The Abilene Journal du lieu suivant : Abilene, Kansas • 7

NEURASTHENIA. FAMOUS TROTTERS. COWBOY POETRY. The Abilene Chronicle. BtM.1L bo whan.

CHARACTERISTIC DISEASE OF MODERN CIVILIZATION'. THE GREAT RECORDS OF THE SUMMER SEASON. THE IATEST PUBLIC RECEPTION' OF THE LITERARY CLUB. KANSAS. ABILENE.

A SEASONABLE WAIL. A Defective Serrou Organization the Fundamental Cause of This Troublesome of the Symptoms of This Distinctively American Jierve DrPPl Successful Meetings and Fair Records Made on the Grand Circuit A Much Mooted Innovation toy the Detroit Association Some Important Races. Eloquent and Touching Opening: Speech of the President Bland's Poem on the Beautiful West Music "Without Literature The Collection Paid in Chips. EWHILAKINS! Marier, ain't I glad September's come, An' them hungry Bummer boarders hev skedaddled off in I Copyrighted, 1SS7- to ham ain't no use of ur is ENCE the last snow drift melted and disappeared in the soil or trickled down the hillsides to swell the river, the thousand and one race-tracks all over the country have been alive nffl Ml III talkin', they cud eat a mighty sight, As the biggest thing about 'em wuz their cravin' appetite. They hev' picked the apple orchard, an' the chickens couldn't scratch, Or diskiver any berries when the boarders left the patch, Cabin' with Uncle Tom left out, and music without literature would be like Uncle Tom with no play cabin to shelter his aged head.

We have the Uncle Tom of music safely housed in the cabin of literature, whose dooryard is all speckled with the brightest flowers of poesy. Applause. I now take sincere pleasure in introducing to you Mr. Hank Harris, of Lost Creek, justice of the peace, postmaster and agent for the Warbler sewing machine, who has prepared an essay for your entertainment." Mr. Harris received a full ration of applause, and bowing with a dignity in keeping with his elevated station in life began "Ever since the first book was writ an' placed on sale, the world has been the abidin place of authors.

Here they have lived an' thrived an' writ books and novels, an' multiplied an replenished on the face o' the earth, until now a town without an author is regarded as a Sodom an Gomorrer, upon which it is almost certain death to rest the eyes. "Each country has its own peculiar brand of authors, some good, some only so-so, an' some not wuth a whoop in Helena, Montana. I will fust direct your undivided attention to Bobby Burns, the immor-r-r-rtal bard of bonnie Scotland. Applause from a Scotch miner in the back part of the hall. Bobby's poems were written to touch the hearts of the people, arter fust touchin' the pocket-books of his publishers.

Laughter. His songs were a sort poetic hash of combined humor an' pathos. What could be more pathetically pathetic or more humorously humorous than the wail of the aged parent in one of his songs ilka thought is ane of woe, As slow I move alang. I Copyrighted, 1387. The public reception of the Lost Creek Literary Club was a pronounced success.

The eyes of the president, a 6lender person from Boston, twinkled through hi3 gold-framed glasses with undisguised pleasure as they swept over the large audience, and even his dry, spasmodic cough seemed tinged with an accent of pride and gratification as he called the meeting to order and said: "My dear friends of Lost Creek, the satisfaction which engulfs my soul and swamps my heart in a pool of perfect bliss as I gaze over this large assemblage seems irresistible in its pungent pertinacity. It tells me that the goddess of Literature ha3 been heartily welcomed to your midst, and that she" will long remain here an honored guest. Let the good work go on. Let us not relax our efforts nor tire of our labors until Lost Creek becomes the great literary centre duce other steps in a similar direction to be taken, but the venture is an important one in turf matters. In view of the widespread interest it evokes, it may be well to look at the facts bearing on it for a moment.

