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CHILDHOOD’^ VAlXEY.
It was a quiet valley,
Set tar from human Ills,
a sunny, sioplnn ■ftlieir, . >
Begin with-grMn, v gTCen hills;
The white clouds softly knitted
Gray shadows In the grass;
The seaiblrds poised and flitted
As they were loath to pass.
A clear stream thrld the bridges,
; Blue, lazy smoke apenned;
Beyond Its parple ridges
Lay tne unquiet world.
Under the IrUfl rafters, ^ ' A~
Low orooued the sun-drowsed dove
While youthful, breezy laughter
Koved o^tte dopes IlioVe. ‘ /"
Where aM Mr flowar-pled spaces
We children made bright quest
Sure as we ran quick -races
The far-seen flower was best.
Thus while the sun typUfeid, ' ’*■
And flashed adowfl the stream,
The white clouds drifted, drifted,
In deep, uptroubled dream.
Fair shines that sunny valley,
Set far from human Ula; ’
Our childhood’s simple valley
Begin with green, green mils.
J /V /• * * , ’ ' » t.
Nor all the world’s mad riot -
Which we have known since thee
Bath touched tturvailey’s quiet
Deep in our hearts own ken.
MINNIK’M MAtCtt-MAKINa.
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"Oh, I'm not &t all timid,” laughed' proposed to go and ask Mrs, Oates to
f. .X
A dainty parlor, at glowing fife, a
pretty little woman listening for the
footsteps ot h«r lord and master.
' This charming picture of domeetio
bliss John Ackerman fully appreciated
as he stepped into the room a few min
utes later. : ; ; * *
Tea ended, the following conversa
tion began:
"You know my sifter Amy is coming
home with hie for a Ibng visit, John.”
"Don't yon think it would be a capi
tal thing if she and your brother Tom
would fall in love with each other?”
"They could get married and set up
housekeeping , in that i^onse across the
street; and, oh, JoTin, it would make
me perfectly happy!” v -. ■ , ( ^
John Ackerman langhed long and
very heartily,
"Match-making, by Jove!" he said,
at last. * *
"Miserable yooruelf, and want every
body else to be; is that it, Minnie?”
"Don’t laugh, John, for I’m in earn
est.”
Amy.
"There’s a gang of burglars about
the^neighborhood,” urged Mrs. dates.
"They’ve been in three houses in
this street, and duly last Bandar night
there was % dreadful robbery in the
next strret, and a man nearly killed.”
"You are welcome to oome in and
sleep on our sofa if you are afraid,”
',‘No, thank you,” Amy said.
"I will risk it for one night, and you
say Mr. and Mrs. Ackerman will re
turn to morrow.”
'$he let herself into the deserted
house, not without some thrills of fear,
it must be confessed.
How quiet everything was!
Oh, if Minnie were onlv there!
She took a survey of
Life od the Mountain Frontier.
the looms, the
"I know they will like each other, and
I have set my heart on the match; just
think how 11106 it would be to have
Amy here always; and Tom is snob a
darling?”
"Amy should furnish her sitting-
room jiibt like ours, only where this is
bine hers should be cardinal, for she is
dark, yon know.”
John was laughing again by this
time. { •
"However, he fell ih with the. j^lan
readily enough.
"I tell you what it is, Minnie.’'
"Don’t yon say a word of this to Tom
or Amy, or they will take a dislike to
e&oh other immediately.’*
"I know it,” wisely rejoined Minnie,
"When 1 told Tom 1 was going to
visit Aunt Margaret, I did not mention
Amy’s name, and I don’i think., he kqqws
of her existence. ”
J'As for Amy, I have been with her
so little since I was married, that I am
sure I nevef'spoke to her of Tom.”
Minnie departed the next morning.
The day before she Was to return,
Aunt Margaret fell ill, and Amy felt
obliged to postpone her visit for a few
days at leapt. , i 5 4 * / i. f
Minnie could go on as she had in
tended, and sh’e would follow m soon as
Aunt Margaret ooold sparp her..
T^ius it happened that Minnie re
turned home alone. One morning
John said; ,
' "We had better take that long run to
Cambridge to-day.” f ~
We must go some time this month,
and of course you won’t want tb go
after yoursister comes.”
