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G>?f ' : % "v ' ' Bnlldlai Upon the Sud* ^Xfew*nto woo, *tto well to wed, W? so the world baa done }'.. Biaee myrtles grow, end roses blov% And morning bronght the snn. llui have a oaro, yo youne and fai^ \v -' ' Mu enns ye pledge with truth; Ba certain that yoor lore will wear Beyond tte days of youth. For if yo give not hoart to heart, As well as hand for hand, Sou'il find you'vo played the "unwise part," .ana "oaiis upon uio sand." *Tw -well to ?avo, 'tis well to have A goodly store of gold, 'And bold enough ot sterling stuff? For charity ia cold. Skit place not all yoar hopes and trust In -what the deep mine brings; We cannot live on yellow dust Unmixed with purer things. And he who piles up wealth alone Will often have to stand Beside his coffor-chest, and own Ha "built upon the sand." *Tis good to 8peak in kindly guiso, And soothe whate'ur wo can; For speech would bind tho human mind, And love link man to man. But stay not nt tho gentle words; Let deedj with liuiguogo dwell; :jv The ono who pities starving birds Should scatter crumbs as well. Tho meicy that is warm and truo Must lend a helping hand; For tlioso who talk, yet fail to do, But "build upon the sand." ?Eliza Cook, . AMY'S ENTERPRISE. i ? "Ob," cried Amy Drake, "I am so wretched?so unhappy!" "Be you ?" Baid a curious, squeaky voice, out of the tangle of dark-brown vines and scarlet rose-hips that hid the rude stcne wall ucon which she leaned. "Ain't that a pretty bad lookout for a gal o* your years ?" It was a still, overclouded day, in early autumn. The blackberries were drying up on the vines; here and there a cluster of of blue asters shone along the edge of the wood, and the clamorous voice of the little stream was beginning to be muflled in falling leaves. Amy had come out across the appleorchard, to a place where she could be quiet and alone. But it seemed now that she was not alone. For down among the scarlet berries sat Old Man Offley. eating his dinner of thick slices /vf ^ ?J i ??I J 1 vi utcau, aauuviiuuou wiui uoiucorneabeef, and drinking with, infinite relish out of a teacup filled from the brook. At least that was what they called him. If he had a first name or a middle name, nobody knew it. He was only known as Old Man Oflley, as he journeyed about the country with his basket* of shoe laces, porcelain-buttons, pins and cheap cotton pocket-handkerchiefs. He had no relations, no friends, and apparently he was quite happy and independent. "Oh, is it you?" said Amy, a little ashamed of her outburst "I?I didn't know anybody was here. But, after all, 1 don't care, I am wretched I" "What's it all about?" said Old Man Offley, munching contentedly away at the bread and cold corned-beef. ' 'It's Aunt Oriana," sighed Amy, She says I ought to be earning my own living; she says Uncle Bemis can't . afford to support me any'longer. But I don't know what to do. They don't toeed any more women at the carpetifactory; and it isn't nice to work on cigars, now that they have imported those Bohemian hands. And I've lost all my music-practice since I came but here, where they have no piano, iand every district school situation is fall. I do wish I knew what to do !M Old Man Oflley turned his tin cup jupside down to dry, and folded up the feed bandana handkerchief which had berved at a table-cloth. "For them as wants to work*" said he, epigrammatically, "there's always plenty to do." i "What is there for me to do?" asked lAmy, incredulously. *wai," said Uld Man Offley, " I hain't made a bad thing of ft peddlin' ?mind I don't say as ever I got rich tat the business, but I never starved at it, neither." > Amy looked at him in grave surprise. "I doat mean buttons and shoe* blacking/' said Old Man Offley. "Law bless you. childl there's enough of that business already; and I don't want no more oppositions set up. But there's < lots of nice crinkum-crankums as the 't' fine ladies would buy if they had them b^gj^to their doors?laces, you know, an&crochay works, and patternbooks, and? kaw bless you ! once I taoa ? .1. ?? * * , nno ?U a pinue wueu BOIUO OnO DM gOl j cut, and what a boHejrln' there was for court-plaster ! None nearer than the drag store in the post office, live miles away. And cologne water, and hairgreasy and hair-pins, and all sorts o' truck". When I was down in York 6tat<\ I seen two young ladies a trampin' up and down the road with big, knotted