Although ihe advocates of the change have been declaiming for years about the excessive length of trotting races, no one has taken pains to compile statistics. I heard a horseman of forty years' experience say the other day that Le did not believe the number of heats to a race would average more than three and a-half. lie thought that the public was deceived by one or two exceptional races, where the heats mounted up to nine or more. For my own satisfaction I ran through a long record of trotting events, and here is the result of my investigations: In forty races on the grand circuit there were 178 heats, an average of 4.45 to a race; in forty races on other circuits and tracks from Saugus. to Galesburg, 111., there were 163 heats, an average of 4.075 to a race.

I do not argue this question, and the reader may deduce whatever comfort or opinion he chooses from the figures. The past season brought out no overwhelming sensation to compare with the runner llanover, but there was an approach to it in the performances of Patron, whose record as a five-year-old stallion is extraordinary. He is not, of course, a new horse, and well-informed race-goers are not altogether surprised at the prominent position he took in this season, for his work during the two seasons immediately preceding was full of promise and excellence. After winning several good races in the West his friends determined to dispute with him the supremacy of the turf in contest with Harry ilkes. This horse has for several years borne the exultant title of "King of the Free for All," and it took nerve and confidence to oppose to him so young a horse as Patron.

But the backers had both, and a special race was arranged at Cleveland, where Patron has his home. The youngster got away with his rival in great shape, and at once jumped into the foremost rank of American trotters. In fact, he is the most prominent horse now in active racing on the trotting track. In his great race he performed three consecutive heats in this wonderful style: 2:16, 2:16, and when he finished his last heat he was by no means exhausted. A feature of trotting now is the number and unvarying excellence of the descendants of the great sire George Wilkes.

Prince Wilkes, one of them, is the only one who has given Patron a really hard race this summer. Another descendant from George Wilkes is splendid member of the a winner of a race on the grand circuit in three straight heats. Probably the best mare developed as a racer this season is the Michigan horse Loretta owned bv M. V. Wagner.

She won great races at t)etroit, Cleveland and Buffalo, and her failure to win another at Rochester led to one of the sensational disturbances of the season in a controversy about the quality of her driving on that occasion. It is generally accepted now that there wa An the peaches land o' Goshen were devoured afore they're ripe; An' it never seemed to phase 'em with a colic or a gripe; An the veg'tables they swallyed wuz enough to kill a boss, they wuz the nighest porky thet I ever kum across, An' compared with all the eatin' an' the other things they took, 0 1 there wuzn't much projortion with their slender jocketbook They hev' asked me kum an' visit yes I know how thet will be; But they don't work any chestnuts like thet moldy one os me. Fur I know just what will happen ef I pack my crip an come Fur the nigger'll up an' tell me thet the boss es not to hum. You kin bet your bottom dollar thet I'm glad September's here, An' there'll be no summer boarders on these premises next year. I Copyrighted, liST.I Neurasthenia has in recent years become a very familiar word in America.

The word has long had a place in tho medical dictionaries, but has only acquired rightful citizenship in the medical vocabulary since the late Dr. Beard accurately defined it as meaning "want of strength in the nerve." Dr. Beard devoted much study to this disease and came to the conclusion that it was a characteristic result of American habits of life and not at all, or but rarely, found among other nations. More thorough research has shown, however, that even such slow-going people as the English and Germans are not exempt, while in Russia it is as prevalent as in this country. The fundamental condition of the system which predisposes to neurasthenia is a defective nervous organization in other words, the nervous supply of the body is inadequate to perform the duties demanded by the physical part of the organism.

In some "cases this disproportion between nervous and physical organization is so great that the manifestations of neurasthenia occur in early life; in infancy, childhood, or during adolescence. In other cases the nervous supply is able to respond to the ordinary demands made upon it but when from illness, or defective food supply, or excessive labor of any sort which may result in exhaustion, the nervous system is unable to fulfill its ordinary functions, the disease appears. These are the cases which usually manifest themselves for the first time in advanced life, in the broken-down business and professional man, bankrupt of nerve-force, of which this country has so large a proportion, and which 6eem to justify Dr. Beard's designation of neurasthenia as a distinctively American disease. The symptoms of neurasthenia are as manifold as their causes are diverse.

