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I..C LOSS.
Life knows no winter when tho heart is light; j
Tho' skies are gray, ami dull the waning j
year.
Mid cloud and gloom the world is fair and
bright;
For all is summer when one smile is here.
Life knows no summer when tho heart is sad;
Tho' skies are blue, and ileitis with verdure
grown,
Can song or blossom make tho world seem
glad?
Ah, no! 'tis winter when one smile is flown.
I. FOOD-A PLACE.
fc, Marion sat thinking intently. "With
one finger pressed tightly against her
f lips and her eyes cast upon a small,very
y\ small parcel in her lap. she might have
I set for a picture of Meditation. But
an anxious wrinkle corrogated the fair
^ brow, showing her cogitations to be of
a different order from those usually
I indulged in by maidens of her tender
' age. For indeed Marian bad been trying
with all the wisdom of her twenty
^ summers?or winters?to solve the
| problem of ways and means, and it was
I no package of love letters on which she
gazed with such dissatisfaction at its
meager proportions, but a whole year's
. - savings.
' By ciosc economy it will pay Elsie's
expenses for the summer and leave me
ten dollars. But no matter; it's blessed
money that will be spent to cure my
darling?''
As if to make the commendation more
decided,she vigorously rolled and slapped
the bills into the smallest compass possible.
Then she carefully closed the shutters?
a most unnecessary precaution, for
the room was in a wing oti the third tloor
with vacant lots on both sides. After
Viofr i\\r* HfHft Vw\?irrl ivic nnf intn fi Irnif
purse, the purse insinuated iulo the foot
of a stocking, the stocking wrapped in an
old dress skirt, and the whole deposited
on a shelf in the closet, and everything
done to give it an appeaiancc of unstudied
cftsclessness calculated to deceive an
ordinary burglar. This sacred and mysterious
rite fully over, she opened the
shutters and let in the Hoods of yellow
sunset light to glorify her cozy room.
Poor Marian had no trust in banks, and
little wonder. Into the "Store House
Deposit," with its plate glass windows,
t-?- its marble floors, its urbane clerks and
golden promises, her father had placed
with some confidence the honest savings
nf nn f?nr>rrrptif> nnrl flififl c:ilmlv
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thinking his orphan daughter above want.
If the blessed dead can be cognizant ol
our happenings what were his feelings
when the oily president of the storehouse
emptied the said store house of its contents
and left for Europe? Marian was
only one of half a thousand sufferers,
but it made her neither crazy nor
melancholy, as it did many other unfortunates,
to be thus rudely jostled out of
the lap of fortune. Gathering together
all the little mementoes of a prosperous
and guarded childhood, she secured a
room" for herself and Elsie with Mrs.
Allen, an old friend o! her father's, who
kept a few boarders "only for company,
I my dear." A class of beginners in music
soon kept her busy, and no head of a
family was ever prouder of his ability to
cimnnrt tVif>m thiin wne \I?ii-i!in nf flip
talent which earned a home for herself
and the little sister whom her mother
had contided to her care when Marian
herself was only a child. Bravely she
worked on, and was dismayed for the
first time a month before, when the doctor
gave as his opinion that the spinal
disease developing itself in the child
needed for its cure a residence in a
neignuonng city, 111 a nospitai specially
devoted to such compiaints.
After opening the shutters Marian
walked on tiptoe to the alcove, parted
the curtains which hid the bed, carefully
covered the feet of the sleeper who
lay "there, and pressed a light kiss on the
long curl which rested on the pillow.
Tears were in her eyes when she came
out into the room.
"She must go," she said, passionately.
"*''Onlv we two in all the world, if I
phould lose her?but I won't think of
such a thing. She'll yet well, of course.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself,
Marian Martin, to doubt it or feel blue.
Imagine what it would be if you weren't
able to send her at all. You must lind
some work to do, and may it be of the
hardest kind, for you will be a lonely i
maid, Marian, without your baby. Come,
now, you're getting doleful again. This
will never do."
Having been accustomed all her life
^ to treat herself as a party much prone to
self-indulgence, and needing rigid discipline,
she straightway shook herself
into comparative cheerfulness, and, in
order to waste no time, beiran to search
the columns of the newspaper for the
one headed "Female Help Wanted." It
might give her some hint as to employment
until her pupils returned from their
vacations. She found the list and read
with running comments between.
"Wanted?A middle-aged lady to act
rs housekeeper for widower."
"I might wear spectacles and a cap,"
she said disapprovingly to her image in
the mirror opposite where the dimples in
clfeek and chin seemed to mock at such
a ridiculous idea. "Here's another."
"Wanted?A young lady stenographer,
must understand the use of calligraph or
type writer."
She shook her head at this and set the
loose, fluffy curls to dancing.
"I must be dreadfully behind the age,
^ for I haven't the slightest acquaintance
with either of these instruments. And
fool-'ah old Madame lieaudry called me
E5 * 'feenished.'"
"Wanted?A vonncr. energetic busi
ne8s woman with *300 -to invest in a
' profitable enterprise."
"No, thap.lt you. If I had t'jOO docs
anyone suppose that I'd be away from
I "-Elsii* moment? I'll speak to Mrs. Al|
len about it, she knows so many people.
Thank heaven. I have no prestige to lose,
' and nobody would notice in what way I
occupied myself 111 summer. Ah, Elsie,
dear, awake already?" turning with loving
smiles to the eight-ycar old copy in
miniature of herself who came with painful
slowness into her arms. "Here's
your old slow-coach of a sister doing
It- nothing, when she ought to be preparing
r your supper. But never mind, dear,"
L taking the child's face between her rosy
^ palms, "I have news for you better than
f a tray full of the nicest things in the
world. Now, wish for someting splendid,
the thing you want most."
"The thing I wan* most, Maidee,"
said the little one, with a pathetic smile
into the face that had never worn for her
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"Oh. you little witch, to ask for the
cry blessing you're go'ng to have," said
Marian, hugging her and speaking rapr-?
idly to hide the trembling in her voice.
"You'll go away among the kindest and
best people you ever saw: there will be
many other sweet and lovely children
getting well, too, and all so happy. And
I'll be happy, too, and write such long ;
letters. To morrow I won't have any I
lesssons lo give, and we'll ride out to \
buy a darling little trunk and everything
nice to put into it. There, now, sit in
this chair and think over it while I get
supper for my birdie."
"Maidee," said the child, as her sister '
was about to leave the room, "that Mr. .
Wallace was so kind to me to day. He
gave me a ride around the porch on Min- !
nie Allen's cart, and put some peaches
in ray hat when I left it in the hall. I
eaved one for you, there 011 the mantle."
"That was kind. Thank you, pet.''
A9 she went down to the dining room
she laughed softly co herself: "They're
all bound to make me like this Mr. Wal- 1
lace. First Mrs. Allen sings his praise,
now Elsie has gone over to the enemy I
with such rapidity it quite takes my
breath away. He seemed to me very unapproachable,
but I have sei n him so seldom,
and that may account."
James Wallace was Mrs. Allen's most
recently discovered relative. She had a
perfect mania for tracing kinship; the
ties of blood, be they never so weak,
were very sacred to her, and nothing
lir>r mnr*? than tn &t.umVilr? nnon
some fifth or sixth cousin hitherto
unaware of her existence and take him
into the benevolent circle of j
her friendship. Some chance business |
dealings led Mr. Wallace in her direction,
and somehow it came about that he
left his lodgings and took up his abode !
under the hospitable roof that sheltered
Marian. There was no question of Mrs.