"John, yon know we cannot stay
away all night; I gave Jennie leave of
absence until Friday, and it won’t do to
leave tne house alone.*’
"I’ll get Tom to come uid sleep here.”
Minnie had no otieF reaiiouaMe ob
jection to make after this, so the pre
pared to go.
"There are three keys,” said she, as j flry.
they left.
"Yon can give one to' Tom, and 1
will leave one with Mrs. Oates, next
door,”
The house might take fire, and then
it wotUd be better to have a key, so that
they could get in the boose and bring
ont the things.”
"Yes,” said John, sarcastically, "or
I might hire a lot of policemen to watch
the house a ay and night.”
About ten o'clock that eyening Miss
[Amy Arden alighted ixom an express
I train, and looked about the station as if
acting some one.
"They could not have received my
end note,” she concluded, after wait
ing nearly half an hour in the ladies’
neat kitchen last of all, where she eon-
eluded to look for something to eat
Hark! what was that?
Only the silver-toned clock striking
eleven.
! "That’ woman’s talk about burglars
has made me nervous,” she thought
continuing her search for eatables,”
Hark, again!
, Barely that was a key turning in a
lock; tnen a door opened and shat
quietly, and there were footsteps in the
hall.
Amy's small stock of courage went
down to zero.
What would happen next?
Instinctively sue grasped a poker ly
ing on the fender.
The next instant the door opened,
and a great broad-shouldered man with
blackened face and hands stepped into
the room. » c £
Amy felt herself growing white with
fear, but she raised her poker threaten
ingly.
For a moment they stared at each
other m silence, and then the man
spdke. ■’ i
"Who the deuoe are you?”
Amy tried to shriek for help, bnt
the sound died away in her throat; she
is too thoroughly frightened to speak
or move.
Presently the man came towards
her.
"Will yon please lower the poker, or
eke move away from the sink?”
"I would like to oome there and
wash my hands,” he said, looking very
mueb mcUnexi"to lar-ix.
Was ever such effrontery known be
fore? '
Still speechless, Amy moved slowly
round towards what seemed to bd an
outside door.
"Don’t glare at me in that frightful
way,” he went on, with a glance into
her terror-stricken eyes.
"1 will look more presentable when
I get my face washed.”
Then came a hearty laugh, which re
assured Amy a very little.
Oertaiuly this was a most extraordi
nary burglar, or eke there was some
ridiculous mistake, she thought, drop
ping her weapon, and tugging away at
oome over for the rest of the night; but
Amy protested against this, saying she
was not afraid if he would remain in
the house.
Minnie was quite beside herself when
she came home and found how affairs
had gone in her absence; crying one
minute over Amy’s fright, laughing the
next over Tom’s graphic description of
the same, it was some time before they
settled down to anything like quiet
ness
As the days and weeks went by, Min
nie ooold not determine whether oer -
tain plans of hers were to prosper or
not.
Tom spent all Ms evening with them,
bnt he and Amj were always ou con
trary sides of every question, and they
tantalized each other so unmercifully
that poor Minnie sometimes despaired
of their being friends, not to mention
a nearer relation.
She was, however, delighted one
evening before the month was ont at
having her attention called to a diamond
ring sparkling on the Anger of her
blnshing sister; and a marriage between
Tom and Amy three weeks afterwards
proved beyond a doubt how successful
she had been in her little game Of
"Match-making.”
Dal on Farms.
a huge bolt with trembling Angers.
ydtihg i
‘Well, I can very easily And thflr
louse.” kB
'Arrived, Amy ran across the small
plot, and rang Ike bell. - - ^
Mrs. dates from next door spqn ex-
kined matters. ;
"She probably did not receive my
note, which 1 pewted yesterday
rWeH, I’ll give you the key; hut are:
Du not afraid to stay alone in the
•ef’
By *.Mn time the ybtihg man had An-
ished his ablations, ar d presented quite
a different appearance.
"I.aft Mr./ Ackerman's brother,” he
said, politely.
"He asked me to remain in hu house
to-day, as a maapa of protection in his
absence.”
