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Sometime. Sometime, sometime, Tbo clouds of ignorance shall part asunder, And we shall see the fair blue sky of truth, Spangled with atari, and look with joy and h.'s wondor Up to tho happy dreamlands of oUr youth, Whoro we may climb? Soinetimo. Somotime, afemotime, Tho passion of the heart wo koep dissembling Shall free hei-self and rise on silver wing, , And all these broken chorda of musio trembling Deep in the soul our lips shall learn to siug,? < A stmin sublime? Sometime. Sometime, sometime, Love's broken links shall all be reunited, But not upon the ashj foige of pain; The full-blown rodes doad, the sweet buds blighted, Shall boom beside life's gaiden walks again, Iu fairer clime? Sometime, Sometime, sometime, The prophet's unsooled lips shall strait deliver The message of eternal lito, uncursed; Wind-swept, tho poet's soul with joy shall quiver, And from his trembling lyre at length shall burst Immortal rhyme? Sometime. ?Arthur Wentwortk Eaton. Miss Ella on the Farm. i 1 Burdette, the humorist, has the foli _ a _ a.\ r? 1.1 -r* ? Auwiug iu me x>rootiiyu ihayiei V A CARD FROM MR. THISTLEPOD. Editor of the Eagle: 1 Noticin' in your columns quite recent a paragraph to the followin': < Miss Ella Witchazel, a charming young school-teacher of Villisca, Iowa, finding the close confinement and arduous duties of the school-room injur- ] ing ho health, tried the out-door cure. 1 Instead of spending her winter's sala- ' ry and summer's vacation in a crowd ea notei at trie seashore, she went on < a farm, cut 25 acres of prairie hay, harvested 40 acres of wheat, gained \ 20 pounds in weight, a coat of tan on < her hands and face, and a rugged t health that cannot be equaled anywhere off a farm. There's the girl i you are looking for, young man." I Now, what I want to say: I am \ well acquainted with this young school < marm. Fact is, it was my farm she < spent the summer on. Nice girl, Ella 1 is, as ever run wild in the sun. We t was glad, wife and me, to have her i come an* she did 'bout as she pleased t on the farm. I'd often read in the s papers 'bout these young women that l taiiffht Hnhnrvl in tlm ?flntor or>* ~.i 0 fiauvwfc nu lailUCU ( in the summer, but I never hail any 1 experiences of 'em before. i Well, sir, she farmed. First day, t nothin'd do but she must drive the t hoss rake. Well, every man an' worn- 1 an that comes from town wants to t drive the hoss rake, an' they call that 1 gettin' in the hay. My little Janey, r eleven years old next May, usually i drives the rake for us, but she ain't 1 feelin' overly peart this summer an' I c kinder kept her out of the sun. So <8 Miss Ella gits herself boosted up on the s Ihoss rake, an' then she screamed an' r fell off. Then she got on again, hit r the hoss a crack an' away she went on t the dead jump out o' the field into the ^ road, hoss a-goin', dust flyin' an' Miss [ Ella screecliin*. Some of the men s headed her off an' stopped the hoss. t Then she tried it ag'in. This time she i ? truck right straight through ttie standin' grass, where it was tallest, thickest s and tangledest; boss a-balkin* and tug- 1 gin' away by turns, and grass holdin' on or comin' up by the roots, rake teeth a-snappin'. "VVe got her out of that, and we lost a whole day on the i rake, gettin* it mended. Then she tried drivin' a load into the big barn. Had to send to the house for a ladder, an' then she climbed up on the load. Drivin' in she got the wagon caught in a hedge gap as wide as the Missouri river, run over two stands of bees, upset the load, and uuriea nerseu under iiUU pounds of t hay. It waa the safest place for her i u-jder the exciting circumstances; so i we jest left her ther' ontil the bees got i cammed down an' we got some work 1 done. Next ioad she went in on, and I climbed up into the mow, an' then i she wandered around ontil she stepped into a chute aad shot down about 28 > feet into tne cow barn an' lit right on , the back of a Jersey calf that was worth $250 of any man's money an hour before. Miss Ella wa'n't killed, but she was that jammed up that she lay in bed two days, an* but for that providence we'd hev been workin' at that hay yet. Aa* anybody that wants a broken back calf can have one at his own fiffgera. Weil* come when a harvest, she must drive the self-binder. That was a little too risky, but she bad her own way. But she couldn't be trusted up above the knives, so somebody had to set on there and hold: her on. My boy Joe, he held her on?I told Joe she was makin' a fool of hitn?an' if she didn't make him drive asound every poppy an' every blossomin' weed she