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 SUMHES SMILES. A bust developer â€" Whisky. The most successful of all spottersâ€" Flies. Is it quite right to call an expert oarsman first-class sculler. Adam was perhaps the first man who deemed marriage a failure. Whatever Noah's shortcomings, he knew enough to go in when it rained. "What is there besides luck that amounts to anything in cards " "A good deal." It is peculiar how soundly a man sleeps â- when his wife crawls over him on her way to the kitchen to make a fire. Mr. Cuthin â€" " Miss Ella, may I hope to •win you "Miss Ellaâ€"" Why, Mr. Cuthin, do you think I'm to be raffled " What a vast difference it makes with the average man whether he picks up a carpet tack with his fingers or his heel. Colonel Yerger â€" " Well, how did you like the picnic " Gilhoolyâ€" " I was so glad to get home again that I was glad I went." " Did your girl ever refuse â€" you or ever say ' No' before she finally consented " " No, but since we've been married she says nothing else. " As a man leaves the barber's on a rainy day those in th6 shop turn their heads simul- taneously as he walks towards the umbrella stand to see which one he is going to take. Ripley â€" "How Shorts laughed at Fogg's story a while ago. I didn't think it very funny." Wilksâ€" "I didn't! but Shorts had just before borrowed five dollars from Fogg. " "They say the Prince of Wales strongly resembles Henry VIII." "Well, he may, but he doesn't seem to have the kn^'Ck of getting Queens out of the way that Henry had." Minister â€" "I think I delivered a very touching sermon to-day. Don't you think I moved the congregation?" Deacon â€" "I knew you did. I saw a good many get up and go out." Mrs. N. Peck â€" "Well, you need not look as if you were going to eat me. " Mr. N. Peck â€" "There's not the least danger that I will. I'm dead sure you would not agree with me. " Matilda Snowball â€" " I say, Uncle Mose, whut does yer think ob my new Spring suit " Uncle Mose â€" " Folks whut puts on all de does dey kin git puts me in mind of a sweet pertater patch dat's all gone ter vine. " Tramp â€" "Beg pardon, sir can you 'elp a I)ore man I've lost my woice and now I'm outo' work!" Old Gentlemanâ€" " Out of work because you lost your voice Are you a vocalist " Tramp â€" "No, sir I sells fisji " Fair woman doesn't hate the men, oh no That scarcely chime? in with her plan. But had she her way there wouldn't be In all the world p, single man. Tommy â€" "Pa, what does tact mean " Papa â€" "It means, my son, the ability which a -woman has of sponging money from her husband so that he can never find enough in his pocket to buy a cigar or pay car fare." "Man wants but little here below " All that is very true And, more than this, it is a fact, He generally gets, it too. Clara Placid (to her bosom friend) â€" "So you and Arthur are at outs " Emily Darling â€" "Yes, and we don't look at each other any more. That is to say, I don't look at him, though I've quite often caught him looking at me when we've met." Blokson is a great fellow for recounting his exploits as a fisherman. "Do you believe," he asked a friend one day, "in the saying that truth is strange than fiction " "I don't know about its being stranger," was the reply, "but there are sources from which it is a great deal more unexpected. The lion is very fierce and bold. The tiger we must shun. And when wc see a rattlesnake A good plan is to run But the thing that spurs man on the most To; run his level best Is tp disturb, in a careless way A yellow hornets' nest. A Handkercliief Specialist. The other morning, as the deparfng Gun- ard steamer waa casting off its lines and swinging out into the stream, an elderly- looking business man hastily embraced a lady who was one of the passengers, and rushed down the gang-plank to the wharf. Going hurriedly up to a melancholy loafer who was watching the busy crowd, the gentleman drew him behind a pile of freight, and said: ' ' Want to earn a dollar " "You bet." " You see that lady in black on the bridge there " said the citizen. "Cert." "Well, that's my wife, going to Europe. Now, of course, she'll expect me to stand here for the pext twenty minutes, while the steamer is backing and filling around, so as to wave my handkerchief and watch "her out of sight. See f ' " I ketch on boss." " Well, I'm too busy to