Through Space Without Limit ami
Time Without, Eli*!.
We have hundreds of times studied
the grandeur of mountains ami
oceans, in summer and winter, in
sunshine ami storm, in our own. ami
other lands. ? % y.
Wo have hundreds of times, in the
great cathedrals and churches of out
own country and Europe, listened tc
music that has canicel our thoughts
?' far above this little world we inhabit,
But we have never been more
filled with wonder and admiration
and profound gratitude to the Almighty,
than when on calm and
beautiful nights, such as we have
had many the past summer, we have
looked up into the; quiet heavens and
watched the stars moving in grand
procession across the sky, and
thought of the Infinite Power that
created and controls them in their
srreat revolutions thrmurli snacc
without limit ami time without etui.
Guo. T. Anuisli..
Are Yoti it Iioavfer t
About this season of the year
speakers ami writers are apt to say
hard things about loafers, who are to
be found in every town and at every
railway station. When one is traveling
around on the train, or goes to
his market town, ho is upt to think
that every person who appears to be
unemployed is a loafer. One of the
definitions of this term is "an idle
man." Did it ever occur to you that
the expression is never applied to a
woman ? It is never used in connection
with a man with a comfortable
income, however idle he may be.
We generally connect the term with
some shabby white man, who lives
with the least possible work and
stands and sits around on the corners
ready to discuss any question
proposed. Or it may be a negro,
who is ready to carry a valise a mile
for a nickel, or to wait on you half a
day for a dime and a chance at the
lfitr*bon Ttnfr nrn fVw?rr? fom-iln
loafers ? They may not frequent
street corners, but they arc idle
women in their own homes. They
fohl their hands and toil not, nor do
they spin from January to December.
The very fact that they arc not
obliged to work does not take them
out of the list of loafers. More is
expected of them from the fact that
they do not have to bake and sweep
and stitch. Before we arc too hard
on loafers let us sec how much actual
work we are doing. Are we producing
anything? Are we contributing
to the wealth or welfare of the
world ? Are wo doing good as. we
have opportunity, or art we only
loafers ? When a poor, moneyless
fellow loafs around awhile it is apparently
a small matter, but when
an educated man with money in his
pocket sits around ind -wears* out
chairs and bores people because he
has nothing to do, hojis more blamablc
than the other fellow. For a
woman to waste her time, to sit with
folded hands, or lie with closed eyes,
when she has abundant opportunity
to do good, is much worse.?Exchange.
A Moving- Mountain.
A traveling mountain is found at the
Cascades of the Columbia. It is a triplepeaked
mass of dark brown basalt, 6 or ?
miles in length where it fronts the river, and
rises to the height of almost 2,000 feet above
the water. That it is in motion is the last
thought that would be likely to suggest itself
to the mind of any one passing it, yet it is a
well-established fact that this entire mountain
is moving slowly hut steadily down to
the river, as if it had a deliberate jpurpo^e
some time in the future to dam the Columbia
aud form a great lake from the Cascades to
the Dalles.
lu it9 forward and downward movement
the forest along the base of the ridge h>??
become submerged in the river. Large tree
stumps can be seen standing dead in the
water on this shore. The ra lway engineers
and brakcnien lind that the lino of railtVay
did skirls the foot of the mountain is being
c in nually forced out of place. At certain
puii.H the permanent way and rails have
been pushed 8 or H> feet out of line in a
few years.
tieolQgistg attribute this strange plienoin
a 11 Io the fact that tliabasalt , which coiis
iintcs the hulk of the mountain, rests on a
substratum of conglomerate or of soft sandstone,
which tlie deep, swift current of the
mighty river is constantly wearing away, or
that this softer subrock is of itself yielding
at great depths to the enormous weight of
the harder mineral above. ?' lol^lhwiit' x
(!i-iijrajihical Mmjuzuf.
Mrs. Ernest Hart, who recently
nude a trip around the world, appears
to come to the conclusion that
meat eat mil' is had lor the teniner.