s^e in that field to save it: Never mind the BBSSftyJoR#.?r /. d ffiHKiHiK wheat, but save the blhmed weeds. There was only one stump on the 320 acres of prairie land, just one stump, an' I hope I may go to seed before thanksgivin' if that girl didn't run into it an' break the reaper. Lost all the rest of that day a mendin' of it. Next day she was proud an* confident she could drive alone. Well, we tied her into the seat soVt she couldn't fall off, an' she started. Two rods from the start a big black snake stuck up his head?an' you know how slick them knives amputate a snake? ' Miss Ella, she gives a faint little squeak, au iamts aeaa away. My Doy Joe? he's always hangin' around?he jumped for the horses, took Miss Ella down 1 and carried her to the house. Money, 1 nor healthy tan, nor rugged appetite, nor nothin' couldn't coax Miss Ella 1 Witchazel into that field ag'in, an* we ! got through harvestin' all right. 1 Land, how the men laffed. And yet ] we all liked the girL But the idea of 1 her farmin'?why do you know sir,, 1 one day in hayin' she went to town? 1 took one of my best work-horses an' < was gone all day?an' came back with 1 'bout twenty yards of blue and white 1 ribbon an' tied 'em on the men's hats f Ua wnlr/> ?? j 4 - a - nuvi uag l ttivo nauuiti.^ clUU. WAQ16CI 118 all to wear biled shirts, with the sleeves looped up} with the blue ribbins, go marchin' out to the hay lield, me at the head with the most and longest ribbins, a singin', "We merry haymakers, tra, la, la, la, lal" She saw it done once that way in a concert or theayter, an' thought that was the way hayin' was always done. An* she was so vexed that she cried when we wouldn't wear 'em. Law, when I put on that hat, ma laid back and laughed till the tears ran down her dear cheeks. "Job Thistlpnod " shn snirl "if wnn n work ia that rig, you'll scare away the grasshoppers." My boy Joe, he did wear his hat out, but he hid it under the hedge when he got out of sight of the house. I told Joe he was the biggest fool I ever see. Well, Miss Ella got along fairly well ? ifter wheat harvest. Gathered some 1 graceful sprays, she called 'em, of r poison ivy on9 day, and couldn't see v jut of one oye for nigh a week. One 3 lay she took a tin pail to go out after jerries, and when she went through v ho cow pasture the cows thought there I a Lvus salt in the pail and chased her r ill she was nigh ready to drop. And a ihe went to the barn once an' tried to v larness a young Tuckahoe colt that * lad never had a halter on him, an* * f iow she got out of that stable alive 's nore'n I can telL But what I wanted ^ :o say is, that that's about the way s he young women, who farm s6 grace ^ 'ul in the newspapers, usually farm on ^ he farm. But we liked her. An' we 11 lated to see her go. An* she will n nake a splendid wife for some mau, * f she can't run a farm, but I don't v enow about your young men comin' ^ >ut to look after her, for when she v laid anod-bv t.n mn tn mi hn/?lr tnum S o ~J ? > ? ""..u, ihe throwed her arms around my neck m* gim me such a kiss that I says to f ny boy Joe, standin* by the wagon to ^ ake her to town, he was always somevhere around, "Joe," I says, "you'd ^ five your share in the farm for that," in' Joe he didn't seem to care for any,hing of the kind, an' Miss Ella, she v ip an' give me another squeeze an' a * ciss, an' 1 saw her looking over my ihoulder at my boy Joe and?haw ! law ! haw I E e Bringing tlie Dead to Life. v Some facts mentioned by Dr. Rich- ^ irdson, the English physiologist, sug- E jest the possibility of restoring persons ^ o lite after actual death. By com- fl lining artificial circulation with arti- t Iclal respiration, a dog was restored to { ife sixty-flve minutes Ffter having $ >een killed by an overdose of chloro- c form, the heart having become perfectly still and cold; and frogs poi- r soned by nitrate of amyl were restored t after nine days of apparent death, r signs of putrefactive change having \ appeared in one case. A quite start- T ling effect is produced by peroxide of f hydrogen in reanimating the blood \ and restoring heat to a really dead , mi - l a.* * ? uuuy. xuese uuservauouH, in me ( opinion of Mr. W. Matteau Williams, , justify the conclusion that a drowned j or suffocated man is not hopelessly dead , so long as the bodily organs remain G uninjured by violence or disease, and j the blood remains sufficiently liquid to be set in motion artificially and supplied with a little oxj-gen to start the chemical movements of life. , ! IT-.