fool around here stock to buy, biz to attend to. She's a little near-sighted so I'll just hire you to wave this handkerchief, instead. It's a big one, with a red border, and as long as she sees it, she 11 think it's me. Come up to 202 \Vall Street where they are well off, and I'll pay you." " S'posin' she looks through a telescope, or suthin' " "In that case you'll have to bury your face in thehandkerchief, and do the great weep act." " That'll be fifty cents extra." "All right. Time is money. Look sharp now You can kiss your hand a few times at, say, one dime per kiss " and snapping his watch the over-driven lusiness man rushed off. We print this affecting little incident to call attention to the fact that the man thus employed has gone into the business regu- larly. He is now a professional fareweller, and businessmen and others can save valu- able time, and yet ?ive their departing relatives an enthusiastic send-off by apply- ing to the above specialist any steamer day. Go early to avoid the rush. â€" [Muchow Traveller, The Treatment of Wideâ€" s ii India. The practice of treating widows as quasi- crimLnals, outcasts, or slaves, is among Hin- dus of high antiquity. It is probably a sub- stitute for a still older custom, once univer- sal among the conquering tribes of the Asia- tic world, of slaying the wives of chieftains on the bnrial places of their lords. As man- ners grew mUder and men leas deoperate, and new religious ideas were bom, that practice was abolished, and widows were permitted to live, but only as persons whose right to survive must be regarded as imper- fect. Their position becajne that of house- hold slaves, or rather family outcasts, entitl- ed to no honor, bound to servile offices, dressed in the meanest clothes fed with the cheapest food, and regarded by all around them as persons who ought to consider them- selves incurably degraded by all around them as persons who ought to consider themselves incurably degraded. Had not the very gods themselves, or the fates, pronounced them deserving of heavy suffering It is the rooted belief of every convinced Hindu that unexpected or severe misfortune brought about without human hands is evi- dence that the sufferer has in some former state of being deservedly incurred the dis- pleasure of the higher jwwers, and is justly expiating by his own misery his own actual though forgotten guilt. They think this even about themselves, and we have known a respectable Hindu, full of life and energy, and by no means specially bigoted, upon the death of an only aon suddenly to renounce the world and tlienceforward to live, cover- ed with ashes and repeating only prayers, the painful expiatory life of the sunyasee, or Hindu hermit. What he believed about himself, his friends were more ready to be- lieve about him, and, as the death of a hus- band is the highest jnisfortune his wife can endure, those who insult or degrade his widow, even if her own closest connections, do but carry out the visible will of the Divine. The widow is therefore, in theory, at all events, abandoned to her fate. Of course, natural laws are not wholly suspend- ed even by superstition, and thousands of widows protected by personal affection, or by their own abilities, or by their wealth â€" for widowhood does not cancel rights of pro- perty â€" lead decently happy and contented lives. The majority, however, suffer under the ban typified by the shaving of their heads â€" that is, they are regarded till death as fallen from all title to respect, and are treated with a habitual indignity which, even when they are exempt from actual op- pression, makes the position of millions of unoffending women no better than that of slaves or convicts. So severe is their lot that it excites pity even among these who believe that it is sanctioned by religion, and it would probably have been ameliorated long since but that it fits in with one of the principal Hindu social arrangements â€" that of early marriage. A Cold-Blooded Groom- "Have you brought any witnesses?" ask- ed the Rev. Mr. \\^ood, of Bathgate, of a middle-aged couple who had come to be mar- ried. "No we ne'r thocht b' that. Is't neces- sary?" "Oh, certainly," said the minister "you should have a groomsman and brideroaid as witnesses. " "Wha can we get, Jean, dae ye think " The bride so addressed suggested a female cousin whom