"Mr. Ackerman has no brother,”
contradicted Amy, stoutly.
. "Are yon sure of that?”
- "(je^tainly I am,"”"
"Mm. Ackerman has just paid me a
visit, and she^ would have mentioned
him if such a person efUted.”
“Can it be possible you are Aunt
Margaret?”
"Aunt Margaret, indeed!”
Amy wus .Anding courage enough.
"I beg your pardon,” said Tom;
"but Minnie told me she was going to
visit her Aunt Margaret, and you said
she had been visiting you, hence my
mistake;,” <
"I am Mrs. Aekennan’t sister.”
"Strange that I never heard her speak
of you!”
"fipwevqr, I am aqrry I frightened
you, Miss—Miss Arden, and if ^ou will
allow me I will explain matters.”
"I am book-keepe* at Bolton’s foun-
"You looked more like Captain
Moonlight,” said Amy, ready to cry
with vexation and nervonsnees.
"Or a burglar," added-Two,
"Well, as 1 was saying, 1 am book
keeper there, But as there was a press
of work at the foundry to-night, and as
they happened to be abort of hands, I
offered to stay and assist; this accounts
for my blackened face and hands.”
"Hate you examined the photograph-
album?” he asked suddenly.
"If you will kindly do so, I think
you will And a very good representation
of me there, which will convince you
that I sm at least Oh terms of intimacy
here,”
He looked very mnoh like indulging
in another hearty laugh, but restrained
himself at the sight of Amy’s white
distressed face.
"I was afraid I wss rude,” she said;
"but it was suoh a shook to me.”
,S I am very tired and ”
Tpm sprang ner side, or she would
have fallen from sheer exhaustion.
He hpiped her into the little drawing
room, brought wine and refreohm«*nts
from Minnie’s well-stocked cupboard,
and they were toon talking matters over
quite calmly.
It waa after two o'clock when Tom
No: very far frem the palace, we
were shown over what we particularly
wished to see, a model Dutch farm.
Anything so pretty and so exquisitely
neat we never saw; red and blue, here
and there white and yellow, were the
prevailing colors. On entering, we
were directly in the kitchen. One
large corner was raised and made a
platform. On this platform, the family
had their meals and spent their leisure
hours, which, judgi ig from the ac
tivity we saw, most be few and far
between; for it was a farm where all the
sons and daughters worked, and few
hired hands were employed. The
stove was a perfect picture, bright as
steel; and the china plaques facing it
(blue and white) looked so tempting
and pretty. All the pails, etc., were
painted bine; and the iron hoops were
polished till they looked like silver,
The dairy was beautifully kept, but
totally different from oar ideas of
dairy. The farm is famous for the
skim-milk cheeses, not those round,
red cheeses we call Dutoh ohooeoo, or
the Gouda chesses, which arecohsideret
in Holland as inferior to others, bnt
large, rather Aat cheeses. The milk
pans are extremely deep and narrow at
the base, and the milk stands one day
and night. It is then skimmed, the
cream makes batter, and the whole o:
the milking of the day before makes
one cheese. They make about 250
cheeses in the year, all of which go
direct to England. The pans are all
set on the ground, which, like ajl the
rest of the building, is tiled and painted
red. The cow-byres were also all
painted red, walls and floors, except
the stone coping which divided the
mangers from the cows, and tdis was
painted in red, blue and white stripes.
There was no division between the
cows, who are fastened by a elumsy-
iooking bat simple contrivance when
they inhabit this beautiful home. Just
now they are out all day and night,
and are milked in die Aelds, One
thing all through Holland gives a well
Amshea and pleasant look to all country
life, and was partionlarly noticeable in
the outbuilding of this farm—the wood
work, it is so beautifully finished. The
railings of the outdoor staircase to the
hay-loft might adorn many a gentle
man’s honse in England; the bars are
round and polished, the commonest
ladders are not rough, the gates are
ornamental and almost always painted,
and the palings are beantafnlly neat.
The good vrouw was pleased by our
keen appreciation, and led the way to a
very small sitting-room (which is never
used), to show us a glass bookcase.
Each shelf was full of silver ornaments
which had been presented to her and
her husband the year before, on their
sliver wedding day. All round the
place the greatest tidings prevailed.
