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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1898-24. PAGES, TRAINING THE CIRCUS HORSE SILVER INTO GOLD How Alchemists Studied on the An- cient Problem. MODERN ATTEMPTS 70 SOLVE MYSTERY WHERE LIFE IS EASY On a Coffee Plantation in the United States of Oolombia. LAND AND LABOR ARE BOTH CHEAP Americans-Are Held in High Regard at Santa Marta. nd RELICS OF BYGONE DAYS An Old and Interesting Pastime for the Horseman. ‘The Droning, Wheesy Windbegs May Be Seem Anywhere in the ie Streets of London. The Wonders of the Equine Memory and How Trainers Utilize This Faculty. Notable Instances of Delusion and Pitiful Failure, ——-o-—_____ PROPHETS ABROAD. From the London Mafl. Fifteen months and more ago there was recounted in these columns the genesis and gtowth of a threatened bagpipe boom. For @ time the craze flourished, and promised to do much; then it languished, and the young ladies and gentlemen who had beught such beautiful sets of bagpipes for- sook their hobby and disposed of their in- struments at a loss, or laid them in the sarret along with the old spinnet and the once-fashinoable But now presto! something has happen- ed. It has happened a long way off—out in India, in fact—but it has given such a fillip to the popularity of the bagpipes that at this moment of writing their fame ts Sreater—infinitely greater—than at any time since the “bonny skirl 0’ “Phe Cock 0” the North’ swept proudly o’er the bloody plain of Waterloo.” ns ‘Who cares whether the story of the gal- lant piper at the recent charge of Dargai is true? Who dares to say it is not? Are there not at 500 music halis in London.and the provinces twice 500 pipers nightly en- acting the scene as it was deseribed by mentees correspondent—to the intense en- usiasm of the audiences and of - glishmen—we beg pardon—Great Britons and Irishmen throughout ‘ the civilized When shall the gk all the glory of t: great metropolis, but in Liverpool, Glas- Piper af some hour of the day. They have come to Carmelite street early in the even. ing to fret the souls of the long-dead friars and to set beating the pulses of the scribes —Caledonian and otherwise—whose ears are flogged by the raucous wail. Indeed, many of the most trenchant columns of the ‘Daily Mail” have been conceived and writ to the tune of “Annie Laurie” or the “Girl I Left Behind Me.” Our sporting editor has found in “Scots Wha Hae” a most fe- cund inspiration; and our leading article Was yesterday composed to the air of “When Jamie Gangs Awa." But it takes two pipers to do the thing properly. One of them marches up and down playing the instrument (or is it a machine?), while another accompanies him, Landling a sheathed sword. The bearing of both performers {s proud and martial and Scoteh. Anybody could tell they were Scotch—even a Saxon infant in arma. One old gentleman in Finsbury circus was so pleased by the aspect of one of these bag- pipe couples a day or two since that he Gave them each sixpence, saying: , Eh, mon, do ye prefer playing the music o" the bonny hame land in musty Lunnoa streets to marching across the heather wi the wind in your teeth?” The first Scotchman looked at him in sur- prise. The second was taken suddenly with engrossing pains in the pit of his stomach. “Whatcher talkin’ abart, gov’nor? Me an* my mite buyed this ’ere arm orgin an’ this ‘ere rig out down th’ Ditch when the bagpipe boom come in. It’s a lot better’n sbovin’ a bloomin’ barrer tryin’ to sell oranges when the people has got too many of ‘em at home already. Oh, the business ain't so bad, ’cept for the chilblames you gets on your knees, and when the kids don’t stick pins in the b’iler o’ the engin’. Me an’ my mite, we do wish, though, when people give us coin, they wouldn't go Jawin’ of us in a bloomin’ furrin‘ langwidge.”’ “But, good heavens, how did you learn? How do you manage to play?” : “Ow? Eeasy enough. Nobody ain't ccmplained yet. Yer just squeezes the old balloon an’ lets ‘er squeal herself sick. An’, Lor’ bless you, the sicker she squeals herself the more people seems to like it. Elimey, there ain't no accountin’ for tastes, but me an’ my mite makes a quid a dye, an that's all we knows!”’ Seven’ Hundred .Years. of Coal. From the Pittsburg ‘Times, =k According to the most authentic history of the. coal trade, last year marked the seven hurdredth anniversary of the use of coal as fuel. Taking the most moderate estimate of the antiquity of man, and con- sidering the fact that the coal was always here, it appears that we were a long time in-availing ourselves of this most: valuable asset which nature placed at our disposal. Many civilizations flourished and died out without its use, and it may be said that its potentialities, as a factor in the pro- gress of mankind, were never realized fully until the present century.. Up to its dawn, aside from the warming of the body and the cooking of food, little’ importance was attached to the fuel question. For these purposes a few fagots or billets of wood sufficed. But in time we discovered that in the fire there was a giant a thousand times more powerful than the fabled monsters of. antiquity. Then the fuel question became the all- important one. With its aid all the mira- cles of the ages were to be surpassed. Give to a nation or a community abundant fuel and it could levy greater