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C., TH URSDAY, APRIL 27, 1882.No 17TE SCAH ^"J-. SPINNING SONG. Come hither, happy birds, With warbling woo me, TiM songs that have no words Melt through and through me! Come, bees,that drop and rise Within the clover, Where yellow butterflies Go glancing over! And lillies, shining Oh roses red and white, LIke gilded goblets bright With silver lining; Each to my window send Gifts worth the winning, To cheer me as 1 bend Above my spinning, O ripples on the sand, That break in beauty; O pines, that stifly stand Like guards on duty; Green meadows where, this morn, The scythes were mowing; Soft slopes, where o'er the corn The wind is blowing; White clouds above the hill That sail together; Rich summer scents, that fill This summer weather; All bring the sweets you've found Since morn's beginning,! And come and crowd them round My day of spinning! -11TH 1RI'IN'S LEG1 YS -0 MONEOE H. ROsENFELD. 'Faith !' exclaimed Mand, her sister, 'I always thought Aunt Hester was rich ! Here are noth ing but a few gimeracks and rel. ics, extremely extrinsic and an cient !' She curled her mouth disdain fully. 'There is absolutely noth. iig desirable among them all, excepting perhaps this casket and brooch and the old family dia moods. The two former belong to you. my. dear, and the latter have been kindly bestowed upon your humble servant, or, in the words of our dear and lamented kindred, etc., 'to Maud, elde: of my two wortby nieces.'' She approached her sister with the brooch in' hand and proceeded to fasten it on her. 'Nay, nay, I eould rot wear it But I shall ever treasure it as a dear gift and keepsake,' said Faith, laying it away tenderly. Then tbe two girls proceeded to --read the fartber disposition of the will. -There were shawis, Indian and Persian, antique books, water color paintings of rare art and beauty, silks, linens, laces, etc., and-a Bible ! And, strange enough, there was an emphasized clause relating to this book. Af ter detailing various other articles to the two heiresses, the will con eluded with these words: : 'The old family Bible, a legacy * and sacred relic of generations, I ' bequeath to the one of my oe loved nieces who shall road it the most industriously, and love it the most fervently; hoping that, therefore, it wil! have no individ ual. possess'or, but be shared with mutual ownership.' What a great, darling old tome,' cried Faith, as Harry Rose, her affianced husban d, placed thbe important volume in her hands. 'Perhaps its very dimensions ac ~jcounts for our aunt's infinite area r1 of benevolence,' observed Maud. J~udging from her earthly residue her beneficence must have been astoundingly great, especially to eown kith and kin,' she added, sarcastically. 'Fie, fie, sister, ho~w can you speak so ungratefully ?' -These banubles,' con tinueod Maud, apparently unheeding the re proach and poininug to the dia monds, 'constitute, tben, the nu cleus of our worthy kindred's specific wealth! ingratitude's not 1, but when I expend a year's in. come on the resetting of these an tique ornaments, gratitude, I fear, will be sadly marred by the it~em of dollars and cents ?' Pausing, she went on : 'As for the much-envied Bible, since your aunt has made such minute stipulations as to its fu tore career, I resign all claim of t to you, trusting you may ween m its pages a lik.e magnanimity earL as that of its quondam Swhich Miss Mand IrviL stalked haughtily from the room. 'I am glad, then, this is not the bone of contention,' said Faith, reverently carrying the book to her lips. 'But it seems strange, that, whereas every other article of virtu is specified, no direct heir to it was named in the will,' re marked Harry. 'Auntie had such strange no tions-eccentricity, they call it. I suppose that explains her appa rent poverty, which Maud so un justly censures.' 'Perhaps.' He was toying with the pages of the book as he spoke, when his eye suddenly caught the fly-leaf. Yellow and faded, yet distinctly visible, were registered a line of names dating back to the age of a century, and beneath of more re cent date the following: 'I feel that a day will soon come when I must part with this, my dearest friend on earth. Through out life this precious volume has been my sweetest ;omfort. Cer tain beautiful passages therein have inspired me to make occa sional note on the margin of ita pages bringing to mind dear and familiar text of my childhood. I entreat ye, my beloved nieces, to read these carefully, for every hour spent with God reaps a har vest of gain, and in this godly book are hidden treasures dear to the hearts of mortal. HESTER HARDIN PRYMM.' Boston, 1874. 