sticks, and their man-servant ; ;; lie came after with a one-hoss shay and the trunks. They was a wallrin' ( lor pleasure, I hearn tell. Why Uould&'t you walk for profU~-h<y?" ' ' ' -i:. - i. S "Do you really think I could succeed in a busines like that?" asked Amy, with kindling eyes. "Just try," nodded Old Man Oflley. And he shouldered his pack, hitched the tin cup to one of his coat~button9, and went tmdging off over the carpet of yellow leaves that edged the woodland path. Amy Drake leanded over the wall, with her eyes fixed abstractedly on the red rose-hips and the maroon leaves of a climbing vine beyond for a minute, and then she said: "I believe I'll try it!" She said nothing on the subject to Aunt Oriana. Between her and tliut lady there existed a sort of silent hostility. But she chose an opportunity when her Uncle Bemis sat alone by the stove to ask timidly: 'Uncle, will you lend me ten dollars ?" "Ten dollars?" repeated her Uncle Bcmis. "Yes, uncle, ten dollars." "Ten dollars Is a deal of money," observed Uncle Bemis. "Yes, I know it is," said Amy. "Bnt I want it as capital." "Eh?" said Uncle Bemis. "Capital ! To invest in business I" explained Amy. Uncle Bemis stared with fishy, blue eyes. "I'm tired of this sort of life !" said A ?Tf 1 ? - " ' i dCxiijjr* x vo isuiue up my mioa id ao something for rayself. And if you will lend me ten dollars, I will try to return it again very soon; and it may perhaps be the gateway of a newer and more independent existence to me." Uncle Bern is : joked apprehensively at the door, fumbled in his pocket, and drew forth a flat, begrumbled greenback. "Here 1" he said, pressing it into his niece's hand. "P'raps you hadn't better mention it to your aunt 1" "I will not," said Amy. "But oh, uncle, I am so much obliged to you!" She kissed the wrinkled cheek, and as she did so a moisture dimmed Uncle Bemi8' faded blue eyes. "Tain't my fault that you and your aunt don't hit it off no better." said he. "I know it, uncle," said Amy. She took the early train, next day, and went to Bridgeport, pondering as she did eo what sort of stock would be most profitable to invest in. Suppose I were a lady sitting by my fire, with noth:Asr to do but amiiRn myself?what shculd I want?" she asked herself. "Luce-patterns ? worsted? canvas needles? novels^ cotirtplaster?" with an odd recollection ot Old Man offley'.s hint. "Oh, there are plenty of things ! Only 1 must make make my ten dollar bill go as far as possible !" * ****** * "A peddler 1" said Miss Marchcroft. "Send her away !" But Amy Drake had trained herself not easily to be rebuffed. She pushed past the maid, with ladylike audacity. 1 "Would you look at my wares?" i saiu sue. "i nave some stamped d'oyleys and Kensington patterns that I think would interest you. And 1 have the latest fancy stiches for silk patchwork." At this, Miss Marchcroft roused up. "Well, perhaps I'll look at 'em," said she. At the facto^p where a faded little woman was te/ing to teach half a dozen boisterous children, Amy produced ( a new pamphlet, "Every Lady Her Own Seamtress," with h roll of of the newest patterns for little aprons and , guimpes. Mrs. Hodson shook her head at first, but Anally relented, and Amy made a comprehensive sale there. "1 never purchase from street-sellers," said Mrs. Judge Overman. "But I have superior wares," said Amy. "Here is a shawl of white Shetland wool commenced in the cobweb stitch, and I have some very desirable remnants of Hamburg insertions, and real linen pocket-handkerchief with the borders stamped ready for embroidery, a la Kate Greenaway." Mrs. Overman looked amazed. "I don't care if you bring them in/' said she. , Two gentlemen were playing chess at the fireside?the old Judge himself, and a gentleman guest?Harry Bennerton from Bridgeport He -rose and bowed. I "Miss Dra?