Allen's delight at this arrangement. "It
is so good to have a man in the house
again, my dear,"she confided to Marian, j
r And poor, dear David would have ap- i
proved, I'm sure. The "boys are well j
enough''?she boarded gratis her three
nephews who attended an academy near
by?but they are only boys, after all, not
men, and of no earthly use in an emer- {
uency. But just to look at James around
the house ought to give us poor defenseless
women a feeling of security. Marian
resented this remark somewhat, oeing au
independent lassie and uaver having
found as yet the presence of the other i
sex necessary to her comfort or happi- 1
^ ness. But when she reached the diningwt
room!*and found ?him there she felt'|in
duty bound to scrutinize him more
thoughtfully, for Elsie's sake, lie was
helping Mrs. Allen to decide between
the merits of two designs for a new
monument to mark the last resting place
of her family. He nodded to her over
the paper and Mrs. Allen bustled arouud
to assist Marian in " making a picture "
of the tray. " He has kind eyes," she
thought. Yes, Mrs. Allen, the strawberry
jelly, I think. It sets oil the
floating island better than the gooseberry
?and his mouth is a little, a very little
hard looking?only a tiny piece of
chicken, thank you?a most uncompromising
chin?well, if you will insist,
just one of those star cookies?younger
than I supposed, too. I believed him
quite ancient.
(Jood Mrs. Allen just then went out
of the room for some other little delicacv
for the patient, and Marian, look
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j 111 LT il[ at*I 1UUII, - ti uviovn
| wonder for a minute who would have
that task when Eisie was going. Then
I it dawned on her what she was about
I to do, and to her own dismay, as well
as to that of the other occupant of the
room, a little sob, try a* she would to
suppress it, welled up her throat, and
her hands shook so it was almost a
miracle the tiny red waiter diu "ot fall
upon the floor. Mr. Wallace had heaid
something about the sisters, and partly
divined the cause of her agitation.
"Miss Martin," he began?and there
was no impertinent curiosity in his tone
?''can I do anything for you? Is the
little sister worse?"
"No," said Marian, responding to the
genuine honesty expressed in voicc and
wonls, though mortified at having lost
control before a stranger; "but it is so
hard to send her away, and we have
been together all our lives."
She said nothing for an instant while
she stood there bravely fighting evidence
of her emotion, though the bowed head
and (juiverinir chin were affecting enough,
then broke In aorupuy, in a uusmcss-imu
tone:
"How soon could you have the little
girl ready?"
"Saturday. I think," answered Marian.
' And this is Monday.'" he s*id, as if in
deep reflection. While Marion wondered,
he consulted a note book. It contained
not the slightest reference to what he
was about to say next, he never having
thought of it himself till that moment.
Yes. I have business along that road,
and it would be no trouble to see your
little sister to her destination. "Oh,''
was all Marian said, but with such a glow
on the bonny face he immediately surprised
himself into another fib.
"By the way, you needn't purchase a
ticket, I have a pass over the line, and
she may use it with me as well as not."
Marian was proud, still there was no resisting
the friendly ofTers made in such a
way, and a grateful "You are too kind"
was all she aitempted, when Mrs. Allen
came in and she sped up-stairs to feed
her nursling.
if she was so surprised at this offer
from one she barely knew, how much
more was James Wallace astonished to
find himself performing such a youthfully
impulsive action. A self-made,
self-contained man, his early orphan
years had been made dreary enough by
the gru Iging kindness of charity, and
his youth rendered deso'ate by the selfishness
of the woman he had wooed but
could not win by reason of his poverty.
Now when fortune smiled upon him he
had come to think the whole world engaged
in a mad struggle for the covetcd
object, whatever it might be, with every
man for himself, and though never positively
unfeeling nor cynical he sometimes
acted on that belief. But here was a
? ? t- - t---i t :
young giri who imu ue^mju^u. una lu.w
taking a trip the very busiest season of
the year. She was different from the
rollicking, coquettish girl who had
clouded his early life; different from the
coarse, hearty good-natured young women
who worked in his factory. These
had represented all womanhood to him,
for he had no remembrance of
his mother. Mrs. Allen showed another
type, and here was a sweet, unaffected
maiden. No. he wasn't a. bit sorry for
what he had done; not even when it
took him from the factory a whole week,
nor when it absorbed his quiet evenings
in confabs about air pillows, checks,
berths, and other topics of interest to
Marian and his cousin; for wasn't his
opinion asked iu the most flattering manner,
and didn't he feel himself growing
younger every day.
At last the hour of parting came, and
Marian's pain was eased a little when her
last glimpse of the beloved little form
showed Elsie, with her lap full of presents,
throwing kisses with all her might,
while a strong arm encircled her, and
Mr. Wallace's smile was so assuring that
t W1 nvor thmifrllt
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his mouth anything but handsome.
It is a week since Klsic was borne
from her, and Marian sits in her room
lonely but for the hope which lies so
near her heart, and ever with thoughts
of her absent one come others of the new
friend who took her two hands in his
to-day and related with the minuteness
of a woman every circumstance connected
with the child's arrival in her
new home, of the thoughtful people
who received her, and the golden
promises of perfect cure he had
from the resident physician. Now
she goes to the window, being careful to
see the new moon over her right shoulder,
and then laughing at herself for the
superstition. As she leans out suilfing
delightedly the odor of the freshly cut
grass a putf of smoke brings the tears
to her eyes. It is smoke surely, and
coming from the window of the room
under hers, and when she looks again
to make sure a little tonjrue of llame
meets her startled gaze. Quicl? as a
JiU^il 311C Id UU'Ui uuu nuvvnvu wv
cach door and given the alarm. She
cjuite agrees with Mrs. Allen that men
arc "good in an emergency'1 when Mr.
"Wallace's firm, even tones answered her
call and even more than agrees when his
self-possession contrasts with the feeble
pipes of alarm from Miss Stinson and inertness
of several of the other women
who have to be taken out by main force,
Mrs. Allen herself being paralyzed by
fright. The greater part of the building
s saved, though it is almost morning
when the fire is declared ,;out." After
exhausting themselves in praise of Marian
the others <jo in for coffee and call
her urgently. Still Marian lingers out
on the lawn surveying the charred
remains of the wing where her room
had beer.. Only had been, for it
had suffered most and none of Marian's
treasures were left. She looked ruefully
at the gilt fringe which, hanging so dis?
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111 i J li J? 11U111 <l ijuji, a |iaiuiiu ivimuder
of the desolation within. She was
joined by Mr. Wallace, and had to say
something at once to keep from laughing
:it the ridiculous spectacle he presented
draped as he was in a blue ilannel dressing
gown, his feet incased in huge arctics,
all topped by a fur cap. "I ought to
feel discouraged," she said, "but somehow
1 don't realize my loss yet."
"You need never realize it."
She bent upon him an inquiring glance,
and he answered at once: "Pardon my
bluntness, but Mrs. Allen told me you
wanted a place: that's just the way she
put it and I have found one for you if
you will accept it." Marian, wondering
a little at his choice 011 a subject just
then replied: 'Can I fill it?' 'Fill it?
It is not worthy of you, but 110 one else
in all the world can. Marian, dear, the
place is in my heart and home. Will
you take it?" And Marian thought the
face on which the light of dawn broke
had not one objectionable feature.
They had a ( hristmas wedding at Mrs.
