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A SONG.
Do I love you ? Do 1 love you?
Ask the heavens that bend alxtve jt?,
To find language an<l to prove you
If they love the living sun.
Ask the 1 turning, blinded meadows
V\'hat they think ai>out the >ha<lo\vs,
If they love the falling shadows
AY hen the fervid day is done:
Ask the bluedx'lls and the daisies,
Ixtst amiil theliot lield ina/es.
Lifting u|> tiieir tliiisty taees.
If they love the summer rains:
Ask the linnets and tin- plovers.
In the nest lifeuiade for lover.-:
Ask tlu? Ikvs ami ask thi*dowrs?
Will 11 it*y t<il y??u f? ?r y?mr |?ain>
IT T1IK FI.IT.
"You must have some rare experiences
totell us, Mrs. Bos well," said persuasive
Lieutenant Mussel, while we
waited for the mail stage. "You have
been at this frontier post ever since
Captain Boswell was stationed here?"
" Yes; we have been here eight
years," she replied, with the rare smile
that glorified her face. "I have passed
through many trying ordeals here, but
1 really think I had an adventure in
the Last, before I married the captain,
equal to anything that 1 haveexperienceCl."
y " Will you relate it, and oblige us?"
urged liusse!.
"Mrs. lioswell." >aicl Dan, the irrepressible
youngster of our party,
Mini," jerking his thumb toward tlie
lieutenant, '*is out West here on purpose
to spill ink for the New York papers.
You can become a heroine of romance
if you will."
"Thank you," said our little hostess.
"X lion i, iiiiuu niv ik'iiwi.
Three of us were sitting in an inner
apartment of the small frontier hostelry.
The liarroom was packed with
miners, and we had chosen to have our
supper served by our-elves, as we had
appointed to go on to Custer City in
company.
Mrs. Boswell was much below the
medium size, quick of speech, light of
movement as a bird, and graceful a< a
fawn.
"It was in IS?she began: "Ihad
just made the acquaintance of Captain
Boswell. he having some business mat
ters to arrange wiui uumr, n;iu caucu
at our place several times. Finally,
there came a rare day in autumn, anil
he and father were closeted the greater
part of the day, overhauling papers,
memoranda, deeds and receipts. Mv
father at that time was doing a great
deal of business as an attorney.
"At tcatime father said" to me:
'Bess you won't mind an evening
alone, so long as Thomas is about, will
you ?'
"I said n<\ for although there were
many robberies being committed in
the neigh! tiring cities, private families
. < in the suburbs fe*t no fear. Our
house was a mile from the city proper,
and a half mile from neighbors
either way.
"4 We tind,' he continued, 'that the
captain has got to hunt up some more
papers concerning the estate before he
can give Barron a satisfactory title.
^ We shall go to Judge Whitcomb's ofY
flee, and our search may be so successful
that 11 o'clock wiil find us.
home again. Still we may be detained
longer. Shan't I call and tell your
Cousin Milly to come down and spend
the night with you'?'
'"Xo?yes,' I contradictorily answered.
'Do as you please; lam not
timid in the least, with Thomas about.'
But Captain Boswell is going to
leave live thousand dollars here until
he returns.'
"'Does any one know about the
" money ?'
"'Only ourselves,'
" 'Then I am not afraid. Beside,
you are likely to be back before graveyards
yawn and thieves do walk
abroad.'
" Thomas brought the horse round,
and while father spoke to him, I
touched the captain's sleeve:
"'"Where is your money left?'
"' In your father's desk in the library.'
Then he looked with a tender,
inquiring glance into my face (how
the little woman's cheeks Hushed at
the memory) and said: 'Little girl, if
you are in the least afraid we will not
go to-night, although it is absolutely
necessary.' .
"T Viim liontstlv. that I was I
I' . . not afraid. 1 never ha I that strata of
timidity in my make-up, peculiar to
W&ty womankind: and so they rode away.
W&r-'r-y "I sang about my work as I put
things in shape around the room, and
viewed the brilliant sunset, without a
fear or care.
"Thomas, our new man-of-all-work,
was very busy puttering about the
grounds," tying up grapevines and
. mulching evergreens. I knew there
r, was some coarse aftermath upon the
hill that father was anxious to have
put on the stiawberry beds, and seeing
Thoa.as go up there with his basket 1
tied a scarf over my head, took another
basket, and went up to help him.
"As I passed up the hill I saw a
; man in the highway speak to him. 1
nesitatea aoout going on, out me man
?< ,.? made only a moment's pause, and then
went down the hill, and was soon concealed
by a turn in the highway.
"'Who was that, Thomas?' I inquired.
" '0)i, miss, it was a man from the
mills, saying that my brother has ha I
a bad fall on the dam, and is bellowing
or me to come and see him. lii>
W legs are broken entirely.
' "4 What will you do?'
"'I told the man 1 could not come
to see him to-day?but if I went, miss,
I would sure to be back by 11 of the
clock, if not earlier.'
"'You may go, Thomas, if your
brother is hurt so bad. Papa will not
be away long.'
" 'But, my young lady--'
" 'Never mind me in such a case as
this.' I always was very tender-hearted.
' You may g<>, and 1 will run
right back to the house.'
"lie talked a few minutes more,
was profuse in his thanks for my kindness,
and then started down for the
City. I took up the two baskets, and
. went singing to the house.
"I satan hour by the open window,
enjoying intensely this being alone,
and the quiet beauty of this cool
autumn evening.
"Perhaps vou will wonder at this,"
m and the dimples played ahout her
pretty mouth, ' but little birds were
singing a new song in my heart, anil
[ the (juiet let me hear the sweet echoes.
I "But directly I chided myself for
I. beinc rathi r careless, as the road was
K a thoroughfare, and a chance straggler
I might surprise me. 1 ar? se, closed my
[ window, and, obeying some strange,
impressive power, I walked through
the hall into the library, took my father's
key from its accustomed place, unlocked
his iie-k, found the package of
five thousand dollars, and, pla-ing it in
Bs? my bosom, relocked the door, anil returned
to the sitting-room. I did not
? , light a lamp; I ha I no need of a lire,
as that from the kitchen stove warmed
jK _ the sitting-room sufficiently in this
?$& mild weather.
|B&v "The house was old-fashioned, very,
with a fireplace in the sitting-room
g|? - opening up into a chimney of capacity
sufficient for a foundry stack. We
had cheerful open fires later on; but
PL the house being an ancestral pile, was
gy, getting somewhat dilapidate!, and the
- puruuuu uic nuvo m tnu
% large chimney bad fallen in. Men had
r been sent out to cloar the rubbish and
' make repairs, but the work, half done,
' was suspended on account of the arrival
of Captain lioswell and this im1
portant bus-iness affair.
"I would have enjoyed immensely
. to kindle a sparkling fire in the liuge
?&%... wide fireplace, but as affairs were 1
KI-. could not. Sol mused in darkness for
fc-' hours. I really took no heed of time,
lij^ until my quick ean caught the sound
RLV; of a foot-fall approaching, close up to
the doorstep, I could have taken my
K; oath. It was so light an echo that I
K|V sprang to my feet, thinking that my
Eg.' Cousin Milly, absent when my father
K called, returning later had come down
: to stay with me.
By' I sprang up with a smile to answer
her knock, albeit I was a hit jealous of
Ip her pretty face; but no knock came,
js and the echoes died out, and altoL
gether I concluded that I had deceived
K myself in regard to them. Anyhow I
BgW would light the lamp. I did so, and
I Wi^jj startled to lind it pa^t 10 o'clock.
* 1 had gotten surliciently aroused from :
V my reverie to want a book from the '
- ?
w
library shelves. I took up my lamp
anil went singing into the room. t
"I obtained the desired volume, u
stepped down from the stool, and? f
"If ever any one felt themselves
dvinc. 1 did at that moment. My song t
died "cm my lips, while a thousand t
thoughts seemed to Hash into my mind t
in one instant. Involuntarily I gasped,
and then with a strong effort of the s
will power, for which I am famous, I
took up the song again and sang it to t
the close.
