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 ^^w ^ffi?K^ -^• ^self,hei8undoQbtJ '^^om *u the ttiJ ^ere,duringa„,onthl laily from hig friend of some fresh man 's garrulous rage l efinitely of the grea i the Kaiser and th- T the reason that hi with varying mov^ ?amut of his tempel a^ mge condition] zed wiath at findinJ ily Without him. HJ as the man m-1io fej nark has any settle! is in a dozen niindJ e day he decides thai ichstag as a privatJ e everybody u-jthij he resolves to devoti e to writmg his nieml half tlie reputation J urd day he yields t( 1 of living tranquilW s and trees, musini 111 the ingratitude ol ;xt morning he eail.l ime table and giveJ be packed for travel] for a few hours iiowT airs of his, but lie ii d for regular work] Leipsic don't expeca 'f a Board of Agri-I th its chief in the y had a good eflfectJ armers regularly inn ;rns them in foreigiJ d-fashioned methoda ;ing abandoned iid means. The latestl the establishnieMl Jl over the couiitry.r nd controlled hytliej tve prevailed ia thel 1 an amicable vork- •se of arrangement, i cost of coal and! ompany which, by I ent. dividends last f the price of gas. Pshaw icaoiOns. I to everybody and ison, but there was more frequentlv ,d for the best oi ;r and she pretend- in, and so for a long he answer the poor md protestations. ^^EES AKJ) EXPLOEEES. park' Discoveries Im Africaâ€" ***jUrco Polos' AdTeutnres In ' Tbe Fair East. rile modern travellers and discoverers travellers and I "'"^i^ffreat gains of fame, one should ^^ ,Pt some of the older ones, who, like fc:,-o Park .and â-  n exploration, '" had little but their labor for Marco Polo, were pio and so far as fame and Trent b.:n MB. AHD MBS. SOWSEK. r, PoPark was a Scotchman bom in ^ainning of this century, apprenticed 'Sood to a surgeon, and fired for Afri- 'â- '.Vjvel by an early voyage to Sumatra. f twentv-four years old when his ser- '*J-ere accepted by the African Association exploration of the River Niger. Af- !! is arrival, while ill in Africa, he learned ' Mandingo tongue in five months, and i' set out on horseback, with six negroes, ' -hig ^^i"" ' sorts of difficulties on his f" In one place a wild bear was let loose '"n him.but it refused to attack him, find- "• .eat more to its liking in others. After " Tine a long suspense here while his "ll-iin debated wlietber they should take ^iifeihis eyes or his right hand he man- 'l 10 escape and found the Niger again 1 nothing daunted, continued his way. T- he King of the country he had now Cheil torbiule him to cross, and a negro r,.ii ailmitte'l him to her hut and took "fif bim and sang a song about him â€" ., ,iV of wl'.i.'h has since been famous â€" ^x'nf the "Poor White Man." At last â- ^King sent liim a guide and a large gift 7n'(:iey in cowrie-shells. But after some â- 'â- '^inii the ti'.ipioal rains, protracted sick- •ly Aiid the liustility of the Mahometan '^Ibitanl.; of that portion of the continent ^,;e it i:iipos .ible for him to proceed, and RIV..3 nea-"!y a year in returning to the ,vi;. There an American vessel took him ,,Aa:ig"i.. and he at length reached Eng- I'l; after an absence of two years and a ,j" where Ids return aroused great enthu- .;r:i. Ei"ht years afterwards, when he ^1 ;narried and begun the practice of |3i,;ijiue, the British Goverrment sent ";i::i ,it to Africa again with the brevet rank :...puiin and a company of some fovty mefi. T'li' party reached the sources of the Sen- ..;1 .md Gambia, found the inhabitants l:iir.(lly, but the climate so deadly that l?,;rk -.vas presently left with but four com- ;.:fns. He continued his -way, however, i ,.: Boossa, where the river narrows be- l;ivf.:i precipitous walls, the men of the \;.L'iif Vauri attacked the little party with :. ...iilerous rain of lances, arrows and ":!•-, and Muiigo Park found his fate in :w â- v.iteis of the river he was exploring. :. â-  I ' his journals was saved, the rest re- i!. 1 â- .vitl the savage king. With dire ::, jL'le and small ineed of praise he gave :i ..: life at thirty-five. A ;iy lUfterent fate from Mungo Park's v.-i .lai of Marco Polo, a Venetian traveller, â-  ;.i:ive and a half centuries earlier, and !• ;:;-piied by no such high motives as Park. iiis ::;ther and uncle having returned from .:r..ding expedition that had led them over 'â- X Hkick Sea, through Bokhara and into '::.r. ^^as called Cathay, took Marco, a lad yot twenty-, on their next trip, the Pope -â- â- :::_' given them letters and gifts to the \;;.ui of Tartary. They threaded wilder- "• crossed deserts, great rivers, great ;â- â- ;. ami were at last met by an escort and a' icted into Pekin, where the Khan con- r:.;! great honors on Marco, gave him a Ii.e about the throne and in time sent him :: t: iliassies to neighboring powers. Prob- i'y ".he Venetian beauty made him an at- :.i-:ive youth, but his prudence and good ;iij-} anil daring won such way for him that t; j.. .V