Allen's; Elsie was bridesmaid and Marian's
trosseau was the gift ot Mrs. Allen
and her boarders, who persisted iu saying,
spite of Marian's contradiction, that
they owed their lives to her heroism.?
A. M. Dunne.
Wonderful Speed on a Bicycle.
Whilst scientists are striving might
and main to fly through the air, our lesslofty
minded bicyclists arc attaining the
art of volition upon the earth. Certainly
the wonderful speed shown last week
on the Crystal Palace path by English
comes nearer to Hying than anything
else. The most wonderful record al;
ways seemed to me to be the five
minutes thirty-six seconds for two miles
made some years agj by the Hon. Ion
Keith Falconer, and I never expected to
see it beaten very far. But here is a man
/ AnmlnfAo fkn f u*a vrtil/iC lit Cfl m l>
four seconds less, and then proceeds
eighteen miles farther at top speed, the
twenty miles being ridden in fifty-nine
miuutes six and three-fifth seconds, and
a distance of twenty miles 505 yards
1 covered in the hour. English is a North
countryman, very much of the Cortis
build, and has risen at a bound to the
top of the tree, where he is likely to remain.
lie can certainly beat two
minutes forty 6econds for one mile.?
I oit'lon World.
Dr. Blendmann, or tlie lioyal College
of Berlin, claims to have discovered cities
and towns in the moon, and indications
of their being inhabited.
AN UNCOLLECTED CLAIM.
A SKETCH OF LIFE AT THE NATIONAL
CAPITAL.
The Siory of a Poor Old nan Who
daunts tlir Corridors of Washington
Hotels.
Although the old gentleman's coat
was threadbare, his shoes sadly in need
of repairs, and his tall hat had lost its
gloss, he elevated his feet just as high as
any one else on the table of the readingroom
at a down-town hotel last night,
and told the reporter who took a seat beside
him that the rain was a welcome
sight. The old gentleman sampled the
reporter's tobacco, and acknowledged
that he was ahead of time. "Hut you
sec I couldn't stay away any longer. Between
me and you, my money gave out,
and I had to come back."
" Do your people live here?"
"No; but this is the cheapest place to
live for me. No, 1 don't live anywhere.
Come originally from Noith Carolina
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been here while Congress is in session
since. Well, it's the same old story over
again. I was a sightless fool, that's all,"
and the old man gave vent to a sigh,and
after a severe struggle coughed.
"Seventeen years ago I was a small
truck fanner in Xorth Carolina, had
forty acres and was doing well, when an
aunt of mine took up and died, leaving
me her estate, which consisted of $2:S0
and a claim against the government for
damages. This claim amounted to about
$1,400, and I came to Washington to
collcct it. I came in a Pullman car.
When 1 go away now its second class. I
thought that all I'd have to do was to
come here and get the money. Well, I
got here, hunted up my member, told
him of my claim, and lie promised to attend
to it for me. I hung about, gave
three dinners at Brown's to the members
of a committee to whom my claim was
referred, and awaited results. It was not
long before my money begun to run low
and I was thinking of going home, but
that member of mine kept telling me to
hang on and he'd get my claim through
all right. I got in the habit of loafing
around the capitol, waiting for my claim,
but sbc didn't come. Congress adjourned
without acting on it, and at the end
of the session I found myself dead-broke.
I went back home then, determined
never to come back again, and would
not have done so but for that member of
mine. lie got mc to work for his renomination
and he was elccted. Then
he told me that the government wanted
men like me, and that if I would sell out
my place and come here he would surely
get my claim through, and would get me
in one of the departments. I
came back, got in the patent
office, and all went serene until 1874,
when I was fired out, ray claim was disregarded
and my member defeated.
Then I had to hustle. The associations
I had formed were hard to break away
from, and I finally get hanging about
the committee rooms, doing odd j'obs
for members. Thev would give me a
little money now and then, and I mane
acred to eke out a living, but that was
all. During all this trouble I became
carelcss of myself. I had no desire to
go back to my home, where I know I'd
have got a start, but simply hung about
and never managed to get clear of the
rut I fell into. Yes. I've tried it, but it's
no go, and I'm back here again. During
the summer months some member generally
gets me a pass and gives me a
little money, and I go to some of the
watering places. This year I went home.
Everybody had forgotten me. My money
gave out and I had to come back."
"IIow do you live?"
"On whisky. Yes, whisky; its easier
to get whisky than bread. I hang about,
get invited and work the lunch. Sleep?
Oh, the corridors of hotels arc convenient,
and once?but only once?I went
to the station-house, I'll manage to live
through until the mill gets going again,
and then I'll get on to some scheme and
make enough, perhaps, to go away next
summer. Although you would not think
it, I'm only forty-one years of age, but
feel seventy. Thanks, I will go you
again; and. say, you haven't got a spare
quarter have you? I think I'd like to
try a bed to-night."? Wtmhinjtoi: ltcpubUran,
Time for Various Foods to Digest.
Many people discuss and " cuss" digestion
and indigestion. Vet how little is
generally understood of these subjects!
Great writers like Stahl, Blondlot, Payen
and Deschamns have woduced vol
umes of scientific argument to prove
that the stomach is the great organ of
the human system and must he tenderly
and carefully treated. What we need,
however, are simple rules.
Take, then, only such food ns you
believe your stomach c;ui easily assimilate.
To assist in this selection we append
the time required to digest the
various articles of food mentioned:
ONE HOCK.
Pigs' feet, boiled, 1 hoir; boiled
tripe, lh.; boiled rice, lh.
FItO.M ONE TO TWO HOl'ltS.
Fresh eggs (beaten), 1 hour 30 minutes;
fresh salmon trout, boiled, lh. :?0m.
barley soup, lh. 30m.: venison, broiled,
lh. 35m.; brain, boiled, 111. 45m.; sago,
lh. 45m.; beef liver, broiled, 2h.; milk,
boiled, 21i.; fresh eggs, raw, 2h.; salt
codfish, 2h.; tapioca, boiled, 2h.; sauerkraut,
2h.; sour apples, 2h.
r nu.u T?W iu iiiiw'itj uu^iv^.
Fresh milk, 2 hours 15 miuutcs; fresh
eggs, roasted, 2h. 15m.; wild turkey,
roasted. 2. 18m.; wild turkey, boiled.,
2h. 15m.; tame turkey, roasted, 2h. 30m.;
wild goose, roasted, 2h. :50m.. young
pig, 2h. 30m.; lamb, broiled, 2h. 30m.;
gelatine, boiled, 2h. 30m., hash meat
with vegetables boiled, 2h. 30m.; boiled
beans, 2h. 30m.; boiled bread soup, 2h.
30m.; potatoes, roasted or baked, 2h.
30m.; cabbage, raw, 2h. 30m.; Savoy
cake, 2h. 30m.; chicken fricassee, 2h.
4om.; cream boiled in oven, 2h. 45m.;
oysters, raw, 2h. 55m.; beef, lean,
roasted, 3h.: beefsteak, broiled, 31).;
mutton, roasted or boiled, 3h.; pork'
raw, salt, 3h.; chicken bouillon, 3h.;
bean soup, 3h.; apple pudding, baked,
3h.
FROM Til KICK TO KOl'R HOI KS.