tribute upon the rest of the world than had ever been ex- acted by the greatest conquerors. When its possibilities were realized, and when mankind was ready to take advantage of them, behold it was found ready to hand, stored in the earth in the shape of coal. This has been called.an age of iron and Steel, but little claim would it have to that designation were it not for coal. More than gold or iron, or kings, or princes, or battles or revolutions, has it affected ‘the fate of mankind. It is a notable anniver- sary, and it is surprising that more should not have been made of it. qatar became eee Sympathy in Vibration. Prof. Elisha Gray in Chicago Times-Herald, If we place two clocks on the same shelf and adjust their pendulums to swing in ex- act unison and set one of them to running, From the London Field. To the ordinary spectator, the ring horse is a comparatively uninteresting animal; he goes round at a steaéy eanter while the rider, goes through more or less difficult feats; but the circus proprietor would tell us that a really good ring horse is one of the most valuable properties. in order that the performer may execute his feats with accuracy, the horse must travel at one even speed; for if he were to make a start or slacken his pace the rider would come to the ground. He must also be well ac- customed to the business of the ring, for neither the music of the band, the action of the clown, nor as the case of the jockey act, the running up to him of the rider, must cause him to alter his speed; and it may surprise some people to learn that a horse is seldom perfect for the ring untli he has had about three years’ experience. The ring horse is, perhaps, entitled to our sympathy, for the continuous canter must me very monotonous, and not only have horses 40 appear once or twice in the day at public exhibitions, but they are also requisitioned for rehearsals, in order that new trigks may be practiced and fresh hands taught their business, while in bare- back acts their coats are freely rubbed with rosin in order that the performer may have @ good foothold. It is perhaps somewhat of a feather in the cap of military equitation that Philip Astley—who was probably the most suc- cessful of the early trainers—iearned much of his business while a trooper in a cavalry regiment; so that even in those days (some- where about the year 1770) the cavalry rid- ing master would appear to have been more conversant than other people with the breaking and training of horses. During recent years the greatest advance has perhaps been in the training of what are called “liberty” horses; that is to say, horses which are “introduced” instead of being ridden. Within the memory of peo- ple who are scarcely more than middle- aged, more than one horse was seldom, if ever, seen in the ring at once. He was brought in, and went through his perform- ance to the great delight of the assem- bled spectators, whereas now we find fifty or sixty horses in the ring at one time, and their performance must be regarded as a triumph of the trainer’s art. Herr Wulff, in his earlier visits to this country, consid- erably astonished his visitors by ihe intro- ducticn of something like fifty horses in the ring at one time, and he made no secret of the fact that one of the most difficult tasks was to make the ponies trot along the ring fence while the bigger horses were going through their evolutions inside the ring. The ponies used to tumble off, they became frightened, and eventually had to be held up; but patience at last proved victorious, and the tout ensemble was ex- tremely good. It is universally admitted that memory is a horse’s strong point, and it is on this that trainers work. A remark- able example of a horse's memory oc- curred in the case of a pony once owned by the late Mr. William Cooke, who for many years was at Astle; In the early days of his career he owned a small pony, which he sold when his establishment increased. Nearly a dozen years later he was tenting near Bristol, when a man came to him to ask whether he was open to buy a small pony. He said that he was, and, on in- quiring how old the pony might be,navas told five years. On the steed being brought to him, he at once recognized it as the old pony, and suggested to the man that it was a little more than ‘five years old. The would-be vendor was indignant at his words being doubted. “Well,” said? Mr. Cooke, “1 | bad this pony something-like ten or twelve years ago, end I think I can prove it to you.” He then gaye the pony his cues, and the little fellow went through the perform- ances as though he had been doing them daily, thougly possibly in the interval he had never been asked to perform. ———— How Mach Water to Drink. From tbe Youth's Companion. When it is considered that the body: is made up very largely of water it can read- ily be undetstood how important to health is a constant supply of this fluid. Many people have a rotion that the drinking of water in any amcunt beyond that actually necessary to quench thirst is injurious, and, acting on this belief, they endeavor to drink as little as possible. The notion, Lowever, is wide of the truth. Drinking freely of pure water is a most efficacious means not only of preserving health, but often of restoring it when failing. All the tissues of the body need water, and water in abundance is-necessary also