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SIXTEEN PAGES. PAGES 9 l(b 16. BUFFALO, N. SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1894. METRE AND PROSE.

MODERN i METHODS BY SAM WALTER FOSS. right IS34.) A Pure Hirer of Water of know no the voice ftamt River, If vocal or silent be, Where for ever and ever and ever i It flaw to no sea. i More deep than the seas Is that River, More full than their manifold titled, foe ever and ever and ever It flow and abkles. 1 Pure gold is tfce bed of that River fTbe gold of that land la The best), (Where for ever and ever and ever It flows on at rest. 1 Oh, goodly the banks af that river.

Oh, gooddy the fruits that they bear, Where for ever and ever and ever It flows and is fair. For lof on each bank -of that River The Tree of Life life-giving grows, IWfrere for ever and ever ami ever 1 The pure River flows. Christina Q. Rossebti. ural, food, and their existence fortunately T-lfined t( a 7 short period.

Ihw abuse has been carried so fa th'ut Yotk Soety for the Prevention Cruelty to Animals has been obliged to ntprferev and the Buffalo Societ has lately issued notice of its intention to assist the -work. to our Statf laws neglect cornea under the cruelty and the deprivation of proper food is clearly an offense. But the women who support and encourage this, traffic what of them? i Who are they that are pleased to decorate -themselves with, lizards and who in hot baJlroonis with panting, dyin: creatures chained to their furbelows? 1 And whiere are the intelligent, enlightened mothers of the dajgkters who indulge in such hideous, cruel nonsense? Why are they not prompt in suppressing such, exhibitions? Women of wholesome normal tastes judder at such demonstrations and deploAe the fact that the rational and the irra tonal must all be classed under the generic term of woman. The fact that the rich Mrs. Arnold, who built a chapel for the Henry A.

Adams, has been converted tothe Roman Catholic faith, has revived a good deal Of gossip about Mr. Adams himself. Although many doubt that he has seriously endeavored to get back into the Episcopal church, it is said that he is not yet an accepted Catholic. In his retirement in the Isle of Wight he will continue to wtrite on literature and dogma and also tb construct plays as a means of livelihood Many of his friends are wondering whether his strong dogmatic tendency will not lead him into closer relations with the stage, possibly resulting in his permanent adoption of it as a profession. 1 ii Ellen Terry has taken the lead in a novel and interesting form of philanthropy.

In her drawing room is a large basket of cnt wort whinh mntoina nnf! n1Viw1 irni. classics in the East Aurtjra Academy. He returned to Buffalo in-1873 1 and had a priyate class In Williams' Academy, now defunct. In 1883 he waj appointled principal! of Public School Nov 9 in which capacity he has been! successful to a high degrees, i Prof Duschiik 4 leading member of the Buffalo Society o' NatnraT Sciences and for the past 47 yrs has been one of its ofBcers. At the present i time he is librarian.

He Jrefdj numerous scientific essays before, the sotjiely andlother or-ga nidations, many oy jvhichi have been published in the During the past winter he delivered a lecture on "The laces of Mankind vand -Their JDistribu-tiotu" Prot. Duscaak deeply Interested in anthropology br hia" favorite studies arei arch apd comparative philo-logy. He is a member ef the Liberal Clab. i 1 1 IA I Eidrldg jfeaireiis JPtobj i i i Another well-known! scientist and natur alia coTinected with! the Department Public Instruction is Prof. Eldridge Eugene Fib, the i esteemed principal Public School No.

10, oo' Delaware Avenue north of Huron He" was born in Otsego County, New York, in 1829, but was raised on hi father's farml in1 Cortland County. He was educated at Cortland Academy and the famous New York Central College at McCJrawville; This College, which is now; defunct, i was (Gerrit Smjth's Free Soil Institution 6f; learning. He attended school ia the "summertime and during the winter months taught in the country school-houses in, the! neighborhood of his. earlj- home, After graduation he went to liochester where he taught several Twenty-three years ago he came to Buffalo" to accept the I principal-ship of School No. 10, where he has been moist successful.

Prof. -'Fish is a member of i the Society of Natural Sciences and the Field Club. He has read carefully prepared paiers on birds, plants, be- rfore the societies named, also before Farmers Alliance Clubfs, theieajchers Institute and other Many of his best papers have been printed in the; Courier. Outside of school work Mr. Ksh! devotes his leisure time to botany and ornithology.