Beef, boiled, with mustard, 3 hours 10
minutes; pork, broiled, I5h. 15m.; mutton,
roasted, 3h. 15m.; oysters, roasted,
3h. 15m.; carrots, boiled, 3h. 15m.:
sausage, fresh, broiled, 3h. 20m.; dried
beef, lean, roasted, :?h. 30m.; eggs, fresh
mid ct)ok<?d hard. 3h. 30m.: mutton
bouillon, oh. 30m.; oysters, stewed, 3h.
:50m.; butter, melted, :5'n. :50m.; cheese,
old and strong, 3h. :50m.; beef, boiled
wifh salt, 3h. Oin.; beef, lean, fried, 4h.:
veal, fresh, broiled, 4h.: chicken, boiled
or roasted, 4h.; duck, roasted, 4h.
FKOM KOCH TO FIVE HOURS.
Beef, old and salted, 4 hours 15 minutes;
salt pork, fried, 4h. 15m.; cartilage,
boiled, 4h. 15m.; bouillon from
bones, 4h, 15m.; pork, salted and boiled,
4h. tfOm.; veal, fried, 4h. :50m.; wild
duck, roasted, 4h. :50m.; grease (mutton),
boiled, 4h. :50m.; cabbage, boiled, 41i.
:J0m.; pork, roasted, entrelarde. 5h.
15m. tallow, (beef;, boiled, 5h. :50in ;
tendon, boiled, 5h. oOin.?New York
llerahl.
The Boy and (lie Bone-Setter.
Speaking of bone-setters recalls a
good story which occurred in the north
of Scotland, where one of them had
risen to great fame, ami no small fortune
by his skill. A country lad residing
a few miles oir had got his leg
hurt at one of the local factories, aud
lm/I Iwion for unmo l\v? t)w?
local medical man without any good
result, ilia mother, who had great faith
in the neighboring bone-setter, wanted
the lad to go to liim,which he declined
preferring, as he said, "reg'lar
faculty." Eventually, however, his
mother's persuasions prevailed, and
he agreed to allow himsilf to be
taken to soe Daniel R?, the bonesetter.
A bed for the invalid was exterai)orizcd
on a cart, and, accompanied by
lis anxious mother, he was after a
rather painful journey taken to the
town where the bone setter resided. The
leg was duly examined and it was found
necessary to haul it very severely, in
order, as the boric-setter said, ''to get
the bone in." The fad was liberal with
his screams vvhile this was going on,but
eventuallv the bone was "got in," and
1- - ?, o?,l in ? f?,..
I1U Will* ium iu g\j uwuiv; uuvi jix H iv?
days he would be all right and lit for his
work.
He was lifted up on the cart again,
and with his mother seated beside him,
set oil for homo. "Didn't Danny do the
thinff well?" " said the joyous old lady.
"Yes, he did, mother," said the lad,
"but I was nasic a fool as gie him the
sair leg!'' The "reg'Iar faculty" will,
we have no doubt, appreciate the story.
? Whitehall Itecicic.
A long cloak of modified "Mother
Hubbard" fashion is of black camel's
hair cloth of Escuriel design, lined with
fancy striped surah, trimmed with draperies
oT braided silk galloon, and finished
with a wide velvet collar and wide
velvet cuffs enriched with faucy bead
embroidery.
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FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Grape Culture.
The best vines are those grown from cuttings
having two eyes, in which a single
system of roots radiate from the lower
eye like the spokes of a wheel, and the
vine grows out of the top bud. One-year
old vines are to be preferred in all cases,
if first-class, even if two years old, root
pruned and transplanted vines should be
offered at the same price.
In planting vines, the single tier of
roots should be set as low in the ground
us may l>e and keep the upper node, from
which the vine has started out of the
ground, so that new roots will not grow
from it. Unless this precaution is taken,
a new upper tier of roots, thus encouraged
to grow, will, after a time, usurp
and displace the others, and the action
of frost in clayey soil will gradually, and
sometimes in a single winter, throw the
vine out of the ground and expose these
upper roots in an injurious way, and this
condition remains permanent. The best
time of the year is that which occurs
first, always premising that the soil
should be mellow and friable, and if in
autumn, a shovelful of loam should be
used so as to completely bury the two
or three buds only that (ire left upon the
vine above the surface. The earlier in
autumn or spring that the work is done,
the better, providing the conditions are
as stated.
The distances at which vines should
be set will depend somewhat upon the
strength of the soil and the mode of training
adopted. If in all respects as before
advised, the best distance is believed to
be primarily, in rows eight feet apart
with the vines six feet apart in the rows
which perfectly run north and south. It
will be a matter of great convenience to
have the rows consist of but twenty-five
vines, thus occupying 144 feet in length;
then by omitting one vine, a space of
twelve feet will be left for access between
two vineyards. If circumstances
favor, or rather, if they seem to require,
as the vines get age and strength, each
alternate vine, including the two end
ones in each row, may be rewoved, tlnis
leaving twelve vines in each that will
stand eight by twelve feet apart.
Almost any hoed crop may be grown
in the vineyard if an equivalent amount
of fertilization be given, but after this
time grape vines only. Many and various
are the implements that have been
tried for cultivation and discarded. The
plow is here inadmissible. Cultivation
should be shallow, perhaps two inches is
ample, and this should be done in a way
that will not disturb the larger roots,the
great body of which lie from three to six
inches deep. The last summer's experi
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harrow to be exactly the thing. It is an
implement that disturbs the soil from
one to live inches deep, at the will
of the driver, or in hard ground the
rider, and never cuts off the larger roots
even if lying at the surface. Cultivation
should begin each year as soon as the
ground will pulverize in the spring and
be renewed after every packing rain, or
in the absence of rain, before a crop of
weeds has time to show the third leaf.?
Farm Journal: '
Farm and Garden Notes*
No matter how sloppy the food is given
j to pigs, they should have dailv n good
i supply of clean, fresh water. This is especially
needed in summer for pigs kept
in pens and with little green food.
Dogs troubled with mange should be
washed with warm water and castile soap.
Twice a week sprinkle on the parts affected
a tcaspoonful of dry sulphur and
' rub it thoroughly in through the hair. It
kills fleas.
A writer in the Prairie Farmer pro
poses to have a bed ol clean, snarp sano,
twelve to twenty feet square, enclosed
and roofed over, for his horses to roll in.
Rain and snow, he pays, should be excluded
at all times, and the bed should
be raised to prevent water from running
into the enclosure.
The grazing of land by a mixed stock
of cattle, sheep and horses results in the
land being more evenly grazed than where
one kind only is kept. "Where, however,
many sheep arc grazed with cattle, as
they pick out all the finest of the grasses
and clovers with their narrow noses, the
cattlf will not thrive so well.
The injury that the crow does to corn,
lur iiullinrr it nn iu nnt (rpnprfilIV rri'Pflt.
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nnd can be easily guarded against. A
more serious indictment is found in the
fact that the crow is the great enemy
of insect-destroying birds, whose nests
it robs and whose young it' kills. The
squirrel is also open to the same charge.
Potatoes are not often intentionally
grown as food for stock, partly because
they sell too well in market, and partly
because they arc less valuable than other
roots more easily grown. The best use
of small potatoes is to boil them and
mix in meal for fattening hogs. They arc
excellent for that purpose, and their virtue
is by no means all in the meal.
To insure a good catch of timothy seed
it should be sown in the fall with wheat
or other winter grain. It is rather better
to sow a few weeks after wheat seeding,
else it might get growth enough to injure
the grain crop the subsequent season.
If clover is desired the seed should not
be sown until spring, as young clover is
very tender and will all be winterkilled.