Cases frequently occur in which there is an indefinable sense of discomfort, vague nerve, muscle, or bone-pains, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, depression of spirits, frequent attacks of sick-headache, lack of the power of sustained intellectual application, and similar manifestations. In other cases the languid condition Is replaced by one of nervous irritability or irascibility. The latter form may alternate with the former in many cases. Intense mental application may give rise to this condition in persons with a primarily weak nervous organization. Walter Savage Landor, Carlyle, Dante Rossetti, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo and many other prominent writers, professional and public men may be cited as examples of the irritable lorin ef neurasthenia.

Landor and Carlyle were especially typical cases. In many instances disorders of the digestive organs are prominent expressions of the neurasthe- by the "Sweet Singer's" touching verses, greeting their rendition with a shout of applause that made the lamps flicker. By a rousing unanimous vote she was elected an honorary member of the club. "Broncho Jack a cowboy-poet from over on the Pecos, wa3 next introduced and said: "I never yit wrapped my tongue around quality talk, an' I ain't prepared to begin now. I am a rough poet, a crude gem, as it war, that needs pol-ishin an' settin' afore it'll be worth a continental.

I heard o' this club through accident while out on a beef gather on the range, an' after we'd bunched our steers I jumped my hoss an' rode over to size it up. "Afore doin' my share in this literary Tound-up I want to say to you that some time ago on the Pecos my ridin pardner was Ed Ball, as good a cow rustler as ever throwed a leg over a horse or swung a rope. He war a wild an' woolly cuss an' mighty hard to handle in a rough-an'-tumble misunderstandin', an' you kin jedge of my surprise when I heard that he'd joined the church assumed the holiness o' religion an' war preachin in Socarro. I didn't b'lieve it an' made a trip to Socarro to see 'bout it, an' in consequence o' that trip the follerin' poem war constructed while in the saddle on day herd: I use to know him on the range, Atravelin' down the sinners' way: An thinks, sez it's orful strange, If Ed has struck a pious lay. But when I ambled to the church.

Ter see the hallelujah show, My heart jes' seemed to give a lurch, That sprung my ribs an inch or so. For thar stood Ed with pious face, A makin' of his jawbone hum A talkin' of amazin' grace, An' happiness in Kingdom Come. He quoted from the Bible till I thought he knowed the thing by heart An' every time he drawed, he'd fill. While every sentence seemed a dart. An' then, w'en he began ter press The hearers o' the Holy Word To git the brand o' righteousness.

An' turn in with the heavenly herd, The spectacle war somewhat strange The people jes' rose up in mass, Jes' same as steers' ll quit a range An' go in search o' better grass. Salvation seemed ter fall in showers, An mercy come in roarin' floods, An' Ed a strainin' all his powers, A wringin' sinners through the suds. He seemed a howlin' hurricane A terror with chastisin' rod A lion with a Gospel mane A. mountain howitzer o' God But though he preachifies of love, I'll bet a broncho, when he's dead, Ef he can't act the same above As here, it 'twont be heaven fur Ned. So if his border tricks prevail, An' sech amusement is allowed, You'll see him racin' with the gale A straddle of a bucking cloud.

The knight of the saddle and rope was warmly applauded, and said that he would endeavor to visit the club again before the fall round-up. The president in announcing the close of the exercises and the date of the next public reception made a stirring appeal to the people to contribute liberally to the support of the club, which was such a stupendous honor to Lost Creek. Collectors were sent through the audience, and the following results were dumped out of their hats on the treasurer's table 41 blue chips, at 1 each $41 00 67 red chips, at 50 cents each 33 50 10 white chips, at 25 cents each 2 50 Cash 19 50 Total $90 50 The treasurer was instructed to get the chips cashed at the various games from which they were issued, and after singing a closing ode the club adjourned. Captain Jack Crawford. with horses dragging sulkies over the course in preparation for the innumerable races that have followed and will continue to follow until the snow of the coming winter shall say checkmate to the sport of the turf until another season.