the bridegroom had not pre- viously seen, and after consultation a man was also thought of. "Step j'e awa' alang, Jean, an' ask them, an' I'll walk aboot till ye come back." Jean set out as desired, and after some time returned with the two friends, the cousin being a blooming lass, some what younger than the bride. When the parties had been properly arranged, and the minister was about to proceed with the ceremony, the bridegroom suddenly said "Wad ye bide a wee, sir " " What is it now " asked the minister. "Weel, I was just gaun to say that if it wad be the same to you, I wad raither hae that ane," pointing to the bridemaid. "A most extraordinary statement to make at this stage I'm afraid it is too late to talk of such a thing now." "Is it V said the bridegroom in a tone of calm resignation to the inevitable. "Weel, then, ye maim just gang on. " An Alanning Tendency. " How nice it is for clergyman to be mosi- cal â€" the Rev. Dr. Sworry, for instance â€" how exquisitely he plays on the violin." " Well, I don't think it's altogether be- coming in a clergyman like Dr. Swrarry. " " It might decrease the proper reverence bis flock ought to have for bun, and they might come to i^;ard iiim as a fiddle D. D.' A Dead Corpse. Ann M'Cafferty was, perhaps, once able to say of Edward Owens, " You were born with butter in your mouth, and that is what makes your orations to the fair sex to be so soft and melting " but, alas on Saturday they quarrelled and fought, and were march- ed off to the police station. Policeman â€" She had a bottle of whis- ky Ann â€" Is that a crime Policeman â€" And she struck Owens with the bottle. (Laughter.) They were fight- ing. Ann â€" Oh, tits, tits Wid I waste it like that? (Laughter.) Edward Owens â€" Whisht, Ann (Laugh- ter. Here's the richt set o't. There wis a man wha drapped doun adied corpse â€" (laue^h- ter) â€" in the Bird Market. Weel, thinks I to mysel' maybe, noo, I ken the deid corpse. (Laughter.) Up I'm eaun' to the offis â€" Magistrate â€" What has that got to do with your being out and quarrelUng at three o'clock on Sunday morning Edward â€" Well, 1 am tellm' ye. I was gaun' up to see the corpse. (Laughter.) Magistrate â€" You are each fined 15s or ten days. -♦ "When the Cnifew Piourishes. Those who are fortunate enough to live in the shadow of Battle Abbey still enjoy the exceptional privilege of hearing the curfew every night from Christmas to Epiphany, the eves of saints'-days only excepted. Lately it has been found necessary to rehang the valuable and ancient bells, and Dean Crake appeals to the public to subscribe £200 for the expenses necessary to allow the Battle Abbey curfew to continue to " toll the knell of parting day." The curfew also flourishes at Hastings, where it booms forth nightly from the four- teenth-century tower of St. Clement's Church. Last week the annual " church parade" of the Cinque Ports Volunteers and " Royal Naval Reserve" took pbce there, the Mayor and corporation making a goodly show with their fine old silver maces. The, Itroceasion was somewliat ^orn of its nor- mal grandeur byoaejttftiiete-Maydn vetoing the nse of carriages. Fair motto for Chicagoâ€" "I'll make thee gloriona by my pen." THE SAVING OF THE fLAG. A TkrlUiBS Episode flrom the Anstro-Ital* lanlTar. The "Reminiscences of General di Revel" contain the following stirring account of the saving of the flag During the Italo- Austrian war of 1859, on the 24th of June, part of the Forty -fourth Italian Infantry, consisting of a group of about ten officers and twenty-five men, got separated from their regiment duruig a surprise, and being hard pressed by the Austrians, entered a villa called Fenile, near Alzarea, and pre- pared for an obstinate defense. They had with them the flag of the regiment, and the oldest officer present. Captain Baroncellit, took the command. After the Aiistrians had been repeatedly repulsed, they set fire tosome heaps of straw, hay, and other inflam- mable materials kept in the garrets of the villa. The Italians, half suffocated by the smoke, and seeing that it wo.-.'