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WORRY'S USELESS BRIDGES. Where is the thrill of last night's fearV Where is the stain of lust week's tear? Where is the tooth that ached lust year? Gone where the lost iiius go to. For lust night's riddle is ull uiude plain. The sunshine laughs nt the long-past rain. And the tooth that ached has lost its That's where our troubles to.

Where are the clothes that we used to wenrV Where are (lie burdens we used to Where is Ihe bald head's curling where the pins disappear to. the style litis changed and the clothes are new. The skies tire wearing brighter hue, The hair doesn't snarl like it used to do, And the parting has grown more clear, too. Where are the bills that our peace distressed? Where is the pin that the baby Where are the doves of lust year's Where have the pins all gone On the old bills paid are new ones thrown. And the baby's at school with her pins outgrown, And the squabs are running a nest of their You can't bring 'em back if you want to.

AVe stand the smart of yesterday. To-day's worse ills we can drive UW.V/; What was and is brings 110 dismay Kor past and present sorrow, But the burdens that make us groan and sweat, The troubles that make us funic and fret. Are the things that haven't happened The pins we'll find to-morrow. Hubert J. Hunlctt.

NEMESIS. 66 1 is easy enough to break off II with a woman. Jack; don't worry so. She will take it hard for a time, but if you l.iust break her hefirt sooner or later, save your own out of the wreck if you can. After all, a woman's heart is hard to break.

It is 'off with the old love and on with the new' with the whole sex, I Uud." "But you don't know the girl, Hen. She Is a blamed sight too good for me. She is one of those sweet, retined girls, whose a flection absorbs her whole soul, nud I know she loves me as few men are ever loved. Every look, word or action tells me it is true. and.

though I feel that I have made a mistake, Ben, 1 cannot tell her so." "Don't tell her a thing. Jack. That Is not the way to manage a woman. Simply disgust her with herself. Stop sending her flowers and knicknacks; don't take her out so much, and when you do, praise up some other woman to her.

And, Jack, don't go over so often; tell lier you are taking up a new study or working nights. She wou'tbelieve you, of course, but that won't matter. engagements and fail to keep them, or go over late, or be seized with a desire to return early. Oh. there are a hundred and one ways lo aid you.

You can tease her a little when she is serious nud be serious when she is gay. In l'act, differ with her much as possible without being antagonistic, and flnil fault and pick to pieces tlit? little arguments she may give in defense. And lie as entertainingly disagreeable as you can without really appearing to be so. 1 will wager that within a mouth you will be as free as air. The girl will shake you.

No woman can stand the pressure. I have tried it, my hoy, and 1 know. My old-time sweetheart, Frances (Jraysou, is now the wife of a far better man than myself, ami the happy mother of a charming boy. Of course she did not name the child for me but I did not expect it." "1 believe 1 will try it, old man. But 1 am fond of the girl in a way, and if you hear of our marriage you can know 1 lost heart." "Cheer up, Jack, my boy," said Ben Mallory, wringing his hand.

"Love is a lottery, and Cupid is a fellow when you know how to manage liiiu." lion Mallory anil Jack Downs had known one another tint month, that short time had developed a linn friendship that only the coiitldonie of youth can instill. They were both strangers in the city and brother lawyers in the same tlrin, which added to their congeniality. Jack was an only child, adored by his parents, while Ben was one of a large family of two marriages, whose place In his home numerous brothers and sisters usurped. He had been reared by a wealthy uncle of no family, with whom lie had lived for years, returning to his own home once a year for a short vacation. For his own people he eared little and seldom spoke of them, not wishing to explain their strained relations.

Yet If Hen Maliory ever truly loved a being on earth lie loved his Kweet little half-sister, Kitty Kempster. She was now at college, and had lately ceased to write to her big, handsome brother as often as was her wont. Hen had not seen since their talk, though lie heard from hint now and then from Ills home, whither In- had gone for a rest. "I am taking your advice," lie wrote, "but the girl bailies tne. I don't know how to take lii and I feel a confound'd brute I've a mind to make a clean It." The next letter said: "Ben.

I am free. After all. lam not happy. I wish 1 had been square with the little girl. She let me down hard.

Mother has set her heart ou my marrying an heiress In town, but of the two the little girl suits me best." "That fellow Is a fool," murmured Ecu, as he uufoldcd a small missive from home. "He loved that girl and didu't know it." Ben smoothed out the paper and read: "Kitty does not seem happy. The child never complains, but she always loved you, aud you might cheer her up a bit. "MOTHER." "Kitty unhappy!" Ben ran his through his sua.glit, black hair and thought hard. "It is some man," he said to himself.