The summer of 1SS7 has not been one memorable for phenomenal speeding, but racing has been conducted with the same indefatigable spirit of years past, and the contests have been in the main interesting and satisfactory. In fact, on the prominent tracks of the country there has been rather more good sport in closely contested races involving surprise for "sure" winners than usual. And though there have been few of the great wonders in active work upon the track, which accounts of course for the lack of phenomenal records, there has been a greater number than before of good horses. Thi3 may be seen clearly by comparing the average time made by all the contestants at the meetings on the grand circuit this year with the average time of former seasons. It would take too much space to go through the records of all the meetings to demonstrate this gratifying fact, but a glance may be given to one representative meeting.

Let us take Rochester, where turfmen like to assemble, and where the meeting this year was not marred by bad weather or other things to make it unfair to judge from it for the character of all the meetings. In 1878 Goldsmith Maid was among the racers at the Rochester meeting, as were Rarus and Lucille Golddust also. The average rate of speed attained in the twenty-nine heats trotted then was The average time this season was 2:20. This is from an aggregate of I If ill i Of happiness there's nane for Joe, Since Teddy joined the "Mr. Burns is it pains of the Southwest border.

Our exercises will begin with an original song and chorus by the club quartet, a song composed for kl THE SUICIDE TRICK IN PARIS. How Two Clever Rascals Raised Funds "With Which to Enjoy Themselves. An exciti ng scene (the Paris correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says) was witnessed by the people who were walking along the quays in the neighborhood of the Pont de 1' Alma on Monday afternoon. Just as the crowd was at its thickest a poor man suddenly jumped on the parapet of the bridge and threw himself over into the Seine. As he was struggling in the water another man Jumped into the river after him and succeeded in bringing him safe to shore.

The spectators of this thrilling incident clustered round the poor fellow and his gallant preserver and asked him why he had taken so rash a step. Want, he replied, had driven Lim to suicide. Moved to tears by the affecting narrative, the man to whom this victim of circumstances over which be had no control owed his life put his hand fnto bis pocket and producing all the cash which he had about him presented it to the sufferer. Inspired by this bright example the crowd, which had now mustered in force, pressed silver and copper coins on the poverty-stricken individual who had sought a watery crave. Soon a very fair Bum of money was in his possession, and with many protestations or gratitude and promises that he would endeavor in future to take the "ups and downs" of life more philosophically, he slowly quitted the spot in company with the man who had so valiantly rescued him.

Now it so happened that a police inspector had found his way I SXUQ PEACES FOR PRINCELINGS. the occasion by Mr. Emory Bland, of Deakin's ranch." The song was rendered in a beautiful manner, the words being as follows The West, 0, the West, 0, the beautiful West, What a halo thy fair name enshrouds How each mountain peak soars till its snow-covered crest Is in the damp, distant clouds 1 How thy boundless plains spread till they seem to be stitched To the horizon's edge far away Their green, grassy bosom profusely enriched. With flowers in their brightest array CHOEC8. Then sing of the West, of the beautiful West, Where the deer and the antelope play And the wild turkey-cock, with its cardinal crest Gobbles gayly the whole livelong day.

We know not the dude with his dagger-toed shoes, And a grin like a monkey at play We know not the maid with a bustle profuse, And dresses cut de-col-i-tay We know not the dam-sell so plump and so fair, Whose complexion doth rival the rose, Who at night retires mostly to rest on a chair, While a fragment in bed doth repose. choeus. Then sing of the West, of the beautiful West, Where fraud and deceit are unknown Where the girls can ail stand the most scru-tinous test, And prove that the charms are their own. Then tune up the lyre (which we spell with For the other one's always in tune), And sing of the West till the notes soar on high, And lodge on the silvery moon. Sing alto and tenor, soprano and bass, Till the music careens through the air ikike a cyclone of melody running a race, Or a tempest of song on a tear.