"When a very wet time comes about the
season that corn is in blossom, many of
the ears will be imperfectly tilled. This
results from the washing away of the
pollen from the silk, preventing it from
fertilizing and producing grnin. Each
silk has its embryo grain attached. The
very latest ears are commonly only partially
filled, because they arc formed
after most of the pollen has been shed.
It is not advisable to feed uncooked
sour apples to nigs that are fattening on
corn. The acid in the fruit injures their
teeth, making the pig's mouth sore and
preventing regular feeding. The unripe
corn, if fed in excess, often lias the same
effect, as it sours on the stomach and
thus injures digestion. Apples may he
fed in small quantities with nieal, and if
they are cooked together, no better fattening
fcod need be desired.
Bad weed as is the Canada thistle, the
young seedlings, when lirst started, arc
as easily killed by a scratch of a hoe as
any annual weed. Probably on wellcultivated
farms, millions of these little i
thistles are annually destroyed. It is
only when the thistle gets its horizontal
root running underground, with bads
every few inches, that it possesses its
greatest vitality. Then it has as many
lives as a cat. and some farmers think it
has even more.
In some places it is desirable to get
rid of hedges. This may be done while
the leaves are in full vigor by piling
brush or straw on each side and burning
it. Leave the burned hedge plants
standing until the second year before
cutting down, and if any sprouts appear,
repeat the operation next season. The
land for one or two rods on either side
should be left in grass two years, as, if
plowed, sprouts might start from the
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It is a mark of negligent farming if
the boundaries of fields are unchanged
for many years in succession. In some
places permanent stone walls make the
removal of fences practically impossible,
but it is extremely unfortunate where
this is the fact. Plowing over old fence
rows is often the means for eradicating
weeds. "Where a roadside fence is easily j
removable it will generally pay to plow ]
up and crop the side of the road, except j
what is needed fur vehicles passing, until j
weeds are cleared out and the roadsides
can be properly reseeded.
If land is fall plowed it is essential J
that it be properly furrowed out for the
passing away of rains and melting snows.
If there isagood fall the water will cut
channels, but will do it unevenly and
with needless wasting away of the soil.
The plow alone is not sullicient to furrow
properly. The loose earth that the plow
leaves in the furrow should be thrown
out by the spade and evenly spread on
either side. If left entirely naked there
will still be much washing. On low,
level lands the furrows should in addition
be provided with flullicient outlet
at the lower ond to allow surplus water
to ruu off.
A great deal of corn fodder is wasted
yearly, because not cut and housed in
time. That which is sown exclusively
for the fodder is more ditlicult to cure
than that which has grown a crop of
grain. As a rule it is greener and more
succulent and really less valuable than I
larger corn stalks whose juices have more
sugar. The fodder from a good corn
crop is worth nearly as much as feed for
cows as an average crop of hay. In fact,
as most farmers understand, hf.y is not
good feed for milch cows, cxccpt occasionally
as a change of diet. Corn
fodder in some shape must always be the
staple cow feed in winter in this country.
Direction* (or Removing- Spofn from
Clotlilnir.
We give herewith further recipes for
the removal of spots:
Pure water, cold or hot, mixed with
acids, serves for rinsing goods in order
to remove foreign and neutral bodise
which cover the color. .Steam softens
fatty matters, and thus facilitates their
removal by reagents.
Suijihuric acid may be used in certain
cases, particularly for brightening and
raising greens, reds, yellows, etc.; but
it must be diluted with at least one hundred
times its weight of water, and
more in case of delicate shades.
Muriatic acid is successfully used for
removing ink stains and iron mold on a
number of colors which it docs not attack.
Sulphurous acid is only employed for
whitening undyed goods,straw hats,etc.,
and for removing stains of certain fruits
on silks and woolens. Sulphurous gas
is also used for this purpose, but the
litjuid acid is safer.
Oxalic acid is used for removing ink
and rust stains, and remnants of mud
stains, which do not yield to other detergents.
It may also be used for destroying
the stains of fruits and astrin
gent juices, and old stains 01 unnc.
However, its use is limited to white
goods, as it attacks fugitive colors,and
even light shades of those reputed to be
fast. The best method of applying it is
to dissolve it in cold or lukewarm
water, to let it remain a moment upon
the spot, and then rub it with the lingers.
Citric acid serves to revive and
brighten certain colors, especially greens
and yellows. It restores scarlets which
have been turned to a crimson by the action
of alkalies. Acetic acid or tartaric
may be used instead.
Liquid ammonia is the most powerful
and useful agent for cleaning silk stuffs
and hats, and for neutralizing the effect
of acid. In this latter case it is often
I onmiirh to nvnnsr> the snots to the vanor
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of the ammonia, which makes them disappear
entirely. It gives a more violet
tone to all colors obtained with cochineal,
lac, Brazil wood and logwood, or topped
with cochineal. It docs not injure silks,
sensibly attacks woollen tissues at high
temperatures. It is also used for restoring
black silks which have been damaged
by damp.
Carbonate of soda (crystals) may be
used in many cases where ammonia is
employed. It is good for silk hats that
have been injured by sweat.
Soda and potash (caustic) only servo
for white linen, hemp and cotton goods,
for they attack colors, and injure the
tenacity and flexibility of wool and silk.
For the same reason white soap is only
I used for cleaning white woolen good^t.
Mottled soaps suit lor cleaning mucK
tissues of woolen and cotton, such as
quilts, which ate not submitted to friction.
For such tissues, when they do
not require much suppleness or softness,
the action of the soap may be enhanced
by a slight addition of potash.
Soft soap may be usefully employed in
solution, along with gum or other mucilaginous
material, for cleansing dry goods,
and especially self-colored silks It removes
spots more easily than white or
mottled soaps do, and injures the colors
less. A soap bath serves for thoroughly
cleansing whites and fast colors. It may
be employed in washing machines, like
the solution of soda crystals, and often
after a passage through the latter liquid.
It is prepared by dissolving thin slices of
soap in boiling water, and should be
kept in stoneware pans or wooden
troughs.
Soap powder is chiefly used in cleansiiiir
kid crloves.
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Ox gall has the property of dissolving
most fatty bodies without injuring the
tissues or the colors. It may be used in
preference to soap for cleansing woolens;
but it cannot be used for very light colors,
for it sometimes gives them a pale
greenish-yellow shade. It is occasionally
mixed with oil of turpentine, alcohol,
honey, yolk of eggs, clay, etc., and in
this state is used for cleaning silks, (Unmixed
galls may also be used with perfect
success for dark silks.) To produce
a satisfactory effect the gall should lie
very fresh. A simple method to preserve
it consists in tying a strong chord round
the neck of the membrane containing the
gall, aud immersing it in boiling water
for some time. When this is done, take
it out and dry it in the shade.
Yolk of egg has about the same properties
as gall, but it is too costly for general
use. It must also be employed as
fresh as possible, as it loses its efticacy on
growing old. Sometimes it is mixed
with an e<|tial volume of turpentine, and
employed lukewarm.?(lultitutor.
After the Solan (?eesp.
A sturdy cragsman fastens a rope of
hair, bound with sheepskin, round his
body. About twenty fathoms of this
cable he keeps uncoiled in his hand.