.d be impos- sible to defend themselves r..;. :h longer, de- termined to save their flag before surrender- ing. They stripped the bunting from its staff and tore it into small pieces, of which each officer hid a portion under his clothes the spear-point, being indestructible, was hidden under a fire-place in the house, and the staff was broken into pieces and burned. This done, Lieut. Chiverni, who spoke Ger- man, fixed a white handkerchief to the point of his sword, and leaning from a win- dow in the midst of smoke and fire, offered to surrender â€" a proposiiton immediately ac- cepted by the enemy. The brave little troop issued from the house and surrendered their arras to Colonel Altemps, of the Ho- henlohe Regiment. ' ' Where are the others?" asked the Colonel, seeing so few men and when he had ascertained that there were really no more he exclaimed "Bravo you defended yourselves like liciis " The Ital- ians, taken prisoners to Austria, managed to keep their precious relics secret, and one of them dying, his piece of bunting was bur- ied with him. On the 1st of July following di Revel was appointed commander of the division, and while inspecting the Forty- fourth Infantry was surprised to see no flag. He was told that it was taken by the enemy, but as the matter had never been mentioned, not Wen by the Austrians, who would natur- ally have been proud of such ja trophy, the General called the officers of the Forty- fourth together and begged them to keep perfect silence as to their loss, aud the first time they found themselves within reach of an enemy's flag TO KEVBNGE THEMSELVES BY TAKING IT. When Austria agreed to the convention of the' Red Cross, the Italian military doctors were set free, and one of them came to Gen- eral di Revel and informed him of what had been done with their flag by the group of officers of the Forty-fourth. The general recommended silence, and his wish was re- spected. On Oct. 9. when Di Revel went to Verona, a merchant of that city was present- e.l to him, and in secret consigned to him the spear-point of the missing flag, which had been found in the villa of Signora Rose Faina, and by her jealously preserved in order to be restored to the Italian army. One can imagine the gratitude of the Gener- al. He reported the affair to the Minister of War, begging him to provide a flagstaff. This was done, and when peace was conclud- ed and uhe prisoners of war returned home, the officers of the Forty-fourth consigned -to the General the several pieces of their flag. They were sown together by three workwomen in the presence of two officers of the company, and attached to the staff and spear-point, the whole proceedings being written dovm, witnessed to and signed, and ail account of the saving of the flag added. On Oct. 25th the Forty- fourth Regiment was drawn up in the square of St. Mark, and in front stood Lieu- tenant Libretti bearing the recovered flag. The guardia voi was sounded, and General de Revel expressed his pleasure at being able to restore to the assembled regiment the actual flag stained with .the blood of the handful of heroes who had so valiantly pre- served it from the enemy. 'One piece only,' he conchided, 'is missing, and that lies in the heart of the brave man who carrried it with him to the tomb. ' A storm of applause burst from the regiment and the spectators then, while the men presented arms, the General kissed the flag and gave it to Lieutenant Colonel Zami, the commander of the regi- ment, who also kissed it and then consigned it to Lieutenant Libretti, who, bearing aloft he glorious banner, accompanied General di Revel along the front of the regiment amid renewed acclamations. The General speaks of this incident as one of the most moving in his military career. " â€" ^•^ Across the Llamas' Ooxmtry. Mr. Rockhill's successful journey across a hitherto unexplored region in the country of the Llamas appears to have been attended with no little peril. His servants were more often in chains than out of them, and Mr. Rockhill himself only escaped death by a seriesof fortunate ehacoes,so determined were the agents of the Llamas to frustrate any attempt to explore the mysterious and jeal- ously guarded district between Silinfu and Tatsienlu, in the Province of Derge. Mgr Wiet, Vi(»r Apostolic of Thibet, pronounces the feat of crossing without an escort the immense steppes in that land of grass, where the habitations of men are more to be dread- ed than the solitude, as the most difficult and dangerous that has been accompHshed m Asia during the present century. The district is described as teeming with natural riches, and Mr. Rockhill