' Among other things 1 remembered <
that the lock was oil'the lil?r;?ry door 1
for repairs. I remembered the late- s
ness of the hour and the probability
that all the people were in bed and i
asleep. I remembered the footsteps in t
the dooryard. and?there was a fresh, \
pungent smell of tobacco smoke in the i
room. A scent of suioke that was not
in the room when I was there and 1
placed the pack ge of money in my
bosom. i
"Do you wonder that my brain i
reeled and my heart stopped beating i
for an instant? Keside, whoever the t
robber was, he would soon begin work, t
not knowing how early my father and
the captain might return. And I i
..I.aiiU imnwlnrn/1 VkAmnvv'hnrA
?IIWUiU ??. iwwmv 1\\I. V...VM14V?V
within a few yards, or a few feet of i
me, the robber assassin was con- 1
eeaied?either in the reccss behind the 1
cabinet, or under the long, draped,
paper-strewn table. 1
" A faint sound outside nearly made
me drop the lamp from my h;tnd ; still J
I had unconsciously left my first song s
and was singing: i
For his britle a soldier won lie",
And a winning tongue h id lie.' '
" I knew that temporary salvation? ]
??~,i Ul.nrh- tt\ lu'jvft flint: rnmn
UllU ilMCiij vv iu*u- i!iu?u
even?depended upon my appealing 3
unconscious of the robber's proximity. .
' 1 got out of the library and found
myself in the sitting-room. A hasty <
glance at the door showed the key
absent from the loek.
" Treachery!"
' I wonder that this new revelation
did not suffocate me. The man on
highway--the injured brother? (
Thomas had betrayed us. He had j
overheard about the money. A robber .
was in the house and another was out- j
side. My retreat would be cut off. .
IIow thoughts ran riot through my !
mind. How would they kill me? !
Would I suffer long? At that instant J
1 was sure that 1 heard a faint creak i
of the library door at the far end of the j
long lialJ. ,
" One swift,despairing glance around ;
nie, one wild id* a of escape, and I ex- j
tinguished the light upon the table, '
and crouching in thelireplace I rested ,
one foot upon the andiron, swung out ]
the iron crane, stepped the other loot ]
np<m the strung support, and rose up (
into the Hue. Something touched my
head. Thank Cud! it was the rope j
with which the dislodged bricks had j
been hoisted out. C rasping this care- |
fully with my hands I held myself j
like" a wedge in the opening. If I ^
h'ad envied large, nol de-looking women
before, I now had reason to be thank- .
i ul for my diminutive form and ninety (
o ld pounds of avoirdupois. (
"1 had little time, however, to con- .
sider anything except the imminent j
danger of dislodging a fragment of j ]
brick :>r mortar, anil thus discovering I s
my hiding-place, for the clock began | j
with sonorous peals to strike eleven. <
I'nder cover of its echoes there were i
,.4-nno !r, M.o 1...11 tl,0 .
IjlllClV., 3ULI ovrpo ill. (/IIU IKU1) uuu w??v/ j
bolt of the outer door was withdrawn. ,
The huge flue must have acted like a ,
telephone, l'or 1 heard every sound ,
with fearful distinctness. First, there
was a pause by the door of the sitting- :
room, then breathing in it, then wlii;- (
pering. I
" I heard Thomas distinctly, when f
he said: j
" She isn't here; she's gone to bed; ,
but the money is in the library.' (
"'Be cautious,' advised a strange j
voice, 'and we may not have tu hint .
her.'
" They carefully retreated, and my (
heart struck oft' the seconds against my j
ribs in a way that was suffocating, lor j
I knew that their search would soon j
be over, and what then?
"In less than five minutes they were j
whispering in the room again.
' 4 Confound her !' aspirated Thomas, 1
41m Atnnn\' xriMi hnr'
OIIC tvyurv. KllU UIKIXMXsJ Uiv.i ***_*. ^
"' Then we'll have it if?' (
"The pause meant all that words (
could convey.
" The cold sweat was coming out of ]
every pore of my body. The dust of e
thecreo-ote had penetrated my mouth ^
and nostrils, and 1 had to take one {
hand from the rope in their absence
and place a linger upon my lips to !,
prevent sneezing. ^
"'Come, hurry,' was the ajjgry s
watchword exchanged between them, j
and I heard the stairs creaking as they ^
ascendid to my chamber. Thomas wa> y
familiar with all the house. c
" Why did I not drop down and escape
outside? s
"First, then, they had locked the j,
outer aoor anil wiuiurawn inu ki-v iu j.
prevent a surprise from without. v
Second, there might be a third confederate
outside, lint the most import- ^
ant reason of all was, it seemed to me, t
that I never could get out of the v
aperture that had allowed me entrance ..
into the chimney. I ran the risk of ^
discovery and death in any case.
"Oh, why did not mv father and his ^
companion return? It might be hours y
first. ;
" They had found me absent from j
my chamber and the adjoining rooms. j|
They no longer used extreme caution, j
They hurried from one apartment to ^
the other. 1 could feel the jar of (
moving furniture, and (loset doors f
were opened hastily. The upper part t
of the house was ransacked, and then | ,
they came down the stairs upon the v
run. Time was precious to them now. |
With direful oaths they rummaged
the lower Honrs, and finally returned
to the sitting-room.
"' 1 saw the light here last,' said t
Thomas, moving with his lamp across <.
the room, ' and here is the lamp on the *
table.' }
' 'She must have got out.'
" 'No; I watched for her, and every
window is fastened on the inside.'
Then he continued: 'Curse lier ! she's t
a witch!'and bailed they stood and f
poured volumes of oaths after me. j
I'd like to catch and knife her myself
now.' How lie ground it out between j
his teeth. j
41 'Shall we search more?' i
"'It's no use; we've turned over j
everythii guilder which a mouse could j
hide.'
"'What, then? Shall we waylay
the old man and iix him?'
'"They haven't the money; it was
left here.'
" 'The cellar,' .suggested the voice.
"Once more they dashed out, only to
return in hot haste now, for there was
the trot and rumble of a horse and
carriage on the bridge between us and J
the city. ]
"'Stay,' urged the stranger, 'trump
up some kind of a story, and we may .
secure the money yet.' I r
'"I would,'returned Thomas, 4 but I j
the girl's a witch, and 1 am just as I ^
sure that she is somewhere near us all I v
the time, and would hand me over to t
justice?' I s
"There was a scamper outside and } j,
the sound of feet running toward the | v
river came down the wide mouth at i v
the top of the chimney. Father and | jj
Captain lioswell drove into the yard j w
and up to the door, just as the clock | u
struck twelve. I e
" 'Thoina-i!' called my father, in his I t
ringing tones, 'come and take care of I c
the horse.' n
" deceiving no response from his t]
usually punctual factotum, he sprang j<.
up the steps, and uttered an exclama-j a
aP af fin/lirw* tlm /I/iaw I
tli'ii. Ui. Iiv/i X KJL MU IIUVUU^ ll?V UUVi ^
open. h
"?Uo.swell,' said lie, " we certa:nly t(
saw a light here when we came down ?
the hill.' ii
"(}uick, Jason,' said the captain, f.
"there has been foul play here.' ^
"'Foul play? My God! my poor ~
little girl.' ^
"' Father,' I strove to call, but the a
first attempts, choked in dust and soot,
ended in a hysterical hiccough.
" ? Where is that? "What is it?' called
my distracted father, and Loth men ai
dashed for the library. S(
"I now strove to descend, but the b
movement brought <!own bushels of n
mortar and broken bricks from all c
sides, and closed up the Hue. I be- v
tliought me of the rope, and by stick- r<
ingmytce>in here and there I went p
up the chimney hand over hand. s<
, - .
I M<??MMMBI
"Agile as a cat, when I reached the j
op of the low chimney I sprang down ;
,pon the roof and began calling loudly |
or lamer.
" You shoukl have heard tliein run
hrougli the house and halloo before
hey located my voice. At last the ca: ain
came out of doors.
"' Will you pet me a ladder, please,'
aid I, 41 want to get down from here.'
" 4 A ladder, Jason,' shouted the capain,
the little girl is on the roof.'
4"For the love of heaven, girl, how
:ame you there?' said my father, as I
anded upon the ground and began
ihaking the soot from my clothes.
4*41 went up therethrough tne<himley,
papa. But you had bitter put up
lie horse?you will haveto groom him
ourself to-night?and then 1 will tell
'nu all about it.'
44 The captain led me into the house,
'or 1 wits trembling violently.
" Now,' said father, being absent
>nly a moment or two, without letting
ne have time to mop the smut from
ny face and hands; now tell us what
his means? my littl" girl climbing
lie ridge-pole like a cat at midnight!'
"In a few moments matters were
?n plained.
"'Thomas, the villain!' eja'-ulated
nv father ; 'I'll have liini if I have to
mnt the two continents for him, an 1
leshall have his deserts.'
" lie kept his word. Thomas got a
ierm in the State prison.
""When I gave the captain his money
I should have burst out into hysterical
iol'bing only I remembered the soot
n time to prevent shading myself in
jla-k crayon; and Captain Bos well
iclieved that stature and l?ulk were
lot always certificates of the best
materials, and?"
"And," finished Dan, our jester, "it
nay be said, Mrs. Bos well, that you
ictually flue to his arms."
She smiled and I lowed as the sonorous
:on< s of the driver came in among us :
"Stage ready, gentlemen."