The cord is held by two comrades
standing on the brink of the abyss, lie
then adroitly ilc-ccnds the sheer sharp
side of the precipitous rock. The sen
boils below in the dizzy hollow. There
is a mist above. The lisherman grasps
his stanch cord. Such an equipment is
bequeathed by the possessoras a treasure
to his descendants. <4If a father leaves
his rope to his daughter the young
woman is reckoned one of the best
matches in the island." The English
party follow with eager eye the cragsman's
dramatic but daily exploit. Ilisim[
plementisa long stick with a nouse at the
end. Attached to his body is a bladder,
lie snatches the unwary fulmar or garnet
by its neck. The bird in his tfrasp
is frightened and vomits the oil from its
stomach into the bladder vessel of the
man. The bird is then killed for the
value of its feathers, which fetch 4d.
per pound. The spectacle is a ''Jithery''
one to men of unflinching nerves
to face, but to the courageous cragsman
the enterprise seems an
easy diversion, lie ascends the face of
the cliff with the same alacrity as he was
let down. Daring as may seem this
method of capture, mishaps seldom occur.
The St. Kiklians are men of steady
nerves and wonderful powers of endurance.
While the men ensuarc the fidmar
the women find their quarry in the
puffins, which arc taken in their burrows
by small dogs. The "nine hours' movement*'
has yet to reach St. Ivilda. When
they are not fishing, cultivating their
garden ground, scaling the rocks for
feathers or c<fgs, the islanders are spin
ning and weaving seventeen hours of the
twenty-four. Mr. Payne supplies a
pleasant picture of their politeness. They
never forget to greet one another morning
and evening. The men raise their
bonnets with the left hand and hold out
the right. All remain seated in church
until the women have departed. Family
worship is held in every cottage morning
and evening. Every meal is preceded
by a grace, nor will they take a
drink of milk or water without uncovering
the head. The men meet nearly
every morning in front of one of their
dwellings to discuss business. They all
talk in the loudest tones. A stranger
would fancy they were coming to blows.
The subjects discussed are, ''Shall wc
hunt sheep, or mend nets, or catch solan
geese ?'"? /j/ih/oii Stn-ie/i/.
A Climatic Marvel.
Although the vast territory of Alaska
measures 1,400 miles one way and 2,200 the
other,audits furthest island is as far west
of San Francisco as that city is west of
Hath, in .Maine, few people have any i lear
idea of the country and its people.
Within the 1,-100 miles between its
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II Oil lie 111 illlU SUIIIIICIU uumnimira iuvii.
is chance for a great range of climate,
unci while the northern part of the mainland
lies within the Arctic circle and is
wrapped in the snow and ice of polar
regions, Southern Alaska rc jo ices in
winter that is not as severe as that of
.Maryland or Kentucky. The isothermal
lines make strange curves on the Pacific
coast, and, inllucm-cd l>v the warm .lanan
stream or Kuro-Siuo, a mild, temperate
climate is given to the shores and archipelago
of Southwestern Alaska. As in
California, temperature and climate depend
more upon the distance from the
sea coast than upon distance from the
equator, and Sitka summers arc quite as
windy and foggy, but hardly cooler than
those of San Francisco. Sitka itself lies
in the same latitude as Aberdeen. Scotland,
and in all the islands south of it
there is much the same climate, accompanied
by the corresponding ocean current.
as prevails 011 the west coast of Ireland.
My the records of the Russian
observatory maintained here for fifty
years, the thermometer fell to zero only
three times during that period. The
reports of the commanders of the United
Mtotsici cliiitu fliiriinr tilt! oast f 0111" VCai'S
confirm this climatic marvel and show I
many other strange things in meteorology.
The eucalyptus tree, in addition to its
antagonism to malaria, is said to possess
in its leaves a remedy for the incrustation
of steam boilers, which often causes fatal
explosions. Kxperiments show that the
consumption of fuel is also lessened.
"Do you know what the board over
that cow's face is for?" asked the colonel.
"Xo," responded tho major, "unless it
is to keep her blushes from being seen
when the milkman works the pumphandle."
The Indians ol' .Nevada esteem as a
great delicacy an owl cooked with sauerkraut
stuffing.
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UTAH'S GREAT SALT LAKE.
PHEHOaEEITA OF A WOSSZBFTTL
BODY OF WATER.
The Lake a* a Bathing Kc*ort?
Scene* During the Bathing Hour
?Difficult)' of Swimming.
About 4 o'clock during the summer
afternoons an immense cosmopolitan caravan
makes its way from Salt Lake
City to the bathing houses on Great Salt
lake. The city and the lake are twenty-four
miles apart, and the distance
is soon annihilated by means of open
cars, which reminds one of .long cattle
trains, so crowded are they with every
kind of humanity. Any one who has
regarded Chicago as the point where
the world assembles, can easily disabuse
himself at the bathing-grounds of
Great Salt lake. Here are no great caravansaries
and amusement grounds,such
as one meets at Coney Island. There
are no restaurants, no docks, no promenade,
no hotels, nothing that one considers
absolutely essential to a summer resort.
There is just one great, unparalleled,
delightful, fascinating (and the
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that ia bathing. No one wishes to do
otherwise than bathe, not even to climb
the mountains that rise abruptly from
the lake shore.
Arriving at the railway station one
gets of! the train at a long platform.
An old, barn-like structure connects,
where bathing-dresses, towels, poor
whisky, bad beer, and dreadful cigars
arc sold over one counter by any one of
three men who stand behind it. It is
also possible to get a flint-like sandwich.
The barn, or rather shed, where these
purchases are made, contains a number
of long tables, scats and a dancing floor.
A long pier leads out from it, with a
double row of bathing-houses, extending
its entire distance. Alongside a
hnrrrn is moored, and used for excursion
and dancing parties. The latter are
very infrequent, owing to the unalloyed
delight of bathing. To this enchanting
spot of nature adorned by the uncouth
structures of man, every class of society
wends its way. Without regard to rank
or possessions, all pay their quarter for a
felonious-looking garb, towel and bathhouse
key.
Arrived at the stairs leading into the
water, the newcomer begins one of the
thrilling experiences of his life. As he
goes, step by step, along the white
sanded floor of the lake, he has a sensation
that he must either hold down his
feet firmly or be shot out of water like a
cork. When he lies down fiat to swim,
his legs are forced out of the buoyant
water, and in working his arms he finds
that only by plunging them in, dogfashion,
can he make any progress, and
then but little. The least wind blows
him along on the surface at an alarming
rate, lie tries to get on his feet, but he
cannot sink them. In a spasm of terror,
he makes desperate plunges with his
legs, all to no avail. A drop of brine
flies in his eye and renders it useless for
some time, or he gulps some water in
his throat, producing the agonies of
almost strangulation. In this critical
situation he seizes a rope or a pier-pile
in desperation and regains his feet.
The first thing to do is to rush for
fresh water, cleanse the injured eje
and gargle the throat. lie looks out
on the water and sees hundreds of
bathers, all lying on their backs, some
with tlioir arms under their heads as pillows.
smoking or reading, some holding
parasols over head, and others with tneir
arms stretched out. gently paddling
themselves over the surface and steering
with their feet. Among the latter are
experts who fairly skim over the water.
Surely, thinks the beginner, he can lie
on his back easily enough. lie tries it,
paddles a short distance, and stops suddenly
as he has a sensation that perhaps
he has reached deep water. lie attempts
to sink his feet to ascertain, but they are
not of sufficient weight; not even if he
be an influential politician from Chicago,
Oh, if he could put one foot down to ascertain
the situation. In despair he determines
to make a full breast of it to an
expert near by, and ask help. Some
kind Mormon, who has enjoyed the bath
all his life, offers him suggestions like
these:
" Place your arms at an acute angle
with your body. Now make a scoop of
your hands. Thrust them under the
water and keep them under your body.