is stated to have mapped out a route of prime importance for commerce.' Yalue of Sincerity. Though a man must be smcere in order to be great, he need not be great in order to be smcere. Whatever may be the «^ize of our bram,the strength of our powers, the tal- ents of any kind with which we are cifted sincerity of heart, or of belief or of life"' possible to UB aU says the ifew York Lta ge-u It IS of Itself a kind of greatness which m spite of many other drawbacks, will i Itself felt. The honest, upright man, lives openly, fearlessly and truly, p,yfe«, only what he feels, upholding only what beheyes in, pretending nothing, disguisini nothing, deceiving no one, ckims unc^ sciously a respect and honor that we ca 8l^« .*? ^,4^8^,of power or ability w ^withdi^licit^rt^bmming. Kwecoild TOCtlir dsnfe the wacti into the uncage 2^ ™«»«»?».'?5*l}ei*l have a mnehit. «tonale of real wwth than we gMietally Led- rhich, I make who ifessing aiaing mcon- caanDt 'wieldr.. oor- 3 and !iehjfcr«eif. ob- Eto'ttry to diown youraorrowBin a jog troubles are great swiamen. How "Shakey" Eedted the Stoiy of Mary and Her Lamb. A very fat and good-natured bjit extreme- ly dull German boy was a pupil in a school I taught in a country neighborhood«ome years ago. The lad's name was Jakey Siefert, but his mother, who came with him on the first day, called him "Shakey,"and aff "Shakey" he was knovm from that time forward. He proved to be as dull as he was good- natured in fact, although he was ten years old, he was still unable to read. We were going to close the term with a little exhibition at the school-house in the evening. Nearly all the boys and girls were to have short recitations or parts in dia- logues, while others would sing or read essays. Jaicey had not been able to attend school during the last week of the term, but he ap- peared at the exhibition, and early in the evening came up to me, his round face all aglow with excitement. "Teacher, oh, teacher," he said, "Ihafa piece I vould like to speak, too. I haf been a veek learning it." "Very well, Jakey," I said "you shall speak your piece. " And when several boys of about his own age had spoken, I called "Jakey Seifert." He came quickly forward, and stepped upon the stage a comical picture of over- grown boyhood and chUdish excitement. His fat body was clad in a pink calico waist, and around his neck was a huge embroidered white collar, such as used to be worn by our great great-grandmothers. His face was shiny as soap and water could make it. After a jerkey little bow, Jakey com- menced: "Mary had von Icedle lamb." Then he stopped short and began twitch- ing at his trousers leg with the thumb and forefinger of either hand. "Mary had von leedle lamb." He stopped again and fell to twisting around on one leg. His lips moved rapidly, but no sound came from them. Some of the other boys began to laugh. Then Jakey cried out, "You need not geegle like dot It vos so â€" Mary did haf von leedle lamb It says so in de book " Everybody laughed at this and Jakey, re- covering his good nature, said, in a comical- ly loud and shrill voice "I cannot dink how it vas in boetry. It Vas meexed in mine head, but it vas like dis Mary had a leedle lamb. It vent to school mit her, vich the teacher he did not like; De children dey did all holler und yell. Dot nmde de teacher mad. He yoost got after dat lamb. I bet you dot vas goot fun. I vish I vas dere to see. it. He made de lamb git oud. I would laugh to see dot. Ven de lamb vas out it vould not go avay. It staid 'round, going 'ba-a-a-a ' dill Mary did come oud and den it run up to her voost so glad as never vas. De lamb did love Mary because she was shentle mid it. I like dot lamb story. Good-py " Jakey's recitation was the success of the evening and his face shone with pride as h e took his seat amid shouts of laughter and applause. A Star Quilt. The most popular-quilt at present is the star quilt. For materials get two yards good quality domestic linen, quite heavy, with a smooth surface â€" a quality worth about 35 cents a yard will do â€" threebunches wash twist, one bunch etching silk, two gross smallest size brass rings, one five- pointed star perforated pattern (to stamp with). Place the linen on a smooth surface and stamp your star pattern over the sur- face (or you can get it done for you), being careful to economize space and