the most sacred and secret things, i-' ".ided with wealth and made the gov- â-  y ;â-  of a city, the ruler â€" who w-as that one â- â€¢.'nom Coleridge in his opium dream I ri Xenadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure house decreeâ€" ?f.:;ng to let him leave him for his own peo- Ipie. At length a Persian embassy having won ;ae daughter of the Khan as a bride fortheir |-Av;i King, Marco and his companions were jiviii leave of absence, on a promise to re- 'irii. and went with the Persian embassy by s.uuound Borneo and Sumatra to the Per- "i'-: 'nilf, and were entertained for nearly a »'""1-' year in Persia before they left it, s;.i;n nagnificently enriched. They reach- I w » -nice twenty-four years after they had 't ;:, and no one would at first believe it I Jfi" tp.ey, long thought to be dead, bronzed "' 'â-  y: sun, aged by years and travel, and 'P"a.%ing their ow-n dialect with a strange I *.ci;:. Giving a great feast, they received ' r;v.:i oriental garments of red satin those no light to have been their friends the pests being seated, these garments were ex- â- ;Ui;jed after the first course for those of -«•'â- . y erimson velvet. A: "lie close of the banquet they were in '•â- ' .;sual Venetian dre.'ss, and then distrib- j^"ed tlie superb and curious garments that 'Jjcy nad taken off among their guests. '|ien they brought out the Tartar clothes l^'iikh they had been wearing, and ripping 'Win here and there, out tumbled treasures â- ' priceless jewels. This was enough, and l-iey^ere soon recognized as the travellers I *fto ::ad left them so many years before, I «nd tr.ey received many honors and appoint- jQents, Marco being given command of a Isilley in one of the naval wars. But, al- Itnough Marco was one of the first to make |w existence of Japan known, and the most I ^Qat he said and wrote of his explorations •id discoveries was true, he never received ""' credence, not a word of his stories was I '*heved. The Invention of the Ludfer Match. |v^."\, itiarter of a century ago Mr. John L '^^r" of Stockton-upon-Tees, then carry- *g on the business of a chemist and drng- Ipt in that town, was preparing some light- I "g mixture for his own use. By the acciden- !* W^tion on the hearth of a maush dipped I ^^he mixture a light was obtained. The ^-^nt was not thrown away. Mr. Walker â- jtnmenced the sale of friction matches. This 'n April 1827. "Young England," who come into being since that day, now buys ft.P!^»^etful of lucifers for a penny. Mr. ^a^er, for a box of 50, with a piece of j^»led sandpaper for friction, got a shill- l^l '.Pi^ometheans" and other competitors him down to sixpence. And then, un I J^g to be beaten Sown stiU further, he j i^^'inced the sale. Old Harrition Bum, an ^?^e of the Stockton Almshonse, was Mr. j^*«er's matchmaker, and John Ellis, book- jj^'ier, made the paper boxes at IJd each, W Hixon, solicitor, was Mr. Walker's J ,,J "rOstomer. Production has been ckea^ IW Iff ^l^ directions, but few commodities '« faUenlikeluafers." BT BfKS. BOWSEK. The other morning we got a telegram from mother, saying she was ill, and asking me to come out for a day or two, and when Mr. Bowser had read it he said " " You can go just as well as not, and you needn't hurry back on my eiccoimt. " " But the cook left yesterday, and how will you get along " I asked. " Oh, you never mind me. I can sleep here nights and lunch down town. You needn't worry about me. Just take the baby and go and see your mother and stay as long as you wish." " And you â€" you " " I shan't elope or get drunk. " " But you won't try to make any changes in the house while I'm gone " " Changes Do you suppose I'm going to put on new doors and chimneys '" " 'Tell, please don't buy any new fur- niture or carpets, or move things around." " Don't you worry about my buying any- thing more this spring. Hurry up, now, and I'll telephone for a coupe. I may lock tip the house at noon and go up to the club liouse for a couple of days. I teel the need of a little rest." Mr. Bowser caught at my going so eagerly that I half suspected him of some design, and the more I thought it over after getting away the more I was convinced that there was something in the wind. On the morn- ing of the third day I telegraphed him that I was coming home, and when the train got in he was at the depot to meet me. His face fairly beamed with happiness, and as he beckoned to a carriage he said " Here's the keys, as I can't be .up for a couple of hours vet. I stippose it will take you a couple of hours to clean up thejnuss I have made." I had a presentiment and it was verified before I got into the house. Glancing at the front windows I saw that my lace cur- tains had a queer, strange look, and I rushed in to find that they had been washed. They had been taken down, washed with bar soap, laid out on the grass to dry, and then ironed like a sheet. Any housewife