"1 should like to put my two hands about his ugly throat aud choke him, so!" and lie crushed the letter In his strong hands, then threw it from hiui Impatiently. "Yes, I will so and cheer up the little girl. Poor little Kit! She is uot like other girls." Two days later Ben sat In Kitty's Cozy sitting-room, with the bright tirelight shining oil her pale little face, and reflecting the tears Iti her honest gray eyes. Hen drew her down beside him oil a divan. "Tell me about it.

lilt girl," lie said. "There is not much to tell," she whispered, nestling close ill Ills strong, loving arms, as a tired child might do when weary with play. "1 loved him, Hen. O. I did love him so! He was kind and true at tirst, and then he seemed to grow moody and sullen, and often cruel.

I didn't understand at tirst." Ben shuddered as a strange feeling of horror crept into his heart. "Go on. little girl. His voice sounded unsteady. "Sometimes 1 would not see hint for days, and he got so 1 could never depend on 111 in, anil he never kept his word.

He could not kill my love, Ben, though 1 finally tried to hate him. Hut lie spoiled my life and killed my respect for lilin, and now 1 despise him, thoroughly despise him love him still." Hen's face had lost its gentle expression, and with stern set features he stared at the polished door. "What Is his name, and who Is Ills hard voice startled the gill. "Jack Downs. I met him nt college." answered Kitty.

Hen Mallory sank back among the soft cushions, while a look of pitiable remorse crept Into his dark eyes, und the lines in Ills face deepened, as with age. Kitty crossed the room and gently stirred the coals in the open grate. The dying embers threw a shadow light on Hen's dark face as he watched the girl. "May God forgive me," he murmured ltiaudlbly. "I have broken the heart of the only creature ever given me to love.

Frances, you are avenged." St in lor Crushing 100. The great and powerful ice-crushing steamers of the lakes are without exception ear is, they transport whole trains of passengers ami freight ears from one terminal of a railway line to the other, thus controlling an important link where bridges would foe linpraetleafole. These Ice-challenging ferries ply the straits of Mackinac, the Detroit Itlver and across Lake Erie from the America to the Canadian shore. They are ling' steel-shod craft weighing several thousand tons and some of them have cost more than each. Fitted with propellers at either end.

they crumble the Ice by the pressure of their bulk as though its three or four feet were but the thickness of a cardboard. Whatever else is wanting, adventure Is not lacking in the lives of the men who spend the months of snow aboard tiie majestic monsters which are to the lake tracks what the snowplows are to the railroad lines. A few winters since, with a thermometer ranging from 18 to 30 degrees below zero, one of the car ferries was caught In an immense ice field on Lake Erie and floated around for a few months with a great mass of Ice piled mountains high around her. A portion of the crew was, of course, obliged to remain aboard and each day a couple of the men made an attemptnot always go ashore In order to secure provisions and supplies. Ofttlmes tills meant a long, dreary trip across the Ice, and frequently, when a yawning chasm of dark-lined water intervened between the shore and the edge of the Icefield, the foragers were not able to return to their Imprisoned comrades for Intervals of several days.

-Self-Culture. Itccniven a "flower of Hell," K. C. Downey, an attorney of Churubuseo, I who spent many mouths In Central America, lias recently received from a friend in Guatemala one of the most wonderful species of flowers known to mankind. It is called the "rose of hell" and grows only In the vicinity of Antigua, near the crater of the volcano of Fuego.

It Is looked upon by the native Indians with a superstitious dread and Is named the "rose of hell" because it thrives better near the steaming Fuego than away from It. Indians regard the crater of Fuego as the doorway of the infernal reglous and tills flower as being produced by the evil spirits associated with the demons of the sulphurous clliuo where the souls of the sinful all go. The flower is very deadly and when boiled Into a liquid and given to any animal death rapidly follows without palu, as quiet and peaceful as sleep. Science does not record another instance where this wonderful flower Is found except In Guatemala, and the only place it is found In that country is near the doorway of the famous Fuego volcano. Several universities of tills country will send after specimens of the rare flower anil use it for experiments and demonstration to the classes in botany.

Gift of Stationery to Soldiers. A London tirm recently sent packets of stationery us a gift to South African soldiers. Sometimes a man starts out to bo a social lion and ends by making a goose of himself. LOSSES GROW LESS. SOME LESSONS TAUGHT BY THE ANGLO-EOER WAR.