Hip naturalist's note book for i the past 20 years contains the record of the arrival of the birds, the first, appearance of plants, etel As an instructor, Mr. Fish ranks fright He aiens to -teach the youth en- trusted to his care 4 imethiiig beside arithmetic, He interests the boys and girjs in objects, such as birds, treies, scenery and the lite. During the. summer days he plans little excursion for their benefit and they; are asked to -relate what; they observed on such i Some of Mr. Fish "wet Interesting papers have been published in book form under the.

appropriate title of "The Blessetl Bi-ds, or. Highways and Byways." Some of these papers originally appeared in the Courier. He has material for two additional volumes in the aane series, entitled "Old Homestead" and Excursions" whicdi will be published in due time. Mr. Fish's great love for the feathered visitors is attested in the pref ace to Ibis published work.

He! says: "What I have written of the birds i has been a laljof of; love. Hirnian fioahpandonshipl excepted, these blessed creatureB have ministered to; my, hapjMness in a igreater degree than aiiy other class of obiects. About home they have ever bejin a scJace and a delight. When I have been among human strangers I have found the birds 'old; acqaintances and intimte friends, always so much and exacting so little in return. The continued persecution which they have received from the cruel and unthinking, has been the great sorrow of my kife.

Although in a humble fray, In season and sorhetiimes out )of season have worked and pleaded for a better and wiser treat ment of them, yet Ij ehau ever remain their grateful debtor. If I have written anythin that shall -make them better known and better loved anything that shall cause a woman to hesitate before allowing any part of one to disfigure her garment anything1 thatS ili prevent the DKteent lavish! waste dsKfe by ithe collector of species anything? that will check ithe wholesale destruction of nests by the thoughtless egg colleot I shall feel repaid foJ the labor bestowedj i The present school bonwe in District No; lOj wns erected in IS85 and is in good condition, The ground are handsomely "TT 'KM 'til kept through the efforts of Fish and pupils. There are 13 grade rooan The registration Is about 7Q0 and. the attendance 90 Per cent, of the registration. No.

10j since Prof. Fish's conwnenoement there, has sent about 500 Ph1s to the High them Prof. Frederick A. I Vogt, William II. i Love, Seward A.

Siibcms, John. C. Collins, Williara -L. Mttr-cyj Gharlea P. Norton and other equally ui awwxx k.

rm ldrtdtre F- Fish: w- i i -t well-known. Four former pupils are now in Harvard and several in Cornell. Principal Fish's assistants include Emily W. Fish, Georgia McM aster, Ada i M. Gattea, iLizzie E.

Hersee, Rosetta Close, BeJle Irigi'am, Maria II. Itees, Helen Fisher. Sarah A. Oager, Clara H. Berry, Anna A.

Corcoran, ary A. Cowans, Mary Smith. Maria Graw, Margaret Johnston. Chnrles II. DeSlioii.

ft sThe principal of Public School No. Charles H. DeShon, is well known in educational circles, having been i connected with, the 'local schools for the past 14 years. He is known as a bright, capable aid successful educator, liberal and progressive in his views and methods, a good disciplinarian and a conscientious worker. He was born in York in 185G and was educated at Bates College, Lfewiston.Me.

He was graduated therefrom in 1880 and in September of that year, removed to Buffalo. He immediately took charge of Public School; No. 22, by appointment of Supt, Fox. lie continued toere four years and was then transferred to No. 25.

January 1, 1889, he went to CliMrles II. Be Khon. old No. 7 on South Division Street and when Districts 7 and 11 were consolidated and the new building on Elm Street, north of Eagle Street, known as No. was opened, Mr.

DeShon was placed in charge. The old structure which No. 11 superseded, was erected in 1847. The new- building contain! 16 grade rooms and two recitation rooms, -lit is well-lighted and vrentilated and all the arrangements are modern ana goou. -a The district is one of the most cosmopolitan in th'e city.

There are a great. many boarding houses an the district and the pupils represent many different fotates. The nationalities represented include German. Snamiard. Italian, American, Hnssian, etc.

There are about 50 col ored mioils. The seating capacity is liu. The rewistration last term reached 700 and the average was 514. There are 20 Uiore registered this term, also a High School class of 40 of whidh Prof. DeiShon is the Latin instructor.

The school corps; is as follows: Principal, Charles II. DeShon; Mrs. II. F. Fullerton, Uachael Turner, Mary II.

Gibson. Jennie S. Slayton. Nellie ffollins. Kate Gollan.

Eliza PhillipSjEmma Leonard, Bettie Van Pelt, Anna M. Man-stm, Minnie A. Pitman, Sarah It. Gray, Helen Saville, Aurelia II. Warner, Mary McGwan and Radhel Marks.