The cows are almost all black and
white, and you seldom soe any other
color; when yon do, it is generally don
color. They are sometimes a great
size, bnt the^moet prevailing kind are
not very large. Here the cows were
very fine. We counted twenty in one
field near the farm, and there may
have been more. I wanted to know
how many they kept, and was told the
number varied. When they had a good
cow they kept her; when they saw a
good cow they bought her; and when
they had a bad cow they sold her.
The picturesque features of life in a
Western Montana town like Missoula
are best seen as evening approaches.
Orowds of roughly clad men gather
around the doors of the drinking-saloons.
group of Indians, who have been
squatting on the sidewalk for two hours
playing soma mysterious game of cards
of their own invention, breaks up. One
of the squaws throws the cards into the
street, which is already decorated from
end to end with similar relics ot other
games. Another ings a baby upon
ler back, ties a Fhawl aronnd it ancj,
herself, secures the child with a strap
buckled across her chest, and strides
off, her mocoasined feet toeing Inward,
in the traditional Indian fashiou. She
wears a gown made of a scarlet calico
bed-qnilt, with leggings of some bine
staff; bnt she has-somehow managed to
get a civilized dress for the child.
They all go off to their camp on the
nil near by. Some blue-coated soldiers
from the neighboring military post,
remembering the roll-call at sunset,
swing themselves upon their horses and
go galloping off, a little the worst for
the had whisky they have been drinking
:in the saloons. A miner in blue woolen
shirt and brown canvas trousers, with a
hat of astonishing dimensions and a
beard of a year's growth, trots up the
street on a mule, and, with droll oaths
and shuffling talk, offers the animal for
sale to the crowd of loungers on the
hotel piazza. No one wants to buy,
and, after provoking a deal of laughter,
the miner gives his ultimatum: "I’ll
hitch the critter to one of them piazza
posts, and if he don’t pull it down yon
may have him,” This generous offer
is declined by the landlord; and the
miner rides off, declaring that he has
not a solitary fonr-Ut piece to pay for
his sapper, and is Mund to sell the mole
to somebody.
Toward nightfall the whole male pop
ulation seems to be in the street, save
the busy Chinamen in the laundries,
who keep on sprinkling clothes by
blowing water out of their mouths.
Early or late, you will find these indnst-
rious little yellow men at work. One
shuffles back and forth from the hydrant,
o«urryi.npj xwotnr for nunniag wawdi 111
coal-oil cans hang to a stick balanced
across his shoulders. More Indians
now—a "buck" and two squaws, lead
ing ponies heavily laden with tent,
clothes, and buffalo robes. A rope tied
around a pony’s lower jaw is the ordi
nary halter and bridle of the Indians.
These people want to bay some article
at the saddler’s shop, They do not go
in, bnt stare through the windows for
five minutes. The saddler, knowing
the Indian way of dealing, pays no
attention to them. After a while they
all ait down on the ground in front of
the shop. Perhaps a quarter of an hour
passes before the saddler asks what
they want If he had noticed them at
first, they would have gone away with
out buyiug.
•air With Genttomaa.
The Isolated
5 itv.
The "isolated city of the great North
west” is up the Missouri river, 1,200
miles beyond Bismarck, away from any
railroad, hemmed in by mountains,
and at this season shut out from all the
world. It bears the name of Benton,
in honor of "Old Bullion,” and it is the
magazine of the Bristish Northwest. It
is a substantial town, because lumber
is ao costly there that it is economy to
build with brick. Daring navigation
twenty-two steamboats carry freight to
this remote city, and the volume of
business there justifies a Chamber of
Commerce and mammoth brick blocks.
The 8000 souls in this mountain fast
ness must enjoy a peace that passeth
nadaiatsmiing In the busy life ot New
York.
A f ew evenings ago, while half a dozen
gentlemen were standing at the bar of one
of the most fashionable up-town saloons
in 'W ashmgton, a well-dressed good-looking
stranger entered the room and walked
straight up to the bar, and addressed the
bar-keeper in language like the following:
"Btranger, 1 am in a very, very bad
condition. I want a drink; 1 must have
a drink, but I am compelled to make the
humiliating statement that I am unable at
present to pay for it If you will be kind
enough to tavor ms in my extremity you
shall be paid, sir.”