-1-1 J iiiiuuMiiieu millions. In the poatofflce department at ; Washington there are over #2,000,000 i which have been taken from registered letters, and in the treasury one < item of $50,000,000, being the money j paid by the French government to idemnify the owners of American vessels illegally seized during the Napoleonic wars. The savings banks of New York are said to contain $1,000,0<k> of unclaimed deposits. ' Vi4'ifgffi'a'3 'A' VV iv'K-.'i^rw\' v.; r. 'jJjv-.v' ' Mtv v : 4A /'*&*?&> \ w .Tv 'A-*#?'..-. -> ; >. ?- -it-A A New Use for the Frog. A new use for the frog has been discovered. A medicinal correspondent of the Lancet says that, finding the treatment of granulating wounds by skin-graftings, is in country practice liable to fall into disuse through the unwillingness of patients to part with the little bit of skin necessary, he has lately been itiduced to try experiments with other substances as a substitute for human grafts. As the outcome of these experiments he finds that bits of skin from a decapitated frog make grafts which admirably answer all purposes, forming a source of supply always at hand in the country, except during the winter month*, and being easily applied on account of their uniformity in thickness, and necessitating no pain to suffering humanity. Ths skin of a single frog yields grafts for an enormous extent of surface, and preserves its vitality so long that, it the patient is at a distance. th? nnr. tion of skin required can be carried by the surgeon in his pocket for an hour jr more without injury, provided it is wrapped in gutta-percha or other waterproof tissue to prevent dying, rhe frog is so extensively used for experimental purposes by surgical tavanto that the appropriation of its ikin for the convenience of human bengs whose own skins require renewal s not a proceeding to which it can easonably object, more especially as t is decapitated before being thus xtilized. The public, however, would )8 interested to hear a ^little more ibout these frog-grafts before adoptng them generally. Does the skin of he frog when grafted retain its peculiarities? The point is of some iraporance, as the appearance of a person n a speckled frog-skin would hardly >e prepossessing. May not frog-graftng also lead to an increase of toady3m??Pall Mall Gazette. A Kind Yoice. There ia no power of love so hard to ;et and keep as a kind voice. A kind land ia deaf and dumb. It mav be v - ? ough in flesh and blood, yet do the trork of a soft heart, and do it with a oft touch. But there is no one thing hat love so much needs as a sweet oice to tell what it means and feels; nd it is hard to get and keep it in the ight tone. One must start in youth, nd be on the watch night and day, at fork and play, to get and keep a voice hat shall speaks at all timas the houghts of a kind heart. But this is he time when a sharp voice is apt to e got. You often hear boys and girls ay words at play with a sharp, quick one as if it were the snap of a whip. Vhen one of them gets vexed, you will ear a voice that sounds as if it were jade up of a snarl, a whine, and a bark, t is often in mirth that one cets a olce or tone that is sharp, and sticks o him through life, and stirs up illrill and grief, and' falls like a drop of all on the sweet joys of home. "Watch fc day by day, as a pearl of great price, or it will be worth more to you in ays to come than the best pearl hid a the sea. A kind voice is to the ieart what light is to the eye. It is a ight that sings as well as shines. ?rain it to sweet tones now. and it vill keep in tone through life.? Ulihu Burritt. A Well-Kept House and Yard. The old Athenians spent their ooney freely to build temples and il-.l. l iicuk suibuoa, win id Liicir own Homes vere unattractive in appearance to the >asser-by. We are glad our people do iot follow their example wholly. We udge of the people by their homes, md not by the public buildings, for he home is, in a great measure, the ndex of the characters of the home Lwellers. This applies to the outside >f the house as well as the insida The man or woman who seeks to nake the exterior of the house attractive as well as the interior, is as nuch a public benefactor as he who rnilds costly temples, though he may iot be aware of it, nor have the publio food at heart, but only be gratifying lis own taste. However, the man vho cares the most for his own home jares the most for the public irood is u ally. A well-kept house and yard a an educator, however humble it nay be, and the man or woman who ipends money in decorating his home s not so selflsh as might appear.? Vick's Magazine. Poor Turkey. Head of Family?Dear me 1 here baey uro vuuiu|( up xursey again. A.bout once in every seven or eight irears this sort of thing occurs, my love. Wife (guilelessly)?Oh I not so seldom as that, my dear. I don't think Lt has been more than twelve months." "Twelve months, woman I You're mad1 Whereabouts in history does that occur?" "In the history of this house, dear. Have you forgotten last Thanksgiving day?"