As KffrctiverieHH of Weapons in llattlc Apparently I)e---i-reuse--Com puritum of Cusuullics ill home oft lie World's lire litest Conflicts. The South African war lias some tilings nljout up-to-date lighting machines. Out- important fact brought uut is that, for creating extensive cemeteries anil making bloody history, the old-fashioned lighters, with their old-fashioned shorj-MUge weapons, still hold the championship. Dynamite bombs and lyddite shells, bulletelftiug uiaehincs and long-range smokeless powder guns have not leazed the world's record for carnage an lota. The civilized nations stand aghast at the fall of a few score of officers iu a single light as though it were an unheard of thing and that science had rendered warfare too frightfully gory for it to be tolerated among human beings.

Probably the almost bloodless victories of our navy at Manila Hay and Santiago have led people to look for enormous gains on a of Investment. These were marvelous exceptions. War means lighting, and lighting iu a war worthy of the name means killing on both sides. The effectiveness of the long range weapons used iu the South African war and the mortality which is looked upon by the laymen us something excessive attract the notice of military men who have had actual experience iu war. Under the regime of magazine ritles the battle usually begins at 1,500 or 1,000 yards, and may close down to 1,100 or 1,000 yards.

At the latter range the are Is supposed to be very effective. Artillery Is, of course, effective to break up solid lines of Infantry, but It Is Impossible to make artillery Are effective against troops who are covered behind a height, for Instance, or by the lay of the land or by rock aud trees. Gen. Sickles said receutly that be never had much faith iu the effectiveness of long-range weapons, for once you teach troops that they can send a bullet a utile, it takes away their Intrepidity. Napoleon 111.

demoralized his army by causing the soldiers to think that the long-range breechloadlng chassepot and the mitrailleuse would defeat the enemy. It took all the elan out of them and made them mere ma- chiues. The Germans, who, by the way, also had their breechloadlng, longrange rifle, the needle gun, rushed to close quarters, and the result was disastrous to the French. Civil War Fatalities. Gen.

Nelson A. Miles said, apropos of the subject of modern improved weapons and projectiles in relation to battlefield casualties, "Losses diminish In proportion as uiau-kllling devices progress." This is a fact, as showu hy figures, and Is well known to close stndeuts of warfare. Take, for instance, the Federal attack upon the Confederate stone wall at Fredericksburg in ISO 3, The experience of the Seventh New York (Steuben) regiment In' that charge Is typical. The Seventh went In after other brigades had been repulsed In front of the stoue wall so that it did not receive the tierce outburst of tire, but In twenty minutes. 01 at the outside thirty minutes, out of twenty-live officers In the regiment ten were killed and eight wounded, and out of 450 men 240 were killed and wounded.

All of these casualties came fvom 11 red from the stone wall. This loss iu otllcers killed was never exceeded out once lu the whole civil war. and that was In the case of the Seventh WAR, THEN AND NOW. New Hampshire at the storming of Fort Wagner. In that affair slfven officers of this regiment were killed outright.

In the attack upon the stone wall the Seventh Regiment fought with Hancock's division. This division was brought In as supporting column to the Initial attack. It consisted of eighteen regiments, and there were nineteen regimental commanders shot down and disabled iu one hour. Others were hit, but kept the field. In the brigade of Col.

Caldwell, to which the Seventh Regiment belonged, there were 110 officers present, sixty-two of whom were killed or wounded. Gen. Hancock's division lost 2,020 killed and wounded out of 4,834 paper strength; thnt equals 42 per cent. Caldwell's brigade numbered 1,1187 on paper, and lost 052 killed nnd Is to say, 50 per cent. In a forlorn hope attack upon log breastworks at Petersburg iu 1804 the First Maine heavy artillery carried 832 men In line and lost 032 killed aud wounded in a rush that kept tlieni under fire not to exceed seven minutes.

At Gettysburg, during a crisis, the First Minnesota was called upon to charge a moving line of Confederates and capture Its colors. In order to stagger the assailants, who were marching upon Federal batteries. The Confederates held their fire until the dnrlng Yankees were close tip, and 215 of the Mlnnesotans out of 202 were struck down upon a few square yards of earth, Just at the point of contact. Iu the second battle of Bull Run, 1802, Duryee's zouaves stood up In front of a battery which was belug mobbed by Confederate troops aud left 110 dead companions stretched in regular rows around wheel ruts and trail prints on the spot where the guns had stood. The regiment numbered 470 at the beginning of the fight.