for the proper performance of every vital frnction. Cleanliness of the tissues within the body is as necessary to heaith and comfort as cleanliness of the skin, and wa- ter tends to insure the one as truly as it dces the other. It dissolves the waste ma- terial, which would otherwise collect in the body, and removes it in the various excre- tions. These waste materials are often actual pcisons, and many a headache, many rheu- matic pains and aches,many sleepless nights and listless days and many attacks of the “blues” are due solely to the circulation in the blood or deposit in the tissues of these waste matters, which cannot be got rid of because of an insufficient supply of water. Water is accused of making fat, and peo- ple with a tendency to corpulence avoid it for that reason. But this is not strictly true. It does undoubtedly often increase the weight, but it does so because it im- proves the digestion and therefore more of the food eaten is utilized and turned into fat and flesh. But excessive fat, what we call corpulence, is not a sign of health, but of faulty digestion and assimilation, and systematic water drinking is often em- ploygd as a means of reducing the super- fivous fat—which it sometimes does with astonishing rapidity. A Fascinating Place. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. OLD NEW YORK ORGANS. ‘Twe Ancient Cherch Musical Instre- ments fm New York. From the New York Sunday News. Within the time-tried walls of two quaint old churches tn this borough of Manhat- tan there may be heard on Sundays and festal occasions the fine, full tones of the two most ancient organs in any of the greater city’s sacred structures. Both churches in which these organs stand are on the east side of town, and both haye closely associated with their histories maay of the proudest names of sturdy old Knick- erbocker families. Queer it is that these tuneful instrp- ments, whose value fs literally incomputa- ble, should be known to few; both organs are among the priceless musical relics of the city’s younger days. The most vener- able of the two instruments referred to stands in the Dutch Reformed Church in Norfolk street, about midway between Riv- charge which will turn it into gold by | ington and Stanton streets. Its history 1s means of his treatment—chiefly great pres- ee eee oo of eager eceea sure. Sir William Crookes, however, states | and of brut ish soldiers w umn that he has submitted Emmens’ gold sam- i betieigen eh es a Bi sais Meo ple to spectroscopic analysis, and “could | holy melodies set to ribald rhymes. rot discover a single line which belongs to} The Norfolk street instrument has even an unknown element.” had the shadow of a crate. Sone ance ae In 1455, King Henry VI granted a patent | Sotten, cast athwart » _ to an inventor who belleved that he was peng ee seat fe Sogn © able to produce gold, and under his patent | ter ‘nights. Many are the names which was entitled ta make gold enough to enable | have become ea part of Gotham’s musical the king to pay all the debts of the crown | history mentioned fn connection with the in real gold. The forge at which this at- j life of this rare old leader of sacred song. tempt was carried on stood where is now | The elder John Jacob Astor, one 0. the Pall Mall. deacons of the church, sang in accompani- ment to its melodious voice, unmindful of VS ESE the cares of trade or the tricks of fortune In Queen Elizabeth's time there lived a | building for an ambitions progeny. celebrated astrologer and alchemist called | Originally the old organ was built in Hol- Dr. Dee, who seems to have been a clever | land of well-seasoned Sar from the Black ecnjurer. He announced that he had found | Forest” And reed pipes tuned | by loving out how to make silver from copper, and | finally erected in the Norfolk street edi- invited Queen Elizabeth to visit his labora- | fice. Age has succeeded only in mellowing tory, where he showed her a copper frying- | its tones and adding to {ts stocky, Holland pan, from which a piece had been cut out, | Comeliness of outline and ornament. ‘The other ancient organ is a part of the and then the plece exactly fitting the hole | reading Methodist Episcopal Church tu turned into pure silver. The same exercise | 17th street near Ist avenue. The congre- of faith was asked from Queen Elizabeth | gation of this church is naturally proud of that Dr. Emmens asks from us today. ‘There | its well-preserved old music box. Its his- was the silver undoubtedly; as to how it|tory is somewhat clouded by a drift of came, There was where the faith was re-| meager and conflicting facts. It is both quired. denied and affirmed that its pipes, at least, Various deliberate impostures were car-| were imported from Holland. Whatever ried out by different alchemists, by means | the proportion of truth in these pipe sto- of which they“pretended to make gold in | ries, it is certain that the organ proper was the presence of other persons. In one case | built in New York in 1837 by George Jar- it was found that the vessel in which the | dine, the founder of the famous firm of or- alchemy was conducted was made with a | gan constructors. false bottom; the gold was hidden under-| This Hedding Church instrument was one neath. The vessel could be inspected, and | of the first important undertakings of the then the various mysterious