? 1
She says that in no country is home
rendered so unhappy and life nvulc
so miserable by the ill-temper of
those who arc obliged to live together
as i?? England. If' wo compare
domestic Life and manners in
England with "those of other countries
where meat docs not form such
an integral article of diet, a notable
improvement will be remarked. Jn
less meat-eating France, urbanity is
' the rule of the home: in iish and
rice eating -Japan, harsh wor<Li. are
unknown.
The following pllhptio appeal Appeared in
the Kocky Mountain j\7 ?? > : "Lives of poor
men oft remind us hone.st men won't stand
no cluincc; the more we Work there grow
behind us bigger patches on our pants. On
our pnnts onco nc\v an I glossy, now nVc
stripes of (Liferent hue. all" because subscribers
linger ami won't pay us wl/at is due.
Then let tw he up and doing sen I in your
rnite, however small, or when the snow of
winter strikes us we shall have no pants at
all."
ITKCF.I.L hfls move l into the Store lately
occtipied hy It. T. (Ice. on I he is n?'W jo4.
pared to show the prettiest and Che .most
line of l?ry (foods ever brought to Union.
I Jbroin a L?tn>? ->r Ihsj.-.isia Vraukiia
'TO itKNJAMlN VJfftyl Vff, WK JIB Nil or IUKI.I.VMKNT
t'KOM TIIE UOBOVOH OI V.VLNK
I ?WRITTEN IN 17S4.
I
It is wonderful how preposterously
the affairs of this world arc
managed. Naturally one would imagine,
that the interest of a few in'
dividual* should give way to general
interest; but individuals manage
their affairs with so maeh more application,
industry, and address, than
the public do theirs, that general
interest most commonly gives way to
particular. We assemble parliaments
and councils, to have the benefit
of their collected wisdom ; but
we necessarily have, at the same
time, the inconvenience of their collected
passions, prejudices, and private
interests. l>y the help of these,
artful men overpower their wisdom,
and dupe its possessors; and if we
may judge by the acts, arrets, and
edicts, all the world over, for regulating
commerce, an assembly of great
men is the greatest fool upon earth.
1 have not yet, indeed, thought of
a remedy for luxury. I am not sure
that, in a great state, it is capable
of a remedy; nor that tho evil is in
itself always so great as is represent
ed. Suppose wc include in the definition
of luxury all unnecessary expense,
and then let us consider
whether laws to prevent such expense
arc possible to be executed in n great
country, and whether, if they could
be executed, our people generally
would be happier, or even richer. Is
not the hope of being one day able
to purchase and enjoy luxuries, a
great spur to labour and industry ?
May not luxury, therefore, produce
more than it consumes, if, without
such a spur, people would bo, as they
are naturally enough inclined to be,
lazy and indolent? To this purpose
1 I remember a circumstance. The
' skipper of a shallop, employed between
Cape May and Philadelphia,
1 had done lis some small service, for
which he refused to be paid. My
1 wife understanding that he had a
daughter, sent her a present of a new1
fashioned cap. Three years after,
this skipper being at my house with
an old farmer of Cape May, his passenger,
he mentioned the cap, and
how much his daughter had been
pleased with it. "But (said he) it
proved a dear cap to our congregation."?"How
so?"?"When my
daughter appeared with it at meeting,
it was so much admired, that, all the
girls resolved to get such caps from
Philadelphia; and my wife and I
-computed that the whole could not
have cost less than a hundred
pounds."?"True, (said the farmer)
but you do not tell all the story. 1
think the cap was nevertheless an
advantage to us; for it wits the first
thing that put our girls upon knitting
worjitc<f mittens for sale at Philadelphia,
that they might have
wherewith to buy caps and ribbons
there; and you know that that industry
has continued, and is likely
to, continue and increase to a much
greater value, and answer better purposes."?Upon
the whole, I was
more reconciled t<> this little piece of
luxury, since not only the girls were
madc?happier bv having line caps,
. but the Philadclphians by the supply
of warm mittens.