Boyhood's Joys and Troubles
"When you see a boy going along in
:lie merry, merry sunshine, with his
nit in his hand, shaking his hair with
i pine stick to get it dry, now and
:hen leaning his head to one side,
pounding the other side with his hand,
md practically kicking his feet in the
lir in desperate efforts to get the water
Mil of his ears; or when you see him
lolding a warm stone to his ear lor
:he same purpose, it is a true sign that
rou may think of that boy, by-and-bye,
<tanling speechless when his mother
isks him how his shirt came to l>e
kvrong side out. You must not run
lown the street in the direction of his
lome under the impression that the
toy is being basely murdered. You
. an't kill a oov wmi a sKacc-sinip.
,\nd in hoc signoes you will know
;liat boy has been in swiinming'when
le should have leen at school learning
:hat ' twenty-six prepositions are i'olowed
by the accusative," all the way
from ad to ultra.
When you see a boy, about 5:45 v.
ir., witli ink on his nose and the grime
)f chalk on his hands, his hair dishev led
and the two upper buttons of his
jacket gone, his collar rumpled and his
lecktie twisted awry, and asuspiciousooking
Hush and two or three
scratches adorning his face, you will
enow that he was "kept in" after
school, and was taunted for the same
jy another 1 oy when he came outf/and
f you want to know the rest of it, it
will not be necessary to go into particulars,
but just ask him * which
ivhipped?"
I [' a joyous look of triumph dances
II ttie CXUlbillXt tun nuun
;h;it just around the comer you can
ind a boy with a bleeding nose, and a
renerally demoralized facade. But if
;he lad you question looks downcast,
imltis cum lachrymis begins his oraion,
like Divatiacus, by saying: "Well,
ie was a great deal lig?<-r'n me," you
uay know that your buy got "li ked.''
"When you see a boy with the pockets
)f his pantaloons bulging out until he
ooks like a great bumble-bee ladinfor
;he hive, while he walks al'>ng trying
;o look as thin as split lath, and wearng
a profound expression of supernatural
innocence, you know, without
eferring to tiiis code of signals, that
joy has been lingering in somebody's
>rchar?l, and doesn't care to have unlue
publicity given to facts that only
:oncern him personally.
When you see a boy on the distant
lillside, suddenly leap up into the soit
aimmer air, holding one barel'o >t tenleriy,
but firmly, in the wedded
ingers of both hands, while he hops
iround in irregular but excited orbits.
it the same time voicing his grief with
vailing shriek-', mellowul by the
unny distance, then, without going to
hi; telephone, you may know that
>arefoot boy has trod upon the busy
iee that nestled in ttie perfumed
lover.
And wherever and whenever you
ee him, in mischief or out of it?that
3, just coming out of it. or just ready
o get into some more; awfully bad, or
vitii many tearful failures and disgraceful
stumbles trying to be good;
orgetting your commandments which
liunder upon him by the hundred,
rell nigh as readily and repeatedly as
ou forget the ten that infinite wisom
has laid upon you; in all his
ioise, his poor little struggles, tempt aions,
triumphs and failures, his pitiful
ittle trouble and his tearful, honest
enitence. in all the lightness of a
toy's life, your heart must grow mcldw
and tender for the little germ of
nanhood, so full of wonderful possi ilities.
so rich with seeds of strength
hat will ripen by and by, for good or
or evil, as you walk and live before
he hoy; ever as you look at him. renember
what you were thirty or forty
ears afro, and sav. "(Jod bless the
O ' v
k >y."?B urliuytou //a wkttyr,
Ned Ituntliue.
AVonder how many of our readers
an tell, says the Troy Tiuns, whether
S'ed Buntline is alive or dead at the
>resent time. And yet Irs was once a
lame that was prominently before the
mblic. The eccentric old story-teller
s not dead, but he must be verging
ipon the three score years and ten of
lie psalmist. The following paragraph
rom the Buffalo Courier serves to call
lira to mind one:* more:
The wildwood home of Colonel E.
C. .Fudson, better known as "Xed
Juntline," in the Adirondacks is one
>f tiie attractions of that famous region.
The bouse, if it may be dignified
jy that name, is constructed of logs in
lie most primitive style, and contains
nit two rooms. It stands near Eagle
ake at the l'o't of Blue mountain. As
ar back as 1856 "Xe I Buntline" in
raded the wilderness and built this
ittle lug cabin in the heart of the
voods. At that time lie was a slave
o intemperance, and recognized the
act that his safety lay in flight from
lie busy haunts of men. lie succeeded
in clearing a little farm, and
vhen the cabin attllned the appeartnce
of a home he presented it with a
nistress in the form of a young and
landsome wife. The furniture was of
lie simplest description, and the pair
vere dependent upon their labor* for
he necessaries of Jife, but notwithtanding
these drawbacks they lived
appily and ".Ned Buntline" produce 1
olume after volume of thrilling backroods
stories. The war of the rebelon
called the author from his wildrood
haunt, an 1 he did not return
ntil long and arduous service had
levaieu nun 10 me raiiK 01 coionei.
n the meantime liis wife and only
liild died, and they were la d t<? rest
ear the cabin. Four cedar trees mark
lieir lonely graves. "Neil JJuntline" 1
s now lecturing on temperance down 1
mong the Catskill mountains, and the
Adirondack home lias passed into the
ands of strangers. It has many visi- 1
>rs each year who look upon the
raves beneath the cedars and try to
nagine the sort of lite the little i
un:ly led. The thought of the brave 1
rife who willingly abandoned home :
nd friends to help her husband in his 1
attle against his appetite is invariably
source of sadness.
Liberality.
Pnor rp.lat.inn?" T didn't know but.
5 you were refurnishing the house,
>me of the discarded articles might
e of use to me, if you was only of a
lind to?" IJich relation?"Why.
rtainly; I'm glad you spoke of it. i
7c are going to repaper the dining ;
jom. I'll send you down the old 1
aper when it's torn off. It isn't badly i
3iied."?Hartford Post. \
THE BAD BOY ON A FARM. ;
HE TELLS THE GROCERY MAN HZS 1
DOLEFUL EXPERIENCE.
Working a Week n* a Fnrm Ilnml?fie
Known When Ho Ha* <>?i KiioiirIi?IIow
i lie Farmer .IIikIo Ilini Flux Around.
" Want to buy any cabbages ?" said
the bail boy to the grocery man, as he j
stopped at the door of the grocery, J
dressed in a blue wamus, Ids breeches
tucked in his boots, and an old hat on
his head, with a hole that let out his :
hair through the top. lie had got out
of a democrat wagon, ;md was holding i
the lines hitched to a horse about :
forty years old, that leaned against the i
hitching-post to rest. "Only a shilling
apiece." i
"Oli, go 'way," said the grocery
man. "JL only pay three cents apiece."' ;
And then he looked at the boy and
said: "Ilello, Hennery, is that you? i
I have missed vou all the week, and
now you come on to me sudden, disguised
as a granger. "What does this
all mean?"
" It means that I have been the
victim of as vile a conspiracy as ever
was known since C.esar was stabbed
anil Mark Antony orated over his
prostrat corpse in the I'oman forum
to an audience of supes and sceneshifters,
"and the boy dropped t he lines
on the sidewalk, and said: "Whoa, gol
blame you," to the hor.-e .that was
asleep, wiped his bo >ts <>n the grass in
front of the store and came in and
seated himself on the old half-bushel.
" There, this seems like home again."
"What's the row? Who has been
playing it on you?" and the grocery
man smelled a sharp trade in cabbages,
as well ;is other smells peculiar to the
farm.
"Well, I'll tell you. Lately our
folks have been constantly talking of
the independent life of the farmer, and
how easy it is, and how they would
like it if 1 would learn to be a farmer.
They said there was nothing like it,
and several of the neighbors joined in
and said I had the natural ability to
be one of the most successful farmers
in the State. They all drew pictures
of the fun it was to work on a farm,
where you could get your work done
and take your fish-pole and go oil' and
catch fish, or a gun and go out and
kill game, and bow you could ride
horses, and pitch hay, and smell the
sweet perfume, and go to husking bees
and dances, and everything, and they
got me all worked up so I wanted to
go to work on a farm. Then an old
deacon that belongs to our church,
who runs a farm about eight miles out
of town, he came on the scene and
said he wanted a bov, and if I would
go out and work for him he would be
easy on me because he knew my folks,
and we belonged to the same church.
Ti. ?1\
i can see 11 now. al was ?m
a put up job on me, just like they
play three card monte on a fresh stranger.