yet leave room for working. After the stamping is done, cut out the star on the square that is, do not cut the point out, but cut a square with the star in the center, leaving about one inch margin from the end of point of star this is for convenience in working. When the stars are all stamped and the stars cut out, then proceed with the fancy work. With the wash twist work a heavy button-hole stitch around all points of the star then with the same silk fill each point with one of the filling stitches, either fish-net, brick, cross, or crow's feet, or any other that is preferred each star may have the same filling stitch, or every star may be filled differently. Now for the center part of the star, cro- chet a sufficient number of brass rings over with the etching silk and sew them in a circle to the linen. After the embroidery is done, cut out all the linen from the points of the star with a pair of sharp scissors. This will leave you a fine pointed star. Thirty-six stars will make a quilt large enough, and they are to be set together by points. This will make the edges formed of the points which finish with a small silk tassel. If preferred, bolten sheeting and rope linens may be used. The colors used aie gold and white, old rose and white, green and white, and all white. The number of stars depend on the size you make your stars, but from thirty- six to sixty-four are enough. A Chinese Bride. A writer m the North China Herald des- cribes the dress worn by a Chinese lady at her wedding, of which he was a witness, as foUows "At length we were admitted to mspect the bride whose four-hours' toilet was just completed, and a marvelous spec- tacle, truely, was the figure seated motion- less mtthe center of the room. Gorgeously elaborate was her array from head to foot, the former crowned with a helmet-like erec- tion of a material resembling turquois- enamel, wrought into the finest filigree work, from which projected gUttering artificial beetles and butterflies and other quaint rich ornaments, the whole surmounted by three large, round tufts of crimson silk, arranged tiara-wise. From the brim of this head-gear fellallaroMid strings of pearibnd ruby beads, f^*"" t'^-^-yafd in length. Jurt visible through these, at the back, were broad loops of jet black hair, stiff and solid as' poUshe^ ebony, wid decorated with artificud pimk rosea. Uer priocipBl vestment was a lone tujiic, whose fonndaiion fabric of crimson tttm wa8«jaiS»ly disoernable amid its em- toorfery of^eeld; AcbhierttimedbaA, lined ajm»rri«!k»«lMldiio«tt»ai.nnm4. ^^..=o X a,m mistaken, says al! "»» founded upon a story toM "'«. it â- â€¢ island of Sylt, but whicht; T"" ^h' '" ^J its exact counterpart on'aS^fyt;: Mte^Ji^!'^h^ where a mother's heart beaul^^^^i^.r! â-  J^^A^- love for her sailor son and U^^'^iii promise from night to hgU 'f* " hi island lived a woman and her Few are probably the n^r, not one time or nfh^. ^I'^rsons school song. Unless I am mist. as the source of constant drel^ f " loved the sea as his fatiier w' '»f ^w it, and nothing ga-.. ' s, l""^^d!ov4 as to watch the l^^..^^^^y^ curling waves ovt:- the saiids ' '•â- ' was he strong enough"to wy,l 5° ' steer a boat than he joined the ISr.-' fishing expeditions. '" *: Tlie mother, with all her fpj.,, i ofalong line of sailors „hri"^-" would not havp y^uA if ^^^J '^^^ .^-^-i i would not have had it otherwise f, have been deemed dishonor amo;l -^e in coasters to have kept the bov a- "'â- "" sent him "f^i^ -* ---' " " 'lomenr safely at -work for 'lonie or boy's grandfather been'i went away tl er sailed liis •--• naunotttie went away the last ti.eTSl*?^Je own s};ipwhenhe wf,-~ in agreatstorm ' The child wasthe£t„r' race,bivthemust.,.:,lisho„orit%tS cowan ly safety f.^i^l- .-e. So the Wu tanofhis.ge,stt.i,.tasam;:tSS^:^ the fleetest ai,l hai.Jiest boat, Wue-eve fair-Saired true-hearted, a real son of'tk sea. The fishermen tr.ught him t'ne trick. craft until ne knpw lim.