AT SHILOH. Sensations of Raw Soldiers in a Hot Engagement. JThe enemy flank us and ere moTing to onr rear; some one calls out, "Everybody for himself The line breaks, I go with the oth-ei-s, back and down the hill, across a sniaii rayiue, and Into theeamp of tihe ilth XIClools daj-alry, with the howling, rushing the enemy, pressing; in close pursuit. When I arose I wis cool os one could expect a raw recruit WauJd be flrt fight; I was partially dazed; and the full frce of the edtuation did not Impress ane the time. As I reached the bottoim of the hill and entered camp of I tih cavalry, the artillery seemed to have a cross fire, and at hort range was sweeping the ground wMh canister.

The enetfny was aotlve, and the musketry fice was awful; the wrriking of tii-' bails on the Sibley tents ocf the cavalry camp gave a sibost, enrting souikL nhtut terrined me. The striking of the shot on ttie ground threw up a little cloud' of dust, and the fallnig men all around me trupres-seuV mei with a desire to get far away. 1 recoJleot that the hair now cotailuienced to rise on the back of my headw aiul wa soon standing straight up, and I tvit sure ttuat a cannon -batM was cioe beihlid me, giving use ohaase as I started for tihe river. In my mind i was1 a race beitiwem tn nJ that cannon baill. For the first nil le I trawled 1 won.

I was never so frightened before, and trust may never be again; I never ran so. fast be fore, and know I never will sgialn. I was niver In such, a svomi of bullets before or sinoe; it eroed as If the trees were- oastkig them. Out of that nre I came alive and unharmed, but It wa a marvel ifhiatt ny txt us tU for an exaimJraaitiotn of tibe field after-wards showed the' ground' plowed with shot, and the smallest twig told of the storm of death that had swept over "'Chaos had come again," and tithe slope was slippery with blood and strewn with the dead. Having escaped from the cannon ball, LI soon found myself In company with a stalwart young JrUihman, belonging to the 15th Iowa, wiio was blackened with oattle smoke, and his gun showed; that be had been in the fight.

I Asked him where be was going. He replied with considerable earnestness, "Back, be Jabersl" He said -there was too much mixing of the gray with the blue at the front for him. (Blue and Gray. Warfare and Insurance Rates. When military or naval officers were, in days gone by, ordered on active service the extra premium demanded by the Insurance offices was a very serious considerations.

As Instances of the sums demanded, Genv Henry Brackenbury had to pay 31 for every itlOO Insured at the owtbreak of the Aehant-ee war, a ad S4r Garnet "VVoJsetey had to pay 25 for every 100. The war risks wr not then based upon any known but iborate ralculaMona have since been gone Into as to the risks of officers from a life in-grance point of viewr, and the boiard of he Grcsham have adopted a st i of pivtndum rAtes within eaBy reach of officers. For instance, to the case of "a whole world and war poltcy," covering risk of climate and Warfare, nicer, oged 30 would pay but 8s. M. pe 100 more than a civilian, and one egd 5 would pay only 3s.

9d. per 100 niore. the latter snsn beiiip due to the probability of his retiring from active service between the ages of 50 and 55, when the special risks incidental, to his profession art ao onrtiv. Worlds Well Gdyerned Schools and Their Principals. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS The Moral, Physical, and Intellectual Welfare of the Pupils Kntrnsted to Capable Instructors Duschalc, Fish, and DeShon.

i Well gov-erned schools are not rare In Buffalo, in fact the great ntajority of the public institutions of learning are capably nianaged. Good governments means proper discipline. According to a weltrknown edur catorj "school discipline should take into account! the physical, the moral and in-tellectual welfare of the ehiklreni In a (well governed school no child will': be required to remain long in the same position or efer be placed in a position prejudicial to health' physical development." Another educator, James F. Crook er, says: "Kindness begets love and -respect, without 'which there is a constant spirit of disconr tenty'lait times reaiclwng a sjririt of insubordination." Three of the best governed sdhaols in Buffalo are Nos. 0, 10 and II, which are governed by Adolf Duschak, ViBtt auu VU11 ICii9 fCUUVU respectively.

if! Aflolf ItascIinW. Prof. Adolf Duschak, principal of Public No. 9, la one of the best ltnown scientists and educators in Buffalo. lie is an assiduous student, a faithful teacher, a thinker and is liberal and progressive.

It is1 not surprisingj therefore, that the school under his charge flourishes like the proverbial green bay tree. The school is situated at the corner of Bailey Avenue and Doat Street, IJut uffalo. The original No. was a school colored children on Vine Streets It was abandoned about' 15 years ago. When Prof Duschak began teaching in thie East Buffalo district in-1883, School No.