'Eccentric, surely, but you will do so, Faith ?' '1 will. indeed.' * * * * * .. The dreary :.utt:nn and the snow-robed winter days sped by, and once more beauteous spring burst forth in all her glory. And during all the long, weary months, Faith had kept her cov enant, studying the leaves of her sacred legacy with patience a:.d fervor. Indeed, she had become so attulhed to the old book that the readini of it was to her now a sweet delight. One lovely morning she sat reading a cbapter of the Proverbs. Thus far had she advanced since the memorable day of the will, ever and anon reading with in terest the notes she occasionally came acr"ss. The chapter before her was the twenty-first, but she had come to an abrupt pause at the twenty first verse: 'He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righiteousness and honor,' for on the left blank of the page were- added and underlined. these strange words : 'and riches. See within the cover of this Bible !' At first Faith could not clearly comprehend Lhe import of these strange words. Mechanically she turned to the lid of the book. A sudden faintness came over the girl, as the mystery slowly began unraveling itself. Pale, yet calm, she proceeded to look about the swollen cover for an opening, when suddenly her eyes fell upon a worn lap, care fully doubled and fastened down over the binding. With beating heart she took a tiny knife and began loosening the spreading that held it firm. Once, twice, tbrice she uplifted the creased fold, then turned back the limp cover. There, tremblingly, the eyes of the bewildered girl beheld a mass of papers stitched to the side of' the book, each sheet revealhng as she took it from its place, a $1,000 U. S. government bond, stamped and dated, ,with its bunch of' glittering coupons, drawing the national interest from the time it was issued ! And as the last gol den paper was drawn forth, Faith, dazed and bewildered, counted them; and there they were-ten of' them! Ten thousand of dollars, bearing their interest for six years ! And as she placed the last bond upon the heap, she saw written on its back these words: 'RespiceI finem!' .Look to the end,' muttered Faith ; 'can it be'-then a lig'ht broke unto her, and, awed and - .-uim in., she inrned to thbe rear cover of the book, and there, likewise, fast to its sides, was a document, a deed of valuable es tate-the large domain of her deceased aunt-the bulk of Aunt Hester's mysteriously-hidden for tune! How the girl's heart throbbed with joy and gratitude! A thou sand visigns sprang up before her, framing themselves into air cas tles, faltering, then vanishing and drifting silently afar, as they came. ,What boundless wealth !' she whispered to herself, hardly dar ing to trust her senses for fear the reality would vanish into dream. 'is it a dream ?' But no! it could not be-there it was, the clustered harvest be fore her, unchangeable still, and real. * * * * * * Out, out into the street hastened the happy girl, into the din and bustle, past the great warehouses that loomed up giant:like in the distance, picking her way through the traffic about her, down one avenue, then another, until foot sore and weary she reached the outskirts of the city. At the ter minus of a road, before a poor looking cottage that bespoke the poverty of its inhabitant, Faith paused. Iere dwelt her sister the once beautiful and proud Mand-friendless, and forsaken by every one except -the trusty little sister. Fate had strewn her path with the thorns of misfortune. Faith entered and found her list. lessly gazing out of the small win dow that fronted the barren fields beyond. 'Maud-Maud ! You shall be bappy again-:--yoa rre rich here take it ! It is yours ' And in another moment Faith had thrown herself and her precious burden about her sister's neck, and was weeping tears of joy. Theu she told her how the dear old Bible had proven faithful, how its pages had brought her heaven ly riches and worldly wealth. And Maud listenea, in silence, of the wondrous book that had hid den in it the 'bp,rvest of gain,' and Aunt Hester's 'hidden treas are so dear to the hearts of mor tals.' * * * * * * In the beautiful home of ad vanced thought lives F'aith and her husband. With them, contented and happy, dwells Maud, their sister, for she never could be brought to accept aught of that harvest which her sister alone had reaped and won. Their home is one of splendor and elegance; yet, conspicuous above all its luxury, upon a sim pie stand lies a simple old book, its leathern back golden-lettered with three simple words: 'Faith Irwin's Legacy.' FOR THE HEEALD. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLAN Y The elemenL eaesium has been secured in an isolated condition by a German chemist, Herr Set terberg. it is found to be a sil very.white metal, resembling so dium and potassium in general behavior. Caesium had hitherto resisted all efforts to separate it from its combination with oxygen. According to Mr. P. .L. Sclater, F. .R. S., the term lipotype, which is comparatively new to science, is employed to indicate animals which we should naturally expect to meet but do not find in certain parts of the earth. For instance, Ausraliain lipotypes are monkeys, vultures and woodpeckers. Prof. Dufour has presented a new and interesting proof that tbe e-arth sa round. The images of diatanit obijects reflcted in: the Lake of Geneva in calm weatber show just the degree of distortion which a careful mathematical cal culation would predict on account of the shape of the earth. Mr. W. H. Preece,' F. R. S., states that the explosion of a ean non can be heard to a distance of twenty to twenty five miles ; and instances are known where the bmbrdment of a town has been heard at a distance of one hun- A dred miles. It is very well known, he thinks, that the roar of the guns at Waterloo was heard on the Ebglisb coast, more than one hundred miles from the battle field. C The vineyards of Russian Turki stan are being destroyed by a parasitic fungus known as cry- P siple. ti The sand of the Sahara desert is sometimes heated to a tem-k perature of 200 degrees Fahren- 0 heit by the vertical rays of the sun. This gives rise to a scorch- tc ing wind-the dreaded Simoon_ d which is rendered still more terri ble by the burning particles of. sand it carries along. In 1813, b Burkb'trt recorded 122 degrees in is the shade daring, the prevalence st of this pestilential blast. p The ventilation of the great Al pine tunnels under Mont Cenis h and the St. Gothard so as to free 10 them quickly from the smoke of f trains has been a work of much w difficulty. It has been proposed P to create a current of air by the u keeping of large fires at one end, e but the expense has been found P' excessive. A French engineer, ? M. Pressel, suggests that the same m object may be attained by cooling of the air at some point in the tun nel by water, which would give I the difference in density of the 4t mosphere necessary to cause a draught. Cool mountain streams P' are numerous in the Alps, and t could be readily applied to the purpose. l Y The sale of 300 telescopes in d( France .during the two years end ing last October is cited by M. Hg se Gamile Flammarion as showing to some extent the remarkablegrowth of astronomical taste in that coun try. The demand for I. Fim- ri lurion's books is, however, a more striking proof, two of them having quickly reached an aggro- CI gate circulation of 88,000 copies, while a third has lately appeared ag in its thii tieth edition. y< The librarian of the Alessan- fr drina Library at Rome, Prof. De th Maes. claims to have evidence that Is a great Egyptian obelisk is buried in the vicinity of the Piazzi di m San Luigi di Francesm, near the bf side entrance to the Senate. lil The ground in the Jura moun tains is in a state of movement, as is shown by some curious obser- 01 vations pointed out by M. Girar.. dot. Villages that were invisible li, 1.0 each other at the beginning of tb the century, or even thirty or cc forty years ago, are now visible. ol First the roofs appeared, and then b< the upper part of the walls. Such 'e is the case with the villages of m Doucier and Marigny, near Lake di Chalain. Importatnt changes bave bi been noted even witbin ten years. se Sixty per cent, of the miechan- w ical energy converted into elec- cc tricity and applied to a Faure gI storage battery has been recon- tt verted into work on discharging w the battery. in The story is told of the famous at German scientist, Alexander von bi Humboldt, that, being engaged in ti experiments with Gay Lussac in at Paris and needing a large num ber of glass tubes on which a very 37 heavy duty was imposed, he in-. str'ucted the manufacturers to fa seal the ends of the tubes and Ia bel them 'German air.' The airb of Germany was not op the list of e duty paying articles-and the i tubes duly passed the customs officers without any demand. The desirability ot connecting?a lightning conductors with gas and water mains has been recognized . by the Saxon Government, whbich has issued instructions as to the best methods of~ making the con-'I nections'.b Assays of several hunidre~d mil u lion doliars' worth of the nive iV gold of California hIave shown an b average proportion of 880 Lhou- Io sandths of pure metal. The gold s of Australia gives an average ofw, 960 thousandths. bi In the initials of Guiteau, C. J, fi: G., the, successive stages of a o1 criminal's career are readily Ibi traced. First the Crime, second n Jnsice t.hird Gallows. e MEAT ANDBREADSERMON FOR IMPROVIDENT FAR MERS. BY UNCLE REMUS. iildren have you any meat?-John,-, chap.