1 was took in. By gosh. I have
been out there a week, and here's what
there is left of me. The only way I
got a chance to come to town was to
tell the farmer 1 could sell cabbages to
you for a shilling apiece. I knew you
sold them for lifteen cents ;ind I
thought you would pay a shilling. So
the farmer said he would pay me my
wages in cabbages at a shilling apiece,
and only charge me a dollar for ahorse
and wagon to bring them in. .So you
only pay three cents. Here are thirty
cabbages, which will come to ninety1
cents. 1 pay a dollar for the horse,
and when I get back to the farm 1 owe '
the farmer ten cents, beside working
a week lor nothing. Oh. it is all right.
I don't kick, but this ends farming for
Hennery. 1 know when I have got
enough of an easy life on a farm. I
prefer a hard life, breaking stones on
the streets, to an easy, dreamy life on
a farm."
.l.'.UI*.
" i ney am piuy il on ju?, umu i<
they," said the grocery man. "But
wasn't the old deacon a good man to
work ft r?"
Good man notliinV* -aid Hie boy,
as he to;ik up a piece of horse radish
and began to grate it on the inside
of his rough hand. ' I tell you there's
a heap of difference in a deacon in
Sunday-school, telling about sowing
wheat and tares, and a deacon out on
a farm in a hurrying season, when
there is hay to grt in and wheat to
harve t all at the same time. I wont
out to the farm Sunday evening with
the deacon and his wife, and they
couldn't talk too much about the nice
time we would have, and the fun; but
the deacon changed more than l'orty
degrees in five miiyit s after we got
out to the farm. Tie jumped out of
the wagon and pulled off his coat, and
let his wife climb out over the wheel,
and yelled to the hired girl t> bring
out the milk pail, an 1 told me to fly
around and unharness the horse, and
throw down a lot of hay for all the
work animals, and then told me to run
down to the pasture .and drive up a lot
of cows. The pasture was half a mile
away, and the cows were scattered
around in the woods, and the
mosquitoes were thick, and I
got all covert d with mud and burrs,
and stung with thistles, and when I
got the cattle near to the house the old
deacon veiled to me that I was slower
than motysses in the winter, and then
I took a (luh and tried to hurry the
cows, and he yelled to me to stop
hurrying, 'cause I would retard the
How of milk. JJy gosh I was mad. I
asked for a mosquito bar to put over
me next time I went after the cows,
and the people all laughed at me, anil
when L sat down on the fence to scrape
the mud off my Sunday pants the
T-n'liwl liL-ri Vin rl/iAC in t.hfi TAvi
val, only lie said, Tome, come, procrastination
is the thief of time. Von
get up ami hump yourself and go and
feed the pigs.' lie was so blame mean
tluit I could not help throwing a burrdock
bur against the side of the cow
he was milking, and it si ruck her right
in the Hank on the other side from
where the deacon was. A Veil, you'd a
did<- to see the cow jump up and blat.
All four of her feet were off the
ground at a time, and I guess most
of them hit the dea-on on his Sun- ;
day vest, and the rest hit the milk
pa l, and the cow backed against the
fence and bellered, and the deacon was
all covered with milk and cow hair. 1
and he got up and thro wed the three- !
legged stool at the cow and hit her on '
the horn, and it glanced off and hit me ,
on the pants just as I went over the '
fen<-e to feed the pigs. I didn't know ]
a deacon could talk so sas^y at a cow !
and come so near swearing without ]
actually savincr cuss words.' Well. I 1
lugged swill until I was homesick to '
my stomach, and then 1 had to clean oil' \
horses and go to the neighbors about :
a mile away to borrow a lot of rakes 1
to use the next day. 1 was so tired I
almost cried, and then 1 had to draw
two barrels of water with a well
bucket to cleanse for washing the next
day, and by that time 1 wanted to die. J
It was most lJ o'clock, and I began to
think about supper, when the deacon
said all they had was bread and milk
for supper Sunday night and ?
rasseled with a tin basin of skim- (
milk and some old back number :
l>read, and wanted to go to bed, but
the deacon wanted to know if I was
heathen enough to want to go to bed (.
without evening prayers. There was -J
one thing I was less mashed on than ;
,.,.,.,,-..0 ,f tl.of t
UVCIIlll^ I'KIJXIO ai'uill tiKiti HilllUbVf I
but 1 had to take a prayer half a hour y
Jong on top of that skim-milk, and I J
guess it curdled the milk, for 1 hadn't I 1
been in bed more than half a hour bo- j
fore I had the wor-t colic a bov ever 1
had, and 1 thought I should die all I v
alone up in that garret, on the. Iloor, I f
with nothing to make my last hours j
pleasant but some rats playing with j J.
i*ars of seed corn < n the Iloor, and miee j
running through some dry pea pods. s
Hut, oh. how different the deacon I J
talked in the evening devotions from i
what he did when the cow was gallop- j
ing i n him in the barnyard. Well, 1 ' f
got through the c ?lic and was just get- i
ting to sleep when the deacon veiled '
forme to get up and hustle down- |
stairs. I thought maybe the house j
was on lire, 'cause 1 smelted smoke, j 1
and I got into my trousers and came j <
downstairs on a jump, yelling 'lire,'. t
when the deacon grabbed me and told J i
me to get down on my knees, and be- i fl
fore I knew it he was into the morn- j c
ing devotions, and then he said 'amen' 1
and jumped up and said f< r us to lire | i
hr< akfast into us quick and get to work j ?
doing the chores. I looked at the clock a
and it was just 3 o'clock in the! s
morning, just the time pa comes home i t
find goes to be 1 in town, when he is ! c
running a political campaign. Well,' u
3>?? T ViorJ fn inmri frnm fiTIA t.hl'nof t,ft I
mother from 3 o'clock in the morning
till nine at night, pitching hay. driving
reaper, raking and binding, shocking
wheat, hoeing corn, and everything,
and I never got a kind word. I spoiled
my clothes, and I think another week
would make a pirate of me.
"Now, you take these cabbages and
give inc ninety cents, and I will go
home and borrow ten cents to make
up the dollar, and send my chum back
with the horse and wagon and my
resignation. I wa not cut out for a
farmer. Talk about fishing, the only
(i.-h L saw was a salt white lish we had
for breakfast one morning, which was
salted l>y Noah, in the ark," and while
the grocery man was unloading the
rabbages the boy went out to look for
his chum, and later the two boys were
seen driving ofl toward the farm with
two fish-poies sticking out ol' the bind
end of the wagon.?I'wk'.s .Suit,
The New Cadet's Mistake.
One of the duties of some olc member
<if the guard at West Point is,
while his relief is off post, to Peep the
"departurebook" in the lirst guard
tent, where all cadets leaving camp
arc obliged to report their departure,
destination and return. A "pleb" is
usually assigned to this duty, and' his
orders are to allow no one without
authority to enter the tent. In the
summer of 18?a "pleb" detailed to
take departures was sitting in the first
guard tent, feeling the importance of
his position to an exaggerated degree,
wben a very handsome and militarylooking,
gray-haired man appeared at
the door of the tent and attempted to
enter, when lie was greeted with: " Ciet
out of here? No one can come in
without authority," from the new
< o.i?f wKa iic vot I t.hp rwilish
and politeness, when speaking with
authority, that conies after a few
month's experience at the academy.
The stranger stopped, smiled slightly,
and said: "1 wanted simply to talk
with you for a few moments. Yon are
a new cadet, I think." The "pleb"
bridled perceptibly. "IIow can be
know that?" bethought, liis egotism
blinding him to the fact that his greenness
was as patent as if the word
"pleb " were stamped an every one of
his fifty-four buttons. " I have been
here over a month," he said, ''and this
is my second tour of guard duty."
The last was said rather proudly. His
visitor smiled again, and asked him
how ho, liked his hazing, a question
that called forth rather a gruff answer,
for a man on his second tour of guard
wanted nothing said mat wouiu indicate
that his position was not yet that
of a full-fledged cadet. " I was a
' pleb' once myself, and know what
hazing is, and 1 found that the best
way was to take it good-naturedly and
wait patiently for the time to come
when it was to cease," said the grayhaired
pcr.-on, pleasantly, not deigning
to notice the cadet's brusqueness. He
then went on to tell of some of his
cadet experiences, among others
speaking of the killing of a nest of
copperhead snakes under the floor of
the very tent in front of which he was
standing. All this pleasantry was lost
on the "pleb," who listened rather unwillingly,
and finally told the stranger
to go, as he must work, thinking that
his visitor was some person who had
been dismissed before graduating and
didn't amount to much, in spite of his
stories of cadet life. The gentleman,
whose bearing would have told any
one but a " pleb " that he had seen
years of military service, walked away,
and the rude youngster, looking
flirivnirli t)ir> ilnorwRv saw to his dis
may that the sentinel on post Xo. 1
had suddenly come to " attention," and
his dismay was increased tenfold when
he saw tlie 1 adet's piece brought to a
"present arms" as his late visitor
cros-(d the post. Visions of courtmartial
rose before him, ,tnd, stepping
hastily out of the tent, he inquired
concerning the man of a senior cadet
passing at the time. " That man !