"We don’t keep whiskey to give away
here,” was the blunt reply of the bar
keeper. The stranger begged, but the
bar-keeper was inexorable and even rude.
The mild-manaered stranger turned to the
gentlemen who had been witnesses to the
conversation and said: "Gentlemen, you
are all strangers to me, but would one of
you be kind enough to loan me the price
of a drink? I will pay it back.”
One of the party addressed handed the
stranger 15 cents.
* He stepped up to tbs bar and said,
"Now can I have a drink?”
"Yes,” said tbs bar-keeper, "anybody
can get a drink for the money here?”
"I thought so,” said the stranger.
The bottle of "red licker” was placed
on the bar, the strauger filled his glass
liberally
"A little bitters m there. If you
please,’’ said the stranger. Then, when
the bitters was furnished, he asked for a
large glass of water, which was also set
up. The stranger drank his beverage and
then turned to the man who bad loaned
hint the money and said:
"Btranger, 1 make it a point of honor to
pay borrowed money before 1 pay whiskey
bills; here is your 15 cents; 1 am greatly
obliged for the loan,” and so saying he
walked out. The dazed barkeeper, seeing
that be was sold, and that the laugh was
on bun, ran to the door and called to the
man to come back.
The stranger promptly returned and in
quired, "What do you want?” The bar
keeper replied, "That was a cute tnck
you played, and I own up that you caugut
me. The drinks are on me. What will
you take?*’ "Excuse me, sir,” replied
the stranger, "I drink only with gentle
men; I cannot drink with you,” and the
mysterious Btranger walked away, leaving
the bar-tender to wonder whether It would
not have been better to give a stranger one
drink than to be caught by « trick and
have to 'vet ’em up” to a whole crowd.
Quick Transit to Londoo.
The announcement has just been
made of the abandonment of the plan
for organizing a fast steamship line of
American-built vessels to ply between
this country and Great Britain, which
exoiteo so much attention when first
made public about a year ago. The
intention was to have vessels start from
Fort Pond Bay, at the easterly end of
Long Island, and go to Milford Haven.
Passengers were to be conveyed in
swift express trains to Fort Pond Hay
and from Milford Haven ;to London,
and the suture trip between New York
and London was to oocupylsss than
six days, ^(icnial featuresrif the plan
were that no steerage passengers or
freight should be carried; and that the
steamships, which were to be of steel,
should be built and equipped in this
country. The line was to begin with
three vessels, whose cost was to be
: (5,000,000. Higher rates than those
now in vogne were to be charged pas
sengers, bnt there was also to be an
Increase in the luxuries and comforts on
the new vessels. After the first an
nouncement the project was poshed for
a while wiih vigor, and even until very
recently it was supposed to be still
under way. To find ont the causes of
the abandonment a reporter called yes
terday on Mr. Jacob Lonllard, who
was its originator. Mr. Lorillard was
quite communicative. He said:—
"When the American Express Line
was first projected we thought the dis
position of OoDgr?"s was to aid Ameri
can shipping, and that the best plau of
assistance would be to help establish
the finest steamship line in the world,
and we had reason to believe that we
shoold be able to effect a mail contract
with the Government. We calculated
to issue $5,000,000 worth of bonds to
build our ships. Then to secure bond
holders we expected to assign the whole
mail contract, which would amount to
$600,000 per year, and was to run ten
years. We expected thus to be able, at
the end of ten years, to pay off the
bonds, principal and interest. The
contract we proposed to make was that
the Government should pay us a cer
tain price if the mails were delivered
on the other side within five days, a
less price if they were not delivered
within six days, and nothing at all if
they were not delivered within seven
days. We also offered to carry Ameri
can Consols and American Government
officers on Government business free of
charge. Our application for a mail
contra was made and reported favora
bly upon, bnt we failed to receive it.