CH0KC8. Then sing of the West, the beautiful West, Till the thorax with friction grows hot, And the laboring lungs seem about to congest, And the dancing tongue tires of the trot. me to announce, dead, and will no more charm the readers of the papers with his beautiful poetizin'. If I may be pardoned fordriftin' into inspired rhyme myself I feel inclined to say He's gone to that bourne, has Mr. Burns, From w'ich no poet ever returns His songs up in Heaven he now doth sing, An' writes with, a quill from a angel's wing.

"We will now turn our attention for a moment, or a moment an' a half, to America, an' touch lightly upon the work of the Sweet Singer of Michigan. She is the most wonderful poetess which ever grasped Pegasus by the flowin' mane an sprung inter the saddle without touchin' a foot to the stirrup. She is a holy terror, brought up in the Michigan woods, an' can make hippopotamus rhyme with phlebotomy an' never bat an eye or twitch a muscle o' the face. Her rhymes are homelike, the majority of them never gettin' away from home. She writes persistently.

She's got poetry as Jim Devine up the creek has got the shakes all over from head to foot, an' in its mos' malignified form. Hear her in one of her latest fireside melodies 'Jemima swallered the sjeckled tortoise, Bekase she couldn't resist it, An' they dosed her on double-geared aquafortis To enable her to digest it. The doctor expended his talent free. An' charged most outrageous tariffs, But, surrounded by friends of the family, she Set out for to jine the seraphs. As love of her pets was always strong with her, among me inroug, huu uaviug iraa uunu-dence in human nature than the worthy holiday-makers who had been pouring francs and half-francs into the pockets of the would-be suicide, he bethought himself of keeping an eye on the couple.

The pair walked on until they reached a public house outside the beaten track, and into this place of refreshment the inspector followed them. Oddly enough their arrival appeared to be expected with some impatience, for quite an assemblage of their friends greeted them with enthusiasm. Drinks were ordered by the poor man who had Just been fished out of the Seine, and as they were being discussed he gave the company a graphic account of his adventure but the story was a very different one from that which the horror-stricken spectators of the thrilling incident would have related. Instead ot eliciting exclamations of sympathy and congratulations, it was received with, peala of laughter, in which, strange to say, the rescued man and his gallant preserver joined heartily. The whole thing had been cot ud between them.

One man threw him self into the river to attract the attention of the crowd the other followed, and the tale of the suicide was trumped up. The accomplice gave his money to the friend whom he had pulled out in order that the bystanders might be induced to contribute freely. The "little game," however, was entirely spoiled by the police inspector, marching the two rogues off to the nearest station. There are many such impostors in Paris. GARDENS OF EGYPT.

crooked work In her sulky. White Socks, whose description is implied in his name, and Misty Morning are others of the season's great successes. The celebrities of other seasons did their share of interesting work in private. In June Edwin Bither drove Phallas a mile in 2:131. In August an immense crowd assembled at Taylor's Park, in Freeport, I1L, to see Jay-Eye-See race against time.

The conditions were so The Beauty of the Growth Really "Wonder ful to Foreigner. unfavorable that the betting pivoted on whether time better than 2:14 would be At the beginning of March the gardens of How Queen Victoria's Relatives Are Cared for at the Expense of the Taxpayers. Although attention has been directed to the rapid advance of Prince Louis of Batten-berg in the navy, the case of Prince Leiningen is a far stronger one. Prince Leiningen's record is that he ran down a gentleman's cutter when in command of a royal yacht. On performing this gallant feat he was made a rear admiral, and given a command at Portsmouth.