Tn our commercial towns upon the
seacoast, fortunes will be occasion'tilly
made. Some of those who grow
rich will be prudent, live within
boupds. and preserve what they have
gained for their posterity; others,
fond of showing their wealth, will be
extravagant, and ruin themselves,
r Laws cannot prevent this ; and perhaps
it is not always an evil to the
public. A shilling spent idly by a
fool, may he picked up by a wiser
person, w ho know s better what to do
. 1 I . . i / i i
wiin it, it is tncretore not lost. A
vain, silly fellow builds a fine house,
furnishes it richly, lives in it expensively,
and in a few years ruins himself;
but the masons, carpenters,
smiths, and other honest tradesmen
have been, by his employ, assisted in
maintaining and raising their families;
the farmer has been paid for his
labour, and encouraged, and the
estate is now in better hands. In
some eases, indeed, certain modes of
luxury may bo a public evil, in the
same manner as it is a private one.
11' there be a nation for instance, that
exports its beef and linen, to pay for
the importation of claret and porter,
while a great part of its pro} le live
upon potatoes, and wear no shirts;
wherein does it differ from the sot,
who lets his family starve, and sells
his clothes to buy drink'( Our
American.commerce is, I confess,.'a
little in tli is way. We sell our
victuals to-^o islands Ibr rum and
sugar; the substantial necessaries cf
life for superfluities. Hut we have
plenty, and live well nevertheless ;
though, by being soberer, wo might
be richer.
The vast ounntitv of forest land
1 %/ (
we hiive vet to clear ana put in order
fur cultivation. will for a long time
keep tin* body of our nation laborious
and frugal.?Forming an opinion
'of our people, and their manners, by
what i.> seen among the inhabitants
of the seaports, is judging from an
improper sample. The people of the
trading towns may l?e rich and luxurious,
while the country possesses all
the virtues that lend to promote hap 1
puicss and public prosperity. Those j
towns are liot much regarded by the j
country ; they arc hardly considered
lis an essential part of tl^ states ; and
tlio experience of tho lasl war has
shown, that their being in the possession
of the enemy, did not necessarily
draw on the subjection of the
country ; which bravely continued to
maintain its freedom and independence
notwithstanding.
I has been computed by some
political arithiuutjeian, that if .every
man aud woman would work for
four hours each Hay on something
useful, that labour would produce
Sufficient to procure all the necessaries
and comforts of life ; want and
misery would be banished out of the
worl'I, and the rest of the twentyfour
hours miiiht be leisure and
pleasure.
What occasions then so much want
and misery ? It is the employment
of men and women in works that
produce neither the necessaries nor
conveniences of life; who, with
those who do nothing, consume necessaries
raised hy the laborious. To
explain this:
The first elements of wealth are
obtained by laboiu1 from the earth
and waters. 1 have land, and raise
corn. With this, if I feed a family
that does nothing, my corn will be
consumed, and at the end of the year
I shall he no richer than [ was at
the beginning. But if, while I feed
them, I employ them, some in spinning,
others in making bricks, ?S;c:
O1 ( O
for building, the value of my corn
o , y
will be arrested and remain with me,
and at the end of the year we all
may be better clothed and better
lodged. And if, instead of employing
a man 1 feed in making bricks, 1
employ him in fiddling for me, the
corn he eats is gone, and no part of
his manufacture lcmains to augment
the wealth and convenience of the
family; 1 shall, therefore, be the
poorer for this fiddling man, unless
the rest of my family work more, <?r
cat less, to make up the deficiency
he occasions.
Look round the world and see the
millions employed in doing nothing,
or something iliat amounts to nothing.
when the necessaries and conveniences
of life are in iptestion.
V> hat is the hulk of commerce, for
which we light and destroy each
other, hut the toil of millions for
superfluities, to the great hazard and
loss of many lives, hy the constant
danger of the sea ? How much labour
is spent in building and fitting great
ships, to go to China and Arabia for
tea and coffee, to the West Indies for
sugar, to America for tobacco?
These things cannot he called the
necessaries of life, for otir ancestors
lived very comfortably without them.