-. V. I once heard an old minister reach a funeral sermon from this xt, and he said that it could be und somewhere in John. I don't now whether he told the ruth not, but for the purposes of is sermon, I will be rash enough take it for. granted that be d. Before proceeding to unveil the ysteries and to elaborate the auties of my text in all their tricate ramification, I feel con rained to say that I suspect our culiar brother misapprehended e meaning of the language, as stood in the midst of the weep. g relatives of the defunct whose neral he was preaching, and, ith his eyes turned skyward, 'opounded that searching inquiry iless, peradventure, he hid fail l in obtaining his matutinal re Lst, in which event it was but Ltural that he shoqld have been ore thoughtful of the comforts his craving stomach, than of e bereaved hearts of his hearers. am not preaching a funeral ser on my beloved, but verily I say ito you, that a failure to give oper beed to the teachings of is beautiful text, will be a pub invitation to the funeral of >ur fortunes, your farms and >ur country, and you will wan r through the land, like the lean d melancholy ghosts that chas z along the river Styx without e cash to pay their ferriage, and >ur voices will be heard like the ices of the Hebrews by the vers of Babylon, howling to cry passing breeze, [ILDREN, HAVE YOU ANY MEAT? Awake, therefore, ye 'slothful riculturists, awake and lend me >ur ears, while I elucidate and actify the everlasting truths at corrusticate along the ever sting crests of my text. I propose, then, to consider the eaning of the words in this autiful passage, in a two fold bt: I-INDIVID'JALLY. I would remark that there are ly two words in the text which deem it necessary to individua e and catch the true ring of, as e miser catcheth the ring of his in before he drops it into his d sock and hides it under the arth, and those two words are ildren' and 'meat.' I opine ; y beloved, that the word chil en in the text has a much oader signification than that gment of the human family ich the old women of the untry spank with impunity, and ory in the blessed consciousness at they can do it again if they ant to. 1 am persuaded that the full amplitude of its height d depth, its length and eadth, it includes every na re born American citizen, white d black, blue, yellow and ay, male and female, old and ung, together with all the rest man and ~woman kind on the ce of this time-bound earth, and do not think, therefore, my nighted friends, that I would be retching my imagination too far I were to venture the assertion at it includes even you. The word 'meat' meaneth not one the aggregated globules hich formeth the fleshy por >ns of the corporeal tabernacles whbich the spiritual essences of e beasts of the field, the fowls the air, and the fish of the deep ve and move and have their ing,' but to et'ery eatable thing der 'the suni whbich the tongue mar bankereth after, or which ideth bene-ath the broad bosom his abdominal ocean, for it is id 'his meat was locusts and ild honey.' I say, therefore, my ethren, that meat here means ittles,' whether it be 'chicken tens' or 'flour doin's,' ham bones corn dodgers, pickle pork or led cabbage, and I challenge the iversal creation to refute the II-COLLECTIVELY. I Having eliminated the true doe. a trine involved in the words chil- n dren and meat, it is easy to arrive at the collective meaning of the t whole passage, and instead of saying children, have you any Y meat, we may express the same sentiment in the more artistic and S poetical paraphrase, h 0! FARMER, HAST THOU ANY 'VIT TLES?' 'Aye, there's the rub.' Hast thou the wherewithal-not to d gorge thy everlasting somach at the next meal-but to feed thy self and thy family, thine ox and thine ass, thy hogs and thy cattle, e even unto the. sheep that browse a upon thy pastures, and the gobler T that struts in thy barn-yard, until another crop shall come in the fulness of time. O ! my brethren, if I could convert myself into an angel and soar with the speed of h thought throughout the length h and breadth of this Southern clime, and pausing at every door. L step, exclaim in 'thoughts that breathe and words that bgru,' a FARMER, HAST THOU ANY 'VITTLES ?' a How many in this congrega- t< tion could rise up and, shaking o the dew drops from their shaggy tl manes, answer proudly, g 'YEA, 'AT:ER, I HAVE..' Weeping, I pause for a reply. eI Oh ! my brethren, 'ma6y are called s but few are chosen, and your b hang-dog looks proclaim with trumpet tongues that most of you i are in the vocative. Then wo c unto you, foolish farmers, for veri. ly you are laying up for your. b selves hunger against the day of In hunger. Wo unto you I say, for 0 the folly of the foolish- virgins C that trimmed not their lamps was tl wisdom compared with your idiotic 'a neglect. Wo .unto you and unto b your wives; wo unto your flocks a