*che cried in surprise, j I Amy inclined her head. "Yes," she said, quietly. And thin she began explaining her novelties to Mrs. Overman. The Judge's wife bought several pretty things, and when Amy was gone, she turned to Bennerton. Harry," said she, "where did you meet that girl*" "At a surprise-party in Bridgeport " "A reduced lady, eh ?" "I don't know anything about that,'* , ,p-. y-, said Bennerton. I rather fancied her 1 at the time. But I don't care to prosecute the acquaintace of a?peddler." ' 'To do her justice," drily remarked Mrs. Overman, "she did not seem to care to prosecute yours." J But Amy cried a little behind her yell as she walked down the villlage street. "He danced every dance with me then," she thought. ' He took me out on the lawn, and he did everything but actually propose. And now? Well, it is better to know the worst at once. If he despises me because I l earn my own living, he is not. the material of which my 'mpn among men' must be made." At the end of a month, she paid back the ten-dollar bill to Uucle Bemis. and Aunt. Orinnn npvor won on.. . the wiser for the transaction. "Oh, uncle," she said, "I am doing so well! I am so thankful that Old Man Oflley advised me to strike out into the world for myself. And, uncle?" "Well?" "Herbert Hawkes took me across to "Vale Devon in his wagon, last week. He was going that way, and he said it would save me the walK. I sold ever so many things in Vale Devon I j And, uncle?" "Well?" with another blink of the | faded eyes. j "Herbert h?s bought a house and j 4 lot. And he put out his sign?4Doc- J tor Hawkes.' Do you think he will succeed, uncle?" "Dunno," said Uncle Bemis. "Calkerlate likely he will. Guess he's a smart feller." "Because if he does," said Amy "I? I've promised to marry him !** "And what's to become of the peddlin* business?" asked Uncle Bemis. waggishly. "Oh, that will have to be given upP said Amy. "But I'm so glad I commenced it,because Herbert says he never admired ine half so much as when he saw how independent 1 was. And that first put it into his head to like me." But when Old Man Offley heard of it, he only shrugged his shoulders. "That's a woman all over," said he. "No sooner does she get well established in busines, than she ups and gets married 1 But if she's suited, so am 11" < The Mau on the Bridge, A gentleman recently established in . . business in Paris, and formerly an of- I fleer in the United States Army during the civil war, told me the follow- . ing story: He was with his regiment on duty in (I think) Tennessee, and was inforlned one day that the newly appointed commander of that division of the army was to arrive that day, and would take possession of his command the next morning. Early on the following morning the officer chanced ^ to be standing on the bnnk nf ?. near where the forces were encamped, | when he saw on the other side of the I water a sandy-bearded man on horseback, with a cigar between his teeth, who was endeavoring to force his horse to cross a narrow wooden bridge that was thrown across the stream. The bridge had no railings, and the planks were slippery with frost, so that the passage presented a certain amount of danger. The ollicer called to the stranger not to cross. He still persisted in trying to indHce his horse to go over the bridge, when the other waxing wroth at his obstinacy shouted: "Turn back, 'you?adjective?fool I. c Do you want to get ducked or get drowned? Don't you see the bridge is as slippery as glass?" The stranger, 1 who wore a common blue army over- 1 coat, raised his cap, turned around and galloped away. What was the 8 officer's horror a few hours later, when, 1 .A. i.1 * - - * hi? mo review 01 ine troops by their new commander, he recognized in the stranger General Grant. At the close of the review the General sent for bim and addressed him as follows: "You are the person who prevented me from venturing on the bridge this morning, Colonel X , are you not?" An affirmative response was given with a sinking heart. "I wished to tell you that I am very much obliged to you. You saved me from committing a very silly and foolhardy action, and probably also from an unpleasant drenching." "And that," concluded the Colonel, "was my first introduction to General Grant."?Philadelphia Telegraph. _ yhe Sunshine of Hla "What is it that keepa you so busy writing so late in your study every , night?" asked Mrs. Yerger of herhua- , band. { "I am writing the history of nay < life." < "X suppose you mention me in it?* j "Oh, yes: I call you the sunsine cK 1 my existence.** { "Do I really throw so much sunshine . into ybur daily life?H ^ "I refer to you as the sunshine o{ ^ m| existence because you make it fco4 for me.'