compounds | organ builder. The youthful Jardine had were placed in it, and ultimately the gold | recently come to this country from Eng- was found at the bottom—the fact being | land. where he had exercised his skill as that the false metal above had melted | an apprentice on some of the most perfect away by the application of heat, leaving | organs in the world at that time, notably the gold visible. Again, hollow rods con- | the big instrument in Westminster Abbey. taining some gold, closed at the end invisi- | When the old Wall Street Presbyterian bly with wax, were used to stir the cruci- | Church was moved to Jersey City and be- bles; the wax would melt and the gold run}came the First Presbyterian Church of out, to be found when the mixture cooled. | that town, which event took place away The object, of course, was to persuade the | back in 1836, the members placed an order "ssessors of real honest gold in the shape | with the yeung English organ maker for. of money to part with it to the alchemists | a high-grade instrument. With the benefit for the purpose of the perfeetion and com-| cf his experience abroad. Jardine built pletion of the experiments. what was then the finest organ in the country, and it was exhibited at the Amer- ican Institute fair, where it won the gold But it is quite likely that several of the | medal and first Prize. While on pent alchemists who supposed or professed that | tion there it was played upon by Dr. a had found gold were either mad or de.| ¥8Pd Hodges, then organist of old ‘Trinity * Church, and one of the most finished organ musicians in the world. The instrument ‘ses of perhaps the two last of the | received widespread praise, both for its alchemists (before Dr. Emmens) present an | tone and its volume, and was genérally ac- trstance of each mode of deception. On the | Knowledged to be a perfect piece of musical @tr of May, 1782, a series of experiments | ™Schanism. * : Soon. after the gréat fair ended; ‘the’ new: in making gold was begur by a really il- | organ was set up in the church over in lustrious - chemist named James Price, | Jersey City. and became an object of con- F.R.S., After ‘some experiments that fail-,| siderable attention. While there it was ed bé.at Jast announced that he had dis- | P'aved by the famous Greatorex, the or- ganist of Calvary Church in this city. In covered a powder that he found was capa- | 1959 the Jersey City church was torn down, ble of turning mercury into gold. le and the organ was"then sold to the Hed: called together, on the 25th of the same Chure! month in which he had commenced hia | US Methodist Episcopal Church | and ved ov its present home—I71 expcriments (so quickly had he discovered | Street. About three pears acu iit wen monn the great secret, as he believed), a large | from the back of that Dailiine ties eee emblage of peers, chemists, lawyers and | ent position over the pulpit at the north clergymen, and in ‘their presence he _ap- | cng Bespon over w pareutly transmuted mercury into gold by 2 , = adding to'the former a certain secr2t pow- | y.. pag der that he said he had discovered. Some | Whem Longfellow Came te Cambridge of this gold wag offered to, and graciously | Edward Everett Hale in the Outlook. accepted by, the king, George IIL: A sen- sation was ‘produced. The University of | 1" 1896 when Lowell was a sophomore, Oxford offered the discove an honorary | Mr. Longfellow came to. Cambridge, a degree, and the public eagerly bougit up | young man, to begin his long and valuable two editions of a book that he published. | life in the college. His presence there But many of his colleagues in the Royal Society were not satisiled by the loose | Proved ® benediction, and, I might say, tests applied by the mixed assemblage be- | ™4fES am epoch in the history of Harvard. fore which Price had operated, and they | In the first place, ‘he was fresh from Eu- asked him to submit to a test arranged by | rope, and he gave the best possible stimulus the socisty itself. After being much | to tne budding interest in German litera- pressed Price at last professed his willing- hess, at the end of a month, to satisfy | ‘Ure. Im the second place, he came from the Royal Society. He returned to his | Bowdoin College, and in those days it was laboratory at Guildford and began opera-| 4 Very good thing for a Harvard under- tions by distilling a quantity of the deadly | STaduate to know that there were people poison of the laurel. He next made his | not bred in Cambridge quite as well read, will, end though he was in perfect health | #5 intelligent, as elegant and ‘accomplished it began: “Believing that lL am about to |@3 any Harvard graduate. In the third di place, Longfellow, though he was so young, Before Savants. ranked already distinctly as a man of. let- ters. Six months then passed away, and at} This was no broken-winded minister who last he isseed@ his summons to the Royal | had been made professor. He was not @ Society. Three of its members attended | lawyer without clients, oF a doctor without patients, for whom “a place” had to at his laboratory. He received them with found. He was already known as.a poet cordiality, and pretended to be making | hy ail educated perpie, Preparations for his experiment, but sud- ee denly put a bottle to hic mouth and drank He Met Vanderbilt. from it, and in a few moments