The heaviest losers at the battle of Gettysburg were two opposing Twenty-fourth Michigan and the Twenty-sixth North Carolina. They fought In the first day's battle almost mau for man In the dueling contest which took place In McPherson's woods. At the end of the day nothing remained of either regiment except their flags aud two pitiful squads of battle-grimed soldiers. The Mlchlgaus lost 307 out of 400, and the North Carolinas 088 out of 820. The casualties sustalued by these troops were almost entirely from musketry fire.

Instances might be cited to show that, under certain circumstances, nrtlllery fire was still more deadly during the civil war. It must be taken for granted that such was the case whenever solid bodies of troops mnrched up to the cannou's mouth. In Pickett's charge, when the assaultlug column closed In on the Federal works, the Federal batteries stationed there In some Instances used double charges of canister at ten paces; that means that the assailants who had the courage to march up to the muzzles were swept from the gfouiid by Iron hall. At the battle of Franklin, the slaughter of the Confederate columns upon the ground where the heaviest fighting took place was frightful in the extreme. Much of the execution at that fight was due to cannon fire.

The Confederate army was about 40.000 strong and began the attack on the Federal fortified position at the close of a November day, probably as late as 4:30 p. so that there was not two hours of daylight for fighting. Only one corps of the Confederates actually closed In on the Federal works, and its strength was probably not over 15,000 men. In the bnttle there were 0,000 Confederates killed and wouuded, among them thirteen general officers. The officers who fell were found close to the Federal breastworks, In some cases In tbe ditch, where they had been shot from their horses while attempting to ride over tbe works at the heads of their columns.

The scenes witnessed at the battle of Franklin have seldom been equaled during the century. Since the Franco-Prussian war there has not been a conflict between armies equally equipped until the present. In the battles between Russia and Turkey the Turks had Inferior weapons. Being fanatical lighters, like the dervishes In the Sudan, they were slaughtered by the breechloaders and dynamite shells of the foe. To go back still farther for examples of the execution of wenpous iu warfare, it Is interesting to look at the records of battles In the seventeenth century.

In seven great battles of that era, when the masses carried muskets and pikes, the average of casualties waa 20 so that each man stood but about three chnuces in four of escape. The casualties In the bloodiest battles run as high as 35 per cent. In this class belongs the battle of Lutzen, which proved a victory for the Swedes, but their leader, Gustavus Adolphus, was killed, and one of his reglmeuts lay upon the ground In the order In which the men had stood while lighting. Iu the middle of the eighteenth century the bayonet attached to the musket superseded the pike. There were twentythree great battles fought with smoothbore muskets and bayonets from Fontenoy In 1745 to Waterloo In 1815.

The average of casualties for this period of smoothbore musket and bayonet lighting was about 20 per cent. Losses Decrease. The following fifteen battles eff the muzzle-loading, bayonet period represent the martial natious of the world: 1. Eiluu, Loss, 20 per cent. 2.

Bunker llill, ITTS. Loss, 24 per cent. 3. Stone River (Murfreesboro), 1802. Loss, 23Vi per cent.

4. Marengo, 1800. Loss, 23 per cent. 5. Chicknmauga, 1803.

laiss, 21 per cent. 6. Antietnin, 1802. Loss, 21 per cent. 7.

Leipsic, 1813. Loss. 21 per cent. 8. Gettysburg, 1803.

Loss, 20 per eent. 0. Shiloli, 1802. Loss, 20 per cent. 10.

Lundy's Laue, 1814. Loss, ID per cent. 11. Mars-la-Tour, 1870. Loss, 10 per cent.

12. Waterloo, 1815. Loss, 14 per cent. 13. Woerth, 1870.

Loss, 14 per cent. 14. Solferino, 1850. Loss, 12 per cent. 15.

SnUoxva, 1800. Loss, 12 per cent. The loss In killed nnd wounded at the battle of Ellau Is placed at 40,000 by conservative estimates. Iu the flgures of Gettysburg given iu the table, which are ofHclal, the total Is little short of 30,000. The first battle belongs to the smoothbore aud the second to the rifle barrel era, and the figures show that ns weapons Improve casualties grow less in percentages.

The average was 20 per cent. In the days of the musket and pike, 20 per cent, with the smoothbore and bayonet, about a similar loss with the rltle barrel aud bayonet, nnd In the Franco-Prusslnn war, fought with the breechloadlng rifle, the casualties fell below 10 per cent. A Very Trillion Incident. A clergyman was called upon to perform marriage ceremony for a couple In middle life. "Have you over been married before?" asked tbe clergyman- of the bridegroom.