Then the Shipping bill before Conan**
was knocked endways, and we feared
that with the additional .cost of con
struction of vessels on this side we
should be unable to make the American
Express Line pay, as the English Lines
would put their passage rates down so
low that we would be unable to com
pete with them. Then, American ves
sels are obliged to pay higher wages to
sailors and officers, our wages account
being nearly double that on foreign
vessels. Incidental expenses are also
greater. Why, American sailors will
not eat the same food that English
ships provide, and where the latter are
at an average expense of $8 per month
for each man’s food an American sai
lor’s food will cost from $12 to $14 per
month. In fact, without Government
help a line of American vessels is im
practicable. Mr. Lorillard went on to
say that the only money lost in the
soneme was about $10,0U0, which he
personally paid out lor the construction
of models and designs.
The route whion the American Ex
press Line was to have used, from Fort
Eond Bay to Milford Haven, is to be
utilized, however, by the recently
organized British and American Express
Steamship Company (limited), whose
vessels are at present building on the
Clyde. The British and American
Steamship Company is composed of
American and English capitalists. Its
capital stock is £2,000,000. The
l/OSlng One’s Dtamonas.
People who own diamonds are very
careful of their property, though we
know of one person who owned a $4,-
000 diamond, lost it twice, and paid the
full value of tho diamond, in rewards
for its recovery, Bnt another dealer
wonders, considering people's csroless-
ness, that he doesn’t find diamonds on
the streets and side-walks. It is sur
prising that the setting holds the stones.
It is so far gone, sometimes, that tap it
ontg^pounter gently, and the stonfi?
ill roll dfit. One can put his finger
FOOD FOB THOUGHT.
Company proposes to carry passengers
between New York and London in six
days by vessel and rail. The principal
diflereuoe between the British and
American Line and the abandoned
Amenoau Express Line is that the for
mer will sail English ships, and will
carry steerage passengers and freight as
other lines are now doing. The gain in
sailing distance by the new route is
about 170 miles at the other end, avoid
ing the inclosed waters and currents of
St. George’s Channel; and 118 miles
at tbia end, avoiding the dangerous
coasts of Long Island and New Jersey,
A survey is now in progress by tne
Long Island Railroad for the purpose
of laying steel rails from the present
eastern terminus of the road to Fort
Pond Bay, to connect with the incoming
vessels of the new company.
A Marvelous Memory.
Home Is not a name, nor a form nor
a routine, it is a spirit, a presence, a
principle. Material and method will
not and cannot make it It must get
it* light and sweetness from those who
inhabit it, from flowers and sunshine.
Frank Bangs, the well-known actor,
is the possessor of a very remarkable
visual memory. It is said that he mem
orizes his parts entirely by the eye, and
remembers distinctly the exact position
of every word on the page. Of this
peculiar characteristic a friend says:
I have often beard that it was a com
mon thing in the clubs to test Mr-
Bangs’ memory when he was more of a
rounder. He wonld stand with his back
turned while a number of gentlemen
emptied their pockets of all sorts o
things and laid them In a confused heep
on the table. There would be cards,
cigars, cigarettes, keys, money, knives,
buttons, toothpicks, eyeglasses, pencils,
and indeed odds and ends of all sorts.
Bangs would wheel about and glance at
the mass, turn away again, and not only
tell how many of each kind of article
there was on the table, but would also
narna the dates of many of the coins and
the denominations of the bills. Another
test was to pat a long row of ooins on a
table. The actor would run hit eye
•long them, and after turning sway tell
their value just as they !sy, and then
give them in reverse order. Ho (newhat
remarkable.
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nail to it and flip the diamond right out.
Very often people don’t know how
many diamonds they have. It is very
common for a gentleman or lady to oome
and ask “Why haven’t you sent that
home?” meaning a diamond ring or
ear-rinar. "It was sent," is the answer,
and the reply will be. "Oh, well, I
suppose my butler has it.” A lady sent
a box of jewelry to be looked over, aud
it was sent home. Presently her foot
man came and asked, "Why oidn’t you
send the diamond bracelet?” The jew
eler said, "There wasn’t any diamond
bracelet in the box,” Presently the
footman came again and said the dia •
mond bracelet was in the box aud wanted
it sent home. The jeweler sent round
to the lady’s safe deposit company, and
found the bracelet there. She had
probably taken out the box and sent it
to the store without even looking into
it After it was found the servant said:
"I have lived with Mrs. for seven
teen years, bnt I haven’t the slightest
doubt that if that bracelet hadn’t been
found she would have thought that I
took it” A lady was looking at some
diamond rings and one fell. The sales
man saw it fall, but the nng could not
be found. Eight years afterward her
dressmaker was ripping up the dress
and the ring was found in one of the
pleats. The dress had been worn a
good deal during the time. A lady one
evening pulled ofi her gloves in her par
lor, went up stairs, and found that the
stone m her ring was missing. She
had the rooms she had been in after
taking off her gloves swept thoroughly.