*~?itlftiflnrf. ; (: f K . ' : V; v LIFE ON A LOCOMOTIVE.: i A. Veteran Engineer Narrates Some Experiences. &. Great Improvement in Engines of Today?Some Fast Trips. The other night a Chicago reporter iat in the modest parlor of a modest iotel, talking to a modest veteran engineer employed on one of Chicago's eading railroads. For twenty-two rears he had pulled the lever of a loconotive on the same road, and but for lis modesty could reel off yarns of .hrilling experiences by the yard. "This reminds me," said he, allud ng to tho storm which was providing, "of a night a number of years jgo, when a very strange circumstance j lappened on the train [ was running, j L only mention it to illustrate the ex- j ireme forethought which it is contin- ! lallv necessary for an engineer to ex- ! ?rcise. As we pulled out of the depot [ noticed a storm gathering in the west. Before we hi?d got far beyond ;he city limits wa were into it. It was a gruesome night, with the lightling flashing incessantly, the thunder crashing and rolling, and the wind blowing a hurricane, I suddenly ihought ten chances to one, at some point on the road, I would be likely to run across some stray freight cars, for ihe wind was strong enough to blow Jiem from the switches on the main irack. The thought made me cau:ious, and I kept a sharp lookout ihead. My fears proved correct, for sve had not gone far when a bright lash of lightning brought into bold relief against the black sky a number freight cars which the wind had carried off a side track and piled up promiscuously on the main track. But being ready for just such an emergency I pulled up in time to avert a catastronho-" *? ? "Do you find engines in these days easier to handle than when you first look hold of the lever?" "Oh, yes. There has been so many improvements of late years that a locomotive is much easier to run. It is much easier to get up steam. The use of coal instead of wood tends to this result; and then the patent injector is a great improvement over the >ld pump. The automatic air-brake is a great help, and there are many minor improvements being constantly Drought forward?all of more or less utility?which lighten the labor of an mgineer. Some roads use a patent Dell-ringer, which is run by steam, but [ never took kindly to it. It proved a lource of annoyance more than anything else." "I suppose there has beeq a great :hange of style in engines in the last '.wenty years?" Yes, they are much heavier, for one ;hlng. In the old days a locomotive lad only to pull three or four cars. 3ne with a 15-inch cylinder and 22nch stroke, weighing twenty-eight to .hirty tons, was sufficient. Now trains ire made up of fifteen to twenty cars, ind the weight of the locomotives has >een increased to about forty-six tons, vith an 18-inch cylinder and a 24-inch itroke. An engine with the tank all oaded and ready to start on a run vill weigh seventy-live tons." "Have engineers improved as much is the engines?" "Decidedly, yes. In the old days an rogineer was nobody unless he was >ne of the boys. He was expected to >e 'hail fellow, well met' with every)ody, and the amount of whisky a first;lass engineer could consume in a light was something fearful to cnnemplate. Now, however, drinking is absolutely prohibited. While the'boys' vere good in their day, there are nany who would not do for these ;imes. They are a better educated :las8 of men in these days than they vere formerly, for they do not spend heir spare time in carousals. But itill you will find them a jolly set withal." "Is it necessary to be a practical machinist to be a first-class engineer?" "By no jaeans. The very best engineers are those who are first 'wipers* tt the round house, next firemen, and ire finallv mit in char?r? nf t.hA Wnmn J re. By constantly being about an rngino tbey become familiar with the lifferent parts and soon learn how to landle it, provided, of coarse, that ;hey take an interest in the business." "What is the average time of an exiress-train in these days?" "Including stops, about thirty miles in hour. There have been some renarkable bursts of speed, however, but .hose were on extra occasions. PhiL )'Neil, who runs the Omaha express >ver on the Northwestern, carries the 1 Ate horns In this regard, I believe. With the 'Wabash' he brought a party >f directors from Clinton, Iowa, to. Chicago at an average speed of a mile t minute for 188 miles. This was in. 1684. Preston, another Northwestern engineer, made a record when he took ?p| ;: *"<?' *> ? * '* r ^ "* , . I * . the Jarrett & Palmer troupe from Chi. cago to the Bluffs when they were on their way to San Francisco. He left Chicago at 10:30 p. m.. arriving at | Clinton, Iowa, 1:10 a. in.; left Clinton ' at 1:15 a. m., and reached Boone