9 consisted of a little frame building divided into two apartments. There were 40; pupils and the principal was allowed to have one assistant The district was pparse- Adolph ly settled, the Genesee Street railroad did not extend beyond Fillmore Avenue and the Sycamore Street line was not thought of Since the opening of Walden Avenue the growth of the district has been) The present handsome brick and? stone? school -feuijding was. erected in 1880. It contains nine grade rooms and one room for the instruction of the German class. Next week a- four-room annex will i be onened.

as the main building is over crowded. The madn building is splendidly ventilated, iwell-lighted and in excellent sanitary condition. The annex is a well constructed frame building, equipped i in first-class style, I Last term the registration was 535, this term: it is 73Q, The annual increase in the school population of this district is about 25 to; 30, per cent. The average attendance last week was 530. When the school was first opened there -was a great preponderance of pupils of German parentage.

A great1 many railroad men have moved into the district and now the nationality of the pupils is divided as follows! German 45 per cent; American, '45 per Irish, etc. 10 per cent. TM tff of the school Is as follows. Principal, Adolf Duschnk; as-gtetants, Eujyja- Byrgnrd4 Emma E. Hamilton, Slay O.

Mimter, Maria L. Ileedii Olive Marjraret Et Ga -laxrhlr Ketcham, Katharine F. ffifik EmV S- Taylor, Mary college educatioa was optajnea nis native tow where he received the degree of i Bachelor of: Arts. He then took a twb-vears course in he University of Vienna. He came to ffiffWlB I80T and taught in the Academy for a short time.

For four yea18 following be was teacher of (Copi JHH PETTIGREW'S BIG-HEADED BOY. Jim Fettlgrew's big-headed boy Possessed in his skull cap, 'twas plain, A mammoth large spatter of vital gray matter v-. And a mighty deposit of brain An expansive protuberance of brain. And we thought there was shut In that boy's occiput Pure intellect void of alloy, A generous: sufflctence of general omulseience, In this truly phenomenal boy In Pettlgrew's blg-3ieaded boy. And Pettlgrew's big-headed, boy Strewed wisdom to North and to South, And be poured on us the saints and the caitiffs, His mighty momentum of mouth His preponderating power of mouth.

And we heard the great roar of his onrushlng lore- 5 "-j Such as none but that youth couM employ; And all rushed from under the cataract thunder Of that! learned reverberant boy Of I'etdgrew's big-headed boy. Ted Fullerton's tow-headed kid Was a neighbor that Pettigrew had, And the fellow was dumber than snow birds In summer, i A silent, secretive young lad Taciturn, irresponsive young lad. And we said It was plain he'd an absentee brain -i For his mental machinery was hid. -A great superfluity of mental vacuity Invested this eouunonplace kid Ted Fullerton's tow -headed kid. 1 i i Ted Fullerton's tow-headed kid He always had nothing to say, -And the silence unbroken by Words he had spoken Was audible nine miles away Coherent for three leagues away.

But the tow-headed kid knew a lot, for he thought and he thougtit and he thought, And the things that he thought of he did Put his thought in transaction, bis dream into action, prosy and practical kid-Ted Fullerton's tow-headed kid. Ted Fullerton's tow-headed kid Now sits in a Senator's chair, Ahd comfortably corpulent, easy and opulent Is reckoned a great millionaire v. I A bloated, blase millionaire, I Jim Pettlgrew's lad ia still vocal and glad, And talk his perpetual Joy, They Call him "professor" a flrst-clasa hair A barber Is Fetttgrew's boy-Jim Pettlgrew's big-headed boy. I A DIET REEORMER. He shunned waste and riot, was plain in his diet, "If I eat meat," he said, "I whall die; and keep from my presence that acme and essence of dyspeptic fatality pie.

i -j "No radish nor siices, no sweets and no iocs, to sunder my peptics And I will not eat biscuit, I wouldn't dare to risk i it for the soul that eats biscuits shall "And, no healfTi cnn be good In a land wliere plum pudding Is indiscriminately ate, and deterioration will follow the nation that has too much pie on its plate. "And the man who eats melon is worse than a felon, and the man who eats salad a knave, and. death with his sickle the man who eats pickle will cut dowijt and dump in his grave. "But unless I have blundered PH live to a hupdred," his chums and his croniee he toid. But So scant was his ration he died of starvation when he was but 20 years old.

i i FESTUS PUTNEY'S EUROPE AI WAR. Festus Putney didn't enjoy fcis regular, meals. lie was haunted by vague dread. lie was iovershadowed by. an Im-pendincr fate.