A question may he asked?Could
all these people now employed in
raising, making, or carrying superfluities,
he subsisted hy raising necessaries?
I think they might. The
world is large, and a great part of it
still uncultivated. Many hundred
millions of acres in Asia, Africa, and
America, arc still in a forest; and a
great deal even in Europe. On a
hundred acres of this forest, a man
might become a substantial farmer ;
and a hundred thousand men employed
in clearing each his hundred
acres, would hardly brighten a spot
large enough to be visible from the
moon, unless with Jlcrsehel s telescope;
so vast are the regions still
in wood.
It is, however, sonic comfort to
reflect that, upon the whole, the
quantity of industry and prudence
among iii<iukiii11 c.\cceus uiu ijuaiiiuy
of idleness and folly. Hence the
increase of good buildings, farms
cultivated, and populous cities filled
with wealth, all over Europe, which
a few ages since were only to he
found on the coast of the Mediterranean;
and this notwithstanding
the mad wars continually raging, by
which are often destroyed, in one
year, the works of many years' peace.
So that we may hope, the luxury of
a few merchants on the coast will not
be the ruin of America.
One reflection more, and 1 will end
this long rambling letter. Almost
all the parts of our bodies require
some expense. The feet demand
shoes ; the legs stockings : the rest
of the body clothing ; and the belly a
good deal of victuals. Our eyes,
though exceedingly useful, ask when
reasonable, ??nly the cheap assistance
of spectacles, which could not much
impair our finances, lfut the eyes
of other people are the eyes that ruin
us. If all hut myself wero blind, I
should want neither fine clothes, fine
houses, nor fine furniture.
i lie tsoii|?|??'rnoiitr.
A oorresp > ii <1 c ii t of (he Country (icnllcman
speaks of a Scuppcrnong grape vine
from which forty bmdie's t I grapes have
been fluid f>r two successive years, mn-1 ii is
probable that it will pro Iiicc lifly bushels
this year. The vine, is trained over an
arbor same 'Jo IVjct long by IS feel wide,
and is a foot in diameter at the ground.
This is not at nlj an uncommon size, and a
fine might easi'y cover an an a of 'J,000
| square feet. The Sctipperuoiig will not
thrive north of !" of latitude, but it is well
known as thick-skinne I g'upe which keeps
well an<l can he shipped long distances. It
has a peculiar tlavor, which is imt disagree
aide to many people, and it makes an acceptable
wine. It reaches its best development
in southeastern Virgin! i and north
eastern t'aroliiu, where it rims will nut
ofun el'iid's b> feet or more into tree tops.
If allowed to grow with no pruning or c.?.e.
except a trellis or s unci him/ to run upon, it
will usually give fair crops
...
' on jiisi ought to go iii and lake a look at
IT IK III,I,'.s' pretty New I- in the Stoic j
house lately occupied by 15. T. 'ice
Prosperity in the SSouth. /
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From all parts of tho 8outh com? txe?\K
lent reports of matcti al progress. The
Southern com crop is grenter'thao ever before
; the cotton crop is l?rge and of fine
quality. In Texas the latier is the largest
tho State has raised, and the prospect of
the market is assured. While cotton is now
chrap, it will not do to overlook the fact
that six cents a pound for cotton nowadays
is a very different thing from what it was a
few years ag>. People generally have not
yet lcarucd to take into consideration I lie
fact that the ino^j^p bye-products of cotton
a-e worth nearly two cents a pound more,
so that the farmer's six is really equivalent
to e'ght cent-.
Tlie corn crop is so large that the South
will this year have a surplus instead of be
ing compelled to import corn for her own
'Consumption. The otnlook for her manufacturing
industries, and her cotton mills
in particular, is better than ever before in
her history, and in every substantial and
material element of business the general
condition of the South is most encouraging
and satisfactory.
In respect of Southern railroad interests
the rcergnni/.ition of the Richmond Terminal
system and tho merging of tho thirty
or forty railroads composing it into tho new
iioqlhcin Railway is nothing short of revolutionary.