at 6:31 a. m.; left Boone at 6:40 a. in., , anil reached the Bluffs at 10 a. m. j That means that he made the run at j the rate of 46.45 miles per hour. That , was a great run." Styles In Artificial Limbs. wo signs in the show window of a ' Barclay street dealer in surgical appli- ! ances read as follows: "Old Style Leg" j worn oy x,nose wno are not proud of their personal appearance ana by poor men who are unable to pay the price demanded for finer work. We still have large orders for them, and always expect to have. They cost from $5 to $25, according to workmanship. The new style of leg costs from : $75 to $200. The former price is for ! a leg from the knee downward, while the latter takes in a whole leg, from the hip joint to the big toe. These legs are very light. They are hollow and are made of a great many layers of wood, as thin as wall paper, cemented together. They nre comfortable to the stump, and the springs in them give their owner an almost natural gait. There is a spring joint at the toes nn? nk onbio ?? * ? ? ? ? Vt?w t?UI44Vf n iiav>u enables the foot to bend up and down, and also a lateral joint at the same place, that allows the foot to turn from side to side. "It is in arms, however, that this business has made the most rapid advancement," continued the dealer. "The man who invented the artificial arm and hand was a practical philanthropist. When I was a boy a man who lost his arm was obliged to wear a wooden stump with a screw socket at the end. Into this he could screw a knife, spoon, or fork to help him while eating, and a hook to use at other times. Now we can give him a wrist, hand, and fingers which work with springs, and almost completely ?1 -* ' * bun.o tuc piaco ui trie missing members. He can put a knife, spoon, and fork between his fingers, which will hold them with a grip of steel, and thus he may eat without discomfort. He can also put a pen between his fingers, and write almost as well as he could with his natural hand. Ten years ago this would have been regarded as a miracle. This style of [ arm sells for $100. They make artificial portions of a man's body now J almost as serviceable as the real ones."?New York Sun. A I'uzzlc with Letters. Some time since students at the Boston Institute of Technology designed a puzzle which is quite interesting. Given two words of an equal number ol letters, the problem is to change one to the other by altering one letter at a time of the tirst so as to make a legitimate English word continuing the alterations until the desired result is attained. The conditions are that only one letter shall be altered to form each new word, and that none but words which can be found in the English dictionaries shall be used. Here a some examples of the changes: East to West.?East, vast, vest, west. Dog to Cat.?Dog, dig, fig, fit, fat, cat. Soup to Fish.?Soup, soul, soil, foil, fowl, foot, coot, cost, cast, fast, fist, fish. Road to Tlftll.?"Rnart. rnnrt rnnf ? - -V ' 'I coot, coat, coal, coil, toil, tail, rail. j Milk to Hash.?Milk, mile, malc^' mate, hate, hath, hash. What Ererj One Wants to See* A dentist with the toothache A rtnnfcnr tnkn his nwn mwtiolna A druggist sample his own prescrip j tions. A coal dealer buy bis own coal on hfe own scales at his own regular retail price. /A summer boarding house which meets your expectations. ' A deaf and dumb amateur vocalist A paralyzed comic recitationlat. A college student who realizes how little he knows. A small boy who kncws enough U be seen and not heard. A woman who will blankly admij that some other woman is better look j tag than the is herself,?Net* Tori Graphic. *'2 '***vV 'Vj iV^ 1 ' ,3 c-v ' % ' unl'i!;Bt&f; :*. ? ana "jNew Style .Leg." They show 1 that there is a fashion in artificial- j legs. The old-style leg consists of a short wooden stump and socket, which was to bo fastened to the remaining portion of the missing njember by a ! 