fell dying at their feet. He had called them there to | From the Bangor Commercial. = see him drink the laurel water and die, as| Mf. George W. Vanderbilt passed a his penance for his deceit. mscious or | &teater part of the summers in Bar Harbor mistaken. till recently. While walking from his home Many explanations were hazarded of this | t? the village one cold, rainy day in Sep- Queer Things Predicted im the Euro- peam Almanacs for 1898. From the London Mail. Now that we have actually entered upon and A SERVANT’S FUNNY PRANK ——__+—__—_. From Tit-Rits. A sensational announcement has been wade than an American chemist of repute, Dr. Ewmens, Fas discovered a method by which he can turn silver into gold. He claims that the cost of the process in- volved, though rather high, yet leaves a balance sufficient to return an enormous profit on the transaction. Dr. Emmens as- serts that in the course of his investiga- tions he has discovered a new element, to which he has given the name argent-au- rum, or silver-gold, claiming that it lies be- tween gold and silver, and he states that he discovers this element to exist in silver, ready to be made to undergo the slight From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. “If any man with $10,000 wants to make & modest fortune and enjoy an easy life while he is doing it,” said Mr. Henry M. Senter, “all he has to do is to go to the United States of Colombia, purchase a ‘ha- cienda,’ and raise coffee. It is the biggest chance I know of. The climate is perfect, your altitude you may choose at will, you are right at a seaport, so that the transpor- tation of your crop to the ship costs prace tically nothing, and the demand for coffee is never oversupplied. Besides these points, jand and labor are cheap and the property of foreigners is sacredly respected. “When I say that land is cheap, I mean it literally. Government land bonds, each calling for one hectare of the public do- main, or two and a half acres, are now selling for 27 cents, silver, or about 11 cents in our money. This is less than 4% cents an acre. Claims may be located by the holders uf these bonds on any unoccupied government lands, and I have taken up 1,500 acres about seven miles from the sea- Tort of Santa Marta. My plantation, Las Nubes, which means ‘The Clouds,’ is in the Sierra Nevadas, 4,500 feet above the level of the sea, The altitude is an ideal one for growing coffee, and, while I need no irrigation,there are three mountain streams which could easily be turned into my erty so as to irrigate it perfectly at slight expense. The manner of taking up land is the simplest thing in the world. You pur- chase your land bonds, select your property ang have it surveyed. Then you go before the alcalde and declare your intentions to improve the land. He gives you his biess- ing and you give him whatever you feel his blessing is worth. You then begin to clear the heavy forest, which covers all tho mountainous parts of the coast, and a year later your friend, the alcalde, pays yo a visit to see that you are in possession and making improvements. If everything is satisfactory, including a little ‘recognition,’ he issues you a title deed and you become monarch of all you survey “Recognition” “Right here it may b> remarked that while ‘recognition’ is expected in Colombia by public officials, it is not a very serious matter. They are a remarkably reasonable lot of people, and that is the only way you are taxed, with the exception of a poll tax, amounting to $ silver, or $1.60 in our money. I am satisfied that you could even dodge that by ‘recognizing’ the collector to the extent of 15 or 20 cents. He'd report you as dead or away on a vacation. abor is cheap. Such men as ar? re- ‘4 to clear the land and plant the cof- trees only get $1.40 a day in paper which is worth 56 cents in our cur- Of course, you needn't do any great amouxt of labor yourself, beyond learning the 14,000 different methods adopted by the native laborers to ‘soldier’ on you. These natives are either Indians or a mixed breed descended. from the negro slaves and the aboriginal Indians. They are constitulion- ally tired, and need a good deal of driving to keep them at work. So long as they have an adobe hut to sleep in, barely suii- cient clothing to cover them, a fish and a few plantains to eat they ar> ready to defy fate. Slavery was abolished about seventy- five years ago, and since that time the freed negroes and their descendants have consider:d themselves good as any white man. Strangely enough, the, proud descendants of the Spaniards seem to have conceded this position, and there is abso- jutely no color line drawn. Negroes and mulattoes, if they secure wealth, are on am absolute social equafity With the children and grandchildren of those who were once their masters. Quaint Old Santa Marta. “The population of Colombia, as stated in the encyclopedias, is the-wildest kind of a guess, for no white man has ever penetrat- ed the interior and the natives are tod ig- rcrant to give any reliable estimate. San- ta Marta is a town of about 5,000. It was founded in 1525 and is mainly known to fame from the fact that Kfhgsley, in “Westward, Ho!’ used the locality for ‘some of his scenes. It is a quaint old place, with its crooked streets and ancient Span- ish buildings, most of which consist of one story surrounging a courtyard. Close