As atfeciing Southern business
a If airs of all kiuds its significance cannot he
overestimated. It menus the substitution
in the pivotal industry niul dependence of
thcjcouutry of order in tbu place of chaos,
aurt of stability and responsibility in the
place of absolute irresponsibility. Never
tu the history of railroads was such hopeless
chaos and meflieiency manifested ah in
tho administration of the thousands and
tl o t-ands of miles of ra lroad dircttly
and indirectly involved in the Richmond
Terminal system. Shippers could
p'aec no dependence upon the railroads.
They hail no guarantee ||mi goods confided
ti them would reach lheir consignee, ortliat
goods they had bought would ever arrive.
And abovo all ihcy had no redress. There
was no such thing as recovery of loss, even
when the courts hid done their duly and
ordered restitution. It was one vast system
of inefficiency, mismanagement, and
worse, and its efl'cct upou all mercantile
business was disastrous.
The new order of things is very different.
The Southern II lilway is the result of the
pratical obliteration of between thirty and
forty corporations, the elimination of millions
of fictitious va'uatioos anil unren-'ona
ble burdens, and it stts up in their place a
solid, resourceful, and vigorous railroad
system founded upon modern and scientific
economics and el' the first efficiency. This
has been accomplished by Mr. Samuel Sprncer,
in coniformity with the general plan
and purpose of the reorganization undertaken
by the great banking house of Drcxel,
Moigan & Co.
Mr. Spencer in ndditlon to being one of
the first railroad mcu in the country, was
specially equipped for the problem in hand
by bis intimate knowledge of Southern rail
road properties, and of those of the Terminal
system in particular. Jlesilcs it is
doubtful if anyboily is better qualified lev
dealing with the fnmi iar ailment of railroad
dropsy. When Mr. Spencer was elected
President of the Jltliimorc and Ohio Kailroad
Company, one of liis earliest acts in
office was to take $26,1 MM),000 off the surplus
of that great corporation by a simple stroke
of Ins pen. It is to this gilt of Mr. Spencer's
that we may attribute the fact loot '.he
Southern Uailro id Company cnteis upon the
conflict ot its business, even utter such conditions
as have to long prevailed, earning
its fixed charges and a very considerable
surplus.
Taken for all in all, the business prospects
of the South are, at the present inoinert.
brighter than those of any other part
of the country. It depends upon the people
of the South themselves if these conditions
arc to continue. What they need is
uuintcrnii ted industry and a sound respect.
f> r law. If they hive the good sense to
abjure populism, an 1 socialism, and anarchism.
and sec to it that the rights of property
nre observed in behalf of great and
small, tich and poor, they can be as prosperous
as they please. There is no appreciable
limit to their re-outces, and with industry
and honesty goirg hand in hand, there
should he no litti'i to their development.
Let thctn study the lesson that Texas has
learned at such grievous expense and painful
retardation. Iler UengaiH and her
Hoggs, whom she is now at last repudiating,
have cost her untold millions of dollars, and
have put back her natural and rcasouable
developmcnt by at least its tuuch ns fifteen
years ?Sun.
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OLD PILOT'S REMINISCENCES.
\Vli.U J. W. <'uiii|>b?>ll Han to Kay I
AIiiiiiI i Ik* l'|ip?r Mi4*ls*l|i|)l.
Cspt. J. W. Campbell, of Fort Madison,
In., a pioneer pilot of tho upi?er Mississippi,
writes thus about the past ami
present; "I emerged from the haxel
brusti in northeast Missouri in 184-1 to
tako a first peep at the wide world boyond,
Having been infatuuted in early
youth with the eat fish and drift log business,
it was but natural I should seek a
nautical pursuit. Consequently I driftoil
on board an upper Mississippi steamboat
and liegan to servo as a cub pilot
along shore 1s t ween St. Louis and Fort
Snelling. The first duty of a cub is to
designate tho difference between fore
and nft?larboard and starboard? ami
with brains enough to determine if the
current of the river runs to the north or
south."