and unto your children. Wo! wo! wo ! Alas! echo answers wo! I Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is o vanity. The son of David, king ti in Jerusalem, must have invented jc that idea on a full stomach, where- r, by his reason was clouded, for the doctrine which he there pro pounds is not altogether correct. A myriad of voices spring spon. u taneously from the universal :tni- a mated creation, and uniting in one w grand choral strain, proclaim in w tones of thunder that 'vittlee' is not vanity, and I feel sure my tc brethren, that yon will all take na stock with me in that .beautiful si and pathetic sentiment, Give me "vittles" or give me death. el It has been beautifully said ti that bread is the staff of life. I1 si can vouch for the truth of this remark with painful rervor, for p1 verily I say unto you that, in my tI meanderings through these low it grounds of sin and sorrow, it hath often happened that that portion et of my earthly tabernacle, which is sI gracefully encircled with the t waistband of miy breeches, bath gi travailed for 'vittles,' and as the ass brayeth for his provender, qT even so have I been forced to cry t1 unto the children of Mamimon in ai the language of my text, CHILDREN, HAVE YOU ANY MEAT? P If, therefore, ye raise not the 'vittles,' how can ye have the staff, and if ye have not the staff how can ye support the life, and if ye support not the life, what in the thunder is to be come of the country and the g preachers ? 1 will tell you. my agrarian brethren, what will be. come of you. You will sit, like the prodigal son among the swine and dolefully sing, d I want but "vittles" here below, n And want that "vittles" quick, t Or I shall wipe my weeping eyes And the bucket soonly kick. 'No we won't,' some chuckle headed brother will say, 'we will d arise and go unto our merchant n' and buy the fatted calf on tick.' But what if the merchant should say a '0, foolish and impecunious gen eration, ye seeketh after tick, but no tick shall be given you, save the tick'"of the prophet Jonah.' You know, my brethren, he tried to obey the Lord on tick, and the consequen-ce was that he in got dn.ked - in the -sea and swal. r )wed by a whale, and walloped round generally in a way that iade him 'git up and git.' Just - ) will you get soused in a sea of f rouble, swallowed by a whale of st ebt, and walloped about until t on look meaner than the sneak ig 'yaller' dog that Adam found hE linking around his kitchen, and t as slunk around the universal r reation ever since. th 0, misguided brethren, are you * >ntent to sit, like a legion of di azaruses, at your merchants' wl oors, and feed on the crumbs be th on can beg from their bounty? t an you stand up like men and in el that you are free born Ameri- al tn citizens as long as you whine tw ter others for your 'vittles?' cb hen rise, rise ye slothful far- fo ers, from the bog holes of credit, ra oar aloft on the blessed conscious- 6 3ss of having raised your 'vittles,' ha d 'year after year you will rise wi igher and higher and when yoar up Des shall reach the sere and yel- lot w leaf,' you will perch on the pin- M acle of independence, and, plant- tri g the point ofyonr thumb on.the an pex of your nose, you will be at Dle to twiat your -fingers in con- an mptuous defiance at the hordes b? E Shylocks who lie in wait for hi ie unwary farmer, trying to s obble up all he makes by furnish- to ig him 'vittles I' And when the * aterpillar, like the angel of death, ea iall spread his wings on the se last, and sweeping from cotton ti eld to cotton field, shall gather ei to his capacious stomach the 1 op of the South, then rising ha om his feast, like an eagle with b oody talons, shall startle the t nd with his exultant screams It fid ILDaEN, Wi.ERE'S YOUR 'VITTLEs?' . Wl ien you will be able to. smile , rith a smile that is child-like and ob and,' and shout back the defiant as iswer: - 'I got you that time old fellow, co raised 'em myself.' na Then, from every hill-top and it of every valley, ten thousand mes ten thousand 'sperrits of st men made perfect,' will-kick in p their heels and shout as BULLY FOR YOU. th SIGNS THAT NEAER FArL.