"No, sir." "Have tbe bride. "Well, yes, 1 have," replied the bride laconically; "but It was twenty years ago, and lie was killed In an accident when we'd beeu married only a week, so it really ain't worth San Francisco Wave. As soon as a mau gets so old he has no more trouble with heart affairs, his liver begins to make him grief. The Individual who climbs to fnms and fortune over the of otiler a must look down ou their Uatrod kaiser lavish with titles. Raising the Lower Nobility, to IHaautinfuctlun of Higher The action of the Emperor William 11.

In Prussia seems to be ly aimed at the creation of a new nobility, Bomewliat in the same way. though uot on the same scale, as was done by Napoleon I. in France. Some sensation was caused by the Kaiser's signalizing the close of the old year (I'r, as lie maintains, the old century) by creating a new dukedom and raising three counts to the rank of prince. This hitherto unprecedented liberality in bestowing the highest titles seems to give umbrage to the older, and especially the mediatized princely families.

Thus, l'riuce von Stolberg-Wernlgerode has sold his palace ill Merlin, l'riuce Pless is offering his for sale, the Duke of I'jcst, the head of the house of llohculohe, has resigned his post of grand chamberlain at court and withdrawn to his Sileslan property, while several of the other princes appear very rarely at court. In which they follow the example of many members of tho sovereign princely houses of the em uire. The preceding emperors were much more chary of bestowing the highest titles. Only two new princely titles were created before William 1., who promoted to that rank during his reign four nobles, including Bismarck; the Emperor Frederick conferred two sueli titles; William 11. has already created seven new princes and two of the latter being again l'riuce Blsuiarck, whose title of l)uke of l.auenburg was, however, not hereditary, and died with him.

Last year Count Minister got his princely title for ills services at the Hague conference, and with the new year Counts Dohna- Sciiloliitteti. Eiilenburg and Knyphauseu were all made princes; and Prince Hatzfeldt creattd Duke of Traehenberg. It is further pointed out as a curious anomaly that all these new princes belong, after Kisinarekst the so-called "lower nobility." as opposed to the members of the "higher nobility." or mediatized families. the descendants of the old sovereign houses of the former Holy Komau empire, among which latter class numerous families, like tiiose of Itentinck. Sol ms, Stolberg, which enjoy no higher title than that of counts.

Yet these are all "ebcnbiirtlg," I. their members aie able to intermarry with any of the European reigning families, from which all these newly made Prussian princes are excluded by laws as of the Medes and Persians. Tlio nightingale's song can bo hoard at a distance of a mile. Thousands of In Germany live literally "on straw," making it up Into blankets, panniers, boxes, knicknacks, hats, bonnets, etc. Professional schools have been founded where the trade Is taught in all its varieties.

Sixteen windows in the dome of the new capitol of Colorado, at Denver, are to have portraits of leading citizens of the State, and the women have suddenly sprung a demand upon the managers that their sex shall be represented lu nt least live of them. Not only in numbers, but also In point of territory, the circulation of the Bible exceedsjill other books. The American Bible Society has printed It lu 300 tongues. Thousands of copies even now nre traveling through the frozen polar regions to people who have not only never heard of the but to whom books are unknown. Why do we have bows on the left side of our hats? lu olden times, when men were much in the open air and lints couldn't be bought for half a dollar, it was the habit to tie a cord around the crown and let the ends fall on the left side, to be grasped on the arising of a squall.

They fell on the left side so they might be grasped by the left hand, the right usually being more usefully engaged. Later on. the ends got to be tied in a bow, and later still, they became useless, yet the bow has remained, and will probably remain till the next deluge, or something of that sort. An attempt to Improve the goat as a milk giver is being made by M. J.

Creptii, of Paris, lie has established a model goat dairy, and lias obtained very satisfactory stock by crossing the best, native goats with the Nubian buck, the latter being vigorous, Indifferent to cold, and hornless. (lout's milk Is richer In caselne and more digestible than cow's milk. In composition it Is more nenrly like the milk of the human mother than any other, and It has the advantage of being comparatively free from risk of Infeetiou, goat being seldom affected with tuberculosis anil other dangerous maladies. The butter, like the cheese, Is found to be remarkably good. Trinity hurcli.

Trinity church in New York City Is reported to bo the wealthiest society in America, the association being credited with ft credit of over 000,000. Of historic connect lon It 19 a (trent object of Interest to sightseers, who find the lofty spire an excellent place from which to view the city ami surroundings. The spire is -S4 feet high and the building Is of Uothlc architecture. The Urst church on the present above the Battery a short built In lUSW. lu 1705 Queen Auue presented the society with a large tract of laud ou Manhattan Island, and great revenue has accrued from this source.

Alexander Hamilton and other noted men burled in tbe graveyard of Trinity, church..