That's right. Now, see, every time you
dip, your feet go toward the bottom.
Here you are sitting up as if you were on
a chair. Stand up now. Easy enough,
isn't it?''
The good Mormon gives a few instructions,
and soon you are idly floating or
spinning around on your back, bumping
against people, riding on the smooth surface
or over the waves in the wildest
glee. The ocean is very good bathing;
Colorado and California arc helpful to
consumptives; but here is the most novel
and untiring amusement in the world.
The atmosphere is so dry and salty
that no consumptive need despair. Brcathing
the air, and bathing in the morning in
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LUU LLW 01U|;UU1 (IU14 1U I.UU uibvinoon
skimming over the lake surface on
one's back, will cure the generality of
cases of lung troubles. Two weeks here
will so effectively cure catarrah, that one
need not be troubled with it again for
two years.
Usually at sundown an object is 3ceu
whirling down through the mountain
passes from the southwest. There is
haste to let down the car curtains and
shrill warning to hasten into the bathhouses.
A sand-storm is traveling with
cyclonic energy and the rapidity of a
whirlwind and hurricane. In an instant,
down rolls great whirls of sand that bury i
the cars up to the sills, beat with tremendous
force against the rocks and
hoards, and riddle the surface of the
lake. The storm usually lasts but one or
live minutes. As it travels over the lake,
one can watch it for 150 miles, with its
whirling banks 3,000 feet high, which i
roll over and over until all seem precipitated
into the lake. These storms come I
with terrific fury, last their brief moment,
and sweep on, leaving the world as calm, !
as bright and as cool as it was previously.
They tell the great story of the
American and other deserts. As the
rocks wear away in the mountains, the
sands are caught up in whirlwinds and
driven down through the passes to till up
the lakesand lay a sand floor on the plain
until it becomes indeed a desert. These
storms account for the white sandy bottom
of Great Salt Lake. They account
for the admixture of sand with the alluvial
deposits of the Great Basin, whereever
the lake once spread. They account
for the trackless wastes of Sahara and
show the disposition nature has maile
there of the former mountains of Nubian
sandstone of Africa. They tell us that
mountains crumble and decay, that the
whirlwinds aid the waters to disperse
them over contincntsto make prairies of
rich soil or trackless wastes of deserts.
Herein is a field which has escaped geologists
and writers so far and which they
may find rife for research.
At its highest stage. (ireat Salt Lake
covered about :}5,UU() square miles of j
I nn/i lmil im nntli't through the I
north .shore, emptying into Snake river,
thence through the Columbia into the
Pacific Ocean. At that time it extended
from the southwest corner of Utah
through that Territory into Idaho, over
;!">0 miles, a distance not differing from
that between Chicago and Cairo, of
| Illinois. This great body of water is
generally supposed to have disappeared
by evaporation, or, in plain terms, an
approximate evaporation occurred of
about 110 cubic miles of water. Suppose
the lake lowered at tin: average
rate of one hundredth part of an inch per
year (and that supposes an evaporation
of 1 .."500,000 cubic feet annuallyi, then
it was at its greatest height 1,200,000
years ago. The present body of water
has barely o,000 square miles of surface,
ir tlin ni'nnnratinii nonfilings in the future;
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as it has in the past, there |
will be nothing but a thin i
sheet of water during each spring where |
Great Salt lake mow is in 1, *?()() i
years. Now is the time for business and I
industry to make salt while the sun
shines. About ten percent, of this water
is pure salt; or, in other words, there is |
[ about oiiecubic mile of salt in (treat Salt |
lake, awaiting enterprise and capital, i
enough to supply the world for.(IO,ODO
years. This estimate is made on the j
basis tliat the amount of salt consumed
annually is approximately one pound to j
every individual on the globe.
Animal life does not thrive in (ireat |
Salt Lake, according to investigation, i
Chief Kditor Hamilton, of the Salt Lake j
Tribune, informs me that several attempts j
have been made to introduce some ocean '
jut,, tlintiit iv?ifi?ra luit \iiHmilt '
success. It possible, however, that j
there are unknown lislies and organisms j
which live in this lake. It is known j
that there are inimcn.sc springs of fresh i
water which bubble up in different parts j
of the lake. In the southeast quarter a j
fresh water spring is said by the residents |
to have surface of several square inilts, j
although no one has made survey of it.
It is possible that within these springs
are unknown organisms which thrive i
under peculiar conditions. Will'mm II. I
Ballon.
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TWO GRAY HEADS.
Two gray heads at the gate:
Lingering kisses, clasping of hands?
The granddaughter there with her baby
stands!
The horses prance, and the travelers wait;
The driver shouts, "We are late!"
The hour-glass stays not its sands
For the old man and his mate.
They wave "Good-bye!" from the door
Hung over with morning-glory vines.
Her soul through her aged features shiness
And the sun-streams over his white lock,
pour:
They are lover and bride, as of yore,
In their cottage under the pines,
Although they are full fourscore.
The eyes that look up to his,
And meet half-way his caressing glance?
The beautiful, heart-fresh countenance?
Nothing therein does the bridegroom miss
Of her maiden tenderness;
And the thoughtful years enhance
Unto her his nobleness.
For three-score golden years
They have shared life's homliness and its
gruue,
Time's plow-mark furrows the wrinkled face
But, deep in the channels of long-dried tears
A blossoming glory appears;
Unfading faith in the place
Of transient sorrows and fears.
A steady life-time through
Soul has been unto soul a guiding light;
They have lived in a realm where there is no
night,
Where love is eternal, because it is true:
And heavy will be hardly new
When it breaks on their fading sight
Through celestial morning dew.
Two gray heads in the sun;
Each in its halo of silvery light:
Fairastho mountain-forehead white,
Their brows in the pureness they have won;
Some love tales in telling are done;
But the story these old lovers write
Is a story forever begun.
?Lucy Larcom.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A slow match?A long engagement.?
Citizen.
Love is blind, very blind?when the
girl is rich.
The price of writing paper is going
up. We always thought it was stationery.?Pittsburg
Chronicle.
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JJClween ulluk's mill jiuu wuiaitcis uuu
wives that pull hair, it is a wonder that
some men have any capillary appendages
at all.?Philadelphia Call.
A young man by the name of Sweet
was recently married to a Miss Knox.
She gets the sweet, and he will get tbe
knocks.?Burlington Free Press.
Visitor?" Mercy me! What are those
horrible sounds upstairs?" Lady of the
House?"Oh, that is nothing but dear
George. I suppose he has lost his collarstuu
again."
Xative?"Well, how do you like our
town?" Visitor?"Very nice .place.
Just consider; there are twenty-two
trains on which one can leave daily.'"?
Minnesota Bazoo.
The wife of a Kansas man thought
her husband was dead and had him put
on ice; but he awoke in the night ana
yelled out, "Why don't you put some
more wood in that stove!"
"Well," said Dumps to his wife, in
dignantly, "I guess I know a liar when
I see one." "Ah, indeed!" was her calm
reply; "been looking in the mirror, have
you?"?Merchant-Traveler.
When Fogg came into the room unexpectedly,
Mrs. F. gave a scream and exciaimed:
"You frightened me half to
death!" "Did I?" was the unfeeling
reply. "Suppose 1 try it over again."?