to the town are the ruins of several forts which were demolished by Sir Francis Drake during one of his ‘visits’ to the Spanish in America. The climate varies but little the year round, and the nights are always cool and pleasant. It is a healthy place, in spite of the fact that it is perfectly flat and that there és absolute- ly no attempt at drainage. The water sup- ply is ideal, drawn from the river Mansan- ari, six miles back in the Sierras. There are but two seasons; the rainy season ends about the middie of December and the dry period about April 1. During the rainy Season the mornings are alwi bright and ciear, but it rains every afternoon. The natives are either descendants of the old Spaniards or a mixture of Spanish, Indian and negro. The foreign element is about equally divided among Americans, English and Germans. Spanish is exclu- sively spoken, and in the entire town there three natives who can speak English. “Education is at a very low ebb. The & monopoly of this species of prophecy. It is not as if we should not scorn to take a French or German-made prediction in preference to Old Moore, Zadkiel or Orion’s, but where our own prophets disagree (or. agree upon nothing at all) it is only rea- sonabie that one should turn abroad for the correct astrological information to fill up the gaps. For instance, in “Zadkiel” we read that “the principles of astrology are built upen the foundation of observations made through many centuries, of coincidences, of natural phenomena and great events in the history of nations.” After this, no jess than three of our prophets agree that Bat still within =f bosam's core MOT OBERT BURNS. “A terrible tragedy will take place in England which will shock the whole world” is the way the “Almanac de Mars” com- ments on Jenuary 30, while the “Agenda- Potin” remarks under that date, “Grave American political riot; many persons will be killed.” The only other reference the writer can find is in “Zadkiel,”” which ob- serves, “The 30th of January is a good birthday anniversary.” The continental almanacs seem, in no fewer than three instances, to insist that the Kaiser is to suffer some calamity on February 3. Perhaps in the case of the “Agenda-Potin” and the “Almanaé de Mars” the wish is father to the thought, but this would hardly apply to the ““Kalen- dar-Heisingfors,” which remarks that the German Emoeror should beware of Febru- ary 5—just missing the French predictign by two days. Our little island is again prominently to the fore in the “Agenda-Potin” for April. We are to have a political deadlock on the isth—with a possible overthrow of the ministry. Old Potin seems very sure about this prophecy, for he has marked it with an asterisk. The 19th is, of course, Prim- rose day. In May, the prophet of the “Kalendar- Helsingfors” gives us promise of trouble between Canada and the United States. It is to occur about the 16th. Curiously enough, all cur own almanacs ure insistent on friction between our big colony and its American neignbor, although none of them agree on the precise month. One puts it in February, another in April and another in_October. Passing on to July, the “Agenda-Potin” points to the 18th as the beginning of a great strike in Scotland and the north of England. We can only hope that this item of prophecy was omitted by the print- er from last year’s almanac for the same montc, and now unofficially transferred to the current one. . The following month the Russian proph- et, ‘‘Kalendar-Helsingfors,” declares we are to witness a terrible conflagration, in which hundreds of persons are to perish. As the scene of this catastrophe is Ber- lin, it rather takes the fun out of our Old Moore's prophecy: “Grand news will come from Germany which will be very cheering to the emperor of that great nation.’ According to “‘Old Moore,” England is to be in a bad way about October 7, and “Zackiel” corroborates this pessimism; but they do not approach the gloomy predic- tions of the “Agerda-Potin” prophet, who foresees that during this month England's tide will have begun to ebb forever to the sea. An awful disaster—a dreadful loss— 1s to occur to our prestige somewhere about the middie of the: month. Finally, in December, when “Zadkiel” kills off an “illustrious Frenchman or Italiun,” the. “Almanac Strasburg” stabs one of our public men; and so these little international* tragic courtesies receive Some slight equalization. : Soe All Weddings Alike. From the Phila@elpitia Times. The pretty brides of Philadelphia would resent any insinuation to the effect that thelr graceful wedding ceremonies, which are planned with an eye to effect and beauty, were only a survival of the most primitive marriage ‘customs. From an- tiquity down there is a similarity in the ceremcnies. The presents given the brides- maids and ushers are simply a relic of the rough bribery used by the ancient bridegroom among his personal friends so that they would assist in his capture cf his chosen bride when the day arrived on which he had determined to carry her off. The best man, too, is but a survivor of the band of friends who accompanied the suitor in his wife vinning and kept watch for him for days over the bride’s tribe, while the lover sought an opportunity to carry off his prize. Even the honeymoon is declared to be nothing more than the hurried flight of the husband with