"Thence he was removed to the Nore with the title of vice admiral, and he has now been made an admiral, in order to share in the joy caused by her majesty having reigned for fifty years. A strong feeling is arising in the country that the services are becoming overrun with royalties and quasi-royalties, who, in the course of a few years, will be in possession of all the prizes both in the army and navy. The Mediterranean command, the blue ribbon of the service, is now held by the Duke of Edinburgh the Duke of Connaught has tha Bombay command, one of the most coveted and desirable berths in India Prince Edward of. Saxe Weimar holds the lucrative post of commander-in chief in Ireland the Prince of Leiningen has just given up the Nore command, and is to be appointed to a still better post next year while Prince George of Wales and Prince Louis of Battenberg are officers in the Mediterranean squadron, and in a fair way to obtain better things. There will have to be an end to this kind of thing, as it is monstrous that officers who have worked hard all their lives, 'and deserved well of the country, should find all the good things monopolized by the royal family and their relatives.

London Truth. The recent scandalous job of allowing one of the Battenberg tribe to enter the navy, when unable to pass the required medical examination to which others are subject, and the jumping him over the heads of so. many senior and far more deserving officers than himself, into a much-coveted post, has naturallv caused some curiosity as to how many of the Queen's relations are comfortably provided for in a similar manner at the public expense. The following fist does not, of course, include the female relatives of roy- made, Bither was the driver, and the record was It stands without doubt as the best performance In the horse's history. Maud S.

was driven Egypt are really wonderful the orange and lemon trees spread their most pungent odor; the rose trees are covered with innumerable flowers; the palms, with their green and once during the season to. the time of white crowns, swing there in the wind the oleanders there border the avenues on the lawns, anemones, annual and perpetual flowering pinks, chrysanthemums, violets, zin nic condition. The phrase, "nervous dyspepsia," which is so frequently heard nowadays, sufficiently describes one of the characteristic forms of neurasthenia. To be "nervous" is thought by many to be equivalent to "hysterical," but there is a very wide difference between, the two conditions. A nervous constitution is frequently a legacy from an overworked ancestor, Jt may not manifest its presence by any symptoms until the first half-century of life is turned, owing, perhaps, to some extra strain, the nervous system gives way and neurasthenia result.

The merchant, official or professional man is reminded by his nervous break-down that he cannot do the same amount of work at fifty that he could at thirty. He cannot keep up the pace of younger days, and he soon finds it impossible to get "a three-minute gait out of a four-minute horse." While it is generally accepted among physicians that neurasthenia may be produced by diseased conditions of various organs as well as by simple continued or repeated exhaustion of the nervous system, it is not improbable that this neurasthenic constitution may predispose to other diseases. One of the most distinguished of living English alienists has described cases of mental disease which began as neurasthenia, and among the most scholarly and skillful surgeons are' many who hold to the belief that such diseases as cancer, improbable as it may at first sight appear, are reasonably attributable to the influence of nervous depression. The facts and inferences here mentioned indicate that neurasthenia is not a trivial affection, or one to be classed with purely imaginary ills, like many cases of hysteria or hypochondria. It always demands the careful attention and study of the sufferer and his physician, in order to discover the causes of the disease and secure their removal.

3Iedkal treatment alone is generally insufficient. Hygienic measures are of much more importance, if thoroughly and persistently carried out. Children with a neurasthenic predisposition should not be compelled to study too hard in schools. Most neurasthenic children are precocious, and teachers are disposed to overburden their bright pupils in order to make them show up well in the examinations. With an egotism, born of ignorance, parents usually earnestly second these efforts of the teacher to wear out the child's brain before its full development.

Diet, clothing and habits of the children should be sub thirty-two heats in which the fastest time made was by the pacer Argyle, who made a record of and it is a conclusive showing, as all the other grand circuit meetings agree with it substantially, that the breed of American horses is improving. Next to this general improvement In trotting horses manifested by the work of 1887, the most important feature of the season was the innovation introduced at Detroit. For years there has been growing a feeling that trotting races were too long drawn out, and that the sport would be vastly improved by reducing the number of heats to be run to decide a race. According to the rules now in vogue a horse must win three heats before securing the victory. As the public, upon whose good-will so much of the success of racing depends, has become more and more accustomed to the condensed excitement and quick decisions of running races, the delays in finishing a trot and the frequent postponements of an important race to the next day, breaking it off in the middle, have seemed more and more annoying and unnecessary.