Don't you know him? Why, that is
General (Jeorge li. McClellan !"?Boston
H trail.
Air-Going".
Mr. Frank Harnett, of Keokuk, has
Iven pondering and puzzling for years
H'" ntr>lilnn> <if ni r.orninnr TIlP
VTU1 VUC A/?w^?vw? w. .... ^ B.
puzzle is not lor a map to tly; boys
still li pe to do that, but men have
given it over. Nor is the puzzle to he
able to mount into the air and sail
through it. The balloonists have long
been doing that. But to start from a
given point and go to a given point
through the air with a vessel or vehicle
that will convey passengers and
freight, with the safety and certainty
:f going by river or rail?that is what
is desired. Mr. liarnett, who has written
a good deal upon his pet subject
in the Gate City and in
the scientific journals in the
past, is stiinuiateil to new interest
and enthusiasm because of the recent
organization of the Aerial Navigation
company at Chicago with $2,000,000
of capital stock. He is perfectly con
fnli nt, as the result of his twenty-live
years of study and experiment upon
this subject, that aerial navigation is
as perfectly practicable as railroading.
Ilis study has been mainly cf the mechanical
principles involved, for the
enterprise is one of applied mechanics.
Prove that you can apply certain mechanical
forces in the air as upon|the
water or ground, and sooner or later
the mechanic will come along who
will make the machine that will do
what you have ma !e certain c.in be
done. So far .Mr. llarnett has dealt
mainly with finding out whether the
several mechanical principle involved
could be applied successfully to the
air, TViumiii muen t*nuri< <>11 ma pan, iu
unite them into one practicable working
machine. He has satisfied himself
that the several mechani< al operations
necessary are all practicable.
For instance, he shows by experiment
that a Y-shaped body would go
through the air without danger of
overturning; that a screw propeller is
just as ellicient a driving force in
the air as anywhere; that a common
toy, a fan with propeller blades, shows
that traction for carriage can be secured
in the air as well as in water or
on land, and that the (light of the albatrosB
and condor shows the s irne
thing; that pilotage is perfectly practicable;
that a very slight force moves
it up an incline plane; in short, that
separately and by experiment all the
mechanical conditions requisite for
lerial navigation are demonstrably
practicable. .So lie lias perfect confidence
they will all be united into an
lir-goingcarriage.?Ktokul: (!<> ) Gate
'Jity. _____
Mistakes or Life.
Somebody has condensed the mis:akes
of life, and arrived at the conclusion
that there, are fourteen of
iheni. > ost people would say. if they
;?>ld the truth, that there w s no limit
:o the mistaki s of life ; that they were
ike the drops in the ocean or the sands
if the shore in number. Hut it is well
:o be accurate. Here, then, are the
ourteen great mistakes:
Tt is ji frroiit. mist,nice to sot 111) OUT I
>wn standard of right and wrong ;ind
udge people accordingly; to incisure
lie enjoyment of others by our own :
o expect uniformity of opinion in this
vor'd ; to look for judgment and ex>erience
in youth; to endeavor to
nold all dispositions alike: not to
icld to immaterial trilles ; to look for
>erfection in our own actions; to
vorrv ourselves and others with what
:annot he remedied: not to alleviate
ill that needs alleviation as far as lies ,
n our power; not to make allowances
or the infirmities of others; to eonider
everything impossible that we !
annot perioral ; 10 ueuevi: wii.w mu ;
inite minds can grasp; to expect to lit! I
title to imilcrstand everything. The
jreatest mistake is to live only for ,
ime, when any moment may launch j,
is int.) eternity.
A German technological journal |
mints out the fact that a vast amount';
if valuable steel is lost every year in
h.i glmnn of nons that become unfit !
or writing and are thrown away. lYns j
ire made of the very finest steel, an I i
an be remeitcd and used again for ,
nany purposes. They can be turned ,
nto watch springs and knife blades,
md can be dissolve 1 and made avail- j
ible in the manufacture, of ink. The;
ug^estion is made that the children of J
he poor should lie taught to collect,
jast-away ] e.: . id t':c."cby save valtable
material iu.d earn money.
CURIOUS FOOD PRODUCTS.!,
THE QUEER THINGS THAT ABE
EATEN BY CHINAMEN.
Philosophy of Ilio Moninch In the I'CICHiini
Kingdom?Corpulence 1'onnidcrcd n Mark
Ol'lntcllectiiiil Snpcriority.
To he able to eat well means, in the
Chinaman's opinion, to he happy, says
a Pekin correspondent. All his cares,
troubles and desires center in the same
point, namely, good eating. True,
everybody the world over takes care to
satisfy his appetite in the best possible
way. But the Chinese differ from
other people in the philosophy of the
subject. They hold that only the
satiated man can be wise, and those
who cannot make themselves full are
surely fools. Their most sacred philosophical
and medical treatises deal
with the stomach as the principal
source of the spiritual, moral and physical
life of man. The head, in their
opinion, is a poor dependent on the
bounty of the stomach. Not the head,
but the stomach, ought to be crowned.
They hold as a cardinal axiom that the
stomach is the spring of every thought,
feeling and muscular action, iie wno
does not eat loses all energy. Man
differs from wood and stone only because
he fdls up his stomach. They
look upon Dr. Tanner's forty days'
fast as a clever trick. They assert
that the American doctor deceived the '
public by drinking some colorless nu- <
tritious substances dissolved in water. ;
Otherwise, they argue, he would necessarily
turn first an idiot, and then a
corpse.
When we ponder on some difficult
subject we often touch or rub our forehead.
Unjler the same circumstances
the Chinaman puts his lingers below
his belt. By touching his abdomen
lie facilitates his -mental process. In
view of the supremacy of the stomach
the Chinese came to the conclusion
that the better it is filled the wiser is
its possessor; hence fatness and corpulence
are the best mirror of the
mind, the best indication of superior
intellect. And, as wisdom brings man
to a blissful state and to a heavenly
beatitude, therefore the Chinamen regard
extraordinary stoutness as asym
bol of the future heavenly state, The
idol of Huddlia-Shahemuny, the ideal
of supreme beatitude, is represented
as an abnormally fat man, with a
smile of perfect satisfaction. There
is no need to put any sign under that
idol, for without words everybody
would read in its looks that " I am
quite full." The superior spiritual
advisers of the Buddhists are distinguished
for their corpulence. I am
told there are divines among them
who devour a whole sheep for breakfast.
Now, what are the agencies which
bring the Chinaman to his blissful
state? Tliey are manifold; yet beef,
milk and dairy products in general are
strictly excluded from the list. About
twenty centuries ago in the Celestial
empire there was established ox
worship, as a reward for the great
assistance in agriculture rendered by
that horned animal. Then it was forbidden
to kill either ox or cow. It
became also a sacred habit to leave the
cow's milk exclusively for the calves,
to whom it rightfully "belonged. Chinamen
do not use the milk of sheep or
she goats, though they are very fond
of the meat of these animals.
Excluding beef and dairy products,
Chinamen eat everything that is edible,
horse and ass flesh, snakes, rats, mice,
-1 ?.nadlinni>ora ciiirlf>ix. worms.
l,uoai ?r. ,
cocoons, sea-cucumbers, swallow's
nests, and so on. Once, while living
in a villa near J'ekin, I saw a very
strange scene. There appeared a cloud
of grasshoppers. Suddenly the field
was covered with Chinamen who ran
frantically hither an I thither,gathering
them in. They filled large sacks and
bags with the insects. Tbey carried
portable stoves on which they roasted
their curious game. Other Chinamen
greedily devoured the grasshoppers,
paying a penny for ten.
At the head of all meats Chinamen
nut. of course, work. In their opinion,
I T r *
to the hog belongs the first place in
the list of domestic animals. If you
ask a ( hinaman why, he will answer
you: "Because it was the hog from
whom the Chinamen descended!" Don't
you see, the Celestials have beaten
Darwin on the theory of the descent
of man. It Ls only natural, then, that
among Chinamen hogs should (njoy
full rights of citizenship. Like dogs,
they wander wherever they please. A
Chinese street without a number of
hogs is an impossibility. Are there
many hogs in China? I should think
so. On a s'ngle holiday in memory of
their ancestors?not the original ancestors,
the hogs, but merely human ancestors?the
Celestials eat fully 050,000
hogs. Poor Chinamen who cannot afford
to buy pork rat meat of dogs,
asses, horses, rats, mice, rabbits, hares
goats and sheep. But I never saw
them eating cats.