his wife to eacape the vengeance of the pursuing tribe, headed by the bereaved father. Looking at the modern customs in Eu- Tope and America, one can find a counter- part to them, or at least an explanation, in the doings of some tribe in Africa or To see what she, for him, can do! And Will and Harry, at the row, Ul: **What’s the'matter with him now?” And I'm waked up:qf all the clatter So if asleep, or if awake, ‘The house exists but for his sake, And such a tny fellow—he. ‘To be boss of this family! ———__++____ One Day. And only the Master shall. praise us, and only the Master shall-blame, And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy,of working, and each in bis sepurate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They Are., —RUDYARD KIPLING. — ee Evening. Weary-footed Eve. in what.celestial orchards, Cool skyey gardens past the mountain's rim, Stray you while the ‘sun blinks o’er the western ‘ocean, While sleep draws néar you and the earth grows dim? Gazing from afar we see the flying colors, Fiery blossome pouring down a cloudy Red of the rose and scarlet of the poppy, Gold of the crocus, purple of the grape. Wasted drowsy Eve;' where in the dusky tollows Stands your couch of ebon, whence as one new born, Freeh from the. comf¥}t" ofthe Night's enfolding, ‘Waked by the sayfshdffs, you shall rise—the Morn? Le far up in Heaver the Le the purple, han, 8 r Fringes of the itst,"“ém) Lo the golden stay Wh WALTER HOG her bower and bed, idered swaying tassels, m her feet shall tread! ‘the London Spectator. on The Jabberwock. 0°: 09 “Twas brillig, and7 tle shithy toves Did gyre and glighle iv the wabe; All mimsy were tye bsarogroves, ‘And the momegraghs :entgrave. He took his vorpalblade in hand, Long tint® his uM@kenfl£oo she sought; So. rested he, "neath the tumtum tree, ‘And étood awhile tn fought. And as in. uffish thy ight be stood The Jabberwock Shh byes fflame Came writhing thtough’the..tulgy wood Aud burbled,as be, ape, One, 46: wnb, two wad ~hibagiy’ and | through His vorpgh plade went, euigker-snack; He left it des with Its head He eame Seatuinphing Bac. And bast thoy slain the jybjub bird? Come to\ mip arms; ny beamiah boy. Oh, trabjovie day! | “Calloot Callayt He chortled in‘ bts eb. LEWIS CARROLL, hae agg sce * the Prairie. ‘The'skles are blue above my head, ‘The prairie green below, And flickering o'er the tufted grass The shifting shadows go, Vague salling, where the feathery clouds Fleck white the. tranquil skies, Black javelins darting where aloft The whirring pheasant files. A glimmering plain in drowsy trattee the dim horizon bounds, Where all the aic is resonant With sleepy summer sounds— ‘The life that sings auiong the flowers, ‘The lisping of the bréeze, The hot eteala'svsultry.crs, The murmunous dyeam of bees. . ‘The butterfly—a' fiying fower— Wheels svift In flashing rin; And flutters Toond’ his quiet kin, With brave, flame-mottled win ‘The wild pinks burst in crimson a The pblox’s bright elusters shine, And prairie-cups are swinging free To spill their airy wine. And lavishly beneath the sun, In liberal splendor rolled, ‘The fennel fills the dipping plain With floods of fowery gold; Aad "Wibely_wearen {06 fron-weed woof of purple dyes, * Where Autumn's rosel fect may tread When bankrupt.Summer file In_verdurows tutmlt far away ‘The prairie billows gleam; Upor their crests in blessing rests Roontide’s gracious beam, Low, qutv vapors steaming dim The level lenders break Where languid iilies deck the rim Of some land-circled lake. Far In the East tke low-hung clouds The goed we nds He; Piette warmly io tbe age its warmly in 3 No accent wounds the reverent air, ” mulated money by €: fee, hides strange affair. and a somewhat simflar oc- | tember he met a ragged little urchin near | in the course of time the other will start up. No foot ints the sod— “Of all fascinating places under the sun,” | servatism in adhering to matters of form. } ond bananas saainly io the United Staten cc = Gameny soon after that was | the camp ef the last representatives of the in sympathy. Each sound impulse, caused —s = S = irie Hes, said a gentleman who has traveled much, live with much pomp and circumstance in pet So em Tears a teres vine | Pazsamaquoddy tribe, whose wigwams are | py the vibration of the pendulum of the wt JOHN Hay, | “the Island of Tahiti, one of the Society Se ya the ancient Spanish houses. 8; of clock that is running, is communicated to the other pendulum. Each successive im- pulse adds to the swing of the sympathetic pendulum which began in an exceedingly small way at the very first stroke of the ether pendulum, and this goes on till the sympathetic pendulum is making its full tainly, but if it can be done at all the | little toes were blue and red from the cold. jnatt Gee ean nauantl- | and said: “My little lad, why don't you put that tis had bocn ‘used to Rind int hietcwok! | frosen urchin started as if he had suddenly Ble had turned into a mere sort of brass, | *tePDed upon a sharp stone, and, flashing the stuff called “Dutch metal.” He wisely his eyes at the man of millions, who was Islands, is the most fascinating. In that country, a little earth lost in a vast ocean, mature has done everything to make indo- lent souls happy. The climate is temperate a et The Song of the Four Winds. Christian Burke in the Pall Mall Magazine. ~ ‘The winds came