Long ago it was suggested, to remedy the matter, that instead of compelling the winner to win three heats in five, he be declared the victor on winning two heats in three. The opposition to this idea was general and strong. It came not only from the drivers whose success In winning trotting races oftentimes is due to their ability to tire out the best horse, but from the owners, the track managers, from con servatives generally, and, not the least in influence, from the pool sellers. Arguments in favor of the change came almost entirely from those who wanted to see a race quickly decided. They claimed that three heats were enough to decide the merits of horses, and the tedious dragging out of a race to an indefinite number of heats was uninteresting to the public and bad for the horses and the sport.

If these arguments were sound there i3 no question that the track managers would long ago have made the desired change. But as no one could tell whether or not they were sound, except by actual experiment, caution prevailed and prevented the trying of the experiment. The Detroit Driving Club, however, after a successful summer season, announced a meeting for the latter part of September at which the best two heats in three should be the rule, and thus the first step wa3 taken in what may prove a revolution in trotting. For it is within the possibilities that the same spirit that suggested the reducing of the heats from five to three may eventually bring about the phenomenon of single heat races. It is as yet too early to determine whether the initial experiment will in- alty, upon whom hundreds of thousands are pip? 1IJ 'r1- 2:10.

One of the greatest performances on record took place this season when Major Dickenson's mares Flora Huff and Cora Belle were driven a mile on Fleetwood Park to the time of 2:19. Of the new horses whose performances suggest great achievements on the race track in future seasons perhaps none is so promising as Grandee, a two-year-old colt from California. He has all the lines of a thoroughbred without as yet any great muscular development. But the frame is there, and careful training will bring out his strength rapidly. He trots in the easiest manner imaginable and will probably be heard from next year.

The Babox. HAWTHORNE'S BOYHOOD. A Constitutional Ixve for Isolation and Some of Its Effects. An old lady who used to visit the home at Salem in whicfi Nathaniel Hawthorne was brought up it was his maternal grandmother's publishes some reminiscences which show that he must have been an intensely disagreeable boy. He went daily to the roof of the house to.

read aloud and to declaim. On the last day of her visit the stranger heard him call her; she went to the skylight opening on the roof, and, looking out, saw him with his back braced against the chimney, book in hand. He called the little girl to come; but she told him she was afraid, for the roof was sloping. He called back, "Just like girls This was a fair sample, apparently, of the politeness and chivalry of the budding genius. When he had grown a young man he refused to sit down at any meal at which his Uncle Robert was present this uncle was his guardian, and Nathaniel was dissatisfied with the arrangement that had been made for his collegiate course.

The uncle was a generous and noble-hearted brother to Mrs. Hawthorne, and a kind friend to her fatherless children. The writer of the reminiscences never heard Nathaniel allude to his sehxl life, or mention any boy companions. He must have had a constitutional love of isolation, and his surroundings evidently favored the growth of this tendency. Exchange.

Here we are; let stars or bygone times, or the wrecks of nations, or the corruptions of language say or show what they will. There is something also to be done by us; we have our little portions of the reef of coral yet to build up. Arthur Help. Hi nias, periwinkles, snap-dragons, mignonette, Eansies and petunias blend their innnmera-le colors with he green of the trees, bushes and shrubs. Groups of bamboos lift here and there their long green or golden stems, crowned with an immense plume of pretty-little trembling leaves.

One comprehends, on seeing these stems, which assume in a few months enormous proportions, the cruelly ingenious punishment of the Chinese in binding a criminal to a young bamboo. The plant grows and the wretch is quartered in a few weeks. No wood is lighter or more useful than that of the bamboo. One does not understand why the Egyptians neglect to plant it along the canals and cultivated land, where it grows so well. But what gives, at least during winter and ppring, the most smiling aspect to the Lgyptian gardens are the great sheets of rose bougainvilles that cling to the walls, the trees and grout of foliage, and which display everywhere the varied and exquisite tint of their flowers.