Boston Transcript.
A young lady in St. Louis recently
doused a young man with a pailful of
water, while he was down on his knees
begging her to be his bride. It is always
the custom, we believe, in some parts
of the West to wet a new suit.?Barlington
Free Frets.
A young lady, in reply to her father's
question why she did not wear rings
upon her fingers, said: "Because, papa,
they hurt me when anybody squeezes my
hand." " What business have you to
have your hand squeezed?" " Certainly,
none; but still, you know, papa, one
would like to keep it in squeezing
order."
BALLAD OF THE BABY.
He'd come where he'll have to scratch Tor his
grub,
Ancl reach out for everything he gets;
TT_1H /Inttoa Kim l'nfrt flin
ito 11 WCt'jl ? UUU LllCjr u4du UUUOT* uiui imuv vuv
tub,
And he'll get shaken up when he frets.'
They'll think he's smart wheu he first learns
to crawl,
And they'll go into fits when ho talks;
And he'll have the most fun when he's very,
very small, *
For he'll have to go it alone when he walks.
First we bawl,
And then we talk,
And then we crawl,
And then we walk.
And from that time ou we are prone to get
into trouble as the railway cinders into the
human eye.?It J. Jiurdctte.
" Taken at the Flood."
Every reader of history knows the
story, how the gallant Sir Walter
Kalcigh spread his cloak beneath the
royal feet of Elizabeth and was rewarded
with his sovereign's smile and
speedy restoration to favor. Potemkin,
the favorite of Catherine II. and the
founder of the powerful liussian
family which bears his name
would doubtless have re"?
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maineu mi ousuuiu soiuiui uuu uui <>
trivial incident?a chance, in fact?
changed his destiny. After Catherine
had deposed her weak husband and herself
assumed the sccpter, she was accustomed
to parade the streets of St. Petersburg,
sword in hand, at the head of her
troops. One day Potemkin noticed her
sword bore no knot. He boldly stepped
forward, braving the knout for his insubordination,
and offered his. The
czarina accepted it, and struck by the
handsome young lieutenant asked his
name and regiment and if he would not
like to serve in the palace. Haul Pasha, the
sultan's chief of artillery and most trusted
adviser was a tanner. Employed in the
palace, he offered to mend a valuable
Frcnch clock, as no clockuiaker was
available, ana did the work so well, the
sultan bade hira lay aside his tinner's
service and serve him. Robert Wilson,
one of England's best generals, owes his
elcvatiou from a desk in a solicitor's
ollice to a chance meeting with the duke
of York in the rain. George Stephenson,
the inventor of the locomotive, was
born with a taste for mechanics. At a very
tender age he was compelled to work as
a pit-boy at two pence a day to help
support the family. Deep in the mines,
shut out from everything that cheered
the senses, yonng Stephenson found much
to stimulate his mechanical bent. He
mastered the hoisting machinery and
longed to be allowed charge of it. One
day the engineer chanced to stumble and
in iurn himself. Youmr Stephenson
promptly offered to supply his place and
proved his skill so well that the mine
superintendent gave him permanent
charge of the machinery, and thus gave
him an opportunity to observe and think
and build until the Rocket appeared as
a result of his labors.
Foinl of Prison Life.
There arc numerous instances on record
of people who have grown fond of
the life of a prison. Comtc dc Lorge
was confined lor thirty years in the bastile,
unit when liberated July 14, 178!),
declared that freedom had no joys for
him. After imploring in vain to be allowed
to return to his dungeon, he lingered
for six weeks and pined to death.
Goldsmith in ''A Citizen of the World.''
says when Chiuvang the Chaste ascended
the throne of China he commanded the
prisons to be thrown open. Among the
prisoners was a venerable man of eightylive
years of age, who implored that he
miirht be suffered to return to his cell.
For sixty-three years he had lived in its
gloom and solitude, which he preferred
to the glare of the sun and the bustle of
a city. .Mr. Coghan once visited a prisoner
of state in the king's bench prison,
who told him he had grown to like the subdued
light and extreme solitude of his
cell: ho even liked the spots and patches
on the wall, the hardness of his bed,
the regularity and the freedom from all
the cares and worries tf active life, lie
did not wish to be released, and felt sure
he should neve be so happy in any other
place. A woman of J.eyden, on the expiration
of a long imprisonment, applied
for permission to return to her cell, and
added, if the ropiest were refused as a
favor she would commit some offense
which should give her a title to her old
quarters. A prisoner condemned to
death had his sentence commuted to
seven years' close confinement on a bed
ol nails. After the expiration of live
years he declared if ever he was released
lie should adopt from choice what habit
had rendered so agreeable to him.
Getting out and grinding hemlock
bark for adulteration of bier is quite an
industry in some parts of the country.
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Without earnestness no man is ever
great or does really great things.
Experience is a trophy composed of
all the weapons we have been wounded
with.
The truly grateful heart may not be
able to tell of gratitude, but it can feel,
and love, and act.
Genius is only entitled to rcspect when
it promotes the peace and improves the
happiness of mankind.
In the literary world as well as military
world, most powerful abilities will often
be found concealed under a rustic garb.
A plain, genteel dress is more admired
and obtains more credit than lace and
embroidery in the eyes of the judicious
and sensible.
The knowledge which we have acquired
ought not to resemble a great
shop without order, and without an inventory;
we ought to know what we
possess, and be able to make it serve
us in need.
Remember, th-t if thou marry for
hejiutv thou bindest thvself all thv lite
for that which, perchance, will neither
last nor pleaso thee one year; and when
thou hast it, it will be to "thee of no price
at all, for the deaire dieth when it is
attained, and the affection perisheth
when it is satisfied.
Somebody has been collecting figures
giving the distances to which sound is
conveyed under favorable atmospheric
conditions. J. J. Strauahan states that
the whistle and the noise of the train on
the trestle at Erie were formerly heard
at a distance of nineteen miles. "W. J.
McC., of San Pablo, Cal., writes that on
calm, clear days, especially in the fall,
they hear the rumble of the cars on a
trestle located eighteen miles distant.
J. H. S. says that he frequently heard
the railroad shop whistle at Grand Island,
while living at Orville, a distance
of twenty-eight miles. C. V. Swarthout,
Cape Vincent, N. Y., frequently
hears the whistle at Kingston, Ont.,
twenty miles.
An English aeronaut says ballooning
has saved his life, and he believeB that
the pure, unadulterated oxygen which
exists about a mile above the surface of
the earth would be of immeasurable benefit
to invalids if they would make the
ascent.
One Hundred and Thirteen Miles or
Organs.?In numbering the organs of their
manufacture, Mason & Hamlin have reached
No. loO.OiX). Arranged in a line these would
reach 113 miles, or would fence the railroad
on one side from the J rand Central Station in
New York, to within twentymilesof Spring-1
field, Mass. Not only does this show the great
popularity of American organs, but it illustrates
what was declared by James Parton to
be a general fact that he who makes the best
artftle in his line always has the greatest success.
We understand that the Mason & Hamlin
Company's new Upright Piano is now commanding
a large sale, and is, in every way,
up to the standard of their unrivaled organa.
We predict a large success for this piano,
which is constructed on a new system, saia
to be a decided advance over the prevailing
wrest-pin system.?Boston Journal.
The round trip expenses ot an Atlantic pas
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was invented by one who understood
its need, and had the rare skill to provide a
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