can imagine the result. They showed soap stains in a dozen places, and hung as limp and lifeless as the tail of a kite on a tele- graph wire. I sat down on the floor and had a good cry, and then started out to see what else had happened. There was a queer, oppressive odor in the room, and it did not take me long to discover that some one had varnished the furniture â€" gone over the natural oil finish with a coat of furni- ture varnish and- left bristles from the brush at every foot. It could have 'been no one but Bowser. His work was further identi- fied by si:\ queer-looking spots on the velvet 1 carpet. He had spilled varnish and then tried to scrub it out with soap, aijd in each instance he had run the colors sufficient to make a blotch. After weeping some more I w^itt into the sitting room. There was the same smell here, and I soon found by the bristles stick- ing up all over it that Mr. Bowser had varnished the serving machine. He had like- wise repainted the radiator, making it a dark blue, and in decorating it with white and red stripes, his paint had crawled around like so many fishworms. Baby at once wanted to tie a string to it and play horse. Mr. Bowser had upset the varnish pail in this room, and although he had tried soap and water a great spot three feet square remained as a sad witness of his careless- ness. While I stood looking I heard a step behind me, and Mr. Bowser called out "Surprise Surprise I knew I'd sur- prise you " "Yes, you have," I answered. "Why, w-what's the matter " "If you had only let things alone " "Let things alone This house needed slicking up, and I've nearly broken my back in putting things in tidy shape, and now you complain of it " I saw the silver water pitcher at that mo- ment and uttered a howl. "What is it?" "That pitcher " "Yes, I know. It hadn't been cleaned in a month." " But 3"ou used sand-paper on it " " Of course, and you ought to have seen the way the dirt peeled off Anything else to find fault with?" " And you â€" you sandpapered all the sil- ver " I shouted as I looked into the ding-room and saw everything on the table. " Yes. What have you got your^oice way up in 'G' for " " You've ruined it See the scratches " " That's itâ€" take on and find fault No one ever does anjrthing right but you " "And what ails the glass over the man- tel?" ' ' It happens to be clean for once. I work- ed at it all of an hour." " But you sandpapered it '" " No, I didn't I used powdered brick. I don't know how the scratches came there, unless the cat did it. " " And these curtains, too '" " What are you crying about now I got a colored woman to conie and wash them, and I know she put 'em through three tubs and then laid 'em on the grass to dry. I pinned and hung 'em up myself. " " And they are ruined " "Ruined your grandfather. Perhaps I didn't pick all the grass off of them, but I'll leave it to any artist in town if they don't hang perfect. This all the reward I get for my hard work " I entered the kitchen to find that he had sandpapered the bottoms of the fiat-irons, scattered every tin dish in a hundred direc- tions and given the rolling-pin two coats of oil to prevent checking. In trying to dress up the hardwood floor he had thinned down some raw oil with kerosene, and the beauty of the finish was eclipsed only by the smell. "You â€" ^you didn't touch anything up stairs " I gasped. "Why not I varnished all the bureaus, bedsteads and stands, cleaned every glass, turned our bed around, painted the ramator in the hall a beantiral drab, and What are you howling about " " Oh, Mr. Bowser, how could yon go and destroy our things in this way." " Destroy Destroy " " The house might as w«ll have burned down " " And I wish it had The last thing yon Said when yon went away was for me to go ahead and slick up, and now ibe first tlung you do is to find fonlt. Mrs. 6o«w8tf we are not mated. No man on earths can understand your erratic tenmovmeat. I^is'is the lut strawâ€" the' Very us4^ To-' morrow morning we will setue property matters!" But next day cametofind Mr"'Boiiraer*s Composure fully restored, and when he oune home and found a furniture wagon loaded with bedsteads and bureaus, going off to be scraieu and redressed, he went in by the alley gate and spent half an hour in the bam so as not to see anything. PEAELSOFTEUTH. life- tie. â€" Sorrow is a lamp which illumines [Seraphita. See that you can untie what you [Spanish Proverb. Ask not "art thou in the nobility, but is the nobility in thee." If a man is earnest in finding the Truth the Truth will fin^j^. somewhere in fin^^im. ay^Kon Irs^^pmie There's alwayi^Koming the world. â€" [Mra^pmieson Be a lamp in the chamber if you can not be a star in the sky. â€" [George Eliot. A good man's prayers Will from the deepest dungeonclimb heaven's height, And bring a blessing down. [Joanna Bailie. 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