The bougainville is certainly the finest of climbing plants. During five months it flowers under the winter sun, takes shades of extreme delicacy one might say a light rose trait, the intensity of which every play of light varies. The aloes, the agave, attach themselves on rocky blue slopes. On the banks of the water courses the lotus and the papyrus still revive antique reminiscences. Grass cannot be raised in Egypt.

The layer of soil is so thin that the sun dries it up immediately, and unless the grass is constantly submerged it turns yellow, and perishes at once. It is not the heat alone that produces this result, for there is very much fine grass in the tropics, but the heat, accompanied by the shallowness of the soil, renders the culture of grass impossible in Egypt. It is with difficulty that a few isolated blades of grass sprout during winter along the Nile and canals; they disappear as soon as the spring begins, so that everywhere in the country where artificial cultivation finishes the dry and bare desert begins. In the place of grass a pretty little verbenacea is used, and this is ncountered everywhere, the same as grass is encountered in other countries. Rret Harte's Home.

Bret Ilarte makes his home in London at the house of the Belgian minister. The famous author's hair is snow-white and lies in masses on his forehead. His mustache is not so white. His complexion is florid. He has not grown especially stout, and were it not for his hair would look like a young man.

Exchange. mi She took her speckled tortoise along with her. Athwart the apex of her tomb, I 1 1 lavisned; nor tne grants maae Dy rarua-ment to the princes, but simply their naval and military emoluments Prince of Wales $15,000 Duke of Edinburgh 25,000 Duke of Connaught 40.000 Prince Christian Duke of Cambridge 35,000 Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar Prince Leiningen 2,905 Prince Victor of Hohenlohe 9,300 Princes Albert Victor, George and Battenberg 4,500 Or, in fact, the first-named eight members of the royal family, of whom four-are Germans, pocket amongst them, as occupving military and naval positions, thirty thousand per annum, at the very least. Perhaps one of the worst jobs is that concocted in favor of Prince Edward. According to regulation, no district command shall be holden by one officer more than five years.

A very proper regulation, as it gives a fair chance to all who have distinguished themselves, and whose services really deserve substantial recognition. Prince Edward is not of these, fr he has not seen one day's active service since 1855. Nevertheless, he has filled three of the most coveted and lucrative appointments the home district, the Southwestern and now the Dublin command. Reynold? Setctpaper. How, Indeed! Augustus I dawn' fawncv this Dahwinian theory.

I would hate to believe that I was pawt monkey, don't cher know. Fogg Yes, but how can you help it The best belt road is that around a pretty girl waist. jected to intelligent supervision. Open- We planted the rose, the pink and the daisy, An' while a weepin there in the gloom. We shed our grief in a way not lazy, Fur Jemima was always a fa-vor-ite, With every person that intimate knowed her, An' she always seemed as a beam of light, Afore the aquafortis corrode her, An' now she's in Heaven how can we doubt it? A tellin' the angels all about Mr.

Harris remained with the authors for some forty-five minutes, and even then expressed great reluctance at being obliged to conclude. His essay was listened to with marked attention, and the audience was completely carried away air life should be encouraged as much as possible. Spirituous liquors and tobacco This typically Western song brought down the house and some of the chinking from between the logs of the halL When the tumult had subsided, the president said "Music and literature travel hand in hand in fraternal connubiality, and nowhere are they more closely united in the golden chain of affection than in Lost Creek. Literature without music would be like the play of 'Uncle Tom's should be prohibited to youthful neu rasthenics. In adults they may sometimes be useful remedial measures.

Ex cesses in tea and coffee drinking should be guarded against as carefully as alcoholic intemperance. UEOBGK 11. KOHZ, iL D..