How could he sit down, and, like a selfish glutton, enjoy himself, when at Any moment, while he was despatching a pickle or finishing a pie, war might break out. hx Europe? He used to walk into the nursery where the children were playing and stand there like a cypress tree in ft graveyard. "Children," he would say, "how can you up this thoughtless merriment, this ess hilarity, this foolish sport, when, at any time, we may get the news that war has broken out in Europe?" 1 Last summer he went to a picnic, and while the young1 men and girls were en joying themselves, in a dance npotf the green, and while the fun was at its highest, Festus mounted a bowlder that over looked the scene and said: "I hope, my friends, that yon will tar-miniate this unseemly jollity without i a moment's delay. In such a time as this all snch light diversions are wretchedly out of place. Whilef you are thoughtlessly waltzing the hours away, and tripping heedlessly and carelessly through the mazes of a foolish dance, while you are devoting vourselves to such trifles as thl think of it and tremble war may have-broken out in Europe." I suppose Festus was a tender-hearted soul: but the time his little boy was terri bly sick with the scarlet fever there was a great earthquake in China.

Festus grew haggard and thin as a skeleton. Une lay nis Custis tried to sympa thize with him. "Ah, I suppose this long suspense, Fes tus. is wearing you out," sa.w tne neign- bor. "This lonsr and tireless watching must have worn terribly upon your nervous system." "Indeed it has." replied Festus.

"it is almost more than I can endure. Unay think of it! Over 3.000 people kiEed in that Chinese earthquake. It racks my very soul to contemplate the thing. Yesi it is terrible," replied neighbor Oustis. "but of course, I was not alluding to that" i "Oh.

I know." aid Festus, are al luding to the terrible war that is about to break out in Europe." "Not that said the neighbor. "I was alluding to your little boy'a acarlet V' 0h ah yes," replied Festus; "yes I think I do remember hearing his mother say there was something the matter with him. But I was so anxious about that European war that.lt slipped my mind for a day or two. Do you suppose the war has broken out yet?" iTestus's heartstriniga were so long that they went away around the world and tied ot the under side la a bow-knot The un selfish philanthropy of the man respontjed to suffering in the most distant parts of the world. I can no better llrastrate this magnifl- oeot trait in hi character thou by relating a little lucideut which occurred- in his rv seVusel family a year pr two ago.

nis wife cnmS t'o him in a thoughtless way that women! sometimes have and said: "Festus we have no flour in the housey and our orovisions of all kinds are givea out and our children are hungry. They' are actually prying for food." "How can you come to me," said Festus, "with such trifles as this when you know! th at inv heart la lacerated and torn over? the thought of the terrible famine In How can you annoy me, Priscilla, wlthj these trivial things when many of those' poor Hindoos are actually suffering for lack of And to add to. my; agony, war In Europe may break out at anr moment; Womany leave me to myi grief." i A -J I I suDnose that no man ever lived with! tenderer susceptibilities than Festus. At the time of the great mine disaster in Aus-tralia. it wore upon him so much that he retired to his room to brood over his agony In solitude.

'His whom the reader has discerned before how was a very thoughtless and unfeeling woman, had no more aporeciatiou of her husband's agony than to break in upon the solitude of his grief one day with the cry: "Festus, Festus, come quickly, the; baby has fallen the! welll" "Olujdear tne. Prisciila!" he eaid, "how can yoici persist in Coniihg to me with your childish and foolish trifles, when 700 miners in Australia are buried in the bowe of the Have you none of the finer feelings? Is there no human tenderness in your heart? Oh think of those poor Australian miners-and besjdes at ariy moment we may learn that war has brokec out in Europe," I i A CHILD'S PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY. The man was homely a a satyr, And sthrown together in a clatter. His little girl, surpassing fair Stood, like a grace, beside him there. So fair was she she looked Indeed A lovely flower beside" a weed; But gxunt and gawky-like was he.

As any mortal man inay be. did God make you?" askW hv "He did; my child, God made me." "Did God make me?" sne nsk.d again. Her, father tried to make It plain; "Yes; God," be said, "makes great and small. And God, my child, He nvtde us She then looked in the mirror th And saw her own self' Sweet and fair; Then gazed upon her father's face So lacking in' all rounded grace. "I fink that God has learned hla tmri Much said the little maid, "And.

does a' better Job, don't you. Aiuca oeiier than he used to do?" WATCHES AND CLOCKS. Interesting Facts Concerning (lie BaP anco Wheel and the Pendulum. i i A watch differs from a clock In Ks having a vibrating whec Inshwid. of a vlbraUug pendulnini, and as In a clock gravity Is always the pendulum down to the bottoira of Its arc, which Is Its natural place of but does not fix It tliere, tho nwrneotmn acquired during its fall from one skle oarries it up to an equal height on tue other, so In a watch a pi4nr, gvneraJiy, Burroundlns; tlie axis of the balunce wlh, is always i puiMng this toward a mlddko position of rent, but dovw not fix It the tnomiiMitUTn acquired during its approach to the middle position from either side carries It Just as far pat on Its work train.