- 1„ ..:. M their craft until he splice a rope, and new how to sail a boat -, -., do many little thinK which a sailor must know. Whenever i ship was m the offing he was seen aboard learning the rigging and how work wasner! formed upon her. Kc was a great favorite among the 'longsljcre folk and with the sailors, and when at !:5this thLneeuth vear came around and he oijtainedthe-consem of his mother to go to sea he easily found i good ship and captain. Then there to parting, and tears shed by the mother, while he looked forward into the greatt mce I world with all the joyous eagerness of abov. But with her last blessing the widoneil mother promised that every night a Ife. should bum in the seuward window of " cottage to light him homeward-and to show him that she still livel, awaiting his remni. The ship sailed. Six months passed aid sailors dropped into the village and told how she had been spoken and all was well, and the neighbors came to the cottage and told the pleasant news to the waitbg n^het, I who nightly trimmed the candle, lit |[ and I set it in the window: to make a bright-^atii I up the sands. Again six months elapsed, and other sailors arrived from far-off lands, I but they had no news to tell of the ship. I A great storm had happened and she was I overdue. She might yet make port, hut-j and the people sliook their heads audi carried no tales to the widow, whose I candle burned brightly every night anal cast long streamers of light out upjtj the sea. Another yea r passed, but the saii-f ors going or coming brought no nev,sof thtl ship, and therieighb rs whispered apart ar.i I shook their heads whenever any spoke o:l the widow's son, but no one was crKil enough to cut the slender threads whit" I held the anchor of her hope. And thus t!:? light continued to glow out toward thesesj at every .gloaming and burned steaoi.yf through every night. Years came and went. The cliildren \rl:o I played with the sailor lad had grown to kl men and women, her own head had beeasi.1 vered with age, her form was bowed, ye'-l no one dared to cut tlie cables of her hope, r Tender words cheered her and tender haiins smoothed the way for her as she patiently f waited for the home-coming of her fair-tor- ed boy, and every night the glow of » I candle streamed out to seaward and toWtci story of the loving heart waiting at^home.i How many years did she watch and waij I do not know. But one day, at events there was no gleaming patch of bght m the sands. The window remauied dari, and the accnstonied beacon failed the ns-.e I folk, and when they wondered and wen. i the cottage they found that the iaottiers| love had gone out to seek the son. 1, 100 Men at Work on the Congo J Over 1,100 workmen are now engage" « J the Congo Railroad. Four hundred of tM J come froni Zanzibar, and theothersaremo=.P ly Krooboys from the Liberiau coast. jne. penters, blacksmiths, and r^^^^l'jTJ craftsman, wholeai-ned the.r ra^es mNeq Leone and Senegal. Most of the force »«« I gaged in blasting and g^^^^^°^^f'jiiil few Cabindas who live on the co|^^^„%.J Congo are employed as cooks, andaoou Congo natives as porters. .,^^,1,6 i»o- XJ% to April 12 about two mJ^^ffrom 1*4 way had been completed, star^g^ ^.^^p western end of the road at -VaWQ ^, t|,| miles from the sea. Three-fourths rf^^j J difficulties to be met are m then^ ^, before the comparatively level P' ^^^^j of the Congo hill is reached. ^^^^ ' now in charge of twenty-five Eu^op^ eluding enghieers and supermteDdeat^ To fiestore Worn OlotliiDg- r old cost. ve=. Take, for instance, a smnv^"â€"^,re,oi pair of pants, of broadcloth t^nal. The scourer makes a W soap-suds, and plunges the f%^f] »«.,=^a i+. „T and down, rubs tse uu i souses it up and down, i "" ^^ gtiw- if necessary puts it throug' paters suds, then rinses it through se ^^^„„etfj and hangs it to dry »« ^hf. f*„ for an t»; ly dry, he takes it m roUsitop old »" An' .. ^j cloth is laid on the outsiae "'..""^ewri^JJ that untu I" til or two, and then presses it. t, a the iron passed over that uu ^^ are out ;\at the iron rs '"""^fg^ 1 steam ceases to ri«« 'Xinkl» ^^^'J thoy would be shiny, ^rw W» ^^^ cK.| obstinate are removed "y/f-'^.oTer' orer th«n, and passing tne ..^^^ tr If any shiny plax;es are «e^' j^aia 1^ ed as the wi-inkles are '"f ris*' while the full clouds of »S slif bring* tSe knap with it. ^jj, p,\ ways have a suds made_^ si^ in that which has l^en cotton or woolrai clothes JW" cling Uy ibB cloth. M There arecaaeBwhtrei" ,odei»t«« L.-ta. at last they -, rv^inustbevery hrfe child is no use I The king he saddled PHe flew down the I'Tvrasthconlj-kin I And when he heard •*He thought his eai iSd so he turned hi I -^nd nobody cared iag iB poritively ^«^}^^»t^ foldi.rbe«»ttiigDatwnJ2^ Adaa^e Tutti Frntti after ew» m^M iMii 'tm 'I