?CaXL TtSSlj/'\ w r'% ?- *'iV r* ' V ? " * \ *' J'.. '-Xs\\r* ?w^\x v * v - mf& \i & V. ' -I4-' TOPICS OF THE DAT. Crime, according to the statistic* recently published, is increasing it this country with remarkable speed as there was but one criminal to tc ! every 3,432 inhabitants in 1850, whih | in 1870 there was one to every 850 I meanwhile crime is decreasing ir Great Britain. ? Statuary hall, in the capitol, the olc | house of representatives at Washing j ton, is becoming even now crowded I Within the hist ten years space ha* been given here to various states thai wish to place in the capitol statues representing their leading men whc have acquired national fame. Tht last addition to the collection is the statue of Gen. Garfield, presented b> the state of Ohio. In the British Medical Journal, Dr Fothergill says that a patient dying oi exhaustion is generally dying of starvation. "We give him beef tea, calf's I loot jelly, alcohol, seltzer and milk; j that is, a small quantity of sugar ol j milk and some fat. Hut the jelly is the poorest sort of food, and the beef j tea a mere stimulant. The popular I belief that beef tea contains j 'the very strength of the meat' is a terrible error; it has no food value." Sportsmen should be careful not f.x - * ku oili. ui meat irorn animals which have been much tortured by doga during the death agony. Dr. Detmars of the National Society of Microacopists, in examining samples of the meat the eating of which had killed several persona in Momence, III., found changes which were clearly attributable to a frenzied condition of the animals from which it was taken. The Doctor's opinions upon fcthe subject were formed after careful microscopical examinations of hundreds of samples or meat from cattle slaughtered in Chicago while there wore in a frenzied condition from fright. A broad tract of lund in Lisbon, Maine, known for years as the "Pine Woods," is now one of the most highly valued lota of land in that State. Two years ago it could have been bought for $5 an acre, and to-day $25,000 an acre is its estimated value. It is owned by E. N. Chamberlain, who leased it a few months ago to E. II. Caylor, of Columbu*. Ohio. Mr. Chamberlain is to receive a royalty on the product of a paint mine that it contains. The value of the earth comprised in this truct of land was discovered through observation of the fact that the mud clinging to the wheels of vehicles driving through it dried on like paint and was removed with difficulty. The earth is yellow, and has been pronounced by Prof. Stanley, of Bates College, to be a variety of sienna. Temperance advocates are pleased, disinterested persons amused, and injured dealers dumfounded by a blow at the very low dregs of the saloon business in New York. The stalebeer dives, so numerous in the worst quarters of the city, get their beverage by draining the kegs set out in front of other bar-rooms. Their keepers have systematically made morn in h rounds to Oil their buckets just bofore the removal of the kegs by the brewera' wagons, and this sloppy stuff was subsequently retailed to tne most miserable drinkers at a cent a glas* Now a vinegar manufacturer has contracted with the brewers to get the leavings irom trie Kegs, and wagons, provided with tanks, go over systematicallyarranged routes every morning. This is going to eliminate a characteristic feature of New York intemperance. The Government astronomer of Hong kong has published an account of t&e phenomena which precede typhoons. The first signs are feathery clouds m the sky of 'he cirrua type, looking like fine tufts of white wool, and which travel from qast to north. Those appearances are accompanied by a slight rise of the barometer, clear weather, heat, and light winds. The barometer then begins to fall; the heat becomes oppressive' there is a swell on the sea, and the sky assumes a threatening appearance. As the storm approaches these effects become more marked, while the wind gradually increases in force. Near the centre of the storm the wind blows with such violence that no canvas can hold . against it, and tue rain pours down in torrents. Still nearer the centre, the sea is lashed into such fury that this is the most dangerous position for ships. Typhoons are most common during September and August, but they are met with all the year ronnd, "What sort of a lightning rod