Of the birds the Chinese eat silver
pheasants, ducks, geese, chickens,
ja-kdaws, crows and many others.
Curiously enough, the so-called Cochin
China fowls are very rarely seen here.
Salt eggs are in great use here.
Among the choice delicacies of the
Chinese must be mentioned the fin
of sharks and the nests or sea swat
lows. L'nder the latter is understood
not the whole nest, but only the mucilaginous
inner coating of the nests. It
is believed that the swallows who
build their nests on the sea rocks cover
their nests and glue them to the rocks,
with the juice of sea cane, which, on
being dried, looks like mucilaginous
membrane. On the market these nests
are found in the shape of a hemisphere
of the size of a half orange peel. The
nests arc so!d here at from lifteen to
to twenty-five dollars per pound. '
They are used principally for ma'dng
broth, to which they give a peculiar :
aroma and taste, much valued by gas- '
tronomers.
i>:-~ .win r\( nnnreo nh tlir> lionrl I I
1\1UU DbtlMUO, Ut ? */ w.v/
of vegetable foods. Without rice <
gruel no meat is served here. " Fan "
means both "to liave a meal'' and "to
eat rice gruel." The bnvu rice, which
is common rice, but heated and musty,
is much liked. There is also a red variety
of rice.
Iloney is much used here, but chielly
as a cosmetic. After being mixed
with Hour it is used by the women in
their hair-dressing. With their hair
saturated, sticky and shining with i
honey, they must be indeed sweet. i
As everybody knows, the Chinese
are passionately fond of tea, which
they cultivate for the rest of the !
world. They drink it at every meal,
at home and out, win n idle and at
work, in shops and atollices?in short, J
everywhere, and at any time of day nr !
night. The red, black and gre.n sorts
of tea they prepare only for export,
wiiilo t.imv t.lwiiisfllves use exclusively
yellow tea. Tliey take tea in small
cups and without sugar.
Though in China there are excellent 1
sorts of grapes, yet no wine is prepared *
there. The Chinese make two kinds 1
of whisky, of sargo and of rice, and I 1
drink a good deal of it. Women also J
smoke and drink here. A tin gill '
of the shape of an hour glass is used 1
for [whisky drinking. They had no J
glassworks here until recently, when r
an American g nth-man taught some ?
Celestials to mak? glass. During my j 1
thirty years' residence here I have s
never seen a single drunken Chinaman v
on the street. No coffee or chocolate }
is used here.
Wlint (.'ernhline Thought. d
" Does (ieraldine ever say anything 1
nliout me?" a-ked an flitliusiastic J
liroeklyn lovrr of his sweetheart's
brother.
' Ves, indee I,"*answered the littlo ; '
man ; " she says you are very kind to *'
Ining her so many ear?.mels."
Anything else?" u
'She says that album you gave her ! a
i>n her birthday must have eost s?-V
"She is good at guessing. It eost j.
twenty-live, Johnny. Ibit does t-<
(lerakiine ever say anything about. J'
you know, about what she?she ,|
thinks of me?" ' ,t
"Oh, ye-;, sometimes. She said at
the brelTus table this morning that she I
thought your ears would make good 1 C
- - M" 1 *? ? - -1??~ "I f?.l 1 W
jacni SilllS, ailll LlltIL \> urn nur gu^iuu
sin' would rent your feet to a contractor '
as p'lc-drivers." j a]
Unfortunately for (ieraldine's little , c
coinmerci.il project he u>ed his feet to ;
tarry him away, and the last heard of I
him he was in New York, where he r
was looking for rooms for a single
gentleman.?Ntw York World. <*
SONG OF THE ADVERTISER.
I am an advertiser great
In letters bold and big and round
The praise of my wares I sound?
Prosi)erity is my estate?
Tlio +!.? nostrils crn
111 one continuous, surging flow;
They buy my goods and come again,
And I'm the happiest of men:
And this the reason I relate?
I am an advertiser great.
There is a shop across the way
Where ne'er is heard a human treadWhere
trade is paralyzed ami dead?
With ne'er a customer a day,
The people come, the people go?
P.ut never there?they do not know
There's such a shop lieneath the skit*.
Because ho doesn't advertise;
While I with pleasure contemplate
i iiiii 1111 mi uiivi'riisur grunt.
The secret of my fortune lie-!
In (flic small fact, which I may state
Too many tradesmen learn too late ?
If I have goods, I advertise!
Then jieople come, and people go
In constant streams, for people'know
Tliat he who has good wares to sell
Will surely advertise them well;
And proudly I reiterate
I am an advertiser great!
HUMOR OF THE HAY
L. remarked to his wife that a friend
'liucl pien'y of grit." wen, yes,"
jhe replied, he looks as if lie needed
i bath."?Toledo Ulade,
When Hamlet said, " Hut I have that
within which passeth show," it is be
lieved that he had in his pocket a coin
plimentary ticket for the circus.?Life
Bunker Hill monument is a cheap
advertising medium. It only costs
twenty-five cents to go to the top of
the column.?Jio^tcn (Jomvvrrial Jhtlletin.
Rattler says the cures effected by
laying on of hands is an old story with
liini. His mother often indulged in
the pastime in times past.?Boston
Courier.
Thousands of men have commenced
at the bottom of the ladder and stayed
there. Others have carried bricks and
mortar and reached the top by honest
industry.?Piraytine.
John Russell Young is writing a
history of China. What the American
housewife sighs for is a well written
and truthful obituary of the lady who
chips the China.?Hawk eye.
"Crushed strawberry" maybe a new
color for a lady's dress, but "smashed
custard" has been a well-known tint
for a young man's trousers ever since
the picnic was invented.?Argonaut.
"Xo more strikes are looked for
among the Erie switchmen," says an
exchange. This information will be
very gratifying to the schoolboys who
live in that section of Pennsylvania.?
Statesman.
An Indiana poet has written some
verses on the opulence of his poverty.
What worries most of us at the present
time is the poverty of our opulence. It
is too sad a thing to write verses about.
?New York Commercial.
It makes a man sorely puzzled to
know, when he takes his shoe off at
night, how in the world a piece of
wood the size of a lead pencil ever
worked in through a crevice about a
sixteenth of an inch wide.?l'mli.
The cost of stopping a train of cars
is said to he from forty to sixty cents.
Hut it wouldn't do any good to hold
up half a dollar to the brakeman on
the rear end of the train you have just
missed, as it goes out of the depot.?
Lowell Citizen.
An exchange says that newspaper
editors never " strike," but the assertion
is not borne out by the facts. An
editor once struck so hard that a wildeyed
man, with long hair and a long
iirnnt /I rt M'n of-1 i ra apven stpns at
punu, II CUU uvuu^wanu uv.v?
a time, and landed on his spinal column
at the bottom.?y orris town
Herald.
The question ""Where do all the pins
go?" is again revived. A country editor
confesses that it cannot be said,
perhaps, where they all go, but when
one's wife is away, and one is standing
on one leg, grinding one's teeth and
trying to pin a collar together in the
al sence of shirt buttons, some of them
go into one's neck?New York Commercial.
The young minister, Mr. W?, of
a We tern city, was invited to occupy
the pulpit in an Albany church. I lis
two sisters, chancing to be near Albany,
made their plans to go there for that
Snaday and hear him. After the service
a gentlemnn of the congregation,
whom they knew very slightly, hurried
toward them and said: " We are de
lighted to see you liere, out now unfortunate
that you should have chosen
to-ilay. Don't, I beg of you, think that
this is our minister. Dr. is off on
his vacation and we have to take what
we can get; but come next Sunday, if
you'rei n town, and you'll hear a sermon
worth listening to."?Troj Pr<8<.
A Turkey (.'harmed by a Snake.
A correspondent writ s from Agua
Limma, Cal.. to the Los Angeles Times
as follows: Last week in my cow corral
was a little snake four feet long,
and in his mouth was a cotton-tail rabbit.
The rabbit was a common-sized
one, and its head was down the snake's
throat to the shoulders. It was a fearful
sight and frightened the cows,
also the boy who shot it with a Winchester
rille. Two days later I heard
o +iirb-ov moL-incr tin al'.iriii T wpnf til
<? ? - ?
it, anil a turkey, ludf-grown, had its
leathers all the wrong way and its
head near the ground, and was within
eighteen or twenty inches of a black
rattlesnake, and was getting nearer.
Neither of them noticed me until I
disturbed the snake with a stone,
taking him bv surprise. The turkey
seemed to be relieved. What the
snake would have done I do not know,
but it seemed to me that he had the
turkey under his control, and would in
a very short time have struck it.
Advance Step in Dentistry.
