ _‘,,_.‘_;:‘..i.;......' «1. A ’_‘