do yon wear?" may bo in the near future a pertinent question. The occasional 1 1 j *XV(' i'Mv/'VV-vVVi fcK V?v2 discharge of oloud electricity was all our ancestors had to dread, and against J this they found protection in the metal 1 points which showed the fiery fluid ' desirable routes to travel earthward. } j We run additional risks from the ; treasures of lightning stored up around ' i us, and death is the penalty for the unwary. Personal safeguards have been contrived to meet the new dant ger, and a portable lightning rod has been originated by Mr. Delane, inventor of the Synchronous Telegraph. This is described as consisting of cop' per cords for the body with branches for the arms and legs, the whole con* necting with metal plates fastened to ' the soles of the shoes. There is also a metal p.hnfn whifh 41? ?f MCVM VMU Ui U^Uli tliC 5 ground when both feet are raised. Details are not given in r<igard to insulating the body or the general appearance of the mechanism. It is j perhaps immaterial within cartain limit what shape the projecting wires take, so that there is great scope for decorating ideas. The real worth of 't 11 invention will be tested and recognized by electric light men, who, when they adopt it- as wearers, may also become marked objects of attention. I ? i A Long Year. It is over twenty-nine years since we were able to view Saturn in perihelion before and that is the length of u Saturnian year. While in perihelion he is under certain conditions nearest the earth, and under circumstances most favorable to scientific observation. His journey around the sun of 9.000,000,000 miles covers almost a generation of the lives of the men and women of this planet, and when he makes each fresh appearance with his I nrPQOnf rliafinnf?? ? 9~ i^.vwviv uiouiuv/uucsa, iii is ail tjvtjm indeed. The science of astronomy is etflarging as constantly and as rapdily as any other science, and the observations that astronomers will now be able to take of the splendid planet under its present favorable conditions, ought to add much to the information concerning it, and certainly none of the heavenly bodies has inspired more eager or intelligent research than the one whose return we celebrate. But I what a innrnpv i? J ~ . w KJJ Vino lUilllUtl" rv, whose mean distance from the sun is 831,000,000 miles or more than nine times the distance of the eaath. If it has a race of beings fitted to exist at such a distance from the source of lieat and light, what lengthy seasons they must enjoy. Under such conditions there would be some satisfaction in having a seaside cotiage or a mountain chalet, for what they would call their heated term would extend over a number of years. But the fact is a hundred millions of miles or so make very llffIn * iiuuio uuiuicucu in biiuae aimosi ummaginablo distances.. Probably distance lends enchantment to tho view. But when our earth is dead the Saturn and the other great planets in the course of some millions 01' years will take ! their turn in physical development, and perhaps in somo countless ages hence the wandering ghosts that have vanished from the earth will reappear in new forms of life upon the yet imperfect, but magnificent world rolling in spaco and waiting for its day to d awn.?Providence Journal. The Usos of Asbestos. Asbestos, as it is well known, is employed in a great variety of ways. Its first use was as a packing material for j steam machinery, and as such it soon put other materia!, such as copper, lead, putty, red lead and rubber, in th* shade. Asbestos proper is a mineral, a sort of stone, which in different places bears different names, as Cana-< ada fiber, Baltimorite, Bostonite, amianthus, stono flax, mountain or earth cork, also wood, leather or cork flax. Tho chief pi (tees where asbestos is found are Zoplitz in Saxony; Richenstein, in Silesia; St. Gotthardt, Tyrol, Piedmont, Savoy, Corsica, the Vosges,, Bussia a?d America, particularly in* the neighborhood of Quebec in Canada. As a packing material for boilers, eta, it is superior by reason of its durability in heat and in contact with iron, water and steam, its softness and pliability, and its resistance against tearing. Asbestos is also used for oth er important technical purposes. In paper making it is employed with success on account of its fibrous quality. Asbestos paper is peculiarly valuable since it resists fire. It can be employed as ordinary writing paper, and the writing can be removed by means of acid and chemicals without the paper : A. >.1.1. iV _i ? ? auiiairiug. \ju hiit? gruuuu asUttStOS 18 suitable' as a colander for acids. These, however, are not the only uses for asbestos, for by means of it can be made fire-proof gloves, stockings, clothes, hats, which are of a tasteful silver color, and laces are made at Como out of this substance. In short, the uses of asbestos are manifold, and > in future there can be no doubt that i it will be far more widely employed I than we have any notion of at present - . . .y '' v; -1;' ; . . : ' ? 