iwj vrarr Biro tue spiring cm lo Degln The balance wheel, at ea-l vtiDraftjon, ttUwm one booth Ui adlolnluo tiiuto nasi, as xne imb in dock, and the record of the twMe is prc-sorved by the -wheel whlcb fofllows. A main spring' is used to keep vp the motion of tSie watch iiwtiead of the weight uwed in a clpck; ud as a spring aobj equally wdiBrtefcr. be itm powlUon, a watch keeps time, aipboutrh carried In Wie pocket or In movtUig ship. i In wlndldtg up a wa tch, one turn ami the sxito no wtiich the key fixert to rendered, equivalenit by Hie train of wheels to about four hundred turns or beats of the-balumce wheel, and thus the exertion, during a few seconds the hand wliich winds up, gives innotlon -ftor twenty-four or thirty, hours. (Brooklyn Eagle.

I WILD DUCK SHOOTING. As to. the ltd at ire jlifflcacy of iLarff 1 1 aud Small I believe there Is no longer any oootrovemy as to relaitive hoo-Oiig canacitlc of lartre and maJ3 guns. I can reoil, however, when the ww of, words betnwa chuin-piona of ton aind twelve gauges waxed furious. The superiority of a lairge; weapon was dicinon.trat-el to own smtlstotMioo that tlane the tww of an e'xtrcuoe exaijVIie.

While on a hunting expedition I eatine iu-toss a pothunter who had rim about which he told twtouWhlixg talea The gnu was an eiwht-boijo Qttuzale-loader weighing 1-pounds! The relatnid da-iefly to tJieAi)vlug of wwatba in fhe ranks of w4ier-iwl a rest, for the ii win wa che niot 3iuimios. of pot-huu('rx. Sixteen geese at one dlsitiarce, forty odd eai ait uuotJler, were, I reeaw, among the tlSsgractifuil records so to weak, on the stock of UJ cCdi This did not tnieret flaw. But wfcen 1 was told that it wonkl "kU ure" at 10 yards my cmolty was aroused, aau I determined to put the gun to a legitimate test, tlio owner offering to loan it for that purpose. So I had it carried one morning fo a point over which ducks were flying very so high, indued; that they paid io sAtentJoa to me, thouga I stood In full view, i rludlng ftrwt ttiat my gun failed to rewch the gatite, 1 loaded the cannon with "abovvt a handful of powder, and as niiKih Bitot as you please." acmoixHnit to tJhe owner's no very explit inwtruotfaHm; ami the next pintail taiart acoeanpUvd to pass ovior wt9 brougtit dawn ron jat bekmv the Cloud-line like nvenieion I repeeited the ex perlnnent until I was fully convinced that nothing well within Might was out of ranfro of that gun; then I lugged ttie tiling buck to.

Its owner, thlnkimf of the hosts of wter-fowl It had potUMl and womld Iot od wl-silxlir I were not nxxraCiy bound to return it uninjured (Ilary1 Weekly. ij Hon'ts for: Housekeeper. There should be a book of "DcuXs" to warn people what to avoid In furnishing their bomes. The first should be, dou't buy any thing slmpCy because It is pretty wd beautiful to itself, bat consider It In relation to the pot Where is to be Don't buy heavy large pieces of furnlrnrft for a flat nor for a lutle house. Don't, If you expect to drift from flat to flat afi'cr your summer sojourn, buy fitted carpets tir bedrooin suits of and heavy clialrs aid rockers.

Dou't try to furnitiU a whole house with a few hnwilml drtllars, plctui-e, ornaments, and all. He content to wait tr something. Doii't, If yfnir nueans are limited, try to ptttt your wliole a-tandord of Urtii and having as high os a few choice and ee-raut wedding precints that kltul have given you. Dou't keep the largest am-l sunnieist rmmi of a house for a rcvornioa room nor for a gtiCHt-room for an. omulosial York Evening Tott.

-T v- Ml: et'es nt Home. have enormous Wcep for a nvia.Do you take any exw tihotiM si so. "I take my beJ down every Ucord SUB ROSt Oh. the microbe is a troublesome mite! He roves by day and he prowls by night; He spreads hkriself and he spreads disomy: He prowls by night and he rove by day. Oh, who so agile as he, As he flits in ghoulish glee! Assailing Quailing Folks, entailing Fevers and chills, Doctors and pills, I Where doctors never should be.