"lie is then j>ermitted to enter tho pilot
house and tako the wheel, while his
senior lights his pipe, and being constitutionally
tired seats himself on an elevated
bench in tho rear and looks complacently
on. Presently, under the ma
i.<..c iKjt ..i ?..L <i..v
jii|Hiiaii<?u ui un; tuu, mu ?nrn
begins to spin from right to left?loft to
right?hard up and hard down; he strikes
with his clumsy paws at tho revolving
wheel with the awkwardness of his matured
namesake and involuntarily his
pedal extremities come in contact with
the $|>okes of tho inner circle of the
wheel below, thereby illustrating the results
of centrifugal force by throwing
him outside of th^ pilot house.
"But after a few more experiments of
a similar kind he l>ocomes more skillful,
aud with less exertion guides the boat
steadily along, and then begins his greatest
task by learning the shores that he
may distinguish unerringly one locality
from another in the darkest night, after
which he is directed to observe the fol- 1
lowing landmarks: 'ITead of Island,
Foot of Bond, Cut Bank, Willow Towhead,
Big Hollow, High lllulT. Point noPoint,
Dead Cottonwood Tree, Tall Sycamore,'
with many more, all of which by
association liecome indelibly painted
upbn the panorama of tho mind, and
when they are recognized by the cub
they become welcomed companions to
him in the darkness of the night?a
warning sentinel by which ho avoids the
breakers and reefs ahead.
"He is now nrenared to stand a watch.
is 110 longer dubbed the cub, but is en
titled to promotion and receives tlio cognomen
of 'star gazer.'
"It was much harder when I began
for one to learn than at present, for the
country above Prairio dti Chien was uninhabited,
except by Indians and a fewwhite
traders, but now we have villages
and cities from ten to twenty miles
apart, with government lights located at
every dillicult crossing on the river.
While on inv first voyage I was directed
on passing the head of Coon slough to
hold her on Wild Cat bluff, where now
nestles beneath its shadows the prosperous
village of Brownsville, and on ascending
ten miles farther tip wo land on
the east side of Prairie La Crosse, containing
then but two houses. The upper
0110 was occupied by a Mr. Mi rick, used
jointly as a rcsidenco and warehouse,
and 100 yards below stood a log hut ,
tenanted by a Mr. White, while the bar- ,
ren sand banks intermediate woro dotted
with Winnebago wigwams. ,
"On this bleak and lonely sand prairie
of the past we behold at present a magical
change. The name is abbreviated i
to plain La Crosse. Instead of two residents,
we find bore now a population of
over 00,000 people. We hoar the sound
of tlio buzzing saw of mills less than a i
hundred yards apart for over five miles .
tip and down the river, while in front
along the shore are millions upon millions
of pine lumber and saw logs awaiting
to Ihj towed down the river to supply
tlio increasing demands of the great
southwest.
"In place of 0110 solitary steamboat
landing here semi-monthly, we see them
come ami go i?y me ikiki'ii umtv iweuiyfour
hours, for more of them are owned
in La Crosse than at any other point l>o- |
tween St. I/?uis and St. Paul, and my (
companions in days of yore, with the ,
fledglings of today, liave organized a
pilot association here with over 150 mem- ]
l>ers, who question the propriety of the ,
government in appointing an insjn-ctor
whom they deem inexperienced.
"Again we are under way, passing ,
ti|>on our left niajeslie IdufTs arising sev- ,
era I hundred feet a hove t ho water's edge,
while upon our right wo view for miles
in the distance the valley of Pluck river,
whose pine limber has since added millions
to the wealth of the pioneer settler.
After steaming eighteen miles farther up
this rock hound mountain shore I oh- |
served pine trees growing ui?on a ledge j
of rocks, and on the tho face below was |
etched the words 'Georgo Catlin.' On \
viewing again this once familiar name,
hut by me then almost forgotten, my ]
thoughts reverted quickly hack to child- j
hood's happy hours, passed in gathering \
g<odes along shore for this great Anier- (
ienn traveler, an ever welcome guest at >
the savage wigwam or princely palace. |
We cross over to the right hand shore, .
and the valley is in our rear, while in ,
front we behold tho greatest curiosity on ,
the Mississippi river, a conical island |
mountain. 700 feet in height, commonly s
called 'MouifV Stroiiibulo,' hut by tho ,
nnrl V 1*4?11i? ii'Miroeo t /?