Havana, Cuba.?The most popular
denti-t of this city, I)r. 1). Francisco
Garcia, member of the I'oval University,
states that in all cases of trouble[.i.inn
nonr*ilrrlo oricinct fmill tho toofli
his patrons are recommended to use
St. Jacobs Oil, and the most satisfactory
cures have followed, it is a specific
for to ithache, earache, bodily pains
and proof against household accidents.
" What is that you are wearing?"
isked Farmer John of his fair city
warder. "Oh, that ismvred jersey."
' All right," was the reply, "but don't
(o near my brown Jersey over in that
ield, unless you are good at climbing
rees."?J'/u'/ail' /phiu lXe/rs.
American Triumph at Amslerdair.
The Mason & Hamlin Organ and
Piano Company have just received the
following cable dispatch from Mr. C.
L\ Ilender, their agent in Holland, now
'eprcst'nting them at the World's Kxn
sit:on at Amsterdam: ' lieceired
Diploma of Honor, the very hvjhc.st
ward,The Mason & Ilamlin eabiut
organs were placed in competition
it this great exhibition with a large
lumber from the leading makers of
Europe and America, and this award
s but a continuation of their unbroken
cries of triumphs at all the great
vorld's exhibitions for the last liI
ears. Mason & Hamlin have now
ton the highest awards at Paris, 1S(>7;
Vienna, 1S73; Santiago, 1875; Philaelnhia.
ls7ti; Paris, 1878; Milan.
SSI, antl Amsterdam, 188i3.?Boston
ournali
A sponge measuring eight feet in
:rptiinference was recently discovered
t Key West. It had several fresh
nwspapers in its hand and a horrowe I
inhrella, and wore white hreeehesand
silk coat.? Hmiiugton Frw Pr 'ss.
Tlio Krazor Axle Gronxo
5 tlio best ill the miirket. It is the most
eonomicjil and cheapest, one box lasting as
mg as two of any other. One greasing will
ist two weeks, it received first premium at
ie Centennial and Paris Expositions, also
leduls at various State fairs. Buy no other.
l'CTUEST AM) llt.tiruni-iiyr.uun,, n<>uii?.ivvi?>
vers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard &
o., N. Y. Absolutelypure and sweet. Patients
bo have once taken it prefer it to all others
'hysicians declare it superior to all other oils.
Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough
kin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by
Jaswell, Hazard & Co., New York.
"JtoiiRli on Corns."
Askfor Wells'"Kough on Corns." 15c. Quick
olief; complete cure. Corns, warts, bunions.
Use St. Patrick's Salve, and learn ita great
alue. One trial convinces.
The Oldest Dnnkb
Being one of the oldest druggistB in this
city (although b&Tin^f rdtirod from business )>
I wish to say a good word about Hunt's
Remedy. A nnmber of year# ago I was
troubled with my kidney. The idea of a
druggist, however, resorting to the use of a
" patent medicine " v-as a little humiliating,
but when I came to consider how many people
had been benefited by the use of Hunt's
Remedy, I unhesitatingly began using it; and
after having fully tested its virtues I can say,
as many of my customers have said to me,
" It is the best medicine for kidney and liver
complaint ever compounded."
I hnve vet to leam of a single instance
where it has failed to benefit ana give satisfaction,
in fact it is the best I ever sold.
I would say to all who are troubled with
kidney and liver complaint, give Hunt's
Remedy a trial and yon -will say as I do, it is
the best known remedy, and tne best is the
cheapest every time. Yours truly,
Edward Allen.
Hnrtford, Conn., May 19, 1888.
Mr. James Ohkcct, with J. W. Goodman,
billiard table manufacturer, of Athol, Mass..
writes, May 23, 1883, as follows: "I liave
been troubled for a number of years with
kidney disease, with severe pains in my back
and sides, and could get no relief until I used
Hunt's Remedy, which was recommended by
our druggist, Ward, of this place, who stated
to me that many wonderful cures had been
made in this vicinity by the use of Hunt's
Remedy. People who have suffered for years
with kidney disease, inflammation of the
bladder, and accompanying troubles, had
been permanently cured by tins great me ;ic
ine. I purchased a bottle of Hunt's Remedy
nnd found that it helped me from the lit st
dose, and two bottles removed all the pain in
iny baok, and I consider myself cured, and
cheerfully recommend it to my friends as a
medicine that will do all that is claimed for it
Canada 'ias imitated Delaware, and now
has the whipping-post.
Dr. R. V. Pieboz, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear
Sir?For many months I was a great sufferer.
Physicians could afford me no relief. In my
despair I commenced the use of your "Favorite
Prescription." It speedily effected
my entire and permanent cure. Yours thankfully,
Mbb. Papxi R. Bastes, Iowa City, la.
The peanut crop of the year is estimated
at 2,4ftr>,000 bushels.
HtftTBvim, Ala.?Dr. J. T. Ridley says:
"Brown's Iron Bitters is a good appetizer
and merits attention from sufferers."
Glasgow has ;?">,800 houses of only one
room each.
* " (mi I
If yon are Diuous, iane jjt. jrierce b \rieaB
nnt Purgative Pellets," the original "Little
Liver Pills." Of all droggista.
The couutry cjnsumes 9,000,000,000 eg^s
each j ear.
The best cure for diseases of the nerves,
brain and muscles, iB Brown's Iron Bitters.
Iowa boasts of an immense hay crop.
Terrible Snflerlnjrs.
Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.?I have a
friend who suffered terribly. I purchased a
bottle of your " Favorite Prescription," and,
as a resnlt of its use, she is perfectly well.
J. Bailey, Burdett, N. Y.
Dr. Pierce'q " Golden Medical Discovery"
and "Pleasant Purgative Pellets " purify the
blood and cure constipation.
Racoons and bears make the nights lively
in the Georgia mo mtai if.
Mabion, Mass.?Dr. N. S. Ruggles says: "1
rscnmmdnd 'Rrnwn's Iron Bitters as a valued
Ionic for enriching the blood and removing
nil dyspeptic symptoms."
Neal Dow savs s?I,00,i00,0j0 goe< into
drink in this country.
Hardly a news paper printed but speaks of
a sadden death by heart disease. Dr. Graves
Heart Regulator would have cared it, strong
assertion; but many have said they were
taken from the grave by it. $1 per bottle.
Thebe are 00,000 acres ofjgradng land in
Arizona.
Dr. Graves' Hear t Regulator cures all form
of Heart Disease , nervousness, sleeplessness
A lakge sugar crop is anticipated in Louisiana.
Judge J. M. Smith, N. Y., used sncnrsyutlif
2 bottles of Dr. Elmore's Rheumatir.e-Goutalino
for his 25-year old rheumatic gout, after
trying in vain everything else. He says if
R. G. cost :?.r,0J a bottle he would buy it.
If yon have failed to receive benefit from
other preparations, try Hood's Sarsaparilla;
it's the strongest, purest, best, and cheapest.
Cuttirrli of t lie lilndder.
Stinging irritation, inflammation, Kidney,
Urinary complaints,cured by Buchupaiba. $1.
Wnlnut Lenf Hnlr RrHtorer.
It is entirely different from all others. It
is as clear as water, and as its name indicates
is a pcriect \ egetaoie flair restorer, it will
immediately free the head from all dandruff,
restore pray hair to its natural color, and produce
a new growth where it ha? fallen off. It
does not in any manner affect the health,
which sulphur, sugar of lead and nitrate of
silver preparations have done. It will change
light or faded hair in a few days to a beautiful
glossy brown. Ask your druggist for it.
Each bottle is warranted. SMITH, KLINE
<& CO., Wholesale Agents, Philadelphia, Pa.,
Bnd C. N. CRITTENTON. New York.
OnitHne.
The increasing demand for this preparation
as a household remedy for indigestioD
and dyspepsia is sufficient proof ?f its efficacy.
Tlint Husband ofWIne
Is three times the man he was before using
Wells' Health Renewer. i?l. Druggists.
A baldheaded man, who has heard that the
hairs of a man's head are numbered, wants
to know if there is not some place where he
can obtain the back numbers. Carboline will
supply the demand
25 Cents
Will bny a Tbeatise on the Hobse and His
Diseases. Book of 100 pages, valuable to
every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken.
Pent postpaid. New Yobk Hobse Book Co.,
134 Leonard Street, New York City.
GETLyon'sPatentHeelStiffeners applied to
new boots or shoes before you ran them over.
FEARFUL RESULTS
Great oppression of natural strength, bodily distress,
constant pain, inability to work, with loss of time,
accompany kidney complaints. If ever there was a
specific modicino. Hood's Sarsaparilla is such for
catarrh of the kidneys, which many regard as an earlj
admonition of
Brlglit's Disease
Four years ngoJ commenced taking Hood's Sarsaparilla
for kidnoy complaint, after enduring painful oppression
in my back. My case was considered hopeless, as I
passed blood. Two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla cured
me, and I am now well. I am a farmer, and am again
ablo to do all kinds of hard work.?A. Fxlton, Tun.
bridge, Vt.