There was no diamond to be found.
The next spring it was found under a
very heavy wardrobe in a front hall
VwmLkmia. DUc hob pool live mat she
did not go into that room that evening,
and the wardrobe was so heavy that it
was never moved except in house clean
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Outcome of A soel los School.
A graduate from the High School in
this city had a call from a country school
about 200 miles nor‘h ot Detroit, and be
vent his way provided with several writ
ten recommends and a whole cart-load of
enthusiasm. He found the school house
to be a one-story affair made ot logs and
large enough to hold thirty scholars in
case the teacher stood in the door. Wtieu
school commenced the score of scholars
could only muster a geography printed In
1848, an arithmetic a few days younger, a
dozen leaves of a speller and the half of a
broken slate. The teacher, however,
went to work to hammer knowledge into
their craniums, and be had convinced
most of them that the world was round
and that the sun neither rose nor set In
that country when it came time to have a
spelling schooL For convenience sake it
was held in a big barn, and the turn-out
included everybody from the boy who
'spelled "corn” the same as “horse,” for
convenience sake, to the old man who al
ways put "in haist” on his letters to his
brother in Vermont It wasn't much of a
contest until the last half dozen towered
aloft. "Catarrh” and "photograph" laid
'em out by the dozens, and when only the
champions were left, "Constantinople”
floored all but two like a bolt of lightning.
Then came the word "parasite.” One
rendered it "parysight,” and the other
gave it "perrysyle,and when the teacher
ahook his head one cried out: "I’ve writ
that word ov«r a hundred times, and l
guess 1 kno wl ” "And I’ve seen ’em every
•lay of my life for forty years, and I don’t
sit down for anybody,” added the other.
"It Is parasite,’' replied the teacher. "I
dispute it!” "So do I." "That’s the
way Webster gives it.” "Who’s Web
ster?” "Yes, trot him out.” Then the
friends of either rose np. In the shindy
the teacher came In for two black eyes,
a cracked rib, kicks In the shin and bites
on the ears, and the minute he could get
clear and over the fence he leaded for
Detroit, and reached home iu want of so
many repairs that it took two months to
make him presentable. He had a few
dollars due him, and he loft a change of
clolhes up there, but he doesn’t want to
heoi from the directors. They may con
sider that he has resigned, and any para
site desiring the situation can have the va
cancy withoutj)ay lag bonds.
Tbe Boaidluz Hou»e AM.
Haste very often tripe np its own
heels.
Preserve your temper under all oir-
enmstanoee.
No natter what you were; look to
what you are.
Pride is a flower that grows in the
devil’s gardens.
Make omch of to-day, for to-morrow
may deceive you.
More are drowned in the wine cup
’than in the ocean,
A truth that one does not understand
becomes an error.
Hope is the brightest star in tbe
firmament of youth.
Men often biash to hear of what they
were not ashamed to act.
The reward of doing one duty is the
power to perform another.
The pleasure of doing good is the
orly one that never wears out.
It is upon the smooth ice we slip,
the roughest path is the safest.
Next to love, sympathy is the divin-
est passion of the human heart.
The greatest tempest of demoralisa
tion is the respect paid to wealth.
Imaginary evils soon become real by
indulging our reflections on them.
A noble part of every true life is to
learn to undo what is wrongly done.
Genius at first is little more than a
great capacity for receiving discipline.
Strong thoughts are iron nails driven
in the mind, that nothing can draw ont.
There are people who feed thumselves
with their grief until they get fat on it.
Great things are not accomplished by
idle dreams, but by years of patient
study.