During the month of March when Nature subjects her lovers to the severe testa of affection, the disgroiitled ones delight in pannages which interpret their own jgloonuy thokiSrhfcs. They rejoice to learn from Whistler that "Nature's is seldom right," and, from Oscar Wilde that "Nature's chief; ue ia to quotations from the poets." Theret is nothing like a wind, coming after a few days of eurksbine, to embitter the 4ublic mind i.d convert even tlie joyous-hearted into cynics. For two years we have had cold, rainy springs, with chilly weather lasting into June. This year the spriii has started in with a hearty good will, but even the best Jntetvtdoned season 'may fail in the fulfillment of its purposes when its adversary is tihe far-famed Buffalo breeze. Nature is very apt to' be subdued to what it works in and the; problem of making genial weather out of an ice-bound lake presents difficulties.

The sky at sunset offers all those chrottaolirhographie effects which promise warm fair weather for the next dav but the sun is apparently unable to fulfill his contract. Before this conflict is concluded three months will have elapsed! Three months in which the grumbler may grumble about the cold weather before he begins to grumble about the heat! Lectures have been the kemote of the winter. We have listened to speakers on every possible subject. Who Bays that the lecture is declining? Even in busy Wash-iniirton where women mortgage their. time for at least a mouth.

Miss Welch has been flktd to trive a second series of talks on American history. Who shall impeach the public thirst for information? Even if we are not pulling through the deep seas at least we are gamiboling on the shores of iui.uwiL'Ui;e. On Wednesday morning two very inter-Wting essays were read in the Chapel of the Buffalo High School. They were, the successful essays in a competition for prizes of $5 and $4 offered for the best essays on "Reasons for Humane Treatment of Animals," Oyer 200 manuscripts were submitted, and when the awards were made it was found that two yoainj? men were the winners. The entire forenoon was given up to exercises conducted bv the Junior Humane Society which, as nn orra nidation, proved itself equal to the occasion.

The- exercises were enlivened by impromptu speeches from the Rev. Mr. Mott, Mn Ballard, Dr. Greene, Mr. Underbill, and others, and a spirit of pood fellow hio was fostered by Principal Vogt, who bv his tfood humored commentary and wit-tv introduction contributed to the pleasure of the occasion.

The High School quartette gave pleasing' orchestral numibers duri the programme. The gowns worn at Queen's Drawing-Room this year set the styles for the coming sea.son. In velvet the favorite color was royal blue in honor of the Princess of Wales. Young ladies wore tuile trimmed with rnowdroos- that being the favorite incw flower. Emerald green was aLso a color much affected.

Many of these gowns were copied from old pictures. It would be a great service to the public generally and to students in particular, if the Park Commissioners would have labels attached to the ornamental shrubs in the Park, such labels bearing both the botanic and vulgar names. Even the commonest plants should be included, for the general information about trees and shrubs is scant, and to tell an elm from au oak would puzzle many a saunterer in the Park patina. More benches, too, are needed dozens of benches. From the, point where Delaware Avenue turns into Chapin Parkway the benches should be frequent.

There is an admirable place for them there, just between the carriage derive and the bridle path. There is little doubt that (hundreds of people would avail themselves of such Dfivileires and would thoroughly enjoy watching the driving. Just now the greenhouses are stocked with' treasures. Ever since Christmas the florists have had their eyes on Easter, and all their efforts have been directed to-twards flowers for this festival. To compel a plant to blossom at Easter requires skill and patience, but science has circum-j vented nature and now by certain pro-i cesses all the plants sinjr together on the appointed day.

This spring h'as been uncommonly favorably to the plants. There have been days and days of Btinshine and the greenhouses are bulging with beauty. Huge umbrella-topped azaleas, feathery white spirea, and countless lilies are only awaiting the last of the week and a few warm days to take possession of the sidewalks and convert the desert into a garden. It is a wonder that the pretty Easter custom, which is observed in St. Angus- tine's Church in Wa'shSngton, does not come into general vojrue.

There the chancel is flanked by rising racks and these racks filled with plotted plants, each member sending one plant. There are few that are too poor to make this contribution, anl interests the entire congregation -in I the work of decoration. Afterwards tihe plants are distributed among the hospitals i What a cxknmentary on woman is the fact that it is necessary to resort to legal measures to prevent women from wearing chameleons, i JCVery year thousands "of these little creatures are shipped fo the Nortfr to be sold as playthlUgS." Slender trains are iHacbed, to them and they are' fastened to the dress and allowed to crawl at will oref the shoulders and neck of the fair proprietor. In New York they were even' seen in the ball-room, and it as said that, 1 it was no uncommon thing for them to die upon the sleeve of a fashionable ball dress. In their exile and confinement tley are deprived of their nat menta for the poor.