\ %*m B j * t \ IIVII ? if J m? 1I1V/II lai^IIU J
quo tronq>e :i t'eau."?Chicago Times. <
terrniotiiiiiifi. i
Frenchmen are noted lor their pune- .
tiliouaness, but I hey have no monopoly ,
of (hat virtue. A nieo sense of propriety i
occasionally crops out in quite unexpect- j
etl quarters. ]
"Pat," said the superintendent of one |
of our New Knglnnd manufactories, '"go ,
down to the linn's ofliee and wash the *
windows." |
Pat presently appeared in the outer
room with his bucket and sponges.
"An' T was tould to wash the wimlys
in the firm's ofliee," he said to one of tliu
clerks.
"All right, that's it light in there," ,
answered the clerk, pointing to the ,
door. ,
"Hut they're in there," said Pat. i
"Oh. never mind, go right in."
i>m i .h siiii iiesuaieii. "faith," said |
In , "an' would ye |i|azr lie after goin' iu ,
an' inthrodueiii' ine?"?Youth's Com- (
panion.
All 0|>t illliol, I
<l< iinio (i i ion ru fill I v i .lust look af oiii :
lovely green grass. Surely, when (lie 1
snow roinea, it will all die and w it her. '
Charlie Never iniii I, dear. Look n
the bright side of thin;" (if e..ur-e it '
w ill{ilie. 1 tut that 111 l? our law ii lale.
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MY OLD UMBRELLA.
OM friend, neglected there you stand
Behind my closet door.
You've really grown too shabby now
To carry any more.
Around your rusty fmmo tho silk
,|ln faded splendor ellngn,
While numerous little genteel darns
To view the sunlight brings.
I need the spaeo you occupy
Within my small domain;
And yet to throw you out, I thlnL*
Would give mo mental pain.
Some sad and pleasant memories
Knclrolo your gaunt form.
Outside of times you've sheltered me
From sun as well as 6torm
Ye?S many a tramp, old friend, we've bad
In rain and pleasant weather;
To weddings gay. and funeruls sad
Wo'vo often gone together
And when with merry friends I've climbed
The mountains?you as prop
Helped me In triumph o'er the rest
By gaining first tho top.
When In a crowded ear I've irone.
And could not Rot a scat,
Twas your crook'd haudlo held the strap,
And kept wo on my feet.
But far nlxivo your usefulness,
One memory sweet I see,
'Tis this?'neatli your protecting shade
My .lohn pro|K)6ed to me.
?Elsio llncklin^ in Good Housekeeping.
Putt I'm lllgli Notes.
A writer in Tho Ixmdon World says of
Mme. Patti's terms for singing in concerts;
"I liavo all my life had a weakness
for ladies, and ladies have always
had (ho weakness to know what is not
(heir business, so I am going to bet ray a
secret of the trade to tho lady readers of
this paper in order to let them get an insight
into affairs discussed by every body,
although 'everybody' knows nothing
aliout what is reailv tho matter. From
all sides I hear of tho greediness of Mme.
Patti, tho exorbitant prices she asks, and
how she does not earo whether tho people
in whose concerts she sings arc ruined
so long as sho receives her money. Tho
fact Is this: Mmo l'atti receives for every
concert in the Albert hall . 700?an enormous
amount, no doubt.
"Now let us see as to the ruin of tho
people who engage her. Tho expenses
of tho hall are aliout ?100, other artists
?200, advertising, etc., say ?100; the
whole forms ?1,150 to ?1,800 costs. Tho
receipts of this first year's concert were
al>out ?1,700, of the second over ?1,800,
and tho third will probably l>e still larger
?t hat is to say, ?500, ?000 and ?700
profit. I know that once in a concert
in which sho sang tho expenses were a
little over ?1,000 and tho receipts ?2,143,
with ?153 taken for programme books.