No Other Blood Medicine
Equals Hood's Sarsaparilla In excellence, ormeets such
universal success in purifying, vitalizing and enriching
tho blood, or in restoration and renovation of the
human system.
My wifo was siofc for two years, troubled with nervousness
and general debility; ?h<? tried everything, but
could not find anything that did her any good till she
tried Hood's Sarsaparilla. Now Bh? says she would not
keep house without it.?P. P. BOTKTON, Manchester,
Conn.
Flood's Sarsaparilla
8o!d by Druggists. $1; six for S5. Prepared only by
O. I. HOOD <t CO.. Apothecaries. Lowell, Mass.
Instantly Relieved.
Mrs. Ann Lacour, of New Orleans, La., writes:
I have a son who has been sick for two years: he has
been attended by our leading physicians, but all to
~ mi.r U. Kin ?on J onoll rtf
UU JJUriHJSU. Xnn uivtuiuK UU Ulltt uw uauiu a^/vu vy ?
oouRhinpf, and was so proatly prc*hr.?tod in consequence
that death seemed Imminent. We had in
tho houso a bottle of Dr. Wm. nail's Balsam for the
Lunca purchased by my husband who noticed you*
advertisement yesterday. Wo administered it ac- ;
cording to directions and ho was instantly re- I
Iieved.
Durno's Catarrh Snuff cures Catarrh and all affeoi |
tions of tho mucous membraue.
23 CcntM will bny a Tbeatisx os the Hobse ash 1
His Diseases, Book ol 100 pogm, ralutblo to ever)
owner of horses. Postage stanvps taken. Sent postpaid.
Mew You Hobse Boos Oo0 124 Leonard Street.
THE GREATGERMAN :
Sj Liimfiniiiiiiiinininiiinni'i ] REMEDY
- yUaagd rnn DA IN !
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I fll||f^''JUU1Iil| HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE, !
[?J SORE THROAT,
III III lllr^rr^iLl QUINSY. SWELLINGS, |
1 Iffl ill) SPRAINS,
I I llniunmnainiiO) j Soreness, Cuts, Bruises,
1 ,'?U||I. 'HIQJ0IP J I FROSTBITES,
I" JMI ssi
iillfPj F,FnSSTBomf.
mill I II III II' IflfP?1 II | Sold by nil DrucKlsts and
i Iliiiii. pAdll h,n"';;^oS.I)lrec73US 1,111
1 i"ll|l| ' |i:i|]!l|l|[!|'III The Charles fl. Vogeler Co.
| |jl i liiiii^' I I i.-u.vf.l. M u A. VUiiEI.KR k CO )
I' ?..dilllllil 'j/j Italllm.irr, Sd.. I'.S. k\
Y N T'-37 ~
jr\ jR*? *n 'uver nn<* nKu#
(fOSHPlisSHS
and indeed in all
TOy\ localities when' tho
<r*$g}-rV condition# are unfa
VOrUHOMMUU, inis
w - digi-ation, blliousm'83 ,
1^- STOMACH ? and kindred com. i
a Pn V>, plaints, it is without
CSgfTEB^ 1
^ B BM* Dealersgenerally. <
A\T.\>Tlvl)?I.ADllIS totakoour Now Fancy Work
11 at Hit ir iuiiiiu>, in city or country, and earn ?G to
> IJ jut week, making noodstor our Kali and Winter
trade. Send 15c, tor sample and particulare. HL'1)?
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TJirce Partic
' Taint the First.?Brown's Iron*
pound. It is a tonic medicine, not a <
preparation made to restore strength :
in bar-rooms and taverns.
Point the Second.?Brown's Irc
injurious. The most delicate ladies ;
use it with perfect safety and with gre
in its remedial agency, it is gentle in its
and imparting robust health in the mo
. Point the Third.?Brown's Irc
Chcmical Company of Baltimore, a lc
tion is well-known to the business ]
There is no risk in buying such a mod
A Pangeroufl Case.
BocffiWTEB, Jons L ISO. "fn
Tern with the moat
Interna ftnd dwithirp^x n>7 hack and
?Kid**)/*,
" Extending to the end ofany toes and t
my brain! \ ?&&&#'
" Which made me delirious!
"From agony.
"It took three men to hold me on my bedS^faT
at times.
"The doctors tnea in vain to reuov? mo.
Bat to no purpose.
" Morphine and other opiates
"Had no effect!
"After two months I was given np to die!
" When my wife
"Heard a neighbor tell what Hop Bitten
had done for her, she at once got and gars
me some. The first dose eased my brain
nnd seemed to go hunting through my system
for tho pain.
"The second dose eased me so much thai
I :,lept two hours, something I had not done for
two months. Before I had used five bofcties
I was well nnd at work, as hard as any
man could, for over three weeks: but I worked
too hard for my strength, and taking a hard I
cold, I was taken with the mo?t acute and f
painful rheumatism all through my system I
that was ever known. I called the docton I
again, and afler several weeks they left mo a |
cripple cn crutches for life, as they said. ] I
met a friend and told him my case, and h# I
said Hop Bitters had cured him andwonld I
euro me. I poohed nt him, bat he was so |
earnest I was induced to use them again. Ia I
i frtnr roaal'a T fhrflur flwflv ml fl
ieS.1 UJttU XUUl nvvuw .?
crutches and went to work Ii?htly and kepi
on using the Bitters for live week", until I
became as well a? any man living, and have
been so for six years since. It also cured
my wife, w ho had been so for years; and ha?
kept her and my childrou well and hearty
with from two to three bottles per year;
There is no need to bo sick at all if these
Bitters are used.?J. J. Bebk, ex-Supervisor.
i " That poor invalid wife!
| "Sister! .
" Mother!
" Or daughter! _ J
" Can be made the picture of health! ^
" With a few bottles of Hop Bitters!
" Will you let them suffer?" ^
A NOTED BO T UNTITLED WOMAN. \ji
[Froa "tbvBostoa QUXhJ J
Metm. Editor* r? .
The abort) is a pood Hkcncss of Mrs. Lydla E. Plnlfc 1
bam, of Iynn,Masa., who aboroall other hnmanbelng* j
may be truthfully called the "Dear Friend of Woman,*
as some of her correspondents love to cull her. Sha j
la realotoly devoted to her work, which li the outcomA* 1
of a llfe-etndy, and Is obliged to keep dz lady
assistants, to help her answer tho large correspoadract .1
which daily pours In upon her, each bearing ttsspedal I
burden of suffering, or Joy at releaeofrom It Ha j
Vegetable Compound Is a medicine fcr good aid not -'4a
evil purposes. I havo personally investigated tt and j
am satisfied of the truth of this. '^9
On acconnt of Its proven merits, it Is reoemmended
and prescribed by the best physicians In the country.
One sayst "It works lilce a charm and aarta amoh ''jl
pain. It will core entirely tho worst form of falling / |
of the uterus, Leucorrhxa, irregular and painful J
Mcmtruat [on, all Ovarian Troubles, Inflammation and ~]
Ulceration, Flooding*, all Displacements and the con* . fiD
sequent spinal weakness, and Is especially adapted t?
the Chantro of life." "-""m
It permeates every portion of ^?>'i>?teai;'and glre*
new life and vigor. It jirfiOraftiintnees, fl*tn)?ncy? '
destroys all craving for stimulants, and relieve* weakness
of the stomach. It cures Bloating, Huriaches, 1
Nervous Prostration, General Debility, Sleeplessness
Depression and Indigestion. That feeling of bearing
down, causing pain, weight ud backache, is always
permanently cored by Its use. It will at all ftrry, and
under all circumstances, act In harmony with the law
that governs the female system. .
It costs only |l per bottiecr six for $1, and la sold by
druggists. Any advice required as to special cases, and , .
tho names of many who have teen restored to perfect
health by the use of the Vegetable Compound, can be "
obtained by addressing Hrs. P., with stamp for repijf
at her home la Lynn, Mass, ' ; '
For Kidney Complaint of either sex this ccmpoundW
unsurpassed as abundant testimonial show.
"lira. Plnkham's liver PHls," says one writer, "at
the best i* On world for the core of Constipation,
Bfllrnimow and Torpidity of the liver. Her Blood
Purlflerworks wonders In Its special lino and bids tab
to equal the Compound In its popularity,
All must respect her as an Angel of Mercy whose soit
ambition Is to do good to others.
Philadelphia.P?- 00 MJ3.A.M.& j
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