riding ont from the North, Asi ctveve trove at thelr icy breath, From the Montreal Trade Bulletin. Several months ago we drew attention to the fact that corn meal finely ground was being mixed with flour to such an extent Relics of Ancient Days. @ stran to him, said, half angrily: “Say, | Stroke. So with the sympathetic tuning “To my mind the most interesting thing fey ont, they one Seg nanel shee: mye eae. he _you Gabe ans terre eames? tan coe. Mace ate wave teak ta aoa aT Ee harmful effects need be apprehended from | | “To my mind the most iiereaing thine 23 = and then broke into a run to warm his | the initial fork strikes the other fork and the use of the mixture, as corn flour is as | im the com yahoo ytee were Aagpperoard A Sly Helper. freezing toes. causes at first a slight ite which ac- —_——_-02—_—- itself upon one on every hand. In The: good chemist had an old and at- ae SEE cumulates, because each | su odes A College Traiaing. ‘Americans and French and highly clv- 7 trikes the thetic fork just at prehistoric times a mighty tached servant, who, to save his. master Soaeasmepesices, Meeps the end of ite awing and works fa harmony | se: tinwes in Z. Ani pattetin. who had gone there for a visit, and have feed people Inhabited Colombia, On my from disappointment, had been 11 St. James’ Gazette. of fork to Pathe become so enraptured with the us in the habit | From with the natural tendency of the stripling, calm and land there are beautifully constructed of purchast: ii It isa tion. Each | Heme from college came:the existence that, like the visitors to lotus pul ing a little gold leaf and slipping | The bouse of Hohengollern possesses a | vibrate. The resu! co-opera ‘cook ‘debonajr, Me down and forget friends, stone roads and the remains of two vil- it secretly into the mess in the crucible! | family talisman. Since the time of the heey plier irae Pingel er ayy trey With a weird, array ot ;}aiment and a wondrous at Sere Sd and everything. I remem. lages of about 600 houses each, where we But the old servant, being called away for | wlector John Cicero, who flourished toward after this law of physics. | wins lagy love of langubt and a healthy hate of | ber how I used to feel the infi find stone beads, pottery and ancient tools @ time, had intrusted his wife with the | the end of the fifteenth century, each ruler ea ORR he upon me. Many from time to time. The water vessels and money to purchase the gold leaf, and in- has, when possttle tefore dissolution, No Patriotism in China. urps are of handsome form, but devoid structed her to put it in the crucible, and | panded to his auczessor a sealed packet. | - of ornamentation, and frequently contain this woman hed used the money for her |phis contains a rirg, in which is set «| #fom the Mlustrated American. wo Sic ing weeny nepagpeEits gee eceangg own drink, buying “Dutch metal” to pop As for the patriotism of the Chinese, if black stone said to have been dropped by in the crucible instead! With the shout a huge toad on the coverlet of a princess of of laughter that this discovery caused to the family just as she had given birth to a ring f throughout core (In which the de- | son. Frederick the Great found the ring sense heartily = also losed mem- joln) the really sctentific attempts at siak. | 12 80, civelope, which also inclosed a mem- 2 ii Fy Hl hr ip if ie ing the thirst for gold by making mixtures | r@ndum. written ty Frederick 1 stating | ¢ port arthur and Wel-Hai-Wel, and the of che Interior ‘their’ Geacendants? “Those ah ead until the presene s2jnave Come to | Scnnetder, the Mbrarian of Willam T, ge: | Southern squadron, composed of fine Arm- exe" the, probleme ‘which T But so recently ag 1628 Mr i, clares that he saw the packet handed by should some day like to solve. of Lilley, a vi iow cllerman | Gelling, the treasurer, to his royal master : “On_elther side of the valley between ¥..9 village between Luton and Hit- = jor, and’ further asserts tha ‘Las Nubes and Sante Marta there are ter- chin, was reputed to have found the great | 0n his accessior, Poe at ‘Then he Ht upoa py like s wagonload of = Scaionns ok on. secret, and he was visited in the year men- he read his account o! talisman to the brick. d 17 he show that a large tioned by Sir Richard a who found | emperor, who fully confirmed it. But ane: youth serefely' nfurmured, as he gripped —_ buildings which in ~ nd naar ring absolutely secluded: locking him- FD “You're a Clever rusher, Guv'nor, but you tackle a mg ey Re traveled "were ‘with old books plled one om anether ee | Pram the Catholic Worl, And Serrated ate wrongh the’ center and he ap Re Be sufficient quantity of dust over all to make | Not infrequently the art student falls in And be scored a goal fouch-down with his county = En Sat oneness ts. thelr aeill sicheniot sneued’ bia vistas that he hag | *tTears for the rent of even his airy perch perpen tee : county, commissioners ‘aa masons and engineers. - indeed discovered how to path iser oc Shei tay om Scars ‘Then a cigarette he Jigbted, as be slowly strolled |iang, have pe gn eg eg Am Insane Chemist. bade tinder coer ob can “soar to the . * 2s of the other metals Asked why he did not do some such publig | °™P?"3”. chs teaettace Eat fs that relating amounts Moe which Sok benefaction, he answered that it was be- | | dlord was keeping a watchful eye on missioners ut