These are figures, not opinions. I have
known what is perhaps Btill more astonishing.
Olio evening tiiO fog was go
thick that I was reflecting whether I
should go to the hall, imagining that
Mme. Patti, whom I had to accompany,
would not CO. 1 went liowever .nfter
nil, by tho underground railway, ami
the receipts that evening left over ?000
profit."
A Persevering Prisoner.
"Perseverance will accomplish everything."
I had these words for a writing
lesson once and I shall never forget
them. It is a great thing to have perseverance.
There was once a uian who
was shut up in a dungeon with walls
200 feet thick, made of tho hardest kind
of stone. IIo had 110 tools except a pair
of scissors his brother had sent him in a
loaf of bread, hut ho remembered that a
drop of water will wear away a stone if
it falls 011 the stone long enough, and
that a coral worm, which is so small
that you can hardly see it, will cat up
and destroy a coral reef if you will only
give it time enough. So he said that ho
would persevere and dig a holo through
the wall of the dungeon with the scissors
and escape if it took him a hundred
years.
lTo had been digging about a year
when the govornor pardoned him and
the jailer brought him the joyful news.
Hut they couldn't get him to leavo tho
ihingeot). lie told tho jailer that lie had
undertaken to dig his way through the
wall and escape in that way, and that he
was going to stick to it, no matter how
long it might take. Tho jailer urged
him to give it up and walk out of the
iluor, and even offered him $10 to give
tip his dungeon to a new lodger, but
nothing could induce him to change his
mind. So ho staid in tho dungeon and
ilug away at tho wall for forty-seven
years, an?i every six months lie had to
pay a big l>i)l for damages to the jail,
md ho finally died when ho was half
through the wall. This shows what a
splendid thing perseverance is, and that
we all ought to persevere.?W. L. Alden. i
Tiipper's ICgotlsiii.
Sir ti-? D , a personage not unknown
to fame, once encountered tlio
late Martin Farquhar Tapper 011 a Clyde
steamer, and was accosted by him in
thoee terms: "I perceive that I am not
the only distinguished man 011 board."
Mr. Tapper smiled not as lie spoke,
being quiio in earnest and, indeed, wishing
to pay Sir G what he conceived
to bo a high compliment. This little incident
occurred on deck. Presently Mr.
flipper went down into the cabin, but
before doing so handed his umbrella to
1 young lady, a |>erfeet stranger, to tako
are of it for him. " Young lady," ho
observed to the astonished recipient of
the umbrella, "you will now he able to
iay in after life that you once held the
umbrella of Martin Tupper." Same
unileless expression as lieforo. The
itory is told of Tupper that one evening
10 attended a dinner party after having
ost his jKtrtiiianteau in the afternoon,
md at the table, when lie had talked a
great deal about, his loss, a wit who was
resent interrupted him by saying: "If
1 had lost my portmanteau, Mr. Tupper,
f, being an ordinary man, should have
ecu justified in boring a dinner 'able
ivitli my grivf. Hut you, Mr. Tunner?
four philosophy is proverbial."?San
Francisco Argonaut.
Kill I'Iujjho*.
The plague which the agriculturists of
Kuglaiul arc now suffering from the ravigcs
of rats is not without precedent in
I'unadu. The nearest approach to this
rat plague is the plague of mice which
rinded Prince Kdward Island and Nova
Scotia in the enrlv part of the century.
As long ago as 1091) the undue prevalence
of mice in Prince Kdward Island,
?r tlic Island of St. John as it was then
[ ailed, was noted by the French settlers;
mil in 1171. both on that island and on
llie adjacent main laud, a complaint
nose that these animals were again loo
numerous and too familiar. In the latter
year the mice visited the fields and
ite up everything, including the potatoes.
and having finished this disastrous
kvoi'l. they turned their attention to lib riture,
and consumed the leather binding
L)f tlw settlers' hooks.? Ottawa Telegram.
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