9 y i ' ,;*. / V.;;' 1 'A/'T PEARLS OP THOUGHT. Vfl Want of prudence is too frequently want of virtue. Three things to avoid?idleness, loquacity and llippant jesting. I A man's own good breeding is the ! best security against other people's ill manners. The seeds of love can never grow but under the warm and genial inI lluence of kind feelings and Mfl'wHi.n. ate manners. Keep your conduct abreast of your conscience, and very soon your conscience will be illumined by the radiance of God. It is always good to know, if only in passing, a charming human being; it refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks. Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence, and for many it is more brilliant than day. Stories heard at mother's knee are never wholly forgotten. They form a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years. The man who is jealous and envicus of his neighbor's success has foes in his heart who can brinff more bitter- ' ness into his life than can any outside enemy. Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony. What Tin Foil Is. It may not be generally known that tin foil, as now so widely known tc the trade, is not a foil of tin alone, but nAmnnoo/1 molnl w of I "? ' ? vuui^>uiuu ujdiuijr yi ICA'i, ?V 1 l>U UUl U' slight alloy of tin. The manifold appliance of tin foil to articles of consumption and medicine is not regulated with any law such as exist in European countries, forbidding the use of lead or composition, or otherwise impure tin foil, hi all casos where it may, through oxidation or contact with the goods, become poisonous and injurious to the health of the consumer. Too little attention has been paid to> thissubiect thus far. It is honed that ? ? K ?? that ignorance and not willful oversight of the facts has led many manufacturers aad dealers to use an article accompanied with such risks for the sake of saving a trifle in the cost. Besides this saving is. in most instances, imaginary, as tho German pure tin foil combines such a fineness and large yield, with relatively great softness and strength, that it will practically answer most purposes, and not cost more than an equal surface of the lightest composition foil, while the i heavier grades of the latter will be uiucu more expensive to use. 'ine yield of the regular German tin foil is seventy-two square feet, or 10,368 square inches per pound; a heavier* grade yields sixty-six square feet. The sheets are of large size, and wastein cutting is consequently small.? . Cultivator. Where Bears Abound. The early snowfall on the summit ol the Pine Greek mountains has started: the bears down to the lower levels. The miners will have their bear steaks and bearskin cups or overcoats, or the bears will have lodgings furnished for the winter in the tunnels and prospect holes. Bears have increased greatly tn number in this state since the great Wind storm of January, 1880, which threw down so much timber and rendered the woods almost impassable in Some parts of the state, and preventing the hunting of bears with dogs. ?n some parts of Southern Oregon* "the woods are full of 'em." A gentleman who has lately been out to Coos county says there are more bears than hogs in that county. He saw a "neck of woods" out there called Packard's Home Market It appers that a settler named Packard had a lot of hogs running in the woods which get fat od> mast He was aBked what he was going to do with them, and said he had a "home market" for them, meaning a< gang of Chinamen working close byJust at this juncture the bears found' the fat hogs and killed and ate them, all, and since that time the place,, which is littered with ham bones and short ri|)&, has been called Packard'sHome Market?Portiand Oregonian.'. * ' \'3vv An Uncomfortable Position. r? A young countryman gave a graphic description of a narrow escape that he- * huH ro/iRAflv fmm an anrnimH 1?>ll ' "I seized him by the tall," he ex- v'3j plained, "an* there I was. I was afraid to hold on, an' I dassn't let go."' "Between the horns of a dilemma, 5 as it were," ventured a young lady, very much interested. "No, ma'am." replied the country* . man. "I wasn't between the horns at. fX all, an* besides, he wasn't a dilemma;: he was a Jersey."?Puck. . . :V :,'!s