The whole of oui life depends upon
the persons with whom we live faini
liarly.
Purchase not friends by gifts; for
when you cease to give, they will oeniD
to love.
Conversation enriches the under
standing, but solitude is the school of
genius.
There are more fools than sages; and
among the sages there is more folly
than wisdom.
He permits himself to be seen through
a microscope who suffers himself to be
caught in a passion.
It is enough for a man to undent**-*
is own oniunesa, and not to interfere
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania re
cently rendered a decision of great impor
tance to boarding house keepers, lawyers,
justices and the general public. The case
iu which tbe opinion was delivered origin
ated in Allegheny county and was entitled
Smith va McOinty. The action was for
a debt, the defendant having failed to pay
a bill for boarding due tbe plaintiff, and
suit was instituted under what is gener
ally known as the "boarding house act,”
passed by the Lagislature in 1876. The
justice before whom tbe case was origi
nally heard rendered judgment for the
full amount of the bill. The matter was
appealed to the District Court, where the
justice’s decision was reversed. It was
then taken by the plaintiff to the Supreme
Court, and that tribunal sustained the
opinion of the District Court, the judges
bolding that the act of 1876 is unconstitu
tional and in conflict with other laws on
on the statute book, and that a debtor has
the same right to the benefit of tbe "three
hundred dollar law” in an action to re
cover a board bill that Lb has in a suit for
any other kind of claim. This decision,
of course, "knocks the bottom out of the
law,” and keepers of Public Houses will
have to resort to some other means to pro
tect themselves.
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own Dullness,
with other people’a
Every promise in God’s book which
refers to spiritual things is yonra, if
you are Christ’s.
A man in love, however well bred, is
often morose; and however good-tem
pered, sullen at times.
We swallow at one mouthfal the lie
that flatters, and drink drop by drop
the truth that is bitter.
Education is the only interest worthy
of the deep, controlling authority of
the thoughtful man.
A woman’s dress is like the envelope
of a letter; the cover is frequently an
index to "the contents.
The trouble and worry and wear and
tear that comes from hating people
makes hating unprofitable.
To the generous mind the heaviest
debt is that of gratitude when it is not
in our power to repay it.
He that wrestles with us strengthens
our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our
antagonist is oar helper.
Pity the man who censures what he
has not the ability to perform, or even
the courage to attempt.
The very nature of love is to find its
joy in serving others, not for one’s own
benefit but for theirs.
Every condition of life has its own
dignity and importance, whether we
really peroeive it or not.
Some men in the world advance like
erabs, by their eccentricities—walking
contrary to every one else.
Graceful manners are the outward
form of refinement in the mind and
good affections of the heart.
Fear of punishment and hope of re
ward moves cowards and sycophants.
Virtue is independent of either.
Pity is a sworn servant unto lore,
and this be sure, wherever it begins to
make the way, it lets the master in.
Order is the sanity of the mind, the
health of the body, the peace of the
city, and the security of the State.
It is impossible to find out how much
religion a man has in his heart by
measuring the length of his tongue.
The Soriptores teach ns the best way
of living, the noblest way of suffering,
and the most comfortable way ai dying.
Canting bigotry and caressing criti
cism are nsnaliy the product ot obtuse
sensibilities and a pusillanimous wilt.
Home is sometimes thought flat and
doll, and too often made so, just for
want of understanding what it stands
for.
There is nothing so easy as to be wise
for others, a species of prodigality, by
the way, for suoh wisdom is wholly
wasted.
The pleasantest things in the world
are pleasant thoughts, and the greatest
arf in life i* to have as many of them as
possible.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds
than happiness ever can; and oommon
sufferings are far stronger Iteka than
oommon joys.
Behind the snowy leaf is the mill
wheel, behind the mill the wheat field,
on the wheat field falls the sunlight,
above the aun is God,
A good wife is like the ivy which
beautifies the building to which it
clings, twining its tendrils more lov
ingly as tune converts the ancunt edi
fice into a ruin.
Temptation is a fearful word. It In
dicates the beginning of a possible
senes of Infinite evils. It is the ring
ing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy
sounds may reverberate through eter
nity.
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