8tout broad strap. It was of the same style usually exhibited in picture books and on the comic opera stage. , The new-style leg was a flesh-colored copy of a human leg and foot, light, and annnrpntlv a a nAmfnrfoWn .... ? WlkULVl unviu Ut3 a cripple would require. ' The old style leg," said the proprietor, "is a clumsy affair, and is chiefly ;< v ; :.y * ,'v , , , . . CLIPPINGS FOU THE CURIOUS. New Guinea is the largest island ia Ibe world. Divers, by a recent French invention, are said to be enabled to go down a distance of 800 feet below the surface of the water. Weasels were kept in houses in ancien Home, instead of cats, for the purpose of killing vermin. Prof. Huxley's idea of a well-proportioned man is one weighing 154 pounds, three pounds of which are brains. A hand placed near the orifice from which a high pressure of steam is issuing will not scald. The rapid extension renders the heat latent. The lloman nobility, at the close of the third Punic War, E. C. 134, wore a acripe 01 purple on their tunic and a gold ring on their finger, to distinguish theur from the plebians. The microscope shows that mould is a forest of beautiful trees, with the branches, leaves and fruit; that butterflies are fully feathered; that hairs are hollow tubes; and the surface of our bodies is covered with scales like> a fish. The African elephant will be extinct ^ In another hundred vr??r? nnipaa o at<%rv j -v,r is put to the indiscriminate massacre now going on. So says Josef Menges? the great importer of African wild beasts, and probably the most eminent authority on such subjects. A physician of India proposes making experrnents in the treatment of cholera on criminals sentenced to death. The consent of the prisoner would be obtained, with the promise of exemption from further puishment if the experiment should not be fatal. The descendants of the common brook trout sent to Tasmania have shown a remarkable tendency to vary in shape and markings. Furthermore they are migrating to salt water, and thus becoming anadromous. The same is true of the New Zealand acclimatants. One of the most dignified and Important personages in the German em- ^ < pire is Herr Staude. lie is the barber of Kaiser Wilhelm; and so impressed is he with the importance of his position that he closes his shop to other customers, and devotes all his time and ingenuity to the task of shaving the Emperor, whom he accompanies on all trips to Ems and other watering places. The Cradle of the Washburns. One of the relics in the Norlands library at which I looked with unusual Interest, writes the Lewiston (Me.)Journal "Rambler," was the Wash. burn cradle?the cradle in which allot the seven Washburn brothers wer& ruckba. jx iooks iire a picture I had seen of a cradle imported in the Mayflower. It is a home made piece of furniture, constructed of pine-board? an inch thick, rudely dove-tailed together. It has a buggy top and solid pine rockers, shaped like half moons,. ^ with no twist or scrolls to decorate- " them, but numerous scars where chip? apparently had been knocked out of them by the paternal cowhide boot. A crack had necessitated the nailims of a large cleat on the inside. The outside is painted a dark green tint. The inside never was painted, but it is well browned by age. Its associationsmake this one of the most remarkable' cradles in existence. Four Congressmen rocked in it Two ministers DleniDOtentiarv to fnrAinm />nnn>?iM t X- J " 5" vvuu.nw have been lulled to sleep within its , pine boards. Its soporific influencehas been grateful to two governors. It has held a secretary of state, whom. I saw looking at it with a smile, the other day. By the side of the cradle,, and equally venerated by the family*, is a very old spinning wheel, once operated in the chimney corner of the' \ Washburn homestead, by Martha Benjamin Washburn, the mother of the> renowned seven sons. A Bee Snperstitlon. bays an English exchange : The instance given of the carrying out at. Geeston, in Rutland, of the superstition that bees will not remain after a. death in the house of their owner, especially of the owner himself, unless an intimation be given to them of the fact, might be multiplied indefinitely,. for it prevails over a considerable portion of England. In the case men- , tloned, the widow knocked at the beehives one after the other, repeating- ^ each time the formula, "lie's arone. htf* gone," and as the bees hummed' in re* ply it was understood that they accepted the news and would stay. In Herefordshire it is considered sufficient to< tie a piece of crape to a stick set in front of the hives, and in rther counties Chose or similar precautions are always observed by persons whowould not lose their bees. It is diffi- J[ eult to account for this widespread belief, or to give any possible conjecture?a to its origin. tyj ;r VtA * '$ ' K- *^ r V K ' 'IfiJufi V \y'vV'-*?. lift: , **/?!? < ^<v,jra ^ * V; *>: n-W:>'? & ?& * -HsttWwte*.