-Solo on said, many centuriesa ago: 'Even co child is known by his doings, of ether his work be pure and tal hether it.be right.' foi When I see a little boy slow to g o st school and glad of every excuse to seC glect his books, I'think it is a fo en that he will be a dunce. pil When I see a boy in haste to spend anf ery penny as soon as he gets it, I D3 ink it is a sign that he will be a br end-thrift. no When I see a boy h3arding up his tit onies and unwilling to part with pit emi for any good purpose, I think i is a sign that he will be a miser. ge When I see a boy or- girl looking in Lt for 'number one,' and disliking to an are good things with others, I an ink it is a sign that the child will to ow up selfish. dr When I see boys and girls often sti arreling, I think it is a sign that it. ey will be violent and hateful men d women. When I see a child obedient to his a an rents, I think it is a sign of great tare blessing from Almighty God. (Kind Words. ~ ____________________fos At a Lowell tea table, the other "~ ening, grandma asked for 'one of fal ose cakes.' They were passed, and ne e broke one open with the dis. as isted exclamation, 'Why, Sarah, an th are cream cakes. .,__ ey When you see a lot of old sol- va ers smoking around a stove you a : ay be sure that there are piping th nes of peace. ge To the generous mind the heaviest ne ebt is that of gratitude, when it is >t in our power to repay it. Dark clouds roll up and obscure the w to, but we know that there is light re >ove the clouds. . A man's own good breeding is te best security against other peo- i, le's ill manners. Learn to say no'! and it will beeof tore use to you than to be able to a ~ad Tatin.i A LIVELY CRITICIS _ The following musical- '.:-' am an Aurora (I11.) paper is full of rong contemporaneou~ human in-= rest: 'The Kellogg concert, as' migt Tre been anticipated, was largelyM aded. The dollar freeze-outr-:as ther rough on the hoodlaais=bu ~ e audience managed to exist with t the customary war-whoops. -T. vine Louise was as resonant as iich, by the way, she ought to ing well-seasoned. The editoro _ is paper makesi no great pretensina the of musical criticism, -but:wlea ;enuine $600 grand spiral subean&t ist, :back -action, self-adjas ronometer- balanced, full--jeweled irth-proof, rip-snorting congome ion comes to town he proposed ; mp himself. Kellogg's diaphrs' s evidently not, like wine, improved th old age. Her upper registei -stairs near the skylight, while.the rer register is closed for repairsiei >resaid Kellogg performedher gNu~Z ple act of singing, rolling theeyes d talking to someone in thetwi the same time. Her smiles=at ti dience were calm, but determined ,t her smiles at the 'feller' hid.he-' ad the scenes were divine.-. er igiug, when she condescede pay any ,attention to thesudil-. ce, to our critical ear (the other,> r being carefully- folded.p, amed to be a blending.of the forK simo crescendo dam-fi-no-:-or care her. Her costume was a harmon-. is blending of -the circus-ten .. Iloon style, and was very gorr: y rring a tendency to;spillaeoae ' e contents out at the.-top.1TE ilian part of the business ms-i. gety and. furious as nsnall' su4 moustrated what early associations . th the hand-organ and monkey 11 accomplish. The- venerable.sod ese freak of nature, Brignoli W :' graceful as usuaL" Hisappeeao-. ry nearly resembles a" stovejia rner grocery, or a.water.alraon t rrow-gauge railroad. He.N* Uo Ily appreciated until ,he to ned off the stage. He. then app"are his best advantage, and to -take an terest in getting out-of.sightaeoo possible, an effort in which bei e hearty sympathy of the-audiencer INFERIORITY OF MAN.-- 1185s nelusive evidence of the inferiori the sterner sex : A womcan_ wi L re the smallest drawer in.a bureai her own private use, aii twl >re in it dainty fragments of ribon, raps of lace, rufiles, velvet, things , the neck, bundles of old love-Teitera, aces of jewelry, handkerchiefs&ans, -" d things that no man k'noirs the ,' me of; all sorts of fresh-looking, ight little articles that you~ oilk t catalogue in a column, and at any me she can go to that drawer and, sk up anything else ; whra a mn having the deepest, widest, big~ st, drawer assigned to him, will put :o it a couple gf socks, a collar bog, old necktie, two kandkercbiefs, d a pair of braces and a pipe, and save his life he can't shut the. mwer without -leaving miore ends eking out than there are pieces is POLITENEss PAYS. -A gentlema Bridgeport was an interested and used party in an episode which ,urred recently at the Norfolk de-~ t. While strolling along the plat.. -m waiting for a train, he saw a wo ~a slip on something and nearly I. Full of sympathy and polite. 38, he hurried to the rescue-and ;~ isted her to rise. As she assumed - upright attitude, 'however, some ing escaped from her pean at at once caught her benefactor's 3. It was nothing less than his lise, which he had left in .the depot ninte before, and which it appears? a distressed female was trying to t away with. The gentleman s )re than ever convinced taoie as does pay. Mr. Bible is running for a po.jitical ice and a contemporary thinks he I1 'end with Lamentations.'? -elected he should be judged by hn ets, and-but it is hard 4ogivea w version to these old puns. No books are so legib1$ :e res of men ; no charaterseopa. their moral conduct. It is a -solemn thought with t... iddle-aged thas life a atunsi begunian earnest.