"Visitors are prompUyJ lnirou'icea to uus oasitet, ana insteaa or sitting idle dnrinir the brief chflt- thev nrt invited to lend a hand. In tliis tremendous amount of work Is rtccoih-nlished dnrinir the vear. The idea in A srtntkl- one and commends itself to ilftt women who drop in for half-hour cyats with their friends. The simple sewing is really an Accompaniment to the conversation which often is stimulated by some: oceii- Lpation for the hands. vj; A new woolen gown for spring is of light gray goods.

The revers are of white moire edged with jet. The soft vest is pf white crepe de chine. Black watered silk remains the favorite trimming for sprint; dresses. Japanese crepe is a new material. All creoed materials are tx be fashionable this spring.

I Heliotrope cloth trimmed with, white Co be worn. Haas, the tailor, says that suits of dark linen and Will be used for street dresses during the 'Coming summer. One of the new hats is called the Wat-tean. White will be used as trimming on most of the new spring costumes. i 1 The eloquent wife of the Commander has gone back to her nursery.

Concert Hall has ceased to echo to the jingle of the tambourine: and the war drum throbs no longer in the avenues up town But, though these outward signs of gSorious conflict have disappeared, let no one irii-aarine that the Salvation Army- is in full retreat, or even that it Is renting- Sometimes there is the hottest fighting; where there are fewest flapps and least' music, and much of the fire of the Salvation Army, effective as it is, is noiseless as well fts smokeless. No former rally oft the' forces in Buffalo ever excited so much interest as this. Every meeting which Mrs. Booth addressed was a crow'ded i nieei-ing, comiKwed of all sorts and conditions f. men and women.

If. the Army-was any jther army if it rejected the: morally lame. halt, and blind as the States Army rejects would-be 'recruits who are thus imperfect physically there; would soon, be no Salvation Army It could never have been organised -on a scheme of selection of the fittest. The most unpromising recruit often makes the most heroio soldier in the Army's ranks. Many who have (heretofore looked upon the operations of the Salvation Array' with indifference or contempt if.

they attended any of the recent meetings, regard the Army hereafter with respect, and lend their sympathy to its cause and its work. work. i AS TO VOCABULARY. Discussing the Number of Words Used ty the Untutored and the Educated. How many words are included in the vocabulary of ordinary Max Muller thinks a farm laborer would not have more than 300 words in- actual use, and the same writer declares I that well-educated man, who has been the university, and who reads the Bibfe, Shakespeare, and the daily papers, together with circulating library books, seldom uses more than three or four hundred words In actual conversation.

A contributor to CaiselFs Saturday Journal has Ueen at considerable pains to cheek these theories, and the conclusion he arrives at th'ut the figures are too small. Farm hands, he finds, are able to name all tfie common objects of the farm, and to do this involves the use of move than the entire number of 300 wrords allowed to them. Then, by going through a dictionary, and excluding compound words,) or wrords not in pretty constant use, he found that there were under the letter alone 1,018 words that are to be found ordinary people's It would be nearer the truth, we are old, to say that the agricultural laborer uses 1,500 word, and knows or can guess the meaning of 1,500 more, and that intelligent farm hands and artisans command 4,000 words, while educated epople have at call from to 10,000. Journalists are credited wiih (London Daily News. How the Imaffinatlon Is Afected.

Mr. Lowell, writing on "The Iiiiaglnatkn" In a paper now first published tai 1 the Century, says: "At least there can be no doubt thia.t meter, by Wseystematil aiwt regular ocourrence, gradually subjugates and tunes the senses of the hearer, as the -wood of violin arranges Itself in sympathy with the vibration oif the strings, ond thus thalt predisposition to the ixer imotton is accom plished which is essential to the purpose of the poet, xou must nort twiiy expeci, oux you must expect i-a tthe rtjrht way; you must be magnetized beforehand In every fiter by your own sensibility in order tfoat yru mcay feel what and how you ought. The reception of whatever is Ideally represented demands as a preliminary exalted, of, if not that, then an excited, frame of mind. Both in poet and hearer ti Imagination must be sensitized ere It will take the Impression) of those airy nothings wboe image 1 traced and fixed by appfctaijCes delicate as tne goiden pencils of the The Vanderbiltfl In the Orient. It is reported from India that the Htf-Hin vHcht.

the Vallniit. at tracted the greatest curiosity and fntereei in evry port wuicu uv Mwit iiir-tatlons to Inspect her ere eagerly sought by rrvnli and and vet magiiincei liicently equipped had $ver been leen In Indian waters befvre. And Jt is hi stared at and followed by a Jt i eaM that in one village where the pariy toDned the children fled in tfrrof ilio irtiinat there was somthlng supernatural about thein. and tht they were ds I I.